Lord almighty I feel my temperature rising
Higher and higher it's burning right through to my soul
Girl girl girl you're gonna set me on fire
My brain is flaming I don't know which way to go

Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of the choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love

Oh oh oh I feel my temperature rising
Help me I'm burnin'
It feels like I'm burnin' away
Burnin' burnin' burnin' and nothing can save me
I just might turn to smoke but I feel fine

Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of the choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love

It's coming closer the flames are licking my body
Won't you help me I feel like I'm slipping away
It's hard to breathe my chest is a-heaving yeah yeah
Lord have mercy I'm burning a hole where I lay lay lay

Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of the choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
I said burning love

I'm just a hunka hunka burning love 
I'm just a hunka hunka burning love 
I'm just a hunka hunka burning...
Lord have mercy
Just a hunka hunka burning love
Just a hunka hunka oh yeah
I'm just a hunka hunka yeah
Come on baby
Come on burnin' burnin' burnin' burnin'
Burnin' burnin' burnin' burnin'

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one's begun
So this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

Have a merry merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
For weak or for strong
The rich and the poor ones
The road is so long
So this is Christmas
For black or for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fighting

And have a merry merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

Oh so this is Christmas
So what have we done
Another year over
And a new one's just begun
So happy Christmas
For black or for white
For yellow or red ones
Let's stop all the fighting

Have a merry merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

War is over
If you want it
War is over
Now

War is over
If you want it
War is over
Now

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Repeat to fade)

Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart, that's a pain I can do without

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover and mother what a lover you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home, cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my soul; I love you anyway

I suppose I should collect my books and get on back to school
Maybe steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
Maybe find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie I, I couldn't have tried anymore
You made a first-class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my soul, I couldn't leave you if I tried

I couldn't leave you
I couldn't leave you
No, no, no
I couldn't leave you
Whoa, Maggie

The screen door slams and Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only 
Don't send me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
Well don't you run back inside darling, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Well show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers; throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero it's understood
All the redemption I've got to offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it real somehow
Tell me what else can we do now 

Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back heaven's waiting down on the tracks
Oh come take my hand, we're ridin out tonight to case the promised land
Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun
I know it's late but we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Oh well I got this guitar and I learned, I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door is open but the ride ain't free
I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
Well tonight we'll be free all the promises will be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out 
     Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on
When you get to the porch they're gone on the wind
So Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win

We passed the devil's own temptation beyond where angels sleep                     
To the holy invocation of a neon city street
I feel your hand - I hold you
Through your eyes I see my love 
Wherever I go I take you with me

Down the road of my desires to the oceans of my needs
To the fuel of my fires until my yearnings cease				
I hear your voice - I know you							    
In your arms I sleep my love 
Wherever I go I take you with me

Even though I fed my hunger
Even though I've made my fill
I'd never understand it
How the journey led me here 
But I have made a promise 
That I intend to keep my love 
Wherever I go I take you with me

Jamie I'm alone down on the kitchen floor
Come on meet me on La Brea just this side of Fourth
Hey don't stop and listen to what your roommates say
They never really liked me that much anyway
They whisper and warn ya and tell ya
That something's not right
Jamie just tell me you won't listen tonight

I would buy the writing
If the walls were cheap
I'd try to steal you heaven
If Gods would sleep
I might be your salvation
I might just set you free
But everyone keeps talking
Like there's something you don't see
But they don't know me 

Jamie come and see me down in this little bar
They want to hear me play my songs
And beat up my guitar
Now don't stop and listen to what they say behind your back
They're starving and just making up for everything they lack
They whisper and warn ya and tell ya that you're nothing new
Okay maybe I've had me a stranger or two

I know you haven't really heard from me in ten thousand years
Everyone keeps saying how I build you up just to disappear
But they're not here

Jamie I'm alone down on the kitchen floor
Come on meet me on La Brea like we done before
Hey don't stop and think about what everybody say
They never really liked me that much anyway

Is it so hard 
To understand I love U 
'Cause no other letter 
Looks and sounds like U do 
Oh, I love your "uh" sound 
And have I ever told you 
That I'd be upset 
If you left the alphabet 
That's why I hold U, hold U, like I do 

U stand for understanding 
For up and undemanding 
And U stand for underwear 
For ugly and unfair 
And I don't know any letter 
Who makes the "uh" sound better 
Than the letter U 

I love the "uh" sound, of the letter U 
And I want the "uh" sound, of the letter U 
Oh, I need the "uh" sound, of the letter U 
That's why I ache, that's why I ache 
I ache, I ache, just to hold U, hold U 
Like I do 

No one else begins uptown 
No one starts up upside-down 
No one else begins unable, uncertain or unstable 
And no one else can spell a
A neat word like umbrella 
Like the way U do 
Like the way U do 
Nobody makes that "uh" sound 
Like the way U do 
No, no, no, no 
Give me that "uh" sound, come on 
Like the way U do 
Like the way U do 
Like the way U do

You can try, I don't care
Forcing circles into squares
You can spend precious time
Marching in your perfect line
But I don't hear that drum
I'm looking for something else 

And if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me
If you don't like what I say
You can turn the other way
If you don't like what you see
Then don't look at me 

Add it up, count me out
I'm taking a different route
I did not mean to offend
Before I broke I chose to mend
So I'll be on my way
I have nothing left to say 

But if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me
If you don't like what I say
You can turn the other way
If you don't like what you see
Then don't look at me 

Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Oh if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me 

If you don't, if you don't, if you don't, if you don't like what you see
Then you don't have to look at me 

Oh...
You don't have to look at me
Oh...

If you don't like, if you don't like, if you don't like
Then you don't have to look at me

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