Raincoat and a rose Chris Rea

Raincoat and a rose Rain, tears of joy, tears of pain Is this really me Standing here at the station The card said I mustn't be late I've never been late I've never really had the chance Years

Marvin Chris Rea

everything If I could have talked to you For just one small moment In the quiet of the day You took my pain away Oh Marvin Oh Marvin The one who wanted, The one that could not stay With a

Nothing to fear Chris Rea

I feel your heat in dusty whispers The wind is cold around your moon It's getting hard to keep our distance I know your time is coming soon Don't point your dream on my horizon Don't take your rose

Looking for a rainbow Chris Rea

Looking for a rainbow Well we come down to the valley Yea we're looking for the honey I see a rainbow I say that's the land of milk and honey Me and my cousin Me and my brother My little sister

Shirley Do You Own A Ferrari? Chris Rea

[Chris Rea:] Shirley Do you own a Ferrari? Do you live in a wonderful place?

Waiting For A Blue Sky Chris Rea

He sits upon the empty sand and gazes up to the endless grey The weathered face and battered hands Protest the soul that carried them so far this way The beaten skin is turning to a wrinkled smile

Hired gun Chris Rea

Hired gun Morning light meet the day Nervous eyes look both ways And it just won't matter, spring or fall There's bread to win and shots to call And there ain't nobody out there Just a wild uncertainty

Since I Don't See You Anymore Chris Rea

The gas-lamp flickers in the night And jingle-jangles in the wind The pool-hall cowboys play and play 'Cos pool-hall hot shots don't go home And a lonely breeze sends shivers From a distant shore

Red shoes Chris Rea

Red shoes I was born a beggar With the garbage round my feet The devil lived in every hole And every corner of the street When misery is all there is You got nothing to lose So come on and buy

That girl of mine Chris Rea

That girl of mine There's a time and place everywhere I go Where the river meets the sea Somewhere between the gates of dreams And the turning of the key There's a cutting edge there's a real

LET`S DANCE Chris Rea

When you sing of the joy only love can bring Heaven knows it's in my heart and my soul. Caught in a world full of tears so many bad times and fears.

Let's Dance Chris Rea

When you sing of the joy only love can bring Heaven knows it's in my heart and my soul. Caught in a world full of tears so many bad times and fears.

Just passing through Chris Rea

Just passing through Soldiers of fortune lost in the wind No destinations and nothing to win Keep your head above the water, you get dirty and mean Scrubbing forever and you never come clean

Sing a song of love to me Chris Rea

Sing a song of love to me As the shadow starts to grow And I won't be sad And lonely anymore 'Cause if you sing a song of love to me I will always find a smile That will warm my cold, cold heart

I'm In My Car Chris Rea

I'm in my car I got my telephones and radio This is my home I have learnt to love and live The only way I know And I don't want to change a thing This is my world you are sitting in I got

Two roads Chris Rea

Two roads Ain't it funny how you never can tell It always seems to hit you when it's going so well A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Now it's lawyers-at-midnight and the learning begins

Chisel hill Chris Rea

Chisel hill Misty eyes on a misty day Come across a place like this along your way You walk straight in to that sweet and tender trap And you know you're lost and found And there ain't no going

Miles is a cigarette Chris Rea

Miles is a cigarette The weak and hazy shades of winter sun Come shining through Lifting fog from the trees and a gentle warm breeze Send it up in to the blue Blue sky and you come creeping

Girl In A Sports Car Chris Rea

When I was a boy I had a dream It never came true But somehow it seems When I drift away and I know it's so There's a certain time and place I go Every heart's got it's moment Written on it's soul Just

Shamrock diaries Chris Rea

Shamrock diaries In waves of people you can lose your feet You've got to stay hard, to the ground It gets so easy now to lose your way When you're ever outward bound A church bell ringing in the

Tell Me There's A Heaven Chris Rea

Oh every night a baby dies And every night a mama cries What makes those me do what they do To make that person black and blue Grandpa says they're happy now They sit with God in paradise With angel's

Your warm and tender love Chris Rea

Your warm and tender love I was lost in the deep and darkest night No direction, not a single hope in sight When I saw a fire burning brightly through The storm that raged above In the shadows

New way Chris Rea

New way I go to work in a bubble I got everything I need I get so high on no trouble It's a great feeling, being free I say a prayer at thanksgiving I bless the night and the day I look up

Long Is The Time, Hard Is The Road Chris Rea

Big old snake o' red tail lights Lookin' for a drain Pretty red, like diamond bright become your ball and chain If you ever reach the other side, it will never be this way They tie you down with your own

Gonna buy a hat Chris Rea

Gonna buy a hat She talks like thunder She really lets you know She keep changing the rules And leave you nowhere to go She bore you rigid with the party line She's so far left she's gonna get

