WHY DON’T WE LIVE TOGETHER
By
Barry Manilow
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Why don’t we live together
Only the two of us, we’ll learn to trust
Don’t have to say forever
’cause we know the rain could start and break our hearts
But we’ll never find the future if we hesitate
We’ll spend our lives waiting
Why don’t we live together, taking it day by day we’ll find a way
To build us a dream that’s better
And still have our wings to fly if love should die
We can’t spend our lives rehearsing all these lines of love
It’s time to raise the curtain
Why don’t we live together whether love lives or dies
At least we’ll know we tried
We’ve both been burned before
But now we know this love is sure
And there’ll be no more sorrow
This love is burnin’ bright it lights up tomorrow
Why don’t we live together takin’ lifes rocky ride
Side by side
Sailin’ thru stormy weather
Searchin’ for sunny skies with open eyes
Sharin’ the tears and the laughter is the only way
We’ll find the love we’re after
Oh why don’t we live together
Whether love lives or dies at least we’ll know we tried
Why don’t we live together
Whether love lives or dies at least we’ll know we tried
Why don’t we live together
Whether love lives or dies lets take a chance let’s try
UNCHAINED MELODY
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Oh, my love, my darling
I’ve hungered for your touch, a long lonely time
And time goes by, so slowly and time can do so much
Are you, still mine?
I need your love, I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
To the waiting arms of the sea
Lonely rivers cry, wait for me, wait for me
To the open arms, wait for me
My love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your kiss
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love
God, speed your love, to me
BLUE VELVET
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She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs
Love was ours
Ours a love I held tightly
Feeling the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly
But when she left, gone was the glow of
Blue velvet
But in my heart there’ll always be
Precious and warm, a memory
Through the years
And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears
SWEETWATER JONES
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Sweetwater Jones
Went riding
out in to the country night
he left his phone still ringing
ringing by the t.v.’s light
goodbye to you new york city
goodbye to every thing it used to be
you sure can could look good
Emerald City
oh but now your just a drag on me
goodbye to the ringing phone
goodbye to the old grindstone
and what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
Sweetwater Jones
keep on going
hey Jonese boy your’ll doing find
smiling a smile and knowing
that your heading fore a better time
look at your face
hey its shinning
hey beaming like it never could
look at your eyes
hey you crying
but you never thought you fell so good
goodbye to the ringing phone
good,good,goodbye to the old grindstone
what used to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
ohhhhhhhh
ohhhhhhhh Sweetwater Jones
what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
MY MOONLIGHT MEMORIES OF YOU
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One time in everybody’s life
There is a moment
Like the moment we knew
And if you’re a fool
You’ll let it slip away
Sometime in everybody’s life
There is a feeling
A feeling so real
And once it’s gone it can never be replaced
I’m dancing with a shadow
Holding on to a dream that’ll never come true
Still haunted by that old love song
My moonlight memories of you
My heart is like a ghost town
To every stranger that passes on through
All they find there
Is what you left behind there
My moonlight memories of you
You thought when you left me
I’ll let you go
But here I am loving you more
Then you’ll ever know
If I could hold you
Feel your heart beat
Just one more time
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
’cause without your love
I’ll never be free of
My moonlight memories of you
One time in everybody’s life
There is a moment
Like the moment we knew
And if you’re a fool
You’ll let it slip away
I’m dancing with a shadow
Holding on to a dream that’ll never come true
Still haunted by that old love song
My moonlight memories of you
My moonlight memories of you
NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN’T LIKE
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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