Carpenters Album

The hardest thing I've ever done is keep believing
There's someone in this crazy world for me.
The way that people come and go through temporary lives,
My chance could come and I might never know.

I used to say, "No promises, let's keep it simple",
But freedom only helps you say goodbye.
It took awhile for me to learn that nothing comes for free.
The price I've paid is high enough for me.

CHORUS

I know I need to be in love,
I know I've wasted too much time.
I know I ask perfection of a quite imperfect world,
And fool enough to think that's what I'll find.

So here I am with pockets full of good intentions,
But none of them will comfort me tonight.
I'm wide awake at 4 AM without a friend in sight.
Hanging on a hoop, but I'm alright.

CHORUS

There was a man, a lonely man
Who lost his love through his indifference
A heart that cared
That went unshared until it died within his silence

And Solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
And by himself it's easy to pretend he'll never love again
And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing Solitaire

A little hope goes up in smoke
Just how it goes, goes without saying
There was a man, a lonely man
Who would command the hand he's playing

And Solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
And by himself it's easy to pretend he'll never love again
And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing Solitaire

And Solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing Solitaire

We’ve only just begun to live
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we’re on our way
We’ve only begun

Before the rising sun, we fly
So many roads to choose
We start out walking and learn to run
And yes we’ve just begun

chorus
Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watching the signs along the way
Talking it over, just the two of us
Working together day to day, together
And when the evening comes we smile
So much of life ahead
We’ll find a place where there’s room to grow
And yes, we’ve just begun

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Are we really happy with this lonely game we play?
Looking for the right words to say
Searching, but not finding understanding anyway
We're lost in this masquerade
Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play
Thoughts of leaving disappear each time I see your eyes
And no matter how hard I try
To understand the reason why we carry on this way
We're lost in this masquerade

We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play
Thoughts of leaving disappear each time I see your eyes
And no matter how hard I try
To understand the reason why we carry on this way
We're lost in a masquerade
We're lost in a masquerade
And we're lost in a masquerade

your wonderful parade,moving thru the towns that rise and then they fade
over streets that pass the houses where you've stayed,
your wonderful parade

your daily masquerade,paper masks that hide the faces that you made
crumbled down upon foundations you have laid
your daily masquerade
stand in line try to climb meet your wife at cocktail tome
sure to lose so try and choose a better way to fall
your marlvelous charade
never could be worth the prices that you paid
blindness is a part of everygame you played
your marvelous parade

Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show.
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear,
but you're not really here.
It's just the radio.

Chorus:
Don't you remember you told me you love me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby.
I love you, I really do.

Loneliness is such a sad affair, and I can hardly wait
to be with you again.
What to say, to make you come again?
Come back to me again, and play your sad guitar.

Chorus x2

Talking to myself and feeling old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit
Hangin' around, nothin' to do but frown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

What I've got they used to call the blues
Nothing is really wrong
Feeling like I don't belong
Walking around some kind of lonely clown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

Funny but it seems I always wind up here with you
It's nice to know somebody loves me
Funny but it seems that it's the only thing to do
To run and find the one who loves me

(*) What I feel is come and gone before
No need to talk it out
We know what it's all about
Hanging around, nothin' to do but frown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

Funny but it seems that it's the only thing to do
Run and find the one who loves me

Repeat (*)

Hangin around, nothing to do but frown
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

Such a feelin's coming over me
There is wonder in most ev'ry thing I see,
Not a cloud in the sky got the sun in my eyes,
And I -- won't be surprised if it's a dream.

Ev'rything I want the world to be,
Is now coming true especially for me,
And the reason is clear - It's because you are here,
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen

I'm on the -- top of the world lookin'
down on creation and the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world

Something in the wind has learned my name,
and it's tellin' me that things are not the same,
In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze,
there's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me.

There is only one wish on my mind,
When this day is through I hope that I will find,
That tomorrow will be just the same for you and me,
All I need -- will be mine if you are here.

I'm on the -- top of the world lookin'
down on creation and the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world

I'm on the -- top of the world lookin'
down on creation and the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world

We tried our hand at love before
We’ve been around the game enough to know the score
But that is that and now is now
And now is all that matters anyhow

Make believe it’s your first time
Leave your sadness behind
Make believe it’s your first time
And I’ll make believe it’s mine

The door is closed, it’s you and me
We’ll take our time with love, the way it oughta be
This moment’s ours, tonight’s the night
And if we fall in love, well that’s alright

Make believe it’s your first time
Leave your sadness behind
Make believe it’s your first time
And I’ll make believe it’s mine

So close your eyes and hug me close
Let our hearts pretend
That love is ours to share tonight
And it might never end

Make believe it’s your first time
Leave your sadness behind
Make believe it’s your first time
And I’ll make believe it’s mine

Make believe it’s your first time
And I’ll make believe it’s mine

Dreamin', I must be dreamin'
Or am I really lyin' here with you
Baby, you take me in your arms
And though I'm wide awake I know my dream is comin' true
And oh, I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
And there I go, I just fall in love again
And when I do
Can't help myself I fall in love with you
Magic, it must be magic
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
Easy for you to take me to a star
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes
And oh, I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
And there I go, I just fall in love again
And when I do
Can't help myself I fall in love with you

