Karla Bonoff

Am I really here in your arms
This is just like I dreamed it would be
I feel like weæ?®e frozen in time
And youæ?®e the only one I can see

And hey
I've looked all my life for you
Now you're here
And hey
I'll spend all my life with you
All my life

And I never really knew how to love
I just hoped somehow I'd see
Oh I asked for a little help from above
Send an angel down to me

And hey
I've looked all my life for you
And now you're here
And hey
I'll spend all my life with you
All my life

I never thought I could feel a love so tender
I never thought I could let those feelings show
But now my heart is on my sleeve
And this love will never leave
I know I know

And hey
I've looked all my life for you
And now you're here
And hey
I'll spend all my life with you
All my life

In the door I see
Like a frozen dream
Your face
As you turned and walked away
Our love lies broken
But the world goes on
Where it stands in time
We'll know further on

But I learned from you
As you were passing through
That love would never
Find my heart a home
??ause in the end
We all walk alone

Well it's sad to me
That we can't seem to keep
Alive the magic we had at the start
Infatuation blinds us
Like a blazing sun
If we'd seen the end
Well would we have begun

But I learned from you
As you were passing through
That love would never
Find my heart a home
??ause in the end
We all walk alone

Now as I move on
To a place that's strong
I'll think of you
And wonder where you are
And when someday you see me
On a crowded street
I think you'll see
In my eyes
My life is complete

??ause I learned from you
As you were passing through
That love would never
Find my heart a home
??ause in the end
We all walk alone

Chorus:
You're takin' all I got and now you're leaving
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go
I thought love was something to believe in
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go

I see it in your face
in your eyes - when you turn away
You think it's all a waste
you're going today

I won't pretend
I won't say it - won't hurt me bad
Won't you try it agaon
what ever happened - to all what we had

Chorus:
You're takin' all I got and now you're leaving
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go
I thought love was something to believe in
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go

Solo

Bridge:
Don't fight, just hold me tight
Everything is gonna work out right
I won't beg, but you heard what I said
I need you ev'ry day and night

Chorus:
You're takin' all I got and now you're leaving
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go
I thought love was something to believe in
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go

And if you close the door
I can't wish you well anymore
You really turned me on
So don't come running back
'cause I know you'll never see

Chorus:
You're takin' all I got and now you're leaving
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go
I thought love was something to believe in
Uuh, Uuh, Huh, Baby don't go

The whole worldæ?? blue
And nothing ever goes right
Words sound untrue
But you won't give up the fight
Turn your back now
To all those things that you've seen
Close your eyes
Now baby, dream

Well, they see you
Playing real good at the game
If they saw through
All there'd be is the pain
A reward's due
For one who is lost in the rain
Close your eyes
Now baby, dream

When you held me, I was so broken apart
I had nothing but that love in your heart
And the night came, all I heard was you saying
Close your eyes
Now baby,
dream
Close your eyes
Now baby,
dream

Where have the dreams gone
Where are the love songs
Just a world I used to know
My love has lost you
The cost I would not see
Until I learned something thatæ?? not free

CHORUS
Even if you took my hand
You couldn't lead me
Even if you touched my heart
I wouldn't cry
Even if you'd understand
It wouldn't free me
Even if you gave me wings
I couldn't fly

Maybe it's growing old
Something starts going cold
And the years just fade away
I used to feel so young
Now all I feel is numb
Played a game nobody ever won

CHORUS

Maybe some day, when you look in my eyes again
You'll find the love never died
If there's a way to break through it all again
And find the life that I left behind

CHORUS

I went down to the sea
To see if you were sleeping
If your dreams covered all you cares
Like a ship flying three sheets to the wind
You might have been crazy
With all the things you've been

I went down to the sea
To lay beside you sleeping
And you woke and told me of your life
Like a ship been caught inside a wind
You might have been broken
With all the things you've been

Chorus:
Good-bye
Too many faces have I
To see that only one has ever been
Too many faces in the wind

I went down to the sea
To hear your storytelling
And your eyes followed me around
Like a light been turning in the wind
You might have been crazy
With all the things you've been

Chorus

Oh my heart aches
Deep inside me
Oh, how I miss you
Will you come back?
Oh, why? you leave me?
Oh, what can I do?

??ause every night
I sit here by the phone
You know it rings a lot inside my head
I daydream you're home
I never knew that it would go this far.
Come pick me up
I'm going down
Like a falling star.

