Lone Star Boogie lyrics - Chris Rea

It was a freezing night, the wind began to howl
And a cold street wind came
Slashing through this northern town
They tried so hard to find somewhere to hide
To get some kind of shelter from their fear inside
He said, i know a place where we can go
She said, come on now tell me

Cos i need to know

Lone star boogie, boogie my blues away

I see a texas sky in electric blue
I see a big old raging truck come slammining through
He said, close your eyes
Feel the heat
I'll put some kind of Texas
Into your empty streets

It's a lone star boogie, boogie my blues away

I still remember the place we used to go
Dreaming dreams of Texas
As we pushed hard through the snow
You told the stories of the snow chain trucks that flew
we laughed cos I only saw them in a Texas
morning blue

It's a lone star boogie

Blind Willie lyrics - Chris Rea

Blind Willie, that man could see
What we
Can only dream about
Blind Willie, my one and only peace
That I can't do without
Blind Willie

Now I can smell the burnt out hell you lived in
The damp newspaper making up your bed
The stinging eyes that died
When you were just a child
Oh I swear that I have cried
For you
Blind Willie

I pray each night
You sleep without a fever
I pray each night
You don't feel the winter cold
Willie B and Angelina are with you now
And peace like sunlight
Wraps around your soul

Oh Blind Willie

The American Way lyrics - Chris Rea

Everyone tells me, everyone say
Nobody loses
The American way
Doctors and teachers
So much they can do
Food on the table
And a future for you

Sweet little angel, sleeping so still
I got to run for the boarder now
You won't see me until
Your papa got a good job
Got some money in his hands
Tell your Mama what I'm saying
She will help you understand
So while I'm gone
Pray that it won't be long
We'll be together again
On a shiny new day
Living the dream
The American way

I met a guy on a corner
I gave him all that we could
He said get me a green card
Mama's scared
She thinkd he's no good
I said this time it will work out
Anyway it's all we can do
'Cos we live for your future
That's why I got to get through
So while I'm gone
Pray that it won't be long
We'll be together again
On a shiny new day
Living the dream
The American way

Angellina lyrics - Chris Rea

Agellina takes each empty glass
And washes away every heartache
She calls out to the guys to drink up
What's left of their soul
Agellina each glass of hope that you fill
Is now empty and waiting
Waiting for some kind ogf love
Before their trail has gone cold

Each butchered dream
Has a matching face
For each story
Each lonely heart in this loser's race
Without end
Oh Agellina

Agellina, was there someone you loved
Who left your heart broken?
Your pretty eyes
Give your deepest dark secrets away
Oh Agellina so many who'd die for their eyes
To be closed by
'Til morning
Your smile is their kiss
As they hang on to each word you say

Each butchered dream
Has a matching face
For each story
Each lonely heart in this loser's race
Without end
Oh Agellina

Truck Stop lyrics - Chris Rea

I see everybody trying to break free
Boy, girl, man or woman it's all the same to me
I take the money, smile and say thank you
See their freedom fade away from the place they're
going to

All the single souls
A thousand stories to be told
They cut loose, out here, standing all alone
Something tells me they ain't rushing
Ain't rushing
To get home

Down at the truckstop
Step out your truck or car
Nobody knows who you really are
Truck stop
Did you lose or did you win
Nobody knows, you can be anything
Down at the truck stop ...

The only piece of life that you feel free
You can pretend you are
What you always wanted to be
Gas tank full and a dream still gets to you
Oh the great big you
That no one ever knew

Truck stop, you're not what you left behind
Truck stop, you're free from the ties that bind
Truck stop, one thousand stories to be told
Truck stop
Down at the truck stop

Step out your truck or car
Nobody knows who you really are
Truck stop
Did you lose or did you win
Nobody knows, you can be anything
Down at the truck stop ...

Weekend Down Mexico lyrics - Chris Rea

I remember the days gone by
I would wipe a tear from your pretty little eyes
And say darling don't you cry
We'll find a way
We'll get by

You looked at me with a wonderful smile
We held each other close for a while
Two young souls sworn never to part
Their love was too strong

And I can never let go
The memory that haunts me so
That long long weekend
Down mexico

And sometimes I still feel it inside
And taste one of those tears that we cried
Two young souls sworn never to part
Their love was too strong

And I can never let go
The memory that haunts me so
That long long weekend
Down mexico

Texas Line Boogie lyrics - Chris Rea

I've got my cards on the table
Got my life laying on the floor
I've been broke, I've been twisted
But tonight I don't care anymore
I'm gonna hang up my blues
And let them stay there for a while
I'm gonna dance in that line
I'm gonna lose them in somebody's smile
Texas line boogie
Let your troubles go by
Texas line boogie
Why don't you give it a try

Well you're feeling so down
You ain't got nothing to lose
Feel your feet and your soul
Rising up from your dancing shoes
Don't say it's not me, don't tell me that this ain't so cool
If you don't want some fun
Then God saya you ain't nothing but a fool
Texas line boogie, let your troubles go by
Texas line boogie, why don't you give it a try
Texas line boogie

Too Big City lyrics - Chris Rea

Well there's a big blue sky
The good Lord painted for me
From the east of Arizona
Down to the mexican sea

Oh this too big city,
It don't let me feel free
I'm going to pack up soon
Take off on my own
They call it the mother road
She gonna take me back home
Because this too big city
Got nothing but a heart of stone

Now there's a sense of freedom
Out along these country lines
I don't need no pressure
Trying to make your oxygen mine
Oh this too big city is gonna kill itself
For a nickel and dime

Goodbye, all my troubles will be gone
Well I'm going back home, back to where I belong

