If not for you
Babe I couldn't even find the door
I couldn't even see the floor
I'd be sad and blue
If not for you
If not for you
Babe the night would see me wide awake
The day would surely have to break
And it would not be new
If not for you

If not for you my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you

If not for you

(Camerron/Hawkshaw)

It's so hard to say goodbye
Because my heart just can't stop loving you
It's so hard to say goodbye
And let you go, my love

Love colors your world in ever blending shades
But where is there to run to
When the coloring fades
I'm lost in the void, a lonely black charade
Love changes into sadness like a raging cascade
I'm so afraid to lose you

(John Kongos)

Would you follow me if I search for another life
Would you walk with me through the dark and the hungry times
If I said, "I'm gonna leave today"
What would you do
Would you pack some things and come away too

Lose or win, thick or thin
Where would you like to be
Lose or win, thick or thin
Would you follow me
Would you follow me

(Farrar/Best)

The stairs are dark and silent

The morning cold and gray
A last look at the things I knew

And slowly turn away

And as I watch the scenery unwind

My childhood slips a hundred miles behind

Leave the bus in Houston

Walk around the town

But all the strange, unfriendly faces

Seem to get me down

And in the park where little children play

I asked my love to take a walk
To take a walk, just a little walk
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio

I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed
He cried "my love, don't you murder me
I'm not prepared for eternity"

(Hiller/Goodison/Leslie/Day)

I hold your hand and gently touch your hair
Then we'll walk together hand in hand
The way it used to be
The way you smile and kiss me tenderly
Tears begin to fill my misty eyes
Now you are gone from me

Where are you going to, my love
Will you come back when the sun shines
Anytime you want to come home
It's all right
Where are you going to, my love

(Burnett)

Sometimes I think I love you
Just a little too much
You know you thrill me baby
With you magic touch
That's why I want you honey
And I love you like I do
I'm gonna scream and shout it
There ain't no doubt about it
That's why I love you like I do

Sometimes I think you kiss me
Just a little too much
You drive me crazy baby,
With your magic touch
You make me feel so good

(John Farrar)

If you come around, and I know you will,
Don't expect to find me teary eyed
Time has surely told us we were never right
Baby, you were ready, so was I

Don't worry, don't worry, baby
If the sun should never shine again
And the skies were never blue
Maybe then I'd feel I'd lost a friend
maybe then I'd think of you

If the birds could never sing again

Busted flat in Baton rouge
Headin' for the train
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down
Just before it rained
Took us all the way to New Orleans
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna
I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues
With them windshield wipers slappin' time
And Bobby clappin' hands
We finally sang up every song that driver knew

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you
The words will never show
The you I've come to know
If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You'll come and pour yourself on me

If a girl could be two places at one time
I'd be with you

Once I walked through the halls of a station
Someone called your name
In the street I heard children laughing
They all sound the same
One day could you ever know me
Know the reason why I live
Is there nothin you can show me
Life seems so little to give

Once I climbed up the face of a mountain
And ate the wild fruit there
Fell asleep until the moonlight woke me

Take the ribbon from my hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Lay it soft against your skin
Like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side
Till the early morning light
All I'm takin' is your time
Help me make it through the night
I don't care who's right or wrong
I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
Lord, tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone

I give you stars and sunshine
A rainbow at your feet each time you rise
So dry your eyes
The house of yesterday is crumblin' at my feet
But I don't mind, I had my time
I am but yesterday
And you my child, tomorrow
There's nothing I can give you
For you have more than me
You are the truth within your youth

I watch you dance and playing
The little prince of all that you survey

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel

They could never take you away from me
Oh baby, never replace the tenderness of your smile
I couldn't leave now if I wanted to
Everything I do I wanna do with you
Oh no, baby
If I gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They could offer me the world and all its gold
Oh baby, put me on a ship that's sailing out to sea
Set me down on a lonely track
But I'd find a way to come running back

(Bill Danoff/Taffy Nivert/John Denver)

Country roads,take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia,Mountain Mama
Take me home,country roads