And the clock strikes midnight
And I'm lying here alone.
I can't sleep, I hear my heartbeat.
Oh, I can't stand the monotone.
And every day I have paced the floor
You know it rains a lot inside my heart,
But I still ask for more.
But now I know that love can leave a scar.
Come pick me up, I'm going down
Like a falling star.

And when the birds fly south for a while,
Oh, I wish that I could go.
Someone there might warm this cold heart,
Someone there might know.
But every day I have paced the floor.
You know it rains a lot inside my heart,
But I still ask for more.
But now I know that love can leave a scar.
Come pick me up, I'm going down
Like a falling star

I've got something I'd like to tell you
Something that happend to me
I'd been feelin' thoroughly lowdown
So I went to see the gypsy

She sat me down by her candle
She said she had the powers that be
And she looked me in the eye and took my hand
And this is what she said to me

Chorus:
She said, now you're flying high
Tomorrow you might be low
The same thing that makes your baby cry
Might make him get up and go

She said this would be all for now
But that you might come back
If you find it hard to understand
Simple little words like that

So I gave her all of my money
And took off for Singapore
But I couldn't unravel those words of hers
So I went back to the gypsy for more

Chorus

Well, just about this time my luck changed
And fortune did roll in
Well I learned the meaning of happiness
And the value of a friend

I met a fine young gentleman
As fine as a man can be
But I never forgot that gypsy girl
And what she said to me

Chorus

I got something that you need
I got something you should see
Come over and talk to me right now
Isnæ?° anything you need to bring
I know a way to make your heart sing
Thereæ?? a way to have everything
Oh, don't be shy

CHORUS
When you come by
Give me just a little more time
I'm gonna show you why
Why you're gonna be mine

Well, it's a tough road out there
If you're with me honey you won't care
Let the bird in the air just fly away
Well, I'll turn the lights down low
Maybe we'll even dance real slow
I know you'll never want to go
Now, give it a try

CHORUS

Oh we never know where life will take us
We know it's just a ride on the wheel
And we never know when death will shake us
And we wonder how it will feel

So goodbye my friend
I know I'll never see you again
But the time together through all the years
Will take away these tears
It's O.K. now
Goodbye my friend

I'd see a lot of things that made me crazy
And I guess I held on to you
You could've run away and left, well maybe
But it wasn't time and we both knew

So goodbye my friend
I know I'll never see you again
But the love you gave me through all the years
Will take away my tears
I'm O.K. now
Goodbye my friend

A life so fragile, a love so pure
We can't hold on but we try
We watch how quickly it disappears
And we'll never know why

But I'm O.K. now
Goodbye my friend
You can go now
Goodbye my friend

Traveling at night, the headlights were bright
And we? been up many an hour
And all through my brain
Came the refrain
Of home and it? warming fire

CHORUS
And Home
Sings me of sweet things
My life there has it? own wings
To fly over the mountains
Though I'm standing still

The people I've seen
They come in between
The cities of tiring life
The trains come and go,
But inside you know
The struggle will soon be a fight

CHORUS

Traveling at night,
The headlights were bright.
But soon the sun came through the trees
Around the next bend
The flowers will send
The sweet scene of home in the breeze

CHORUS

You say you need someone to love
But when will you learn?
Whatever's done in this world
It's still gonna turn

Oh, down comes the night
Just another forever
How long?

How long til you see that we're in this together?
How long?
How long?

If you weren't so far away
So far from here
I'd make your tears go away
And make you see clear

Oh, you'd see a night when two hearts were surrendered
How long?
I don't want you to be the one I remember
How long?
How long?

Oh time goes by
In the blink of an eye
It's passed over you
There's no time to hide
Won't you stand by my side
I'm asking you

Oh, down comes the night
Just another forever
How long

How long til you see that we're in this together?
How long?
How long?

One life with one love
Are the things dreams are made of
Two hearts a world apart
The music stopped before the dance could start

CHORUS
So goodbye, now please don't cry
For now, all the words have been spoken
Time heals the heart that's broken
My love just walk away

We played those long days
You thought that we saw it the same way
You love as blind and if I seem unkind
Oh I wish for you that I could change my mind

CHORUS

Save me,
Free me from my heart this time.
The trains gone
Down the track and I've stayed behind.

But nothing can free me
from this ball and chain
I've made up my mind
I would leave today.

But you're keepin'
Me goin'
I know it's insane
Because I love you
And lose again

When the heart calls
The mind obeys
Oh it knows better than me, baby.
If I hold on
For one more day,
Oh maybe, maybe he'll be true

And nothing can free me
From this ball and chain
I've made up my mind
I would leave today
But you're keepin'
Me goin'
I know it's insane
Because I love you and lose again.

I've been out on the road and
I've been in this town
Some people that I met were untrue
I've been out in the world and
now that I found

CHORUS
Loving you
Was the right thing to do
And it's loving you that keeps me around

Oh, baby when you hold me I can't tell a lie
I can always see myself in your eyes
But it doesn't really matter when
there's nothing to hide

CHORUS

I'll stay here
It's looking like all of my running days
are through
I'll stay here
There's nobody else like you

And if I'm feeling pain tomorrow and
I haven't a clue
Won't worry if the forecast is blue
'Cause no matter what the trouble,
you'll see it through

CHORUS

Like a bird she was wounded
A prisoner he found
He kept her beside him on the ground
She wanted him to release her
But he didnæ?° want her to fly
He had come to depend on seeing her cry

CHORUS
He cut her wings
But she could still sing
He didn't see he could never stop her heart

Just like in a cage he kept her
But inside she grew strong
And in some ways it was nice
to have a place to belong
But freedom called in its own way
soft moonlit nights in her thoughts
And the war raged on inside
that she always fought

CHORUS

Ah, the love that plays in the strangest ways
She felt his warm embrace like fire inside her
And when the day would break, it seemed
her heart would shake
But she knew he had her soul at stake

CHORUS

Like a bird she was wounded
A prisoner he found
But time was running out, he couldn't
keep her down
So one day he released her
Thinking that she wouldn't go
But how she was able to fly
was something he'd never know

CHORUS

Isn? it nice that we can dream
Of all the places we can't see
Fly over oceans wide
Do all the things we never tried
And isn't it strange how you can go
Back to a home you've never known
It's like you were there before
A place you've been searching for

The new world waits inside your dream
And your heart leads the way

Isn't it nice to feel so free
And love the way love's supposed to be
Never with hurt or pain
And never with something else to gain
And isn't it strange it seems so clear
That you have nothing here to fear
But somehow the morning light
Fades all the things you see at night

The new world waits inside your dream
And your heart knows the way
But isn't it nice to let it go
On to the life you'll someday know
And let the real world fade away

Once you're there
You'll know that you're inside
You can't turn back
When you open your eyes

The new world waits inside your dream
And your heart knows the way
But isn't it nice to let it go
On to the life you'll someday know
And let the real world fade away

Isn't it nice to let it go
On to the life your soul will know
and let the real world fade away

Oh Mary he takes my hand
He tells me that he understands
Oh I wanna know
Did that happen to you

Oh Mary it? like a dream
Feels like floating that's how it seems
Oh I wanna know
Did that happen to you

Love, or is it just a passing thing
Does time take away the gift it brings
Oh no Mary tell me will this love be true

And Oh Mary there's a fire in the snow
The streets are crystal everywhere I go
Oh I wanna know
Did you see all that too

Oh Mary the nights are long
But I feel his touch and my heart is strong
Oh I wanna know
Did you feel that way too

Love, or is it just a passing thing
Does time take away the gift it brings
Oh no Mary tell me will this love be true
True love that stands the test of time
True love that earns its name
A love that still grows when everything
Stays the same
A true love that knows the flame

Love, or is it just a passing thing
Does time take away the gift it brings
Oh no Mary tell me will this love be true

Well, baby what ya trying to prove
By beinalone
And no one can get through to you
Is there anyone home?

CHORUS:

So don't say that it's love you lacked
I paid the price now we're paying the tax
I gave it all, and I got nothing back
Only a fool gives a heart like that

Well, I said that you never gave enough
And I know this is true
I see now that you never gave it up
So you'd have nothing to lose

REPEAT CHORUS

I know that I need you
And that made you scared
If I'd known how to reach you
But I'm giving up, it's too late to care

Well, I guess that it's really over now
This is where I belong
And baby you know it's kind of funny how
All the tears made me strong

REPEAT CHORUS

I've been writing letters every day now
since you've been gone
Talking to you by telephone
For what seems like a whole life long
But I've got something to give you
That the mailman can't deliver
I can't mail it in
I can't phone it in
I can't send it in
Even by your closest kin
The thing that I'm speaking of
Is a whole lot of love
A whole mess of love

I'm bringing it to you personally
I'm bringing it to you personally

I need your love, I want your love
I need your love, I want your love
I'm bring it to you personally

You spend your days and nights alone
You think itæ?? easier that way
But that cold feeling in your bones
I said I could take away
I said, please be the one
Please be the one
Please be the one

Well, if your worlds a lonely place
It's something you never show
And love could stare you in the face
And baby, you'd never know
I said, please be the one
Please be the one
Please be the one

All the years, they took their toll on you
Your innocence has all disappeared
Tell me why you had to learn your love was
something to fear

Well, someday the tables here will turn
And I won't want to play
And for my sweet kiss you will yearn
When it's too late to say
Please be the one
Please be the one

REPEAT CHORUS

Could it be that I just called you up that time
Cause he made me feel lonely
And we, I guess we knew it was a crime
But I knew you would hold me right
Your love I could never fight

CHORUS
Those restless nights
so warm and wild
His touch was ice
Your love was fire

I know everyone needs to feel they're loved
Maybe I asked for too much
Sometimes I really felt so pushed and shoved
But I never meant to hurt him at all
When I slipped you would break my fall

CHORUS

Maybe I'm a fool
But I just can't seem to settle down
Always thinking there's another star
Maybe that's the key
'Cause love is never really sound
And it's the only thing I can do
'Cause I wasn't very good at being true

And now I look back at all the broken dreams
And wonder if I could have changed them
I see that it was in the scheme of things
'Cause still, when I see your face
I know nothing will replace

CHORUS

There's a rose in the garden
It will bloom if you're sure
That you pay close attention
but leave it room

I know your heart can be opened
And like the rose, it will bloom
if I pay close attention
But leave you room

CHORUS
I'm not telling any lies now
I need you
You know how
I think I can see how to let you grow
I've got to let you go

That's my face in the mirror
It's sometimes you that I see
We've been here for so long now
I see your soul in me

CHORUS

??ause there's a rose in the garden
It will bloom if you're sure
That you pay close attention
but leave it room

There's somebody waiting alone in the street
For someone to walk up and greet

Here you are all alone in the city
Where's the one that you took to your side
Lonely faces will stare through your eyes in the night
And they'll say - woman sweet woman please come home with me
You're shining and willing and free
But your love it's a common occurence
Not like love that I feel in my heart
Still you know that may be what I need

Is someone to lay down beside me
And even though it's not real
Just someone to lay down beside me
You're the story of my life

Well morning is breaking the street lights are off
The sun will soon share all the cost
Of a world that can be sort of heartless
Not like love that you feel in our heart
Still you know that may be all you get

Is someone to lay down beside me
And even tho it's not real
Just someone to lay down beside me
You just can't ask for more

Love is like the wind,
Sometimes it blows your way,
And until now
It missed me somehow.

But when I turned around
I saw you standing there.
The sound of your voice-
I had no choice.

I used to have a wish
One day I'd feel like this.
Now I know love exists
'Cause it's standing right next to me.

Beneath the moon tonight
I see it in your eyes
No more false starts,
No more broken hearts.

I used to have a wish
One day I'd feel like this.
Now I know love exists
'Cause it's standing right next to me.

Even in the dark,
Even when you're gone
I feel you in my heart.

I used to have a wish
One day I'd feel like this.
Now I know love exists
'Cause it's standing right next to me.

Standing right next to me.

Here comes the night again
The full moon is shining through
No love lost on baby blue
That? when I see your face
Or maybe it's a ghost of you
It seems like you see everything I do

I run through the streets of town
And you're there when I turn around
It doesn't matter where I go
I still know

When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you
When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you

So this is the kind of love
Like a touch from a black silk glove
And the hand keeps drawing me to you
And it gets underneath your skin
To a place you can never win
And you don't even know if the love was true

Well I remember better days
When your touch was a warm embrace
With a memory that's twisting me
I can see

When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you
When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you

Oh I know
Got to find a way to let you go
And walk away
I can see
There will always be a little part of me
That's part of you
No matter what I do

When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you
When I finally find
Finally find
My love, I'll still be getting over you

Everywhere I look the sun is shining
But it? always raining here inside
I can see
You really had a hold on me
It? a mean old love
With a flame that never dies

Won? you tell me why
I can? say goodbye

Everywhere I go you're in my shadow
When I turn around there? no one there
And it? a real bad sign
I? walking on a real thin line
A fool in love with a fool that never cared

Won? you tell me why
I can? say goodbye
Won? you tell me why

Ask anyone you know
And they?l say love fades away
But this hearts' cryinjust like yesterday

And it? a real bad sign
I? walking on a real thin line
A fool in love with a fool that never cared

So won? you tell me why
I can? say goodbye

Won? you tell me why
I can? say goodbye

Back there in your room, while you were gone
I found the pages that she wrote to you
My heart just froze, but I couldn't stop myself
I see what jealously can do

I see now it's true, well there has been somebody
Who's had a real hold on you
And here in this bed, I guess you must have held her
How strange I never knew

She wrote that you said
You needed her to face the world
I wish that it could all just be erased
I can't believe she could take my place

As you came up the stairs
You asked "Are you all right?"
"I'd better go" was all I said
But there in your room I saw something that
I really wish I never read

The water is wide, I can't cross over
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

Oh, love is gentle and love is kind
The sweetest flower when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew

There is a ship and she sails to sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim

The water is wide, I can't cross over
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

The water is wide
I can't cross over
and neither have I wings to fly
give me a boat that can carry two
and both shall row my love and I
Oh love is gentle and love is kind
the sweetest flower
when first it's new
but love grows old and waxes cold
and fades away like morning dew

There is a ship
and she sails the sea
She is loaded deep as deep can be
but not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink on swim
The water is wide
I can't cross over
and neither have I wings to fly
give me a boat that can carry two
and both shall row my love and I
and both shall row my love and I

The water is wide
I can't cross over
and neither have I wings to fly
give me a boat that can carry two
and both shall row my love and I
Oh love is gentle and love is kind
the sweetest flower
when first it's new
but love grows old and waxes cold
and fades away like morning dew

There is a ship
and she sails the sea
She is loaded deep as deep can be
but not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink on swim
The water is wide
I can't cross over
and neither have I wings to fly
give me a boat that can carry two
and both shall row my love and I
and both shall row my love and I

Well, I wake up in the night now,
And don't you know I think of you?
It's the fire in your eyes,
It keeps on cutting through
There's nowhere I can run to,
Can't seem to lose the thought of you
I never really was a bad girl,
But you got me in trouble again.

Well, I used to walk a straight line,
I knew what I was doing all the time.
There was nothing that could move me,
I always held my ground.
But you got me where you want me,
And now you're always here to haunt me.
I never really was a bad girl
But you got me in trouble again

I still remember how it felt
When you put your arms around me
But if I thought that you would love me
I was blind

But you got me where you want me
And now you're always here to haunt me
I never really was a bad girl
But you got me in trouble again

Well, you think I would have learned by now,
And I'd keep away from you, somehow
Just like a little child,
I keep coming back for more.
But baby, when you called today,
Don't you know that I'll come out and play
I never really was a bad girl,
But you got me in trouble again.

Dreams are broken
But some dreams comes true
The words were spoken
And now we don't know what to do
We just fight all day
Not meaning anything we say
And now we're frozen
Afraid to let go

And they tell us
That love is really tough
You might find fool's gold
Or a diamond in the rough
Can I let you know
And really let my heart go
Without losing a little part of me

And will we know
Which road to choose
I know we might not lose
If we just stay
On the way
Of the heart

I can see it in your eyes
It's been tearing you apart
You wanna find the truth
But you don't know where to start
We're just playing
If you don't stop weighing
What you can live with and what you can't live without
And will we know
Which road to choose
I know we might not lose
If we just stay
On the way
Of the heart

I remember the night
We let love find us
And there wasn't a doubt in our minds
Oh if we could just
Go back in time
The secret there we might find

But I've been thinking
There must be a better way
To stop this sinking
That we're feeling every day
On a clear night
I know it's gonna feel right
If we let that full moon
Come and take us away

Just keep your eyes
On the stars above
I know that we'll find love
If we just stay
On the way
Of the heart

I can see a new expression on my face
I can feel a strange sensation taking place
I can hear the guitars playing lovely tunes
Every time that you walk in the room

I close my eyes for a second and pretend it's me you want
Meanwhile I try to act so nonchalant
I see a summer night with a magic moon
Every time that you walk in the room

Maybe it's a dream come true
Standing right along side of you
Wish I could show you how much I care
But I only have the nerve to stare

I can feel there's something pounding in my brain
Just anytime that someone speaks your name
Trumpets sound and I hear thunder boom
Every time that you walk in the room
Every time that you walk in the room
Every time that you walk in the room

These days when I take a look behind,
I think about you and all that time.
We were as one,
kids on the run.

CHORUS
I loved you like I'll never love another,
With the wild heart of the young
But it took until now to uncover.
Oh, if I'd only known it then

You spoke of the dream we made come true
I remember how I looked up to you.
It was there in your touch
You knew so much.

CHORUS

Well, they watched while you broke all the rules,
And everyone thought I was your fool.
But I paid the price
Never even thought twice

CHORUS

If I thought about all the loves
I knew I know they'd all fade except for you.
And someday you'll see how much you taught me.