How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[ekim]

So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave
A sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye
I'm glad to go
I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float
I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone
To bed and so must I

So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye

Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

[Robbie]

You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

[Aruntraveller]

Take your hands
 Off me, please
 I don't belong to you, you see
 And take a look in my face
 For the last time
 I never knew you
 You never knew me
 Say hello, goodbye

Say hello and wave goodbye

[Robbie]

How can you just walk away from me
When all I can do is watch you leave?
'Cause we've shared the laughter and the pain
And even shared the tears
You're the only one who really knew me at all
So take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face
Ooh, take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against the odds
And that's what I've got to face

[ekim]

If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by

Make believe that you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve in private cause each time I see you
I break down and cry

Walk on by, don't stop
Walk on by, don't stop
Walk on by

[Aruntraveller]

And what you gonna say
 In private?
 You still want my love
 We're in this together
 And what you're gonna do
 In public
 Say you were never in love
 That you can remember

What you gonna say, ay
 When you run back to your wife?
 I guess it's just the story of my life
 What you gonna say?

[Robbie]

What if I blurt out I love you?
Baby, I got to be cool
I wanna tell you how much you mean to me
Baby, I got to tell you, baby, I got to tell you

I want the world to know
It doesn't matter if you don't
I want the world to know
No, it don't matter if you don't

This feelin', this feelin's
Like a dagger in my stomach
Gotta keep a secret
Can I tell it baby?

[ekim]

I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company

[Aruntraveller]

I don't want half hearted love affairs
I need someone who really cares.
Life is too short to play silly games
I've promised myself I won't do that again.

It's got to be perfect
It's got to be worth it
Yeah.
Too many people take second best
But I won't take anything less
It's got to be
Yeah
Pertect.

[Nearly Sane]

Yet, in my mind I say
If he makes his move today
I'll just pretend to be shocked?
Oh, baby
It's a tragedy
That you hurt me
We don't even try

You're as much to blame
'Cause I know you feel the same
I can see it in your eyes
But I've got no time to live this love
No, I've got no time to play your silly games
Silly games

[Robbie]

Oh come on come on
Well you've been messing with my head
For oh so long now
Oh come on come on
Well you've been messing with my head
And it's oh so wrong now
I can't take it no more
Oh no I
Can't take it no more

(Night night)

[ekim]

The jukebox is playin' a honky-tonk song
"One more", I keep sayin', "and then I'll go home"
What good will it do me, I know what I'll find
An empty bottle, a broken heart and you're still on my mind.

The people are dancin' and havin' their fun
And I sit here thinkin' about what you have done
To try and forget you, I've turned to the wine
An empty bottle, a broken heart and you're still on my mind.

[Aruntraveller]

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
 She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
 She had to heave me right across her shoulder
 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

 It's the honky tonk women
 Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

[Robbie]

Wonderful. The Urban Jungle tour started with that song, saw at Wembley with husband & two cousins. My kid was too small (only one at that time). I must have been 30. An excellent memory!

B side:-

I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

[ekim]

Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me.

[Robbie]

Tender is the night
Lying by your side
Tender is the touch
Of someone that you love too much
Tender is the day
The demons go away
Lord, I need to find
Someone who can heal my mind

[Aruntraveller]

What can I do
 What can I do
 Much of what you say is true
 I know you see through me
 But there's no tenderness
 Beneath your honesty

[Robbie]

You're the one givin' up the love any time he needs it
But you turn your back and then he's off and running with the crowd
You're the one to sacrifice, anything to please him
Do you really think he thinks about you when he's out?
He's a coldhearted snake lookin into his eyes
Oh, oh he's been telling lies he's a lover boy at play
He don't play by the rules oh, oh, oh
Girl don't play the fool now

[ekim]

No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool.

[Aruntraveller]

Thinking,
 Long ago when we were young and free
 Love happened easily and dreams never died
 Life sung a pretty song,
 Now those days are gone

 Crying,
 Finding comfort in the friends we knew
 Now it's just me and you trying alone
 We used to get along (we used to)
 Now those days are gone

 Playing with words
 When there's nothing much to say
 Searching to find what we lost along the way
 Could it be one day our feelings changed
 I hope we see it through
 'Cause I just can't stand the thought
 Of life without you

[ekim]

Long ago and far away
I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me
Long the skies were overcast
But now the clouds have passed
You're here at last.

Chills run up and down my spine
Aladdin's lamp is mine
The dream I dreamed was not denied me
Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for long ago was you.

[Robbie]

Down, down in my bones
Somewhere I'd never ever known
Right at the back of my head
It hit me like a beam of light
Hit me like a hook with a right
And I could have fell to the floor
'Cause you talk to me and it comes off the wall
You talk to me and it goes over my head
So let's go to bed before you say something real
Let's go to bed before you say how you feel
'Cause it's you, I always, always knew
Oh, I always knew, oh, it's you

[ekim]

Our lips shouldn't touch
(Move over darling)
I like it too much
(Move over darling)
That gleam in your eyes
is no big surprise anymore
'Cause you fooled me before.

I'm all in a spin
(Move over darling)
About to give in
(Move over darling)
And though it's not right
I'm too weak to fight it somehow
'Cause I want you right now

[Robbie]

I'm too sexy for my love
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing

[Aruntraveller]

Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes

You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan