The Boat Ashore

By Michael Roe
The Boat Ashore
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

Woke up in the morning and it felt like the black of night
Tumbled out of bed, tripped on my Bible, stumbled over the light
Blinded by the break of day
I shut my eyes, I was alone
Couldn't say my prayers
Good God Almighty
Where's my telephone?

And now I know
Now I know
Know what you meant when you told me
You wanted to hold me
And hold me
Hold me forever
Hold me and never
Tell me you'll ever
Let me go

No I did not know
I didn't understand the plan
You had for me
And it isn't that I don't believe
I do believe that you really love me
Yeah, but how do I reciprocate
When there's nothing good in me?

Say it's so
Say it's so
Say it till I really hear it when you say
Don't fear it
Let go

And now I know
Now I know
Know what you meant when you told me
You wanted to hold me
And hold me
Hold me forever
Hold me and never
Tell me you'll ever
Let me go

Crash me, wash me up on your shore
Drifted way too far from my moorings and more
Overboard the oars went
Relentless was the roll
Of the restless sea set me free from its treacherous shoals

Don't let me go don't let me
Don't let me go
Now that I have run this boat ashore don't let me go
Now I know, I know I know you like never before
You wait you waited for me forevermore
Now I know...


Honey Run
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

Across the covered bridge to you
One day feels like a million
A million leaves fall over you, all over you

I can't tell you what's on my mind
Just to look at you there
Makes my seeing eyes go blind
Honey run

Near the waterfall
When you speak I don't hear the water at all
I hear with my heart and you speak to me softly and clearly
Like that river runs
Honey run
Swiftly and clearly
That river runs
River runs

The water's cold
Stick your toe in the river
I watch you shiver
Do you want a path to run
Like that river runs
Just like honey runs
Honey runs
Comb the canyon

Near the waterfall
When you speak I don't hear the water at all
I hear with my heart and you speak to me softly and clearly
Like that river runs
Honey run
Swiftly and clearly
That river runs
River runs


Love Like Gold
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

Headin' down that highway again
I've been that road before
Never wanted that way to be my way again
I've had the best, but this time less is more

Never should've made you my reason to live
'Cause it killed me baby
When you walked out that door
I'm loosing interest in your shady loan of love
My only saving grace is the good Lord above

I really want to know what it feels like to have and hold
A precious love
Love like gold
Said I really wanna know what it feels like
The real thing
Love like gold

I thought our love was higher than high
'Till we crashed and burned
Burned so hot
Guess we didn't have the wings that it takes to fly high
In the matters of the heart
We fell hard

Will our broken wings ever come to mend?
Can a broken heart learn to love again?

I really want to know what it feels like to have and hold
A precious love
Love like gold
Said I really wanna know what it feels like
The real thing
Love like gold

Don't want the kind of gold to keep to myself
I want the kind that I can give to someone else, well

I really want to know what it feels like to have and hold
A precious love
Love like gold
Said I really wanna know what it feels like
The real thing
Love like gold


Blue All Over
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

I'm blue all over
Blue is what I'm feelin' without you
The moon, the cheese, the sky, they ask me why
I walk alone
I'm talkin' to myself
I'm not myself
I'm cold
I'm ice cold frozen blue
'Cause there's no you

I'm feeling what I'm feeling
'Cause I'm reeling in the catch
I caught the cold
Outside the fold I stand a lonely man
I failed in love
I'm giving up
I chased it long
I held it strong
It slipped, I tripped, I stumbled, fell
It's swelling up
It's hell

So could it be
The only one I ever loved was me?
I would not pay the price
The sacrafice was dear
I feared, I coward, I ran
I thought the plan could save me
But I lost the cause, the point
The self-made man

She held the key to me
I knew it then
I was not free to be
The one I knew I was inside
I had to hide
And when she left I could not disconnect
The talk went on the phone
Infection spread the bad connection that we had
I'm needing you I know
It shows it's all over my face
Disgrace I wear without a trace
A place to call my home
And so the color blue
Is what I wear without you
I can't believe you leave
The blues all over me


Some Kind Of Dream
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

When I say I love you
You know I really love you baby
When I say I need you
You know I really need to know what you're feelin'
Baby I'm reeling
We've both been down this rocky road of love
Too many times before
But here am I, there you are
Can I take us farther than we've ever been baby

Is it some kind of dream?
(To think that I can love you like you wanna be loved)
Is it some kind of dream?
(That kind of love needs some help from above)
Is it some kind of dream?
(To take one little seed of love and plant a tree)
Is is some kind of dream?
You know I love you
Baby I love you

