TEACH ME TONIGHT
By
Barry Manilow
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Did you say that I’ve got a lot to learn
Well don’t think I’m trying not to learn
Since this is the perfect spot to learn
Teach me tonight
Starting with the ABC of it
Getting right down to the XYZ of it
Help me solve the mystery of it
Teach me tonight
The sky’s a blackboard high above you
And if a shooting star goes by
I’ll use that star to write “I love you”
A thousand times across the sky
One thing isn’t very clear my love
Teachers shouldn’t stand so near my love
Graduation’s almost here my love
You’d better teach me tonight
I’ve played loves scenes in a flick or two
And I’ve also met a chick or two
But I still can learn a trick or two
Hey teach me tonight
I who thought I knew the score of it
Kind of think I should know much more of it
Off the wall, the bed, the floor of it
Hey teach me tonight
The midnight hours come slowly creeping
When there’s no one there but you
There must be more to life than sleeping
Single in a bed for two
What I need most is post graduate
What I feel is hard to articulate
If you want me to matriculate
You’d better teach me tonight
What do you get for lessons
Teach me… come on and teach me… teach me tonight
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
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
I’LL BE SEEING YOU
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I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mind embrases
All day through
In that small cafe
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut tree
The wishing well
And I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summers day
In every thing that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
Oh but
I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summers day
In every thing that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you
SUNRISE
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And so it began
As I sat by my window
All by myself in the dawn
No body else
No polite conversation
Just waiting for life to come on
And I see the sunrise over the ocean
Sunrise on the sea
I’m watching the sunrise
I’m glad to be living
Sunrise , shine over me
I think of my life as I look out my window
People I love , places I’ve been
Sometimes I feel I could go on forever
With nothing to lose and nothing to win
When I see the sunrise over the ocean
Sunrise on the sea
I’m watching the sunrise
I’m glad to be living
Sunrise , shine over me
ANYONE CAN DO THE HEARTBREAK
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Take another step
Tell another lie
Hide another tear
In the corner of your eye
I don’t understand
What kind of game is this we’re playing
Dancin’ in the dark
Shadow’s in the night
Slowly going wrong
Trying to make it right
The silence is so loud
I can’t hear the words we’re saying
Anyone can do the heartbreak
Everybody knows the dance
Oh it’s so easy to do
You tear a dream in two
To kill a true romance
Anyone can do the heartbreak
Anyone can make love end
It’s gonna take a little pain
Some fire and some rain
To bring it back again
I know you’re afraid
Baby so am I
You think you’re going to fall
All you want to do is fly
We’re up against the wall
And love is the chance we’re taking
So baby look into my heart
Tell me can’t you see
I belong with you
You belong with me
When I hold you in my arms
We can hear the music playing
And it’s one step forward
And two steps back
Well we keep on moving
But we’re only losing ground
We’ve got to turn this love around