The Bridge

1. Beautiful Life (3:41)
2. Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry (3:16)
3. Lucky Love (Acoustic Version) (2:54)
4. Edge of Heaven (3:51)
5. Strange Ways (4:16)
6. Ravine (4:40)
7. Perfect World (3:56)
8. Angel Eyes (3:14)
9. My Deja Vu (3:22)
10. Wave Wet Sand (3:19)
11. Que Sera (3:47)
12. Just 'N' Image (3:06)
13. Experience Pearls (3:59)
14. Whispers in Blindness (4:12)
15. Blooming 18 (3:38)



1. Beautiful Life

(Joker/John Ballard)

You can do what you want just seize the day
What you're doing tomorrow's gonna come your way
Don't you ever consider giving up, you will find, oooh

CHORUS:
It's a beautiful life, oooh (x3)
I just wanna be here beside you
And stay until the break of dawn

Take a walk in the park when you feel down
There're so many things there that's gonna lift you up
See the nature in bloom a laughing child
Such a dream, oooh

(CHORUS)

You're looking for somewhere to belong
You're standing all alone
For someone to guide you on your way
Now and forever

(CHORUS)

I just wanna be anybody
We're living in different ways


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2. Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry

(Joker)

CHORUS:
I'm never gonna say I'm sorry
I'm a clown for everyone
I'm never gonna let you down,
I'm always here like a sun

I'm a loser, that is a fact for sure
I'm happy even if you don't want to invite me out for a dance tonight
I'm not normal, I know it, I don't care

(Chorus)

I'm always here like a sun, I'm always here

Like a ghost I follow your steps so true
You don't have to bribe me or fill me up
Give me just a minute to shine with you
I will make you so happy, make you laugh

I'm never gonna say I'm sorry, for the essence of my soul
There's so many ways to change my life
'Cause I want to...oooh
I'm like a clown, I am fun for everyone
I'm like a clown, I am fun for everyone

(Chorus)

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3. Lucky Love (Acoustic Version)

(Joker)

Life is paradise

Oooh yeah!

Chorus:
Lucky love belongs in teenage heaven I know, I know
'Cause I've been there with you tonight
Lucky love belongs in teenage heaven I know, I know
'Cause I've been there with you tonight (2nd time )I'm a prisoner of hope I know

I believe life could be paradise once again
And the love we thought we lost in sleeping within
Close your eyes, it's something for you

(Chorus)

We are young and we are old we're fallen like leaves
And your heart's so full of soul it makes me believe
Once again, it's something for you

(Chorus)

The bridge over time was what she need to see the light
to see the light whoo yeah

(Chorus)

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4. Edge of Heaven

(Buddha/John Ballard/StoneStream)

Fire! I can see it burning so brightly
Fire! I can feel it calling out to me

And as the sun goes down
It starts to paint a picture of an ancient town
So far away, across the endless sea

Chorus:
Lead me to the light and take me to the edge of heaven
I'm standing in the night looking for the edge of heaven
We'll be touching the edge of heaven

Give me just a minute to shine with you
I will make you so happy, make you laugh

Time
Close your eyes and see dreams of tomorrow
Time
The wheel are turning till eternity

And as the darkness comes I start to see a picture
Of a lonely man, so clearly now reaching out to me

(Chorus)

And sail the endless sea
So lead me to the light and take me to the edge of heaven

The edge of heaven is near
We'll sail the endless sea

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5. Strange Ways

(Linn)

I've got strange ways
But it won't take long my friend
I'm telling you someday baby, I'll be gone
I've got strange ways
It won't take long my friend
I'm telling you someday baby, I'll be back again
I've got no one, but it won't take long my friend
I'm telling you someday baby I'll be gone
I'm telling you someday baby I'll be gone

God bless you, for being by my side when I fell through
You could hear me, you've got Internet gateways through my world
God bless you, I'm feeling all the force your closing in

Take it easy, you dock at my side when I'm on fire
I've got strange ways....
Sometime I lose it (I lose)
Don't know where I'm going (Don't know)
But I do hope you follow all the way

God bless you, for being by my side when I fell through
You could hear me, you've got Internet gateways through my world

You don't know it, you're turning all this stone into a heart
I can see you as you're fighting the fire
When I burn, I've got
I'm telling you someday baby I'll be gone
I'm telling you someday baby I'll be back

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6. Ravine

(Jenny)

Have you heard, have you heard
About this girl who was ripped up by her roots
Have you heard, what she learned?
Like humility, you win when you lose

I have learned, I have learned
The most horrifying nights have ends
I was hurt, I was lost
In the dark I found the way to a friend

Chorus:
I am standing here in my ravine
Once again I see a piece of the sky
And my joy'll never be denied
'Cause I was meant to be here, the only place on earth,
Where you are near, where you are near

Was a flower, so frail
And I let the trees grow wild around me
Grew so high, hid the sky
Shaded everything I needed to see

Then one night, someone came
Took a knife and ripped me up by me roots
Tossed astray, far away, in my darkest night I started to pray

(Chorus)

Why do you , why do you ask, why I'm not blaming my God?
I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, He was the only on there

(Chorus)

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7. Perfect World


(Buddha/John Ballard/StoneStream)

They say the time has come for us to start again
I believe that's true
They say the time has come for us to make amends
And I believe that too
Why tell me why, is it all so hard to find, I pray each day

The most horrifying nights have ends
I was hurt, I was lost
In the dark I found the way to a friend

Chorus:
For a perfect world, where children are laughing,
Lovers romancing, and time stands still
A perfect world, there's nothing to cry for
No one to die for, wonderful, in a perfect world

Our father's father says that, things were better then
How easy they forget, on every page in every book of history
A thousand tears were shed
There's hope in our hearts and love in our eyes
Day after day I keep searching, why tell me why
Is it all so hard to find, I pray each day

(Chorus)

Travel cross the seven seas to be with you
Passion and desire will see me through
The road that I must travel will wind and curl
You're all I needed in a perfect world

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8. Angel Eyes


(Joker/Billy Steinberg)

I know that I'm not the first one
You've had love in your path before me
But when your lips touched my lips it felt
Like I was kissing destiny

Chorus:
Angel eyes, with you/your angel eyes
Will you always be there to hold me
Angel eyes, I am satisfied, I don't want to hear you're story
'Case I can see the things I really want to see
I'm in love/In your eyes

I believe in what I'm feeling
I'd give everything up just for you
Love is devoted to those who see
That the last dance, you dance with the truth

(Chorus)

Angel eyes, I just want you hear to hold me

(Chorus)

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9. My Deja Vu

(Joker)

My deja vu...you're my obsession

Chorus:
My deja vu everything is up to you
If you do want me you know where to search
We'll get the magic back again
My deja vu everything is up to you
If you do want me you know where to search

I wanna see you dancing naked, I wanna see you touch the moon
But when I try to reach your fingers, you just vanish to air
I wanna feel you with my senses,
'Cause I'm almost sure the texture of your skin
Is gonna tell me who you are

My deja vu, you're my obsession
My deja vu, it's always you

(Chorus)

I wanna hold you like I used to, I wanna feel you in my blood
I wonder why I do confess this, to myself all the time
I know the time is working against us,
But I'll long for you the rest of my whole life
Like a prisoner of hope

My deja vu, you're my obsession
My deja vu, it's always you

I have tried to get to know you, to get you off my mind
It feels like going back in time
And snap, I see your figure once again

My deja vu, everything is up to you
If you do want me you know where to search

My deja vu, you're my obsession
My deja vu, it's always you
My deja vu, you're my obsession...

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10. Wave Wet Sand

(Jenny)

You are as reliable as a painting in wave wet sand

Look in your eyes and I can't see a thing
That ususally means attraction to me
I've read all the books about love I could find
And I've found not one, no, not one word 'bout mine

Chorus:
'Cause you are reliable as a painting in wave wet sand
You're coming and you're going, like the water you never end
'Cause you are reliable as a painting in wave wet sand
And i am just another piece of an island, in reach for your hands

...feel my doubts when you're in my arms
Darling: if you know that it's love and not charm
You must tell me so, or go elsewhere to hunt

(Chorus)

Your love....

