ALBUM: Big Bam Boom Daryl Hall/John Oates (c) 1984 ------------------------------------------------------ Dance On Your Knees (Hall, Baker) ------------------- (Instrumental) Out Of Touch (Hall, Oates) ------------- Shake it up is all that we know Using the bodies up as we go Waking up to fantasy The shates all around aren't the colors we used to see Broken ice still melts in the sun And times that are broken can often be one again We're soul alone And soul really matters to me Take a look around You're out of touch I'm out of time But I'm out of my head when you're not around Reaching out for something to hold Looking for a love where the climate is cold Manic moves and drowsy dreams Or living in the middle between the two extremes Smoking guns hot to the touch Would cool down if we didn't use them so much We're soul alone And soul really matters to me Too much Method Of Modern Love (Hall, J. Allen) --------------------- In the moonlite Under startlite Songs old as the night are what I've been dreaming of Everybody's hard as iron Locked in a modern world Dreams are make of a different stuff I believe love will always be the same Ways and means are the parts subject to change M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E It's a method of modern love I can call you Got your number Share my life with you a thousand miles away If you've hurt me I haven't shown it Time's too tight to fight And we're never face to face Style is timeless and fashion's only now We've got the ways no one needs to show us how Bank On Your Love (Hall, Oates, S. Allen) ----------------------- One lonely eye faces the Queen How far she goes remains to be seen She can be hard and she knows it She plays her heart and doesn't show it Cold night cold like me No lov elost betting on the King And it's a hard unknown Before the hand is showing The con is out when the eagle flies If you know the hand is quicker than the eye Can I bank on your love Hands down left high and dry Games in the night are quicker than the eye That ain't love or affection The dealer changed direction Bets are high and I'm losing enough Won't anybody play fair with my love 'Cause it's hard not knowing And my heart is showing The King is out and the eagle flies Don't you know the hand is quicker than the eye Can I bank on your love Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid (Hall) ---------------------------------- I feel like I could run away Looking at a darker day Oh I'm pulling the shades away from my eyes It's true the moody manners come and go And it's better that you never know Some things are better left unsaid Some strings are better left undone Some hearts are better left unbroken Some lives are better left untouched Some lies are better off believed Some words are better left unspoken My ideas seem to frighten you Are you really that afraid to move Oh I guess that it's your right to reason I'm still dealing with a force that's so strong The force is stringing us along Going Through The Motions (Hall, Oates, J.Allen, S.Allen) ------------------------------- Automatic action Follow my reflection I see myself in watching you Lock into a vision Rising through the rhythm Trance until the dance is through Don't let emotion go the flow is all we know And baby we're doing it all the way A step into the night or move into the light lately we're going through the motions How can we improve it Ooh you match my movement Cryptic choreography Jump up come down together No one does it better Electric eccentricity No, I don't wanna know how far we're gonna go But baby we're doing it all the way A step into the light a move into the night Cold, Dark, and Yesterday (Oates) ------------------------- The sun beats down so slow I feel my body heating up inside I watch the danger zone For signs of life but not a soul alive Try every trick I know To keep my temperature from blowing sky high Check on the time to go Lay my spirit down to fantasize Disembark disconnect possibilities unknown On the edge of a heading for heavy weather I suspect I can tell I can feel it in my bones All not well but you never know... Cold Dark and Yesterday Glamorama all around me Friendly natives turning back to brown I keep my shades well down They cannot penetrate what can't be found Feel the fever start to rise Slip away in indiscreet disguise How can a man survive when the weak meet the soft And the heat blinds your eyes Left to right up and down it's picture postcard time Hear the sounds save the image in my mind Cold Dark and Yesterday All American Girl (Hall, Oates, S. Allen) ----------------------- Skin tight soul delight Changing her life for another She dreams magazines Sees herself on the cover Anything anytime anywhere It's fitting in that matters Faithfully she believes in the look he wants to know better She knows what she wants She's an all American girl She knows what she needs She's a sold American girl She knows what she knows She's an all American girl She does what she does She's an all American girl Sold American She's got a Double Bubble with a bossanova back She's a real hot pepper and I like it like that It's all right you don't have to change your way You're all right I'm hoping the best part stays She knows what she wants She's an all American girl She knows what she needs She's a sold American girl She knows what she knows She's an all American girl She does what she does She's an all American girl Sold American Street smart close to the heart gotta be real More than the clothes you wear You know what you've got look to your heart You carry your history there Possession Obsession (Oates, Hall, S. Allen) ----------------------- You know there's something you need Right here and now To fill the space inside of yourself Money love or power When you want to have the number one first run anyone You're crazy 'til you own them You ought to know better than that The more that you buy the less you get back It's a case of possession obsession Gimme Gimme The compulsion to count the percentage of time Spent between two lovers Can turn an hour into a crime And all the good times suffer Though you know it's only jealousy You can't help but be Haunted by your passion Don't you know it's a matter of fact The more that you take the less you give back Just a taste of possession obsession Brings a case of possession obsession Gimme Gimme