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Take paper and pen, please.....
So: take a pink flamingo, put it on the green background of a cover. Doneeee? Good, now take a big, burly man with curly hair like a nativity cherub and with a voice that simply gives you chills down your spine: cut this voice into 9 tracks, mix it all, sprinkle with a generous dose of the '80s, lots of sugar, and bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.... If you followed the procedure to the letter you can wipe the sweat off your forehead, prepare for a 99-tooth smile and congratulate yourself: you have just created with your own hands one of the most beautiful albums man remembers.
Is it possible to build a dream in 9 tracks? It seems so; if you don't believe it, little budding St. Thomases, open the case, take the CD in hand, insert it into the player and prepare for a one-way trip to musical paradise. Track number 1, "say you ll be mine", will win you over on first listen, with its sweetness and lively cheerfulness, and will lead you into the arms of number two, number three, 4, 5......
It's pointless to spend unnecessary human words to describe a journey of rare beauty... there's nothing left but to try it with your own ears. If one winter evening, with the rain beating insistently at your window, the cold seeping into your bones, and melancholy starting to make its way under your skin, you feel like being cradled by a warm, suave voice, enveloping like a warm cashmere blanket, if you feel like packing up and reaching that pink flamingo outlined against the warm sunset....... well, maybe it's worth putting on a coat, grabbing an umbrella and heading to the nearest record store.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Say You'll Be Mine (02:58)
Say you'll be mine
Say you'll be mine until the sun shines
Say you'll be mine
And bring me the dream of a lifetime
I just can't hide the truth no more
I've got to get my feet back down on the floor
I love you so
I need you so
I just don't think I can let you go
Say you'll be mine
Say you'll be mine until the sun shines
Say you'll be mine
And bring me the dream of a lifetime
Well, it's you that keeps me feeling this way
I don't think I can take it even one more day
It don't seem right
That I should be alone tonight
Say you'll be mine
Say you'll be mine until the sun shines
Say you'll be mine
And bring me the dream of a lifetime
I just can't hide the truth no more
I've got to get my feet back down on the floor
I love you so
I need you so
I just don't think I can let you go
Say you'll be mine
Say you'll be mine until the sun shines
Say you'll be mine
And bring me the dream of a lifetime
02 I Really Don't Know Anymore (03:53)
What do you think about love
Is it a game to be played
To be torn and lost in the wilderness
To be lost and lonely after all
What do you think about love
Is it a way to be saved
To feel the warmth of another love
To be lost and lonely after all
Chorus:
I really don't know anymore
(I really don't know)
I really can't say
(I really can't say)
I really don't know anymore
(I really don't know)
I'm just that way
What do you think about love
Is it a game to be played
To keep your heart and have never loved
To be lost and lonely after all
What do you think about love
Is it a way to be saved
To give up your heart to another love
Just to be lost and lonely after all
(Chorus)
[Guitar solo]
(Chorus 4x and fade)
06 Ride Like the Wind (04:35)
It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again
And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
I was born the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind
And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
Accused and tried and told to hang
I was nowhere in sight when the chuch bells rang
Never was the kind to do as I was told
Gonna ride like the wind before I get old
It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again
And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
08 Sailing (04:18)
Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me
It's not far to never-never land, no reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me
CHORUS:
Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
Fantasy, it gets the best of me
When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie, every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me?
CHORUS
Well it's not far back to sanity, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find serenity
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me
CHORUS
09 Minstrel Gigolo (05:55)
You're the minstrel gigolo
Don't you know
You sing your songs of love so soft and low
And they want you more and more
All the young and lonely girls wait for you
There by the backstage door
And they're hoping to
Be the one
And when you start to sing
You will be their everything
And when you start to sing
Every woman will open up her heart
And let you in
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