Roger D. Linder: Songs of 1974

Verse 1 She's my lady and I've got to be with her And I love her more that anybody could And as I wake in morning light I see her smile shining bright Won't open up my eyes until I'm sure I really should Verse Although I see my lady every day and in my dreams It's not enough to carry me along I've got to have my lady's love for she was sent from up above With her at my side I'd know that there'd be nothing wrong Bridge But when I want to make her mine I stumble for words to find So I'll have to sing her song With her at my side I'd know that there'd be nothing wrong Verse If my lady gave me all that she could give I would give her more than seven times as much The love within my heart is for my lady standing at the door I live day to day hoping to feel her gentle love

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eye Verse What has happened to the Sun? I can't see it, does anyone? The sky is always black as night No entry for the light What has happened to the Sun? Verse What has happened to my ears? It seems that I can no longer hear Too much noise wherever I go What to do, I just don't know What has happened to my ears? Bridge Fmaj7 
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  Verse Fifty houses like a cell I tell you it's just like living Hell No more room left to run The space is filled by everyone Fifty houses like a cell Verse Welcome 1984 I really don't want to live anymore I really don't want to settle down But if I try to swim I'm sure I'll drown Welcome 1984 Bridge Fmaj7 
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Isn't he a most amazing man? Isn't he a most amazing man? He can chew gum and stand on his head He can lay in the road and play dead He can change the color of his hair to red Yes, a most amazing man! Yes, a most amazing man! Isn't he a most amazing man? Isn't he a most amazing man? He can lie to your face and you wouldn't know He'd be gone three months and you'd swear he didn't go He can reveal himself yet nothing will show What a most amazing man! What a most amazing man! Roll a stone away and you will find this man Look next door and you may find him there You may even find him in the mirror Isn't he a most amazing man? Isn't he a most amazing man? He can chew gum and stand on his head He can lay in the road and play dead He can change the color of his hair to red Yes, a most amazing man! Yes, a most amazing man!

Run, run Run, run To the mountains To the sea And if someone is after you Run with me I'll hop in my car Hightail it to Mexico Or shoot for the stars There's no limit to where I'll go But if they catch me, that's the end So I must run Run, run Run, run To the mountains To the sea And if someone is after you Run with me There's a light in darkness I'll keep it well in sight Freedom around the corner Hope I make it through the night And the road to safety lies only in your arms But I'm lost in the world of which I am a part And the sooner I get there, the happier I'll be And I want you To run with me The end may be near Unless I reach where I want to be I know I can't stay here A new horizon will be good to see But if they catch me, that's the end So I must run Run, run Run, run To the mountains To the sea And if someone is after you Run with me There's a light in darkness I'll keep it well in sight Freedom around the corner Hope I make it through the night And the road to safety lies only in your arms But I'm lost in the world of which I am a part And the sooner I get there, the happier I'll be And I want you To run with me Run, run Run, run To the mountains To the sea And if someone is after you Run with me

How can one have so much yet have nothing at all? Surrounded by happiness, yet be in constant sorrow? Questions roam through my mind, searching for answers Why are they never answered? I see her once, then again and again, but every time I remain unseen And my life and my troubles remain unknown But I know what troubles me, and I've got to go home Where is Love? Where is Love? Where is Love? Where is Love? Where is Love? Can it be found at all? Does it avoid me, or do I avoid it? Questions roam through my mind, searching for answers Why are they never answered? Happiness is close but quickly fades away I tell myself it will come again some other day, but will it? Summer comes, love is in the air yet I get none And I really care Floating in the pool, maybe I should live at the bottom But I'm already at the bottom. Troubles in my mind, I try to sing but it brings me down I need someone, where do I find her? Questions roam through my mind, searching for answers Why are they never answered? Where is love?

This society is driving me mad Too much anxiety makes me feels mad I'm telling you, world, what I'm searching for What I want is peace for now and evermore But you're wrecking the Earth You're messing your minds Can you tell me "What is it worth?" How can we live if there's no time? What gives this country the right To make its people go out and fight All wars are useless; It's peace we need But our hearts of filled with too much greed But you're wrecking the Earth You're messing your minds Can you tell me "What is it worth?" How can we live if there's no time? And in the end there will be no war No fear by man for his life Every house will have an open door And there will be no more strife But you're wrecking the Earth You're messing your minds Can you tell me "What is it worth?" How can we live if there's no time? But you're wrecking the Earth You're messing your minds Can you tell me "What is it worth?" How can we live if there's no time?

Old man, leave me alone I'm just trying to roam I'm on the road looking for bread Or a place to straighten my head I'm walking head in hand The day is not the way I planned I know I'm a man Doin' the best I can I'm so far gone I don't even care Life in hand, gripped with despair I need a place to lay me down Or to the water so I can drown Leave me alone Leave me alone

When the morning sun is in your eyes and you smile There's a glow that I can see for many miles Please smile for me Walk awhile with me Just smile, oh smile Everyday I live to have you for my own Looking back I can see our love has grown Lay down by my side There's no love to hide And smile, oh smile When you wake up in the morning and the sunlight fills your eyes There's nothing like dawning to help you realize That only love can carry on That only love can do what you want When the morning sun is in your eyes and you smile There's a glow that I can see for many miles Please smile for me Walk awhile with me And smile, oh smile, yes smile, smile

