Nobody Ever Could Ever Feel This Way
Cummings/Robert Goodge |
Moon and a star up in the sky Your body shakes when you cry Your time is my time is our time You're a breathing doll and you're mine Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way It's a pure joy cradling you in my arms Your smile's all blues and charms You are one amazing thing You're as sweet as a flower opening Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way Shadows play with light as day grows deep Watching your breath as you sleep The moon's hiding in your hair I'm so very glad that you still care Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way Nobody ever could ever feel this way
It's Raining
music: Cummings, words: Guillaume Apollinaire |
It is raining women's voices As if they were dead Even in memory It is raining women's voices You also are raining down Marvellous encounters of my life It's raining It's raining Raining down Those rearing clouds Are beginning to whinny A whole world of auricular towns Beginning to whinny Listen to it rain While regret and disdain Weep an old fashioned music Listen to it rain It's raining It's raining Raining down Listen to the fall of all The perpendiculars Of your existence Listen to the fall of all Listen to it rain Listen to it rain Listen to it rain Listen to it It's raining Listen to it rain It's raining
Such Luck To Be Alive
Cummings/Jeff Burstin |
Stirring my drink with my finger Playing with the coaster on the bar Looking at maps and wondering where to go next Such luck to be alive I want to travel to where the paved roads end And I'm filled with a crazy kind of hope Drinking the heart out of the afternoon Such luck to be alive I don't want to spend my days making boozy sad jokes I want to be washed in rivers of love I wanna get on an aeroplane and go some place warm Such luck to be alive Such luck to be alive Such luck Want to squat on wet sands and watch my boys play Watch the clouds get blown from one side of the sky to the other Want to go swimming and watch the light bounce off the ocean Such luck to be alive Such luck to be alive Such luck Such luck to be alive Alive Such luck to be alive Such luck to be alive Such luck to be alive
Poor Baby
Cummings/Bill MacDonald |
Poor baby Lost in a corner of a garden Already gone to seed Poor baby What are you going to do? When your past seems like excess baggage to you I can picture her In the days before she fell apart Didn't have her make up on She hadn't done her hair Poor baby Poor baby Don't worry it's only love Putting you under it's spell Poor baby You're a sight to move the hardest heart You knew the dangers And you fell I can picture her In the days before she fell apart Didn't have her make up on She hadn't done her hair Poor baby Poor baby Poor baby Remembering a sad, sad dream Hasn't got the slightest idea what's going on Poor baby Trying to convince herself Nothing's wrong I can picture her In the days before she fell apart Hasn't got her make up on She hasn't done her hair Poor baby Poor baby
Sad To Go
Cummings/Jeff Burstin |
I left you in the morning And it made me sad to go And with each day I will be further away And the wheels turn And there's much to learn And you busy yourself with other things Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away And bless you for your rare courage And your chocolate coloured hair Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away And I'm standing at the railings Of the Hotel New Hampshire tonight And I'm looking up at the moon And really it's just quite a sight And the wheels turn And there's much to learn So you busy yourself with other things Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go away Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad to go, ring tomorrow Sad
Shaped Like Love
Cummings/Jeff Burstin |
I felt the hair rise at the nape of my neck Like I was under some magic spell Like I was miles from shore Unable to take it any more But the road it's long And I cursed my luck And the clock tower it struck And here I am under a starry sky Waiting for angels and revelations Shaped like love Shaped like love Shaped like love If wishing should be a sin Then you'll know what I've been Whatever I have seen I've seen it all before Don't want to see it any more And I don't want to go out and carouse Want to sit around this house And I don't feel like a pinned butterfly And I don't feel like I have to try Shaped like love Shaped like love Shaped like love If wishing should be a sin Then you'll know what I've been Outside it's full of desire Heaven lies within Skin against skin Shaped like love Shaped like love Shaped like love
Wishing Machine
Cummings/Robert Goodge/Ashley Naylor |
This is what happens when you lose This is what happens when you sing the blues Reach across to the other side Other lives left behind I'm going to buy me a wishing machine Everything's worth a try Life keeps rushing by Blowing me to smithereens I wish I had a wishing machine I wish I was a running stream Walking in the soft rain Coming back to you again You have to be in hell to see heaven's light Nowadays wrong, it's the only right Move on up with a new desire Two hearts, two fires I wish I had a wishing machine I wish I was a running stream Walking in the soft rain Coming back to you again Standing there, in your silken dress A picture of loveliness Am I up, or am I down A thousand deaths in that young girl's frown I wish I had a wishing machine I wish I was a running stream Walking in the soft rain Coming back to you again I wish I had a wishing machine I wish I was a running stream Walking in the soft rain Coming back to you again
The Half Light
Cummings/Christopher Marshall |
