Still Reelin' (From Those Rock & Roll Days) lyrics - Dan Seals

I remember where I was the first time I saw Elvis
In our living room on our black and white TV
He sang Blue Suede Shoes and when the song was over
I knew things would never be the same for me

I grew up in a house where the doors were always open
Where a stranger is just someone I did not know
With Dreams of far off places and old guitars
Fell asleep listening to the all night radio

Now the rooms in this old house are all empty
And sometimes I wonder just how far I've come
I know some things must end, I don't know where I fit in
Still reelin' from those rock and roll days

Granddad died and left me his old chevy
Forty eight hundred pounds of Detroit steel
Sometimes at night I wish that I still had it
So it could drive me back to the way I used to feel

Now the buildings down on main street are all empty
And sometimes I wonder just how far we've come
I know some things must end, though I try hard to fit in
Still reelin' from those rock and roll days

Though I come back to this place when I feel empty
And I play those old songs I love to hear
I know some things must end and I should find where I fit in
Still reelin' from those rock and roll days

Sha na na you know I love you
Sha na na I always will
Sha na na I'm thinking of you
Sha na na you know the way I feel

Sha na na you know I love you
Sha na na I always will
Sha na na I'm thinking of you
Sha na na you know the way I feel

album: "Walking The Wire" (1992)

Mason Dixon Line lyrics - Dan Seals

I can hear the distant rumbling
From the unrest in your heart
The dark winds are blowing
Come to tear us apart

Our point of view is different
Depending on which side we're on
And every harsh word echoes
And surely comes back home

Are we separate from each other
Or will we both unite
We come from different places
But love's not black or white
There's something here worth saving
If we reach across in time
We're living on a Mason Dixon Line

We were standing here together
Before the trouble came
Now it circles all around us
Like a moth to a flame
Whoa they say a house divided
In time will surely fall
Will you stand here beside me
With our backs against the wall

Change our hearts
Make us whole
Help us see forever

Someone Else's Dance lyrics - Dan Seals

I met her out in Colorado
She didn't know which road to follow
She thumbed on down to Santa Fe
Before the snowflakes blew

Back home they didn't understand
So she had to change her plans
The midnight rain, the baby came
The father never knew
And you know I didn't plan to stay
But the roads were old and they washed away

And in between the life we dream
And those dark and dusty days
We drive to work and make our plans
As time tip toes away

The music plays from far away
A song of circumstance
We step in time or fall behind
In someone else's dance

Staring at the starry sky
Hand in hand the boy and I
We watch 'm fall
The Momma calls
It's time to come inside
And he'll never know how close he came
To a different life with a another name

And in between the life we dream
And those dark and dusty days
We drive to work and make our plans
As time tip toes away

The music plays from far away
A song of circumstance
We step in time or fall behind
In someone else's dance

Sneaky Moon lyrics - Dan Seals

Radio sittin' on a window sill
I can hear the music comin' over the hill
How am I supposed to stay in bed
With a crazy little love song in my head
Ooh sneaky moon ooh sneaky moon

June bug buzzin' on the front porch light
Heartbreak's a waitin' for me outside
I swore I wouldn't open that door
Here I am in those arms once more
Ooh sneaky moon ooh sneaky moon

Safe and sound at home asleep is where I oughta be
Everywhere I go it just keeps creepin' up on me

Romeo waited for the sun to set
Before he serenaded Juliet
Eve met the devil on a Saturday night
But who tricked her into takin' that bite
Ooh sneaky moon ooh sneaky moon

Sneaky moon
Think it's bubblin' in me
Ooh sneaky moon doggone moon
Ooh sneaky moon

Sweet Little Shoe lyrics - Dan Seals

You're a swell shing a linger you can bop and birdland too
You're a swell shing a linger you can rock and sock and birdland too
Well you look just like your mother but you sure swing a sweet little shoe

They can bop until Sunday and they'll never bop like you
They can bop month of Sundays and they'll never bop a bit like you
Well you talk just like your daddy but you do swing a sweet little shoe

Hey let's do that shuffle thing that we worked out together
Come on girl and fan my flame shake a tail feather
The ladies in the neighborhood are talkin' about a scandal
All this funky fol-de-rol is just too hot to handle

I've got some brand new school shoes and they're killin' my feet
I've got some shiny new school shoes and man these things are murder on my feet
Well they might look nice in Sunday school but they're not good for dancin' in the street

Let's do that shuffle thing that we worked out together...
You're a swell shing a linger you can bop and birdland too...

We Are One lyrics - Dan Seals

In a bombed out room in Belfast
A young boy is crying
He's alone and he don't understand
How the teachings of one book
Built on love and understanding
Could cause the hurt and killing in his land

In an old part of Jerusalem
Two children are playing
They run and laugh
The way it's meant to be
But one will wear the star and one will wear the crescent
And they'll grow up and change from friends to enemies

But we are one
Flowers of one garden
We're one the leaves of one tree
Let the walls come down
And stand here together
We are one family

In a Pakistani village
A young boy on crutches
Takes a fall
And lies helplessly there
And he holds out his hand
But no one will take it
They won't touch him
Or the clothes that he wears

On a side street in Selma
A black child is sitting
In a squad car
Protected from the whites
'Cause they're burning a cross
To send her a message
And you can see
The fear in her eyes

But we are one
Flowers of one garden
We're one the leaves of one tree
Let the walls come down
And stand here together
We are one family

Ponder in our hearts
How we were all created
From the same dust
And searching we will find
That spirit of the age
Has come to find us
To find us

But we are one
Flowers of one garden
We're one the leaves of one tree
Let the walls come down
And stand here together
We are one family

album: "On Arrival" (1990)

Good Times (originally by Sam Cooke) lyrics - Dan Seals

C'mon and let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our soul
If it takes all night long
Yeah, c'mon and let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our soul
If it takes all night long

I could tell ya....

The evening sun is sinkin' low
The clock on the wall says it's time to go
I've got my plans, I don't know about you
I tell you exactly what I'm gonna do

Get in the groove and let the good times roll
I'm gonna stay here 'till I soothe my soul
If it takes all night long
Yeah, everybody let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our soul
If it takes all night long

Yeah, it might be one o'clock, it might be three
Time don't mean that much to me
I ain't felt this good since I don't know when
I might not feel this good again

So everybody let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our soul
If it takes all night long

All night, all night
And all night, and all night long
Somebody said it might take all night long
And all night, all night long

So c'mon and let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our souls
If it takes all night long, yeah.
So everybody let the good times roll
We're gonna stay here 'till we soothe our souls
If it takes all night long.

And all night, and all night
And all night, all night long
Somebody said it might take all night long
And all night, all night long

Made For Lovin' You lyrics - Dan Seals

Everybody sings a different kind of song
All God's children have somewhere where they belong
Oh, I heard it said I know it must be true
We were meant to be, I'm made for loving you.

Everybody has something he must be
Call it fortune, or just call it destiny
I have spent my life making my way to you
See the way we fit? I'm made for loving you.

Like blue skies always seem to go with sunshine
And just like laughter goes along with good times

I have spent my life making my way to you
See the way we fit? I'm made for loving you.

She Flew The Coupe lyrics - Dan Seals

Sittin' in a bar room
Joplin, Missouri
Texas on my mind

Got no way to get there
Got no need to hurry
All I got is my time

In walks a lady
Heart be still!
In walks a lady with a Coupe de Ville

She asked for someone new
To ride Tulsa way
She said she had to be there
Yesterday

Said I need a ride
a little further south
She said "Climb on in, boy
just shut your mouth"

Mmmm, Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Could have been eighty, ninety, or a hundred
A woman that fast, she don't need a number.

About a half an hour in
I turned on the radio
I caught a little bit of news
About a lady you know

There was somethin' 'bout gun play
and a car she took
Satisfactory conditions
For throwin' the book

I looked to my left (to my left, to my left)
Heart be still!
I was looking at the lady with the Coupe de Ville

She said, "Back in Missouri
a man owed a little debt.
It wasn't over money
But she took what she could get."

"She was in the driver's seat
She never looked back."
And I was ridin' shotgun
In a Cadillac

Mmmm, Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Could have been eighty, ninety, or a hundred
A woman that fast, she don't need a number.

Mmmm, Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Let me tell you, brother
She flew the coupe (coupe, coupe)
Could have been eighty, ninety, or a hundred
A woman that fast, she don't need a number.

