IMAGES - RCA 1977

Images 1977
To feel in love
A song to feel alive
The only thing I've lost
Keep on cruising
The sun song
There's never be a moment
Only


            TO FEEL IN LOVE

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            To feel in love
            is life and living
            You meet someone
            and you start breathing
            Could be another chance
            a quietly stolen glance
            Don't listen if you fear
            and go now that she's near.

            To feel in love
            is growing younger
            You're not alone
            no pain, no hunger
            Don't hide what worries you
            be what you are and do
            And for the time, you may
            keep loneliness away.

            But now, but now
            to really love someone
            to give, to take, to share
            it's as hard you know
            as flying in troubled air
            Up, down, and blown around
            the tears and pain that passed
            that's how it had to be
            to feel as one at last.

            Really one at least
            one soul, I mean
            to live and hold each day
            so very near
            but yet so far away.

            But now, but now
            to really love someone
            to give, to take, to share
            it's as hard you know
            as flying in troubled air

            To feel as one at last
            really one at least
            one soul, I mean
            to live and hold each day
            so very near
            but yet so far away.

                                              

            A SONG TO FEEL ALIVE

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            In a world like this
            nothing more to do
            I've got a song to feel alive
            It's you.

            I see eternity
            shining in the skyes
            far beyond the universe
            of your eyes

            I feelin' with no fears
            is born among the tears
            and flyin' high above it all
            it goes

            Soaring over all the accusations
            Over prejudice and affectations
            our need for love will blow and stay
            showing us the way

            In a world like this (one day we'll find a home)
            everyone's confined (where wild roses have been sown)
            a song to feel alive and free (Clooms that fall)
            is you and me (They seem to call)
            the image what truth (the woods are all abandoned)
            is naked there to see (overgrown by neglet and misery)
            it speaks of a reality (but we will see)
            that will be (treir mystery)

            All the new sensations
            are young and true emotions
            they express their clarity for us
            the phantom shades of a forgotten past
            will fall away and we will see at last
            our need for love will grown and stay
            showing us the way

            And I'll discover you
            I'll discover you

            Oh sweet companion
            mhmm
            who doesn't know where to go
            or what to do
            or by whose side you'll be
            look and you see

            ...

            One day we'll find a home
            where wild roses have been sown
            blooms that fall
            they'll seem to call

            The woods are all abandoned
            overgrown by neglet and misery
            but we will see
            their mistery

            In a world like this
            nothing more to do
            I've got a song to feel alive
            It's you.

            I see eternity
            shining in the skyes
            far beyond the universe
            of your eyes

            All the new sensations
            are young and true emotions
            they express their clarity for us

            The phantom shades of a forgotten past
            will fall away and we will see at last.

                                              

            THE ONLY THING I'VE LOST

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            Can you tell me what has changed
            since our lives were rearranged?
            I don't think so.
            Can you tell me what we gained
            since we parted, what remained?
            I don't think so.

            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you
            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you

            I played football on sunday
            and was sore all day monday
            but I'm still playing.
            As a child I tried to be
            so many things you see
            I'm still trying.

            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you
            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you

            I said we would love forever
            I guess I wasn't very clever
            I wasn't thinking
            It was a time in our lives
            it's gonna and we survived.

            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you
            I'm older it's true
            and the only thing I've lost is you

            Can you tell me what has changed
            since our lives were rearranged
            I don't think so


            I'm older it's true
            I'm older it's true
            I'm older it's true

            Can you tell me what we gained
            since we parted, what remained?
            I don't think so.
                                              

            KEEP ON CRUISING

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            I've got a friend who's a genius
            he'll know exactly what to do
            He can make it all like new
            given half a chance he'll do
            Amazing things
            It's all described in manuals
            the logic very sound
            he'll adjust what's wrong with you
            And make your motor pound
            and again you can get moving
            though not exactly flying
            at least cruising

            Keep on cruising
            keep it light, keep it tight,
            not confusing
            And don't listen to fears
            or be blinded by tears.

            Very softly, very softly, so soothing
            Now just keep right on cruising
            First with caution, then accelleration
            with pulsing beat, a good vibration
            pushing forward, keep it sweetly moving

            Now you know you are cruising
            and at night your light's illuminating
            watch the signals and you'll know
            positively where you're going
            You can do it, it's so easy
            you can do it, let it go.

            I've got a friend who's a genius
            he'll know exactly what to do
            He can make it all like new
            giving you the right solution
            Substitution
            Everything will come together
            and you know it's going to fit
            you'тт be a better judge of people
            those who stand from those who sit
            and again you can get moving
            though not exactly flying
            at least cruising

            Keep on cruising
            keep it light, keep it tight,
            not confusing
            And don't listen to fears
            or be blinded by tears.