Curse of the traveller Chris Rea

moving till the river of dreams Is it just because someone told you Is it just because you found Old freedom feels uneasy when duty is around When allegiance asks the questions Old freedom twists and

Stone Chris Rea

Stone Tangled dream and endless highways Bang the drum in a foreign land Sometimes I wonder what I'm chasing When all I need is the touch of your hand I've got no fixed abode out of own Babe

Smile Chris Rea

Smile Smile You don't have to spend your days in clouds Hiding from the sun Take a look around and see It's not that easy for anyone Smile You don't have to put that kind of stuff On a friend

Love's Strange Ways Chris Rea

When passion shines her blinding light on you You know my friend there's nothing that you can really do Just follow on behind her veil of deepest purple haze Down, to love's strange ways Drowning in a

Bows and bangles Chris Rea

Bows and bangles Born and raised in wilderness Of suburban shops and schools How she tried and tried to be satisfied With a job on the typing pool She hated the smell of carbon paper The office

Heaven Chris Rea

Heaven I see a turning wheel On a dusty track Caught in the void and empty space In between there and back And the paradise of going somewhere That's still so far away Happy, boy you bet I am

Winter song Chris Rea

Winter song It's a cold, cold feeling On a real lazy wind That blows all the way trough you And the autumn begins How it cuts like a sabre How it chills to the bone You've got cold feet and

WINTER SONG Chris Rea

It's a cold, cold feeling On a real lazy wind That blows all the way trough you And the autumn begins How it cuts like a sabre How it chills to the bone You've got cold feet and fingers And

One golden rule Chris Rea

One golden rule There's a heart in the middle of somewhere tonight Screaming for reasons or just a way out I put the shirt off my back on a wager that says There's one every night from my old school

Sweet Summer Day Chris Rea

I want to see the blue sky I want to feel the breeze I want to hear the summer wind Singing in the trees I want to touch forever And drift into its soul Put my troubles in my right hand Hold

Dancing girls Chris Rea

Dancing girls It's all become a fantasy She sits and reads about Tiffany's I moan all day about the state of the world And the sun beats down Her book if full of pastel shades Filigree Femmes

Texas (1989) Chris Rea

Texas (1989) Warm winds blowing Heating blue sky And a road that goes forever Been thinking 'bout it lately Been watching some TV Been looking all around me At what has come to be Been talking

September blue (1987) Chris Rea

September blue (1987) Your head spins round on a Monday And the daylight's in your eyes How you laughed and cursed tomorrow Now he's standing by your side You touched the stars at midnight The

Love\'s Strange Ways Chris Rea

shines her blindin\' light on you You know my friend there\'s nothin\' That you can really do Just follow on behind her veil of deepest purple haze Down To love\'s strange ways Drownin\' in a

LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER Chris Rea

Look deep inside the April face A change is clearly taking place Looking for the summer The eyes take on a certain gaze And leave behind the springtime days Go looking for the summer This ain't

When The Grey Skies Turn To Blue Chris Rea

When the grey skies turn to blue And the dark clouds blow away In the morning of a new life When the sun comes shining through When the grey skies turn to blue In the morning of a new life When the sun

Stainsby girls Chris Rea

Stainsby girls Some girls used to kiss and run Never knew what they had done Some girls always wasted time Keep you hanging on the line Some loved horses and always stayed at home But the Stainsby

I'm Still Holding On Chris Rea

Like a worn away piece of the night Waiting for the dawn Daylight breaks And the dream is gone Leaving me to stay But I'm still holding on Yeah I'll keep holding on I used to think

Candles Chris Rea

Candles Faith for reasons still unknown Like 'Bleak House fog' seems everywhere The truth has frozen into stone And hope lies freezing in the midnight air Though dark our days may seem This is

Do it for your love Chris Rea

Do it for your love Each single day I get up and make my way And it all comes into view It's like a part in a play You can turn it around in so many different ways But it's still the part you

September Blue Chris Rea

Your head spins round on a Monday And the daylight''s in your eyes How you laughed and cursed tomorrow Now he''s standing by your side You touched the stars at midnight The whole world seem to

Stick it Chris Rea

Stick it The steel mill closes down tonight As the dying embers fade And all the guys are too tired for tears Checking their final pay Those razored sabres of steel they made They never got to

She gave it away Chris Rea

She gave it away She gave away all her love No reason to keep it She'd saved it for only one But he didn't need it And downtown the midnight circus Hypnotised like a spinning top Offering dreams

From love to love Chris Rea

From love to love Well if you want me then just take my hand And if you don't, I will understand It's just a call from deep within my soul The burning question, I have got to know Take a message

Looking for the summer Chris Rea

Looking for the summer Look deep inside the April face A change is clearly taking place Looking for the summer The eyes take on a certain gaze And leave behind the springtime days Go looking