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John Lodge

NATURAL AVENUE

1977 Album Cover

LIST OF SONGS
  1. Intro To Children Of Rock'N'Roll
  2. Natural Avenue
  3. Summer Breeze
  4. Carry Me
  5. Who Could Change
  6. Broken Dreams Hard Road
  7. Piece Of My Heart
  8. Rainbow
  9. Say You Love Me
10. Children Of Rock'N'Roll

BONUS TRACKS ON 1996 EDITION
11. Street Cafe
12. Threw It All Away

1996 CD Cover

Intro To Children Of Rock 'N Roll
John Lodge

You have to know Where you're going Before you say "good-bye" You have to know What you're asking Before you ask "why?"

Natural Avenue
John Lodge

Walking the line that Takes you between your eyes Showing a place where Nobody has to hide Keeping it straight is Only not living a lie Drifting on life and Nobody missing you Look for a while and see What skid row can do Tom fool fell for a Back street point of view All my life I've tried Oh how I've tried Suddenly I'm there There's a feeling in the air I can feel it I can feel it I can feel it All my life I've tried Oh how I've tried Suddenly I'm there There's a feeling in the air Here on Natural Avenue Living on air you take >From the Earth for free Money you make to pay For this liberty Tenement dreams are Missing reality Walking the line that Takes you between your eyes Showing a place where Nobody has to hide I'm walking the line down Natural Avenue I'm doin' fine on Natural Avenue Natural Avenue Natural Avenue Natural Avenue

Summer Breeze
John Lodge

Would you like to tell me All the secrets that you know? Would you like to tell me While you're thinking I want to tell you Everything I know How hard I try I'll not understand why 'Cause there's nobody here Nobody here but me How hard I see I'll not understand me 'Cause there's nobody here Nobody here I see Summer breeze Whisper softly through the trees Make my cares slip away My thoughts drift away from view Summer song Make my day, make it long Help this world walk on by On its Natural Avenue Would you like to tell me All the secrets that you know? Would you like to tell me If you're asking I want to tell you Everything I know How hard I try I'll not understand why 'Cause there's nobody here Only my love for you Summer breeze, summer breeze Summer song, summer song How hard I see I'll not understand me 'Cause there's nobody here Nobody here but me Summer breeze Whisper softly through the trees Make my day slip away My thoughts drift away from view Summer song Make my day, make it long Help this world walk on by On its Natural Avenue Summer breeze, summer breeze Summer song, summer song Summer Breeze, bummer breeze

Carry Me
John Lodge

Make me the captain of your Pirate Ship Paint all the clouds the color of "no" Drift on the warm wind of your secret world Hang on to your star stream Make the sun reappear Make the dark disappear >From my night sky Fly away Fly away Carry me, carry me Carry me, carry me Show me your island of a thousand names Washed by the tide of time gone by High on your mountain we can share the view There for a short while In the corner of an eye Is a dream passing by In my night sky Fly away Fly away Carry me, carry me Carry me, carry me Would you believe me Would you believe when I tell you Would you believe me Would you believe when I tell you All the dreams you found are mine Carry me, carry me Still is the new day as the dawn unfolds Gone is the white horse that carried us home Lost to the morning all your deepest fears Watched over safely By the words of a prayer And the love that we share In our night sky Fly away Fly away Carry me, carry me

Who Could Change
John Lodge

Who could change Or rearrange The love I have for you Who could feel The way I feel The way you make me do Nothing I can say Will make this feeling go Nothing I will say No word no thought will show Take it away, take it away >From me, from me Who could know Begin to show The love before my eyes Who could dream Know what it means Of love the way you do Somewhere in this Crazy Dream That we call life Someone who can give You time and rest from strife Take it away, take it away From me, from me Who could change Or rearrange The love I have for you Who could feel The way I feel The way you make me do Who would know Or even show Their dream before my eyes Who would try So hard they cry And never say a word Who can see The way you see I'm down upon my knees Who can hide The hurt inside In love that's part of you Who has thought Of no-one else No love no dream denied Who has made my life complete The reason that I live

Broken Dreams, Hard Road
John Lodge

I looked everywhere Thought that I would find you Through the night Shadows dancing in the moonlight Broken dreams, hard road Wish I could write of the love I have known in my lifetime Wish I could find just one word One small line When I'm down The world has gone and changed Its face The world has gone and changed Its place While we were dreaming For the Human Race I know I've been down this road many times, many ways In my lifetime And somehow the path that you've walked In your life Has led to me Your love has gone and changed my world Your love has changed the world I see While I was waiting, you came to me I looked everywhere Knew that I would find you Through the night Shadows dancing in the moonlight Broken dreams, hard road Hard, hard road Hard road Hard, hard road

Piece Of My Heart
John Lodge

I can remember the Words that you say Seems like forever Or was it today The cold light of dawn broke in two The one part of me That was you 'Cause you're the one that went And stole a piece of my heart High on our hillside We both shared the view Talking of people We thought we knew How could that dream fade away And fall on the ground where we lay 'Cause you're the one that went And stole a piece of my heart Oh well, you must be Twenty-three by now Married with kids of your own And the little boy Is three Does he look like me? It's a long way from freedom It's a long way from home I can remember The words that you say Seemed like forever Was taken away When time made its own point of view On the promise Two young people knew 'Cause you're the one that went And stole a piece of my heart 'Cause you're the one that went And stole a piece of my heart 'Cause you're the one that went And stole a piece of my heart

