Van Halen 3

hey you, wake up, get yourself together

yeah you, so you think you made it better

'cause you know it's coming at you

while your back is turned

look too long and i can't help you

so clear your head, find a way home

better make up your mind

first you say that you will

then you say you won't

well i'm just trying to figure

try and figure you out



how long can this go on

tell me what is wrong

and maybe there's a way

that we can work it out



there must be some kind of way

that we can make it right

but i, i just can't do it all

without you, without you



hey fool, wise up, better late than never

yeah you, you know that nothing lasts forever

nobody ever told you that your

time is running out

too bad and i can't help you



how long can this go on

tell me what is wrong

and maybe there's a way

that we can work it out



there must be some kind of way

that we can make it right

but i, i just can't do it all

without you, without you



the point i'm trying to make

you got to give more than you take

you gotta give, give more than you take

gotta, gotta, gotta work it out

Poorman, he just want a little

Richman, want a little bit more

Superman, he looking for Lois

Salesman, try and sell you his soul

Fatman, he's ordering seconds

Pizzaman, just wanna slice

Badman, looking for attention

A goodman, he's hard to find

Mailman, looking more like your daughter

Strawman, don't have a leg to stand on

Gayman, looking for another

Candyman, yeah the candyman can

Blackman, he looking for justice

Whiteman, try to get a tan

Woman, just wanna fly in first class

Holyman, take me to the promise land



Everyone's looking for something

Wanting their piece of the pie

Searching for their slice of heaven

I gotta have mine, yeah mine



And you're the one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)

Yeah, the one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)



Boogieman, he giving me the creeps

Sandman, kicking mud in your eye

Pianoman, in the mood for a melody

Strongman, yeah he knows how to cry

Apeman, ain't nobody's uncle

A luckyman don't always know who they are

Deadman, living for tomorrow

Wiseman, following a star



Well I ain't saying I'm different

Wanting my pie in the sky

I'm just a little impatient

Until I get mine, yeah mine



And you're the one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)

Yeah, yeah the one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)



(Guitar Solo)



Yeah!

The one I want!

The one I want!



The only one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)

Yeah, yeah the one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)



The only one I want (the one I want)

The only one I want (the one I want)

Yeah, yeah the one I want (want)

The only one I want (want)



Yeah, the one I want (want)

Want! Want! Yeah! Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!



Hey-hey-hey! Oh!

Yeah!

If I cannot see you from afar

Look into your eyes, that hint of depth

Hidden inside

If I cannot hear you from afar

Whisper in my ear, rest assured that

You are near



And I know not what it's like

The aforementioned

For the distance between us

As are the stars, I only have you

In my imagination

In my imagination

Just to love you

From afar



If I cannot kiss you from afar

Press against your lips, taste the sweetness

Of your breath



If I cannot touch you from afar

Hold you in my arms, keep you warm and

Safe from harm



Though our circumstances

Cause separation

In the absence, there's a presence in my heart

I will surrender, I'll surrender to my

Quiet contemplation

My quiet contemplation

I'll just, I'll just love you

From afar



There must be a better way (ooo-oooh)

A better way (ooo-oooh) of, of passing the time

I can't seem to get her out

Out of my

Get her out of my mind



(Guitar Solo)



I don't know what it's like

The aforementioned

For the distance between us

As are the stars, I only have you

In my imagination

In my imagination

In my imagination

In my imagination



Just to love you

Just to love you

Just to love you

No candidate would I support

His platform could I endorse

Another accomplice slinging dirt

Campaign promises falling short

I don't belong to any race

Pledge allegiance to a place

No borderline in the sand I'd trace

I'm just a sucker for a pretty face

Uncomfortable in the realm of the political

Position's always been a little left of cynical

I'm fundamentally for the individual

Preoccupied purely with the physical



When heavy is the weight of the world

And the river runs a little too deep

Like a hound dog chasing a bird

Sometimes a certain tom's gotta peep

I'm a peek-a-boy, looking at girls

And I think I like, I think I like, I like what I see



I don't wanna find religion

Or another man's opinion

I Can't choose what's not my decision

When there's only one under the sun

There's no need to be denied

Chew before swallowing pride

I want to live so let me die

Oh by the way, what's your sign?



Can't comprehend the meaning of the metaphysical

I'd rather leave that to your so-called intellectual

But what I do know I know feels only natural

I'm just a red-blooded heterosexual



When heavy is the weight of the world

And the river runs a little too deep

Like a dirty water doggin' a bird

Sometimes a certain tom's he gotta peep

I'm a peek-a-boy, looking at girls

And I think I like, I think I like, I like what I see



(Guitar Solo)



When heavy is the weight of the world

And the river runs a little too deep

Like a dirty water doggin' a bird

Sometimes a certain tom's he gotta peep

I'm a peek-a-boy, looking at girls

And I think I like, like a hound dog, chasin' a bird



And I think I like

A dirty water dog

And I think I like, I think I like, I like what I see

Once embraced, can't ever be let go

Once revealed, can't ever be not shown

Once believed, can't ever lose faith

Once shared, can't ever be separate

Once sown, once can't ever be not reaped

Like the dawn of a brand new day

With the power of deity

Well, I can feel it inside of me

Feel it. Can you feel it?



Once born, can't ever be not conceived

Once present, can't ever be past

Once first, once can't ever be not everlast



Returning home of the prodigal

Holding the intangible

To believe in a miracle

Believe it. Can you believe it?



Have you ever been touched?

Once whoa, really touched?

Could it ever be too much?

Whoa-oh-oh, can you tell me?



Once seen, can't ever lose sight

Once dawn, can't ever be not light

Once, once felt, once felt

Can't ever be untouched



The assurance only hope can bring

With the conviction of the unseen

See it's greater than everything

See it, oh can you see it?



Have you ever been touched?

Once whoa-oh really, really touched?

Could it ever be too much?

Whoa-ooh-oh oh, can you tell me?

Have you ever really touched love once?



(Guitar Solo)



(Oh!)



Oh! Have you ever been touched?

Once whoa-oh-oh really touched?

Could it ever be too much?

I don't know. Did you tell me?

Have you ever really touched

Once. Whoa-oh really, really touched?



Could it ever be too much?

Oh-ooh somebody tell me

Have you ever really touched

Love once?



Ah, have you ever really touched

Love once?

Have you ever really touched love

Touched love?

Woooo-ooooo

Woooo-ooooo

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Wooo-oooo

Wooo-oooo

Wooo-oooo-oooo

Oh, love once. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

In a word to the wisdom tooth

To tell, or not the truth (yeah)

So open up and say ahh-men

Rinse cup, and spit again

Forked tongue in double speak

Pretty soon you just might

Spring a leak

Inhale before you begin

Your iron lung's a bag of wind



There's a fire in the hole

Fire in the hole

There's a fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)

Fire



Sweet 'n' sour, filiblister

Faucet pouring, fresh 'n' bitter

Come on smile and say cheese

On a count of three

Ya got a mindful of decavities

Hey!



Chew your words, lest you choke

You better watch your mouth

Wash it out with soap. Yeah!

Tongue tied in a tangled web

Your bile inside better left unsaid



There's a fire in the hole

Fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)

There's a fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)

Fire!

Ah, shoot it!



(Guitar Solo)



Hey-hey-yeah!

Huh!

Yeah!

Hey-hey-yeah!



(hey hey hey hey hey)

There's a fire in the hole

Fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)

There's a fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)

Fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)



There's a fire, fire, fire

A fire!



Rudder of ship, which sets the course

Does not the bit, bridle the horse

Great is the forest, set by a small flame

Like a tongue on fire, no one can tame

Josephina, there's so much I want to know

I've known you for all of mine

But not all of yours

You're not a stranger

No, nothing could be further

I look back and I wonder

What you were like, long before

Josephina, if I asked you, would you tell me?

The fact from the fancy

And the dreams in between

Tell me a story

All about yours truly

Photographs from the past

Imagine the mystery



Didja get your head lost in a daydream?

Cinderella, waiting for her charming

Did ya break a heart, like little girls often do?

