Romantic

The evening is ending you must do what’s right
But, oh, what I would do to make you stay!
There’s no use pretending, I’m dreading this night
So, before you go I have this to say:
Before you go, turn out the stars in the sky
Implore the moon to hush her lush lullaby
Instruct my heart as you depart
To be still till we meet tomorrow
Before you go advise these lilies in bloom
That I’ll forge their mesmerizing perfume
Arrest this breeze caressing me
And take away the night before you go.
My only hope is amnesia
Until next time these lips of mine meet yours
How will I find my amnesia if forces of night conspire
And force me to fight this fire
Reminders of you make me go through?
Before you go call off the dream making spell
The twilight’s glow seems to awaken so well
All reverie recall from me
Let me forget that we’ve met till tomorrow
Just so you know, I’m not afraid of the dark
My problem’s so much worse
My prospects are stark
I can’t go on like this till dawn
So, take away the night
Take away the night
Thake away the night
Before you go.

I could look at you and never tire of the view
Ev’ry time I do I know I’m gazing at a lovely star
And now please let me list all that I insist
Are all the things you are:
You’re Paris by moonlight, your Venice at dawn
You’re the Frick Museum when ev’ryone’s gone
You’re a cucumber sandwhcih with spakrling wine
Your’re ev’rything, but you’re not mine
You’re the Garden of Eden before the Great Fall
You’re springtime in Sweden after the thaw
You’re a latte at Starbucks. You’re a real find
You’re ev’rything but you’re not mine
Something there is about you, something you do mighty well
You make my life without you Dante’s last circle of Hell
How can you be so heartless, how can you do this to me
Put an end to my misery.
You’re Apple’s new I-Phone, you’re Bushmills on ice
You’re Buffalo Wings with lots of spice
The world is your oyster and I’m in a bind
You’re ev’rything, but you’re not mine.
You’re blueberry pancakes with syrup still hot
You’re Colorado’s legal pot
You’re tea at the White House, you’re beauty enshrined
You’re the best of the best, but you’re not mine.
Why do you cause such torment, why do you torture me so?
Is this the life for me meant, here and wherever I go?
I am resolve to have you, to have and to hold and possess
All I need is for you to say ‘Yes’.
You’re like a Steinway that’s always in tune
You’re a Christmas gift that comes in June
You’re a summer tomato fresh of the vine
You’re a Cadillac but you’re not mine
You’re an etude by Chopin, a concerto by Back
You’re Berkshire Hathaway’s common stock
I’ll spend my days singing your praise
I won’t go away until I hear you say
You’re not ev’rything until you’re mine.

I’m sensing danger
Though the night is bright and you are here
It’s danger, where could it be?
So, let’s be cautious,
‘Cause this territory’s new for us
We’re strangers
Go carefully and let’s beware
And pay attention to this place we’re going through
There could be danger there
Or could this danger that I fear is near is you?
Why are your arms wrapped around mine?
How will this help us get through?
I’d like to know what’s on your mind,
What are you planning to do?
I’m sensing danger
Could it be somewhere preparing to surprise us?
Where could it be? Be on the lookout,
Because it appears there’s no one
To advise us,
It’s just you and me, so stay alert
And pay attention to this place we’re going through
Where danger lurks
Or, could this danger that I fear is near is you?

You have conquered me, I surrender
I’ve lost my liberty, just remember
I’m your prisoner and you have the key
I beg you, don’t ever set me free
Take my heart and soul and the rest of me
Take complete control of my destiny
Never let this end, my captivity
I beg you, don’t ever set me free
Keep me enchained in these chains of desire
Let me be endlessly bound
Don’t let them expire, these flames and this fire
This fervor at last I have found
Maybe I’m blind but I’ll stay confined
In this world where such passions abound
I could life like this for a lifetime
No freedom, just your kiss for a lifeline
How sweet would be such bondage imposed on me
I beg you, I beg you
Don’t ever set me free

No one need remind me
How I’ve longed to have somebody find me
Waiting here inside my Empty Blue
No one need repeat it
‘Cause I’m well aware I can’t defeat it
All alone against my Empty Blue
Love walks in when you appear
No one needs to make it clear
That there’ll never be another
For me like you
No one else can do it
You’re the only one to see me through it
Take me far away from my Empty Blue

No one need remind me
How I’ve longed to have somebody find me
Waiting here inside my Empty Blue
No one need repeat it
‘Cause I’m well aware I can’t defeat it
All alone against my Empty Blue
Love walks in when you appear
No one needs to make it clear
That there’ll never be another
For me like you
No one else can do it
You’re the only one to see me through it
Take me far away from my Empty Blue

Empty chair
She is gone and we’re alone
We two
Me and you
A lonely heart and an empty chair
I climb the stair
Ev’ry night it’s only you who’s there
We’re a pair
Me and an empty chair
That’s where she sat
Looking lovely and fair
Warming each evening with the light of her smile
Oh, what I’d give if once more I could share
A laugh with her, my life with her, just for a while
Empty chair
I’m as empty just as much as you
What will I do
All alone with an empty chair

Ev’rybody said that you were somewhere
Waiting for someone
Someone not unlike the likes of me
And we’d meet and suddenly hear that rhapsody
Heaven keeps for lovers who near love’s ecstasy.
As I gaze on you and see such beauty before me
I’m certain my friends they had no clue
My someone could be someone like you
I was very near abandoning any hope my luck would change
My friends took turns reprimanding me
And urged me to persevere
You’d be worth the search and find, they said,
When I found you’d I’d agree
These lonely times in this life I’ve led
Soon they would disappear
Ev’rybody said if I kept searching
I’d find you
Ev’rybody said I could be sure
You’d appear and sweep me away
And I would know love was here
And here love would stay and never go
Now you’re in my arms and as I hold you so closely
I’m certain my friends they had no clue
My someone could be someone like you.

I have ev’ry thing
All that I need to get me through
I can’t deny the fact there’s nothing that I have lacked
But I knew that when you appear
All I need is you
I’ve been quite content
‘Cause I’ve done well in all I do
Though I’ve been satisfied
I can no longer hide
What to me is so clear
All I need is you
I’ve been incomplete till now
Still life has seemed so sweet somehow
Destiny’s full of surprises
That such a gift it would now endow
That you’re my ev’rything
If I’m the dawn then you’re my dew
Suddenly I’m alive
After such a long time deprived
I’m so glad you’re here
Ev’rythng I need is you

Something strange, something new’s come over me
What can I do when so suddenly
All my defenses have been thrown to the wind
I’m helpless through and through
All common sense says that I shouldn’t give in
But I’m falling, falling for you
Up until tonight I’ve been a vagabond
Drifting like a breeze from here to there
Somehow I’ve succeeded to get along
Life’s been a game of solitaire
My gypsy days and wand‘ring ways are gone for good
Never to return I can tell
I’d not take them back even if I could
How could I? You’ve got me ‘neath your spell.
Now my anchors’ been moored
I’ll be drifting no more
Cause I’m falling, falling for you.

The little voice that lives in my head
No longer I’ll disregard
I failed to heed the words that it said
Last night when I let down my guard
It warned me, it warned me
You’d be gone with the light of day.
Foolish me, I fell for your charms
How eas’ly then I succumbed
The voice within me raised the alarm
But I was deaf and so dumb
It warned me, it warned me
You’d be gone with the light of day
What a fool I was last night
To fall for all you proclaimed
It was cruel, I don’t feel right
All I feel is shame
Now it’s dawn and I’m on my own
Left with this lesson I’ve learned
You have gone and I’m all alone
Alone with this voice that I spurned
That warned me, that warned me
You’ be gone, you’d be gone
You’d be gone with the light of day

He comes to me on the wings of some wistful melody
He always comes to me and lead me to the land of used to be
And wraps me in the warmth of revery
He comes to me in the strains of those plaintive melodies
I hear him beckon me in whispers softer than the summer breeze
‘Come with me and join my fantasy’
What good is there in romance and those bittersweet blues that it brings you
Why run the risk on the chance that love might succeed
When all that I need is to know that
He is there tucked away in my grab bag full of dreams
I haven’t got a care of how to fill this lonely heart of mine.
I’ll pretend until the end that I am fine
Because he comes to me
Why won’t he, why won’t he
Come to me now?

Years ago I knew I would know you
As I gazed from afar
How I hoped that someday I would have you
And here you are
All the while my arms ached to hold you
As from your side I was barred
How I longed to draw you near to touch you
And here you are
Days poured into night
And nights poured into days
My heart said “Hold on
Months turned into years
And the years brought other years
Still my heart said ‘Hold on
This love is meant to be
And the day will come you’ll see
When you’ll fold him in your wings and soar
Alone no more”
They all laughed and said I was crazy
Said I’d never meet your par
Though they laughed their laughter didn’t faze me
And here you are
Years have passed, at last I am with you
Mine has been a constant stary
Long ago I dreamed that I would love you
And here you are

I can tell, I can tell, she is near
‘Cause suddenly somewhere inside me
An overwhelming hunger is stirred
One I can no longer deter
I know well it’s that spell she has spun
That wears down my heart and tears me apart
Ev’ry time she is here.
The die has been tossed, my bearings are lost
All because, all because she’s near
See how my pulse accelerates, it won’t slow down,
See how my pressure elevates, it’s way out of bound
Surely there is something I could take
Something to settle my nerves
My life, my love, my future are all at stake
So much depends on me now!
The signs are all suggesting I won’t succeed
In this encounter with her
Still there is no question I must proceed
What I don’t know is just how.
I can tell, I can tell she is near
The atmosphere is paralyzing
How shall I behave when she is here?
What do I do and say when she appears?
I know well, all too well, when she comes
I’ve got just one shot to give what I’ve got
This foolish fate that I fear is I’ll lose my resolve
And simply dissolve
All because, all because she is near!

