 Genius Lyrics
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Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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Rupert Holmes’s claim to fame – the hit that was the last number 1 of the ‘70s in the US. It was also a top 30 hit in New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK.
“Escape” is
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Rupert Holmes – Widescreen
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There are songs that sound like movies / There are themes that fill the screen / There are lines I say that sound as if they're written / There are looks I wear the theater should
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Rupert Holmes – Touch and Go
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Nobody said that / Life is always fair / Sometimes it clips your wings / While you're in mid-air / But there's a thread / Between your life and mine / And when you're losin' hope
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Rupert Holmes – Him
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[Verse 1] / Over by the window / There's a pack of cigarettes / Not my brand, you understand / Sometimes the girl forgets / She forgets to hide them / I know who left those smokes
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Rupert Holmes – Partners in Crime
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She's under-age and she's underweight / And she's one month hooked and she's two months late / She comes from Wyoming / And he named her Desiree / She hit New York like a farm-
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Rupert Holmes – Nearsighted
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If you take these glasses from my face, I think that you will find / I'm undeniably, certifiably just this shade of blind / But I don't envy those of you with 20/20 vision / Who
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Rupert Holmes – Morning Man
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I arise to the 5 AM skies / Left over from yesterday / With a moan I reach out for the phone / It's her says, she's on her way / And fifteen minutes later / I hear the elevator / I
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Rupert Holmes – Answering Machine
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In this song, Rupert Holmes describes a situation where he tries to call his girlfriend, whom he wants to marry. He tells her over a message on her answering machine on her phone
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Rupert Holmes – Soap Opera
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There was a time when I saw myself a flood-lit figure on the stage / The Metropolitan Opera, the Daily Critic's latest rage / But my voice went through a change about the same time
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Rupert Holmes – Deco Lady
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She goes to discos with a hard-running crowd / Dressed up to kill, they never speak very loud / Her style and speed are from another decade / And when she struts the street, she's
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Rupert Holmes – Guitars
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Taut and tight, there's a net in the night / The evening is strung with strings / Power lines intertwine with the vines / The telephone wire sings / My pulse is racing / I need to
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Rupert Holmes – Lunch Hour
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She gets an hour for lunch but if it comes to the crunch / She can stretch it if you know what I mean / She meets him at a hotel where they're not known very well / 'Cause they
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Rupert Holmes – Aw Shucks
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I know I'll never forget the very last time we met / Down by the Hudson, a quarter past three / You said you wanted to quit, and though I stumbled a bit / I'm here to say that you
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Rupert Holmes – The People That You Never Get to Love
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You're browsing through a secondhand bookstore / And you see her in nonfiction V through Y / She looks up from World War II / And then you catch her catching you catching her eye
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Rupert Holmes – In You I Trust
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I don't trust no magazine / I don't trust the price of gasoline / And when you say I must / I simply say, "Ooh, in you I trust" / Seeing is believing you / When I see your eyes, I'
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Rupert Holmes – You Make Me Real
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Someday you'll hear how strange I once was / And if I've changed it's because / You gave me one good reason / Your love, your love came easy and plain / After a winter of rain
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Rupert Holmes – I Don't Need You
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I don't need you / I don't need you half as much / As you need me / And I thank my lucky stars / That you have freed me / 'Cause I'm losing weight at last / Losing weight and
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Rupert Holmes – For Beginners Only
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This song / Is for beginners only / Intended for the lost / And lonely / Your day's overdue / But love will come to you / 'Cause love / Is for beginners only / And if you ask / "
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Rupert Holmes – The End
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Someone is out there / Someone who loves you / Though you don't know their name / Both of your lives move closer / You don't know now just how close you came / All that you've felt
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Rupert Holmes – The Mask
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Everyone in this place is selling something / Or selling themselves on someone new / And if a week goes by, I guess you and I will discover / What we look like / But, for the
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Rupert Holmes – The Old School
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The board of education and the leaders of this town / Have determined that the time has come to tear my old school down / Ginger, stand beside me as they lay into the walls
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Rupert Holmes – Talk
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When she said, "I don't really want to know you / All I wanna do is show you" / Why did I begin to talk? / When I said, "Tell me do you like linguine? / Have you seen the new
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Rupert Holmes – Terminal
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I've come back this morning to where I first came alive / Here within this terminal where the buses arrive / I was a commuter on the 804, worked for a computer on the 19th floor
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Rupert Holmes – You Burned Yourself Out
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When you were 15, my love / You put your head through hell: / Your body was clean, sweet love / But oh, your life was far from being well / When you were 16, my love / You'd come
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Rupert Holmes – You Remind Me of You
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You don't remind me of starlight / You're nothing like a star / You're not like the haze of slow, smoky days / You are what you are / Oh, but you do it to me / You make me see
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Rupert Holmes – Town Square
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Riding on a midnight bus and through the window / I read the signposts like pages in a storybook / In the flare of a truck on the white line trail / I search the roadside / For
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Rupert Holmes – Studio Musician
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I am a studio musician / We've never met, but you know me well / I am the English horn that played the poignant counter-line / Upon the song you heard while making love in some
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Rupert Holmes – The Place Where Failure Goes
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After they laid me in the ground / I flew on the wing / Somewhere outside the pearly gates / I heard someone sing / It was a girl I'd seen before / Though we'd never met / I asked
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Rupert Holmes – Rifles and Rum
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Livin' ain't for free / We been runnin' rum down to Bimini / Jim and me / From the ship to shore (From the ship to shore) / Eighty kegs of magic to start a war / Maybe more / We
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Rupert Holmes – Cold
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Someone pulled me over, said, "Don't try to touch her / She is like a glacier mowing down a mountain / Like a block of ice—she's hard but most of all she is so Cold." / Cupped her
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Rupert Holmes – Adventure
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Everywhere I turn, there are people just like me / All searching, desperately, for adventure / Risking life and limb in a million daring deeds / For everybody needs their adventure
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Rupert Holmes – One Born Every Minute
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I get the feeling that when I was young / I missed the day of school / When everyone learned how to never get hurt / And never to play the fool / I am the lifetime owner of the
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Rupert Holmes – Bagdad
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Last night I found myself in Bagdad once again / And the minarets were icy blue against the dawn's green light / No love I did not ask just how I came or when / I could only wonder
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Rupert Holmes – How Do You Do
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You say I'm a stranger now / Let me introduce myself / I'm the man you've known for years / Who laughs with you and drinks your tears / You may remember me / I live my life with
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Rupert Holmes – Show Me Where It Says
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Where's it say I gotta be (Where's it say? Where's it say?) / What the world would make of me? (Where's it say? Where's it say?) / Where's it say I gotta sign (Where's it say
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Rupert Holmes – Too Scared to Sing
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I get scared when I'm performing / If I'm outnumbered, I need some warming up / Dear folks / Should I pull out some jokes? / They'd better be quite funny, you paid your money
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Rupert Holmes – Weekend Lover
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Weekend lover, part-time friend / Funny how a hundred weekends can end / Sunday evening, shut the door / I won't see you face on Friday no more / And I know, I should have fit you
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Rupert Holmes – Speechless
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I can make a speech / When the mood comes to me / Yes, it's true / But oh, pretty darlin' / I'm speechless when it comes to you / Speechless when you reach for my hand / I'm so
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Rupert Holmes – Who, What, When, Where, Why
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Who (who ooh ooh ooh ooh) / What (woo ooh ooh ooh ooh) / Where (woo ooh ooh ooh ooh) / Why (tell me why, tell me why, tell me why) / I don't understand / Let's sit down and talk
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Rupert Holmes – Letters That Cross in the Mail
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Last month while thinking of love / I wrote her some words / And mailed them away / But the next day I found at my door / A letter from Spain she'd sent long before / And her note
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Rupert Holmes – Everything Gets Better When You're Drunk
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Started out with burgundy / A simple Montrachet vintage '53 / And a simple meal / Of Marengo veal / With potatoes Lyonnaise on the side / Then my business partner broke the news
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Rupert Holmes – Full Circle
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This airplane has a 10-foot movie screen / There's lots of pictures in this magazine / And Salt Lake City's coming into view / The truth is, all I want to see is you / And while I'
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