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| 1. |
| 4:30 | 
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It seems like a lifetime since I saw you
Lover lover I've been away too long When I see lovers holdings hands and sighing I hang my head for shame of doing wrong Bus wheels spinning, song birds singing break my heart Take me back to old remembered days Remind me of the times we spent together Times before we went our separate ways I wish I was a fool for you I wish I was a fool for you I wish I was a fool for you again I'm sorry for the things I've said, the things I've done I'm sorry for the restless thief I've been Please don't make me pay for my deceiving heart Just turn up your lamp and let me in I wish I was a fool for you I wish I was a fool for you ? I wish I was a fool for you again |
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| 2. |
| 3:55 |
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This is the text on the Rendezvous album:
If your eyes are blue you know the rest Champagne if it's very cool It's never very formal how you dress For oysters by the swimming pool Then slip away into the mountainside Like the man in the Lazy E' It's great to have a place where you can hide Why you must amazes me Chorus Golden, Where are you? Sold on gold dust I shuttled all around America From New York to Los Angeles Nervous breakdown later, there we were From Liberty to redwood trees A friend of mine, she hitched from east to west In time to hear my final song It seems to me she tried her very best She is a good companion (Chorus) He stores away the moments of her smiles As if they were rare butterflies Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles Then barters for the merchandise When Life it drags the likes of me around Just when we need some time alone You have a simple mansion underground Without address or telephone (Chorus) The live version on The Attic Tracks Vol. 3 and on Gold Dust - Live At The Royalty is a bit different. The last two lines of verse one are: It's nice to have a place where you can hide For why you must amazes me And the last verse is: He stores away the moments of her smiles As if they were rare butterflies Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles And barters for the merchandise As time it drags the likes of me around Just when we need some time alone You have a private mansion underground Without address or telephone |
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| 3. |
| 4:10 |
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Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name Chorus And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Loneliness was tough The toughest role you ever played Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you paid Even when you died the press still hounded you All the papers had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude (Chorus) Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the twenty-second row Who sees you as something more than just sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe (Chorus) |
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| 4. |
| 4:25 |
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Such sweet love is so hard to find
Look around, these are troublesome times The sun beats down on our hunger and thirst It would soon all be over if we let it be worse Chorus Take me away, take me away Take me away, take me away If not for you how would I keep going No one to be near, no good fortune to know Take my hand, make me feel stronger You're a man - progress is slow (Chorus) There will be rain clouds, for harvest to grow We'll find the rain clouds, and the rivers will flow Leave what is past, search for the future Leave this black dream for it's high time to go (Chorus) |
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| 3:36 |
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There you may stand in your splendour and jewels
Swaying me in both directions. One is the right one, the other for fools, How do I make my selection? The city lies silent in the warm morning light, The sand is as golden as saffron. Oasis of love, sweet water of life, God bless the poor ones who have none though they have tried. Someone is drowning down there in the flood But this river will dry by tomorrow. Is it ocean or stream, this love in my blood, Bringer of joy or of sorrow? The end of the journey must soon be in sight, Birth is the start of the swansong. Oasis of love, sweet water of life, God bless the poor ones who want some but are denied. No one is given the map to their dreams, All we can do is to trace it. See where we go to, Know where we've been, Build up the courage to face it While we fumble in the darkness where once there was light Roaming the land of the ancients. Oasis of love, sweet water of life, God bless the poor ones whose patience never died. While we stumble in blindness where once there was sight Searching for trees in the forest. Oasis of love, sweet water of life, God bless the poor ones, so helpless they have cried. God bless the poor ones who have none though they have tried. God bless the poor ones who want some but are denied. God bless the poor ones whose patience never died. God bless the poor ones on that one way donkey ride. |
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| 6. |
| 4:46 |
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You make me nervous when I see you.
I can't imagine what it's like to be you. It's a mystery to me every day, And I've got to get away. I put a bet on with a bookie For the race they put on over in Kentucky. It's lovely at this time of year, so they say, And I've got to get away. Chorus I'm a dreamer, and you know I'm a schemer with an eye for a show. It's my imagination when I get low, And the truth is I don't think I'll ever go. When the music's playing, that's when it changes, And no longer do we seen like total strangers. It's all those words which always get in the way Of what you want to say. When I wake up in the morning I think it only fair to give you warning I probably won't go away, I'll more than likely stay. (Chorus) |
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| 7. |
| 7:27 |
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We search for everything
Keeping what we would win Orchids or tiny flowers Wooden huts or ivory towers Centuries or hours Dark are the winter days Holy in many ways Vaults of time unshaken Whilst as through them we are taken Sleeping forests wake Ice melts on the lake Birds begin in making their way back home The frost and the fire goes East winds and winter snows Sun upon the daffodils Dancing on the verdant hills Lambs in the fields Warmer grows the morning sun Days of youthfulness and fun The prime of the year begun The song of summer to be sung Everything is one Working day is done Watch the river running through our lives How slowly the colours change We feel the drops of rain Mists of evening rise again We rarely stroll the shadowed lanes As autumn night draws in We sit upon the sand Warmth draining from the land Watching the ruby sun Setting on the ocean The echoes in the caves The flame upon the waves Memories for saving all our days |
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| 3:42 |
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I don't want your lonely mansion
With a tear in every room All I want's the love you've promised Beneath the halo moon But you think I should be happy With your money and your name And hide myself in sorrows While you play your cheatin' game Silver threads and golden needles Cannot mend this heart of mine And I dare not drown my sorrows In the warm glow of your mind You can't buy my love with money 'Cause I ain't never was that kind Silver threads and golden needles Cannot mend this heart of mine Silver threads and golden needles Cannot mend this heart of mine And I dare not drown my sorrows In the warm glow of your mind You can't buy my love with money 'Cause I ain't never was that kind Silver threads and golden needles Cannot mend this heart of mine |
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| 9. |
| 2:50 |
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Here comes the morning how it pleases
It always brings me something new Its golden light will wash away the dust of yesterday If I try it may let me forget you And when these winter days are over I mean to set myself upon my feet I see me as something that I have never been And I'll pick up the pieces that will make the girl complete I'll be smiling all the time at everybody My friends will tell me I'm just not the same I won't linger over any tragedies that were And I won't be singing any more sad refrains |
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| 10. |
| 2:54 | 
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| 11. |
| 4:29 |
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My father he rides with your sheriffs;
And I know he would never mean harm, But to see both sides of a quarrel Is to judge without haste or alarm Chorus Oh, oh, helpless and slow, And you don't have anywhere to go You take away homes from the homeless And leave them to die in the cold The gypsy who begged for your presents He will laugh in your face when you're old (Chorus) Well, one man he drinks up his whiskey Another he drinks up his wine And they'll drink till their eyes are red with hate For those of a different kind (Chorus) When the rivers run quicker than trouble I'll be there at your side in the flood It was all I could do to keep myself From taking revenge on your blood (2x Chorus) |
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| 12. |
| 4:15 |
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You make me nervous when I see you.
I can't imagine what it's like to be you. It's a mystery to me every day, And I've got to get away. I put a bet on with a bookie For the race they put on over in Kentucky. It's lovely at this time of year, so they say, And I've got to get away. Chorus I'm a dreamer, and you know I'm a schemer with an eye for a show. It's my imagination when I get low, And the truth is I don't think I'll ever go. When the music's playing, that's when it changes, And no longer do we seen like total strangers. It's all those words which always get in the way Of what you want to say. When I wake up in the morning I think it only fair to give you warning I probably won't go away, I'll more than likely stay. (Chorus) |
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| 13. |
| 3:25 |
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It's so easy to slip
It's so easy to fall And let your memory drift And do nothin' at all All the love that you missed All the people that you can't recall Do they really exist at all Well my whole world seems so cold today All the magics's gone away And our time together melts away Like the sad melody I play Well I don't want to drift forever In the shadow of your leaving me So I'll light another cigarette And try to remember to forget It's so easy to slip It's so easy to fall And let your memory drift And do nothin' at all All the love that you missed All the people that you can't recall Do they really exist at all |
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| 3:43 |
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These are the moments that we love so well
Precious moments caught within a spell All too soon our lives they fade away These are the moments that we wish would stay If I had my life to live again I would choose to be with you my friend Time moves slowly and it goes so fast And who knows how long the days will last So cherish deep within you The love you get today Let the moment linger For tomorrow steals that away Yes tomorrow steals that away Cherish deep within you The love you get today Let the moment linger For tomorrow steals that away Tomorrow steals that away These are the memories that we made so well Lives like stories that we long to tell When we're old with not too much to say We'll have the memories that we made today |
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