Starting Over

(carole bayer sager, burt bacharach)

So many times i said it was forever
Said our love would always be true
Somethin' in my heart always knew
I'd be lying there beside him

On my own, on my own, on my own

So many promises never should be spoken
Now you know what loving him costs
Now you're even talking divorce
And you weren't even married

On my own
Once again i'm
One more time by myself

No one said it would be easy
But it once was so easy
Well i believe in love now here i stand
You wonder why

I'm on my own
Why did it end this way
On my own
This wasn't how it was supposed to be
On my own
I wish that we could do it all again

So many times i know i could have told you
That losing him would cut like a knife
He walked out and there went your life
I don't want to live without him

On my own
This wasn't how it was supposed to end
On my own
I wish that we could do it all again
On my own
I never dreamed i'd spend one night alone by myself
On my own
You've got to find out where you belong again
On my own
You've got to learn how to be strong again
On my own
I never dreamed i'd spend one night alone by myself

You've got to find out where you belong again
Your heart is saying that it's time again
And i know that you're gonna shine again

(brian holland, lamont dozier, edward holland, jr.)

Set me free why don't you baby
Get out of my life why don't you baby
'cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on
You don't really need me
But you keep me hangin' on

Why do you keep a comin' around
Playin' with my heart
Why don't you get out of my life
And let me make a new start
Let me get over you
The way you've gotten over me

Repeat chorus

You say although we broke up
You still wanna be just friends
But how can we be friends
When seeing you only breaks my heart again

You claim you still care for me
But your heart and soul need to be free
Now that you got your freedom baby
You wanna still hold on to me
You don't want me for yourself
So let me find somebody else

Why don't you be a man about it
And set me free
You don't care a thing about me
You're just using me
So get out get out get out of my life
And let me sleep at night
'cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on

Keep me hangin' on

Keep me hangin' on

(donna summer, bruce sudano)

Mama moved out
Daddy sold the house
They split up the money
And went on their own way

And all the kings horses
And all the kings men
Couldn't put mama and daddy back together again

Starting over again
Where should they begin
'cause they never been out on their own
Starting over again
Where do you begin
When your dreams are all shattered
And the kids are all grown
And the whole world cries

He got an apartment
She moved in with her sisters
He's schemin' big deals with one of his friends
While she sits at home sortin' out pieces
Of left over memories from thirty odd years

Starting over again
Where do you begin
When you've never been out on your own
Starting over again
Never any end

What will the neighbors say
They're talking talk it's small town news
They're fifty years old wrecking up a happy home
And this far down the road
You find yourself alone
Two fools

Starting over again
Where do you begin
When you've never been out on your own
Starting over again
Never any end
When your dreams are all shattered
And the kids are all grown

And all the kings horses
And all the kings men
Couldn't put mama and daddy back together again

(bobby bare, charlie williams, hedy west)

Tear drops fell on mama's note
When i read the things she wrote
She said, we miss you girl
We love you come on home
Well i didn't have to pack
I had it all right on my back
Now i'm five hundred miles away from home

Chorus:
Away from home, away from home
Cold and tired and all alone
Yes, i'm five hundred miles away from home

It's hard to tell the state i'm in
Where i'm going, where i've been
But there's a dream i've been following so long
If mama knew the things i've done
She'd forgive them everyone
But i'm still five hundred miles away from home

Repeat chorus

Can't remember when i ate it's just thumb and walk and wait
And i'm still five hundred miles away from home
If my luck had been just right i'd be with them all tonight
But i'm still five hundred miles away from home

Repeat chorus

Lord, i'm still five hundred miles away from home

(cameron l. mullins, carolyn jean yates)

I know you're tired of being all i ever wanted
You no longer feel the love i have for you
What happens now, what will i do with all the memories
And the dreams of all the things we'll never do

But i won't mention it again
I won't think about tomorrow
Just let it happen
Live each hour day by day
But let me tell you before you go, how much i love you
Then i won't mention it again
I won't mention it again

I feel my life
Has reached an early sign of autumn
In my heart the leaves are falling, love is cold
And everything that once was warm and new is gone now
Leaving nothing but this hunger in my soul