QUIET DAYS IN AVALON

You and me
In our old car
No one thought
We'd go so far
Days of heat
Nights of fire
Life was sweet
Couldn't get no higher.

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The summer heat went on and on
Nights were short and days were long
I remember now that you've gone
Those quiet days in Avalon

You and me
On the road
Help each other
Carry the load
Picking grapes
Along the way
Bought the gas
Took us away.

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You and me
Coudn't last
All too good
All too fast
You never said
Just what was wrong
When I awoke
You were gone

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Now I cry
The empty night
Searched for you
In mornings light
You and me
Were hand in glove
Only you
Have my love

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NIGHTS OF STARS AND LAUGHTER

The nights of stars and laughter
They simply slipped away
In the cold hard light of day
Into a place I couldn't go
You lived behind a closing door

The daylight shows just what I lost
And how love, it turned to loss
And it was all at such a cost
I walk in the mem'ry of your face
But of our love there is no trace

And in my lonely room I cry
And tears fall from my eyes
Remembering no goodbyes
I live my life in the mem'ry of you
It's all I can do now I've lost you.

TIME AND AGAIN

Time and again
You tell me
You are my friend
Time and again
I know you lie
Time and again
You tell me
It won't end
But your face
Gives me the lie

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Time and again it goes wrong
Time and again more'f the same
I say no more 'cos it's too late
I've had enough of the cryin' game

Time and again
You give me
Time and again
You tell lies
Time and again
You tell me
You love me
But I know you lie

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Time and again
It went wrong
Couldn't take no more
Time and again
You failed me
Walked out the door
It's too late now
I've had enough
Just had enough
Wont take no more.

FIVE HUNDRED MILES BEHIND ME

I think I'll drive down South again
It's been five long years without my friend
I've been in the City far too long
Put the Chevy on the blacktop back to where I belong

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Five hundred miles behind me
Two hundred still to go
Me and my Chevy
We're really on a roll
Goin back to the place
Where I left her behind
Goin back to the place
And I'm goin to make her mine

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Left that girl one dark night
Five long years ago
She said I'd got no future
It'd be better if I go
I went out into the night
Got no place to call my home
And so me and my old car
We drove up to Chicago

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What I didn't know then
And I've only just heard
Was that girl carried my baby
And was getting real scared
Her and my boy are living
Right high upon a hill
The rises above the river
That flows thru Nashville

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I know she married a rich guy
He's got a private plane
But oh my sweet baby
I hear you live in pain
I hear he is cold
And much too old for you
And my boy needs a Daddy
And girl I need you.

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ONLY TILL DAWN

I thought I knew all there was to know
I thought I knew it all
But you came and and you didn't go
It was you who made me whole

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Only till daybreak
Only till dawn
Lie here beside me
Silent and warm
Only till daybreak
Only till dawn
Then you must go
Back to your home.

I grew to love the tender nights
I grew to love you
But now he's back and you tell me
Our loving nights are thru

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And all I need is a little strength
And all I need is you
Give me the strength to keep you here
'Cos all I need is you

EVEN NOW

There were many things I didn't tell you
There were many things I left unsaid
And there were times I didn't hold you
Times when I loved myself instead
And now times have come between us
And you think of me as just a friend
And you don't know that I loved you
And that your leaving was my end.

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Even now you don't know I miss you
And we have gone our separate ways
In quiet times I think about you
And your memory haunts my days

You've made a new life far away from me
And we have gone our different ways
But I think about you, can't you see
That you haunt my nights and days
I have sort of learnt to live without you
And I have learnt how to live again
And though I have a home and lover
I wish you were more than a friend