Leon Russell

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"Let The Rest Of The World Go By"
(with Willie Nelson)

"Let The Rest Of The World Go By"
(with Willie Nelson)



With someone like you a pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find
A place that's known to God alone just a spot we could call our own
We'll find perfect peace where joys never cease
Somewhere beneath the starry skies
We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere out in the west
And let the rest of the world go by

With someone like you...
And let the rest of the world go by

 

[fox69]

"Life And Love"

"Life And Love"


Goodbye sorrow, hello tomorrow
Oh, let's dance again
While we're waiting for this plane to come in
And think of life and love again
When it comes to life and love, darling you could count on me
Well, you got the combination, baby you got the key
When it comes to lovin' you, you can always count on me
When it comes to life and love, baby it will always be
Well, hello sunshine, goodbye rain
Well, I can't stop thinking about you again
Well, the strong man or a weak man, it's all the very same
When a woman takes a man inside the firey lane
When it comes to life and love, baby you could count on me
Woah, you got the combination, baby you got the key
On the way to Heaven's door, I'm gonna love you more and more
When it comes to life and love, baby it will always be
If all this gold and bracelets
And diamond rings
The matador has its problems
If he does the wrong thing in the ring
But when it comes to life and love, baby you could count on me
Woah, you got the combination, baby you got the key
On the way to Heaven's door, I'm gonna love you more and more
When it comes to life and love, baby it will always be
Just you and me

 

[fox69]

"Little Hideaway"

"Little Hideaway"


We got a little hideaway that we go to
When we're alone together
A little place where we can go
And get to know each other

A place to see the sun
When the day is done
Hold on to that feeling
We've been missing

Oh we got a little hideaway
A place we go on special days

Try to get to know each other

A place to see the sun
Far away from everyone
Hold on the that feeling

Can you feel it
Can you feel it

Well we got a hideaway
A place we go on special days
Try to get to know each other
Hideaway
Far away from everyone

 

[fox69]

"Lost Highway"
(originally by Leon Payne)

"Lost Highway"
(originally by Leon Payne)



I'm a rolling stone, I'm all alone and lost
For a life of sin, I have paid the cost
Oh, when I pass, all the people say
"There goes another boy walkin' down the lost highway"

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman's lies makes a life like mine
Oh, the day we met, Lord I went astray
I got me rollin' down that ol' lost highway

I was just a lad, nearly twenty-two
Neither good or bad, just a kid like you
Now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord, I've paid the cost on the lost highway

Hey boys, don't start, let's keep it ramblin' 'round
On this road of sin, you're sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
You started rollin' down that ol' lost highway
Oh, you're rollin' down that ol' lost highway

 

[fox69]

"Love Minus Zero / No Limit"
(originally by Bob Dylan)

"Love Minus Zero / No Limit"
(originally by Bob Dylan)



My love, she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn't have to say she's faithful
Yet she's true like ice, like fire

And the people carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love, she laughs just like the flowers
That valentines can't buy

In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of all kinds of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall

And some speak of the future
My love, she only speaks softly
She knows there's no success like failure
And failure's no success at all
Alright

Yeah, the cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge

Statues made of matchsticks
They crumble into one another
My love winks, she does not bother
She knows too much to argue or to judge

My love, she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn't have to say she's faithful
Yet she's true like ice, like fire

And the people carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love, she laughs like the flowers
That valentines can't buy her

 

[fox69]

"Magic Mirror"

"Magic Mirror"


I'm standing by the highway
Suitcase by my side
There's no place I want to go
I just thought I'd catch a ride
Many people look my way
And many pass me by
In moments of reflection
I wonder why
To the thieves I am a bandit
The mothers think I'm a son
To the preachers I'm a sinner
Lord I'm not the only one
To the sad ones I'm unhappy
To the losers I'm a fool
To the students I'm a teacher
With the teachers I'm in school
To the hobos I'm imprisoned by everything I own
To the soldier I'm just someone else who's dying to go home
The general sees a number, a politician's tool
To my friends I'm just an equal in this whirlpool
Magic mirror won't you tell me please
Do I find myself in anyone I see?
Magic mirror if we only could
Try to see ourselves as others would
To policeman I'm suspicious it's in the way I look
I'm just another character to fingerprint and book
To the censors I'm pornography with no redeeming grace
To the hooker I'm a customer without a face
The sellers think I'm merchandise, they'll have me for a song
The left ones think I'm right,
The right ones think I'm wrong
And many people look my way
And many pass me by
And in my quiet reflection I wonder why
Magic mirror won't you tell me please
Do I see myself in anyone I meet?
Magic mirror if we only could
Try to see ourselves as others would

 

[fox69]

"Mandalay Again"
(with Elton John)

"Mandalay Again"
(with Elton John)



Rules and regulations,
And real estate are things I've left behind
Fights are always leaving
Silver wings unfolding on a dime
But I won't foget to tell you
If I could only reconnect the line
I really never knew you, but come back I'd like to find the time

Drug and consequences
And ferris wheels just took us up and down
Fights were always brewing
Two perfect understudies for a clown
If I could piece it all together
Or maybe find you through a friend
Last I heard it was St. Louis
But I wish that it was Mandalay Again

Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little Cain
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay Again

Fuel and information
Are Siamese twins who poison everything
Lies that left us drowing
Rumor that burned like gasoline
I could have read you like a book
Instead I acted dumb and blind
I was younger then and foolish
Come back I'd like to find the time

Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little Cain
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again

It it wasn't in the afterglow of wine
Or the chatter of some European girl
I'd have understood that after all these years
There were those who chose to separate our worlds
Separate our worlds

Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little Cain
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
We'll pretend that we're in Madalay again

 

[fox69]

"Manhattan Island Serenade"

"Manhattan Island Serenade"


Sittin' on a highway in a broken van
Thinkin' of you again
Guess I have to hitchhike to the station
With every step I see your face
Like a mirror looking back at me
Sayin' you're the only one
Making me feel I could survive
I'm so glad to be alive
Nowhere to run and not a guitar to play
Mixed up inside and it's been raining all day
Since you went away
Manhattan Island Serenade

 

[fox69]

"Masters Of War"
(originally by Bob Dylan)

"Masters Of War"
(originally by Bob Dylan)



Come, you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind the walls
You that hide behind your desks
I just want you to know
Know
I can see through your masks

 

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"Me And Baby Jane"

"Me And Baby Jane"


Janie was my first love
We shared the pains of school
She offered me a balance for awhile
And she gave me innocents
I seemed like less a fool
She always had a line to make me smile
But we separated early
Not an easy thing too do
Sometime seem tomorrow'd never come
But we couldn't keep together
For all the times we tried
We had a sad reunion tonight

Oh how we laughed together
Trapped in the grapes of wrath together
Yes and we loved each other
Me and Baby Jane
But now she's gone forever
Lord help me stay together
See her vacant eyes and a needle in a vain
Oh baby, baby, Baby Jane

I see the purple mountains
I'm lost and inbetween
a place that I know well and in a bad dream
Others stand beside me too late to try and find
Exscuses in the face of being blind
But now she is awaiting for the feeling of the cold
To free her from the nightmare of old
She was a part of me silently alone
And too far down to draw the line

Oh how we laughed together
Trapped in the grapes of wrath together
Yes and we loved each other
Me and Baby Jane
But now she's gone forever
Lord help me stay together
I see her in the sky and early morning rain
Oh baby, baby, Baby Jane