Anticipation

(carly simon/jacob brackman)

Here come the priests, each one wailing and bemoaning
Lordy, they got their heads bowed down
Here come the madmen, they're too excited for atoning:
"burn the mosque," they're shouting, "burn it down!"

Save me a place, surround me with friendly faces
All of us have gathered here to share the end -
To watch the world go up in flames

Please, lord we're not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour...

Here come the kings, let's dispense with their apologizing
Just bring on the acrobats and clowns
Here comes the rumble, hang on for universal dying
Please ignore the baying of the hounds

Save me a place, surround me with deadly faces
All of us have gathered here to share the end -
To watch the world go up in flames

Please, lord we're not ready
Give us some time to work things out...
Please, lord we're not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour...
Please, lord we're not ready
Give us some time to work things out...
Please, lord we're not ready
Give us a day
Give us an hour...

(carly simon/jim ryan/paul glanz)

Here now summer's coming around again
Every year it seems to come in this way
Before you know it you've fallen in love
But be sure it's love before you sail away

You see someone wearing a sunny face
You want to know him anyway that you can
Tell him you're just in from shanghai
And his smile you just can't pass by

Follow him away
Follow him away

Sad to say he hasn't seen you come by this way
His sunny smile just reflects sunny days
Haven't you seen his face before
Every year it seems to come this way
Every year it seems to come this way

(carly simon)

We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
And i wonder if i'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day.

Anticipation, anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting

And i tell you how easy it is to be with you
And how right your arms feel around me.
Bit i rehearsed those words just late last night
When i was thinking about how right tonight might be.

Anticipation, anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting

And tomorrow we might not be together
I'm no prophet, i don't know natures way
So i'll try to see into your eyes right now
And stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days.

(kris kristofferson)

You came smilin' softly, shyly movin'
Easy as a dreamer into my room.
And before i realized the danger
I found myself looking into your eyes.
Somewhere in their colours i saw promises
Of things i'd never seen before
It's all over...i've got to have you.

Holding onto, talking, saying nothing.
Knowing in a moment i could lose you.
Then without a warning i remembered that
You trembled at the touch of my hand.
Knowing when you came to me that no one else
Would ever feel the same in my arms
It's all over...i've got to have you.

Wakin' in the morning to the tenderness
Of holding you asleep in my arms.
Dreaming while my hair was blowing
Softer than a whisper on my cheek.
I don't know the feeling so i don't know if it's love
But it's enough...it's enough
I can't help it...i've got to have you.
It's all over...i've got to have you.

(carly simon)

Well i have know you
Since you were a small boy
And your mama used to say
My boy is gonna grow up and be
Some kind of leader some day.

Then you'd turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
And your mama would say to you
This isn't exactly what she had planned.

But you're a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legends only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone.

And although i know you
Still have the heart of that small boy
Well, you lend it out far too much
And no one woman loving you
Can ever tell if you've been really touched.

Then you turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
And think kind of sadly to yourself
This isn't exactly what you had planned.

But you're a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legends only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone.