Don Mclean - The Best Of [compilation] (1991) by Don Mclean (보컬) on maniadb.com

A long long time ago

I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
that I could make those people dance
and maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver with every paper I'd daliver
Bad news on the doorstap
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside the day the music died.

*So bye bye Miss American pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinkin' whisky ane rye
singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

Did you write the book of love and
do you have faith in God above?
If the Bible tells you so
Now do you believe in rock and roll
can Music save your mortal soul and
can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well I know that you're in love with him
cause I saw you dancin' in the gym

You both kicked off your shose
Man, I dig those rhythm and bluses
I was a lonely teenage broncin's buck
with a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck the day the music died.
I started singing bye bye

*Repeat

Now for ten years we've been on our own
and moss grows fat on a rollin's stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the king and Queen in a coat
He Borrowned from James Dean
and a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the king was looking down the Jester
stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned
And while Lennin read a book on Marx
the coart took practice in the park and
we sang dirties in the dark
the day the music died. We were singin's bye bye

* Repeat

Helter-skelter in the summer sweiter
the birds flew off with a fall-out shelter
Eight miles high and fallin's fast,
it landed foul on the gress
the players tried for a forware pass,
with the Jester on the sidelines in a coat
Now the half-time air was sweet paerfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance but we never got the chance
Cause the players tried to take the field,
the marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died
We started singin's bye bye

*Repeat

In there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space with no time left to start again
So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack sat on a candlestick cause fire is the devils only friend
(Oh) as I watched him on the stage,
my hands were clenched in festive rage
No angel born in heaven could break that stan's spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night
the sacrificial rite I saw satan
Laughing with delight the day the music died.
He was singin's bye bye

*Repeat

I met girl who sang the blues and
I asked her for some happy news
but the just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
where I heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
The lovers cried and the posts dreamed
(But) Not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken
And he three man I admire most the Father,
Son an the holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
And they were singin' bye bye

* Repeat

And if she asks you why
you can tell her that I told you that I'm tired
of castles in the air, I've got a dream
I want the world to share and castle walls
just lead me to despair.

Hills of forest green
where the mountains touch the sky a dream come true
I'll live there till I die, I'm asking you
to say my last goodbye, the love we knew
ain't worth another try.

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand, if you tell it to her plain

But how can words express
the feel of sunlight in the morning in the hills,
away from city strife, I need a
country woman for my wife, I'm city born,
but I love the country life.

For I can not be part
of her cocktail generation, partners waltz
Devoid of all romance the music plays
and everyone must dance I'm bowing out
I need a second chance.

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand, if you tell it to her plain

And if she asks you why
you can tell her that I told you that I'm tired
of castles in the air, I've got a dream
I want the world to share and castle walls
just lead me to despair.

I feel like a spinnin' top or a dreidel
The spinnin' don't stop when you leave the cradle,
You just slow down.
'Round and around this world you go,
Spinnin' through the lives of the people you know
We all slow down.

How you gonna keep from turnin' from day to day?
How you gonna' keep from turnin' your life away?
No days you can borrow, no time you can buy,
No trust in tomorrow, it's a lie.

I feel like a spinnin' top or a dreidel
The spinnin' don't stop when you leave the cradle,
You just slow down.
'Round and around this world you go,
Spinnin' through the lives of the people you know
We all slow down.

How you gonna keep from turnin' from day to day?
How you gonna' keep from turnin' your life away?
No days you can borrow, no time you can buy,
No trust in tomorrow, it's a lie.

And I feel like I'm a dippin' and a-divin',
My sky shoes are spiked with lead heels.
I'm lost in this star car I'm a-drivin',
But my air soul keeps pushin' big wheels.

My world is a constant confusion,
My mind is prepared to attack
My past, a persuasive illusion,
I'm watchin' the future it's black.

What do you know? You know just what you perceive.
What can you show? Nothin' of what you believe,
And as you grow, each thread of life that you leave
Will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs
As you sell your soul and you sow your seeds,
And you wound yourself and your loved one bleeds,
And your habits grow, and your conscience feeds
On all that you thought you should be
I never thought this could happen to Meeeeeeeece

I feel like a spinnin' top or a dreidel
The spinnin' don't stop when you leave the cradle,
You just slow down.
'Round and around this world you go,
Spinnin' through the lives of the people you know
We all slow down.

How you gonna keep from turnin' from day to day?
How you gonna' keep from turnin' your life away?

I feel like a spinnin' top or a dreidel
The spinnin' don't stop when you leave the cradle,
You just slow down.
You just slow down.
You just...slow...down.

No-one can take your place with me,
And time has proven that I'm right.
There's no place I'd rather be,
Than at your place for the night.

No time can pass your sight unseen.
No moment steals away unfound.
Lifetime lived in such a dream,
Floats like a feather to the ground.

*And for the first time I've been seeing
The things I'd never notice, without you.
And for the first time I'm discovering
The things I use to treasure, about you.

The birds like leaves on Winterwood,
Sing hopeful songs on dismal days.
They've learned to live life as they should.
They are at peace with natures ways.

You are as natural as the night,
And all that springs from you is good.
And the children born beneath your light,
Are like the birds on Winterwood.

* Repeat

Everyday
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday, it's a gettin' faster,
Everyone says go ahead and ask her,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday seems a little longer,
Every way, love's a little stronger,
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me?
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday, it's a gettin' faster,
Everyone says go ahead and ask her,
Love like yours will surely c]ome my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday seems a little longer,
Every way, love's a little stronger,
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me?
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Love like yours will surely come my way.

The spirit of Fatima still rules the Earth
She knows your future, she knows what it's worth
Sister Fatima has God-given powers
And on 42nd Street a shop that sells flowers
Is her palace, come and be healed

She knows all your business, your health and your ills
She'll counsel your weddings, divorces and wills
For full restoration five dollars an hour
And with each consultation a free holy flower
And if she likes you, well you can have two

And I came from nowhere like you and your friend
My searching and wandering went on without end
My future was dim, my spirit was crushed
In one sacred moment my questions were hushed

I'm a servant of fate in this garden of truth
A humble recruit of the taffeta booth
Where all things are known but few are revealed
Sins are forgotten and sickness is healed
For five dollars the flower is free

I feel the trembling tingle of a sleepless night
Creep through my fingers and the moon is bright
Beams of blue come flickering through my window pane
Like gypsy moths that dance around a candle flame

And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would

Moonlight used to bathe the contours of your face
While chestnut hair fell all around the pillow case
And the fragrance of your flowers rest beneath my head
A sympathy bouquet left with the love that's dead

And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would

Never thought the words you said were true
Never thought you said just what you meant
Never knew how much I needed you
Never thought you'd leave, until you went

Morning comes and morning goes with no regret
And evening brings the memories I can't forget
Empty rooms that echo as I climb the stairs
And empty clothes that drape and fall on empty chairs

And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would

If I could say the things I feel, it wouldn't be the same
Some things are not spoken of, some things have no name
And though the words come hard to me, I'll say them just for you
For this is something rare for me this feeling is so new

You see I love the way you love me
Love the way you smile at me,
I love the way we live this life we're in

Long ago I heard the song that lovers sing to me
And through the days with each new phrase I hummed that melody
And all along I loved the song but I never learned it through
But since the day you came along, I've saved it just for you

You see I love the way you love me
Love the way you smile at me,
I love the way we live this life we're in

I don't believe in magic but I do believe in you
And when you say you believe in me
There's so much magic I can do

Now you see me now you don't watch me dive below
Deep down in your love lake where the sweet fish come and go
And I might sink and I might drown but death don't mean a thing
'Cause life continues right or wrong when I play this birthday song
I learned from you, and you can't even sing

Wonderful baby livin' on love the
sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float by, just
counting their toes.

Wonderful baby nothin' but new, the
world has gone crazy, I'm glad I'm not you.
At the beginning or is it the end? It goes
in and comes out and starts over again.

Wonderful baby livin' on love the
sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float by, just
counting their toes.

Wonderful baby I'll watch while you grow. If
I knew the future you'd be first to know. But I don't know nothin' of what
life's about, Just as long as you live, you'll never find out.

Wonderful baby, nothin' to fear.
Love whom you will, but doubt what you hear.
They'll whisper sweet things to make untrue. So be good to yourself, that's all
you can do. You're a wonderful baby livin' on love the sandman says maybe he'll
take you above, up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float
by, just counting their toes, where
babies float by, just counting their toes...

If you wanna make me happy
Here's all you gotta do
Just take me where you're going
And I'll take care of you
'Cause I've got this need that's growin'
To keep you satisfied
And if you keep your green light showin'
Then you can take me for a ride

'Cause I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby, everywhere

Well I like the way you're movin'
And I like the way you go
Well I like the way you let your
Locomotion show
'Cause my drivin' wheel is drivin'
And my pistons are workin' good
And if your motor gives you some trouble, baby
I'll take a look underneath your hood

'Cause I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby, everywhere

Well, I know you like your transportation
With a motor and a rubber wheel
But when you move you cause a transformation
In this lover and the way I feel

So if you wanna make me happy
Here's all you gotta do
Just let me ride your box car
And I'll hobo with you
'Cause all I got is on my shoulders
I'm walkin' on my travellin' shoes
And before I get much older
I'm gonna kick these lovesick blues

And I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby, everywhere

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray.
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills.
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me,
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen; they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.


Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me,
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
But still, your love was true.
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do.
But I could've told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes.
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me,
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen; they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will.

I've got nothing on my mind
Nothing to remember,
Nothing to forget.
And I've got nothing to regret,
But I'm all tied up on the inside,
No one knows quite what I've got;
And I know that on the outside
What I used to be, I'm not anymore.

You know I've heard about people like me,
But I never made the connection.
They walk one road to set them free
And find they've gone the wrong direction.

But there's no need for turning back
`Cause all roads lead to where I stand.
And I believe I'll walk them all
No matter what I may have planned.

Can you remember who I was?
Can you still feel it?
Can you find my pain?
Can you heal it?
Then lay your hands upon me now
And cast this darkness from my soul.
You alone can light my way.
You alone can make me whole once again.

We've walked both sides of every street
Through all kinds of windy weather.
But that was never our defeat
As long as we could walk together.

So there's no need for turning back
`Cause all roads lead to where we stand.
And I believe we'll walk them all
No matter what we may have planned.

And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I've lived till now
I tell them I don't know

I guess they understand
How lonely life has been
But life began again
The day you took my hand

And yes I know
How lonely life can be
Shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free

But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me

And you love me too
Your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirit free
I'm happy that you do

The book at life is brief
Once the page is read
All but love is dead
This is my belief

Yes I know
How loveless life can be
Shadows follow me
And night won't set me free

But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me

And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I've lived till now
I tell them I don't know

You took me up to heaven
Oh, when you took me in your arms
I was dazzled by your beauty
Blinded by your charms

I was lost in a fool's paradise
Good and lost in a fool's paradise

Well, when you told me that you loved me
And I gave my heart to you
Oh, well, I wondered
If there could be any truth in love so new

I was lost in a fool's paradise
Good and lost in a fool's paradise

The whole world was my kingdom
And your love, the gem in my crown
But when I saw you glance at a new romance
You know my love came tumbling down

Oh well, you treat me a kinda coolish
And you never let me know
That you think I'm being foolish
Because I love you so

I'll still get lost in a fool's paradise
Good and lost in a fool's paradise

Well, the whole world was my kingdom
And your love, the gem in my crown
But when I saw you glance at a new romance
You know my love came tumbling down

Oh, you know you treat me a kinda coolish
And you never let me know
Oh, that you think I'm being foolish
Because I love you so

I'll still get lost in a fool's paradise
Lost with you in a fool's paradise

Yes, I'll still get lost in a fool's paradise
So doggone lost in a fool's paradise

When I see you on the street, I lose my concentration. Just the thought that we
might meet creates anticipation.

Won't you look my way once before you go and my eyes will say what you ought to
know. Well I've been thinkin' about you day and night...and I don't know if
it'll work out right...but somehow I think that it just might...if we try.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation. But something yearns within to
grow beyond infatuation.

Won't you look my way once before you go and my eyes will say what you ought to
know. Well you've got me standin' deaf and blind...cause I see love as just a
state of mind...and who knows what it is that we might find...if we try.

(Bridge)

You're walking a different direction from most people I've met. You're givin'
me signs of affection I don't usually get. I don't want you to pledge your
future the future's not yours to give. Just stand there a little longer and let
me watch while you live.

'Cause when I see you on the street, I lose my concentration. And just the
thought that we might meet creates anticipation.

Won't you look my way once before you go and my eyes will say what you ought to
know. Well I've been thinking about you day and night...and I don't know if it
will work out right...but somehow I think that it just might...if we try.
Somehow I think that it just might if we try. Yes somehow I think that it just
might if we try.

Note - Don would often change the last chorus when he performed the song live.
The words were something like "Won't you look my way once before you go and my
eyes will say what you ought to know. It'd be so nice to see it all work
out...cause that's what fantasies are all about..."

Oh, Mary, this London's a wonderful sight
With people here working by day and by night
They don't sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat
But there's gangs of them diggin' for gold in the street
At least when I asked them, that's what I was told
So I just took a hand at this diggin' for gold
But for all that I've found there, I might as well be
In the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea

I believe that when writin' a wish you expressed
As to how the fine ladies of London were dressed
But if you'll believe me, when asked to a ball
They don't wear no tops to their dresses at all
Oh, I've seen them myself and you could not in truth
Tell if they were bound for a ball or a bath
Don't be startin' them fashions now, Mary Mochree,
In the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea

There's beautiful girls here, oh, never you mind
Beautiful shapes Nature never designed
Lovely complexions of roses and cream
But let me remark with regard to the same
That if at those roses you venture to kiss
The colors might all come away on your lip
So I'll wait for the wild rose that's waitin' for me
In the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea

You remember young Diddy McClaren, of course
But he's over here with the rest of the force
I saw him one day as he stood on the strand
Stopped all the traffic with a wave of his hand
As we were talking of days that are gone
The whole town of London stood there to look on
But for all his great powers, he's wishful like me
To be back where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides
in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white
at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
He's gone,
But Eternity knows him,
and it knows what we've done.

And the rain fell like pearls
on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay
where the earth had been dry.
And deep in the trench
he waited for hours,
As he held to his rifle
and prayed not to die.

But the silence of night was
shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp
through the air.
And one after another
his comrades were slaughtered.
In morgue of Marines,
alone standing there.

He crouched ever lower,
ever lower with fear.
"They can't let me die!
The can't let me die here!
I'll cover myself
with the mud and the earth.
I'll cover myself!
I know I'm not brave!
The earth! the earth!
the earth is my grave."

The grave that
they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides
in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white
at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

Ah, it ain't so easy is it?
You almost lost your place.
And perhaps you're wondering how
you're going to cope with your disgrace.
Well your wealth is well established
and your friends were never few,
And all the things they told
you of you're finding to be true.
Well if truth can free the guilty while
the innocent must die,
Then I respect, respect,
respect the coldest lie.

And you talk of human justice
while you drive on fancy wheels.
And you push them to their limit
just to see how nice it feels.
Well it doesn't really matter
if she's living or she's dead,
You just drive away forgetting that
your bumper's dipped in red.
Well if that's the kind of justice that
our hall of justice claims,
Then I respect, respect,
respect old Jesse James.

And most cordially they caught you
and they asked you to obey.
And they threw you into prison,
just in case you could not pay.
Well King Arthur jousted Lancelot,
who stole away his wife;
And your lawyers jousted with the court
to save your precious life.
Well if living is what matters though
you lie with every breath,
Then I respect, respect,
the ones we put to death.

And you won your case most easily
and soon you will be free.
But there will be a million more
who lose their liberty.
Not because of what they did,
but what they did not do:
They did not pay a lawyer or a judge
to see them through.
Why, they had no friends to call on
and they could not raise their bail.
Well if winning is what matters,
I respect the ones who fail.

Going for the Gold

I chased a lot of rainbows
Down a lot of roads
Thinking love was something to be bought or sold
But I finally found a treasure
And it's right here in your eyes
Now my golden dreams are of golden rings
Precious love without a price

(Chorus)
I'm going for the gold
For the heart's that's in you
I'm going for the love
That I know will be true
I've had enough
Of those one night stands
I'm going for the gold that's in a wedding band

I followed those illusions
That sparkled in the night
But they were fantasies that disappeared in the light
The midnight fires that burned so bright
Turn to ashes in the dawn
I didn't realize how empty I was inside
Until you came along

(Chorus x4)
(Fade out)

I was all right for a while
I could smile for a while
But when I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
When you stopped to say hello
And though you wished me well
You couldn't tell that I'd been
Crying over you, crying over you

Then you said, "So long."
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand
That the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

I thought that I was over you
But it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before
But darling, what can I do?
For you don't love me
And I'll always be
Crying over you, crying over you
Yes, now you're gone
And from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying over you