Michael Bolton

[fox69]

"E La Solita Storia"
(from Cilea's "L'Arlesiana")

"E La Solita Storia"
(from Cilea's "L'Arlesiana")



[Federico loves a girl of ill repute, so his family arranges a marriage with a childhood sweetheart. The heart-broken lad compares his sad adventure to the well known tale of a shepherd boy. He knows he will never foreget his one true love.]

E la solita storia del pastore...
Il povero ragazzo voleva raccontarla
e s'addormi.
C'e nel sonno l'oblio.
Come l'invidio!
Anch'io vorrei dormir cosi,
nel sonno almen l'oblio trovar!
La pace sol cercando io vo'.
Vorrei poter tutto scordar!
Ma ogni sforzo e vano.
Davanti ho sempre
di lei il dolce sembiante.
La pace tolta E solo a me.
Perche degg'io tanto penar?
Lei! sempre lei mi parla ancor!
Fatale vision, mi lascia!
Mi fai tanto male,
Ahime!

[Translation:]

It's That Familiar Tale

It's that familiar tale you've heard of the shepherd...
That penniless young man, attempting to retell it,
fell sound asleep.
In such slumber there's oblivion.
How I've envied him!
Like him, I would sleep all of my days-
at least if I slept, I might forget!
I seek only peace, it's all I need!
Forget it all, never recall!
Yet all is futile effort,
before me will always be
that sweet face of hers, alas!
My peace and my quiet, forever gone!
Why must I suffer so, oh why?
She, always she, speaks again to me!
Vision so fatal, please vanish!
How you have harmed me!
Alas!

 

[fox69]

"E Lucevan Le Stelle"
(from Pucinni's "Tosca")

"E Lucevan Le Stelle"
(from Pucinni's "Tosca")



[The painter Cavaradossi has been sentenced to death for helping to hide an escaped political prisoner. As he awaits his fate, he sings of the sweet memories of his beloved Tosca and his dashed dreams.]

E lucevan le stelle,
e olezzava le terra
stridea l'uscio dell'orto
e un passo sfiorava la rena.
Entrava ella, fragrante,
mi cadea fra le braccia.
Oh! dolci baci, o languide carezze,
mentr'io fremente
le belle forme discogliea dai veli!
Svani per sempre il sogno mio d'amore...
L'ora e fuggita
e muoio disperato!
E non ho amato mai tanto la vita!


[Translation:]

How The Stars Seemed To Shimmer

How the stars seem to shimmer,
the sweet scents of the garden,
how the creaking gate whispered,
and a footstep skimmed over the sand,
how she then entered, so fragrant,
and then fell into my two arms!
Ah sweetest of kiss, languorous caresses,
While I stood trembling,
searching her features concealed by her mantle.
My dreams of pure love, forgotten forever!
All of it's gone now!
I die hopeless, despairing,
And never before have I loved like this!

 

[fox69]

"Eternally"

"Eternally"


Tell me something I could say
To make you feel the power
Of my love for you
Just help me find the way
And every moment, every hour
I'll keep trying to...

Oh I swear I couldn't take it
If I thought you didn't know
Just how sweet you really made it
Music to my soul...

[Chorus:]
Far beyond all space and time
You'll live within this heart of mine
And forever with you
I will be
Take my heart and take my hand
I'll love you with all I am
When forever's through
I'll be loving you
Eternally...

Within my dreams I knew you'd come
I knew you long before I ever saw your face
You are the only one
And no one in this world could ever take your place
Oh, for as long as I am breathing
Till the stars fall from the sky
You're the one thing I believe in
My every reason why...

[Chorus]


I'll love you all my life
Like there was no time before you
And this fire burning for you
Will go on, on, on

[Chorus]

From now on
Endlessly
Loving You
Eternally...

 

[fox69]

"Everybody Needs A Reason"

"Everybody Needs A Reason"


Everybody needs a reason
To make it through another day
And everybody needs a reason
Try and find another way

I've been up, I've been down
Seemed like one long, lonely ride
Wish I'd been usin', time I could be usin'
To learn about myself inside
That's not a hard thing to do

Everybody needs a reason
Doesn't matter who they are
And everybody needs a reason
To make it to the shootin' star

So many people, don't understand
Never live, but waiting to die
I wish I could reach them
I really wanna teach them
Something so good going on inside

Maybe they don't like it, maybe they do
This is the way, it's all coming true
Everybody needs a reason
Everybody needs to know
Maybe things are changin'
I really don't know
Knowing things is helping to grow

Everybody needs a reason
Everybody needs to know
[Repeat x3]

 

[fox69]

"Everybody's Crazy"

"Everybody's Crazy"


Sweet little girl, she's the high school queen
She lives tonight, in every school boys' dream
Oh, but nobody knows how she's cryin'
She's just a child goin' on seventeen

She gets so confused by her friends and their scenes
They don't mean what they say
They don't say what they mean
She reads the signs, reads between the lines
But it makes no difference
There's no reason or rhyme

Just hold on girl, as long as you can
In time you'll learn what you don't understand
It's the human condition, it's the nature of man

[Chorus:]
Everybody's crazy, everybody's crazy
Everybody's crazy, everybody's crazy

This city boy, he don't want no control
He just wanna party and play his rock 'n' roll
But here they come to turn the pressure on
Say'n son, your partyin' days are gone

The time has come now to be a man
Find your place in the world, gotta take what you can
You've got no ambition, take a look at yourself
When ya gonna straighten out, be like everybody else

The boy said listen dad, you're bringin' me down
I am who I am, I've had a good look around
There's one thing in the world I can tell you I've found

[Chorus]

There ain't no wonder things are so outta hand
Sooner or later, ya come to understand
The human condition, it's the nature of man

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Everytime"

"Everytime"


Don't wanna lose this feelin'
It's more than I need to survive
Just when I stopped believin'
That's when you came into my life

Ya turned it around, within you I found
Everything that's real to me
I'm lost inside your love
And that's just where I wanna be

[Chorus:]
Everytime you give your love, it's a fire, it's a miracle
Everytime I feel your love in my life, I know it's a miracle
You've got the power, you know it
To touch my every fantasy
When we make love, you show it
In everything you give me

So take what you want, take what you will
You're the one who holds the key
To open up the door, to reach the deepest part of me

[Chorus]

Everytime you give your love, it's a fire
Everytime I feel your love in my life, I know it's a miracle
Everytime, everytime

Just when I stopped believin', girl, you stepped into my life
Ya give me the fire I needed
It was so hard to find, you're givin' it everytime

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Fallin'"

"Fallin'"


Man arriving in the middle of the night
Leaving with the morning sun
Never try to hold me too tight
I always got to be on the run
I've had so many lovers
And I've showed them my heart
And I've showed them to the door
But this is nothing like the others
I ain't had nothing like this before

[Chorus:]
Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' for you
Fallin' fallin' fallin' fallin'
Fallin' for you

I told myself many times before
I thought it was against the rules
Now here you come and turn my head around
You got me feeling like a fool
I don't know what's come over me
When I'm with you, I just can't say no
This time you got me holding on
And baby I don't wanna let go

[Chorus]

I don't understand, it's just not like me
To want someone and need someone
I want to go free
It's all gone ahead
I know what I said
But that was before you
I don't know what I'm gonna do

Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' I'm fallin'
Fallin' for you

I'm fallin'
So that's the way it's gotta be
I'm fallin'
You really got a hold of me
I'm fallin' fallin' for you
Don't know what I'm gonna do
[bridge]
Fallin' fallin' fallin' fallin'
Fallin' fallin' fallin' fallin'
Fallin' fallin' fallin' for you
[repeat bridge]
Ooh yeah

 

[fox69]

"Fighting For My Life"

"Fighting For My Life"


Here I am, thinking of you
Things we say and things we do
Doesn't seem long ago
I was holding you so safe and warm

Suddenly my life is changed
And I find myself like a ship in a raging storm
I'm fighting to hold on, will you look at me now

[Chorus:]
Fighting for my life, fighting for my life
I'm back against the wall, fighting for my life
Fighting, fighting for my life

I recall, the days of my youth, my head in the air
My back to the truth
Runnin' from the good things I had
My hunger for a piece of the game

Now I find those days are gone
And I'm hanging' on
I know it can never be the same
I'm fighting to hold on, will you look at me now

Ooh yeah ooh oh yeah, baby ooh oh

I've been at the corner for the longest time
I have gone the distance with the will to survive
I tell you one thing, I can't always be right
Gonna live, gonna live every day like it's the last one I got
I'm fighting to hold on

[Chorus]

Fighting for my life, I'm fighting for my life

 

[fox69]

"Fly Me To The Moon"

"Fly Me To The Moon"



Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love you

 

[fox69]

"Fool For Love"
(feat. Johnny Hallyday)

"Fool For Love"
(feat. Johnny Hallyday)



[Johnny:]
I'm coming out with my angel,
Put down your guns and I'll...confess.
I loved her more than life itself,
My angel in a pale blue dress.
But if you want to shoot, then shoot,
I'd welcome an eternal sleep.
No man has ever felt a love,
So deep.

[Michael:]
I took her life, her tender life,
I couldn't bear to think that she,
Could laugh and love and give herself,
To any other man than me.
So if my world would end tonight,
I will not cry...I do not care.
I'll meet her in another life,
Somewhere.

[Chorus]
[Johnny and Michael:]
I was a fool, a fool for love,
A fool who believed, that she came from above.
I'll stay a fool, until I die,
She was my world, my breath, my sky.
I'm just a fool, who lost all control,
Along with my soul.
In time the fool, becomes a clown,
And you all laugh, as I fall down.

[Michael:]
I'll never be at peace again,
I'll never feel her warm caress,
I'll leave each day just thinking of,
My angel in a pale blue dress.

[Johnny:]
And when her body's in the ground,
Make sure you save a space for me,
For that's the only place, I long to be.

[Chorus]