- Hold On, Hold On - Marianne Faithfull
- Wild Mountain Thyme - Marianne Faithfull
- Summer Nights - Marianne Faithfull
- Scarborough Fair - Marianne Faithfull
- Mud Slide Slim - Marianne Faithfull
- Lonesome Traveller - Marianne Faithfull
- He'll Come Back to Me - Marianne Faithfull
- Good Guy - Marianne Faithfull
- For Beautie's Sake - Marianne Faithfull
- Counting - Marianne Faithfull
- Anger - Marianne Faithfull
- Losing - Marianne Faithfull
- Sunny Goodge Street - Marianne Faithfull
- Wrong Road Again - Marianne Faithfull
- Yesterdays - Marianne Faithfull
- With You in Mind - Marianne Faithfull
- What Have I Done Wrong - Marianne Faithfull
- This Little Bird - Marianne Faithfull
- Tomorrow's Calling - Marianne Faithfull
- They Never Will Leave You - Marianne Faithfull
- The Way You Want Me To Be - Marianne Faithfull
- Time Takes Time - Marianne Faithfull
- The Last Thing On My Mind - Marianne Faithfull
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Version 2] - Marianne Faithfull
- That's Right Baby - Marianne Faithfull
- Sweetheart - Marianne Faithfull
- Strange One - Marianne Faithfull
- Spanish Is a Loving Tongue - Marianne Faithfull
- Some Other Spring - Marianne Faithfull
- Ne me quitte pas - Marianne Faithfull
- Sister Morphine [Version 1] - Marianne Faithfull
- She's Got a Problem - Marianne Faithfull
- She Moved thu' the Fair - Marianne Faithfull
- She - Marianne Faithfull
- Sally Free and Easy - Marianne Faithfull
- Sad Lisa - Marianne Faithfull
- Pride - Marianne Faithfull
- Portland Town - Marianne Faithfull
- Plaisir d'Amour - Marianne Faithfull
- Paris Bells - Marianne Faithfull
- Our Love Has Gone - Marianne Faithfull
- Once I Had A Sweetheart - Marianne Faithfull
- Oh Look Around You - Marianne Faithfull
- Morning Sun - Marianne Faithfull
- Mary Ann [Version 1] - Marianne Faithfull
- Lullaby - Marianne Faithfull
- Lucky Girl - Marianne Faithfull
- Lady Madeleine - Marianne Faithfull
- Jaberwock - Marianne Faithfull
- Intrigue - Marianne Faithfull
- In the Night Time - Marianne Faithfull
- If I Never Get to Love You - Marianne Faithfull
- Hang on to a Dream - Marianne Faithfull
- Greensleeves - Marianne Faithfull
- Green Are Your Eyes - Marianne Faithfull
- Don't Make Promises - Marianne Faithfull
- Don't Forget Me - Marianne Faithfull
- Gluttony - Marianne Faithfull
- Full Fathom Five - Marianne Faithfull
- Four Strong Winds - Marianne Faithfull
- Crazy Lady Blues - Marianne Faithfull
- Covetousness - Marianne Faithfull
- Fare Thee Well - Marianne Faithfull
- Falling In Love Again - Marianne Faithfull
- Et Maintenant - Marianne Faithfull
- Epilogue - Marianne Faithfull
- Blowin' In The Wind - Marianne Faithfull
- Dreamin' My Dreams - Marianne Faithfull
- Down Town - Marianne Faithfull
- Down by the Salley Garden - Marianne Faithfull
- Coquillages - Marianne Faithfull
- Come My Way [Version 2] - Marianne Faithfull
- Come My Way [Version 1] - Marianne Faithfull
- Come And Stay With Me - Marianne Faithfull
- Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
- Brain Drain - Marianne Faithfull
- Bored By Dreams - Marianne Faithfull
- Beware Of Darkness - Marianne Faithfull
- Bells of Freedom - Marianne Faithfull
- All I Wanna Do in Life - Marianne Faithfull
- How Should I Your True Love Know - Marianne Faithfull
- Epilogue (in album The Seven Deadly Sins) - Marianne Faithfull
- TOWER OF SONG - Marianne Faithfull
- Great Expectations - Marianne Faithfull
- File it under Fun from the Past - Marianne Faithfull
- After the Ceasefire - Marianne Faithfull
- Sloth - Marianne Faithfull
- Prologue (in album The Seven Deadly Sins) - Marianne Faithfull
- Lust - Marianne Faithfull
- Envy - Marianne Faithfull
- Bilbao Song - Marianne Faithfull
- Stranger intro - Marianne Faithfull
- Sign of Judgement - Marianne Faithfull
- I'll Keep it With Mine - Marianne Faithfull
- I Ain't Goin' Down To the Well No More - Marianne Faithfull
- As Tears Go by [Version 2] - Marianne Faithfull
- A Stranger on Earth - Marianne Faithfull
- Visions of Johanna - Marianne Faithfull
- Southern Butterfly - Marianne Faithfull
- Mary Ann [Version 2] - Marianne Faithfull
- Rich Kid Blues - Marianne Faithfull
- Long Black Veil - Marianne Faithfull
- Chords of Fame - Marianne Faithfull
- The Most of what is Least - Marianne Faithfull
- North Country Maid - Marianne Faithfull
- Cockleshells - Marianne Faithfull
- What Have They Done To The Rain - Marianne Faithfull
- The Sha La La Song - Marianne Faithfull
- In My Time of Sorrow - Marianne Faithfull
- I'm A Loser - Marianne Faithfull
- I'd Like to Dial Your Number - Marianne Faithfull
- Can't You Hear My Heartbeat - Marianne Faithfull
- Young Girl Blues - Marianne Faithfull
- You Can't Go Where the Roses Go - Marianne Faithfull
- Yesterday - Marianne Faithfull
- Reason to Believe - Marianne Faithfull
- Wait For Me Down by the River - Marianne Faithfull
- That Was the Day (Nashville) - Marianne Faithfull
- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Marianne Faithfull
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Marianne Faithfull
- Fairy Tale Hero - Marianne Faithfull
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Version 1] - Marianne Faithfull
- I'm the Sky - Marianne Faithfull
- I Have a Love - Marianne Faithfull
- Tenderness - Marianne Faithfull
- So Sad - Marianne Faithfull
- House of the Rising Sun [Version 2] - Marianne Faithfull
- Black Girl - Marianne Faithfull
- Working Class Hero - Marianne Faithfull
- Witches' Song - Marianne Faithfull
- Why'd Ya Do It - Marianne Faithfull
- Ireland - Marianne Faithfull
- Falling from Grace - Marianne Faithfull
- Want To Buy Some Illusions - Marianne Faithfull
- Street Singers Farewell - Marianne Faithfull
- Mack the Knife - Marianne Faithfull
- Complainte de la Seine - Marianne Faithfull
- Alabama Song - Marianne Faithfull
- The Stars Line Up - Marianne Faithfull
- Why Did We Have To Part - Marianne Faithfull
- Who Will Take My Dreams Away - Marianne Faithfull
- When I Find My Life - Marianne Faithfull
- In The Factory - Marianne Faithfull
- Vagabond Ways - Marianne Faithfull
- Truth, Bitter Truth - Marianne Faithfull
- Times Square - Marianne Faithfull
- There Is A Ghost - Marianne Faithfull
- The Mystery Of Love - Marianne Faithfull
- The Hawk - Marianne Faithfull
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Marianne Faithfull
- The Crane Wife 3 - Marianne Faithfull
- The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife - Marianne Faithfull
- The Ballad of Sexual Dependency - Marianne Faithfull
- Something Good - Marianne Faithfull
- Sweet Little Sixteen - Marianne Faithfull
- Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull
- Song For Nico - Marianne Faithfull
- Ooh Baby Baby - Marianne Faithfull
- Solitude - Marianne Faithfull
- Sleep - Marianne Faithfull
- SISTER MORPHINE - Marianne Faithfull
- Sing Me Back Home - Marianne Faithfull
- Sex With Strangers - Marianne Faithfull
- Running for Our Lives - Marianne Faithfull
- Prologue - Marianne Faithfull
- Pirate Jenny - Marianne Faithfull
- Penthouse Serenade - Marianne Faithfull
- No Reason - Marianne Faithfull
- No Child of Mine - Marianne Faithfull
- My Friends Have - Marianne Faithfull
- Morning Come - Marianne Faithfull
- Monday Monday - Marianne Faithfull
- Many a Mile to Freedom - Marianne Faithfull
- Love, Life and Money - Marianne Faithfull
- Love Money - Marianne Faithfull
- Like Being Born - Marianne Faithfull
- Last Song - Marianne Faithfull
- Kimbie - Marianne Faithfull
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Marianne Faithfull
- Intro - Marianne Faithfull
- I'm Not Lisa - Marianne Faithfull
- I'm Looking for Blue Eyes - Marianne Faithfull
- How Many Worlds - Marianne Faithfull
- Honky Tonk Angels - Marianne Faithfull
- Goin' Back - Marianne Faithfull
- Go Away From My World - Marianne Faithfull
- Gloomy Sunday - Marianne Faithfull
- For Wanting You - Marianne Faithfull
- Flaming September - Marianne Faithfull
- Eye Communication - Marianne Faithfull
- Easy Come, Easy Go - Marianne Faithfull
- Dear God, Please Help Me - Marianne Faithfull
- Crazy Love - Marianne Faithfull
- Come My Way - Marianne Faithfull
- Children Of Stone - Marianne Faithfull
- Black Coffee - Marianne Faithfull
- Before The Poison - Marianne Faithfull
- As tears go by - Marianne Faithfull
- Alone - Marianne Faithfull
- A Perfect Stranger - Marianne Faithfull
- 20th Century Blues - Marianne Faithfull
- Mary Ann - Marianne Faithfull
- Wilder Shores of Love - Marianne Faithfull
- Wherever I Go - Marianne Faithfull
- What's the Hurry - Marianne Faithfull
- Vanilla O'Lay - Marianne Faithfull
- This Time - Marianne Faithfull
- The Wedding - Marianne Faithfull
- The Stations - Marianne Faithfull
- The Pleasure Song - Marianne Faithfull
- The Blue Millionaire - Marianne Faithfull
- The Ballade Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
- That's How Every Empire Falls - Marianne Faithfull
- Surabaya Johnny - Marianne Faithfull
- Somebody (Loves You) - Marianne Faithfull
- Sliding Through Life On Charm - Marianne Faithfull
- Salomon Song - Marianne Faithfull
- Rosie, Rosie - Marianne Faithfull
- Past, Present And Future - Marianne Faithfull
- Nobody's Fault - Marianne Faithfull
- Mon Ami, My Friend - Marianne Faithfull
- Marathon Kiss - Marianne Faithfull
- Love in the Afternoon - Marianne Faithfull
- KISSIN' TIME - Marianne Faithfull
- It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Marianne Faithfull
- Incarceration of a Flower Child - Marianne Faithfull
- In Germany Before The War - Marianne Faithfull
- I'm On Fire - Marianne Faithfull
- House Of The Rising Sun - Marianne Faithfull
- Hello Stranger - Marianne Faithfull
- Guilt - Marianne Faithfull
- Ghost Dance - Marianne Faithfull
- A Waste Of Time - Marianne Faithfull
- For Beauty's Sake - Marianne Faithfull
- Electra - Marianne Faithfull
- Easy in the City - Marianne Faithfull
- Down From Dover - Marianne Faithfull
- Desperanto - Marianne Faithfull
- Corrina, Corrina - Marianne Faithfull
- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Marianne Faithfull
- Blazing Away - Marianne Faithfull
- Ashes in My Hand - Marianne Faithfull
- Annabel Lee - Marianne Faithfull
The most tender place in my heart is for strangers
I know it's unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time
Compared to some I've been around
But I really tried so hard
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
In the end I was the mean girl
Or somebody's in-between girl
Now it's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
I leave the party at three a.m.
Alone, thank God
With a valium from the bride
It's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
And that's as real as true love
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
That echo chorus lied to me with its
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Blooms around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go.
And we'll all go together
To pick wild mountain thyme
All around the bloomin' heather.
Will you go, lassie, go.
I will give my love a bowl
By young clear crystal fountain
And in it I will place
All the flowers of the mountain.
Will you go, lassie, go.
And we'll all go together
To pick wild mountain thyme
All around the bloomin' heather.
Will you go, lassie, go.
If my true love she won't go
I will surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go.
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the bloomin' heather.
Will you go, lassie, go.
Winter's almost gone,
Oh how I've waited so long
For summer nights.
When there's magic in the air
And I don't have a care,
All that matters to me
Is that you are here
On summer nights.
There's a little cafe
Where we can hear music play.
They keep the lights turned down low
It's a place where lovers go.
There you'll hold me tight and say
Our love will always be this way
On summer nights.
At the end of the day
We can go down to the bay
And together hand in hand
We will walk along the sand
On summer nights.
In our little cafe
We'll dance the night away
And we know our love will be
Always true eternally.
And when the moon begins to shine
I can see that you are mine
On summer nights.
On summer nights.
Have you been to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one that lives there
For once she once was a true lover of mine.
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
One with no seams, of fine needlework
And then she'll be a true lover of mine.
Tell her to dry it 'pon yonder thorn
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
That never bore fruit since Adam was born
And then she'll be a true lover of mine.
Ah, can you find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Between the salt sea and the sea sand
Or never be a true lover of mine.
And can you plough it with a sheep's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
And sow it all over with one peppercorn
Or never be a true lover of mine.
And when you have done and finished your work
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Then come to me for your cambric shirt
And then you'll be a true lover of mine.
Mud Slide Slim and the blue horizon,
Oh, Mud Slide and depending on you.
I don't know but I've been told
There's a time from time to time
I can't eat, I can't sleep
But I just like to move my feet
'Cause there's nothing like the sound of sweet soul music
To change your lady's mind
And there's nothing like a walk on down by the bayou
To leave the world behind.
Mud Slide, I'm depending on you,
Mr. Mud Slide Slim on the blue horizon.
I've been letting the time go by, letting the time go by,
Yes, I'm letting the time go by, letting the time go by.
I wanted cash in my hand
Pick upon a piece of land
Build myself a cabin back in the woods.
Lord, it's there I'm gonna stay
Until there comes a day
When this old world starts changing for the good.
Now the reason I'm smiling
Is over on an island
On a hillside in the woods where I belong.
I wanna thank Jimmy Jimmy John and Mick and Robbie
Of Nojets Construction to send me down homestead on a farm.
Oh, Mud Slide, I'm depending on you.
Mr. Mud Slim on the blue horizon.
I've been letting the time go by, letting the time go by,
Yes, I'm letting the time go by, letting the time go by.
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm travelling on.
Travelled in the mountains, travelled in the valley,
Well, I've travelled in the mountains, travelled in the valley,
Travelled in the mountains, travelled in the valley,
I'm travelling on.
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm travelling on.
Travelled with the rich, I've travelled with the beggar,
Well, I've travelled with the rich, I've travelled with the beggar,
Travelled with the rich, I've travelled with the beggar,
I'm travelling on.
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm travelling on.
One of these days I'm gonna stop all my travelling,
One of these days I'm gonna stop all my travelling,
One of these days I'm gonna stop all my travelling,
I'm travelling on.
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller
I'm travelling on.
Do you hear
What I hear,
Or can I have been deceived ?
Voices singing,
Bells are ringing,
They say
He'll come back to me.
Though he's gone,
In my sleep
As if he were here with me,
He'll be back now,
I can tell now,
You'll see,
He'll come back to me.
Once more, once more,
Tell me that he's still sure.
I know, I know
That he loves me much more
And I'll be here waiting
Until he comes back to me.
There's one thing
You should know:
Just how much I love him so.
Though he hurt me,
He won't desert me,
And now
He'll come back to me.
Once more, once more,
Tell me that he's still sure.
I know, I know
That he loves me much more
And I'll be here waiting
Until he comes back to me.
There's one thing
You should know:
Just how much I love him so.
Though he hurt me,
He won't desert me,
And now
He'll come back to me.
So you see,
Patiently
I'll be waiting here for his call.
Voices singing,
Church bells ringing
To say
He's come back to me.
(Bert's Blues)
I've been looking for a good guy
For a long, long time.
Been looking for a good guy,
One to ease my mind
As well as my time.
I've been singing in the evening,
Flying through the night.
But I hurt my good guy,
I hope he makes out right,
Flying through the night.
I've been picking up the sunshine,
Been drinking down the rain.
I've been picking up the sunshine,
It makes me wonder when
I'll see him again.
You know time could bring a change, man,
It ain't for me to say.
You'll soon be out of range, man,
This could only be the way
It's meant to be.
Fairy castle stark and black in the moonlight,
The jingle jangle jester rides his stallion.
Seagulls fly across my mind forever.
Sadly goes the wind on its way to Hades.
Would I, should I, could I be a stranger ?
I shall walk right by and sigh good-bye.
I've been looking for a good guy
For a long, long time
Been looking for a good guy,
One to blow my mind
As well as my time.
I've been looking, you know I've been looking,
You better believe I've been looking.
I've been picking up the sunshine,
I've been drinking down the rain.
I've been thinking of the sunshine,
I've been looking for a good guy,
One to ease my mind
As well as my time.
Blow my mind
As well as my time,
Blow my mind ...
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beautie's sake ?
My heart's achin' 'cause I can't ignore you,
My heart's breakin' 'cause I can't reward you
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul
Feel like you're dyin' for beautie's sake
Say that you're lyin' for beautie's sake
Who cares what you're feeling ?
You've lost and you're dealing for beautie's sake.
In your circle you hold supreme sway,
Can you imagine not getting your own way ?
What can I do
'Cause you stepped inside my soul ?
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beautie's sake ?
My heart's achin' 'cause I can't ignore you
My heart's breakin' 'cause I can't reward you.
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul.
You stand astride the city takin' it all in
Lyin' before the fire admiring your own skin
Beautiful and dumb ¡ª avarice and then some
What can I do ?
What can I do ?
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul ?
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beautie's sake ?
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you fakin' for beautie's sake ?
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin' for beautie's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beautie's sake ?
Now is the glimmering spinning beginning
Of something I've prayed for and counted the minutes
To be in the shadows of sheltering meadows
Of night, here with you in my arms.
This is the moment that pauses to hold us
As you and I move in a background of wonder,
Surrounded by countless enclosures
Of nocturnal unspoken music of joy.
Counting times you have stood at the foot of my ivory tower
And waited, and called out my name by the hour,
And counted on the wings of my heartstrings
To carry the sound, I have counted on pleading,
You see how I need you, come down.
And now between twilight and midnight I come to you,
Down in my gown of soft moonbeams and starlight,
Bright is the evening, the breezes have fenced us
And nestled against us ¡ª
You're here ¡ª
And warm.
And mine till the time
When the dawn will awake you,
The morning will shake you,
The highway will take you.
But now all the rays of the moon making bouquets
Will swim through the luster of lingering street lights
We count on the night to hold everything even,
And count on forgetting that you will be leaving,
And destiny's folded and then in the dawn you'll be gone.
But now as the gardens of softening night time
Are blossoming slowly around where we are,
You and I come together
And walk through the dreams of the stars.
So here while the song of the deepening evening
Is singing to me from the light in your eyes,
We can count on each other to move to the beach of tomorrow
And know where we've been.
FAMILY
We're at a stand-still! What she's been sending,
It's not any money a man can build a house with.
She's as giddy as a cyclone!
All the profits go for her pleasure!
And we're at a stand-still, for what she's been sending
Is not any money a man can build a house with.
Won't she settle down to business ?
Won't she ever learn to save something ?
For what the feather-brain is sending is not any kind of money
A man can build a little house with.
ANNA I
We're making progress.
We have come to Los Angeles
And every door is open here to welcome extras.
We only need a bit of practice
Avoiding possible faux pas
And what can stop us going straight to the top then ?
FAMILY
O Lord, look down upon our daughter,
Show her the way that leads the Good to Thy reward.
ANNA I
If you take offense at injustice,
Mister Big will show he's offended;
If a curse or a blow can enrage you so
Your usefulness here is ended.
Then mind what the Good Book tells us
When it says: ";Resist not Evil.";
Unforgiving anger is from the Devil.
It took time to teach my sister that wrath would not do
In Los Angeles, the third big town we came to.
Where her open disapproval of injustice
Was so widely disapproved.
I forever told her: ";Practice self-control, Anna,
For you know how much it costs you if you don't.";
And she understood and answered:
ANNA II
Yes, I know, Anna.
You know I see you when you're sleeping
When you're all insane with dreaming
I can tell you that you been fighting, baby
But you've been losing
You know there's clearer ways of thinking
And there's quicker ways of dying
But I'm a sucker for your drinking
And now, I'm losing
I don't know who you think you're cheating
Or with whom you have been sleeping
But all the shit that you've been eating
Says you're losing
When I let my hate pervert me
And there's no more tears for crying
I'll just kill you if you hurt me
I'll kill you
You know I see you when you're sleeping
When you're all insane with dreaming
I can tell you that you been fighting, baby
Fighting hard and losing
Fighting hard, and losing
On the firefly platform of sunny Goodge Street
A violent hash-smoker shook a chocolate machine
Involved in an eating scene
Smashing into neon streets in their stillness
Smearing their eyes on the crazy Kali goddess
Listening to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic.
";My, my";, they sigh.
In dull house rooms with coloured lights swinging
Strange music boxes sadly tinkling
Drink in the sun shining all around you.
";My, my";, they sigh.
The magician, he sparkles in satin and velvet,
You gaze at his splendour with eyes you've not used yet.
I tell you his name is Love, Love, Love.
";My, my";, they sigh.
";My, my";, so high.
";My, my"; they sigh.
Hmm, hmm.
Hmm, hmm.
Hmm, hmm.
I can't seem to learn not to love you,
You get to me every time.
You're someone I just can't say 'no' to,
And you're so good at changing my mind.
Here I go down that wrong road again,
Going back where I've already been.
Even though I know where it will end,
Here I go down that wrong road again.
Though I see the web that you're weaving,
You and your soft easy lies,
If I stop to think I'm believing,
And I'm falling for you one more time.
Here I go down that wrong road again,
Going back where I've already been,
Even though I know where it will end
Here I go down that wrong road again.
Here I go down that wrong road again,
Going back where I've already been.
Even though I know where it will end,
Here I go down that wrong road again.
Here I go down that wrong road again,
Going back where I've already been.
Even though I know where it will end,
Here I go down that wrong road again.
Here I go down that wrong road again,
Going back where I've already been.
Yesterdays, yesterdays,
Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days.
Olden days, golden days,
Days of mad romance and love.
Then gay youth was mine
Truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Then truth was mine
Sad am I, glad am I,
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays.
Yesterdays, yesterdays,
Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days.
Golden days, olden days,
Days of mad romance and love.
Then gay youth was mine
Truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Then truth was mine
Sad am I, glad am I,
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays.
I'll take a walk all by myself
So I can think of nothing else
But loving you when we find time.
These are the things I'll do with you in mind.
I'll pick a rose and feel the thorn
Every day that you are gone
A new memory to live I'll find.
These are the things I'll do with you in mind.
There'll come a day when I can live
To go and bring you back to me.
We'll dance and sing and toast someone.
There are the things I'll do with you in mind.
There are the things I'll do with you in mind.
What have I done wrong ?
It seems I've hurt you once again,
I try so hard but all in vain.
Tears in your eyes you can't disguise,
But please forgive me if you can.
What have I done wrong ?
I hate to make you suffer so,
I'm not a child and I should know
Where laughing ends and tears begin
And I must seem so cruel to you.
Come, let me kiss your tender lips
And you will see our love can be.
What have I done wrong ?
You turn away when I am here
And yet I know you need not fear.
If I had time to ease your mind
I'd let you know how much I care.
What have I done wrong ?
There's a little bird that somebody sends
Down to the earth to live on the wind.
Born on the wind and he sleeps on the wind
This little bird that somebody sends.
He's light and fragile and feathered sky blue,
So thin and graceful the sun shines through.
This little bird who lives on the wind,
This little bird that somebody sends.
He flies so high up in the sky
Out of reach of human eye.
And the only time that he touches the ground
Is when that little bird
Is when that little bird
Tomorrow's calling with promises new
I hear the echo of yesterday's blue.
Silver patterns of porcelain rose
Cobwebs of filley green.
Where I get them from nobody knows,
No one but you can see.
All the treasures of time will be there,
Take them away, they're free.
The finest thing is a love that we'll share
If you will follow me.
If I were foolish I'd promise the sky.
But I must not let my hopes run too high.
And I wonder when all's said and done
What will the future be ?
All I know is that you are the one
If you will follow me.
If you will follow me.
If you will follow me.
And I wonder when all is said and done
What will the future be ?
All I know is that you are the one
If you will follow me,
If you will follow me,
If you will follow me.
Tomorrow's calling with promises new
I hear the echo of yesterday's blue.
I hear the echo of yesterday's blue.
I hear the echo of yesterday's blue.
They never will leave you
The pain and the sorrow
Of love that one day maybe
You will learn
Can only be shared by you
And how much I yearn
The days that we once knew
Will never return.
They never will leave
The rain and the storms
The snow and the winds
That guide you depart.
They took you far away
Right out of my life.
They condemned us and
They'd stolen my heart.
They never will leave you,
My hopes or my memories.
I've lost all my loving,
Got nowhere to turn.
My happiness with you
Has drowned in my tears,
The tears that will fall until
The day you return.
The tears that will fall until
The day you return.
The tears that will fall until
The day you return.
I wish I could dance like Fontaine,
Floating along on a breeze,
But when you come home
And I get you alone
I wish that I could put you at ease.
I wish I could sing you a love song,
Sing about the silvery moon,
But the things that you say
When I think it's OK
Always seem to sing out of tune.
Oh, I'm not the way
That you want me to be,
No, it's not like me,
No, it's not like me.
You say I should dress like a Lady,
Read all the best magazines,
But the people in there
And the clothes that they wear,
Take it from the girl of your dreams.
You wish I could be a show-piece
Something to show all your friends
Is it true what they say,
That I get in your way ?
Is this about the place that it ends ?
I'm not the way
That you want me to be,
No, it's not like me,
No, it's not like me.
I wish I could dance like Fontaine,
Floating along on the breeze
And when you come home
And I get you alone
I wish that I could put you at ease.
The wind laughs and the world cries,
And I don't care anymore.
I can only hear the sound of my head,
And the soft sea roar.
For the wind laughs and the world cries
And I shall laugh with the wind.
Today will end when the sun will rise
When I shall laugh to your blind eyes.
The world can break
And time takes time to realise.
For the wind laughs, the world cries
And I shall laugh with the wind.
I shall laugh like a child in the wind and change
As love for me has always been strange.
The wind laughs and the world cries,
But I don't care anymore.
I can only hear the sound of my head,
And the soft sea roar.
For the wind laughs and the world cries
And I shall laugh with the wind.
It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turning
In your hand, in your hand.
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
Will there be not a trace left behind ?
I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind.
You've got reasons a-plenty for going,
This I know, this I know.
For the weeds have been steadily growing,
Please don't go, please don't go.
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
Will there be not a trace left behind ?
I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind,
You know that was the last thing on my mind.
As I lie in my bed in the mornin'
Without you, without you.
Every song in my breast dies a born-in
Without you, without you.
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
Will there be not a trace left behind ?
I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind.
The first time ever I saw your face
I saw the sun rise in your eyes
That the moon and stars were a gift you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love,
That was there at my command.
The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine,
I thought our joy would never end
And would last till the end of time, my love,
And would last till the end of time.
That's right baby,
It seems to me you've won.
Slip tight, baby,
You had a lot of fun.
You tried to make a fool of me
And I'm the fool who just couldn't see.
That's right baby,
Laugh until you cry.
Good night baby,
But may I ask you why ?
I gave you everything I had
Babe, that couldn't be so bad ?
I wonder why there's no tear in your eye.
I wonder why there's love left for me.
That's right baby
Get it while you can.
Look right baby
You'll see with another man.
While you're waiting all alone
You'll try to call but I won't be home.
Sweetheart
I'm changing my role in life,
I'm not re-arranging the main things in my life.
I ain't sacrificing what I hold as true,
I ain't sacrificing, sweetheart even for you.
Sweetheart ¡ª I'm changing my mode of life,
I'm not re-arranging the main things in my life.
I'm not giving up now in mixed company.
I'll be holding on now looking to find my identity.
My freedom means too much to give up now.
It doesn't matter to you anyhow.
Sweetheart.
Sweetheart.
My freedom means too much to give up now.
And did it matter so much anyhow.
Sweetheart
I'm changing my role in life,
I ain't re-arranging the main things in my life.
I ain't sacrificing what I hold as true,
I ain't sacrificing, sweetheart even for you.
My freedom means too much to give up now.
And did it matter so much anyhow.
Sweetheart.
Sweetheart.
Sweetheart.
I should have known
You were a strange one.
You should have said
That you don't like to love.
But you never told me no lies.
Don't have to apologise.
When everything's said and done,
I was the strange one.
I should have known
You were a strange one.
You should have said
I don't want to love.
But I never told you no lies.
I don't want to apologise,
When everything's said and done,
What can I do ¡ª
That boy's in love with you.
I should have seen it coming,
I should have known what to expect.
I could be off and running,
Looking for my respect.
You don't need to criticise,
You never did realise,
When everything's said and done,
You were a strange one.
You were a strange one.
You were a strange one.
You were a strange one.
Spanish is a loving tongue
Soft as music, light as spray
'Twas a boy I learnt it from
Living down Sonora way.
He didn't look much like a lover
Yet I say his love words over
Often when I'm all alone,
Mi amor, mi corazon.
Moonlight on the patio,
Old Señora nodding near.
Me and Juan were talking low
So the Madre couldn't hear.
How those hours would go a-flying
And too soon I'd hear him sighing,
Softly murmuring sweet and low,
";Mi amor, mi corazon.";
Haven't seen him since that night,
He can't cross the line you know.
Wanted for a gambling fight,
Well, perhaps it's better so.
Yet I sometimes sort of miss him
Since that last sad night I kissed him
Softly murmuring sweet and low,
";Adios, mi corazon.";
Some other spring I'll try to love,
Now I still cling to faded blossoms.
Fresh when one left crushed and torn
Like the love affair I'm on.
Some other spring, when twilight falls,
Will the night bring another to me ?
Not your kind will let me find
It's not true that love is blind.
Sun shines around me,
But deep in my heart, it's cold as ice.
Love wants you for me,
But can the story be told twice ?
Some other spring will my heart ring
Stirring to sing love's magic music.
Then forget the old duet
Find love with some other spring.
Non, je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi,
Je ne pourrai pas, ne pars pas, j'en mourrai!
Un instant sans toi et je n'existe pas,
Mais mon amour, ne me quitte pas.
Mon amour, je t'attendrai toute ma vie,
Reste pr¨¨s de moi, reviens, je t'en supplie!
J'ai besoin de toi, je veux vivre pour toi,
Oh, mon amour, ne me quitte pas.
Ils se sont s¨¦par¨¦s sur le quai d'une gare.
Ils se sont ¨¦loign¨¦s dans un dernier regard.
Oh, je t'aime! ¡ª ne me quitte pas.
Non, je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi,
Je ne pourrai pas, ne pars pas, j'en mourrai!
Un instant sans toi et je n'existe pas,
Oh, mon amour, ne me quitte pas.
Mon amour, je t'attendrai toute ma vie,
Reste pr¨¨s de moi, reviens, je t'en supplie!
J'ai besoin de toi, je veux vivre pour toi,
Oh, mon amour, ne me quitte pas.
Here I lie in my hospital bed,
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again.
Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that my pain is so strong.
All the other patients say they've never seen a man with such pain,
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again ?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long,
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong.
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ear.
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here ?
What am I doing in this place ?
Why does the doctor have no face ?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor.
Can't you see, Sister Morphine, just trying to score.
Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem.
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams.
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast
And that this shot will be the last.
Please, Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool hands on my head.
Hey, Sister Morphine, you'd better make up the lyin' bed
'Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead,
And you can sit around and watch all the clean white sheets stain red.
In the end will it matter that you've gone?
In the end will I go on minding that you've gone?
Will the night always seem so long,
Is it really darkest before dawn?
Will I see whiskey as a mother in the end?
In the end will I smash my brains with drinking
Till I fall down on the floor,
Will I hiccup and jabber,
Saying things I never meant?
Will I kiss and cry and wake to find
A sordid stranger by my bed?
Will the world shake its sensible head
And say the words that have to be said:
"she's got a problem."
Every problem has a solution in the end
And solutions must be final
For help gets so unhelpful near the end.
When I take my last ride
Down the big dipper slide,
Will I care, will it matter
If the world should say:
"she had a problem."
She had a problem.
She had a problem.
In the end will it matter that you've gone?
In the end will I go on minding that you've gone?
Will the night always seem so long,
Is it really darkest before dawn?
Will I see whiskey as a mother
My young love said to me, ";My brothers won't mind
And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind.";
Then she turned her face to me and this she did say:
";It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.";
She turned away from me and moved thru' the fair
And I watched her so swiftly move here and move there.
Then she turned away homeward with one star awake
Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake.
Last night, I did dream that my dead love come in.
So softly she entered that her feet made no din,
Then she turned her head to me and this she did say:
";It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.";
She lives alone with no one
Who can see she's unhappy.
She knows what she lost,
Still she is waiting for more.
She could be living in hell
And not know someone loves her.
What can she do,
What is she waiting for?
The day turns to night
He just can't find the right words to tell her
Twisting and turning and looking for
Something to say.
If you would let me hold you
I wouldn't walk away
That's what he wants,
That's what he wants to say.
What can she lose,
What is she waiting for?
He knows when she cries
And he saw through the lies that she told him.
She's dreaming and planning
Of how she could ask him to stay.
If you would let me love you,
I wouldn't be the same.
Please can we try,
Sally, free and easy,
That should be her name.
Sally, free and easy,
That should be her name.
Took a sailor's lovin'
For a nursery game.
Well, the heart she gave me
Wasn't made of stone.
No, the heart she gave me
Wasn't made of stone.
It was sweet and hollow
Like a honeycomb.
Think I'll wait till sunset,
See the ensign down.
Think I'll wait till sunset,
See the ensign down.
THen I'll take the tideway
To my burial ground.
Sally, free and easy,
That should be her name.
Sally, free and easy,
That should be her name.
When my body's landed.
Hope she dies of shame.
She hangs her head and cries on my shirt
She must be hurt very badly.
Tell me what's making you sad, Li ?
Open your door, don't hide in the dark.
You're lost in the dark, you can trust me,
'Cause you know that's how it must be.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
Her eyes like windows trickle in rain
Upon the pain getting deeper
Though my love wants to relieve her.
She walks alone from wall to wall,
Lost in her hall she can't hear me,
Though I know she likes to be near me.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
She sits in her corner by the door.
There must be more I can tell her
If she really wants me to help her.
I'll do what I can to show her the way
And maybe one day I will free her
Though I know no-one can see her.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
ANNA I
So we saved up, bought ourselves an outfit,
Nighties, nylons, beautiful dresses.
Soon we found a job that was going,
A job as dancer in a cabaret,
A job in memphis, the second big town we came to.
Oh how hard it was for Anna!
Beautiful clothes can make a good girl particular ¡ª
When the drinking tigress meets herself in the pool,
She's apt to become a menace.
She began talking about art (of all things),
About the Art (if you please) of Cabaret.
In Memphis, the second big town we came to,
It wasn't Art that sort of people came for.
That sort of people came for something else;
And when a man has paid for his evening
He expects a good show in return.
So if you cover up your bosom and thighs like you had a rash,
Don't be surprised to see them yawning.
So I told my art-loving sister Anna:
";Leave your pride to those who can well afford it.
Do what you are asked to do and not what you want,
For that isn't what is wanted.";
Oh but I had trouble, I can tell you,
With her fancy pig-head notions.
Night by night I sat by her bedside,
Holding her hand and saying this:
";Think of our little house in Louisiana!";
FAMILY
O Lord, look down upon our daughter,
Show her the way that leads the good to Thy reward.
Who fights the good fight and all self subdues,
Wins the Palm, gains the Crown.
I was born in Portland town
I was born in Portland town
Yes I was, yes I was, yes I was.
I got married in Portland town
I got married in Portland town
Yes I did, yes I did, yes I did.
I had children, one, two, three
I had children, one, two, three
Yes I did, yes I did, yes I did.
Took my children off to war
Took my children off to war
Yes they did, yes they did, yes they did.
Killed my children one by one
Killed my children one by one
Yes they did, yes they did, yes they did.
No more children in Portland Town
No more children in Portland Town
No I won't, no I won't, no I won't.
I was born in Portland town
I was born in Portland town
Yes I was, yes I was, yes I was.
Plaisir d'amour
Ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour
Dure toute la vie
Your eyes kissed mine
I saw the love in them shine
But you gave me heaven right then
When your eyes kissed mine
Plaisir d'amour
Ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour
Dure toute la vie
My love loves me
And all the wonders I see
But the rainbow
Shines in my window
My love loves me
Plaisir d'amour
Ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour
Past the caf¨¦ shutters down,
No one stirs in the town.
The morning after the rain
The barges move on the Seine.
Down the avenue lined with trees
Paris bells ring on the breeze
Paris bells ring on the breeze.
Dawn is breaking, birds start to sing,
Sun is rising, warms everything.
The echo of footsteps on a cobbled street,
Dim alleyways where the shadows meet.
Down the avenue lined with trees
Paris bells ring on the breeze
Paris bells ring on the breeze.
The places where we used to visit,
The chapel where we went to wed.
Paris bells on the breeze
Often stir memories.
We both knew the morning rain
We both wandered down the Seine.
Now you're gone away from me
You're just a memory
Like the bells ring on the breeze,
Paris bells ring on the breeze.
Our love has gone
And there's nothing we can do.
It has happened, leave it so.
People may say
It is wrong me leaving you,
Maybe wrong but I must go.
I can't change,
Rhyme this song,
Our love has gone.
Please turn away
So you'll hide your tears from me.
I can't stand to see you cry.
It's just no good,
This love wasn't meant to be.
It must end while there's still time.
Don't ask me
What turned wrong,
Our love has gone.
Who's to say whose fault it is,
Why there's no flame when we kiss
And the music we once heard.
Our love has gone
And there's nothing there at all.
I can't help the way I feel.
And when I'm away,
Out of habit I will call.
Don't you see it's so unreal.
And I don't know
What turned wrong.
Our love has gone.
Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none
Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none.
He's gone and leave me, he's gone and leave me
He's gone and leave me to sorrow and mourn.
Last night in deep slumber I dreamed I did see
Last night in deep slumber I dreamed I did see
My own true love came smiling to me
My own true love came smiling to me.
And when I awakened I found it not so
And when I awakened I found it not so.
My heart like some fountain with tears overflow
My heart like some fountain with tears overflow.
Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none
Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none.
He's gone and leave me, he's gone and leave me
He's gone and leave me to sorrow and mourn.
";Oh, look around you,
Tell me what do you see ?
Do you see the yellow morning
And the green land so free ?";
";Oh no, I see no morning
But lands of dark and grey
And they tell me the green land
Has long gone away,
Has long gone away.";
";Once more look around you,
Tell me what do you see ?
Do you see the clear wave laughter
And the deep blue sea ?";
";Oh no, there is no sorrow
Where the laughing tree stood
And they tell me the blue sea
Has long turned to blood,
Has long turned to blood.";
";No more look around you,
Say no more what you see.
But give me your cold hand
And lay beside me.
And there, oh my darling,
You will never worry
And we, like the others,
Will forget in our sleep,
Will forget in our sleep.";
I see the morning sun
Coming over the hill,
Sorrow and pain for me
Coming over the hill.
I'm very sad
Lost love for me
But I will love again.
I know a man
Who breaks every heart that he can.
I know him well
For I have been hurt by this man.
I'm very sad,
Tears follow me,
But I will love again.
I'm very sad,
Tears follow me,
But I will love again.
I know a man
Who promises that he'll be true
And I look back once again,
Well, what else could I do ?
I'm very sad
But he is true
And we will love again.
I see the morning sun
Coming over the hill.
I see him and he says
That he'll stay
And he will.
I'm sad no more,
He comforts me
And we will love again.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Mary Ann.
If I had a flask of gin,
Whiskey there for two
And a great big bowl for to mix them in
I'd mix a drink for you my dear
Mary Ann.
The lobster boiling in the pot,
The bluefish on the hook;
The pain they bear is nothing like
The ache I bear for you my dear
Mary Ann.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Mary Ann.
Hush now little one,
The day has lost its glow
The night falls softly round
The sandman's sleepy saws.
Sleep.
The stars will shine tonight
High up in the sky.
The breeze will sing a song
As he goes hurrying by.
Sleep.
For you the sun will rise,
For you the dawn will break.
Hush now, all is still,
Hush now till you wake.
Sleep.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Sleep.
So sleep.
Thank you for the love you bring
This lucky girl.
You have given everything
To this lucky girl.
I thought fairy tales did not come true,
Now I can't be sure since I met you.
Please, take my love.
When you love me with your eyes
I'm a lucky girl.
Makes me almost realise
I'm a lucky girl.
If you would leave our love would surely die
The world to me is only you and I.
Please, take my love.
It's all I can give to you
Fort what it's worth
It seems as long, as long as I'm here
With you.
Darling I'll always be
Your lucky girl.
Then one kiss before you leave
It's lucky girl.
Yes, it's getting late now but now you know
That I just can't bear to see you go.
So take my love,
Take my love,
Please, take my love.
Oh, Lady Madeleine,
I miss you baby, I can't stand the pain.
And I walk down the avenue
And I think of you, Lady Madeleine.
And Mich¨¨le, what will she do
Without you, Lady Madeleine ?
And I walk down the avenue
And I'm missing you, Lady Madeleine.
And Spanish Tony don't know what to do,
He's missing you, darling Madeleine.
His strange world has all fallen through
And he wonders, was his love in vain ?
And I think I might go quite insane
With the scenes here Lady Madeleine.
So I walk down the avenue
And I miss you, Lady Madeleine.
And Spanish Tony, he don't know what to do,
He's missing you, darling Madeleine.
His strange world has all fallen through
And he wonders, was his love in vain ?
And I think I might go quite insane
With the scenes here darling Madeleine.
So I walk down the avenue
And I miss you Lady Madeleine.
Yes, I walk down the avenue
And I think of you Lady Madeleine.
Yes, I walk down the avenue
And I miss you Lady Madeleine.
Oh, I walk down the avenue
And I think of you, darling Madeleine.
Oh, I walk down the avenue
And I miss you, Lady ...
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsey were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
";Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!";
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought ¡ª
He rested 'neath the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And while in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes aflame
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
";And hast thou slain the Jabberwock ?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!";
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsey were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Intrigue ¡ª surrounding me
Intrigue ¡ª surrounding you
I was only looking for a bit of harmony and grace,
I swear I only meant it in good faith.
In league ¡ª enfolding you
Fatigue ¡ª I feel it, too.
I guess I never thought I had a thing or two to lose,
I never thought I'd end up as good news.
Believe in what you hear.
Concede to what you fear.
And if you think that I have so much love to go to waste,
Cut out the running home, make the pace.
