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"QUAND VA T'IL ARRIVER" (WHEN WILL HE COME)
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VERSE 1
Sunday morning meet me at the station
I took him up on his invitation
Jumped into his Honda without a thought
Never thinkin' I'd come up short
VERSE 2
But somethin' wasn't right
I felt it from the start
But this attraction was tuggin at my heart
Who knows why I fell, bought every line he tried to sell
CHORUS
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va’ til arriver
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va'til arriver
When will he come, when will he come,
When will he come, when will he come?
INTERLUDE
VERSE 3
Listened to music all night long,
And watched you as you played my song,
Soft brown eyes made me believe,
you'd open up those doors for me
VERSE 4
It was clear you wanted more, and I admit I wasn't sure
You kept callin' me the tease, and all I ever wanted was to please
CHORUS
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va' til arriver
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va'til arriver
When will he come, when will he come,
When will he come, when will he come
BRIDGE
Hey girl, hey girl - I can't believe it
Hey girl, hey girl, I should a seen it
The things you said, I took as fact,
What you stole, I won't get back
Had me fooled, then you ran away
Still waiting for someone, someone to say
CHORUS
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va’ til arriver
It's guys like you that make me say Quand va'til arriver
When will he come, when will he come, when will he come?
BREAKDOWN
Quand va' til arriver, Quand va' til arriver, Quand va' til arriver, Quand va' til arriver, Quand va' til arriver
CHORUS
It's guys like you that make me say- Quand va' til arriver
I've got to find him one of these days- Quand va til arriver
When will he come, when will he come,
When will he come, when will he come
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"LAZY SUNDAY"
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INTRO
Oohhh ooh ooh ahh
VERSE 1
Sunlight, shining through my window
Blue skies, think I see a rainbow
No rush don’t have to be anywhere
Got Time, plenty of Time to spare.
I don’t care. I don’t care.
I don’t care.
VERSE 2
We don’t have to move,
Lay right here, sleep till noon.
Put on my favorite shows,
You can watch me paint my toes.
Got no make-up on my face
Just chillin at my place.
Ohh Yea, yea, I don’t care.
CHORUS
It's a lazy, lazy, day
Lazy, lazy Sunday.
I got nothing else to do
But to be right here with you
On this lazy, lazy Sunday.
VERSE 3
I’m getting tired of watching the tube,
Lets take a walk in my neighborhood,
Hit the café or the corner store,
Get my coffee, or something more
Cause I know a place
Where they make banana pancakes
Oooooooh, oooooh
And we can read the Sunday news.
CHORUS
It's a lazy, lazy, day
Lazy, lazy Sunday.
I got nothing else to do
But to be right here with you
On this lazy, lazy Sunday.
RAP
Some say the seventh is the Sabbath,
For me I say girl, to love you is a habit.
Um all my time you can have it.
We can even take a stroll to the market. Yea you want it.
Feeding you the chocolate
Spring breeze, careful, no cautious.
Lets go home and lay out on the carpet.
Bathrobe, hair down, call you Scarlett
Your soup hot like, August, I mean August
Baby girl so poetic and gorgeous
L.S. with my BFF.
What you call it-a lazy Sunday.
CHORUS
It's a lazy, lazy, day
Lazy, lazy Sunday.
I got nothing else to do
But to be right here with you
On this lazy, lazy Sunday.
OUTRO
(Take Monday we chill, we chill, take Tuesday, we drink, we drink, say Wednesday we go, we go, I say Thursday, out, out, I say Friday, party, party, but you see on Sunday, skip Saturday, we gonna chill. oooh) |
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"GRASS AIN'T GREEN"
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VERSE 1
Hey, you’re really pretty,
And your thighs are skinny
And your husband’s cute, what more do you want?
VERSE 2
Leather boots that zip to your knees
And go with all the right accessories.
A penthouse, with a city view and
White washed walls with photographs of all of you.
Caught up in all these things,
In all this stuff, .still not happy
It’s never enough…
CHORUS
I thought the grass was green on the other side
No, No, No, No
It’s not all the things that it’s cracked up to be.
I guess now I’m seeing you differently.
So if the grass ain’t green on the other side
Tell me what’s the point of having all of this stuff
If you’re not happy and its never enough.
VERSE 3
Giving your kids the world and more,
No doing laundry that’s what the maid is for.
From where I stand your world looks perfect
Guess I’ll never know what do you expect.
VERSE 4
Wasting time on superficial looks
Livin’ life like you're in a storybook.
It’s not hard to see the emptiness inside,
Some things you just can’t hide.
Caught up in all these things,
In all this stuff, still not happy
It’s never enough… ohhh
CHORUS
I thought the grass was green on the other side
No, No, No, No
It's not all the things that it’s cracked up to be.
I guess now I’m seeing you differently.
So if the grass ain’t green on the other side
Oh tell me what’s the point of having all of this stuff
if you’re not happy and it’s never enough.
CHORUS
I thought the grass was green on the other side
No, No, No, No
It’s not all the things that it’s cracked up to be.
I guess now I’m seeing you differently.
So if the grass aint’ green on the other side.
Oh tell what’s the point of having all of this shit-
if you’re not happy with any of it.
Oh with any of it.
Tell me what's the point.
Ohhhh...
Tell me, Tell me, oh oh yeah. |
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"ROUGH BOYS"
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VERSE
I see you at a party, you just happen to come.
Napkins and salt shakers, at the table, you sat down next to me.
Right there, across, from little old me.
VERSE 2
And it’s many years later
Is it possible that you’re glow has grown?
Damn, how unfair you make it for the rest of us.
One sip of you, I’m still left with a buzz.
Oooh, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And you give it up for the guys, act as you think u should
Trying to outdo, out tell, oh you think your so damn good.
Ohh...
CHORUS:
Rough boys who get tempted by desire
Lose your charm and manner when you stepped into the fire.
And I’ve lost a piece of what I used to feel.
Baby, baby baby, baby, now let’s get real.
Cause to me boy, now you’ve gone and lost your appeal.
VERSE
And the room gets cold,
And I start to get a chill...
So I’ll just eat my sandwich,
and not look at you,
I don’t think I can listen to
much more of your rhetoric,
Cause baby, baby, baby, you’re making me sick.
And you give it up to the guys, act as you think u should,
Trying to outdo, out tell, oh you think you're so damn good.
Oh, oh, oh....
CHORUS:
Rough boys who get tempted by desire.
Lose your charm and manner when you stepped into the fire.
I’ve lost, a piece of what I used to feel.
Cause to me boy, ohhh, you’ve lost that appeal.
And now in this moment, the glow that was there, has slowly dissipated.
No longer mesmerizing, no longer elated.
You’re words were harsh, but this is how I feel.
Sorry baby, now you’ve gone, and lost you’re appeal. |
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"IN THE CITY"
Levinson/Ratner |
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VERSE 1
We sat on a bench, Central Park
It’s cold out, its almost dark
Reach in my bag to give you a gift
A book of jokes and funny ad-libs.
VERSE 2
But in your eyes, something was wrong
That dreaded line, we need to talk,
Oh then this feeling, hits me like a brick
That I’m goin’ down, down with the ship.
CHORUS
Uh Oh here it comes now
Oh no another knock down.
Ohh I can’t take another hit. Uh.
Sex in the city, I’m about to be done with it.
VERSE 3
Watchin the wind blow through the trees,
Breakin’ off those precious leaves,
It’s never even and I wanna understand
Why good things have to come to an end.
CHORUS
Uh Oh here it comes now
Oh No another knock down,
Oh, I can’t take another hit. Oh.
Sex in the city,
I’m about to be done with it. Listen up.
RAP
It ‘aint right that you talk and talk,
I’m your blackboard, you’re the chalk
Till all the white covers the black,
No chance for me to talk back
Always doin this turnin numb,
Can’t get angry, what’s done is done.
Now that it's over, you said what you meant,
I’m still wondering where it all went.
He goes east, she goes west,
Things ain’t always for the best,
The things I borrowed are given back,
it’s time to start the 2nd act.
If socks and gloves come as a pair,
I know my someone’s out there.
CHORUS
Uh Oh it’s just another knock down,
You know another one’ll come around.
It’s all in the way you handle it.
Sex in the city, aint is a bitch. Uh.
Oooh sex in the city.
Sometimes I just handle it.
Don’t want to deal with it.
No, No, No, No, No.
Such a bitch. |
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"YOU MAKE ME SMILE"
Levinson/Ratner |
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VERSE 1
Streets of New York, the starin, the faces,
At once, in five, in ten different places
It took a glance from your direction,
To light me up feel a connection
VERSE 2
Wanna talk to you, make this real,
But no-one stops, for nothing here.
It must be fall, my toes are numb,
This chance encounter, my bit of sun.....
CHORUS
What’s the point if I can’t touch you
No fun to look at the cover of a book
It was worth my while,
Yeah, you made me smile.
VERSE 3
I was walking, draggin my feet along,
With Amos Lee, on my head phones,
Butterflies when eyes meet eyes,
Gives a girl a sweet surprise
CHORUS
What’s the point if I can’t touch you
No fun to look at the cover of a book
It was worth my while,
Yeah, you made me smile.
BRIDGE
But I can fill in the holes and paint the scene
And imagine how, this could be
How your grey wool coat and skin would feel,
Next to me, let's make this real....
CHORUS
What’s the point if I can’t touch you
No fun to look at the cover of a book
It was worth my while,
Yeah, you made me smile.
Oh, Yeah, you made me smile.
SOLO:
Do do do do
Do do do
Da da da dum
CHORUS
What’s the point if I can’t touch you
No fun to look at the cover of a book
It was worth my while,
You made me smile
Whoa, you make me smile. |
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"BOOKS, TEA"
Levinson/Ratner/Schwartz |
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VERSE 1
I see this might be more for me,
Than a gift I meant for you,
To remind me of
The way we were, the way we are the moments we’ve spent
As I try to describe what all this has meant.