I am just another piece of an island

I can't close my ears when I hear that you call
I don't want to fear every tear that could fall
I'll go on my own, and pass people with doubts
My goal is to find just a piece of your love

Your love is - you're love is like the water
You are like the water, You are like the water
You, you are my shore, and you know you are my shore

(Chorus)

I am just another piece of an island

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11. Que Sera


(Buddha/John Ballard/StoneStream)

They call to her from across the street
But they don't know her name
She's in the wrong place at the wrong time
Who's to blame, she wonders how to change the life she's living
She wonders if she'll ever get away

As far as I can see, the writing's on the wall
There's no return, we live, we learn
The game goes on and on and

Chorus:
Que Sera
I like you but I don't really want to take you home
Que Sera
It's a lonely life, living on my own
Que Sera
What's it gonna be, what's it gonna be

She left her home when she was seventeen
Simply disappeard in the rain, those were bad times, so it was high time
She knows she'd do it again, she wonders how she's gonna make a living
She wonders if she'll make it through the day

As far as I can see, I've seen it all before
A lonely girl in a big bad world
The game goes on and on and

(Chorus)

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12. Just 'N' Image

(Linn)

I'm driving throught the night, I'm driving through the rain
The engine roars, I'm on my way from Mr. Pain
My eyes keep seeing what my mind wants to forger
Those sequenses, they Rock 'N' Roll inside my head
Over and over and over again, I concentrate harder and harder and then
You are just and image (that I can't see)
You are not for real, you turn into a picture of somebody
Someone I don't know, Someone I don't feel

(...just an image...)

The wolves cry out tonight, I see your broken line
The sun will rise without a love without a smile
I always think about the way you had to leave
I close my eyes, 'cause I was with you by that time

Faster and faster and faster ahead, as if you were waiting
for me down the way
I have never seen you lying on a floor, crying, needing more

(...just an image...)

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13. Experience Pearls


(Jenny)

Let me turn all the tears that you have cried into pearls
Hand them over to me, I'm gonna keep, keep them for you

I want to hold you, I want to kiss you
She wonders if she'll ever get away

I want to mend what is broken
Love me the way that you loved her - please

'Cause now, I'm giving it all

Chorus:
And so I've made up my mind, I'm gonna be yours this time
I'm gonna give what I've got, and get your love in return
And so I've made up my mind, I'm gonna be yours this time
I'm gonna teach you to trust, and learn how to burn
Experience Pearls


Pearls of Experience

When sand strikes up in your eyes, I will cover your face
I'll plant your desert with roses, and I'm gonna keep, keep them for you

(Chorus)

I'll wear your pearls more precious than silver
I'll wear your pearls so close to my skin
I'd tear myself apart just to get you

(Chorus)

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14. Whispers in Blindness

(Linn)

Darling you were looking so good when you came to me and asked for a dance
And I said "we can dance", felt like a queen
Swedish summernights are hot and the trees can talk
We lay on the grass, so easily, so blessed
Whispers in Blindness and I didn't hold you back

I'm talking about it babe, 'cause you've been teasing me
I'm talking about it, 'cause you are bad right through
Stay with me and I shall want no other love
Stay with me, another love, another lie

Stay with me and I shall want no other love
You were talking so sweet, but you were touching and teasing

I can hear the soft bells ring, through a thousand years
They call out to me, they say it's only once in a life we love
Now I've had the honor to, and you were holding my hand
You were kissing my skin, stay with me
Trees are whispering, only once my dear



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15. Blooming 18

(Joker/Billy Steinberg)

Reality Reality Reality is always

You tattoed yourself what a piece of art
You've already broke your mother's heart
When I was your age working my ass off
You're generation's soft

Chorus:
Reality is always such a drag for barely blooming eighteens
The barely blooming 18 wants to know,
What's keeping her from searching/hiding in the shadows

You cannot pierce that and you're dressed too tight
Gotta lot to learn 'bout wrong and right
So dye your hair, dad's gonna wash it out, come on wash your mouth

(Chorus)

Reality Reality Reality Reality is always

(Chorus)



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