Jack Rubinacci

She Makes Me Feel

Can’t you hear me writing a song about you?
In my head I make a picture.
Try to take you in, so that I remember. When you’re gone.
Don’t go, my heart,
is broke at the thought of this.

She makes me feel like wonder.
She makes me feel there’s magic in the air.
She makes me feel the mystery of the kiss,
where there once were just words.

She makes me feel like red wine.
She makes me feel like dancing in the night.
She make the rush of things that change, and I just can’t explain.
All of the ways.
She makes me feel.

Can’t you hear me writing a song about you?
When you hear it you’ll remember.
Looking back at me as I watched you walking.
Sunlight on your dress, your skin.
This touch is a lonely wish.

She makes me feel like wonder.
She makes me feel there’s magic in the air.
She makes me feel the mystery of the kiss,
where there once were just words.

She makes me feel like red wine.
She makes me feel like dancing in the night.
She make the rush of things that change, and I just can’t explain.
All of the ways.
She makes me feel.

In this blue sky, there is a cloud.
This cloud will pass.
She makes me feel like wonder.
She makes me feel like magic.

Don’t go, my heart,
is broke at the thought of this.

She makes me feel like wonder.
She makes me feel there’s magic in the air.
She makes me feel the mystery of the kiss,
where there once were just words.

She makes me feel like red wine.
She makes me feel like dancing in the night.
She make the rush of things that change, and I just can’t explain.
All of the ways.
She makes me feel.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2007

Satisfied

In a hotel, lying on a bed,
two strangers are getting head.
And the night, waits outside.

Sarah’s alone, sits in her house,
gets in her car and drives around.
Listens to the radio.

There’s always something.
That keeps you from being.
Thats keeps you from feeling.
Satisfied.

Its 5 am, he opens up.
Gets himself ready for customers.
Clock on the wall, ticks like a heart beat.

Up in the hills, she’s looking down.
This city’s cruel, this city’s loud.
Goes to the mirror, and puts on her make up.

There’s always something.
That keeps you from being.
Thats keeps you from feeling.
Satisfied.

I don’t know what it is, but it wont let me go.
This fever in my heart. This knife in my skull.
There’s always something missing but,
maybe whats missing, is what keeps the heart beating.

So I put my tongue, in my cheek.
Cause I know, I wont sleep.
Hate myself when I get like this.

So take off your dress, lie on my bed.
Tonight I’ll show you what’s Heaven sent.
I go further, to kill my love.

There’s always something.
That keeps you from being.
Thats keeps you from feeling.
Satisfied.

This Story

It’s all around your head and,
it’s all around my eyes.
Was it something we forgot,
to open up inside?

I’m lying in your room but,
I can’t say a word.
Perhaps we gave too much,
maybe more than we should.

Oh, the dream comes back again.
A shadow in a field with no-one in.

But we can’t pretend,
that this story’s going to end like this.
That this story’s going to end like this.

Part of me is numb.
But part of me is you so,
Tell me how you’re feeling.
And does this pain feel true?

Does it smack of some regret?
Does it dream away the night?
Does it burn you like a fire?
Or blind you like a light?.

Oh, I wish that I could say.
Enough to make it stop and go away.

But we can’t pretend,
that this story’s going to end like this.
That this story’s going to end like this.

Oh, I wish that I could say.
Enough to make it stop and go away.
And the light is on your face again.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2000

I Know

Say what it is.
Come on just say what it is.
Nothing could hurt more than this.
but I’m not afraid.

You’ve never been,
someone that i could believe.
All of my life I have stood,
on my own two feet.

And I know, that I never was what you wanted.
And I know, that I left you disappointed.
Though I tried to be part of your life.
You never let me in.
And I’ve nothing left to give.

You’ll never know,
how much I wanted your love.
how much I needed your love.
But you just were’nt there.

But I’ll break the chain.
cause I will not do the same.
No I will not cause the pain.
To the ones I love.

And I know, that I never was what you wanted.
And I know, that I left you disappointed.
Though I tried to be part of your life.
You never let me in.
And I’ve nothing left

To give you now.
There’s too much pain,
there’s too much time,
there’s too much water under the bridge.

So say what it is.
Come on just say what it is.
Nothing could hurt more than this.
but I’m not afraid.

And I know, that I never was what you wanted.
And I know, that I left you disappointed.
Though I tried to be part of your life.
You never let me in.
And I’ve nothing left to give.

Words and Music Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2007

How Long

Part of me hates you,
for making me feel this way.
But most of me loves you,
and there’s nothing more that I can say.

We talked for hours.
I told you everything.
I would of staid with you.
I would of gone through anything.

