KING COOL Released: 1981 SWEET MERILEE (Avsec, Iris) She comes on like daylight softly creeping Sneaking through the glass When I taste her lips I know the night time ain't for sleeping Cause morning comes too fast with Merilee Sweet Merilee CHORUS Merilee please don't go Merilee please don't go I need you so You've got to know I'll never let you go Lying on her side The clouds desert the sky Washing her with moonlight In a Cinderella sleep The twilight kissed her eyes Dream a little dream of me tonight Merilee Sweet Merilee REPEAT CHORUS Will she meet me at the witching hour? Cast a magic spell-o Before she disappears into her ivory tower There's no way I can tell with Merilee Sweet Merilee REPEAT CHORUS THE PROMISE (Lee) When you work, you work Even till the morning light In the comfort of the night When you work, you work When you try, you try Even when the road is long Find your courage in a song When you try, you try CHORUS Oh the promise is still waiting for you there Past the endless hours of heartache that you share Past the endless sould who could not reach And those who would not dare Oh the promise is still waiting for you there When you love, you love Even if it makes you cry Even when your heart is shy When you love, you love When you run, you run Even though it's hard to do When your heart is calling you Then you run, you run REPEAT CHORUS PRETENDER (Avsec, Iris) I know the type always acting cool Pretender Won't let love make a fool of you Pretender, Oh , Oh I don't believe that you don't really feel it You're feeling something but you don't reveal it Pretender, Oh, Oh, Pretender I know the truth you told me in a kiss Don't have to say it cause I read you lips CHORUS Pretender Pretender Oh, Oh Do you remember Oh Pretender Surrender Love ain't a game It's a war of hearts Pretender Take the risk or give up your cards Pretender, Oh, Oh I never knew that you could be so good You never let on by the way you look Pretender, Oh, Oh, Pretender I know the truth because your eyes just told me I measure up just by the way they hold me CHORUS Pretender Pretender (I see right through you) Do you remember (I knew you well) Oh Pretender Surrender LOVE IS LIKE A ROCK (Avsec, Iris, Lee, McClain, Valentine) You can't depend on your teacher You can't depend on your preacher You can't depend on politicians You can't depend on superstitions CHORUS Love can rock you Never stop you Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Love is like a rock You can't rely on Mother Nature You can't rely on your paychecks You can't depend on your doctor You can't depend on your lawyer REPEAT CHORUS THAT'S THE WAY LOVE OUGHT TO BE (Avsec, Iris) You and me Baby, it's ecstacy I will be true to you Be true to me That's all we need, no more And we won't ever worry Babe it's you You are the one I love You are the only one I'm thinking of Cause we all need somebody We all need someone to love Hey hey hey (That's the way love ought to be) Hey hey hey Hey hey hey (Love is all we need) Cause whenever I'm around you I'm happy that I've found you Love is what you need Look around and see It's everywhere around you Girl I'm living in a fantasy And it's bringing out the best in me Love is what you need Look around and see That's the way love ought to be Yes to me You always say yes to me And when I needed you so desperately You didn't waste no time You always said you were mine No to me You never say no to me Somehow you know this is our destiny That we were meant to see The way love ought to be REPEAT CHORUS And when your world comes tumbling down I'm gonna turn your world around The secret lies inside of me And love is all we'll ever need REPEAT CHORUS MY GIRL (Avsec, Iris) Yeah, I'm a lucky guy I got her by my side Sunday afternoon I'll take her for a ride Downtown all around town Where everyone can see This pretty thing She belongs to me CHORUS She's my baby She's driving me crazy She's go something I want you to see Come on and show me Show me a woman with a heart on fire Show me a woman with a burning desire Show me a woman of the world And I'll show you my girl I never knew how happy I could be I'm digging her and the woman's digging me Oh what a day Got loving on my mind Later on tonight She'll let me know that I'm her baby REPEAT CHORUS (I'm so crazy) Now some folks say I'm crazy about the lady And I may be Everybody is trying to clue me She's a floozie and she'll use me (You'd be crazy) You'd be crazy about her kissing If you knew of the loving you're missing When I'm holding her tight Yeah, I'm crazy all right And there's nothing I'd rather be REPEAT CHORUS BROKEN PROMISES (Avsec, Iris) You promised me your time you know Time is something we all need You promised me your love would grow You promised everything But that was yesterday You threw it all away Ain't it a shame Love's a game Full of broken promises CHORUS All the broken promises Love could never be like this Lips that give the tender kiss Make the broken promises You promised me your heart you know You promised me you'd be true You promised me we'd never be apart you know But you cut my heart in two There goes my happiness Here comes old loneliness Ain't it a shame Love's a game Full of broen promises REPEAT CHORUS Congratulations girl, you win You broke another heart again KING COOL (Avsec, Iris) He smoked a cigarette when he played his song He was so cool he couldn't do no wrong Playing his guitar he was a local star He ran away from love but he ran too far CHORUS He's King Cool You know He's all right You know He's King Cool You know He's no fool You know He's King cool You know He's all right You know He's King Cool You know He had a chick named Merilee She was the cutest chick he'd ever seen He couldn't help himself and he fell in love Between her and his guitar it was push and shove She wanted him all to herself She couldn't share him with nobody else REPEAT CHORUS She doesn't know how she lost her man Now he's a superstar and she don't understand How he plays his guitar with a broken heart Now when his guitar sings it just tears her apart REPEAT CHORUS COLOR ME BLUE (Avsec, Iris) Color me yellow for being afraid Goodbye blue skies, color them gray Color me green because I don't now what to do And for loving you too much Color me blue CHORUS Call me Mr. Blue I'll be missing you Thinking of you only Color me lonely Color me blue All of our white lies have washed away the past Our future's not rosy Color it black Our love was like gold when it was brand new You treated it like a pair of old brown shoes But I'm still in love with you Color me blue I should move on Make a fresh start with my life Find a new love Someone who would treat me right But you know I can't forget you REPEAT CHORUS THE LAST TO KNOW (Avsec, Iris) I never thought you could do the things that you do Oh baby I never thought I'd go through what you put me through Oh baby You been out running around All my friends told me so You better tell me yourself What everyone seems to know CHORUS I was the first one there The first to share The last to let it go Is the first to hear I told you so Always the last to know The girl of my dreams The love of my life Oh baby To feel the words that she speaks Suddenly cut like a knife To kiss the lips that I knew And know they're not mine anymore After the loving is through To know someone's been there before I can't' let go I tried but I know That I'll never be able to trust any woman again Every time that I follow my heart I reach a dead end REPEAT CHORUS The one who always see the best of it Always feels the heartache most He never seems to see the rest of it He's always last to know