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Simon
It feels like a dream to be here.
I swallow my pride and my fear.
I’ve done all I can.
My heart’s in your hands.
I desperately need just one thing from one man.
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Simon, my idol, please,
Say something nice to me.
One girl’s sweet fantasy.
Means all the world to me.
Your voice, so deep, and sincere.
Words always heartfelt and clear.
I fight butterflies,
As I gaze in the eyes
I know I can trust not to tell pretty lies.
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I’d send my Dad he DVD.
Some say my time might be better spent
At something where I show hints of talent;
But I prove them wrong,
When I sing a song.
I go for that high note,
The dog sings along.
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Broadcast in….oh yeah…..HD.
Underneath that shell of so-called, “honesty,”
I feel your profound sensitivity.
So I dare to dream
The impossible dream:
You’ll see me, you’ll hear me,
And you won’t be mean.
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I’d finally sell an MP3…..maybe
Why Should You Believe?
The kiss hit me like a Kansas express.
This damsel doesn’t run from distress.
I let that love train sweep me up in its cars,
But thrown from the caboose you land pretty hard. You'd think I’d learn which one’s not taking me far.
Swelling strings were all you could hear.
You learned some things should not be left to your ears.
They hear just what they want, won’t recognize lies.
They’re working in cahoots with the stars in your eyes.
The good news and the bad news is you don’t die.
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You carry your lost loves like rings on a tree.
Each one puts distance between you and me.
Drop them, just love me. I’d never leave.
Must sound familiar.
Why should you believe?
Now love calls you, so you lock up your heart.
It calls me, too, but I am just not that smart.
I take your hand defenseless as I can be.
I might get crushed, of course, we’ll just have to see,
You’re worth the risk,
I’m sure…..I think…..possibly.
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That sounds familiar,
But I still believe.
Can't Make You Love Me
I can spend pointless time on my hair.
Again I’ll change my mind when I pick what to wear.
Those pants you said you like, ‘cause they fit me kinda tight.
I’m overdressed tonight. I don’t care.
I can bring the wine you mentioned you wanted to try,
To prove I pay attention. Nothing gets by.
Whatever I can do, to prove it’s still true,
No one knows how to take care of you Better than I.
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But I can’t make you love me
No matter what I do,
The way I still love you.
I can name the things I did to make you leave me.
I can show remorse I hid. You politely believe me.
I can name a thousand ways how I’m so much better now.
I get a couldn’t-be-less-interested:
“Wow. That’s just great.”
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Our evening lasts just seconds, Then it ends.
You tell me, “It’s so nice We can still be friends.”
My heart goes back to that place, that rocket into space.
Darling, friends are something we have never been.
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Crazy But It's True
They say a year’s plenty. It’s more than enough.
I think I’ll need twenty, my heart’s kind of tough.
I tell it you’re gone now, you’ve left us alone.
My heart, it won’t listen, got a mind of it’s own.
My heart leaves the light on, for when you come home.
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It says that I am yours. Won’t see things your way.
And if I try to stray, It still asks me what you’d say.
And it won’t believe we’re through. Nothing I can do.
Still belongs to you.
I know that it sounds crazy but it’s true.
I try to move on now. My heart makes me wait.
I just don’t see how, 'til it cooperates.
If I should discover the man of my dreams,
Try being my lover, while my heart kicks and screams.
In the game of love, it is not on my team.
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I try not to love you. My heart won’t agree.
It’s no use to argue. It’s not up to me,
Can’t love another. My heart isn’t free.
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Happy Now
Fancy meeting in a drug store. I recognized you by the ears.
Kidding, you’ve got looks to die for. Has it really been two years?
Got your wedding invitation, and I intended to accept.
Not sure why I missed the celebration. Guess I must have overslept. Are you happy now?
Pat goes to church with you on Sundays.
That Pat goes with you every place.
But tell me, love, when was the last time
That you have been to outer space?
Are you happy now?
You still play your rebel music. That’s the image you prefer.
But I used to know ya Darling, Back when that’s what you really were. Still wish I could have been your true love,
And I do hold you in my sleep.
I wish you everything you dream of.
Since Pat turned out to be a……..creep.
Are you happy now?
Don't Tell Me That You Love Me
You ask me if I’ll stay, 'til my dying day.
What do you think I’ll say, while I lie here next to you?
Don’t ask me if I love you. I’ll show you that I do.
Don’t tell me that you’re mine, 'til the end of time.
You know I’ve heard that line, heartfelt and untrue.
Don’t tell me that you love me. Show me that you do.
I’ve heard the words before, and I don’t buy them anymore.
And I’ve sworn I’d never say, “goodbye,”
But Baby, where am I?
Pillow talk is cheap. Loving looks can lie.
Promises don’t keep. Undying love can die.
Don’t tell me that you love me. Show me that you do.
Wedding vows can fly, but mostly they head south.
The legal fees then hit the sky, while you think, “Me and my big…..” Don’t tell me that you love me. Show me that you do.
When I look up from my dying bed to find you cradling my head.
I will fight my final fight to say “I love you, you were right.”
And then I’ll kiss you goodnight, and I’ll float towards heaven.
Darling you’ll be alright.
Ten to one, you’ll be long since done with me by then.
You say you’ll stand by me, 'til the final act.
I’ll believe it when I see you naked through my cataracts.
Don’t tell me that you love me. Show me that you do.
Ah You
The eyes had me undone, deep like the bore of a gun.
There went my knees, to weak to run.
A touch like live wire, mouth breathed “I love you” and fire.
I saw blue sparks. I heard a choir.
Time now tries to make me wise.
It tries and tries, and tries and tries.
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I remember every lover in my past.
Could tell you every name, first and last.
Wouldn’t say I miss them, and if you asked,
I’d tell you the one that I’d take back is you.
Ah you.
The fire grew each day that went by,
The one that burned me, the smoke that got in my eyes.
You made me laugh, you made me cry.
Oh I will miss you till the day that I die.
I’ve never felt lonely before.
So loved my freedom. Oh Darling not anymore.
If you should show, baggage in tow,
I’d give my captor the key to the door.
I’ve learned from old mistakes, and I promise you:
The ones I’d make would be mostly new.
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I said I’d be okay. That might not be true.
I’m a little afraid. There might be just one you.
The night finds me all alone. You have a marriage and home.
I’d love to say, “Hope it goes well,”
But, I wouldn’t mean it. and you’d be able to tell.
Your torch burns as bright as they get.
I’ll always crave you, like you crave that cigarette.
And I know you try to forget.
And now it seems your life goes on just fine,
While I live without the love of mine.
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Say Intentions
Well, you flirt incessantly, then you don’t call.
Drop by unexpectedly, to tell me nothing at all.
Reel me in, Then throw me away.
Nice you practice, “catch and release,”
But I need you to say intentions.
Say intentions.
Kiss me like you’ll never let me go.
Say you’ll always be there, ‘course you don’t show.
I make myself so available. Can’t say that I don’t.
Part of me’s afraid you’ll just play with me.
Part of me’s afraid that you won’t. Say intentions.
Say intentions.
Well, let’s start communication from my side.
No need to be shy. Tell you why:
If your intentions are not honorable,
That’s just fine. Neither are mine.
Never been a mind reading wiz.
Don’t have to tell me anything that’s none of my biz.
But I can be there when you call, Or you don’t have to see me at all. Baby, have it your way….. Whatever that is. Say intentions.
Say intentions .
Traimwreck
Moonlight touches me like frostbite.
I lie awake and dream, all I can think about is you.
Midnight. I tell myself it’s alright
That I am here alone as long as you’re not thinking too.
But you fight me as hard as I fight. I know that you do.
The freight train has locked its brakes.
The wheels spray white-hot snowflakes
I stand there in the tracks. I won’t move.
You ride the iron horse, It squeals on collision course.
Gonna hit no matter what you do.
'Cause what holds me between the rails Is stronger than you, too.
The headlight holds me like a deer. My ears can only ring.
I don’t know why I can’t move from here, I’m sure of just one thing This is gonna sting.
Red lights flashed, but I still crossed. I took a chance, and I have lost. I’m a copper penny in your way.
The freight train will thunder through. The victim will not be you.
Don’t know what more I can do or say.
If you’d just jump down from the cab, I’d catch you, and stay.
The steel walls hold you safe and cool, The only way you’ll play.
You’ll win the game, you’ve made all the rules.
I will crawl away.
And you’ll be okay .
No Makeup
Lynn picks zucchinis at the supermarket.
All the sudden there’s this guy.
She flashes her sultriest “come hither.”
He grabs a squash and walks on by.
He looks beyond her to a mini skirt and melons,
if you know what I mean,
Which seem attached unnaturally high.
Lynn stands invisible in her sweats and tennies, thinking,
“I’m cuter, nicer, smarter…..why?
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She don’t wear no makeup.
She falls off of high heels.
Boys don’t pay much attention.
I know just how she feels.
Lynn’s a regular at the local gym.
She thinks she’s doing pretty good.
If someone said, “Honey, drop and give me twenty.”
Lynn’s a girl who really could.
Then a different kind of push-up, in a leotard thong thing
“Can’t figure out how to change the weights.”
Suddenly those pretty boys who never showed Lynn any interest Turn out to be raging, prancing, flaming……..straight.
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Brad occupied the cubicle by the fax machine.
Been watching Lynn for a while.
He doesn’t mind her understated sense of fashion,
And he really likes her smile.
Lynn visits the fax machine from time to time.
Kinda pretends Brad isn’t there, but she says,
“You know that Brad, he seems like a really nice guy.
Too bad he doesn’t have more hair.
She don’t wear no makeup.
She falls off of high heels.
She don’t pay much attention.
I know just how she feels .
Your Song
The ringing of Big Ben comes to find me
Holding on to you in the night.
There’s that sound again to remind me
One less hour remains till my flight.
Ben tells me “Get up, time to go now.”
One last kiss, you open those eyes.
I’ll be back, as yet I don’t know how
For nights of kisses, years of goodbyes.
You say now, “We can’t live in the past.”
You carefully break it to me at last.
“We’ll stay in touch, but more is too much to ask.”
I’ve held on to you for so long.
I miss you. I’ll always play your son .