So tell me
How long?
How long am I’m gonna love you baby.
How Long?
How long am I’m gonna miss you tell me.
How long?
Even though you’ve, gone.

Friends take me drinking.
Just to get you off my mind.
But I’m constantly thinking.
How I wish that you were mine.

Why did you have to go.
You could of talked to me.
You could of let me know.
Just how you wanted us to be.

So tell me
How long?
How long am I’m gonna love you baby.
How Long?
How long am I’m gonna miss you tell me.
How long?
Even though you’ve, gone.

We talked for hours.
I told you everything.
I would of staid with you through thick and thin.
But now it’s all gone wrong.

So tell me
How long?
How long am I’m gonna love you baby.
How Long?
How long am I’m gonna miss you tell me.
How long?
Even though you’ve, gone.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2007

Chinese Whisper

It’s true, it’s true,
it’s true she says.
All the films and books we’ve read.
The making love, on an unmade bed.
And afterwards, it all makes sense.

It’s time, It’s time,
it’s time she says.
I’m too young, too old to forget.
The roads we took that led to this.
And afterwards, they all make sense.

So who’d of thought,
it would be me and you.
But love is a chinese whisper,
passed between two.
That starts as “No I’ll never”
and becomes “Baby I Love you”.

You kicked me out of your door.
You said to never come back.
You call me up on the phone
and say you can’t live without.
Me, I don’t know what I want.
I run away from your house,
then I turn and run right back.

So who’d of thought,
it would be me and you.
But love is a chinese whisper,
passed between two.
That starts as “No I’ll never”
and becomes “Baby I Love you”

So who’d of thought,
it would be me and you.
But love is a chinese whisper,
passed between two.
That starts as “No I’ll never”
and becomes
“Baby I Love
“Baby I Love
“Baby I Love you”.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2006

Avocado Cure

She steps into the car, and says that, “it went ok”.
They smile at each other and then drive away.
The road home, is different to the one on which they came.

Cause somewhere there’s a clock ticking in reverse.
Somewhere there’s a heart beating, on the edge of the universe.
The roots of the vine, grow unsteady and unsure.
But I hear that they recommend, the Avocado Cure.

They argue about money. He says he’ll find a way.
But when they ask his name, he never knows what to say.
Walks home, sits at the window and crosses off the days.

She steps into the car and says that, “it went ok”.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2006

Mountains

Hey Isabelle.
Did you see the sky last spring?
Even with the world falling down.
There was still some peace within.

And I drink coffee.
I think that I’m addicted.
If they tell you I was wrong,
Don’t you believe it.

Cause 10,000 years are breaking.
Cause 10,000 years are breaking.

I have a friend.
says he saw you on the street.
With a castle in your hair.
And a river at your feet.

Says you got a forrest.
Where all your angels run.
A poem in your hand.
That you’ve never understood.

And 10,000 years are breaking.
10,000 years are breaking.

And I drink coffee.
I think that I’m addicted.
If they tell you I was wrong,
Don’t you believe it.

Cause 10,000 years are breaking.
Cause 10,000 years are breaking.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
Copyright 2006

Perfect Crime

I can taste your salt water tears.
I can see your shadow close to mine.
I can hear you saying.
“I commited the perfect crime”.

When I heard my heart stood still.
A thousand reasons couldn’t tell me why.
With broken wings and a tear stained heart.
You commited the perfect crime.
You commited the perfect crime.

Don’t look back, don’t look in.
Come back to me, let me forgive.
You don’t know, what it’s like,
to be the one who’s left behind.
On a good day, on a good day.
angels cry, for the perfect crime.

The roman soldier fell to his knees.
When he heard Jesus call to the sky.
Cause he knew that in our hearts.
We’d commited the perfect crime.
We’d commited the perfect crime.

Stupid boy only 19.
Had this rhythm chained to your side.
With a compass set upon yourself.
You stole the key and betrayed time.

Now when it’s cold and the wind wont stop.
Through the trees where the stars won’t shine.
I can hear your voice saying.
“I commited the perfect crime”.
“I commited the perfect crime”.
“I commited the perfect crime”.
“I commited the perfect crime”.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci
2006

Talking

Talking about it, makes no sense.
I was someone different when I could still make a list.
I can see orange, I see blue.
I see things that I could
never tell you how I felt.

But oh that line I’ve used it so many times.

Cause I just want to know,
I just want to see
I just want to want to give,
and I just want to feel I’m alive

I just want to crawl
I just want to run
I just want to trust.
I just want to feel like I tried.

But oh that line I’ve used it so many times.
Oh that line I’ve used it so many times.

