Rendezvous

You make me nervous when i see you.
I can't imagine what it's like to be you.
It's a mystery to me every day,
And i've got to get away.

I put a bet on with a bookie
For the race they put on over in kentucky.
It's lovely at this time of year, so they say,
And i've got to get away.

Chorus
I'm a dreamer, and you know
I'm a schemer with an eye for a show.
It's my imagination when i get low,
And the truth is i don't think i'll ever go.
When the music's playing, that's when it changes,
And no longer do we seen like total strangers.
It's all those words which always get in the way
Of what you want to say.

When i wake up in the morning
I think it only fair to give you warning
I probably won't go away,
I'll more than likely stay.

(chorus)

This is the text on the rendezvous album:

If your eyes are blue you know the rest
Champagne if it's very cool
It's never very formal how you dress
For oysters by the swimming pool
Then slip away into the mountainside
Like the man in the lazy e'
It's great to have a place where you can hide
Why you must amazes me

Chorus
Golden,
Where are you?
Sold on gold dust
I shuttled all around america
From new york to los angeles
Nervous breakdown later, there we were
From liberty to redwood trees
A friend of mine, she hitched from east to west
In time to hear my final song
It seems to me she tried her very best
She is a good companion

(chorus)

He stores away the moments of her smiles
As if they were rare butterflies
Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
Then barters for the merchandise
When life it drags the likes of me around
Just when we need some time alone
You have a simple mansion underground
Without address or telephone

(chorus)

The live version on the attic tracks vol. 3 and on gold dust - live at the royalty is a bit different. the last two lines of verse one are:
It's nice to have a place where you can hide
For why you must amazes me

And the last verse is:
He stores away the moments of her smiles
As if they were rare butterflies
Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
And barters for the merchandise
As time it drags the likes of me around
Just when we need some time alone
You have a private mansion underground
Without address or telephone

Everybody else has gone,
But you're still here with me.
All the world is sleeping by and by.
Through the windowpane
The frosted light is streaming in,
Full moon sailing high across the sky.
Tonight is like the night when we first met.
I always knew i never would forget you.

Come and hold me close,
I miss you more than i can say.
I can't remember how i pass the time (with you away),
Wondering if you'll ever know
How much you mean to me.
I never dreamed there'd be a change of mind.
Lover, this is where i want to stay.
Maybe it could always be this way.

I recall you said to me
A long, long time ago,
``don't you lose direction in the crowd (i think you could).''
But when i did you found me
And i didn't even know.
I hardly even knew you were around and understood.
I was reaching out each moment to be free.
You were all those things i'd never be.

Gentle music, rock away the sadnesses in me.
Rock away my lonely yesterdays,
Like pennies on the ocean
'til no trace of them i see,
'till moonlight shows no ripples on the waves.
And then the clear reflection will remain.
Perhaps the same reflection
Of that same full moon.

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

Chorus
And 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 have liked to have 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 the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that marilyn was found in the nude

(chorus)

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 twenty-second row
Who sees you as something more than just sexual
More than just our marilyn monroe

(chorus)

It seems like a lifetime since i saw you
Lover lover i've been away too long
When i see lovers holdings hands and sighing
I hang my head for shame of doing wrong

Bus wheels spinning, song birds singing break my heart
Take me back to old remembered days
Remind me of the times we spent together
Times before we went our separate ways
I wish i was a fool for you
I wish i was a fool for you
I wish i was a fool for you again

I'm sorry for the things i've said, the things i've done
I'm sorry for the restless thief i've been
Please don't make me pay for my deceiving heart
Just turn up your lamp and let me in
I wish i was a fool for you
I wish i was a fool for you ...
I wish i was a fool for you again