Laura Branigan - Greatest Hits [compilation] (2007) by Laura Branigan (보컬) on maniadb.com

I still remember how much I used to need you
Tried so hard to please you, but you didn't need me
You knew I loved you, knew I always would be there
You just did what you wanted, you didn't care
All the cards were held by you
There was nothin' I could do
All those nights I sat alone, starin' at the telephone
Wonderin' were you ever comin' home

Solitaire, it got so lonely
Solitaire, no one to hold me
Where were you when I played solitaire?

It took some time but I stopped thinkin' about you
Started livin' without you, now look who's back here
You've had a change of heart, well, mine just couldn't wait, no no
You found out you loved me just a little too late

Once the cards were held by you
Now there's nothin' you can do
All those nights you sit alone, starin' at the telephone
Wonderin' if I'm ever comin' home

Solitaire, see what it's like now
Solitaire, to cry all night now
Solitaire, see how it feels to bear

Solitaire, it gets so lonely
Solitaire, you wanna hold me
Don't wait up, 'cos babe, I won't be there
Solitaire, solitaire, solitaire

Solitaire, see what it's like now
Solitaire, to cry all night now
Solitaire, see how it feels to bear

Solitaire, it gets so lonely
Solitaire, you wanna hold me
Don't wait up, 'cos babe, I won't be there
Solitaire (solitaire, solitaire)

there you go, flashing fever from your eyes
hey babe, come over here and shut them tight
I'm not denying, we're flying above it all
hold my hand, don't let me fall
you've such amazing grace
I've never felt this way
oh, show me heaven, cover me
leave me breathless
oh, show me heaven please


here I go, I'm shaking just like the breeze
hey babe, I need your head to steady me
I'm not denying, I'm frightened as much as you
though I am barely touching you
I've shivers down my spine, and it feels divine
oh, show me heaven, cover me
leave me breathless
oh, show me heaven please


do you know what it's like to dream a dream?
baby hold me tight and let this be
oh, show me heaven, cover me
leave me breathless
oh, show me heaven please

Ti amo, God how I love you so
My heart just won't let go
Day after day I'm still holdin' on
Even though you're gone
Ti amo, wasn't I good to you?
I did all that I could do
To make you want to be here with me
I thought you loved me
I can't believe you could just turn and leave
Y'did it so easily
You pulled my world out from under me
Look what you've done to me
How could you end it this way
After the love that we made?
God how I wish you had stayed
Can't you see that I just want you back?
Ti amo, I never had a clue that I was losin' you
You never once let me know you were lettin' me go
Oh, I guess it was there in your eyes
Guess it was there in your sighs
Guess it was there in your lies
I was blind then, couldn't face the end
Ti amo, thought we'd go on and on
Thought we had something strong
You pulled my world out from under me
Look what you've done to me
How could you end it this way
After the love that we made?
God how I wish you had stayed
Can't you see that I just want you back?
Ti amo, God how I love you so
My heart just won't let go
Day after day I'm still holdin' on
Even though you're gone
Guess it was there in your eyes
Guess it was there in your sighs
Guess it was there in your lies
I was blind then, couldn't face the end
Ti amo, thought we'd go on and on
Thought we had something strong
You pulled my world out from under me
Look what you've done to me
How could you end it this way
After the love that we made?
God how I wish you had stayed
Can't you see that I just want you back?
Ti amo, wasn't I good to you?
Did all that I could do
To make you want to be here with me
I thought you loved me
I can't believe you could just turn and leave
Y'did it so easily
You pulled my world out from under me
Look what you've done to me
Ti amo, God how I love you so
My heart just won't let go
Day after day I'm still holdin' on
Even though you're gone ... [fade out]

There was heat in the air
And cops everywhere you looked
So there wasn't a lot
And the breaks that you got You know you took
And I remember wonderin' Where you been
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
They were playin' "Desolation Row" On the radio
The night Spanish Eddie fell from grace
There was amazement on his face
On the night that Eddie failed Sanity prevailed
It was June or July
When the heat from above beat down
It was famine or drought
When the brothers went out Of syle uptown
And we was mixin' Vicks with lemon gin
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
They were playin "Desolation Row" On the radio
The night Spanish Eddie made front page
His revolution came of age
He wrote "Surrender" on the wall
The night he took the fall
I heard someone say "He's tryin' to fly"
Like Eddie used to say We'll do when we die
I know someone turned you For a spin
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in
They were playin' "Desolation Row" On the radio

