69 Love Songs
1. ABSOLUTELY CUCKOO
Don't fall in love with me yet We've 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
2. I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SUN
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 (C): 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 nighttime all day and it's usually
raining too... (C) 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... (C)
3. ALL MY LITTLE WORDS
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 (C): 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 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... (C)
4. A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF
Eligible, not too stupid, intelligible and cute as Cupid,
knowledgeable, but not always right, salvageable
and free for the night (C): 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? (Whoa, Nellie) 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... (C) 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... (C) (It ain't pretty)
5. RENO DAKOTA
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
6. I DON'T WANT TO GET OVER YOU
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 17 that would be a scream but I
don't want to get over you
7. COME BACK FROM SAN FRANCISCO
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 (C): 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... (C)
When you betray me betray me with a kiss Damn you
I've never stayed up as late as this
8. THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE
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
(C): 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 I'm a fool, there's no doubt
but when the sun comes out and only when the sun
comes out... (C) 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?
9. LET'S PRETEND WE'RE BUNNY RABBITS
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 (C): let's pretend we're
bunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Let abbots,
Babbits and Cabots say Mother Nature's wrong
and when we've had a coupla 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
10. THE CACTUS WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE
The cactus where your heart should be has lovely
little flowers so though it's always pricking me
my ardor never sours The cactus hwere your heart
once was has power to rend and flay I stick because
I'm stuck, because I just can't tear myself away
11. I THINK I NEED A NEW HEART
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"
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
Give me time
12. THE BOOK OF LOVE
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
13. FIDO, YOUR LEASH IS TOO LONG
Fido, your leash is too long You go where you don't belong
You've been diggin in the rubble getting bitches in trouble
Fido, your leash is too long Fido your leash is too long
I don't know where I went wrong You scare me out of my wits
when you do that Shitzu Fido, your leash is too long
Fido, you've gone far enough I must have all of your love
You've just run out of luck I don't care what you foxhounds do
but your leash is too long
14. HOW FUCKING ROMANTIC
How fucking romantic All the stars are out twinkling twinkling twinkling
and fluttering about What a tacky sunset What a vulgar moon
Play another charming Rodgers & Hart tune How fucking romantic
Must we really waltz Drag another cliche howling from the vaults
Love you, obviously, like you really care, even though you treat me
like a dancing bear Toss your bear a goldfish as it cycles by
Don't forget to feed your bear or it'll die
15. THE ONE YOU REALLY LOVE
I do believe our love's in danger I might aas 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 mee 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 ft. tall You never will love me at all...
You're dreaming of the corpse you really love
16. PUNK LOVE
Punk love punk love Punk rock love
17. PARADES GO BY
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...
18. BOA CONSTRICTOR
I spend my evenings alone talking to your picture, babe Love is
wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe My mother
should have murdered me What jury would convict her, babe for
love is wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe
19. A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE...
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
20. MY SENTIMENTAL MELODY
I'm a hopeless romantic You're a terrible flirt Cool and unfazed,
you're always amazed when someone gets hurt I live on the blue planet
that I saw in your eyes but now I can't stay knowing it's made
of beautiful lies but my sentimental melody like a long-lost lullabye
will ring in your ears down through the years bringing a tear to your eye
Goodbye Love can kill people, can't it Well it still might kill me
Each drop of rain is a glass of champagne It's sweet and it's free
When I drink I don't panic When I drink I don't die When I'm far gone
it's all just a song just beautiful lies...
21. NOTHING MATTERS WHEN WE'RE DANCING
Dance with me my old friend once before we go Let's pretend
this song won't end and we never have to go home and we'll
dance among the chandeliers And nothing matters when we're
dancing In tat or tatters you're entrancing Be we in Paris
or in Lansing nothing matters when we're dancing You've never been
more beautiful your eyes like two full moons than here in this
poor old dancehall among the dreadful tunes the awful songs
we don't even hear...
22. SWEET-LOVIN' MAN
There's an hour of sunshine for a million years of rain
but somehow that always seems to be enough When love falls
from the sky nobody ever asks why You just take it or
you leave it where it was but there's just one kind of love
you can spend your life dreaming of For the love of a sweet-lovin' man
some have traveled far and wide some have given up and died
For the love of a sweet-lovin' man some have broken down and cried
some have turned to dust inside but I'll stay right here and hide
in the arms of my sweet-lovin' man Until you've had sweet lovin'
there's no lovin' worth the name but you can go blind
from crying all the time and who said life was easy
and who said a man was fair Well I wish you well
but keep your paws off mine You can't buy one at the mall
but he'll come if you just call...
23. THE THINGS WE DID AND DIDN'T DO
All the things I knew I didn't know and didn't want to know
that you told me just to tell me later that you'd told me so
come flooding back to me now Come on Come flooding back to me now
All the things you said you'd never say and you said anyway
The things we did and didn't do The things we did and didn't do
come flooding back to me now
24. ROSES
Buy more stock in roses Millionaires will always woo Don't be shocked if
roses make a millionaire of you
25. LOVE IS LIKE JAZZ
Love is like jazz You make it up as you go along and you act as if you
really know the song but you don't and you never will so you flaunt your
mistakes and you make them until they were you Love is like jazz the same
song a million times in different ways "Strange Fruit" with and without
wind chimes It's divine It's asinine It's depressing and it's almost
entirely window dressing but it'll do
26. WHEN MY BOY WALKS DOWN THE STREET
Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street There are
whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat Everyone sings
hallelujah when my boy walks down the street Life just kind of dances
through ya from your smile down to your feet Amazing he's a whole new form
of life blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife The world does the
hula-hula when my boy walks down the street Everyone thinks he's Petula so
big and yet so petite Butterflies turn into people when my boy walks down
the street Maybe he should be illegal he just makes life too complete...
Oh, shadows of echoes of memories Oh, things that he brings that he found in
the sea Oh, shadows of echoes of memories of songs Oh, how could he know
that it won't be long...
27. TIME ENOUGH FOR ROCKING WHEN WE'RE OLD
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old We can rock all day in
rocking chairs of gold but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love There'll be time
enough for talk in the nursing home Darling, time enough to write an epic
poem but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough
for talking in the home, my love There'll be time enough for sleeping when
we're dead You will have a velvet pillow for your head but tonight I think
I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're
dead, my love There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven when our
pheromones are turned up to 11 but tonight I think I'd rather just go
dancing There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love and
time enough for rocking when we're old
28. VERY FUNNY
Everybody knows but me when you go where you shouldn't be Everybody knows
but me where you go when you're feeling free Everybody knows but me So you
go there for a laugh You just go to take photographs To believe that, I'd be
daft but yes I think you go for a laugh and you say, I love you honey Very funny
29. GRAND CANYON
If I was the Grand Canyon I'd echo everything you say but I'm just me I'm
only me and you used to love me that way so you know how to love me that way
If I was Paul Bunyan I'd carry you so far away but I'm just me I'm only me
and you used to love me that way so you know how to love me that way
30. NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU
If you don't mind why don't you mind Where is your sense of indignation You
are too kind Much too kind Where is the madness that you promised me Where
is the dream for which I paid dearly When things go wrong I sing along It
is the nature of the business But you're not here to make my sad songs more
sincere No one will ever love you honestly No one will ever love you
for your honesty No one will ever love you honestly No one will ever
love you for your honesty
31. IF YOU DON'T CRY
Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and are
gone Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet and nothing gets done
An hour goes by She doesn't If you don't cry it isn't love If you don't
cry then you just don't feel it deep enough Dying all day in thousands of
little ways Dancing alone and drinking a lot Closing the clubs and haunting
the cabarets looking for what Another five years off your life... A year
goes by She doesn't...
32. YOU'RE MY ONLY HOME
I will stay if you let me stay and I'll go if you let go but I won't go far
away because you're my only home I will hide what you want hidden and I'll
roam if you say roam but I'd just as soon you didn't because you're my only
home When you cancel dinner plans When you cross the street and you don't
take my hand When you make impossible demands I wish I didn't understand, but...
33. (CRAZY FOR YOU BUT) NOT THAT CRAZY
I built a ship with my own hands to take us to the moon I took a pen in my
own hand and wrote you a hundred tunes now I'm crazy for you but not that
crazy I pretended you were Jesus you were just dying to save me I stood
beneath your window with my ukulele I made my yard a playground just in
case we had a baby now I'm crazy for you but not that crazy I treated you
like radium I treated you like God You were my glass menagerie Did you not
find that odd I dwelt within and went without and broke my virgin flesh I
performed acts of devotion as if you were Ganesh, but now I'm crazy for you
but not that crazy I'm crazy for you but not that crazy
34. MY ONLY FRIEND
Billie you're a miracle and God knows I need one Sing me something terrible
that even dawn may come You and me, we don't believe in happy endings Hey,
Lady Day, can you save my life this time Can you cry so beautifully you
make my troubles rhyme Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again My only
love has gone away Will you be my only friend Billie you're a genius
enough to be a fool a fool to gamble everything and never know the rules
Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble Some of us can only
live in bubbles...
35. PROMISES OF ETERNITY
What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs
and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retire
What if all the stage hands were let go or fired
that's just like what the world would be
If you fell out of love with me I can't let this happen to you
don't you let it happen to me What would our friends and family say
if they could only see If you let this happen to us
don't think you'd be setting me free Wasn't it you and I who made
promises of eternity What if the lights didn't go on What if the
velvet curtain had to be taken down What if the clowns couldn't be clowns
and all those painted smiles gave in to plaintive frowns
What if no show ever happened again No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no "10"
All numbers and no mystery No promise of eternity...
36. WORLD LOVE
When the rhythm calls the government falls Here come the cops
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop We are black & white
and we dance all night down at the hop and the letters were tall
on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop so if you're feeling low
stuck in some bardo I, even I know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution love, love, love music, wine and revolution
This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance
and freedom is the only law shall we dance...
37. WASHINGTON, D.C.
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.! W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
Washington, D.C., it's paradise to me It's not because it is
the grand old seat of precious freedom and democracy no no no
It's not the greenery turning gold in fall the scenery circling
the Mall It's just that's where my baby lives, that's all
Washington, D.C. it's the greatest place to be It's not
the cherries everywhere in bloom It's not the way they put folks
on the Moon, no no no It's not the spectacles and pageantry
the thousand things you've got to see It's just that's where
my baby waits for me
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.! W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
Washington, D.C., it fits me to a T It's not the people doing
something real It's not the way the springtime makes you feel
It ain't no famous name on a golden plaque that makes me ride
the railroad track It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back
It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back
38. LONG-FORGOTTEN FAIRYTALE
If someone told me you'd be here whispering these familiar things
talking to my little pets smoking the same old cigarettes
I would have laughed I saw you last in springtime
You said you hated long goodbyes You said there's nothing to explain
in every life a little rain et cetera And a long-forgotten fairytale
is in your eyes again and I'm caught inside a dream world where the
colors are too intense and nothing is making sense There's a floating
town of eiderdown in a mist of mystery There's an old enchanted castle
and the princess there is me decked out like a Christmas tree
I guess you've had your little joke but I have lost my sense of humor
My medication's wearing off or it's just not strong enough to cover this
and then you kiss me like before and I find myself wanting more
and you tell that little lie that kept me hypnotized: another kiss...
If someone told me I'd succumb, If someone said I'd be so dumb
after all the sleepless nights when I turned on all the lights
I would have hit them but I have turned the other cheek
My voice trembles, my knees are weak and you beat me once again
and I know what happens then: you raise the ante...
39. KISS ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT
He is my lord, He is my saviour and He rewards my good behavior
My secret soul, I know He's seen it He says, come here baby and
kiss me like you mean it He calls me baby, says kiss me like you mean it
He is my life and my salvation He's always right, He's always patient
I pinch myself It's like I'm dreaming it... He is my love, He's always been it...
40. PAPA WAS A RODEO
I like your twisted point of view, Mike I like your questioning eyebrows
You've made it pretty clear what you like It's only fair to tell you now
that I leave early in the morning and I won't be back till next year
I see that kiss-me pucker forming but maybe you should plug it with a beer
cause (C): Papa was a rodeo Mama was a rock'n'roll band
I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand
Home was anywhere with diesel gas Love was a trucker's hand
Never stuck around long enough for a one-night stand
Before you kiss me you should know Papa was a rodeo
The light reflecting off the mirror ball looks like a thousand swirling eyes
They make me think I shouldn't be here at all
You know, every minute someone dies What are we doing in this dive bar
How can you live in a place like this Why don't you just get into my car
and I'll take you away I'll take that kiss now, but...(C)
And now it's 55 years later We've had the romance of the century
After all these years wrestling gators I still feel like crying
when I think of what you said to me...(C) What a coincidence, your
Papa was a rodeo too
41. EPITAPH FOR MY HEART
"Caution: to prevent electric shock do not remove cover
No user-serviceable parts insde Refer servicing to qualified
service personnel"
Let this be the epitaph for my heart Cupid put too much poison in the dart
This is the epitaph for my heart because it's gone, gone gone
and life goes on and on anon and death goes on, world without end
and you're not my friend Who will mourn the passing of my heart
Will its little droppings climb the pop chart Who'll take its ashes and,
singing, fling them from the top of the Brill Building And life goes on,
and dawn, and dawn and death goes on, world without end and you're
not my friend
42. ASLEEP AND DREAMING
I've seen you laugh at nothing at all I've seen you sadly weeping
The sweetest thing I ever saw was you asleep and dreaming
I've seen you when your ship came in and when you train was leaving
The sweetest thing I ever saw was you asleep and dremaing
Well you may not be beautiful but it's not for me to judge
I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much...
43. THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE WORLD GOES DANCING
So the sun goes dawn and the world goes dancing and the stars come out
and they all go dancing and there is nothing I'd like more than a twirl
across this rickety old floor Well I don't know why but I just feel
like dancing I can't imagine why but I feel like dancing and there is
nothing in this world that I'd like better than a twirl across your
rickety old floor Maybe it's you You know your eyes are awful blue
Maybe it's more Maybe you're all I've ever waited for after all the
endless nights when I wished I could still cry...
44. THE WAY YOU SAY GOOD-NIGHT
So faraway and so alone how could I ever take you home
You're beautiful, beautiful You've got a devastating point of view
and everything you say is true You're beautiful, beautiful
The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song:
"The Way you Say Good-Night" The nightbirds start to sing
their favorite song and the moon begins to sing I kiss you
and the sun goes down How come it's always dark when you're around
You're beautiful, beautiful The nightbirds start to sing
their favorite song The moon begins to sing You're beautiful, beautiful
The stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance: "The Way You Say Good-Night"
and the night becomes a musical extravaganza: The Way You Say Good-Night
The way you say good-night I dream of all day long Oh, I could write a song
about the way you say good-night...
45. ABIGAIL, BELLE OF KILRONAN
Abigail can you feel my heart in the palm of your hand
and do you understand why I can't stay Abigail an evil wind is blowing
through the land and they need every man to drive it away
When I come home if I come home you'll be a grown woman
When I come home if I come home don't be alone, Abigial, belle of Kilronan
Abigail 's gonna be the beauty of County Galway and she will live always
in a world of love Abigail I'm off to the war but you can be sure
I will know you're what I'm fighting for...
46. I SHATTER
Bang there was you too gold too blue You told the truth.
I cried. You flew. You called me mad (and I am mad) as a hatter
Some fall in love I shatter You make it rain. Too bleak, too stark.
Should night not fall you make things dark... Bang here am I
No one nowhere no ground no sky no light no air...
47. UNDERWEAR
A pretty girl in her underwear A pretty girl in her underwear
If there's anything better in the world who cares
(C): La mort, c'est la mort mais l'amour, c'est l'amour
La mort, c'est seulement la mort mais l'amour, c'est l'amour
A pretty boy in his underwear A pretty boy in his underwear
If there's a better reason to jump for joy who cares... (C)
48. IT'S A CRIME
(C): It's a crime to fall in love heart and mind and soul in love It's a
crime to fall in love so hard so hard I shouldn't have bothered cause
you're just like all the others, now I know and I won't do that again I
should have guessed that you'd be just like all the rest, but now I know
not to go through that again I'm still crying all night and all day but if
I show it someone lock me away cause... (C) My Mama said gently, you can
buy her a Bently, but my child she'll only drive it away I didn't listen
cause my brain was missing and I only found it today I was a man but now
I'm only a child and if it kills me I am going to smile because... (C)
You won't be hearing from me anymore cause I can't see through my tears
anymore If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish I will not
tell you this, becuase.. (C)
49. BUSBY BERKELEY DREAMS
I should have forgotten you long ago but you're in every song I know
Wining and pining is wrong and so on and so forth, of course, of course,
but no you can't have a divorce (C): I haven't seen you in ages
but it's not as bleak as it seems We still dance on whirling stages
in my Busby Berkeley dreams The tears have stained all the pages
of my True Romance magazines We still dance in my outrageous-
ly beautiful Busby Berkeley dreams And now you want to leave me for good
I refuse to believe you could You forget we're not made of wood
Well, darling you may do your worst because you'll have to kill
me first... (C) Do you think it's dangerous to have Busy Berkeley
dreams?
50. I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU
A single rose in your garden dwells
Like any rose it's not itself
It is my love in your garden grows
but let's pretend it's just a rose
Well I'm sorry that I love you
It's a phase that I'm going through
There is nothing that I can do
and I'm sorry that I love you
Do not listen to my song
Don't remember it, don't sing along
Let's pretned it's a work of art
Let's pretend it's not my heart...
The rose will fade when summer's gone
The song will fade and I'll be gone
because my heart is dying too
and it's all the same to you
51. Acoustic Guitar-
Acoustic guitar, I'm gonna make you a star
Gey your picture all over the world
Acoustic guitar, you can have your own car
Just bring me back my girl
She always loved the sound of your strum
You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb
She tends to faint at the sound of a drum cause she's folk
so play and maybe she'll come
Acoustic guitar, how lovely you are
with your inlays of mother of pearl
Be a good guitar and you can go far
Just bring me back my girl
She always said that you were the one
who could make her move
her cute little bum
You understand where she's coming from
which I obviously don't
or she wouldn't be gone
Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
well, you could have belonged
to Steve Earle or Charo or Gwar
I could sell you tommorow
so bring me back my girl
You'd better bring me back my girl
52. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
I met Ferdinand de Saussure
on a night like this
On love he said "I'm not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding, no closure
It is a nemesis
You can't use a bulldozer
to study orchids," he said, "so
we don't know anything
you don't know anything
I don't know anything about love
But we are nothing
you are nothing
I am nothing without love"
I'm just a great composer
and not a violent man
but I lost my composure
and I shot Ferdinand
crying, "It's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland!"
His last words were...
His fading words were...
53. Love in the Shadows-
The woman with no nose
I know where she goes
The old guy with the gold eye
we go back, he and I
Don't smile
We don't do that here, baby
Love in the shadows was never hard to find
but sometimes the moonglow
plays tricks on your mind
Love in the shadows is the only kind
The whispers you hear
are not sweet nothings
Let's have one more beer
and I'll tell you something
Don't laugh
I think you're beautiful...
54. Bitter Tears-
Bitter tears keep me going
through the years, freely flowing
What have you done
Only a gun
could stop these bitter tears
The endless streets I walk along
you made them seem pretty
but no I dress in country songs
and wake in New York City...
I cry because it looks so good
I cry, why not, it's free
and there's nothing more interesting
than crying constantly...
55. Wi' Nae Wee BAirn Ye'll Me Beget
Wi' nae wee bairn ye'll me beget
Untwinkle, little ee
My ainly pang'll be regret
A maiden I will dee
But I'll turn into a nightingale
My song will warm thy heart
Well I'll turn into a threshing machine
and tear thy bird apart...
But I'll turn into a vampire
and kiss you on the neck
Well I'll turn into a siller cross
and send thee back to heck...
But I'll turn into a hydrogen bomb
and atomize the air
Well I'll turn into a cockroach
and you'll see if I care...
But I'll turn into a supernova
and burn up everything
Well I'll turn into a black hold
and you'll turn into string...
But I'll turn into God Himself
and then you'll come to me
Well I will not believe in you
and then where will you be...
My ainly pang'll be regret
A maiden I will dee
56. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Are you out of love with me?
Are you longing to be free?
Do I drive you up a tree?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Though I need you more than air
is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
When we met I thought
money was everything
so I let you buy the house,
the car, the ring
but I can't take your perpetual whining
and you can't sing
I though if we live apart
we could made a brand-new start
Do you want to break my heart?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
I've enjoyed making you
miserable for years
found peace of mind in
playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold
and silver tears, but now my dear
What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Of, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
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58. Meaningless
Meaningless?
You mean it's all been meaningless?
Every whisper and caress?
Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless
Meaningless
like when two fireflies flouresce
Just like everything I guess
it was utterly meaningless
Even less
a little glimpse of nothingness
sucking meaning from the
rest of this mess
Yes yes yes it was thoroughly meaningless
and if some dim bulb should say
we were in love in some way
kick all his teeth in for me
and if you feel like keeping on kicking
feel free
Meaningless
Who dare say it wasn't meaningless?
Shout from the rooftops
and address the press
Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless
Meaningless
Meaning less than a game of chess
Just like your mother said
and mother knows best
I knew it all the time but now I confess
Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless
Yes yes yes how effervescently meaningless
Yes yes yes how beautifully meaningless
Yes yes yes how profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes how definatively meaningless
Yes yes yes how comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes how magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes how unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes how unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless
59. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin-
It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say thing off the cuff
It's very small and made of glass
and grossly over-advertised
It turns a genius into an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise
It could make you regreaty your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute
They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows
You can find it at the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain
You just get what they put in
and they never put in enough
Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love
60. Queen of the Savages-
My girl is the queen of the savages
She don't know this modern world
and its ravages
Instead of money she's
got yams and cabbages
She lives in a dome
I don't care if I never get home
My girl is the queen of the jungle folk
You should see the things
we see when we smoke
We think all of life is a funny joke
She's sharp as a tack
I don't care if I never get back
My girl is the queen of ten villages
We live on the fruits
of her pillages
She eats other queens,
she's very religious
She doesn't use a fork
I don't think I'll go back to New York
61. Blue You-
The moon was singing the blues
The stars in the sky harmonized
singing it too
and I, far below
was singing low and slow
for you
and I know
all the world was singing the blues
The Queen was singing the blues
The President played the saxophone
sounded so along
it was on the news
And from Ursa Minor
in what looked like an all-night diner
came lonely luminous creatures
whose only human feature
was singing the blues
soft and low
The blues was singing the blues
The dead in their graves
and the gods in their caves,
they'd been waiting so long
to sing the blue song
about you
62. I Can't Touch You Anymore-
You want to know
if we fell in love too fast
You want to know
if this is, well, too good to last
You're asking the wrong questions
You're opening the wrong doors
I love you
I can't touch you anymore
I can't touch you anymore
There's so much to hate you for
I love you
I can't touch you anymore
You want to tell me
50 ways you've left your lovers
You want to tell me
how you loved 200 others
63. Two Kinds of People-
There are two kinds of people:
a) my love and I
b) other
two kinds of people:
1) the gray
and 2) me and my love
All people fall into two camps
that ever twain shall be:
those lost in darkness without lamps,
and then,
my love and me...
64. How to Say Goodbye-
The only thing that I could ever feel
I can't believe it wasn't real
The only thing that I could ever feel
I can't believe it wasn't real
You can't open your mouth
without telling a lie
but baby, you know how to say goodbye
The thing I spent my whole life
waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door
The thing I spent my whole life
waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door
You can't feel a thing
and you won't even try
but baby, you know how to say goodbye
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you
every blessing
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you
every blessing
and I'm so happy I could cry
Oh baby you know how to say goodbye
65. The Night You Can't Remember-
Before you left your garrison
you'd had a drink, maybe two
You don't remember Paris, hon
but it remembers you
It's true, we flew to Paris, dear
aboard an Army jet
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget
You said I was terrific, it
meant zilch to you, ah, but I
have our marriage certificate
'n I'll keep it till I die
You were an Army officer
and I just a Rockette
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget
No rose conveyed your sentiments
not even a petunia
but you've got vague presentiments
and I've got little Junior
You said, Nobody loves me
and I said, wanna bet?
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget
66. For We Are the King of the Boudoir-
Should time allow us
to describe our prowess
it would be quite hard to overrate
for we are the king
of the boudoir, old thing
and the king does not like to wait
One tryst with me
and you'llbe spinning like a gryoscope
One tryst me with me and you'll be Pope
Should modesty allow us
to describe our prowesslessnesslessness
'twould be quite hard to overstate
for we are the king of the bou-
doir, it's true
and the kind doesn't like to wait
One kiss from me
and you'llbe overjoyed and overawed
One kiss frome me and you'll see God
for we are the kind of the boudoir
we are
and the king does not like to wait
67. Strange Eyes-
Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands
little blue mysteries
what did they see in me
Strange eyes, early Picassos
call me even when you don't
if only from pictures
it having been three years
The follow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
Strange eyes, to little star charts
plunges knives into my poor heart
As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede
Strange eyes, two little whirlpools
made by God to destroy fools
two pearls of inf'nite cost
two paradises lost
They swallow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
68. Xylophone Track-
To my dear,dear mother
I leave myonly shoes
To my dear, dear mother
I leave my only shoes
By the time you read this
I will have died of the blues
Scream little choo-choo
Bang your xylophone track
You can wail all night long
but you can't bring her back
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I can play my ribcage
like a xylophone
69. Zebra-
So we got married in Venice in June
So what?
We circled the Earth in a hot air balloon
So what?
and the rest of our lives
is one long honeymoon
well, that doesn't mean we're in love
If you really loved me
you'd buy me a beautiful pearl
buy you've already bought me
all of the pearls in the world
so there's one thing I crave
when my days become ho-hum and blah
I want a zebra
We've got so many tchotchkes
we've pratically emptied the Louvre
In most of our palaces
there's hardly room to manoeuvre
I shan't go to Balie today
I must stay home and Hoovre
up the gold dust
That doesn't mean we're in love
If you really loved me
you'd buy me the Great Pyramid
Oh, I'm so forgetful, you already did
But there's one think I need
if you won't think I'm greedy, my deah
another zebra
Zelda looks lonely, I want a zebra