An Evening With Diana Ross

(burt bacharach/hal davis)

Here i am
Here i'll stay
All of my life we'll be together you and i
I was afraid but now my doubts and fears are gone

Here i am
And here i'll always stay
Wanting you, needing you
Don't let me go a single day without your love
You are the one thing i'm certain of
Here i am

(georgia dobbins/robert bateman/william garret/brian holland)

Oh yes, wait a minute mister postman
Hey, hey, hey, hey mr. postman
Just a little bit soul

Clap your hands just a little bit louder
Clap your hands just a little bit louder

Stevie wonder and fingertips
Yes
Gladys knight & the pips
The four tops
Martha reeves & the vandellas
The temptations

(j. turner/g. parsons/sir c. chaplin)

Smile,
Though your heart is aching
Smile,
Even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky you'll get by

If you smile,
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile,
And maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear maybe ever so near

That's the time
You must keep on trying
Smile,
What's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worth while
If you,
Just smile

That's the time
You must keep on trying
Smile,
What's the use of crying
You'll find that life
Life is still worth while
If you just smile

(marvin hamlisch/ed kleban)

To give me the chance
To look forward to say
Hey, listen, they're playing my song

Play me the music
Give me the chance to come through
All i ever wanted was the music and the chance to sing for you

Let me have something to live for
Let me be all that i dare
Reach out and touch
Touch me in the morning
Reach out and i'll be there

Play me the music
Play me the music
Give me the chance to come through
All i ever wanted was the music and the chance to say
I did

Give me the chance to come through
All i ever wanted was the music and the chance...

(b. holiday/h. nicholas)

Lady sings the blues
She got them bad
She feels so sad

Wants the world to know
Just what the blues is all about

The blues ain't nothing
But a pain in your heart
When you got a bad start
You and your man have to part

Lady sings the blues...

(john phillips)

Girls, they are so lovely
Oh girls, girls, oh, please love me
Girls run around in your head
'till you wish you had boys instead
Girls, they are such fragile stuff
That you just can't get enough

Oh girls, girls
They are impossible
Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls

Do i have girls?
Let me tell you about some girls
I have three girls
Rhonda, tracee and chudney

I have girls in my bathroom
Girls in my closet
Girls wearing my shoes, my lipstick, my perfume
Sleeping with my husband
What was that?

They say your life changes when you have kids
Bring it way down, gill
You know your life doesn't change
It ends...

(stephin sondheim)

Don't you love farce?
Isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career?

Where are the clowns
There ought to be clowns
Don't bother, i may...

(b. gordy, jr./j. bradford)

The best things in life are free
But you can give them to the birds and bees
I need money
That's what i want
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want

Your love gives me a thrill
But your love can't pay my bill
I need money
That's what i want
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want

Money
Lots of money
Whole lot of money
Lots of money
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want

Money don't get everything it's true
What it don't get, i can't use
I need money
That's what i want
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want

Money, money
Is what i want
A whole lot of lean green
That's what i want
Give me money, money
Is what i want
That's what i want, well
Now give me money
Ow, money
Wow, yeah, you need money
Now, give me money
That's what i want, yeah
That's what i want, yeah

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

Ooh baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how i need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did i do wrong
To make you stay away so long

'cause baby love, my baby love
Been missing ya, miss kissing ya
Instead of breaking up
Let's do some kissing and making up
Don't throw our love away
In my arms why don't you stay
Need ya, need ya
Baby love, ooh, baby love

Baby love, my baby love
Why must we seperate, my love
All of my whole life through
I never loved no one but you
Why you do me like you do
I get this need

Ooh, ooh, need to hold you
Once again, my love
Feel your warm embrace, my love
Don't throw our love away

Please don't do me this way
Not happy like i used to be
Loneliness has got the best of me
My love, my baby love

I need you, oh how i need you
Why you do me like you do
After i've been true to you
So deep in love with you

Baby, baby, ooh 'til it's hurtin' me
'til it's hurtin' me
Ooh, baby love
Don't throw our love away
Don't throw our love away

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

Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time
I see reflections of you and me

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

Oh, i'm all alone now
No love to shield me
Trapped in a world
That's a distorted reality

Hapiness you took from me
And left me alone
With only memories

Through the mirror of my mind
Through these tears that i'm crying
Reflects a hurt i can't control
'cause although you're gone
I keep holding on
To the happy times
Oh, when you were mine

As i peer through the window
Of lost time
Looking over my yesterdays
And all the love i gave all in vain
(all the love) all the love
That i've waisted
(all the tears) all the tears
That i've taisted
All in vain

Through the hollow of my tears
I see a dream that's lost
From the hurt
That you have caused

Everywhere i turn
Seems like everything i see
Reflects the love that used to be

In you i put
All my faith and trust
Right before my eyes
My world has turned to dust

After all the nights
I sat alone and wept
Just a handful of promisses
Are all that's left of loving you

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

In you i put
All my faith and trust
Right before my eyes
My world has turned to dust...

