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Settling in Seattle

Energy (1980)

Energy we've got a need for it

Energy we're gonna bleed for it

Energy electric powered sound

Energy we'd better turn it down

Energy energy energy energy


I can see the candle burning low

Men are free and they are turning bold

Soon they'll be craving more of this

Energy see what's in store for us

Energy energy energy energy

Energy energy energy energy


We've got time although there isn't much

To combine the coupled force of touch

Then you'll see when I give you this

Energy it's just a power kiss

Energy energy energy energy

I’m talking ‘bout energy energy energy 

I Could Walk Away (1980)

I've been trying to eliminate you

From the way that I'm thinking and the things that I do

But every time that I think I got you out of my head

I start a thinking that maybe instead

We could just be friends for a little while

Until I find that something special in your sexy smile

And you start to feel the rhythm in the words to my song

It's then I start a thinking that it won't be too long

I could walk away and never ever turn the other way

But emotions get the best of me when I'm confronted with

The way that I feel about you


I've been walking down this long dusty road

With a monkey on my shoulder and a frog in my throat

And my face is getting burnt by the blistering sun

But I guess that two red heads are better than one

And I know what I'd be doing if I just one wish

And the genie couldn't watch cause he doesn't exist

And you start to feel the music getting out of control

But don't you worry about a thing it's just rock and roll

I could walk away and never ever turn the other way

But emotions get the best of me when I'm confronted with

The way that I feel about you


I'm a copy of the Renaissance man

But I feel like a junk on the Sea of Japan

And I don't know what I'm doing spewing all of these words

But I bet it's like nothing that you ever have heard

But if you can find the meaning in between all the lines

And your local anesthetic hasn't ruined your mind

Then I'll bet that you can guess what I'm going to do

I'm gonna give it baby gonna give it to you

I could walk away and never ever turn the other way

But emotions get the best of me when I'm confronted with

The way that I feel about you


How Could I Be Sure? (1980)

You seem to be the one I've waited for

Seem to be the girl who knows the score

And now that I have found what I have sought

I'm gonna hang around till I get caught

Peeking underground never want to hear that sound

Never want to turn you off never want to let it stop

But how could I be sure that love would grow?

How could I be sure that we would know?


I never would have thought that we'd be here

Never could have dreamed that you'd appear

But now that you have come upon the scene

I finally have found what love can mean

To a simple man, come on baby take my hand

Never want to let you go never want to stop the flow

But how could I be sure that we would see?

How could I be sure that it was me?


And now the time has come for us to find

A way to bridge the gap between our minds

I want to feel your warmth against my skin

And I won't back away till we begin

To make it right right now baby here tonight

Want to share this moment now come on babe I know you know how

But how could I be sure that love would grow?

How could I be sure that we would know?

Right Next to You (1980)

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I've never felt this way, I never knew that a woman could reach me like this

I don't know what to say I've never been so affected by one little kiss

And when I look in your eyes I seem to feel that the world's gonna turn out all right

You make me fantasize you make me want to be with you baby tonight

Don't ever ask me how I know

Don't ever ask me I just don't know why


You're like a mystery you're like a book that I read and I never put down

And in my history I've never ever seen such a woman around

And when I look in my soul and I see all my dreams come into view

Well there's a shadowy goal that I'm hoping to reach when I reach out to you

Don't you hear what I'm saying?

Don't you know that it's true?

Don't you know what I'm feeling when I'm right next to you?

When I'm right next to you

Don't ever ask me how I know

Don't ever ask me I just don't know why


I'm just a molecule I'm just a polymer matrix forged by the sun

But when I get to you I guarantee that you'll never have had so much fun 

And when I look in your eyes I seem to feel that the world's gonna turn out all right

You make me fantasize you make me want to be with you baby tonight

Don't you hear what I'm saying?

Don't you know that it's true?

Don't you know what I'm feeling when I'm right next to you?

When I'm right next to you

Killing Time (1980)

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I'm only killing time, until I see your smile, and I guess

That I've been doing fine, although it's been a while, since I felt

Your hand caressing my face, and I melt

When you intrude on my space, and I sense

Your presence in my mind

We'll weave our thoughts in silent rhyme


I'm only trying to be, as honest as I can

I never want to see you with another man, and I guess

That's why my heart is on fire, when I see

You stare at him with desire, and it's just

Genetic jealousy

To know it's him as well as me


I'm only trying to say a simple word or two

To save this precious day, and give it all to you in a song

That's comin' straight from my heart, and it's wrong

For us to ever depart, from the path

That' given us this chance

To take our part in nature's dance

Up in the Air (1980)

Sometimes I just have to kick back

And marvel at the fact

That you are where it's at

Sometimes I just have to sit down

And take all these ugly frowns

And turn them upside down

Mirror mirror I feel off the wall

I don't know where she's going to fall

She's got something that I'd like to share

She's left my love up in the air


Sometimes when the world gets to cruel

I will stand on a hill like a fool

Who's acting oh too cool

Sometimes I will stare at the sky

And I wonder if I am too high

To ever understand why

Mirror mirror I feel off the wall

I don't know where she's going to fall

She's got something that I'd like to share

She's left my love up in the air


Sometimes it's a tragedy

But you can't figure out if you're mad at yourself

Or you're mad at me

Sometimes in emotional strain

I'll forget what I've got to lose

And what I have got to gain 

Mirror mirror I feel off the wall

I don't know where she's going to fall

She's got something that I'd like to share

She's left my love up in the air


Commentary

I arrived in Seattle during the summer of 1980, an incoming grad student to the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Washington. My best friend from high school in Spokane (Drew Cass) was also living in Seattle at that time, and he convinced me to begin training for the Seattle Marathon, which I managed to complete on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, despite never having been a serious runner until that Labor Day. Looking at this picture now, I’m certain that I was never healthier nor more fit than during those years. My intentionally challenging scholastic goal was to get my Ph.D. before I turned 25, which I managed to achieve when I successfully defended my dissertation there on September 26, 1983.


The songs of those first months in Seattle reflect an improved mood and energy level that I now see were associated with my healthier life-style. It makes me wonder what I could achieve now if I ever returned to the serious training regimen of those days! 

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