            Very softly, very softly, so soothing
            Now just keep right on cruising
            First with caution, then accelleration
            with pulsing beat, a good vibration
            pushing forward, keep it sweetly moving

            Now you know you are cruising
            and at night your light's illuminating
            watch the signals and you'll know
            positively where you're going
            You can do it, it's so easy
            you can do it, let it go.

            Now you know you are cruising
            cruising.
                                              

            THE SUN SONG

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            Your long blonde hair and eyes of baby blue
            brights colors never fading.
            The blush of childhood on your downy cheek
            the days of hide-and-seek
            the secrets places we arranged to be
            the things you felt but couldn't see
            the sandy footprints as you shyly fled
            oh no, now summer's gone away, we are older

            Where have you been, what have you done,
            till now?
            you're a woman, a woman, tell me
            what do you mean that you're a woman at
            last?
            How many arms have been around you?
            Did they change you in the past?
            So what, don't tell me, you're moving too
            fast

            Do you remember tossed in waves of white?
            Green stones where water flows free?
            What color are your eyes speckled in light?
            I'll never ask, you'll never tell me

            Oh, sad old ocean, sad old ocean, jaded sea
            you were as pure as the innocence in me
            Oh, sad old ocean, sad old ocean, jaded sea
            you were as pure as the innocence in me

            The bicycles
            we left abandoned on the top of the hill
            lying together under trees
            flowers, the pages of your scrapbook fill
            so happy in that summer breeze
            An awkward silence that you seem to fear
            a look I couldn't understand
            the flowers falling as I draw near
            Oh no, don't hold me back, don't raise
            you're hands.

            Where have you been, what have you done,
            till now?
            you're a woman, a woman, tell me
            what do you mean that you're a woman at
            last?
            How many arms have been around you?
            Did they change you in the past?
            So what, don't tell me, you're moving too
            fast

            Can you recall the waves and summer skies?
            The spary from surfing in the sea?
            What light flickers deep in oyur eyes?
            Is the flame still burning? I can't see

            Oh, sad old ocean, sad old ocean, jaded sea
            you were as pure as the innocence in me
            Oh, sad old ocean, sad old ocean, jaded sea
            you were as pure as the innocence in me

            When the bright rays of the morning sun
            burst into the night
            The early day breaks over us with clear
            warm light

            The shadows and the phantoms of the dark
            turn into trees and blossoms
            Truth once more rejects the lies
            and love becomes the light that's shining
            still in your eyes.
                                              

            THERE'S NEVER BE A MOMENT

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL-HUNTER

            Wheels on hissing asphalt
            driving down your way
            on the telephone you told me
            half-past two would be okay.

            Something in the way you talked
            the way you made me feel
            I can't explain just what is
            you sounded so unreal

            What is it that has happened?
            Is there something on your mind?
            No, it just can't be this way
            I couldn't be so blind.

            The traffic's moving slowly
            my mind is moving fast
            recalling conversations
            reflecting on the past.

            The words we said together
            the pauses in between
            you said "I think we need to talk"
            I wonder what it means.

            There's never be a moment
            when we didn't care
            I'll simply say I love you
            when I see you there

            And yet
            I know there's something else

            very hard for me to see
            but it seems it's overtaken you
            does it have to do with me?
            The crowds of faceless people
            moving everywhere
            the lights are all against me
            I wonder when I'll get there?

            There's never be a moment
            when we didn't care
            I'll keep repeating thoughts of you
            to bring you clearly into view

            I see your eyes
            and something inside me cries
            what can be wrong?

            There's never been a moment
            when we didn't care
            I'll simply say I love you
            when I see you there.

            And yet
            I know there's something else

            very hard for me to see
            but it seems it's overtaken you
            does it have to do with me?
            The crowds of faceless people
            moving everywhere
            the lights are all against me
            I wonder when I'll get there?

            There's never be a moment
            when we didn't care
            I'll keep repeating thoughts of you
            to bring you clearly into view

            There's never been a moment
            when we didn't care
            I'll simply say I love you
            when I see you there.
                                              

            ONLY

            BATTISTI-MOGOL-POWELL

            Only
            only for a moment

            Falling
            in some other dream

            someone else beside me
            not you

            Though we're not together now
            I know I'll be
            more in love with you

            Like an airplane
            circling in the myst

            solitary spirals in the air
            seeking runways that we've missed

            nothing more to fear
            we're there

            Just below the clouds
            the love we have is ours to share

            Something in the spring
            a few tears ago
            touched us, has groown and
            overwhelmed us

            That maybe why we hide
            our memories deep inside
            for in the winter winds
            such little things
            will warm and reassure us.

            Only
            but only for a moment
            when least expected
            confusion
            disillusion
            and at time we're strangers
            and you get lonely
            like me
            it really doesn't matter
            I know it can only
            make me love you more
            and you get lonely
            lonely like me
            it really doesn't matter
            I know it can only you
            make me love you more.