Picture Of Dorian Grey Ron Hynes There is love that will last you forever Love that will last you for the night Love to make you feel better Love to make you feel alright And love that fades away Love that festers day by day To a wretched state of decay Like the picture of Dorian Grey If the night would just get older And you and I could stay like now Well I won't say what I'd give away 'Cause you don't know who's around But if flesh would cease to wither And if beauty would not fade And if passion's fire would not burn out I would give my soul in trade I'd give my soul There is love that will last you forever Love that will last you for your life Love you should instantly sever Love you should cling to with all your might And love that fades away Love that festers day by day To a wretched state of decay Like the picture of Dorian... Like the picture of Dorian Grey Like the picture of Dorian Grey © Ron Hynes Socan Shine Like Diamonds Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes I got out when the summer came Never knew what became of you All I thought about as I headed south Was your mouth and your eyes so blue In a trailer park that was dingy and dark Not the spark of a single dream In a company town where the dark gold slept In the frozen ground It was forty below, it was ice and snow North of the timber line But the Northern lights would shine like diamonds Shine like diamonds You wouldn't even mind cryin' All the Syncrude boys with bets on the side On when the Athabaska would break When the ice would crack and the river would rush Like some prisoner about to escape They'rd be forty-five guys and five women Sinkin' down doubles at the Synhouse bar You could face that scene or a TV dinner and frozen stars And the days would grant you no release And the nights were just as kind But the northern lights would shine like diamonds Shine like diamonds You wouldn't even mind cryin' Bridge: I was tryin' to create some space Tryin' to paint some distance This boom town lay straight along My line of least resistance I got out when the summer came Never knew what became of you All I thought about as I headed south Was your mouth and your eyes so blue In a trailer park that was dingy and dark Not the spark of a single dream In a company town where the dark gold slept In the frozen ground It was forty below, it was ice and snow North of the timber line But the Northern lights would shine like diamonds Shine like diamonds You wouldn't even mind cryin' cryin oo waa oo waa waa © 1998 Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes She Never Will Ron Hynes I thought I'd forgotten her But I saw her today Not five feet from where I sat At a sidewalk café And tho' she didn't notice me Suddenly my heart stood still These sad memories return to me But she never will We'd planned to marry But I drove away Too overdressed I guess For my Chevrolet And she'd looked so pretty In the summer sun 'neath a sky so still These sad memories return to me But she never will Chorus: She never will After what I did to shame her She never will Who on God's earth would blame her And who's to say, if we could get back there today I wouldn't feel the same way still Sad memories return to me But she never will Bridge: I'd have thought she'd vanished into mystery The ghost I try to banish just keeps haunting me I thought I'd forgotten her Till I saw her in the street I could have got up and caught up with her But I chose to keep my seat There are scars that will not fade Pain that time can never kill These sad memories return to me These sad memories return to me These sad memories return to cling to me But she never will She never will She never will ©1998 Ron Hynes You Drove Me There Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes What am I doin' here In a house full of dark empty spaces I'm like a ghost I'm up haunting these cold midnight floors over you Where love goes unforgiven I'm drivin' out of my mind O love so unkind Can this lost love be mine How did I lose you dear Was I only that moth to that candle Everything's broken now I can't imagine how it's gonna mend How did I end up out on a highway of doubt and despair Well the answer is clear You drove me there You drove me there in a long dark limousine Full of shattered dreams You shouldn't have told me about him Bet you never saw a heart cave in like that Like some burned out cadillac Oh Oh What am I doin' here With my heart pierced in so many places Facin' the long winding staircase That leads to no sleep at night Tracin' aimless wandering lines thru that dust on the rail Darlin' where did I fail Was it some tiny detail © FatBaby/Augusta Songs/TMP:The Music Publisher Socan Do You Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes/Jamie Snider I did not intend to love you But I do, sadly I do And now tonight, as I leave your love behind I wanna change my mind Should I change my mind Standing in the dark rain Waiting for a train to take me away What would I say, if I was to turn back Would we get that feelin' back I don't think that's true Do You Do You Do You And You, I know you tried to love me But you don't, sadly you don't I cried all these tears, I'm just about cried out Our love was a roundabout Now I don't have any doubts Do You Do You Tell the truth Do You Do You Do You Ask yourself Do You And I did not intend to leave you But I did, Finally I did Finally took the road Think that I'll be alright You can paint me long gone Heartache's just another song © 1998 Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes/Jamie Snider Last Chance Avenue Ron Hynes I'm camped in a room at a cheap hotel At Last Chance and Main Street Except for the window it's a prison cell Overlookin' a slice of humanity But I can see clearly from the second floor It's an obstructed view Of the sad panorama Down Last Chance Avenue I got in sometime late last night I was drivin’ for a number of days I Seen a motel a sign off of highway nine Said "Privacy..Reasonable rate" I was just checkin' in when a sweet young thing Whispered "Lover let me welcome you To the only high that's available tonight On Last Chance Avenue" But I had no time for Miss Junior High So I just said "No thanks honey I'm on the run from some dangerous boys Like to get back their money And I'm the last body anybody needs tonight Darlin' you couldn't do worse 'cause I can smell trouble comin' from a long ways off But it's ridin' a real fast horse " Yaaaaaa Late that night as I sweated in bed I was wonderin' how far I'd run Two guys busted in like they'd both stepped Out of How the West was Won I was watchin' the Godfather on TV And before you could say mon dieu I was trussed in the back of a Chevy Careening down Last Chance Avenue There was tough guy one, There was tough guy two Both in the front seat laughin' I was in the back with my right hand clasped On my pearl handled steel companion I always keep it in my workin' boot It makes walkin' just a little bit stiff But I got off two shots and I jumped for the rocks As that Chevy went off the cliff Yaaaaaa And the last I remember I was pulled to the shoulder The stench of sweat and perfume Thru the dust and the blood Miss Junior High stood Silhouetted against the moon She said "It's lucky for you I was leavin' town too With this money I found in your room And it's the last they'll ever see of either you or me Down Last Chance Avenue Down Last Chance Avenue Down Last Chance Avenue" © Blue Murder/TMP:The Music Publisher Socan Constant In The Heart Ron Hynes Hearts of bravery abound Hearts of fury and sound Hearts of fire, hearts of gold Hearts to survive the night so cold Hearts to heal the wounds that bleed And to measure the weight of need The rock of faith and the restless part All these are constant in, Constant in the Heart I was adrift on windy seas No one to reach to me Until a heaven scented breeze Carried me home Safe home cross the waters deep Safe home as a child asleep Where hope shines bright in the blinding dark And love is constant in, Constant in the heart Constant in the heart Constant in the heart Hearts at ease on winter's eve Hearts with the strength to believe Hearts of Angels Hearts of Men Hearts that fear will never claim Hearts to heal the wounds that bleed And to measure the weight of need The rock of faith and the restless part All these are constant in, Constant in the heart Constant in the heart Constant in the heart Constant in the heart Constant in the heart © 1998 Ron Hynes Lonely Song Ron Hynes/Declan O'Doherty When you were just a younger man Wondering what would lie in store for you The day your dreams would blossom And just where this life was leading to How could you know the road goes on For miles and miles it rolls and bends How could you tell that same old song Would find you at the journey's end For time is not the kindest friend It only steals away on you Green fields fill with falling leaves And blue skies turn a darker hue If that's the way it has to be For all the world then let it be But bless the one's who needed more Still standing there outside the door And I suppose you're happy now You finally made it to the top Well here's hopin' you don't have to look back Here's to the party that never stops And when all the laughter fades away Then who will come to save you then When your world is filled with wonderous things But life's been just one lonely song Your life was just a lonely song © FatBaby/All Hands Music Socan Name Without A Face Ron Hynes You You've been a name without a face A trail without a trace to follow Only these clues These rumors of you That were left behind You You've been a name without a face An outcast from the family Did you leave in shame Were you running from the pain In your people's eyes Was there no compromise And did you know they threw your child out Your child out in the cold Without a hand to hold Perhaps the one that suffers most Will be the one who grows to be the strongest I have thought of you the longest time You You've been a name without a face A cold track without a step to guide me Are you finally free Did you simply erase us from memory Do you ever think of me And did you know they threw your child out Your child out in the cold Without a hand to hold Perhaps the one that suffers most Will be the one who grows to be the strongest I have thought of you the longest time You You've been a name without a face A trail without a trace to follow Only these clues These rumors of you That were left behind You've been a name without a face Name without a face You've been a name without a face © Blue Murder/TMP:The Music Publisher Socan Native Side Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes Now I was born, as folks will say In a house out around the bay That's my story son, my bloodline's genuine My accent upholds my claim But I'm just a throwback I'm halfway to town I'm A broken oar against the tide I'm just a pasty faced white Bayman from Kilbride Don't step on my native side Out here you grow up strange and wild You get molested as a child And you bury all that pain, you erase that stain With what passes for a smile 'Till you finally break out With that angry stride Crush the past with all your might I'm just a pasty faced white bayman from Kilbride Don't step on my native side You get raised in Catholic school Where you're taught to be a fool And you get saints preserved, lose every ounce of nerve Primed for the martyr pool And you can fall back (back on your knees) Take it all in stride But then you've got to sleep at night I'm just a pasty faced white bayman from Kilbride Don't step on my native side © 1998 Ron Hynes/Connie Hynes Pilot Ron Hynes O The Pilot At The End Of The Day Flies Toward The Night In Tireless Flight And Knows No Rest for All His Toil He Charts A Lonely Mile Sky's So Volatile And He Watches Over All His World Ever Vigilant As Time Unfurls As Through The Universe We Stray With The Pilot At The End Of The Day O The Pilot At The End Of The Day Keeps His Eyes On The Far Horizon On The Horses Fired With Wind And Heart Out To Where Dawn Fades To Dark To Where Stars Burn And Spark And He Keeps His Hands Upon The Wheel Between Flesh And Bone And Bonded Steel He’s The Only One To Feel That Way He’s The Pilot At The End Of The Day And He Watches Over All His World Ever Vigilant As Time Unfurls As Thru The Universe We Stray With The Pilot At The End Of The Day La la la (la la la) La la la (la la la) © Blue Murder/TMP:The Music Publisher Socan Saviour Ron Hynes For everything there is that first time For every song there is the right rhyme Even tiny dreams come at a great cost Just as every gain arrives with great loss And behind each truth there lies the lie so sweet Beyond each trust lurks the heart of jealousy Where goes the cross there goes the carrier As to every lost soul there comes a saviour Here we are in time Where all things will be known There we are in space Beyond the blazing sun Spirits of steel In shell so fragile Old as the hills And still a small child Na na na na ... For everything there is that first time As for every song there is a right rhyme Even tiny dreams come at a great cost Just as every gain arrives with great loss And behind each truth there lies the lie so sweet Beyond each trust lurks the heart of jealousy Where goes the cross there goes the carrier As to every lost soul there comes a saviour Here we are in time Where all things will be known There we are in space Beyond the blazing sun Spirits of steel In shell so fragile Old as the hills And still a small child For everything there is that first time © 1998 Ron Hynes