Well here we are and here we go
Up the hill and down the slope
Pardon me if I seem out of breath
Bus was late so I walked instead
There's nobody quite like me
Isn't that Presumably
What it is they say you're looking for
Ballad singer with a guitar
Okay so guitar was the part I got wrong
The rest of me surely is what you want
Wait a minute who is this
He needs a psychiatrist
Either that or I do give me strength
(Would do If I knew the way it went)
You say you sing slow songs and fast numbers too
Do you know volare
(Is that her next to you)
I'm running round in circles
I'm getting so forlorn
Whatever so forlorn's supposed to mean
I'm sick of good intentions
Whatever their intent on being
Who's responsibility lies in sending him to me
Tell me and I'll tear them limb from limb
I said Matt Monro not Gunga Din
Our members will see him and eat him alive
No two ways about it
Or three or four or five
0ne day you'll see I'll he enormous
(Then here's a tip lay off your fookin
They'll say of me and my performance
It's was superb (don't make me laugh)
The best we've heard (you must he daft)
False modesty is not for me
Solo
The way to skin a rabbit the way to comb a hare
I know which one of those I'd rather heed
As I'm sure would the rabbit
Who only wants to live and breed
I write each and all my songs
Always have done all along
So if you want "My Way" I can do
Every song in my way just for you
Has it occurred to you that I might not be well
I've got a heart that needs a bypass I can tell
So here we are together then
You and me the best of friends
(Best of friends you must be off your head)
How about employer then instead
We have to work closely and mostly we do
We're at opposite ends of
An industry without any smoke
It's boiler being only fired by hope
It is Showbiz
Dear dream of mine
Am I wasting time
Thinking that you
Will be my dream come true
Dear dream I guess
If the answer is yes
What must I do
If I'm to get to you
It's not as though I haven't tried hard
Even had myself barred
From taking a rest
but like a lot of things in life
When your down
Nothing comes round
That isn't a mess
Dear dream I pray
That you will come my way
Give me a clue
Of how to get to
Of how to get to
Of how to get to you
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You have no idea what its like to be told
Get out of clothes
You look too bizarre
The list of don't call us
And we won't call you
has in my view
Become too Large
Dear dream of mine
Am I wasting my time
Thinking that you
Will be my dream come
Will be my dream come
Will be my dream come true
And he can't wait another day
Sometimes he thinks he'll go insane
How can he be so close and yet very far
Is there something that he should know
Some place maybe he can go to
in search of you
Dear dream of mine
Am I wasting my time
Thinking that you
Will be my dream come
Will be my dream come
Will be my dream come true
Day by day
Someone we really love
Seems to feel the pain
We're always thinking of
but you know
if only we were the men
that we're supposed to be
That wouldn't happen again
I wish I could cry
I wish I could cry
I wish I could cry I cry today
I wish I could die
I wish I could die
I do wish I'd die away
Now I fear
We must accept the fact
That what happened here
Was simply a vicious act
And you know
I just can't help wondering how
Long it will be before
Somebody else must bow
I wish I could cry
I wish I could cry
I wish I could cry I cry today
I wish I could die
I wish I could die
I do wish I'd die away
Love your music and love the songs
Only query, don't get me wrong
Is this really the way you appear
Then again if you feel it's right
Go ahead if it's what you like
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
See that building with all it's floor
See those people go out it's doors
They don't know it but they're why you're here
make a record that they all bum
make it appealing to every mum
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
So you've had a bad experience
And you don't know who to trust
well if you want me to represent you
then in me you must trust
I'm not promising you the earth
I'll bow out if it doesn't work
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
[Solo]
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
Have to say when I heard your voice
Wasn't sure if it was my choice
Then I listened again and I could hear
Don't ask why but I'm certain you
will make it big and the day you do
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
But suppose in the studio (I'm)(he's)unhappy with a take
will you let (me)do it again (him)
(Of course I will say okay)
Don't be worried about your songs
I'll 1ook after them every one
You got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear
Pretty Polly what have you done to your hair
Keeping it in rollers won't get it nowhere
Neither will it turn you into what
Your mother prescribed when your father forgot
Don't you think the boys could be looking at you
After all you've got what it takes for them too
Plus a little extra which I feel sure
Will knock every knocker of Diana's door
It isn't funny I know
But what's the point me hanging around
When all I get from seeing you
Is browned off, browned off, browned
[Solo]
Pretty Polly don't be so anxious to smile
We don't want the male population run wild
All we ask is will one sweet young man
Be anxious enough to take you off my hands
Nothing You can do or say
After the fact
Even with experience
Which I don't lack
I'm like a little lamb
That I can't find my way home
Read about it talked about it
Even asked
Wanted it to happen
And now it has
I'm a little lamb
That I can't find my way home
Samson and Delilah
Even beauty and the beast
Have about as much in common
As chalk to cheese
Yet it didn't seem to matter
All that they were really after
Is this thing I am in
Why in spite of warning voices
which I heed
Why instead a suit of armour
L don't need
I'm like a little lamb
That can't find my way home
[Solo]
I don't understand it
It's impossible to say
I've been out with girls before
But never felt this way
Where do I go for advice
A lamb with wool over his eyes
Sitting here
Full of hear
They say that all in love is fair
I don't agree
Here am I in love and look what
It's done to me
For like a little lamb
That can find my way
This is a dishonorable profession
Brought about by people who think right
First will take a kid
And when he's earned a bit
We'll fleece him
Push him on the stage
Then push him to one side
This is a dishonorable profession
Even thieves would treat their own more kind
And the man who gets his ten per cent
Will go on to become a President
While you will just barely survive
Such is a dishonorable profession
where success however great is despised
Ana while you say that you are
In it only for the music
Managers and agents view this with delight
Such is a dishonorable profession
Once you've passed the age of thirty-five
Your career is as good as up
Though your songs might still be good enough
The business is saying bye bye
Sign on the dotted line
And soon you'll he in the big time
Making a fortune for let's see
The Management and the record company
[Solo]
Such is a dishonorable profession
Once you've passed the age of thirty-five
Your career is as good as up
Though your songs might still be good enough
The business is saying bye bye
You may have given me the breaks
amended all my life's mistake
Ooh but Wait a minute
You don't own me
You may be more than just a friend
On whose assistance I depend
Ooh but wait a minute
You don't own me
what makes you think you have the right
Today that l owe you my life
A Life you say Is your life only
Nothing to do with me
Well don't forget for all your power
Even in my darkest hour
You don't own me
You may be fully in control
Of every dream I'll ever hold
Ooh but wait a minute
You don't own me
In times of trouble and despair
Although I'm glad that you were there
Ooh but wait a minute
You don't own me
I know it sounds so very cruel
To have to day I don't want you
After all the love you've shown me
Let's, not start a feud
I'm not your slave don't you forget it,
And even if I live to regret it
You don't own me
Why must you always be so right
why can't you never be wrong
it's not a crime to say you're sorry
And it don't take long
No it don't take long
If it only takes a minute
To say a crime thing that's nice
If it only takes a minute
Then why not twice
I should have known from the start this would happen
From the moment we went anywhere
if other people so much as looked at me
You'd be screaming blue murder I swear
And yet you say that my leaving doesn't hurt you in the least
But even if that's true
You'll do all in your power to destroy me
If I know you
You day how much, you respect what I'm doing
You say how high you regard my ideas
And yet for years as you stood in the background
You never once let me up off my knees
Now despite you declaring
You understand the way feel
Now that we are through
Once I was hailed as a prodigal son
In other words loved by everyone
Now it's so different wherever I go
Nobody wants to know
Tried having meetings running about
Same as I did when I started out
Now though different wherever I go
Nobody wants to know
Could have been normal
And look like the rest
But I in my wisdom
Decided instead
To create an image and this at a time
When image was one word nobody minded you
Being abusive too
Standing in doorways for hours on end
Waiting to get back a tape I send
And when I get it what does it show
Nobody wants to know
Sign on the door say's better come in
So I enter and play them my songs
They tell me (all the ones that you had bits with
in the early days were great
And, while the new ones really sound bang up to date
There's not a market for a singer of your age
Unless of course he's dead
(dead! That's it you got a deal
Look at Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and Elvis
