Storybook

When I look at you
What I always see
Is the face of someone else
Who once belonged to me
Still I can hear him laugh
Even though that melody plays on
He's gone

When I look at you
He is standing there
I can almost breathe him in
like summer in the air
Why do you smile his smile
That heaven I'd forgotten eases through
In you

If you could look at me once more
With all the love you felt before
If you and I could only dance into the past
And find that love we knew
I'll never take my eyes away from you

When I look at you
He is touching me
I would reach for him
But who can hold a memory?
And love isn't everything
This moonlight on the bed will melt away someday

Oh, you were once that someone
Who I followed like a star
And suddenly you changed
And now I don't know who you are
Or could it be that I never really knew you from the start

Did I create a dream
Was he a fantasy
Even a memory is a paradise for all the fools like me
Now remebering is all that I can do
Because I miss him so
When I look at you

Listen to me, I have beautiful dreams I can spin you,
Dreams to linger within you,
Close your eyes and we'll ride my carousel.
I'll sing you stories of
Lovers whose love used
To fill me.
And the lovers who will be.
For, you see, love is one thing I do well.
Come let's believe love can be just as sweet as it seems.
Let's live on dreams...

In my dreams such beautiful lovers have found me.
Story book lovers surround me.
Nothing is real, but I'm flying,
Sighing: Where, where, where is my story book
Ending?
Why does my golden pretending
Leave me with nothing to hold...but
My dreams?

Oh is it only in dreams that we find out ideal love?
Are there lovers with real love?
If you know how to feel love, show me how.
Ah, but my prince, if you can't be as sweet as you seem,
I'd rather dream!

Come and wake me! Come be the love I can hold now.
Storybook love leaves me cold now.
Show me the way to stop dreaming!
There is only one perfect story book ending.
That is the end of pretending.
That is the moment I say: Love me now!

Et sur mon manege, l'amour toujours est chantant.
Des mes reves, c'est le commencement,
Et j'espere une fine heureuse.
Mais la fin de l'histoire ne vient pas tres doucement,
Pour l'histoire il faut faire semblant.
Certes je n'embrasse que mes reves, seuls mes reves!

Smile, though your heart is aching
smile even though it's breaking
when there are clouds in the sky,
you'll get by
if you smile thru your fear and sorrow
smile and maybe tomorrow
you'll see the sun come shining thru for you

Light up your face with gladness
hide every trace of sadness
although a tear may be ever so near
that's the time you must keep on trying
smile, what's the use of crying
you'll find that life is still worthwhile
if you just smile

That's the time you must keep on trying
smile, what's the use of crying
you'll find that life is still worthwhile
if you just smile.

When somebody loves you
it's no good unless he loves you,
all the way
happy to be near you
when you need someone to cheer you,
all the way
taller than the tallest tree is
that's how it's got to feel
deeper than the deep blue sea is
that's how deep it goes, if it's real When somebody needs you,
it's no good unless he needs you,
all the way
through the good and lean years
and for all those in between years, come
what may

Who knows where the road will lead us
only a fool would say
but if you let me love you
it's for sure I'm gonna love you
all the way, all the way

I don't remember
how much I needed to be near you
and I can't close my eyes and hear you
no, no I simply don't recall
our love at all
I don't remember
the way you filled my world with laughter
or how I changed forever after
as I look back it's sad to see
my memory
is failing me

I don't see your face
almost every place
I don't cry
I don't think of you
and I don't wonder why
'cause day after day
after day after day
I don't recall
when you went away
I don't remember
a thousand little things about you
like how I just can't live without you
no, no I simply can't recall...
why lovers fall...
in love at all

I don't remember
try as I might
I don't remember
each lonely night
I don't remember us at all

If he never said hello
If his eyes had never smiled at me
What did he find inside my heart
That made him take a chance
Did he know what I was feeling
Could it be that he was lonely
Something between us had begun
Something so beautiful
Something that's started with hello

Now memories are filling me with pictures of the past
Foolish me hoping love would last
And even now I still can feel
The way he looked at me
The way he looked at me

If he never said I love you
If he never said forever
I would have never known love
If he never said hello
I'll never know goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
When you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind