1.Playing with Fire

Hey, you got the look of a lonely woman's eyes
What'cha thinking when you're standing so close to me
Ain't no law says a man can't fantasize
There's a secret locked up in you tight
Ooh, I'd love to turn the key

Chorus:

Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, fighting my desire, baby
Whoah, my conscience is a liar
Oh, Lord, have mercy on the shameless sinner
Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, walking on a wire, now I
Whoah, I face the crucifier
What'cha doin' to me

Live by rules made up by society
But I guess I must've missed election day
'Cause so much about you looks so good to me, yeah
For what I'm thinking I could go to jail
But some laws are born to break

Chorus:
Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, fightin' my desire, baby
Whoah, my conscience is a liar
Oh, Lord, have mercy on the shameless sinner
Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, stakes are getting higher, now I
Whoah, I face the crucifier
What'cha doin' to me

Repeat first chorus

Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, fighting my desire, baby
Ooh, I'm beggin' you Lord, have mercy
on a shameless sinner
Whoah, playing with fire
Whoah, stakes are getting higher
I think I'm losin' it


2.Love Unemotional

Victim of temptation
Can't make it go away
You see it and you want it baby
Never hear a word I say
You know I don't want nothing I don't deserve
Oh, no I won't take less than I know I'm worth

All this talking makes me feel like a monkey in a cage
Ain't no point in trying to change a man of my age

Chorus:
Love unemotional, purely physical
What I'm staying for's a mystery to me
Love unemotional, the heart's invisible
Love unemotional is what you want from me

People say I'm crazy
Wonder why I play your game
Sure beats feeling lonely, baby
But the story ends the same
I want to feel like I'm living in a fairy tale
Don't want to be just another broken heart for sale

Do I have to hit my knees and beg for something more
Maybe this is not the love I've waited for

Second Chorus:
Love unemotional, simply physical
What I'm staying for is a mystery to me
Love unemotional, the girl's insatiable
Love unemotional is what you want from me

You feel no shame in being so unkind
All touch and zero feeling
I don't see a way of changing your mind

Girl this kind of life is bound to leave you all alone
The light inside your heart is on, but no one's home

Repeat chorus's


3.Keep Coming Back

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

You know just how to hurt me
And how to take all the pain away
Girl, you must be the devil in disguise
There were times, I think you knew
When I was so afraid of you
There's some kind of madness in your eyes

You know a place buried deep in my heart
Nobody else can see
Something in you has taken some kind of hold on me

Chorus:

I don't know why I keep coming back to you, baby
I don't know why I keep coming back to you
To you baby

You say we shouldn't be lovers
And I say we can't just be friends
And all this talking just makes me want you more
You've got a way of confusing a heart
That nobody else could do
Why should I try, I don't want to get over you

Chorus:

I don't know why I keep coming back to you, baby
Just tell me why I keep coming back to you
I don't know why I keep coming back to you, baby
Tell me why I keep coming back to you

I'm so in love, so in love with the games that you play
So in love, and nothing can keep me away

You've got a way of confusing a heat
That nobody else could do
Why should I try, I don't want to get over you

Repeat chorus


4.Take This Heart

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I've been where you are before
No one understands it more
You fear every step you take
So sure that your heart will break

It's not how the story ends
You'll be back on your feet again

Baby, this time
There ain't nothing gonna take this heart away
No more goodbyes
There ain't nothing gonna take my heart away

The pain's still alive in you
For what one man put you through
You say that we're all the same
But I'm called by no other name

We all need a place to run
Won't you let me be the one

Chorus

Don't keep the dream in you locked outside your door
Just believe in this love
And don't be afraid anymore

I need you to please be strong
I've waited for you too long

Chorus


5.Hazard

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

My mother came to hazard when I was just seven
Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes
That boy's not right
Three years ago when I came to know Mary
First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies
And saw the man inside

We used to walk down by the river
She loved to watch the sun go down
We used to walk along the river
And dream our way out of this town

No one understood what I felt for Mary
No one cared until the night she went out walking alone
And never came home
Man with a badge came knocking next morning
Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly
Pointed right at me

I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town

I think about my life gone by
And how it's done me wrong
There's no escape for me this time
All of my rescues are gone, long gone

I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town


6.Hands in Your Pocket

We're all victims of the system
Still we love to place the blame
We're running out of choices
And there's no rules to the game
I'm getting tired of feeling this way
What can a single man do, what can he say
Everyday you walk the edge of a knife
You're left with nothing at the end of your life

Chorus:

They've got their hands in your pocket
They'll take the clothes off your back
Hands in your pocket
They'll stop you like a heart attack

We put people into power but we fight our wars alone
They take such good care of the rest of the world
But what about the folks at home, oh yeah
Point the finger at the man you chose
He'll say he's sorry but it's just the way it goes
He sits in judgment like a king on a throne
'Till that November when he'll beg for a bone

Chorus:

They've got their hands in your pocket
They'll take the clothes off your back
Hands in your pocket
Brother, don't ignore the facts

Everyday of you walk the edge of a knife
You're left with nothing at the end of your life
They've got their hands in your pocket
They'll take the clothes off your back
Hands in your pocket
They'll stop you like a heart attack


7.Calling You

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I had a dream that you stood right in front of me
And called to me in black and white
Though I could see you
I couldn't reach you
You faded into the light
And when the sun turns a dream to reality
I'm left with such an empty space
I feel your spirit
Know that I'm near it
I swear I can see your face

Chorus:

Hear me calling you
Calling you
But you just don't seem to answer anymore

Am I supposed to pretend I don't feel the pain
Like it happened only yesterday
No use in trying
To stop the crying
I can't make it go away

Chorus:

Hear me calling you
Calling you
But you just don't seem to answer anymore
I'm calling you
Calling you
And I'm afraid that you won't answer anymore

Where is the healing you promised me
Maybe this feeling will burn in me forever

Repeat chorus


8.Superstar

You're the queen of your own little
world, you really made a splash
Got the offers rollin' in but you're
nothing more than high paid trash
Everybody wants to know what goes
on in your head
Pity if they found out that you're lonely
in your bed
Maybe it all happened to you just a
little too fast

Won't let anybody touch you
So you do it for yourself
Plain to see there's a woman
Cryin' out for help

Chorus:

You're a superstar, but
you don't know who you are
And your money won't
get you very far
You're a mystery,
nothing can set you free
Your demons haunt you endlessly

You face the end of your youth in a tired
little masquerade
You talk to people with a tongue like a
newly sharpened razor blade
Yours is not a life that lets you take a
look inside
Morals and convictions meet a fate of
genocide
But in the end you'll be sleeping in the
bed you made

All you want's a daddy
The one you never had
A need for understanding
Aching in your head

Chorus:

You're a superstar, but you don't know
who you are
And your money won't get you very far
you're a mystery, it seems so clear to me
There's something that you'd rather be

Take a look around you now
before it's much too late
Make the choice to change
or be a victim of your fate
All your life you've been
running from the girl inside

Chorus:

You're a superstar, but you don't know
who you are
And your fame won't get you very far
You're a mystery, oh but it's plain to see
There's someone that you'd rather be


9.Streets of Pain

She's still another party blonde
Who had had it all her way
Now just another hanger on
With a faded resume
He's gonna be a leading man
In the Gary Cooper mold
Now working at a pretzel stand
But it's him that's getting sold

Big dreamer gonna take the town
But she's running out of time
Still singing at a sleazy lounge
To a house of drooling swine
Self satisfied narcissist
With a body like a god
He's thinking that's all there is
But I don't want that job

Chorus:

Streets of pain
They don't hear the crying
Streets of pain
Never felt the tears
Streets of pain
They just keep on lying
Get it through your head
'Cause some things never change

Won't it finally be obvious
That there's very little chance
Can't they see it's a Greyhound bus
And not their handsome prince
Isn't anybody satisfied
With the average girl next door
Does she have to be glamorized
So the world will love her more

Chorus:

Streets of pain
Sinking like a rock in a river
Streets of pain
Never felt so cold
Streets of pain
Lower than a snake can slither
Not to mention all the
Stories never told

Pretty girl becomes a socialite
Standing in somebody else's light
Anything can happen late at night
In the morning she'll be out of sight
Made a million on a lucky streak
Threw it all away as foolishly
One of many comic tragedies
What else can there be

