Ocean Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw I'm running from the future And I'm looking at the past I keep coming on to detours And I'm overheated, out of gas There's nothing left to keep me here I've tossed it to the wind And I'm too jacked up for sleeping now Where the hell would I begin Take me back to your ocean Let the waves of mercy wash right over me All my dreams and emotions Go flooding like a river to your sea My head is full of eloquence And reasons not to be The weight of this intelligence is like a stone That's crushing me I let it roll right over me I'm down here in the dirt I knew it was not meant to be And now I'm back here from the hurt Take me down to your ocean Let the waves of mercy wash right over me All my love and devotion Go roaring like a river to your sea I'm washing the blues away tonight Wearing them down And nothing that you can say about the world Can change my mind Floating in your sea Floating in your sea

Stop Knockin' Written by Tommy Shaw, Gerry Goffin, Barry Golfberg Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Busted and broke And I'm too old to toke I'd pay somebody money If they told me a joke Don't let my dreams Go up in smoke Don't want to stare At the man who wears a cloak 'Cause I'm on the inside Watching as the world goes by And I'm trying to make it If you'd only let me try Every time I'm standing You make me fall Every time I'm running You make me crawl Every time you push me You make me stall You know you've got to stop Knocking my heart against the wall I always gotta stare Right in your eyes Lookin' for the truth But you keep on telling me lies It's too late to get crazy Too late for alibis You look me through the reasons Until I got wise I never leave you Just keep comin' back for more Why must you keep me With my feet dragging on the floor Every time I'm standing You make me fall Every time I'm running You make me crawl ...

All In How You Say It Written by Tommy Shaw, Gerry Goffin Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Angel of my heart I wanna see you again But I've got to get a glimpse Every now and then But if you stay In the garden too long You might get caught Singing a loser's song I guess you've got to learn your lesson Every now and then When you find someone who's messing With your thinking And even if your intuition Says you might get hurt I know, I know It's all in how you say it Does anybody here Love you more than I do Does anybody see What I'm seeing in you I guess you've got to learn your lesson Every now and then I know, I know It's all in how you say it Angel of my heart You're a good man's friend But I've got to get a glimpse Every now and then I could tell you a story That I used to know Take you to places Where the trade winds blow I guess you've got to learn your lesson Every now and then When you find someone who's messing With your thinking And...

What Do You Want From Life Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw You can't eat And you can't sleep You fell in love And you feel too deep But it wasn't returned And now you been burned Oh yeah You can't go out You're in such a slump You need to shout But you're down in the dumps It won't do any good Til you find your way out of the woods All she did for you Was let you be an idiot What else could she do Everyone knew but you weren't ready yet Hey now What do you want from life What do you want from love What do you want from me Hey now What do you want from life What do you want from love What do you want from me, me, me I feel your pain I've been there before Standing in the rain In the dark outside her door Feeling like the fool that you are All she did for you Was make you feel Like a millionaire What else could you do If you had it for real You'd give it all away to her Hey now What do you want from life What do you want from love W...

In This Night Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw I wanna be the hero I wanna be the man I want to be the one who pulls you through when nobody can Come on baby I'm ready right now Yeah who knows Maybe I'm the one gonna make you scream out loud I'll be here right by your side I won't leave you alone in this night Shake loose of those chains Of your sad remains You're gonna look back someday and find it was growing pains I wanna get to know you Gotta let me try You got to let me show I understand how you feel inside Come on baby Open up for me You might be surprised to find how easy it can be I'll be here Right by your side I won't leave you alone in this night You ride shotgun Let's see how you feel You might just find you enjoy the ride with me at the wheel I wanna drive you On down the road We won't ever look back cause we're never coming back No more, no more, no more I'll be here Right by your side And I won't leave you al...

Half A Mind Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw and Allison Krause You said you were leaving On the very next train This little town had got you down, and you wouldn't be back again Yeah and I believed you My world stood still You said you had a half a mind to let me know the way you feel When it comes to leaving I've done my share Trouble would come, but you'd never find me there You said you were leaving So many times And every time I tried to find a way I could survive I felt so lonely All the times I cried And now you say that I should see how everything has changed inside you When it comes to changing I never saw the need I never thought about anyone but me Can't we see the past is gone Half a mind from here Where the seeds of love can grow We'll gather it as we go We'll never know How lucky we are Casting our fate To the wind and the stars And gather the love as we go Gather the love as we go Gather the love as we go You said you were leaving O...

Straight Down The Line Written by Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw You bought a one way ticket and you headed down to Mexico Said you were gonna find the answers to the questions I don't know You can't help yourself It's not someone else When you look in the mirror Tell me what do you see Are you thinking of me? Yeah You've got a new age guru sitting cross-legged on the floor You're selling some kind of Voodoo, but I think he only wants to score You can't help yourself No there's no one else Take a good look around now Tell me what do you see Are you thinking of me Yeah yeah yeah Straight down the line You'll find the answer Straight down the line You know I believe When all is said and done You'll be the one Straight down the line You met a Hollywood agent with a big house on the hill He says he's gonna leave his wife, but you know that he never will You can't help yourself No there's no one else When you look in the mir...

