I guess just about the hardest thing to do When you're doing something like this Is to find a new love song to sing Because they're almost always about one of three things
Right, they're either the, ah, the guy meets the girl Or the guy loses the girl or the guy gets the girl Well I found this song and it isn't about any of those three things This song is about two people Who have already known each other for quite a while
So we're alone again tonight I read a book, you watch the fight A stifled yawn, a can of beer What an enthralling atmosphere
And yet the sight of us this way Helps me to say what I must say It helps me to think a thought or two To pass it right along to you And just for starters you should know I think You've let yourself go
Down through the years, each sage repeats Grass never grows on busy streets Which might explain that balding spot Were you a thinker, which you're not
And where's that slender youth I knew I fear he's grown an inch or two Not up and down my joy and pride But more precisely side to side
When at a party, now and then You tell the same old jokes again Or wear a lampshade for a hat Who could be wittier than that?
With one too many you just might Pick some unnecessary fight Though in the morning with the sun You can't remember what you've done If there's regret, it doesn't show You know, you've let yourself go
You never care the way you dress You stay unshaven, you look a mess The smallest thing is too much to do I even hold the door for you
And every rose upon the shelf Is one that I've supplied myself It's not the same, I'm well aware Yet I need to see them there I don't know why I say it now, why I don't?
You've got to learn to show a happy face Although you're full of misery You mustn't show a trace of sadness Never look for sympathy
You've got to learn although it's very hard The way of pocketing your pride Sometimes face humiliation While you were burning up inside Facing reality is often hard to do When it seems happiness is gone
You've got to learn to hide your tears And tell your heart life must go on
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served To show everybody that you're able To leave without saying a word
You've got to learn to hide your sorrow And go on living as before What good is thinking of tomorrow Who knows what it may have in store
You've got to learn to be much stronger At times your head should rule your heart
You've got to learn from hard experience And listen to advice And sometimes pay the price And learn to live with a broken heart
Yesterday when I was young the taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue, I teased at life as if it were a foolish game the way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame, The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built to last on weak and shifting sand, I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day and only now I see how the years have run away
Yesterday when I was young there were so many songs that waited to be sung, So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see, I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out and I never stopped to think what life was all about, and every conversation that I can recall concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.
Yesterday the moon was blue and every crazy day brought something new to do, and I used my magic age as if it were a wand and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond, The game of love I played with arrogance and pride and every flame I lit so quickly, quickly died the friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift away and only I am left on stage to end the play.
Yesterday when I was young there were so many songs that waited to be sung, So many wild pleasures lay in store for me and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see, There are so many songs in me that won't be sung cause I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue And the time has come for me to pay for yesterday When I was young.
My mum and I we live alone A great apartment is our home In Fairhome Towers I have to keep me company Two dogs, a cat, a parakeet Some plants and flowers I help my mother with the chores I wash, she dries, I do the floors We work together I shop and cook and sow a bit Though mum does too I must admit I do it better At night I work in a strange bar Impersonating every star I'm quite deceiving The customers come in with doubt And wonder what I'm all about But leave believing I do a very special show Where I am nude from head to toe After stripteasing Each night the men look so surprised I change my sex before their eyes Tell me if you can What makes a man a man
At three o'clock or so I meet With friends to have a bite to eat And conversation We love to empty out our hearts With every subject from the arts To liberation We love to pull apart someone And spread some gossip just for fun Or start a rumor We let our hair down, so to speak And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek And inside humor So many times we have to pay For having fun and being gay It's not amusing There's always those that spoil our games By finding fault and calling names Always accusing They draw attention to themselves At the expense of someone else It's so confusing Yet they make fun of how I talk And imitate the way I walk Tell me if you can What makes a man a man
My masquerade comes to an end And I go home to bed again Alone and friendless I close my eyes, I think of him I fantasize what might have been My dreams are endless We love each other but it seems The love is only in my dreams It's so one sided But in this life I must confess The search for love and happiness Is unrequited I ask myself what I have got Of what I am and what I'm not What have I given The answers come from those who make The rules that some of us must break Just to keep living I know my life is not a crime I'm just a victim of my time I stand defenseless Nobody has the right to be The judge of what is right for me Tell me if you can What make a man a man
Tell me if you can Tell me if you can Tell me if you can What makes a man a man
Avec des mots etranges Meles a notre amour Avec le meme echange Des joies qui nous entourent Avec les yeux qui changent De reflets nuit et jour Vivre je veux vivre avec toi
Avoir le meme empire Ou les memes malheurs Echangeant des sourires Ou confondant nos pleurs Mais partageant le pire Comme on fait du meilleur Vivre je veux vivre avec toi
Meler nos idees Nos deux coeurs, et nos voix, mon amour Avoir un seul nom Un seul sang, un seul toit pour toujours Avec l'unique envie D'avoir un seul destin Et les memes folies Dans ton coeur et le mien Et traverser la vie En se tenant la main Vivre je veux vivre avec toi
Puisque mes jours Depourvus de bonheur Se delivrent Et s'enivrent A l'approche de ton coeur Puisque l'amour Est vivant de chaleur Et qu'il crie sa joie Je veux vivre avec toi
Avec des mots etranges Meles a notre amour Avec le meme echange Des joies qui nous entourent Avec les yeux qui changent De reflets nuit et jour Vivre je veux vivre avec toi
Avoir le meme empire Ou les memes malheurs Echangeant des sourires Ou confondant nos pleurs Mais partageant le pire Comme on fait du meilleur Vivre je veux vivre avec toi
Meler nos idees Nos deux coeurs, et nos voix, mon amour Avoir un seul nom Un seul sang, un seul toit pour toujours Avec l'unique envie D'avoir un seul destin Et les memes folies Dans ton coeur et le mien Et traverser la vie En se tenant la main Vivre je veux vivre avec toi