THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY lyrics - How Long Is Too Long?

(Tom Bahler & Tony Asher)



You tell me you are through with him

You'll soon be free just to be with me

So I'll stay by the phone



I'm waitin' every night at home

Watching TV shows and honey

Heaven knows I'm always alone



Though you never call me

I keep on loving you

Hoping that if I do, you're gonna love me too

And I won't have to wait too long



But how long is too long

I got to know, you're makin' me lose my mind

How long is too long

Hopin' everything will turn out okay

How long is too long

To sit around and wait till you come my way



I see you walkin' around with him

Holdin' hands and makin' plans

You're never apart



I see the way you look at him

When you're in a crowd

I know it makes him proud

While it's breakin' my heart



And all the time you tell me

Keep on lovin' you

And if I do, you're gonna love me too

And I won't have to wait too long



How long is too long

I've got to know, you're makin' me lose my mind

How long is too long

Cause baby I've been waitin' a long long time

How long is too long

Hopin' everything will turn out okay

How long is too long

To sit around and wait till you come my way

RANDY NEWMAN lyrics - Family

Take a little time,

Just look at where we are.

We've come very, very far, together.

And if I might say so,

And if I might say so too,

We wouldn't have got anywhere if it weren't for you, boy.



Love is the sweetest thing.

Love never comes just when you think it will.

Love is the way we feel for you.

We're family, we're family, we're family,

All of us and you!



Think of where we'd be

If we were on our own;

You're what holds us all, together.

And if I might say so,

And if we might say so too,

We never could love anyone as much as we love you!



Love is the strangest thing.

Love does exactly what it wants to do.

Love, boy, you know it's true.

We're family, we're family, we're family, me and you!



Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.

Without you there'd be no us.



Love is the sweetest thing.

Love does exactly what it wants to do.

Love is the way we feel for you.

We're family, we're family, we're family, me and you!

HOWLIN' WOLF lyrics - Moanin' At Midnight

(Chester Burnett a. k.a. Howlin' Wolf)



Well, somebody knocking on my door

Well, somebody knocking on my door

Well, I'm so worried, don't know where to go



Well, somebody calling me, calling on my telephone

Well, somebody calling me, over my telephone



Well, keep on calling, tell them I'm not at home



Well, do not worry, daddy is gone to bed

MODERN TALKING lyrics - There's Something In The Air

I know, I know, your love

Is like the ocean

I know, for shure, your head is in the clouds, my love

Oh I know, your love, is like a sweet devotion

Baby, baby tell me, tell me, what's love is all about



There's something in the air

Oh b-b-baby, your love is so unfair

Oh b-b-baby

There's something in the air, something in the air

Baby but your love is crazy, baby I don't care

There's something in the air tonight

Baby but your love will make it always right

Baby there's something in the air tonight

Oh I can feel it



I know we make a night, we will remember, oh no

I know we turn the night, in million days, my love

I know for shure it like summer in december

Baby, baby, nobody knows, where is the perfect way

BUDDY & JULIE MILLER lyrics - Wide River To Cross

(Buddy and Julie Miller)



There's a sorrow in the wind

Blowing' down the road I've been

I can hear it cry while shadows steal the sun



But I can not look back now

I've come to far to turn around

And there's still a race ahead that I must run



I'm only halfway home I gotta journey on

To where I'll find the things that I have lost

I've come a long long road still I've got miles to go

I've got a wide wide river to cross



I have stumbled I have strayed

You can trace the tracks I made

All across the memories my heart recalls

But I'm just a refugee won't you say a prayer for me

Cause sometimes even the strongest soldier falls

VAN MORRISON lyrics - Tell Me What You Want

Tell me what you want, tell me what it is

Tell me what you want, tell me what it is

Everybody's got me moaning

Every single night and day

Can't stand it anyway

Everybody's got me moaning

Tell me what you want, yeah,

Tell me what you need

Tell me what it is, say what

Tell me what you want, tell me what it is

Tell me what you need, see if I can get it

Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me

Tell me, tell me, tell me

Tell me what you want, tell me

What you need

See if I can get it right now, child

Tell me, tell me, tell me, etc.

Tell me baby what you want

You're coming on strong, coming on strong

Tell me what you want baby, tell me

What you need

THE ROLLING STONES lyrics - Anyway You Look At It

(Jagger/Richards)



Anyway you look at it

From any point of view

You must admit I'm lucky

To be in love with you



And people say I'm cynical

They never want the truth

But life will have more twists and turns

Then found in any book

Mmm, mmm, mmm



And I may travel far away

Across the seas of doom

To undiscovered countries

But I'll come back to you



Anyway you look at it

Any point of view

Ooh babe, babe

Anyway



Anyway you look at it

When the camera shoots

Seen from any angle

I'm still in love with you

Mmm, mmm, mmm



Anyway you look at it

Anyway you will

Like a beacon shining out

I'll be there for you

Mmm, mmm, mmm

KENNY LOGGINS lyrics - I'm Alright

I'm alright

Nobody worry 'bout me

Why you got to gimme a fight

Can't you just let it be



I'm alright

Don't nobody worry 'bout me

You got to gimme a fight

Why don't you just let me be



Do what you like

Doing it nat'rally

But if it's too easy

They're gonna disagree



It's your life

And isn't it a mystery

If it's nobody's bus'ness

It's everybody's game



Gotta catch you later

No, no, cannonball it right away



Some Cinderella kid



Get it up and get you a job

(Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip)



I'm alright

Nobody worry 'bout me

Why you got to gimme a fight

Can't you just let it be



I'm alright

Don't nobody worry 'bout me

You got to gimme a fight

Why don't you just let me be



Who do you want

Who you be today

And who is it really

Makin' up your mind



You wanna listen to the man

Pay attention to the magistrate

And while I got you in the mood

Listen to your



Own heart beatin'

Own heart beatin'

Own heart beatin'

Own heart beatin'



Don't it get you movin'



Mmmmm-man



It make me feel good



(Wow, Cinderella kid)



Then give it up and give it the job



(Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip)

(Boom, boom, boom, boom)



I'm alright

Nobody worry 'bout me

Why you got to gimme a fight

Can't you just let it be



I'm alright

Don't nobody worry 'bout me

You got to gimme a fight

Why don't you just let me be



I'm alright

Nobody worry 'bout me

Why you got to gimme a fight

Can't you just let it be



I'm alright

I'm alright

Just let me be

ELVIS COSTELLO lyrics - I Felt The Chill

Well, there's a difference in the way that you kissed me

And there's a sadness in your eyes that you can't hide

Why do you tremble when I hold you?

I wonder if you feel the same

I felt the chill before the winter came



But it's easy to say that I won't give in again

I was just tempted for a moment and then some

But it's so easy when you love to lose to control

Now look here if you will

At the faithful man you stole



I felt the chill before the winter came

I suffered the guilt and then accepted the blame

I wanted you before you ever spoke my name



But I knew that we would go wrong

Just as they do in all in those old tragic songs

Did that melody haunt your mind?

Just like a linger of perfume

Now you're in someone else's arms,

Locked up in another room



Is there's a difference in the way that he loves you

Is there still sadness in your eyes, you can't deny?

Do you tremble and sigh when he holds you just like I do?

What were you thinking of to throw away our love?



And it's easy to say that you won't give in again

You were just tempted for a moment and half

But it's so hard when you desire to lose control

I don't know what this feeling is but it sure seems cold



I felt the chill before the winter came

I suffered the pain and then accepted the shame

I will have lost your love by end of this sad refrain?



I felt the cold creeping over my skin...

Still as the air until the wind rushed in

Still in control, holding on to my heart and soul

Only inches from sin

EUROPE lyrics - Stormwind

(Joey Tempest)



I like to sit beside the fire

When the light is going down

I like to hear the wild wind blow outside my door

I have so much left to remember

I have so much left to forget

And I know I just don't have to search for more



But you want to change my world

Stay out of my life



Stormwind--you're just like a wind

Comin' to drag me away

Stormwind--what can I say

I just don't want you to stay



I like to walk around in dreams at night

And play with kings and queens 'til the morning light

I like to wake up in the morning unaware

Of the fact that you are calling me

To ask me if I want to be

Someone who you could love and always care for

LYNYRD SKYNYRD lyrics - Honky-Tonk, Night-Time Man

(Merle Haggard)



Little bit of Bakersfield



I'm a honky tonk night time man

I can't stand no light

I'm a honky tonk night time man

I can't stand no light

I get my rest in the day time

Do my runnin' around at night



I had the blues this morning

Had the blues all day today

I had the blues this morning

Had the blues all day today

Well I wish a tornado

Come and blow my blues away, away

That's what I said, take 'em away



Sounds like Roy

Yeah



And then my heart starts beatin'

When that sun starts sinkin' low

Well my heart starts beatin'

When that sun starts sinkin' low

When the shadows fall

I know its time for me to go



Billy Powell on piano



Oh Barry, play me some dobro



I'm a honky tonk night time man

I can't stand no light

I'm a honky tonk night time man

I can't stand no light

I get my rest in the day time

I do my runnin' around, round at night

I get my rest in the day time

Gets that old love sweet stuff at night

GLEN CAMPBELL lyrics - Southern Nights

Southern nights

Have you ever felt a southern night

Free as a breeze

Not to mention the trees

Whistling tunes that you know and love so

Southern nights

Just as good even when closed your eyes

I apologize

To any one who can truly say

That he's found a better way



Southern skies

Have you ever noticed

Southersn skies

It's precious beauty

Lies just beyone the eye

It goes running through the soul

Like the stories told of old



Old man

He and his dog that walk the old land

Every flower touched his cold hand

As he slowly walked by

Weeping willows would cry for joy



Joy



Feels so good

Feels so good it's frightening

Wish I could

Stop this world from fighting

La-da-da-da-da, da-la-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da



Mystery

Like this and many others

In the trees

Blow in the night

In the southern skies



Southern nights

They feel so good it's frightening

Wish I could

Stop this world from fighting

La-da-da-da-da, da-la-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da

REBA MCENTIRE lyrics - Somebody

(Dave Berg/Sam Tate/Annie Tate)



At a diner down on Broadway they make small talk

When she brings his eggs and fills his coffee cup

He jokes about his love life

And tells her he's 'bout ready to give up

That's when she says,"I've been there before

But keep on lookin' 'cause maybe who you're lookin' for is..."



Somebody in the next car

Somebody on the morning train

Somebody in the coffee shop

That you walk right by everyday

Somebody that you look at

But never really see

Somewhere out there is somebody



Across town in a crowded elevator

He can't forget the things that waitress said

He usually reads the paper

But today he reads a strangers face instead

It's that blue-eyed girl from two floors up

Maybe she's the one maybe he could fall in love with



Somebody in the next car

Somebody on the morning train

Somebody in the coffee shop

That you walk right by everyday

Somebody that you look at

But never really see

Somewhere out there is somebody



Now they laugh about the moment that it happened

A moment they'd both missed until that day

When he saw his future in her eyes

Instead of just another friendly face

And he wonders why he searched so long

When she was always there at that diner waiting on



Somebody in the next car

Somebody on the morning train

Somebody in the coffee shop

That you walk right on by everyday

Somebody that you look at

But never really see

Somewhere out there is somebody

K. D. LANG lyrics - Exactly Like You

(Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)



I know why I waited

Know why I've been blue

I've been waiting each day

For someone exactly like you



Why should I spend some money

On a show or two

When nobody sings these love songs

Exactly like you



You make me feel so grand

I wanna give this world to you

You make me understand

These foolish little dreams I'm dreaming

And schemes I'm scheming



Now I know why my mama

She taught me to be true

She knew just around the corner

Was somebody like you



You make me feel so grand

I wanna give this world to you

Baby you make me understand

These foolish little dreams I'm dreaming

And schemes I'm scheming



Now I know why my mama

She taught me to be true

She knew just around the corner

Yes she knew just around the corner

Was somebody like you

PIXIES lyrics - The Navajo Know

Upon construction

There is the mohawk

His way of walking

Quite high above the ground

Fearless of looking down

Skywalk

Some people say that

The navajo know

A way of walking

Quite high above the ground

Fearless of looking down

Oh no.

MOTT THE HOOPLE lyrics - Little Christine

(Mick Ralphs)



The light in the bar came on

The place was in a mess

An hour before there'd been an awful scene

Early on that day while matt was on the phone

His long time friend took a fancy to his little christine

Matt was in a state when I saw him later on

Tried to cool him down but he was havin' none

"I'm gonna fix him good", said matt in a chokey way

Together we know the sound of a ready gun



Well it must have been around eight

When we both saw sam's hunched back

Holdin' up a boarded bar room wall

Matt soon altered that as he kicked sam to the floor

Pretty soon the place was one big brawl

Someone doused the lights

Still the pumps blew

Suddenly a voice caught in the night

"whoever comes off best can only lose my hand

Leavin' now you are welcome to your fight, you can have it".



Well matt he cocked his gun

Fired towards that voice

"i'd rather know you're dead" was his reply

Christine breathed her last

The bar was like a tomb

Not a sound, except to hear sam call



The light in the bar was on

The place is in a mess

An hour before there'd been an awful scene

Early on that day while matt was on the phone

His long time friend took a fancy to his little christine.

LORETTA LYNN lyrics - Keep Your Change

(Loretta Lynn)



You need a change of scenery that's all I ever heard

And when you left and you said goodbye I never said a word

You're back but I don't want you back to you that might seem strange

But I ain't find what she bought so honey keep your change

Yeah honey keep your change and the trouble that she brings

You've worked real hard for what you got so honey keep your change

[ steel - ac. guitar ]

What happened to the scenery that look so good to you

Did you get hard of the change you made or did she get hard of you

You're like a travelin' salesman and I hear they're all the same

So travel right on back to her yeah honey keep your change

Yeah honey keep your change...

Yeah honey keep your change...

Yeah honey keep your change yeah honey keep your change

A-HA lyrics - Maybe Maybe

Maybe you were joking

When you said that you were

walking out on me

Maybe, maybe



Maybe I was joking

When I said that I was running out on you

Maybe, maybe



I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong



I don't know, but it's been said

Decisions travel far from heart to head

Maybe, maybe



Maybe it was over

When you chucked me out the

Rover at full speed

Maybe, maybe oh baby



I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong, so wrong

PETER, PAUL AND MARY lyrics - Have You Been To Jail For Justice?

(Anne Feeney)



Was it Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks that day?

Some say Dr. King or Ghandi

Set them on their way

No matter who your mentors are

It's pretty plain to see

That if you've been to jail for justice

You're in good company



Have you been to jail for justice?

I want to shake your hand

'Cause sitting in and laying down

Are ways to take a stand

Have you sung a song for freedom

Or marched that picket line?

Have you been to jail for justice?

Then you're a friend of mine



You law abiding citizens

Come listen to this song

Laws are made by people

And people can be wrong

Once unions were against the law

But slavery was fine

Women were denied the vote

While children worked the mine

The more you study history

The less you can deny it

A rotten law stays on the books

'til folks with guts defy it!



Have you been to jail for justice?

I want to shake your hand

'Cause sitting in and laying down

Are ways to take a stand

Have you sung a song for freedom

Or marched that picket line?

Have you been to jail for justice?

Then you're a friend of mine



Well the law is supposed to serve us

And so are the police

When the system fails

It's up to us to speak our piece

We must be ever vigilant

For justice to prevail

So get courage from your convictions

Let 'em haul you off to jail!



Have you been to jail for justice?

I want to shake your hand

'Cause sitting in and laying down

Are ways to take a stand

Have you sung a song for freedom

Or marched that picket line?

Have you been to jail for justice?

Then you're a friend of mine

Have you been to jail for justice

Have you been to jail for justice

Have you been to jail for justice

Then you're a friend of mine

SIMPLE MINDS lyrics - Dolphins

When they say that

Say it's wise

They say that

Now is the only time

To reach for what remains

To look o'er what's the same



Dolphins swim around

Dolphins drag me down

Drag me down



Say that, it's the truth

There's an oceans

Right in front of you

Dolphins, hit the sound

And when dolphins circle around



If it seems so

Like the world juts in

Those dolphins, drag me down

Drag me down



Say that, say its wise

Say that it' the only vice

Yet you say so what remains?

And look so uncertain



And dolphins look around

And then dolphins drag me down

And when it looks through

The world juts in

Dolphins drag me down

Drag me down

AMERICA lyrics - Call Of The Wild

Come save me

From things I shouldn't do

I need you

Every word is true

No answer

At numbers I have dialed

I hear the call of the wild



Nights are forever

The days linger on

Standing in silence

Time lasts so long

Through all my efforts

I act like a child

Hearin' the call of the wild



Come save me

From things I shouldn't know

I'm wearin'

Someone else's clothes

I needed

Singing like a child

I hear the call of the wild



Casting my mind back

Some things don't seem right

An image of angels

Appears in the night

As I awoke

I could swear that they smiled

Hearin' the call of the wild



Come save me

From things I shouldn't do

I need you

Every word is true

No answer

At numbers I have dialed

I hear the call of the wild

I hear the call of the wild



Now, hear the call of the wild



Come save me

From things I shouldn't do

I need you

Every word is true

No answer

At numbers I have dialed

I hear the call of the wild

I hear the call of the wild

I hear the call of the wild

QUEEN lyrics - Sweet Lady

(May)



You call me up and treat me like a dog

You call me up and tear me up inside

You've got me on a lead

You bring me down

You shout around

You don't believe that I'm alone.



Sweet Lady

Sweet Lady

Sweet Lady...Stay sweet.



You say

"You call me up and feed me all the lines

"You call me sweet lime I'm some kind of cheese

"Waiting on the shelf

"You eat me up

"You hold me down

"I'm just a fool to make you a home



"And you say

"Sweet lady

"Sweet lady

"Sweet lady...Stay sweet."



My Sweet lady

Though it seems like we wait forever

Stay sweet baby

Believe and we've got everything we need.

NEIL YOUNG lyrics - World On A String

You know I lose,

you know I win

You know I call for

the shape I'm in.

It's just a game you

see me play,

Only real in the way

That I feel

from day to day.



Although the answer

is not unknown,

I'm searchin', searchin',

and how I've grown.

It's not all right

to say goodbye,

And the world on a string

Doesn't mean a thing.



No, the world on a string

Doesn't mean a thing.

It's only real in the way

That I feel from day to day.

No, the world on a string

Doesn't mean a thing.

ELLA FITZGERALD lyrics - Why Was I Born?

Spending these lonesome evenings

With nothing to do

But to live in dreams that I make up

All by myself



Dreaming that you're beside me

I picture the prettiest stories

Only to wake up

All by myself



What is the good of me by myself?



Why was I born

Why am I living

What do I get

What am I giving



Why do I want a thing

I daren't hope for

What can I hope for

I wish I knew



Why do I try

To draw you near me

Why do I do I cry

You never hear me



I'm a poor fool

But what can I do

Why was I born

To love you



[Bridge]



I'm a poor fool

But what can I do

Why was I born

To love you

VAN MORRISON lyrics - Baby Please Don't Go

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Down to New Orleans

You know I love you so

Baby please don't go



Baby, your mind done gone

Well, your mind done gone

Well, your mind done gone

Left the county farm

You had the shackles on

Baby, please don't go



Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

To git you way down here

I make you walk alone

Baby, please don't go

Hey



Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Down to New Orleans

You know I love you so

Baby, please don't go



Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Git you way down here

Make you walk alone

Baby, please don't go



Know how I feel right now

My baby leavin', on that midnight train

And I'm cryin'



Baby, please don't go

Oh, baby please don't go

Baby, please don't go

Down to New Orleans

You know I love you so

Baby, please don't go

Let's go



Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

Before I be your dog

To git you way down here

I make you walk alone

Baby, please don't go, yeah



Alright

MEAT LOAF lyrics - Monstro

(Child/Holly Knight/Elena Casals)



Tu eres cruel (monstro)

No eres fiel (monstro)

Hijo del mal (monstro)

Un ser fatal (monstro)

Tu corazon (monstro)

Es un ladron (monstro)

KATE BUSH lyrics - The Kick Inside

I've pulled down my lace and the chintz.

Oh, do you know you have the face of a genius?

I'll send your love to Zeus.

Oh, by the time you read this,

I'll be well in touch.



I'm giving it all in a moment or two.

I'm giving it all in a moment, for you.

I'm giving it all, giving it, giving it.

This kicking here inside

Makes me leave you behind.

No more under the quilt

To keep you warm.

Your sister I was born.

You must lose me like an arrow,

Shot into the killer storm.



You and me on the bobbing knee.

Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read!

I will come home again, but not until

The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.



I'm giving it all in a moment or two.

I'm giving it all in a moment, for you.

I'm giving it all, giving it, giving it.

This kicking here inside

Makes me leave you behind.

No more under the quilt

To keep you warm.

Your sister I was born.

You must lose me like an arrow,

Shot into the killer storm.

ROSANNE CASH lyrics - Silver Wings

Silver wings shining in the sunlight

Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight

They're taking you away, leaving me lonely

Silver wings slowly fading out of sight



Don't leave me I cry

Don't take no airplane ride

But you locked me out of your mind

And left me standing here behind



Silver wings shining in the sunlight

Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight

They're taking you away, leaving me lonely

Silver wings slowly fading out of sight



Silver wings shining in the sunlight

Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight

They're taking you away, leaving me lonely

Silver wings slowly fading out of sight



Silver wings slowly fading out of sight

AMBROSIA lyrics - If Heaven Could Find Me

(Drummond)



If heaven could find me somebody

Someone to hold me when I sleep

If heaven could find me somebody

Someone to show me what I need



I need someone to love me

I need someone to care

Watching each day pass so slowly

Gets to me more than I can bear



I've been waiting here for so long

You're not even near

Yeah, yeah...



You shattered my illusions

When you left me

Had me down crawling on my knees,

Hoping each day you'd come and find me;

Hoping you'd see my misery



I need someone to love me

I need someone to care

Watching each day pass so slowly

Gettin' me more than I can bear



I've been waiting here for so long

You're not even near

You're not even near



If heaven could find me somebody

Someone to hold me when I sleep

If heaven could find me somebody

Someone to show me what I need



I need someone to love me

I need someone to care

Watching each day pass so slowly

Gets to me more than I can bear



I've been waiting here for so long

And you're not even near

You're not even near

You're not even near

LUTHER VANDROSS lyrics - Nights In Harlem

There's a party in Harlem, come on



I like to reminisce about that night we kissed

It was somewhere one night in Harlem

The nights were hot and bright

You could treat your honey right

Cuz Sylvia's would burn all night



The people there were really something

(You know that's right)

The music always kept us jumping

And it used to knock me down

When Smokey came to town

(And the miracles, please)

My favorite song was "Tears Of A Clown", oh yeah



There ain't nothing like them nights in Harlem

They really shake the funk up there

Tonight I'm gonna stomp in Harlem

And I'm gonna take my baby back

To the heart of Harlem



Big sister had a group

And they'd sit out on the stoop

And Lordy could they harmonize (Oh yeah)

My cousin Joe could blow

Just like the radio

And he used to drove them "B" girls wild



But when grandma started happy dancing

(Oh, she gon' break somethin')

She really turned the mother out

I like the way they do it up in Harlem

When there's a party up in Harlem

That's what it's all about



Ain't nothing like them nights in Harlem

They never fake the funk up there

I met my Cherie Amour in Harlem

And tonight I'm gonna take her back to the 'pollo



There's a party in Harlem

They say that all the stars will be there

Everyone is going to Harlem

Harlem is a party and everybody's going there



[Precise]

Follow me visually, cuz I usually be all around

Originallly everybody headed uptown

Finessing the fly way you crisin in your car

On the West Side to the highway, East Side D-R

And yes, we are about to set it

Forget it, I thought you knew

The Apollo is where I had to go with my crew

From BMW's to my daddy's Cadillac

He had the sunroof top wit the diamond in the back

Check the ambiance, the place a renaissance

Who frontin' nonchallant up in the restaurant

What you really really want, we grabbin by the clutch

Precise can flaunt with this and never too much

It's such a love flow, high but natural

The thug's a no-show, and drugs a no-no

The only thing that they was shootin' was pool

While Harlem nights was right, the party was cool



Nothing like them nights in Harlem

They really shake the funk up there

Tonight I'm gonna stomp in Harlem

I'm gonna take my baby back to the heart of Harlem



Nights in Harlem

They never fake the funk up there

I met my Cherie Amour in Harlem

Back to the Harlem Apollo



Nights in Harlem

They don't let you fake the funk up there

Tonight I'm gonna stomp in Harlem

I'm gonna take my honey

Back to the Harlem Apollow



Nights in Harlem

They really shake the funk up there

Tonight I'm gonna stomp in Harlem

I'm gonna take my baby

Back to the Harlem Apollo

JONI MITCHELL lyrics - Blue On Blue

Blue on blue

Sky's in your eyes

Steer you away like I wasn't here

Where do you go when you fantasize

That you wish I'd disappear

Leave you to dreaming and leave you alone

Lost in a world that's all your own

Can I come, too

Blue on blue



Dreams like you are making now

Are very hard to share

All I ask is one small favor

Dream a dream and wish me there



Gold on gold, sun in your hair

Spinning the rainbow, weaving the wind

Bluing the dye for the midnight air

Counting the gold at the rainbows end

Rapier princess whispers your name

Out of the time before I came

I'll never know

Gold on gold



Dreams like you are making now

Are very hard to share

All I ask is one small favor

Dream a dream and wish me there



Blue on blue

VAN HALEN lyrics - Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)

It's ok, I'll do what I want if I choose

I can take the fall, there's a choice

It's my destiny in my hands

Yeah, it's up to me

I can drive

I can shoot a gun in the streets

Score me some heroin

I can jump, be the sacrifice

Bear the cross just like Jesus Christ



And I don't wanna hear what love can do

No, I ain't gonna tell you what's right for you



Is it right, to take the easy way?

