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'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
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?
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
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
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
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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