CAFFEINE - SHARON ROBINSON

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1 CAFFEINE - SHARON ROBINSON CD LYRICS AND CREDITS THE HARDER YOU LOOK FOR LOVE The Harder You Look for Love The sooner you find your loneliness The harder you search for the truth You might as well ask someone to lie to you Fate can be unkind The more you try to meddle Don t say your prayers too loud You just might wake the devil I m not going to let your words beguile me If I don t see it in your eyes I m just going to let my fortune find me Without asking when, without asking why The Harder You Look for Love The sooner you find your loneliness The harder you search for the truth You might as well ask someone to lie to you I m going to leave the longing behind me And just let love find me If it s going to find me You wandered down Some dark alley way You tried to take control of love But there s a price you re gonna pay You look for love in the Sun It just might blind your eyes You look for love in the dark of the night You might not see your longing s disguise (Chorus) Your faraway eyes remind me I was going to leave that longing behind me And just let love find me If it s going to find me (Chorus)

2 STRONG FOR ME Baby be strong for me I ll be strong for you Baby hold on for me I ll do the same thing too Life can be unforgiving For the living For the heart that beats inside of you Trials unending You can break from bending It can be a hard hard journey through But baby don t give up the fight Cause I m right here Right by your side Baby be strong for me I ll be strong for you Baby hold on for me I ll do the same thing too Cause sometimes you need someone else Till you can find it in yourself And I ll be that someone It s the love you earn It s the love you learn The only kind of love that brings you home You don t need a soul To analyze your mind But your heart can t do it all alone Through the deepest struggle Through the hardest fight We can get each other Through the longest night (Chorus)

3 LUCKY I thought the night went on forever Everything that I did was wrong But in your eyes I can t remember Why I felt so bad so long I want to thank the Lord above My mama and my papa too And all the secret lights of love That led my heart to you Lucky, I m so lucky Is it, is it really true Lucky, I m so lucky To be loved by you I ll love you with a wild desire I ll love you very carefully I ll love you like there s no tomorrow Love you through eternity I want to thank the Lord above My mama and my papa too And all the secret lights of love That led my heart to you Lucky, I m so lucky Is it, is it really true Lucky, I m so lucky To be loved by you Na na na na Na na na na

4 DRIFTWOOD Turn off the news I can t take any more Love is losing its fight with war I go down the stairs and into the street And into a deep and angry sea You made me laugh, then you made me cry You stole my heart, then you said goodbye I feel like I m gonna drown The current s got me spinning round Driftwood on the water Lead me to dry land I m getting dizzy in the current I ve got to get my feet on the ground again Oh- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- oh I used the newspaper to kindle a fire It made me think I could turn the tide The street was Quiet the moon was high You brushed against me walking by I thought the water was giving in Though I never really learned how to swim You made me laugh, then you made me cry You stole my heart, then you said goodbye Driftwood on the water Lead me to dry land I m getting dizzy in the current I ve got to get my feet on the ground again Oh- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- o- oh I thought I d try to be bold I thought I needed someone to hold I never should have stepped out my door Cause now I m losing sight of the shore (Chorus)

5 CAFFEINE Let s drink some caffeine Watch the world from above From the top of life s Ferris wheel And from there declare our love Let s drink some red wine Shed the world s disguise Find ourselves again In each other s eyes Intelligentsia is empty There s no one on the street LA is a pit stop A place to eat and sleep Let s drink some more gin And then just lose control Cry into each other s skin Secrets of the soul Still crashing on the rocks Of some ancient shore Feeling like I must have Known you before Trying to be lost Trying to be found You never let me down Caffeine Let s smoke a cigarette Let the good times roll Love this lucid dream The only love we know The 101 s a wasteland It s rush hour all the time You re looking for your real life On Hollywood and Vine Another sun is rising Far away somewhere I ll go down for espresso I know that you ll be there Still crashing on the rocks

6 Of some ancient shore Feeling like I must have Known you before Trying to be lost or Trying to be found You never let me down Caffeine

7 SAFE Thorns in the garden Quicksand by the lake It s raining in paradise The earth is bound to shake Spinning through the heavens To where, no one knows But when I m with you I ve got nowhere else to go My heart is safe with you Love is the axis On which we spin We lead and we follow Then we dance again Whether side by side Or face to face A world of our own In time and space My heart is safe with you Safe Thorns in the garden, Quicksand by the lake Safe It s raining in paradise, the earth is bound to shake When I m with you I need no other proof You are my shelter under the blue My heart is safe with you The thorn is my sword The Quicksand my test The rain is my looking glass The earth is my flesh Safe in the garden We kiss away the tears We reach for the rainbow And fall through the years Spinning through the heavens To where no one knows But when I m with you I ve got nowhere else to go Safe Thorns in the garden, Quicksand by the lake

