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Bee Gees | It's Just The Way | /b/bee+gees/its+just+the+way_20015914.html | It's just the way that I feel about tomorrow
I'll be sad and alone all the time
It's just the way that you said you don't love me anymore, then 'Goodbye'
I can't believe what you're saying
You don't love me anymore, 'Goodbye'
Just the way that I feel about tomorrow
Knowing you won't be there by my side
I wish that I could say to you: well, can't we just be good friends?
Would you leave the door open, let me walk in again?
That's the way I been thinking 'bout tomorrow
I only know that friends can't be lovers again
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Bee Gees | Jive Talkin' | /b/bee+gees/jive+talking_20015918.html | It's just your jive talkin'
You're telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin'
You wear a disguise
Jive talkin'
So misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin'
You really no good
Oh, my child
You'll never know
Just what you mean to me
Oh, my child
You got so much
You're gonna take away my energy
With all your jive talkin'
You're telling me lies, yeah
Good lovin'
Still gets in my eyes
Nobody believes what you say
It's just your jive talkin'
That gets in the way
Oh my love
You're so good
Treating me so cruel
There you go
With your fancy lies
Leavin' me lookin'
Like a dumbstruck fool
With all your
Jive talkin'
You're telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin'
You wear a disguise
Jive talkin'
So misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin'
You just ain't no good
Love talkin'
Is all very fine, yeah
Jive talkin'
Just isn't a crime
And if there's somebody
You'll love till you die
Then all that jive talkin'
Just gets in your eye
Jive talkin'
You're telling me lies,yeah
Good lovin'
Still gets in my eyes
Nobody believes what you say
It's just your jive talkin'
That gets in the way
Love talkin'
Is all very fine, yeah
Jive talkin', just isn't a crime
And if there's somebody
You'll love till you die
Then all that jive talkin'
Just gets in your eye, yeah yeah
Oh jive talkin'
Jive talkin'
Oh jive talkin'
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Bee Gees | King And Country | /b/bee+gees/king+country_20015719.html | All the love of my mother, I offer to you
And I'll try so very hard , to get you through
If lay down my life, for my King and country men
Would it change you for the better
It better be all right
To be always like children
Afraid of the night
If I gave up the cause , what would you give me
to make up for all the things that I would lose
If I lay down my life , for my King and country men
Would it change you for the better
It better be all right
To be always like children
Afraid of the night
Well you better get busy , get it over and done
I was here when you arrived , I'll be here when you're gone
If I give up my life for my King and country men
Would it change you for the better
It better be all right
To be never like people
Afraid of the night
Do do do , etc ... (fade out)
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Bee Gees | Life Goes On | /b/bee+gees/life+goes+on_20015927.html | Pardon me, if I use you in my dreams
You throw those angel eyes at me
Or could the beautiful woman be more than she seems
But she is not in love with me
All of my life I been looking for someone to carry my love away
A chip on my shoulder, a misery, suddenly there you are
Nobody knows, but she knows that I love her
It's got to be growing
I can't wait no longer
Life goes on for the lonely man
When love goes wrong only love knows why
Life goes on for the lonely man
We'll be the dreams , we'll be the seasons
You and I, I
Suddenly, all the world gets in the way
You disappear into the crowd
Maybe the beautiful woman never really came
But I still call your name out loud
I want to know you , but I never met you
Reality can be cruel
If a wandering soul meets another
They shouldn't be separated
Better in love with your head on my shoulder
But I'll never be satisfied
And if I can't see you
Life goes on for the lonely man
When love goes wrong, only love knows why
Life goes on for the lonely man
We'll be the dreams, we'll be the seasons
You and I, I
Living your life in someone else's heart
A lover's dream that has no end
There may be somebody you can base your world upon
I'll never be the same again
And there's a part of me here
And there's a part of me with you
But all of me loves you
Nobody gave me the feeling you gave me
I'm so proud of
All of my days I will be here for you
And the love keeps running
And if I can't hold you
Life goes on for the lonely man
And there's a million words for the one goodbye
Life goes on for the lonely man
We'll be the dreams, we'll be the seasons
You and I, I
Life goes on for the lonely man
And there's a million words for the one goodbye
Life goes on for the lonely man
We'll be the dreams, we'll be the seasons
You and I, I
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Bee Gees | Living Eyes | /b/bee+gees/living+eyes_20015934.html | Would you believe me if I told you your tomorrow is my yesterday.
But be alive, I know that we will.
The world keeps on moving but I'm holding still.
In the beginning I was far away and praying for my destiny.
That would arrive the moment you're born.
For we will be here when the miracle comes.
[Chorus:]
Living eyes when under the sun don't cry.
No war in my mind.
The state of my heart.
Living eyes when out in the rain will fall.
The day I deny the face of my love.
[Bridge:]
We are of age, we are in time, we are forever.
Right now when the power is mine.
I leave you Heaven and the Earth, I leave you never.
And living to love is the reason to shine.
I been over I been under I don't own a dream to analyze.
But living eyes you know that I do.
Believe in the soul and the magic of you.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
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Bee Gees | Living In Chicago | /b/bee+gees/living+in+chicago_20015936.html | If your mind is in the darkness, could you know
If it suits you to be fast or far too slow
Will you show me someone who may treat me kind
Or is this world I live in just a frame of mind
And as soon as you discover where you're goin'
Can I walk along the way, along the way
I'm lonesome and I need somebody knowin'
Just a few nice words to get me through the day
If your mind is in the darkness, could you know
If it suits you to be fast or far too slow
And will you show me someone who may treat me kind
Or is this world just a frame of mind
If you're living in Chicago, it's your home
If you're living in Chicago, you're alone
If you're living in Chicago, it's your home
If you're living in Chicago, you're alone
If you're living in Chicago, you're alone [Repeat: x4]
If you're living in Chicago, it's your home
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Bee Gees | Living Together | /b/bee+gees/living+together_20015675.html | Why ain't we livin',livin' together instead of being so so far apart
Why ain't we livin',livin' together instead of being so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' together, livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin' together, livin' together instead of bein' alone
I lay my heart on you and you can show the way
I give my everlasting love until my dying day
Take this lonely soul , the water or the wine
A chance to make you mine
I lay my body on the line
Why ain't we livin', livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart
Why ain't we livin', livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' together ,livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin' together ,livin' together instead of bein' alone
My life was emptiness until you came along
I nearly fell apart , you took my heart and made me strong
I need all of you to get me through the night
A chance to see the light
I lay my body on the line
Why ain't we livin',livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart
Why ain't we livin',livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin', livin' together instead of being so so far apart
Why ain't we livin', livin' together instead of being so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' together , livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin' together, livin' together instead of bein' alone
Why ain't we livin' livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' livin' together instead of bein so so far apart
Why ain't we livin' livin' together instead of bein' so so far apart(fade)
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Bette Midler | All I Need To Know | /b/bette+midler/all+i+need+to+know_20017040.html | Look at my face. I know the years are showin'.
Look at my life. Still don't know where it's goin'.
I don't know much, but I know I love you,
And that may be all I need to know.
Look at these eyes. Oh, they never see what matters.
And look at these dreams, so beaten and so battered.
I don't know much, but I know I love you,
And that may be all I need to know.
So many questions and still no answers.
I climb and climb but never get the view.
But when I hold you near me sometimes I feel so clearly
The only truth I'll ever know is me and you.
In my heart I long for inspiration.
And in my soul I know someday I'll find salvation.
I don't know much, but I know I love you,
And that may be all I need to know.
In my heart you're my inspiration.
And in my soul I know love is our salvation.
I don't kow much, but if I know you love me,
That will be all I need to know.
I don't know much, but if you say you love me,
That will be all I need to know.
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Bette Midler | Boxing | /b/bette+midler/boxing_20016911.html | Howard, the strangest things
Have happened lately when I
Take a good swing
And all my dreams
They pivot and slip.
I drop my fists
And they're back, laughing.
Howard, my intentions
Become not to lose what I've won.
Ambition has given way
To desperation and I,
I've lost the fight from my eyes.
Boxing's been good to me, Howard.
Now I'm told,
You're growing old.
The whole time we knew
A couple of years I'd be through.
Has boxing been good to you?
Howard, now I confess
I'm scared and lonely and tired.
Everyone says I'm made of clay,
That I've had my day,
That I'm not cut out for this.
I just know what to say.
And I say,
Boxing's been good to me, Howard.
Now I'm told,
You're growing old.
The whole time we knew
A couple of years I'd be through.
Has boxing been good to you?
Well, sometimes I punch myself
Hard as I can.
Yelling, nobody cares!
Hoping someone will tell me how wrong I am,
Howard.
Boxing's been good to me, Howard.
Now I'm told,
You're growing old.
The whole time we knew
A couple of years I'd be through.
Has boxing been good,
Has boxing been good,
Has boxing been good?
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Bette Midler | Daytime Hustler | /b/bette+midler/daytime+hustler_20016979.html | Daytime husler, you're out of line.
Don't ya try to change my mind!
Don't you try.
You see, I ain't no fool.
No, I can tell,
Oh, baby, you ain't my kind!
My kind!
I'm in love with a down home man.
Simple lovin' I can understand.
I've been hustled by the best of them,
And you ain't nothing but a crazy man.
Hustler.
Oh, daytime hustler, you better look away.
Because I won't play your game no more.
No, no more, no.
You spend all of your money
On those other women
Who are blind enough to buy your shame.
All your shame, oh, oh, oh.
Fancy money doesn't buy me love!
Flashy Cadillacs won't make me f-ck!
I been hustled by the best of them,
And you ain't nothing but a crazy man.
Hustler, hustler,
Hustler, hustler,
Ooh, hustler,
Hustler, baby, oh!
Whoa! daytime hustler!
Ooh, what did you say?
I say you're a jive, jive dude.
Yes, I do. yes, I do.
You just don't, you just don't,
Ya just don't know
That you are really,
You're really not too cool.
And I believe your mind is slow.
Oh, oh, oh.
I'm in love with a down home man.
Simple lovin' I can understand.
