1. GOOD MAN, GOOD WOMAN

Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Midnight, I'm wound up tight
Slowly comin' down in the daytime
I been lyin' low from work, hangin' over from the hurt from You babe
But I'm gonna suffer through the strain, till I get a
Better thing with you, Darlin', me and you.

So hard to see so far ahead
When I can't seem to drag myself out of bed
gotta find me a good man, a good man, a good man.Yeah.

You better stop, think about what you're saying
I was seriously dedicated, in the game of playin'
You made ten thousand promises you couldn’t keep
I forgave you when you lied, pleaded and weeped
Put up with your disrespect and neglect
What an experience, I'll never forget.

Till now, everything I did was wrong. (I'm sorry, baby)
Today you're free, but we live alone.
Gotta find me a good woman...Good woman...Good woman...Yeah.

It was twelve o'clock in the midnight hour
I heard the door slam, and then the shower
When I got up, you were already gone
I slipped and fell, from the water you left on.

Gotta find a good woman
Gotta find a good man
Gotta find a good woman
Gotta find a good man.


2. THING CALLED LOVE

Don't have to humble yourself to me,
I ain't your judge or your king
Baby, you know I ain't no Queen of Sheba
We may not even have our dignity,
This could be just a powerful thing
Baby we can choose you know we ain't no amoeba.

Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you,
it comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine,
Take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for the thing called love
I ain't some icon carved out of soap
Sent here to clean up your reputation
Baby, you know you ain't no Prince Charming
We can live in fear or act out of hope
For some kind of peaceful situation
Baby, how come the cry of love is so alarming.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans
And glide off down the lake
Whether your sunglasses are off or on
You only see the world you make.

Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you,
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine,
take off your kid gloves.

Are you ready for it
Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you,
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine,
take off your kid gloves.

Are you ready for it
Are you ready for love, baby
Oooh yeah babe
Are you ready for love.


3. NICK OF TIME

A friend of mine she cries at night, and she
Calls me on the phone
Sees babies everywhere she goes and she
Wants one of her own.
She's waited long enough she says
And still she can't decide
Pretty soon she'll have to choose and it tears her up inside
She's scared...scared she'll run out of time.

I see my folks, they're getting old, I watch their bodies Change
I know they see the same in me, And it makes us both feel Strange
No matter how you tell yourself, It's what we all go through
Those lines are pretty hard to take when they're staring' Back at you.
Scared you'll run out of time.

Chorus

When did the choices get so hard?
With so much more at stake.
Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
Hummmm...Scared she'll run out of time.

Just when I thought I'd had enough
All my tears were shend
No promise left unbroken,
There were no painful words unsaid.
You came along and showed me
How to leave it all behind
You opened up my heart again and then much to my surprise.

I found love, Love in the Nick of Time.


4. ONE PART BE MY LOVER

When he looks in her eyes
He sees only the truth
Telling him he's been living a lie
Over and over like a line in a song
About all the love he let pass him by.

To her he might be the man of her dreams
To find where she's been hiding inside
Broken or battered, it really don't matter
Her heart's like a wave and he's the tide.

They're not forever, they're just for today
One part be my lover, one part go away.

He's like a boxer who had to retire
after winning but killing a man
He's got all of the moves and none of the courage
Afraid to throw a punch that might land

Not too much later she can't meet his glance
You see her start pulling away
Over and over like fire and ice
One is color, one is grey.

They're not forever, they're just for today
One part be my lover, one part go away.

So if you know how
Why don't you say 'em a prayer
They're gonna need all the help they can get
They remember too much about what went wrong
It might be they should learn to forget.

Forget themselves in each other
And leave what belongs in the past
Carry their hearts like a newborn child
Cause it's only the moment that lasts.

They're not forever, they're just for today
One part be my lover, one part go away.