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You tell me that you're leavin',
I can't believe it's true! Girl, there's just no livin' without you. Don't take your love away from me. Don't you leave my heart in misery. 'Cause if you go, then I'll be blue, breakin' up is hard to do. Remember when you held me tight, and you kissed me all through the night. Think of all that we been through, and breakin' up is hard to do. They say that breakin' up is hard to do; now I know, I know that it's true. Don't say that this is the end. Instead of breakin' up I wish that we were makin' up again. I beg of you don't say goodbye; can't we give our love just one more try? Come on baby, let's start anew, breakin' up is hard to do. |
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I'll never let you see
The way my broken heart is hurting me I've got my pride and I know how to hide all my sorrow and pain I'll do my crying in the rain If I wait for cloudy skies You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes You'll never know that I still love you so though the heartaches remain I'll do my crying in the rain Raindrops fallin' from heaven Could never wash away my misery But since we're not together I look for stormy weather To hide these tears I hope you'll never see Crying, crying in the rain Some day when my cryin's done I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun I may be a fool, but til then darling You'll never see me complain I'll do my crying in the rain |
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It's gonna take some time this time
To get myself in shape. I really fell out of line this time, I really missed the gate. The birds on the telephone like, (next time) Are cryin' out to me, (next time) And I won't be so blind next time, And I'll find some harmony. But it's going to take some time this time, And I can't make demands. But, like the young trees in the winter time, I'll learn how to bend. After all the tears we've spent, How could we make amends? So, it's one more round for experience And I'm on the road again, And it's going to take some time this time! But it's going to take some time this time, No matter what I've planned. And, like the young trees in the winter time, I'll learn how to bend. After all the tears we've spent, How could we make amends? So, it's one more round for experience And I'm on the road again, And it's going to take some time this time! |
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BRIGHTER
by Carole King We've been knowing each other For many a year, it's true And I can't think of anyone else Can make me feel as good as you Yeah, you make my day A little bit brighter in every way I'm so glad to have you In this old troubled time When true love and understanding, child AARe so hard to find Yes, you make my day A little bit brighter every day SOme people live in darkness Their whole life through I just know that I'd have been one of them If it hadn't been for you Now, sometimes I feel afraid AS we all tend to do But I think of the loving good times we've had And I know we're gonna make it through Cause you make my day A little bit brighter in every way |
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GROWING AWAY FROM ME
by Carole King You've been my life to me My very soul and my heart But lately something's come over you And it's tearing me apart CHORUS: Darlin' I feel you growing away from me More and more each day Whatever you want me to be I'll be If it keeps you from growing away from me Even whe you say you love me The feeling's no longer there I know there's somebody else And it's more than I can bear CHORUS Believe me, I would let you go if I could But I don't know if it's worse thing being lonely Than having you here in body only It's no use pretending When the love you used to feel is gone Yet even though I'm losing you I can't help tryin' to hold on CHORUS I feel you Growing away from me |
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TOO MUCH RAIN
by Carole King and Toni Stern If anyone asks you how I am Just say I'm doin' fine If you will do that for me I'll do the same for you sometime ANd if anyone asks you where I've gone Just say I'm down the line I don't want my friends to see me like this Maybe some other time Too much rain fallin' Too much rain fallin' There's just been too much rain down on me One day I'm gonna understand The way that my heart works And then I'm gonna work it out ASO that I won't get hurt But if anyone asks you where I've gone Oh, don't say where I am Just say you saw me and I'm doin' fine Cause I'm doin' the best I can Too much rain fallin' Too much rain fallin' There's just been too much rain fallin' down on me |
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BACK TO CALIFORNIA
by Carole King I've been feelin' down in Atlanta Immobile in Alabam I'd rather be in traction Than to be here where I am Oh you Georgia red clay ANd green Virginia pines I've got to make it home somehow Before I lose my mind CHORUS: So, won't you carry me back to California I've been on the road too long Take me to the West Coast, daddy And let me be where I belong Hey now, Philly, you street city Been down by the railroad track I know that you can be a sweet city But I won't soon be back Haystack towns and somkestown cities Are nothin' I want to see My own house on high ground Is the only place I wnat to be (CHORUS) |
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SONG OF LONG AGO
by Carole King Whispering wind came uninvited Looking for somewhere else to go Here is a lamp I've left unlighted Aren't you someone I should know? Memory's flame is soon ignited Lighting my lamp with amber glow Quietly friends are reunited Singing a song of long ago, la la la... Cry, cry for someone Who just can't be happy And be glad you can feel enough to cry Younger than always, time descended Bringing me brand new seeds to sow Now that they've been a long time planted What must I do to help them grow? If it had been as I intended I wouldn't have the peace I know Loving the people I've befriended Singin' a song of long ago, la la la... As it began, so I will end it Singing a song of long ago Loving the people I've befriended And singin' a song of long, long, long ago |
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Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
