homepage	This page contains the complete lyrics to all of the songs on STOP THE CAR's "SECRET DESIRE" album. Lyrics copyrighted by the author(s). All songs published by SLEEP CAT MUSIC (BMI).
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	Original cassette release 1989. CD remaster/reissue with bonus tracks 1999   STARS IN MY EYES (Utley) I was too beautiful to live and so I died & rose again The sacred heart is always torn My face is lined, my shoes are worn   But you're so distant, ice and cool You stand and laugh, but you're the fool For I have kissed the maiden fair Slew the dragon in its lair Stars in my eyes Love tells no lies Oh, I got a heart so big, it hurts like hell It hurts to live But I will join the gypsy dance The fevered breath, the wild romance   Come and lie here next to me and hear the silent symphony Living through a night so long As heaven sings the devil's song Stars in my eyes Love tells no lies     SECRET DESIRE (Utley) Tell me your name and I'll tell you a secret There is no end to the things we could share I have a place in my heart where I'll keep it We'll fly as close to the sun as you dare How can I open your eyes? This is my secret desire There is a place in my dreams I could take you Somewhere that this cruel world cannot find Sleep here in my arms and no one will wake you Leaving our lonliness so far behind How can I open your eyes? This is my secret desire Tear you to pieces to quiet my hunger Bathing in blood as we blindly embrace Feeling your claws in my back as it's breaking Tasting the salt from the tears on your face How can I open your eyes? This is my secret desire Forget your world and its lies You are my secret desire Desire     DRACULA (English) Fight against the chains between your freedom and you Shake away the dreams that leave their dust inside of you Follow only paths that lead you where you want to go Learn only the lessons you already know you know   Trust in your saviour, save yourself or serve your soul Make a decision whether you will drive or roll Cut only the threads that bind your will or slow your speed Nobody is free until the day we all are free     THE TIRED TALE (English) So it goes, the tired tale of what I've lived & how I've failed Oh, but hindsight is cheap And I lose sleep over things that I can't change Or can I? Don't you wonder at the things you do? Don't you know your lies come back to you? And though I've loved, I still feel lost How many rivers have I not crossed? How many hearts to break, or lives to take? I can still try Or can I? Don't you listen to the things you say? If you did, you'd say them anyway     TREAT ME RIGHT (Utley) Gave you everything you ever wanted But it's not enough Gave you everything I had inside me But it's not enough for you When you gonna come & see me, baby? All I ever get is someday, maybe All you do is leave me hanging like a puppet on a string When you gonna come & free me, baby? Baby, when you gonna come & treat me right? Never thought that I would ever leave you Maybe I was wrong Can't put up with all the things you're doing Baby, I'm just not that strong Don't know what I'm gonna do about it All I ever do is think about it Don't you know I never doubted that this love would see me through When you gonna come & free me, baby? Baby, when you gonna come & treat me right?     ***CD Bonus Tracks***   SOUND ON SOUND STUDIO 2ND SESSION (1989)   YOUR PROMISE (English) Arrows shoot forth from your eyes The kind of pain that hypnotizes me Piercing to my very core Shatter my illusions mortally Oh, I know better, don't we all? Yet I cannot deny the call of your promise Wound me, rend me end to end And in your image build me back again Do the things that you must do To prove to me the words you say are true Oh, I know better, don't we all? Yet I cannot deny the call You can take me, shake me, make me You can break me more or less in two I'll believe you and I'll need to For I have no will when I'm with you Your promise to me     THE DESERTS OF YOUR EYES (English) I wonder what are you thinking, dear, to bring me to a place like this? This place where destinies are forged and fled, this place where once the mighty bled I cannot understand the trembling of your hand What ugly fire have you fed? You were my shining Sheik of Araby, but your sword cuts two ways You protected me from all foes but you, and your lies taught me what's true Imagine all the times I sought the deserts of your eyes and saw oases of blue My first and perfect love, I will never leave you My sad and ancient one, I will never deceive you Come away and cling to my love, I'll devote my life to you My love is only for you, my love is only for you I awake with sand on my tongue, but my thirst is for you Although you left me to die in this place, my one mirage is your face Is it fate that your love turned to hate, as I am easily replaced? Our love burned hot as the desert wind that blew the stars to the sky But the wind brings a chill in the night and tears of hate blur my sight I wander hopefully in this blind and barren sea, for now revenge is my right My shy and selfless one, I will never abuse you I would tear my heart from my chest merely to amuse you Come away and run to my love, I will always protect you My love is only for you, my love is only for you I approach you with fire in my eyes, I have surprise on my side May this night be an end to your lies I watch the light leave your eyes I watch your hands clutch the innocent sands I hear your death choke your sighs My cruel and thoughtless one, I can never forget you My sly and shiftless one, I will ever regret you I am coming to claim my love, I can never forgive you My shame is only for you, my shame is only for you     MY EMPTY HEART (Utley) Blindly digging my own grave with my careless heart Taking everything I love and tearing it apart My lover's eyes are empty now, my lover's lips are closed I am the Prince of Sorrows and this is the hell I chose It will follow me always, the dream we tore apart And the shame and the sorrow will fill my empty heart Once she gave her love to me, but now her heart is stone Looks away and lies to me, and leaves me here alone Another bottle in my hand, a knife across my skin Give me something, anything, to kill the pain within It will follow me always, the dream we tore apart And the shame and the sorrow will fill my empty heart I have caught a chill from being in the night too long I've caught my death and I regret I'll never see the dawn What once was can never be, what used to be is gone Nothing left but emptiness, no strength to carry on It will follow me always, the dream we tore apart And the shame and the sorrow will fill my empty heart     THE GREATEST TAKER (English) I curse in rhyme to amuse myself and those who look on me I smell burning roses and twist tighter 'round my tree Will you ever know me, know me as I am? The serpent in a garden who licks the ears of man Of course it makes no sense to you, for it did, then you would understand So say goodbye to all you love, to come and take my hand The Prince of Lies, the Queen of Spies, I go by many names You trade a thing which is not yours to buy into my game My voice surrounds your waking hours, my face invades your dreams This bargain love that you have bought is not quite what it seems So walk the straight and narrow path, if you really think you must But I'll run circles 'round you, dear, until you turn to dust I thought I could possess your true love if I owned your heart But ownership is empty joy, of that I'll have no part So take your precious freedom if that's what you need to live And so the greatest taker finally finds a way to give I never will forget the one who stole my love away And maybe you will know that love for what it is someday     MISTER X (Utley) Can you see me, Mister X? Can you hear me, Mister X? Do you love me, Mister X? I need love so very badly Can't you see that I am lonely here Mister X? Do you need me, Mister X? Don't deceive me, Mister X Will you hold me, Mister X? Only you can stop the crying Can't you see that we are dying here Mister X? Mister X     ARDENT STUDIO SESSIONS (1991)   WHY WON'T YOU HOLD MY HAND? (English) When I take you to the picture show Nobody else in the place Something about you that I'd like to know More than the side of your face I really love you, want to be with you Why won't you hold my hand? So tell me, baby, I don't have rabies Why won't you hold my hand? While we're staring at the lunar glow Our features all trimmed in light My affection for you starts to grow Now do I look like I bite? Why don't you want me, why must you taunt me? Why won't you hold my hand? You make me crazy, are you just lazy? Why won't you hold my hand?   It's really killin' that I'm so willin' Why won't you hold my hand? Said you were tryin', or were you lyin' Why won't you hold my hand?     YOUR PROMISE (English) Arrows shoot forth from your eyes The kind of pain that hypnotizes me Piercing to my very core Shatter my illusions mortally Oh, I know better, don't we all? Yet I cannot deny the call of your promise Wound me, rend me end to end And in your image build me back again Do the things that you must do To prove to me the words you say are true Oh, I know better, don't we all? Yet I cannot deny the call You can take me, shake me, make me You can break me more or less in two I'll believe you and I'll need to For I have no will when I'm with you Your promise to me     SLIDER (English) I'm nervous, man, I need my crutch Come here and tell me that you love me so much I'm sick, man, with a troubled mind How could someone be so unkind? Can't they see what they're doing to me, to us all, to themselves? Are their hearts so very black and deep that they themselves never delve? I need some hope, I need it all Without support, I'll surely fall I am the pawn of circumstance I am alone outside the trance Why does everybody turn away? Can they be deaf to my pleas? Is there no one who will care enough to raise me from my bloody knees? What did I do to make an enemy of you? What did I do? Give me a clue What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? By the way, what am I to say? I just can't wait, my need controls my consciousness, my very soul I'll give it up, I swear I will Why, I could die or even kill It's been happening for way too long My, how the time flies And they could have seen it all along in my desperate eyes     3rd GHOST (English) Look around you, seem familiar? From the look of you, you've been here before Up the garden path you led yourself Where you said you would be nevermore Conversations in your mind cause you to the truth be blind But don't stop listening You must not miss a thing   You're bound to your fantasies You pray they'll never cease Lonely loner in your single bed Into your pillow your passions pour You give yourself to phantom dreams Then wonder why there is no more     "Blue Creatures" lyrics "Black Not Blue" lyrics "Stop the Car" lyrics "Crash" lyrics