Before they take it all away Trying to see if the world is still alive What are you waiting for, I'm here Let the day go by Let's consume it all I hear them from the other side As I sit and let the day go by I hear them from the other side (other side)

Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend Send you my love on a wire Lift you up, every time, everyone, ooh, pulls away, ooh Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when Our common goal was waiting for the world to end You crack the whip,

You give me hope to carry on You light up my days And fill my nights with song You light up my life So many nights I sit by my window Waiting for someone to sing me his song So many dream I kept deep inside me Alone in the dark but now you've come along

Are we having fun yet Yet, yet, yet, no no This is how you remind me of what I really am It's not like you to say sorry I was waiting on a different story This time I'm mistaken For handing you a heart worth breaking And I've been wrong I've been down

Welcome to New York It's been waitin' for you Welcome to New York, welcome to New York It's a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat forevermore The lights are so bright but they never blind me, me The lights are so bright but they never blind

All my life I've been waiting for moments to come When I catch fire and watch over you like the sun I will fight to fix up and get things right I can't change the world but maybe I'll change your mind Oh say, can you see? This is not who I'm supposed to

Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight Just a touch of the fire burning so bright I don't want to push too far Just a shot in the dark that you just might Be the one I've been waiting for my whole life And I don't want to mess this thing up So baby

You better get ready for the war It's so frustratin, so many hatin Somebody gon' make me break the law But I ain't waitin, there's no escapin Look ma top of the world, the best of the best King California, L-A-X Out the hood, in the penthouse, from the

When you were young You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy to To save your from your old ways You play forgiveness Watch it now, here he comes He doesn't look a thing like Jesus But he talks like a gentlemen Like you imagined when

Forever love No matter what I'll be waiting for you I promise you Someday we'll be together I won't give up The first time I laid my eyes on you I knew We'd spend this life side by side I still feel the same though you're so far away