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LYRICS
1. People Be People (instrumental)
2.Lonely Hotel
3. Lovers Lament
4. In The Dark
5. 1 + 1 = 2
6. Just As I Thought
7. All Too Much
8. Tears To Tuesday
9. Ultimate Weapon
10. The Torch
11. Look Back On Today
12. People Be People
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There's a heartache in every room
At the lonely hotel
Do not disturb is the rule
And they follow it well
It's a halfway house for the brokenhearted
Each with a story to tell
Of there time spent in hell
At the lonely hotel
The recently single
Assembled alone at the bar
They co-intermingle
But never will go very far
And there off at the sound of the bell
Lined up to wish in the well
At the lonely hotel
At the lonely hotel
In the banquet hall
There gathered together to dine
On crow under glass
And gallons of sour grape wine
They wait for their injust deserts
To arrive
Misfortune cookies and fresh humble pie
And it's swell
At the lonely hotel
At the lonely hotel...etc.
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It's not that I don't want you
It's not that I don't want you to
It's not that I don't find you
So appealing
It's not that I'm a custom
It's not that I am used to you or it
It's not that I'm bewildered
Or guilty really
It's not that I don't know you
It's not that I don't know who you are
It's not that you don't show me
But I don't know me
It's a life time
It's a lifetime with you
Just a single night time
Can thrill me up and burn me out
It's not that I'm supposed to
It's not that I'm opposed to you and me
It's just that my resentment
Is cemented to me
Don't say I didn't choose you
Cause indecision is a choice in itself
I always meant to pick you
Not to prick you or stick you
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In the dark where there's no one around
In the dark it's the smell of your sound
In the dark it's tearing me apart
Cause I need to be near you in the dark
In the dark I can love only you
In the dark making love just we two
In the dark so love me tonight
'Cause there's nothing like you in the dark
You're all the things that I'm needing
Everything I ever wanted this evening
So burn out the candles turn out the lights
Blow out the fuses in the dark
In the dark there's a light in your eyes
In the dark something bright in your eyes
In the dark just the sight of your eyes
Makes me tingle and quiver in the dark
In the dark there's the feel to your skin
In the dark like the touch of the wind
In the dark there's a change in the air
Something's waiting out there in the dark
Rinestoned and ribboned naked and stark
How I want to be with you in the dark
You could burn me alive yeah me and Joan of Arc
Cast my fate to the heavens in the dark
In the dark I've a message for you
In the dark from a strange point of view
In the dark so remember my remark
There's nothing like you in the dark
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Wonderful party everyone's staring
Ready to give but no one is sharing
But you and I sit by and by wondering if
One and one make two
Telephone answers no one is ringing
The band plays the words but no one is singing
And you and I sit by and by wondering if
One and one make two
If one and one make two
Why can't you hear me the silent voices said
And why can't we share the love
Turning circles around my head
Crickets are calling come join the chorus
Their playing a song especially for us
But you and I sit by and by wondering if
One and one make two
If one and one make two
If one and one make two...etc.
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Thought I saw your car last night
Driven by some other guy
Just as my heart began to fly
It all came crashing down
Thought I felt your presence near
Felt you breathing in my ear
Just when I seemed to lose All fears
They all came back around
CHORUS
Just as I thought you were all mine Just as I felt forever loved
I wake alone again to find
Nothing is just as I thought
Thought I heard your voice beside me
Saw your shape against my blind
Just as it all seemed alright
I didn't hear a sound
Thought I felt your hand in mine
The way we wanted for all time
Just when I thought it was all fine
I'm back in the lost and found
CHORUS
All of those common place occurrences
All of the rules that we'd all love to bend
All boundaries broken all words unspoken
All of your senses left to mend
Now I find I'm down your lane
So incensed and so insane
You know I will return again
To claim the prize evading me
So try to keep from being haunted
Learn to live thru love undaunted
Everyone got what they wanted
Everyone but me
CHORUS
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It's all too much, the way I feel for you
It's all too much, what else can I do when
It's all too much, this choice you have to make
It's all too much, too much for me to take
But it was different when were together
Long as the night and light as a feather a love so fine
Take the day gh all night
Laugh and laugh, so why an Iand drive to the city down in the village
Kiss in the streets and we'd lau crying
It's all too much, for me to figure out
It's all too much, the shadows of my doubt
It's all too much, you going back to him
It's all too much, my love out on a limb
But it was different when we were together
Candles and wine, singing in bed and make love all night
And in the morning, it would only get better
Kick off the sheets, laying your head back and
Come, come, come... Come... Come...
Now why am I crying
I lay awake alone at night and I wonder
Was it you or was it me?
When it all comes down to it, it really doesn't matter
It's just all too much... Too much!
It's all too much...etc.
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Life moves in circles
Like slow steady wheels
Each ones life turning around anothers
Some you come to know some you feel
Moving thru the ages
Spinning thru the stages
Days and days and dozens of hours away
CHORUS
But tears to Tuesday
Tears to Tuesday
Tears to Tuesday
Tears to Tuesday
Eyes like a camera
A picture of everyone they know
The soul like a canvas
Painted on by hands of young and old
Line by line is drawn
Sunset to the dawn
Someday you'll paint your masterpiece
They say
CHORUS
It's not so hard to see beyond your mind
It's not so hard to see
The way things really are
The end is the beginning
The night will soon be grinning
you will have another song to play
CHORUS
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Some people say it's guns
Some people say it's love
Some people say it's power
Some people say it's hate
Some say that it's the bomb
Or some new way to give it
I say it's not revenge
Even if you live it
It's not a coup it's not political
I'm not smug or hypocritical
But money is the ultimate weapon
Money... The ultimate weapon
What if it was water
What if it was air
What if it was blood
Would you even care?
It isn't some disease
Or some new way to give it
It isn't propaganda
If you don't believe it
It's no religion or nationality
It's just bottom line reality
Money... The ultimate weapon
Money... The ultimate weapon
Money
Money
Money
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Hear I am again with blues in my pen
And I scribble right down to the bitter end
If I were Shakespeare
It wouldn't be a finer tragedy
Blinded by the love in my eyes for you
And all the tests of fire that we went through
But now the smoke is cleared
Passions piled up on the floor
CHORUS
I can't carry this torch no more
My tears are deep and I think I'm drowning
I can't carry this torch no more...for you
The days are long the nights are endless
Circumstances victim reluctant defenseless
The candle burns at both ends
Still I curse the darkness anyway
The flood of emotion the dark and the light
They lay there and linger
Who was wrong and who was right
Still I can't help but wonder
Can't help but wonder where you are tonight
CHORUS
I've been cut from falling off of broken dreams
And the sand of times in my eyes
I won't try to tell you what it's done to me
And I can't ask you to change your mind
CHORUS
My love is tired and my heart is pounding
But the truth came down like a cold fall rain
And put out my torch...for you
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I'm looking for solutions
Probably just like you
The questions are too many
The answers too damn few
But I can tell you one thing
Don't let your past get in the way
You wanna feel good tomorrow
When you look back on today
To the future your a blind man
A piece of history
I know my days are numbered
If my hindsight fails me
And I'm looking toward the future
I won't let the past get in my way
I wanna feel good tomorrow
When I look back on today
I don't claim to have no answers
But they can't be far behind
So don't be afraid to take a chance now
You can change what's coming
Quick as you can change your mind...
Think about it
There ain't nothing set in stone
There ain't nothing you can't see
You can't change what's behind
But you can change what's yet to be
Just keep looking toward the future
Don't let the past get in the way
You should feel good tomorrow
When you look back on today
When you look back on today
You got to change what you can now
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Who am I to tell you how to run your life
When it's all I can do to take of my own
I won't try to save you from yourself
Or save me from you or you from someone else
And it's not for me to tell you what is right
And what is wrong you just got to move along
And let people be people
Other Releases:
LONELY HOTEL
Produced and engineered by Will Hoppey and Lenny Hayden
Recorded and mixed at Little Brook Studio (Port Jervis, NY)
Digital editing and assembly by Chris Andersen at Nevessa
Productions (Saugerties, NY)
Thanks Chris.
Tracks sequenced by Danny Dai and
Lenny Hayden
Thanks guys.
All songs c. 1992 Will Hoppey
(except where noted)
"1+1=2" c. 1987 Stu Kabak
"Just as I Thought" c. 1992 D. Dai,
W. Hoppey
"The Torch" c. 1992 D. Dai,
W. Hoppey, S. Kabak
c. p. 1993 Bag-O-Cats Music BMI.
All rights reserved.
Will Hoppey:
Acoustic, Electric and Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar, Harmonica, Drum
Programs and all vocals
Lenny Hayden:
Electric and Acoustic lead, and rhythm Guitars