More Official Lyrics - Crowe/Doyle Songbook

Disappeared - (Crowe/Doyle)

I was once an individual
Sharp and angular
You could see me from a distance
I've learned as I've gone
Picked up life as I went along
Now I'm,well rounded
But I've disappeared
Somewhere between knowledge
Failure and success
I got everything off my chest
and I disappeared

It's only people who decide to love you
That want you to be soft
calm and patient
Unsafe and available
guard down and vulnerable but,
Who could want a vulnerable man?
Someone out to claim him
Tame until they maim him
it's easier to love him
If you can swallow him whole

Chorus

Watch me disappearing down the middle of the road
Nothing to catch me in the cracks
In the cracks lie loves adventure
In the fissures await the gold
I'm in charge of everything
At least that's what I'm told

Everything to everybody
and not true to a single one
once or twice to you
in a sentence never spoken
Or buried in a poem
Hidden in a piano of sanded wood
This pen is my confessor
I'll burn it out here on this page
Let the paper soak with rage
While I fade away

Chorus

Bridge

I am now
Invisible and uncertain
Engaged by all my fears
I am now
Indivisible from the curtains
I am the disappeared

Perfect in your Eyes - (Crowe/Doyle)

I wrote I love you on a motel door
Drove myself swerving blue
Hit the curves and I prayed for more
Prayed I could have all of you

Chorus

and before
I came apart from you
and before
I made you cry
and before
I broke my heart in two
When I was perfect in your eyes
Perfect in your eyes

Before I failed and was miserable
Before I kicked like a mule
Before I cried to be impregnable
Before I laughed 'cause you would too

I prayed to God in Sacre Coeur  
I promised him I'd live
You shambled about with those shiny things
You redefined forgive

Chorus

Bridge

Before I drank and drowned
Before I let you down
Before I told you lies

If you told me to go
Chasing tornados
I'd saddle up and ride

Perfect in your arms my love
Present in your mind
Welcome in your life my love
When I was perfect in your eyes (rpt)

Chorus

Angel of the Cross - (Crowe/Doyle)

The street that drags me up the hill,
To the wrong side of the road
Where young drinking men meet regret
And love is sought and sold
Where solid possibilities
Are ground away to dust
In a demon's dance
I first glanced..my Angel of the Cross

Floating past the fountain
To El Alamein
I'm caught in her and haunted
I will climb this hill again
With such a beauty recognized
I'll walk until I'm lost
I followed her,I couldn't talk to her
My Angel of the Cross

Chorus

Each man has his hungers
And mine's for such as you
If I had a saviours' courage
I'd know exactly what to do

But I'm no knight in shining armour
And you no nightingale
I'm sorry Angel of the Cross
This is not a fairy tale

Bridge

Your supple skin will harden
Shut down and left to die
Your breath will sigh and leave you
Speechless and out of time
And you'll shrink into your bones
'til amongst the bones you lie

These lights are sirens dear not beacons
As you have come to know
The river is  only raindrops
that counterfeit the glow
I watch through sweethearts window
You count your tips and not the cost
Tonight I may well speak your name
My Angel of the Cross

Chorus

Bridge 2

Your supple skin will harden
Shut down and left to die
Your breath will sigh and leave you
Speechless and out of time
And you'll become transparent
in the shuttered view of passers' by
And you'll shrink into your bones
'til amongst the bones you lie

These lights are sirens dear not beacons
As you have come to know

Killing Song - (Crowe/Doyle)

Chorus

Don't want to ride into the Sunset
With murder on my mind
Let me lie in a lullaby
I'm not the man I left behind
Fallen,fallen,fallen
Wicked with regret
I can't sing a killing song before I go to bed no,
I can't sing a killing song before I go to bed

Is that the guitar from Tucson
'cause I don't want to sing those songs again
Dancing 'til dawn with the ranger's girl
Waking up to find sweet peach dead

Chorus

I never stay more than a few days
I sing my songs and no-one would suspect
that I'd be the kind,that's very hard to find
Funny what you can make yourself forget

Bridge

I believe you when you say that you love Johnny
That Reno one it was my favourite song
There's 50 common ways to leave your love yeah
I lie awake and I count 51

Chorus
Break

Lord let me hear salt water breaking
Western solace sun,set on the sea
I have to close the night with a sweet,sweet song
Or I'll find the night closing in on me

Chorus

Love is Impossible
(Crowe/Doyle)

Love is impossible
and not worthy of my trust
Promiscuous ,facile, confused

Blind
Cut many times
Bitter
And crazy with the Sting

Calamity
Her middle name
Oh yes Love is to blame
For everything

Fractured by the pain
of its' reality
Battered by the love that waits in you

Chorus

Undeniable
Graceful and Divine
Immeasurable
Love is Time
Untraceable
Brutal and so kind
Love is Impossible to find

It entraps you in the spell
Of possibility
Enraptured
By the things that might come true

Fractured by the pain
Of it's duality
Flattered by the love that waits in you

Chorus

Love is Impossible
And not worthy of my trust.

Sadness of a Woman
(Crowe/Doyle)

She comes for me in silence
When the night is closing down
And most have drawn the curtains
on their eyes

She wears a lovers face
That has never seen a dawn
It disappears in daylight
and I know it's just disguise

and she says
( Chorus )
I ..... carry the sadness of a woman
A sadness only women understand
You.... you'll hear my footsteps
Louder when I'm gone
Just like every other man
Just like every other man

Many nights I've waited only
to see her shying at the fences
She measures her time
with me like salt

Just enough to help the flavour
Of her times and of her tenses
Not too much
That corrosion might take hold

and she says
(Chorus rpt)

Bridge

Can you trace your reflection in my eyes
I can be fooled
But not this time
She sighs

In this old blue dress
How can you adore me
When you really should ignore
and let me go

I say
Take off that Old Blue dress
and come for me in twilight
And she smiles as if she just might
And that's all I need to know

( Chorus )

Too Far Gone ( To Be Saved )
 (Crowe/Doyle)

I am drowning
 not waving
here in the darkness
I'll find my peace

You'll try to save me
but you are suspended
Beneath the surface
In way too deep

Chorus

And your fingers tear at my skin
Release the blood let the feeding begin
Your intentions will never be blamed
We're both too far gone, to be saved

When times were simple
And the journey clearer
Before the circles
And deja vu

Before all the bombs fell
And we lived in craters
Before all the sharks came
And had their fill

Chorus

Bridge

I should have spared you
And you might have warned me
The glory is fleeting for birds in flight

Now I'm sinking
 weighed down by regrets
I see clearly in this dying light

I am drowning
 not waving
Will you just love me
It's not too late

Here in the darkness
No-one can judge us
Kiss me completely
And seal our fate

Chorus

You can listen to the entire song Too Far Gone here - Just beautifully done