Neil Diamond

[fox69]

"The Good Lord Loves You"

"The Good Lord Loves You"



I'm singing this song
For the men in your prisons and jails
The junkies and juicers
And every good man that fails
And for every outlaw
Who's got no place left to go
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord
He loves you so

And I'm singing this song
For the leaders of every land
For every political
And every military man
And for every mother and child
In their kingdoms below
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord
He loves you so

Ain't it sad that we're doing so bad

I'm singing this song
With a feeling that's deep in my heart
And I wish that I could tear down
The walls that keep us apart
And I wish I could tear down
The walls so the feelings could grow
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord
He loves you so

The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord Loves You
The Good Lord
He loves you so

Ain't it sad that we're doing so bad

 

[fox69]

"The House I Live In, That's America To Me"

"The House I Live In, That's America To Me"



What is America to me
A name, a map, or a flag I see
A certain word, democracy
What is America to me

The house I live in
A plot of earth, the street
The grocer and the butcher
Or the people that I meet
The children in the playground
The faces that I see
All races and religions
That's America to me

The place I work in
The worker by my side
The little town the city
Where my people lived and died
The howdy and the handshake
The air a feeling free
And the right to speak your mind out
That's America to me

The things I see about me
The big things and the small
That little corner newsstand
Or the house a mile tall
The wedding and the churchyard
The laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a growing
For more than two hundred years

The town I live in
The street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city
Or a garden all in bloom
The church the school the clubhouse
The millions lights I see
Especially the people
That's America to me

 

[fox69]

"The Last Picasso"

"The Last Picasso"




Ah,
The last Picasso
The last Picasso
Was just acquired by some old museum
And Don Quixote
Well, Don Quixote
The old man's rhyme has lost its reason

Which only reminds me
Have I remembered to say
That without you this life of plenty
Would seem so empty
Ah, The last Picasso

Oh, me and you
Me oh me, oh me, oh me, oh me and you
We, we can sigh
Me, oh me, oh me, oh me we can sigh
Hey

Ah,
The last Picasso
The last Picasso
May gather dust amid the ruins
And Don Quixote
Well, Don Quixote may no longer
Make his wishful tunes
But I still have you
And I will have you
When everything else is done and gone with
We'll be like one with, the last Picasso

Oh, me and you
Me oh me, oh me, oh me, oh me and you
We, we can sigh
Me oh me, oh me oh me, oh we can sigh

Oh, me and you
Me oh me, oh me, oh me, oh me and you
We, we can sigh
Me oh me, oh me, oh me, oh we can sigh
Oh, me and you

We, we can sigh
Me oh me, oh me, oh we can sigh
Oh, me and you

 

[fox69]

"The Last Thing On My Mind"

"The Last Thing On My Mind"



It's a lesson too late for the learnin'
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turning
In your hand, in your hand

Are you going away
With no words of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Well I could have loved you better
I didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was
The last thing on my mind

You got reasons aplenty for going
This I know, this I know
For the weeds
Have been steadily growin'
Please don't go, please don't go

Are you going away
With no words of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Well I could have loved you better
I didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was
The last thing on my mind.

 

[fox69]

"The Long Way Home"

"The Long Way Home"



Had to go, had to know all
There was out there.
Now I'm back, I know that, girl
It's all right here.

Girl I took
The long way home, it's true,
The long way home to you, yeah
And I just want to say,
I'm home to stay.

Ran a lot
Don't know what I
Thought I would find.
Town to town, all I found
Was you on my mind

Girl I took
The long way home, it's true,
The long way home to you, yeah
And I just want to say,
I'm home to stay.
(instrumental-piano)
Girl I took
The long way home, it's true,
The long way home to you, yeah
And I just want to say,
I'm home to stay.
Stay,
I'm home to stay
Been a long way, long way home
Long way home, long way home

 

[fox69]

"The Look Of Love"

"The Look Of Love"



The look of love is in your eyes
A look your smile can't disguise
The look of love is saying so much more
Than words can ever say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don't go away
Don't go away

You've got the look of love
It's on your face
A look that time had erased
Be mine, tonight
Let this be just the start
Of so many nights like this
Let's take a lover's vow
And then seal it with a kiss

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don't ever go

Don't ever go
I love you so

 

[fox69]

"The Man You Need"

"The Man You Need"



I never did believe
That I would end up losing you this way
As far as I could see
The life we had was always gonna stay
And I tried to be
The man you need

I'll never understand
What I expected out of loving you
The way we had it planned
There always could be
Room enough for two
To live and grow
How could I know
I wouldn't be the man you need