Talking about it, passes time.
I feel numb in knowing.
I could never make up my mind.
The streets are full of accidents.
I think I will stay here.
Safe is money better spent.

Oh what a stupid thing that I’ve just said.

Cause I just want to know,
I just want to see
I just want to want to give,
and I just want to feel I’m alive

I just want to crawl
I just want to run
I just want to trust.
I just want to feel like I tried.

Oh that line I’ve used it so many times.
“But still I’m lonely”
Oh that line I’ve used it so many times.
“But still I’m lonely”

I think it’s time that I just stopped “Talking”.

Cause I just want to know,
I just want to see
I just want to want to give,
and I just want to feel I’m alive

I just want to crawl
I just want to run
I just want to trust.
I just want to feel like I tried.

But oh that line I’ve used it so many times.
“But still I’m lonely”
Oh that line I’ve used it so many times.

The Boys At Twilight

Speak to me once, just one more time.
Wont you lay down for me, on your side.
Sing into, my ear again, ah ah.

Cause the boys at twilight,
sing songs they remember.
The boys at twilight,
sing songs they can’t forget.

I’ll stay with you, til the sun comes up.
I’ll stay with you.
Just as long, as you don’t, give up.

I can’t go back, to numbers and lines.
My heart has flowed into my mind.
I am one against the crowd. ah ah.

Cause the boys at twilight,
sing songs they remember.
The boys at twilight,
sing songs they can’t forget.

I’ll stay with you, til the sun comes up.
I’ll stay with you.
Just as long, as you don’t, give up.

And the words that I want wont come.
As I climb through the darkness undone.
Lowly, lowly, lowly, lowly…

Speak to me once, just one more time.
Wont you lay down for me, on your side.
Sing into, my ear again, ah ah.

Cause the boys at twilight,
sing songs they remember.
The boys at twilight,
sing songs they can’t forget.

I’ll stay with you, til the sun comes up.
I’ll stay with you.
Just as long, as you don’t, give up.

If I Could Only Keep My Head

You and me in the night.
Tell me how we gonna work this out.
You smile and look at the stars.
Talking up a revolution of doubt.

My, my, my yes you know your lines.
Write that down for another time.
Touch my skin i begon to breathe.
But my guilt is for the girl thas waiting home for me.

If I could only keep my head.
And just forget the things you’ve said.
But they burn,
through blood and through my mind.

If I could only keep my head.
And just go home to her instead.
But you see, you and me,
are one of a kind.

You see the darkness in me.
And some how it just makes you laugh.
You turn to the moon and you say.
“She and I both know your past”.

And you know to well that the work is through.
Cause you know that I would leave her just to be with you.

If I could only keep my head.
And just forget the things you’ve said.
But they burn,
through blood and through my mind.

If I could only keep my head.
And just go home to her instead.
But you see, you and me,
are one of a kind.
(With a heart that rings like a telephone
in the middle of the night).

My, my, my yes you know your lines.
Write that down for another time.

If I could only keep my head.
And just forget the things you’ve said.
But they burn,
through blood and through my mind.

If I could only keep my head.
And just go home to her instead.
But you see, you and me,
are one of a kind.

Crash This Car

Please, get out of my way.
i don’t want to hurt anybody but I got to make this feeling go away.
Moon is high, the sky is light.
I know where I am going.

Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.
Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.
I won’t feel so lonely anymore.
Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.

music on, playing my favourite song.
Play it again, yeah play it some more.

Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.
Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.
My blodd is boiling and I wont feel it anymore.
Tonight I’m gonna crash this car.

I know where I’m going.
And I’m glad to be there.
My heart is breaking such much I can’t bear it anymore.

I Send You Messages

I send you messages, everyday.
I wrote you poems, with you on each page.
I say your name perfectly.
But still you don’t love me.

I sing you love songs, down the phone.
“Careless Whisper”, and “Hello”.
I sing just like Lionel Ritchie.
But still you don’t love me.

No matter what I do.
I just can’t seem to make you
love me like, I love you.

I send you messages, everyday.
I wrote you poems, with you on each page.
I say your name perfectly.
But still you don’t love me.
But still you don’t love me.
But still you don’t love me.

Been A Long Time Coming

She drifts in from a smile and says
she’s been thinking bout moving for a while.
Now that the oceans have finally found their bed.
But in the third row from from the back
I hear somebody tryin not to laugh.
As if to say, “some things are better left unsaid”.
But while the world still refuses,
to make a diary of what it chooses,
me and her will just make paper from this thread.

Cause it’s been a long, a long time coming.
Its been a long, a long time coming.
Its a long long time coming.
and I feel like I’m slipping inside my skin.

Today even the cupid, knows that everbody’s stupid.
Cause it’s cheaper when you’re taking your own advice.
Oh but time never changes,
your dreams just get a little more faded.
And you start to look out the window more than twice.
But while this kitchen keeps on humming
and this guitar keeps on strumming.
I’ll just sit here and watch the juggler throw away his dice.

Cause it’s been a long, a long time coming.
Its been a long, a long time coming.
Its a long long time coming.
and I feel like I’m slipping inside my skin.

I knew I was in trouble, when I stepped outside my little buble.
Cause I been saving up my breath ever since.
Cause when you dont love yourself,
you start to hate everyone else.
And you feel like happiness is a place you’ve never been.
I wanna throw away those old photographs,
cause they just confirm to me that I’m feeling sad.
And they feel like a life I never lived.

Cause it’s been a long, a long time coming.
Its been a long, a long time coming.
Its a long long time coming.
and I feel like I’m slipping inside my skin.

I been so lonely, I been going out my mind.
Izzy please tell me, “can you hear me tonight”?
Cause I know now I was wrong,
cause you’ve always been the one.
I just let it all slip through my hands.

Cause it’s been a long, a long time coming.
Its been a long, a long time coming.
Its a long long time coming.
and I feel like I’‘ve finally learnt to just let go.

African Mask

Dance baby dance.
Sway to my guitar.
Let the moment take you where it will.

Drink a little wine.
Leave the world outside.
Loneliness was only made for one.

And I love the fact that you have,
an african mask and,
you say you say “good night” to it.

And I love the fact that you have,
seven moles rolling down your back and.
They’re all in a line.

So no, don’t you stop.
I’ll sit here and watch.
And write it all down in my mind.
In my mind. in my mind.

And I love the fact that you have,
an african mask and,
you say you say “good night” to it.

And I love the fact that you have,
seven moles rolling down your back and.
They’re all in a line.

Dance baby dance.
Sway to my guitar.
When the music’s over I’ll be gone.

Words and Music by Jack Rubinacci

If I Told The Truth

“I’ll pick you up at eight,
if that’s alright with you”
She’s standing by her door,
I don’t know what to do.

I hope she likes my clothes.
I hope she laughes at my jokes.

She steps into the car.
I drive into the city.
Shes talking, talking, talking.
She’s looking so pretty.

So I give her all my best lines.
But I think she knows they’re all lies.

But if I told the truth.
Of whats really in my heart.
That I’m so lonely.
I tear myself apart.

That I’m so insecure.
I make myself sick.
I can’t even look in the mirror.
To see myself like this.

If I told the truth,
would it scare you?

We go out for a meal.
And the conversation flows.
She tells me bout her boy.
Who’s almost two years old.

And she looks so beautiful.
I wish I could hold her in my arms and never let go.

But if I told the truth.
Of whats really in my heart.
That I’m so lonely.
I tear myself apart.

That I’m so insecure.
I make myself sick.
I can’t even look in the mirror.
To see myself like this.

Cause sometimes, at night.
I lie awake, and I’m not sure if I’m gonna make it, through.

But if I told the truth.
Of whats really in my heart.
That I’m so lonely.
I tear myself apart.

That I’m so insecure.
I make myself sick.
I can’t even look in the mirror.
To see myself like this.

I walk her to her door.
And she kisses me on the cheek.
She says “i had fun.
Call me next week”.

As If I Ever Was

Sybil and me,
hanging from time.
With a mouth like a river,
and a river full of lies.

But Mr Prufrock,
is a friend of mine,
cause he has shaken hands,
with the weathered hands of time.

And always together.
Everything and nothing.
Don’t leave me like this.
St Augustine burning.
Elizabeth in Leicester.
Never had it better.
My kingdom is crumbling.
As if I ever was.

Hands and keys to doors that wont open.
Into the river flows every promise not spoken.
But I have never seen Himavent’s dusk.
So I sit upon the shore and watch it turn to rust.

And always together.
Everything and nothing.
Don’t leave me like this.
St Augustine burning.
Elizabeth in Leicester.
Never had it better.
My kingdom is crumbling.
As if I ever was.

Wei la la la
Wei la la la.
The North wind will break my heart.

I have never seen Himavent’s dusk.
So I sit upon the shore and watch it turn to rust.
But Sybil and me we know about time.
From a hand full of dust into a blink of an eye.

And the skyline is frozen.
With the echo of nothing.
But we can just sit here.
And watch the wheel turning.
If we wait til September.
Our eyes will not remember.
What came before us.
As if I ever was.

Wei la la la
Wei la la la.
The North wind will break my heart.