| Neil Diamond Lyrics Page 1 |
| A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You Act Like A Man Amazed And Confused America The American Popular Song And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind Another Day That Time Forgot Be Both Sides Now Brooklyn Roads Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show Captain Of A Shipwreck Chelsea Morning Cherry Cherry Childsong Coldwater Morning Cracklin' Rosie Create Me Crunchy Granola Suite Delirious Love Done Too Soon Don't Go There Evermore Face Me Forever In Blue Jeans Forgotten Free Life |
| A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You Walk out, girl don't you walk out, we've got things to say. Talked out, let's have it talked out, things will be okay. Girl, I don't want to fight. I'm a little bit wrong and you're a little bit right. I said girl, you know that it's true, it's a little bit me and it's a little bit you too. Don't know, just what I said wrong but girl I apologize. Don't go, here's where you belong so wipe the tears from your eyes. Girl, I don't want to fight. I'm a little bit wrong and you're a little bit right. I said girl, you know that it's true, it's a little bit me and it's a little bit you too. Girl, I don't want to fight. I'm a little bit wrong and you're a little bit right. I said girl, you know that it's true, it's a little bit me and it's a little bit you too. It's a little bit me, it's a little bit you. Girl don't go, no no no no no. Girl don't go, no no no no no. Hey girl, please don't go... Act Like A Man Songmaker, you heartbreaker, you faker. Better stop it while you can, you know you're just a worthless daydreamer. But hey, dreamer, it's time to act like a man. Songwriting is just a little bit frightening, like playing with lighting, I'm not complaining, now you understand. You get to sing and dance all day like children playing, but it's time to act like a man. Being a man means responsible, you hear it wherever you go. And nothing is ever impossible, something inside tells me so, and I know, what I know. So hey, lover, better discover, some other way to turn your head around again, and baby don't you wait now, it's getting late now, it's time to act like a man. Being a man means responsible, you hear it wherever you go. And nothing is ever impossible, something inside tells me so, and I know, what I know. Songmaker, you heartbreaker, you faker. You better stop it while you can, you know you're just a worthless daydreamer. But hey, dreamer, it's time to act like a man. You've got to act like a man. Why don't you grow up and act like a man? Amazed And Confused Somebody's waiting on the River Jordan. Somebody's waiting on the other side. I cast my stones on the way to Heaven but on the way you know that I will abide. Yes, on the way you know that I will abide. Yeah, walk that line boy, I'm amazed, I'm confused. I've been dazed, I've been used. Take me home to that golden river, take me back to that other shore. I'll find my way to that peaceful playground, I know I'll find it cause I've been there before. I know I'll find it cause I've been there before. Somebody's calling 'cross the River Jordan, somebody's calling from the other side. I cast my stones on the way to Heaven and on the way you know that I will abide. Yes, on the way you know that I will abide. Hey, welcome to the new world boys. I'm amazed, I'm confused. I've been dazed, yeah, I've been used. I'm amazed and I'm confused. I've been dazed, yeah. Yes, I've been used. Amazed, yeah. Oh yes, oh yes. America Far, we've been traveling far without a home but not without a star. Free, only want to be free. We huddle close, hang on to a dream. On the boats and on the planes, they're coming to America. Never looking back again, they're coming to America. Home, don't it seem so far away? Oh, we're traveling light today in the eye of the storm, in the eye of the storm. Home, to a new and a shining place. Make our bed, and we'll say our grace. Freedom's light burning warm, freedom's light burning warm. Everywhere around the world, they're coming to America. Every time that flag's unfurled, they're coming to America. Got a dream to take them there, they're coming to America. Got a dream they've come to share, they're coming to America. They're coming to America, they're coming to America, they're coming to America, they're coming to America today, today, today, today, today. My country 'tis of thee, today. Sweet land of liberty, today. Of thee I sing, today. Of thee I sing, today... The American Popular Song (Hensley) It's a popular song, an American popular song. And there's something about it, can't live without it. It's the tune of the day, somehow it takes you away and it grabs you, and it holds you, feel it control you, makes you want to clap your hands. Makes you want to stomp your feet. Makes you want to sing along. It means business. The American popular song goes on and on. The American popular song goes on and on and on. It's a popular song. An American popular song. A simple story wrapped up in glory. Once you hear it you know you got to hear it some more. And that's power, try it, you can't deny it. Makes you want to clap your hands. Makes you want to stomp your feet. Makes you want to sing along. It means business. The American popular song goes on and on. The American popular song goes on and on and on. It's a popular song. An American popular song. It's a popular song, an American popular song. It's a popular song, an American popular song. And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind Listen easy, you can hear God calling, walking barefoot by a stream. Come unto me, your hair