YOU’RE LEAVING TOO SOON
By
Barry Manilow
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You’re leaving too soon
You oughta try believin’ just for a day or two
You’re tryin’ to be wise and that’s a foolish thing to do
Close the door
You’re leaving too soon
You’ll never learn to fly unless you learn to fall
You’ll never know the answers ’till you’ve heard the call
You can’t turn your back until you face it all
Take my word
You’re leaving too soon
You’re leaving too soon
You oughta try believin’ just for a day or two
You’re tryin’ to be wise and that’s a foolish thing to do
Close the door
You’re leaving to soon
Babe you shouldn’t go until you know just what I mean
Now, “happy ever after”, I have never seen
But still we might come closer than we’ve ever been
Come over here
You’re leavin’ too soon
You’re leavin’ too soon
You oughta try believin’ just for a day or two
You’re tryin’ to be wise and that’s a foolish thing to do
Close the door
You’re leaving too soon
You’re leaving too soon
STARS IN THE NIGHT
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Look
Look at the stars
How brilliant they are
How can they be shining now
When hope seems so far?
Look
Look how they shine
These cruelest of stars
What promise inspires them?
What faith is it fires them?
Darkness grows
The world turns cold
And still there glows the light
Heaven knows
What hope they hold tonight
Look
Look how they tease
These stars in the night
The darker the night becomes
The brighter their light becomes
Chill winds wail
The tempest brews
And clouds assail the sky
Through the veil
The stars refuse to die!
In this world
Of darkest night
Where hope is hurled away
There they are
And still there’s light
Oh so far
But will they…?
Dare they lift our hearts
As we lift our eyes
Are we fools to see
The hope that’s gleaming in the skies?
Look!
There’s the light!
Stars in the night!
MANDY
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I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice.
Shadows of a man,
A face through a window cryin’ in the night,
The night goes into
Morning just another day;
Happy people pass my way.
Looking in their eyes,
I see a memory I never realized how happy you made me.
Oh Mandy well,
You came and you gave without taking,
But I sent you away.
Oh, Mandy well,
Kissed me and stopped me from shaking,
And I need you today.
Oh, Mandy!
I’m standing on the edge of time;
I’ve walked away when love was mine.
Caught up in a world of uphill climbing,
The tears are in my mind and nothin’ in rhyming.
Oh Mandy well,
You came and you gave without taking,
But I sent you away.
Oh, Mandy well,
Kissed me and stopped me from shaking,
And I need you today.
Oh, Mandy!
Yesterday’s a dream
I face the morning
Crying on a breeze
The pain is calling
Oh Mandy
Well, you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today Oh, Mandy
You came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you
EVERY SINGLE DAY
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Every single day
We’ll remember what we do today
Words we didn’t say
We’ll remember every single day
Then years go by
To wonder why and wonder what we learned
Was that the bridge we should’ve crossed?
The one we burned
Every empty night
To regret a life that could’a been
Maybe you were right
Just forget that emptiness within
So if you go
Before that moment’s gone
Look at me the way
I’ll remember every single day
From now on
You deserve
I don’t know…
What…
The man I’d love to be
That’s not the way it turned out
No you fell in love with me
Everything you doubt
I will fight for
Every single day
Help me work it out
Make it right for
Every single day
But this I swear
And stake my life upon
If you go or stay
I will love you
As I do today
And I’ll love you
Every single day
From now on
LETTER FROM A FAN / SO HEAVY, SO HIGH
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Remember I sent you a picture
I know all the names in your band
I was the girl wearing yellow down front
I was the first one to stand
It’s silly to think you’d remember
It’s silly pretending you’d care
But I want you to know I was there last night
I was there, I was there, I was there…
Sometimes I think we’re connected
I dreamed we were talking last night
Day to day stress just undoes me at times
But listening to you makes it right
I’m positive someday you’ll see me
And love me just like it was planned
I feel all the sorrow you’re trying to hide
You’ll realize I understand
Oh how I understand…
Another room
Where the lights are too bright
Not gonna sleep
I want it just right
Another hotel room
Random replay
There’s too many touching me
Keep ‘em away
Move into midnight
Just turn off the pager
I tell ya, the well has run dry
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Fast track to nowhere
So heavy, so high
Too many scenes
And I’m losin’ the names
Silence and talk
Both feelin’ the same
All the same city
All the same night
Step over the bodies, boy
Turn out the light
Forever, whatever
What’s winning or losing
There’s nothing my money can’t buy
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
I’ll pass on the party
So heavy, so high
Hey I feel the moon breathin’
I hear electricity
I know the size of the sky
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Time hangin’ frozen
So heavy, so high
You never waved back at the airport
I covered your poster in mud
I cut out the eyes on the photo you signed
I wrote you a poem in blood
I’m stupid to think I could matter
A loser pretending you’d care
To you I’m a nothing
I ought to be dead
But night after night
I’ll be there, I’ll be there, I’ll be there
The floor’s movin’ slower
The frequency’s fadin’
I tell ya, the well has run dry
Too tired to sleep
Too wired to try
Fast track to nowhere
So heavy, so high
PLEASE DON’T BE SCARED
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There’s a light, behind your eyes
I see it shining, it only fades when you cry
There’s a heart that beats so strong
I feel it dying when the night time lasts too long
Now you and I have lived our century
And all I can say is what you offered to me
Please don’t be scared
’cause I’ve stood there too
Between survival and the right thing to do
’cause only the strong, admit their fears
And if you really need me
I’ll always be here
The parties and the lights
Fade to memories in the still of the night
And you wonder in your mind
If there’s nothing left to show for all the time
’cause feeling pain is a hard way to know you’re still alive
But someday someone will make you glad you survived REPEAT CHORUS
‘Cause feeling pain is a hard way to know you’re still alive
Someday someone will make you glad you survived