(richard rodgers/lorentz hart)

I get too hungry for dinner at eight
I like the theatre but never come late
I never bother with people i hate
That's why the lady is a tramp

I like the crap games with barons and earls
Won't go to harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp

I like that cool fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm broke, it's oke!
Hate california
It's cold and it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp

I get too hungry for dinner at eight
I like the theatre but never come late
I never bother with people i hate
That's why the lady is a tramp

I like the crap games with barons and earls
Won't go to harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp

I like that cool fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm broke, it's oke!
Hate california
It's cold and it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp

(nickolas ashford/valerie simpson)

If you need me, call me. no matter where you are, no matter how far. just call my name. i'll be there in a hurry. on that you can depend and never worry.
(you see, my love is alive it's like a seed that only needs the thought of you to grow. so if you feel the need for company, please, my darling, let it be me. i may not be able to express the de
F the love i feel for you, but a writer put it very nicely when he was away from the one he loved. he said down and wrote these words:)

No wind, (no wind) no rain, (no rain)
Nor winter's cold
Can stop me, babe (oh, babe) baby (baby)
If you're my goal

No wind, no rain,
Can stop me, babe
If you wanna go

I know, i know you must follow the sun
Wherever it leads
But remember
If you should fall short of your desires
Remember life holds for you one guarantee
You'll always have me

And if you should miss my love
One of these old days
If you should ever miss the arms
That used to hold you so close, or the lips
That used to touch you so tenderly
Just remember what i told you
The day i set you free

Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough (say it again)
Ain't no river wild enough
To keep me from you

Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough (say it again)
Ain't no river wild enough
To keep me from you

Ain't no mountain high enough
Nothing can keep me
To keep me from you

Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough (one more time)
Ain't no river wild enough (say it again)
To keep me from you

Ain't no mountain high enough
Nothing can keep me
To keep me from you

(ron miller/michael masser)

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday

(hey!)
Wasn't it me who said that
Nothing good's gonna last forever?
And wasn't it me who said
Let's just be glad for the time together?
It must've been hard to tell me
That you've given all you had to give
I can understand you're feeling that way
Everybody's got their life to live

Well, i can say goodbye in the cold morning light
But i can't watch love die in the warmth of the night
If i've got to be strong
Don't you know i need to have tonight when you're gone?
'till you go i need to lie here and think about
The last time that you'll touch me in the morning
Then just close the door
Leave me as you found me, empty like before

(hey!)
Wasn't it yesterday
We used to laugh at the wind behind us?
Didn't we run away and hope
That time wouldn't try to find us (didn't we run)
Didn't we take each other
To a place where no one's ever been?
Yeah, i really need you near me tonight
'cause you'll never take me there again
Let me watch you go
With the sun in my eyes
We've seen how love can grow
Now we'll see how it dies

If i've got to be strong
Don't you know i need to have tonight when you're gone?
'till you go i need to hold you until the time
Your hands reach out and touch me in the morning
(mornings where blue and gold and we could feel one another living)
Then just walk away
(we walked with a dream to hold and we could take what the world was giving)
We don't have tomorrow,
(there's no tomorrow here, there's only love and the time to chase it)
But we had yesterday
(but yesterday's gone my love, there's only now and it's time to face it)
Touch me in the morning...

(p. graninger/e. robbins)

There ain't nothin' i can do
Or nothing i can say
That folks don't criticize me
But i'm gonna do what i want to anyway
And i don't care just what people say

If i should take a notion to jump into the ocean
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

If i go to church on sunday then cabaret all day monday
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

If my man ain't got no money and i say take all mine honey
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

If i give him my last nickle and it leaves me in a pickle
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

I'd rather my man would hit me than for him to jump up and quit me
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

I swear i won't call no coppa if i'm beat up by my poppa
't ain't nobody's bizness if i do

Nobody's bizness, ain't nobody's bizness
Nobody's biznes if i do

(m. masser/g. goffin)

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know...?

Do you get
What you're hoping for
When you look behind you
There's no open door
What are you hoping for?
Do you know...?

Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies
That filled our minds
You knew how i loved you
But my spirit was free
Laughin' at the questions
That you once asked of me

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know...?

Now looking back at all we've planned
We let so many dreams
Just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long
Before we'll see
How sad the answers
To those questions can be

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know...?

Do you get
What you're hoping for
When you look behind you
There's no open door
What are you hoping for?
Do you know...?