Christopher Cross Live TV in Japan 2009

[Music] [Applause] come on wow all right [Music] me [Music] it's good for me good for you now nothing neither of us could say change the way you feel tonight sometimes love just lives out of sight just one thing before you go just one thing that you've got to know no one will ever touch me that way the way that you did the very first day will never be the same without you [Music] the same without your love [Music] live alone try so hard to rise [Music] love never feels the way that it should i loved you then i guess i love you forever and even though i know we could never stay together i think you felt it could have been if we could just [Music] i will never be the same without your love live alone try so hard to rise [Music] what's good for me good for you now nothing neither of us could say or do you change the way you feel today sometimes the loud just [Music] the way that she did the very [Music] try so hard to rise [Music] hide myself [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you very much welcome billboard live tokyo it's a pleasure to be uh pleasure to be back with you [Music] i woke up to my world this morning [Music] never really had a dream come true [Music] that didn't take [Music] maybe that's the story of my life i should have learned to play that saxophone so i could tell my songs to the street light should [Music] i don't know why my life is [Music] [Music] only just one more thing from the back of my mind [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] one more thing in the back of my mind thank you very very much once again pleasure to be back we've come for many many years now to the club and uh always just an honor to be here and be in your country and play some music for you i have a new album out it's called the cafe carlyle sessions and uh sort of a collection of songs from my albums done in a more kind of acoustic jazz style but one of the real keys to the album and to the live performances we're doing now is the virtuosity of the musicians that i get to share the stage with each evening and the gifts they bring to the stage and tonight is certainly no exception again introduce these fine players to you now from new york city on wins david mann [Applause] also from new york city on piano andy ezrin i'm representing the west coast contingent on upright base and vocals jonathan clark [Applause] and also from l.a on the drums mr dave beyer i'm going to play some songs as i said from all my albums over the years some things from the earlier albums i think you know well as at the same time play some selections from albums you might not be as familiar with this is from a 1996 album a song about missing the one you love when you're far from home as we are a lot of the time traveling on tour but you always have the moon to share with them wherever you happen to be on the planet at any given time it's called open up my [Music] open window my window let your love come in oh every night i opened my window open up my window let your love come in every night that i'm away from you this whole bed seems wet too big and my dreams so small going through the motions as i stare up from my room i begin to realize [Music] [Music] [Music] let your love come in [Music] lying here hugging my pillow in the dark dreaming of your comforts fighting the lonely in my heart and i thought i felt you'd touch me in that old familiar way when the wind came through the cuttings and i heard it call your name [Music] let your love come in [Music] come in [Music] across the sky maybe it's all that i can do [Music] baby [Music] i missed you girl more than you know and i kept a little vigil by my window oh it's funny but it's true darling i did these things for you now no matter where we are we can wish upon that start oh [Music] open up my window let your love come in [Music] and the ezra on channel there [Applause] i very much like to do a title track from my last uh set of studio recordings this is a song about a couple in love and he is sort of celebrating his feelings about this wound by imagining himself walking around the mystical island of avalon where king arthur apparently went to heal his wounds with his guinevere it's a tune that's going to feature all the guys kind of doing their thing and it's called walking in evil [Music] so [Music] maybe i remind you of a lover you had maybe i'm crazy and i make you laugh maybe you thought i had a lot of cash i don't care what it was but i love what it does really dig that your apartment's a mess dig the way the sun shines through your dress i dig your industrial shoes you could say i'm kinky i guess i can't believe my love you are such a fabulous fabulous [Music] and drunk on everything [Music] [Music] god and burkha it's cool that i like john and you like paul baby it's cool forever cool that your spirit is free and still you've chosen me [Music] a man who would be [Music] remember those mushrooms down in mexico how we found our clothes i'll never know baby i hope i've loved you the way that you have loved me i toast to queen of here let's feel like [Music] on everything [Music] we [Music] so is the sirens [Music] see [Music] good morning [Music] yeah dave buyer jonathan clark andy ezra david mann they're walking in avalon [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well it's not far down the paradise at least it's not for me and if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility miracles just you wait and see lead me it's not fun to never never let a reason to pretend and if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again oh the kinds can do miracles just you wait and see lead me [Music] say takes me away to wherever i've always heard it could [Music] be [Music] fantasy it's the best of me and i'm saying [Music] all caught up in the reverie every word is a [Music] takes me away to where i've [Music] soon i will be free [Music] [Music] do [Music] oh it's not far back to sanity at least it's not for me and if the wind is right you can set away and find serenity all the kind of scandal miracles just you went and seen then you believed me [Music] it could be [Music] soon i will be free [Music] [Music] thank you thank you very much i'm gonna do a song for you another song from my last album avalon and uh a song about uh how men sort of uh kind of a little uncomfortable with commitment it's called kind of i love [Music] [Applause] [Music] i've been thinking how to say what i think i'm supposed to say to make you sure that i am worth your time your friends all tell you it's not true i got no business here with you that i'm just not the man they had in mind they may be right but it's too late now cause i got you and i don't know how i want you to see the best of me so baby turn the lights down low won't you hold me kiss me squeeze me stroke me tell me i'm the perfect man but if you ask me how i feel about [Music] [Music] it's is [Music] while i'm trying to fill a grown man's shoes i hope i don't turn away from you but if i screw this up forgive me it's really the best i can do [Music] is [Music] the laughter in the lace the kindness in your face the center be on my pillow when you're gone but i'm still on this fence and i know it makes no sense and i'm trying to find the answer before the dawn [Music] [Music] it's kind of neat [Music] i know that i need you [Music] i know that i want you i'm trying to roam away [Music] so now i'm gonna let you know [Music] david man on alto sax there do a song for you now uh from uh once again from walking in avalon and it's a song about a guy he's uh kind of lives a solitary life lives on his own really kind of likes it that way he's perfectly uh kind of happy going along being on his own kind of making his own schedule and just kind of doing his own thing but a woman comes along and enters his frame of reference and he's all turned around doesn't know what to do and uh excuse me let me get this right it's a tune from wahawking in avalon let's call hunger [Music] so out on the sideline far from the cage that most will know a thing was sacred [Music] no other footprints in the snow you took me down girl down to a place where i don't go now a hunger [Music] the trace of you on my fingers laughs at the rain [Music] oh beard angel the jones in my veins something so desperate inside something i just can't explain baby four years baby i hunger for you [Music] holding on to something pure holding on to something [Music] so [Music] out on the side the wind in my soul is never still this weathered a silence just can't keep out the chill i'm scared that i'll find baby i'll hunger [Applause] [Music] like just a song for you uh from an album called rendezvous that was around 1991 or so and it's a song that was pretty much only released in japan there were some import copies in europe and such but it was pretty much a japanese release on my part and it's a song about looking for the best in every new day kind of uh looking at your glasses being half full these days things are pretty tough but you need to keep that uh that mindset because you never know what tomorrow might bring and it's called in the blink of an eye [Music] she said baby baby i know what you want and i'm sure but it's time for you to try to get yourself the things out [Music] is [Music] i've been crazy baby i know what you mean and i swear [Music] could be done and nothing got an eye isn't the time to choose for the sky let yourself go [Music] there's a fire deep inside i said baby baby let's stay on the moon and let love have its way burning like a falling star until we are a million miles away [Music] let yourself go [Music] let yourself go [Music] did i just turn away [Music] is [Music] time that she reached for the sky watch [Music] forget that tears [Applause] all right um i have a new love in my life and uh she's her name is virginia and she's far away she's in dubai tonight so i miss her very much and i wrote this tune for her it's a new song and um so i'm gonna sing it forward kind of send send love her way across the world and uh just like this [Music] riser blue motions i drift on the waves her hair is the color of a beautiful day her smile's so sunny it just seems to melt my troubles away she's smart and funny we talk to the dawn playing each other our favorite songs i'm getting this [Music] [Music] her kiss is so perfect i know that she's mine [Music] she's the one i've had so long in the back of my mind she knows my secrets and she understands she writes my feelings they're in the sand and as they wash away i become a [Music] follow that feather see where it lands fate brings hearts together lost in love long for heaven and god knows i found my heaven in you [Music] good [Music] and follow that feather forever forever virginia you're the girl that makes it safe to dream and i'm gonna love you forever virginia [Music] virginia we're gonna do a song for you now uh