Time, flowing like a river,
Time, beckoning me,
Who knows when we shall meet again,
If ever?
But time,
Keeps flowing like a river,
To the sea…
I see a river flowing for freedom
I see a river just in view
I see a river flowing for freedom
I see a river straight and true
Come to the river flowing for justice
Come to the river rendezvous
Come to the river flowing for justice
All for the people, me and you
Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List’nin’ for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly
I’ll fly away, oh glory, I’ll fly away
Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away…
Well I’ve heard there was a secret chord,
That David played and it pleased the Lord,
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift,
The baffled king composing Hallelujah…
Hey, why don’t you play
Another ‘somebody done somebody wrong, song’
While I miss my baby,
While I miss my baby…
Later in the evening, it’s been a busy day
She lays her head upon my weary shoulder
Listen to her laughing, snuggle up and say
Now I’m with you baby, the loneliness is over
I do my best to give her love that lasts forever
It seems like everything I do I’m doing better
Doing it all for my baby
'Cause she’s as fine as she can be
Doing it all for my baby
For everything she does for me
Loneliness is such a sad affair,
And I can hardly wait to be with you again,
What to say to make you come again?
Come back to me again and play your sad guitar…
I would try and be the man that I said I would
just come back home
And I’ll try, I’ll try 'cause I said I would
just come back home
I will try and be the man that I said I would
just come back home
, I’ll try, and I’ll try to
come home, please come back home
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette
Foreign types with the hookah pipes say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one
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See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle
Just remember, darling, all the while
You belong to me.
See the marketplace in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
But remember when a dream appears
You belong to me.
You belong to me
Tell her, tell her you were fooling
You belong to me
Fool if you think it’s over,
‘Cause you said goodbye.
Fool if you think it’s over,
I’ll tell you why,
Newborn eyes always cry with pain,
At the first look at the mornin’ sun.
Fool if you think it’s over,
It’s just begun.
I got a feeling you’re fooling
I got a feeling you’re making believe
I got a feeling you’re fooling with me
Wise men say only fools rush in,
But I can’t help falling in love with you…
Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe
Falling in love with love is playing the fool
Caring too much in such a juvenile fancy
Learning to trust is just for children in school
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round…
Don’t let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it’s always someone else I see
I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me