And sometimes the blues get a hold of you Ah, just when you thought you had made it All around the block people will talk But I want to give it all that I got I just don't want, I don't want to waste it Talking 'bout-a sweet seasons on my mind Sure does appeal to me You know we can get there easily Just like a sailboat sailing on the sea Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose And most times you choose between the two Ah, wondering, wondering if you have made it But I'll have some kids and make my plans And I'll watch the seasons running away And I'll build me a life in the open, a life in the country I'm talking 'bout-a sweet seasons on my mind Sure does appeal to me You know we can get there easily Just like a sailboat a-sailing on the sea Talkin' 'bout-a sweet seasons Talkin' 'bout-a sweet, sweet, sweet seasons Talkin' 'bout-a sweet seasons Talkin' 'bout-a sweet seasons |
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All you have to do is touch my hand
to show me you understand and something happens to me that's some kind of wonderful anytime my little world is blue I just have to look at you and everything seems to be some kind of wonderful I know I can't express this feeling of tenderness is so much I wanna say but the right words just don't come my way I just know when I'm in your embrace this world is a happy place and something happens to me that's some kind of wonderful somekind of wonderful somekind of wonderful, wonderful somekind of wonderful |
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Meet me on the highway,
Meet me on the road, As long as you've got to travel Don't you want someone to help you carry your load? |
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Music is playing inside my head
Over and over and over again My friend, there's no end to the music... Ah, summer is over But the music keeps playing And won't let the cold get me down Pictures are forming inside my brain Soon with the colors they'll rain together and grow Then don't you know, don't you know there'll be music... Ah, it's not always easy But the music keeps playing And won't let the world get me down. |
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When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof it's peaceful as can be And there the world below can't bother me Let me tell you now When I come home feelin' tired and beat I go up where the air is fresh and sweet I get away from the hustling crowds And all that rat race noise down in the street Up on the roof On the roof's the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it so Oh, let's go up on the roof At night the stars put on a show for free And darling, you can share it all with me I keep a-telling you Right smack dab in the middle of town I found a paradise that's trouble-proof Up on the roof So if this world starts getting you down There's room enough for two, up on the roof Up on the roof, everything is allright Up on the roof, oh, come on, baby Up on the roof Up on the roof |
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Like some nightbird homeward winging
He seeks that shelteredness Like the sailor's lost horizon He needs some place to rest The songs that he's been singing No longer make much sense And those strangers' cold perceptions They've killed his confidence Nightingale She sails away upon a sea of song Nightingale She serenades his lonely, lonely life along When his tired voice is broken His golden hope is gone She makes a loss so simple-longing somehow not so wrong Nightingale He was strong but he was taken By the thought of his success Those spotlight shadows how they lured him And took him like all the rest But that old dream don't look good now No it don't seem quite the same He needs to hear a tender word Won't you sing him home again Nightingale She sails away upon a sea of songs Nightingale She serenades his lonely, lonely life along When his strength is slowly going His pride is all but gone She makes a foolish dreamer listen To one last song Nightingale Sing sweet nightingale |
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Lift me, won't you lift me above the old routine;
Make it nice, play it clean jazzman. When the jazzman's testifyin' a faithless man believes he can sing you into paradise or bring you to your knees. It's a gospel kind of feelin', a touch of Georgia slide, a song of pure revival and a style that's sanctified. Jazzman take my blues away; make my pain the same as yours with every change you play. Jazzman, oh jazzman. When the jazzman's signifyin', and the band is windin' low. It's the late night side of morning in the darkness of his soul. He can fill a room with sadness as he fills his horn with tears. He can cry like a fallen angel when risin' time is near. Jazzman take my blues away; make my pain the same as yours with every change you play. Oh lift me, won't you lift me with ev'ry turn around. Play it sweetly, take me down, oh jazzman. |
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You've put these distances between us
You've built these walls, they'ree your design With sharp and angry lies, you've cut the binding ties While making love seem so unkind Well, all right, you go your way, I'll go mine I'll get over you in time There's nothing here to hold you now Oh, It's your life, so make it shine You go your way, I'll go mine I've tried to justify your thinking I've given in and been denied Like a hundred times before, you take And ask for more The only thing you leave is compromise Well, all right, you go your way, I'll go mine I'll get over you in time There's nothing here to hold you now We left those dreams so far behind You go your way, I'll go mine Oh, there's no need for false amending Things get so confusing when you do When love's become a loss, we spend our Nights defending I feel so damn defeated when we're through But all right, you go your way, I'll go mine I'll get over you in time There's nothing here to hold you now I just can't fight your willful mind You go your way, I'll go mine |
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When I left the world behind me
Retreating through the past You reached out to find me And brought me back at last You've shown me something Beyond my looking glass Now loce's in my reflection In the shadow that you cast on me, and you You're something new You're something new Under the sun Under the moon, You're the light of creation And I knew That I'd come to love you Life seemed oh so temporary A case of "here and gone" And I survived just barely Until you came along But now each day I'm given Is one more day I know A love that's so unselfish It's a pleasure just to show my love to you You're something new You're something new Under the sun Under the moon You're the light of creation |
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WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
by Carole King & David Palmer The just are seeking justice The meek are reaching out For something only children Can really know about And some men cry for mercy While they deny their brothers' pain And some men laugh for reasons They can never quite explain We are all in this together And maybe we'll see that one day When we conquer our fear together When we finally find a way And we all need forgiving For all the damage done For the things we do, not thinking For the hurt that we've caused someone But me, I keep on living Caught soemwhere there between The reason and the meaning The vision and the dream We are all in this together I know that seems easy to say But don't use the word "forever" It's enough just to say "someday" |
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WRAP AROUND JOY
by Carole King & David Palmer My mama loves me, she's my best friend I know my daddy's with me right to the end Oh, but my baby's got the final say And what he says, it turns me every way But loose, he say now Oo-ee baby, wrap around joy What it takes to save me, that wrap around joy I believe in salvation. I don't doubt what I've found I just can't do without it, oh, that good old wrap around My baby calls me late Friday night He sounds so crazy but he feels so right He says "Get ready mama, now lighten your load And I'll be right over for the next episode" Here we go now Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy That's what he gave me, that wrap around boy He's been my undoin' I've been coming unwound But I don't mind unwindin' for some good old wrap around Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy That's what he gave me, that wrap around boy |
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YOU GENTLE ME
by Carole King & David Palmer When tempers flare to flame When no one cares to listen while I'm tryin' to explain You see the anger rise in me Adn you calm me down again CHORUS: Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me Like innocence regained, you gentle me And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree When you gentle to me When rumor comes to call Suspicion's taking over and I'm back against the wall You just smile assuringly And my defenses fall CHORUS When life seems so relentless, you gentle me When my strving seems so senseless, you gentle me You lift my spirits, I get higher by degree When you're gentle to me When tension's taking shape When I feel the pressure building and it's just too much to take You touch the anxious need in me With love for lovins sake CHORUS |
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It's hard enough to hear you
Express your sympathy But it's harder still to feel the things My eyes refuse to see Oh, my lovin' eyes When you look upon them darlin' like you do You bring these tears into My lovin' eyes I watch you take my self respect Accepting each excuse When I've never seen the reason For your moods or abuse Oh, my lovin' eyes They hold you like the heaven holds the sun But look what you've done to My lovin' eyes Like a man whose way is righteous His faith in life resigned I'm a child whose eyes are sightless And my faith in you is truly blind It's sad to think of living As pain that we must feel But it's sadder still to think of love As something you conceal Oh, my lovin' eyes When you look upon them darlin' like you do You bring these tears into My lovin' eyes |
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SWEET ADONIS
by Caroel King & David Palmer Waiting on tables while waiting on fame In a city filled with numbers, they've forgotten their names Like a lonely broken people without title, without claim When every day's survival is one more night of shame, night of shame Welcome home, sweet Adonis Welcome back, my old friend I'm glad to see you made it through your contests once again Welcome nome, sweet Adonis You heart needs time to mend Welcome home, sweet Adonis, my old friend Hoping for the promise, staying for the show In a world of brief advantage, the victims come and go Their faces seem so honest, tehir manners have such style Oh, but when hunger means existence There's a feast in every smile, every smile So welcome home, sweet Adonis Welcome back, my old friend I'm glad to see you made it up that hard road once again Welcoem home, sweet Adonis Your highway's found an end Welcome home, sweet Adonis, welcome home |
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A NIGHT THIS SIDE OF DYING
by Carole King & David Palmer I remember one young sister with rainbows in her eyes Standing on the corner with the afternoon's supply She spoke of other places, perhaps a better road Then she asked if I could tell her where they kept the mother lode Like a night this side of dying Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf When she hears her lifeline crying Not a thing you say can stop her When she just can't stop herself I remember that July, the panic and the heat The savage shine of summer, the trychnine in the street The way thay sold each other for a favor in glassine The best of friends sold brothers for a dime of quinine dreams Like a night this side of dying Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf Like the shelter she's been buying Not a thing I've got can save her When she just can't save herself She just can't save herself |
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THE BEST IS YET TO COME
by Carole King & Dave Palmer Hard times, hand to mouth, down and out, all those hard times But we've seen the seasons turning As we weathered every storm And the climate of our loving Is so tender and so warm And the best is yet to come This is only the beginning And we've only just begun To realize the best is yet ot come Heartache, more or less useless, all the heartache But when the flood of sudden tears came down We smiled and stood our ground And the laughter we'd been counting on It finally came around And the best is yet to come And it's getting so much better Than anyhting I've known And I know - oh, yes - The best is yet to come |
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SURELY
by Carole King Surely you know how I stand on the question of my loving you Haven't I proved it in so many ways? Surely you can tell by the way I kiss your lips that I want you More surely than my words can say I see you stamd and accuse me of no longer wanting you Misunderstanding what others have seen Surely you won't let idle people with nothing else to rely on Tear down all our hopes and our dreams Tell me, does the rain fall? (surely, surely) ANd does the summer always follow spring? How does a turtle go? (slowly, surely) That's how my love grows, surely, surely, surely Darling, if your head misleads you Just listen to your heart; it knows I need you Just as surely as the sun is gonna rise Just as surely as the birds are gonna sing Just as surely as everything is part of everything I'm a part of you Surely you know I'm a part of you And surely you know that I love you I love you |
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