sort of a passionate song kind of erotic sort of passionate lyric and it's a tune that really features the band and their uh their fine musicianship uh it's a tune called in a red room [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] show me what you brought me silk nothing more let light [Music] let me watch you play sharing all your secrets take a breath away learn you like a blind man taste you soft and deep slow gentle torture pray the lord your soul to keep take the night inside you let the fires dance planets spin their fortunes lost inside [Music] before [Music] around us doing with the histories of men on and [Music] naked in the jungle back again [Music] [Music] um [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] histories of men [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] ever alive you wouldn't die ever alive [Music] dave byer jonathan clark andy israel and david mann in a red room [Applause] thanks very much i wanted a song for you now that i wrote for someone i lost in my life and my journey through life i'm sure if you've lost someone closer you can understand the feelings i try to express in this song and the celebration of her life i try to convey um she was lovely on girl named laura carter killed very tragically at the age of 19. thank you so much i want to say again what a pleasure it is to be here at billboard live tokyo uh it's a legendary a club and um so many fine fine musicians who have graced the stage and come through here and visiting musicians from uh from america and uh this next tune i'll do for you was from my second album to the page and it featured some la's finest musicians steve gad on drums able boy on bass michael martin on piano and uh it's called no time for two talk [Music] well i read it in town in the melancholy news the front page our love is through the hand of time is cool i can't stand to hear the truth somehow i won't believe it till i've heard it from for a you there's no place for tears there's no reason to wonder after all these years i'm sure we had some good times so who's to blame [Music] you will have just begun [Music] no place for tears there's no reason to wander after all of these years i'm sure we have some good times so who's to blame so hard to tell when we both [Music] well i read it in town in the melancholy news the front page story is our love is through the hand of time is cold i can't stand to hear the truth somehow i won't believe it till i've heard it from you but there's no time for talk there's no place for tears [Music] [Music] but there's no time for talk and there's no place for tears there's no reason to wander after all these tears [Music] so who's to blame so hard to sell when you both [Music] [Applause] oh my god thank you dave byer jonathan clark and he is running david mann there time for talk the answer well here's a song uh from 1981. it's a song that has its very own title in japan and it's not called this anywhere else in the world it's called the new york city serenade [Music] down the [Music] [Music] i know it's crazy but [Music] the best that you can do this that you can't do is full of love [Music] arthur he does as he pleases all of his life his master's isn't deep in his heart he's just he's just a boy living his life one day at a time he's showing himself a pretty good time he's laughing about the way they want him to be when he comes i know it's crazy but it's true the best that you can do the best that you can do is fall in love [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] i know it's crazy but it's true [Music] [Music] the best that you can do is [Music] i know it's crazy [Music] but it's true [Music] is fall in love [Music] all morning feelings thank you so much david manner on alto saxophone doing the solo that's right thank you so very very much very kind [Applause] all right going to kind of close things out here with the song kind of started it all off for me in 1980 and it was a tune that featured my very good friend michael mcdonald back row vocals [Music] me [Music] [Music] it is [Music] again and i've got such a long way to go [Music] like and i've got such a long way to go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] up [Music] [Music] the rain never was the kind to do as i was told to win before i get old it is the night my body's weak [Music] such a long way to go [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] david mann [Music] thank you very very much you've been wonderful dave buyer jonathan clark david mann god bless you we love you [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you all right [Music] i know i know what's on your mind [Music] one more try [Music] i think [Music] is [Music] before [Music] but this time there's something seemed just different and when i look in your eyes you know i can see that it's true can i hear you say it all right [Music] it's all right [Music] just when you feel helpless nothing left to say love will find us the past behind us [Music] [Music] we all know it gets hot [Music] she [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] thank you so much thank you so so much we'll see you next year thank you [Music] [Applause] you

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Keywords: Christopher Cross, Live, Japan, Ride like the wind, Sailing, Music

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Length: 74min 8sec (4448 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2021