Close your eyes, get on your knees and pray

Now you're saved, by a higher voice

Givin' up, givin' up, givin' up your choice



If I'm wrong, then I'll pay for it

If I'm right, yeah you're gonna hear about it

But I'll try, yeah I'll try for it

I'll try and I'll try, 'til I'm satisfied



And I, I'm tired o' hearin' what love can do

And I, ain't gonna tell you what's right for you



I've seen the damage done

Yeah, I heard the shotgun

And felt the settin' sun on my kingdom come

Ohhh!



(Guitar Solo)



Is it right, uh, to take the easy way?

I don't know, I get down on my knees and pray

Now I'm saved, by a higher voice

Givin' up, givin' up, givin' up my choice



If I'm wrong, hey! Then I'll pay for it

If I'm right, yeah, you're gonna deal with it

'Cause I'll try, yeah I'll try for it

I'll try and I'll cry, even die for it



No, I don't wana hear what love can do

No, I, I can't tell you what's right for you

Oh, I, I, I tell you what love can do

No, I, I, I can't say when your time is through



I've seen the damage done

Oh Lord, I heard the shotgun

I felt the settin' sun on my kingdom come

Nooo!



(Guitar Solo)



Yeah! A-hey, hey, hey!



Don't tell me what love can do, uh

Hey hey hey! Uh!

Hey hey hey hey!

Don't tell me what love can do, alright

Hey hey hey!

What love can do

Hey hey hey!

JONI MITCHELL lyrics - Melody In Your Name

Can you still remember how it all began?

With clipper ships and pink electric trees,

Dawnlight on a skyline bridges' span,

Street light on a rooftop memory.

Then it was me and spring came,

Playing a song of spring rain,

A melody in your name.



Night now comes much bluer than it used to be.

The pink nun sings much sadder than before.

She sings that sometimes things aren't what they

Seem to be, like moons reflected on the sixteenth floor.

Love is no more, it's ended.

Paper and pins won't mend it;

Even the moon pretended.



There must be a reason, oh, there must be one.

Keep your answers, let me find my own.

Where do pretty stories get their endings from

If loving always leaves you all alone?

Kisses have shown me sorrow;

Love is a throne to borrow;

Pay for the loan tomorrow

AMBROSIA lyrics - Shape I'm In

(Puerta - Pack)



When you're in the shape I'm in,

It's tellin' me somethin',

It's givin' me warning

It's gotta be rough, man,

When you're in the shape I'm in

From all of your lies



You left me cryin';

Didn't know where I could turn to

You said you loved me

And you turned your back on me, girl

And I believed in all your lies

You took my heart and soul,

And now the pain won't go



When you're in the shape I'm in,

It's tellin' me somethin',

It's givin' me warning

It's gotta be rough, man,

When you're in the shape I'm in

From all of your lies



Was I the one man

That you said you'd always stand by

But when the hard times came,

You left without a goodbye

Was I a fool to let you go?

How can I feel alive

When I just feel like dyin'



Can't you see I'm a man who's cryin'?

You took my heart and soul,

And now the pain won't go no



Shape I'm in

From all of your lies



Was I a fool to let you go?

How can I feel alive

When I just feel like dyin'



Shape I'm In



When you're in the shape I'm in From all of your lies

THE TRAVELING WILBURYS lyrics - Runaway

As I walk along I wonder

What went wrong with our love

A love that was so strong



And as I still walk on

I think of the things we done together

While our hearts were young



I'm a-walkin' in the rain

Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain

Wishin' you were here by me

To end this misery



And I wonder

I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder

Why

A-wa-wa-wa-wa-why she ran away

And I wonder where she will stay

My little runaway

A-run-run-run-run-runaway

GLORIA ESTEFAN lyrics - Christmas Through Your Eyes

Till I had you I didn't know

That I was missing out

Had to grow up and see the world

Through different shades of doubt

Give me one more chance to dream again

One more chance to feel again

Through your young heart

If only for one day help me try



I wanna see Christmas through your eyes

I want everything to be

The way it used to be

Back to being a child again

Thinking the world was mine

I wanna see Christmas

Christmas through your eyes



I see the rain, you see the rainbow

Hiding in the clouds

Never afraid to let your love show

Won't you show me how

Wanna learn how to believe again

Find the innocence in me again

Through your young heart

Help me find a way, help me try



I wanna see Christmas;

I wanna see Christmas

I wanna see Christmas through your eyes

KMFDM lyrics - You're No Good

(Lucia Cifarelli, Sascha Konietzko, Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway, Steve White)



Deceitful unforgiving

Whoever the hell you think I am

Bring me to my knees

Let me be myself again

Forgive, forget

Hold it against me in contempt

Drowning me in tears

Bitter salt that knows no fear



I'm better off alone

Keep to myself so nobody knows

Misery follows me everywhere I go



Hello hello I'm back again

Run run run run while you can

Hello hello I'm back it's me

The mother load of misery

You're no good

Misery follows me wherever I go



Deranged in paranoia

I am just no use at all

Don't count on me

I won't be responsible



Punishing discontent

Gotta get a grip

My mind's working overtime

Twisting in a tourniquet

Ticking like a timebomb

Another pound of flesh

Red alert emergency

I'm headed for a crash



To have to hold

All in good time

I'd ruin that too

I'm better off alone

Keep to myself

So nobody knows

Misery follows me wherever I go

KYLIE MINOGUE lyrics - If I Was Your Lover

You take a piece of me every time you leave

and never realize that way I feel about you

my tongue gets tied and my mouth gets dry

I wanna tell you but I don't know how to



[Bridge:]

But through every night I dream

hope and pray and believe

that someday you and I will live in ecstasy

the world for you and me



[Chorus:]

One love, one life

everything would be alright if I was your lover

one soul, one life'

everything would be alright if I was your lover



Another day goes by and it blows my mind

if I didn't know that you were meant for me

under the moonlit night when the time is right

you hold me in your arms from here to infinity



[Bridge]



[Chorus]



[Spoken:]

If I was your lover I'd hold you in my arms from dusk 'til

dawn if I was your lover one night would last for eternity if

we were together



But every night I dream

hope and pray and believe, yeah

so happy cause you're mine

we'll live in ecstasy, the world for you and me



[Chorus 2x]

THE BEATLES lyrics - I'm Down

You telling lies thinking I can't see

You don't cry cos you're laughing at me

I'm down (I'm really down)

I'm down (Down on the ground)

I'm down (I'm really down)

How can you laugh when you know I'm down

(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down



Man buys ring woman throws it away

Same old thing happens everyday

I'm down (I'm really down)

I'm down (Down on the ground)

I'm down (I'm really down)

How can you laugh when you know I'm down

(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down



We're all alone and there's nobody else

You still moan, "Keep your hands to yourself!"

I'm down (I'm really down)

Oh baby I'm down (Down on the ground)

I'm down (I'm really down)

How can you laugh when you know I'm down

(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down.

Waaaao! Baby I'm down



Oh baby you know I'm down (I'm really down)

Oh yes I'm down (I'm really down)

I'm down on the ground (I'm really down)

Ahhhh! Down (I'm really down)

Oh baby I'm upside down, a yea yea yea yea yea

I'm down (I'm really down)

Oh baby I'm down (I'm really down)

I'm feeling upside down (I'm really down)

Ooo! I'm down (I'm really down)

Baby I'm down yea

Oh baby I'm down yea

Baby I'm down (I'm really down)

Well baby I'm down (I'm really down)

Well baby baby baby (I'm really down)

Oh baby I'm down

I'm down, down, down

MARIANNE FAITHFULL lyrics - Penthouse Serenade

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,

When we're alone.

RAY CHARLES lyrics - Babes In Arms

They call us babes in arms

But we are babes in armour.

They laugh at babes in arms

But we'll be laughing far more.

On city street and farms

They'll hear a rising was cry.

Youth will arrive,

Let them know you are alive,

Make it your cry!

They call us babes in arms

They think they must direct us.

But if we're babes in arms

We'll make them all respect us.

Why have we got our arms,

What have we got our sight for?

Play day is done,

We have a place in the sun

We must fight for.

So babes in arms to arms!

