INVISIBLE WOMAN (Shaber, Schaffer)

She's driven the roads narrow and wide
Invisible woman can't find her pride
A hard outer shell protects her inside
It's like no home she's ever known

Countryside fairgrounds, colored alive
Invisible woman floats ride to ride
She can't hear the music dance and dive
It's like no home she's ever known

Invisible face with invisible eyes
Invisible laughs and invisible cries
Invisible whole of invisible parts
Invisible loves with invisible heart

Coffee café brews ideas and dreams
Invisible woman gets lost in the steam
She watches the lovers singing their theme
It's like no home she's ever known

Invisible face with invisible eyes
Invisible laughs and invisible cries
Invisible whole of invisible parts
Invisible loves with invisible heart

ALL OF THIS (Shaber)

Sparrows fight for words in edgewise
And sitting on my window ledge I
Watch the Wednesday winding its way down in shades of chalk
Voices call from open doorways
Lovers smile in silent foreplay
Gently grazing guarded fingertips as they walk

Inside blocks and corners so these lives are kept
While up above skyscrapers give the sky such depth

Somehow in all of this even when it's hard to be alone
Somewhere in all of this I have found a home

"Imagine" tiled underfoot
A subway roars below as only thunder should
Rolls and raps its rhythms as its riders speak in tongues
And as I blinked a deaf man soldier
Quickly crouched to kiss my shoulder
Breaking barriers that I had built and blinders I had hung

Inside blocks and corners so these lives are kept
While up above skyscrapers give the sky such depth

Somehow in all of this even when it's hard to be alone
Somewhere in all of this I have found a home

From my bed I watch the night come
Brings a silence of woven hums
Sweet Manhattan midnight might be more like 3am

Somehow in all of this even when it's hard to be alone
Somewhere in all of this I have found a home
Somehow in all of this even when it's hard to be alone
Somewhere in all of this I have found a home

PERFECT (Shaber)

I've been to a Druid's den on a New Year's day
And I've done Scotland on a motorbike, so how can you say
That I'm not perfect for you
What do I have to do

I can be sexy when I breathe into your ear
And when I sleep I look just like all those perfumed ads, I swear
But I'm not perfect for you
What do I have to do

And on a day off I've walked across the Brooklyn Bridge - isn't that cool
Last week I took the Staten Island Ferry into a breezy afternoon
I even got off, walked the crumbling docks
It's quite a view
I could share that with you

Ever seen me when I laugh, my eyes they shine
You'd get to touch me anytime if you were mine
And I can sing; I'll be your nightingale welcoming the sun
I'll write you song after song after song; I know you'd love it, wouldn't anyone?

But I'm not perfect for you
What do I have to do?

HUSH-A-BYE (Shaber)

Hush-a-bye Baby down
Just save your breath
Stop spinning 'round so
Just let time drip down
My back
Down down

Slow down
Why do you dance so fast
Like a hummingbird in a hicktown
Just let time drip down
My sides
Down down

Let me whisper slowly in your ear
Secrets spilled out close and clear
We could spend the next 36 years
Right here

'Cause I have watched the moon set
And I have seen the snow turn into rain and back to snow again
And I have watched the lights go out on the towers at the center of town

Hush-a-bye Baby down
Might as well save your breath
Velocity don't make you younger
Just let time drip down
My shoulders

Let me whisper slowly in your ear
Secrets spilled out close and clear
We could spend the next 43 years
Right here

Let me whisper slowly in your ear
Secrets spilled out close and clear
We could spend the next 69 years
Right here

ROOFTOP (Shaber)

Smoke stack breathes into the city
And the south side of the Empire State takes a nap in the 6 o'clock sun
And I turn and watch the rising moon
Don't think I could ever refuse a chance to play this room

And if you hear from down on 12th street
Something that makes you stop
Don't worry baby
I'm just singing on the rooftop

Snake eyes are two towers of woven steel
Stretching out across the East River into a Williamsburg afternoon
Makes me smile deep at a memory of a night spent between Brooklyn sheets
Shakes my head in disbelief
And hey there's that old man with his older dog on the street

And if you hear from down on 12th street
Something that makes you stop
Don't worry baby
I'm just singing on the rooftop

Come here, Baby, wrap yourself around my finger
Let's be one and one makes two, you and me, sit right here, against my knee,
Lean back, check out the view
I wanna be in the center of you

And if they hear from down on 12th street
Something that makes them stop
Don't worry baby
We're safe here on the rooftop

HONEY (Shaber)

Nighttime New Mexico
Flooding summer skies
I danced to your heartbeat, pressing close to stay dry
You brought me honey
Spoke in lullabyes
Now I tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes

We shaped the hollows, placed our laughter there
And I try to replicate the tone in everyone
With yellow hair

Blue dawn in Yellowstone
Your breath even at my side
To be with you all over again, again I'd drive all night
You called me honey
Under Sweetwater skies
Now I tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes

We shaped the hollows, placed our laughter there
And now I try to replicate the tone in everyone
With yellow hair

A breakdown in Montana become a picnic spot
Alleyways of Laramie beside the railroads lots
A view of the Rockies stretching on and on and on
Where's my silver lining now that you are gone

New day New Mexico
Coffee in the sun
Could I have known by that Taos mountain that you would be the one
You brought me honey
You warmed me inside
And now I'll tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes

SOMETIMES IT HURTS (Shaber)

If life is just an ocean, with people in and out like the tide
Then why can't I just drift along a gentle wave and smile
If life is just a tapestry and heartache just a square in its weave
Then why can't I just hang it up, praise the winding patterns, and heal

Some words sound better in the rain
Sometimes it hurts to hear my name

If life is just a journey with a reason for each stop along the way
Then why can't I just leave you behind and welcome the new day
If life is just a lesson to be filed away like two and two
Then why can't I just close the book on you

Some words sound better in the rain
Sometimes it hurts to hear my name

Once I was offered the Eiffel Tower by a Romeo on his knees
But what good is the Eiffel Tower once that Romeo leaves
Once I was offered a taste of passion by a Romeo in the rain
But what good is that taste of passion when it comes with a measure of pain

Some words sound better in the rain
Sometimes it hurts to hear my name

If life is just a yellow brick road with a rainbow at the end
Then why can't I just close my eyes
And why can't I just click my heels and hold my breath and mend

Some words sound better in the rain
Sometimes it hurts to hear my name

BOMB THREAT IN NEW ROCHELLE (Shaber)

Keep my plate warm in the oven
Save me a piece of your pie
Set the VCR to tape the evening news
Keep those backrub fingers standing by

'Cause there's a bomb threat in New Rochelle
Little brown box on the tracks
What a situation, stuck in Grand Central Station
And I don't know if I'm ever coming back

They're reading the Journal in the aisles
They're poppin' cold cold cans of Bud
Gal in the window seat's got a collie between her knees
And it's drooling on that guy in the Armani duds

There's a bomb threat in New Rochelle
Little brown box on the tracks
What a situation, stuck in Grand Central Station
And I don't know if I'm ever coming back

And it really shouldn't surprise me, the way this week has been
Felt like I could never catch my breath
Still, all the same, it would be an awful shame
To miss out on tomorrow on account of death

At least this car is air-conditioned
Hell, at least I'm sitting down
And though my right leg is pressed up against my neighbor's
He looks so fine, I might not mind sticking around

'Cause there's a bomb threat in New Rochelle
Little brown box on the tracks
What a situation, stuck in Grand Central Station
And I don't know if I'm ever coming back

CITY LIGHTS LAMENT (Shaber)

City lights out my window
Can't keep me company
Winking and blinking but they don't know
The place I'd like to be
Is holding you in London Town
That village across the sea
And that's why those city lights
Can't keep me company.

Times Square with all its pageantry
It ain't no more my style
It's tacky and wacky but it don't see
That it can't make me smile
But to hold you in London Town
I'd gladly walk the miles
Because I swear old Times Square
Just ain't no more my style.

And hey, New York's okay
Its wonders never cease
But ooo, babe without you
I'm never quite at peace.

Central Park to some is very grand
To me it ain't so fine
It's crowded and loud, and don't understand
The one thing that's divine
Is holding you in London Town
And knowing you are mine
Central Park is just a lark
To me it ain't so fine.

And hey, New York's okay
Its wonders never cease,
But ooo, babe without you
I'm never quite at peace.

Times Square with all its pageantry
It ain't no more my style
It's tacky and wacky but it don't see
That what would make me smile
Is seeing you in London Town
Walking slowly down the aisle
Baby Times Square, can't compare
To me it ain't so fine.

RAIN AND SUNSHINE (Shaber)

Lately, I've not been too well
And how are you, Maribel?
So much has changed, so soon since you've flown
I find myself so alone

Now I believe in rain and sunshine and gravity
That's what took you from me

I've got this story that I tell
About where we went, Maribel
And an open road through an Arizona valley
They say their god works mysteriously

But I believe in rain and sunshine and gravity
That's what took you from me

And now if roses cast their spell
I sense you there, Maribel
And everywhere I carry you inside me
Your body is bound, but your beauty is free

And I believe in rain and sunshine and gravity
That's what took you from me
I believe in rain and sunshine and gravity
That's what took you from me

PLAYING HOUSE (Shaber)

Long night, big fight, ending up in smiles
But was it worth the while?
Sunny day, takes her pain away, opens up her eyes
Inside her knots untie

Until it turns to rain again
Turns to rain again
Turns to rain again
Turns to rain again

As he sleeps quietly she weeps, staring at the moon
And then she turns and studies the room
All their things, how it stings, to see how well they fit
Like a happy home, but just a parody of it

And then it turns to rain again
Turns to rain again
Turns to rain again
Turns to rain again

She was never one of those girls playing house
She'd always been the rock star or the private eye
So how did she ever get into this game?

He comes home, probably stoned, and players place your bets
It might be fine, their limbs entwined, and gentle eyes, and smiling sighs
If she can just keep herself from getting wet

Rain again
Turns to rain again
Rain again
Turns to rain again

FRERE JACQUES

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?
Sonnent les matina
Ding Dong Ding

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?
Sonnent les matina
Ding Dong Ding

Brother John, are you sleeping?
Come please open your eyes.
Brother John, I am pleading
Sun is on the rise.
Got such an array of possibilities today.
Wake up before you waste away.
Wake up before you waste away.

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?
Sonnent les matina
Ding Dong Ding

Brother John, are you sleeping?
Come please open your eyes.
Brother John that sun is creeping
Through the noonday skies.
Will you come alive at least by four or five?
Wake up before you waste away.
Wake up before you waste away.

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?
Sonnent les matina
Ding Dong Ding

Brother John, are you sleeping?
Come please open your eyes.
Brother John, I am pleading
Now the moon is on the rise.
I've finished what I had to do, now I want to hang with you.
Wake up before you waste away.
Wake up before you waste away.
Wake up,

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?
Sonnent les matina
Ding Dong Ding
Ding Dong Ding
Ding Dong Ding

MARY-ANNE (Shaber)

There's a certain quiet like a Sunday morning drive
Like a distant tower blinking in a smooth night sky
Like the final chord ringing from a baby grand
Like the moment when he first met Mary-Anne

There's a certain color like a slow September sunrise
Like a southern ocean softly touched by moonlight
Like the perfect shell smiling up from the sand
Like the blood in his veins when he first kissed Mary-Anne

He felt a certain peace like a house by the sea
As he took her hand
Like such a lucky man
To share the love song with Mary-Anne

There's a certain power like a river rushing free
Like an ancient lighthouse guarding over the sea
Like a midnight train speeding over land
Like his heartbeat the day he married Mary-Anne

WALKIN' AT NIGHT (Shaber)

Now I live in New York City, the paement's cracked and the air is gritty
The whole damn place can be one shitty pity, but hey, that's atmosphere
Now New York's a very crowded space, it's real hard to get from place to place
And all that damn cigarette smoke blowin' in your face, and comments on your rear

But when the lights on the Empire State are dark
And no one with sense goes into Central Park
When the rich folk are sleeping up on Carnegie Hill
And down on 59th the carriage horses stand still

If you look you just might find me walkin' at night
Yeah there's something so right about walking at night

Now most of my friends think that I'm insane, they say
"That Sam even walks home in the rain"
But I'd just rather get wet than wait around for a train gettin' restless and blue
And hungry taxis try to get me to ride; they slow down and pull up to my curbside
But I just wait for the light, I don't look them in the eye and then I push on through

And when the bands are loading up their cars
And all the stools are up on the bars
When the gates have been locked around Tompkins Square
And the street urchins dream upon the synagogue stairs

If you look you just might find me walkin' at night
Yeah there's somethin so right about walkin' at night

Cause when you ain't got no cash for no cab fare
And the subway's down way too deep under there
You ain't gonna find a bus anywhere
And there's something so serene about that city night air

I had a gig last night, an old friend showed up and boy was he lookin' fine
I said hey let's go grab a glass of wine or a coffee
So we went outside, he bought me a falafel, and as I munched I thought it wouldn't be awful
If I found myself eating an Eggo waffle with him the next day (You catch my drift)

He said my friends are hangin', they're very cool
So I went along, but I was a fool
They threw a Star Trek movie in the VCR
I thought if gettin' some means this then this is going too far

And so I said "Goodbye" and now I'm walkin' at night
Yeah there's something so right about walkin' at night
Yeah there ain't nothin' wrong with walkin' at night
Hell, I wrote this song while I was walkin' at night