BL
ACK SUN
China dolls (Beautiful Women)
Please excuse me
I don’t know your name
I called to tell you
Sarah’s left again
I saw your number
Penciled by the phone
I thought that maybe
She stopped on her way home
Please forgive me
I know it’s getting late
Sure, I’ll hang on
I don’t mind the wait
You say she’s with you
She’s made up her mind
Well, listen my friend
I’ll tell you what you’ll find:
That beautiful women get lonely
China dolls in satin and lace
When beautiful women get lonely
They’ll find someone else to take your place
Well, I guess I knew it
But I didn’t want to see
How a wild bird
Was longing to be free
Her looks have always
Opened all the doors
She changed my life
Now she’s changing yours
Beautiful women get lonely
China dolls in satin and lace
When beautiful women get lonely
They’ll find someone else to take your place
Well, I’m glad I phoned you
Just to know she’s fine
Give her my love
I’ll see her sometime
Right now you’re happy
But, you know, my friend
One day you’ll lose her
She’ll fly off again
‘cause beautiful women get lonely
China dolls in satin and lace
When beautiful women get lonely
They’ll find someone else to take your place
China dolls in satin and lace...
Anybody home
Anybody home?
Anybody there?
No one in the hall
No one on the stair
Shadows on the wall
No one home at all
Anybody there?
Anybody home?
No one in the house
Standing all alone
No one’s smiling face
Such a lonely place
And it’s only a house
In the neighbourhood
That’s falling down
And it’s only a house
Where dreams were built
And dreams were found
And it’s only a house
With a broken gate
And a faded door
... and nobody lives there anymore
Anybody know
When she moved away?
Was it long ago?
Or only yesterday?
I never fixed the gate
Guess I’m just too late
(Anybody home?)
Song for the Big Man
Standing at the track
In the early morning rain
I’m looking for the one to see me right
I’m down to my last ten
And I’ll bet it all again
‘cause if I win this one
Everything will work out right
I take a look around
And I see a thousand more
Whose hopes and dreams are riding down the track
I’m betting number four
But there goes number three!
But I played my game
And there’s no turning back.
‘cause there’s no such thing as winners or losers.
There’s only those who never play the game.
And though I’m losing, too,
This time I’ll come on through
And get myself back on my feet again
The winners always win
Except the ones that lose
And the loser’s circle’s all I’m in today
Just a few more dollars
And I know I’d have that win
On a horse that’s showing 99 to pay
And there’s no such thing as winners or losers
There’s only those that never play the game
And though I’m losing, too
This time I’ll come on through
And get myself back on my feet again
The last race passed me by
The window’s closing down
My dreams are torn up tickets on the floor
I tell myself again:
This is the very end
But I know tomorrow
I’ll be here for sure
And I know tomorrow
I’ll be here for sure
Stay
Neon lights of the city
And the sounds of yesterday
Empty in the morning
You just walk away
The night was black just like satin
You took the sadness from my eyes
(Your) body promised love for ever
But that was just black satin lies
Don’t go!
Stay the night!
Leaving won’t make it right.
Stay with me!
Stay until the morning light!
Leaving won’t make it right—
Stay!
Every picture tells a story
And all your stories are full of lies
Lie to me in the morning
‘cause this is not the time to say goodbye
Don’t go!
Stay the night!
Leaving won’t make it right.
Stay with me!
Stay until the morning light!
Leaving won’t make it right—
Stay!
(Her: I have to go now.
Him: But you only just got here!
Her: No, really, I have to go.
Him: Oh, come on! Well, at least finish your wine.
Her: But he’s waiting for me. I have to go.)
The Lady and the Artist
Underneath the painted face
Hidden by the frozen smile
Covered by a nervous laugh
There hides a little child
Who knows when it all began?
Perhaps when she was very young
She hid her feelings deep inside
And waited for her prince to come
But he didn’t come
Just men came with their lying eyes
To take the rose she hid inside
And treat it as a common vine
But now she takes her wine
in places of different kind
“How much, the painting?” she enquires
The artist is so sensitive
And so she writes a cheque
And takes the painting home
And even though she lies alone
She still has the memories
Of the artist’s knowing eyes
He sketched her so she realised
And for a moment then she knew
A rose can grow in winter time
(Winter time...)
Fingers touch her perfumed skin—
—her own, yet she imagines him
Caressing her supple frame
Reminds her of a portraiture
Of a young and handsome prince
The kind that only children know
And into sleep her soul commends
To a love she’ll never know
To a love she’ll never know...
The City of Runaways
She had just got off of the bus from Kansas City
Alone in New York, looking for a friend
She came a long, long way from Kansas City
And, for the first time, she wrote back home again:
She said, “New York streets are dirty
And the people never smile
Maybe I’ll find a job
In a little while
People on the corner
Hustle every day
Now I know why they call it the city,
the city of Runaways”
He was old and tired
Getting off the bus from Kansas City
All his life savings, wrapped up in a dream
He had a tattered photograph of a girl from Kansas City
Asking anyone who listened, “hey, have you seen?”
His little girl—
She just took off in the night
He just wanted to say, “come home, things will be all right”
She was their only child
He prayed for her each day
That’s why he’s walking the streets of the city
Oh, the city of runaways
Now, the years passed by and they buried him in Kansas City
His little girl all grown up, didn’t even know
But now and then she dreams of Kansas City
And she promises herself someday that’s where she’ll go
And another greyhound bus
Another runaway
She’s running to the city just to get away
She stands on the corner
Dreaming of a brand new day
While time in the city just slowly slips away
In the city, the city of runaways
Look at you now
Look at you now
Now that you’ve got it made
And the things that you want,
You buy
Like the stars on the Christmas tree that you sent
When you couldn’t be here
Just like you did last year
For the children
You never looked so proud
Your voice never called so loud
For attention
Didn’t you mention the other day
The way you deal with those in your way?
But one day the piper you pay
Will be leaving
And on such a pretty face
Love has left no trace
Look at you now.
Look at you now.
Look at you now.
Well, you’ve finally made the top
It’s true that you never would stop
No matter the cost
Even if you lost
what you had
You said it wasn’t so bad
You never knew the silver screen
Was just made of tinsel
You sold your heart
For a two-bit part
But they look at you now
Yes, they look at you now
How they look at you now!
Look at you now!
You
You are every step I take
On the ever changing road
That leads me home anew, love.
I will make my love song to you
And you are with me all my days
The world may change us, too
And if nothing else remains, love
I will make my love song to you
You are every song I sing
You have been my only dream
Through the darkest of my nights, you’re there
You’re the one who’s full of grace
A friend whose love is true
Your sun shines all around me
I will make my love song to you
You are every song I sing
You have been my only dream
Through the darkest of my nights, you’re there
And you're the one at the close of day
And with the morning’s new
You always light my way
I will make my love song to you
I will make my love song to you
When we were young
Once, when our love was young
We thought we had it made
Our youth would always stay
Never fade away
With the passing years
brush away the tears
Memories of the days
We went our separate ways
Your hair once so long and brown
It tumbled to the ground
It’s shorter now and grey
The time has slipped...
Once, when our love was young
We had it all
'til it went away...
Love Shines
Love shines!
Love shines!
Miserere nobis!
Love shines!
Love shines!
Dona nobis pacem!
Love shines!
Love shines!
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus!
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus!
Love shines!
Love shines!
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus!
Love shines!
Love shines!
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BL
ACK SUN