Jennifer Warnes - Best/ First We Take Manhattan [compilation] (2003) by Jennifer Warnes (보컬) on maniadb.com

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just
might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah remember me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

come on over my sporting frend
bring your favorite weapon
show me how you make your mark
from the whistle in the wind
through the center of the heart

the moon is full, the night is clear
hunting season is drawing near
show me how you claim your ground
pull the arrow back, take one down

(*)
maybe tonight
maybe you'll show
waht you feel behind your bow
and maybe I'll go hunting too
down in the valley with you

I wonder where you hide your heart
I wait for signals in the dark
my aim is pretty good
I'm as quiet as a deer in the wood

(*)

close your eyes, count to ten
you never know you never know
you never know when you never know

(*)

so bring this famous trick you do
bring your arrow, bring your gun
and bring the ache that burns right through
gonna find out who is the hunted one

(*)

Performed by : Jennifer Warnes
Written by : Henry Gaffney & Gregory Abbott




all your life love's hurt you
turned you out then burnt you
held you high off the ground
you touched the moon
then it dropped you down
I know your heart's been broken
trust don't come so easily
it takes time, that's all right
just let me heal your heart tonight

I will rock you gently
I will be there when the night comes down
I will rock you so gently
I'm gonna rock you gently
I will be there when the morning comes
I will rock you, rock you

late at night they haunt you
lovers' voices point you
back in time, wide awake
you curse the moon 'til the morning breaks
I know that lonely feeling
we are two hearts still healing
hurry here, hurry now
please come to me
let me show you how

I will rock you gently
I will be there when the night comes down
I will rock you so gently
I'm gonna rock you gently
I will be there when the morning comes
I will rock you, rock you

little by little, day by day
all through the night into the day
I'll be your lover, I'll be your friend
open up your heart and let me in

(Andrew Kastner, Larry McNally, Max Gronenthal)

Must be a million boys living in this great big city
I know that one of them is just right for me
I've looked uptown, downtown, all around searchin'
I know he's out there waiting for me

I know somewhere, somebody, lookin', longin'
Somewhere, somebody, waitin' for me
Somewhere, somebody, searchin', prayin'
Tell me where in the world

You know the street lights shine in passin' faces
I'm just tryin' to catch somebody's eye
But all the shoulda been's, the woulda been's, the mighta been's and the coulda
been's
Slippin' away and just walk right on by

Somewhere, somebody, lookin', longin'
Somewhere, somebody, waitin' for me
Somewhere, somebody, searchin', prayin'
Tell me where in the world

I walk in the rain that's fallin'
A voice in the distance callin', why
I run to the empty doorway waitin' for the sun to shine
When will love be mine

I know that somewhere, somebody, lookin', longin'
Somewhere, somebody, waitin' for me
Somewhere, somebody, searchin', prayin'
Tell me where in the world

Must be a million boys living in this great big city
I know you're out there waiting for me

(with guest vocal by leonard cohen)
(l. cohen)

Now the flames they followed joan of arc
As she came riding through the dark;
No moon to keep her armour bright,
No man to get her through this dark and smoky night.
She said, "i'm tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
A wedding dress or something white
To wear upon my swollen appetite."

Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,
You know I've watched you riding every day
And something in me yearns to win
Such a cold and lonesome heroine.
"and who are you? " she sternly spoke
To the one beneath the smoke.
"why, I'm fire," he replied,
"and I love your solitude, I love your pride."



"well then fire, make your body cold,
I'm gonna give you mine to hold,"
Saying this she climbed inside
To be his one, to be his only bride.
And deep into his fiery heart
He took the dust of joan of arc,
And high above all these wedding guests
He hung the ashes of her lovely wedding dress.
La...

It was deep into his fiery heart
He took the dust of joan of arc,
And then she clearly understood
If he was fire, oh she must be wood.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, must it be so brave?
La...

Way down, way way down
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You're got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
It came to me this morning
I was walking down the street
Was like my soul could taste you
And God, you tasted sweet
Finally I can breathe again
Finally I can speak
I've got you in the glory place
I've got you way down deep

I've got you way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You're got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You're got me way down, way way down,
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
Way way down deep

It's a funny feeling
But I cannot say I mind
I know that I'm dealing with
A love that's far from blind
I see every single angle
I look before I leap
And how else can I put it
When you're got me way down deep

You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
Way way down deep

Don't matter what we gave away
Was nothing we could keep
Don't matter what we gave away
You know that talk is cheap
Forgive me if I hate you
You're a liar and a thief
But I've got you in the glory place
I got you way down deep

You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
Way way down deep

Don't matter if the road is long
Don't matter if it's steep
Don't matter if the moon goes out
And darkness is complete
Don't matter if we lose our way
I know we're gonna meet
I've got you in the glory place
I've got you way down deep

You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
Way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
Way way down deep

Look at who the wind's blowing up the road,
shining like the northern star;
acting like the answer to all my prayers, baby I know what you really are.
So don't you knock on my door, I won't be home anymore, you can find me out walking in the sun.
Oh you hide it so well
it isn't easy to tell,
but I know a heartache when I see one.

There was a time I was a true believer,
your love was the only way.
You can save all your sweet talking for some other fool,
only a fool would believe what you say.
So don't you knock on my door, I won't be home anymore, you can find me out walking in the sun;
Oh you hide it so well,
it isn't easy to tellll,
but I know a heartache when I see one.

Ohhhh, time is a teacher, it's taught me well,
the loser is the one who cries.
And when you've cried like a baby and you felt like hell
you know the devil by the look in his eye...
So don't you knock on my door,I won't be home anymore...
you can find me out walking in the sunnn,
oh you hide it so wellll,
it isn't easy to telllll,
but I know a heartache when I seee one...
I know a heartache when I seeeee one....

(L. Cohen)

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your house deep in the desert
Are you living for nothing now, hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night when you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you, you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
But she never turned up I mean Lili Marlene

And you treated some woman to a flake of your life
And when she got home she was nobody's wife.
Well I see you there with a rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake
She sends her regards.

And what can I tell you oh what can I tell you
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad that you stood in my way.

And if you ever come by here, be it for Jane or for me
I want you to know your enemy's sleeping, I want you to know your woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never really tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night when you planned to go clear

Sincerely, a friend