Why he sold more records after his death
Than he ever did when he Was alive
You'll be a sensation number one all over again
I an see it now his twenty gravest hits)
Sooner or later I will succeed
Good luck and timing is all I need
But for the moment where can I go
Nobody wants to know
licking my wounds from not only my face
is getting to be so be so common place
That even the angel my guardian one
supposedly there to protect me anonymously
is as nervous as can be
I have no reason at all to suspect
Hatred of me adds to my neglect
Not that it matters cancel the show
Nobody wants to know
Young at heart we may he only
Young at heart hut we're not Lonely
If anything we're never in but we're out
Young at heart if we are only
Young at heart then let us slowly
Unwind our say only way we know how
Young at heart
You can so easily become a part
of any new fangled dancing craze
Like the way that you did
When we were kids
Young at heart we may he only
Young at heart but even so
We're the first to admit we're at that stage
even though we might act our age
Young at heart we'll always remain
[solo]
(Young at heart)
(It's so important to play your part)
Don't let them tell you your much too old
Wearing clothes in a way that's up to date
Young at heart if we are only
Young at heart you never know
We could still surprise, tantalize
Even with bags under our eyes
Young at heart we'll always
(Young at heart we'll always)
Young at heart well always remain
As you know when the girl of your dreams
Doesn't seem to exist
If you want my opinion then here's what it is
Don't tell your wife she'll kill ya
And who knows maybe one day you'll wake up
And walk to the door
Where's she's waiting impatient this daughter of yours
Saying give me away dad will ya
Try proving suicide is painless
And who are those that claim this
The only way to die and to die again
As I recall I entertain an empty hall
Doesn't bother me in the slightest if a mirror's cracked
It could be that a missing screw is all it lacked
I'll walk under ladders but the funny thing is each time
I do I go flying
I've had moments when depression seemed the only cure
days when doubts were all about but now I'm sure
despite loosing battles that I know if I could win
I've never been short of a smile
As you know you can stand to attention while wiggling your toes
it's a breach of the rules but in boots I suppose
You could be forgiven
As you go into work on a Sunday
You hazard guess wasn't Sunday the one day
we all used to rest
I've never been short of smile
You cannot have your cake and eat it
But given a piece why keep it
what purpose is being served
if you leave it lying on a tray
Only to be thrown away
If invited to a party as a rule of thumb
if there's not a kitchen in it I won't come
I known that it's boring but at least you don't have to speak
You just up the heat
If there's one good thing about me then it ought to be
Even when I'm up against adversity
despite my misgivings on the shape that I'm in
I've never been short of a smile
(It's so easy to forget)
(Every time you draw your breath)
(Should be hung up on the wall)
(A reminder to us all)
That however much we moan
All our lives we've only one to live
solo
To be or not to be what is it
About this phrase that gives it
A meaning so profound
That if Shakespeare were here today
I bet he'd throw it all away
Doesn't bother me the slightest if a cat is black
It could be that a pot of paint had turned him that
I'll walk under ladders but the funny thing every time
I do I go flying
I've had moments when depression seemed the only cure
Days when I was burning up now I'm sure
despite my resentment of the pain I was in
I've never been short of a smile
The way to skin a rabbit the way to comb a hare
I know which one of those I'd rather heed
As I'm sure would the rabbit
Who only wants to live and breed
I write each and all my songs
Always have done all along
So if you want "My Way" I can do
Every song in my way just for you
Has it occurred to you that I might not be well
I've got a heart that needs a bypass I can tell
So here we are together then
You and me the best of friend
Or should I say colleagues from tonight?
(Not unless a pig has taken flight)
We have to work closely and mostly we do
We're at opposite ends of
An industry without any smoke
It's boiler being only fired by hope
It is Showbiz
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you take off your shoes and socks
Throw them up in the air
What do you think
Your mother would think
Will she go spare
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you go out without a tie
Nothing under your dress
What do you think
The neigbours would think
In their Sunday best
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin
If you come the bathroom door
Not having washed your hands
What do you think
Your father would think
Would he change his plans
If you commence before the start
Where do you begin