The whispers in the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling like thunder now
As I look in your eyes

I hold on to your body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake

(first chorus)
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can

Lost is how I'm feeling lying in your arms
When the world outside's too
Much to take
That all ends when I'm with you

Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side

(repeat first chorus)

(second chorus)
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
Of the power of love

The sound of your heart beating
Made it clear
Suddenly the feeling that I can't go on
Is light years away

(repeat first chorus)

(repeat second chorus)

Sitting in 'la castlette'
The same place we first met
Trying to talk it out before 'the fall'

You look the other way
I struggle for the words to say
Feels like I'm talking to the wall

I can here them play our song
But somehow it sounds all wrong
In a lost romance, dancing a lonely dance

With a heart that doesn't beat as much
Fingers that have lost their touch
Looking into eyes that just don't see

We dance a little loud at times
I laugh when I feel like crying
Is there anybody here but me

Two silhouettes in the dark
So close, so far apart
Going through the motions of the past

The night is coming to an end
It's getting harder to pretend
But still we try to keep this love alive

With a heart that doesn't beat as much
Fingers that have lost their touch
Looking into eyes that just don't see

We dance a little loud at times
I laugh when I feel like crying
Is there anybody here but me

Never dreamed what we started could end like this
Lovers saying goodbye with a stranger's kiss

With a heart that doesn't beat as much
Fingers that have lost their touch
Looking into eyes that just don't see

We dance a little loud at times
I laugh when I feel like crying
Is there anybody here but me
Is there anybody here but me
Is there anybody here but me

CHORUS:
Dim all the lights sweet darling
Cause tonight it's all the way
Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna dance the night away

Love just don't come easy
Though it seldom does
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up

REPEAT CHORUS

Dim all the lights sweet honey
Cause tonight it's you and me
No need to worry darling
Cause it's for eternity

Love don't come easy
This you know I understand
I want to be your woman
If you'll be my man
Let yourself go freely and I'll
Show you things that you've dreamed of
Don't think that your dreaming
We've found the perfect love
And I'm like a cup come fill me up

REPEAT CHORUS

Do what you want
You can use me all up
Take me bottom to top
Don't leave even one drop

No,no,no do it tonight
You know the moment's so right
Turn my brown body white
Come on dim all the lights

REPEAT CHORUS

I could hardly believe it when I heard the news today
I had to come and get it straight from you
They said you were leaving, someone swept your heart away
From the look upon your face I see it's true
So tell me all about it, tell me 'bout the plans you're makin'
Then tell me one thing more before I go

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been livin' for is gone

Didn't come here for cryin', didn't come here to break down
It's just a dream of mine is comin' to an end
How can I blame you when I built my world around
The hope that one day we'd be so much more than friends
And I don't wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreamin'
I need you know, it's more than I can take

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been livin' for is gone

And I don't wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreamin'
Now that your dream has come true

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been loving you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
All that I've been livin' for is gone

Without you, after I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been

(Laura Branigan/Billy Branigan)

I don't lose my breath
When I hear a step on the stairway
And my heart doesn't stop
When I hear a knock at my door
I say to myself it's just some old friend of mine
I don't think for a moment, boy
That you've changed your mind

I'm over you
I'm finally over you
Just like you've gotten over me
Just like you did so easily

I'm over you
This time I'm over you
I really don't care what you do
Just don't tell yourself
I'm still in love with you

Things have fallen in place
And there's hardly a trace of you anywhere
I've got too much to do
To be thinking of you coming home
And I don't expect that your turn will come to cry
'Cause after all, baby
It was you who said goodbye



I'm over you
This time I'm really over you
Just like you've gotten over me
Just like you did so easily

I'm over you
This time I'm really over you
I really don't care what you do
Just don't tell yourself
I'm still in love with you

I'm over you
This time I'm really over you
I don't give a damn what you do
Just don't tell yourself
I'm still in love with you

This time I'm over you
I swear I'm really over you
I really don't care what you do
Just don't tell yourself
I'm still in love with you

You can break away or you can stay
You choose your life, you're free to fly
Go on and fly
Go on and fly
She had it in her own time
To get away and try to find
Somewhere to go, to run
She saw the world through open eyes
And never let a soul inside
Don't come too close, so close
Baby thinks she's smart, but what about her heart?
Like a wild bird of prey, like a thief in the night
You can take what you want, and you don't think twice
'cos the world's in your hands, you got all you want
And you won't change a thing, you're the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Her soul was strong, her heart was tough
And when she felt she had enough
She tore herself away
Love in the dark is all you see
Get what you want, not what you need
You look the other way
Never letting on to what it's all become
Like a wild bird of prey, like a thief in the night
You can take what you want, and you don't think twice
'cos the world's in your hands, and you've got all you want
And you won't change a thing, you're the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Life is a dream, the lucky one, the lucky one, the lucky one
Oh, life is a dream, the lucky one
Life is a dream, the lucky one, the lucky one
Baby thinks she's smart, but what about her heart?
Like a wild bird of prey, like a thief in the night
You can take what you want, and you don't think twice
'cos the world's in your hands, and you've got all you want
And you won't change a thing, you're the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one
Oh, the lucky one

Through the back window of a '59 wagon
I watched my best friend Jamie slippin' further away
I kept on waving 'till I couldn't see her
And through my tears, I asked again why we couldn't stay
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

I sat on our bed, he packed his suitcase
I held a picture of our wedding day
His hands were trembling, we both were crying
He kissed me gently and then he quickly walked away
I called up Mama, she said, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

Sitting with Mama alone in her bedroom
She opened her eyes, and then squeezed my hand
She said, I have to go now, my time here is over
And with her final word, she tried to help me understand
Mama whispered softly, Time will ease your pain
Life's about changing, nothing ever stays the same

And she said, How can I help you to say goodbye?
It's OK to hurt, and it's OK to cry
Come, let me hold you and I will try
How can I help you to say goodbye?

How can I help you to say goodbye?

Oh the night
is my world
City light
painted girl
In the day
nothing matters
It's the night
time that flatters
In the night
no control
Through the wall
something's breaking
Wearing white
as you're walkin
Down the street
of my soul
You take my self
you take my self control
You got me livin
only for the night
Before the morning comes
the story's told
You take my self
you take my self control
Another night
another day goes by
I never stop myself to wonder why
You help me to
forget to play my role
You take my self
you take my self control
I I live among the creatures
of the night
I haven't got the will
to try and fight
Against a new tomorrow
so I guess I'll just believe it
That tomorrow never comes
A safe night
I'm living in the forest of my dream
I know the night
is not as it would seem
I must believe in something
so I'll make myself believe it
That this night will never go
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh the night is my world
City light painted girl
In the day nothing matters
It's the night time that flatters
I I live among the creatures
of the night
I haven't got the will
to try and fight
Against a new tomorrow
so I guess I'll just believe it
That tomorrow never knows
A safe night
I'm living in the forest of a dream
I know the night
is not as it would seem
I must believe in something
so I'll make myself believe it
That this night will never go
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control
You take my self
you take my self control

Gloria, you're always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you've got to slow down before you start to blow it
I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it

You really don't remember, was it something that he said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?
You don't have to answer
Leave them hangin' on the line, oh-oh-oh, calling Gloria
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)
I think they got the alias (Gloria) that you've been living under (Gloria)
But you really don't remember, was it something that they said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?

A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha, Gloria, how's it gonna go down?
Will you meet him on the main line, or will you catch him on the rebound?
Will you marry for the money, take a lover in the afternoon?
Feel your innocence slipping away, don't believe it's comin' back soon

And you really don't remember, was it something that he said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?
You don't have to answer
Leave them hangin' on the line, oh-oh-oh, calling Gloria
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)
I think they got the alias (Gloria) that you've been living under (Gloria)
But you really don't remember, was it something that they said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?

(Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria)
(Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria)