On The Way To The Sky

Written by: neil diamond

Hey little boy
Just sitting on your back porch
Picking on your guitar
Wishing you were far away

Well, i can tell
You've had a little bit fo a dream
I see it in your eyes
I can hear it in the songs you play

And hey little boy
Just play it like you feel it
Make it so real
It's almost to real to take

Just swing it like a player
Make it like a prayer
It's one from the heart
Give it all of the hear it can take

And when you play what you wanna play
Just reach down to the soul
You keep on growing and you'll know some day
That sound is gonna turn into gold

Boy, you're taking me there
To guitar heaven
And without saying a word
You lay it all on the line
And make me leave my cares
In guitar heaven
Just go and play your song
I could stay all night

Play it son
(guitar solo)

You know, you're taking me there
To guitar heaven
You make me feel every sound
You make it shine like a light
I'm gonna lose my cares
In guitar heaven
You go and play that song
I'm gonna stay a while

Go and play that song, boy
I'm gonna stay a while
The way you play that song
Makes me wanna smile

Written by: neil diamond

Hey i know
When the wind comes blowing across the meadows
It sings your name
And i've seen
The starry nights fall across the ghettos
It sings the same

And i feel
The light in your eye
And it's calling me
Stay, just a little bit longer

It burns
Like a fiery star
In the midst of the night
And it's pulling me under

Can anybody save me, save me
Save me from the storm
Save me, save me
Save me, 'fore i'm gone

I'm only a man
And a man's gotta break
There's a lot who can stand
But not a lot who can take

Save me
Something is taking me over
And there's no place that i can hide

Sweet dreams
My love and i by the edge of the river
Are feeling that glow

And we drink
Making love in the sand
And i love being with her
But i got to go slow

'cause i know
Just as sure as the waves come beat on the sand
I'm a man who's divided
And one night
Burning hot with a kiss and i try to resist
But there's no way to fight it

Hey, can anybody save me, save me
Save me from the storm
Save me, save me
Save me, 'fore i'm gone

I'm only a man
And a man's gotta break
There's a lot who can stand
But not a lot who can take

Save me
Something is taking me over
And there's no where that i can hide

Won't you save me
Someone is making me love her
It's breaking me up inside

Save me now

Written by: neil diamond

Can you hear my rainy day song
Calling from the street below
Baby, since i've been without you
Well, it's the only song i know

And i keep hearing rainy day songs
Tapping on my window sill
Some that soon won't be forgotten
Some that probably never will

Say, i know you never did believe in rainbows
But hey, you know the sun is somehow gonna shine
And babe, we only have to look and we can find it
If we want to, if we need to

It's just another rainy day song
Way beneath the sorry sky
And when i try to understand it
I only end up asking why

But still i hear those rainy day songs
Calling out to me and you
I only hope that you can hear them
'cause rainy days are made for two

Say, you know there's always gonna be a rainbow
And hey, you know that sun is always gonna shine
Come on babe, we only have to look and we can find it
If we want to, if we need to

Can you hear that rainy day song
It's such a lost and lonely sound
But baby when i have you near me
Rainy days can't get me down

Babe, i need to have you near me
Cause rainy days, they get me down

Babe, i got to have you near me
So rainy days won't come around

Written by: neil diamond

We are two and two of us are one
I'm back on my feet again
Out on the street again
Looking for love
On the way to the sky

Some people moving up
Some people standing still
Some hold their hand out
And some people never will

Lover and liers
Consumed by the fires
Of too many dances
But not enough songs
Hear my song

We pity the poor one
The shy and unsure one
Who wanted it perfect
But waited too long

There's no way to count
Or to measure the cost
Of the innocence lost
On the way to the sky
You and i

And we are two and two of us are one
But maybe two of us can be enough
To get it done

Lover and liers
Consumed by the fires
Of too many dances
But not enough songs

We pity the poor one
The shy, the unsure one
Who wanted it perfect
But waited too long
Much too long

I'm back on my feet again
I'm out on the street again
Looking for love
On the way to the sky
You and i

Written by: neil diamond

I never needed to hear the truth
You never wanted to know
I never wanted to be unkind
But then something kept telling me go
There was something kept telling me go

We stayed together like birds in a cage
But then one of us had to get free
But who had the heart to say goodbye
Wasn't you so it had to be me
Wasn't you so it had to be me

You told me to go when i wanted to stay
Breaking me over in every way
Telling me just what to do with my life
But, oh, i wish you could be mine
Oh, i wish you would be mine tonight
Be mine tonight, tonight
Be mine tonight

We never knew it for what it was worth
It was worth more than we understood
We never got past the lies and the hurt
And it hurt even when it was good
Yes it hurt even when it was good

Written by: neil diamond

Yesterday's songs
Don't stay around long
Not much anymore

Yesterday's words
Don't make themselves heard
Like they did before

Baby, yesterday's blues
May be yesterday's news
But the truth always stays the same
And good things will never change
Like sayin' "i love you"
Sayin' "i love you"

Yesterday's songs
Don't seem to belong
They're here and they're gone

Yesterday's moves
Don't stay in the grooves
They keep moving on

Maybe yesterday's rhyme
Was for yesterday's time
And the future's not ours to see
But there's some things that always will be
Like sayin' "i love you"
Sayin' "i love you"