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Would you like to learn to sing Would you like to sing my song Would you like to learn to love me best of all Anyone can learn the words and the melody's so plain This is my song to bring you back again I will teach you how to sing and dance with a song and dance routine and when the party's over you can fall in love with me Would you like to learn to tango Do you dance the light fandango I will teach you how before we're dong any one can make it two any two can turn to one and the melody's lost before the song's begun We sonnd so good together and so poorly sung alone your harmony's an open breeze into my sheltered home I will teach you how to sing and dance with a song and dance routine and when the party's over you can fall in love with me |
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| 2. |
| 4:40 |
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I learned the truth at seventeen That love was ment for beauty queens And high school girls With clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired The valentines I never knew The friday night charades of youth Were spent on one more beautiful At seventeen I learned the truth And those of us with ravaged faces Lacking in the social graces desperately Remained at home inventing lovers On the phone who called to say Come dance with me and murmured Vague obscenities it isn't all it seems At seventeen a brown eyed girl In hand me downs whose name I never could pronounce Said pity please the ones Who serve they only get What they deserve and the rich Relationed hometown queen Marries into what she needs With a guarantee of company And haven for the elderly Remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debentures of quality And dubious integrity Their small town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen~ To those of us who knew the pain Of valentines that never came And those whose names were never called When choosing side for basketball It was long ago and far away The world was younger than today When dreams were all they gave for free To ugly duckling girls like me We all play the game and when we dare We cheat ourselves at solitaire Inventing lovers on the phone Repenting other lives unknown That call and say come dance with me And murmur vague obscenities At ugly girls like me at seventeen~ |
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| 3. |
| 3:17 |
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I'm leaving by night I'm leaving alone Leaving it lie When you waken I'll be gone I would not beg for me As I would not beg for you Though I'd like to be The one to see you through Every step you have taken Disappears with the tide You're torn up and shaken With changing your mind You haven't got the grace To say you'll finally decide And you haven't got The strength to stay to fight Those people who surround you Only want to see you weak enough to crawl They'll lie for you, decide for you And buy up all your rights & all wrongs And they'll try to stop your singing In the middle of your song For they do not want you free And they will not make you strong But only drag you down In the hole they're coming from They say you are foolish In wanting the sun Say you are selfish In learning to run Tell you that the darkness Is a blessing in disguise For you never have to notice If you're sighted or you're blind And they'll do their best To keep you from the light You're more than beginning You're learning to fly You feel like you're falling But it passes in time I hate to see a friend go down In flames without a song So I'm waiting by the doorway But I will not linger long I'm leaving by night I'm leaving alone I'm leaving it lie When you waken I'll be gone I would not beg for me As I could not beg for you But I'd like to be The one to see you through |
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| 4. |
| 4:16 |
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Bright Lights And Promises A pocket full of dreams That's what they pay me to be Gold lame' and diamonds I'm a hometown queen Honey, would you sing it just for me? When I was good then I was bad I never thought I'd end up this way With no dreams to hide me Bright lights to guide me How long does it take to make the grade? Ev'rywhere I hear a ringing in my ears Drummer, let the music play Small-town blues Make it loud, make it do Listen to the music sway Bar rails and cocktails "Have you got a light?" That's all it pays to keep in sight Overused and much abused Promises of delight Honey, would you care to spend the night? Take a little time Some memories and wine Loosen up the sucker by the bar And if he wants to hold you If he wants to know you Honey,That's what you're here for Until all I see Is them reaching out for me Drummer, play that old time melody Bright lights and promises That's all it's for Leave and enterby the service door Now I'm gold lame' and diamonds Even if the gold is worn Honey, can you show me more? |
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| 2:30 |
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The days are okay I watch the TV in the afternoon If I get lonely The sound of other voices Other rooms are near to me I'm not afraid The operator She tells the time It's good for a laugh There's always radio And for a dime I can Talk to God, dial a prayer Are you there Do you care Are you there? And in the winter Extra blankets for the cold Fix the heater, getting old I am wiser now, you know And still as big a fool Concerning you I met your friend She's very nice, what can I say? It was an accident I never dreamed we'd meet again This way - you're looking well I'm not afraid You have a lovely home Just like a picture No, I live alone I found it easier You must remember how I never liked the party life Up all night, lovely wife You have a lovely wife And in the winter Extra blankets for the cold Fix the heater, getting old You are with her now, I know I'll live alone forever Not together now |
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| 6. |
| 5:02 |
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I remember photographs Watercolors of the past He turned and said "You ask much of me" Then when we made our peace We lay between the sheets He turned and said "I set you free" Go on, be a hero Be a photograph Make your own myths Christ, I hope they last Longer than mine Wider than the sky We measure time by Go on, be a hero I set you free Your stagehand lovers Have conquered me They'll send yu carnations While smiling faces look on and applaud Go on, go on, go away from me I said, "Do you wish me dead?" Lip service to books you've read Articles on how to bed a bird in flight You called it love I called it greed You say, "You take what you want" I said, "You get what you need" Go on, be a hero, be a man Make your own destiny if you can Go find a fence Locate a shell And hide yourself, go on, go to hell Go away from me I need no charity He said, Come unto me I am beauty I am the light Come unto me Hold the darkness and stay the night I am wonder I am the heart's delight Tomorrow we'll fight Come on, come on Come on, come near to me Come be my fantasy We'll talk it over again some time I'll send some flowers to change my mind But for tonight, turn out the light Hold me, come on, come on And set me free Lend me your charity |