I never knew that you would be the one
That it’d be you when all was said and done
The one who would win me and claim me as her own
Strange how it never crossed my mind
I never knew, did you?
I never knew I could be so remiss
To look at you and not know what I’d miss
It took me forever before I realized
I found that girl I hoped I’d find
I never knew it was you
How could I have failed so long
To notice you?
Such beauty so vibrant before my eyes
How long have we both waited
For our love to break through
How long did it take until I got wise?
I never knew if I just persevered
That I’d find you
Though you were always here
I’ve finished my searching,
But now I’m mystified
Who knows how these ways of love unwind
I never knew it was you
And I’m won’dring
Did you?

She walked in and ev’ry one saw her
No one stirred so dazzled we all were
Something in her eyes drew me to her
I didn’t know what I was thinking of
But, I stood up and I fell in love
She smiled at me and what could I do then
That look in here eyes was all that I knew then
Something told me I might be in danger
I didn’t know what I was thinking of
When I stood up and fell in love
We sailed on the seas of pure ecstasy
A lifetime together intended
An ocean of love just for her, just for me
Suddenly it ended
She is gone and I am no wiser
Another fellow now stands beside her
I ask myself if he too’s gonna wonder
If he knew what he was thinking of
When he stood up and fell in love

I took one look at you and I knew then
Life for me would never be the same
That moment you first caught my eye
I suddenly understood why
Up until then I never felt this way
People don’t believe me, but it’s true
I took one look and then I knew
I knew that you would be mine forever
Even though I didn’t know your name
Seeing you just standing there
Made me indelibly aware
That night our love was born
And it was born to stay
Cynics can’t conceive it, but I do
I took one look and then I knew
I was a non-believer through and through
Love was that great deceiver of ingenues
A myth meant for fools and dreamers
So blind was I
But then you came and opened my eyes
And love flooded in
Only then did I realize what a fool I had been
So many yesterdays we have shared now
Ours has been a lovely lovers’ game
Sure, we’ve seen ups, we’ve seen downs
With lots of laughs and some frowns
But after all, I still recall
That day when you appeared
And made my world so new
Love at first sight with you would be true
I took one look and then I knew

I’ve asked you many times and always you’ve declined
My offers so repetitive
But soon you’re gonna find that something’s fixed in my mind
I’m inclined to be competitive
Someday I will win the contest
Cross the line and seize the trophy
Someday I will triumph at what I aim to do
And, Baby, I aim to do it with you
Someday I will savor vict’ry
Know the taste and thrill of conquest
Someday I will make it, I’m gonna see it through
And, Baby, I’m gonna make it with you
You’re the one who should run this marathon with me
When it’s done I know who the winner’s gonna be
So, let’s get started and we’ll see
Join me in this competition
Maybe you’ll emerge the champion
Maybe yours will be the prizes that ensue
So, come on, Baby,
I want to make it with you
Don’t make it maybe
I want to do it with you

I’d go anywhere just to be with you
Anywhere at all if I could be with you
No where’d be too far for me
To make my way to
No matter where you go you know
I’ll always find you
I’d go anywhere if I could be with you
And I would travel to any spot you’d be
Any place at all in order not to be
Living here alone without your smile to cheer me
This house is not a home if you’re not here and near me
I’d go anywhere if I could be with you
You depart, my wand’ring heart can’t hear your serenade
But the melody you stirred in me is lost in my confusion
You’re not here, my life I fear becomes a masquerade
Like circus clowns who hide their frowns
I’m living an illusion
I’d go anywhere to be with you.

How could I be so wrong?
Why’d it take me so long?
A lifetime of loving I’ve spent
On loves everlasting that came and went
How could I be so wrong?
It was you, it was you
I never noticed what ev’ryone knew
That you were meant for me
And I, I was meant for you
I’ve been blind, out of my mind
Searching the world for a girl
I’d never find
When all along it was always you
How many times have I set out to sail
With some port of love as my destination?
How many times did my voyage fail
When I should have realized
Love was right here before my eyes?
The past is past, my future is cast,
It’s late in the game, but at least and at last
I now know it was always, always you.

