Reflections IV

My romance doesn’t have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn’t need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars

My romance doesn’t need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you

T /M: Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers

Till the end of time,
long as stars are in the blue
Long as there’s a Spring of birds to sing
I’ll go on loving you

Till the end of time,
long as roses bloom in May
My love for you will grow deeper
with every passing day

Till the wells run dry
and each mountain disappears
I’ll be there for you to care for you
through laughter and through tears

So, take my heart in sweet surrender
and tenderly say that I’m
The one you love and live for
till the end of time

Till the wells run dry
and each mountain disappears
I’ll be there for you to care for you
through laughter and through tears

So, take my heart in sweet surrender
and tenderly say that I’m
The one you love and live for
till the end of time

T /M: Buddy Kaye / Ted Mossman

When a man loves a woman
Can’t keep his mind on nothing else
He’d trade the world
For a good thing he’s found
If she is bad, he can’t see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he put her down

When a man loves a woman
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He’d give up all his comforts
sleep out in the rain
If she says that’s the way
It ought to be

When a man loves a woman
give up everything he has
Trying to hold on
to her precious love
Darling please don’t treat me bad

When a man loves a woman
Deep down in his soul
She can bring him so, so much misery
If she plays him for a fool
He’s the last one to know
cause loving eyes don’t ever see

When a man loves a woman
give up everything he has
Trying to hold on
to her precious love
Darling please don’t treat me bad

When a man loves a woman
I know exactly how he feels
Cause darling, darling
You’re my world
You’re my world

T /M: Andrew Wright / Calvin Houston Lewis

Stay with me
Why must we say goodbye
Darling there’s a time to love
and a time to cry

Though I know
All too soon tears may fall
And leave this to recall
That you kissed me today
So, let’s love while we may
For tomorrow somehow
Comes a time to regret
Ah, but the time ain’t now

So, stay with me
Don’t let love pass us by
there’s a time to love
and a time to cry

This shining hour is too sweet to be made
Oh, like a flower
Love can blossom, I know
And then fade

Can anybody say
Just when love deep may die
Darling there’s a time to love
And a time to cry
Stay with me
Why must we say goodbye
There is a time to love
and a time to cry

T /M: Florence Kaye / Bill Giant / Bernie Baum

I don´t need your photograph
to keep by my bed
Your picture is always
In my head

I don´t need your portrait dear
To call you to mind
For sleeping or waking
Dear I find

The very thought of you and I forget to do
The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do
I’m living in a kind of daydream
I’m happy as a queen
And foolish though it may seem
To me that’s everything

The mere I dear of you, the longing I here for you
You’ll never know how slow the moments go till I’m near to you
I see your face in every flower
Your eyes in stars above
It’s just the thought of you
The very thought of you, my love

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night bird’s song
If you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning till
you return again if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
I’ll be dying slowly till the next hello
if you go away, Ne me quitte pas, if you go away

But if you stay, I’ll make you a night
Like no night has been nor will be again
I’ll sail on your smile, I’ll ride on your touch
I’ll talk to your eyes, that I love so much
But if you go, go I won’t cry
though the good is gone from the word goodbye
If you go away, if you go away, go away

If you go away, as I know you must
There`ll be nothing left in the world to trust
Just an empty room, full of empty space
Like the… look I see on your face
I’d have been the shadow of your dog
If I thought it might have kept me by your side
If you go away, Ne me quitte pas, if you go away

In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the man
And never even think of counting sheep

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You’d be his if only he would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss him most of all

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You’d be his if only he would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss him,
miss him most of all

T /M: Bob Hilliard / David Mann

I’ve been in love so many times
I thought I knew the score
And now you’ve treated me so wrong
I can’t take anymore
And it looks like
I’m never gonna fall in love again

All those things I heard about you
I thought they were only lies
But when I caught you in her arms
I just broke down and cried
And it looks like
I’m never gonna fall in love again

I’m never gonna fall in love again
I’m never gonna fall in love again
Fall in love again

I gave my heart so easily
I cast aside my pride
But when you fell for someone else
I broke up all inside
And it looks like
I’m never gonna fall in love again

I’m never gonna fall in love again
I’m never gonna fall in love again
Fall in love again

I’m never gonna fall in love again
Fall in love again
Fall in love again

You hear me saying
I’m never gonna fall in love again
I’m never gonna fall in love again
Fall in love again

T /M: Lonnie Donegan / Jimmie Currie

 I don’t know how to love him
What to do, how to move him
I’ve been changed, yes really changed
In these past few days, when I’ve seen myself
I seem like someone else

I don’t know how to take this
I don’t see why he moves me
He’s a man. He’s just a man
And I’ve had so many men before
In very many ways
He’s just one more

Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I’d come to this
What’s it all about?

Don’t you think it’s rather funny
I should be in this position
I’m the one who’s always been
So calm, so cool, no lover’s fool
Running every show
He scares me so

Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I’d come to this
What’s it all about?

Yet, if he said he loved me
I’d be lost. I’d be frightened
I couldn’t cope, just couldn’t cope
I’d turn my head. I’d back away
I wouldn’t want to know
He scares me so
I love him so

T /M: Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber

I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holdin’ me
I wish I could say all the things
That I should say
Say ’em loud
Say ’em clear
For the whole wide world to hear

I wish I could share
All the love that’s in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you’d see
And agree
That every man should be free

I wish I could give
All I’m longin’ to give
I wish I could live
Like I’m longin’ to live
I wish I could do
All the things that I can do
Though, I’m way overdue
I’d be startin’ a new

Well, I wish I could be
Like a bird up in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found I could fly
I’d soar to the sun
And look down at the sea
And I sing
Because I know
I sing
Because I know
I sing
Because I know
I know how it feels to be free

T /M: Dick Dallas / Billy Taylor