Supertramp

Only if I lied could I love you

Nothing of our lives could we share

Only could we try to get by on a sigh

Just because, just this once, I was there

Well the road I see before me

Threatens pain at every bend, yeah

Well my needs are mine, I understand

And hope to calling friends

Well, good company, it may comfort me

But I don't want love to distract my heart from the way



Now your love it gave me sorrow

And a broken heart to mend, yeah

So I took me to this lonely road

My sweet hopes, to defend

Oh and why pretend, I won't look back

Even though the love of a happy man waits before



Well, the winter wind blows chilly

And the road is dark and gray

So take pity on a wanderer should you pass me on the way



Oh, I'm left alone without a home

Makes a man ask why he travels on

When hope is gone



It's a long road

It's a long road

It's a long road

It's a long road

Morning at last

Every night is a fight till you're waking

Dreams dancing past

Through the silence of sleep

Dawn is breaking

I wake and watch them till then

And I am not like other birds of prey

And I am not like other birds of prey



Oh, night is long, you won't needing me

For a dressed up time  I am there to see

That fear holds no sway



Soft is my plan

And my eyes kill the lies that felt happy

Life is my right

And in sleep's little bed

I'll protect you

So, hear, let my presence dismay

That I am not like other birds of prey

That I am not like other birds of prey



When hopes are young and your cares are few

Then I'm sure above keeping truth in you

And my name is love

Why sing a lonely song?

The whole world knows that love goes wrong

Why loose a heart that isn't broken?

It isn't broken, it can't be broken



Life's just a show for free

Come along and watch with me

The only sins are words unspoken

Words unspoken, never spoken



Sweet things come and go

Give me shame, I'll give you wow

To live for love isn't so easy

It isn't easy, it won't be easy!



How all good men try

Look around and wonder why

Can they shape this world to please me

Can they please me, should they please me?



I follow but maybe you'll correct me

I wish you'd never met me

For I am your gentle man

I follow and while you watch and wonder

I call my world a sundown

And show you who I am



Send me a gentle dream

Of love so strange it's never seen

And proof how such a love can happen

It can happen, make it happen



Fine things tumble down

Fade away without a sound

But hope must never end or slacken

Never slacken, never slacken



I follow but maybe you'll correct me

I wish you'd never met me

I am your gentle man

I follow and while you watch and wonder

I call my world a sundown

And show you who I am

I ain't got too much money, I ain't got too much sense

Long ago I had a dream but that's no recompense

My father was a blind man, my brother was a fool

My mother told me "God is love"

But hatred makes the rules



Teach me to fly

So I shan't drag my feet in the sand

Give me the sky

I would take the whole world in my hand



World, don't you tell me

I cannot last forever

Before you know I'll come and go

And make you if I can



Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy

They throw away their gentle love

And keep their pain for me



Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own?

Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone?



Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy

They throw away their gentle love

and keep their pain for me



Teach me to fly

So I shan't drag my feet in the sand

Give me the sky

I would take the whole world in my hand



Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own?

Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone?

Many is the time that a dream has gone wrong 

When you're with me

Many is the time when the blame went to you 

Please forgive me

But the truth is my friend 

That the world isn't quite as I thought it to be

Oh no, I wish I were back home again

Oh no, I wish I were back home again

Oh no, I wish I were back home again

La la la , I wish I were back home again

Nothing to show beyond the fear I had

Body so warm within this perfumed bed

Sleeping alone, the shadow of a man

He will entice you too, and if he can

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been



Nothing is handed, power is changing fast

Many the empty hopes his lips caress

Sorry to say his days are spent in vain

Chasing a dream of doom of nights in pain

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been



Shadowy nights of memories of the grave

Gentle my love and sweetness sometimes sick

Keep up his time while his crimes are known

Only a fool can see he's sold his love

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been



Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Nothing to show for love that's never been

Did your shadow ever speak to you?

And did he say that something's wrong?

Only a figure on a lamplit wall

Never realized he cared at all

Did he stop you going on?



Guess my shadow spoke to me tonight

And made me throw my dreams away

Told a story of a twisted man

Who was playing with some foolish plan

'Bout a girl who had flown away



Sometimes shadows are near

I see things very clear, my life unwinds

Somewhere I'll make my stand

Look around at yesterday

And change my mind



Now your shadow isn't always there

In the light of cloudy days

Or in circles where you hide from view

All the dust that ever bothered you

And where people loose your name

Later that evening, only a feeling

But it was there in the air that we share in the twilight

Humming a sad song, where was our day gone

But in the dark was a spark, a remark I remember

"Try again", she replied to some story I told

"Try again", yes I will if I can

Oh, all I need is somebody to hold



Learning a feeling, seeking a meaning

Finding a way, should she stay, how to say let's imagine

Maybe I'll go wrong, an evening that last long

But in the night all the light must be right for this moment

"Try again", she replied to some story I told

"Try again", yes I will if I can

Oh, all I need is somebody to hold



"Try again", she replied to some story I told

"Try again", yes I will if I can

Oh, all I need is somebody to hold



"Try again", she replied to some story I told

"Try again", yes I will if I can

Oh, all I need is somebody to hold

Surely there's a way I could please you

Only in your past lie the tears

Surely there's a day you can say went your way

Some illusion you can keep through the years



Only if I lied could I love you

Nothing of our lives could we share

Only could we try to get by on a sigh

Just because, just this once, I was there