Rainbow
John Lodge

Make my life a Rainbow Paint it every day Break my heart or even sin Do it, right away Make my life the morning A promise for today Break my heart or let me in Do it, right away If I have to lose you for a while If I have to lose your loving smile If I have to lose your loving ways If I have Make my life worthwhile Make my life a Rainbow Paint it every day Make my heart forever sing Do it, right away Make my life a lifetime Never walk away Like the wind upon the sand Can't blow it all away If I have to lose you for a while If I have to lose your loving smile If I have to lose your loving ways If I have Make my life worthwhile Make my life a Rainbow Turn your face away Look upon the setting sun and Rainbow fade away

Say You Love Me
John Lodge

If I could read you like a book If I could read your second look If I could be the one you love The one you're thinking of I wouldn't need these eyes I wouldn't need to see I wouldn't need to hear your voice Say you love me If I could stay here for a while If I could hang on to your smile If I could turn your loving ways Upon my lonely days I wouldn't need these eyes I wouldn't need to see I wouldn't need to hear your voice Say you love me Say you love me I tried so hard to find The reason you came my way And now I can't believe my eyes Are you here to stay? If all the world came falling down And lay in pieces on the ground With only darkness from above If I could touch your love I wouldn't need these eyes I wouldn't need to see I wouldn't need to hear your voice Say you love me Say you love me

Children Of Rock 'N' Roll
John Lodge

You have to know Where you're going Before you say "good-bye" You have to know What you're asking Before you ask why And I think to myself Wonderful way My world revolves just a different way And I think for a while Reflecting a smile If changes are coming I gotta say You have to know Where you're going Before you say "good-bye" You have to know What you're asking Before you ask why Love, love Children of rock 'n' roll Love, love Raised on rock 'n' roll I remember all the words of Love that we sang out of tune Waving good-bye to a generation As we danced by the light of the moon I remember oh so clear How the world looked from Blueberry Hill When you sang all the songs On a six-string guitar And it made you a rock 'n' roll Star You have to know Where you're going Before you say "good-bye" You have to know What you're asking Before you ask why You have to know Where you're going Before you say "good-bye" You have to know What you're asking Before you ask why Children of rock 'n' roll Raised on rock 'n' roll Children of rock 'n' roll We played Elysian Park Until the night was dark Children of rock 'n' roll We traveled eight miles high We never saw the sky Children of rock 'n' roll We had a beautiful day When an island gave way to the Children of rock 'n' roll And in the garden of dreams We found out what it means To be the Children of rock 'n' roll Raised on rock 'n' roll Raised on rockin' Raised on rockin' Raised on rockin' ways Raised on rockin' Raised on rockin' Raised in rockin' days

BONUS TRACKS RELEASED ON CD
Street Cafe
John Lodge

The music played from the street cafe All the people were passing in a distant haze When you walked by And I'm lonely and need someone to talk to I said "Hello girl Would you walk with me? I got nowhere to go And I'd much rather be Taking a chance that you had more Than a fancy way about you" So tell me girl Where will it end, rescue me The music you send I'll play in the end, rescue me The way you smiled was like a rising sun You set a burning inside from which I should have run But you walked by And I was lonely and need someone to talk to You blew my mind just like a neutron bomb You left a shell outside where I could never come from Now you walk by You say you're lonely and need someone to talk to So tell me girl Where will it end, rescue me 'Cause the music you send I'll play in the end, rescue me I should respect your point of view But what can I say when I'm in love with you When nothing makes sense I'm gonna take one more chance that you can love too So tell me girl When will it end, rescue me 'Cause the music you send I'll play in the end, rescue me The music played from the street cafe Rescue me Rescue me

Threw It All Away
John Lodge

And when I see you, my lips can't speak And when I'm near you, my heart goes weak All I'm searching for, all I can say You've taken everything I had And thrown it all away And when I touch you, you send a shiver to my mind And when my eyes close, I see you all the time All I'm certain of, all I can say I gave you all the love I had You've thrown it all away Lover [Lover] Can you hear me calling? [Hear me calling] Lover [Lover] Can you hear me calling you? [Hear me calling, calling you] What can I say? What can I do? [Taken everything you've had And thrown it all away] All I'm searching for All I can say You've taken everything I had And thrown it all away

Album Information:

Released Jan 28, 1977 by London Records
Words and music by John Lodge
Produced and engineered by Tony Clarke
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Brian Rogers

Recorded at Theshold Studios, London
Recording Engineers: Derek Varnals, Dave Baker
Mixed at Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles
Mixing engineer: Tim Sadler

John Lodge Portraits by Terry O'Neill
Original Album Cover produced by Martyn & Roger Dean �1977 Dragon's Way Ltd

Original CD release: Apr/May 1987 by Decca Records with bonus track Street Cafe
CD Cover: Wherefore Art?

CD Re-release: May 1, 1996 with bonus tracks Street Cafe and Threw It All Away

Bonus Tracks:
"Street Cafe" produced by Pip Williams
"Threw It All Away" produced by Tony Clarke and Pip Williams

Singles:
Feb 1977 Say You Love Me / Natural Avenue
Mar 1977 Children of Rock'n'Roll / Piece Of My Heart
Jul 1977 Summer Breeze / Rainbow
Sep 19, 1980 Street Cafe / Threw It All Away

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