Intrigue ¡ª surrounding me ¡ª you
Intrigue ¡ª surrounding you ¡ª me
I was only looking for a bit of harmony and grace,
I swear I only meant it in good faith.
And if you think that I have so much love to go to waste,
Cut out the running home, make the pace.
Intrigue
Intrigue
Intrigue
Intrigue
Intrigue
Intrigue
(Hampstead Incident)
Standing by the Everyman, digging the rigging on my sail
Rain to the sound of harpsichords, to the spell of fairy tale.
The heath was hung in magic mist, enchanted dripping glades,
I'll taste a taste until my mind drifts from this scene and fades
In the night time.
Crystals sparkles in the grass, I polish them with thought.
On my lash there in my eye a star of light is caught.
Fortunes told in grains of sand, here I am is all I know.
Candy stuck in children's hair, everywhere I go
In the night time.
Crystals sparkles in the grass, I polish them with thought.
On my lash there in my eye a star of light is caught.
Fortunes told in grains of sand, here I am is all I know
Candy stuck in children's hair, everywhere I go
In the night time.
In the night time.
In the night time.
In the night time ...
If I never get to love you
It won't be that I didn't try.
I'll be trying to possess you
Till the day I die.
If I never get to love you
It won't be that I ran away.
For as long as you will have me
Close to you, I'll stay.
What I wouldn't give to hold you tight
Never, never let you out of sight
Be the one you give your first kiss every morning,
The last one you kiss goodnight.
If I never get to love you
It won't be that I didn't care.
There is nothing that I want more
Or I need more
And my heart would surely break in two,
If I never get to love you.
What I wouldn't give to hold you tight
Never, never let you out of sight
Be the one you give your first kiss every morning,
The last one you kiss goodnight.
If I never get to love you
It won't be that I didn't care.
There is nothing that I want more
Or I need more
And my heart could surely break in two,
If I never get to love you.
What can I say ?
He's a-walking away
From what we've seen.
What can I do
Still loving you ?
It's all a dream.
How can we hang on to a dream,
How can it really be the way it seems ?
What can I do ?
He's a-saying we're through
Without a word.
What can I try ?
I still don't see why
He says what he does.
How can we hang on to a dream,
How can it really be the way it seems ?
What can I say ?
He's a-walking away
From what we've seen.
What can I do
Still loving you ?
It's all a dream.
How can we hang on to a dream,
How can it really be the way it seems ?
How can we hang on to a dream,
How can it really be the way it seems ?
Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
For I have loved you so long
Delighting in your company.
Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight.
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Lady Greensleeves ?
Alas my love that you should own
A heart of wanton vanity
So I must laddie think alone
Upon your insincerity.
Greensleeves ...
Green are your eyes
In the morning when you rise.
Don't you be afraid, my love,
To lie by me,
Your father will not know.
Love can be broken
Though no words are spoken.
Don't you be afraid to lie
By me my love,
Your father will not know.
Love, don't cry
I'll not try.
Don't you be afraid to lie
By me, my love,
Your father will not know.
Yes love, don't you cry,
I'll not try.
Don't you be afraid to lie
By me, my love.
Your father will be told someday
About our wedding day.
It seems the songs we're singing
Are all about tomorrow,
Tunes of promises that we can't keep.
Every moment bringing
A love I can only borrow,
You're telling me lies in your sleep.
Do you think I'm not aware
Of what you're saying
Or why you're saying it ?
Is it hard to keep me where
You want me staying ?
Don't go on betraying.
Don't make promises that you can't keep.
We had a chance to find it,
Our time was now or never,
You promised me things that I need.
And then the things behind it
Took away the chance forever,
You're telling me lies in your sleep.
Do you think I'm not aware
Of what you're saying
Or why you're saying it ?
Is it hard to keep me where
You want me staying ?
Don't go on betraying.
Don't make promises that you can't keep.
Don't make promises that you can't keep.
Don't make promises that you can't keep.
Don't make promises that you can't keep ....
In the wintertime
Keep your feet warm,
Keep your clothes on
And don't forget me.
Keep the memory,
But keep your powder dry, too.
In the summer
By the pool side
While the fireflies
Are all around me,
I'll miss you when I'm lonely,
I'll miss the alimony, too.
Don't forget me, please don't forget me,
Make it easy on me just for a little while.
You know I'll think about you,
Let me know you think about me, too.
When we're older
And full of cancer
It doesn't matter now,
Come on, get happy,
'Cause nothing lasts forever,
And I will always love you.
Don't forget me, please don't forget me,
Make it easy on me just for a little while.
You know I'll think about you,
Let me know you think about me, too.
You know I'll think about you,
Let me know you think about me, too.
FAMILY
We've gotten word from Philadelphia
Anna's doing well, she's making lots of money.
Her contract has been signed to do a solo turn,
It forbids her ever eating when or what she likes to eat,
She likes to eat, she likes to eat.
Those are hard terms for little Anna,
Who has always been very greedy.
Oh if she does not break her contract!
There's no market for hippos in Philadelphia!
Every single day they weigh her,
Gaining half an ounce means trouble,
They have principles to stand by:
It's a hundred-and-eighteen that were signed for ¡ª
Only for the weight agreed we pay!
Gaining half an ounce means trouble,
More than that would mean disaster!
But our Anna is not all that stupid
And she knows a contract is a contract
So she'll reason: After all
You still can eat like little Anna
In Louisiana ¡ª Crabmeat! Porkchops!
Sweet-corn! Chicken!
And those golden biscuits spread with honey!
Think of our house in Louisiana!
Look ¡ª it's growing! More and more it needs you!
Therefore curb your craving! Gluttons will be punished!
Curb your craving, Anna! Gluttons never go to Heaven!
Full fathom five
My father lies
Of his bones all coral made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him but the fade
That doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange
Seemeth holy ring is know
Hark! I hear them
Ding dong
Ding dong bells.
Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high;
All those things that don't change, come what may.
But our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Think I'll go out to Alberta, weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can stay with, working for.
But I wish you'd change your mind, If I ask you one more time.
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.
Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high;
All those things that don't change, come what may.
But our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
If I get there before the snow flies, and if things are going good,
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare.
But by then, it would be winter, ain't too much for you to do.
And those winds sure can blow cold way out there.
Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high;
All those things that don't change, come what may.
But our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
This morning too didn't rise before noon
She's a lazy lady today.
Always young and new with your eyes on the moon,
You're a crazy lady like you said.
Crazy lady.
Now should I say more before I know you so well ?
You're no hazy maiden in gray.
How can I be sure ? It's not easy to tell,
But you're a crazy lady like you said.
Crazy lady.
FAMILY
Anna, so the papers say,
Is now set up in Baltimore:
Lots of folk seem to be shooting themselves for her.
She must be near to the top and raking it in,
To get in the news like that!
Well, so far, so good; to be talked about
Helps a young girl up the ladder.
Let her beware of overdoing it!
Some people might think she was mean;
Folks shy away from a girl who's said to be mean;
Folks give a wide wide berth
To those who grab all they can get,
Point unfriendly fingers at
Those whose greed goes beyond all bounds.
In the measure you give
You will surely be given,
And as you do, so will you be done by:
Fair is fair.
All must keep this law.
We sincerely hope our smart little Anna
Also has common sense
And will let them keep a shirt or two
When she lets them go for good.
Shameless boarders earn themselves a bad name.
Oh, fare thee well, I must be gone
And leave you for a while.
If ever I go I will return
If I go ten thousand miles.
If I go
If I go
If I go ten thousand miles.
Ten thousand miles it is so far
To leave me here alone
While I may lie lament and cry
And you'll not hear my moan.
And you
No, you
And you'll not hear my moan.
The crow that is so black, my love,
Will change its colour white.
If I ever should prove false to thee
The day will turn to night.
Oh the day
Yes, the day
Oh the day will turn to night.
The rivers never will run dry
Or the rocks melt with the sun.
I'll never prove false to the boy I love
Till all these things be done.
Till all
Till all
Till all these things be done.
I'm much too sentimental,
My heart is never free.
Perhaps it's accidental
That love should come to me.
Some little thing within me
Protects me for a while
Till someone comes to win me
With only a smile.
Falling in love again,
Never wanted to.
What am I to do?
Can't help it.
Love's always been my game,
Play it, how I may.
I was made that way
Can't help it.
Men cluster to me like moths around a flame
And if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame.
Falling in love again,
Never wanted to.
What am I to do?
Can't help it.
Sonst gar nichts.
Et maintenant, que vais-je faire
De tout le temps que sera ma vie ?
De tous ces gens qui m'indiff¨¨rent
Maintenant que tu es parti.
Toutes les nuits, pourquoi, pour qui ?
Et ce matin qui revient pour rien.
Mon coeur qui bat, pour qui, pourquoi ?
Qui bat trop fort, trop fort.
Et maintenant, que vais-je faire ?
Vers quel n¨¦ant glissera ma vie ?
Tu m'as laiss¨¦ la terre enti¨¨re,
Mais la terre, sans toi, c'est petit.
Vous, mes amis, soyez gentils,
Vous savez bien que l'on n'y peut rien.
M¨ºme Paris cr¨¨ve d'ennui,
Toutes ces rues me tuent.
Et maintenant je n'ai vraiment
Plus rien ¨¤ faire.
Anna I
Now we're coming back to you, in Louisiana
Where the moon on the Mississippi is a-shining ever.
Seven years we've been away in the big towns
Where you go to make money,
And now our fortune's made,
And now you're there,
Little house in old Louisiana.
We're coming back to you,
To our little house beside the Mississippi in Louisiana
Right, Anna ?
Anna II
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
How many times can a cannon ball fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea ?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn't see ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times can a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
I hope that I won't be that lone anymore
Maybe I've learned this time.
I hope that I find what I'm reaching for,
The way that is easin' my mind.
Some day I'll get over you,
I'll live to see it all through,
But I'll always miss
Dreamin' my dreams
With you.
But I won't let it change me, not if I can,
I'd rather believe in love.
I'll give it away as much as I can
To those that I'm fondest of.
Some day I'll get over you,
I'll live to see it all through,
But I'll always miss
Dreamin' my dreams
With you.
La, la la, la la la, la la,
La la, la la, la la.
La la la la, la la la la la,
La la, la la, la la.
Some day I'll get over you,
I'll live to see it all through,
But I'll always miss
Dreamin' my dreams
With you.
But I'll always miss
Dreamin' my dreams
When you're alone
And life is making you lonely
You can always go
Down town.
When you've got worries
All the noise and the hurry
Seems to hurt, I know.
Down town.
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city,
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty.
How can you lose ?
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
No finer place for sure,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around
And let your problems surround you,
There are movie shows
Down town.
Maybe you know
Some little places to go
To where they never close,
Down town.
Just listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa-nova,
You'll be dancing with them, too, before the night is over,
Happy again.
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Where all the lights are bright
Down town.
Waiting for you tonight
Down town.
You're gonna be all right now.
And you may find
Somebody kind
To help and understand you,
Someone who is just like you
And needs a gentle hand
To guide him along.
So maybe I'll see you there,
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
Don't wait a minute more,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.
Down by the Salley Gardens
My love and I did meet.
She passed the Salley Gardens
With little snow white feet.
She bid me take life easy
As the leaves grow on the trees.
But I being young and foolish,
With her did not agree.
In a field by the river
My love and I did stand.
And on my healing shoulder
She laid her snow white hand.
She bid me take love easy
As the grass grows on the weeds.
But I was young and foolish
And now I'm full of tears.
Down by the Salley Gardens
My love and I did meet.
She passed the Salley Gardens
With little snow white feet.
She bid me take love easy
As the leaves grow on the trees,
But I was young and foolish
And with her did not agree.
Des coquillages
De longs voyages
Rapport¨¦s par mon bien-aim¨¦
Rapport¨¦s par mon bien-aim¨¦
Rapport¨¦s par mon bien-aim¨¦
Par mon bien-aim¨¦
Par mon bien-aim¨¦
Par mon bien
Par mon bien
Par mon bien-aim¨¦
Je me prom¨¨nerai
Le long de vall¨¦es
Aux côt¨¦s de mon bien-aim¨¦
Aux côt¨¦s de mon bien-aim¨¦
Aux côt¨¦s de mon bien-aim¨¦
De mon bien-aim¨¦
De mon bien-aim¨¦
De mon bien
De mon bien
De mon bien-aim¨¦
Puis quand je reviendrai
Je vous dirai
Celui qui va me marier
Celui qui va me marier
Celui qui va me marier
Va me marier
Va me marier
Marier
Marier
Va me marier
Quand le temps passe
L'amour vous lasse
Je n'aurai plus de bien-aim¨¦
Je n'aurai plus de bien-aim¨¦
Je n'aurai plus de bien-aim¨¦
Plus de bien-aim¨¦
Plus de bien-aim¨¦
Plus de bien
Bien-aim¨¦
Plus de bien-aim¨¦
The wild mountain thyme that grows around my door
Has grown there for two score years or more
But I've grown weary waiting for love to say,
";Come my way, come my way.";
The brook that sings and twinkles in the sun
Has danced this mercy bounce since time begun
But O how weary and how long the day
Will he say, ";Come my way.";
Lovers all around, I wish you joy,
Happiness to every girl and boy.
But sometimes spare a thought of me and say
";Love come her way,"; come my way.
The wild mountain thyme that grows around my door
Has grown there for two score years or more
And I've grown weary waiting for love to say
";Come my way, come my way.";
The brook that sings and twinkles in the sun
Has danced this mercy dance since time begun
But o how weary and how long the day will he say
";Come my way.";
Lovers all around, I wish you joy
Happiness to every girl and boy.
But sometimes spare a thought of me and say
";Love come her way,"; come my way.
I'll send away all my false pride
And I'll forsake all of my life
Yes I'll be as true as true can be
If you'll come and stay with me.
Lovers of the past I'll leave behind
There'll never be another on my mind
I'll do all I can so you'll feel free
If you come and stay with me
The promises I made most faithfully
I'll keep them still should you decide to leave
I'll try and see that you have all you need
If you'll come and stay with me
We'll live a life no one has ever known
But I know you're thinking that I'm hardly grown
I'll do all I can so you'll feel free
If you'll come and stay with me.
But oh thank God at last and finally
Could have come through anytime,
Cold lonely, puritan
What are you fighting for ?
It's not my security.
It's just an old war,
Not even a cold war,
Don't say it in Russian,
Don't say it in German.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
Lose your father, your husband,
Your mother, your children.
What are you dying for ?
It's not my reality.
It's just an old war,
Not even a cold war,
Don't say it in Russian,
Don't say it in German.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
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What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
Could have come through anytime,
Cold lonely, puritan.
What are you fighting for ?
It's not my security.
It's just an old war,
Not even a cold war,
Don't say it in Russian,
Don't say it in German.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting for ?
What are you fighting ...
Well, I know that you're tired of living this way,
We've been trying to get high without having to pay.
The walls are all empty, it's not a permanent state,
Just let me tell you that it's not too late.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a drain brain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
Well, you know I ain't selfish, there's always a way.
If a thing ain't worth having, you're having to pay.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a train brain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
Got so much to offer, but I can't pay the rent,
I can't buy you roses 'cause the money's all spent.
Well, you sat in my car, you drank my champagne,
You stole all my silk but you gave me no change.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a train drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
Got so much to offer, but I can't pay the rent,
I can't buy you roses 'cause the money's all spent.
Well, you sat in my car, you drank my champagne,
You stole all my silk, you left me no change.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a train drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
You're a brain drain, you go on and on like a blood stain.
Things are never what they seem
Play a part most of the time.
What is yours cannot be mine
And I'm bored by dreams.
Bored by dreams.
I can't say the words I mean
Make myself go through the line.
Does the payment fit the crime
If I'm bored by dreams ?
Take me through the steps my love,
Shall we dance again ?
I was older then,
Now we are the same.
Lasse des raves.
Rave qui brille dans le noir
Brillera bien, tu peux le croire.
Watch out now, take care,
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips.
Beware of darkness.
Watch out now, take care,
Beware the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night.
Beware of sadness.
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore
And what is more,
That is not what
You are here for.
Watch out now, take care,
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly,
Beware of Maya.
Watch out now, take care,
Beware of greedy leaders.
They'll take you where you should not go,
While weeping Atlas cedars,
They just want to grow, grow and grow.
Beware of darkness.
Way across the deep blue ocean
Way above the mountain so high
People sing and loitering's freely
Songs of joy reach up to the sky.
In this time of worry and confusion
In this world of trouble and pain
We're so many and the road is so weary,
How many people can tell you my name ?
Bells of freedom ring
Bells of freedom ring.
Come friends and people from every corner,
People, come from everywhere.
Let the bells of freedom ring loudly,
Ring for those who know and care.
Bells of freedom ring
Bells of freedom ring.
Way across the deep blue ocean
Way above the mountain so high
People sing and loitering's freely
Songs of joy reach up to the sky.
Bells of freedom ring
Bells of freedom ring for us.
You've been right and I've been wrong,
I've been weak and you've been strong.
You've been good and I've been bad,
Think I've had enough of that.
'Cause all I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
I loved the days, you loved the night,
I loved to love, you loved to fight.
I drive to you, you're far away,
It gets harder every day.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
Wish you could be a friend of mine,
Wish you could learn to play with time.
You say I dream my life away ¡ª
If I do, well that's OK.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
All I wanna do in life
Is to love somebody with all my might.
How should I your true love know
From the other one ?
By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.
He is dead and gone, Lady,
He is dead and gone.
At his heels the grass-green turf
At his head a stone.
How should I your true love know
From the other one ?
By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.
ANNA I
Now we're coming back to you, in Louisiana
Where the moon on the Mississippi is a-shining ever.
Seven years we've been away in the big towns
Where you go to make money;
And now our fortune's made,
And now you're there,
Little house in old Louisiana.
We're coming back to you,
To our little house beside the Mississippi in Louisiana
Right, Anna ?
ANNA II
Yes, Anna.
Well my friends have gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
In the Tower of Song.
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get ?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long
About a hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song.
I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They just tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song.
Well you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing near the window where the light is strong
Oh they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the Tower of Song.
I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never , we'll never have to lose it again.
Well I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
In the Tower of Song.
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
In the Tower of Song.
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
In the Tower of Song.
Great expectations I have to find
I want to tell you what it was like
My recollection is not too clear
So much hope and so much fear
Long conversations into the night
Not like that, oh no, not so black and white
The great temptation's to try and please you
Play with you thought and mind, and tease you
If I could tell my story in a song
I'd have to make it fast, yes, it's very long
Many shades of gray between the right and wrong
Day for night, night for day
All the stories on this way
Feel the fire burn away
So turn the lights down low, come over here
Stay with me, don't go, you'll see my characters appear
The storyteller's magic doesn't lie
He'll make you laugh to make you cry
Real for me is real for you
What I say is almost true
Day for night, night for day
All the stories on its way
Feel the fire burn and play
The story's ended, now you're on your own
Do you remember me?
Do you remember anything?
Don't pretend I didn't make you laugh
File it under fun from the past
Well, I'm looking 'round the room
Some of the people I've loved
Guess I remember everything
File it under fun from the past
[Chorus]
I could have been a contender - a contender for your
love
I would have given you everything if I only knew how
I would have given you everything if I only knew how,
only knew how
I could have been a contender - a contender for your
love
File it under fun from the past
File it under fun from the past
It was only you; it was always only you
I never saw what other people bought
I never cared what they thought
Well, I'm looking 'round the room
Some of the people I've loved
Guess I remember everything
File it under fun from the past
[Chorus]
Do you remember me?
Do you remember anything?
Don't pretend that it'll make you laugh
File it under fun from the past
Well, I'm looking 'round the room
Some of the people I've loved
Guess I remember everything
File it under fun from the past
After the ceasefire that they swore would last
She had the bright idea: "To hell with the past!"
That's where love lay bleeding, licking at its wounds
The times were never changing, sticking to their guns
She thought she really meant it, that's the honest
truth
She felt it in her marrow, she felt it in her boots
After the ceasefire, after the ceasefire
The man she married, he was something else
He adored the chaos, smashing all the delft
The man she married, he was something else
He had the sudden notion it's time to call a truce
It's time to lead a quiet life for the love of Jesus
Let's sit down together, and engage in talks of peace
After the ceasefire, after the ceasefire
He was Irish Catholic, she had English blood
They met in a good restaurant, they gave the secret nod
She ordered fish and lentils, he the kidney stew
She played with bold impulses, wine turned his lips
blue
They left in separate taxis to the same address
In case someone was watching, and there they did
confess
After the ceasefire, after the ceasefire
It was all the others' fault, they thought at any rate
After the ceasefire to put an end to hate
She was reaching for her knife, he a fork and spoon
They sat about devouring the poison of the moon
Shared a fatal cigarette neither one would light
Their breath was flame enough, nobody said goodnight
After the ceasefire, after the ceasefire
After the ceasefire that they swore would last
They had the strange idea of living in the past
That's where love lies bleeding, licking at its wounds
The times are never changing, sticking to their guns
They sit about devouring the poison of the moon
The times were never singing the same tune
FAMILY
Will she now ? ... will our Anna pull herself together ?
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
For she was always quite a one for an armchair;
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
Unless you came and hauled her off the mattress
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
The Lazy slug would lie in bed all morning.
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
Otherwise, Anna is, we must admit, a most respectful child.
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
Did what she was told and showed affection for her parents.
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
This is what we told her when she left home:
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
";Think of us, and mind you keep your nose down to the grindstone.";
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil's stockpot¡ª)
O Lord, look down upon our daughter,
Show her the way that leads the Good to Thy reward,
In all her doings preserve her and comfort her,
Incline her heart to observe all Thy commandments
That her works on earth may prosper.
