Now I remember the promise I gave you The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer As we sat holding hands in the Lamb and Flag tavern I swore I?d be
is cruel And fades the sign On that little place That I call mine Let?s love what?s left Like new born First breath Old stars New shine Old cup New
and I?ll flow with the wine With the fast love of strangers we?ll sing Sweet Bye and Bye Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne How I wish I knew All the old
, how could they know ?O be something, be something fine!? Now you?ve got your own boys, hell bent for leather Dead before they?re 18, or bitter old
O sweet Rosie Lee Like a sister to me But you thought I was playing you smart Jealous Words Won?t lie still In my heart You saw us there dancing And
One door opens, another shuts behind One sun sets and another sun she rises Love comes to you in old familiar ways Love comes to you in shadows and disguises
My screenplay?s on the block My Tuscan villa?s in hock To Mister Pearly Jim My wife and kids have scrammed They say my phone is jammed By Mister Pearly
God never listened to Charlie Parker Charlie Parker lived in vain Blasphemer, womaniser, Let a needle numb his brain Wash away his monkey music Damn
Is this the togetherness she meant - so rosy I thought we?d share a continent - so cosy I thought love?s passions really Would be more touchy-feely
I must leave this tainted place Of slow and hidden pain By all and any means All the past I shall erase And never look again On child?s memories If