STING lyrics - You Still Touch Me

Another night finds me alone

In my dreams

You still touch me

Your picture by my telephone

In that smile

You still thrill me



Now if I sleep

I sleep here alone

In my bed tonight

You still haunt me

And if I'm falling

I'm falling like a stone

In my nightmares

You still hold me



And after all that we've been through

Now I'm wondering

If you still blame me

If only half of this was true

That you believe of me

You still shame me



Dark rain will fall until I see your face

I close my eyes

I seem to hear the raindrops saying

You won't come back

You still touch me



And when I'm sick at heart and low

In my prayers

You still heal me

When I'm so sure, so sure this isn't so

In my complacency

You still shake me



I wonder if you feel the same way as I do

And you'd come back

You still touch me



Another night finds me alone

In my bed tonight

You still haunt me

You still hold me

You still touch me

You still touch me

You still touch me

Another night

Another night

Another night

Another finds me alone

ROD STEWART lyrics - Stardust

(Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)



And now the purple dusk of twilight time

Steals across the meadow of my heart

High up in the sky the little stars climb

Always reminding me that we're apart



You wandered down the lane and far away

Leaving me a song that will not die

Love is now a stardust of yesterday

The music of the years gone by



Sometimes I wonder why I spend

The lonely nights dreaming of a song

The melody haunts my reverie

And I am once again with you



When our love was new

And each kiss an inspiration

But that was long ago

And now my consolation

Is in the stardust of a song



Beside the garden wall

When stars are bright

You are in my arms

The nightingale tells his fairy tale

Of paradise where roses grew



Though I dream in vain

In my heart it will remain

My stardust melody

The memory of love's refrain

PETER, PAUL AND MARY lyrics - Three Ravens

(Adapted & arranged: Yarrow/Stookey/Okun/Travers)



There were three ravens sat on a tree

Down-a-down, Hey! Down-a-down,

And they were black as they might be, with a down

The one of them said to his mate:

"What shall we for our breakfast take?"

With a down, derry derry derry down, down



Down in yonder green field,

Down-a-down, Hey! Down-a-down,

There lies a knight slain under his shield, with a down

Down there comes a fallow doe,

As great with young as she might go

With a down, derry derry derry, down, down



She lifted up his bloody head,

Down-a-down, Hey! Down-a-down,

And kissed his wounds that were so red, with a down

She got him up across her back

And carried him to the earthen lack [Note]

With a down derry derry derry down, down



She buried him before his prime

Down-a-down, Hey! Down-a-down,

She was dead herself, ere evening time, with a down

God send every gentlemen

Fine hawks, fine hounds and such a loved one

With a down derry derry derry down, Hmmm



[Note: lack means lake. It is an ancient pronunciation.]

STEVE PERRY lyrics - Captured By The Moment

(Perry, Goodrum)



Where did he go

The man who said, "I have a dream"

Where have they gone

The four who sang to let it be

Jackie's alone

She lost him one November day

L. A. motel

One sad mistake took Sam away



Oh, remember then

Remember when



Captured by the moment

In the magic of a yesterday

Captured by the moment

And I hope it never fades away



Sweet Janis cried

Lord, won't you buy a Benz for me

Jimi was right

Castles made of sand slip to the sea



Oh, remember then

Remember when



Captured by the moment

In the magic of a yesterday

Captured by the moment

And I hope it never fades away

Captured by the moment

Oh, in the magic of a yesterday



Otis replied

A little tenderness we got to try

One open door

He tried to set the night on fire



Captured by the moment

In the magic of yesterday

Captured by the moment

And I hope it never fades away



Captured by the moment

Oh, in the magic of a yesterday

BARBRA STREISAND lyrics - Speak To Me Of Love

(B. Sievier & J. Lenoir)



Speak to me of love

And say what I'm longing to hear

Tender words of love

Repeat them again

I implore you speak to me of love

Whisper these words to me, dear

I adore you,

I want to hear, to hear those words that are so dear,

I want to hear you say I love you

By all the little stars above you

Your voice is like a fun caress

It thrills me till I must confess

I long to hear the voice that brings me

Such thrilling love and happiness

Parle moi d'amour

Redites moi ces mots supremes

Je vous aime...

ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION lyrics - If I Didn't Know Any Better

I turned around

Before I could run I found you already settled down in the back of my mind

I know this is just a customary feelin'

The moon is our deceiver that will leave you running blind



Your heart is pullin'

If I didn't know any better

I'd be fallin'

Deeper and deeper it's true

I'd hear it callin'

If I didn't know any better

And I'd be in love with you



Didn't want to

Look in the eyes of the one that I would be drawn to

I'm a moth lost in a fire

And I know this is just a beautiful illusion, a case of the confusion, between love and desire



Your heart is pullin'

If I didn't know any better

I'd be fallin'

Deeper and deeper it's true

I'd hear it callin'

If I didn't know any better

And I'd be in love



When the flame burns out

And fine'ly settles down

And you'd forget I ever came around



Your heart is pullin'

If I didn't know any better

I'd be fallin'

Deeper and deeper it's true

I'd hear it callin'

If didn't know any better

And I'd be in love with you



I turned around

Before I could run I found you already settled down in the back of my mind

THE KINKS lyrics - Mr. Pleasant

Oh Mr. Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant?

I hope the world is treating you right,

And your head's in the air,

And you're feeling so proud,

'Cause you're such a success,

And the whole wide world is on your side, hey hey.

How are you today?



People say Mr. Pleasant is good,

Mr. Pleasant is kind,

Mr. Pleasant's okay,

Mr. Pleasant don't mind.

As long as Mr. Pleasant's all right, hey hey.

How are you today?



How's your father, how's your mother?

How's your sister, how's your brother?

How's your brand, new limousine,

Twenty-four inch TV screen?

Did you like prosperity

More than you liked poverty?

Life is easier, so much easier,

Life is easier now.



Oh Mr. Pleasant, how is Mrs Pleasant?

Did you know she was flirting around

With another young man,

And he's taking her out

When you have to work late?

And it's not so pleasant after all, hey hey.

How are you today?



People say Mr. Pleasant is good,

Mr. Pleasant is kind,

Mr. Pleasant's okay,

Mr. Pleasant don't mind.

As long as Mr. Pleasant's all right, hey hey.

How are you today?



Mr. Pleasant is good,

Mr. Pleasant is kind,

Mr. Pleasant's okay.

STATUS QUO lyrics - Fame Or Money

(Rossi / Bown)



He showed you no interest, he gave you no love

From time to time he was funny

He loved only two things, but one was enough for him

Was it the fame or the money?



Was it fame or money?

Lethal vice, cold as ice.

Was it fame or money?

Holding tight, 'til everything is all right

Everything is all right



Up to his eyeballs, always in debt

He's suddenly off and running

So what motivation lay at the heart of it?

Was it the fame or the money?



Was it fame or money?

Lethal vice, cold as ice.

Was it fame or money?

Holding tight, 'til everything is all right

Everything is all right

Everything is all right



We're all in the running

With all of the money

Take all over and over again



Back in his schooldays, four-eyed and zits

No good at games, and skinny

Locked in the boys' room left him no choice at all

Had to be fame and money



So it's fame and money

Lethal vice, cold as ice

So it's fame and money

Holding tight, 'til everything is all right

Fame and money

Lethal vice, cold as ice

So it's fame and money

Holding tight, 'til everything is all right

Everything is all right

Everything is all right

N. W.A. lyrics - Dope Man

[Ice Cube]

It was once said by a man who couldn't quit

Dope man please can I have another hit

The dope man said cluck I don't give a shit

If your girl kneels down and sucks my dick

It all happened and the guy tried to choke her

Nigga livin in cash selling to smokers

That's the way goes that's the name of the game

Young brotha gettin over by slangin cane

Gold around his neck 14 k he has it

Bitches on his dick 24-7 plus he's makin

Money keepin tha base heads waiting

Rollin 6.4. wit tha fresh ass daytons

Livin in compton, cailfona ca

His uzi up yo ass if he don't get paid

Nigga begging for credit he's knockin out teeth

Clockin much dollars on tha 1st and 15th

Big wad of money nuttin less than a twenty

Yo you want a five-oh the dope man gots plenty

To be a dope man boy you must qualify

Don't get high off your own supply

From a kid to a g it's all about money

10 peace base pipe comes free

If people out there are not hip 2 tha fact

If you see some one gettin money 4 crack he's

Tha.......



