69 Love Songs Annotations

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69 LOVE SONGS!!

1. ABSOLUTELY CUCKOO

Don't fall in love with me yet We've only recentlymet True I'm in love with you but you might decideI'm a nut Give me a week or two to go absolutelycuckoo then, when you see your error, then, you canflee in terror like everybody else does I only tellyou this cause I'm easy to get rid of but not if youfall in love Know now that I'm on the make and if you

make a mistake my heart will certainly break I'll haveto jump in a lake and all my friends will blame youThere's no telling what they'll do It's only fair totell you I'm absolutely cuckoo

2. I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SUN

They say there's a sun in the sky but me, I can'timagine why There might have been one before you weregone but now all I see is the night (C): I don't believein the sun How could it shine down on everyone andnever shine on me How could there be such crueltyThe only sun I ever knew was the beautiful one that was you

Since you went away it's nighttime all day and it's usuallyraining too... (C) The only stars there really are wereshining in your eyes There is no sun except the one thatnever shone on other guys The moon to whom the poets croonhas given up and died Astronomy will have to be revised... (C)

3. ALL MY LITTLE WORDS

You are a splendid butterfly It is your wings that make youbeautiful and I could make you fly away but I could nevermake you stay You said you were in love with me Both ofus know that that's impossible and I could make you ruethe day but I could never make you stay (C): Not for all

the tea in China not if I could sing like a bird not forall North Carolina not for all my little words not if Icould write for you the sweetest song you ever heardIt doesn't matter what I do not for all my little wordsNow that you've made me want to die you tell me thatyou're unboyfriendable and I could make you pay and paybut I could never make you stay... (C)

4. A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF

Eligible, not too stupid, intelligible and cute as Cupid,knowledgeable, but not always right, salvageableand free for the night (C): Well my heart's running round

like a chicken with its head cut off all around the barnyardfalling in and out of love The poor thing's blind as a batgetting up, falling down, getting up Who'd fall in love witha chicken with its head cut off? (Whoa, Nellie) My wifedoesn't understand me Many dozens hope to land me I'm forfree love, and I'm in free fall This could be love ornothing at all... (C) We don't have to be stars explodingin the night or electric eels under the covers Wedon't have to be anything quite so unreal let's justbe lovers... (C) (It ain't pretty)


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5. RENO DAKOTA

Reno Dakota there's not an iota of kindness in youYou know you enthrall me and yet you don't call meIt's making me blue Pantone 292 Reno Dakota I'mreaching my quota of tears for the year Alas andalack you just don't call me back You have justdisappeared It makes me drink beer I know you'rea recluse You know that's no excuse Reno that'sjust a ruse Do not play fast and loose with my heart

Reno Dakota I'm no Nino Rota I don't know the scoreHave I annoyed you or is there a boy whoWell he's just a whore I've had him beforeIt makes me drink more

6. I DON'T WANT TO GET OVER YOU

I don't want to get over you I guess I could takea sleeping pill and sleep at will and not have togo through what I go through I guess I should takeProzac, right, and just smile all night at somebody newSomebody not too bright but sweet and kind who wouldtry to get you off my mind I could leave this agony behind

which is just what I'd do if I wanted to but I don'twant to get over you cause I don't want to get over loveI could listen to my therapist, pretend you don't existand not have to dream of what I dream of I could listento all my friends and go out again and pretend it's enoughor I could make a career of being blue I could dressin black and read Camus smoke clove cigarettes and drinkvermouth like I was 17 that would be a scream but Idon't want to get over you

7. COME BACK FROM SAN FRANCISCO

Come back from San Francisco It can't be all that pretty

when all of New York City misses you Should pretty boysin discos distract you from your novel remember I'mawful in love with you (C): You need me like the windneeds the trees to blow in Like the moon needs poetryyou need me Come back from San Francisco and kiss me,I've quit smoking I miss doing the wild thing with youWill you stay, I don't think so but all I do is worryPack bags, call cabs and hurry home to me... (C)When you betray me betray me with a kiss Damn youI've never stayed up as late as this

8. THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE

Andy would bicycle across town in the rain to bring youcandy and John would buy the gown for you to wear to theprom with Tom the astronomer who'd name a star for you(C): But I'm the luckiest guy on the Lower East Sidecause I've got wheels and you want to go for a rideHarry is the one I think you'll marry but it's Christhat you kissed after school I'm a fool, there's no doubtbut when the sun comes out and only when the suncomes out... (C) The day is beautiful and so are youMy car is ugly but then I'm ugly too I know you'd


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never give me a second glance but when the weather'snice all the other guys don't stand a chanceI know Professor Blumen makes you feel like a womanbut when the wind is in your hair you laugh like a little girlSo you share secrets with Lou but we've got secrets tooWell, one: I only keep this heap for youcause I'm the ugliest guy on the Lower East Sidebut I've got wheels and you want to go for a rideWant to go for a ride?

9. LET'S PRETEND WE'RE BUNNY RABBITS

If you knew how I long for you now that you're goneyou'd grow wings and fly home to me home tonightand in the morning sun (C): let's pretend we'rebunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Let abbots,Babbits and Cabots say Mother Nature's wrongand when we've had a coupla beers we'll put onbunny suits I long to nibble your ears and doas bunnies do Let's pretend we're bunny rabbitsLet's do it all day long rapidly becoming rabidsinging little rabbit songs I can keep it up all nightI can keep it up all day Let's pretend we're bunnyrabbits until we pass away Let's pretend we're

bunny rabbits until we pass away

10. THE CACTUS WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE

The cactus where your heart should be has lovelylittle flowers so though it's always pricking memy ardor never sours The cactus hwere your heartonce was has power to rend and flay I stick becauseI'm stuck, because I just can't tear myself away

11. I THINK I NEED A NEW HEARTTime stands still All I can feel is the time standing stillas you put down the keys and say don't call me please

while the radio plays "I Think I Need a New Heart"You've lied too but it's a sin that I can't tell the truthcause it all comes out wrong unless I put it in a songso the radio plays "I Think I Need a New Heart" just for you"I Think I Need a New Heart" cause I always say I love youwhen I mean turn out the light and I say let's run awaywhen I just mean stay the night but the words you want to hearyou will never hear from me I'll never say happy anniversarynever stay to say happy anniversary so I think I need a new heartGive me time

12. THE BOOK OF LOVEThe book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing

It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancingbut I I love it when you read to me and you you can read me anythingThe book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes fromSome of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb but II love it when you sing to me and you you can sing me anythingThe book of love is long and boring and written very long agoIt's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we're alltoo young to know but I I love it when you give me things and youyou ought to give me wedding rings I I love it when you give me thingsand you you ought to give me wedding rings


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13. FIDO, YOUR LEASH IS TOO LONGFido, your leash is too long You go where you don't belongYou've been diggin in the rubble getting bitches in troubleFido, your leash is too long Fido your leash is too longI don't know where I went wrong You scare me out of my witswhen you do that Shitzu Fido, your leash is too longFido, you've gone far enough I must have all of your loveYou've just run out of luck I don't care what you foxhounds dobut your leash is too long

14. HOW FUCKING ROMANTICHow fucking romantic All the stars are out twinkling twinkling twinklingand fluttering about What a tacky sunset What a vulgar moonPlay another charming Rodgers & Hart tune How fucking romanticMust we really waltz Drag another cliche howling from the vaultsLove you, obviously, like you really care, even though you treat melike a dancing bear Toss your bear a goldfish as it cycles byDon't forget to feed your bear or it'll die

15. THE ONE YOU REALLY LOVEI do believe our love's in danger I might aas well be loving airYou look at me like I'm a stranger You look at me like I'm not thereI gaze into your eyes of blue but their beauty is not for mee You're

thinking on someone who's gone You're dreaming of the one you really loveI made you mine, or so it seemed Though he is dead he haunts your dreamsI might as well be two ft. tall You never will love me at all...You're dreaming of the corpse you really love

16. PUNK LOVEPunk love punk love Punk rock love

17. PARADES GO BYI'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear and sing till dawna song of you and me and what and why for time is all I have to keepbetween these walls and half asleep the days go by a million littlenights and days go by and I don't mind Parades go by So many beautiful

parades go by Leave me behind I'll sit and stare how could I ventureanywhere and let the centuries fall where they may but never diefor I have loved and so I lost the world above beyond the moss...