I was just wondering Drifting between the words Struggling to let them in Still cautious and unsure And it's strange how I've forgotten dear Your sense of urgency You burn the air you breathe And what have I got to show? I got these foolish notions I got a thousand A thousand moves But I've got a heart A heart that's overflowing As the shadows fill the room Do you remember when We made the lights go out I saw so much better then Now all this has come to pass And I feel like I've been stumbling Feel like I've been in the dark And maybe you too have been yearning And maybe that's what brought you here I got these foolish notions I got a thousand A thousand moves I've got a heart A heart that's overflowing As the shadows fill the room Take me there, take me there Take me there, take me there Lose ourselves in shadows for a while Take me there, take me there Take me there, take me there The circle will be complete I got these foolish notions I got a thousand A thousand moves I've got a heart A heart that's overflowing As the shadows fill the room I got these foolish notions I got a thousand A thousand moves I've got a heart A heart that's overflowing As the shadows fill the room In the half light I will be waiting In the half light We will find that we move with grace and poise and life When all will be revealed In the half light It makes you warmer In the half light It softens you And maybe our dreams will come true And everything will be revealed in the end as it is as it will be In the half light we will fall in love
The Night Is Singing
Cummings/Christopher Marshall |
The night is singing in a thousand tongues The joy is streaming out of everyone And so we rise Still we rise and fall with the motion And still we rise and fall with the motion As all the true believers Clap their hands Give thanks for the passion on which they stand But this passion has to leave us that's why we sing Never let me go The night is watching The night is watching you The night is sighing, the night is breathing out I turned the corner and I saw the light Melt away, just melt away with the longing Melt away with the longing Just melt away with the longing As all the true believers touch the night Give thanks to the darkness that lets them hide But the daytime will defeat us And so it goes Never lose your soul The night is watching The night is watching Don't turn away, don't turn away, don't turn away Don't turn away from this feeling Don't hesitate, don't hesitate, don't hesitate Won't you notice me Cause I'm alive to you baby Maybe I'm alive to this moment Maybe I'm alive to the moment I'm alive The night is singing - sing for the emptiness The night is singing - sing for the wastefulness The night is singing - sing to me for the loneliness too The night is singing - sing to me for the bitterness The night is singing And I may be a problem or I, I may be part of the answer I don't know, I don't know We'll just to have to make it up as we go And I will let you see what you want to see And you will let me to come to you again, come to you again Cause I'm alive I'm alive to the moment The night is singing, the night is singing The night is singing Singing
Don't Talk To Me About Love
Cummings/Bill MacDonald |
I used to, I used to, believe in true love Some days, yeah some days I still do Once it seemed like a great game Now it seems like a crying shame Oh, and one more thing Don't talk to me about love Used to think that everything continues But nobody's interested in yesterday's news Never got a grip on my emotions Drifted like a ship out on the ocean Oh, and one more thing Don't talk to me about love Oh, and one more thing Don't talk to me about love How much do I love you Enough to move heaven and earth too Ain't nothing I wouldn't do For you In the beginning, it seems like you'll be happy forever But soon enough Love hits Stormy weather Never got a grip on my emotions Drifted like a ship out on the ocean Oh, and one more thing Don't talk to me about love Oh, and one more thing Don't talk to me about love Love, love, love, love...
Because It's Spring
Cummings/Jeff Burstin |
Because it's spring, we can do any thing And you and I are more than you and I And because You aren't afraid to try To reach right up Into the sky Because it's spring Because it's spring Because you're as sweet as I can bear And because you know that I care Because your taste is on my lips And my hand is on your hips And because you had such grace And there's mischief in your face Because it's spring Because it's spring Because of the love you bring Because we're living together Day after day And because you're staring at the mirror In a certain way Because it's spring Because it's spring Because of the love you bring Because you're always, always absolutely right And because you're crazy and cross You set my heart alight Because it's spring Because it's spring Because of the love you bring The way the wind sings Because it's spring Because it's spring Because it's spring Because of the love you bring Because it's spring Because it's spring Because it's spring Because it's spring Because it's Just because it's Because it's spring
Straight To Your Arms I Will Fly
Cummings/Bill MacDonald |
I walked right out of one life and into another Laughing like A nervous child on a swing I didn't ever Ever stand a chance There's a danger that lies in the backward glance Backward glance I tried to pretend not to hear, not to see It seemed a high price I would have paid it twice Thought I'd got over you Thought you'd fade away in time That you were divine But I'd crossed the line Crossed the line Straight to your arms I'm going to fly When my wells have run dry Straight to your arms I'm going to fly Straight to your arms I'm going to fly Straight to your arms I'm going to fly Straight... Yeah, it's strange how things turn out sometimes Trap door opens Unexpectedly you fall on your feet One day I'm high and the next I might be low Have no place to go Nothing to show No place to go Straight to your arms I'm going to fly When my wells have run dry Straight to your arms I'm going to fly Straight to your arms I'm going to fly Straight to your arms I'm going to fly I'm, I'm going to fly Straight, straight to your arms I'm going, I'm going to fly Straight, straight, straight to your arms Straight, straight, straight to your arms I'm going, I'm going to fly I'm going to fly I'm going to fly I'm going, I'm going to fly Straight, straight to your arms