Diamond Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw "See you boys later" "All right" "Play hard" My friends are all detectives They liked to be protective 'Cause they knew I was the marrying kind But this time they were helpless Their Police skills were useless They knew I'd never pay them any mind She was shinny She was bright If that spelled trouble Well all right Guess we'll just have to wait and see She looked like a diamond to me Love's already hard enough But when your heart gets tough You can miss the simple things You walk right past a rose As if you never had a nose Then one day A little bell rings Nothing matters anymore Time to get up off the floor Time to end this misery Yeah she looked like a diamond to me After all my years in this place My fears slip slowly into space Nothing but blue sky above And a sky writer writes the word love Angels must have been on guard 'Cause man it hit me hard It was the real thing after al...

Inspiration Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw You say anything is possible I say I believe what you believe If you say it, I'd say it is true I dream and in my dreams I think of you So real, it's like the way I turn to you When I awake I wanna see you there all the time 'Cause I need your inspiration I need your guiding light This is my invitation Come on and be my world tonight There's a place Where everything is beautiful Love rules and everything is do-able But that world seems such a vision away I give up everything I ever had Walk away, leave this crazy life behind If I knew that you'd be the one by my side I need your inspiration I need your guiding light This is my invitation Come on and be my world tonight And I would run through the gauntlet I would scream in the Vatican I would laugh my resignation I would dance naked in the sand under moonlight Every brick and every stone and shingle laid Every dream and every little plan we make We'll b...

Who I Am Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Someone hurt you bad and that's for sure But they won't ever hurt you any more Somewhere down the road it will be gone But until that day you just have to carry on Every time you trip and lose your step You complain and cry that you need help But help is gone you just don't know it yet The race is on and you never placed your bet So you cry cry cry All night long You say why why why Is my love gone Say please please Help me if you can Call someone and ask them who I am Who I am Your eyes feel like a camera in your head And somehow you just stumbled onto the set The movie's just too real to walk away But the end is coming And the bad guy's gonna pay So you cry cry cry All night long And say where where where Did I go wrong You say please please Help me if you can Why don't you call someone and ask them Who I am, who I am Call someone and ask them who I am You want to know you better ask somebody So you cry ...

Down On The Ground Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw I thought what I was hearing Was the sound of mission bells Perhaps it was a mission Not from heaven but from hell I lay down my body On the fertile ground I fell All the things seemed clear to me I never felt so well But when the night was over And the morning sun burned through And I listened for the mission bells But a dissonance rang through You shook me up You shook me down But you won't keep me Down on the ground Your love is strong But I've been down too long Why you wanna keep on Doing me wrong I thought what I was hearing Was the voice of my old friend I poured out my feelings And I felt healed again I held that door open And said why don't you stay You're tired and you're hungry I thought I heard you say So you sat down at my table I closed my eyes as you prayed While you filled your every pocket With the living I had made You shook me up You shook me down But you won't keep me Down on ...

A Place To Call My Own Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Hold the lamplight to the night See the empty streets Rolling out of sight Turn a deaf ear to the din Ignore the hunger pangs Bundle up against the wind Still I believe Someone waits for me A place to call my own Somewhere to be from A shelter from the storm Where I'll be safe and warm A future built on stone A place to call my own And once there was a time I had no fear at all None that I recall No future there to taunt No history to haunt me No monsters in the wall Still I believe Someone waits for me Oh, a place to call my own Somewhere to be from A shelter from the storm Where I'll be safe and warm Of wood and bricks and stone Oh, a place to call my own Somewhere to be from A shelter from the storm Where I'll be safe and warm A future built on stone A place to call my own

Peace, Love (Weird) Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Marina Sirtis Calm I must be calm I shall will the shaky hands to be still My racing heart must keep Its urgent message to itself For no one would understand Insanity The world moves in slow motion I must express these thoughts So bursting to be born That my skin might split open My every thought rushing out Only to be infinitely recycled Like a fountain in an office building's lobby Peace I know no peace When my stream of consciousness Becomes a tidal wave Ready to wash away lives and property Long believed to be safely bolted To stone foundations on high ground Security My mind is a killing machine In remission only for as long as it takes To create a false sense of safeness For the grazing Zen herd A coyote So quiet and interesting It has been accepted as a pet Allowed in the house with the cat And the children A snake Sleeping in the sun So hypnotic and seductive Because it has never coiled, or rattled I look in the mirro...

How Should I Feel Written by Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw I've been thinking about your number In the middle of the night Trying to remember From somewhere in my head Without turning on the light Everybody has an answer To this problem that I have Yeah it seems so easy Tumbling from their lips I just have to laugh I call your name And I am healed I look for an answer Tell me how should I feel I've been pulling out your pictures Now I pulling out my hair And I'm looking for the answer In the bottom of a bottle But I can't find it there I call your name And I am healed I look for an answer Tell me how should I feel I'd love to ask you tonight But your lips are sealed If I can't be lonely tonight Tell me how should I feel I would love to change the world And I would love to change the world And I would love to I call your name And I am healed I look for an answer Tell me how should I feel I'd love to ask you tonight But your lips are sea...