I've been hustled by the best of them,
And you ain't nothing but a crazy, crazy man.
Hustler, hustler, hustler, hustler,
Hustler, hustler, hustler baby.
Oh, hustler. oh, hustler. oh, hustler.
Hustler baby
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Bette Midler | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas | /b/bette+midler/have+yourself+a+merry+little+christmas_20529227.html | Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
Our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
Our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
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Bette Midler | I Remember You | /b/bette+midler/i+remember+you_20017007.html | I remember you.
You're the one who made my dreams come true,
A few kisses ago.
I remember you.
You're the one who said, "I love you, too.
I do. Didn't you know?"
I remember, too, a distant bell,
And stars that fell
Like rain out of the blue.
When my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of them all,
Then I shall tell them I remember you.
Was it in Tahiti?
Were we on the Nile?
Long, long ago, say, an hour or so,
I recall that I saw your smile.
And I remember, too, a distant bell,
And stars that fell
Like rain out of the blue.
When my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of them all,
Then I will tell them I remember,
Tell them I remember you.
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Bette Midler | In These Shoes | /b/bette+midler/in+these+shoes_20017089.html | "Gentlemen, gentlemen please! Senors, por favor!"
I once met a man with a sense of adventure.
He was dressed to thrill wherever he went.
He said, "Let's make love on a mountaintop,
under the stars on a big hard rock."
I said, "In these shoes? What is this, the Peace Corps?"
I said, "Honey, let's do it here."
So we're sittin' at a bar in Guadalajara,
in walks a guy with a faraway look in his eyes.
He says, "I've got a powerful horse outside.
Climb on the back, I'll take you for a ride.
I know a little place we can get before the break of day."
I said, "In these shoes? No way, Jose!"
I said, "Honey, let's stay right here."
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
Then I met an Englishman.
"Oh," he said, "Are you American?
Won't you walk up and down on my spine?
It makes me feel strangely alive."
I said, "In these shoes? Oh, I doubt you'd survive."
I said, "Honey let's do it hehehehe"
"Let's stay right here."
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
Es un escandalo!
No le gusta caminar.
No puede montar a cabailo.
?Como se puede bailar?
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Bette Midler | I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm | /b/bette+midler/ive+got+my+love+to+keep+me+warm_20529222.html | The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing
But I can weather the storm!
What do I care how much it may storm?
I've got my love to keep me warm
I can't remember a worse December
Just watch those icicles form!
What do I care if icicles form?
I've got my love to keep me warm
Off with my overcoat, off with my glove
I need no overcoat, I'm burning with love!
My heart's on fire, the flame grows higher
So I will weather the storm!
What do I care how much it may storm?
I've got my love to keep me warm
Off with my overcoat, off with my glove
I need no overcoat, I'm burning with love!
My heart's on fire, the flame grows higher
So I will weather the storm!
What do I care how much it may storm?
I've got my love to keep me warm
Out with the fire off with the sweater
I got a heater coultn't be better will be
So confee all through the storm
I've got my love to keep me warm
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Bette Midler | Leader Of The Pack | /b/bette+midler/leader+of+the+pack_20016969.html | "Hey, Betty? Is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?"
"Uh huh."
"Oh! Must be nice riding on that motorcycle after school, huh?"
"Uh huh."
"Is he picking you up after school today?"
"Unh uh!"
"Well, where'd ya meet him?"
I met him at the candy store.
He turned around and smiled at me.
Ya get the picture? (Yes, we see)
That's when I fell for the leader of the pack.
My folks were always puttin' him down.
Down! Down!
They said he came from the wrong side of town.
They told me that he was bad,
But I knew that he was sad.
And that's why I fell for the leader of the pack.
One day my dad said, "Find someone new."
New! New!
I had to tell my Jimmy that,
Whoa, we were through.
He stood up and then he asked me why.
But all I could do was cry.
I'm sorry I hurt you,
The leader of the pack.
He sort of smiled and he kissed me goodbye.
The tears were beginning to show.
And as he drove away from me
On that rainy, rainy night,
I begged him to go slow.
But whether he heard me
I'll never, never, never, never know!
Look out now, now, look out!
Whoa oh no no no! Whoa no no no! No! No!
I felt so helpless! What could I do-wo-wo-wo-wo?
The only, only love that we had was through.
At school they all stop and stare.
I can't hide the tears.
I just don't care!
I will never forget you,
The leader of the pack!
Whoa-oo-woh! Gone gone gone!
Gone gone gone!
The leader of the pack is,
Now he's gone!
The leader of the pack is,
Now he's gone!
The leader of the pack is, whoa gone!
Gone gone gone!
Gone gone gone!
Gone gone gone!
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Bette Midler | Long John Blues | /b/bette+midler/long+john+blues_20017026.html | "Doctor Long John. My dreams are full of Doctor Long John."
I got a dentist who's over seven feet tall.
I have a dentist who's over seven feet tall.
His name is Doctor Long John
And he answers every call.
You know, I went to Long John's office.
I said, "Doctor, the pain is killing me."
I went to Long John's office.
I said, "Doctor, the pain is killing."
He said, "Don't worry, baby.
It's just your cavity needs a little filling."
He took out his trusty drill.
Told me to open wide.
He said he wouldn't hurt me,
But he filled my whole inside.
Long John, Long John, don't you ever go away. No.
Cause you thrill me when you drill me,
And I don't need no novocain today.
Oh, when he got done drilin' he said,
"Now, Miss Midler, that is going to cost you ten."
"I was prepared to pay twenty"
Yeah, yeah, when he got done drillin' he said,
"Baby, that is going to cost you ten.
But if it ever starts in to throbbing,
Come back and see old Long John
Again and again and again and again and again.
Oh, yeah. Yow!
"Long John. I sold my heart to Doctor Long John and I will never, never be the
same.
Oh, that's so heavy I just gotta lay back."
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Bette Midler | Love Me With A Feeling | /b/bette+midler/love+me+with+a+feeling_20017074.html | [Man:] "All right! She's gonna sing!"
[Rose:] "All right, we all turn to page 438.
Now, you know we all gonna sing along.
Oh, I do love a revue."
Ohhhhhh!
You know, women don't like this woman,
'cause I always speak my mind.
But the men ain't crazy about me,
'cause I love to take my time.
If you're gonna love this woman,
Gotta love me with a thrill,
'cause, baby, if you don't,
I gotta find a man who will.
Love me with a feeling.
You got to love me with a feelin'.
You got to love me with a feelin',
Or you don't love me at all.
You know, I'm the kind of woman,
I don't want no halfway stuff.
If you're gonna turn me loose, baby,
Be sure I had enough.
You know, the cops once took me in,
But I did not need the bail.
I just shook it for the judge and he,
He put that cop in jail.
You got to love me with a feeling.
You got to love me with a feelin'.
You got to love me with a feelin',
Or you don't love me at all.
"All right, Milledge, this one's for you."
There was one cat who could not make it,
And Milledge was his name.
The only cat I ever knew
Who left before he came.
There he's a-standing,
Drinkin' pop from a paper cup.
But when it's time for gettin' down,
Milledge can not get it up!
You gotta love me with a feelin'.
Yeah, love, love me with a feelin'.
You got to love me with a feelin',
Or you can't love me at all.
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Bette Midler | Love Tko | /b/bette+midler/love+tko_20250017.html | Oooooh
Lookin' back over my years
I guess I've shed some tears.
Told myself time and again
This time I'm gonna win.
But another fight. Things ain't right.
I'm losing again.
It takes a fool to lose twice
And start all over again.
I think I better let him go.
'Cause it looks like another love TKO.
Let it go, baby.
I think I better let him go.
'Cause it looks like another love TKO. Ohh, yeah.
I tried to take control of the love.
He took control of me.
See you lose all thought and sense of time.
You have a change of mind.
Takin' the bumps and the bruises
And all the pain of a two-time lose.
And I try to hold on. My faith is gone.
It's just another sad song.
So I think I gotta
Gotta let it go
I gotta let him go.
Let it go, baby.
'Cause it looks like another love TKO.
Oh, yes it does, yes it does.
I think I gotta
Gotta let it go
Mmmmmmm.
Let it go, baby.
'Cause it looks like another love TKO.
Boy, whatcha want me to do? Can't stand up to you.
No no no no.
I try to take control of the love.
It took control of me.
See you lose all thought and sense of time.
You have a change of mind.
Taking the bumps and the bruises
And all the pain of a two-time lose.
Then I try to hold on. My faith is gone.
It's just another sad song.
I think I better
Better let it go
I better let him go.
Let it go, baby.
'Cause it looks like another love TKO.
Yeah, I better
Better let it go
I gotta let him go.
Let it go, Miss M.
Another love, love TKO.
Ooohhhh, boy you got me turned around and around and around.
Around and around.
Everybody's got to cry sometime.
That's what they say. I heard them say.
Everybody's gonna cry sometime.
Mama says that they did, that they did.
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Bette Midler | Make Yourself Comfortable | /b/bette+midler/make+yourself+comfortable_20016956.html | I've got some records here
To put you in the mood.
The phone is off the hook
So no one can intrude.
I feel romantic
And the record changes automatic, baby.
Sweetheart, we hurried through the dinner
And we hurried through the dance.
We left before the picture show was through.
Why did we hurry through the dinner
And hurry through the dance?
To leave some time for this.
To hug and hug and kiss and kiss.
Take off your shoesies, dear,
And loosen up your tie.
I got some kisses here.
Let's try one on for size.
Turn the lights low. oooh, turn 'em low.
Whoa, baby.
Ooh, to hug and hug and kiss and kiss.
Now, baby, take off your shoes
And loosen up you tie.
I got some kisses here.
Let's try one on for size.
Turn the lights low. come on, turn 'em low.
Ohh, baby.
Sha boomp boomp bah dah boomp bah dah boomp.
Bah ba dah ba wee eeh bah ba dweeb bah pretty baby.
You know I just wanna take you up with me to paradise.
Boy ya da bah do bah do do bah buh bah da.
Please pour a little bit of wine, will ya pretty baby?
Pretty baby, why don't you come over here
And get comfortable? make yourself comfortable.
All I really wanna hear is that
Ya really like what I'm givin'.
And I hope that you know I love you.
Darlin'! look how much time
It took me to say I love you!
Look what I went through to say I love you!
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Bette Midler | Married Men | /b/bette+midler/married+men_20017085.html | The world is full of married men
With wives who never understand.
They're looking for someone to share
The excitement of a love affair.
And just as soon as they find you
They'll wine you and dine you.
Fly on the wings of romance.
But in the eyes of the world
You're just another girl
Who loves a married man.
Uh! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it
Again and again.
Ow! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
These married men.
Ooh, you make him feel so young,
But his wife is still the number one.
He promises to marry you.
Yeah, just as soon as his divorce comes through.
Whoa, it's not just a fling,
He swears it's the real thing,
A love that will last 'til the end.
But as he's driving away
You know it's true what they say
About a, a married man.
They say they do it, they do it, they do it, they do it
Again and again.
Wooo, they do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
These married men.
Ah, he'll run when the scandal
Gets too hot to handle.
He'll say he just wants to be friends.
And then he'll walk outta your life
And go home to his wife
'cause he's a married man.
Oh, your love is a secret.
You've got to sneak it
Long as you can.
Don't cry for your lover.
There's always another
Married man! Married men!
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Married, married men.
Ahh! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
These married men.
The world is full of them.
Girls, now listen.
They're hungry. Don't trust a . . .
Oh, the world is full of them.
The world is full of them!
They do it, they do it, they do it, do it
Again and again.
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Oh girl, these married men.
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it
Again and again.
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Can't help but lovin'.
Oh, honey, they do it and then they do it again.
Ooh, make you feel real good!
Ow! They do it and then they do it again.
They love you and leave you
(Nasty, nasty married men)
I know! The world is full of them.
The world is full of them!
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Whoa, I love a . . .
Ah! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Don't trust a . . .
Ooh, you make him feel so young,
But his wife is still number one.
He promises to marry you.
Yeah, just as soon as his divorce comes through.
I know! The world is full of them!
The world is full of them!
They do it, they do it, they do t, they do it.
Whoa, I love a . . .
Ah! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it!
Don't trust a . . .
Ow! They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it!
Bum's gonna hurt you, destroy you!
Yeah! They do it, they do it.
They're gonna do it, do it to you.
Married men, married men.
They do it, they do it, they do it, they do it.
Please! They do it and then they do it again!
Again and again and again!
They do it, I don't care what you do!
Take off that mask, old boy!
You did not listen to me, baby! . . .
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Bette Midler | Mele Kalikimaka | /b/bette+midler/mele+kalikimaka_20529217.html | jingle bells upon a steel guitar
thru the clouds we see the same bright star
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Xmas will be green and bright
Sun will shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
To say Merry Christmas to you.
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Bette Midler | One Monkey Don't Stop No Show | /b/bette+midler/one+monkey+dont+stop+no+show_20016918.html | My baby jumped up this morning
'N sat on the side of the bed
He said, "I'm leaving you, baby"
And this is just what I said
I said, "I can't make you stay if you want to go
But it's high time, baby, that you should know
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
So, if you still want to go, go ahead"
And I mean every word I said
My baby thought I was jivin'
And he went right out the door
He left me about three in the morning
I got me a man at four
Some women cry when their men bleed 'em
Dry, long and slow
But I found out somethin' a long time ago
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
So if he gets too big for his pants
You better spring that new one and give him a chance
I used to be chicken hearted
Cry when he'd walk out the door
'Cause I was just young and stupid
Ha! Ain't like that no more
'Cause I had a hard way to go
But I learned the score
And I'm here to tell you
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
Let him do anything he choose
There's a million men who can fill his shoes
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
You can tell him I told you so
"All right"
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Bette Midler | Only In Miami | /b/bette+midler/only+in+miami_20017048.html | Walking along the beach last night
Who do you think I spy?
A girl with ebony fire eyes.
Soft and low do she cry.
Now what could be such a source of pain?
I so boldly inquire.
Pointing finger Havana way,
These three words which transpire:
She told me that only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Only in Miami.
My story, she goes this way.
Fish may fly through the purple keys,
Golden birds take to air.
I am bound to the earth, it seems.
My life can be so unfair.
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Standing on the shoreline waiting,
Everyone anticipating.
I can hear the broken hearted say,
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
And she cries for her child without a mother.
And she cries for her son without a father.
And she cries for herself without a lover.
Can't face another day.
Chase the blues away.
I thought I heard her mumble as she
Turned away
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Standing on the shoreline waiting,
Everyone anticipating.
I can hear the broken hearted say,
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
[Repeat: x3]
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so,
[Repeat: x4]
Only in Miami
Is Cuba so far away.
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Bette Midler | Paradise | /b/bette+midler/paradise_20016971.html | There is a land I know,
Where lovers go, and flowers grow,
Forever more.
Where time is standing still,
And lovers fill the quiet places,
By the shore.
We will cross the rainbow
To a place where we'll be free,
And he'll give his love to me.
So I wait for the day,
When he takes me away, to...
Paradise.
He'll take me by my hand.
We'll walk along the sand.
It's never-never land.
Whoa-oo, whoa-oo, whoa.
We'll build a castle there,
Where we can share the happiness
We've waited for.
Where white flamingos fly,
Away up high, and play above
The ocean floor.
We will climb a mountain
To see our wonderland.
Maybe now you'll understand
Why I wait for the day,
When he takes me away, to...
Paradise.
He'll take me by my hand.
We'll walk along the sand.
A never-never land.
Whoa-oo, whoa-oo, whoa.
I'll stand by him,
Do right by him
And I swear that I would die for him.
Ohh, die for him.
Paradise.
He'll take me by my hand.
We'll walk along the sand.
It's never-never land.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll stand by him,
Do right by him.
Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm gonna stand, I'm gonna stand by him.
Gonna do right, gonna do right by him.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah...
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Bette Midler | Perfect Isn't Easy | /b/bette+midler/perfect+isnt+easy_20601904.html | Girl, we've got work to do
Pass me the paint and glue
Perfect isn't easy but it's me
When one knows the world is watching
One does what one must
Some minor adjustments darling
Not for my vanity but for humanity
Each little step a pose
See, how the breeding shows
Sometimes, it's too much for even me
When all of the world says yes
Then, who am I to say no?
Don't ask a mutt to strut like a showgirl
No, girl, you need a pro
Not a flea or a flaw, take a peek at that paw
La, da-da, dee, dee, da
Perfection becomes me, n'est ce pas?
Unrivaled, unruffled I'm beauty unleashed
(Yeah)
Jaws drop, hearts stop, so classic and classy
We're not talkin' Lassie
La, ah, ooh, aroo
Ruff, ruff ruff ruff ruff
Ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff-arow
Though many covet my bone and bowl
They're barkin' up the wrong tree
You pretty pups all over the city
I have your hearts and you have my pity
Pretty is nice, but still, it's just pretty
Perfect, my dear, is me
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Bette Midler | P.S. I Love You | /b/bette+midler/ps+i+love+you_10030954.html | Dear, I thought I'd drop a line.
The weather's cool. The folks are fine.
I'm in bed each night at nine.
P.S. I love you.
Yesterday we had some rain,
but all in all I can't complain.
Was it dusty on the train?
P.S. I love you.
Write to the Browns just as soon as you're able.
They came around to call.
I burned a hole in the dining room table.
And let me see, I guess that's all.
Nothin' else for me to say,
and so I'll close. Oh, by the way,
everybody's thinkin' of you.
P.S. I love you.
I do my best to obey all your wishes.
I put a sign up. Think
now I got to buy us a new set of dishes,
or wash the ones that have piled in the sink.
Nothing else to tell you, dear.
Except, each day feels like a year.
Every night I'm dreamin' of you.
P.S. I love you.
P.S. I love you.
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Bette Midler | Shining Star | /b/bette+midler/shining+star_20217120.html | Honey, you are my shining star.
Don't you go away.
I wanna be right here where you are
Until my dying day. Yes I do.
So many have tried,
Tried to find a love like yours and mine. Ohhh-whoa.
But don't they realize how you hypnotize?
Make me love you more each time. Ohhh-whoa.
Honey, I'll never leave you lonely, yeah.
Give my love to you only, yeah.
To you only, to you only.
Oh honey, you are my shining star.
Don't you go away.
Yeah, I wanna be right here where you are
Until my dying day. Yeah.
It feels so good
When we're lying next to each other,
Lost in love, lost in love,
Drifting along on a cloud of love.
Ooh, baby when we touch I love you so much.
You're all I ever dreamed of. Ohhh-whoa.
Hone, I'll never leave you lonely, yeah.
Mmm, give my love to you only, yeah.
To you only, to you only.
Oh honey, you, you are, you are my shining star.
Don't you go away, no.
I wanna be right here where you are
Until my dying day. Mmmm.
It feels so good, it feels so good
When we're lying here
Lost in love, lost in love, lost in love, lost in love.
Oh baby, when we touch I love you so much.
You, you're all I ever dreamed of.
In spite of all we know, how little we know.
In spite of all they say, how little we see.
I only know, you and me together forever.
You are my shining star, mmm, yes you are.
Shine on, shine on. Keep on shining on.
Shine on, shine on. Keep on shining on
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Bette Midler | Song Of Bernadette | /b/bette+midler/song+of+bernadette_20016919.html | There was a child named Bernadette.
I heard the story long ago.
She saw the queen of heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul.
No one believed what she had seen.
No one believed what she heard,
That there were sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world.
So many hearts I find
Broke like yours and mine,
Torn by what we've done and can't undo.
I just want to hold you.
Come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do.
We've been around, we fall, we fly.
We mostly fall, we mostly run.
And every now and then we try
To mend the damage that we've done.
Tonight, tonight I just can't rest.
I've got this joy here, here inside my breast.
To think that I did not forget
That child, that song of Bernadette.
So many hearts I find,
Hearts like yours and mine,
Torn by what we've done and can't undo.
