words to selected songs from rick cuevas solo albums

Who knows exactly what you’ve seen?
Who knows if your green is my green?
Who knows exactly what you see?
Because I’m not you, and you’re not me.

Who knows what’s alive and what is dead? Who knows if your red is my red?
Who knows exactly how you feel?
Because sometimes dreams can be so real.

Love & Colors, like friends and lovers,
are so dependent on one’s perception
Love & Colors and the dreams of others
are so dependent on one’s perception

Who knows exactly what we do?
Who knows if your blue is my blue?
Who knows exactly how we love?
That’s a matter for the powers above.

Love & Colors, like friends and lovers
are so dependent on one’s perception
Love & Colors and the dreams of others
are so dependent on one’s perception

Love & Colors, like friends and lovers
Love & Colors, and the dreams of others
Love & Colors

How quiet the world…
when love is not there
How wonderfully full of sound…
when it is
How empty the heart…
when love is not there
How wonderfully full of life…
when it is

How wonderfully full of sound
(when you are there)
There’s loving all around
(there’s loving everywhere)
And music makes a sound that we can hear

How quiet my world…
when you are not there
How wonderfully full of sound…
when you are
How empty my heart…
when you are not there
How wonderfully full of life…
when you are

How wonderfully full of sound
(when you are there)
There’s loving all around
(there’s loving everywhere)
And music makes a sound that we can hear

We're friends forever, for ever and ever
I will never leave you. No, never.
The friends you have for life..
well, those are the best.
Others come and go,
you know the rest.

and I care about you in so many ways
I can't even try.. to explain exactly why...
We can talk about dark things, and
We can talk about light, and
I can feel your heart beat into the night
because you brought me out of my darkness
You brought me into the light
So, you MUST be an angel.
I know that I'm right....

and I care about you in so many ways
I can't even try to explain exactly why...
We're friends forever, for ever and ever
I will never leave you. No, never. No, never.

We can talk about dark things
We can talk about light, and
I can feel your heart beat into the night
because you brought me out of my darkness
You brought me into the light
So, you MUST be an angel.
I know that I'm right....

Because we're friends forever, for ever and ever
I will never leave you. No, never.never.never.

I face you; disgrace you
I can never replace you

You do me, and screw me
But you’ll never undo me

Abhor you; adore you
I will never ignore you

A movie? Groovy
Nothing better sounds to me

Yesterday will always be a day in the past. Seems like every day just passes so fast,
I can hardly catch my breath. I need some rest. Rowing along with the moon in the west.

Seems like every time I find me some love. Something goes a little wrong that I never dreamed of... I can hardly keep afloat.... Anyway, I've got to say... I will pray every day.... That true love will find a way ...to me some day... to me some day...

Seems like every day is just like the last and the way that I feel is like the ship to the mast.
I can hardly catch my breath. I need some rest. Rowing along with the moon in the west.

Love can die on the vine
or in the song that you sing.
If you pick the wrong time,
if you say the wrong thing.

“Sorry little boy, I can’t be your love toy.
I have other plans, I have other demands.”

Don’t you take your love away from me
(take me around around the back door),
can’t you see that love will set you free?
I feel so empty, my dream has ended,
well I thought you loved me, you just pretended.

“Sorry little boy, I can’t be your love toy. I have other plans, I have other demands.”

You’re a book in the pond
Floating beyond the point where I see
Where I can see

You intervene…
You’re so serene
You know what I mean
You’re so serene

A stroll through the brook
Is all that it took
A walk in the stream
You know what I mean

You intervene…
You’re so serene
Like a book in the pond
Floating beyond

Some of us run
And some of us fall behind
Some of us sleep
And some of us tow the line

Wherever you are
However you spend your time
You’re just the blind leading the blind

Some of us try
And some of us leave it
Like a flame
That’s starting to burn
But only now I’m starting to feel it
Only now I’m starting to learn

Take only what you need
And give not into greed
Be kind to fellow man
And lend a helping hand

‘Cause if your heart is aching
It might be from the taking
So turn your heart to giving
To try and help the living

Then tell me how you feel
When your heart begins to heal
When you have done your best
Your soul can find some rest

That’s the way we are
It’s the things we do
We have come so far
I won’t give up on you

Take only what you need

You left me my heart
You left me my soul
But there’s still a big hole
For me to fill
And I will

So I’ll spend all my daze
Up on the hills
And we’ll cure the ills
Of the world… and
We’ll sing to the world
We’ll hold out our hand
We’ll fill it with love
All over the land

Because nobody does
But somebody should
Then somebody, maybe
Will do some good
Because there’s good in the world
That we have to embrace
We’ll make a peaceful place, and so
We’ll sing to the world
We’ll hold out our hand
We'll fill it with love
All over the land

(For Anthony R. Cuevas)

My love…
for you
knows no boundaries…
and everything
I do for you

What I’ve been,
and what I’ll be
It’s all for you…
Eternally

I’m here (for you)
I’m here…
all around you
I’m here…
just beside you
I’m here…
my dear
I’m here (for you)
I’m here

Didn’t I call your name, and didn’t you wonder?
And isn’t it all the same, over and under?
And wouldn’t you like to know,
and isn’t it something?
That everyone wants to go right into the nothing

Nothing is something too, just look at the spaces
It’s older than two plus two, just look at their faces
Nothing is something too,
and just when you figure that
Then there’s something new

You get up and walk away,
just when I approach you
I get up the nerve to say
t he poem I wrote you
And now it’s another day,
with hunger and fortunes
The mantra will show the way

Nothing is something too, just look at the spaces
It’s older than two plus two, just look at their faces
Nothing is something too,
and just when you figure that
There’s always something new