Well, we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms, standing in line

Well, our fathers fought the 2nd World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance, danced with 'em slow

And we're living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well, we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard, if we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No, they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel

And we're waiting here in Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place

They threw an American flag in our face
Well, I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown

We met as soulmates on Parris Island
We left as inmates from an asylum
And we were sharp, as sharp as knives
And we were so gung-ho to lay down our lives

We came in spastic, like tameless horses
We left in plastic as numbered corpses
And we learned fast to travel light
Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight

We had no home front, we had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep and shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ with all of our might

We had no cameras to shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes
And it was dark, so dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd writey

And we would all go down together
We said, we'd all go down together
Yes, we would all go down together

Remember Charlie, remember Baker
They left their childhood on every acre
And who was wrong and who was right
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

We held the day
In the palm
Of our hand
They ruled the night
And the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks

On Parris Island
We held the coastline, they held the highlands
And they were sharp, as sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive

If you search for tenderness
It isn't hard to find
You can have the love you need to live

But if you look for truthfulness
You might just as well be blind
It always seems to be so hard to give

Honesty, is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty, is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you

I can always find someone
To say they sympathize
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve

But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies
All I want is someone to believe

I can find a lover, I can find a friend
I can have security until the bitter end
Anyone can comfort me with promises again
I know
When I'm deep inside of me
Don't be too concerned
I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone

But when I want sincerity
Tell me where else can I turn
Cos you're the one that I depend upon

Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life

Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight

Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes

Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot
Sometimes I don't know how much more I got
Maybe I'm headed over the hill
Maybe I've set myself up for the kill

Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you's starting to break
Sometimes it feels like it will

Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens
You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be out there too long
Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes

Out of the darkness, into the light
Leaving the scene of the crime
Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right
Every time
Sometimes I lie awake, night after night
Coming apart at the seams
Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do I go to extremes

Viktor was born the spring of '44
And never saw his father anymore
A child of sacrifice, a child of war
Another son who never had a father after Leningrad

Went off to school and learned to serve the state
Followed the rules and drank his vodka straights
The only way to live, was drown the hate
A Russian life was very sad and such was life in Leningrad

I was born in '49
A cold war kid in McCarthy time
Stop 'em at the 38th parallel
Blast those yellow reds to hell

Cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desk in an air raid drill
Haven't they heard we won the war
What do they keep on fighting for

Viktor was sent to some red army town
Served out his time, became a circus clown
The greatest happiness he'd ever found
Was making Russian children glad and children lived in Leningrad

But children lived in Levitown
And hid in the shelters underground
Until the Soviets turned their ships around
And tore the Cuban missiles down

And in that bright October sun
We knew our childhood days were done
And I watched my friends go off to war
What do they keep on fighting for

And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad

Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close
Said, he couldn't go on the American way
Closed the shop, sold a house, bought a ticket to the west coast
Now he gives them a standup routine in L.A.

I don't need you to worry for me cos I'm all right
I don't want you to tell me, it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone

I never said, you had to offer me a second chance
I never said, I was a victim of circumstance

I still belong
Don't get me wrong
You can speak your mind
But not on my time

They will tell you, you can't sleep alone in a strange place
Then they'll tell you, you can't sleep with somebody else
Oh, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space
Either way it's ok, you wake up with yourself

It's nine o' clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his Tonic and Gin

He said, son, can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes

Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling all right

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's some place that he'd rather be

He says, Bill, I believe this is killing me
As the smile ran away from his face
Well, I'm sure that I could be a moviestar
If I could get outta this place

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
Cos he knows that it's me, they've been coming to see
To forget about life for awhile

And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, man, what are you doing here

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants u to see
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you
And she'll take what you give her, as long as it's free
Yeah, she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me

She takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time

And she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleedin
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself cos she's always a woman to me

She's frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree
And the most she will do, is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep

I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross

Even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and stand on the shore
I try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find what I been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Thru the valley of fear
To a river so deep

I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I'd never lose
Something somebody stole

I don't know why I go walking at night But now I'm tired and I don't wanna walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Thru the jungle of doubt
To the river so deep

I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night

Not sure about a life after this
God knows I never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That is running to the promised land

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Thru the desert of truth
To the river so deep

We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams

Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
I bet her mama never told her why

I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

And when she knows what she wants from her time
And when she wakes up and makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because

I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice

Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win

And when she's walking, she's looking so fine
And when she's talking, she'll say that she's mine
She'll say, I'm not so tough
Just because

I'm in love with an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turnin
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around The Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets
AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock-and-roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone, it will still burn on

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I'll be far away
And I say

Blue eyes holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone again

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a clear blue sky
Watching over me

Blue eyes
Oh, I love blue eyes
When I'm by her side
Where I long to be
I will see

Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby's got blue eyes
And I am home again

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled

They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

It seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in

And I would've liked to've known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid

Even when you died
Oh, the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

There's a calm surrender
To the rush of day
When the heat of a rolling wind
Can be turned away

An enchanted moment
And it sees me thru
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you

And can you feel the love tonite
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far

And can you feel the love tonite
How it's laid to rest
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best

There's a time for everyone
If they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope
Moves us all in turn

There's a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to be seen
Than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done

Some say, eat or be eaten
Some say, live and let live
But all are agreed
As they join the stampede
You should never take more than you give

In the circle of life
It's the wheel of fortune
It's the leap of faith
It's the band of hope

Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the circle
The circle of life

Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail thru our troubles
And some have to live with the scars

There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Thru the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's a human sign
When things go wrong
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong

Cold, cold heart
Hard done by you
Some things looking better, baby
Just passing thru

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Till touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no

And this is what I should have said
Well, I thought it but I kept it hid

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing
The blues

So, goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh, I've finally decided, my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels, who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you
On the ground

I've always said that one's enough to love
Now I hear you're bragging one is not enough
Something tells me you're not satisfied
You got plans to make me one of 4 or 5

I guess this kinda thing's just in your blood
But you won't catch me carving up my love
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit
If it takes more than me, let's call it quits

Cos I don't wanna go on with you like that
Don't wanna be a feather in your cap
I just don't wanna tell you, honey, I ain't mad
But I don't wanna go on with you like that

It gets so hard sometimes to understand
This vicious circle's getting out of hand
Don't need an extra eye to see
That the fire spreads faster in the breeze

Oh, if you wanna spread around, sister
That's just fine
But I don't want no second hand feeding me lines
If you wanna hold someone in the middle of the night
Call out the guards, turn out the light

Don't wish it away
Don't look at it like it's forever
Between you and me, I could honestly say it
That things can only get better

And while I'm away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won't be long before you and me run
To a place in our hearts where we hide

And I guess that's why they call it the Blues
Time on my hands could be time spent with you
Laughing like children, living like lovers
Rolling like thunder under the covers
And I guess that's why they call it the Blues

Just stare into space
Picture my face in your hands
Live for each second without hesitation
But never forget, I'm your man

Wait on me girl
Cry in the night if it helps
But more than ever I simply love you
More than I love life itself

Hey Nikita, is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

Oh, I saw you by the wall
10 of your tin soldiers in their row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow

Oh Nikita, you will never know
Anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Nikita, I need you so

Oh Nikita, is the other side
Of any given line in time
Counting 10 tin soldiers in a row
Nikita, you'll never know

Do you ever dream of me
Do you ever see the letters that I write
When you look up thru the wire
Nikita, do you count the stars at night

And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend

She packed my bags last nite pre-flight
Zero hour, 9:00 a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then

I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touchdown brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them
If you did

And all this science, I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man
Rocket man

It's a human sign
When things go wrong
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong

Into the boundary
Of each married man
Sweet deceit comes calling
And negativity lands

Cold, cold heart
Hard done by you
Some things look better, baby
Just passing thru

And it's no sacrifice
Just a simple word
It's two hearts living
In two separate worlds

But it's no sacrifice
No sacrifice
It's no sacrifice at all

Mutual misunderstanding
After the fact
Sensitivity builds a prison
In the final act

We lose direction
No stone unturned
No tears to damn you
When jealousy burns

What have I gotta do to make you love me
What have I gotta do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And awake to find that you're not there

What do I do to make you want me
What have I gotta do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Always seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What have I gotta do to make you love me
What have I gotta do to make you care
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's a little bit funny
This feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can
Easily hide

I don't have much money
But girl if I did
I'd buy a big house where
We both could live

If I was a sculptor
But then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a
Travelling show

I know it's not much
But it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and
This one's for you

And you can tell everybody
This is your song
It may be quite simple but
Now that it's done

I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world

I sat on the roof
And kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses
They've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind
While I wrote this song
It's for people like you that
Keep it turned on

So, excuse me forgettin
But these things I do
You see I've forgotten
If they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is
What I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes
I've ever seen

Sorry
Is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry

Forgive me
Is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me

And you can say, baby
Baby, can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time
You'd be mine

I love you
Is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like I love you

What a beautiful noise
Coming up from the street
Got a beautiful sound
It's got a beautiful beat

It's a beautiful noise
Going on everywhere
Like the clickety-clack of a train on a track
It's got rhythm to spare

It's a beautiful noise
And it's a sound that I love
And it fits me as well
As a hand in a glove
Yes, it does

What a beautiful noise
Coming up from the park
It's the song of the kids
And it plays until dark

It's the song of the cars
On their furious flights
But there's even romance in the way that they dance
To the beat of the lights

It's a beautiful noise
Made of joy and of strife
Like a symphony played by the passing parade
It's the music of life

What a beautiful noise
Coming into my room
And it's begging for me
Just to give it a tune

L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time
And the feeling is 'lay back'
Palm trees grow and rents are low
But you know I keep thinking about
Making my way back

Well, I'm New York City born and raised but
Nowadays I'm lost between two shores
L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
New York's home but it ain't mine no more

I am, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

I am, I cried
I am, said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leaving me lonely still

Did you ever read about a frog
Who dreamed of being a king
And then became one

Well, except for the names and a few other changes
If you talk about me
The story is the same one

But I've got an emptiness deep inside and I tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man who likes to swear but
I never cared for the sound of being alone

If I couldn't see you again
Life would make no sense at all to me
I could be a rich man, but why
It wouldn't mean much if I
Could never see you again

If I couldn't look in your eyes
How'm I gonna see tomorrow
How'm I going to know where to go
I need to be at your side
Say what you want, babe, but I
I need to see you again

Things are gonna get serious
What a waste of a chance for the two of us
What can I do
Is it so mysterious
I would be much less than I am
If I couldn't have you

And if there wasn't you in my life
All my life would be so empty
And if I couldn't see you again
Be losing more than a friend
Don't even want to pretend
I need to see you again

Things are gonna get serious
What a waste of a chance for the two of us
What can I do
Is it so mysterious
I would be much less than I am
If I couldn't have you
Know that it's true

How'm I gonna make you believe
What have I got left to give to you
Maybe just a piece of my life
It wouldn't mean much if I
Could never see you again
I need to see you again

Morning has broken
Like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird

Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them springing, fresh from the Word

Sweet, the rain's new fall
Sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall< on the first grass

Praise for the sweetness
Of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass

Mine is the sunlight
Mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play

Praise with elation
Praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day

Red, red wine
Go to my head
Make me forget that I
Still need her so

Red, red wine
It's up to you
All I can do, I've done
But memories won't go
No memories won't go

I'd have sworn that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, now I find
Just one thing makes me forget

Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

Stay for just a while
Stay and let me look at you
It's been so long I hardly knew you
Standing in the door

Stay with me a while
I only wanna talk to you
We've traveled halfway round the world
To find ourselves again

September morn
We danced until the night became a brandnew day
Two lovers playing scenes fom some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel that way

Look at what you've done
Why you've become a grown up girl
I still can hear you crying
In the corner of your room

And look how far we've come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we've forgotten
How it was before

At September morn
Do you remember how we danced that night away
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel that way

Something in your eyes tonight
Told me to stay
It's been so long
But to see you this way

Makes me want to hold you
Tell you that I'm sorry
Tell you that I need to
Be with you tonight

Baby, won't you let me in
We tried it apart
But here we are
Together again

Makes me know I've missed you
Makes me know I need you
Tell you how I want to
Be with you tonight

And now I finally understand
How much I've missed
You loved me once
Please, love me once again

Can I sleep with you tonight
Let's try it again
For one last time
Or the rest of our lives

Baby, be forgiving
What's been done is done now
Let's you and me be one
Come, sleep with me tonight

Come, sleep with me and stay
Till tomorrow
Or maybe forever, just stay
Come, sleep with me tonight

Song sung blue
Everybody knows one
Song sung blue
Every garden grows one

Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song
Lord, you sing 'em out again
Come sing them out again

Song sung blue
Weeping like a willow
Song sung blue
Sleeping on my pillow

Funny thing, but you can sing it
With a cry in your voice
And before you know it, start feeling good
You simply got no choice

Where it began
I can't beging to knowing
Then I know it's growing strong

It was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along

Hands
Touching hands
Reaching out
Touching me, touching you

Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
But now I

Look at the night
And it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two

And when I hurt
Hurting runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt when holding you

Warm
Touching warm
Reaching out
Touching me, touching you

If there was time enough for me
To do it all again
I promise you that I would find
A way to make it right this time

This time I'd love you even more
I never thought I could
But now I know that I would find
A way to make it right this time

Over again
I close my eyes and I keep reliving it
Over again
It's over but then
I got my dream
Don't no one dare tell me, no

And you'd be mine this time, for sure
Only got to show, I care the way I do
And I'd be there this time for you

If there was time enough to say
The things I feel inside
I promise you, I'd find a way
A way to say them right this time

And I'll be there this time, for sure
Cos I'm not the same man that I was before
And I'm nothing at all if I'm not yours
I only got to show, I care the way I do
And I'll be there this time for you