Pigtails and painted toes

All dressed up in your mother's clothes

Can you shine the light?

Ah, can you shine the light?

Oh, please can you shine some light?

Yeah, can you shine the light?

Shine the light on a shadow



Josephina, would you lay down your defenses?

So i can make sense of

Those colors fading to grey

It's not that you're hiding

Something, I'd never imply

Yesteryear I may be gone

Can't say the same for today





Yeah, Josephina!



(Guitar Solo)



Ah, Josephina!



How else am I to know, that all the while

There was a mischievous look, behind that smile?

It's hard to tell, when innocence comes and goes

I'm sure that there were times, life could be unkind

Without a shoulder to cry on

Can you shine the light?

Ah, can you shine the light?

Yeah, please can you shine some light?

Yeah, can you shine the light?

Yeah, can you shine the light?

Shine the light on a shadow



(Ah-ah-ah)

(Ah-ah-ah)

(Ah-ah-ah)

I woke up to yet another day

Grown to expect, expect more of the same

Except for, for a subtle change

And that is, I'm slowly fading away

Harvest moon, soon will pass

Crop is gone, left only chaff

A bitter pill, and an overcast

A flag unfurled, at half mast

Ahhhhh...



A year to the day

Since you went away

A moment in time

When you were last mine

I'm here standing still

Yeah! With more time to kill

Hey! I barely survived

Yeah, I barely survived



Like pouring salt on an open wound

Memory filling, filling this empty room

I'm as bare, I'm as bare, as a barren womb

Still like the air, in a whitewash tomb

Ahhhhh...



A year to the day

Since you went away

A moment in time

When you were last mine

I'm here standing still

Hey! With more time to kill

I barely survived

Yes, I barely survived



(Guitar Solo)



Ahhhhh...



A year to the day

Since you went away

A moment in time

When you were last mine

I'm here standing still

Been standin' still. With more time to kill

Hey! I barely survived

I barely survived



A year to the day!

Year to the day!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

A year to the day!

Three sixty-five!

Three sixty-five, five, fiiive!



Ahhhhh...

Give me liberty or give me death

No truer words have ever been said

Well are you prepared for your very last breath?

Don't you dare start what you cannot finish

So when we face, face the adversary

No longer are we the minority



And when history repeats her hour

The pendulum will swing, swing into power

Though not in vain like our forefathers

Freedom, never had no room for cowards



For in the end, there will be equality

By any means necessary



The ballot or the bullet

The choice is up to you

The ballot or the bullet

Tell me what you gonna do

The sword or the pen

Can be held by the same hand



What's it gonna take to liberate?

An emancipation, a false proclamation?

All these token words that you legislate

Sound a little bit absurd. Hey! And a little too late



When a house is divided, it just will not stand

Once it's decided, a line drawn in the sand



Ah! The ballot or the bullet

The choice is up to you

The ballot or the bullet

Tell me what you gonna do

The sword or the pen

Can be held by the same hand



(Guitar Solo)



The ballot or the bullet

The choice is up to you

The ballot or the bullet

Tell me what you gonna do



The ballot or the bullet

The choice is up to you

The ballot or the bullet

Tell me what you gonna do

The sword or the pen can be

The sword or the pen can be

The sword or the pen can be

The sword or the pen can be

The sword or the pen can be

held, held by the same hand!

Are you ever so silent, when she wanted to talk?

Or couldn't keep quiet, when she needed a hug

Come on too strong, when a little's too much

How many, how many, say I

Go on and say yes, and really mean no

Would you rather guess, when you just don't know

And then say I love you, but aren't willing to show

How many, how many, say I

How many, how many, say I



How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I



Say live and let live, so quick to judge

Slow to forgive, when you're holding a grudge

Don't always believe, all you need is love

How many, how many, say I

How many, how many, say I

How many, how many, say I



How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I



(String Solo)



Have you ever looked down when the homeless walked by?

Or changed the channel when you saw a hungry child?

Know something to be true, then deny it

How many, how many, say I

How many, how many, say I

How many, how many, say I



How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I

How many say I, how many say I