NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN’T LIKE
By
Barry Manilow
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Never met a man I didn’t like
High fullutent chant or bowery bum
Yes, I’ve come a long way
Down the pike
Never met a man I didn’t like
Never shook a hand I didn’t like
Royal Prince of Wales or working Joe
Though I know life’s one long rocky hike
Never met a man I didn’t like
In all of my wonderin’
I’ve bumped into all kinds of people
Fancy cinema stars, false avangelist
Politicians, morgutitions
And I have reached the conclusion
While hiking the pike
Though I try and I try
Never once met a guy that I didn’t like
I said I roam along a Nappa Valley
Shubert Alley, Ru de la Play
Oklahoma, Camalazo oh oh oh
And I have reached the conclusion
While hiking the pike
Yes I’ll say when I’m done
No I never met one that I didn’t like
Met the worst and met the best
Somebody put me into the test
Almost made me change my mind
Yet somehow I always find
If you don’t expect too much
There’s a certain human touch
Homosapiens have got other animals have not
Try the shoes on that are his
Feel what makes him what he is
What’s it like inside his skin
Living in the skin he’s in
Just like me a lump of sod
There what for the grace of God
That is a philosphy of this part time cherokee
Present into king or Pat and Mike
Folks can last but I can give up hope
Spun my rope along way down the pike
Never met a man I didn’t like
High tone gent, bowery bum
Prince of Wales, working Joe
Pat and Mike
Cherokee, philosphy
I never met a man I didn’t like
SOME SWEET DAY
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All my life
I’ve been living in my fantasy
Songs of love
To help me through the night
All my life
I keep wondering where you’ll be
When, when will I finally see the light
Oh, some sweet day
I know I’ll find you
I won’t stop searching ’till I do
Oh, this I swear
If I live my whole life through
I’ll hold on ’till my dream comes true
Some sweet day
Some sweet day
Where are you
Darling, how I need you now
Need your voice
I need to know your name
Where are you
Please try to get through somehow
I don’t want to be alone again
Oh, some sweet day
I know I’ll find you
I won’t stop searching ’till I do
Oh, this I swear
If I live my whole life through
I’ll hold on ’till my dream comes true
Some sweet day
Some sweet day
I’ve been shouting to the sky
And I keep on asking why
If I have to hold out much longer
I will surely die
Oh, some sweet day
I know I’ll find you
I won’t stop searching ’till I do
Oh, this I swear
If I live my whole life through
I’ll hold on ’till my dream comes true
Some sweet day
Some sweet day
Some sweet day
AND THE ANGELS SING
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We meet and the angels sing
The angels sing the sweetest song I ever heard
We speak and the angels sing
Or am I reading music into every word
Suddenly the setting is strange
I can see water and moonlight beaming
Silver waves that break on some undiscovered shore
Then suddenly I see it all change
Long winter nights with the candles gleaming
Through it all, your face that I adore
You smile and the angels sing
And though it’s just a gentle murmur at the start
We kiss and the angels sing
And leave there music ringing in my heart
You smile and the angels sing
And though it’s just a gentle murmur at the start
We kiss and the angels sing
And leave there music ringing in my heart
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
SLEPT THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD
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I see a ceiling
Four walls
Guess you all went away
An hour ago we were laughing
Lovers and friends
Maybe that was yesterday
So what’s the deal?
Did I miss something real?
When I slept through the end of the world
Nobody answers at all
I call
And there’s nobody there
How long since I’ve lifted my head now
Crawled out of bed
How long since anyone cared?
So now I lose?
Lie alone in the blues?
Cause I slept through the end of the world
Losing is a story I remember
Alone is a feeling that I know
Been awhile since losing shook me
Took me down so low
Yes it has
How could this ride be all over?
Four walls are all I see
I’m tellin’ the shadows and echoes
Shoulda told you
But I was wrapped up in me
So here I wait
Gettin’ used to too late
Cause I slept through the end of the world
THEY GAVE IN TO THE BLUES
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There’s a women in this town
Drowning in a river of her own tears
Crying for a man who’s name she can’t remember
Cause it’s been to many years
Made up her mind
The day he left her behind
She’d never find a man like him again
So she closed the door
And never looked any more
So of course she’s been alone since then
She gave in to the blues
So you know she just had to lose
Soon as she gave in to the blues
There’s a man who won’t try to ask her why
He says only fools even play the game
Never have the breaks, the money that it takes
So he says he’s not to blame
Started to drink, the day he started to think
The world was out to bring him down for good
So he close the door and drank a little bit more
And went down just like they said he would
He gave in to the blues
So you know he just had to lose
Soon as he give in to the blues
They give in to the blues
So you know they just had to lose
Soon as they give in to the blues
No don’t you give in to the blues
No,no don’t you give in to the blues
No don’t you give in
Don’t you give in’
Don’t you give up
Don’t you give out
Don’t you give in to the blues
No, no don’t you give in to the blues