How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[ekim]

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream.

[Nearly Sane]

(Not song lyrics, just as a little aside, when this thread, and its predecessor started, people used song titles in a sort of conversation. It was the influence of Leonard James posting larger extracts that lead to the current form. In its own way I see the thread as a sort of tribute to LJ who is much missed)

[Aruntraveller]

So when I'm lying in my bed
 Thoughts running through my head
 And I feel the love is dead
 I'm loving angels instead

[Nearly Sane]

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance
When our earth is turning
How do we sleep
While our beds are burning

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Time Ain't Long

(Brownie point to anybody who can tell me the group!)

[ekim]

What a difference a day made
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain.

My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm a part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine.

[Nearly Sane]

Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home

Work all night on a drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)

[Robbie]

Now that I've grown up to be a man
The only thing I've learned is don't give a damn
My folks are getting older, and their time ain't long
Well they're both getting old and their time ain't long

Time ain't long
Time ain't long
Time ain't long

(Ace)

[ekim]

Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true.

Moments to spare with someone you care
For one love affair for two
And so with time on my hands and you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you.

[Robbie]

Time is on my side, yes it is.
Time is on my side, yes it is.
Now you all were saying that you want to be free
But you'll come runnin' back (I said you would baby),
You'll come runnin' back (like I told you so many times before),
You'll come runnin' back to me.

[ekim]

I wanna run to you (oooh)
I wanna run to you (oooh)
Won't you hold me in your arms
And keep me safe from harm
I wanna run to you (oooh)
But if I come to you (oooh)
Tell me, will you stay or will you run away.

[Aruntraveller]

And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God
 And I'd get Him to swap our places
 Be running up that road, be running up that hill
 Be running up that building
 Say if I only could, oh

[Nearly Sane]

My day in the hills
 Has come to an end, I know
 A star has come out
 To tell me it's time to go
 But deep in the dark green shadows
 There are voices that urge me to stay
 So I pause and I wait and I listen
 For one more sound
 For one more lovely thing
 That the hills might say!

[ekim]

I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the loving we've ever done.

[Nearly Sane]

The branch of the linden is leafy and green
 The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
 But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
 Tomorrow belongs to me

Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come when the world is mine
 Tomorrow belongs to me

[ekim]

Good Morning
Good Morning
We've talked the whole night through
Good Morning
Good Morning to you.

Good Morning
Good Morning
It's great to stay up late
Good Morning
Good Morning to you.
When the band began to play the stars were shining bright
Now the milkman's on his way and it's too late to say good night.

[Nearly Sane]

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their dreams of past glory
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "what are they
Marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a-Waltzing Matilda with me?

[ekim]

Shall we dance?
On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?
Shall we dance?
Shall we then say "Goodnight and mean "Goodbye"?
Or perchance,
When the last little star has left the sky,
Shall we still be together
With are arms around each other
And shall you be my new romance?
On the clear understanding
That this kind of thing can happen,
Shall we dance?
Shall we dance? Shall we Dance?

[Nearly Sane]

I say we can act if we want to
If we don't nobody will
We can act real rude
And totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile
I say we can dance we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance we can dance
Everybody's taking the chance

[Robbie]

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do, about you now
Backbeat, the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

[Nearly Sane]

I've got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
And lose the beauty of the melody
Until they sound just like a symphony

That's why I go for that that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me

[Robbie]

Let's go back, back to the days of snapback caps
Before Steve Jobs was the real Big Mac
Go Mac D's and spend two pound
Get filled up and you'll get change back
Back to the days of shirts and shoes
Enfield Town meet News and Chews
Phones back then just call me with a SIM

[ekim]

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Now that I've grown up to be a man
The only thing I've learned is don't give a damn
My folks are getting older, and their time ain't long
Well they're both getting old and their time ain't long

Time ain't long
Time ain't long
Time ain't long

(Ace)

Yes. you win the Brownie point  You must have the album at home, since this song was not a single?

[Nearly Sane]

It's a dirty story of a dirty man,
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job,
But he wants to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
Paperback writer, paperback writer