CHRISTMAS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
By
Barry Manilow
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Christmas is just around the corner
Christmas – you feel it in the air
Better write all your letters to Santa
There’s shopping and wrapping to do
I bet you’ll never believe it
When you see what I got you
You’re gonna love it
Christmas is just around the corner
Candles are glowing everywhere
Can’t wait until that night reindeer appear
Christmas – and it’s just about here
Christmas is just around the corner
Christmas – you feel it in the air
All the trees are surrounded with presents
The stockings are filling up too
I’ll bet you’ll never believe it
When you see what I got you
What did you get me?
Christmas is just around the corner
Sleigh bells are ringing in the sled
Too bad December comes just once a year
Christmas – time to trim the tree
Christmas – can it really be
Christmas – yes it’s finally here
We’ve been waiting all year
And it’s finally here
Yes it’s finally here
It’s finally here
Christmas
WHEN LOVE IS GONE
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When love is gone
What good is candlelight
Each lonely day
Becomes a sleepless night
No one is there to share the rising down
And so it fades away when love is gone
When love is gone
Life’s just a hollow shell
The stars don’t shine
The moon has lost its spell
That old familiar ache that makes the night
So long
Just seems to linger on when love is gone
When love is gone
There’s just the memories
An empty heart where love once used to be
Those lonely blues refuse to let you carry on
It’s just that way each day when love is gone
When love is gone
When love is gone
THIS CAN’T BE REAL
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This can’t be real
As long as I love you
How could this ever be real
As long as you’re there?
Help me to feel
The nightmare’s behind me
That your love will find me
Anywhere
Love is what’s true
The rest is illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
No one can steal
The truth isn’t what it seems
The truth is our wildest dreams
Real was your kiss
But as for this
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
So why do I love you
I know that this can’t be real
Still you are there
You aren’t real
But somehow you’ve found me
To haunt and surround me
You’re everywhere
This isn’t true
It’s only illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
Is just an ideal
This must be a dream, I know
So why do I want you so?
Is it because
Only because
This can’t be real?
This can’t be real
Love is what’s true
The rest is illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
No one can steal
No one can steal
The truth isn’t what it seems
The truth is our wildest dreams
This must be a dream, I know
So why do I want you so?
Real was your kiss
Is it because
Oh, but as for this
Only because
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
I AM YOUR CHILD
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I am your child.
Wherever you go, you take me, too.
Whatever I know, I learn from you.
Whatever I do, you taught me to do.
I am your child.
And I am your chance.
Whatever will come, will come from me.
Tomorrow is won, by winning me.
Whatever I am, you taught me to be.
I am your hope,
I am your chance,
I am your child.
Whatever I am, you taught me to be.
I am your hope,
I am your chance,
I am your child.
TIME AFTER TIME
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Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion –
Is nothing new
Flashback – warm nights –
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after –
Sometimes you picture me –
I’m walking too far ahead
You’re calling to me, I can’t hear
What you’ve said –
Then you say – go slow –
I fall behind –
The second hand unwinds
If you’re lost you can look – and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you – I’ll be waiting
Time after time
After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows – you’re wondering
If I’m OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time –
If you’re lost…
You said go slow –
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds –
If you’re lost…
…Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
HAPPY HOLIDAYS / WHITE CHRISTMAS
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Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
Why the merry bells keep ringing
May your every wish come true
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
May the calender keep bringing
Happy holiday to you
I’m dreaming of a white christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I’m dreaming of a white christmas
With every christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your christmases be white
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
Why the merry bells keep ringing
May your every wish come true
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
May the calender keep bringing
The most happy holiday to you