Cliff Richard - The nightmare

Cliff Richard - The nightmare

I have a burden of pure vengeance
That i was damned with from my birth
And it will the force that drives me
Until the day i quit this earth

You live by treachery and violence
And they will crush you in return
Your destruction is my pleasure
Your spite the fire in which you burn

I'm the true son of our father
And i am lord of wuthering heights
Burn in hell, you filthy gypsy
Share the fate of parasites

I did not love you isabella
You were the means to other ends
I always knew our ailing offspring
Would never pay me dividends

I used to long for you to kill me
But now i wish you death instead
I gave you all this woman could do
I was raped, abandoned, all feelings dead

Spineless edgar, feeble edgar
Catherine wanted only me

I was constant, i was tender
All that you could never be

There's a time for absolution
There's a time for true regret

I knew the envy of a family
Which was so easy to destroy
But oh my cathy not so easy
To be the one you could enjoy

I cannot rest in peace without you
And you could never comprehend
My cold and angry isolation
I wait for you brother, lover, friend

Death it beckons, sister, lover
All i see is your sweet face

Whether man or whether devil
Still the love i can't replace

There is a time for absolution
There is a time for true regret
There is a time to beg forgiveness
But the time is here not yet

I curse the god or man that made me
I curse the life i had to lead
I curse the years ahead without her
I curse my hunger, i curse my need

Cliff Richard - Nine Times Out Of Ten

Cliff Richard - Nine Times Out Of Ten

Nine times out of ten, baby, I've told you
And I ain't gonna tell you just nine times again
Aah, just how much I aim to hold you
Again and again and again

Little girl, it's nine times out of ten, you've refused me
And then say that you refuse me nine times again
But I won't stop until you choose me
Again and again and again

(Well,) don't try to fight it
‘Cause it's no use
You're gonna find that
I'm stubborn as a doggone mule

Nine times out of ten I've tried to kiss you
And I ain't trying just nine times again
Well, if I missed the nine times that I've tried, baby
I'll bet my life, I'll get you on number ten

(instr break)

Well, don't try to fight it
Come, baby, it ain't no use
You're gonna find that
I'm stubborn as a doggone mule

Nine times out of ten I've tried to kiss you
And I ain't trying just nine times again
Well, if I missed the nine times that I've tried, baby
I'll bet my life, I'll get you on number ten

Cliff Richard - No power in pity

Cliff Richard - No power in pity

I don't know how to love you.
Where do I begin.
It helplessness is sinning
Then here I am a sinner
Guilty of sin.

I don't know how to help you
Your trouble goes so deep
You're about to lose your life
And here I am dejected
'cos I love a night of sleep.

Love one another you said
Come together as one.
I'm just a servant, lord
Yet you made me a son
Sometimes I'm troubled
By the things you make me see.
But no matter how I feel, lord
Here am I send me.

So I leave the world behind me
And enter this domain.
I'm staggered by the gulf
Between us.
I can see your sickness
But I don't feel your pain.

Pity's got no power
Compassion has the heart
Jesus, keep me mindful
That it's you who does the
Giving.
And it's we who need to
Play our part.

Cliff Richard - November night

Cliff Richard - November night

Across the wet november night
The church is bright with candlelight
And waiting evensong, (2x)
A single bell with plaintive strokes
Pleads louder than the stirring oaks
The leafless lanes along. (2x)

It calls the choirboys from their tea
And villagers, the two or three,
Damp down the kitchen fire (2x)
Let out the cat, and up the lane
Go paddling through the gentle rain
Of misty oxfordshire (2x)

On country morning sharp and clear
The penitent in faith draw near
And kneeling here below (2x)
Partake the heavenly banquet spread
Of sacramental wine and bread
And jesus' presence know (2x)

And must that plaintive bell in vain
Plead loud along the dripping lane?
And must the building fall? (2x)
Not while we love the church and live
And of our charity will give
Our much, our more, our all (2x)

Cliff Richard - Now you see me, now you don’t

Cliff Richard - Now you see me, now you don’t

You say you'd really like to know me
Why don't we meet and you will show me
Here's the note you hope I'll read it
Take your number if I need it
Someone said it's hard to find out
What it is I think about
I'm good at smiles and easy phrases
Don't look too close I don't like gazes

Now you see me, now you don't
Understand me then you won't
I'm in vision I'm on stage
I'm 17 I don't look my age

I share a word you know I mean it
You give a smile you know I've seen it
Across the rooms our eyes keep meeting
Music is my special greeting
Another night, another town
It's all so quick, it spins me round

Now you see me, now you don't
Understand me then you won't
I'm in vision I'm on stage
I'm 17 I don't look my age