Patti Austin

Now you say you're lonely
You cried the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
i cried a river over you

You drove me,
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me
Now you say, you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Come on and Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

You drove me
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me..
And now, you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do..
Come on!
And cry me a river...
Cry me a river
i cried a river over you

I wanna say I love you
I wanna say I care
Even though you may not feel the same
I'm not afraid to wait
`Cause I know you'll changeLove ends and so love begins my friend
Love me againIf love were a road, I'd be walking
If you would steal the key, I'd be home
Open your heart and let me walk in
Open up your eyes and love me againLove ends and so love begins my friend
Love me again, love me again
Love me again?

Now you say you're lonely
You cried the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
i cried a river over you

You drove me,
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me
Now you say, you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Come on and Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

You drove me
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me..
And now, you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do..
Come on!
And cry me a river...
Cry me a river
i cried a river over you

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
Oh, I of course replied
Something here inside cannot be denied

They said someday you'll find
All who love are blind
Oh, when your heart's on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed
To think they could doubt my love
Yet today my love has flown away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I can not hide
Oh, so I smile and say
When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes

Suntanned, windblown
Honeymooners at last alone
Feeling far above par
Oh, how lucky we are

While I give to you and you give to me
True love, true love
So on and on it will always be
True love, true love

For you and I have a guardian angel
From high with nothing to do
But to give to you and to give to me
Love forever true

For you and I have a guardian angel
From high with nothing to do
Yes, you and I have a guardian angel
From high with nothing to do

I give to you and you give to me
True love true love
So on and on it will always be
True love, true love

Everybody's thinking
thinking pretty hard
Everybody's thinkin'
about singin' from the heart

If you want my opinion
it doesn't mean a thing
if you haven't got that ability to swing
The ability to swing

Everybody workin'
workin' pretty hard
Everbody workin'
at singin' from the heart

If you want my opinion
it isn't worth a bean
if you haven't got that
ability to swing
The ability to swing

Dreams, take them away
Got it alone
Honey, Rome wasn't built in a day
But, now it's a ruin
The joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing
Oh no!

Everbody' talking
talkin' pretty loud
Everbody lookin'
to stand out from the crowd

Gonna break it to you bucko
It isn't worth a bean
if you ain't in possession
of the ability to swing
The ability to swing

Friends send them away
Go it alone honey, Rome wasn't built in a day
Now it's a ruin
The joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse
the ability to swing

SCAT...

But, each beat take me deeper under
Each beat sends me more to sleep
Heart melts ice and heart spells danger
Don't hold your breath boy, 'cause it
don't come cheap, no

Everybody lookin'
lookin' pretty hard
Everybody lookin' for a meaning in my art
Gonna give it to you straight boy
It isn't worth a bean
if you haven't got that ability to swing
The ability to swing
Yeah, the ability to swing

The ability to swing
The ability, the ability
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing

Gonna give it to you straight
Boy, it isn't worth a bean
if you haven't got that ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
Oooh
The ability to swing
The ability to swing

Sometimes I drive so fast
even I get scared
Some things they never last
Where's the love we shared?
Is it dead?

I guess I'll never learn
how to keep a man
Knowin' when my back is turned
he'll do what he can
to love another woman woooooo

CHORUS
I was
captivated by your smile
motivated for a while Was it wishful thinkin'
that you would be sincere
That you would be...
captivated

Yes, I know I drive too fast!
Yes, I'm easily led!
Knowin' that won't change the past
even... even when I'm dead
Woh Oh
Captivated, captivated woooo

Captivated ooooo woh ooooo (repeat)
Captivated by your smile

I've been listening to the sounds of the night
Waiting for you to come around and hold me tight
I've been wanting you right here by my side

I don't care what you've gotta do
Just get here in a rush
Every part of me aches for you
It keeps getting stronger. I hunger, I long for you touch

CHORUS
HURRY HOME
I'm counting the minutes until you are in my arms
HURRY HOME, as fast as you can baby
I'll be here, ready to hold you don't take it slow
Wontcha HURRY HOME to me

I miss the way you laugh off the blues
The way you're there to listen when I need you to
and baby how I'm needing you now

I know that you'll be coming soon
It's taking way too long
I asked the man up in the moon
To send you to me, instantly, back to where you belong

CHORUS

And when you come back, when you walk through that door
I"m gonna show you some love
and hold you like never, like never, like never before....

CHORUS...

I was lost, filled with hesitation
Without a plan, no determination
Until we met, you were my salvation
And now I know

There's nothing I can't do in my life
As long as I have you in my life
You let me see the strength I have so deep inside
Now I believe
I know that I can

CHORUS
REACH
for a shing new tomorrow
REACH
for a better day, a better day
REACH
for something higher, something brighter
REACH for the love
REACH for the love

Oh
And when I rise a brighter love is shining
And everyday I'm gonna keep on trying
And though the road is sometimes long and winding
Come walk with me

Every step of the way and my life
is better every day yes, my life
is better for the deeper love you've shown to me
Now I believe I know that I can

CHORUS

REACH out REACH out REACH out
Every step of the way

CHROUS...

On a night so right for love,
where a silver moon is shining
In the shadow of the willow
I fell for you.

Who could write this storyline
Who could paint this perfect picture
They say love is blind, for us it came as no surprise
You and I had stars in our eyes.

Just a tough or knowing glance
We had learned to trust each other
In the midst of our romance,
we held on so tight

If I had my chance again
maybe I would see the danger
Guess I'd make the same mistakes
It's hard to be young and wise
when all you see is stars in your eyes

On this night I wait alone
from a silver moon I'm minding
Like the shadow or the willow
I weep for you

People say I'm over you
They say times are perfect enough
Why do I still long for you
with stars in my eyes
When I have no tears left to cry
Maybe after all love is blind
Maybe love is blind

CHORUS
We ought to go away
to that secret place
Why don't we leave today
to that secret place
For

(Repeat)

A paradise of
With the sand and the waves
so blue
A beautiful amber sky
No one there but you!

Chorus...

Maybe you know the reason that I love you
Maybe you don't but I dont really care
Maybe you'll see the forest for the trees, babe
Maybe you'll see the things that I don't dare

Maybe I know just how to turn on, babe
Maybe I know just how to make you smile
Maybe I don't quite know what's right from wrong, babe
Maybe we'll find out in a little while

Whatever it is, we're together
And that's enough for me
Don't need no questions or answers
Your love's enough for me

Whatever it is, we're together
And that's how love should be
Don't need nobody to tell me
Your love's eough for me

Thinkin back in time
When love was only in my mind
I realize
Ain't no second chance
You've got to hold on to romance
don't let it slide
There's a special
kind of magic in the air
When you find another heart
that needs to share
Baby come to me
let me put my arms around you
This was meant to be
and I'm oh so glad I found you
Need you ev'ry day
gotta have your love around me
Baby always stay
cause I can't go back to livin
without you
Spendin ev'ry dime
To keep you talkin on the line
That's how it was
And all those walks together
out in any kind of weather
Just because
There's a brand new way
of looking at your life
When you know that
they'll be standing by your side
Baby come to me
let me put my arms around you
This was meant to be
and I'm oh so glad I found you
Need you ev'ry day
gotta have your love around me
Baby always stay
cause I can't go back to livin
without you
The nights can be cold
There's a chill to ev'ry evenin
when you're all alone
Don't talk anymore
cause you know that
I'll be here to keep you warm
Oh darling keep me warm
Baby come to me
let me put my arms around you
This was meant to be
and I'm oh so glad I found you
Need you ev'ry day
gotta have your love around me
Baby always stay
cause I can't go back to livin
without you
come to me
let me put my arms around you
This was meant to be
and I'm oh so glad I found you
Need you ev'ry day
gotta have your love around me
Baby always stay
cause I can't go back to livin
without you
come to me
let me put my arms around you
This was meant to be
and I'm oh so glad I found you
Need you ev'ry day

Time...
I've been passing time
watching trains go by

All of my life...
Lying on the sand,
watching seabirds fly
Wishing there would be
Someone waiting home for me.

Something's telling me
it might be you
It's telling me
it might be you..
All of my life...

Looking back as lovers
go walking past.
All of my life
Wondering how they met
and what makes it last

If I found the place
Would I recognize the face?
Something's telling me
it might be you
Yeah, it's telling me
it might be you

So many quiet
walks to take
So many dreams to wake
And we've so much
love to make

I think we're
gonna need some time
Maybe all we
need is time...
And it's telling me
it might be you
All of my life...

I've been saving
love songs and lullabies
And there's so much more
No one's ever heard before..

Something's telling me
it might be you
Yeah, it's telling me
it must be you

And I'm feeling
it'll just be you
All of my life...
It's you..
It's you...
I've been waiting for
all of my life..

* Repeat to fade

Maybe it's you.(it's you)
Maybe it's you.(it's you)
I've been waiting for
all of my life..

Maybe it's you..
Maybe it's you..
I've been waiting for
all of my life..

For the first time in my life
Boy I'm not afraid to say it
What I really feel inside
You don't have to go on waiting
Just think about it, together you and I

I could never try to write a better story
From the pages of my life
You must have written for me
Cause every line, found a way into my heart

So we'll take it one day at a time
And leave all your worries behind
No matter which road that we choose
As long as we got each other,
No way we can lose
We can make it through love
Through the test of time

When you look back on the days
When you tried so hard to reach me
But I never saw the way
Till you took the time to teach me
And I found out, what it's all about

So we'll take it one day at a time
And leave all your worries behind
No matter which road that we choose
As long as we got each other,
No way we can lose
We can make it through love
Through the test of time

Oh and again I would say
How lucky I feel to have found you
Oh and I pray everyday
That this feeling goes on
Forever and ever

So we'll take it one day at a time
And leave all your worries behind
No matter which road that we choose
As long as we got each other,
No way we can lose
We can make it through love
Through the test of time

Oh and I pray everyday
That this feeling goes on
Forever and ever

So we'll take it one day at a time
And leave all your worries behind
No matter which road that we choose
As long as we got each other,
No way we can lose
We can make it through love
Through the test of time

Oh, we can make it through love
Through the test of time
Through the test of time..

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I don't want to be always trying to make you see
I've listened to the doubts on your mind
You have to know that changes what will keeps us strong
And that my independence doesn't have to be wrong

Let me be me, whatever that means
Don't see this change as a threat on our love
Let me be me, leaving's not on my mind
But no restrictions please, let me be me, let me be me

I'm choosing ways that sometime cause you pain
The girl that I once was is gone, now the woman remains
You feel in the truth what that I'm stronger than I was before
But baby that don't mean that I don't need you anymore

Let me be me, whatever that means
Don't see this change as a treat on our love
Let me be me, leaving's not on my mind
But no restrictions please, let me be me, let me be me

Accused of not being myself, here's what I think about that
Nobody knows me better than I know me
Accused of not being myself, here's what I think about that
Nobody knows me better than I know me

Let me be me, whatever that means
Don't see this change as a threat on our love
Let me be me, leaving's not on my mind
But no restrictions please, let me be me, let me be me

Whatever that means
Don't see this change as a threat on our love
Let me be me, leaving's not on my mind
But no restrictions please, let me be me, let me be me

This ain't a threat on our love, baby
Let me be me, leaving's not on my mind, oh
No restrictions please, let me be me

Old man sunshine listen you
Never tell me dreams come true
Just try it and I'll start a riot
Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare
Ever tell me, he will care
I'm certain it's the final curtain

I never want to hear
From any cheerful Pollyannas
Who tell you fate supplies a mate
It's all bananas

They're writing songs of love but not for me
A lucky star's above but not for me
With love to lead the way,
I've found more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play could guarantee

I was a fool to fall and get that way
Hi-ho, alas and also lack-a-day
Although I can't dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he's not for me

Although I can't dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he's not for me

Sweet and pure that's for sure
And you'll always know
When you're hearing Ella sing

Cool and hot bobble your back
If you're not grooving then you are not
Hearing Ella sing

She sang with Bing and Frank and Nat
On everything from jazz to scat
You bet your bottom dollar that you want to swing
Hearing Ella sing

Hear that bard then that word
Ain't no sound like the one you've heard
Hearing Ella sing

Hear that throat, bend that note
You'll hear more than the right or wrong
Hearing Ella sing, yeah

With boo, du, bado, yadoo, la, boo, do, bop
She broke all the records at the record shop
And no one's gonna ever stop remembering
Hearing Ella sing

Oh, this old black day is for my Ella
Let it flow, let her know
Man, we can still hear Ella all around us
Ella, Ella we will never let you go

That's for Ella, let it flow, oh, let her know
Oh you know we can, we can, still hear Ella all around us
Come on, come on, come on you gotta let her know
Oh, Miss Fitzgerald we will never let you go
Ella, Ella, oh Ella, we will never let you go

Miss Otis regrets,
She's unable to lunch today, madam
Miss Otis regrets,
She's unable to lunch today

She is sorry to be delayed,
But last evening down
In lover's lane she strayed, madam
Miss Otis regrets,
She's unable to lunch today

When she woke up and found
That her dream of love was gone, madam
She ran to the man
Who had led her so far astray, so far astray

And from under her velvet gown,
She drew a gun and she shot her love down
Yes she did, she shot her, madam
Oh, Miss Otis regrets,
She's unable to lunch today

Oh, when the mob came and got her
You know they dragged her
From the jail, madam
And they strung her upon
The old willow 'cross the way, baby..