Tony Bennett

[fox69]

"Love"

"Love"



Love can be a moment's madness
Love can be insane
Love can be a life of sadness and pain

Love can be a summer shower
Love can be the sun
Love can be two hearts that flower as one

It can be fine and free
But its true
It doesn’t always happen to you

Love can be a dying ember
Love can be a flame
Love pledged in September
May be dead in December
You may not ever remember it came

Love can be a joy forever
Or an empty name
Love is almost never ever the same

Love can be a cup of sorrow
Love can be a lie
Love can make up tomorrow and sigh

Love can be a snow-capped mountain
Love can be the truth
Love can be an endless fountain of youth

It can be ecstasy
But that kind
Is not so very easy to find

Love can be a four-score failure
Love can bring you fame
Love fresh as the morning
May be wild when it's 'borning
And then without any warning, it's tame

Love’s a tie that’s hard to sever
Or a losing game
Love is almost never ever, the same!

 

[fox69]

"Love For Sale"

"Love For Sale"



When the only sound in the empty street
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
She opens shop
When the moon so long has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town
Then her smile becomes a smirk
She goes to work

Love for sale
Appetizing, young love for sale
Love that’s fresh and still unspoiled
Love that’s only slightly soiled

Love for sale
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample her supply?
Who’s prepared to pay the price
For a trip to paradise?

Love for sale
Let the poets pipe of love
In their childish way
She knows every type of love
Better far than they

If you want the thrill of love
She’s been through the mill of love.
Old love. New love.
Every love, but true love.
Love for sale.
Appetizing young love for sale.
If you want to buy her wares,
Follow her and climb the stairs.
Love for sale.

Love for sale

 

[fox69]

"Love Is Here To Stay"

"Love Is Here To Stay"



It's very clear
Our love is here to stay;
Not for a year
But ever and a day.
The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies,
And in time they go.
But, oh, my dear,
Our love is here to stay;
Together we're going a long, long way.
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But our love is here to stay.

 

[fox69]

"Love Is The Thing"

"Love Is The Thing"



My darling, all around us people clamor
They’re striving for the things they’ll never own
The only thing that hasn’t lost its glamour
Is love and love alone

What does it matter if we’re rich or we’re poor?
Fortune and fame, they never endure
Oh, love is the thing
Love is the thing

What good is money is your heart isn’t light?
Here in your arms I’m wealthy tonight
When youth has its fling
Love is the thing

While others fight for power
We can walk among the flowers
Knowing that the best things in life
Is a thing that’s free

Love for you and me
And even though our castles crumble and fall
We have the right to laugh at them all
For love is the thing
Love is still king

 

[fox69]

"Love Scene"

"Love Scene"



Makin’ that scene
Makin’ that love scene
Got to be seen
Makin’ that love scene

A spot for two
On stage with you
Makin’ make believe
Come true

Singin’ that song
Swingin’ that love song
Together forever we belong
Can’t go wrong

Makin’ that music more and more
Taking encore after encore
Makin’ that love scene
Makin’ that love

Singin’ that song
Swingin’ that love song
Together forever we belong
Can’t go wrong

Makin’ that music more and more
Taking encore after encore
Makin’ that love scene
Makin’ that love

Makin’ that love scene
Makin’ that love

 

[fox69]

"Lover"

"Lover"



When you held your hand to my heart
Dear you did something grand to my heart
And we played the scene to perfection
Though we didn’t have the time to rehearse

Since you took control of my life
You have become the whole of my life
When you are away its awful
And when you are with me its worse

Lover, when I’m near you
And I hear you speak my name
Softly in my ear
You breathe a flame

Lover, when we’re dancing
Keep on glancing in my eyes
Til love’s only trancing music dies

All of my future is in you
You’re every plan I design
Promise you’ll always continue
To be mine

Lover, please be tender
When your tender fears depart
Lover, I surrender to my heart

Well I say that the devil is in you
And to resist you I try
But if you didn’t continue
I would die

Lover, please be tender
When your tender fears depart
Lover, I surrender to my heart
To my heart, lover

 

[fox69]

"Lullaby Of Broadway"
(feat. Dixie Chicks)

"Lullaby Of Broadway"
(feat. Dixie Chicks)



Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway
The hip hooray and ballyhoo
The lullaby of Broadway
The rumble of a subway train
The rattle of the taxis
The daffydils who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxi's

When a Broadway baby says good night
It's early in the morning
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight
Until the dawn

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Hey!

The band begins to go to town
And everyone goes crazy
You rock-a-bye your baby round
'Til everything gets hazy
Hush-a-bye, I'll buy you this and that
You hear a daddy saying
And baby goes home to her flat
To sleep all day

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day

Listen to the lullaby
Of old... Broad...way...

 

[fox69]

"Lullaby Of Broadway"

"Lullaby Of Broadway"



Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway
The hip hooray and ballyhoo
The lullaby of Broadway
The rumble of a subway train
The rattle of the taxis
The daffodils who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxi's

When a Broadway baby says good night
It's early in the morning
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight
Until the dawn

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Hey!

The band begins to go to town
And everyone goes crazy
You rock-a-bye your baby round
'Til everything gets hazy
Hush-a-bye, I'll buy you this and that
You hear a daddy saying
And baby goes home to her flat
To sleep all day

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day

Listen to the lullaby
Of old... Broad...way...

 

[fox69]

"Lullaby Of Broadway"

"Lullaby Of Broadway"



Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway
The hip hooray and ballyhoo
The lullaby of Broadway
The rumble of a subway train
The rattle of the taxis
The daffodils who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxi's

When a Broadway baby says good night
It's early in the morning
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight
Until the dawn

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Hey!

The band begins to go to town
And everyone goes crazy
You rock-a-bye your baby round
'Til everything gets hazy
Hush-a-bye, I'll buy you this and that
You hear a daddy saying
And baby goes home to her flat
To sleep all day

Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day

Listen to the lullaby
Of old... Broad...way...

 

[fox69]

"Lush Life"
(originally by Billy Strayhorn)

"Lush Life"
(originally by Billy Strayhorn)



I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingué traces
That used to be there you could see where
They'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clocktails

Then you came along with your siren's song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your pointed smile
Was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah, yes, I was wrong
Again I was wrong

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so assured
Now life is awful again
And the thoughtful of heart
Could only be a bore

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it
I'll forget you I will
And yet you are still
Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush
Life in some small dive
And there I'll be
While I rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely too