ONCE AND FOR ALL
By
Barry Manilow
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You’re a girl
After my own heart
You know your own mind
We are a similar kind
Separate yet intertwined
We speak with a single voice
But now we must make a choice
Whether to fall in love
Once and for all
Do you really want to have someone for good
Would you stay in love forever if you could
Do you want a friend who’s always standing by
When your back’s against the wall
Once and for all
We’re a pair
Cut from the same cloth
Deep in our own soul
Alone and not perfectly whole
But seemingly in control
Afraid not knowing just where we are
But knowing we’ve come so far
So far that we just might make it
Once and for all
Search your heart and then
I want you to decide
Is simple love enough to keep you by my side
Can we stay together through the thick and thin
Through troubles big and small
Once and for all
Once and for all
Once and for all
Do you really want to have someone for good
Would you stay in love forever if you could
Do you want a friend who’s always standing by
When your back’s against the wall
Once and for all
Once and for all
Once and for all
WORK THE ROOM
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Open a door
On the seventeenth floor
Secretary sends me through
Walkin’ right in
With a big time grin
But I’m shakin’ in my shoes
Suit One shakes my hand
But it takes him a beat to recall my name
Gotta move it along
Gotta play somethin’ strong
Gotta show ‘em why I came
Work the room
Work the room, baby
Nobody here wants to know you
But tomorrow they’ll be talkin’ about you
Work the room
Startin’ in sweet
With a rockin’ beat
Show ‘em I can really ride
Not about fluff
Get to serious stuff
Here’s my softer side
Suit Two frowns
Is it bringin’ him down?
Or does it mean he’s in the groove?
Back to the beat
Activatin’ their feet
See the Pradas start to move
Work the room
They’re movin’
Oh baby
Watch them beginnin’ to wonder
You can bet tomorrow
They’ll have serious hunger
Work the room
Go one step up
Or all the way back
Take the turns
Or jump the track
Rise an inch – or fall for a mile
All the time remember to smile
Stoppin’ the show
But they don’t say go
Suddenly smiles all ‘round
Man oh man
We’re shakin’ hands
Telling me they like my sound
Big Suit smilin’ at me
Talkin’ about sales and fame
Everybody’s talkin’ to me
Makin’ it like I got it
Dammit now they know my name!
Work the room
They want me
I got it!
You went in an unsung zero
You’re comin’ out a musical hero
Never gonna have to work the room again!
SWEET HEAVEN (I’M IN LOVE AGAIN)
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Sweet heaven I’m in love again
Sweet heaven I’m in love again
You came along now what can I do
I only want to be with you
Sweet heaven here I go again
I’m hooked from head to toe again
One minute I’m so lonely and then
Oh sweet heaven
Hey babe
Now that I’ve found you life’s a song
Say babe
Where were you hiding I’ve been waiting so long
Sweet heaven I’m in love again
So totally in love again
I’ll shout it everywhere I go
I’ll sing it on the radio
I want the whole world to know
Sweet heaven I’m in love again
WHERE OR WHEN
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It seems we stood here
And take like this before
We look at each other
In the same old way
But I can’t remember
Where or when
The clothes you’re wearing
Are the clothes you wore
The smile you’re smiling
You where smiling then
I can’t remember where or when
Something’s that happened for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laugh before and loved before
But who knows where or when
Something’s that happened for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laugh before and loved before
But who knows where or when
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
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Grab your coat
Don’t forget your hat
We’ll leave your worries
Leave them on the doorstep
My sweet
Just direct your feet
To the sun, sunny side of the street
Hop bop a doddle zag
Pitter pat
You know that happy tune
Is my step
Life’s all weak
If you dig that beat
On the sunny, sunny side of the street
Used to walk in the shade
With my blues on parade
What a drag old man
Getting stuck in the shade
Get hit, don’t be afraid
Move it on over
Feel yourself in the clover
LET’S TAKE ALL NIGHT (TO SAY GOODBYE)
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Two A.M
Two of us
Come sunrise I’m leavin’
You know I must
I can’t bear the heartache
That’s in your eyes
So let’s take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say
So let’s take all night
Smile for me
Why don’t we
Make this the sweetest of memories
The love that we make now
Is all we have
So let’s take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say
Let’s take each moment
And every desire
You make the coffee
And I’ll light the fire
And will take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say