Best Of Carly Simon

(buzzy linhart)

And i'm so high
I can't go on
Oh but i
Can sing this song

Because the love's still growing
And the love's still growing

Some folk say
That all hope is gone
But today, the world is one

Because the love's still growing
And the love's still growing

It's time to say
It's time to know
That it's o.k., that some must go.

(carly simon)

(chorus)
One more time
Play it again before you put your guitar down
My darlin', one more time
Now that you got me dreamin'
About the good times.

"come on girl"
You said to me, "let's fly away
Follow me wherever i will go
And we won't worry about tomorrow"

(chorus)

So things go
And so you left, and we drifted apart
Sorrow came, built in my heart a home
And now i'm thinking about tomorrow.

(chorus)

(carly simon)

First one in the city
Wearin' all those grass stained jeans
Nothing is forgotten, everyone is pleased.
Someone got his hair cut
The girls have lots to say
His friends had felt more comfortable
With it worn the other way
And i don't know if i'll see you again.

Next one at the old house
Snow is on the ground
Photographs and wine are passed around
Someone toasts an absent friend
Another takes his seat
They gather round the dying fire
But the circle's not complete
And i don't know if i'll see you again

Last one by the highway
Wind blows through thin smiles
Someone made a wrong turn
Missed a joke by miles
Someone got their hair cut
A tear in her eye
But no one even comments -
Except to say 'goodbye'
And i don't know if i'll see you again.

(jacob brackman/fred gardner)

I said that i felt jailed up
As if our doors were nailed up
I said i needed separate places,
Parties, room to move around in.
I said i needed my fling
Had to get out and do some other thing.
It took me months to calculate
That i had nothing left without you-

(chorus)
Dan, my fling is all flung out
Now i've got to fall back on dreams

I thought i'd try and write you
I thought i'd try and phone you
I thought i'd try to tell you
That i smell your hair still on my pillow
But you'd just mile to please me
You'd shake your head, you'd tease me -
Remind me it was i who first claimed
That we both required freedom

(chorus)

I'd dream up schemes to meet you,
I'd nonchalantly greet you,
I'd ask you up for coffee
Anytime you had an hour open.
You say you like my hair long,
You ask me if i've written any new songs,
You'd laugh, you'd turn and cross the street
And leave me dizzy with your laughter -

(chorus)

I hear you're leaving this town,
You and some girl gonna travel around,
You bought a car with foldback seats,
You'll camp out by the lakes and forests.
I lie alone in our old bed,
Your laughter it's echoin' inside my head.
I close my eyes, i smell your hair
It's like i haven't slept in years -

(chorus)

(carly simon/jacob brackman)

My father sits at night with no lights on
His cigarette glows in the dark.
The living room is still;
I walk by, no remark.
I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines.
I hear her call sweet dreams,
But i forgot how to dream.

But you say it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way i've always heard it should be:
You want to marry me, we'll marry.

My friends from college they're all married now;
They have their houses and their lawns.
They have their silent noons,
Tearful nights, angry dawns.
Their children hate them for the things they're not;
They hate themselves for what they are-
And yet they drink, they laugh,
Close the wound, hide the scar.

But you say it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way i've always heard it should be:
You want to marry me, we'll marry.

You say we can keep our love alive
Babe - all i know is what i see -
The couples cling and claw
And drown in love's debris.
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds,
But soon you'll cage me on your shelf -
I'll never learn to be just me first
By myself.

Well o.k., it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way i've always heard it should be,
You want to marry me, we'll marry,
We'll marry.