So you better get on the road
To the desolation station
And you better bring all you own
It's a permanent vacation
We're waiting here with open arms
But it isn't what it seems
Just looking for the boulevard
On the trail of broken dreams

Repeat both choruses


10.I Get No Sleep

Got a house full of fortune and they pay me in gold
For something I'd do for free
But there's still something missing that a
man can't hold
It's like a weight over me

So scared the thrill will be gone
But I'm the one who keeps the pressure on

Chorus:
All I've got is all I need
But I get no sleep and I'm tired to the bone
All I've got is all I need
But I get no sleep and I know I'm not alone

Well, I'm sick of walking 'round with blood in my eyes
Just keeping up with this town
I' m a roadrunner racing, but I don't see the signs
I've got to learn to slow down

My life makes it hard to complain
But there's times I'd take my school days back again

Repeat chorus

Four o'clock and I'm still counting sheep
Love to change the system, but I'm in too deep
I keep the pressure far away as I can
But it still comes back again, back again, yeah, yeah

My life makes it hard to complain
But there's times I'd take my school days back again

Repeat chorus

All I've got is all I need
But I get no sleep and I'm sure I'm not alone
I'm not alone, yeah


11.Big Boy Now

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I've been searching
Not the first or the last
Trying to figure out the mystery of the half empty glass
Time is turning for the rest of the world
While a temporary leap of faith helps the story unfurl

They say that hearts don't stay broken
Even though the scars remain
And eyes don't stay swollen
Even if it feels that way

Chorus:

But it's not that serious
I'm a big boy now
And I'm not that delirious
So don't show me how
Cause I've gotten beyond the agony
And my perspective is saving me

Never doubted what the cards would reveal
And if the joker showed his ugly face
Not that big of a deal
It's just a moment in the scheme of it all
But it's difficult to visualize when the axe starts to fall

But then a heart won't stay broken
Even on it's darkest day
The right door could open
Pick you up and drift away

Repeat chorus

With all the confusion
How does anybody come through
But life is illusion
And no one can tell you what you've gotta do

You know a heart won't stay broken
Even on it's darkest day
The right door could open
Pick you up and drift away


12.Chains Around My Heart

Lyrics:Richard Marx/Fee Waybill
Music:Richard Marx/Fee Waybill

Out of my sight
But the vision is still the same
Out of my mind
But the memory remains unchanged
Stones thrown in anger hold twice the hurt
Return to sender could only make things worse

Chorus

Girl, you've got to break these chains around my heart
Cause I've been lonely too long
You've got to break these chains around my heart
So I can finally get on with my life

Don't ask me why
Why I've lived with this all alone
Locked up inside
And it's cutting me to the bone
Love is a stranger avoiding me
Beware of danger's the only sign I see

Chorus

Are you listening
Is there something that you'd like to say
Am I getting through
Are you just gonna leave me this way

Girl you've got to break these chains around my heart
Before it tears me in two
You've got to break these chains around my heart
That's all I am asking of you
You've got to break these chains around my heart
Cause I've been lonely too long
You've got to break these chains around my heart
So I can finally get on with my life


13.Your World

The warmest day of all my life
You came to me
I held you in my hands
And something changed forever

I want you for a better time
To know the beauty of our Mother Earth
Cherish her forever

Never felt in such a hurry
So little time, so much to do
I lie awake and dream the dreams I'll share with you

Chorus:

This is your world now
No one can chase all your fears away
This is your world now
Trust in your heart to lead the way

I still recall a day so clear
I saw the future in my mother's eyes
Filled with tears of sorrow

The years roll by, the times do change
The truth around us harder to disguise
As we face tomorrow

So many promises were made me
So little hope remains alive
I only pray the dreams I leave you will survive

Repeat chorus

You'll see what I'm saying
When you're on your own
The war that you're facing
Isn't yours alone

I'm a man in search of reasons
Though I am still as much to blame
It's up to me leave you more than just my name

This is your world now
No one can chase all your fears away
Fight for your world now
I know that somehow you'll find your way
Trust your heart to lead the way
This is your world now
I want to chase all your fears away
Fight for your world now
I know that somehow you'll find your way