Daryl Hall & John Oates lyrics

(John Oates)

Opening night, nothing new Atlanta
Into the spotlight, one more time
Just in time to play
To one man and an empty table
He was drinking down the pain
All he could say was this lady's name...

Oh Camellia won't you take me away

After the show, when the room was empty
No, he wouldn't go
So I asked him why he called her name
It seems she was some magic one night

(Beckford & Ranglin)

Soldering it's what the young girl wants
Soldering
Soldering it's what the young girl needs
Soldering

She says she don't want the young buy,
The young boy drink too much white rum
She says she don't want the soul man,
'Cause soul man fall asleep in bed
She says she don't want the dread lock
'Cause dread lock smoke too much Haile

(Daryl Hall/John Oates)

You've got Sicilian imagination
Second generation
And a long way from the family crime
But you've got your own way
Sign on the line, sign on the line, on the line

You're a patent leather lover
With you're Gucci-Pucci pointed shoes
And you're swearing on your mother
That "all this could be yours"
Sign on the line, sign on the line, on the line

(Daryl Hall)

Tin can sound and a dead-eyed crowd
Can turn a sane man crazy and a crazy man sad
I can fight with the best, but I can only go so many rounds
And that's grounds for separation
Preparation for better things
Gonna grow a new set of wings
And fly away

Robot action, conditioned response
Manufacture feeling like the Tool and Die

(Daryl Hall/John Oates)

We don't need a whole lot of money
We don't need a Cadillac car
What we need is a mountain in Montana
A thousand acre world for the roadies and the girls
But you need a whole lot of money
Lots of loot, to tell you the troot'
Oh, we know what's good but we love what's bad
And it'd be ennui on the mountain anyway
Oh I don't know if it's high or low

(Daryl Hall/Sandy Allen)

I've been used to seeing the world with the eyes of two
Now you're gone, no more window shopping with you
Guess I'll spend another day walking around
But don't think that I'm sorry babe, don't you think that I'm down

'Cause you know it doesn't matter, you know it doesn't matter anymore
And that's what I'm here to tell you

(Daryl Hall/Sandy Allen)

All the things that used to mean a lot to me
Don't matter anymore
Ain't no surprises, and we're too young
To come to that
Oh time has a way of lessening love
You know that's true...
Nothing at all

We spent last night like every night
Sitting and staring
I wish we could fight at least
That would be something
Time has a way of lessening love

(Daryl Hall/John Oates)

I need you more than anyone else in the world
But what you need more than me is the help I can give to you girl
That's what you need
You can make it happen
I can show you the way, and help you to say
What you're feeling inside
Lower your shield is it's real and you feel it

Then what can come out of me
Can come out of you
The love that comes from me

(John Oates)

Just a little boy lost looking for a lamb in the all night city
Living in his lonely limousine
And though he never has to worry
He's the only one and only one he's ever gonna need
Absolutely he's in definite need

Of a woman, child, and some better kind of love when the hot town's hurt him
And he knows how happy he could be
But he don't know if he can make it

[Say it]
[Say it isn't so]
[Say it]
[Say it isn't so]

Say it isn't so painful to tell me that you're dissatisfied.
Last time I asked you I really got a lame excuse.
I know that you lied.
Now wicked things can happen...you see 'em goin' down in war.
But when you play in a quiet way that bites it even more.
[Say it]
Tell me what you want yeah I'll do it baby I promise right now.