"MacArthur Park"

RICHARD HARRIS 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY 

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!

Oh no
No
Oh no!

 Compositors: Adrian Drover / Jimmy Webb

"ONE MAN BAND"

LEO SAYER 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikof-8FZwgg 

 Well everybody knows down ladbrook grove
You have to leap across the street
You can lose your life under a taxi cab
You gotta have eyes in your feet

You find a nice soft corner and you sit right down
Take up your guitar and play
But then the law man comes says move along
So you move along all day

Well I'm a one man band
Nobody knows nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band

For three days now I haven't eaten at all
My my you must be getting so thin
And soon my cap won't be large enough
To drop a half a crown in

So hey there mister don't you look so sad
Don't look so ill at ease
Well I can play you any song you like
To cheer up that life you lead

Well I'm a one man band
Nobody knows nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band

 And oh oh oh look at the rain falling
Oh oh oh look at the rain
Oh look at it rain

Well nobody sees the minstrel boy as he sings his tale of woe
Nobody sees him coming
Nobody see him go
So hey there mister don't you look so sad
Don't look so ill at ease
Well I can play you any song you like
To cheer up that life you lead

Well I'm a one man band
Nobody knows nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band

Well I'm a one man band
Nobody knows nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band

Oh I'm a one man band
Just a one man band
Well I'm a one man band
Just a one man band

"THIS GUY'S IN LOVE WITH YOU"

HERB ALPERT 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWjbUAYcxII 

You see this guy, this guy's in love with you
Yes I'm in love who looks at you the way I do
When you smile I can tell it know each other very well

How can I show you I'm glad I got to know you 'cause
I've heard some talk they say you think I'm fine
Yes I'm in love and what I'd do to make you mine
Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know

My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love and you'll be my girl, if not I'll just die

Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know
My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love and you'll be my girl, if not I'll just die

Compositors: Burt F. Bacharach / Hal David

"WICHITA LINEMAN"

GLEN CAMPBELL

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKeqXyY-9xA 

I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire,
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

"HOT LOVE"

MARB BOLAN & T. REX 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ159f2HRn8 

 Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old - a ha ha
Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old - a ha ha
I don't mean to be bold, a-but a-may I hold your hand?

Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
I'm a labourer of love in my persian gloves - a ha ha

Well she's faster than most and she lives on the coast - a ha ha
Well she's faster than most and she lives on the coast - a ha ha
I'm her two-penny prince and I give her hot love - a ha ha
Ow - ow - mh

Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
I'm her two-penny prince and I give her hot love - a ha ha

La-la-la-la-la-la-la....
Ooh ooh, oh don't you do....
Ooh ooh, lay it all down....
Ooh ooh, well it's cosmic rock, mh....
Ooh ooh, mm-ba-ba-ba....

"BY THE LIGHT OF A MAGICAL MOON"

 MARC BOLAN AND T. REX

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxeZ074RSzw 

 I'm gonna dance with my princess
By the light of a magical moon.
As I go along my way
I say hey-hey
I'm gonna talk with the elders
And tell all of our hearts
That is good

I'll barefoot dance with my baby
By the light of a magical moon.
When I slay the darkest day
Then we can play
'Till that deep and joyeus day
We'll dance and pray.

"HONEY, IT'S ALRIGHT"

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQAQ-k41LP8 

Wake up, it's morning
Wake up, my darling
Wake up and see for yourself

You were woven in patchwork
Clouded and hazed
In your past like a lover can be

Honey, it's alright to be
Alone

Despite all our shuffling
Our train wreck a-talking
Despite all our outfield saves
Treading water
The sea was your daughter
But now she's gone
Gone

It's alright
Honey, it's alright
It's alright to be alone

Honey, it's alright
Honey, it's alright
To be amongst the rubble and stone

"THE UNIVERSE"

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKFQxdLXgs 

The Universe, she’s wounded
she’s got bruises on her feet
I sat down like I always did,
and tried to calm her down

I sent her my warmth and my silence
and all she sends me back is rain . . . rain

the Universe, she’s wounded
but she’s still got infinity ahead of her
she’s still got you and me
and everybody says that she’s beautiful

the Universe, she’s dancing now
they got her lit up, lit up on the moon
they got stars doing cartwheels, all the nebulas on the tune
and the Universe, she’s whispering so softly I can hear all
the croaking insects, all the taxicabs, all the bum’s spent change
all the boys playing ball in the alleyways
they’re just folds in her dress

the Universe, she’s wounded
but she’s still got infinity ahead of her
she’s still got you and me
and everybody says that she’s beautiful
and everybody says . . .

