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| 1. |
| 3:36 | 
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Like some night bird homeward wingin
He seeks the sheltered nest Like the sailor's lost horizon, He needs some place to rest The songs that he's been singin' No longer make much sense And those stranger's 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 lost soul's simple longing somehow not so wrong Nightingale, nightingale He was strong, but he was taken By the thought of his success Those spotlights 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 up on a sea of song 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 ooh sing sweet nightingale Oh, na, na, na, na Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale |
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| 2. |
| 4:39 |
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You and I
We ought to try to face the fact The things we thought had value They've all been taken back We've been losing track of time But time's no easy mark I can see you've got a change in mind But what we need is a change of heart I can see you've got a change in mind But what we need is a change of heart You and me It seems that we've been holding out The things that once held meaning We're no longer sure about We've been moving down the line Losing what time we've got And since you say you've had a change in mind Why don't you try a little change of heart I can see you've got a change in mind But what we need is a change of heart Now I'm not asking anymore of you Than I ask of myself Oh, but when I say we need a new approach Well, I don't mean to someone else Change, they say It's the only way we grow Oh, but the change we're showing Let me tell you I just don't know Seems to me that we could find some Other way to start Beginning with a change, a change in mind And ending with a change, a change of heart Oh, begin it with a change, a change in mind But end it with a change, a change of heart |
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| 3. |
| 3:43 |
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Left 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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| 4. |
| 3:32 |
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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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| 5. |
| 2:54 |
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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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| 6. |
| 4:03 |
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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 somewhere 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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| 7. |
| 2:57 |
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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 Ooh 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 Ooh 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 Ooh ee, baby, wrap around joy That's what he gave me, That wrap around boy |
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| 8. |
| 3:46 |
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When tempers flare to flame
When no one cares to listen While I'm tryin' to explain You see the anger rise in me And 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 striving 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 lovin's sake [Chorus] |
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| 9. |
| 3:07 |
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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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| 10. |
| 3:21 |
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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 home, 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, their 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 Welcome home, sweet Adonis Your highway's found an end Welcome home, sweet Adonis, welcome home |
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| 11. |
| 2:58 |
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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 days 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 strychnine 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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| 12. |
| 3:30 |
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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 to 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 anything I've known And I know oh, yes, the best is yet to come |
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