LETTER FROM A FAN / SO HEAVY, SO HIGH
By
Barry Manilow
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Remember I sent you a picture
I know all the names in your band
I was the girl wearing yellow down front
I was the first one to stand
It’s silly to think you’d remember
It’s silly pretending you’d care
But I want you to know I was there last night
I was there, I was there, I was there…
Sometimes I think we’re connected
I dreamed we were talking last night
Day to day stress just undoes me at times
But listening to you makes it right
I’m positive someday you’ll see me
And love me just like it was planned
I feel all the sorrow you’re trying to hide
You’ll realize I understand
Oh how I understand…
Another room
Where the lights are too bright
Not gonna sleep
I want it just right
Another hotel room
Random replay
There’s too many touching me
Keep ‘em away
Move into midnight
Just turn off the pager
I tell ya, the well has run dry
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Fast track to nowhere
So heavy, so high
Too many scenes
And I’m losin’ the names
Silence and talk
Both feelin’ the same
All the same city
All the same night
Step over the bodies, boy
Turn out the light
Forever, whatever
What’s winning or losing
There’s nothing my money can’t buy
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
I’ll pass on the party
So heavy, so high
Hey I feel the moon breathin’
I hear electricity
I know the size of the sky
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Time hangin’ frozen
So heavy, so high
You never waved back at the airport
I covered your poster in mud
I cut out the eyes on the photo you signed
I wrote you a poem in blood
I’m stupid to think I could matter
A loser pretending you’d care
To you I’m a nothing
I ought to be dead
But night after night
I’ll be there, I’ll be there, I’ll be there
The floor’s movin’ slower
The frequency’s fadin’
I tell ya, the well has run dry
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Fast track to nowhere
So heavy, so high
VIOLETS FOR YOUR FURS
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It was winter in manhattan
Falling snowflakes filled the air
The streets were covered with a film of ice
But a little simple magic that I’d heard about somewhere
Changed the weather all around, just withn a trice
You bought me violets for my furs
And it was spring for a while, remember?
You bought me violets for my furs
And there was april in that december
The snow drifted on the flowers and melted where it lay
The snow looked leke dew on the blossoms
As on a summer day
You bought me violets for my furs
And there was blue in the wintry sky
You pinned the violets to my furs
And gave a lift to the crowds passing by
You smiled at me so sweetly
Since then one thought occurs
That we fell in love completely
The day you bought me violets for my furs
THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
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The bells of christmas
Are ringing in the night
The chrildren string there lights upond the tree
The bells of christmas
They sing to me tonight
Bring back thoughts of you and me
Central Park
Slideing round in the snow
And then after dark
Filling the fires burning glow
The bells of christmas
They ring of what could be
For the bells of christmas
They ring for you and me
Sunday walks watching ships in the bay
Midnight talks we voul
We never let love slip away
The bells of christmas
They ring of what could be
For the bells of christmas
The bells of christmas
The bells of christmas
They ring for you and me
NO OTHER LOVE
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There were no violins
There were no soft guitars
Hot summer love under the city stars
I was Mr. Dynamite
And you were my only girl
We held each other through the night
Caught in the whirl
No other love
In all of the world
In all of my life
There was no other love
There was no fireside
No Beaujolais for two
Winter was cold but we had me and you
All the words we used to say
All the crazy plans we made
We were so nieve that way
So unafraid
I don’t know where it went
Turned into yesterday
Time comes and goes like music in a play
Looking back I still don’t know
Why we ever had to end
And it’s so hard letting go
Of what we had then
ONCE WHEN YOU WERE MINE
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Love slips away and we move on
Night becomes the dawn
Words tear us up just like a storm
Now love is gone leaving us strangers
The morning sky fills with rain
Nothing feels the same
Time leaves me remembering dreams
And places we’ve been
And how it all changes
Once when you were mine
We lived within a world all our own
Once when you were mine
Once there was a time
Love slips away and we move on
I HEAR HER PLAYING MUSIC
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I hear her playing music
In her room alone at night
She just moved in a month ago
She isn’t gonna play the game
I thought she’d smile
And come on slow
I still don’t even know her name
She must like being lonely
Got no time for anyone
But I hear her play that stereo
Right through to the rising sun
I hear her playing music
In her room alone at night
Through the day she’s so elusive
Staying safe and out of sight
If you say hello she lets it go
Cool and so polite
And I hear her playing music
In her room alone at night
Baby are you sad and lonely
Or did somebody do you wrong
Cause you know that you need only
Look my way
And they’ll play our song
And I love your nightly music
But you can’t keep playing through
Cause I’m having trouble sleeping
And when I do I dream of you
I thought I’d try
And break the freeze
And win her heart with harmony
So I answered back
And played a stack
Of my favorite CD’s
But she just doesn’t hear me
Doesn’t have a word to say
So I stay awake and turn it up
Hoping she’ll look out my way
I hear her playing music
In her room alone at night
Through the day she’s so elusive
Staying safe and out of sight
If you say hello she lets it go
Cool and so polite
And I hear her playing dave koz!
In her room alone at night
In her room alone at night
Baby are you sad and lonley
Baby won’t you tell me your name
I’m in my room alone at night
Your in your room alone at night