The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud, sing out strong
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
A thousand pictures can be drawn from one word
Only who is the artist, we got to agree
A thousand miles can lead so many ways
Just to know who is driving, what a help it would be
So if you want this world of yours to turn about you
And you can see exactly what to do, please tell me
I’m just a singer in a rock and roll band
There are pictures on the piano
Pictures of the family
Mostly my kids but there’s an old
Picture of you and me
You were five and I was six
In nineteen fifty-two
That was forty years ago
How can that be true?
People take pictures of the summer,
Just in case someone thought they had missed it,
Just to prove that it really existed.
People take pictures of each other,
And a moment could last them for ever,
Of the time when they mattered to someone.
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be
There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab,
Just waiting for the call
Can you hear it?
The sound of
Something burning
Something changing
On the merry-go-round
Tonight
The pictures on my wall
Are about to swing and fall
Love it all
Love it all
Riding along on a carousel
Trying to catch up to you
Riding along on a carousel
Will I catch up to you
It’s not easy puttin’ on a smile
You’re alone, lost and found
She waits at home just to love him
Through the night thinkin’
He’s been gone so long now
Is he coming home
He’s been gone so long now, oh!
Merry-go-round and round
Merry-go-round and round
Merry-go-round and round…
Oh, the merry-go-round broke down
And we went round and round
Each time t’would miss, we’d steal a kiss
And the merry-go-round went
“Um-pah-pah, um-pah-pah
Um-pah! Um-pah! Um-pah-pah-pah!”
Merry-go-round
Wish I had found
Somebody to care for
Where am I bound
Life is so lonely
If life is just only
To love with my loving
Goes round and round
Looking for someone
Who would want to stay
I might find her
With a bit of luck one day
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels the dizzy dancing way you feel
When every fairy tale comes real, I’ve looked at love that way
But now it’s just another show, you leave ‘em laughin’ when you go
And if you care don’t let them know, don’t give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t live, I can’t give anymore
I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t give, I can’t give anymore
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
Give a little bit
I’ll give a little bit of my love to you
There’s so much that we need to share
Send a smile and show you care
Anything but lonely,
Anything but empty rooms.
There’s so much in life to share –
What’s the sense when no one else is there?
Anything but lonely,
Anything but only me.
Quiet years in too much space:
That’s the thing that’s hard to face,
And they sing, “Oh, ain’t you glad you’re single?”
And that song ain’t too very far from wrong.
Roll me over and set me free
The cowboy’s life is the life for me