MANHATTAN SUNSET
It's a Manhattan sunset
And taxi lights gleam
And eight million people
Keep living their dreams
And some dreams are sad
And some dreams go wrong
But Jonnie and Suzzie
They hope to keep strong
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And all that they know
In their cheap hotel
Is follow their dream
And hope things go well.
Crossing over the River
To Jersey again
Each holding hands
And feeling no pain
They know their way
To their cold cheap hotel
Where they speak of their day
And things that went well.
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Taxi lights gleaming
In the street by the door
It's all alright now
And tomorrow there's more
So what do they need
'Cept love thru the night
And Jonnie and Suzzie
They'll be alright.
COLD HUDSON RIVER
Cold Hudson River
Rolls out to the sea
Carries my dreams
Away from me
Lights on the water
Shadow the shore
Life's always rolling
My love out the door
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New York's a cold town
This Feb'ruary night
And all that I know
Just faded away
Like cold old moonlight
I met her in Brooklyn
By Prospect Park
First girl I saw
That touched my heart
Don't know how I did it
But somehow I did
We took up together
And we had a kid
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But now she is gone
And I'm all alone
I'm here on this bridge
And she ain't at home
I watch as the water
Flows under my feet
The cold cold water
Is all I can keep
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I WALK WITH THE NIGHT
Some walk in the sunshine
Some walk in the shade
Some never acknowledge
The life that they made
I walk in the darkness
The shadows feel just right
I live in the shadows
I walk with the night
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God give me the strength
To just carry on
I know I'm not right
I know I've done wrong
I never ask questions
I never tell lies
I never can look
The world in the eye
It's not that I can't fight
All my own wars
It's just I don't care
To fight anymore
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And so if you see me
One dark rainy night
Walking thru Downtown
Past some broken streetlight
Just you cross over
Just leave me alone
Just keep on walking
Get safe to your home
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ONE DAY
One day
I hope not too far away
You'll come to me and say
You always knew
One day
One fine and shining day
I'll see you and say
I always knew
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But I know it isn't real
And you will never call
You just don't know how I feel
You don't know me at all
One dream
I dream of it ev'ryday
You'll see me and say
I never forgot you
One day
One long hoped for day
You'll see me and say
I always knew
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One day
Perhaps here today
I'll see myself and say
You never knew
One day
Perhaps it'll be today
I'll awake and say
I always loved you
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YOU USED TO BE LIKE BYRON
You show me how you love me
But you forget about the times
When you go your own way
When you follow the white lines
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Follow the lines
The One Way signs
Follow the lines
Till it's over
You used to be like Byron
Mad and dangerous to kow
But always full of good times
Where did the good times go
And now you show you love me
With a boot or a fist
Why do I stay with you
When you are always pissed.
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Another night another fight
Another win for clever you
Another clean knockout
I think I'm thru with you
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One day I'll get the courage
And take myself away
Just you watch me do it
I won't love you someday
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DAYS OF HEAVEN
In the cold hard days of Winter
We looked forward to it all
Spring it turned into Summer
And the Summer turned to Fall
Another Winter came around
And you lived inside my soul
And then you turned to me and said
That you didn't love me at all
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Days of heaven are so fleeting
We don't know when they'll end
We don't believe our lover
Will just become a freiend.
In the cold nights ahead
In an empty quiet land
I remember words we said
That ran thru our hands like sand
And I'll remember all the good times
You were central to them all
And we laughed and we loved
and now I've lost it all.
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