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| 4:02 |
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There's never much to say between the moments of our games and repartee There's never much to read between the lines of what we need and what we'll take There's never much to talk about or say aloud, but say it anyway Of holidays, and yesterdays, and broken dreams that somehow slipped away In books and magazines of how to be and what to see while you are being Before and after photographs teach how to pass from reaching to believing We live beyond our means on other people's dreams and that's succeeding Between the lines of photographs I've seen the past - it isn't pleasing So strike another match We'll have another cup of wine and dance until the evening's dead of too much song and time There's never much to talk about or read between the lines of what we dream about when we're apart and no one's looking on to say "You're mine" It was a good year then It was a good year then - we all remember the time you threw the looking glass and seemed a fool - or very clever Don't spoil it all; I can't recall a time when you were struck without an answer We'll live a quiet, peaceful time between the lines, and go together I'm striking up the band to play our last hurrah We'll dance until we've killed another evening off Don't think of anyone but me I'll have no lovers on the side Tonight is all we've ever dreamed about for once let's get it right I'll go down flying in the end Throw another bottle in between the lines I'll go down like a ship of state so let's be gracious now between the lines |
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| 3:57 |
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I haven't been loved by a man in quite a while You know it ain't easy making me smile Friends have their lovers, men on a string There must be something terribly wrong with me Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything How do you do would you like to be friends? No, I just want a bed for the night Someone to tell me they care You can fake it, that's all right In the morning I won't be here It's a sacrificial alter And I'm laying down my head And I'm telling you up front I haven't much to give Is that how it's done? Or shall I sing and dance? Give me a chance How do you do, do you want to be friends? Yes, that might be very nice Maybe we'll fall in love Ev'ry body has its price Mine is yours for free If you'll be in love with me I haven't been loved by a man in quite a while You know it ain't easy making me smile All my friends have their lovers They've got men on a string There must be something terribly wrong with me How do you do, would you like to be friends? |
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| 2:45 |
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I hear your voice in every corridor See your face in every picture frame I feel your eyes in every starry sky Lover, am I coming home again Now am I humble, who once was proud Now am I silent, who once was loud Now am I waiting for the sound of your saying Lover, am I coming home again When you're gone, the sun don't shine Light a light, light a light for me Bring me back home again And how we loved, 'til the years were days How we laughed all our tears away And now the time begins to fade Lover, am I coming home again There's wisdom in the teachings of the old familiar songs and a sorrow in repeating all the old familiar wrongs and a lesson to be learned, though I've known all along Lover, am I coming home again Light a light, light a light for me Light a light, light a light for me Light a light, light a light for me Bring me back home again Bring me back home again |
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| 4:29 |
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I don't want to ride the milktrain anymore I'll go to bed at nine and waken with the dawn And lunch at half past noon dinner prompt at five The comfort of a few old friends long past their prime Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone We'll drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn I'll not write another line for my true love is gone When the guests have done I'll tidy up the rooms I'll turn the covers down and gazing at the moon I'll pray to go quite mad and live in long ago When you and I were one So very long ago Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone Let's drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn I'll not write another line for my true love is gone When I have no dreams to give you anymore I'll light a blazing fire and wait within the door and throw my life away I wonder why? they all will say And now I lay me down to sleep forever and a day Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days are dead Let's drink a toast to those who best survive the life they've led It's a long, long time 'til morning so build the fires high And now I lay me down to sleep forever by your side |
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| 5:25 |
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Lay down and slumber Mama's boy is torn asunder All the fields have gone grey All the leaves are gone brown Let me tell you a story Lay down, I know you're weary While the star's in the sky While the moon's on the rise Lay down and don't you wake till morning Close your eyes and helpless through the night Lay down and dream of love and glory This is a lover's lullabye Once was a magician Fair he was, and handsome And he brought to the table All the fool's gold and wine And he promised us three favors Said he was a saviour But we drank all his glory And we borrowed all his time Lay down, and don't you wake till morning Close your eyes and helpless through the night Lay down and dream of love and glory This is a lover's lullabye My love, sleep tight my love And softly fade away The moon was made of old green cheese To keep the night away Softly now, close your eyes Lightly will you fade The moon was made for wakeful boys To keep the night away Lay down, and don't wake till morning Close your eyes all through the night Lay down in all your glory This is a lullabye Lay down, and don't wake till morning Close your eyes all through the night Lay down in all your glory This is a lullabye This is a lullabye |
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