And oh, I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
And there I go, I just fall in love again
And when I do
Can't help myself I fall in love with you
Can't help myself I fall in love with you

Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon-dust
In your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

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On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon-dust
In your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

(Ah, aahh, aahh) Close to you
(Ah, aahh, aahh) Close to you
(Ah, aahh, aahh) Close to you
(Ah, aahh, aahh) Close to you

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
We’ve got a lifetime to share
So much to say
And as we go from day to day

I’ll feel you close to me
But time alone will tell
Let’s take a lifetime to say
I knew you well
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow for all we know

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
Let’s take a lifetime to say
I knew you well
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow for all we know

Olden days
Lying on a bed of leaves
Watchin clouds up through the trees
You said our love was more than time

It's colder now
The trees are bear the night long
I can't get warm since you've been gone
I can't stop singing sad songs

Where do I go from here?
Tell me where do I go from here?

After long enough of being alone
Everyone must face their share of loneliness
In my own time nobody knew
The pain I was goin' through
And waitin' was all my heart could do

Hope was all I had until you came
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me
You were the dawn breaking the night
The promise of morning light
Filing the world surrounding me
When I hold you

(*) Baby, Baby
Feels like maybe things will be all right
Baby, Baby
Your love's made me
Free as a song singin' forever

(**) Only yesterday when I was sad
And I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave
The past and all its tears behind me
Tomorrow may be even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only Yesterday

I have found my home here in your arms
Nowhere else on earth I'd really rather be
Life waits for us
Share it with me
The best is about to be
So much is left for us to see
When I hold you

Repeat (*)
Repeat (**) twice

Like sailing on a sailing ship to nowhere
Love took over my heart like an ocean breeze
As seagulls fly I knew that I was losing
Love was washed away with the drifting tide
Oh it's a dirty old shame when all you get from love is a love song
It's got you laying up nights waiting for the music to start
It's such a dirty old shame when you've got to take the blame for a love song
Because the best love songs are written with a broken heart
Now the tears in my eyes are ever blinded
The future that lies before me, I cannot see
Although tomorrow I know the sun is rising
Lighting up the world for everyone but not for me
Oh it's a dirty old shame when all you get from love is a love song
It's got you laying up nights waiting for the music to start
It's such a dirty old shame when you've got to take the blame for a love song
Because the best love songs are written with a broken heart

Maybe I'm old-fashioned feeling as I do
Maybe I'm just living in the past
But when I meet the right one I know that I'll be true
My first love will be my last

When I fall in love it will be forever
Or I'll never fall in love

In a restless world like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When I give my heart it will be completely
Or I'll never give my heart

And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too
Is when I fall in love with you

And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too
Is when I fall in love with you

No one in the world ever had a love as sweet as my love
For nowhere in the world could there be a boy as true as you love
All my love I give gladly to you
All your love you give gladly to me
Tell me why, then, oh why should it be that
We go on hurting each other
We go on hurting each other
Making each other cry, hurting each other
Without ever knowing why
Closer than the leaves on a weeping willow baby we are
Closer dear are we than the simple letters A and B are
All my life I could love only you
All your life you could love only me
Tell me why, then, oh why should it be that
We go on hurting each other
We go on hurting each other
Making each other cry, hurting each other
Without ever knowing why
Can't we stop hurting each other?
Gotta stop hurting each other
Making each other cry, breaking each other's heart,
tearing each other apart
Can't we stop hurting each other?
Gotta stop hurting each other
Making each other cry, breaking each other's heart,
tearing each other apart

Day after day, I must face a world of strangers
Where I don't belong, I'm not that strong
It's nice to know that there's someone I can turn to
Who will always care, you're always there

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

So many times when the city seems to be
Without a friendly face, a lonely place
It's nice to know that you'll be there if I need you
And you'll always smile, it's all worthwhile

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

Touch me and I end up singing
Trouble seems to up and disappear
You touch me with the love you're bringing
I can't really lose when you're near
When you're near, my love

If all my friends have forgotten half their promises
They're not unkind, just hard to find
One look at you and I know
That I could learn to live without the rest
I've found the best

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day ............................without you

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung alot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love on stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing a
song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see
There's no one more important to me
Darlin' can't you please see through me
Cause we're alone now and i'm singing a
song for you

You taught me precious secrets
Of the truth withholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better
And if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody
Cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place
Where there's no space or time
I love you for in my life
You are a friend of mine

And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing a
song for you
We were alone and I was singing a
song for you

I'll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by
And all I know of love is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it So I've made my mind up
I must live my life alone And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always known I'd say goodbye to love
There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in
And to live for something I could live for
All the years of useless search Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my only friend
From this day love is forgotten I'll go on as best I can
What lies in the future is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls
There may come a time when I will see that I've been wrong
But for now this is my song And it's goodbye to love
I'll say goodbye to love