Almost heaven,West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountain,Shenandoe River
Life is old there,older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like the breeze

Country roads,take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia,Mountain Mama

If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn
If we only have love
To embrace without fears
We will kiss with our eyes
We will sleep without tears

If we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old
will stand at our side

If we only have love
Love that's falling like rain
Then the parched desert earth

(John Farrar)

Hey boy, I better warn you
To make your reservation
Your exit's overdue
I can only promise he ain't the soul to laugh
I've known him long enough to speak on his behalf

My old man's got a gun
And he knows you're a tricky one
He can't fail to make you run
And I don't need you
My old man's got a wife
And she loves him and her life

(Rafferty)

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
And make believe that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

Remember a holiday in a north of England town
You slept in a room upstairs on a bed of eiderdown

Mary Skeffington, when you wake
You mustn't be afraid to face another day
Think of what you had, you'll get by

(Taylor)

There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can find your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn

Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Then slowly turn away from me

(Simon)

Why don't you write me
I'm out in the jungle
I'm hungry to hear you
Send me a card
I am waiting so hard to be near you
Something is wrong and I know I got a feelin'
Maybe I'm lost but I can't make the cost of the airfare
Tell me why, tell me why

Why don't you write me
A letter would brighten my loneliest evening
Mail it today if it's only to say

(Harrison)

Why are you still crying
Your pain is now through
Please forget those teardrops
Let me take them from you
The love you are blessed with
This world's waiting for
So let out your heart, please, please
From behind that locked door

It's time we start smiling
What else should we do
With only this short time
I know to be here with you
And the tales you have taught me

(Tarney/Spencer)

It's not funny when you're lonely
It's much better when you're living in harmony
With someone you're really digging
And you want to give it all that you've got

Don't wanna make you cry
Don't wanna tell you lies
Don't wanna bring you down
Or treat you unkind
Just wanna make you mine
And hear you laugh all the time
Don't wanna break this tie

(Cagan)

I can count the teardrops hidden from your eyes
I can hear the sadness that your smile belies
Thought I heard a whisper
Did it come from you
If you say you're ready
I am ready too

I will touch you deep inside where love is
I will touch your sorrow and make it go away

I can hear the questions running through your mind
I can feel the answers very close behind

(Russ Ballard)

And there's no need to tell me I'm just wasting time
But if you tell me break it slowly
I'm in deep water and I'm hanging on a line
And you're the only one can save me
But if you gotta go
I think you better know

Oh, heartbreaker, if you wanna leave
I won't make you stay
If you wanna go, better go away
Oh, you loser, offered you a love
You refused her

(Olivia Newton-John)

In my room,where I used to sleep with you
Things have changed
All that's left are the memories of two
Two who loved and dreamed where
The trees seem to whisper your name
But I don't like to go there
'Cause Rosewater no longer feels the same

Through the glass
The sun shows the knocks on the wall
seasons pass and you know how it looks in the fall

(Glen Sharrock)

It took a long time
But now I'm gonna be laughing
A very long time
When all I could feel was sad
A very long time
But now it's gonna be worth it
Cause I just found a friend to make me glad

I'm feeling food, feeling better
I'm feeling best
I feel a cut above the rest
I'm gonna put it to the test
Feeling good, feeling better
Feeling best

(Locorriere/Sawyer/Haffkine)

You ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely
You don't understand what I've been through
He had every right to do the wrong that he done to me
But that don't make it easier to lose
No that don't make it easier to lose

I woke up Monday morning
With the feeling he was gone
And I turned to face an empty place and I realized

(Fiett/Fletcher)

Nothing is moving, all the world is still
No birds are singing and they never will
Cause you're leaving
No doors are open, the sun doesn't smile
There's no sign of laughter, it rains all the while
And I'm grieving
Cause you're leavin', leavin'

Food doesn't tempt me
No coffee or cakes, everything's empty
My heart's full of aches, nothing can please me

(Don McLean)

When I see you on the street
I lose my concentration
And just the thought that we might meet
Creates anticipation
Won't you look my way once before you go
And my eyes will say what you ought to know
Well, I've been thinking about you day and night
And I don't know if it will work out right
But somehow I think that it just might
If we try

(Taylor)

There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can find your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn

Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Then slowly turn away from me

(Harrison)

Why are you still crying
Your pain is now through
Please forget those teardrops
Let me take them from you
The love you are blessed with
This world's waiting for
So let out your heart, please, please
From behind that locked door

It's time we start smiling
What else should we do
With only this short time
I know to be here with you
And the tales you have taught me

(Glen Sharrock)

It took a long time
But now I'm gonna be laughing
A very long time
When all I could feel was sad
A very long time
But now it's gonna be worth it
Cause I just found a friend to make me glad

I'm feeling food, feeling better
I'm feeling best
I feel a cut above the rest
I'm gonna put it to the test
Feeling good, feeling better
Feeling best

(Russ Ballard)

And there's no need to tell me I'm just wasting time
But if you tell me break it slowly
I'm in deep water and I'm hanging on a line
And you're the only one can save me
But if you gotta go
I think you better know

Oh, heartbreaker, if you wanna leave
I won't make you stay
If you wanna go, better go away
Oh, you loser, offered you a love
You refused her

Take the ribbon from my hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Lay it soft against your skin
Like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side
Till the early morning light
All I'm takin' is your time
Help me make it through the night
I don't care who's right or wrong
I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
Lord, tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone

(Cagan)

I can count the teardrops hidden from your eyes
I can hear the sadness that your smile belies
Thought I heard a whisper
Did it come from you
If you say you're ready
I am ready too

I will touch you deep inside where love is
I will touch your sorrow and make it go away

I can hear the questions running through your mind
I can feel the answers very close behind

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you
The words will never show
The you I've come to know
If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You'll come and pour yourself on me

If a girl could be two places at one time
I'd be with you

They could never take you away from me
Oh baby, never replace the tenderness of your smile
I couldn't leave now if I wanted to
Everything I do I wanna do with you
Oh no, baby
If I gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They could offer me the world and all its gold
Oh baby, put me on a ship that's sailing out to sea
Set me down on a lonely track
But I'd find a way to come running back

If not for you
Babe I couldn't even find the door
I couldn't even see the floor
I'd be sad and blue
If not for you
If not for you
Babe the night would see me wide awake
The day would surely have to break
And it would not be new
If not for you

If not for you my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you

If not for you

If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn
If we only have love
To embrace without fears
We will kiss with our eyes
We will sleep without tears

If we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old
will stand at our side

If we only have love
Love that's falling like rain
Then the parched desert earth

(Don McLean)

When I see you on the street
I lose my concentration
And just the thought that we might meet
Creates anticipation
Won't you look my way once before you go
And my eyes will say what you ought to know
Well, I've been thinking about you day and night
And I don't know if it will work out right
But somehow I think that it just might
If we try

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel

Once I walked through the halls of a station
Someone called your name
In the street I heard children laughing
They all sound the same
One day could you ever know me
Know the reason why I live
Is there nothin you can show me
Life seems so little to give

Once I climbed up the face of a mountain
And ate the wild fruit there
Fell asleep until the moonlight woke me

(Camerron/Hawkshaw)

It's so hard to say goodbye
Because my heart just can't stop loving you
It's so hard to say goodbye
And let you go, my love

Love colors your world in ever blending shades
But where is there to run to
When the coloring fades
I'm lost in the void, a lonely black charade
Love changes into sadness like a raging cascade
I'm so afraid to lose you

(Burnett)

Sometimes I think I love you
Just a little too much
You know you thrill me baby
With you magic touch
That's why I want you honey
And I love you like I do
I'm gonna scream and shout it
There ain't no doubt about it
That's why I love you like I do

Sometimes I think you kiss me
Just a little too much
You drive me crazy baby,
With your magic touch
You make me feel so good

(Fiett/Fletcher)

Nothing is moving, all the world is still
No birds are singing and they never will
Cause you're leaving
No doors are open, the sun doesn't smile
There's no sign of laughter, it rains all the while
And I'm grieving
Cause you're leavin', leavin'

Food doesn't tempt me
No coffee or cakes, everything's empty
My heart's full of aches, nothing can please me

(Tarney/Spencer)

It's not funny when you're lonely
It's much better when you're living in harmony
With someone you're really digging
And you want to give it all that you've got

Don't wanna make you cry
Don't wanna tell you lies
Don't wanna bring you down
Or treat you unkind
Just wanna make you mine
And hear you laugh all the time
Don't wanna break this tie

I give you stars and sunshine
A rainbow at your feet each time you rise
So dry your eyes
The house of yesterday is crumblin' at my feet
But I don't mind, I had my time
I am but yesterday
And you my child, tomorrow
There's nothing I can give you
For you have more than me
You are the truth within your youth

I watch you dance and playing
The little prince of all that you survey

(Rafferty)

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
And make believe that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

Remember a holiday in a north of England town
You slept in a room upstairs on a bed of eiderdown

Mary Skeffington, when you wake
You mustn't be afraid to face another day
Think of what you had, you'll get by

(John Farrar)

If you come around, and I know you will,
Don't expect to find me teary eyed
Time has surely told us we were never right
Baby, you were ready, so was I

Don't worry, don't worry, baby
If the sun should never shine again
And the skies were never blue
Maybe then I'd feel I'd lost a friend
maybe then I'd think of you

If the birds could never sing again

Busted flat in Baton rouge
Headin' for the train
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down
Just before it rained
Took us all the way to New Orleans
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna
I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues
With them windshield wipers slappin' time
And Bobby clappin' hands
We finally sang up every song that driver knew

(John Farrar)

Hey boy, I better warn you
To make your reservation
Your exit's overdue
I can only promise he ain't the soul to laugh
I've known him long enough to speak on his behalf

My old man's got a gun
And he knows you're a tricky one
He can't fail to make you run
And I don't need you
My old man's got a wife
And she loves him and her life

(Olivia Newton-John)

In my room,where I used to sleep with you
Things have changed
All that's left are the memories of two
Two who loved and dreamed where
The trees seem to whisper your name
But I don't like to go there
'Cause Rosewater no longer feels the same

Through the glass
The sun shows the knocks on the wall
seasons pass and you know how it looks in the fall

(Bill Danoff/Taffy Nivert/John Denver)

Country roads,take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia,Mountain Mama
Take me home,country roads

Almost heaven,West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountain,Shenandoe River
Life is old there,older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like the breeze

Country roads,take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia,Mountain Mama

(Hiller/Goodison/Leslie/Day)

I hold your hand and gently touch your hair
Then we'll walk together hand in hand
The way it used to be
The way you smile and kiss me tenderly
Tears begin to fill my misty eyes
Now you are gone from me

Where are you going to, my love
Will you come back when the sun shines
Anytime you want to come home
It's all right
Where are you going to, my love

(Simon)

Why don't you write me
I'm out in the jungle
I'm hungry to hear you
Send me a card
I am waiting so hard to be near you
Something is wrong and I know I got a feelin'
Maybe I'm lost but I can't make the cost of the airfare
Tell me why, tell me why

Why don't you write me
A letter would brighten my loneliest evening
Mail it today if it's only to say

(Locorriere/Sawyer/Haffkine)

You ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely
You don't understand what I've been through
He had every right to do the wrong that he done to me
But that don't make it easier to lose
No that don't make it easier to lose

I woke up Monday morning
With the feeling he was gone
And I turned to face an empty place and I realized

I asked my love to take a walk
To take a walk, just a little walk
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio

I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed
He cried "my love, don't you murder me
I'm not prepared for eternity"

(John Kongos)

Would you follow me if I search for another life
Would you walk with me through the dark and the hungry times
If I said, "I'm gonna leave today"
What would you do
Would you pack some things and come away too

Lose or win, thick or thin
Where would you like to be
Lose or win, thick or thin
Would you follow me
Would you follow me