ANNA I
So my sister and I left Louisiana
Where the moon on the Mississippi is a-shining ever,
Like you always hear in the songs of Dixie.
We look forward to our home-coming ¡ª
And the sooner the better.
ANNA II
And the sooner the better!
ANNA I
It's a month already since we started
For the great big cities where you go to make money.
In seven years our fortune will be made
And then we can go back.
ANNA II
In six years would be much nicer.
ANNA I
Our Mom and Dad and both our brothers wait in old Louisiana
And we'll send them all our money as we make it,
For all the money's got to go to build a little house
Down by the Mississippi in Louisiana.
Right, Anna ?
ANNA II
Yes, Anna.
ANNA I
She's the one with the looks, I'm realistic;
She's just a little mad, my head is on straight.
But we're really one divided being
Even though you see two of us
And both of us are Anna,
Together we've but a single past, a single future,
One heart and one savings account,
And we only do what's best for one another.
Right, Anna ?
ANNA II
Yes, Anna.
ANNA I
Then we met a wealthy man in Boston
And he paid her a lot because he loved her,
But I had to keep a watch on Anna
Who was too loving, but she loved another,
And she paid him a lot because she loved him.
So I said: ";Cheat the man who protects you
And you've lost half your value then:
He may pay once although he suspects you,
But he won't pay time and time again.
Girls can have their fun with money
When they've no provider they must face;
But for girls like us, it's not funny
If we ever even once forget our place.";
";Don't try to sit between two stools,";
I told her, then I went to see her young friend,
And said: ";If you're kind, you won't hold her,
For this love will be your sweetheart's bitter end.";
Girls can have their fun with money
When their money is their own to give,
But for girls like us, it's not funny
If we even once forget the way we live.
So I sent him a lone one-way ticket
Which had broke his heart to use, naturally.
And when Anna found out my trick,
He'd look like broken bones for me.
FAMILY
Oh Lord, look down upon our daughter,
Show her the way
That leads the good to Thy reward,
Incline her heart to observe all Thy commandments
That her works on earth may prosper.
ANNA I
Now she show off her little round white bottom
Worth twice a little Texas Motel,
And for nothing the poolroom can stare at Anna
As though she had nothing to sell.
That's why most girls don't get rich
For they go bad when they forget their place:
You're not free to buy what you itch for
When you've got a good provider you must face.
FAMILY
Who fights the good fight and all self subdues
Wins the Palm, gains the Crowns.
ANNA I
It wasn't easy putting that in order
Saying good-bye to young Fernando
Then back to Edward to apologize,
Then the endless nights I heard my sister
Sobbing bitterly and repeating:
ANNA II
It's right like this, Anna, But so hard!
ANNA I
And the last big town we came to was San Francisco.
Life, there, was fine, only Anna felt so tired
And grew envious of others:
Of those who pass the time at their ease and in comfort;
Those too proud to be bought,
Of those whose wrath is kindled by injustice,
Those who act upon their impulses happily,
Lovers true to their loved ones,
And those who take what they need without shame;
Whereupon I told my poor tired sister,
When I saw how much she envied them:
";Sister, from birth we may write our own story,
And anything we choose we are permitted to do,
But the proud and insolent who strut in their glory ¡ª
Little they guess, little they guess,
Little they guess the fate they're swaggering to.
Sister, be strong! You must learn to say no to
The joys of this world, for this world is a snare;
Only the fools of this world will let you go,
Who don't care a damn, don't care a damn,
Don't care a damn, will be made to care.
Don't let the flesh and its longings get you.
Remember the price that a lover must pay,
And say to yourself when temptations beset you ¡ª
What is the use ? What is the use ?
Beauty will perish and youth pass away.
Sister, you know, when our life here is over,
Those who were good to go to bliss unalloyed,
Those who were bad are rejected forever,
Gnashing their teeth, gnashing their teeth,
Gnashing their teeth in a gibbering void.";
FAMILY
Who fights the good fight and all self subdues
Wins the Palm, gains the Crown.
Bill's beer hall in Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
Was the most fantastic place I've ever known.
For just a dollar you'd get all you wanted,
All you wanted, all you wanted
Of whatever kind of joy you called your own.
But if you had been around to see the fun
Well I don't know you might not like what you'd've seen;
The stools at the bar were damp with rye,
On the dancefloor the grass grew high,
Through the roof the moon was shining green
And the music really gave you some return on what you paid.
Hey Joe, play that old song they always played.
That ol' Bilbao
Down where we used to go
Who remembers the words ...
It's so long ago.
I don't know if it would have brought you joy or grief but
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
Beyond belief.
Bill's beer hall in Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
Came a day the end of May in 1908
Four guys from Bristol came with sacks of coal dust,
Sacks of coal dust, sacks of coal dust
And the time they showed us all was really great.
But if you had been around to see the fun,
Well I don't know you might not like what you'd've seen;
The brandy bottles smashing through the air
And the chairs flying everywhere,
Through the roof the moon's still shining green
And those fog eyes all going crazy with their pistols blazing high,
";Think you can stop 'em ? Go ahead and try!";
That ol' Bilbao
Down where we used to go
Da da da da da da...
Who remembers the words ?
That ol' Bilbao
Casting its golden glow,
That ol' Bilbao
Love never laid me low
That ol' Bilbao
Why does it haunt me so ?
I don't know if it would have brought you joy or grief but
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
Beyond belief.
Bill's beer hall in Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
Now they've cleaned it up and made it middle class
With potted palms and aspree
Very bourgeois, very bourgeois
Just another place to put your ass,
But if you could come around to see the fun
Well, I don't know, you might not find it such a strain,
Ha, they've cleaned up all the booze and broken glass,
On parquet floors you can't grow grass,
They've shut the green moon out because of rain
And the music makes you cringe now when you think of what you paid.
Hey Joe, play that ol' song they always played;
That ol' Bilbao
Down where we used to go
That ol' Bilbao
Casting its golden glow
That ol' Bilbao moon
Love never laid me low
That ol' Bilbao
Why does it haunt me so ?
I don't know if it would have brought you joy or grief but
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
It was fantastic
Beyond belief.
So long ago.
[Instrumental]
Yes, sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
Yes, sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
I don't like old satan
None of his tempting charms.
Cheat you at your Jesus now
And roll you in his arms.
I said yes, sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
I don't like old satan,
Nothing he say or do.
Tell one lie to hurt us all,
Then two to make it true.
Yes, the sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
I said yes, the sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
Yes, the sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement, yes
Sign of judgement time ain't long.
You will search, babe,
At any cost
But how long, babe,
Can you search for what is not lost?
Everybody will help you,
Some people are very kind.
But if I can save you anytime
Come on, give it to me,
I'll keep it with mine.
I can't help it
If you might think I am odd,
If I say I'm loving you
Not for what you are but for what you're not.
Everybody will help you
Discover what you set out to find.
But if I can save you anytime
Come on, give it to me,
I'll keep it with mine.
The train leaves
At half past ten
But it will be back
In the same old spot again.
The conductor,
He's still stuck on the line
But if I can save you anytime
Come on, give it to me,
Oh
I ain't going down
I ain't going down
Oh, honey to the well no more
Oh.
And I ain't got nothing
Oh, and I can't stand nothing
Oh.
I ain't going down
I ain't going down
Oh, sweet mama to the well no more
Oh.
You said you was a true believer
I'm the true believer
I'm a true believer
Oh.
I ain't going down
I ain't going down
Oh, mama to the well no more
Oh.
It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
My riches can't buy everything,
I want to hear the children sing.
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Doing things I used to do
They think are new,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Some fools don't know what's right from wrong,
But somehow those folks belong.
Me, I try for all I'm worth,
But I still remain a stranger on this earth.
Some people gloom, other folk cry.
Me, I have to struggle to keep alive.
Ever since the day of my birth
I've been a stranger, stranger on this earth.
I try to be what all folks should,
Forgetting the bad and doing good.
But no matter how I try,
My troubles always multiply.
Now I've been doing the best I can
Ever since life began.
Some day when I prove my worth
I won't be a stranger on earth.
Now I've been living the best I can
Ever since my life began.
The day's gonna come when I prove my worth
And I won't be no stranger,
No, I won't be a stranger
On this earth.
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, ";Jeeze
I can't find my knees";
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', ";Name me someone who's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him";
But like Louise always says
";Ya can't look at much, can ya man ?";
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still hasn't showed
We see the empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps on the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish trucks that load
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
Where I walk
And life is warm
Sun and breath
Hopefully here
All our hearts are blessed.
Texas real
A woman sworn to man
Here I tried,
Here I tried
To be the best.
So hot it's white and real to me
I'd stay awake all night
Asking your silent sympathy.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly and you.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly with you.
Texas real
A woman sworn to man
Here I tried,
Here I tried
To be the best.
So hot it's fine and real, real me
I'd stay awake all night
Asking your silent sympathy.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly with you.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly and you.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly and you.
I know something new,
Southern Butterfly with you.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Mary Ann.
If I had a flask of gin,
Whiskey there for two
And a great big bowl for to mix them in
I'd mix a drink for you my dear
Mary Ann.
The lobster boiling in the pot,
The bluefish on the hook;
The pain they bear is nothing like
The ache I bear for you, my dear
Mary Ann.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For though I go I'll surely come again
Though it be ten thousand miles, my dear
Mary Ann.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well, my dear,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Mary Ann.
Havin' bad times, now I'm paying dues,
Got shoes and money, good friends, too.
I always play to win, and always seem to lose,
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues.
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues.
And I know what's going on,
And I know that the way is too long.
And I know just exactly what's on your mind,
You'll be back and I'll lose you forever.
But I'm wondering why, girl, should I ask your name
All the people standing by, are they in my game ?
Love is just a story, a story without words,
Words are even never seen and never even heard.
And I know what's going on,
And I know that the way is too long.
And I know just exactly what's on your mind,
You'll be back and I'll lose you forever.
Havin' bad times, now I'm paying dues
Got shoes and money, good friends, too.
I always play to win, always seem to lose,
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues.
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues.
Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light.
There were few at the scene but they all did agree
That the man who ran looked a lot like me.
The judge said, ";Son what is your alibi ?
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die.";
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life,
I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
She walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave where the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees,
Nobody knows but me.
The scaffold is high and eternity nears
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear.
But sometimes at night where the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries all o'er my bones.
She walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees,
Nobody knows but me.
Nobody knows but me.
I found him by the stage last night, he was breathing his last breath.
A bottle of gin and a cigarette was all what he had left.
Well, I know that you make music 'cause you carry a guitar,
But God help the troubadour who tries to be a star.
Come on and play the chords of love, my friend,
Play the chords of fame,
But if you want to keep your song, do mi, do mi do,
Don't play the chords of fame, oh no, no.
You know I've seen my share of hustlers as they try to take the world
And when they find a melody, they're surrounded by the girls.
But it all fades so quickly like a sunny summer day,
Reporters ask you questions and they write down what you say.
Come on and play the chords of love, my friend,
Play the chords of fame,
But if you want to keep your song, do mi, do mi do,
Don't play the chords of fame, oh no, no.
They'll rob you of your innocence, and put you up for sale.
The more that you will find success, the more that you will fail.
I've been around, I've had my share, and I really can't complain,
But I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.
Come on and play the chords of love, my friend,
Play the chords of fame,
But if you want to keep your song, do mi, do mi do,
Don't play the chords of fame, oh no, no.
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,
Don't, oh don't, don't play the chords of fame.
Don't, oh don't, don't play the chords of fame.
Don't ...
I'm staring at the setting of the sun
For I know my time with you is nearly gone
And my minutes, they're so precious, yes, each and every one
As I try to make the most of what is least.
I've a weary kind of feeling in my mind,
I'll try to look ahead and not behind.
And I know that you don't mean to be unkind
As I try to make the most of what is least.
The rain is dripping down my window pane
And if you came back to me, it wouldn't be the same.
I know the end is near and I'll try to battle on
As I try to make the most of what is least.
I'm staring at the setting of the sun
For I know my time with you is nearly gone
And my minutes, they're so precious, yes, each and every one
As I try to make the most of what is least.
Lonely nights down by the railroad track,
I see you going and never coming back.
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try to battle on
As I try to make the most of what is least.
A North country maid up to London has strayed
Although with her nature it did not agree.
So she wept and she sighed and bitterly she cried,
";Oh, I wish once again in the North I could be.";
For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree
They all grow green in the North country.
While sadly I roam I regret my dear home,
Where the lads and young lasses are making the hay.
Where the birds sweetly sing, and the merry bells do ring
And the maidens and meadows are pleasant and gay.
For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree
They all grow green in the North country.
No doubt if I please, I could marry with ease,
Where maidens are fair, many lovers will come.
But he that I wed must be North country bred
And carry me back to my own country.
For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree
They all grow so green in the North country.
When cockleshells turn silver bells
Then will my love return to me
Then will my love return to me
Then will my love return to me
Love return to me
Love return to me
Love return
Love return
Love return to me.
In pastures green
I shall be seen
With my true love right by my side
With my true love right by my side
With my true love right by my side
Love right by my side
Love right by my side
Love right by
Love right by
Love right by my side.
When I return then you shall learn
That I shall be my true love's bride
That I shall be my true love's bride
That I shall be my true love's bride
Be my true love's bride
Be my true love's bride
Be my true love's
Be my true love's
Be my true love's bride.
When love gets old it grows cold
And then true love will fade away
And then true love will fade away
And then true love will fade away
True love fades away
True love fades away
True love fades
True love fades
True love fades away.
Just a little rain falling all around,
The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound.
Just a little rain, just a little rain,
What have they done to the rain ?
Just a little boy, standing in the rain,
A gentle rain that falls for years.
And the grass is gone, the boy disappears,
And rain keeps falling like helpless tears
And what have they done to the rain ?
Just a little breeze out of the sky,
The leaves nod their head as the breeze blows by.
Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye,
What have they done to the rain ?
Just a little boy, standing in the rain,
A gentle rain that falls for years.
And the grass is gone, the boy disappears,
And rain keeps falling like helpless tears
And what have they done to the rain ?
And what have they done to the rain ?
At last it's over,
I knew I could not hold him,
His love for freedom
Was far too strong.
But though he's gone now
My life is just beginning,
I'll soon forget him,
I'll soon forget him,
I must forget him, Lord!
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new day beginning.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new love that waits for me.
Will I remember,
Will I still hear him whisper ?
Will I still feel his
Lips on mine ?
In dreams I see him,
Perhaps he'll stay forever
And all I'm wishing
And all I'm hoping
And all my longing, too.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new day beginning.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new love that waits for me.
He made me happy
And though I suffered, too,
There's no mistaking
Our love was true.
But such a sweet love
Just wasn't meant to be
And it's all over
Yes, it's all over,
And now it's done I'll start anew.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new day beginning.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new love beginning.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new day beginning.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,
There's a brand new love beginning.
Sha-la-la ...
In my time of sorrow,
In my time of feeling bad
Oh what I'd give
Just to relive
All of the good times that I've had.
In my time of sorrow
In my time of feeling alone
There was a time
I could ease my mind
With thoughts of just being on my own.
Changes of life
I'm going through
Keep me from doing
What I know I should do.
In my time of sorrow
In my time where teardrops fall
I can't tell you why
I don't want to try,
But the time has come
For me to say fare well.
In my time of sorrow
In my time of sorrow
In my time of sorrow...
Of all the love I have won or have lost
There is one love I should never have crossed.
He was a boy in a million, my friend,
I should have known he would win in the end.
I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me.
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be.
Although I laugh and I act like a clown,
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown.
My tears are falling like rain from the sky,
Is it for him or myself that I cry ?
I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me.
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be.
I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me.
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be.
What have I done to deserve such a fate ?
I realise I have left it too late
And so it's true pride comes before a fall,
I'm telling you so that you won't lose all.
I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me.
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be.
I'm a loser.
I'd like to dial your number again
But I don't remember it so well.
I'd like to see you again
'Cause I don't remember when
I said I wouldn't see you again
Been so long I don't remember when.
I'd like to kiss you one more time
Because I feel it might be different now.
I'd like to love you one more time
Because the last respect was mine.
Although I didn't have the time
Been so long just thought one more time.
So I'd like to dial your number again,
Seems that I remember it so well.
I'd like to see you again
'Cause I don't remember when
I said I wouldn't see you again
Been so long, can you tell me when ?
Every time I see you looking my way,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
In the park or walking down the high way,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
And when you move up closer to me
I get a feeling that's oo-wee.
Can't you hear the pounding of my heartbeat
'Cause you're the one I love, you're the one I love.
When I feel you put your arms around me,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
Then I'm glad, I'm mighty glad you found me,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
And when you asked me to meet your ma
I knew that baby we'd be goin' far.
Can't you hear the pounding of my heartbeat
'Cause you're the one I love, you're the one I love.
All my friends are crying out to meet you,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
Now's the time to go and see the preacher,
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
Now wedding bells are going to chime
And baby, baby, you're gonna be mine.
Can't you hear the pounding of my heartbeat
'Cause you're the one I love, you're the one I love.
Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat ?
Ah!
Ah ...
Oh ...
Oh ...
It's Saturday night, it feels like a Sunday in some ways.
If I had any sense I'd maybe go away for a few days.
Be that as it may, I can only say I am lonely,
I am but a young girl, working my way through the phonies.
Coffee on, milk gone, a sad light by fading,
Myself I touch, but not too much, I hear it's degrading.
The flowers on my stockings are wilting away in the midnight.
The book I am reading is one man's opinion of moonlight.
My skin is so white, I'd like maybe to go to bed soon,
Closing my eyes, if I'm to rise up before noon.
High heels, car wheels, the losers are grooving.
My dream, strange seem images are moving.
My friends, they are making a pop star or two every evening.
I know that scene backwards, they can't see the patterns they're weaving.
My friends they are models but I soon got over that one.
I sit in my one room, a little brought-down in London.
Coffee on, milk gone, a sad light by fading,
Myself I touch, but not too much, I hear it's degrading.
La la la la la, la la la la la la la la la.
La la la la la, la la la la la la la la la.
La la la la, la la la la la ...
Today I saw the roses die,
The ones that we picked out.
And I turned around to cry,
I could not help myself.
I know where the roses go
Who do what they should do,
And baby, you won't go where the roses go
If you can't be true.
Today I saw the roses die,
The ones that we picked out.
As I stood there I could see
I could not help them now.
I know where the roses go
Who do what they should do,
And baby, you won't go where the roses go
If you can't be true.
Don't you want to walk where the flowers play
Beneath the sky of gold,
Where the little white doves fly by the hour
Singing our love will never grow cold ?
Oh, today I saw the roses die,
The ones that we picked out.
And I hoped that you could tell
What it was all about.
I know where the roses go
Who do what they should do,
And baby, you won't go where the roses go
If you can't be true.
You won't go there
If you can't be true.
You can't go there
If you can't be true.
You won't go there
If you can't be true ...
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly
I'm not half the one I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Why he had to go,
I don't know, he wouldn't say.
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday.
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Why he had to go,
I don't know, he wouldn't say.
I said something wrong,
Now I long for yesterday.
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
Yesterday.
If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried.
Still I look to find a reason to believe.
Someone like you makes it hard to live
Without somebody else.
Someone like you makes it easy to give,
Never thinking of myself.
If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried.
Still I look to find a reason to believe.
Someone like you makes it hard to live
Without somebody else.
Someone like you makes it easy to give,
Never thinking of myself.
If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried.
Still I look to find reason to believe.
I gave my heart to a gamblin' man,
He only wanted to play.
He told me he'd take me to New Orleans town,
By morning we'd be on our way.
He gave me champagne and danced me round,
His fancy words messed up my mind.
He kissed me and called me 'his Lady'
And he left his young girl behind.
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it is such a long way.";
I was struck round by the devil,
He took me away to the stars.
I cried out all night for my darling,
But the windows were all locked and barred.
He took this young rose from the garden,
He tore it right out off the ground.
I traded my soul for a rainbow of gold
And the rainbow's come tumbling down.
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river,
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it is such a long way.";
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river,
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it is such a long way.";
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river,
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it's such a long way.";
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it's such a long way.";
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way to Heaven or hell
And I hear it is such a long way.";
He told me, ";Wait for me down by the river
If I'm not back by sunrise, then pray.
I'll be on my way ...";
Going home in a trailer filled with Canada Dry,
Looking forward to being with you.
Got in to the broadway and what do I find ?
Some lady's been sleeping there, too.
I was dreamin' of our meetin' all down the M1
'Cause I hadn't seen you for so long.
Then out of the blue, something came down and warned me
And I sat there and wrote down this song.
That was the day that the coke came to Nashville,
That was the day I laughed till I cried.
That was the day all my dreams turned to ashes
And I lost my blues and I smiled.
Well, I walked in the door and I heard you two laughing,
Just like I'd hoped that we'd do.
So I went up the stairs, left your keys on the table,
And I wrote on the mirror, 'We're through!'.
That was the day that the coke came to Nashville,
That was the day that I had, honey.
That was the day that the coke came to Nashville,
And I've got the blues out just bad.
Going home on a train, going back to my mother,
Feeling better already, keep telling myself:
'Don't you cry, you'll forget him and find a new lover,
So let's sit back and drink to his health.'
That was the day that the coke came to Nashville,
That was the day I laughed till I cried.
That was the day that I felt my heart breaking,
Ain't it funny, after all I've survived.
Ain't it funny, after all I've survived.
As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playing
That old song about the wild, wild side of life.
As I listen to the words you are saying,
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife.
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you say in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It's a shame that all the blame is on us women,
It's not true that only you, men, feel the same.
From the start most every heart that's been broken
Was because there always was a man to blame.
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
Close your eyes, close the door,
You don't have to worry anymore.
I'll be your baby tonight.
Shut the light, shut the shade,
You don't have to be afraid.
I'll be your baby tonight.
That mockingbird's going to sing away,
We're gonna forget it.
That big fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon
But we're gonna let it, you won't regret it.
Kick your shoes off, do not fear,
Bring that bottle over here.
I'll be your baby tonight.
That mockingbird's going to sing away,
We're gonna forget it.
That big fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon
But we're gonna let it, you won't regret it.
Kick your shoes off, do not fear,
Bring that bottle over here.
I'll be your baby tonight.
Did he take you out dancing, holding you tight,
Did he show you steps one, two, and three ?
Did he leave you at your doorway, whispering good-night ?
I wish I'd been there to see how he did it,
I wish I'd been there to see.
When you went on vacation to Paris and Rome,
Did he show you how sweet life can be ?
Did he make his reservation, exercised his rights ?
I wish I'd been there to see how he did it,
I wish I'd been there to see.
What became of the night on a six cylinder charger
With money to burn and a castle for two ?
Now poor Cinderella will always remember
The fairy tale hero that almost came true.
Did he tell you he'd love you as long as he'll live
But however he'd never be free,
'Cause he loves his wife and children waiting there at home.
I wish I'd been there to see how he did it,
I wish I'd been there to see.
What became of the night on a six cylinder charger
With money to burn and a castle for two ?
Now poor Cinderella will always remember
The fairy tale hero that almost came true.
What became of the night on a six cylinder charger
With money to burn and a castle for two ?
Now poor Cinderella will always remember
The fairy tale hero that al ...
The first time ever I saw your face
I saw the sun rise in your eyes
That the moon and stars were a gift you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt the earth move close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love,
That was there at my command.
The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine,
I thought our joy would never end
And would last till the end of time, my love,
And would last till the end of time.
I'm the sky
'Cause the sky doesn't sing in my song in the wind.
I can dodge
Both your eyes with my smile
'Cause I'm singing my song.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
Long ago
I was blinded, my mind couldn't see
The world's sorrow.
Every place that I went in the stillness
I left people alone.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
Till one day
In the spring, in the springtime I saw a good day
And I heard as a child laughing wild
That I heard you can grow.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
When you grow
In the springtime you'll sing loudly songs in your soul
In the air you can feel all the life
And the force you've been weary.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
It's love, it's mine,
It's yours, it's life,
It's free.
I have a love and it's all that I have
Right or wrong, what else can I do?
I love him, I'm his,
And every thing he is
I am, too.
I have a love and he's all that I need,
Right or wrong, and he needs me, too.
I love him, we're one.
There's nothing to be done.
Not a thing I can do
But hold him,
Hold him forever.
Be with him now
Tomorrow and all of my life.
When love comes so strong
There is no right or wrong.
I've noticed how few emotions stand the test of time.
Feelings come, feelings go, and the days are fine.
Night is dark, night is cold,
Passion lies down to die.
Tenderness [Repeats]
It's funny how romance fails us, giving way to love.
You look around, feel your freedom you're a slave to
love.
Night is dark, night is cold,
Passion lies down to die.
Tenderness spirit moves me
Tenderness try to show me
Tenderness come on show me
Tenderness feelings grow and change.
I've noticed how few emotions stand the test of time.
Feelings come, feelings go, and the days are fine.
Night is dark, night is cold,
Passion lies down to die.
Tenderness really moves me
Tenderness try to show me
Tenderness come on show me
Tenderness feelings grow and change.
Don't think that because I don't know what's happening
That I ain't achin'
I never thought you would be showin'
Just what you been takin'.
It's not as simple as that
Don't think I don't know just when my heart's breakin'?
I ain't chosen I ain't chosen
I ain't chosen chosen chosen chosen chosen.
Strum me hard, strum me fast,
Fears sure built into every wall.
Looking hard through the glass,
Fears sure built in with every waltz.
Looking out at the rain
Looking in through the storm.
Treading the waves,
Come in from harm.
How could you regret your other words
Hoping for thrills oh free as a bird
Strum me hard, strum me fast,
Fears sure built into every wall.
Looking hard through the glass,
Fears sure built in with every waltz.
There's a knock at the door,
I get up oh let you in.
Travelled and stained,
Soaked to the skin.
Welcome my darling, you got here at last
Come and sit by the fire oh forget what's past.
So sad, so sad,
So sad, so sad.
Strum me hard, strum me fast,
Fears sure built into every wall.
Looking hard through the glass,
Fears sure built in with every waltz.
Looking out at the rain
Looking in through the storm.
Looking back, looking forward,
Flying up, flying down oh
What have you found?
So sad, so sad
What have you found?
So sad, so sad
What have you found?
So sad, so sad
What have you found?
There is a house in New Orleans,
They call it the Risin' Sun
And it's been the ruin
Of many poor girl,
And me, oh God, I'm one.
If I had listened
To what my mother said
I'd have been at home today.
But I was young and foolish, oh God,
Let a rambler lead me astray.
Go tell my baby sister
Don't do what I have done.
Go shun that house in New Orleans
They call the Risin' Sun.
Well, I'm going back to New Orleans,
My race is almost run.
I'm going back to spend my life
In the house of the Risin' Sun.
In the house of the Risin' Sun.
In the house of the Risin' Sun.
In the house of the Risin' Sun.
The Risin' Sun, the Risin' ...
Black girl, black girl, don't you lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night ?
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
And I shivered the whole night long.
Tell me where did you get that pretty little dress
And those shoes that you wear so fine ?
I got my dress from a railroad man
And my shoes from a driver deep in the mine.
Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night ?
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
And I shivered the whole night long.
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career,
But you really can't function you're so full of fear.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling us still,
But first we must learn how to smile as we kill
If we want to live like the folks on the hill.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Shall I see tonight sister, bathed in magic greet
Shall we meet on the hilltop where the two roads meet.
We will form the circle, hold our hands and chant,
Let the great one know what it is we want.
Danger is great joy, dark is bright as fire,
Happy is our family, lonely is the ward.
Sister, we are waiting on the rock and chain
Fly fast through the airwaves, meet with pride and truth.
Danger is great joy, dark is bright as fire,
Happy is our family, lonely is the ward.
Father, we are waiting for you to appear.
Do you feel the panic, can you see the fear ?
Mother, we are waiting for you to give consent.
If there's to be a marriage, we need contempt.
Danger is great joy, dark is bright as fire,
Happy is our family, lonely is the ward.
La da da da da da, la la la la la .
La da da da da da, la la la la la .
La da da da da da, la la la la la
La da da da da da, la la la la la ...
Remember death is far away and life is sweet.
When I stole a twig from our little nest
And gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak,
I had my balls and my brains put into a vice
And twisted around for a whole fucking week.
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you let that trash
Get a hold of your cock, get stoned on my hash ?
Why'd ya do it she said, why'd you let her suck your cock ?
Oh, do me a favour, don't put me in the dark.
Why'd ya do it, she said, they're mine all your jewels,
You just tied me to the mast of the ship of fools.
Why'd ya do it, she said, when you know it makes me sore,
'Cause she had cobwebs up her fanny and I believe in giving to the poor.
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you spit on my snatch ?
Are we out of love now, is this just a bad patch ?
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you do what you did ?
You drove my ego to a really bad skid.
Why'd you do it, she said, ain't nothing to laugh,
You just tore all our kisses right in half!
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd ya do what you did,
Betray my little oyster for such a low bitch.
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you do what you did ?
You drove my ego to a really bad skid.
Why'd ya do it, she screamed, after all we've said
Every time I see your dick I see her cunt in my bed.
The whole room was swirling,
Her lips were still curling.
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you do what you did
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you do what you did
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd ya do it, she said,
Why'd you do what you did ?
Oh, big grey mother, I love you forever
With your barbed wire pussy and your good and bad weather.
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you do what you did ...
Ah, I feel better now.
There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.
[Chorus]
Then I heard the wind
Calling from over the sea
Saying, "Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free?"
"Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free?"
This land I go to when I'm tired
And need to see and walk in green.
The people who can laugh and drink
And see things others have not seen.
[Chorus]
There is another side to this pure land,
A side of blood and guilt and pain
A side of enemy and friend
And sorrow at the hearth side stain.
[Chorus]
There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.
[Chorus]
"Ireland, Ireland,
When will you be free?"
"Ireland, Ireland,
[Chorus]
Falling from grace, falling from grace.
Lord, you have a pretty face.
Take it away and pack it in a suitcase.
Then forget about falling from grace.
Don't look at me like that, I never said a word.
Don't ask me where I've been, I'll pretend I never heard.
Don't put it in the paper, please, don't!
I never said I will, I never said I won't.
[Chorus]
It's looking bad, I know, I'm an outlaw.
Don't pity me, I never felt like this before.
Please tell me you believe me, please say
I'll get along without you, anyway.
[Chorus]
Feeling hunted, I'm lying low.
Don't tell me who it is, I never said so.
Put yourself in my place, please try.
I never told the truth, I never told a lie.
[Chorus x 2]
[Repeats]
Falling from grace.
Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, second-hand ?
They were lovely illusions,
Reaching high, built on sand.
They had a touch of paradise,
A spell you can't explain,
For in this crazy paradise
You are in love with pain.
Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, just like new ?
Such romantic illusions,
And they're all about you.
Too bad they all fell apart
Like dreams often do.
They were lovely illusions,
But they just wouldn't come true.
Slightly used, just like new,
Such romantic illusions
And they're all about you.
I'd sell them all for a penny,
They make pretty souvenirs.
Take my lovely illusions,
Some for laughs, some for tears.
On this next song, I'm using the translation, a new translation done by one of my best, best, best, best friends in Ireland, the playwriter and poet, Frank McGuinness, and he did a new translation of the Threepenny Opera about four or five years ago, and I played Pirate Jenny in that production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. And I love this translation, I think it's so exceptional. In this song, Jenny who is a prostitute and a waitress in a, in a, in a shitty hotel, er, obviously on the docks, and, and Macheath is her pimp, is imagining, is having a fantasy of what she would do to those who oppress her if she could.
Now we've come to this good ending
Happily all hands unite,
And with money in your pocket
You can clean up, price is right.
There are some who dwell in darkness,
There are others bathed in light.
You can see those who are shining ¡ª
Those in darkness pass from sight.
You can see those who are shining ¡ª
Those in darkness pass from sight.
Thank you.
Oh, the poor shark,
Yes, the sweet shark,
It has big teeth
Buried deep.
Then there's Macheath
With his big knife,
But it's hidden
In his slip.
And this same shark,
This poor sweet shark,
It sheds red blood
When it bleeds.
Mackie Big Knife
Wears a white glove,
Pure in word and
Pure in deed.
Sunday morning
Lovely blue sky,
There's a corpse stretched
On the Strand.
Who's the man cruisin'
The corner ?
Well, it's Mackie,
Knife in hand.
Jenny Towler
Poor wee Jenny,
There they found her
Knife in breast.
Mackie's wandering
On the West Pier
Hoping only
For the best.
Mind, that fire burnt
All through Soho.
Seven kids dead
One old flower.
Hey there, Mackie,
How is she cuttin' ?
Have another,
Hold your hour.
And those sweet babes
Under sixteen
Story goes that
Black and blue
For the price of
One good screwing
Mackie, Mackie,
How could you ?
For the price of
One good screwing
Mackie, Mackie,
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a de l'or,
Des bateaux rouill¨¦s,
Des bijoux, des armes.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des morts.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des larmes.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des fleurs,
De vase et de boue
Elles sont nourries.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des cœurs
Qui souffrirent trop
Pour vivre la vie.
Et puis des cailloux
Et des b¨ºtes grises,
L'âme des ¨¦gouts
Soufflant des poisons,
Les anneaux jet¨¦s
Par des incomprises,
Des pieds qu'une h¨¦lice
A coup¨¦s du tronc.
Et les fruits maudits
Des ventres st¨¦riles,
Laits blancs avort¨¦s
Que nul n'aima,
Les vomissements
De la grand' ville,
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a cela.
O Seine cl¨¦mente
O¨' vont des cadavres,
Au lit dont les draps
Sont faits de limon.
Fleuve des d¨¦chets
Sans fanal ni havre,
Chanteuse berçant
La morgue, ils le font.
Accueille le pauvre,
Accueille la femme,
Accueille l'ivrogne,
Accueille le fou,
M¨ºle leurs sanglots
Au bruit de tes larmes
Et porte leur cœur
Et porte leur cœur
Et porte leur cœur
Parmi les cailloux.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a de l'or,
Des bateaux rouill¨¦s,
Des bijoux, des armes.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des morts.
Au fond de la Seine
Il y a des larmes.
Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why!
For we must find the next whiskey bar
For if we don't find the whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
And must have whiskey, oh you know why!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
And must have whiskey, oh you know why!
Oh, show me the way to the next pretty boy
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why!
For we must find the next pretty boy
For if we don't find the next pretty boy
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
And must have boys, oh you know why!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
And must have boys, oh you know why!
Oh, show me the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why!
For we must find the next little dollar
For if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
And must have dollars, oh you know why!
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old momma
The stars line up
The stars line up for me tonight
The stars line up
The stars line up tonight to see
To see who we are, baby
And write our names
High up inside the sky
The stars line up
The stars line up for me tonight
The stars line up
The stars line up tonight to see
To see what we know, baby
And write our names
High up inside the sky
I lined them up for you
The time is clear
What else is there to do?
The stars line up
The stars line up for us tonight
The stars line up
The stars line up tonight to see
To see who we are, baby
Let's write our names
High up inside the sky
I hope you know
I hope you know the way I feel
I want you so
I hope you know the way I feel
I feel about you, baby
Let's write our names
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
living without you feels so strange
i remember the night when we met each other
it was a very long time ago
we both have changed for the better
we are so much kinder now, i know
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
living without you feels so strange
the night you said you loved another
i simply could not take it in
what would i do without your love?
so cold and lonely it became
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
living without you feels so strange
we are very good friends, my love
we have passed the wall of hate
but you know
i'll never come back again
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
living without you feels so strange
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
living without you feels so strange
why did we have to part my love?
why couldn't life just stay the same?
it was over and i didn't know it
I can't give you all my dreams
Nor the life I live.
You and I won't friendship miss,
That's all we got to give.
Who will take your dreams away
Takes your soul another day.
What can never be lost is gone,
It's stolen in a way.
Please, don't stand too close to me,
Can you hear my heart ?
Take my woe and lean on me
When we're not apart.
Now our mission is complete
And our friends are hid.
Evil things brought down by the light,
Oh, I will free the bird in me
Oh, when I find my life.
What I always knew could be
Oh, when I find my life.
I will see the truth in me
Oh, when I find my life.
Oh, when I find my life.
I will let go the pain
Oh, when I find my life.
I will reach beyond the strain
Oh, when I find my life.
Fear of lost and fear of pain
Oh, when I find my life.
Oh, when I find my life.
I remember all the games of shame
And all the lies you told me.
I have worked so hard to learn
And flunked so far in my attempts to let it go by,
dear.
And it's so easy
I just opened my eyes.
And it's so hard
To let go.
Oh, I will free the bird in me
Oh, when I find my life.
I will we what I want to be
Oh, when I find my life.
I am here and I am free.
It's hard to believe,
In the factory,
How they made you
And they made me
Made of ideas,
Made to think and feel
Do you feel too much,
Do you feel too real
You're so full of life,
What do you want with mine
How I loved you once,
How I loved you twice
Did I have to pay
Such a heavy price
How I loved you more
Than my own life
Just to be, you and me
Almost real, almost free
It's hard to believe
In the factory
How satin feels
And the diamonds gleam
How they made our eyes
Made our hearts and minds
How they built us too
Leave it all behind
Just to be, you and me
Almost real, almost free
Just to be, you and me
Oh, doctor please, oh, doctor please.
I drink and I take drugs, I love sex and I move around a
lot,
I had my first baby at fourteen,
And yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways.
Yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways.
Oh, doctor please, oh, doctor please,
I think you've made a mistake, I'm fine and I don't need
people,
You don't understand all my choices,
But yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways,
Yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways.
Please, don't lock me up,
Please, let me stay free.
If you let me go I promise I'll never come back,
I'll take a ship across the sea.
I'm young and poor, and yes I'm afraid,
But I'll stay myself and keep my vagabond ways.
It was a long time ago, they took her child away and she
was sterelized.
She died of the drink and the drugs
And yes, I guess she kept those vagabond ways,
Yes, I guess she kept those vagabond ways,
Where did it go to, my youth?
Where did it fade away to?
Who was it told the truth, the bitter truth,
The truth we didn't want to know?
What is it, do you know?
What is it, can I bear it?
Who did it, do I care?
Who is it, when did it happen, and where?
Why did you let me know?
How could you think I'd stand it?
You knew I'd pay you back.
I did it, and it happened, do you care?
Where did it go to, my youth?
Where did it fade away to?
Who was it told the truth, the bitter truth
The truth we didn't want to know?
Who is he, do you know?
This man of power but a fool.
They said he was so high and pure.
They also said that he was cruel.
They killed him, did you see?
They knew he couldn't take it.
They wanted lies, he said the truth.
They did it, and it happened, who cares?
Where did it go to, my youth?
Where did it slip away to?
Who was it told the truth, the bitter truth
The truth we didn't want to know?
Why did you let me know?
How could you think I'd stand it?
You knew I'd pay you back.
I did it, and it happened, do you care?
What is it, do you know?
Who did it, can I bear it?
Who did it, do I care?
Who is it, when did it happen, and where?
What is it, do you know?
Who did it, can I bear it?
Who did it, do I care?
Who is it, when did it happen, and where?
Where did it go to, my youth?
Where did it slip away to?
Who was it told the truth, the bitter truth
In a tired part of the city
Hiding from the fast talk
Watch 'don't walk' to 'walk'
Easy when you're dreaming
Staring at the movies
Standing in a circle,
Laughing at the wrong time.
If alcohol could take me there.
I'd take a shot a minute
And be there by the hour.
Take a walk around times square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my eyes on the tv.
In a car taking a back seat
Staring out the window
Thinking about danger.
Playing in a wrong world
Fighting? but I'm not free.
Talking on the telephone
Talking about you and me.
If jesus christ could take me here
I'd fall dawn on my knees,
Have no questions to his answers.
Take a walk around times square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my eyes on the tv.
Alcohol could take me there.
I'd take a shot a minute
And be there by the hour.
Take a walk around times square
With a pistol in my suitcase
And my eyes on the tv.
And if I die gaining my senses
Wake up in a hotel
There is a ghost
And it goes out
On the land
On the land
It's lifted up
It feels and flows
On many hands
On many hands
Oh, my lover
Oh, my lover
Never was there another
Where has my loverman
Gone
There is a dream
You've had before
And forgot many times
So many times
When you remember who I am
Just call
When you remember who I am
Just call
When you remember who I am
Just call
When you remember who I am
There is a tree
Its leaves have gone
For what it seem
It stands alone
Oh, my lover
Oh, my lover
Gonna, gonna find another
Where has my loverman
Gone
Away
Away
Across the land
Across the land
When you're not by my side
The world's in two, and I'm a fool
When you're not in my sight
Then everything, just fades from view
The mystery of love belongs to you
The mystery of love belongs to you
Tell me, have you changed your mind?
Am I a fool, because of you?
Tell me, do we still have time?
To make this wrong somehow be right
The mystery of love belongs to you
The mystery of love belongs to you
Show me sweetness, show me summer skies
Show me how to make this wrong seem right
Show me laughter in your pale blue eyes
Gotta make your own rules, child,
Gotta break your own chains.
Your dreams that possess you
Can blossom and bless you
Or run you insane.
The moment is yours, child,
To lay on the line.
The past just dont matter,
Tomorrow wont mind.
I dont deserve you,
Im only human.
But I swear Ill love you
Just as hard as I can.
Storm on the mountain
Stars in the sky
Running for glory
Freedom to fly.
Will you remember,
Way down the road,
Somebody loves you
More than you know.
Storm on the mountain,
Stars in the sky
Running for glory
Freedom to fly.
Will you remember,
Way down the road,
Somebody loves you
The first time ever I saw your face
I saw the sun rise in your eyes
That the moon and stars were a gift you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt the earth move close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love,
That was there at my command.
The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine,
I thought our joy would never end
And would last till the end of time, my love,
And under the boughs unbowed
all clothed in the snowy shroud
She had no heart so hardened
All under the boughs unbowed
Each feather it fell from skin
'Til thread bare while she grew thin
How were my eyes so blinded?
Each feather it fell from skin
And I will hang my head, hang my head low
And I will hang my head, hang my head low
A grey sky, a bitter sting
A rain cloud, a crane on wing
All out beyond horizon
A grey sky, a bitter sting
And I will hang my head, hang my head low
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the ancient city of prague?
From prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
From the ancient city of prague.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From oslo over the sound?
From oslo he sent her a collar of fur,
How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
From oslo over the sound.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the wealth of amsterdam?
From amsterdam, he got her a hat,
She looked sweet in that,
In her little dutch hat
From the wealth of amsterdam.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From brussels in belgian land?
From brussels he sent her the laces so rare
To have and to wear,
All those laces so rare
From brussels in belgian land.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From paris, city of light?
From paris he sent her a silken gown,
It was ended in town, that silken gown,
From paris, city of light.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the south, from bucharest?
From bucharest he got her this shirt
Embroidered and pert, that rumanian shirt
From the south, from bucharest.
What was sent to the soldier's wife
From the far-off russian land?
From russia he sent her a widow's veil
For her dead to bewail in her widow's veil
From the far-off russian land,
From the far-off russian land.
Now there's a man, the living tool of satan
He charges forth while others are debating
Conniving, cocky knave with all the trimmings
I know one thing will trim him down? women.
In women he meets deep authority,
In them he feels his old dependency.
He sniggers at the good book, mocks the priss and prim,
Does anything for pay if it will pay
And since he knows what ladies do to him
He thrusts them well out of his way.
All through the day he swears
He's self denying, then dusk descends
And once again he's lying.
They're all the same in meeting love's confusion
Poor noble souls get blotted in illusion
The one who swore he could escape the clinches
Who is it that entangles him, wenches
It fain resists their lush authority
Before him stands his old dependency.
He harked the ten commandments
Trod the tried and true, would godly be and golden rule
obey.
For lunch ate frugally, a grape a two,
Survived on one pure thought a day.
He screamed, "I've mastered it without half trying"
Appears the moon and once again he's lying.
Woke up this mornin' feelin' fine
There's somethin' special on my mind
Last night I met a new guy in the neighbourhood, whoa
yeah,
Somethin' tells me I'm into something good.
He's the kind of guy who's not too shy
And I can tell he's my kind of guy.
He danced close to me like I hoped he would, whoa yeah,
Somethin' tells me I'm into something good.
We only danced for a minute or two,
He stuck to me the whole night through.
Last night we fell in love,
He's everything I'm dreamin' of.
Somethin' tells me I'm into something good.
We only danced for a minute or two,
He stuck to me the whole night through.
Last night we fell in love,
He's everything I'm dreamin' of...
He walked me home and I held his hand
I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand
So I asked to see him again and he said I could.
Somethin' tells me I'm into something good.
Somethin' tells me I'm into something good,
Something good, whoa yeah, something good
They're really rockin' in boston, pittsburgh, pa,
Deep in the heart of texas and 'round the frisco bay.
All over st. louis, 'way down in new orleans,
All the cats gonna dance with sweet little sixteen.
Sweet little sixteen, she's just got to have
About a half a million signed autographs.
Her wallet's filled with pictures, she gets 'em one by
one,
She gets so excited, watch her, look at her run.
Oh mommy, mommy, please may I go?
It's such a sight to see somebody steal the show.
Oh daddy, daddy, I beg of you,
It's all right with mommy, it's all right with you.
'cause they'll be rockin' on bandstand, in pittsburgh, pa
Deep in the heart of texas, 'way down in frisco bay.
All over st. louis, 'way down in new orleans,
Will you take me across the channel,
London bridge is falling down.
Strange a woman tries to save
What a man will try to drown.
And he's the rain that they predicted,
It's the forecast every time.
The rose has died because you picked it
An' I believe that brandy's mine.
And all over the world
Strangers
Talk only about the weather.
All over the world
It's the same
It's the same
It's the same.
The word is getting flatter,
The sky is falling all around.
And nothing is the matter
For I never cry in town.
And a love like ours, my dear,
Is best measured when it's down.
And I never buy umbrellas,
For there's always one around.
And all over the world
Strangers
Talk only about the weather.
All over the world
It's the same
It's the same
It's the same.
And you know that it's beginning,
And you know that it's the end
When once again we are strangers
And the fog comes rolling in.
And all over the world
Strangers
Talk only about the weather.
All over the world
It's the same
It's the same
It's the same.
[Dr. John:]
Born in 1938
A good year for the Reich.
She could not participate
She didn't have the right.
For she was fatherless in the Fatherland.
Now it's 1966
Andrew's up to all his tricks.
And when Brian Jones is near
Nico doesn't feel so queer;
She's in the shit, though she's innocent -
Yesterday is gone,
There's just today - No tomorrow.
Yesterday is gone,
There's just today - No more...
Now it's Andy Warhol's time
Mystic 60's on a dime.
Though she kinda likes Lou Reed -
She doesn't really have the need.
Already in the shit, though she's innocent.
And now she doesn't know
What it is she wants
And where she wants to go
And will Delon be still a cunt.
Yes, she's in the shit, though she is innocent.
Yesterday is gone
There's just today
No tomorrow.
Yesterday is gone
There's just today
No more.
Yesterday is gone
There's just today
No tomorrow.
Yesterday is gone
There's just today
No more.
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da.
Da da da da da
Da da da da
Da da.
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da.
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Ooh, la la la la
Ooh, la la la la
I did you wrong, my heart went out to play
But in the game I lost you, what a price to pay
I'm cryin'
[Incomprehensible]
Ooh baby, baby
[Incomprehensible]
Mistakes, I know I've made a few
But I'm only human, you've made mistakes too
I'm cryin'
Oh oh oh, baby, baby
Oh oh oh, baby, baby
I'm just about at the end of my rope
But I'll keep on tryin', I can't give up hope
That I'll, someday I'll hold you near
Whisper, I still love you until the day is here
I'm cryin'
Oh oh oh, baby, baby
Oh oh oh, baby, baby
Oh oh oh, ohh
In my solitude
You haunt me
With dreadful ease
Of days gone by
In my solitude
You taunt me
With memories
That never die
I sit in my chair
And filled with despair
Theres no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that Ill soon go mad
In my solitude
Im afraid
Dear lord above
It is safe to sleep alone
In a place no one knows
And to seek life under stones
In a place water flows.
It is best to find in sleep
The missing pieces that you lost
Best that you refuse to weep
Ash to ash, dust to dust.
It is strange to sleep alone
In a place no one knows
Strange to shelter under stones
In a place water flows.
It is safe to walk with me
Where you can read the sky and stars,
Safe to walk upon the sea
In my sleep we can go far.
It is safe to sleep alone
In a place no one knows
And to shelter under stones
In a place water flows.
It is strange to sleep alone
In a place no one goes,
Strange to seek life under stones.
Here I lie in my hospital bed,
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round
again.
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long,
Oh, you see I'm not that strong.
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears.
Tell me, sister morphine, how long have I been lying
here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor.
Can't you see, sister morphine, I'm just trying to score.
Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem.
Please, sister morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams.
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast
And that this shot will be my last.
Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool hands on my head.
Hey, sister morphine, you'd better make up my bed
For you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead,
And you can sit around and you can watch the clean white
The warden led a prisoner
down the hallway to his doom
I stood up to say good-bye like all the rest
And I heard him tell the warden
just before he reached my cell
'Let my guitar playing friend do my request.'
(Let him...)
Sing me back home with a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Oh please take me away and turn back the years
Sing Me Back Home before I die
I remember Sunday morning
a choir from on the streets
They came in to sing a few old gospel songs
And I heard him tell the singers
'There's a song my mama sang.
Won't you sing it once before I move along?'
Won't you sing me back home
with a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Please take me away and turn back the years
Sing Me Back Home before I die
Someone saw you
By the waterside.
Nothing you can do will change her.
This is not the time for secrets
Save your breath.
It's time
For sex
With strangers.
It's time
For sex
With strangers.
It's time
For sex
With strangers -
Maybe sex with someone else.
Completely empty
You have nothing left inside.
Bored, you thought you'd try a little danger -
And now you have betrayed yourself.
It's time
For sex
With strangers.
It's time
For sex
With strangers.
It's time
For sex
With strangers -
Time for sex with someone else.
She wants to run away and hide
Nothing you can do will save her
She thought she knew you.
Knew how much you felt.
But now
It's sex
With strangers.
It's sex
With strangers.
But now
It's sex
With strangers -
Time for sex with someone else.
But now
It's sex
With strangers
It's sex
With strangers.
But now
It's sex
With strangers -
Move along staying close to the wall
Looking over your shoulder just in time.
Avoid the light, close your eyes
And put your hand in mine.
And put your hand in mine.
Are we in danger, or is it that
You think we might be ?
But I think I'd like to get out of here,
This place it frightens me,
This place it frightens me.
[Chorus]
Running for our lives,
At least we're pretending we are.
Running for our lives,
We never get very far. [Repeat: x3]
Stop pretending
This is a child's adventure,
The only way I can take it
Is playing the game.
Be quiet, there's a gate ahead.
Do you think we can make it ?
Will it be different, or just the same ?
How long can we keep escaping [Repeat: x3]
Into another prison ?
[Chorus]
Move along staying close to the wall,
Looking over your shoulder just in time.
Avoid the light, close your eyes
And put your hand in mine
And put your hand in mine.
[Chorus]
We never get very far. [Repeat: x3]
So my sister and I left Louisiana
Where the moon on the Mississippi is a-shining ever,
Like you always hear in the songs of Dixie.
We look forward to our home-coming?
And the sooner the better.
Anna II
And the sooner the better!
Anna I
It's a month already since we started
For the great big cities where you go to make money.
In seven years our fortune will be made
And then we can go back.
Anna II
In six years would be much nicer.
Anna I
Our mom and dad and both our brothers wait in old
Louisiana
And we'll send them all our money as we make it,
For all the money's got to go to build a little house
Down by the Mississippi in Louisiana.
Right, Anna ?
Anna II
Yes, Anna.
Anna I
She's the one with the looks, I'm realistic,
She's just a little mad, my head is on straight.
But we're really one divided being
Even though you see two of us
And both of us are Anna,
Together we've but a single past, a single future,
One heart and one savings account,
And we only do what's best for one another.
Right, Anna?
Anna II
You lads see me wash the glasses, wipe the floors,
Make the beds, I'm the best of servants.
You can kindly throw me pennies and I'll thank you very
much.
When you see me ragged and tattered in this dirty shit
hotel,
You don't know in hell who's talking,
You still don't know in hell who's talking.
Yet one fine day there will be roars from the harbour
And you'll ask, "what is all that screeching for?"
And you'll see me smiling as I dunk the glasses
And you'll say, "what's she got to smile at for?"
And the ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, sir,
Waits there at the quay.
You say, "work on, wipe the glasses, my girl."
And just slip me a dirty six-pence.
And your pennies will be taken, and your beds will be
made,
(but I doubt if forty winks will come anybody's way)
And you still don't know in hell who's talking,
You still don't know in hell who's talking.
Still one fine day there'll be a loud bang from the
harbour,
And you'll ask, "jesus christ, what was that bang?"
And you'll see me standing right behind the window,
And you'll say, "why has she got the evil eye?"
And the ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, sir,
Will be aimed at this town.
So then lads, it's time for tears, no more laughs at
the bar,
For the walls will be at your ankles.
And look out, lads, the town will be flat as the
ground,
This dirty shit hotel will be spared wrack and ruin
And you'll say, "who is the fancy bitch lives there?"
You'll say, "who is the fancy bitch lives there?"
There'll be rows of people running round the hotel
And you'll ask, "why should they have spared this
hovel?"
And you'll see me in the morning leaving lightly
And you'll say, "that one, her , she lived there?"
The same ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, sir,
Flies crossbones and skull.
In the midday sun a hundred men will step ashore
All tramping where shadows crawled.
They'll lay their hands on men, hiding shit-scared
behind doors
Lead them in chains here before this silent woman,
And they'll say, "well, which ones shall we kill?"
They'll say, "which ones shall we kill?"
Come the dot of twelve, it will be still in the
harbour,
When they ask me, "well, who is going to die?"
And you'll hear me whispering, oh, so sweetly, "all of
them!"
And as the soft heads fall, I'll say, "hop-l?quot;
That same ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, sir,
Disappears with me.
Just picture a penthouse way up in the sky
With hinges on chimneys for stars to go by
A sweet slice of heaven for just you and i
When we're alone.
From all of society we'll stay aloof
And live in propriety there on the roof.
Two heavenly hermits we will be in truth
When we're alone.
We'll see life's mad pattern
As we view old manhattan
Then we can thank our lucky stars
That we're living as we are.
In our little penthouse we'll always contrive
To keep love and romance forever alive
In view of the hudson just over the drive,
When we're alone.
We can thank our lucky stars
That we're living as we are.
In our little penthouse we'll always contrive
To keep love and romance forever alive
In view of the hudson just over the drive,
Got to get my head together
Throw my clothes in a bag
'Cause I can't go on forever
My conversation is a drag
Ain't got no reason to be happy
Ain't got no reason to be sad
But I just got reason to be mad
Catch a cab down to the station
Jump a fast movin' train
For some distant destination
Won't be back this way again
Ain't got no reason to be happy
Ain't got no reason to be sad
But I just got reason to be mad
Ain't got no reason
Ain't got no reason
If I ever get to see her
I won't know what to say
'Cause I still don't wanna leave her
But my wife won't let her stay
Ain't got no reason to be happy
Ain't got no reason to be sad
But I just got reason to be mad
You are my child
And how you've grown
But there are things
That you must learn
That every man
Must stand alone
And family
You must disown
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way -
Don't cry my child
You must know
That every man
I've ever loved
Has been a child
And fatherless
Trust in youself
That's all that you can trust
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way -
Go on, find your own way
Go on, find your own way
Go child, find your own way
Go on, find your own way -
I have no time for hate or love
Hey child, you're so full of woe
I have no time for hate or lyin'
Hey Child, you're no child of mine
I have no time for hate or love
Hey child, you're so full of woe
I have no time for hate or lyin'
Hey Child, you're no child of mine
Hey Child, you're no child of mine
My friends have many features
Many reasons, I can believe them
My friends have many things that
I am needing, to keep me singing
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
You're a friend of mine
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
You're a friend of mine
My friends have many mountains,
Many mountains that I can breathe in
My friends have many houses,
Many caves I can choose to live in
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
I love these friends of mine
Yeah, you're a friend for life
I love these friends of mine
My friends have many pathways,
Many roads that I can choose to take
My friends have many highways,
Where I can find my way back home again
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
I love these friends of mine
Yeah, you're a friend for life
I love these friends of mine
My friends have always been there,
To help me shape my crooked features
My friends have picked me up again,
And pushed my enemies out of the picture
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
You're a friend of mine
Yeah, you're a friend of mine
You're a friend for life
I love these friends of mine
I love these friends of mine
You're a friend of mine
When will the morning come?
I wait in darkness so long.
Will the sun ever rise again?
Hours flowing over me
I wait in vain for some change.
Will light ever pierce this pain?
[Chorus]
Riding on a humming bird's wing,
Caravans fleeing from the East.
May the pilgrim join in the feast.
How will the morning be?
I watched the dawn in my dreams
And imagined the day for years.
Shall I feel warmth again
And feel it true when they say
That the day never ends in tears?
[Chorus]
Tell me please,
How will it come
This release,
A crack in the door.
Shall I feel warm again
And feel it true when they say
That the day never ends in tears?
Beyond and back of the wind
Little birds fly into the sea
Morning light shine on me
Oh, tell me please, how will she come
Surrounding me, the opening door?
[Chorus]
Beyond and back of the wind
Little birds fly into the sea
Morning light shine on me.
Riding on a humming bird's wing,
Monday morning
It was all I hoped it would be.
Oh Monday morning,
Monday morning couldn't guarantee
That Monday evening
You would still be here with me.
Every other day
Every other day
Every other day
Of the week is fine, yeah.
But whenever Monday comes
But whenever Monday comes
You can find me crying
All of the time.
Monday, Monday,
Can't trust the day.
Monday, Monday,
Don't go away.
Oh, Monday, Monday,
Don't go away.
Many a mile to freedom
Many a smile to tell
Ask my bluebird to sing you
From the heart of a wishing well
Call all my reindeer to graze here
Call all my grain to grow
Then together we flow like the river
Then together we melt like the snow
Many a thought unanswered
Many a tale to tell
Ask my bluebird to sing you
From the heart of a wishing well
If you should ask me the reason
The reason for life that we know
Then together we flow like the river
And together we melt like the snow
If you should ask me then give me
The reason for life that we know
Then together we flow like the river
Then together we melt like the snow
Few more miles to go, miles to freedom
A few more miles to go, miles to freedom
A few more miles to go, few miles to freedom
Love you made me pay an awful price,
I tried to gamble with you, but you were using crooked
dice.
Somebody's gotta suffer, somebody's gotta feel some
pain.
If it's gonna rain down misery, why it's all gotta fall
on me.
Money you made me some very good friends.
Just like you make them, you're gonna break them in the
end.
Somebody's gotta suffer, somebody's gotta feel some
pain.
If it's gonna rain down misery, why it's all gotta fall
on me.
I've had my share of love, life and money.
I lost it all three ways and I'm here to tell ya it
sure ain't funny.
Me and my money parted, so did my love and I,
Life don't mean a thing, and I wish that I could die.
In life you make a whole lotta fools,
'Cause you're always teaching something that they never
teach in schools.
Somebody's gotta suffer, somebody's gotta feel some
pain.
If it's gonna rain down misery, why it's all gotta fall
on me.
Love, you made me pay an awful price,
I tried to gamble with you, but you were using crooked
dice.
Somebody's gotta suffer, somebody's gotta feel some
pain.
If it's gonna rain down misery, why it's all gotta fall
on me.
If it's gonna rain down misery, why it's all gotta fall
Is it a crisis ?
Is it a crime ?
Or is it a fantasy ?
Does it take time ?
Will it cost money ?
Will it mean love ?
Sure isn't easy
To get in the mood
Aha.
See you at the parties
You're never the same
Do you make money ?
What is your name ?
Where can I find you ?
Out in the night
Who are your friends ?
Are they dark or light ?
Aha.
Tell me the dreams you never told anyone
Gimme a break.
Are you really a virgin who's never loved anyone else ?
Or just a fake ?
Me I don't know what to think anymore
Don't know where to start
To sit here with you and talk about nothing
Is breaking my heart.
Ask me a question ?
Gimme a smoke
What are you drinking ?
Is it a joke
Well ain't it worth it ?
Or am I depraved ?
You hold your head high
With one foot in the grave.
Aha.
My father promised me roses
My mother promised me thorns
My father taught me to use my mind
My mother taught me scorn
He touches me lightly with his hand
It feels like being born [Repeat: x3]
My father promised me green trees
My mother promised me stars
I hardly seen the love I have
It all goes by so fast
He kisses me gently with his lips
It's near what once was far [Repeat: x3]
My father promised me roses
My mother promised me thorns
My father taught me to use my mind
My mother taught me scorn
He touches me lightly with his hand
Lost his own, taken down
All his songs
Till his all alone
And all our love was harmed
'cept for you
I'm only young, favorite son
Say you tried, take it back
To where you belong
And all the things you say
Still untrue
We saw the green fields
Turn into homes
Such lonely homes
We saw the green fields
Turn into homes
Such lovely homes
Do what you want to do!
I was digging up, sorting out,
Only to built a song alone
Till you came along
But all my love was there
Just all for you
And in the darkest time
We crossed the line
Made a song
Cause all the talk was wrong
And all you ever won
Can still be true
We saw the green fields
Turn into homes
Such lonely homes
We saw the green fields
Turn into stone
Such lonely homes
We saw the green fields
Turn into homes
Such lovely homes
We saw the green fields
Turn into stone
Such lonely stone
Now all my love is out
It's just for you
It's not a love song
Kimbie wants a nine dollar show
Kimbie wants a nine dollar show
She wants a nine dollar show
And I need
Well baby where you been so long
Baby where you been so long
I've been in that state pen
With them rough and rowdy,
rough and rowdy, rough and rowdy men
Well baby where you been so long
Baby where you been so long
I've been in your state pen
And I gotta go back again
Well baby where you been so long
Kimbie let your hair hang down
Kimbie let your hair, let it hang down
Let your hair hang down
And your bangs all curl around
Kimbie let your hair hang down
Kimbie let your hair, let it hang down
Let your hair hang down
And come the morning
You know I'll be gone
Well baby let your hair hang down
Well I wished I was a mole in the ground
I wished I were a mole in the ground
I was a mole in the ground
And that I'd tear, I'd tear this mountain down
Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,
Can't buy a thrill.
Well, I've been up all night,
Leanin' on the window sill.
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don't make it,
You know my baby will.
Don't the moon look good, mama,
Shinin' through the trees?
Don't the brakeman look good, mama,
Flagging down the "double e"?
Don't the sun look good
Going down over the sea?
But don't my gal look fine
When she's comin' after me?
Well, the wintertime is coming,
The windows are filled with frost.
I went to tell everybody,
But I could not get across.
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be your boss.
Don't say I never wanted you
Now we move on, we move on a bit in time. Not much, but a
little.
We are now in Paris at the end of the Second World War,
and the allies have come in and liberated Paris and
everyone is having a wonderful time.
It's full of Americans and English and Russians, and
everybody.
And there is a woman who during the war was a nurse, now
she's a prostitute.
I must admit I've always thought there is a connection
between these two.
They both take care of you really, don't they? And she's
plying her trade and cheering up all the soldiers in
Paris.
But there, there was a man she loved, really loved, who's
now dead in a far away grave somewhere.
And sometimes she can't help but think about him, and
then she, she starts to suffer.
And then she turns away and pulls herself together and
gets on with it.
I'm not Lisa,
My name is Julie.
Lisa left you
Years ago.
My eyes are not blue,
But mine won't leave you
Till the sunlight
Has touched your face.
She was your morning light,
Her smile told of no night.
Your love for her grew
With each rising sun.
And then one winter day
His hand laid her away,
She left you here
Drowning in your tears,
Here, where you've stayed for years,
What's happened to blue eyes,
Has anyone seen him?
Don't anyone tell me
That he gave up on me.
I'm looking for blue eyes
I gotta find him,
I gotta know if,
If he's been looking for me.
There was a time blue eyes said he'd love no other,
His one and only love, he swore at me.
There was a time when his blue eyes were clearer than
mine did
It isn't right, he isn't to blame, he didn't mean it this
way.
What's happened to blue eyes,
Has anyone seen him?
Don't anyone tell me
That he gave up on me?
I'm looking for blue eyes
I've got to find him
I don't know if,
If he's been looking for me.
Thinking of a world and the light of the sun
And all the many lives that were ever begun,
Ever begun.
Our little world turning in the blue
As each day goes there's another one new,
Another one new.
How many people will we feed today,
How many lips will we kiss today,
If we wake up?
