What do I do With My Heart

You don't have to say a word
I can see it in your eyes
I know what you wanna say
It's so hard to say goodbye

I can hold back my tears
And try to be strong
While our love is fallin' apart
I know what I'll say
If you walk away
But what do I do
What do I do with my heart?

I'm not gonna say a word
I know I can't change your mind
You know where you need to go
I know I'll be left behind

I won't hold you back
I won't stand in your way
If you need to make a new start
But I still wanna know
When my arms let you go
What do I do
What do I do with my heart?

Oh, girl, don't you remember?
It was not so long ago
We were makin' plans for two
Just me and you
Now you tell me that you've found somebody
Someone who loves you better
No one could ever love you
The way I do

Tell me you're not leavin' now
Tell me you're not leavin'
Tell me that you're gonna stay
Please say you'll stay with me, baby
Tell me that you love me still
Say you love me still
For this and this alone I pray
Fall down on my knees and pray

I'll do anything
Yes, I would
To save what we have
To keep you by my side
I'll love you 'til death do us part
But what do I do
What do I do
When I'm still missing you?
What do I do
What do I do with my heart?

I'd rather Be a Cowboy

This is a song I sang at a talent night in college......

Jesse went away last summer, a couple of months ago
After all our time together, it was hard to see her go
She called me right up when she arrived, asked me one more time to come
Or livin' on an la freeway, ain't my kinda havin' fun

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the range
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down in love and lady's chains

We were just beginnin', it was such an easy way
Layin' back up in the mountains, makin' songs for summer days
She got tired of pickin' daisies, cookin' my meals for me
She can live the life she wants to, yes, it's alright with me

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the range
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down in love and lady's chains

I'd rather live on the side of a mountain
Than wander through canyons of concrete and steel
I'd rather laugh with the rain and the sunshine
Then lay down my sun down in some starry field

Oh, but i miss her in the morning, when i awake alone
The absence of her laughter, is a cold and empty sound
But her memory always makes me smile, and i want you to know
I love her yes i love her, just enough to let her go

I think i'd rather be a cowboy
I think i'd rather ride the range
I think i'd rather be a cowboy
Then to lay me down in love and lady's chains

Cherry Cherry

Neil Diamond's assertion -- "my baby loves me, yes, yes she does...the girl's outa sight" -- sounds as celebratory as it did 40 years ago.

Baby loves me
Yes, yes she does
Ah, the girl'ss outta sight, yeah
Says she loves me
Yes, yes she does
Gonna show me tonight, yeah

She got the way to move me, Cherry
She got the way to groove me, Cherry baby
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me

No, we wont tell a soul where we gone to
Girl, we do whatever we want to
Ah, I love the way that you do me
Cherry, babe, you really get to me

You aint got no right
No, no you don't Cherry baby
Ah, to be so exiting
Wont need bright lights
No, no we won't
Gonna make our own lightning

She got the way to move me, Cherry
She got the way to groove me, Cherry baby
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me

Tell your mama, girl, I can't stay long
We've got things we gotta catch up on
Mmm, you know, you know what I'm sayin
Can't stand still while the music is playin

She got the way to move me, TCherry
She got the way to groove me, Cherry baby
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me

People - I love you

Larry Norman's constant theme from 1967's hit single, to 2008's final notes. Let's not forget Larry's musical legacy.


I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do-o-o
I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do but the words won't come
And I don't know what to say

I shouldn't hide my love deep inside
The words should explain but the words won't come
If you could see what you mean to me
The words should explain but the words won't come

And oh, how hard I try to tell you I lo-o-ove you
But something holds me back when I try to tell you

I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do-o-o
I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do but the words won't come
And I don't know what to say, yeah!

------ organ ------

I should tell you I love you, I do
The words should explain but the words won't come
I shouldn't hide my love deep inside
The words should explain but the words won't come

And oh, how hard I try to tell you I lo-o-ove you
But something holds me back when I try to tell you

I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do-o-o
I love you, I love you, I love you
Yes I do but the words won't come
And I don't know what to say

I love you

history reports itself

My heart has a history
Of hurtin' those who mean the most to me
Before you get to close to me I think you oughta know
While other hearts are holdin' on
While other loves are growin' strong
My heart has a history of lettin' go

The first time I looked into your eyes
I knew this moment would arrive
I got a feelin' you're the one
But my heart keeps tryin' to turn and run
The problem is this happens every time

My heart has a history
Of hurtin' those who mean the most to me
Before you get to close to me I think you oughta know
While other hearts are holdin' on
While other loves are growin' strong
My heart has a history of lettin' go

If we can take this one kiss at a time
Maybe we can tame this heart of mine
I'm telling you the cold, hard truth
I ain't ever been loved by the likes of you
And I ain't ever had this much on the line, but

My heart has a history
Of hurtin' those who mean the most to me
Before you get to close to me I think you oughta know
While other hearts are holdin' on
While other loves are growin' strong
My heart has a history of lettin' go
Yeah, my heart has a history of lettin' go

Rocket Packs

How long will it take for us to get things right?

"It's the 80s - where's our rocket packs?

It's the eighties
It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?
It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?
Go anywhere, we strap them on our backs

(It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now I'd walk the moon
And ride a car without no tires
And have a robot run the vacuum
And date a girl made out of wires

No thing's don't change that much, do they?
We are still out of touch
By now we should discover just how to love each other
Like Klaatus' robot man your looks have killed again

(It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd live in space
And eat a pill instead of dinner
And wear a gas mask on our face
A President of female gender

Though progress marches on, (new day)
Our troubles will grow strong
And my expectancies, become my fantasies
You turn my blood to sand, the earth stands still again

My hopes are running low
Things moving much too slow
There's no space men up above
And we're still so very far from love
So very far from love

(It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd build a dome
Around the world, control the weather
In every house, a picture phone
Communicate a little better

But some things never change (replay!)
You are still acting strange
No way that I can see, this way we will be free
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Lift off!

Devil's Elbow - The Lost Dogs

A song about tight spots in the river of life

There by the sumac and the thicket of the evergreen,
carved our names next to the others in Pacific City Beams
We passed the faded billboards and all the tumbleweed dreams
It's on to Devil's Elbow

Had a sizzlin' t-bone, a vegetable and fries
and a Roquefort side-salad for a buck twenty five
We can fill our bellies, watch the river rise
down at Devil's Elbow

And Dotty the waitress says "When we quit,
we'll put a lock on the door and that'll be it
No more chicken-in-a-basket or Chili-Supper benefits
Getting' out of Devil's Elbow"

The lumberjacks gave it its infamous name
The Big Piney River has the bend to blame
(log jams bein' it's claim to fame)
Trapped in Devil's Elbow

And it's a threat to the old folks
and it's death to youth
Jammed up so badly you can't get loose
and the only escape is in knowin' this truth:
You're lost in Devil's Elbow

God knows I love you baby and I loved you well
but the water kept risin' and the timber fell
You left to find heaven, I got squeezed in hell
All alone in Devil's Elbow

There by the sumac and the thicket of the evergreen
Carved our names next to the others in Pacific City beams
Passed the faded billboards and all the tumbleweed dreams
It's on to Devil's Elbow