Though I’m in a quand’ry I have a clue
Of how to solve these doubts that I feel
The answer’s not beyond me, I know what I must do
To confirm that what I gaze on is real:
Just let me touch you, and then I’ll know
Your’re not a vision that comes and goes
Just let me touch you then it would seem
I’d be sure at once if you’re more than a dream
If I could hear you whisper my name
Your tender tones would prove and proclaim
You’re no mere illusion of beauty supreme
You’d reveal that you are real and more than a dream
How long have I waited for this, eager for you to appear,
A lifetime of love I have missed
In search of someone such as you and now you’re here!
Now I have found you at last, can it be true what I see?
Can all these dreams I’ve amassed
Come alive before my eyes so wond’rously?
Just let me touch you, that’s all I plead
For if I touch you I’d then proceed
At once to show you my passionate esteem
When these doubt I’ve held are at last dispelled
And you’re more than a dream

Just so you know, just so you know
There’s something I must tell you
I haven’t changed, I’m still the same
As that guy you first said ‘yes’ to,
Remember?
Years have passed since the die was cast
That made you mine
When we were oh so young
When we asked would our love last
Till the end of time
When love songs all were sung
I haven’t changed, I’m still the same
Just so you know
Life has taken us on many turns
At times we thought we’d lost our way
At times we acted like two strangers
Trav’ling together
The world is oh so diff’rent now
From when we started off that yesterday
Ev’rything’s so unfamiliar
Wouldn’t you say?
Just so you know, just so you know,
There’s something I must tell you
I love you still, I always will,
Just so you know

On a night such as this
Why deny what we feel?
Why insist that we resist
This passion that’s oh so real?
Your eyes bely what’s in your heart
Why prolong this long delay
Let’s not wonder where to start
Just let the night have her way.
I intend to surrender to
The night and you and thrills untasted
Can’t you see that such ecstasy
By you and me must not be wasted
So let the night have her way
Give in and let her hear us say:
I am yours and you are mine!
Let’s let the night begin!
On a night such as this
It’s all right if we stay
And exchange a single kiss
Then let the night have her way.

Let’s not say goodbye till we meet again
Even though you’ve got to go
In the by and by
Maybe I’ll see you now and then
Let’s save our last goodbye for our next hello
The times with you these years have been oh so real
So quickly did the seasons flow
So we’ll skip the tears and hope that
You will understand
If we save our last goodbye for our next hello
Why must there be such change
Would it be such a crime
If things stayed the way that they are?
Would that we could arrange
To hold back the march of time
And keep things the way that they are
Who knows what’s ahead
In those where and whens
So whimsic’ly our fates bestow
All we know instead
Is that this friendship mustn’t end
Let’s save our last goodbye
For our next hello

Long before I gazed on your loveliness
Long before I witnessed your tenderness
I knew there was a you and some day you’d be mine
The years drifted by, still hope didn’t die
During my long long before
Long before you whispered my name to me
I was sure your heart had its claim on me
I saw and saw it all what my life had in store
Before you were reveled my fate it had been sealed
I was already yours
Now, you are here next to me
Mine and mine alone for evermore
Never again will I be waiting
As I waited in that long before
You’re in my arms which is where I have longed you’d be
Now you’re mine and mine for eternity
And yet I can’t forget that simple truth that endures
Long before you were mine I was yours.

Love is a simple thing, teaching a bird to sing
Planting a flower, catching a comet,
As easy as making clouds
Love happens natur’ly, not scientific’ly
You don’t need a Fulbright
To know when it’s all right
It isn’t a matter of degree
Too much analysis leads to paralysis
You’ll know it happens when it happens your way
There’s no creation in cold calculation
Love doesn’t happen that way
Love can’t be budgeted, planned for or diagrammed
Where is the heart swell, where is the Pell Mell
Where is the ‘I need you’?
Love is that word of care saying that someone’s there
Love is a mystery and a madness
There is no what for, no wherefore or why for,
Love doesn’t happen that way
Love is a simple thing, teaching a bird to sing
Planting a flower, catching a comet,
As easy as making clouds
Love is a simple thing, teaching a bird to sing
Just let it happen, just let it happen
Just let it happen to you

I never thought this could happen
Never believed it could be
I was immune to the sweet Siren’s tune
Like Odysseus I sailed on free
Something transpired unexpected
Something has made me transform
I’ve been sailing along, ignoring love’s song
When my vessel and I were caught in the eye
Of a perfect storm.
You appear
And ev’ry fiber in me feels you near
And feels the fire in me
You appear,
There’s not a part of me
That doesn’t ache to be beside you
You appear
An unfamiliar stirring makes it clear
There’s something strange occurring
After all these years a new anomaly
Gives you control of me when you appear
I’ve fantasized as I voyaged alone
My independence won’t end
Oh how I prized as I sailed on my own
The prevailing wind as my solitary friend
A recent event has me thinking anew
Things haven’t turned out as planned
My solo days are apparently through
Solitude has been forever banned
You appear
These passions you’ve ignited
Prove that we’re ordained to be united
I’m no seer, but this is destiny and I am meant to be
Here when you appear.