Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Like a fish on a hook Like a knight from an old fashioned book
Where did summer go How'd I miss the change of season All at once the wind blows rough It's cold enough to snow In the street below People laugh, they
I've loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel I don't believe that
It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music
(l. cohen & j. lissauer) I came so far for beauty I left so much behind My patience and my family My masterpiece unsigned I thought I'd be rewarded For
Now the courtroom is quiet but who will confess Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is, yes Then read me the list of the crimes that are mine I will
(l. cohen) Maybe I'm still hurting I can't turn the other cheek But you know that I still love you It's just that I can't speak I looked for you in everyone
Look at who the wind's blowin' up the road Shining like a Northern Star Actin' like the answers to all my prayers But, baby, I know what you really are
(donald fagen, marcelle clemments) Since you left me darling The city doesn't feel right On the street the music stopped And the light seem half as bright
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan
Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc As she came riding through the dark No moon to keep her armor bright No man to get her through this dark and
Well, she?s up against the register, an apron and a spatula With yesterday?s deliveries and tickets for bachelors She?s a moving violation from her conk
one summer night he'll light a lantern he'll catch a tiny firefly in a jar set her dancing on the mantle like a piece of star see how the boy lays low
The moment we said good bye Silence tore across the sky The riverbed by wide and dry As far as I could see And someone said My ghost was found Laying
Living now, here, but for fortune Placed by fate?s mysterious schemes Who?d believe that we?re the ones asked To try to rekindle the patriot?s dream
It?s raining so hard, looks like it?s gonna rain all night This is the time, I?d love to be holding you tight But I guess I?ll have to accept the fact
Sun goes down on a silky day Quarter moon walkin' through the Milky Way Oh, you and me, baby We could think of somethin' to do It's the right time of
Now I've had the time of my life No I never felt like this before Yes I swear it's the truth And I owe it all to you 'Cause I've had the time of my