18. BOA CONSTRICTORI spend my evenings alone talking to your picture, babe Love iswrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe My mothershould have murdered me What jury would convict her, babe forlove is wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe

19. A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE...A pretty girl is like a minstrel show It makes you laughIt makes you cry You go It just isn't the same on radio

It's all about the makeup and the dancing and the Oh,a pretty girl is like a violent crime If you do it wrongyou could do time but if you do it right it is sublimeI'm so in love with you, girl, It's like I'm on the moonI can't really breathe, but I feel lighter A melody is likea pretty girl Who cares if it's the dumbest in the worldIt's all about the way that it unfurls A pretty girl is likea pretty girl

20. MY SENTIMENTAL MELODY


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I'm a hopeless romantic You're a terrible flirt Cool and unfazed,you're always amazed when someone gets hurt I live on the blue planetthat I saw in your eyes but now I can't stay knowing it's madeof beautiful lies but my sentimental melody like a long-lost lullabyewill ring in your ears down through the years bringing a tear to your eyeGoodbye Love can kill people, can't it Well it still might kill meEach drop of rain is a glass of champagne It's sweet and it's freeWhen I drink I don't panic When I drink I don't die When I'm far goneit's all just a song just beautiful lies...

21. NOTHING MATTERS WHEN WE'RE DANCING

Dance with me my old friend once before we go Let's pretendthis song won't end and we never have to go home and we'lldance among the chandeliers And nothing matters when we'redancing In tat or tatters you're entrancing Be we in Parisor in Lansing nothing matters when we're dancing You've never beenmore beautiful your eyes like two full moons than here in thispoor old dancehall among the dreadful tunes the awful songswe don't even hear...

22. SWEET-LOVIN' MANThere's an hour of sunshine for a million years of rainbut somehow that always seems to be enough When love fallsfrom the sky nobody ever asks why You just take it or

you leave it where it was but there's just one kind of loveyou can spend your life dreaming of For the love of a sweet-lovin' mansome have traveled far and wide some have given up and diedFor the love of a sweet-lovin' man some have broken down and criedsome have turned to dust inside but I'll stay right here and hidein the arms of my sweet-lovin' man Until you've had sweet lovin'there's no lovin' worth the name but you can go blindfrom crying all the time and who said life was easyand who said a man was fair Well I wish you wellbut keep your paws off mine You can't buy one at the mallbut he'll come if you just call...

23. THE THINGS WE DID AND DIDN'T DO

All the things I knew I didn't know and didn't want to knowthat you told me just to tell me later that you'd told me socome flooding back to me now Come on Come flooding back to me nowAll the things you said you'd never say and you said anywayThe things we did and didn't do The things we did and didn't docome flooding back to me now

24. ROSES

Buy more stock in roses Millionaires will always woo Don't be shocked ifroses make a millionaire of you

25. LOVE IS LIKE JAZZ

Love is like jazz You make it up as you go along and you act as if youreally know the song but you don't and you never will so you flaunt yourmistakes and you make them until they were you Love is like jazz the samesong a million times in different ways "Strange Fruit" with and withoutwind chimes It's divine It's asinine It's depressing and it's almostentirely window dressing but it'll do

26. WHEN MY BOY WALKS DOWN THE STREET


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Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street There arewhole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat Everyone singshallelujah when my boy walks down the street Life just kind of dancesthrough ya from your smile down to your feet Amazing he's a whole new formof life blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife The world does thehula-hula when my boy walks down the street Everyone thinks he's Petula sobig and yet so petite Butterflies turn into people when my boy walks downthe street Maybe he should be illegal he just makes life too complete...Oh, shadows of echoes of memories Oh, things that he brings that he found inthe sea Oh, shadows of echoes of memories of songs Oh, how could he knowthat it won't be long...

27. TIME ENOUGH FOR ROCKING WHEN WE'RE OLD

There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old We can rock all day inrocking chairs of gold but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancingThere'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love There'll be timeenough for talk in the nursing home Darling, time enough to write an epicpoem but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enoughfor talking in the home, my love There'll be time enough for sleeping whenwe're dead You will have a velvet pillow for your head but tonight I thinkI'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for sleeping when we'redead, my love There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven when ourpheromones are turned up to 11 but tonight I think I'd rather just go

dancing There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love andtime enough for rocking when we're old

28. VERY FUNNY

Everybody knows but me when you go where you shouldn't be Everybody knowsbut me where you go when you're feeling free Everybody knows but me So yougo there for a laugh You just go to take photographs To believe that, I'd bedaft but yes I think you go for a laugh and you say, I love you honey Very funny

29. GRAND CANYON

If I was the Grand Canyon I'd echo everything you say but I'm just me I'monly me and you used to love me that way so you know how to love me that wayIf I was Paul Bunyan I'd carry you so far away but I'm just me I'm only meand you used to love me that way so you know how to love me that way

30. NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU

If you don't mind why don't you mind Where is your sense of indignation Youare too kind Much too kind Where is the madness that you promised me Whereis the dream for which I paid dearly When things go wrong I sing along Itis the nature of the business But you're not here to make my sad songs moresincere No one will ever love you honestly No one will ever love youfor your honesty No one will ever love you honestly No one will ever

love you for your honesty

31. IF YOU DON'T CRY

Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and aregone Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet and nothing gets doneAn hour goes by She doesn't If you don't cry it isn't love If you don'tcry then you just don't feel it deep enough Dying all day in thousands oflittle ways Dancing alone and drinking a lot Closing the clubs and hauntingthe cabarets looking for what Another five years off your life... A year


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goes by She doesn't...

32. YOU'RE MY ONLY HOME

I will stay if you let me stay and I'll go if you let go but I won't go faraway because you're my only home I will hide what you want hidden and I'llroam if you say roam but I'd just as soon you didn't because you're my onlyhome When you cancel dinner plans When you cross the street and you don'ttake my hand When you make impossible demands I wish I didn't understand, but...

33. (CRAZY FOR YOU BUT) NOT THAT CRAZY

I built a ship with my own hands to take us to the moon I took a pen in myown hand and wrote you a hundred tunes now I'm crazy for you but not thatcrazy I pretended you were Jesus you were just dying to save me I stoodbeneath your window with my ukulele I made my yard a playground just incase we had a baby now I'm crazy for you but not that crazy I treated youlike radium I treated you like God You were my glass menagerie Did you notfind that odd I dwelt within and went without and broke my virgin flesh Iperformed acts of devotion as if you were Ganesh, but now I'm crazy for youbut not that crazy I'm crazy for you but not that crazy

34. MY ONLY FRIEND

Billie you're a miracle and God knows I need one Sing me something terriblethat even dawn may come You and me, we don't believe in happy endings Hey,Lady Day, can you save my life this time Can you cry so beautifully youmake my troubles rhyme Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again My onlylove has gone away Will you be my only friend Billie you're a geniusenough to be a fool a fool to gamble everything and never know the rulesSome of us can only live in songs of love and trouble Some of us can onlylive in bubbles...

35. PROMISES OF ETERNITY

What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs

and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retireWhat if all the stage hands were let go or firedthat's just like what the world would beIf you fell out of love with me I can't let this happen to youdon't you let it happen to me What would our friends and family sayif they could only see If you let this happen to usdon't think you'd be setting me free Wasn't it you and I who madepromises of eternity What if the lights didn't go on What if thevelvet curtain had to be taken down What if the clowns couldn't be clownsand all those painted smiles gave in to plaintive frownsWhat if no show ever happened again No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no "10"All numbers and no mystery No promise of eternity...

36. WORLD LOVE

When the rhythm calls the government falls Here come the copsFrom Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop We are black & whiteand we dance all night down at the hop and the letters were tallon the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop so if you're feeling lowstuck in some bardo I, even I know the solutionlove, music, wine and revolution love, love, love music, wine and revolutionThis too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chanceand freedom is the only law shall we dance...


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37. WASHINGTON, D.C.

W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.! W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!Washington, D.C., it's paradise to me It's not because it isthe grand old seat of precious freedom and democracy no no noIt's not the greenery turning gold in fall the scenery circlingthe Mall It's just that's where my baby lives, that's allWashington, D.C. it's the greatest place to be It's notthe cherries everywhere in bloom It's not the way they put folkson the Moon, no no no It's not the spectacles and pageantry

the thousand things you've got to see It's just that's wheremy baby waits for meW! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.! W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!Washington, D.C., it fits me to a T It's not the people doingsomething real It's not the way the springtime makes you feelIt ain't no famous name on a golden plaque that makes me ridethe railroad track It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming backIt's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back

38. LONG-FORGOTTEN FAIRYTALE

If someone told me you'd be here whispering these familiar thingstalking to my little pets smoking the same old cigarettes

I would have laughed I saw you last in springtimeYou said you hated long goodbyes You said there's nothing to explainin every life a little rain et cetera And a long-forgotten fairytaleis in your eyes again and I'm caught inside a dream world where thecolors are too intense and nothing is making sense There's a floatingtown of eiderdown in a mist of mystery There's an old enchanted castleand the princess there is me decked out like a Christmas treeI guess you've had your little joke but I have lost my sense of humorMy medication's wearing off or it's just not strong enough to cover thisand then you kiss me like before and I find myself wanting moreand you tell that little lie that kept me hypnotized: another kiss...If someone told me I'd succumb, If someone said I'd be so dumbafter all the sleepless nights when I turned on all the lights

I would have hit them but I have turned the other cheekMy voice trembles, my knees are weak and you beat me once againand I know what happens then: you raise the ante...

39. KISS ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT

He is my lord, He is my saviour and He rewards my good behaviorMy secret soul, I know He's seen it He says, come here baby andkiss me like you mean it He calls me baby, says kiss me like you mean itHe is my life and my salvation He's always right, He's always patientI pinch myself It's like I'm dreaming it... He is my love, He's always been it...

40. PAPA WAS A RODEO

I like your twisted point of view, Mike I like your questioning eyebrowsYou've made it pretty clear what you like It's only fair to tell you nowthat I leave early in the morning and I won't be back till next yearI see that kiss-me pucker forming but maybe you should plug it with a beercause (C): Papa was a rodeo Mama was a rock'n'roll bandI could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to standHome was anywhere with diesel gas Love was a trucker's handNever stuck around long enough for a one-night stand


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Before you kiss me you should know Papa was a rodeoThe light reflecting off the mirror ball looks like a thousand swirling eyesThey make me think I shouldn't be here at allYou know, every minute someone dies What are we doing in this dive barHow can you live in a place like this Why don't you just get into my carand I'll take you away I'll take that kiss now, but...(C)And now it's 55 years later We've had the romance of the centuryAfter all these years wrestling gators I still feel like cryingwhen I think of what you said to me...(C) What a coincidence, yourPapa was a rodeo too

41. EPITAPH FOR MY HEART

"Caution: to prevent electric shock do not remove coverNo user-serviceable parts insde Refer servicing to qualifiedservice personnel"Let this be the epitaph for my heart Cupid put too much poison in the dartThis is the epitaph for my heart because it's gone, gone goneand life goes on and on anon and death goes on, world without endand you're not my friend Who will mourn the passing of my heartWill its little droppings climb the pop chart Who'll take its ashes and,singing, fling them from the top of the Brill Building And life goes on,and dawn, and dawn and death goes on, world without end and you'renot my friend

42. ASLEEP AND DREAMING

I've seen you laugh at nothing at all I've seen you sadly weepingThe sweetest thing I ever saw was you asleep and dreamingI've seen you when your ship came in and when you train was leavingThe sweetest thing I ever saw was you asleep and dremaingWell you may not be beautiful but it's not for me to judgeI don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much...

43. THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE WORLD GOES DANCING

So the sun goes dawn and the world goes dancing and the stars come out

and they all go dancing and there is nothing I'd like more than a twirlacross this rickety old floor Well I don't know why but I just feellike dancing I can't imagine why but I feel like dancing and there isnothing in this world that I'd like better than a twirl across yourrickety old floor Maybe it's you You know your eyes are awful blueMaybe it's more Maybe you're all I've ever waited for after all theendless nights when I wished I could still cry...

44. THE WAY YOU SAY GOOD-NIGHT

So faraway and so alone how could I ever take you homeYou're beautiful, beautiful You've got a devastating point of viewand everything you say is true You're beautiful, beautiful

The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song:"The Way you Say Good-Night" The nightbirds start to singtheir favorite song and the moon begins to sing I kiss youand the sun goes down How come it's always dark when you're aroundYou're beautiful, beautiful The nightbirds start to singtheir favorite song The moon begins to sing You're beautiful, beautifulThe stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance: "The Way You Say Good-Night"and the night becomes a musical extravaganza: The Way You Say Good-NightThe way you say good-night I dream of all day long Oh, I could write a songabout the way you say good-night...


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45. ABIGAIL, BELLE OF KILRONAN

Abigail can you feel my heart in the palm of your handand do you understand why I can't stay Abigail an evil wind is blowingthrough the land and they need every man to drive it awayWhen I come home if I come home you'll be a grown womanWhen I come home if I come home don't be alone, Abigial, belle of KilronanAbigail 's gonna be the beauty of County Galway and she will live alwaysin a world of love Abigail I'm off to the war but you can be sureI will know you're what I'm fighting for...

46. I SHATTER

Bang there was you too gold too blue You told the truth.I cried. You flew. You called me mad (and I am mad) as a hatterSome fall in love I shatter You make it rain. Too bleak, too stark.Should night not fall you make things dark... Bang here am INo one nowhere no ground no sky no light no air...

47. UNDERWEAR

A pretty girl in her underwear A pretty girl in her underwearIf there's anything better in the world who cares

(C): La mort, c'est la mort mais l'amour, c'est l'amourLa mort, c'est seulement la mort mais l'amour, c'est l'amourA pretty boy in his underwear A pretty boy in his underwearIf there's a better reason to jump for joy who cares... (C)

48. IT'S A CRIME

(C): It's a crime to fall in love heart and mind and soul in love It's acrime to fall in love so hard so hard I shouldn't have bothered causeyou're just like all the others, now I know and I won't do that again Ishould have guessed that you'd be just like all the rest, but now I knownot to go through that again I'm still crying all night and all day but ifI show it someone lock me away cause... (C) My Mama said gently, you can

buy her a Bently, but my child she'll only drive it away I didn't listencause my brain was missing and I only found it today I was a man but nowI'm only a child and if it kills me I am going to smile because... (C)You won't be hearing from me anymore cause I can't see through my tearsanymore If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish I will nottell you this, becuase.. (C)

49. BUSBY BERKELEY DREAMS

I should have forgotten you long ago but you're in every song I knowWining and pining is wrong and so on and so forth, of course, of course,but no you can't have a divorce (C): I haven't seen you in agesbut it's not as bleak as it seems We still dance on whirling stages

in my Busby Berkeley dreams The tears have stained all the pagesof my True Romance magazines We still dance in my outrageous-ly beautiful Busby Berkeley dreams And now you want to leave me for goodI refuse to believe you could You forget we're not made of woodWell, darling you may do your worst because you'll have to killme first... (C) Do you think it's dangerous to have Busy Berkeleydreams?

50. I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU


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A single rose in your garden dwellsLike any rose it's not itselfIt is my love in your garden growsbut let's pretend it's just a roseWell I'm sorry that I love youIt's a phase that I'm going throughThere is nothing that I can doand I'm sorry that I love youDo not listen to my songDon't remember it, don't sing alongLet's pretned it's a work of art

Let's pretend it's not my heart...The rose will fade when summer's goneThe song will fade and I'll be gonebecause my heart is dying tooand it's all the same to you

51. Acoustic Guitar-

Acoustic guitar, I'm gonna make you a starGey your picture all over the worldAcoustic guitar, you can have your own carJust bring me back my girlShe always loved the sound of your strum

You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumbShe tends to faint at the sound of a drum cause she's folkso play and maybe she'll comeAcoustic guitar, how lovely you arewith your inlays of mother of pearlBe a good guitar and you can go farJust bring me back my girlShe always said that you were the onewho could make her moveher cute little bumYou understand where she's coming fromwhich I obviously don'tor she wouldn't be gone

Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hardwell, you could have belongedto Steve Earle or Charo or GwarI could sell you tommorowso bring me back my girlYou'd better bring me back my girl

52. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

I met Ferdinand de Saussureon a night like thisOn love he said "I'm not so sureI even know what it is

No understanding, no closureIt is a nemesisYou can't use a bulldozerto study orchids," he said, "sowe don't know anythingyou don't know anythingI don't know anything about loveBut we are nothingyou are nothingI am nothing without love"


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I'm just a great composerand not a violent manbut I lost my composureand I shot Ferdinandcrying, "It's well and kosherto say you don't understandbut this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland!"His last words were...His fading words were...

53. Love in the Shadows-

The woman with no noseI know where she goesThe old guy with the gold eyewe go back, he and IDon't smileWe don't do that here, babyLove in the shadows was never hard to findbut sometimes the moonglowplays tricks on your mindLove in the shadows is the only kindThe whispers you hearare not sweet nothings

Let's have one more beerand I'll tell you somethingDon't laughI think you're beautiful...

54. Bitter Tears-

Bitter tears keep me goingthrough the years, freely flowingWhat have you doneOnly a guncould stop these bitter tearsThe endless streets I walk along

you made them seem prettybut no I dress in country songsand wake in New York City...I cry because it looks so goodI cry, why not, it's freeand there's nothing more interestingthan crying constantly...

55. Wi' Nae Wee BAirn Ye'll Me Beget

Wi' nae wee bairn ye'll me begetUntwinkle, little eeMy ainly pang'll be regret

A maiden I will deeBut I'll turn into a nightingaleMy song will warm thy heartWell I'll turn into a threshing machineand tear thy bird apart...But I'll turn into a vampireand kiss you on the neckWell I'll turn into a siller crossand send thee back to heck...But I'll turn into a hydrogen bomb


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and atomize the airWell I'll turn into a cockroachand you'll see if I care...But I'll turn into a supernovaand burn up everythingWell I'll turn into a black holdand you'll turn into string...But I'll turn into God Himselfand then you'll come to meWell I will not believe in youand then where will you be...

My ainly pang'll be regretA maiden I will dee

56. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

Are you out of love with me?Are you longing to be free?Do I drive you up a tree?Yeah! Oh, yeah!Do I drive you up the wall?Do you dread every phone call?Can you not stand me at all?Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Though I need you more than airis it true you just don't care?Are you having an affair?Yeah! Oh, yeah!When we met I thoughtmoney was everythingso I let you buy the house,the car, the ringbut I can't take your perpetual whiningand you can't singI though if we live apartwe could made a brand-new startDo you want to break my heart?

Yeah! Oh, yeah!I've enjoyed making youmiserable for yearsfound peace of mind inplaying on your fearsHow I loved to catch your goldand silver tears, but now my dearWhat a dark and dreary lifeAre you reaching for a knife?Could you really kill your wife?Yeah! Oh, yeah!Of, I die, I die, I die!So it's over, you and I

Was my whole life just a lie?Yeah! Oh, yeah!

57. Experimenta Music Love-

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58. Meaningless

Meaningless?You mean it's all been meaningless?Every whisper and caress?Yes yes yes it was totally meaninglessMeaninglesslike when two fireflies flouresce

Just like everything I guessit was utterly meaninglessEven lessa little glimpse of nothingnesssucking meaning from therest of this messYes yes yes it was thoroughly meaninglessand if some dim bulb should saywe were in love in some waykick all his teeth in for meand if you feel like keeping on kickingfeel freeMeaningless

Who dare say it wasn't meaningless?Shout from the rooftopsand address the pressHa ha ha it was totally meaninglessMeaninglessMeaning less than a game of chessJust like your mother saidand mother knows bestI knew it all the time but now I confessYes yes yes how deliciously meaninglessYes yes yes how effervescently meaninglessYes yes yes how beautifully meaninglessYes yes yes how profoundly meaningless

Yes yes yes how definatively meaninglessYes yes yes how comprehensively meaninglessYes yes yes how magnificently meaninglessYes yes yes how incredibly meaninglessYes yes yes how unprecedentedly meaninglessYes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaninglessYes yes yes how unbelievably meaninglessYes yes yes how infinitely meaningless

59. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin-

It makes you blind, it does you inIt makes you think you're pretty tough

It makes you prone to crime and sinIt makes you say thing off the cuffIt's very small and made of glassand grossly over-advertisedIt turns a genius into an assand makes a fool think he is wiseIt could make you regreaty your birthor turn cartwheels in your best suitIt costs a lot more than it's worthand yet there is no substitute


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They keep it on a higher shelfthe older and more pure it growsIt has no color in itselfbut it can make you see rainbowsYou can find it at the Boweryor you can find it at Elaine'sIt makes your words more floweryIt makes the sun shine, makes it rainYou just get what they put inand they never put in enoughLove is like a bottle of gin

but a bottle of gin is not like love

60. Queen of the Savages-

My girl is the queen of the savagesShe don't know this modern worldand its ravagesInstead of money she'sgot yams and cabbagesShe lives in a domeI don't care if I never get homeMy girl is the queen of the jungle folkYou should see the things

we see when we smokeWe think all of life is a funny jokeShe's sharp as a tackI don't care if I never get backMy girl is the queen of ten villagesWe live on the fruitsof her pillagesShe eats other queens,she's very religiousShe doesn't use a forkI don't think I'll go back to New York

61. Blue You-

The moon was singing the bluesThe stars in the sky harmonizedsinging it tooand I, far belowwas singing low and slowfor youand I knowall the world was singing the bluesThe Queen was singing the bluesThe President played the saxophonesounded so alongit was on the news

And from Ursa Minorin what looked like an all-night dinercame lonely luminous creatureswhose only human featurewas singing the bluessoft and lowThe blues was singing the bluesThe dead in their gravesand the gods in their caves,they'd been waiting so long


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to sing the blue songabout you

62. I Can't Touch You Anymore-

You want to knowif we fell in love too fastYou want to knowif this is, well, too good to lastYou're asking the wrong questionsYou're opening the wrong doors

I love youI can't touch you anymoreI can't touch you anymoreThere's so much to hate you forI love youI can't touch you anymoreYou want to tell me50 ways you've left your loversYou want to tell mehow you loved 200 others

63. Two Kinds of People-

There are two kinds of people:a) my love and Ib) othertwo kinds of people:1) the grayand 2) me and my loveAll people fall into two campsthat ever twain shall be:those lost in darkness without lamps,and then,my love and me...

64. How to Say Goodbye-

The only thing that I could ever feelI can't believe it wasn't realThe only thing that I could ever feelI can't believe it wasn't realYou can't open your mouthwithout telling a liebut baby, you know how to say goodbyeThe thing I spent my whole lifewaiting forhas just walked out and locked the doorThe thing I spent my whole lifewaiting for

has just walked out and locked the doorYou can't feel a thingand you won't even trybut baby, you know how to say goodbyeI'm overjoyed to hear about your weddingI'm writing you to wish youevery blessingI'm overjoyed to hear about your weddingI'm writing you to wish youevery blessing


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and I'm so happy I could cryOh baby you know how to say goodbye

65. The Night You Can't Remember-

Before you left your garrisonyou'd had a drink, maybe twoYou don't remember Paris, honbut it remembers youIt's true, we flew to Paris, dearaboard an Army jet

the night you can't rememberthe night I can't forgetYou said I was terrific, itmeant zilch to you, ah, but Ihave our marriage certificate'n I'll keep it till I dieYou were an Army officerand I just a Rockettethe night you can't rememberthe night I can't forgetNo rose conveyed your sentimentsnot even a petuniabut you've got vague presentiments

and I've got little JuniorYou said, Nobody loves meand I said, wanna bet?the night you can't rememberthe night I can't forget

66. For We Are the King of the Boudoir-

Should time allow usto describe our prowessit would be quite hard to overratefor we are the kingof the boudoir, old thing

and the king does not like to waitOne tryst with meand you'llbe spinning like a gryoscopeOne tryst me with me and you'll be PopeShould modesty allow usto describe our prowesslessnesslessness'twould be quite hard to overstatefor we are the king of the bou-doir, it's trueand the kind doesn't like to waitOne kiss from meand you'llbe overjoyed and overawedOne kiss frome me and you'll see God

for we are the kind of the boudoirwe areand the king does not like to wait

67. Strange Eyes-

Strange eyes, blue clocks without handstwo lives lived in distant landslittle blue mysterieswhat did they see in me


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Strange eyes, early Picassoscall me even when you don'tif only from picturesit having been three yearsThe follow me in all my dreamsOh God I'm still in love with youStrange eyes, to little star chartsplunges knives into my poor heartAs lovely as a tree they endlessly recedeStrange eyes, two little whirlpoolsmade by God to destroy fools

two pearls of inf'nite costtwo paradises lostThey swallow me in all my dreamsOh God I'm still in love with you

68. Xylophone Track-

To my dear,dear motherI leave myonly shoesTo my dear, dear motherI leave my only shoesBy the time you read thisI will have died of the blues

Scream little choo-chooBang your xylophone trackYou can wail all night longbut you can't bring her backI've done so much cryingthe flesh has left my bonesI've done so much cryingthe flesh has left my bonesI can play my ribcagelike a xylophone

69. Zebra-

So we got married in Venice in JuneSo what?We circled the Earth in a hot air balloonSo what?and the rest of our livesis one long honeymoonwell, that doesn't mean we're in loveIf you really loved meyou'd buy me a beautiful pearlbuy you've already bought meall of the pearls in the worldso there's one thing I cravewhen my days become ho-hum and blah

I want a zebraWe've got so many tchotchkeswe've pratically emptied the LouvreIn most of our palacesthere's hardly room to manoeuvreI shan't go to Balie todayI must stay home and Hoovreup the gold dustThat doesn't mean we're in loveIf you really loved me


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you'd buy me the Great PyramidOh, I'm so forgetful, you already didBut there's one think I needif you won't think I'm greedy, my deahanother zebraZelda looks lonely, I want a zebra

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