Yeah, go on baby

Wood lyrics - Dan Seals

His old hands were brown
from the varnish and the stain
And I had come to talk
in my youth and in my pain
I told him that I was not
the man I want to be
I waited to see what he would say

But he just kept on working
as if I wasn't there
The sweat on his face
and dust in his hair
He paused for a moment
when I'd been there for a while
He wiped his brow - I thought I saw him smile

He just said "Wood,
From the earth beneath our feet there grows a tree
And we can take it, shape it, to what's it's meant to be
The stronger the fiber, the better for the good
Son, I believe that men are just like wood."

I handed him a timber
and he laid it on the bench
I watched the love and care he took
to measure every inch
the work it got harder
when he cut across the grain
but he just put more shoulder to the plane

I sat there beside him
as he carved out every line
He made a thing of beauty
from a rough 'ol piece of pine
He seem to have the vision
of what the end would be
I felt as if some pieces had been taken out of me

He just said "Wood,
From the earth beneath our feet there grows a tree
And we can take it, shape it, to what's it's meant to be
The stronger the fiber, the better for the good
Son, I believe that men are just like wood."

I left a little taller
wiser, and free
I learned the use of tools
for the carpenter in me
I don't have all the answers
but one thing I have have found
We are the choices that we make
when the chips are down, wood.

He said, "The stronger the fiber, the better for the good
Son, I believe that men are just like wood."

Bordertown lyrics - Dan Seals

In the quiet hours before the dawn
Buttons up his uniform
Takes out his badge and pins it on
For thirty years he's enforced the law
And he drives out on the Rio Grande
Across the dry and sunburned land
And on this side he takes his stand again

They won't get through this bordertown
He turns 'em back, he stands his ground
But still they come, because they know
Somewhere the streets are paved with gold
Somewhere beyond the sound of this bordertown

It's not his place to say what's fair
He's done his duty all these years
In his mind the law's the law
But then at dusk she wades across
And he sees the hope thats in her eyes
Child with dreams of a brand new life
It's not his job to say what's right or wrong

They won't get through this bordertown
He turns 'em back, he stands his ground
But still they come, because they know
Somewhere the streets are paved with gold
Somewhere beyond the sound of this bordertown

As night falls over Mexico
He waits there as she comes ashore
Finished, there's a moment of faith
He turns his back and he walks away

Water Under The Bridge lyrics - Dan Seals

For the first time in a long time I saw her last night
I stood face to face with the love of my life
She laughed, and I smiled, and we talked for a while
I held her close as I told her goodbye

She said, "I'm sorry I hurt you the way that I did"
And I said, "Don't worry

It's just water under the bridge
Tears that I've already cried."
I couldn't tell her my love never died
It's just water under the bridge
The river just never runs dry.

You can never go back, it's been said many times
But I've never left in my heart and my mind
Though I've done my best to go on with my life
Those memories never stop flowing by,

Just like water the bridge
Tears that I've already cried
I 'll never tell her my love never died
It's just water under the bridge
The river just never runs dry.

No, you can't stop those feelings that flow deep inside
Just like water the bridge

Love On Arrival lyrics - Dan Seals

I just had to call, cause babe I got your letter
And I understood almost every line
You said T.L.C. is what you miss from me
You want back in my arms P.D.Q.
And ooh I love this game
Them three letters by your name L.O.A. what does that say?

She said ooh baby it's so simple
I did not mean to make it hard to understand
I've been gone so long
Want you to know I miss my man oh yes I do
And that message for you
Tells you what I'm gonna do when I get home oh yeah

L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
L.O.A. is what I'm gonna give to you
I've been countin' the days
I've been lonely, I've been blue (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
And now after all this time
I've got nothing on my mind but L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you

I said ooh baby I do love you
And I'm always amazed the way we fit
And I T.G.I.F.
Thank God I found you when I did, oh yes I do
Them three letters by your name
I will just give you just the same
When you get home, oh yes I will

L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
L.O.A. is what I'm gonna give to you
I've been countin' the days
I've been lonely, I've been blue (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
And now after all this time
I've got nothing on my mind but L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you

I don't need no confirmation
I get it right here in my land
Don't need no translation
You done spelled it out with words
That I can understand L.O.A.
ooh ooh ooh, L.O.A.

L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
L.O.A. is what I'm gonna give to you
I've been countin' the days
I've been lonely, I've been blue (Love on arrival)
For you (Love on arrival)
And now after all this time
I've got nothing on my mind but L.O.A. (Love on arrival)
For you

And now after all this time
I've got nothing on my mind but L.O.A. (Love on arrival)