Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection

They go off and leave me behind
They have so many words to find
I run to catch a glimpse of them
Just walking in the sun
Knowing they'll be mine again
When the evening has begun
And when i see them hand in hand
The boy who walks beside the man
I pray that i will always have the world
That i have found
The husband and the son
That i built my life around

Chorus:
He'll never know of that night long ago
He'll never know it's locked in my mind
No he'll never know
From the feelings i show
He'll never know
His son is only mine

Sometimes i lie awake at night
Watching darkest turn to light
Thinking back on all the things
I said to him today
Wondering if i might had a careless word to say
When the morning's almost here
He reaches out to draw me near
Silently i search his face for the love
I hope to see and once again
I'm sure that all his love belongs to me

Chorus

Won'tcha let me rock and roll you baby
I haven't seen you in a long, long time
I haven't fooled around with any candles lately
Just thought you might have some music in mind

Chorus:
Ah i just want to serenade you
Maybe we could even live a verse or two
And i could finish this ole love song
So i could start singing it to you
I could start singing it to you
If i could finish this ole love song
And i could start singing it to you

Won't you come and boogie-woogie with me baby
It's been a while since i held you close to me
I haven't met many boys like you baby
Knew i would find you eventually

Chorus

Climb upon my knee sonny boy
You are only 3 sonny boy
You have no way of knowing
I have no way of showing
What you mean to me sonny boy
When they are gray skies honey
I don't mind those gray skies
I'll still have you sonny boy
Don't you know that
My friends may forsake me
Let them go on and forsake me
You're gonna pull me straight through
Sonny boy
You're sent from heaven
And i know your worst
You've made a heaven for me
Right here on earth

I'm coming yes i'm coming
I'm sorry that i made you wait
Yes i'm coming, good god i'm coming
I hope and pray it's not too late
Can't you hear my mammy
My little mam, my little mammy
I walk a million miles for one of your smiles
My mam, my my mam my little mammy

Weep no more, weep no more my lady
Sing that song again for me
Sing a song that low just as though
You had me you had me right there on your knee
A million baby kisses i'm gonna deliver
As many that you sing that's what i deliver

Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby
With a dixie melody

Friends may forsake me
Let them forsake me
I'll still have you sonny boy

More than you know, more than you know
Man of my heart, i love you so
Lately i find you on my mind
More than you know
Whether you're right, whether you're wrong
Man of my heart i'm gonna string along
I need you so, more than you'll ever know

Chorus:
Loving you the way that i do
There's nothing i can do about it
Loving may be all you can give
But honey i can't live without it

Oh how i cry, oh how i die
If you got tired and said goodbye
More than i chose
More than you'll ever know

Chorus

Oh how i cry, oh how i die
If you got tired and said goodbye
More than i chose
More than you'll ever know

Chorus

The night is bitter
The stars have lost their glitter
The wind blows colder
And suddenly you're older
And all because of the man that got away

No more is he the cause
The writings on the wall
Oh but dreams, yeah dreams
Have all gone astray

The man that won you
Has gone off and undone you
The great beginning
Has seen it's final ending
Don't know what happened
It's all a crazy game

No more, no more of that ole time thrill
Honey you been through the mill
Never will a new love will be the same

Good riddance ah goodbye
Every, every prickle is you own to
But fools will be fools
And where he goes to
The road gets rougher
It's lonelier and it's tougher
We hope you run up
Tomorrow, tomorrow may come up

There's just no letter
The live long night and day
Ever since this world begun
There ain't nothing sadder
Than a one man woman
Crying for the man that got away

They say that every thing you do
Turns out all wrong
That you're bound to lose
And you love me too much
Take me along

Chorus:
Ah baby don't ever try to close a rose
After it blooms to the tuned
Of a spring time day
It won't work any way
'cos once it knows the sun it grows
And keeps on growing
Knowing it must say goodbye
To the field and the sky

So don't you worry about me
You could never make me unhappy
Cause we both have been touched
By the spring time sun
We already won
As long as you want me
I'll be right there
But with a life time of hard times
We gotta love
Babe we can share

Chorus x 2

I could cry some chin-chin tears
Where have i been all these years
A little while come on tell me now
How long has this been going on
What a kick and how i buzz
My son you click like nobody does
Listen sweet i repeat
How long has this been going on

Chorus:
I feel like i could melt right into heaven
I've heard
And now i know how columbus felt
Finding another world
Kiss me once and then again once more
God what a dunce i was before
What a break for heaven sake
How long has this been going on

Chorus

Now the greenest green i've ever seen
Was the grass on which you laid
And the bluest blue was in my eyes
When you said you couldn't stay
And the biggest lost i ever took
Was losing what we've begun
And the greatest song i ever heard
Was the one we never sung

Now the reddest red i've always said
Is the sunset coming down
Soon the blackest night that kills the light
Is the only thing around
And the downest down i ever been
Is when i knew my race was run
And the greatest song i ever heard
Was the one we never sung

Time will kill the pain they say
And we'll live to love another day
If you wanna win you got to play the game
Now the greatest break came on the day
We were standing in the rain
And the hardest hurt i've ever know
Was when you tried to ease my pain
And the longest day in history
Waiting till my crying's done
And the saddest song i ever heard
Was the one we finally sung