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Stephen Cummings: Spiritual Bum
Nobody Ever Could Ever Feel This Way

Cummings/Robert Goodge

Moon and a star up in the sky
Your body shakes when you cry
Your time is my time is our time
You're a breathing doll and you're mine

Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way

It's a pure joy cradling you in my arms
Your smile's all blues and charms
You are one amazing thing
You're as sweet as a flower opening

Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way

Shadows play with light as day grows deep
Watching your breath as you sleep
The moon's hiding in your hair
I'm so very glad that you still care               

Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way

Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way
Nobody ever could ever feel this way             
It's Raining

music: Cummings, words: Guillaume Apollinaire

It is raining women's voices
As if they were dead
Even in memory
It is raining women's voices
You also are raining down
Marvellous encounters of my life
It's raining
It's raining
Raining down

Those rearing clouds
Are beginning to whinny
A whole world of auricular towns
Beginning to whinny
Listen to it rain
While regret and disdain
Weep an old fashioned music
Listen to it rain
It's raining
It's raining
Raining down

Listen to the fall of all
The perpendiculars
Of your existence
Listen to the fall of all
Listen to it rain
Listen to it rain
Listen to it rain
Listen to it
It's raining
Listen to it rain
It's raining                       
Such Luck To Be Alive

Cummings/Jeff Burstin

Stirring my drink with my finger
Playing with the coaster on the bar
Looking at maps and wondering where to go next
Such luck to be alive

I want to travel to where the paved roads end
And I'm filled with a crazy kind of hope
Drinking the heart out of the afternoon
Such luck to be alive

I don't want to spend my days making boozy sad jokes
I want to be washed in rivers of love
I wanna get on an aeroplane and go some place warm
Such luck to be alive
Such luck to be alive
Such luck

Want to squat on wet sands and watch my boys play
Watch the clouds get blown from one side of the sky to the other
Want to go swimming and watch the light bounce off the ocean
Such luck to be alive
Such luck to be alive
Such luck
Such luck to be alive
Alive
Such luck to be alive
Such luck to be alive
Such luck to be alive       
Poor Baby

Cummings/Bill MacDonald

Poor baby
Lost in a corner of a garden
Already gone to seed
Poor baby
What are you going to do?
When your past seems like excess baggage to you
I can picture her
In the days before she fell apart
Didn't have her make up on
She hadn't done her hair
Poor baby

Poor baby
Don't worry it's only love
Putting you under it's spell
Poor baby
You're a sight to move the hardest heart
You knew the dangers
And you fell
I can picture her
In the days before she fell apart
Didn't have her make up on
She hadn't done her hair
Poor baby
Poor baby

Poor baby
Remembering a sad, sad dream
Hasn't got the slightest idea what's going on
Poor baby
Trying to convince herself
Nothing's wrong
I can picture her
In the days before she fell apart
Hasn't got her make up on
She hasn't done her hair
Poor baby
Poor baby
Sad To Go

Cummings/Jeff Burstin

I left you in the morning
And it made me sad to go
And with each day
I will be further away
And the wheels turn
And there's much to learn
And you busy yourself with other things

Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away

And bless you for your rare courage
And your chocolate coloured hair

Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away

And I'm standing at the railings
Of the Hotel New Hampshire tonight
And I'm looking up at the moon
And really it's just quite a sight
And the wheels turn
And there's much to learn
So you busy yourself with other things

Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go away
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad to go, ring tomorrow
Sad
Shaped Like Love

Cummings/Jeff Burstin

I felt the hair rise at the nape of my neck
Like I was under some magic spell
Like I was miles from shore
Unable to take it any more
But the road it's long
And I cursed my luck
And the clock tower it struck
And here I am under a starry sky
Waiting for angels and revelations

Shaped like love
Shaped like love
Shaped like love

If wishing should be a sin
Then you'll know what I've been
Whatever I have seen
I've seen it all before
Don't want to see it any more
And I don't want to go out and carouse
Want to sit around this house
And I don't feel like a pinned butterfly
And I don't feel like I have to try           

Shaped like love
Shaped like love
Shaped like love

If wishing should be a sin
Then you'll know what I've been
Outside it's full of desire
Heaven lies within
Skin against skin

Shaped like love
Shaped like love
Shaped like love
Wishing Machine

Cummings/Robert Goodge/Ashley Naylor

This is what happens when you lose
This is what happens when you sing the blues
Reach across to the other side
Other lives left behind
I'm going to buy me a wishing machine
Everything's worth a try
Life keeps rushing by
Blowing me to smithereens

I wish I had a wishing machine
I wish I was a running stream
Walking in the soft rain
Coming back to you again

You have to be in hell to see heaven's light
Nowadays wrong, it's the only right
Move on up with a new desire
Two hearts, two fires

I wish I had a wishing machine
I wish I was a running stream
Walking in the soft rain
Coming back to you again                

Standing there, in your silken dress
A picture of loveliness
Am I up, or am I down
A thousand deaths in that young girl's frown

I wish I had a wishing machine
I wish I was a running stream
Walking in the soft rain
Coming back to you again
I wish I had a wishing machine
I wish I was a running stream
Walking in the soft rain
Coming back to you again
The Half Light

Cummings/Christopher Marshall

I was just wondering
Drifting between the words
Struggling to let them in
Still cautious and unsure
And it's strange how I've forgotten dear
Your sense of urgency
You burn the air you breathe
And what have I got to show?
I got these foolish notions
I got a thousand
A thousand moves
But I've got a heart
A heart that's overflowing
As the shadows fill the room

Do you remember when
We made the lights go out
I saw so much better then
Now all this has come to pass
And I feel like I've been stumbling
Feel like I've been in the dark
And maybe you too have been yearning
And maybe that's what brought you here
I got these foolish notions
I got a thousand
A thousand moves
I've got a heart
A heart that's overflowing
As the shadows fill the room

Take me there, take me there
Take me there, take me there
Lose ourselves in shadows for a while
Take me there, take me there
Take me there, take me there
The circle will be complete
I got these foolish notions
I got a thousand
A thousand moves
I've got a heart
A heart that's overflowing
As the shadows fill the room
I got these foolish notions
I got a thousand
A thousand moves
I've got a heart
A heart that's overflowing
As the shadows fill the room

In the half light I will be waiting
In the half light
We will find that we move with grace and poise and life
When all will be revealed
In the half light
It makes you warmer
In the half light
It softens you
And maybe our dreams will come true
And everything will be revealed in the end as it is as it will be
In the half light we will fall in love
The Night Is Singing

Cummings/Christopher Marshall

The night is singing in a thousand tongues
The joy is streaming out of everyone
And so we rise
Still we rise and fall with the motion
And still we rise and fall with the motion
As all the true believers
Clap their hands
Give thanks for the passion on which they stand
But this passion has to leave us that's why we sing
Never let me go
The night is watching
The night is watching you

The night is sighing, the night is breathing out
I turned the corner and I saw the light
Melt away, just melt away with the longing
Melt away with the longing
Just melt away with the longing
As all the true believers touch the night
Give thanks to the darkness that lets them hide
But the daytime will defeat us
And so it goes
Never lose your soul
The night is watching
The night is watching

Don't turn away, don't turn away, don't turn away
Don't turn away from this feeling
Don't hesitate, don't hesitate, don't hesitate
Won't you notice me
Cause I'm alive to you baby
Maybe I'm alive to this moment
Maybe I'm alive to the moment
I'm alive
The night is singing - sing  for the emptiness
The night is singing - sing for the wastefulness
The night is singing - sing to me for the loneliness too
The night is singing - sing to me for the bitterness
The night is singing
And I may be a problem or I, I may be part of the answer
I don't know, I don't know
We'll just to have to make it up as we go
And I will let you see what you want to see
And you will let me to come to you again, come to you again
Cause I'm alive
I'm alive to the moment
The night is singing, the night is singing
The night is singing
Singing
Don't Talk To Me About Love

Cummings/Bill MacDonald

I used to, I used to, believe in true love
Some days, yeah some days I still do
Once it seemed like a great game
Now it seems like a crying shame
Oh, and one more thing
Don't talk to me about love

Used to think that everything continues
But nobody's interested in yesterday's news
Never got a grip on my emotions
Drifted like a ship out on the ocean
Oh, and one more thing
Don't talk to me about love
Oh, and one more thing
Don't talk to me about love

How much do I love you
Enough to move heaven and earth too
Ain't nothing I wouldn't do
For you

In the beginning, it seems like you'll be happy forever
But soon enough
Love hits
Stormy weather
Never got a grip on my emotions
Drifted like a ship out on the ocean
Oh, and one more thing
Don't talk to me about love
Oh, and one more thing
Don't talk to me about love

Love, love, love, love...
Because It's Spring

Cummings/Jeff Burstin

Because it's spring, we can do any thing
And you and I are more than you and I
And because
You aren't afraid to try
To reach right up
Into the sky
Because it's spring
Because it's spring

Because you're as sweet as I can bear
And because you know that I care
Because your taste is on my lips
And my hand is on your hips
And because you had such grace
And there's mischief in your face
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because of the love you bring

Because we're living together
Day after day
And because you're staring at the mirror
In a certain way
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because of the love you bring

Because you're always, always absolutely right
And because you're crazy and cross
You set my heart alight
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because of the love you bring

The way the wind sings
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because of the love you bring
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because it's spring
Because it's
Just because it's
Because it's spring
Straight To Your Arms I Will Fly

Cummings/Bill MacDonald

I walked right out of one life and into another
Laughing like
A nervous child on a swing
I didn't ever
Ever stand a chance
There's a danger that lies in the backward glance
Backward glance
I tried to pretend not to hear, not to see
It seemed a high price
I would have paid it twice
Thought I'd got over you 
Thought you'd fade away in time
That you were divine
But I'd crossed the line
Crossed the line

Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
When my wells have run dry
Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
Straight...

Yeah, it's strange how things turn out sometimes
Trap door opens
Unexpectedly you fall on your feet
One day I'm high and the next I might be low
Have no place to go
Nothing to show
No place to go

Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
When my wells have run dry
Straight to your arms I'm going to fly
Straight to your arms
I'm going to fly
Straight to your arms
I'm going to fly
I'm, I'm going to fly
Straight, straight to your arms
I'm going, I'm going to fly
Straight, straight, straight to your arms
Straight, straight, straight to your arms
I'm going, I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly
I'm going to fly
I'm going, I'm going to fly
Straight, straight to your arms

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