TALK TO ME
By
Barry Manilow
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After it was over,
After the crying and
All the angry shouting
When we’ve both just given up
And you turned and closed the door
I didn’t know what was wrong anymore
Than I did before
Maybe it was over
When you stopped trying
Or when I started doubting
Maybe you don’t care enough
Maybe I’m just scared you’ll go
But maybe what’s really wrong is that
I still don’t really know
Talk to me quietly, peacefully
Tell me what to do
Talk to me honestly, don’t you see I need to talk to you
I need to hear that we’re okay
And say the things I meant to say
So, talk to me before
Before it’s really over
When it all was starting
When I first met you
We couldn’t keep from talking
I knew everything you felt
And I felt you knew me too
Now I’m talking to myself
Or I’m just yelling back at you
How this could have happened
How I could loose you
Or you could think to leave me
After where we started from
I’m too dumb I guess to see
But you can’t go till I do
Any you know you owe that to me
Talk to me quietly, peacefully
I don’t want to fight
Talk to me nice and slow
So I’ll know how to make it right
I’m not afraid to take the blame
I’m just afraid we’ll stay the same
And we won’t talk until
Until it’s really over
I don’t understand why you’re always mad
What could I have done?
What could be so bad?
Don’t you want to know why I never sleep?
Look what we’ve become from all these secrets
That we keep
When it’s really over
Cause I can’t take it
Or you’ve walked out for the last time
When these years are just a dream
And those tears somehow have dried
I can’t wake up in my bed
And regret what we never tried
So, please don’t say it’s over
Don’t even think it
Just think about the good times
Think of all we’ve got to loose
And not who’s done what to who
And when it comes time to choose
Think of who would still die for you
Talk to me quietly, peacefully
Make me understand
Say what you need to say
By the way-take me by the hand
The only thing I ask of you
Is please for once just listen to
And talk to me before
Before it’s really over
Talk to me
Before it’s really over
BRING HIM HOME
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God on high
Here my pray
In my need
You have always been there
He is young
He’s afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
He’s like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son
The summer’s die one by one
How soon they fly on and on
Before I’m old before I’m gone
Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy
You can take you can give
Let him be let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELING
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You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips.
And there’s no tenderness like before in your fingertips.
You’re trying hard not to show it, (baby).
But baby, baby I know it…
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling,
Whoa, that lovin’ feeling,
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling,
Now it’s gone…gone…gone…wooooooh.
Now there’s no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you.
And now your’re starting to critisize little things I do.
It makes me just feel like crying, (baby).
‘Cause baby, something in you is dying.
You lost that lovin’ feeling,
Whoa, that lovin’ feeling,
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling,
Now it’s gone…gone…gone…woooooah
Baby, baby, I get down on my knees for you.
If you would only love me like you used to do, yeah.
We had a love…a love…a love you don’t find everyday.
So don’t…don’t…don’t…don’t let it slip away.
Baby (baby), baby (baby),
I beg of you please…please,
I need your love (I need your love),
I need your love (I need your love),
So bring it on back (So bring it on back),
Bring it on back (so bring it on back).
Bring back that lovin’ feeling,
Whoa, that lovin’ feeling
Bring back that lovin’ feeling,
‘Cause it’s gone…gone…gone,
And I can’t go on,
Noooo…
Bring back that lovin’ feeling,
Whoa, that lovin’ feeling
Bring back that lovin’ feeling,
‘Cause it’s gone…gone…
IT’S A LONG WAY UP
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Once you find what matters in your life
Keep on pushing through the darkness
Till you see the light
You’re gonna find it
You’re no longer behind it
Once you learn what you’ve been doin’ wrong
You can make the change
You need to make the carry on
Now and forever
The sooner the better, just remember now….
It’s a long way up
When you’re coming from nowhere
It’s a long way up
When you’re coming from nowhere
You gotta fight a little harder
You gotta push a little more
You gotta gamble everything you got
To get you through the door
’cause it’s a long way up
You’ve been down before that’s okay
You can rest assured
That every dog will have his day
And life is a jungle
But you ain’t gonna crumble, remember now…
Don’t give up the dream
Hey don’t you know it’s dark before the dawn
When you think you just can’t take it
That’s when you’ll make it
You gotta to fight a little harder
You gotta push a little more
You gotta gamble everything you got
To get you through the door
’cause it’s a long way up
You gotta to fight a little harder
You gotta push a little more
You gotta gamble everything you got
To get you through the door
BRING ON TOMORROW
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Sleep baby, sleep
lose yesterday’s blues
when you’re ready for morning
have I got news..
our ship’s in the harbor…
the street’s turning gold
whatever you’re dreaming, it’s no longer on hold..
Dream baby, dream
while you were asleep
I had mountains to climb and a promise to keep
now home is the hunter and holding the prize
I’m waiting tell you when you open your eyes
Bring on tomorrow for me and for you
we hung on through dark hours..dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun
we’ll live it together cause you are the one.
Smile baby, smile
through canyon’s of night
but you’ll really be smiling by morning’s light
they told us we’re crazy
they promised I’d lose
forgive and forget them…
they’re yesterday’s news..
Bring on tomorrow for me and for you
we hung on through dark hours…dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun
we’ll live it together cause you’re the one..
Without you it’s nothing..
why else would I climb?
Together forever, hearts beating in time..
Oh…bring on tomorrow for me and for you…
we hung on through dark hours, dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun..
we’ll live it together cause you are the one
IT’S JUST ANOTHER NEW YEAR’S EVE
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Don’t look so sad,
It’s not so bad you know.
It’s just another night,
That’s all it is.
It’s not the first,
It’s not the worst you know,
We’ve come through all the rest,
We’ll get through this.
We’ve made mistakes,
But we’ve made good friends too.
Remember all the nights we spent with them?
And all our plans,
Who says they can’t come true?
Tonight’s another chance to start again.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
Another night like all the rest.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
Let’s make it the best.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
It’s just another Auld Lang Syne,
But when we’re through this New Year
You’ll see, will be
Just fine.
We’re not alone, we’ve got the world you know.
And it won’t let us down, just wait and see.
And we’ll grow old, but think how wise we’ll grow.
There’s more you know, it’s only New Year’s Eve.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
Another night like all the rest.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
Let’s make it the best.
It’s just another New Year’s Eve,
It’s just another Auld Lang Syne,
But when we’re through this New Year, you’ll see, will be
Just fine.