There's a special way you touch me
In the morning when I'm waking up
You know just how to put the pieces back together
When it looks like we're breaking up
When my world is upside down
You know just how to turn it around
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And that's why this angel loves ya
I'm gonna love the devil out of ya
Show us a star shine above ya this angel
She's gonna love ya
I'm gonna love the devil out of ya

I could pass the evening here
Staring down into your eyes
Just forget there's a world somewhere outside
I kept my porch-light burning
So you could find my door
Felt so good to hear your footsteps
Walk across my bedroom floor
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I knew that you were coming
By the thunderstorm last night
I swear I heard the north wind call your name
But a clear sky of blue stars
And the darling man you are

In a rented room
Above a Hollywood bar with my money gone
The ragged curtains blowing in the window
Lying hungry and alone
With no one to call, not even my folks
For the means to go on
Wondering if I lose my nerve
Or answer the phone
When the desk clerk calls to say
A stranger's on his way
Up the stairs to share my bed
Will I stay or slip away
I know an actress has to make sacrifices

She's just a secretary
At a small recording firm
When it comes to music
There ain't nothing she can't learn
And everything she lives and breathes
Is written on an album sleeve
She can tell you who's hot
Who will make it and who will not
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She loves to hear the music
She's got every lyric down
She loves to hear them say
She's got the greatest ears in town
Hangs around a studio

They were from two warring tribes
So their love could never be
He was a painted Apache
And she was a Cherokee
He was stealing her father's horses
When he saw her standing there
Moon braided bits of silver
All through her long black hair
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War paint and soft feathers
Love was meant to be
Even though he was Apache
She was a blue-eyed Cherokee
War paint and soft feathers

Seven thousand miles to Paris
Nine hundred more to Rome
And I'm gone every mile
To find peace of mind of home
This infatuation is driving me insane
Make my reservation
On the next L.A. by plane
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Get me high, get me sane
Get me aboard that L.A. plane
I'm tired of this pouring rain
I'm tire of just passing through
Get me safe, get me warm
Get me a southern California morning

Again evening finds me at your door
Here to ask you just once more
If we could try again
I don't know quite what to say
Never was too good that way
So won't you help me again
I don't know what made me leave
If you just take me back you see
How much I love you
Again don't stand crying in the door
If you believe your eyes once more
You see I'll never lie again

He'll sail on in with the summer wind
That blows on this came day
Everybody called him "Pirate"
Dark and handsome in his own way
And the fire in eyes
Lit all the fire inside of me
And soon you were feeling
So much more than the wind and waves and sea
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Pirate, I'm not gonna take your soul
I only want the right to love you
I know the sea won't let you go

Wish I was in the land of cotton
There's a man waiting there
Who'll never be forgotten
Why did I have to go
Why did I go away
It was early on one frosty morning
I left the sleepy town I was born in
I wrote a letter that said I was going
And I layed it beside your bed
And now the concrete hurts my feet
New York's too big a city for me
Back down south from Dixie beside you
Honey is where I wanna be

A crowd made the magic happen
The band made the music play
I can close my eyes and see him there
Just like it was yesterday
It was just another party
Till he walked in all alone
And I read the message in his eyes
It said: "Honey, I'll take ya home"
So I took him back to my place
And I knew that he would stay
And he held me and he loved me
Till we loved the night away
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He was beautiful