How many worlds will we ever see,
And how people can we ever be,
If we wake up?
Thinking of a world in the light of the sun
And all the many lives that were ever begun,
As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playing
That old song about the wild, wild side of life.
As I listen to the words you are saying,
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife.
It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you say in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It's a shame that all the blame is on us women,
It's not true that only you, men, feel the same.
From the start most every heart that's been broken
Was because there always was a man to blame.
It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.
It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
I think I'm going back
to the things I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returning to
the days when I was young enough to know the truth
Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
Thinking young and growing older is no sin
And I can play the game of life to win
I can recall a time
when I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a friend
Now I think I've got
a lot more than my toys to lend
Now there's much to do than watch my sailboat glide
And every day can be my magic carpet ride
A little bit of freedom is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I'm going back
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I'm going back
Go away from my world,
Let me dream alone.
And you see it never worked from the start,
All I got for all of my love was a broken heart.
Go away from my world,
And let me dream alone.
I'll dry my eyes and comb my hair,
And I'll pretend you're never there.
Now you're gone the breezes blow so sadly
You never could understand the love I wanted so badly.
Go away from my world,
And let me walk all alone.
All alone in my room,
All alone and so sad.
I can dream of how I wanted us to be
Dreams I have the kind I knew could ever be.
Sunday is Gloomy,
My hours are slumberless,
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thought of ever returning you
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you
Gloomy Sunday
Sunday is gloomy
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be flowers and prayers that are sad,
I know, let them not weep,
Let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream,
For in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you
Asleep in the deep of
My heart
Dear
Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you how much I wanted you
It comes as no surprise
Your face filled with lies
Hovers all around me in this room.
Clouds hung with my dismay
A hot bed where we lay
Your every kiss tasting like a tomb.
If time becomes a judge,
If my body holds a grudge
It's just because I needed sanctuary.
Your skin under my nails
My curiosity that failed
To save myself for something that I need.
I don't wanna bleed
Or bruise up black and blue.
Do I deserve these things
All for wanting you?
Like some virgin with her cloth
I play the goddess coming through
Now I play the parting slave
All for wanting you.
We do things 'cause we must
The law of love and lust
Comes together just like oil on flame.
I looked into your eyes,
You saw me naked for a while,
How d'you like it in my little nest?
Who was really using who?
In here the scent of you
Stains the sheets with memory and lust.
When I get back on the street
Tell everybody that I meet
Maybe these aren't scars, they're only rust.
I don't wanna bleed
Or bruise up black and blue
Do I deserve these things
All for wanting you?
Like some virgin with her cloth
I play the goddess coming through
Now I play the parting slave
The summer dying
September lives in flames
The sisters dancing
No happy ending to the game
Don't bother to call me
Think I'll stay here just the same
[Chorus]
Flaming September
What can you give me that is true?
Do you remember
Do you remember
Do you remember
All the life I gave to you?
The summer dying
September lives in flames
My youth lies bruised and broken
No happy ending to the game
Don't bother to tell me
I'll live on here just the same
[Chorus]
Flaming September
What can you show me that is true?
My heart remembers
Do you remember
Do you remember
All the life I gave
To you?
Flaming September
I know you're out there having a good time.
Spaced out chicks, love potions and good wine.
Don't make me laugh, you're not in there alone,
There's other people's voices in the room.
Don't hang up, I didn't mean it that way,
No eye communication, always happens this way.
How can I say what I mean, mean what I say?
No eye communication always happens that way.
I know I shouldn't let it happen,
There's no excuse, I felt so alone.
You know how it is, our lure was meant to trap them,
And then they find some poison of their own.
Don't hang up, I didn't mean it that way,
No eye communication, always happens this way.
How can I say what I mean, mean what I say?
Some folks the're always crying
Crying their mean old blues
Not Me, you never even see me frown.
Some folks just walk around tryin'
Tryin' hard love to loose,
But I felt let it come the better let it burn
I'm the happiest gal in the town
Easy come easy go
Nothing ever worries me,
Care for none, eyes of stone
Don't know misery.
If my man be trouble, Or if he don't
I'll get someone to love me anytime you want
Easy come easy go
Right from my head to my shoes
Don't wanna be no skinny vamp or nothing like that
Daddy always knows just where his sweet Mama's at
I'm overflowin' with those easy come, easy go blues.
He'll swallows me up, when he's lovin; hear what I've
said
Believe me I go out to lick him 'most everyday
i am walking through rome
with my heart on a string
dear god, please help me
and i am so very tired
of doing the right thing
dear god, please help me
there are explosive kegs
between my legs
dear god, please help me
will you follow and know
know me more than you do
track me down
and try to win me?
then he motions to me
with his hand on my knee
dear god, did this kind of thing happen to you?
now i'm spreading your legs
with mine in-between
dear god, if i could i would help you
and now i am walking through rome
and there is no room to move
but the heart feels free
the heart feels free
the heart feels free
but the heart... feels free
the heart feels free
Hated by all and everywhere he goes
Blazing contempt for human life and lies
Murder as art and what he knows he knows
From life and fear in other people's eyes
Crazy love is all around me
Love is crazy love is kind
But I know somehow you'll find me
Love is crazy love is blind
She walks the boulevard without a care
Knowing too much but having come so far
Pretending life is just a game you play for nothing
Loving no-one and no-where
Crazy love is all around me
Love goes crazy given time
But I know somehow you'll find me
Love is crazy love is blind
She looks as if expecting a surprise
Maybe an encounter that will change her life
Not knowing hot from cold or good for bad
If life is just a joke or if it makes her sad
Crazy love is all around me
Love is crazy love is kind
But I know somehow you'll find me
Love is crazy love is blind
Crazy love is all around me
Love goes crazy given time
But I know somehow you'll find me
The wild mountain thyme that grows around my door
Has grown there for two score years or more
And I've grown weary waiting for love to say
"Come my way, come my way."
The brook that sings and twinkles in the sun
Has danced this mercy dance since time begun
But o how weary and how long the day will he say
"Come my way."
Lovers all around, I wish you joy
Happiness to every girl and boy.
But sometimes spare a thought of me and say
How can we cool devotions of the night,
bring endless labyrinths of vines to light.
Your silent spell won't bring you home tonight.
You couldn't open up your veins to light.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
waits for a golden sunlight.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
waits for a golden sunlight.
How can we cool devotions of the night,
desanguinate limbs veined with valleys of ice.
Children of stone your crystal cages align.
Crown of creation bring me into the light.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
waits for the golden sunlight.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
waits for a golden sunlight.
How can we cool devotions of the night,
desanguinate limbs veined with valleys of ice.
Children of stone your crystal cages align.
Crown of creation bring me into the light.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
waits for the golden sunlight.
All that blossoms, all that blooms lies fallow in the
night,
I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand me down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room
I'm talking to the shadows
From 1 o'clock til 4
And lord, how slow the moments go
When all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dreams to dry
Now a man is born to go a lovin'
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes
I'm moaning all the morning
And mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much heart to fight
Black coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby
To maybe come around... around
I'm waiting for my baby
To maybe come around
My nerves have gone to pieces
My hair is turning gray
All I do is drink black coffee
Before the Poison, I wasn't down
If you'd been there, If you'd been around
I couldn't hear, Couldn't hear a sound
I was floating, above the ground
Before the poison, I'd lost my fear
Maybe too happy to even care
Safe in my dream, couldn't see the fog
Comin on, coming from nowhere
My name to call
No more to say, nothin's comin' my way
No you, no me, no more, how can it be
Nowhere to run, out of nowhere poison
They sense the end
What's left for you, my friend
Before the poison, I'd laugh out loud
I'd see your face, in any crowd
But speak softly, without fear
Hold on to me, hold me near
Ooooooooooohh
Oooooooooohhh
Ooooooooooohh
No more to say, nothin's comin' my way
No you no me, no more, how can it be
Nowhere to run, out of nowhere poison
They sense the end
What's left for you, my friend
What's left for you, my friend
What's left for you, my friend
It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
My riches can't buy everything,
I want to hear the children sing.
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Doing things I used to do
They think are new,
I sit and watch as tears go by.
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were ? I have not seen
As others saw ? I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.
Then ? in my childhood ? in the dawn
Of a most stormy life ? was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
To mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold ?
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by ?
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Someone who isn't like you and to waste it all.
Someone to be around,
Someone to have me hold when the deal goes down.
Didn't I say it would happen this way in the end?
Didn't I say it would happen this way in the end?
A perfect stranger is what it seems,
A perfect stranger, a crazy dream,
A crazy dream.
Find myself a perfect stranger to do for now,
Someone who isn't like you but knows why and how.
Someone to walk away,
Someone who knows the time to leave or to stay.
Isn't it sad, baby, we never have it that way?
Isn't it sad, baby, we never have it that way?
A perfect stranger is what he seems,
A perfect stranger, a crazy dream,
A crazy dream.
Find myself a perfect stranger to take me there
Someone who isn't like you but know why and where
Soemone who's not afraid
Someone who's blind to all the promises made.
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
How does it feel, baby, we shouldn't leave it this way
Perfect stranger
Why is it that civilized humanity
Can make the world so wrong ?
In this hurly-burly of insanity
Our dreams cannot last long.
We've reached a deadline,
A press headline,
Every sorrow.
Blues value
Is news value
Tomorrow.
Blues
Twentieth century blues
Are getting me down.
Blues
Escape those weary
Twentieth century blues.
Why,
If there's a God in the sky,
Why shouldn't He grin
High
Above this dreary
Twentieth century din ?
In this strange illusion,
Chaos and confusion,
People seem to lose their way.
What is there to strive for,
Love or keep alive for,
Say, 'Hey, hey!'
Call it a day ?
Blues
Nothing to win or to lose,
It's getting me down.
Blues
Escape those weary
Twentieth century blues.
We've reached a deadline,
A press headline,
Every sorrow.
Blues value
Is news value
Tomorrow.
Blues
Nothing to win or to lose,
It's getting me down.
Blues
Escape those dreary
Twentieth century
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Mary Ann.
If I had a flask of gin,
Whiskey there for two
And a great big bowl for to mix them in
I'd mix a drink for you my dear
Mary Ann.
The lobster boiling in the pot,
The bluefish on the hook;
The pain they bear is nothing like
The ache I bear for you, my dear
Mary Ann.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well a while,
For though I go I'll surely come again
Though it be ten thousand miles, my dear
Mary Ann.
Fare thee well, my own true love
Fare thee well, my dear,
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows free
And I am bound away for the sea,
Think about it when you're out on the street
Think about it when you've nothing to eat
How could you fall so low from so high above?
Think about it when you're on your own
Think about it when you're leaving home
You didn't see it coming, the velvet glove
Too far out on the wilder shores of love
Too far out like you knew before
On the wilder shores of love
Think about it from the other side
Realize you've got nothing to hide
There's no one left alive to give you away
Night moves in mystery
What else do you want to be?
Did no one ever show you the way?
Just found out on the wilder shores of love
Just found out what you did before
On the wilder shores of love
Too far out on the wilder shores of love
Too far out what you knew before
On the wilder shores of love
I can feel your dangerous love around me
Do I want to go in there again
When all I wanted was for you to drown me
And love was there to make me go insane?
I remember all the lies you told me
Shut my eyes and always you appear
I can't forget the way you used to haunt me
I can't forget the love that wasn't there
Too far out on the wilder shores of love
Too far out like you knew before
On the wilder shores of love
So far out on the wilder shores of love
So far out like you knew before
Da da da da da da da da da
Here I go
Da da da da da da da da da
Goodness knows.
You can see I've come so far so
Kiss me quick
I swear upon the stars
They're mine
I swear upon the love
You'll find.
So nobody knows
Wherever I go, it's you
Wherever I go doesn't it show it's you
So many things I wanted to bring to you
Wherever I go I want you to know it's you
Talking in my sleep I sing my song.
Caught inside the same dreams
As though nothing's wrong.
Time is everything but
It's not my gift
Da da da da da da da da da
It's everything I wish.
I swear upon the road I'm on
I'd give you all I have - I'm strong
So nobody knows
Wherever I go
It's you.
Wherever I go
Doesn't it show
It's you.
So many things
I wanted to bring
To you.
Wherever I go
I want you to know
It's you.
Talking in my sleep I sing my song
Caught inside the same dreams, but not for long.
So nobody knows
Wherever I go
It's you.
Wherever I go
Doesn't it show
It's you.
So many things
I wanted to bring
For you.
Wherever I go
Doesn't it show
It's you.
So nobody knows
Wherever I go
It's you.
Wherever I go
Doesn't it show
It's you.
What's the worry, what's the hurry,
Do you hear me, do you fear me?
You've got the message, you read the story,
You want the power, you need the glory.
Clocks break, time goes by,
Hot sake along the fly,
She laughs on a spin,
He laughs, turns you in.
What's the panic, where's the static,
Do you see me, could you meet me?
I heard the rumor, you've got my number,
But now I see you run for cover.
So you thought you had it made,
Ain't it easy to be afraid,
Feel the pressure, take the bait,
Here it comes again.
Clock breaks, time goes by,
Hot sake along the fly,
She laughs on a spin,
You treated me like a schoolgirl lover,
We never did follow any rules.
Into your arms and I'm running for cover,
All of my strings I've tied to you.
Can you hear the gypsy turnpike, oh it's calling.
So take our things out to the car.
And as the shades of night are fallin'
You're my bright and guiding star.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Oh my, my, my, my, you're looking better,
Seems like you were never ill.
The doctor, he's gonna send you a letter??
Let the sky up pay the bill.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
John-john the cat, he's getting older
And he can't jump up like we know he should.
So come, put the baby over my shoulder,
We're going out to get some wood.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la.
Vanilla O'Lay, O'Lay, O'Lay, lay-la lay-la.
This time
If you want me to come back
It's up to you,
But remember
I want a lot other things you used to do
You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line.
This time will be the last time.
This time
If I should feel unwanted
I won't stay.
Each tomorrow
Will depend on the love you give today.
It's all up to you to stand by.
This time will be the last time.
If this time should be
Anything like the other time
This time will be the last time.
This time
If you want me to come back
It's up to you,
But remember
I want a lot of things you used to do.
You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line.
This time will be the last time.
If this time should be
Anything like the other time
"When you marry you will change,"
Said the woman to the man.
"When I marry I will change you,"
Said the woman to the man.
So they married and were happy.
They were happy for a time,
Still they thought about each other
All the time.
"When I marry I will be you,"
Said the woman to the man.
"When you marry you'll be someone,"
Said the woman to the man.
So they married and were someone.
They were someone for a time,
Still they thought about each other
All the time.
"When you leave me you'll be sorry,"
Said the woman to the man.
"When you leave me I will haunt you,"
Said the woman to the man.
So he left her and was haunted.
They were haunted for a time,
Still they thought about each other
All the time.
"When I left him I was happy,"
Said the woman to the child.
"When I left him I was happy,"
Said the woman to her child.
So I left him and was happy,
I was happy with his child.
"You won't know him when you meet him,"
Said the woman to the child.
"You won't know him if you meet him,"
Said the woman to the child.
But he met him and said, "father,
You were father for a time,
I just wondered who you were in my mind."
"Well, I told you he's your father,"
Said the woman to the child.
"Well, I knew it, you would love him,"
Said the woman to her child.
And I loved him and I loved him
And was happy with our child.
What was it that made you
Treat us so unkind ?
"What's the problem, why 're you crying?"
Said the woman to the man.
"He's your father, he's your father,"
Said the woman to her son.
"He's the problem, he's my father,
He was father for a time."
"When I die I'll be with him,"
Said the woman to her son.
"When I die you'll forgive me,"
Said the woman to the man.
So she did and was buried,
Buried with him for all time.
"When I love you we will marry,"
Said the woman to the man,
"And our children will have children,"
Said the woman to the man.
So they married and had children,
O, Mama
Ain't no time to fall to pieces
He has arrived, He has arrived
There by the grace of God go I-
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean
And I say-
O, Father
Now I can't believe you're leaving
Seen thru your eyes, seen thru your eyes
There by the grace of God go I-
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean
And I say-
I hear the rapture's comin'
They say He'll be here soon
Right now there's demons crawling all around my room
They say He lives within me
They say for me He died
And now I hear His footsteps
All most every night
O, Children
This is where they come to take me away-
From here
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean
I got so much love
So much more
So much more love to give.
I got so much more
So much love
So much more love left to give.
So much pleasure draws me like I never saw.
I have never seen you look like this before.
I got so many lives
So many more
So many more lives to live
I got so much love
So much love
So much more love left to give.
So much pleasure draws me like I never saw.
I have never seen you look like this before.
Are you with me or without me?
Are you with me here or am I alone?
I got somewhere
Somewhere to be
Somewhere to be with you.
There is somewhere
Somewhere to be
Somewhere for me and you.
So much pleasure draws me like I never saw.
I have never seen you look like this before.
Are you with me or without me?
Are you with me now or am I alone?
Can you see me I can see you -
Please be with me here so I'm not alone.
So much more to know
Didn't want to go
So much more to know
Didn't want to go
So much more to go
Didn't want to go
So much more to know
Didn't want to go
So much more to know
So much more to go
You've seen him
In the undirected light of street dreams
Doing nothing
Standing, like to seem casual
With a resemblance to people held by fear.
Lit by fire and disrepair.
The blue millionaire.
Don't listen and keep asking
Only stories reach this far.
No one's left and no one's coming
And I will disappear
Far away from you,
The American wind,
And the blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
There is no such thing as the Wrong Man
Blue as the dusk that ended my day
And shut off the light and air.
I wish I could tell you
How he put them in cages,
Found you where you slept.
Got me down with something else than bruises
Tied me to a blue chair
Lit by fire and disrepair
The blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Seen him drinking gin from pale blue bottles,
Drowning in shadow,
Shadows moving in.
Forever imagine
Imagine it's him
Nearby the window
With dreams broken in.
I don't laugh anymore or smile,
I am lost in the body,
The passion of time.
He is screening my dreams
And everything that's mine.
Don't stay in this mirror
Other hands have left me in.
You don't blow away as I do.
It will be the same again.
Turn and point away from here.
Steal what you cannot win
From the blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
Blue millionaire.
The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy
Jordan
In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town
As she lay there 'neath the covers dreaming of a
thousand lovers
Till the world turned to orange and the room went
spinning round.
At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind
in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there
softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's
knees and chair.
Her husband, he's off to work and the kids are off to
school,
And there are, oh, so many ways for her to spend the
day.
She could clean the house for hours or rearrange the
flowers
Or run naked through the shady street screaming all the
way.
At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind
in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing as she sat there
softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's
knees and chair.
The evening sun touched gently on the eyes of Lucy
Jordan
On the roof top where she climbed when all the laughter
grew too loud
And she bowed and curtsied to the man who reached and
offered her his hand,
And he led her down to the long white car that waited
past the crowd.
At the age of thirty-seven she knew she'd found forever
As she rode along through Paris with the warm wind in
The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of lucy
jordan
In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town
As she lay there 'neath the covers dreaming of a
thousand lovers
Till the world turned to orange and the room went
spinning round.
At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind
in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there
softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's
easy chair.
Her husband, he's off to work and the kids are off to
school,
And there are, oh, so many ways for her to spend the
day.
She could clean the house for hours or rearrange the
flowers
Or run naked through the shady street screaming all the
way.
At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind
in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing as she sat there
softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's
easy chair.
The evening sun touched gently on the eyes of lucy
jordan
On the roof top where she climbed when all the laughter
grew too loud
And she bowed and curtsied to the man who reached and
offered her his hand,
And he led her down to the long white car that waited
past the crowd.
At the age of thirty-seven she knew she'd found forever
As she rode along through paris with the warm wind in
Caught a train from Alexandria
Just a broken man in flight
Running scared with his devils
Saying prayers all through the night
Oh but mercy can't find him
Not in the shadows where he calls
Forsaking all his better angels
That's how every empire falls
The bells ring out on Sunday mornng
Like echoes from another time
All our innocence and yearning
and sense of wonder left behind
Oh gentle hearts remember
What was that story? Is it lost?
For when religion loses vision
That's how every empire falls.
He toasts his wife and all his family
The providence he brought to bear
They raise their glasses in his honor
Although this union they don't share
A man who lives among them
Was still a stranger to them all
For when the heart is never open
That's how every empire falls
Padlock the door and board the windows
Put the people in the street
"It's just my job," he says "I'm sorry."
And draws a check, goes home to eat
But at night he tells his woman
"I know I hide behind the laws."
She says, "You're only taking orders."
That's how every empire falls.
A bitter wind blows through the country
A hard rain falls on the sea
If terror comes without a warning
There must be something we don't see
What fire begets this fire?
Like torches thrown into the straw
If no one asks, then no one answers
I had just turned sixteen that season
When you came up from Burma to stay.
And you told me I ought to travel with you,
You were sure it would be OK.
When I asked how you earned your living,
I can still hear what you said to me:
You had some kind of job on the railway
And had nothing to do with the sea.
You said a lot, Johnny,
All one big lie, Johnny.
You cheated me blind, Johnny,
From the minute we met.
I hate you so, Johnny,
When you stand there grinning, Johnny.
Take that damn pipe out of your mouth, you rat.
Surabaya Johnny,
No one's meaner than you.
Surabaya Johnny,
My God and I still love you so.
Surabaya Johnny,
Why am I feeling so blue ?
You have no heart, Johnny,
And I still love you so.
At the start, every day was Sunday,
Till we went on our way one fine night.
And before two more weeks were over,
You thought nothing I did was right.
So we trekked up and down through the Punjab,
From the source of the river to the sea.
When I look at my face in the mirror,
There's an old woman staring back at me.
You didn't want love, Johnny,
You wanted cash, Johnny.
But I sewed your lips, Johnny,
And that was that.