"TIME WILL TELL"

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soNPnsebPs

Turning in the grain again
the bells begin to chime

time, she says,
“there’s no turning back,
keep your eyes on the tracks”
through the fields, somewhere there’s blue
oh, time will tell, she’ll see us through

howling out,
the windy hills
and all the time we took
you should know just how it steals
keep your hand on the wheel
and through it all, somewhere we knew
time will tell, she’ll see us through

and all fire and flames took all we trust
we’re kicking up dust
stations fade just like they do
oh, time will tell, we always knew

oh, time will tell, we always knew

"AMSTERDAM"

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsW0ux-zO1I 

 All inside our Amsterdam she hides
Watery-eyed
That howling wind, she's waving hi
Her other hand's in mine

Oh silhouette
She's growing tall and fine
She's got my back
She'll follow me down every street
No matter what my crime

All inside our Amsterdam she flies
Hoarding the kites
That howling wind, she'll take everything
But she's easy on the eyes

Churches and trains
They all look the same to me now
They shoot you some place
While we ache to come home somehow

"L'AVENTURA"

JOSEP PALAU I FABRE 

SENSATION 

Par les soirs bleus d’été, j’irai dans les sentiers,
Picoté par les blés, fouler l’herbe menue:
Réveur, j’en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds,
Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue!

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien.
Mais l’amour infini me montera dans l’âme;
Et j’irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,
Par la Nature -hereux comme avec une femme. 

RIMBAUD

L’aventura 

SENSACIÓ

I

Pels vespres blaus d’estiu aniré pels conreus,
picotejat pels blats, sollant l’herba menuda.
Somniós, sentiré la frescor sota els peus,
deixaré el lliure vent banyar ma testa nua.

No pensaré en res, no parlaré per res,
mes l’amor infinit m’inundarà l’entranya.
I aniré lluny, ben lluny, de mi mateix després,
feliç, per la Natura -com amb una companya.

II

Pels vespres blaus i verds aniré pels conreus,
esgarrinxat pels blats i petjant l’herba fresca.
Sentiré palpitar la terra sota els peus
com si una dona nua s’oferís a ma destra.

Sens parlar, ni pensar, ni enyorar-me de res,
l’ample vent m’ompliria els narius i l’entranya.
I aniré lluny, molt lluny: allí on és defès
-tot sol, amb mi mateix- com amb una companya.

III

Pels vespres blaus de verd aniré al groc de l’aire
amb les cames ferides per espases de blat.
Sentiré sota els peus aquell ventre apagat
que les bèsties flairen amb un desig minaire.

I emmudit -el cap nu- irremeiablement,
em donaré amb furor al gran desig de l’aire,
i em deixaré bressar com una lleu sement
que fecunda una flor -altiva o solitària.

IV

En els blaus i en els verds, a l’estiu, prop de l’aire,
fecundat per llavors que prodigava el vent,
aniré, sense nord, com una rel dansaire,
per la muntanya amunt, cercant el meu ponent.

Vegetal -o animal- i sens bri de raó,
confós amb la natura ardent i solitària,
seré el pol.len que duu el vent de la tardor,
quan la tempesta brunz i s’alça l’alimària.

V

Sense blaus, sense verds, perdut en mi mateix,
conqueriré l’altura que el sol llaura.
Sense fred, sense vent, madura d’un sol bleix,
l’antiga terra encara trepitja Minotaure.

si la font ni la flor no troben la paraula,
la pedra la dirà com el meu front.
En el desig del vent se’n va la vella faula.
El front, la pedra, occeixen. -Resta el desig pregon.

"ONE OF THESE DAYS"

BEDOUINE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-OFHW5WGA 

 Always looking for a young ex ??
The things I want
Don't take time
Money my honey you get it
One of these days
One of these days
I'm gonna make nights
We're gonna get it and get it right
One of these days

If I'm talking sweetie you know I'd like to hear it too
It's funny a need to think it's a passing phase
But if I feel low in the morning dew
I start to see new shades of blue
One of these days
You know I'm gonna say ??
If it's my last living deed
If I feel our lovin' fade
You may as well turn the blade
It's a running a hummin my mouth
I know for days
But I'll be singing the same old song
And I ain't doing nothing wrong
One of these days
You know I'm gonna say ??
If it's the last thing I do


One of these days
You know I'm gonna say ??
If it's the last thing I do
If it's true that I feel more for you
Then you do for me
It's stunning my honey
Our love has some delays
Cause one of these days
?? takes fright
We're gonna get it and get it right
One of these days