Goodbye

Houston Angel lyrics - Chris Rea

Neon lights shining in the deepest blue
You pull in by the motel
You know what you're going to do
See you face come shining
See a smile come crashing through
Houston Angel
She's still the one that gets to you

Well I know what you're thinking
I can see your smiling face
You've been all around I know
But you can't find another to take her place
Ever since you were a small child
You know it moved you deep inside
A certain kind of magic
You always found so hard to hide

See you face come shining
See a smile come crashing through
Houston Angel
She's still the one that gets to you
Houston Angel

She was always the one that burned you like a fire
And you never quite shook
off this strange intense desire

See her face come shining
See her smile come crashing through
Houston Angel, she's the one that
Still gets through to you

Houston Angel

I'm Moving Up lyrics - Chris Rea

Well it may not look like much
But it's all I got
It may be nothing to you
But I'm coming through
Oh, yeah, I'm coming
Yeah I'm coming
I'm moving up
I'm moving up
To Chicago

Yeah, I heard all the stories
Of those big wide streets
They say it's real good money
Oh it's easy meat
I've had enough down here
Well, see I got to go
I'm moving
Yeah I'm moving up
Ready or not
To Chicago

You'll see me walking tall
See my shiny shoes
I'm going to take it all up
Kick away those country blues
Well, I'll play anything
I'll play bazooka-zoo
I'll play electric guitar
I'll do anything you want me to

Yeah, I'm moving up
Well, I'm moving up
To Chicago
Oh yeah, I'm moving up
To Chicago

Maxwell Street lyrics - Chris Rea

Will you tell me mister
How did I end up here?
Oh, won't you tell me mister
How did I end up here?
I got a dollar for my trouble
And nothing for may fear

Oh, won't you tell me mister preacher
How did I end up this way?
Oh, won't you tell me mister preacher
How did I end up this way?
So cold and hungry down on Maxwell
And the blues tear came to stay

Well they told me I remember
This new life would be so cool
Oh, they told me I remember
This new life would be so cool
Now I'm standing here on Maxwell
Feeling like the biggest fool

Oh, my cousin caught the Greyhound
And my best friend jumped a train
Yeah, my cousin caught the Greyhound
Yeah, my best friend jumped a train
Now if I ever pull a big one
Maxwell won't see my face again

Oh maxwell
If I ever pull a big one
No you won't see my face again

Bob Taylor lyrics - Chris Rea

I pray,
Oh, I pray
I'm praying
Yes I am
Every single day
I pray
Some sweet morning
I'll get to move away

I fear who's in my doorway
Too scared to go outside
There's a gunshot every day now
One for every tear i cry
Sometimes I go to sleep
Hoping I will never wake
There's fear for my poor children
Oh I dream that one fine day
One sweet morning
We'll get to move away

Sometimes I see the Devil
Sometimes I see his face
I swear he built these towers of hell
Oh' I swear he made this place
Whatever made us come here
Whatever made us stay
This endless cold grey winter
Oh I pray that one fine day
One sweet morning
Oh, we get to move away

One sweet morning
Oh, we get to move away

Bob Taylor
Let the Devil take him
Bob Taylor
Let the Devil shake him
Bob Taylor
Let the Devil break him

She's A Whole Heap Of Trouble lyrics - Chris Rea

Better look out
Cos she's coming for you
Oh, you better get ready
Oh, she's waiting for you
She's a whole heap of trouble
I know what she's gonna do

She'll give you lipstick fever
Take your eyes off her mouth
She got that come on over look
You know what I'm talking about
Well, she's a whole heap of trouble
She's gonna take you out

She don't care nothing about you
She play around 'til you're broke
You better hand onto your money
Or it'll go up in smoke, yes it will
She's gonna burst your bubble
She's a whole heap of trouble

She's going to break your heart
She's a whole heap of trouble
She's gonna burst your bubble
She's a whole heap of trouble
yeah, she's a whole heap of trouble

Jazzy Blue lyrics - Chris Rea

Well, let me tell you
Let me tell you something new
Oh, let me tell you
Let me tell you something new
Oh' I've found an angel
She put some jazz into my blue

Oh she turned me over
There was nothing I could do
Yeah she turned me over
There was nothing I could do
Well she took me down real easy
Turned my grey skies jazzy blue

Oh I was beat up I was busted
I was lonely I was blue
That's right
I was beat up I was busted
I was lonely I was blue
She kicked my ass and laughed loud
Threw out everything I knew

Well, she danced me into pieces
She broke that tired old heart in two
Yeah, she danced me into pieces
She broke that tired old heart in two
Well, I was laughing all the way
She turned my world to jazzy blue

Yeah yeah yeah turned me jazzy blue
Turned my world to jazzy blue

Oh she turned my world
Turned my world jazzy blue
Oh she turned my world
Turned my world jazzy blue

Hip-Sway lyrics - Chris Rea

Ain't got no time
For trouble talk
Life is too damned bad
You got to move it on up
Sometimes you got to fell glad
What I see
What I say
I call it hip sway

Sometimes you got yo let go
Come on and have some fun
Oh you can't hold back
Now your working's done
Oh let's start walking
Let your body do the talking
Call it hip sway

Babe you got to make up some time
Come on move a little closer to me
I sure want your love to be mine
Cos I know what your doing to me
Oh yeah
I got to hip sway
Well, yeah got to hip sway

Well, hip sway

Babe you got to make up some time
Come on move a little closer to me
I got something special for you
Stop you feeling so sad and lonely
Mmm well go on hip sway
We're gonna hip sway
Hip sway
You got to have some fun sometime
I call it hip sway