Axe - Axe /1979

Where are you going my friend?
Have you learned yet why you are here?
Is that sadness in your eyes
Tears of sorrow or tears of fear?
Lift your head!
You know you've got to try
Try to find another way
Keep in mind no matter what you do
Tomorrow is yet another day

Life's just an illusion
Don't fill yours with pain
Pain leads to confusion
Confusion will drive you insane

Quickly life will pass us
So don't fret over where you have been
Time will wait for no one
So set a goal and start over again
Friends will help
The asking's all you do
They will help you on your way
With a smile you know you'll always find
Tomorrow is yet another day

Life's just an illusion
Don't fill yours with pain
Pain leads to confusion
Confusion will drive you insane

Life's just an illusion
Don't fill yours with pain
Pain leads to confusion
Confusion will drive you insane

2. Hang On

It's been so long since I've seen your face
It's been so long since I've touched you
I've dreamed so long of your warm embrace
I'm telling you that I love you

And loneliness of the heart
It comes upon me when you're away
Now that we're together
I'm so happy that I can say

Hang on, hang on forever
Hang on, hang on so tight
Hold me, hold me forever
Hold me, hold me so tonight

It's been so long since you've called my name
So long that I can't remember
Your eyes tell me that it's not a game
I know you'll love me forever

And loneliness of the heart
It comes upon me when you're away
Now that we're together
I'm so happy that I can say

Hang on, hang on forever
Hang on, hang on so tight
Hold me, hold me forever
Hold me, hold me so tonight

Hang on, hang on forever
Hang on, hang on so tight
Hold me, hold me forever
Hold me, hold me so tonight

3. Sympathize

I've been thinking
You're gonna leave here any day
I can't stop you
I wouldn't try anyway

You say that you're sorry
I don't see it in your eyes
I don't want you
Telling me all your lies

Do you know what you're doing?
Do you realize?
You'll get back what you give
And I sympathize

I've been listening
To every thing you say
And I don't like it
I think you'll have to be on your way

You say that you're sorry
I don't see it in your eyes
I don't want you
Telling me all your lies

Do you know what you're doing?
Do you realize?
You'll get back what you give
And I sympathize

4. How Come I Love You

I feel a love so strong
So strong it tortures me
To hope for love from you is wrong
And it's hard to see
So why do I persist?
My heart it makes be blind
My mind keeps warning me
This love can never be
But I've got to find

How come I love you?
I don't see how I can
How come I need you?
I just don't understand

Is this my luckless fate
To let love pass me by?
When through a sleepless night
My love for you seems right
I want to try
But then it comes to me
How loving you's in vain
I know that wanting you can only make me blue
And cause me pain so

How come I love you?
I don't see how I can
How come I need you?
I just don't understand

How come I love you?
I don't see how I can
How come I need you?
I just don't understand

5. Forever

I will love you forever
Though mountains may rise
Crumble and fall
I'll be sure
I'll know through it all
I love you

I will want you forever
And don't let the lies you hear
Break your heart
No one could know
What I've known from the start
I love you

And if you should ever go
There is something you should know
That I will love you forever
That I will love you forever
That I will love you forever

6. Back On The Streets

These streets are made for living
And for never growing old
Valleys built for laughter
And for souls already sold
Ten thousand people waiting
For another sleepless night
They walk the streets in search of
Someone to make everything alright

And the silence keeps on howling
Screaming in my head
And makes me think of something
That somebody out there said
I'm back on the streets again
I'm back on the streets again

And the buildings seem to breathe in
A never ending breath
And the subways all show signs of
A never ending death
And the smell of something burning
Is floating in the air
Outside someone's crying
But nobody seems to care

And the silence keeps on howling
Screaming in my head
And makes me think of something
That somebody out there said
I'm back on the streets again
I'm back on the streets again

These streets are made for living
And for never growing old
Valleys built for laughter
And for souls already sold
Ten thousand people waiting
For another sleepless night
They walk the streets in search of
Someone to make everything alright

And the silence keeps on howling
Screaming in my head
And makes me think of something
That somebody out there said
I'm back on the streets again
I'm back on the streets again

7. Doin' The Best That I Can

Love has been waiting for me
But I alway denied
And love always seemed like a feeling
That I had to hide

But when you came to me
With a feeling so new
I just had to say that
Love found me waiting for you
And I suddenly find that

Now I'm doing the best I can
Giving it all that I am
And you are making me feel like a man
Giving me more than a hand
And I'm doing the best that I can
The best that I can

I never tried to believe
In the feelings that show
And I never wanted to follow
The things I don't know

But when you came to me
With a feeling so new
I just had to say that
Love found me waiting for you
And I suddenly find that

Now I'm doing the best I can
Giving it all that I am
And you are making me feel like a man
Giving me more than a hand
And I'm doing the best that I can
The best that I can

Holding you close in the morning
Starting my day with your smile
Holding you close in the evening
Feeling your love all the while

We have discovered the life
We were searching to find
We, we will follow our sun
As long as it shines, 'cause

Now I'm doing the best I can
Giving it all that I am
And you are making me feel like a man
Giving me more than a hand
And I'm doing the best that I can
The best that I can

8. You're Out Of Line

You're out of line
Thinking I might be leaving
You're out of line
Thinking I might not stay
Looking to find
Promises I'm not keeping
It's making you blind
To promises kept each day

Can't you see?
Won't you try
To accept my love?
Can't you see?
We'll get by
If you trust my love
You're doubting me needlessly

You're out of line
Spending your night time crying
You're out of line
Thinking that I don't care
Wasting your time
Thinking our love is dying
You know it's a crime
To run from a love so rare

Can't you see?
Won't you try
To accept my love?
Can't you see?
We'll get by
If you trust my love
You're doubting me needlessly

9. Battles

I often dream of nights I'd sit
And watch the rising sun
And I spoke to you of life
And of the battles I had won

A warm wind blowing memories
Makes me long for home
But a cold wind blows much harder
And it makes me want to roam

Let me go from this lonely land
Before my dreams all vanish
Like water in the sand

Let me run from this lonely place
Before my dreams are shattered
By love I can't erase

I search to find the meaning
Of the path that I am on
And I hope that my direction
Will not make me walk alone

I stumble for the answers
To the questions that remain
Around the world I've touched the sun
And now I'm back again

Let me go from this lonely land
Before my dreams all vanish
Like water in the sand

Let me run from this lonely place
Before my dreams are shattered
By love I can't erase