You wanted it all, Johnny,
I gave you more, Johnny.
Take that damn pipe out of your mouth, you rat.
Surabaya Johnny.
No one's meaner than you.
Surabaya Johnny.
My God and I still love you so.
Surabaya Johnny,
Why am I feeling so blue ?
You have no heart, Johnny.
And I still love you so.
I would never have thought of asking
How you'd got that peculiar name,
But from one end of the coast to the other
You were known everywhere we came.
It's been a long time since you went away,
I stop to think of you most every day
With all my heart I'm hoping you're ok.
Guess who loves you?
Somebody loves you.
I couldn't reach you by the us mail,
You didn't leave a very easy trail
I tried to telephone to no one bail
Guess who loves you?
Somebody loves you?? I do.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Oh, oh.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Someone loves you,
Somebody loves you.
Mind over matter is the game I play
I'll never each you any other way.
So I send this one thought to you every day:
"guess who loves you?
Somebody loves you?? I do."
Na na na na na na na na na na
Oh, oh.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Someone loves you
Somebody loves you?? I do.
I couldn't reach you by the us mail,
You didn't leave a very easy trail
I tried to telephone to no one bail
Guess who loves you?
Somebody loves you?? I do.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Oh, oh.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Oh, oh.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Someone loves you,
The family tree was chain-sawed Wednesday week.
So now I have to mingle with the meek.
Hey mister! you have finally met your match
Now everybody wants to kiss my snatch -
To go where God knows who has gone before.
I am a muse, not a mistress, not a whore.
Oh - suburban shits who want some class
All queue up to kiss my ass
And I was only trying to please
I never got any royalties oh no - not me
I'm still sliding through life on charm
Sliding through life on charm.
If Marianne was born a man she'd show you all
A way to piss your life against the wall.
Go ahead why don't you leave me to these thugs?
And creeps who want to fuck a nun on drugs.
Is it such a sin I never, ever tried too hard?
I had to know how far was going too far -
In proper homes throughout the land Fathers try to
understand
Why Eunice who is seventeen - aspires to live her life
like me
Oh no - Can't ya see, Daddy?
She's just captivated by my charm
Sliding through life on charm.
Sliding...
Sliding...
Never!
I wonder why the schools don't teach anything useful
these days
Like how to fall from grace, and slide with elegance
from a pedestal
I never asked to be on in the first place.
Sliding on charm
Sliding on charm
Sliding on charm
Sliding on charm
Sliding on charm
You saw the wise man salomon,
You know what 'came of him.
To him the world seemed clear as day,
He cursed the sad hour that he saw the sign,
He knew that everything was dust.
How great and wise was salomon!
Watch out the world is spinning fast
The night will fall, the price we'll pay
Such wisdom's not all it's cracked up to be,
So let us praise such clarity.
You saw divine cleopatra,
You know what 'came of her.
Two emperors died to serve her lust,
She whored herself to death, yes she did,
And withered into lovely dust.
How beautiful great babylon.
Watch out, the world is spinning fast
The night will fall, the price we'll pay,
Such beauty's not all it's cracked up to be,
So let us praise such luxury.
Behold the man, the bold macheath,
The end's in sight, I fear.
If he had kept his pretty head
And just robbed the rich, but oh no, instead
All's come to nought and turned to dust.
How sad the heart when it has won.
Watch out the world is spinning fast,
The night will fall, the price we'll pay.
Such whoring's not all it's cracked up to be,
So let us praise sweet chastity.
I'd like to introduce my friend, my musical director
Rosy, won't you please come home,
Mama don't know where you've been.
Rosy won't you please come home,
Your room's clean and no one's in it.
Oh, my rosy, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it, please, come back.
Rosy, won't you please come home,
Since you joined the upper classes
You don't know us anymore,
Live and let your trouble pass.
Rosy, rosy, where are you, tell me,
If you don't want to come back.
I will sacrifice all I have
To have a happy home once more.
Rosy, won't you please come home,
Two long years have passed away.
Since you tried to change your life
Christmas wasn't quite the same.
Rosy, rosy, got any answers?
You are miles across the sea
And I'll bake a cake if you tell me
You are on the first plane home.
Rosy, won't you please come home,
Mama don't know where you've been.
Rosy won't you please come home,
Your room's clean and no one's in it.
Oh, my rosy, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it, please, come home.
(The Past)
Past - well now let me tell you about the past
Past is filled with silent joys and broken toys
Laughing girls and teasing boys
Was I ever in love?
I called it love
I mean - it felt like love
There were moments when...
Well, there were moments when...
(Present)
Go out with you?
Why not?
Do I like to dance?
Of course
Take a walk along the beach tonight?
I'd love to
(But) Don't try to touch me
Don't try to touch me
Cause that will never happen again
Shall we dance?
(Instrumental)
(The Future)
Tomorrow - well... Tomorrow is a long way off
Maybe someday I'll hold somebody's hand
Maybe somewhere someone will understand
You know - I used to sing: “A tisket, a tasket, a
Treated you like a rusty blade
A throwaway from an open grave
Cut you loose from a chain gang
And let you go
And on the day you said it's true
Some love holds and some gets used
Tried to tell you I never knew
It could be so sweet
Who could ever be so cruel,
Blame the devil for the things you do.
It's such a selfish way to lose
The way you lose these wasted blues,
These wasted blues.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
When the moon is a counterfeit
Better find the one that fits
Better find the one that lights
The way for you.
When the road is full of nails,
Garbage pails and darkened jails
And their tongues are full of heartless tales
That drain on you
Who would ever notice you
You fade into a shaded room ?
It's such a selfish way to lose
The way you lose these wasted blues
These wasted blues.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own.
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
My madeleine of Paris
She'll laugh and dance and sing
To cheer the weary soldier
At his homecoming.
A little room together,
An hour of love to spend.
"comme ca, your arms around me,"
Oh, mon ami, my friend.
But she, how she remembers
That other love and joy.
The first, the best,
The dearest tired soldier boy.
A narrow room alone now,
Rain on the roof above
And he will sleep forever,
Oh, mon ami, my love.
My madeleine of Paris
She does not sit and grieve,
But sings away her sorrows
To cheer the soldiers' leave.
For life is short and funny
And love must have an end.
An hour may be forever
Oh, mon ami, my friend.
For life is short and funny
And love must have an end.
An hour may be forever
Oh, mon ami, my friend.
I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying, oh I love this.
What's it all for if you can't feel the ecstasy?
What's it all for if you can't touch the power,
The will to live in the hour?
Don't steal what I have got, baby,
'cause it's hardly enough for myself.
Don't steal what I've got, baby,
'cause the balance is thin like a shell.
I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying, oh I love this.
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment?
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment,
The moment of kiss.
Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless when I'm with you.
Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless through and through.
What am I gonna wear? I don't care.
Nobody sees the inside.
Oh, the radio's gonna take us out
Take us out on a ride.
I put on perfume and I walk in the room
The world stands still with you in the room.
I cross the floor and I'm high and I'm rich
When I'm under your lips and your fingertips.
I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying into the mist.
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment?
What's it all for if you can't feel the power?
What's it all for if you can't, can't live right here
In the hour, in the hour, in the hour?
Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless when I'm with you.
Fearless when I'm with you,
It's getting dark outside
Daytime is done.
The lights along the river come up
One by one.
Let's make love again
We got time.
I am yours
You are mine.
It's getting dark outside
I have to go.
Don't want my husband
Or my friends to know.
Zip up my dress
I can't find my shoes.
Don't fall in love with me
Too much to lose.
The kids are home by now
Have to think fast.
I really think this afternoon
Must be the last.
Don't say anything,
Don't turn on the light.
Thanks for loving me,
Oh, don't sell me out, only love.
You don't get it so well.
Please tell someone
Everything is gone
Dream less of me, less to guess on you
I felt so much
Every tick and tussle
Heart torn because it's a kissin' time.
So pass on by -
You'll never find out
I love someone else
Find your God
You'll find yourself
But, he falls
I'm confessing to you
Just my guess
It's a kissin' time.
He can't pass on you
Oh no, I see far right through you.
Please understand my kissin' song
Think for yourself,
It's a lesson, guess it's kissin' time.
Heart torn because
Parts of me I'd sell myself
Oh, just in time I'm assessing myself.
Someone told me
Keep on - hold me
Don't let go until I reach the other side.
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Your time will come
Your time will come again
Someone told me - keep on hold me
Don't let go until I reach the other side.
Your time will come
Your time will come
Your time will come
Your time will come
Time
Time
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will
last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you'd better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are coming through
And it's all over now, baby blue.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, baby blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
Your empty-handed armies are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, baby blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind you, something calls
for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
Do you remember me? how we used to be helpless and
happy and blind?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap
wine?
Laying on the living-room floor on those indian
tapestry cushions you made
Thinking of calling our first born jasmine or jade.
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think
about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here
on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.
You wouldn't listen, you thought you knew better, you
just to had to speak to that man.
Please believe me, I'll visit whenever I can.
Laying in your little white room with no windows and
three square sedations a day,
You plead with the doctor who's running the show,
"please don't take jasmine away and leave me alone."
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think
about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here
on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.
Do you remember me? how we used to be helpless and
happy and blind?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap
wine?
Now in your little white room with no windows and three
square sedations a day
You plead with the doctor who's running the show,
In Germany Before The War
There was a man who owned a store
In nineteen hundred thirty-four
In Dusseldorf
And every night at fine-o-nine
He'd cross the park down to the Rhine
And he'd sit there by the shore
I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea
I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea
A little girl has lost her way
With hair of gold and eyes of gray
Reflected in his glasses
As he watches her
A little girl has lost her way
With hair of gold and eyes of gray
I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea
We lie beneath the autumn sky
My little golden girl and I
I'm on fire
When I was young
Just for you
And my heart was pure
Such desire
I only wanted love
Just for you
I had allure
Still on fire
High heels ideals
Just for you
And not much fear
My desire
It's easy
Still for you
To make love appear.
And then something sent me
For what they had meant to do
Whatever happened to you?
I'm on fire
Happiness
Just for you.
No more pain
Such desire
Happiness
Just for you.
And love did come
But in such disguise -
That I could
Hardly recognise!
I'm on fire
So with trust in fate
Just for you.
And love of life
Such desire
Take my chance
Just for you.
Roll the dice.
And whatever sent me
I'll still be here for you.
Whatever happens, it's true.
And I'm standing still
Try to show the way
Try to change the stage.
I only had to find the key
Surely love would come to me
You'd look into my glittering eyes
And everything will be all right.
And so time passed.
I began to change.
I found that I
Could love again.
I'm on fire
At first it feels
Just for you.
A little strange -
Such desire
Happiness
Just for you.
No more pain.
Still on fire
Happiness
Still on fire
No more pain.
Still on fire
Happiness
Still on fire
No more pain.
[Version 1]
There is a house in New Orleans,
They call it the Risin' Sun
And it's been the ruin
Of many poor girl,
And me, oh God, I'm one.
There is a house in New Orleans,
They call it the Risin' Sun
And it's been the ruin
Of many poor girl,
And me, oh God, I'm one.
If I had listened
To what my mother said
I'd've been at home today.
But I was young and foolish, oh God,
Let a rambler lead me astray.
Go tell my baby sister
Don't do what I have done.
Go shun that house in New Orleans
They call the Risin' Sun.
Well, I'm going back to New Orleans,
My race is almost run.
I'm going back to spend my life
In the house of the Risin' Sun.
Version 2
There is a house in new orleans,
They call it the risin' sun
And it's been the ruin
Of many poor girl,
And me, oh god, i'm one.
If i had listened
To what my mother said
I'd have been at home today.
But i was young and foolish, oh god,
Let a rambler lead me astray.
Go tell my baby sister
Don't do what i have done.
Go shun that house in new orleans
They call the risin' sun.
Well, i'm going back to new orleans,
My race is almost run.
I'm going back to spend my life
In the house of the risin' sun.
In the house of the risin' sun.
In the house of the risin' sun.
In the house of the risin' sun.
Hello stranger, hello stranger.
Who is that person in the mirror? it's not me.
Whatever happened to the one that I used to be?
Is she just another fading memory?
Hello stranger, hello stranger.
Hello stranger, hello stranger.
Every night you're always in my bed.
Every day you stay inside my head.
Oh, how I wish that I was there instead
Of some sad stranger,
Some sad stranger,
I feel guilt, I feel guilt,
Though I know I've done no wrong I feel guilt.
I feel guilt, I feel guilt,
Though I know I've done no wrong I feel guilt.
I feel bad, so bad,
Though I ain't done nothing wrong I feel bad.
I feel bad, so bad,
Though I ain't done nothing wrong I feel bad.
I never lied to my lover,
But if I did I would admit it.
If I could get away with murder
I'd take my gun and I'd commit it.
I never gave to the rich, I never stole from the poor,
I'm like a curious child, give me more,
More, more, more, more, more, more.
I feel blood, I feel blood,
Though I feel it in my veins, it's not enough.
I feel blood, I feel blood,
Though it's streaming through my veins it's not enough.
I never stole a scarf from harrods,
But if I did you wouldn't miss it.
I never stole a doll from lovecraft,
But if I did you know I'd kiss it.
I never stole from the rich, I never gave to the poor,
I'm like a curious child, just give me more,
More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more.
I feel guilt, I feel guilt,
Though I know I've done no wrong I feel guilt.
I feel guilt, I feel guilt,
Though I ain't done nothing wrong I feel guilt.
Guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt
What is it children that falls from the sky?
Tayi, taya, tayi, aye ya.
Mannah from Heaven from most high,
Food from the Father, tayi, taye ya.
We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again, shake out the grief.
Peace to your brother, give and take heed,
Tayi, taya, it left two feet.
One foot extended, snake to the ground,
Wave of the Earth, one turn around.
We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again,shake out the grief, babe.
Stretch out your arms now dip and sway,
Fruit of thy bird, tayi, taya.
Threw off your shoe, haul off the sow,
Dust off the words that shape from the tale.
We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance.
Here we are, Father, here, Holy Ghost,
Bread of your bread, host of your host.
We are the tears that fall from your eyes,
Word of your word, cry of your cry.
We shall live again, we shall live again.
We shall live again, we shall live.
What is it, Father, in your eye,
What is this grave sign, eyes to cry.
Blood of my baby, well, just what I need.
What is it, hide me, way off to speed.
Who is it, Father, holy that night?
What is it, Father, that moves to the right?
What is it, Father, isn't it pain?
What is it, Father, that shapes from your main?
What is it, Father, supposed to be brave?
A lot of questions, the right to live
What is it, baby, I can't do.
Your mama loves you, I'm dying, too.
I won't forget you, never lie
Another waste of time
Another sort of step along the way
A waste of time
A waste but an interest in delay
Was it all of a waste
Or was it fun
People fly far away
A waste of time
Almost not too clear a lesson not to play
Exercice perhaps in sensual decay
Hard to love and to see how the land lay
How to love, what to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing, nothing left to say
A waste of time
At least some company along the way
Great visions
Perhaps too fast too bright but anyway
And I'll be what you be
You wanna say
You think you wanna say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing, nothing left to say
How to love and to see how the land lay
How to laugh, what to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beauty's sake ?
My heart's achin' 'cause I can't ignore you,
My heart's breakin' 'cause I can't reward you
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul
Feel like you're dyin' for beauty's sake
Say that you're lyin' for beauty's sake
Who cares what you're feeling ?
You've lost and you're dealing for beauty's sake.
In your circle you hold supreme sway,
Can you imagine not getting your own way ?
What can I do
'Cause you stepped inside my soul ?
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beauty's sake ?
My heart's achin' 'cause I can't ignore you
My heart's breakin' 'cause I can't reward you.
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul.
You stand astride the city takin' it all in
Lyin' before the fire admiring your own skin
Beautiful and dumb - avarice and then some
What can I do ?
What can I do ?
What can I do ?
'Cause you stepped inside my soul ?
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
What are you takin' for beauty's sake ?
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
What are you fakin' for beauty's sake ?
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin' for beauty's sake
What are you takin'
I know that woman in the mirror
Not quite yours and not quite mine
Who she is can't say for sure
Could be from another tide
She's the Queen of Sheba, my father's mother
Her face is low flying Africa
She says to me she is not me
So tell me, tell me who is she?
Tell me, tell me who is she?
You'd think she owns the streets of Dublin
They say she's king of Torquay island
She trades in piracy and sinning
She knows where you go at night
And when you think you've finally reached her
She laughs and says, "Babe, it's all right."
I know that woman in the mirror
That creature has my thoughts as eyes
He saw her once and then forgot her
She remembers all his lies
He spoke in secrets and in German
Kissed in tongues and slept in sighs
She says to me she's not my father
So tell me, tell me who is she?
Tell me, tell me who is she?
You'd think she owns the streets of Dublin
They say she's king of Torquay island
She trades in piracy and sinning
She knows where you go at night
And when you think you've finally reached her
She laughs and says, "Babe, it's all right."
I know that woman in the mirror
Not quite yours and not quite mine
Who she is can't say for sure
Could be from another tide
She's the Queen of Sheba, my father's mother
Her face is low flying Africa
She says to me she is not me
So tell me, tell me who is she?
Tell me, tell me who is she?
Tell me, tell me who is she?
Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.
Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.
Light is slanting sideways
Sun is getting through.
Gonna take a taxi
Gotta get to you!
Easy in the city,
Easy in the rooms.
Isn't it a pity
Time goes by so soon...
Time goes by so soon.
If I can find the secret in the green
I'll let you know.
And if you seek a treasure made of silver
You can go... go
Easy in the city,
Easy in the rooms.
Isn't it a pity
Time goes by so soon...
Time goes by so soon.
If I can find the secret in the green
I'll let you know.
And if you seek a treasure made of silver
You can go... go.
Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.
Easy in the city,
I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I
have tried concealing
When he left he promised me that he'd be back by the
time it was revealing
The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow
o'er the fields of clover
And time is running out for me I wish that he would
hurry down from Dover
He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep
upon the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now the
leaves are turning brown
And any time a tiny face will show itself 'cause
waiting's almost over
But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry
down from Dover
My folks weren't understanding when they found out they
sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to
ever show his face
My mamma said I was a fool and she did not believe it
when I told her
That everything would be all right 'cause soon he would
be coming down from Dover
I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse
him when he needed me
He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe
that he was using me
He couldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be
so it can't be over
He wouldn't make me go through this so long, oh he'll
be coming down from Dover
My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this
place where I'm lyin'
Our baby has been born but something's wrong it's much
too still I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a
father's arms to hold her
And dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming
Desperanto spoken here,
Today I hear it everywhere,
It is the language of Despair
It's in your nails and It's in your hair
It's in your mouth instead of air
It's in your house
It's in your heart
It's in your mind
It's everywhere
It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's in your blood
It's in your prayer
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
It's in your mouth instead of air
It's in your breath
It's in your blood
It's in your heart
It's in your blood
It's in your heart
It's everywhere
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
I know baby you don't care
To speak in Desperanto here
And I know you'd never dare
To speak the language of despair
C'mon baby get over here
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth
It's in your hair
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
C'mon baby get over here
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's everywhere
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
The Desperanto they are broken here
Broken darlin' by Despair
The rain it speaks
The wind the air
Today I hear it everywhere
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your breath
It's in your tears
This has been going on for years
It's in your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth
It's in your mouth
It's in your blood
It's everywhere
It's in your mouth
It's in your mouth
In your blood
It's everywhere
It's in your mouth
In your mouth, and
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Corrina, Corrina, gal where you been so long?
Corrina, Corrina, gal where you been so long?
I've been worryin' about you baby, baby please come home.
I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings.
I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings,
But I ain't a-got Corrina, life don't mean a thing.
Corrina, Corrina, gal you're on my mind.
Corrina, Corrina, gal you're on my mind.
I was in love thinkin' of you, I just can't keep from
I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams.
You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes.
And gigolo and gigolette
Wake up to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams.
Here is where you'll always find me,
Always walking up and down,
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town.
The joy that you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
The joy that you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
So searching down and out looking for a place to stay
A place of no commitment, a place with no involvement.
I got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
One's turning, one's burning, blazing away.
One's turning, one's burning, blazing away.
Strange-looking exile with a passion for the dangerous,
An eye for the wicked, a tongue for the nasty.
I got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
One's turning, one's burning, blazing away.
One's turning, one's burning, blazing away.
What is the reason that things change?
What is the reason they can never stay the same?
What can I do, what can I do?
Feel it, release it, things change.
Feel it, release it, things change.
Feel it, release it, things change.
What is the reason that things change?
What is the reason they can never stay the same?
What can I do, what can I do?
Feel it, release it, things change.
Feel it, release it, things change.
Feel it, release it, things change.
So searching, down and out looking for a place to stay,
A place of no commitment, a place with no involvement.
I got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
One's turning, one's burning, blazing away.
It took a long time coming
That big over the shoulder statement
But when it came, it flowed easy as poison
Taken in extreme despair [Repeat: x3]
Remember to write often
In case you have something to tell me,
But please don't mention the unexpected guest
Staring into empty eyes [Repeat: x3]
A long lost confidence and pride
Come ringing back, come ringing back
To have the shadow back again
And happiness that feels like pain.
Then you left us
To see if you could find it
And when you came back, it flowed easy as poison
It flowed easy as poison
Taken in extreme despair [Repeat: x3]
A long lost confidence and pride
Come ringing back, come ringing back
To have the shadow back again
And happiness that feels like pain [Repeat: x2]
It was many and many a year ago,
In a a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me;
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love ?
I and my ANNABEL LEE;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me;
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me ?
Yes! ? that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE;
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we ?
Of many far wiser than we ?
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE,
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling ? my darling ? my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