VERSE 2
Who’d have thought, on that trip we took
To Greece, to bind us, pages in a book.
Soon we’ll be at opposite ends
‘Cause life and plans will split old friends.
But I can’t forget with you it’s not the way
Oh you’ve seeped your way into my day
CHORUS:
Slowly and sweetly we’ve made it through,
To see your life and your home set in all of that blue.
Though some are funny and others are wise
It’s in all of these things that you now hide...
BRIDGE:
Ohhh, in
In books, tea, honey and Greece
In breakfast, beaches, close families
The way you listen,
And cooking Mexican.
Travel and boats
French castles with moats,
In books and tea, honey and Greece,
Driving tests, spreadin’ the peace
Sarongs, and Moms.
Shirts and skirts
A pact we’ve made-
Friends like you come once a decade.
FINAL CHORUS:
Slowly and sweetly we’ve made it through,
To see your life and your home set in all of that blue.
Though soon we’ll be at opposite ends
There are so many things to remind old friends. |
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"MATTER OF TASTE"
Levinson/Ratner/Schwartz |
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VERSE 1
Hey Wait, I’m twenty-one, thought I knew how this world was run,
Thought I knew the people we'd choose,
Hey, I thought I knew you.
VERSE 2
I won’t try to change your mind,
You’re my friend now, it would be unkind.
As a friend, strictly speaking, to be sure that you're sure
Do you laugh out loud, and speak in time,
Like we did, back when I thought you were mine.
CHORUS
You wear your heart pinned to your sleeve,
She didn’t give you the time to breathe.
But you asked and I say it’s a matter of taste,
To me she’s a bore, ohhh, with a sensible face.
VERSE 3
And this choice made by you, somehow makes me feel like a fool,
Cause its all against what we both labeled as cool
Oh, hey I thought we didn’t want that,
I thought you didn’t want that.
CHORUS
You wear your heart pinned to your sleeve,
She didn’t give you the time to breathe.
But you asked and I say it’s a matter of taste,
To me she’s a bore, with a sensible face.
BRIDGE
But really it’s all just a matter of taste,
I can’t tell you that I think she’s a waste.
CHORUS
You wear your heart pinned to your sleeve,
She didn’t give you the time to breathe.
But you asked and I say it’s a matter of taste,
To me she’s a bore, ohh, with a sensible face.
It's just a matter, a matter, a matter of taste.
It’s just a matter of taste. |
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"STRANGERS"
Levinson/Ratner |
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VERSE 1
What am I supposed to do,
Act like I can’t see you.
What am I supposed to say,
Sigh and look the other way.
Cause they don’t know,
What we know.
VERSE 2
All these people at this school
Who never knew how close we were
You go on like it never was,
And I'll play along just because
They don’t know
Oh they just don't know.
CHORUS
That we’re strangers, not friends
Just strangers who pretend.
And you can act like you don’t care
But I still know what we once shared
Now were strangers in the end.
VERSE 3
Got a million words, I could choose
I wanna tell you how it feels
To lose someone close to you
I wanna tell you off and how it hurt
Why you didn't want to stick around and make this work.
Now I know,
Oh What I know
CHORUS
That we’re strangers, not friends
Just strangers who pretend.
And you can act like you don’t care
But I still know what we once shared.
Now were strangers in the end.
BRIDGE
Now I’ve got nothing left to prove, oh.
You’re just a ghost a memory, I need to lose. Ohh.
CHORUS
We’re strangers, not friends
Just strangers who pretend
You can act like you don’t care
I still know what we once shared
Now were just strangers in the end. Ohh. |
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"LIKE THE RAIN"
Levinson/Ratner |
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VERSE 1
It hasn’t rained in quite a while,
Memory drenched, I can’t see you smile
Wet on the roads,
Wet on the walls,
And with your drops you want to change it all.
VERSE 2
It got comfy here, the habits pile
Doin' it my way, my time, my style.
And you come to call and pluck at my strings,
When it’s little things like drops mean big things.
CHORUS
Babe, it’s what you bring
Like water to the sea.
It’s the way I think
That you believe in me.
Rain on the roads,
Rain on the walls.
And with your drops
you want to shape it all.
VERSE 3
Why you chose me, why I was there,
You were lonely and people need to care
And things build and add, and they carry,
Cause of you, I’m seeing things differently.
BRIDGE
Don’t you know there’s purple in blue,
Don’t you know there’s rain inside of you.
Oh boy, come down, cause I’m ready for your downpour.
Come down on me, Come down on me......
CHORUS
Babe, its what you bring.
Like water to the sea,
It’s the way I think
You believe in me.
What’s your givin, it’s more and more
And I’m ready for youre downpour.
Come down on me now, come down on me now……ohhh.
CHORUS
It’s what you bring.
Like water to the sea,
It’s the way I think
You believe in me.
What’s your givin, it’s more and more
And I’m ready for your downpour. |
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