Pictures at eleven

Slipped through the window by the back door

Caught short in transit with my love

Jumped up - fell back, cut off from romance

How could I fall without a shove



Tip-toe like thunder on my feeling

You rock me gently with your sighs

My knees are weak - my head is reeling

Consumed by fire in your eyes



Stepped in and shattered my defences

Just playing hookey with my heart

Slipped through the window by the back door

And took the keys to my poor heart - yes, my poor heart



Try as I might - try as I may

Yes, I'll try anything to make you stay

'Cause I need your love - yes, I need your love --



I'm looking high - I'm looking low

Can't find where did my baby go

Gotta find out why she ran away

I don't know where did my baby stay



Try as I might - try as I may

I'll try anything to make you stay



Fire down the Boulevard d'Amour

Shoot through the neon in the night

Hot-foot through alleys - check the doorways 

Try that old parking lot on Ninth



There's three-course kissing in the same place

But that don't help me out no more

I've been away so long and dreaming

Little girl, ain't I seen you before?

Time and again I see you walking down the street

Over and over - just like before

Once in a while you stop and say hello to me

Just like you used to do before



Time and again, it's like we were in love and then

Over and over - nobody keeping score

Once in a while I think you notice when I smile

That love still lingers in my eyes



It can't go wrong - it can't go wrong

It lingers on - it lingers on



Day after day I turn it over in my mind

Dream after dream it's hard to tell you how I find

Out of the blue I'm suddenly so close to you

Despite the years that I've been gone



Will you stop? will you wait? will you please remember?

Can you stop? can you just give me one minute to explain?

I will not cause a fuss - I will not rock the boat - believe me darling

Oh, what is, what was, it's all the same

Watch them go - 'cause one by one they rise to fall

Hearts in tow - it's just a game - she's only having fun

She laughs and turns away

Surprised, she mocks - it's all the same

Tonight's the loss - tomorrow's gain, and in the end it's so



Stand in line as one by one they march in time

In the wings I stand and watch these foolish things go by

Just preparing for the play - aloof she moves

The confidante with practiced step

The merry dance - she executes her role



As the cavalcade begins to thin, do you stop and look around

Free to choose but not to win - you're just too late

Your show is at an end - now you're the victim of your game

Through your fingers watch them slip

Familiar rules just hit and miss for the one who never shows

Slow dancer - no answers

For you new moves to see

Fast talker in dark corners

For you new words to hear

Sly glances - half chances

For you the eye that sees



When the sun slips from the day and the coolness brings relief

There's no torment 'neath the stars in the stillness of the night

When the swirling has to cease behind the safety of the veil



High places - dark faces

So indifferent in days to be

Lost races - no losers

Only winners return to see

New order - can't be altered

When the eyes refuse to see



When the sun slips from the day [etc repeated]



Soft spoken - never could be broken

Waiting the dawn light with me

Slow burning - school of learning

Don't hasten it down on me

Hearts leaping - hopes been reaching

To the heights, to the heights - these signs to see



Oh baby -- in the darkness, in the darkness --

Operator, give me Central, Central

Help me try to get my baby on the line

Information, hear me calling, calling

Find that number - give it to me one more time

It's been so long since I saw her

Anything I'd give to hear the little girl of mine

Whatever it takes, got to make it, make it

Please connect me now before I lose my mind

Because I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do

No I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do



Tastes so good, sweet as honey, honey

All she carries is impossible to use

It's built for speed man - watch her coming, coming

Moves so fast in someone else's shoes

Looks so fine, Lord - watch them running

Anything she wants you feel obliged to do

Keep your hands in your pockets

She can shift more gold than the king of Peru

But I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do

No I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do



Man drinks whisky - drive him crazy in time

Woman sits and cries as day follows day

Man need loving - keep him happy sometime

Woman gets some when the honeydripper's on his way

But I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do

But I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know

No I don't know, no I don't know, no I don't know



She can do it, she can do it, she can do it, babe

She's sweet as honey, sweet as honey, sweet as honey

I can't believe it - it happens each day

It's ill conceived - just throw it away

To watch the waiting time slipping away

It won't be long now



I hold the moment - the hour is sublime

It's hard believing - dancing with time

To watch the waiting time slipping away

It won't be long now



Down at the landing when the boats come in

People stand in line

Close by the water where the fishes swim

Round and round to pass the time

But you know it's gonna get there

Around and around it's gonna spin



Out at the airport where the planes come in

People buzzing like flies

Out at the airport where the planes come in

Well, the hours go flashing by

But you know it's gonna get there

Around and around it's gonna spin



Down at the station where the trains come in

Never make it on time

Down at the station where the trains come in

See my friends all walk the line

But you know they're gonna get there

Around and around they're gonna spin



View it all with suspicion

View it all and despise

View it all with suspicion

View it all with my eyes

I'll see you baby, when the ice has broken

When the rain stops falling down

I'll be waiting for you baby, when your time has come

And your face no longer frowns

I caught a taste of springtime on your lips

I saw the sunlight in your eyes



I wake to find you smiling with the dawn

Just reminders of the time

I feel your breath - I look around, but you're gone

I see the place where you were lying

I caught a taste of springtime on your lips

I see the sunlight in your eyes



It's been so long - it's been so long

So long since you've been gone

I look away - I can see that you're gone

I guess I'm standing here alone



Across the sea I see bluebirds on high

In the wildest places too

Above the ground the wind is calling out to me

Oh, lead me back to you

I caught a taste of springtime on your lips

I can still see the sunlight in your eyes, in your eyes



It's been so long [etc repeated]



I'll see you baby [etc - first verse repeated]



I can see, I can see, I can see that it's true

Just like, just like I've never been gone --

Had to leave in a hurry

Couldn't wait to get away

It's not a case of being sorry

It's the price I have to pay

Confidentially I think it's sad

But there's nothing I can do

The road leads to the highway

Well, I'm hot and I've got to move

Uh-huh, I've got to move



Got to change my arrangements

Had the word I'm on my way

Couldn't stand it much longer

Got to move I'm glad to say

I didn't mean to let you down

But there's nothing I can do

The road leads to the highway

Well, I'm hot and I've got to move

I'm hot and I've got to move



Talk of strain in relations

Of the days of being confused

You told me never to worry

I'll never ask you to choose

Categorically I have to say

It's as much as I can do

To sit around here waiting

When I'm hot I've got to move



Oh, sometimes it's lonely - but it's the only way I know

When the road is calling me on

Ooh baby, I've got to move, yes

Ooh, now baby baby, I've got to leave



And when I think back I smile and know that, win or lose

When the road is calling me on

Ooh, baby baby I've got to move, yes

Ooh, baby baby I've got to move, yeah



There's a man with a suitcase

Standing in a darkened room

Message light is burning

And the blinds are always drawn

It's been a while since the last time

Never should come back too soon

Behind the door is slamming

When he's hot he's got to move

When he's hot he's got to move