Nana Mouskouri [가수, 작사가, 정치가.]

The gentle sound of your breathing
The murmur of the night
The sounds that really belong in music
Someday I just might

Meantime I just like his smile
Wide awake at dawn
And I wonder where
My bad old days are gone

Oh I wonder where
My bad old days are gone
When I was lost with
Nothing to count on

Now I lay here
Smiling all night long
And I wonder where
My bad old days are gone

The danger is in the telling
I'm tempted to be blight
The truth is there were battles
Didn't have to turn out right

I love you more than the morning
And part of the reason why
Is you helped me kiss
Those bad old days goodbye

I wonder where my bad old days are gone
When I was lost with nothing to count on
Now I lie here smiling all night long
And I wonder where my bad old days are gone

You're quiet in the morning
You like to wake up slow
You need your coffee before you talk
I remember you tellin me so

Was it sixteen years ago
Was it yesterday
That you came and
Chased my bad old days away

Oh I wonder where my bad old days are gone
When I was lost with nothing to count on
Now I lie here smiling all night long
And I wonder where my bad old days are gone
Now I lie here smiling all night long
And I wonder where my bad old days are gone

If you're in a valley
With a troubled mind
I'm a mountain
Come on and climb
cause ya look so good
To be so down
It won't take much
To turn it all around

Come with me
Come with me
The feeling's free
Just come with me
We'll get on a cloud
And ride it high
Say hello sun
As we sail by

I'll take you where
You never been before
Once we're there
You'll cry for more
If its dark in your world
Come walk in mine
My love's a light
Its on all the time

Come with me
Come with me
The feeling's free
Just come with me
We'll get on a cloud
And ride it high
Say hello sun
As we sail by

Come with me
Come with me
The feeling's free
Just come with me
We'll get on a cloud
And ride it high
Say hello sun
As we sail by

Some situation somewhere,somehow
Triggers your memory
And do you ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darlin' do I ever cross your mind

Do you ever want to know
If all dreams go on endlessly
Or do they just run down
Somehow and gradually become
The custody of that melancholy jailer father time
And darlin' do I ever cross your mind

Do uninvited when you're lonely
Or does that only happen to me
And don't you ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darlin' do I ever cross your mind

Do I ever cross your mind
Uninvited when you're lonely
Or does that only happen to me
And don't you ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darlin' do I ever cross your mind
And darlin' do I ever cross your mind

I don't believe in superstars
organic food and foreign cars
I don't believe the price of gold
the certainty of growing old
that right is right and left is wrong
that north and south can't get along
that east is east and west is west
and being first is always best.

But I believe in love, I believe in babies
I believe in mom and dad, and I believe in you.

Well I don't believe that heaven waits
for only those who congregate
I like to think of God as love
He's down below, He's up above
He's watching people everywhere
He knows who dies and doesn't care
and I'm an ordinary man
sometimes I wonder who I am.

But I believe in love, I believe in music
I believe in magic, and I believe in you.

I know with all my certainty what's goin'
with you and me is a good thing
it's true, I believe in you.

I don't believe virginity is
as common as it used to be
in working days and sleeping nights
that black is black and white is white
that Superman and Robin Hood
are still alive in Hollywood
that gasoline's in short supply
the rising cost of getting by.

But I believe in love, I believe in old folks
I believe in children, I believe in you.

I believe in love, I believe in babies
I believe in mom and dad, and I believe in you.

They say that love's a gentle thing
To me, brought only pain
Since the only man I ever loved
Is gone on the morning train

CHORUS:
I never will marry
I'll be no man's wife
I will remain single
For the rest of my life

Now, the train pulled out, the whistle blew
With a long and lonesome moan
He's gone, he's gone like the morning dew
And left me all alone

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

Now, there's many a change in the winter wind
And a change in the clouds' design
There's many a change in the young girl's heart
But never a change in mine

CHORUS (2x)

1.
Love is a shiny car
Love is a steel guitar
Love is a battle scar
Love is the morning star

Love is a twelve bar blues
Love is your blue suede shoes
Love is a heart abused
Love is a mind confused

R.
Love is the pleasures untold
And for some love is still a band of gold
"My love has no reason, has no rhyme"
My love crossed the double line

2.
Love is a minor chord
Love is a man to hold
Love is a drawn sword
Love is it's own reward

Refrain (Bis)

"My love has no reason, has no rhyme"
My love crossed the double line
"My love has no reason, has no rhyme"
My love crossed the double line
"My love has no reason, has no rhyme"
My love crossed the double line

If you could see me now
The one who said that she'd rather roam
The one who said she'd rather be alone
If you could only see me now

If I could hold you now
Just for a moment if I could
Really make you mine
Just for a while turn back the
Hands of time
If I could only hold you now

I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing for the freedom from my chains
Lying in your loving arms again

If you could hear me now singing somewhere through
The lonely nights
Dreaming of the arms that held me tight
If you could only hear me now

I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing for the freedom from my chains
Lying in your loving arms again

I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing for the freedom from my chains
Lying in your loving arms again

I can almost feel your loving arms again

1-
I used to stand on the corner when I was a child
And I would play my guitar and sing as the people went by
The sidewalks were crowded, but I'd just sing louder
'Cause I didn't mind
Spending my time
Spending my rhymes
And singing for nickels and dimes

Chorus

Nickels and dimes
A song at a time
For nickels and dimes

2-
I'd brighten their day
As they'd go on their way
As they'd brighten mine
A sidewalk rehearsal for dreams that I held in my mind
I knew that some day, in my own special way
I'd repay all their nickels and dimes

3-
I recall the sidewalks each night as I stand on the stage
As I play my guitar and sing for the people who pay
'Cause finally I made it to what they all call the Big Time
But I still remember I still owe some nickels and dimes

Chorus
4-
A sidewalk rehearsal for dreams that I held in my mind
So if you remember a child on the corner of time
You'll know that I promised to repay your
Nickels and dimes

Chorus

Repeat 4

Chorus

Repeat 4

(Verse 1):
I ride an old paint.
I lead an old dam.
I'm goin' to Montana to throw a hoolihan.
They feed in the coolies.
They water in the draw.
Their tails are all matted.
their backs are all raw.
(Chorus):
Ride Around.
Ride Around real slow.
the fiery and the snuffy are rarin' to go.
(Verse 2):
Old Bill Brown had a daughter and a son.
One went to Denver and the other went wrong.
His wife, she died in a poolroom fight,
and still he keeps singin' from mornin' till night
(Repeat Chorus)
(Verse 3):
Well, when I die, take my saddle from the wall.
Put it on my pony and lead him from his stall.
Tie my bones to his back.
Turn our faces to the west.
And we'll ride the prairie that we like the best.
(Repeat Chorus)

Roses love sunshine
Violets love dew
Angels love heaven
And so, I love you

If you don't love me,
Love whom you please
But let me be near you
Give my heart ease

I'm building a castle
Forty feet high
So I can see you
As you go by

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

Throw your arms around me
Before it's too late
Put your head on my shoulder
Feel my heart ache

We'll walk together
Through life's hard line
Knowing forever
You will be mine

Roses love sunshine
Violets love dew
Angels love heaven
And so, I love you

1-
Yesterday started
No different than
A hundred days before
He reached out and touched me
Before my feet could touch
The cold wood floor

2-
As I lay beside him
And the thoughts of the moment
Filled my mind
Little did I know
That I was loving him
For my last time

3-
But seeing is believing
And believing is the feeling
That you feel
When the loving feeling's gone
Everything we've ever been
Or anything will be again
Packed up his bags
And moved along

4-
He had everything I need
He knew exacly how to feed
The hunger that lives inside of me
He controlled the way I feel
Each day he touched me where I live
It's hard to believe his memory

(Repeat 3 x 3)

Lost and alone on some forgotten highway
Traveled by many, remembered by few
Looking for something that I can believe in,
Looking for something that I'd like to do
With my life

There's nothing behind me and nothing that ties me
To something that might have been true yesterday
Tomorrow is open and right now, it seems
To be more than enough to just be here today

And I don't know what the future is holding in store
I don't know where I'm going, I'm not sure where I've been
There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me
My life is worth the living, I don't need to see the end

CHORUS:
Sweet, sweet surrender
Live, live without care
Like a fish in the water,
Like a bird in the air
(2x)

Lost and alone on some forgotten highway
Traveled by many, remembered by few
Looking for something that I can believe in,
Looking for something that I'd like to do
With my life

There's nothing behind me and nothing that ties me
To something that might have been true yesterday
Tomorrow is open and right now, it seems
To be more than enough to just be here today

And I don't know what the future is holding in store
I don't know where I'm going, I'm not sure where I've been
There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me
My life is worth the living, I don't need to see the end

CHORUS
(repeat and fade out)

I could build a mansion that is higher than the trees,
I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please.
I could fly to Paris, it's at my beck and call,
Why do I live my life alone with nothing at all?

But when I dream, I dream of you.
Maybe someday you will come true.

I can be the singer or the clown in any room,
I can call up someone to take me to the moon,
I can put my makeup on and drive the men insane,
I can go to bed alone and never know his name.

But when I dream, I dream of you. Maybe someday you will come true.
But when I dream, I dream of you. Maybe someday you will come true.

Yesterday' s dreams
Like birds in the winter
Have gathered together
And flown to the sun
Yesterday' s promises
Like shells in the ocean
All shattered and broken
Like yesterday' s dreams

You are my harbour
My dream of tomorrow
My promise of sunshine
My shield from the storm
My sweet companion
We' ll journey together
And not be defeated
By yesterday' s dreams

La la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la

Repeat first verse