You say I've never written you a song Well, this one is for you And for a love that can never go wrong Each word I say is true We will capture the days spent together Pull out the Polaroids and read old love letters Remember that this one's for you, This one's for you I remember as if it was this morning The very day we met In my heart was a warming Which I'll never forget We will capture the days spent together Pull out the Polaroids and read old love letters Remember that this one's for you, This one's for you While our days grow short and hair grows gray I find I love you more every day If I could have another song to sing I wouldn't change a thing I wouldn't change a thing I wouldn't change a thing I wouldn't change a thing

When I wake up in the morning and my love is in the dawning rays of sunshine It makes me want to smile But if cloudiness and gloom begin to fill the room, I fall back and think "Is it worth the while?" Sunshine in my room Will overcome the gloom I know she loves me There's sunshine in my room If in sleep I call her name, she is there, it's just the same As the warmth of early morning summer light But if instead I find her gone, wonderin' if I did her wrong I would spend a sleepless, dark and lonely night Sunshine in my room Will overcome the gloom I know she loves me There's sunshine in my room A love that will never die As long as the sun rises in the sky Sunshine shines on eternal When I wake up in the morning and my love is in the dawning rays of sunshine It makes me want to smile But if cloudiness and gloom begin to fill the room, I fall back and think "Is it worth the while?" Sunshine in my room Will overcome the gloom I know she loves me There's sunshine in my room

I once had you to call my own But now I'm sitting all alone You used to sit right by my side But now you really hurt my pride My hopes have died That's why I'm grim Because you now belong to him You loved him while I loved you I didn't know just what to do I thought I'd found someone to love But he's who you were thinking of My hopes have died That's why I'm grim Because you now belong to him It must have been a love never meant to be At least I have myself convinced But why did it have to happen to me? With not even a trace of a hint? I know that I never needed your love Even if I never see you again, it would be too soon

I've just sat down to pen a tender love song And I hope I haven't waited too long Though I know love is never pressed for time And you'll always wait for a few lines Oh how I love you Oh how I love you And when our hearts meet I think of a tender love song Turn off the T.V. and we'll make love tonight Does it matter that you think it's not right? Or I could play a tender love song With that there would be nothing wrong Oh how I love you Oh how I love you And when our hearts meet I think of a tender love song The night is cold, the lights are low The fire within us is never slow Sing my tender love song

He was a man like we all want to be Respected, admired, no worries had he A bank full of money was all he could see His life was an unending chain And you wouldn't catch me in his game For he gave no love And he took none in On the corner a man asks for change Unfortunate, hated and we think he's strange A victim of a life unarranged His life is an unending chain And you wouldn't catch me in his game For he gave no love And he took none in Paint me a picture of life as it used to be Everything, everywhere, simple and free Sing me a song of the meadows and budding trees Bring it all back to me Bring it all back to me

Well I was walking down the road just the other day Came across a fine-looking chick walking the other way I took her home with me and started to play I said "I wanna screw you, do you know what I mean?" I went to the corner grocery store for a six pack of beer They said you gotta have some ID or you can't buy it here So I put away my money, in my eye was a tear And I said "Screw you, do you know what I mean?" Now the guy who sings this song is one horny dude Looking for a lay whenever he's in the mood And the listeners of this song may think hime very crude But he will say "Screw you, do you know what I mean?"

Fifty years of marriage Fifty years of love Fifty years together From God above Today we celebrate those many happy days There's nothing in history Greater than those years And though there's been trying times We have no fears Today we celebrate those many happy days With His mercy we've lasted long With His mercy we will be strong We are thankful nothing can go wrong Fifty years of marriage Fifty years of love Fifty years together From God above

I think of a song that will never be heard There aren't any words or a tune The sweet melody can't be whistled or sung No bells will be rung after noon There's a feeling in the air, I want to sing my song A walk in the park, I can sense something's wrong The birds in the trees Will do as they please While here below my mind flies with the breeze Why did you leave me, Julia? I can't go on without you Did you ever love me, Julia? I find it so hard to doubt you I sit here alone on the bench in the park There's you and Mark in my head The newspaper lies to my side with the news Nothing but blues as I've said There's no reason to your ways, can't you see that I need A gentle woman's care, please don't make me plead I look to the sun The tears start to run While here below I think when we were one Why did you leave me, Julia? I can't go on without you Did you ever love me, Julia? I find it so hard to doubt you

Remember? We took a ride in the car Then we pulled to the side Out of gas We were too far away from the station We passed earlier today There's no hope, we'll die on the desert The food's gone, the sun's getting hot The water is tasting quite bitter Then... strange dreams, I wish they would stop Oh, please help us, we are dying. The end is surely in sight Oh, please save us, The desert sun's burning And we can't brave the cold desert night Two days pass The body is weaker And the sky's become a dark shade of blue Even midday looks like the nighttime Oh, the sun, the strange things it does to you Oh, please help us, we are dying. The end is surely in sight Oh, please save us, The desert sun's burning And we can't brave the cold desert night

I've been gone too long away from you I don't know what to do Now you've broken my heart, it's broken in two I don't know what to do If I said I'd never leave again Would you take me back On another track where love runs anew? Can't you see that I'm Hungry for your love Starving for your love Got to have your love So I won't be leaving home again? Once you turned me on Now I can see I don't know what will be Something isn't right Can it be me? I don't know what will be If I said I couldn't love again If it wasn't you Could you be that true if it wasn't me? Can't you see that I'm Hungry for your love Starving for your love Got to have your love Or I'll soon be leaving home again? Can't you see that I'm Hungry for your love Starving for your love Got to have your love Or I won't be coming home again?