time passes away, where’re you going this time my little girl?
i know you would stay, but i’d never ask you to give up your world
go on your own, just remember you’re never alone
follow your dream, though it may not always be what it seemed
and the plans that take us apart will bring us together
the search for our individuality is a search for each other
someday our two roads will merge into one
don’t you worry my babe there’ll be time when the time comes
my friends they all say
“grab on to your girl and don’t let her go
life is too short to wait
and long distance love never works out you know”
i think they’re all wrong, our time apart is making us strong
the freedom we give enriches our lives and allows us to live
another long night alone
i’m hoping my words can soothe all your fears
we hang up the phone
from a thousand miles away i can still feel your tears
don’t cry for me
cause when you return you know right where i’ll be
i’ll sing you a song
as you lie softly asleep in my arms, time passes away
where’re you going this time my little girl?

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it was three years down the road of happiness and love, i was sure that you were sent to me from an angel up above, you made me laugh you made me smile, in your arms i lost control, when i’d look into your eyes you’d see the bottom of my soul, you told me that our love was larger than the sky you sent chills up and down my spine, then you left with another guy well i didn’t know
what to say and i didn’t know what
to think, i spent six months in
group therapy and a fortune on a shrink, then one day it came to me popped right in my mind i picked my pride up off the ground and started out to find. . .another girl like you. . . i gotta find another girl like you, it’s new year’s eve i’m dressed
to kill, the next women who walks my way you better believe i ain’t gonna be alone on new years day i see you ‘cross the room and our eyes meet in a trance with your silky hair and melting smile i don’t need a
second glance i know that in your arms i wouldn’t need a thing, we
talk three hours my head gets light and then i see your ring. . .why does
it seem that there is no one left
for me, did i miss some crucial time when the women all were free, everyday the same old situation, every girl
i meet has got a prior reservation.

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alone at night and watchin’ all the stars come out
make believe they’re shinin’ just for me
hopin’ someday i’ll find love and tenderness
until i do my heart waits patiently
savin’ all my good dreams for this rainy day
buildin’ up my hopes for happiness
wanna feel this loneliness just drift away
so i keep on hopin’ for the best
oh, i can’t help but wonder why
my life is slippin’ by so fast
when will i set my spirit free?
will love ever come to me at last?
lookin’ to the promise of
another day. wonderin’ ‘bout the
choices that i’ll make
tired of findin’ ways to mend my
broken heart
tryin’ not to make the same mistakes
wishin’ on the promise of a brand new
day
buildin’ on my dreams of happiness
waitin’ for this loneliness to
slip away, gotta keep on hopin’ for the best
words and music: george small

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all the people in my life
all the ones who make me whole
don’t follow me i don’t know where i’m going let me be
all the friends that i have known
in times of trouble you’ve been home
don’t be a fool, all the thoughts
you think about me they’re not true
i’m living on a pedestal that’s gettin’ too high
what if everybody has to watch me fall?
all the places i have been
photographs i keep within
they’ve been exposed, i must hide behind my emperor’s new clothes
i’m living on a pedestal that’s gettin’ too high
what if everybody has to watch me fall?
grand illusions stem from expectations of a
world i seek the pressure to fill visions in your sleep
scared of letting down another’s made up
dream of who i am
consumed by the details of their plan
all the people in my life
voices i cannot control
don’t sing so sweet, a song of love may not be right for me
i’m living on a pedestal that’s gettin’ too high
what if everybody has to watch me fall?
i’m living on a pedestal that’s gettin’ to high
why does everybody have to watch me fall?

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her name was rosa, she sang moonriver, she sang it like nobody else
stood by the microphone, but not too close, she filled up that stage all by herself
outside they were towing cars, inside they were drinking, they had all brought their scars gonna bleed their way to fame she wore a cheap dress, no damsel in distress she opened her mouth and i lost track of my name oh sister rosa, sing that sweet and high
pull me into your moonriver, as you go sailing by
the devil sat next to me and he had a martini in each hand, he was buying but i just don’t drink gin
he poured his honey words out like water in the desert, it’s been way too long since i had a swim
he said, “son i don’t see no rain, let go of your good thing, settle the bill with your waitress of sin”
don’t know whether to run or hide or take a ride
i don’t see no one by her side, when that
moonriver came rollin’ i jumped my body in
she said, “i don’t know the words” well that’s all right, and she said, “i can’t carry a tune”
well don’t get uptight
then she closed her eyes and we were all out of sight, and she sang like a choir of angels all through the night, oh rosa
keep on singing. . .oo yeah, oo yeah, oo yeah
it was last call for alcohol and all the model citizens had gone home, i was left with the devil and man he was sauced so we took a walk around the block
i got my soul back out of hock and he left in cloud of brimstone and exhaust
i don’t know whether i won or if i lost

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you hold the keys to my heart
won’t you ever let them go?
you’re entombed in my thoughts
won’t you ever let me go?
i believe in our love. it’s the future i don’t know
and with the circles in my life
i’ll go around again hoping to let go
it’s been a while since you’ve been back to this old town
your smiling face still lifts me from the ground
it’ll be a while till you come back here i know
and the emptiness you’ve left, leaves me alone
with the circles in my life
i’ll go around again hoping to let go
as you leave here today i may never get to say again
i miss you as you fly into the sky
may you never wonder why
i love you
and with the circles in my life
i’ll go around again hoping to let go

