Don't fall in love with me yet We only recently met True, I'm in love with you, but You might decide I'm a nut Give me a week or two to Go absolutely cuckoo Then when you see your error Then you can flee in terror Like everybody else does I only tell you this 'cause I'm easy to get rid of But not if you fall in love Know now that I'm on the make And if you make a mistake My heart will certainly break I'll have to jump in a lake And all my friends will blame you There's no telling what they'll do It's only fair to tell you I'm absolutely cuckoo
Don't fall in love with me yet We only recently met True, I'm in love with you, but You might decide I'm a nut Give me a week or two to Go absolutely cuckoo Then when you see your error Then you can flee in terror Like everybody else does I only tell you this 'cause I'm easy to get rid of But not if you fall in love Know now that I'm on the make And if you make a mistake My heart will certainly break I'll have to jump in a lake And all my friends will blame you There's no telling what they'll do It's only fair to tell you I'm absolutely cuckoo
They say there's a sun in the sky But me, I can't imagine why There might have been one Before you were gone But now all I see is the night
So I don't believe in the sun How could it shine down on everyone And never shine on me How could there be Such cruelty
The only sun I ever knew Was the beautiful one that was you Since you went away It's night time all day And it's usually raining, too
So I don't believe in the sun How could it shine down on everyone And never shine on me How could there be Such cruelty
The only stars there really are Were shining in your eyes There is no sun except the one That never shone on other guys The moon to whom the poets croon Has given up and died Astronomy will have to be revised
I don't believe in the sun How could it shine down on everyone And never shine on me How could there be Such cruelty
You are a splendid butterfly It is your wings that make you beautiful And I could make you fly away But I could never make you stay
You said you were in love with me Both of us know that that's impossible And I could make you rue the day But I could never make you stay
Not for all the tea in China Not if I could sing like a bird Not for all North Carolina Not for all my little words Not if I could write for you The sweetest song you ever heard It doesn't matter what I'll do Not for all my little words
Now that you've made me want to die You tell me that you're unboyfriendable And I could make you pay and pay But I could never make you stay
Not for all the tea in China Not if I could sing like a bird Not for all North Carolina Not for all my little words Not if I could write for you The sweetest song you ever heard It doesn't matter what I'll do Not for all my little words It doesn't matter what I'll do Not for all my little words
Eligible, not too stupid Intelligable and cute as Cupid Knowledgable but not always right Salvageable and free for the night
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love Poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off? Woah, nelly!
My wife doesn't understand me Many dozens hope to land me I'm for free love and I'm in free fall This could be love or nothing at all
But my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
We don't have to be stars exploding in the night, or electric eels under the covers We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off? It ain't pretty
Reno, Dakota There's not an iota Of kindness in you You know you enthrall me And yet you don't call me It's making me blue Pantone 292
Reno, Dakota I'm reaching my quota Of tears for the year Alas and alack You just don't call me back You have just disappeared It makes me drink beer
I know you're a recluse You know that's no excuse Reno, that's just a ruse Do not play fast and loose With my heart
Reno, Dakota I'm no Nino Rota I don't know the score Have I annoyed you Or is there a boy who Well, he's just a whore I've had him before It makes me drink more
I don't want to get over you I guess I could take a sleeping pill And sleep at will And not have to go through What I go through I guess I should take Prozac, right? And just smile all night At somebody new Somebody not too bright But sweet and kind Who would try to get you off my mind I could leave this agony behind Which is just what I'd do If I wanted to But I don't want to get over you
'Cause I don't want to get over love I could listen to my therapist Pretend you don't exist And not have to dream of What I dream of I could listen to all my friends And go out again And pretend it's enough Or I could make a career of being blue I could dress in black and read Camus Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth Like I was seventeen That would be a scream But I don't want to get over you
Come back from San Francisco It can't be all that pretty When all of New York City misses you Should pretty boys in discos Distract you from your novel Remember I'm awful in love with you
You need me Like the wind needs the trees To blow in Like the moon needs poetry You need me
Come back from San Francisco And kiss me, I've quit smoking I miss doing the wild thing with you Will you stay, I don't think so But all I do is worry Pack bags, call cabs, and hurry home to me
You need me Like the wind needs the trees To blow in Like the moon needs poetry You need me
You need me Like the wind needs the trees To blow in Like the moon needs poetry You need me
When you betray me, betray me with a kiss Damn you, I've never stayed up as late as this
Andy would bicycle across town In the rain to bring you candy And John would buy the gown For you to wear to the prom With Tom the astronomer, who'd name a star for you
But I'm the luckiest guy On the Lower East Side 'Cause I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride
Harry is the one I think you'll marry But it's Chris that you kissed after school Well, I'm a fool, there's no doubt But when the sun comes out And only when the sun comes out
I'm the luckiest guy On the Lower East Side 'Cause I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride
The day is beautiful and so are you My car is ugly but then I'm ugly too I know you'd never give me a second glance But when the weather's nice all the other guys don't stand a chance
I know Professor Blumen makes you feel like a woman But when the wind is in your hair you laugh like a little girl So you share secrets with Lou, but we've got secrets too Well, one: I only keep this heap for you
'Cause I'm the ugliest guy On the Lower East Side But I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride Want to go for a ride? Want to go for a ride? Want to go for a ride?
If you knew how I long For you now that you're gone You'd grow wings and fly Home to me Home tonight And in the morning sun
Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Let abbots, Babbitts and Cabots Say Mother Nature's wrong And when we've had a couple'a'beers We'll put on bunny suits I long to nibble your ears And do as bunnies do
Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Rapidly becoming rabid Singing little rabbit songs I can keep it up all night I can keep it up all day Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits Until we pass away
Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits Until we pass away
The cactus where your heart should be has lovely little flowers so though it's always pricking me my ardor never sours The cactus where your heart once was has power to rend and flay I stick because I'm stuck, because I just can't tear myself away
Time stands still -- all I can feel is the time standing still. As you put down the keys and say 'don't call me please', while the radio plays, "I Think I Need a New Heart", oh... "I Think I Need a New Heart", oh...
You've lied, too, but it's a sin that I can't tell the truth, Cause it all comes out wrong unless I put it in a song, so the radio plays, "I Think I Need a New Heart", just for you. "I Think I Need a New Heart".
Cause I always say "I love you", when I mean "turn out the light". And I say "let's run away", when I just mean "stay the night". But the words you want to hear, you will never hear from me. I'll never say "happy anniversary"; never stay to say "happy anniversary".
So I think I need a new heart, oh... I think I need a new heart, oh... I think I need a new heart, oh... I think I need a new heart, oh... Give me time...
The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing but I, I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb but I, I love it when you sing to me and you, you can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we're all too young to know but I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings
I do believe our love's in danger I might as well be loving air You look at me like I'm a stranger You look at me like I'm not there
I gaze into your eyes of blue But their beauty is not for me You're thinking on someone who's gone You're dreaming of the one you really love
I made you mine, or so it seemed Though he is dead he haunts your dreams I might as well be two foot tall You never will love me at all...
I gaze into your eyes of blue but their beauty is not for me You're thinking on someone who's gone You're dreaming of the one you really love You're dreaming of the corpse you really love
I'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear and sing till dawn a song of you and me and what and why for time is all I have to keep between these walls and half asleep the days go by a million little nights and days go by and I don't mind Parades go by So many beautiful parades go by Leave me behind I'll sit and stare how could I venture anywhere and let the centuries fall where they may but never die for I have loved and so I lost the world above beyond the moss...
A pretty girl is like a minstrel show It makes you laugh It makes you cry You go It just isn't the same on radio It's all about the makeup and the dancing and the Oh
A pretty girl is like a violent crime If you do it wrong you could do time But if you do it right it is sublime I'm so in love with you, girl, It's like I'm on the moon I can't really breathe, but I feel lighter
A melody is like a pretty girl Who cares if it's the dumbest in the world It's all about the way that it unfurls A pretty girl is like A pretty girl