And I wanna know why
Yeah, I wanna know how
Say I wanna know where
Everything went wrong
And I'm sorry, 'cause I love you

You told me more than once
I never understood my way around
The way that things worked out
I'm still not really sure
Of where I'm bound
You knew me well
I should have seen
I couldn't be the man you need

And I reach for the sky
I reach for the stars
And all of the time
I was reaching for you
And I'm sorry, 'cause I love you

Say it now again
I'm holdin' on
I've only just begun
To learn the meaning of not having you
I thought for sure
That I would be the man
You need forever more

That I would be the man
You need forever more
I want to be the man
You need forever more

 

[fox69]

"The Non-Conformist Marching Song"

"The Non-Conformist Marching Song"




Hold the line, staunch non-conformist
We've a sacred rendezvous
To you breast clutch tightly your list
Things we're non-conforming to

Banners high we'll make demands for
Changing every thing we see
Down with all society stands for
Speak your mind,it's a free country

Better to exist in our private abyss
Then dwell with the socially rotten
Our abuse never stops
We must pay off the cops
Or we won't have abyss to pot in

Glossy eyed we stand forever
In agreement through and through
Non-conforming all together
For the grand red, white and green

[Spoken: (Hum In Background)]
I can see it now, ah yes
Waiting for us just over the horizon
A land where men, women and others
Can walk together hand in hand
Toward a better tomorrow
A land where we can all grow beards
(Hooray!)
And wear open-toed shoes
(Hooray!)
And we'll let our hair grow long
(Hooray!)
And use "Hip" words
(Hip,Hooray!)
And if there's one guiding creed
One word that will sum up
All we would gladly die for
I know that word must surely be
"Individuality"
(Rah! Rah! Rah!)

[Sung:]
Hold the line staunch non-conformists
Pay no heed to words of jeer
To you breast clutch tightly your list
Things we're non-conforming to
This year

 

[fox69]

"The Pot Smoker's Song"

"The Pot Smoker's Song"



La la la
Pot, pot gimme some pot
Forget what you are,
You can be what you're not
High, high I wanna get high
You never give it up
If you give it a try...
La la la la
(teenage vocals)
La la la
Pot, pot gimme some pot
Forget what you are,
You can be what you're not
Do, do take a family cruise
You with your grass,
Mom and Dad with their booze
Ooo ooo
La la la la
(teenage vocals)
La la la
Pot, pot gimme some pot
Forget what you are
You can be what you're not
Tough, tough the world is so tough
And when it gets harder,
You can try stuff ,uh uh
(teenage vocals)
La la la
Pot, pot gimme some pot
Forget what you are,
You can be what you're not
Hip, hip you wanna be hip
You're no one at all
If you don't take a trip

Pot pot gimme some pot
Forget what you are,
You can be what you're not
Hip, hip you wanna be hip
You're no one at all
If you don't take a trip

 

[fox69]

"The Power Of Two"

"The Power Of Two"



Was getting deeper into the night,
Knew you weren't coming home.
Nothing I was doing was right,
And now I've got to face it alone.
The night getting darker.
Baby the darker it got, struggled with why and what,
But I could not fight what I knew was true.
I was not gonna get through the night
Without the power of two...
Me and you.

Feeling like I'm out on a ledge,
Standing with my back to the wall.
Used to be I'd go straight ahead,
Now I'm going nowhere at all.
The night getting longer.
Baby the longer it went, just didn't make any sense.
Couldn't see, couldn't hear, didn't know what to do.
Was like I had no power at all
Without the power of two...
Me and you.

I never knew before that two was more
Than one and one until that night.
Was nothing I could do
But think of how I'm losing you, and
It shook me, it shocked me, you locked me out there.

Looking for a place I could hide,
Searching for a corner to turn.
Left me here alone for one night,
Showed me I had something to learn.
I tried not to need you, but I needed you anyway.
Wouldn't be easy to say, but the way that I see it
I'm half without you, and I'm not gonna make myself whole
Without the power of two...
Me and you.

Morning couldn't wait.
I knew that it was getting late, but I hung on.
I had no choice at all, was either walk away or crawl, and
I'm pleading, I'm bleeding.
I think I'm falling deeper into that hole,
Deeper that I thought I could get.
Like a bug that's stuck in a bowl climbing out's impossible, yet
He keeps trying harder, harder than he thought he could.
I finally understood.
I could hear, I could see, and the truth came through.
We had ten times the power of one.
We had the power of two...
Me and you.
Was nothing we couldn't do,
Just me and you.
We had the power of two.