Carpenters Album

For those whose eyes would see
Render them in faith to me
For all those seeking peace
In my arms your strife shall cease
And place in me the agony you bear
Nothing can impair
The perfect love I bring
In a simple offering

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

Someday, rested from hours of sleeping
We'll stay safely behind what we're keeping
You'll seem warmer than I had remembered you
Lying so close I'll be able to feel you breathe
I could never leave

One day, when I am able to love you
I'll come back from wherever I've been to
I'll see you looking the same as you always have
Lovely, so lovely, I'll cling to the love you give
So I'll start to live

Someday is coming
If I believe it
Someday always brings the good life you knew ...
Ever back to you

(*) How I need you
Someday, all I can give you is someday
Someday, all I can offer is someday
Please say that you'll be waiting when someday comes
Promise me this and a kiss, to keep what you are
Always close to me

Repeat (*)

Love is but a song we sing

And fear's the way we die

You can make the mountains sing

Or make the angels cry

Though the dove is on the wing

You need not know why

(*) Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Love one another right now

Some will come and some will go

This will surely pass

When the one who left us here

Returns for us at last

We are but a moment's sunlight

Fading in the grass

Repeat (*)

If you hear the song we sing,

You will understand

You hold the key to love and fear

It's in your trembling hand

One key unlocks them both, you know

It's at your command

Repeat (*)

Love one another right now

Love one another right now

All of my life I have been waiting,for just one boy.
And all of my life I have been waiting , for all the joy,
of having someone that I can call my own,
who'll come to my side when I am all alone.

And now you are here,
and I found a whole new world has opened for me.
A world filled with joy,
a world filled with all your love eternally.
For you say your mine,
you love me all the time
night and day
come what may
and all of my life you will be my own

(instrumental)

I just want someone that I can call my own,
who'll come to my side when I am all alone.
And now you are here and I've found a whole new world
has opened for me.
A world filled with joy
a world filled with all your love eternally
For you say your mine
and you love me all the time
night and day
come what may and
all of my life you will be my own

i guess you know what it's all about
all the answers seem so clear to you
you know just exactly what you want to do
and never allow a feeling of doubt
i guess you can see where your road can lead
all the pain that you have in store
for now you have chosen to lock every door
and find on your own what you think you need

chorus:
turn away
find the way girl i'll be here waiting dear to say
turn away
find the way girl i'll still be calling your name

and if i try to show you how
tomorrow is just like yesterday
would you change your mind and see things my way
or are you afraid that ill bring you down

chorus

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The boy that's driving me mad is going away

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride and he don't care

He said that living with me was bringing him down, yeah
He would never be free when I was around

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride and he don't care

Don’t know why he's riding so high
He ought to do right, he ought to do right by me
For he gets to saying goodbye
He ought to do right, he ought to do right by me

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today
The boy that's driving me mad is going away, oh

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride and he don't care, don't care
Think I'm gonna be sad
Think I'm gonna be sad
Think I'm gonna be sad
Think I'm gonna be sad
Think I'm gonna be sad
Think I'm gonna be sad

Dont be afraid to love and get love returned
dont be afraid to tell everyone you've learned
that love is a groovy thing
it knows how to make you sing
and it fills up your life with
sunshine and joy
dont be afraid to give all you got to give
one of these days youll find thats the way to live
for living is what we all were put on this earth to do
so come on and live and be happy
dont be afraid to love

get me away from all the things that need doing
lazily here to lose the afternoon
lying around here on the ground
is a close to gettin' up as i can go

takin' the chance to free
myself from my worries
cover them well enough and no one sees
nobody knows until they show
and the only thing to do is try to cover them again
chorus:
hurry yourself,whats the use,mountains of wealth
i refuse to be somebody's slave for a dime
i've got plenty of mountains im lookin' to climb
spendin' my time

pleasin myself is all that really needs doin'
everything else begins but never ends
listen to me and you'll agree
that a man is better off if he has come to realize

chorus

Yesterday i thought you'd stay
i thought you'd see things my way
but now i see my hope's rainy day
i should have known when you said
i was the one that you wanted
wanting meant nothing more than today

all i can do is cry over you and hope you return someday
all i can do is cry over you since you've gone away

every road that i follow
leaves me woth no tomorrow
i need someone to show me the way

all i can do is cry over you and hope you return someday
all i can do is cry over you ever since you've gone away

eve i cant believe
that you could mean what you just said
think of what you are how very far you are from being real
look into the mirror nothing there to see
eve i can't believe you'd really leave him

chorus:
notice how her image saddens
how lonely she's become
just once i'd like to see her happy
before the winter comes

eve i wouldnt lie the open sky is not your home
wide as it may be r-e-a-l-i-ty is here among the stones
thorns among the roses add to what is real
eve you are a rose among the thorns here

chorus

i wish her only good times
before the winter comes

Sing, sing

Who's that stomping all over my face
Where's that silhouette I'm trying to trace
And who's putting sponge in the bells I once rung
And taking my gypsy before she's begun

Just singing and a dreaming of what's in my mind
Before I can take home what's rightfully mine
Joinin' and listenin' and talkin' in rhymes
Stoppin' the feeling to wait for the times

Who's saying baby, that don't mean a thing
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing
Sing, sing

Who's all hung-up on that happiness thing
Who's trying to tune all the bells that he rings
And who's in the corner and down on the floor
With pencil and paper just counting the score

Who's trying to act like he's just in between
The line isn't black if you know that it's green
Don't bother looking, you're too blind to see
Who's coming on like he wanted to be

Who's saying baby, that don't mean a thing
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing
Sing, sing

Who's coming home on the old nine to five
Who's got the feeling here to keep him alive
Though havin' it, sharin' it ain't quite the same
It ain't no gold nugget, you can't lay a claim

Who's seeing eyes through the cracks in the floor
There it is baby, don't you worry no more
Who should be sleepin' but is writing this song
Wishin' and a-hopin' he weren't so damned wrong

Who's saying baby, that don't mean a thing
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing
Who's saying baby, that don't mean a thing
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

Even sing, even sing

Unto you
In the voice of love
Through the song we sing
An offering