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i’ll never know what you feel inside, there is no way for me to understand while
you lay sleeping i try to find something to say, twisted switchbacks on a trail unknown, through the trees the forest is your only friend, let the sunshine tell you that it’s a new day, you’re ok, you’re fine, gonna make it through, up the mountain you will climb, and in this whole wide world there ain’t much that i know, but if you listen to my heart it will say, you’re ok, no words are gonna ease your mind, i’m not trying to convince that this world is kind, no easy answers are gonna cool the anger inside, so cry while you hold my hand, i’ll dry your tears while we’re laughing at his eternal plan, and in the silence of nighttime when you’re afraid, as time slowly drifts on by, measure the hours by the love that you feel inside, it can only get greater from where it came

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i got money in my pocket gettin’ ready to burn i got a six pack of Lucky with
a lesson to learn and i’ve been waiting all my life for an investment to
return. . .now i’m done. they’re spillin’ me this wisdom ‘bout the universe and god how the glory’s gonna find you if you work real hard while somebody’s
getting rich behind their spiritual façade. . . so now i’m done. people talk about religion make you think that it was somethin’ you could buy well i’ve been paying all my dues i don’t see nothing comin’ through and i’m getting a little tired of waitin’ for my piece of the pie my therapist is tellin’ me i’m screwed up in the head and the girl who does my colors says i don’t look good in red someday a tele-psychic’s gonna let me know i’m dead. . . so then i’m done. everybody’s out to teach a lesson to the world but the lessons that they’re teachin’ ain’t from anything they’ve learned instead they read a book and saw the money they could earn. . . so now i’m done. stop right now look at your life from the inside out don’t let someone else tell you what is true stop right now learn to believe in yourself somehow take a chance on what you really wanna do so i got myself a bright red pair of sneakers, been walking solo on the road i call my life i can’t promise you that you’ll find your salvation but i sure as hell ain’t chargin’ for advice

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well i’m sittin’ here in Rome tryin’ to find my way back home and i don’t know where I’m going and i don’t know where i’ve been but the light it is so clear, that i want you very near to stay with me and never leave again i know i haven’t always made you happy but i’ve been searchin’ for the man i wanna be and i found that i can’t live my life without you won’t you stay here with me reality strikes my eyes, with dreams that fill the skies all the things i thought my life would be now aren’t so clear mistakes i made are now debts to be repaid and friends along the way have disappeared. i guess i see that’s how it has to be i don’t know why i thought that we could share our lives again i’m gonna board this train gonna try to leave my pain don’t know where i’m going or where i’ve been i know i haven’t always made you happy but i’ve been searchin’ for the man i wanna be and i found that i can’t live my life without you won’t you stay here with me lookin’ for love wanna find love ready for love in my life

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the clothes you wear are old fashioned even your hair is old style the words you choose, never over-used you have an old fashioned smile when we were young you told us stories of our mother at our age you were strict on etiquette and how we should behave you told us, “always respect your parents and work hard for your pay modesty is preferred you’ll see over vanity any day” and as i watched and listened i learned a lesson from above what we thought was out of date was really old fashioned love give me old fashioned love a smile means you’re ok it’s never hard to understand there’s nothing much to say so simple and beautiful it fits just like a glove i thank you grandpa for teaching old fashioned love i was sixteen years old when grandma died and learned at length about true strength that first time i saw you cry it was then i knew i was lucky worth any pain or strife your gentle hand with great command helps to sculpt my life

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little boy and little girl with sparkles in their eyes
living with such innocence of love
a smile is all it takes to satisfy their hearts
laughter from their voices fly to worlds above
and they’re getting real nervous at their first slow dance
looking for a little romance, a smilegrows
on my face when i think about the time
that you first put your hand
in the palm of mine
butterflies hit me as i leaned to
kiss your lips
we got lost in each others arms
love is never easy unless you dare to take a chance
with a little romance
it’s easy to love when your hearts smile together
and it’s easy to
know that the joy
from each other is not a
circumstance
it’s a little romance
today we stand together to say each other’s vows
to become man and wife
our lives are more confusing than they were when we were kids
full of fear and often full of strife
let’s walk this path before us united in one stance
by a little romance

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just a smile is all that i will ever need to see
we’ve not the time to worry ‘bout the things you’ll never be
i’ll never know if you understand everything around you
just a smile gives me hope and takes my fear away
and for a while i think you are the lucky
one today
you give your love to every heart that’s open to receive it
the gift you give yourself is the
joy you give to me
when will i ever know the
secrets of this world
will i ever find the answers to my
feelings when will i ever see what’s deep within my core, did this child come to me to make me whole? just a smile can it hide the pain down deep inside
how will i find the strength to live after you’ve died
we have no choice moments make a path in their own way
there is no universal passing of a day
just a smile the memory of you i will always see
in my mind all the things we thought you’d never be

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i’m breakin’ the bonds that keep me down
facin’ the fears that keep me wound
i’m gonna find the truth inside of me
let me know what i can share you know i care, i care about you
when i woke this morning i was nowhere near my home
confused and scared on how to find my way
but a look into your eyes with honesty and grace
felt like i had just begun a brand new day
people look so different now but yet they’re all the same
the mountains and the trees call out to me
who i am is more than just the letters in my name
all i had to do was let me be
is it red wine or a nice warm fire
that makes me feel so good?
or the cool mountain air that
dries my face?
is it singing john denver as we cross sonora pass
or lying with my friends on a nice warm bed
maybe all there is to say is
welcome to my day
welcome to my time to
share with you
welcome to my song, welcome to my prayer
welcoming is all we have to do
cause love will see us through

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