Shirley Bassey

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"I'm Shooting High"

"I'm Shooting High"



I'm shooting high,
Got my eye on a star in the sky,
Shooting high.
I'll never stop till I get to the top
Tell me why, shooting high.
You know it's you I'm after
You're my lucky star
I'm on a rainbow rafter
Climbing up to where you are
I'll have the time, it's a climb
But I'll make it `cos I'm
Shooting high.

Every morning, when I raise my blind
To greet another day
I begin by making up my mind
That it's my lucky day.

I'm shooting high,
Got my eye on a star in the sky,
Shooting high.
I'll never stop till I get to the top
Tell me why, shooting high.
You know it's you I'm after
You're my lucky star
I'm on a rainbow rafter
Climbing up to where you are
I'll have the time, it's a climb
But I'll make it `cos I'm
Shooting high.

 

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"I've Got You Under My Skin"

"I've Got You Under My Skin"



I've got you under my skin.
I've got you deep in the heart of me.
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me.
I've got you under my skin.
I'd tried so not to give in.
I said to myself: this affair never will go so well.
But why should I try to resist when, baby, I know so well
I've got you under my skin?
I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of a warnin' voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality.
But each time that I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
I would sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of the warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats - how it yells in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Why not use your mentality - step up, wake up to reality?
But each time I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop just before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
Yes, I've got you under my skin.

 

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"If"

"If"



If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.

And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.

If a girl could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving
spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I
Would simply fly away!

 

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"If And When"

"If And When"



If and when
I've fallen in love again
I shall remember when
My world was you
When and if

I get that all terrific thrill
It will last until
I think of you
Live and learn

They say, we live and learn
And may be in return
We learn to live
Foolish me

How crazy can I be
When anyone can see
There's only you
If and when

Love ever calls again
I close the door and say
You've been this way before
If and when

Love ever calls again
I close the door and say
You've been this way before

 

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"If I Never Sing Another Song"

"If I Never Sing Another Song"



In my heyday
Young men wrote to me
Everybody seemed to have time to devote to me
Everyone I saw all swore they knew me
Once upon a song
Main attraction, couldn't buy a seat
The celebrity, celebrities were dying to meet
I've had every accolade bestowed on me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It wouldn't bother me
I had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
Always posing, but you love it all
Though you have to learn to act like you're above it all
Everything I did the world applauded
Once upon a star
Framed citations, hung on every wall
Got a scrapbook full of quotes,
I can recall them all
There were times I felt the world belonged to me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It wouldn't bother me
I had my share of fame You know my name
If I never sing another song Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
But I'm not sure how
But I'm not sure how

 

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"If I Should Love Again"

"If I Should Love Again"



If I should love again
I know that I would do
I’d think of what a fool I’ve been with you
I’d never get love get me down
I wouldn’t play the tragic clown
The way I did
When you meant all the world to me

If I should love again
How grateful I would be
To throw the shadow of your love from me
I’d never quite believe again
Or be so dam naive again
Oh, not me
I’m not the fool that I used to be

If I should love again
But then it’s plain to see
The school of thought is fooling only me
If you would say come back to me
There’s no where I would rather be
To love again
In the way that we used to do

So wear your summer smile
I’ll cry my winter tears
And turn my dreams away when love appears
I’ll say that you’ve been here before
You’re still the one that I adore
Oh can’t you see
There’s no other love for me
There’s no other love for me
There’s no other love, for me

 

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"If I Were A Bell"

"If I Were A Bell"



Ask me...how do I feel,
Ask me now that we’re cosy and clinging!
Well, sir, all I can say
Is if I were a bell I’d be ringing!
From the moment we kissed tonight
That’s the way I just got to behave
Boy, if I were a lamp I’d light!
And if I were a banner I’d wave

Ask me how do I feel
Little me with my quiet upbringing
Well, sir, all I can say
Is if I were a gate I’d be swinging!
And if I were a watch I’d start
Popping my spring...
Oh, if I were a bell
I’d go ding-dong-ding-dong-ding

Ask me how do I feel
From this chemistry lesson I’m learnin’
Well, sir, all I can say
Is if I were a bridge
I’d be burning
Yes, I’d do, my moral would crack
From the wonderful way that you look
Boy, if I were a duck I’d quack!
And if I were a goose I’d be cooked!

Ask me how do I feel,
ask me now that we're fondly caressing
Well, if I were a salad I know I'd be splashing my dressing
Ask me how to describe this whole beautiful thing
Well, if I were a bell I'd go ding dong, ding dong ding!
Ding dong, ding dong ding!

 

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"If We Only Have Love"

"If We Only Have Love"



If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn

If we only have love
To embrace without fears
We will kiss with our eyes
We will sleep without tears

If we only have love
With our arms open wide
Then the young and the old
Will stand at our side

If we only have love
Love that's falling like rain
Then the parched desert earth
Will grow green again

If we only have love
For the hymn that we shout
For the song that we sing
Then we'll have a way out

If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names

If we only have love
We can melt all the guns
And then give the new world
To our daughters and sons

If we only have love
Then Jerusalem stands
And then death has no shadow
There are no foreign lands

If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns

If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again

Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars

 

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"If You Don't Understand"

"If You Don't Understand"



He can be the biggest heel
that human nature has invented
But I'd never change him if I could
And whenever he's away from me
I nearly go demented
I'd leave him if I could

He's the face upon the pillow
That I always want to turn to
But I never know how long he'll stay
You may ask me why I choosed to live this way
Well, I'm a woman

If you don't understand
You've never known a love that was real
You've never known the way that I feel

Each time he leaves me
If You don't understand
You've never known impossible dreams
You've never known the hell
that it means to be

Missing him
Wanting him

He can take me to the moon
each time he puts his arms
around me
Only he can take the moon away
And if I regret the day this
wayward lover ever found me
He can smile and I surrender
But I couldn't live without him
He's the loosing game I always play
You may ask me why I choosed to live this way
Well, I'm a woman

If you don't understand
You've never known a love that was real
You've never known the way that I feel

Each time he leaves me
If You don't understand
You've never known impossible dreams
You've never known the hell
that it means to be

Missing him
Wanting him

If you don't understand
You've never known a love that was real
You've never known the way that I feel

Each time he leaves me

If You don't understand
You've never known impossible dreams
You've never known the hell
that it means to be

Missing him
Wanting him

 

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"If You Go Away"

"If You Go Away"



If you go away, on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night birds' song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay, I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning till
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
I'll be dying slowly till the next hello
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay I'll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I'll sail on your smile, I'll ride on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much
But if you go I won't cry
Though the good is gone from the word goodbye
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away as I know you must
There'll be nothing left in the world to trust
Just an empty room full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
I'd have been the shadow of your dog
If I thought you might have kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away