Well, I just want to hold you.
Come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do.
I just want to hold you.
Won't you let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do?
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Bette Midler | Stay With Me | /b/bette+midler/stay+with+me_20016973.html | Where did you go when things went wrong, baby?
Who did you run to?
Find a shoulder to lay your head upon.
Baby, wasn't I there?
Didn't I take good care of you?
But, oh, no. I can't believe you're leaving me, yeah.
Stay with me, baby.
I'm beggin' you to stay with me, baby.
Yeah, stay with me, baby.
I can't go on.
Who did you touch when you needed tenderness, baby?
I gave you so much,
And in return I found happiness.
Baby, what could I do?
Maybe I was too good, too good to you.
Oh, I can't believe you're leavin' me.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, stay with me, baby.
Why don't you, why don't you just stay with me, baby?
Yeah, stay with me, baby.
Remember, you said you always gonna love me.
Remember, you said you'd never ever leave me.
Remember, remember, I'm asking you, begging you.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, stay with me, baby, baby, baby.
Why don't you stay with me, baby?
Stay with me, baby.
I can't, I can't go, oh, on.
"well, I'm a young woman, and I could get plenty of men. but honey, keepin'
'em's the hard part, ain't it? yeah. sometimes, sometimes I find I try so
hard."
Maybe this time I should be the one to go away.
'cause honey, ain't it my turn to have somebody
Grab hold of me and say,
"no! don't go! you can't go!"
Oh! stay, stay with me, baby.
I'm begging you, stay with me.
Stay with me, baby.
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, stay with me, baby.
Why don't you stay with me, baby?
Stay with me, baby.
I can't, I can't go on.
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Bette Midler | Storybook Children | /b/bette+midler/storybook+children_20016960.html | Daybreak.
How can I ever leave this place beside you?
You were the only one I ever cried to.
The night is through.
Now it's heartache.
I got to get home before he sees it's daybreak.
Light from the sky is shining through the curtain lace.
I never really meant to stay.
And now it's daybreak.
We were just sitting and talking.
Oh, who would have thought we'd be spending the night
Dreading the light of daybreak?
How can I leave this place beside you?
How can I leave you, baby, leave you?
I don't want to go.
And now it's daybreak.
We were like storybook children.
Hey, but, like all good fairy tales, this one must end.
Here is the end. It's daybreak.
How can I ever leave this place beside you?
You were the only one I ever cried to.
The night is through.
Lord knows it's daybreak.
And it feels like heartbreak.
I don't want to leave you,
I don't want to leave you, I need you!
Looks like it's daybreak,
But it feels like it's heartache.
I don't want to leave you,
Don't make me leave you, I need you!
Daybreak.
Sunlight shining through the lace.
I need you.
Sun is smiling on your face.
I need you.
Don't make me leave you!
Lord!
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Bette Midler | Summer | /b/bette+midler/summer_10030911.html | Twas a hot afternoon, the last day of June
And the sun was a demon
The clouds were afraid, 110 in the shade
And the pavements were steaming
I told Billy Ray in his red Chevrolet
I needed time for some thinking
I was just walkin' by when I looked in her eye
And I swore it was winkin'
She was thirty-one and I was seventeen
I knew nothin' 'bout love, she knew everything
But I sat down beside her on a front porch swing
And wondered what the coming night would bring
The sun closed her eyes as it climbed in the sky
And it started to swelter
Sweat trickled down the front of her gown
And I thought it would melt her
She threw back her hair like I wasn't there
And she sipped on a Julep
Her shoulders were bare and I tried not to stare
When I looked at her two lips
And then she looked at me, I heard her softly say
I know you're young, you don't know what to do or say
But stay with me until the sun has gone away
And I will chase the boy in you away
And then she smiled and we talked for a while
Then we walked for a mile to the sea
We sat on the sand and a boy took her hand
But I saw the sunrise as a man
Ten years have gone by since I looked in her eye
But the memory lingers
I go back in my mind to the very first time
And feel the touch of her fingers
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Bette Midler | Tenderly | /b/bette+midler/tenderly_20322448.html | The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly.
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly.
Then you and I came wandering by,
And lost in a sigh were we.
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly.
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly.
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside.
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly.
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside.
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly.
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Bette Midler | The Folks Who Live On The Hill | /b/bette+midler/the+folks+who+live+on+the+hill_20529212.html | Many men with lofty aims strive for lofty goals.
Others play at smaller games, being simpler souls.
I am of the latter brand. All I want to do
Is to find a spot of land and live there with you.
Someday we'll build a home
On a hilltop high, you and I,
Shiny and new, a cottage that two can fill.
And we'll be pleased to be called
"The folks who live on the hill."
Someday we may be adding
A thing or two, a wing or two.
We will make changes as any family will.
But we will always be called
"The folks who live on the hill."
Our veranda will command a view of meadows green,
The sort of view that seems to want to be seen.
And when the kids grow up and leave us,
We'll sit and look at the same old view, just we two.
Darby and Joan who, used to be Jack and Jill,
The folks like to be called
What they have always been called,
"The folks who live on the hill."
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Bette Midler | The Girl Is On To You | /b/bette+midler/the+girl+is+on+to+you_20208172.html | I'll bet you think you can just use her the way
You used to do. I've got news for you.
Your fuse is out. The girl is on to you.
I'll bet you think you can abuse her and say
You love her too. I remember pain
You put her through.
But the girl is on to you.
She's grown much wiser than you realize.
She will surprise you.
No more paying for your lies.
And I'll bet you think you can confuse her. But, hey,
The loser is you. She sees through your eyes.
You'll soon surmise.
The girl is on to you.
She's grown much wiser than you realize.
She will surprise you.
No more paying for your lies.
Oh, and I'll bet you think
You can confuse her, but, hey,
The loser is you. She sees through your eyes.
You'll soon surmise. The girl is on to you.
She sees through your eyes.
You'll soon surmise.
The girl is on to you.
She's on, she's on, she's on.
She's on, she's on, she's on.
She's on, she's on, she's on.
Oooh. The girl is on to you.
She's on, she's on, she's on.
Now she's gone, she's gone, she's gone. Oooh.
I'll bet you think
She'll come running back to you,
Just like she used to do.
But the girl is awful strong.
That's why the girl is gone, gone, gone, gone,
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
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Bette Midler | The Glory Of Love | /b/bette+midler/the+glory+of+love_20016928.html | "This is a song I've been singing for a long time.
It's like an old friend.
But, you know, I think it,
It's only recently that I discovered what it's really about."
You've got to give a little, take a little,
And let your poor heart break a little.
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.
You've got to laugh a little, cry a little,
Until the clouds roll by a little.
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.
As long as there's the two of us,
We've got the world and all it's charms.
And when the world is through with us,
We've got each other's arms.
You've got to win a little, lose a little,
Yes, and always have the blues a little.
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.
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Bette Midler | The Last Time | /b/bette+midler/the+last+time_20016948.html | Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
I have no guts, I have no pride
My heart is weak, my love is blind
When your game is up, I'll still be by your side
If you love me at all, let this be the last time
That you break my heart
That you break my heart
That you break my heart
You hurt me so much, but I love you forever
'Cause when you tear me up, you always put me back together
Ever so gently, ever so gently
Baby, let this be the last time, yeah
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
I bite my lip and hold my head up high
I try my best not to let you see me cry
I can take a joke and you can be unkind
If you love me at all, let this be the last time
That you break my heart
That you break my heart
That you break my heart
You hurt me so much but I love you forever
'Cause when you tear me up, you always put me back together
Ever so gently, ever so gently
Baby, let this be the last time, yeah
You hurt me so much but I love you forever
'Cause when you tear me up, you always put me back together
Ever so gently, ever so gently
Baby, let this be the last time
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
Let this be the last time, let this be the last time
...
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Bette Midler | The Rose | /b/bette+midler/the+rose_20017078.html | Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower, and you, it's only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken, who can not seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.
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Bette Midler | Together, Wherever We Go | /b/bette+midler/together+wherever+we+go_20017016.html | Wherever we go, whatever we do
We're gonna go through it together
We may not go far, but sure as a star
Wherever we are, it's together
Wherever I go, I know he goes
Wherever I go, I know she goes
No fits, no fights, no feuds and no egos
Amigos, together!
Through thick and through thin, all out or all in
And whether it's win, place or show
With you for me and me for you
We'll muddle through whatever we do
Together, wherever we go
Wherever we go, whatever we do
We're gonna go through it together
Wherever we sleep, if prices are steep
We'll always sleep cheaper together
Whatever the boat I row, you row, a duo
Whatever the row I hoe, you hoe, a trio
And any I. O. U., I owe you, oh's?
Who, me-oh? No, you-oh
No, we-oh, together!
We all take the bow, including the cow
Though business is lousy and slow
With Herbie's vim, Louise's verve
Now all we need is someone with nerve
Together, together, wherever, wherever
Together, wherever, together, wherever we go
We go in a group, we tour in a troupe
We land in the soup, but we know
The things we do, we do by threes, a perfect team
No, this way, Louise!
Together, together, wherever, wherever
Together, wherever we go!
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Bette Midler | Tragedy | /b/bette+midler/tragedy_20325351.html | Wind storm, comes the sound.
From the stars my dark has come.
You've gone from me.
Whoa, tragedy.
Mmm, tragedy.
Whoa, come back. Help me here.
Call me my love, love. Be sincere.
You've gone, you've gone,
you've gone from me.
Whoa, tragedy.
Whoa, tragedy.
Like smoke from a fire of love, love, love.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Our dreams have all gone.
A fire. Ooo-oo-oo-ooh.
Blown by wind, kissed by snow.
All that's left is the dark.
We know you've gone from me.
Whoa-oo-oo-oo-o-o-hy?
Tragedy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Bette Midler | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? | /b/bette+midler/what+are+you+doing+new+years+eve_20529211.html | When the bells all ring and the horns all blow
And the couples we know are fondly kissing
Will I be with you
Or will I be among the missing?