Could we both believe that we would be believing, baby?
If we made a vow could you tell me how we're gonna live up to it now
Now and forever
There was a time I believed in a love that could never go wrong
But I found out too late that it's gonna take more than a good voice
To make a good love song

Is it some kind of dream?
(To think that I could love you with a love from above)
Is it some kind of dream?
(Sleepin' on the job of love won't get it done, babe)
Is it some kind of dream?
(I won't stand for nothin' 'till it really means something)
Is it some kind of dream?
Gonna dip from the slip stream of love


Billy Paul Said
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

Oh baby, you're not alone
You want it all
You want to keep it goin' on
I'll lead you all the way
When you're ready
When you're ready to do what you want
I may help you to feel a little joy
A little joy
Cancel your reservations, baby
There's something that we have to try
We could be doing this together

I may not turn it all around
(Visions of another world)
But I'll show you something I have found
(You told me that you heard it all, you've heard it all before and I know...)
It didn't mean what you think it did
There is so much more to it
The last thing that I wanna see is
You walk away without believing

Whoa baby
You've got the power
You gotta go where your heart would have you go now
Lead us all away
When we're ready
When we're ready to go where we want

I may not turn it all around
(Visions of another world)
But I'll show you something I have found
(You told me that you heard it all, you've heard it all before and I know...)
It didn't mean what you think it did
There is so much more to it
The last thing that I wanna see is
You walk away without believing


Tum Tum Tum
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

Alone
Alone
I'm on my own
At home
On phone
I'm still
Alone

Will I do something about it?
(I doubt it...)
I could reach out to you but I'm afraid to
So sadly goes the man madly
Off of his own garden path

So
So
I stay alone
It's a no go
A no show
Fade out
So slow

(That's what happens to you when you're doing things you know you're not
suppose to)
So madly does the man badly
Run from his own precious path

Alone
Love blown
Left on
My own
Face dive
Nose cone
Fall from
My thrown


I Buried My Heart At Bended Knee
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

So long ago I drew a line
For myself in the sand
Time after time I moved that line when I crossed it again and again
Here we are back at the same old place
Down on the ground on my knees
But I'm still staring you right in the face

I know that I've been afraid
And I'm getting jaded more and more every day
I don't really care what anybody says
I ain't gettin' closer while I'm running away
How many times on a raging sea
If you see me going down, you gonna rescue me?
If I turn back to you on bended knee will you unlock my cage?
Will you set me free?
Set me free...

I've got a debt that I carry around
Carry around like a weight
It don't relieve me to know
That it's already paid
I've been a long, long way from my home
I went the wrong way
Now it seems I'm bound and determined to roam
Roam on babe

How many times in the burning heat,
If I go down in flames will you rescue me?
If I turn back to you on bended knee will you unlock my cage?
Will you set me free?
Set me free...


Thanks A Million
(Mike Roe, Bruce Spencer)

I've got something to tell you

Sit you down and rest you now
There's no more you can do
Thanks a million

For giving it all
All that you've got
More than your love
You gave me your heart baby baby
You held on
You didn't hold back at all

When the days were long
You held on strong
When I was weak at the knees
You've been around so long
I can't say so long
Won't you stay a little longer please

Come into my house of blue
And rest your feet a while
Thanks a million

For giving it all
All that you've got
More than your love
You gave me your heart baby baby
You held on
You didn't hold back at all


Tall Trees
(Mike Roe)

I've got tall trees
I've got the wind that blows
I've got small knees
But they don't show
So nobody knows

I've got all that I wanted and more
But I've seen what you gave me before
And I don't want to be your whore anymore baby
You think you still got a hold on me
But I've got news for you baby I'm free
'Cause I ain't gonna let you be
Mother of God, no more for me yeah!

I've got tall trees
I've got the wind that blows
You've got the birds and bees
But you'll never know where my honey flows
Flow honey flow

I've got the sun and the moon and the rain
I've got cars and busses and trains
But I don't need your emotional pain
Driving me crazy baby
You've got the frogs and princes and elves
Pretty boys and madammoiselles
But if you don't wanna see them in hell
Be yourself!
Be yourself!
Be yourself!
Be yourself!

I've got tall trees
I've got the wind that blows
I've got strong seas
And Muscle Shoals for my weary soul
I've got tall trees
I've got the wind that blows
You've got whatever you please
But you'll never know
Where my love goes
No you'll never know, baby
Where true love goes
Go Johnny, go

All songs (1996 Fools Of The World(ASCAP) All rights reserved.
Lyrics reprinted with permission.