[Chorus:]

Dope man dope man

Hey man give me a hit

Dope man dope man

Hey yo fuck that shit

Dope man dope man

We just can't quit

Dope man dope man

Well suck this bitch



[Dr. Dre]

Wait a minute who tha fuck are you talkin 2 do u know who I am

I can't believe this this bitch iz tryin 2 gank me

I'll slap you up side yo head wit 9 inches of limp dick



[Ice Cube]

You need a nigga wit money so u get a dope man

Juice that fool 4 has much as u can

She likes his car and he gets wit her

Got a black eye cuz tha dope man hit her

Let that slide and u pay it no mind

Find he's slapping u all tha time

That's ok cuz he'z rich and u ain't

Nuttin but tha dope man'z bitch do what he say and

U keep yo mouth shut popin that trash

Might get you fucked up you'll sit and cry

If tha dope man strikes you he don't give a fuck

He gots 2 just like you

There's a another girl in tha dopeman's life

Not quite a bitch but far from a wife

Shes called strawberry and everybody know

Strawberry strawberry iz tha neighborhood hoe

Do any thing for a hit are 2 give tha bitch a rock

And she will fuck your hole damn crew

It might be yo wife and it might make u sick

Come home and see her mouth on tha dopeman's dick

Strawberry just look around you'll see her

But don't fuck around she'll give you gonnorhea

If people out there ain't hip to the fact

Strawberry iz a girl selling pussy 4 crack



[Chorus]



Dope man dope man

Hey man give me a hit

Dope man dope man

Hey yo man fuck that shit

Dope man dope man

In yo face

Hey yo dre bring in tha bass



[Eazy E (as mexican guy):]

Hey mr. dope man you think

Your slick you sold crack 2 my sister and now she's sick but if she

Happens 2 die becuzz

Of yo drug I'm puttin in yo quto a 38 slug

DAVE DAVIES lyrics - The Lie!

They stripped away my innocence and left me here to die

In this sad, cold realization, there are no more tears to cry

But I still believe in miracles, 'cause that's all I had before

And I ain't gonna take your promises no more



They stretched the Earth's resources and built a funeral pyre

Through the smoke the children wonder, 'neith the stark and shattered[?] sky

There is no hope or reason while the corporations roar[?]

Disregarding truth and sacred law



Can't you see we're living in the lie

I believed without a question why

Can't you see we're living in the lie

I believe, controlling all we think and see and do



We're living a lie

We're living a lie



They'll steal away your brightest dreams, just leaving hollow soles

To wander in this city's grime, without a hope or home

The devil plays is final hand, the battle now begins

But no one without true love will ever win



Can't you see we're living in the lie

I believed without a question why

Can't you see we're living in the lie

I believe, controlling all we think and see and do



Oh can't you see we're living in the lie

I believed without a question why

Oh can't you see we're living in the lie

I believe, controlling all we see and think and do



We're living a lie

We're living a lie

We're living a lie

PAUL MCCARTNEY lyrics - Honey Hush

(Turner)



Well, come into this house, stop all that yakety yak,

I said, come into this house, stop all that yakety yak,

cause your sugar daddy don't want no talking back.



Well, you keep on talking, talking about this and that,

yeah, you keep on talking, talking about this and that,

I got news for you, baby, you're nothing but an alley cat.



Well, it's a hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver,

hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver away-hey.



Turn off the waterworks, baby, they don't move me no more,

turn off the waterworks, baby, they don't move me no more,

well, believe me, baby, I ain't coming back no more.



I said, come into this house, stop all that yakety yak,

yeah, come into this house, woman, stop all that yakety yak,

oh, don't make me nervous, I'm holding a baseball bat.

Well, it's a hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver,

hi ho, hi ho silver, hi ho, hi ho silver away-hey.

NEIL DIAMOND lyrics - I'm Alive

Take a walk,

You can hardly breathe the air

Look around,

It's a hard life everywhere

People talk,

But they never really care

On the street

There's a feeling of despair



But everyday

There's a brand new baby born

And everyday

There's the sun to keep you warm

And it's alright

Yeah, it's alright



I'm alive

And I don't care much for words of doom

If it's love you need,

Well I've got the room

It's a simple thing

That came to me when I found you

I'm alive

I'm alive



Every night

On the streets of Hollywood

Pretty girls

Want to give you something good

Love for sale,

It's a lonely town at night

Therapy

For a heart misunderstood



But look around,

There's a a flower on every street

Look around,

And, it's growing at your feet

And everyday you can hear me say

That I'm alive

I wanna take all that life has got to give

All I need is someone to share it with

I've got love

And love is all I really need to live

I'm alive

I'm alive



And everyday

There's a brand new baby born

And everyway

There's enough to keep you warm

And it's okay

And I'm glad to say

That I'm alive



And I don't care much for words of doom

If it's love you got, well I've got the room

It's a simple thing

That came to me when I found you

I'm alive

I'm alive

I wanna take all that life has got to give

All I need is someone to share it with

I've got love

And love is all I really need to live

I'm alive

I'm alive



And I don't care much for words of doom

If it's love you need,

Well I've got the room

It's a simple thing that came to me



And thank God I'm alive

I can take all that life has got to give

If I got someone to share it with

I got love and love is all you really need

I'm alive

DEPECHE MODE lyrics - Dreaming Of Me

Light switch

Man switch

Film was broken only then

All the night

Fused tomorrow

Dancing with a distant friend



Filming and screning

I picture the scene

Filming and dreaming

Dreaming of me



So we left

Understanding

Cleancut so we're sounding fast

Talked of sad

I talked of war

I laughed and climbed the rising cast



Quickly I remembered

Fused and saw a face before

Timing reason

Understanding

Like association hall

HARRY CONNICK, JR. lyrics - There's No Business Like Show Business

The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk

Are secretly unhappy men because

The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk

Get paid for what they do but no applause

They'd gladly bid their dreary jobs goodbye

For anything theatrical and why



There's no business like show business

Like no business I know

Everything about it is appealing

Everything the traffic will allow

Nowhere could you get that happy feeling

When you are stealing that extra bow



There's no people like show people

They smile when they're low

Even with a turkey that you know will fold

You may be stranded out in the cold

Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold

Let's go on with the show



The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props

The audience that lifts you when you're down

The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops

The sheriff that escorts you out of town

The opening when your heart beats like a drum

The closing when the customers won't come



There's no business like show business

Like no business I know

You get word the show has started

That your favorite uncle died at dawn

Top of that your pa and ma have parted

You're broken hearted but you go on



There's no people like show people

They never ever run out of dough

Yesterday they told you you would not go far

That night you opened and there you are

Next day on your dressing room they hung a star

Let's go on with the show

GUY MITCHELL lyrics - My Heart Cries For You

(My heart cries for you)

(Sighs for you, dies for you)

(And my arms long for you)

(Please come back to me)



If you're in Arizona, I'll follow you

If you're in Minnesota, I'll be there too

You'll have a million chances to start anew

Because my love is endless for you



My heart cries for you

Sighs for you, dies for you

And my arms long for you

Please come back to me



An unimportant quarrel was what we had

We have to learn to live with the good and bad

Together we were happy, apart we're sad

This loneliness is driving me mad



My heart cries for you

Sighs for you, dies for you

And my arms long for you

Please come back to me



Please come back to me

Please come back

Come back, come back to me

DELBERT MCCLINTON lyrics - Until Then

Alone and far away from you

And I'm feelin' just a little bit blue

Lyin' here alone in bed

Like butter without any bread

Nothin' but you on my mind

I spend alot of time killin' time

But nothin' can take your place



I cant wait 'til when

I see you again

Until then



I tell myself it wont be long

'til all this missin' you will be gone

And everything will be alright

Tonight again when I pretend

Until then



I'm struttin' it up and kickin' it down the street

You are my all for everyone to see

I'm gonna hold you give you kisses that wont ever end

We got a lot of catchin' up to do but

Until then



I tell myself it wont be long

'til all this missin' you will be gone

And everything will be alright

Tonight again when I pretend

Until then



I'm struttin' it up and kickin' it down the street

You are my all for everyone to see

I'm gonna hold you and give you kisses that wont ever end

We got a lot of catchin' up to do but

Until then until then

Oh yeah

Got it all goin' on baby

Right here in my head

Woo-whooo

RAY CHARLES lyrics - You Took Advantage Of Me

I'm a sentimental sap, that's all

What's the use of trying not to fall?

I have no will, you've made your kill

'Cause you took advantage of me!

I'm just like an apple on a bough

And you're gonna shake me down somehow

So, what's the use,

You've cooked my goose

'Cause you took advantage of me!

I'm so hot and bothered that I don't

Know my elbow from my ear

I suffer something awful each time you go

And much worse when you're near

Here I am with all my bridges burned

Just a babe in arms where

You're concerned

So lock the doors and call me yours

'Cause you took advantage of me.