Maybe it's much too early in the game
Oh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?
Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night?
Welcoming in the New Year, New Year's Eve
Maybe I'm crazy to suppose, I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations you'll receive
Oh, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance
What are you doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?
Maybe I'm crazy to suppose, I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations you'll receive
Oh, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance
What are you doing New Year's, New, New Year's Eve?
What are you doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?
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Bette Midler | White Christmas | /b/bette+midler/white+christmas_20340440.html | The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.
There's never been such a day
In Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it's December the twenty fourth,
And I am longing to be up north.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write.
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white.
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases,
All your Christmases,
All your Christmases be white.
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Bill Withers | Green Grass | /b/bill+withers/green+grass_21037971.html | Looking out at the people looking in
Feeling good must be some kind of sin
Looking in at the people looking out
Feeling guilty, scared to move about
Looking up at the people looking down
Taking tranquilizers by the pound
Looking down at the people looking up
Getting mad 'cause they can't get enough
Ah, but that green grass on the other side
Is just an illusion
We all have our own confusion
Rich people watching the people poor
Trying to figure out how to get some more
Poor people watching people rich
You know, they call them dirty you-know-which
Ugly people watching the people pretty
Say they can't get down to the nitty-gritty
Pretty people watching people ugly
Say I sure couldn't stand you to kiss and hug me
Ah, but that green grass on the other side
Is just an illusion
We all have our own confusion
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Bill Withers | Hello Like Before | /b/bill+withers/hello+like+before_20214309.html | Hello like before
I'd never come here
If I'd known that you were here
I must admit though
That's it's nice to see you, dear
You look like you've been doing well
Hello like before
I hope we've grown
'Cause we were only children then
For laughs I guess we both can say
'I knew when'
But then again, that's kiss and tell
Hello like before
I guess it's different
'Cause we know each other now
I guess I've always known
We'd meet again somehow
So that it might as well be now
Hello like before
I hope we've grown
'Cause we were only children then
For laughs I guess we both can say
'I knew when'
But then again, that's kiss and tell
Hello like before
I guess it's different
'Cause we know each other now
I guess I've always known
We'd meet again somehow
So that it might as well be now
Hello like before
I hope we've grown
'Cause we were only children then
For laughs I guess we both can say
'I knew when'
But then again, that's kiss and tell
Hello like before
I guess it's different
'Cause we know each other now
I guess I've always known
We'd meet again somehow
So that it might as well be now
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Bill Withers | I Don't Want You On My Mind | /b/bill+withers/i+dont+want+you+on+my+mind_20186337.html | I don't want you on my mind all the time
I believe that it shows a sign of weakness
I don't want no lonely nights that gets me cryin'
I found out I don't get nowhere with weakness
Every dream about you
I just wake up knowing that I've got to do without you
I don't want all the time doin' up my mind
I don't want you on my mind all the time
I don't want you on my mind all the time
I believe that it shows a sign of weakness
I don't want no lonely nights that gets me cryin'
I found out I don't get nowhere with weakness
Every dream about you
I just wake up knowing that I got to do without you
I don't want all the time doin' up my mind
I don't want you on my mind all the time
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Bill Withers | I Want To Spend The Night | /b/bill+withers/i+want+to+spend+the+night_20346020.html | I want to spend the night
With you
Forever
Every time we wind up spending the night
Together
Do you ever feel it?
I want to share my life
With you
Forever
Ever time we wind sharing a night
Together
Do you ever feel it?
And when I stay away from you
I never get to sleep
I try to hug my pillow
And pretend that you're with me
But I can't feel it
Then when we are together
It's right there for me to see
I can't keep looking at loneliness
And trying to call it freedom
Do you ever feel it?
I want to spend the night
With you
Forever
Every time we wind up spending the night
Together
Do you ever feel it?
[Repeat x6]
Do you ever want to spend the night?
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Bill Withers | Kissing My Love | /b/bill+withers/kissin+my+love_20229197.html | Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
Yeah thump a thumping in my head
Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
I close my eyes and see a pretty city
With a million flowers babe
Now I can hear the angels sing
Songs that only angels sing
She's such a pretty thing
That I can feel my heart
Just a thumping and a skipping
When I'm kissing my love
Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
Feel the blood a pumping in my veins
Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
She's such a tender sender
With her sweet young friends
She's so good at what she does
All she wants to do is kiss and hug
She's got me in love
And I can feel my heart
Just a thumping and a skipping
When I'm kissing my love
[Repeat x8]
Put your foot on the rock and pat your foot,
Don't stop, put your foot on the rock
Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
Feel the blood a pumping in my veins
Whoa now
When I'm kissing my love
She's such a tender sender
With her sweet young friends
Whoa now
She's so good at what she does
All she wants to do is kiss and hug
She's got me in love
And I can feel my heart
Just a thumping and a skipping
When I'm kissing my love
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Bill Withers | Let Me In Your Life | /b/bill+withers/let+me+in+your+life_20810338.html | La, la, la, la, la.
I only want to love you, please don't push me away,
Let me in your life.
I wasn't there when he hurt you, so why should I
Have to pay, let me in your life.
I want to share your tomorrows, so I must beg you
Today, if he's the cause of your sorrows, be glad
That he's gone away.
I need someone, let me love you, please don't push
Me away, Let me in your life.
La, la, la, la, la.
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Bill Withers | Make Love To Your Mind | /b/bill+withers/make+love+to+your+mind_20856561.html | I love the story in your love song
Building them castles in your mind
Come down here looking for a feeling
Someday I know you're gonna find
I wanna lay down there beside you
But first we ought to take some time
Before I make love to your body
I wanna make love to your mind
I wanna feel good just like you do
(Feel good) I haven't
Loved in quite some time
(Feel good) I had some
Phases that I been through
Where I've just loved and left behind
I'm just too tired of feeling guilty
I don't wanna be unkind
But before I make love to your body
I wanna make love to your mind
I wanna make love to your mind
I wanna make love to your mind
Before I make love to your body
I wanna make love to your mind
I wanna feel good just like you do
I haven't loved in quite some time
Lord, I had some funny phases
That I been through, no, no
Where I've just loved and left behind
I'm just too tired of feeling guilty
I don't really wanna be unkind
But before I make love to your body
I wanna make love to your mind
(To your mind, to your mind)
(To your mind, to your mind)
(To your mind)
I love the story in your love song
Building them castles in your mind
Come down here from somewhere
Looking for a feeling
Someday I know you're gonna find
See, I wanna lay down there beside you
But first we ought to take some time (time)
Before I make love to your body
I wanna make love to your mind
To your mind
(I wanna make love) to your mind
To your mind
(I wanna make love) to your mind
(I wanna make love to your mind)...
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Bill Withers | The Same Love That Made Me Laugh | /b/bill+withers/the+same+love+that+made+me+laugh_20256854.html | Your love is like a a chunk of gold
Hard to gain, and hard to hold
Like a rose that's soft to touch
Love has gone, and it hurts so much
Well and Why
Must the same love that made me laugh
Make me cry?
Well now you think of love as sitting on a mountain
Think of it as being a great big rock
Won't you think before you started to roll it down
Because once you start it, you can't make it stop
I've given all I have to give
And if you don't want me
I don't want to live
Well and Why
Must the same love that made me laugh
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me lay in my pillow
Just cryin' like a weeping willow
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me mess in my pillow
I'm just cryin' like a weeping willow
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
Why you want to make me cry?
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Billie Holiday | A Fine Romance | /b/billie+holiday/a+fine+romance_20017878.html | A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you won't nestle
A fine romance, you won't wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I haven't got a chance
This is a fine romance
A fine romance, my good fellow
You take romance, I'll take jello
You're calmer than the seals
In the Arctic Ocean
At least they flap their fins
To express emotion
A fine romance with no quarrels
With no insults and all morals
I've never mussed the crease
In your blue serge pants
I never get the chance
This is a fine romance
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Billie Holiday | All Or Nothing At All | /b/billie+holiday/all+or+nothing+at+all_20018014.html | All or nothing at all
Half love never appealed to me
If your heart never could yield to me
Then I'd rather have nothing at all
All or nothing at all
If it's love there is no in between
Why begin, then cry for something that might have been
No, I rather have nothing at all
But, please, don't bring your lips so close to my cheek
Don't smile or I'll be lost beyond recall
The kiss in your eyes, the touch of your hand makes me weak
And my heart may grow dizzy and fall
And if I fell under the spell of your call
I would be caught in the undertow
So, you see, I've got to say
No, no
All or nothing at all
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Billie Holiday | All The Way | /b/billie+holiday/all+the+way_20018030.html | When somebody loves you
It's no good unless he loves you, all the way
Happy to be near you
When you need someone to cheer you, all the way
Taller than the tallest tree is
That's how it's got to feel
Deeper than the deep blue see is
That's how deep it goes, if its real
When somebody needs you
It's no good unless he needs you, all the way
Through the good or lean years
And for all the in between years, come what may
Who know where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say
But if you'll let me love you
It's for sure I'm gonna love you, all the way, all the way
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Billie Holiday | Always | /b/billie+holiday/always_20018031.html | I'll be loving you always
With a love that's true always
When the things you plan
Need a helping hand will understand
Always, always
Days may not be fair always
That's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour
Not for just a day
Not for just a year, but always
I'll be loving you always
With a love that's true always
When the things you plan
Need a helping hand will understand
Always, always
Days may not be fair always
That's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour
Not for just a day
Not for just a year, but always
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Billie Holiday | Am I Blue? | /b/billie+holiday/am+i+blue_20017997.html | It was a morning, long before dawn
Without a warning I found he was gone
How could he do it
Why should he do it
He never done it before
Am I blue
Am I blue
Ain't these tears, in these eyes telling you
How can you ask me "am I blue"
Why, wouldn't you be too
If each plan
With your man
Done fell through
There was a time
When I was his only one
But now I'm
The sad and lonely one, lonely
Was I gay
Until today
Now he's gone, and we're through
Am I blue
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Billie Holiday | April In My Heart | /b/billie+holiday/april+in+my+heart_20017944.html | There's snowflakes in the sky
And geese are flying high
But it's April in my heart again
The devil got his due
Love's holiday is through
Love and I have made a happy start again
Through leaves lie on the ground
The world just turned around
It isn't Fall at all you see
It's Spring that I have found
There's frost in Central Park
At five it's almost dark
What's the difference
When you've heard love's sweet amend
There's snowflakes in the sky
And geese are flying high
But there's April in my heart again
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Billie Holiday | Baby Get Lost | /b/billie+holiday/baby+get+lost_20017780.html | Leonard feather
Well good morning baby, welcome back to town
How do, fine papa, welcome back to town
You're doing so much travelling never know
When you'll be around
You're a fine and mellow fella
But you're stubborn as a mule
You love me like an angel
But you treat me like a fool
Two-faced daddy don't hand me no doublecross
You'll see any time I'm ready
I can tell you baby get lost
You're cheating on the outside
Doing anything you choose
You better come back on the inside
'cause you got too much to lose
Don't want no trouble I've got to be the boss
And if you can't play it my way
Well now baby get lost
I try to stop your cheating
But I just don't have the time
'cause I got so many men that
They're standing right in line
Keep cool papa, you got to come across
'cause any time I'm ready, yes any time I'm ready
You know when I'm ready
I can tell you baby get lost
Why don't you get lost
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Billie Holiday | Big Stuff | /b/billie+holiday/big+stuff_20017782.html | So you cry
What's it about, baby?
