Jeff Healey
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Confidence Man
Well, I lost you at the border when you crossed it
Had your
number, baby, but I lost it
I know your love was just a flimflam
No, you
can't pull the wool over me, 'cause I'm a confidence man
I can talk old ladies out of all of their money
I can talk
young girls into calling me honey
You can talk all you want, babe, but I got
fast hands, uh-huh
You're a real soft touch, but I'm a confidence man
I know your mother taught you how to bake a cherry pie
And
read a book
Your daddy taught you how to tell a lie
And not get shook
Let me tell you something, baby, you better learn
If you're gonna con the con
man, you're liable to get burned
Now, now, now, we were stretched out on the floor, baby, it's
all elastic
But you stretched it too tight and it snapped like plastic
And
the pieces went flying across the badlands
No discouraging word could be
heard, 'cause I'm a confidence man
Now, maybe Chicago is where you're bound
But love is a
cheap perfume, it hangs around
And you roll the dice, now let the bet stand
No, you can't pull the wool over me, 'cause I'm a confidence man
No, you
can't pull the wool over me, 'cause I'm a confidence man
Said, you can't pull
the wool over me, 'cause I'm a confidence man
River Of No Return
Well, you know you're gonna have to steal it,
If you want
your cake and eat it, too
There is no one less believin',
Than the guy
who's been deceiving you
You got to pay the piper,
In the end you will be so much
wiser
Got to use your best endeavor,
When you're kissing to be clever
'Cause it's a hard, hard lesson,
That you're gonna learn,
On the river of no return
You been burnin' all your bridges,
Like a child with forty
wishes,
On the river of no return
Well, you got your finger,
On the trigger,
It would help
if you was-a bigger
Now, it's not easy, I know, it's not easy
'Cause it's a hard, hard lesson,
That you're gonna learn,
On the river of no return
Yes, you have done your share of cheatin',
Now you're gonna
have to take a beatin'
You been acting like a sucker
Now, you're gonna
have to suffer, yeah
'Cause it's a hard, hard lesson,
That you're gonna learn,
On the river of no return
Say, say, say
It's a hard, hard, lesson,
That you're
gonna learn,
On the river of no return
It's a one way to go,
It's on and on you go
On the river
of no return.
Say it again!
It's a hard, hard lesson,
That you're
gonna learn,
On the river of no return
Got swept out in the tide,
With no one on your side,
On
the river of no return
Blue Jean Blues
I done run into my baby,
And finally found my old blue
jeans
Well, I done ran into my baby,
And finally found my old blue jeans
I knew they was mine,
By the oil and the gasoline, yeah
If I ever get back my blue jeans,
Well how happy could one
man be?
I said, uh, if I ever get back my blue jeans,
Well, how happy can
one man be?
'Cause when I get back those blue jeans,
Yeah, you know my
baby,
Will bring em home to me
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Full Circle
You give me ev'rything you got
Then take it away
You
know you're driving me crazy
How long will I have to pay?
You keep me
waiting endlessly in this misery
Hey!
Around and 'round your lovin' goes
Where it stops, ain't nobody knows
Full circle
You got me runnin' while
you're keepin' me standing still
Full circle
Anything you want me to do,
girl, you know I will
Girl, you know I will
When you cruise down the boulevard,
All the guys know your
name
You get their engines runnin', yeah
They're all sparked by your flame
You tempt me with your burnin' fire,
Lost in my desire,
yeah
You don't know what you've out me through
It keeps me spinnin' when I
can't have you
It's hard to get you out of my head
I try to set myself
free
But just like a bad habit,
You always catch up with me
Yeah!
Around and 'round your lovin' goes
Where it stops, ain't nobody knows
Full
circle
Got me runnin' in a full circle, I'm goin' crazy
Full circle
You
got me a-runnin', girl
Full circle
Oh!
Full circle
Got me runnin'
and I'm full circle
I'm goin' crazy, girl
Full circle
Keep me a-runnin'
'round a full circle
Woo!
Hey, you got me spinnin' 'round!
Ah, yeah!
Goin' out of my mind, baby, yeah
Hey!
Hell To Pay
Well, when you think you got problems you don't really need,
they're maybe not as bad as they seem.
'Cause in a world full of misery, with
hatred and greed,
your problems are another man's dream.
Now when your own little world seems to be in a state
and
you think you may be losin' your mind,
Just remember the people who only can
wait
for happiness they never will find.
And you know, problems come and problems go.
This is
something you should know:
There's people in the world today
who don't
have nothin' but hell to pay.
Now when your life of success has got you livin' in doubt
and you're feeling like there's nowhere to turn,
Just remember the world that
you don't know about
and all the lessons that you can learn
'Cause you know, problems come and problems go.
This is
something you should know:
There's people in the world today
who don't
have nothin' but hell to pay.
Some people today
Got hell to pay.
That's what they got
...
And tomorrow
or yesterday,
They got hell to pay.
All
right ...
'Cause you know, problems come and problems go.
This is
something you should know:
There's people in the world today
who don't
have nothin' but hell to pay.
Well, when you think you got problems you don't really need,
they're maybe not as bad as they seem.
'Cause in a world full of misery, from
hatred and greed,
your problems are another man's dream.
And you know, problems come and problems go.
This is
something you should know:
There's people in the world today
who don't
have nothin' but hell to pay.
Highway Of Dreams
Faces and places in motion become all the same.
Wide open
spaces and cities without any name.
People who gamble in search of their
quest.
Jokers and aces all put to the test.
Winners and losers all
travel the highway of dreams.
Ladies all painted in shades of object despair.
Memory,
while tainted, by lying that appears so unfair.
Her comes a bud'un, it's two
cadillacs,
Women and winein' and foolin' the facts.
Winners and losers all travel the highway of dreams.
The
deserts of darkness and rivers of gold,
Mountains we all have to climb.
Further ahead there's a fortune untold.
It can be reached in a matter of
time.
Factories, once proud of their work,
while my poor ass
goes down.
Parks that were loud, now
have silenced the merry-go-round.
People who dwell in their castles of steel,
Visions of progress have now
become real.
Winners and losers all travel the highway of dreams.
Winners and losers all travel the highway of dreams.
Highway of dreams,
highway of dreams.
Highway of dreams, highway of dreams.
Lost In Your Eyes
Light from a window
Cold dark and black
Sound from a
dream
I was hypnotized
I was paralyzed
I could hardly speak
And baby
Baby
You never realized
That
I could
have stood there lost in your eyes
Stood there waiting
And not realized
Love isn't easy
It isn't always kind
I could have stood there
Lost in your eyes
Guess I understand it
Guess I sort of have to
Guess I
kind of see
Just because it could have been
Doesn't mean it had to
Ever mean a thing
And baby
Baby
I could say it all the time
That
I could have stood there lost in your eyes
Stood there waiting
And not
realized
Love isn't easy
It isn't always kind
I could have stood
there
Lost in your eyes
And you know sometimes I wonder
Yes I wonder
I really
really do
Ya yes I do
Just because it helps me
Though sometimes it
scares me
Guess you wouldn't know
No you wouldn't know
Guess I understand it
Guess I sort of have to
Guess I
kind of see
Just because it could have been
Doesn't mean it had to
Ever mean a thing
And baby
Baby
You never realized
I could have
stood there lost in your eyes
Stood there waiting
And never realized
Love isn't easy
It isn't always kind
I could have stood there
Lost
in your eyes
You know
I could have stood there
Ya ya ya ya
Lost
in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Lost in your eyes
Feel Better
When your world is cold, and your day seem to drag on,
forever,
feel like your soul were sold, for nothing, for nothing
and you
never, felt such loneliness, or emptiness,
and your old friend so hard to
face,
that's when you come to me, you come to me,
when you need a safe
embrace, n' like a fool I give it up for you,
there's nothing else I can do,
If it make's it feel better, then tell me, tell me more lies,
If it make's it feel better then use me for love in disguise,
If it
make's it feel better,
when you lost your way, and you're tired, of what you've
become,
and empty shell, when nothing dwells, and you dyin, n' feeling numb,
well you decide that you call on me, cuz you know I'm always free,
If it make's it feel better, then tell me, tell me more lies,
If it make's it feel better, then use me for love in disguise,
If it
make's it feel better
Ho you know you burned me many times before,
still come
back for more
If it make's it feel better,
c'mon tell me, tell me more
lies,
If it make's it feel better,
you can use me for love in disguise,
If it make's it feel better,
better, better yeeh,
n' if it make's it
feel better
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