Well I tried but I just can't go on
I've been counting the days you're gone
And I long for the night
When you come home and I
Fall into your arms
I fall into your arms
I've been trying to go it alone
But I'm sinking just like a stone
And I long for the night
When you come home and I
Fall into your arms
I fall into your arms
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PETE-Lyrics: Help Yourself
I know you think without me you don't have a prayer
It's really not that I gave up on being there
I'll do anything you ask me to
But there are some things only you can do
Hear the bells?
(you're going to have to help yourself)
They're tolling for no one else
(you're going to have to help yourself)
The story that you're selling has another side
But no one ever could convince you otherwise
Tell it how it is and make it true
That's the one thing only you can do
Hear the bells?
(you're going to have to help yourself)
They're tolling for no one else
(you're going to have to help yourself)
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
It's really not that I gave up on being there
I'll do anything you ask me to
But there are some things only you can do
Hear the bells?
(you're going to have to help yourself)
They're tolling for no one else
(you're going to have to help yourself)
The story that you're selling has another side
But no one ever could convince you otherwise
Tell it how it is and make it true
That's the one thing only you can do
Hear the bells?
(you're going to have to help yourself)
They're tolling for no one else
(you're going to have to help yourself)
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
PETE-Lyrics: How Do You Do It
How Do You Do It?
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
Your smile is everywhere I look
Your life is just like a story book
I thought they'd be tired of you by now
But you keep it burning bright somehow
How Do You Do It?
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
You're sweet but you're not exactly nice
I guess that's why everyone looks twice
They'll never know what's behind those eyes
And wondering keeps them mesmerized
How Do You Do It?
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
Your smile is everywhere I look
Your life is just like a story book
I thought they'd be tired of you by now
But you keep it burning bright somehow
How Do You Do It?
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
You're sweet but you're not exactly nice
I guess that's why everyone looks twice
They'll never know what's behind those eyes
And wondering keeps them mesmerized
How Do You Do It?
Everybody wants to know
However you do it
It really makes them love you so much
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
PETE-Lyrics: Roll With It
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to fake a smile
and just get on with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
Sometimes you have to play
the game a little bit
Baby we both know it
Yesterday is gone
You've gotta face the music
If you wanna move on
Things that you can't change
Are better left alone
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to fake a smile
and just get on with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
Sometimes you have to play
the game a little bit
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
You've got to roll with it
You've got to fake a smile
and just get on with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
Sometimes you have to play
the game a little bit
Baby we both know it
Yesterday is gone
You've gotta face the music
If you wanna move on
Things that you can't change
Are better left alone
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to fake a smile
and just get on with it
You've got to roll with it
You've got to roll with it
Sometimes you have to play
the game a little bit
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
PETE-Lyrics: Let It Roll Off
Well you're talking like you know
But you don't know up from down
You want us all to think
That you're someone who's been around
And you're so eat up with guilt
You've got to put somebody down
And I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off no more
Well you're trying to make me laugh
but I haven't smiled yet
and if I open up my mouth
I might say something I'll regret
Yeah I guess it's hard to know
When things are better left unsaid
But I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off no more
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
But you don't know up from down
You want us all to think
That you're someone who's been around
And you're so eat up with guilt
You've got to put somebody down
And I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off no more
Well you're trying to make me laugh
but I haven't smiled yet
and if I open up my mouth
I might say something I'll regret
Yeah I guess it's hard to know
When things are better left unsaid
But I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off
I can't let it roll off no more
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
PETE-lyrics: Sleeping Dogs
I don't want to think
about you all the time
I want nothing more than
to get on with my life
Sleeping dogs
I know I should
let sleeping dogs lie
Let sleeping dogs lie
I lie awake
deciphering the past
It all comes to nothing
I fall asleep at last
Sleeping dogs
I know I should
let sleeping dogs lie
Let sleeping dogs lie
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
about you all the time
I want nothing more than
to get on with my life
Sleeping dogs
I know I should
let sleeping dogs lie
Let sleeping dogs lie
I lie awake
deciphering the past
It all comes to nothing
I fall asleep at last
Sleeping dogs
I know I should
let sleeping dogs lie
Let sleeping dogs lie
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
PETE-lyrics: In My Head
I can't be true
I've tried but I can't fight
the world of black or white
I can't be true
to everything tonight
All along I trusted the things we said
and paid the price of
All this time believing them
in my head
I can't be true
I tried but I'm not able
to wear the kind of label
I can see through
the promises we made
All along I trusted the things we said
and paid the price of
All this time believing them
in my head
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
I've tried but I can't fight
the world of black or white
I can't be true
to everything tonight
All along I trusted the things we said
and paid the price of
All this time believing them
in my head
I can't be true
I tried but I'm not able
to wear the kind of label
I can see through
the promises we made
All along I trusted the things we said
and paid the price of
All this time believing them
in my head
music & lyrics by Greg Pope ©2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
"a most worthy follow up to Popmonster"
A very generous review of Pete (and an interview for inquiring minds like yours) from the Powerpopaholic.
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