Broken Wings
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

These broken wings can take me no further
I'm lost, and out at sea,
I thought these wings would hold me forever
And on to eternity,
And far away I can hear your voice,
I can hear it in the silence of the morning,
But these broken wings have let me down
They can't even carry me home.

In broken dreams that keep me from sleeping
I remember all the things I said,
Well I've broken all the promises
I said I would be keeping,
They're gone, like leaves they fell,
For it's so hard when you're far away,
All I needed was a shoulder I could cry on,
Now these broken dreams have woken me,
My love, will you carry me home.

Or will you treat me like some traveler
On a dark and lonely road,
Who sees a light and a woman who will give him love,
Oh and just when she reaches the part
When she's supposed to comfort his broken heart
She turns away, and sends him traveling on, on,

Oh when I left I believed that nothing would go wrong
I thought the whole world would be waiting for my story,
Take me back, my love, I need you now,
Come back and carry me home,
Take me back and heal theses broken wings,
Come back and carry me home.

Round And Around
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

Ooh, give me freedom and light, give me reason and right
All I need's a little time to get by,
Turn my face to the wind, hear the nightingale sing
And wonder at the stars in the sky,

So many things I don't know, so many ways I won't go,
So many secrets that will never be found,
But as long as you're with me with loving to give me
We can watch the world going round...

Ooh, around and around and around and around
Everything in the world goes around,
Yes around and around and around and around
And around, everything goes around...

From the moment of birth till you go back to the earth,
Your life is like a circle of gold,
And everything you begin, every song that you sing,
Sooner or later must go...

Another time, another place, another life, another face,
Oh my love I know I'll see you again,
And the circle that starts with the beat of your heart
Takes you back to the beginning again...

Oh around and around...
Everything in the world goes around,
Oh around and around...
Everything goes around,
Yes around and around...
Oh around and around...
Everything in the world goes around...

Round and around, round and around, round and around...

I Will
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

I'm going to an island
Where the sun will always shine,
Where the moon is always riding on the sea;
And when I go I'll leave behind
These chains that hold me down,
The time has come to set my spirit free,
Ah ah ... I will

And there beside a mountain stream
I'll build a house of stone,
And work the wood of cedar, pine and fir,
And then I'll make a garden
And I'll plant a field of corn
Press my hands deep into Mother Earth,

Ah, Ah... I will,
Yes I will,
Oh I will,
Just to be a part of Nature once again,
I want to be a part of Nature once again,
And I will...

And then I'll teach my children love
Like every father should,
For we are part of every living thing,
And speak of half-forgotten words
Like Peace and Joy and Good,
For the world can only live when love can sing,

Ah, Ah... I will,
Oh, yes I will,
I will,
And they will be a part of Nature once again,
Oh they will feel a part of Nature once again,
The time is now,
Just to be a part of Nature once again,
And I will, ah ah, someday I will, (someday I will)

Summer Rain
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

Old man walking by the sea is dreaming,
Dreaming of the days when he was young,
Hand in hand, a little boy beside him,
Hearing about the weekends under the sun...

"Ah most of all I remember
A little song we used to play,
It was about the English weather,
Always raining on a sunny day, and it went

Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again,
And it's getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn't be better
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la, summer rain is falling down
On my umbrella above me,
The very first time she said she loved me
Was in the summer rain, and it's fine with me...

Walking with your great-grandfather's daughter,
Somehow we were always late for tea,
And small boys making mischief in the water,
Watching deck chairs floating away out to sea

Ah but now the memory's fading
How the past just slips away
But every time that it starts raining
I can hear the band begin to play,

Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again,
And it's getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn't be better
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la, summer rain is falling down
On my umbrella above me, (above me)

The very first time she said she loved me
Was in the summer rain, and it's fine with me- me- la la la
Summer rain is fine with me...
Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again
And it's getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn't be better
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la ..."

Discovery
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

Lady love, go back to sleep,
Dry the tears from your eyes,
But I cannot stay with thee
Until the morning,
For the dawn is breaking
And my ship is waiting for me,
And I must go,
But I'll be back, yes,
Before this year is over;

And we sailed across the sea,
Till we found America,
'Round the Cape of Storms,
We set our sails for home,
And when the sea was roaring
And the Lord I called,
To help my drowning men,
I saw the light, yes, the candle in your window...

And I have brought you silver,
And I have brought you gold,
And spices from the Indies in the hold;
I've seen ships on the horizon,
That I'd swear were going down,
And now I know for certain,
The world is round,
I have seen, my eyes have seen,

Oh, one day says Galileo,
A man will reach the sky,
And see the world completely,
From outside,
And gazing down from yonder,
On a world of blue and green,
He'll say with eyes of wonder,
I have seen, I have seen,
My eyes have seen.

   

Brazil
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

Ooh, next time I see you, I'll be singing in Brazil,
Misty land of music where the feet are never still,
And pretty senioritis dressed up for the kill,
They'll be glad that you're coming to Brazil, yeah, me too,
So glad that you're coming to Brazil...

Ooh, next thing you know you're out here dancing in the streets,
Working with the people on that Boss-a-Nova beat,
And some dark-eyed lady brings you wine and a chicken wing
In Brazil where the Carnival is King, yes,
Brazil where the Carnival is king, everybody’s singing,

Ah la la Brazil
Ah la la Brazil
Ah la la Brazil
Ah la la Brazil

Ooh, Rio de Janeiro is the kind of place for me,
Dancing in the moonlight, making love down by the sea,
From Copacabana to the Corcovado hill
Everybody's always singing in Brazil,
Yeah, everybody's, ooh singing, in Brazil,
All together now...

Ah la la Brazil...

Cancao du Brazil...
(Song of Brazil)
Tudo beum Brazil...
(All's well in Brazil)
Ah la la Brazil...

In a Country Churchyard (Let Your Love Shine On)
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

In a country churchyard there's a Preacher with his people,
Gathered all around to join a man and woman,
Spring is here and turtledoves are singing from the steeple,
Bees are in the flowers, growing in the graveyard,
And over the hill, where the river meets the mill,
A lovely girl is coming down
To give her hand upon her wedding day...

Dressed in simple white and wearing flowers in her hair,
Music as she walks slowly to the altar,
And picking up his Bible then the preacher turns towards her,
"Will you take this man to be your wedded husband,
to honor and love in the eyes of God above,
Now let the people sing with me,
These words to live forever in your heart...

Let your love shine on
For we are the stars in the sky,
Let your love shine strong
Until the day you fly away"

Many years have fallen on that golden country morning,
The graveyard's overgrown, the church lies in ruins,
Ivy on the walls and ravens wheeling round above me
As I made my way towards the last remaining headstone,
I fell to my knees, read the lines beneath the leaves,
And suddenly it seemed to me
I heard the words like singing in the trees...

Let your love shine on
For we are the stars in the sky
Let your love shine strong
Until the day you fly...
Let your love shine on
For we are the stars in the sky
Let your love shine strong
Until the day you fly away...

A Rainy Night In Paris
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

It's a rainy night in Paris,
And the harbor lights are low,
He must leave his love in Paris
Before the winter snow;

On a lonely street in Paris
He held her close to say,
"We'll meet again in Paris
When there are flowers on the Champs-Elysées..."

"How long" she said "How long,
And will your love be strong,
When you're across the sea,
Will your heart remember me?..."

Then she gave him words to turn to,
When the winter nights were long,
"Nous serons encore amoureux,
Avec les couleurs de printemps..."

"And then" she said "And then,
Our love will grow again,"
Ah but in her eyes he sees
Her words of love are only words to please...

And now the lights of Paris
Grow dim and fade away,
And I know by the lights of Paris,
I will never see her again...

   

If You Really Love Her, Let Her Go
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh

Perfect Day
Album At The End Of A Perfect DayBy Chris de BurghWritten by Chris de Burgh