BONNIE TYLER lyrics - Before We Get Any Closer

(R. J. Scott & C. Stevens)



Before we get any closer

Before we let it begin

Before our feelings take over us

I wanna tell you one thing

I'm just an ordinary girl

Who needs some love in her life

I won't pretend to me more than I am

I've had some lovers before

But now I need something more

Than just a meaningless holding of hands

I'm just an ordinary girl

Who wants to reach out and find

Someone who honestly feels like I do

Love is so a fragile thing I'd sooner never begin

Than to find out too late, it's not true



Before we get any closer

Before we tell any lies

Before we make any promises

We really ought to decide

Is this a casual event

Two ships that pass in the night

Could we find heaven out there just one time

Or are we closer than close

With deeper feelings and most

Could ever know for the whole of their lives



Before we get any closer

Before we two become us

I need to know if you'll always be

Someone to totally trust

I'm just an ordinary girl

Who needs some love in her life

I won't pretend to me more than I am

I've had some lovers before

But now I need something more

Than just a meaningless holding of hands

Is this the casual event

Two ships that pass in the night

Could we find heaven out there just one time

Or are we closer than close

With deeper feelings and most

Couldn't ever know for the whole of their lives

THE MONKEES lyrics - War Games

Did you buy your tickets for the war game?

Aren't you glad that your sitting in the back?

For the game is deadly having all the players

Aren't you glad it's a spectator sport



Can't you hear the cries?

It isn't over

Can't you smell the fear?

It's all over



If you want to play the game, you must have playmates

Choose a side, pick your toy, but play to win

Don't be sad if you loose it itsn't over

Pick your side and begin the game agianIt isn't over



Can't you hear the cries?

It isn't over

Can't you smell the fear?

It's all over



You don't have to play the game if you don't want to

You can sit at home and hear it on the news

They will show you colored pictures of the killings

They want you to feel that you're part of it too.



Can't you hear the cries?

It isn't over

Don't you smell the fear?

It's all over

It's all over

JETHRO TULL lyrics - Rover

I chase your every footstep

and I follow every whim.

When you call the tune I'm ready

to strike up the battle hymn.

My lady of the meadows ---

My comber of the beach ---

You've thrown the stick for your dog's trick

but it's floating out of reach.

The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies there.

So slip the chain and I'm off again ---

You'll find me everywhere. I'm a Rover.



As the robin craves the summer

to hide his smock of red,

I need the pillow of your hair

in which to hide my head.

I'm simple in my sadness,

resourceful in remorse.

Then I'm down straining at the lead ---

holding on a windward course.



Strip me from the bundle

of balloons at every fair:

colourful and carefree ---

Designed to make you stare.

But I'm lost and I'm losing

the thread that holds me down.

And I'm up hot and rising

in the lights of every town.

JAMES TAYLOR lyrics - Copperline

(Price/Taylor)



Even the old folks never knew why they call it like they do.

I was wondering since the age of two, down on Copperline.

Copper head, copper beech, copper kettles sitting side by each.

Copper coil, cup o'Georgia peach, down on Copperline.

Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, leaning heavy on the end of the week.

Hercules and a hog-nosed snake, down on Copperline we were down on Copperline.



One Summer night on the Copperline, slip away past supper time.

Wood smoke and new moonshine, down on Copperline.

One time I saw my daddy dance, watched him moving like a man in a trance.

He bought it back from the war in France, down onto Copperline.

Branch water and tomato wine, creosote and turpentine,

sour mash and new moon shine, down on Copperline, down on Copperline.



First kiss ever I took, like a page from a romance book,

the sky opened and the earth shook, down on Copperline, down on Copperline.

Took a fall from a windy height, I only knew how to hold on tight

and pray for love enough to last all night, down on Copperline.

Day breaks and the boys wakes up and the dog barks and the birds sings

and the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah.



I tried to go back, as if I could, all spec house and plywood.

Tore up and tore up good down on Copperline.

It doesn't come as a surprise to me, it doesn't touch my memory

and I'm lifting up and rising free down on over Copperline.

Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, I'm only living for the end of the week.

Hercules and a hog-nosed snake, down on Copperline, yeah, take me down on Copperline.

Oh, down on Copperline, take me down on Copperline.

RICKY NELSON lyrics - Here I Go Again

Here I go again, in a great big world of spin

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I'm in love again

Just like the time before, only I'm hurtin' more

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I'm in love again



My heart was made of ice, til you kissed me twice

Your lips caused a flame so hot

Melted my heart right on the spot



Now gee little honey do what I feel for you

I know it'll last til eternity



Alright



My heart was made of ice, til you kissed me twice

Your lips caused a flame so hot

Melted my heart right on the spot



Now gee little honey do what I feel for you

I know it'll last til eternity



I, I, I, know, know, know, know, know it'll last til eternity

Mmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it'll last til eternity

Mmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it'll last til eternity

FRANK SINATRA lyrics - When Somebody Loves You

(S. Cahn, J. Van Heusen)



[Recorded April 14, 1965, Hollywood]



When somebody loves you, you feel it in your heart

When somebody loves you, you know it from the start

Every kiss becomes more than a kiss

Each look, each touch they mean so much

And that's when you discover how it feels to be a lover



When somebody loves you, it shows in every smile

When somebody loves you, your life becomes worthwhile

Always caring, always sharing everything you do

When somebody loves you like I love you



(When somebody loves you, it shows in every smile)

(When somebody loves you, your life becomes worthwhile)

Always caring, always sharing everything you do

When somebody loves you like I love you

KINGDOM COME lyrics - Gonna Lose Her

Invitation to a false solution

Too much sadness, turned to madness

No illusion



White temptation, in a lonely nation

You've been reaching out, now you've lost your ground

Poor sensation



Gonna loose her

Can't control her

Ain't no healer

(I've tried to help her out)



Words of wisdom

Never made you listen

You knew wrong from right

Still you had to try

Sad decision

RICKY NELSON lyrics - New Delhi Freight Train

Now some people are sayin' that I'm crazy

'Cause my real name is just Jesse James

Well I left them half rocked, hard knocked in Black Rock County

Just to ride on that New Delhi train



Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my love behind, left my love behind



I'm just a country boy without angels

I'm just a country boy without gold

And I've been to Silver City below the rainbow

Where they say I pillaged and I killed and I stole

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my life behind, left my life behind



Well they say I killed a man named Smiley Dearden

Say I killed him with one of my guns

And I know that I did what I had not ought to

But I went on the run from what I'd done



Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my love behind, left my love behind



Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my life behind, left my life behind



Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my love behind, left my love behind



Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

Ridin' on that New Delhi line

Ridin' on that New Delhi freight train

And left my life behind, left my life behind

GEORGE STRAIT lyrics - Baby Blue

She looked so much like a lady, but she was so much like a child.

A devil when she held me close, an angel when she smiled.

She always held it deep inside, but somehow I always knew

She's go away when the grass turned green and the sky turned baby blue.



[Chorus:]

And baby blue was the color of her eyes.

Baby blue like the Colorado skies.

Like a breath of spring, she came and left,

And I still don't know why,

So here's to you and whoever holds my baby blue tonight.



She brought colors to my life that my eyes had never touched.

And when she taught me how to care, I never cared so much.

I try not to think of her, but I fall asleep and do,

And drift off where the grass is green and the sky is baby blue.



[Chorus 2x]



[Chorus]

TOM VERLAINE lyrics - Shimmer

(Verlaine)



You have always been so kind to me,

Mere gratitude is not enough.

But if there's anything that I can do or say,

To take that pressure off,

You know I'll do it,

Or at least I'll try,

I'm used to living off-the-cuff.



Shimmer!,

It's a way of life,

When no other life is true.

Shimmer!,

That's the only word,

When no other word will do.

Shimmer!



Nice new features on your automobile,

Maybe I could get a lift uptown?

That's some crazy hat that you've got on today,

You really put my feet back on the ground.

You know talking ain't my speciality,

Forgive me if I'm just going round.



Shimmer!,

It's a way of life,

When no other life is true.

Shimmer!,

That's the only word,

When no other word will do.

Shimmer!,

It's a way of life,

When no other life is true.

Shimmer!,

That's the only word,

When no other word will do.



You know you have my affections,

And my deepest respect,

I'm sorry honey if sometimes I just show

Too much neglect



Shimmer!



Shimmer!,

It's a way of life,

When no other life is true.

Shimmer!,

That's the only word,

When no other word will do.

MEGADETH lyrics - Disconnect

(Dave Mustaine)



Behind closed doors all you live for is taking

That double life of yours has left your whole world shaking

Who are you fooling? I know you hear the laughter

Don't you hear people talking? What is it that your after?