8 Safe It s raining in paradise, the earth is bound to shake When I m with you I need no other proof You are my shelter under the blue My heart is safe with you

9 THE STORM IN YOUR EYES Standing still in the human race Same hotel window in a different place I look out and tell myself it s the view But I m really just looking for you Overcast, the city is gray What city it is depends on the day The only sound is my heart s refrain The only touch, the kiss of the rain Caught in a storm No raincoat could keep dry Soaked to the skin By The Storm In Your Eyes Our reflection in the tempered glass A frozen moment that will never last As the hem of your coat disappears from view I search my memory to catch sight of you A sudden downpour no surprise Every time I m with you Venus cries That s the way love can sometimes be Won t let you in, won t set you free The sun could be shining, the moon aglow The stars could be in a clear blue sky, I wouldn t know Caught in a storm No raincoat could keep dry Soaked to the skin By The Storm In Your Eyes Standing still in the human race Same hotel window in a different place I look out and tell myself it s the view But I m really just looking for you

10 ONE MORE SONG One more metaphor, one more rhyme One more broken storyline One more sorrowful melody One more verse in a minor key We could have been more than one more song One more teardrop in every note One more lyric caught in my throat What was all that loving for But to strike another minor chord We could have been more than one more song CHORUS More than One More Song One more metaphor, one more rhyme More than One More Song Count to four just to mark the time Strike another chord of longing I wish we could be more than one more song Now you re gone, your image blurred Just a page of music and words But I don t want to write this down I don t want to hear the sound My heart is still with you But my pen insists it s true One more haunting tale of a love gone wrong We should have been more CHORUS More than One More Song One more metaphor, one more rhyme More than One More Song Count to four just to mark the time Strike another chord of longing I wish we could be more than one more song

11 ALONG FOR THE RIDE Whose soul did we sell for this thing that we bought Whose mind did we lose for this freedom of thought Whose heart did we break for this peace in the dark Whose days did we trade for this stroll in the park CHORUS I just don t know the answer I just can t turn the tide I m just a grain of sand in the ocean I m just along for the ride Whose world did we pierce with this stake in the ground Whose grasp did we loosen with this treasure we found Is there a monster that must be fed Will history always be written in red A shock of feathers from the dove How much can we depend on love? (Chorus) Whose lust rises up with the spires and stones Who s trapped underground with the cries and the bones Who s cold as the blood on the battle ground Who s that frozen soldier in the center of town Humanity s home in your own place Humanity s beauty in your own face Can you still stand where you stood Believing mankind is basically good Maybe it s an even game We all feel the same joy and pain Is it written, will it be said That history must be written in red (Chorus) Whose soul did we sell for this thing that we bought Whose mind did we waste for this freedom of thought Whose heart did we break for this peace in the dark Whose days did we trade for this stroll in the park

12 A FRAGILE LOVE Saw your look, I was right there too Wanted every, every part of you Wine and mirrors, candles and glass The gods of love clearly did approve Reaching back through the dawn When our love still lingered on Morning slowly fills the room An open window where it must have gone It must have wanted to be free Just for a moment to be free Candles and glass Wonder why I thought that it would last Which way the wind will blow You never know The amber gleam In your eyes forever it will be A reflection of A fragile love The curtain moves. The dream recedes Our love is out there somewhere on the breeze The sparkle now just prisms in my tears But like matter this will always be It must have wanted to be free Just for a moment to be free A deeper love I ve never known Than in this dream that lingers on Candles and glass Wonder why I thought that it would last Which way the wind will blow You never know The amber gleam In your eyes forever it will be A reflection of A fragile love A fragile love

13 CREDITS: Produced by: Sharon Robinson Recorded by: SR at Small Mercies Studio, Hollywood, except tracks on Strong for Me, Driftwood, and The Harder You Look for Love, recorded by Andy Ford at East West Studios, Hollywood. Musicians: Chris Bruce: Bass and Guitar Michael Gold: Piano Jason Pipkin: Drums Neil Larsen, Piano Joey Waronker: Drums James Harrah: Guitar Benji Lysaght: Guitar solo on A Fragile Love Mike Rocha: Trumpet on Safe Patrick Warren: Strings, Keyboards SR: All other instruments, vocals MiXdown Engineer: Mastering Engineer: Steve Genewick Gavin Lurssen All songs written by Sharon Robinson (Sharon Robinson Songs (ASCAP), except Lucky, written by Sharon Robinson and Leonard Cohen (Sony ATV Music Publishing (SOCAN)

14 Special Thanks to: Rodel Delfin, Niko Bolas, Michael Gold, Leonard Cohen, Steve Genewick, Greg Gold, Ed Sanders, Renee Adams, Anna Jones, Rob Pearson, Gary Gilbert Management: Rodel Delfin Rm 64 Photography by: Rob Pearson Art direction and design: SR Visit: