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D

Long ago and oh so far away
In the land of I told you so
Lived a man named you'll get nothing from me
Awful weak so he acted strong
And he never learned to get along
Yes he tried but of course he couldn't see

What he needs is a little understanding
A loving hand to guide him, bring him around
What he needs is a little human kindness
The man is lost and cryin', don't let him down

Do you really have a heart
Don't you think it's time you used it?
If you really have a heart
Try it out and do some good

In the land of get the other guy
To the south of it's not my fault
Lived a fellow a lot like you and me
Made believe he was mean and bad
Always laughed when he made somebody mad
Never goin' to let that happen to me

What he needs is a little understanding
A loving hand to guide him, bring him around
What he needs is a little human kindness
The man is lost and cryin', don't let him down

Do you really have a heart
Don't you think it's time you used it?
If you really have a heart
Try it out and do some good

Do you really have a heart
Don't you think it's time you used it?
If you really have a heart
Try it out and do some good

Link To Paul's Recording Of This Song

(FROM THE PARAMOUNT MOTION PICTURE "BUGSY MALONE")
(FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE STAGE SHOW "BUGSY MALONE")

Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out

Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out

You don't have to sit around
Complaining 'bout the way your life has wound up
Think of all the time you waste
And time's a precious thing to let go by

Sure you've hit the bottom
But remember you'll be building from the ground up
Ev'ry day's another step
That takes you even closer to the sky, so give a try

Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out

You don't have to sit around
Depressed about the way that luck deceived you
Fortune sailed away, you missed that boat
And found that you'd been left behind

Fight and fight some more
Until you know the world is ready to receive you
Lady luck is fickle
But a lady is allowed to change her mind

You don't have to sit around
Complaining 'bout the way your life has wound up
So be a man you know you can't be certain
That you'll lose until you try

You don't have to sit around
Complaining 'bout the way your life has wound up
So be a man you know you can't be certain
That you'll lose until you try, so give it a try

We as one shout
Up, up, up and out
(Repeat and fade)

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Has the world begun to rise to a storm?
With a whisper of the wind
That's begun to blow
Doesn't anybody know
Where does it end, where will it go?
Doesn't anybody know
Where does it end, where will it go?

If it's for the last time
Let us reach for a star
Cast one shadow with the last
Of the candle's glow
For the last time breathe as one
Then if it will, let it be done
See the last of what's begun
Then if it will, let it be done

One last time I'll be a part of you
Until our feelings have a taste
And when my time is through
Whatever becomes of you
Never let a feeling go to waste
Never let a feeling go to waste

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Link To Who Else Has Sung This Song

Don't call it love
I have used that word before
And I sometimes mean it
Tho' it's never made me cry
Until tonight
Your falling asleep beside me
Made me feel so much alive
I thought I'd die
But let's not call it love
Don't call it love

Don't call it love
Although I've heard it sung in songs
And thought I'd tasted
Special feelings in a line
Until tonight
And nobody knows the feeling
Of your perfect body
Pressed so close to mine
But let's not call it love
Don't call it love

You and I
Aren't questioning the ages
Or the generations past
But in the time we've known
We've discovered
Feelings of our own
Don't call it love
Don't call it love

Don't call it love
If it hasn't got a name
No one can claim it
It will always be our own
To wander free
And no one will dare to tame it
We can share it and then
Watch how it grows
But let's not call it love
Don't call it love
Don't call it love

Link To Paul's Recording Of This Song

Dream away child
Let your dreams run wild
Or a lifetime of worries
Might claim you

Dream away child
Let your dreams run wild
Or the years
And the tears shed
Might tame you

For the last time we have
Tasted love's sweet tears
By the fire's glow

If our hearts are strong
There'll be no long
Goodbyes when it's time to go

But the strongest hearts are sometimes broken
As the deepest vows aren't always spoken
And the greatest wounds we hide inside ourselves where they never show

Dream away child
Let your dreams run wild
Or a lifetime of worries
Might claim you

Dream away child
Let your dreams run wild
Or the years
And the tears shed
Might tame you

When the winter weds the northern wind
The child they bear is snow
And the branches bow like worried bridesmaids
But the trees will grow

Sun and earth in time will come together
God will give us back our summer weather
But the memories of that first sweet taste of love
Pass away so slow

Can the wise men count the pointless lies we tell
Or the price we pay
And are songs a place to keep those words of love
That we couldn't say
When there's no room left to live inside ourselves
Do we dream away

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Link To Who Else Has Sung This Song

Like a sailor
Too far from the sea
I'm homesick when I'm home
But I don't know where it is I'd like to be
I am driftwood
Washed upon the shore
Once a lover of the tides
But I don't think I can take that anymore

I am becalmed by too many years of dissonance and solitude
But harmony and love can move my soul
It moves my soul

We are footprints
Ouickly washed away
So the man has come and gone
But the love and light we feel is left to stay

Yes the man has come and gone
But the love and light he felt is left to stay

We are becalmed by too many years of dissonance and solitude
But harmony and love can move our souls
It moves our souls

Like a sailor
Too far from the sea
I'm homesick when I'm home
But I don't know where it is I'd like to be
I am driftwood

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Saturday you sure surprised me
lady luck has recognized me
following a week of push and shove
just a dance was all that I'd expected
when suddenly our souls connected
like Hope and Crosby we're off on the road to love

and it'll be easy street, if it takes me home with you
I'm on easy street, let the world break down
we'll see things through

cause you and I belong at last, the perfect loving team
the night is ours and in your arms
the makings of a dream

well, loneliness your days have ended
now maybe if we just pretended
we're three leaf clovers, the world might leave us alone
walk on by
I need time if I'm to be your lover
time to let my heart discover
the ways that please you, I might get lost in your eyes
I'll be back if I do on

easy street, if it takes me home with you
I'm on easy street, let the world break down
we'll see things through

cause you and I belong at last
the perfect loving team
the night is ours, and in your arms
the makings of a dream, we found a dream
like Hope and Crosby, we're off on the road to love
and it'll be easy street, if it takes me home with you
I'm on easy street, there's nothing we can't do
easy street, easy street, anywhere we go,

it's easy street with you

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I lose my place in conversations
But you understand me anyway
No hidden questions in your mornin' eyes
We began that way, we began that way

And I think that you know me better
Even better than I know myself
I believe that you know me better
Even better than I know myself

You share my hopes and expectations
And your love surrounds me if I fail
My disappointment fades beneath your smile
Like an outbound sail, like a sail

And I think that you know me better
Even better than I know myself
I believe that you know me better
Even better than I know myself

You're a night of rest when I am stumbling and tired
You're the patience that I never learned
You're a fresh idea when I'm feeling uninspired
You're the honors that I never earned

And when my faith has gone
You urge me on
You know me better
Even better than I know myself
You know me better
Even better than I know myself

And if my life and my intentions
Should fail to last as we had planned
Stand by me lady (baby), look into their eyes
And they'll understand, make 'em understand

I believe that you know me better
Even better than I know myself
I believe that you know me better
Even better than I know myself

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(LOVE THEME FROM THE MOTION PICTURE "A STAR IS BORN")

Love soft as an easy chair
Love fresh as the morning air
One love that is shared by two
I have found with you

Like a rose under the April snow
It was always certain love would grow
Love ageless and evergreen
Seldom seen by two

You and I will make each night a first
Every day a beginning
Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
They warm and excite us 'cause we have is the brightest love

Two lights that shine as one
Morning glory and the midnight sun
Time we've learned to sail above
Time won't change the meaning of
One love ageless and ever evergreen

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Link To Who Else Has Sung This Song

(FROM THE MOTION PICTURE "A STAR IS BORN")

I want to learn what life is for
I don't want much, I just want more
Ask what I want and I will sing
I want everything, everything

I'd cure the cold and the traffic jam
If there were floods, I'd give a dam
I'd never sleep, I'd only sing
Let me do everything, everything

I'd like to plan a city and play the cello
Play at Monte Carlo, play Othello
Move into the White House, paint it yellow
Speak Portuguese and Dutch
And if it's not too much
I'd like to have the perfect twin
One who'd go out as I came in
I've got to grab the big brass ring
So I'll have everything, everything

I'm like a child who's set free
At the fun fair
Every ride invites me
And it's unfair
Saying that I only
Get my one share
Doesn't seem just
I could live as I must
If they'd
Give me the time to turn the tide
Give me the truth if once I lied
Give me the man who's gonna bring
More of everything
Then I'll have everything
Everything

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(FROM THE PARAMOUNT MOTION PICTURE "BUGSY MALONE")
(FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE STAGE SHOW "BUGSY MALONE")

Any body who is anybody
Will soon walk through that door
At Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy
Always able to find you a table
There's room for just one more
At Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy

Once you get here, feel the good cheer
Like they always say in the poem
Fat Sam's ain't humble
But it's your home sweet home

Plans are made here, games are played here
I could write me a book
Each night astounds you
Rumours are abuzzing
Stories by the dozen
Look around you, cousin
At the news were making here

Anybody who is anybody
Will soon walk through that door
At Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy

Da da da da da da
Da da da da da da
Da da da da da da

Hoc ya, Hoo ya, Hoo da da da da
See the politicians
Sittin' by the kitchen
Said he caught his fingers
In the well he was wishin'

Once you get here, feel the good cheer
Like they always say in the poem
Fat Sam's ain't humble
But it's your home sweet home

Plans are made here, games are played here
I could write me a book
Each night astounds you
Rumours are abuzzing
Stories by the dozen
Look around you, cousin
At the news were making here

Anybody who is anybody
Will soon walk through that door
At Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy

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(FROM THE 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM "PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE")

I was not myself last night couldn't set things right with apologies or flowers
Out of place as a cryin' clown who could only frown and the play went on for hours
And as I lived my role I swore I'd sell my soul for one love
Who would stand by me and give me back the gift of laughter
One love who would stand by me and after making love we'd...

Dream a bit of style
We'd dream a bunch of friends
Dream each others smile
And dream it never ends

I was not myself last night in the morning light I could see the change was showing
Like a child who was always poor reaching out for more I could feel the hunger growing
And as I lost control I swore I'd sell my soul for one love
Who would sing my song and fill this emptiness inside me One love who would sing my song and lay beside me while we'd....

Dream a bit of style
We'd dream a bunch of friends
Dream each others smile
And dream it never ends

All my dreams are lost and I can't sleep
And sleep alone could ease my mind
All my tears have dried and I can't weep
Old emotions may they rest in peace and dream, dream a bunch of friends
Rest in peace, and dream, dream it never ends

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Fill your heart with love today
Don't play the game of time
Things that happen in the past
Just happen in your mind
Only your mind
Forget your mind and you'll be free

The writing's on the wall
Free and, and you can know it all
If you choose
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it free

Happiness is happening
The dragons have been bled
Loveliness is ev'rywhere
Fear's just in your head
Only in your head
The fear is just in your head
So forget your head
And you'll be free

The writing's on the wall
Free and, and you can know it all
Baby know it all
If you choose just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness can clear the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes if free

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(Lyrics Paul Williams:Music Art Munston)

Blackberry blue
Strawberry sad
Give 'em flavors
And feelings
Don't hurt so bad

Rotten apple rude
What an attitude
Don't care
If the whole world
Thinks I'm mad

I dress up and call my honey
Take her out end spend my money
Sign on the dotted line
We don't need no cash
L lookgood
I feel much better
It she wants to drink champagne
I'll let her
Sometimes a man like me's
Just got to flash

No worried face
Is gonna wrinkle my place
I run when the tears begin
To splash
Muddy water march
Needs a little starch
Lighten up and decide
It's time to flash

I dress tip and call my honey
Take her out and spend my money
Sign on the dotted line
We don't need no cash
I look good
I feel much better
If she wants to drink champagne
I let her
Sometimes a man like me's
Just got to flash

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(FROM THE MOTION PICTURE "THE SECRET OF NIMH")

Dream by night
Wish by day
Love begins this way. Loving starts
When open hearts
Touch, and stay.
Sleep for now
Dreaming's how
Lover's lives are planned.
Future songs
And flying dreams,
Hand, in hand.

Love it seems
Made flying dreams
So hearts, could soar.
Heaven sent
These wings were meant
To prove, once more.
That love is the key....
Love is the key.

You and I
Touch the sky
The eagle and the dove.
Nightingales
We keep our sails
Filled with love.
And love it seems
Made flying dreams,
To bring you home to me....

Love it seems
Made flying dreams
So hearts, could soar.
Heaven sent
These wings were meant
To prove, once more.
That love is the key....
Love is the key.

You and I
Touch the sky
The eagle and the dove.
Nightingales
We keep our sails
Filled with love.
Ever strong
Our future song,
To sing it must be free.
Ev'ry part
Is from the heart,
And love is still the key.
And love it seems
Made flying dreams
To bring you home to me....

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For goodness sake, this world can prove demanding
And moves in ways beyond my understanding
Good friends with theories that will just confuse ya
Tho' they mean well, make no mistake

For goodness sake, so many people crying something's missing
We try to help them but they just won't listen
Sometimes the truth can be a rocky road to take
We do our best for goodness sake

Life is a living lesson
Love is how it's taught
Mastering the art of give and take
Doing and undoing someone else's rights and wrongs
Sometimes sleeping in a bed we didn't make

For goodness sake if we can change, let's do it now or never
This kind of madness can't go on forever
Sometimes the truth can be a rocky road to take
We do our best for goodness sake

Life is a living lesson
Love is how it's taught
Mastering the art of give and take
Doing and undoing someone else's rights and wrongs
Sometimes sleeping in a bed we didn't make

For goodness sake if we can change let's do it now or never
This kind of madness can't go on forever
Sometimes the truth can be a rocky road to take
We do our best for goodness sake

We do our best for goodness sake
We do cur best for goodness sake

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For the life of me
I will never understand
Why shoot-'em-ups are popular
And making love's been banned
That's a sad mistake that I would not make
For the life or me

When it's almost dawn
And we're talking with our eyes
Loving with the lights on
To watch our passion rise
Love will fill my cup
I can keep this up
For the life of me

Once upon a time should be in the future
Storytellers keep it in the past
Dreaming's what improves us
Motivates and moves us
You won t be my first love
But you might be my last

It's a sinners world
And I won't say that it's right
But Lord, we do look better
When the sun goes down at night
And I would not trade the mistakes I've made
For the life of me

Once upon a time should be in the future
Storytellers keep it in the past
Dreaming's what improves us
Motivates and moves us
You won't be my first love
But you might be my last

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