Crystal Lady

(john rostill)

Wherever you go
Wherever you may wander in your life
Surely you know
I always wanna be there
Holding you hand
And standing by to catch you when you fall
Seeing you through
In everything you do

Let me be there in your morning
Let me be there in you night
Let me change whatever's wrong and make it right
Let me take you through that wonderland
That only two can share
All i ask you is let me be there

Watching you grow
And going through the changes in your life
That's how i know
I always wanna be there
Whenever you feel you need a friend to lean on, here i am
Whenever you call, you know i'll be there

Let me be there in your morning
Let me be there in you night
Let me change whatever's wrong and make it right
Let me take you through that wonderland
That only two can share
All i ask you is let me be there

(fiett/fletcher)

Nothing is moving, all the world is still
No birds are singing and they never will
Cause you're leaving
No doors are open, the sun doesn't smile
There's no sign of laughter, it rains all the while
And i'm grieving
Cause you're leavin', leavin'

Food doesn't tempt me
No coffee or cakes, everything's empty
My heart's full of aches, nothing can please me
Why are you leaving?

Oh, no silver linings, no fluffy white clouds
I keep on walking, i'm lost in a crowd
Cause you're leaving
Nothing gives me pleasure, nothing gives me pain
I'm all over numb and i can't explain
Now you're leaving
Cause you're leavin', leavin'

So you put me down, you go your way around
I'm glad you're doing fine, i'll make out in time
Don't you worry, now you're leaving

(olivia newton-john)

In my room,where i used to sleep with you
Things have changed
All that's left are the memories of two
Two who loved and dreamed where
The trees seem to whisper your name
But i don't like to go there
'cause rosewater no longer feels the same

Through the glass
The sun shows the knocks on the wall
Seasons pass and you know how it looks in the fall
Here at my rosewater,the glass is a deeper green
And a calm surrounds her
When love was here,the warmest place i've ever been

As i walk the echo of empty,i hear
And i feel that this house is not home
And now we're not here,it's lonely
The stairs seem to beckon me to stay
But dreams are better treasured
Than slowly eaten away

Christmas time,when snow filled your garden with while
Then the moon's cold patterns on windows at night
Now you'll make a new home
With people as hopefull as we
Over their dreams and their secrets
But don't ever,please don't ever
Rosewater,forget about me
Forget about me

(bob dylan)

If not for you
Babe i couldn't even find the door
I couldn't even see the floor
I'd be sad and blue
If not for you

If not for you
Babe the night would see me wide awake
The day would surely have to break
And it would not be new
If not for you

If not for you my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love i'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you

If not for you
The winter would hold no spring
Couldn't hear a robin sing
I just wouldn't have a clue
It not for you

If not for you my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love i'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you

If not for you
The winter would hold no spring
You couldn't hear a robin sing
I just wouldn't have a clue
It not for you
If not for you

(bill danoff/taffy nivert/john denver)

Country roads,take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia,mountain mama
Take me home,country roads

Almost heaven,west virginia
Blue ridge mountain,shenandoe river
Life is old there,older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like the breeze

Country roads,take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia,mountain mama
Take me home,country roads

All my memories gather round her
Mine is lady,stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Teardrop in my eye

Country roads,take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia,mountain mama
Take me home,country roads

I hear her voice in the morning
Now she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road i get a feeling
That i should've been home yesterday,yesterday

Country roads,take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia,mountain mama
Take me home,country roads

Country roads,take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia,mountain mama
Take me home,country roads

Take me home,country roads

(hiller/goodison/leslie/day)

I hold your hand and gently touch your hair
Then we'll walk together hand in hand
The way it used to be
The way you smile and kiss me tenderly
Tears begin to fill my misty eyes
Now you are gone from me

Where are you going to, my love
Will you come back when the sun shines
Anytime you want to come home
It's all right
Where are you going to, my love
Will our love return tomorrow
Anytime you want to call me
It's all right

I hear your voice
It's always haunting me
Everywhere i turn i see you face
But you're never there
You're all i have,
You're all i'm living for
I can't bear the pain and misery
Please come back to me

Where are you going to, my love
Will you come back when the sun shines
Anytime you want to come home
It's all right
Where are you going to, my love
Will our love return tomorrow
Anytime you want to call me
It's all right

(camerron/hawkshaw)

It's so hard to say goodbye
Because my heart just can't stop loving you
It's so hard to say goodbye
And let you go, my love

Love colors your world in ever blending shades
But where is there to run to
When the coloring fades
I'm lost in the void, a lonely black charade
Love changes into sadness like a raging cascade
I'm so afraid to lose you
I can't accept the truth although i've tried
I need you all the time

It's so hard to say goodbye
Because i know i'll go on wanting you
It's so hard to say goodbye
But what else can i do
What else can i do

I know we must part to go our separate ways
But how can i be sure of just how much of me stays
When deep inside i need you
No matter what i tell myself, it's true
I need you all the time

(gordon lightfoot)

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet

You know that ghost is me
And i will never be set free as long as i'm a ghost that you can't see

If i could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
The hero often fails
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'll walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three-way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Are bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, let's be real
I never thought i could act this way
And i've got to say, i just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and i just can't get it back

(hiller/curtis)

They could never take you away from me
Oh baby, never replace the tenderness of your smile
I couldn't leave now if i wanted to
Everything i do i wanna do with you
Oh no, baby
If i gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They could offer me the world and all its gold
Oh baby, put me on a ship that's sailing out to sea
Set me down on a lonely track
But i'd find a way to come running back
Oh no, baby
If i gotta leave
I wanna leave with you

They may try to find a way to deep us from each other
Try to find a way to keep us far apart
But there's nowhere in the world they could send me to
To keep my love away from you
Oh no, baby
If i gotta leave
I wanna leave with you
I really wanna leave with you
I really wanna leave with you

(don mclean)

When i see you on the street
I lose my concentration
And just the thought that we might meet
Creates anticipation
Won't you look my way once before you go
And my eyes will say what you ought to know
Well, i've been thinking about you day and night
And i don't know if it will work out right
But somehow i think that it just might
If we try

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation
But something yearns within to grow
Beyond infatuation
Won't you look my way once before you go
And my eyes will say what you ought to know
Well, you got me standing deaf and blind
Cause i see love as just a state of mind
And who knows what it is that we might find
If we try

You're walking a different direction
From most people i've met
You're giving me signs of affection
I don't usually get
I don't want you to pledge your future
The future's not yours to give
Just stand there a little longer
And let me watch while you live

'cause when i see you on the street
I lose my concentration
And just the thought that we might meet
Creates anticipation
Won't you look my way once before you go
And my eyes will say what you ought to know
Well, i've been thinking about you day and night
And i don't know if it will work out right
But somehow i think that it just might
If we try
Somehow i think that it just might
If we try
Yes,somehow i think that it just might
If we try

(traditional)

I asked my love to take a walk
To take a walk, just a little walk
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the ohio

And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the ohio

I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed
He cried "my love, don't you murder me
I'm not prepared for eternity"

I wandered home 'tween twelve and one
I cried, "my god, what have i done?"
I've killed the only man i love
He would not take me for his bride

And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the ohio

(kristofferson/foster)

Busted flat in baton rouge
Headin' for the train
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down
Just before it rained
Took us all the way to new orleans
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna
I was blowin' sad while bobby sang the blues
With them windshield wipers slappin' time
And bobby clappin' hands
We finally sang up every song that driver knew

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free
Feelin' good was easy, lord, when bobby sang the blues
Buddy, that was good enough for me
Good enough for me and bobby mcgee

From the coal mines of kentucky
To the california sun
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Standin' right beside me
Through everything i've done
And every night he kept me from the cold
Then somewhere near salinas
I let him slip away
Lookin' for the home i hope he'll find
And i'll trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holdin' bobby's body next to mine

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free
Feelin' good was easy, lord, when bobby sang the blues
Buddy, that was good enough for me
Good enough for me and bobby mcgee
Enough for me and bobby mcgee
Good enough for me and my bobby mcgee
I let him slip away
Lookin' for the home i hope he finds
Enough for me and my bobby mcgee
Enough for me and my bobby mcgee, yeah

(manuel)

Once i walked through the halls of a station
Someone called your name
In the street i heard children laughing
They all sound the same

One day could you ever know me
Know the reason why i live
Is there nothin you can show me
Life seems so little to give

Once i climbed up the face of a mountain
And ate the wild fruit there
Fell asleep until the moonlight woke me
And i could taste your hair

Isn't everybody dreaming
And the voice i hear is real
Out of all the idle scheming
Can't we have something to feel

Once upon a time leaves me empty
Tomorrow never came
I could sing the sound of your laughter
Still i don't know you name

Must be some way to repay you
Out of all the good you gave
If a rumor should delay you
Love seems so little to save

(john farrar)

Hey boy, i better warn you
To make your reservation
Your exit's overdue
I can only promise he ain't the soul to laugh
I've known him long enough to speak on his behalf

My old man's got a gun
And he knows you're a tricky one
He can't fail to make you run
And i don't need you
My old man's got a wife
And she loves him and her life
Silver tongue could be his strife
And i don't need you

Hey boy, don't let him fool you
I'll tell you something about him, gonna cool you
He'll get you in a corner
And make you really crawl
You'll never realize
A man could feel so small

My old man's got a gun
And he knows you're a tricky one
He can't fail to make you run
And i don't need you
My old man's got a wife
And she loves him and her life
Silver tongue could be his strife
And i don't need you

I don't need you, i don't need you
Hey boy, i better warn you
To make your reservation

(simon)

Why don't you write me
I'm out in the jungle
I'm hungry to hear you
Send me a card
I am waiting so hard to be near you
Something is wrong and i know i got a feelin'
Maybe i'm lost but i can't make the cost of the airfare
Tell me why, tell me why

Why don't you write me
A letter would brighten my loneliest evening
Mail it today if it's only to say
That you're leaving me
Why don't you write

Monday morning sitting in the sun
Hopin' and wishin' that the mail would come
Tuesday i never got a word
Wednesday,, thursday ain't no sign
Drank a half a bottle of iodine
Friday, woe is me
I'm gonna hang my body from the highest tree
Why don't you write me
Why don't you write me