You ask why
Blues had to go and pick you
So you go
Down to the shore, kid's stuff
Don't you know
There's honey in the store for you, big stuff
Let's take a ride on my gravy train
The door open wide
So you stare
Call it despair, baby
Don't you care
I'm on the square about you
Let's have a try
It maybe that you're my guy
Let's take a ride on my gravy train
The door open wide
Come in from out of the rain
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Billie Holiday | Billie Blues | /b/billie+holiday/billie+blues_20155830.html | Billie Holiday
Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
I love my man, tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue
My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
Wouldn't give me no dinner
Fought about my supper and put me outdoors
Had the dark clay make black spots on my clothes
I didn't have so many
But I had a long, long way to go
Some men like me talkin' happy
Some calls it snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money
Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everthing a good man needs
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Billie Holiday | Cheek To Cheek | /b/billie+holiday/cheek+to+cheek_20017814.html | Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me, I want my arms about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through
To heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me, I want my arms about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through
To heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
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Billie Holiday | Come Rain Or Come Shine | /b/billie+holiday/come+rain+or+come+shine_20018040.html | I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain and deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But don't ever bet me cause I'm gonna be true if you let me
You're gonna love me like nobody's loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and won't it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in or we're out of the money
But I'm with you always, I'm with you rain or shine
I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But don't ever bet me cause I'm gonna be true if you let me
You're gonna love me like nobody's loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and won't it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in or we're out of the money.
But I'll love you always, I'm with you rain or shine
Rain or shine.
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Billie Holiday | Comes Love | /b/billie+holiday/comes+love_20018017.html | Comes rain, put your rubber on your feed
Comes a snow, you can get a little heat
Comes love, nothing can be done
Comes a fire, you know what to do
Blow a tire, buy another shoe
Comes love, nothing can be done
Don't try hiding, cause there isn't any use
You start sliding when you're heart turns on the juice
Comes a headache, you can lose it in a day
Comes a toothache, see your dentist right away
Comes love, nothing can be done
Comes a heatwave, you can hurry to the shore
Comes the, you can hide behind the door
Comes love, nothing can be done
Comes the measles,
Comes love, nothing can be done
That all brother, if you've ever bin in love
That all brother, you know where I'm speaking of
Comes a nightmare, you can always stay awake
Comes depression, you may get another break
Comes love, nothing can be done
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Billie Holiday | Do Your Duty | /b/billie+holiday/do+your+duty_20017785.html | Wesley 'Sox' Wilson
If I call three times a day
Come and drive my blues away
When you come, be ready to play
Do your duty
If you want to have some love
Give your baby your last buck
Don't come quackin' like a duck
Do your duty
I heard you say you didn't love me
Numb as Mrs. Brown
I don't believe a word they say
She's the lyinest woman in town
When I need attention at home
I'll call you on the phone
Come yourself, don't send your friend Jones
Do your duty
If my radiator get too hot
Cool it off in lots of spots
Give me all the service you've got
Do your duty
If you don't know what it's all about
Don't sit around my house and pout
If you do you'll catch your mama tippin' now
Do your duty
If you make your own bed hard
That's the way o' life
I'm tired of sleepin' by myself
But you too dumb to realize
I'm not tryin' to make you feel blue
I'm not satisfied with the way you do
I've got to help you find somebody too
Do your duty
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Billie Holiday | Embraceable You | /b/billie+holiday/embraceable+you_20018019.html | Embrace me
My sweet embraceable you
Embrace me
My irreplaceable you
Just to look at you
My heart grows tipsy in me
You and you alone
Bring out the gypsy in me
I love all
The many charms about you
Above all
I want my arms about you
Don't be naughty baby
Come to me
Come to me do
My sweet embraceable you
I love all
The many charms about you
Above all
I want my arms about you
Don't be naughty baby
Come to me
Come to me do
My sweet embraceable you
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Billie Holiday | Everybody's Laughing | /b/billie+holiday/everybodys+laughing_20017945.html | Everybody's laughing
Yes everybody's laughing
They know that you and I are through
And everybody's laughing
I told the world you loved me
And bragged about it proudly
But since they know it's over
They're laughing at me loudly.
People love to linger
So they can point a finger
And tear apart a gal whose heart
Was taken through the wringer
It we could start all over
The laugh might be on them
But meanwhile
Everybody's laughing
It we could start all over
The laugh might be on them
But meanwhile
Everybody's laughing
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Billie Holiday | Everything Happens For The Best | /b/billie+holiday/everything+happens+for+the+best_20017963.html | Always blue all in a mist
It's plain as can be
You're so mean to me
But everything happens for the best
You always play around
You're running my heart so deep in the ground
That O.K. everything happens for the best
I loved you so madly
Knew you would be true
Now this thing has happened dear
It's over all over because we're through
So sorry dear it end this way
Since the world begin
The old folks say
Everything happens for the best
I loved you so madly
Knew you would be true
Now this thing has happened dear
It's over all over because we're through
So sorry dear it end this way
Since the world begin
The old folks say
Everything happens for the best
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Billie Holiday | Everything Happens To Me | /b/billie+holiday/everything+happens+to+me_20018044.html | Black cats creep across my path
Until I'm almost mad
I must have 'roused the devil's wrath
'Cause all my luck is bad
I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains
I try to give a party and the guy upstairs complains
I guess I'll go through life kust catching colds and missin' trains
Everything happens to me
I never miss a thing
I've had the measles and the mumps
And every time I play an ace
My partner always trumps
Guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps
Everything happens to me
At first my heart thought you could break this jinx for me
that love would turn the trick to end despair
But know I just can't fool this head that thinks for me
I've mortgaged all my castles in the air
I've telegraphed and phoned
I send an 'Airmail Special' too
Your answer was 'Goodbye'
And there was even postage due
I fell in love just once
And then it had to be with you
Everything happens to me
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Billie Holiday | Everything I Have Is Yours | /b/billie+holiday/everything+i+have+is+yours_20018045.html | Everything I have is yours
You are part of me
Everything I have is yours
My destiny
I would gladly give the sun to you
If the sun were only mine
I would gladly give the earth to you
And the stars that shine
Everything that I posses
I offer you
Let my dream of happiness
Come through
I'll be happy just to spent my life
Waiting at your backend call
Everything I have is yours
My life
My all
Everything I have is yours
You are part of me
Everything I have is yours
My destiny
I would gladly give the sun to you
If the sun were only mine
I would gladly give the earth to you
And the stars that shine
Everything that I posses
I offer to you
Let my dream of happiness
Come through
I'll be happy just to spent my life
Waiting at your backend call
Everything I have is yours
My life
My all
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Billie Holiday | Falling In Love Again | /b/billie+holiday/falling+in+love+again_20017979.html | Always blue all in a mist
It's plain as can be
You're so mean to me
But everything happens for the best
You always play around
You're running my heart so deep in the ground
That O.K. everything happens for the best
I loved you so madly
Knew you would be true
Now this thing has happened dear
It's over all over because we're through
So sorry dear it end this way
Since the world begin
The old folks say
Everything happens for the best
I loved you so madly
Knew you would be true
Now this thing has happened dear
It's over all over because we're through
So sorry dear it end this way
Since the world begin
The old folks say
Everything happens for the best
Failing in love again
Never wanted to
What am I to do?
Can't help it
Love's always been my game
Play it as I may
I was born that way
Can't help it
Men flock around me
Like moths around a flame
And if their wings burn
I know I'm not to blame
I'm falling
Can't help it
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Billie Holiday | Farewell To Storyville | /b/billie+holiday/farewell+to+storyville_20018046.html | All, you old-time queens, from New Orleans, who lived in Storyville
You sang the blues, try to amuse, here's how they pay the bill
The law step-in and call it sin to have a little fun
The police car has made a stop and Storyville is done
Pick out your steamboat, pick yourself a train
A slo-ow train
Pick out your steamboat, pick yourself a train
A slo-ow train
They made you close-up they'll never let you back
Won't let you back
Go buy your ticket or else you walk the track
No use complaining, blue sky's folow rain
The cold-old rain
No use complaining, blue sky's folow rain
The cold-old rain
Just say farewell now and get your one last thrill
Your one last thrill
Just say farewell now, farewell to Storyville
No use complaining, blue sky's folow rain
The cold-old rain
Just say farewell now, farewell to Storyville
Just say farewell now and get your one last thrill
Your one last thrill
Just say farewell now, farewell to Storyville
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Billie Holiday | Foolin' Myself | /b/billie+holiday/foolin+myself_20017913.html | I try to keep you out of my heart
But somehow I find
Trying to keep you out of my heart
I'm out of my mind
I tell myself "I'm through with you
And I'll having nothing more to do with you"
I stay away, but every day
I'm just foolin myself
Tell my friends that I don't care
I shrug my shoulders at the whole affair
But all know it isn't so
I'm just foolin myself
And every time I pass
And see my face in a looking glass
I tip my hat and say
"How do you do, you fool
You're trowing your life away"
I'm acting gay
I'm acting proud
And every time I see you in a crowd
I may pretend
But in the end
I'm just fooling myself
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Billie Holiday | For All We Know | /b/billie+holiday/for+all+we+know_20017826.html | Sweetheart, the night is growing old
Sweetheart, my love is still untold
A kiss that is never tasted
Forever and ever is wasted
For all we know, we may never meet again
Before you go, make this moment sweet again
We won't say, goodnight until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it
For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight, tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come, for all we know
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Billie Holiday | Forget If You Can | /b/billie+holiday/forget+if+you+can_20017946.html | Forget if you can
Romantic music one magical night
A corner table in dim candle light
A kiss that was heaven for two
Forget if you can
The day we hiked to where nobody knows
The swell spaghetti at Tony and Joe's
It hasn't been fun without you
Don't you remember
All the silly things we used to do
The way we laughed
When we were photographed
As Handsome Hat and his ten-timing gal
Why shouldn't we play
More happy moments like we used to spend
They were so perfect
Too perfect to end
Let your heart forget it you can
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Billie Holiday | Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You? | /b/billie+holiday/gee+baby+aint+i+good+to+you_20528682.html | What makes me treat you the way I do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
There's nothing in the world
Too good for a girl that's good and true
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
Bought you a fur coat for Christmas
A diamond ring
A big Cadillac car
And everything
It's love that makes me treat you the way I do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
What makes me treat you the way I do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
There's nothing in the world
Too good for a guy that's good and true
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
Fur coat for Christmas
A diamond ring
A big Cadillac car
And everything
There's nothing in the world that I wouldn't do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
What makes me treat you the way I do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
There's nothing in the world
Too good for a girl that's good and true
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
Fur coat for Christmas
A diamond ring
Big Cadillac car
And everything
It's love that makes me treat you the way that I do
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
Gee, Baby ain't I good to you
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Billie Holiday | Gimmie A Pigfoot | /b/billie+holiday/gimmie+a+pigfoot_10033262.html | Wesley 'sox' wilson
Up in harlem every saturday night
Where the highbrows get together
It's just too right
They all congregate and all night hop
And what they do is ooh boppa dap
Ole hanna brown from way across town
Gets full of corn and starts
Bringing them down
And at the break of day
You can hear ole hanna say
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me a gate I don't care
Feel just like I wanna clown
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's bringing me down
He's got rhythm yeah, when he stamps his feet
He sends me right off to sleep
Cheek all your razors and all your guns
We're gonna be arrested when the wagon comes
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me cause I don't care
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Send me daddy move right in
I feel just like I wanna shout
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's knocking me out
He's got rhythm when he stamps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
Do the hueklebuck until the rising sun
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Move me, 'cause I'm in my sin
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
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Billie Holiday | Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys | /b/billie+holiday/girls+were+made+to+take+care+of+boys_20017789.html | Girls were made to take care of boys
To be kind and dutiful
Hmm
Girls were made to take care of boys
Made to share their sorrows
Made to share their joys
Made to help and guide them
With ever a patient hand
Made to give affection
In the right direction
(Always understand)
Now boys may think they take care of girls
Just because they pass on their fashions and their curls
But I've always found
It's just the other way around
(Other way around)
If you need the girl
And declare you do
(Tell her that you need her)
She'll be there
To take care of you
(She'll be there)
(Now boys may think they take care of girls
Just because they're clever with their fashions and their curls)
But I've always found
It's just the other way around
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Billie Holiday | Gloomy Sunday | /b/billie+holiday/gloomy+sunday_20017999.html | 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
Gloomy is Sunday,
With shadows I spend it all.
My heart and I, have
Decided to end it all.
Soon there'll be candles
And prayers that are said, 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 blessin' 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.
Gloomy Sunday
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Billie Holiday | God Bless The Child | /b/billie+holiday/god+bless+the+child_20018000.html | Them that's got shall have
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Yes, the strong gets more
While the weak ones fade
Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
[Repeat: x2]
Money, you've got lots of friends
Crowding round the door
When you're gone, spending ends
They don't come no more
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don't take too much
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own
He just worry 'bout nothin'
Cause he's got his own
Yes he's got his own
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Billie Holiday | Gone With The Wind | /b/billie+holiday/gone+with+the+wind_20528680.html | Gone with the wind
Just like a leaf that has blown away
Gone with the wind
My romance has flown away
yesterday's kisses are still on my lips
I had a lifetime of heaven at my fingertips
now all is gone
Gone is the rapture that filled my heart
Gone with the wind
The gladness that thrilled my heart
just like a flame love burned brightly
Then became an empty smoke dream
That has gone with the wind
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Billie Holiday | How Could You? | /b/billie+holiday/how+could+you_20017914.html | Just when romance got a start
You decided it was time to part
How could you?
How could you?
It was on a night like this
You left me and didn't leave a kiss
How could you?
How could you?
You know that love is just like apple pie
It's either sweet or tart
You could be the apple of my eye
But you, you, you upset the apple cart
I was looking forward to
All those little things you didn't do
How could you,
Could you break my heart?
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Billie Holiday | I Cover The Waterfront | /b/billie+holiday/i+cover+the+waterfront_20017853.html | Away from the city that hurts and knocks,
I'm standing alone by the desolate docks
In the still and the chill of the night
I see the horizon the great unknown
My heart has an ache
It's as heavy as stone
With the dawn coming on, make it last
I cover the waterfront
I'm watching the sea
Will the one I love
Be coming back to me
I cover the waterfront
In search of my love
An I'm covered
By a starlit sky above
Here am I
Patiently waiting
Hoping and longing
Oh how I yearn
Where are you
Have you thought back time
Will you remember
Will you return
Will the one I love
Be coming back
To me
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Billie Holiday | I Get Along Without You Very Well | /b/billie+holiday/i+get+along+without+you+very+well_20017829.html | I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except when soft rains fall
And drip from leaves
Then I recall
The thrill of being sheltered in your arms
Of course, I do
But I get along without you very well
I've forgotten you just like I should
Of course, I have
Except to hear your name
Or someone's laugh that is the same
But I've forgotten you just like I should
What a guy
What a fool am I
To think my breaking heart
Could kid the moon
What's in store
Should I fall once more
No, it's best that I stick to my tune
I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except perhaps in Spring
But I should never think of Spring
For that would surely break my heart in two
What's in store
Should I fall once more
No, it's best that I stick to my tune
I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except perhaps in Spring
But I should never think of Spring
For that would surely break my heart in two
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Billie Holiday | If My Heart Could Only Talk | /b/billie+holiday/if+my+heart+could+only+talk_20017899.html | If my heart could only talk
Heaven would be mine
If my heart could only talk
Life would be divine
You would hear my song of love so tender
It would thrill you until you willingly surrender
If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'Neath the starlight I would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could only talk
If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'Neath the starlight I would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could only talk
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Billie Holiday | I'll Be Seeing You | /b/billie+holiday/ill+be+seeing+you_20018054.html | I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day and through
In that small cafe
The park across the way
The children carrousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day
In everything that's light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day
In everything that's light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
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Billie Holiday | I'll Never Be The Same | /b/billie+holiday/ill+never+be+the+same_20017917.html | I'll never be the same
Guys have lost their meaning for me
I'll never be the same
Nothing's what it once used to be
And when the song birds that sing
Tell me it's spring, I can't believe their song
Once love was king but kings can be wrong
I'll never be the same
There is such an ache in my heart
I'll never be the same since we're apart
But there's a lot that a smile can hide
And I know deep down inside
I'll never be the same, never be the same again
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Billie Holiday | Keeps On Rainin' | /b/billie+holiday/keeps+on+a+rainin_20229894.html | One dark and stormy night
Big John was feeling blue
Ain't he didn't seem right
So he didn't know just what to do
I said do please tell me
Ain't you satisfied?
He looked around so pitiful
And to me he replied
Keeps on raining
Look how it's raining
Daddy he can't make no time
Wind keeps blowing
Howl wind's blowing
Soon I'll find
In the winter time
When it starts to snow
I know, Billy
You've got to have some dough
Keeps on raining
Look how it's raining
Daddy he can't make no time
Ain't the rain just beautiful
Some people say
But I'd rather see it
In a fine movie place
Keeps on raining
Look how it's raining
Your daddy he can't make no time
No daddy he can't make no time
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Billie Holiday | Laughing At Life | /b/billie+holiday/laughing+at+life_20017985.html | Don't mind the rain drops
Wait till the rain stops
Smile through your tears, laughing at life
No road is lonely, if you will only
Lose all your blues laughing at life
Live for tomorrow, be happy today
Laugh all your sorrows away
Start now and cheer up
The skies will clear up
Lose all your blues laughing at life
Don't mind the rain drops
Wait till the rain stops
You'll find the sun laughing at life
No road is lonely, if you will only
Smile through your tears, laugh at life
Live for tomorrow, be happy today
Laugh all your sorrows away
Start now and cheer up
The skies will clear up
Lose all your blues laughing at life
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Billie Holiday | Love Me Or Leave Me | /b/billie+holiday/love+me+or+leave+me_20018006.html | This suspense is killin' me
I can't stand uncertainty
Tell me now I've got to know
Whether you want me to stay or go
Love me or leave me
Or let me be lonely
You won't believe me, I love you only
I'd rather be lonely
Than happy with somebody else
You might find the night time
The right time for kissin'
But night time is my time
For just reminiscin'
Regrettin' instead of forgettin'
With somebody else
There'll be no one
Unless that someone is you
I intend to be independently blue
I want your love
But I don't want to borrow
To have it today to give back tomorrow
For your love is my love
There's no love for nobody else
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Billie Holiday | Me, Myself And I | /b/billie+holiday/me+myself+and+i_10033566.html | Me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
We all think you're wonderful
We do
Me, myself and I
Have just one point of view
We're convinced
There's no one else like you
It can't be denied dear
You brought the sun to us
We'd be satisfied dear
If you, you'd belong to one of us
So if you pass me by
Three hearts will break in two
Cause me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
Me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
We all think you're wonderful
We do
Me, myself and I
Have just one point of view
We're convinced
There's no one else like you
It can't be denied dear
You brought the sun to us
We'd be satisfied dear
If you'd belong to one of us
So if you pass me by
Three hearts will break in two
Cause me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
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Billie Holiday | More Than You Know | /b/billie+holiday/more+than+you+know_20017968.html | Whether you are here or yonder,
Whether you are false or true
Whether you remain or wander,
I'm growing fonder of you
Even though your friends forsake you,
Even though you don't succeed
Wouldn't I be glad to take you,
Give you the break you need
More than you know, more than you know
Girl of my heart, I love you so
Lately I find you're on my mind
More than you know
Whether you're right, whether you're wrong
Girl of my heart, I'll string along
You need me so
Much more than you'll ever know (ever know)
Loving you the way that I do
There's nothing I can do about it
Loving may be all you can give
But baby I can't live without it
Oh, how I'd cry, oh, how I'd cry
If you got tired and said "Good-bye"
More than I'd show
More than you'd ever know
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Billie Holiday | My First Impression Of You | /b/billie+holiday/my+first+impression+of+you_20017933.html | My first impression of you
Was like the sight of flowers in spring
You were a glorious thing to see
My first impression of you
Was something indescribably new
I stood there looking at you
Smiling at me
If you had stepped right out of heaven
It wouldn't surprise me more
I thought you were an angel
From heaven's door
It may sound silly, but true
My heart just stopped
When I caught your eye
So overwhelming
Was my first impression of you
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Billie Holiday | Now They Call It Swing | /b/billie+holiday/now+they+call+it+swing_20017936.html | Once they called it ragtime
And it had its fling
It's the same old syncopation
Now they call it swing
Then they played it jazz time
To a buck-and-wing
Once again it sweeped the nation
Now they call it swing
When singers used to sing
They would go hot cha
But with this modern thing
Now they go dru-do do, dra-da-da
Rhythm has its seasons
Summer, fall and spring
But for seven silly reasons
Someone pulled the string
And they started dancing
Now they call it swing
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Billie Holiday | On The Sentimental Side | /b/billie+holiday/on+the+sentimental+side_20017937.html | If you wonder why I'm near you
Even though I've been denied
I'm inclined to be a little
On the sentimental side
I suppose I should forget you
If I had an ounce of pride
But I guess I can't help being
On the sentimental side
I should act gay
Laugh it off and say, farewell
Say it just didn't wear well
But I'm not that way
I'm in hopes you'll think it over
And perhaps be satisfied
With a simple sort of person
On the sentimental side
I should act gay
Laugh it off and say, farewell
Say it just didn't wear well
But I'm not that way
I'm in hopes you'll think it over
And perhaps be satisfied
With a simple sort of person
On the sentimental side
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Billie Holiday | One Never Knows, Does One? | /b/billie+holiday/one+never+knows+does+one_20017900.html | One never knows, does one?
When love will come along
Then so suddenly life turns out to be a song
One never knows, does one?
The moment or the place
Then right before your eyes
Someone occupies your embrace
Someday look and you'll find
Two hearts were blest
Someday fate may be kind
Pray for the future
Hope for the best
One never knows, does one?
That's just the way it goes
All at once you hear
"Hold me. Caress me"
And then love may come
But when, one never knows
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Billie Holiday | Prelude To A Kiss | /b/billie+holiday/prelude+to+a+kiss_20018074.html | If you hear
A song in blue
Like a flower crying
For the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss
If you hear a song that grows
From my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose
A prelude to a kiss
Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a Gershwin touch
Oh how my love song gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a Gershwin touch
Oh how my love song so gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
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Billy Joel | Ain't No Crime | /b/billy+joel/aint+no+crime_10034831.html | You got to open your eyes in the morning
Nine o'clock comin' without any warnin'
And you gotta get ready to go
You say you went out late last evenin'
Did a lot of drinkin'
Come home stinkin'
And you went and fell asleep on the floor
And then your lady comes and finds you asleepin'
Starts in to weepin' 'bout the hours you been keepin'
And you better get your ass out the door
Ain't no crime
Say everybody gets that way some time
Ain't no crime
You know it's good to get it on to get a load off your mind
Oh no, it ain't no crime. Oh.
You got to open your eyes in the morning
Nine o'clock comin' with out any warnin'
And you gotta get ready to go
Well now you tell me you love somebody
And you'll love 'em forever
You may love 'em forever
But you won't like 'em all of the time
Well now you tell me you need somebody for the rest of your life
You might have somebody
But you won't want 'em everyday
Ain't no crime
Say ev'rybody gets that way some time
Ain't no crime
Well it's just human nature
Happens all the time
Oh no, it ain't no crime. Oh
And just as surely as the wind keeps blowin'
The grass keeps growin'
You gotta keep goin'
And the Lord have mercy on your soul
La, la la la.
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Billy Joel | All For Leyna | /b/billy+joel/all+for+leyna_20072883.html | She stood on the tracks
Waving her arms
Leading me to that third rail SHOCK
Quick as a wink
She changed her mind.
She gave me a night
That's all it was
What will it take until I STOP
Kidding myself, wasting my time, whoa
There's nothing else I can do
'Cause I'm doing it all for Leyna
I don't want anyone new
'Cause I'm living it all for Leyna
There?s nothing in it for you
'Cause I'm giving it all to Leyna
We laid on the beach
Watching the tide
She didn't tell me there were ROCKS
Under the waves
Right off the shore.
Washed up on the sand
Barely alive
Wishing the undertow would STOP
How can a man take anymore, whoa
There's nothing else I can do
'Cause I'm doing it all for Leyna.
I don't want anyone new
'Cause I'm living it all for Leyna.
There's nothing in it for you
'Cause I'm giving it all to Leyna.
I'm failing in school
Losing my friends
Making my family lose their minds
I don't want to eat
I don't want to sleep
I only want Leyna, one more time.
Now, I'm in my room
Watching the tube
Telling myself, she still may DROP
Over to say, she's changed her mind
So, I wait in the dark
Listening for her
Instead of hearing my old man saying STOP
Kidding yourself, wasting your time.
There's nothing else I can do
'Cause I'm doing it all for Leyna
I don't want anyone new
'Cause I'm living it all for Leyna
There's nothing in it for you
'Cause I'm giving it all to Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
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Billy Joel | Angry Young Man | /b/billy+joel/angry+young+man_20072938.html | There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
And he's always at home with his back to the wall.
He's proud of the scars and the battles he's lost
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
Give a moment or two to the angry young man
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand
He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood
It's a comfort to know his intentions are good
He sits in a room with a lock on the door
With his maps and his medals laid out of the floor
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage,
I've found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too, had my pointless point of view
Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
And there's always a place for the angry young man
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand
He's never been able to learn from mistakes
He can't understand why his heart always breaks
He's honest and pure and has courage as well
He's fair and he's true, and he's boring as hell
And he'll go to his grave as an angry old man.
There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
And he's always at home with his back to the wall.
He's proud of the scars and the battles he's lost
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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Billy Joel | Blonde Over Blue | /b/billy+joel/blonde+over+blue_20073017.html | Some days when I'm far away
In a lonely room in a cold seclusion
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
In hell there's a big hotel
Where the bar just closed and the windows never open
No phone so you can't call home
And the TV works, but the clicker is broken
But in the darkness I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to
CHORUS
Blonde over blue
Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue
They shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue
I need your inspiration tonight
These days there's a million ways
To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected
These times there are sins and crimes
On the morning shows for the disconnected
I look and I write my book
And I walk away with the wrong impressions
I don't care 'cause I've done my share
And I need some time for my own obsessions
It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by
It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you
CHORUS
These days not a damn soul prays
And there is no faith 'cause there's nothing to believe in
These days only good luck pays
If we don't get paid then we try to get even
I look and I write my book
And I have my say and I draw conclusions
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
But in the darkness I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to
CHORUS
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Billy Joel | Careless Talk | /b/billy+joel/careless+talk_20072864.html | Careless talk
That's what you heard about me
Jealous talk
That's what I heard about you
Everybody's telling lies
I don't even know why
Why can't people
Find something better to do
Careless talk
I don't believe what they say
I heard them talk
They say you've been putting me down
In the shadows on the phone
They won't leave us alone
They've been talking
Ever since you came around
Careless talk
Telling you I'm doing wrong
Jealous talk
Follows wherever you go
I'm aware of what you heard
Every terrible word
Everybody's making believe that they know
All of the intimate things
That we ever might have said
In the heat of a passionate moment
In a conversation shared
For the ears of nobody else
There are some things they will never hear
There are secrets I'll never tell
Careless talk
Going around on the streets
Jealous talk
I know how bad it can be
Let them stand where they fall
They don't know us at all
All that talking won't make a difference to me
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Billy Joel | C'etait Toi | /b/billy+joel/cetait+toi_10151107.html | Here I am again
In this smoky place
With my brandy eyes
I'm talking to myself
You were the one
You were the one
Here I go again
Looking for your face
And I realize
That I should look for someone else
But you were the one
You were the one
I'm looking for comfort
That I can take
From someone else
But after all
I know there is no one
That can save me from myself
You were the only one
Me revoici
Dans ce bar enfume
Avec mes yeux ivres
Je me parle a moi meme
C'etait toi
C'etait toi
Me revoici
Cherchant ton visage
Et je realise
Que je devrais en chercher une autre
C'etait toi
You were the one
Je recherche l'affection
Qu'une autre pourrait me donner
Mais apres tout
Je sais qu'il n'y a personne
Personne qui puisse me sauver
Tu etais la seule
I'm looking for comfort
That I can take
From someone else
But after al
I know there is no one
That can save me, save me from myself
You were the only one
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