Things I've Never Done - Stephen Ray

When you were younger Blue-eyed boy wonder Never used to ponder On what life may hide Now you're older The nights are so much colder Never even told her How you feel inside You were so proud With your head up in the white clouds She'd call you so loud But you'd never know Now that you're wiser You'd never compromise her Every day you'd realise her But this bird has flown And you've blown out all your candles one by one And you curse yourself for things you've never done She would wait for you Idolize, adore you Love and reassure you You couldn't let it be You let it linger Slip on through your fingers So that September She moved across the sea How your face dropped And how your heart stopped Sitting at the bus stop When they told you that she'd gone So you run to the harbour Need to tell her that you love her As the boat disappears You never felt so alone 'Cause you've blown out all your candles one by one And you curse yourself for things you never done Where were you when her hour of need had come? Now you curse yourself for things you've never done Now your grandson, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, handsome Calls you up from London and sits and asks you, "Why?" So you answer, "Don't be scared of failure The only failure is never to try" Never to try Never to try Never to try And where were you when her hour of need had come? Now you curse yourself for things you've never done

(Craig bickhardt/jeff pennig) They drank their anniversary glass A silent moment passed Then they kissed She knows there's something on his mind He'll tell her in due time What it is He says I've never built Your mansion on a hill Or warmed you in the spanish sun I simply blink my eye And think as years fly by Of all the things we've never done She smiles and takes his hand in hers And says it just occured To me now The thought that brings you such regret What hasn't happened yet It makes me proud... You never walked away When I needed you to stay Or made me feel I'm not the one There've been no broken vows And there reason we're here now Is all the things we've never done We've never grown apart You never broke my heart With secrets that you've kept me from We've never been untrue And I'm still here with you Through all the things we've never done

When there's nowhere else to run Is there room for one more son One more son If you can hold on If you can hold on Hold on I wanna stand up I wanna let go You know, you know, no You don't, you don't I wanna shine on in the hearts of man I wanna mean it from the back of my broken hand Another head aches Another heart breaks I'm so much older than I can take But my affection, well it comes and goes I need direction to perfection, no no no no Help me out, yeah You know you gotta help me out, yeah Oh don't you put me on the back burner You know you gotta help me out, yeah And when there's nowhere else to run Is there room for one more son These changes They ain't changing me The goldhearted boy I used to be Yeah, you know you gotta help me out, yeah Oh don't you put me on the back burner You know you gotta help me out, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier Yeah, you know you gotta help me out, yeah Oh don't you put me on the back burner You know you gotta help me out, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah Oh don't you put me on the back burner You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah You're gonna bring yourself down Over and in Last call for sin While everyone's lost, the battle is won With all these things that I've done With all these things that I've done If you can hold on If you can hold on Hold on

Don't tell me that you love me I won't tell you that I love you We're too high to see the wrong way Too far to know the right way, oh no The truth is I'm freaking out about this whole Man I'm supposed to be I'm nervous now cause she can't know I'm desperately in need 'Cause up here's hard to reach Fly down, fly down We were staring down the valley When she put here arm a-round me She said the reason you've been hurt is So you look beyond the surface The truth is I'm freaking out about this whole Man I'm supposed to be I'm nervous now cause she can't know I'm desperately in need 'Cause up here is hard to reach Fly down, fly down Fly down Don't tell me that you love me I won't tell you that I love you

I'm calling this the love crusade The truth is like a black bouquet Money's got us all enslaved The bullets and the bombs we make, oh, no It doesn't have to be this way But I promise it'll stay this way If you would rather hear me say That everything is all okay I don't care for your drugs, I don't care for your fame Do you care for the truth if you're not entertained? I can see through your eyes, I can see through your pain And you're scared to admit, you feel out of place Can you hear that, darling? A revolution's calling No child of ours should have to starve Should have to die for us Can you feel that, darling? The monster's marching This is it, this invitation is For the ones who love Sincerely I'm telling you, the world looks perfect from a plane A couple miles up and we all look the same One love tryna show us the way One love that is trying to change And if we connect with that, then we should be enraged These fat cats want us lost in the maze And they're scared 'cause we're breaking the chain They're scared 'cause we're 'bout to escape Can you hear that, darling? A revolution's calling No child of ours should have to starve Should have to die for us Can you feel that, darling? The monster's marching This is it, this invitation is For the ones who love Sincerely There's a billion people That could use a hero Come together, we're the tether Of this love that's spinning 'round We could be that miracle Can you hear that, darling? A revolution's calling No child of ours should have to starve Should have to die for us Can you feel that, darling? The monster's marching This is it, this invitation is For the ones who love Sincerely