Turn off your conscience

Leave the world outside

Nothing at all can ever make you feel

That anything's so real so you just - Disconnect



The key to save yourself if for nothing else

A tongue can never hold the truth of silence is golden

With a broken heart underneath all of the pain

Do you stroke the pretty scars? The hurt never ends



Turn off your conscience

Leave the world outside

Nothing at all can ever make you feel

That anything's so real so you just - Disconnect



[Solo - Mustaine]



Turn off your conscience

Leave the world outside

Nothing at all can ever make you feel

That anything's so real so you just - Disconnect



Turn off your conscience

Leave the world outside

Nothing at all can ever make you feel

That anything's so real so you just - Disconnect



[End Chorus Solos - Pitrelli / Percussion - Chris Vrenna]

DANZIG lyrics - Dead Inside

How does it feel when you're dead inside

Lost someone to the other side

Felt so bad 'cause you didn't cry

Couldn't shed a tear cause you're dead inside



How does it feel when you're cold inside

Emptiness constant at your side

Freezing ever secret thought you hide

Motionless, frozen hell design



How does it feel when you're lost and blind

Loneliness is your only guide

And how dies it feel when you're black inside

Numbness calls from your inner eye

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD lyrics - Paranoid

Did you ever have that feeling in your life

That someone was watching you?

You don't have no reason that's right

But still he's there watching you

Someone is waiting just outside the door

To take you away

Everybody knows just what he's there for

To take you away

But you don't know why he's there waiting

But you don't know why he's there waiting

Spent too much time anticipating

Spent too much time anticipating

Did you ever think it could be you

That's just outside the door?

There's just one way to find out if it's true

So what you waiting for?

Oh get yourself together now my friend

And step outside the pad

If there's no one waiting for you there my friend

I think you should be glad

But who wasn't there that you should look out for?

Who wasn't there that you should look out for?

Get back inside go on and shut the door

Get back inside go on and shut the door

You don't have nobody, don't need nobody, can't love nobody, you're better off by yourself

You ain't feelin' too bad, you're driving me mad, and say you're glad, you're better off by yourself

You don't have nobody, don't need nobody, can't love nobody, you're better off by yourself

You ain't feelin' too bad, you're driving me mad, and say you're glad, you're better off by yourself

Whoooaaaaa...

BETTE MIDLER lyrics - Friends (Side 2, Cut 6)

And I am all alone.

There is no one here beside me.

And my problems have all gone.

There is no one to deride me.



But you got to have friends.

The feeling's oh so strong.

You got to have friends

to make that day last long.



I had some firends but they're gone,

somethin' came and took them away.

And from the dusk 'til the dawn

here is where I'll stay.



Standing at the end of the road, boys,

waiting for my new friends to come.

I don't care if I'm hungry or poor,

I'm gonna get me some of them.



'Cause you got to have friends.

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, friends.

That's right you, oh you, yeah you,

I said you gotta have some friends,

I'm talkin' about friends, that's right, friends.

Friends, friends, friends.



I had some firends, oh, but they're all gone, gone,

someone came and snatched them away.

And from the dusk until the very dawn, you know,

here is where I gotta stay, here is where I gotta stay.



And I'm standing at the end of a real long road

and I'm waiting for my new friends to come.

I don't care if I'm hungry or freezin' cold,

I'm gonna get me some of them.



'Cause you gotta have friends,

that's right, friends, friends.

I gotta me my, I gotta me my, I gotta me my,

look around and see all of my friends.

Oh, friends, that's right, friends, friends,

friends, friends, friends, friends, oh,

friends, you gotta have friends. . .

THE KINKS lyrics - Did Ya?

Went for a walk down the Old King's Road,

To see if anybody was there.

But there was nobody home at 3 Bywater Street,

And they had sold Cadogan Square.

And I remember myself in my tie dye sweater,

And my hipster corduroy flares.

As I knocked on doors,

And walked down one-way streets that led nowhere.



Ah, did ya ever think it wouldn't last forever?

Did ya ever think that it would get this bad?

Did ya ever think that everything would get so crazy?



Now the Chelsea Drug Store needs a fix,

It's in a state of ill repair.

And my Cuban heels are hurting my feet,

Just to add to my despair.

La-di-dahs drove Mini cars in the summertime.

(In the summertime)

Now they're towed away for parking on a double yellow line,

And they can't pay the fine.

(Did you ever think)

Did you ever think we'd all believe the hype?

(Did you ever think)

Did you ever think the classes all would revert back to type?

(Did you ever think)

Did you ever think the system ever really got it right?

Oh, baby.



They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity,

And they led us down that class-less road to mediocrity.

As we walked down that alley way of hope,

We thought we'd found the motherload,

But we were led like lambs to that promise land,

With all the debts that we would owe.

Once trendies posed for tourist pictures in the summertime.

(In the summertime)

Not content with taking Polaroids, they purchased all the property that they could find,

And I've just sold mine. (Did you ever!)



Did ya ever think that this green and plesant land,

(Did ya ever think)

Would end up in the bottom of some garbage can,

(Did ya ever think)

A dustbin full of promises and half-hearted plans.

Oh, baby.



Did ya, did ya, did ya ever think?

Did you ever think?

(In the summertime)



Now miseries and groaners moan and reminisce about the good old times and whine, whine, whine.

(Did ya ever think)

Did ya ever think when things were really fab,

(Did ya ever think)

That we'd be looking through a dustbin for a dog-end to drag,

(Did ya ever think)

And sleep on park benches wrapped in plastic bags.

Oh, baby.



Did ya ever think that it would get this crazy?

(Did ya ever think)

Did ya ever think that it would get this way?

(Did ya ever think)

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

THE ANIMALS lyrics - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

(Mann/Weil)



In this dirty old part of the city

Where the sun refuse to shine

People tell me there ain't no use in trying

Now my girl you're so young and pretty

And one thing I know is true

You'll be dead before your time is due

I know

Watch my daddy in bed and tired

Watch his hair been turning gray

He's been working and slaving his life away

Oh yes, I know it

He's been working so hard

I've been working too babe

Every night and day

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

We gotta get out of this place

If its the last thing we ever do

We gotta get out of this place

'Cause girl, there's a better life

For me and you

Now my girl you're so young and pretty

And one thing I know is true, yeah

You'll be dead before your time is due

I know it

Watch my daddy in bed and tired

Watch his hair been turning gray

He's been working and slaving his life away

I know

He's been working so hard

I've been working too babe

Every day baby

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

We gotta get out of this place

If its the last thing we ever do

We gotta get out of this place

Girl, there's a better life

For me and you

Somewhere baby

Somehow I know it baby

We gotta get out of this place

If its the last thing we ever do

We gotta get out of this place

Girl, there's a better life for me and you

Believe me baby

I know it baby

You know it too

PAUL PENA lyrics - Eki A'Ttar (Good Horses)

Chuguruktung bazhyn oyda

Chugen sugluu shynggyr-shynggyr

Chuuden artyk saryym saktyp

Chuldu-chureem chimir-chimir.



When my good, fast horse shakes its head

The bit of its bridle go "shyngyr-shyngyr."

But most of all I miss my sweetheart.

My heart flutters with the sound of "chimmir chimmir."



Eki doruum bazhyn oyda

Ezer chugen shynggyr - shynggyr

Erge karam chazhyn oyda

Chavagazy chayyr-chayyr.



When my horse shakes its head

The bridle and saddle go "shyngyr-shyngyr."

When my sweetheart turns her head,

The beads in her hair swing "chaiyr, chaiyr."



[Cape Verdian verse:]

Es e mi amigo 'li,

M ka pode papia ku el,

M ka pode monta caballo,

Ma m cre pa canta ku el.



This is my friend here,

I cannot talk to him.

I cannot ride a horse,

But I wish to sing with him.



[Instrumental]



Karbap-karbap chelip orar

Karalamnyng choruu-la yndyg

Kattyrangnap changnap orar

Karam ezhim chang|y-la yndyg.



Running so fast, the pace of

My black and white horse is so.

Smiling at me and flirting,

The manner of my girlfriend is so.



Sygyt



[Repeat Cape Verdian verse]



Oglaa doynyng bazhyn-oyda

Sugluk deerbek shynggyr-shynggyr

Ortun karam chazhyn oyda

Chavagazy chayyr chayyr.

Um boy oy oy um boy oy, etc.



Horse shakes head

Bridle goes "shyngyr-shyngyr."

Sweetheart turns head,

Beads swing "chaiyr, chaiyr."

Um boy oy oy um boy oy, etc.



(Sygyt, kargyraa)