softly falling on my face as in a dream. And the time will be our time and the grass won't pay no mind. Saying nothing, lying where the sun is, baking down upon our sighs. My lips touch you with their soft wet kisses, your hands gentle in reply. And the time will be our time and the grass won't pay no mind. Child, touch my soul with your cries and the music will know what we found. I hear a hundred good-byes but today I hear only one sound. The moment we're living is now. Young bird flying and a soft wind blowing cools the sweat inside my palms. Close my eyes and see the flowers growing as you lay sleeping in my arms. And the time will be our time and the grass won't pay no mind. And the grass won't pay no mind. Another Day That Time Forgot Another sunny afternoon denies the worried look that's on my face. Connected through the years, it somehow took us both in separate ways. Was on a day that time forgot, another day that time forgot, oh, no, oh, no. Should've held you till the storm went by, we had nothing left to hang on to. Too many words you said, but not the words connecting me to you. Just another day that time forgot, another day that time forgot, oh, no, oh, no. The two of us, we both just let it fly. Didn't see it leave, didn't even try. I only knew that we were moving on, suddenly it's gone, never knowing why, oh, no, oh, no. Don't have a reason I can give, at least not one that I can understand. Just somehow disappeared, it slipped beneath the fingers of my hand. It was on a day that time forgot, another day that time forgot, oh, no, oh, no. We had it once, but we just let it fall, should've held it close, could've had it all. I'm thinking about the life we could have made, lost the one we had somewhere along the way, oh, no, oh, no. I woke up all alone again, a half-remembered dream inside my head. You took me through the day, followed me at night into my bed. It was a day that time forgot, another day that time forgot, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no... Be Lost on a painted sky where the clouds are hung for the poet's eye, you may find him, if you may find him there on a distant shore by the wings of dreams through an open door, you may know him if you may be. As a page that aches for a word which speaks on a theme that is timeless, while the Sun God will make for your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent and the one God will make for your way. Both Sides Now Rolls and flows of angel hair, ice cream castles in the air, feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain, they snow on everyone. So many things I would've done but clouds got in my way. I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down and still somehow, it's clouds' illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds at all. Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy, dancing way you feel as every fairy tale comes real, I've looked at love that way. But now it's just another show, leave 'em laughing when you go. But if you care, don't let em' know, don't give yourself away. I've looked at love from both sides now from give and take and still somehow, it's love's illusions I recall. I really don't know love at all. Tears and fears and feeling proud, say "I love you" right out loud. Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I've looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange. They shake their heads and say I've changed. But something's lost when something's gained living everyday. I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all. Brooklyn Roads If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother calling, "Neil, go find your brother. Daddy's home, and it's time for supper, hurry on." And I see two boys racing up two flights of staircase, squirming into Papa's embrace, and his whiskers warm on their face, where's it gone, oh, where's it gone? Two floors above the butcher, first door on the right. Life filled to the brim as I stood by my window and I looked out of those Brooklyn roads. I can still recall smells of cooking in the hallways, rubbers drying in the doorways and report cards I was always afraid to show. Mama'd come to school and as I'd sit there softly crying, teacher'd say, "He's just not trying. Got a good head if he'd apply it." But you know yourself, it's always somewhere else. I built me a castle with dragons and kings. And I'd ride off with them as I stood by my window and looked out on those Brooklyn roads. Thought of going back, but all I'd see are stranger's faces and all the scars that love erases. But as my mind walks through those places, I'm wondering what's come of them? Does some other young boy come home to my room? Does he dream what I did as he stands by my window and looks out on those Brooklyn roads, Brooklyn roads, Brooklyn roads? Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show Hot August night and the leaves hanging down and the grass on the ground smelling sweet. Move up the road to the outside of town and the sound of that good gospel beat sits a ragged tent where there ain't no trees and that gospel group telling you and me it's Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone goes, everyone knows Brother Love's show. Room gets suddenly still and when you'd almost bet you could hear yourself sweat, he walks in. Eyes black as coal and when he lifts his face, every ear in the place is on him. Starting soft and slow like a small earthquake and when he lets go, half the valley shakes. it's Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone goes, everyone knows Brother Love's show. (Hallelujah) Brothers! (Halle-Hallelujah) I say, Brothers! (Hallelujah) Now you got yourself two good hands! (Halle-Hallelujah) And when your brother is troubled, you gotta reach out your hand (Halle-Hallelujah) cause that's what it' there for. (Hallelujah) And when your heart is troubled you gotta reach out your other hand, reach it out to the man upstairs, cause that's what He's there for. Take my hand in yours, walk with me this day. In my heart, I know I will never stray. Halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone goes, everyone knows Brother Love's show. Amen, Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies, grab the old ladies and everyone goes, everyone knows Brother Love's show. Captain Of A Shipwreck I was lost until you found me, you're the reason for my today. Was tempest tossed, now I sleep soundly thanks to you, I gladly say that if your goldmine comes up empty, I'll be there to work the claim. If you're a captain of a shipwreck, I'll be first mate to your shame. Trust in me to share your burden, stand by you where I belong. When life brings the day uncertain, I will soothe you with my song. And if your goldmine comes up empty, I'll be there to work the claim. If you're a captain of a shipwreck, I'll be first mate to your shame. Fear no flood in stormy weather, fear no fire if winds arise. Flesh and blood, I'm yours forever and forever, it never dies. And if your goldmine comes up empty, I'll be there to work the claim. If you're a captain of a shipwreck, I'll be first mate to your shame. If you're a captain of a shipwreck, you can find me up on the top deck. You'll be captain of a shipwreck, I'll be first mate to your shame. Chelsea Morning (Mitchell) Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning and the first thing that I heard was the song outside my window and the traffic wrote the words. It came ringing up like Christmas bells and rapping up like pipes and drums. Won't you stay, we'll put on the day and we'll wear it 'till the night comes. Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning and the first thing that I saw was the sun through yellow curtains and a rainbow on the wall. Red, green and gold to welcome you and crimson crystal beads to beckon. Won't you stay, we'll put on the day, there's a sun shower every second. Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning and the first thing that I knew, there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too. And the light poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses. Won't you stay, we'll put on the day and we'll talk in present tenses. Cherry Cherry Baby loves me, yes, yes she does. Ah, the girl's outta sight, yeah. Says she loves me, yes, yes she does. Gonna show me tonight, yeah. She got the way to move me, Cherry. She got the way to groove me. She got the way to move me, she got the way to groove me. Tell your mamma, girl, I can't stay long. We got things we gotta catch up on. Mmmm, you know, you know what I'm saying. Can't stand still while the music is playing. Y'ain't got no right, no, no you don't, ah, to be so exciting. Won't need bright lights, no, no we won't. Gonna make our own lighting. She got the way to move me, Cherry. She got the way to groove me. She got the way to move me, she got the way to groove me. No, we won't tell a soul where we gone to. Girl, we do whatever we want to. Ah, I love the way that you do me, Cherry, babe, you really get to me. She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me She got the way to move me, she got the way to groove me. Childsong Weeping sky, we bring the sun to make you glad and fill you with the day. Quiet tree, we have the wind to make you dance and fill you with our play. And you shall be glad and you shall dance. And you shall come to hear our song and learn its tune before it fades away. Coldwater Morning One, knowing I'm one, hearing of two and like a child believing dreams, always a dream to take you home. Day, after the day, there comes the night, there comes the knowing when you laugh, if you should laugh, the night alone will hear and the night don't care. Coldwater morning, take off your nighttime shoes. Coldwater morning, I've been waiting so long for you. One, knowing I'm one, hearing of two, hearing of things that I once had, that you once had And when the night would come, we'd sleep like one. Coldwater morning, take off your nighttime shoes. Coldwater morning, I've been waiting so long for you. I've been waiting so long for you. Cracklin' Rosie Oh, Cracklin' Rosie, get on board. We're gonna ride till there ain't no more to go, taking it slow and Lord, don't you know, have me a time with a poor man's lady. Hitching on a twilight train, ain't nothing there that I care to take along, maybe a song to sing when I want. Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. Oh, I love my Rosie child, she got the way to make me happy. You and me, we go in style. Cracklin' Rosie you're a store-bought woman, you make me sing like a guitar humming, So hang on to me, girl, our song keeps running on. Play it now, play it now, play it now, my baby. Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile, girl, if it lasts for an hour, that's all right, we got all night to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't asks no questions, yeah. Oh, I love my Rosie child, she got the way to make me happy. You and me, we go in style. Cracklin' Rosie you're a store-bought woman, you make me sing like a guitar humming, So hang on to me, girl, our song keeps running on. Play it now, play it now, play it now, my baby. Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile, girl, if it lasts for an hour, that's all right, we got all night to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't asks no questions, yeah. Create Me Days break, nights fall and I wait alone. I sleep behind a wall, my silent call unknown. Create me, create me. Take me in your hands and shape me, wake me from this sleep to then begin again, to live again. Create me, create me, create me. Days break, nights fall, each one the same. I wait behind a wall to hear you call my name. Create me, create me. Breathe your life into my soul and know the greatest story told is you and I and how we tried and how we won and what you've done creating me. How many seasons have we endured? How many fields yet to plow? Know that my destiny is tied to yours. Just need to trust me, our destiny is now, create me. Lift me up and give a meaning to a dream that I've been dreaming, endlessly. It comforts me to see you there. There you are, we've come so far. How many seasons have we endured? How many fields yet to plow? Know that my destiny is tied to yours. Just need to trust me, our destiny is now, create me, create me, create me. Days break, nights fall, I dream alone. Crunchy Granola Suite I got a song been on my mind and the tune can be sung and the words all rhyme. Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deedle dee dee. Though it don't say much and it won't offend, if you sing it in school then they're liable to send you home Never knowing what you're showing, think you're growing your own tea. Good lord! Let me hear that, get me near that crunchy granola suite. Drop your shrink and stop your drinking, crunchy granola's neat. Sing it out, all right. I know a man was outta touch and he'd hide in a house and he didn't say much. Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deedle dee dee. And like a man with a tiger outside his gate, not only couldn't relax but he couldn't relate now he can, family man tried my brand. Dig. Let me hear that, get me near that crunchy granola suite. Drop your shrink and stop your drinking, crunchy granola's neat. Sing it out, all right. I'll have a double, please Delirious Love Pretty soon we were taking it serious, me and you underneath a mysterious spell. Nothing I could do and it suddenly felt like a bolt out of hell, I'm telling you. To the sound of the beat I was hanging on, like a powerful truth, it was banging on me, wouldn't let me go. Like a shot in the dark she was hot like a spark, I only know neither one of us trying to hold it down, neither one of us taking the middle ground. Wasn't how to make sense we were thinking of, just the two of us bent on delirious love. Me and you being spent on delirious love. Like a ride on a rocket it took us up, didn't want it to stop and it shook us up good, we were moving fast. Just ahead of the law, we were begging for more and what a blast. Coming round to a new kind of view of it, never did it before, we were doing it now. And I gotta say it was easy to give, was a reason to live another day. Neither one of us stopping to figure out, what the roll and the rocking was all about, all we knew was that we couldn't get enough, you and me in the heat of delirious love. Making time to the beat of delirious love. I can feel it, I can feel it, I can feel it. Come down had a new kind of view of it, wouldn't do it before, we were doing it now. And I gotta say it was easy to give, was a reason to live another day. Neither one of us stopping to figure out what the roll and the rocking was all about. All we knew was that we couldn't get enough, you and me in the heat of delirious love. Making time to the beat of delirious love, you and me getting sweet on delirious love. Done Too Soon Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice, Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart, Genghis Khan and on to H. G. Wells. Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din, Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth and Alexander's King and Graham Bell. Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler, Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo, Karl and Chico Marx, Albert Camus. E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau, Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman, Alan Freed and Buster Keaton, too. And each one there has one thing shared, they have sweated beneath the same sun, looked up in wonder at the same moon. And wept when it was all done for being done too soon, for being done too soon. For being done... Don't Go There She wants to take it just a little bit further now. Don't let it happen, cause if you let her in, she's gonna take it away, making you pay. And what are you gonna say? You better beware and don't go there. Don't wanna let her play with what belongs to you cause if you let her play with you know what you know what she's gonna do. She's gonna take it from you, that's just what she's gonna do. I don't know where and don't go there. The voice is sitting on my shoulder and telling me the night is warm now but it might be getting colder. Better look out friend before you finally decide which way to go. I hope you stop and review the scenario and how it ends. So just take care and don't go there. Don't say I didn't warn you my friend. If you think it'll last, may be time to start thinking again. You're looking for love and you think that you'll find it soon. You're looking to put it away in the bank and save it. Follows you around like the odor of cheap perfume, you're paying a price when your heart has been misbehaving, don't go there, don't go there. You'll want to play it safe and make no promises. If she understands the rules of the game, maybe work out fine, but baby, take your time and don't you be unkind. But till that's clear, then don't go there. This thing is liable to take some funny turns. The only thing, a real concern to me is having you protect yourself. It's not like either one of you is flying blind but in the heat of things, you got to apply your mind to something else. No, life ain't fair, don't go there. Once you're in, you might not get out. You're looking for love in the back of a limousine You're looking for something that's missing inside to fill you. If you think you can run on the power of nicotine, they got a new drug for your mood that'll surely thrill you. Don't go there, don't go there. This ain't the Bible, and it ain't no moral tale, if it's a lesson in survival, you can learn it. If it's not too late but don't you wait or hesitate. The lesson's clear, lease don't go there, don't go there, don't go there, don't go there. Evermore Have we come this far to have gone astray? I've been lost before, but not lost this way. You and me, thought we'd be evermore. Do I know you? Did I ever? Thought I did now I know better. Saw the signs but not the danger, how'd you get to be a stranger at my door? Promises got left behind and reason fell between the lines. The words unsaid we should have spoken both misled and left us broken evermore. Have we said it all? Is there more to say? Thought we'd paid our dues. Is there more to pay? What's to be of you and me evermore? Was it love or just illusion? All I see is our confusion. Came upon us unsuspecting, here we are reflecting on the last of it. If you think of me in a year or two, find that photograph showing me with you. What you see is what should be evermore. Why? Tell me why. Don't know why. Oh, why? Where's the truth we took for granted? Walking out's not how we planned it. Played it loose, but stayed together, thought we had the truth but never knew the score. If it's done for now and its time to go, there's one thing unsaid, thought you'd want to know. Love you still, guess I will evermore. Love you still, yes I will evermore. Face Me When you look away from me, I feel the anger go straight to my head cause I'm feeling deceived and it's not what you say but the way that you say it. I worry inside, do you lie to me, lie to me? What do you hide from me? Face me. Face me, need you to face me. Don't have to turn away to say that I'm the man you want to be with. Make me believe it. You know you've got my life just waiting in your hand. Don't look away now, face me and say how you want me still. Love me, need you to love me. Look right into my eyes and I'll believe it's true. Don't be uncertain, pull back the curtain. Just say it right to me so I'll believe it too. Don't have to sell me, just need to tell me you love me too. Some call it vain, others say vanity. Comes from the heart, not from the head. And it may be insane, what is insanity if not a cry for the truth to be truthfully told between you and me? Face me. Hold me, reach out and hold me. Words aren't strong enough to catch me when I fall. They can't sustain me, they can't contain me. I want the truth so bad that I'll believe it all. And when you say it, don't you betray it, don't look away. Face me today, face me today. Forever In Blue Jeans (Diamond/Bennett) Money talks but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans. Honey's sweet but it ain't nothing next to baby's treat. And if you pardon me, I'd like to say we'll do okay forever in blue jeans. Maybe tonight, maybe tonight, you and I, all alone by the fire. Nothing around but the sound of my heart and your sighs. Money talks but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans. Maybe tonight, maybe tonight, you and I, all alone by the fire. Nothing around but the sound of my heart and your sighs. And honey's sweet but it ain't nothing next to baby's treat. And if you pardon me, I'd like to say we'll do okay forever in blue jeans. And if you pardon me, I'd like to say we'll do okay forever in blue jeans, babe. Forgotten Woh, I tried to do right by you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and where did it get me? And I tried to do everything I knew. Don't seem fair cause look where you left me. You've got me waiting out in the back, under a stack, stuck in a bin you've been keeping me in. High on a shelf, all by myself, feeling like I'm doing my time under a sign that reads "forgotten", forgotten. Now I'm sending out an SOS. Before I drown, somebody save me. And I tried, you know that I did my best. You took me down to where I've been lately. You've got me waiting out in the back, under a stack, stuck in a bin you've been keeping me in. High on a shelf, all by myself, feeling like I'm doing my time under a sign that reads "forgotten", forgotten. Been thinking about you every day, baby, not just now and then. There's got to be a better way, don't wanna be F-O-R-go-T-T-E-N, no. I'm feeling like I've been used. You were gone before we got started. And I know it ain't gonna make the news. You led me on and then you departed. You've got me waiting out in the back, under a stack, stuck in a bin you've been keeping me in. High on a shelf, all by myself, feeling like I'm doing my time under a sign that reads "forgotten", forgotten, forgotten... Free Life Free life, scratch on my head. Pick me a tune, sing it like a black man. Aw, free life, you know my name. Leave on a light, burn it in the window. Talking 'bout round, brown ladies and maybe some wine, I'll be fine. If she ain't no belle, hell, it's okay, I won't pay no mind, we'll just have us a time. Free life, I'll wait right here but I ain't no kid believing in the bible. Ah, free life... |