I hear the drums echoing tonight
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
The wild dogs cry out in the night
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stop to know that along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
I stopped an old man along to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa,
I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa,
I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
If I had another chance tonight
Now you're gone, I'm really not the same,
You know I won't hold you back now,
Now that I'm alone it gives me time to think
You know I won't hold you back now,
I'd try to tell you that the things we had were right
Time can erase the love we shared
But it gives me time to realize just how much you cared
I guess I hold myself to blame
Time can erase the things we said
But it gives me time to realize that you're the one who's sad
the love we had just can't be found
You know I can't hold you back now
about the years that you were mine
Time can erase the love we shared
But it gives me time to realize just how much you cared
the love we had just can't be found
You know I can't hold you back now
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song
Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain
Artist: Nat King Cole
words by Mitchell Parish
music by Hoagy Carmichael
originally written as 'Star Dust' in 1927
Reflections in my mind thoughts I can't define
Well-intended lies contemplating alibies
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
I can't stop loving you time
There's a window in a heart I've tried to look through from the start
I held it in my hand I did not understand
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
I can't stop loving you time
Ohh... Dancing with that look that's in your eyes
I can't stop loving you time
My heart is racing and the night goes on
I can almost hear a laugh coming from your photograph
Funny how a look can share a thousand meanings
Is it really you or is it me I'm blaming
A distant memory flashes over me
Even though you're gone I feel you deep inside
passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl
You're never really sure what someone else is thinking
Someone's broken something new another altered point of view
Just a certain someone's conscience playing
What lives inside the wind that cries her name
Tried to catch a shooting star what seems so close can't be that far
I'm living in a dream that's never ending
passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl
passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl
Summer came and left without a warning
Now I'm back to what I knew before you
And I remember how you loved me
I still recall the walks along the beaches
Do you remember all the nights we spent in silence
And I remember how you loved me
There's only so much I can say
And I remember how you loved me
All at once I looked and you were gone
And now you're looking back at me
Searching for a way that we can be like we were before
Somehow the city doesn't look the same
I'd give my life for one more night
Of having you here to hold me tight; oh, please
Take me there again
Oh, oh
Time was all we had until the day we said goodbye
I remember every moment of those endless summer nights
And the way your hair would glisten in the sun
Rising in the afternoon
Making love to you under the moon, oh
Every single breath you took was mine
We can have it all again
Say that you'll be with me when the sun brings your heart to mine
Oh, oh
Time was all we had until the day we said goodbye
I remember every moment of those endless summer nights
So please don't run away from what we have together
It's only you and me tonight
So let's stay lost in flight
Oh, won't you please surrender
Time was all we had until the day we said goodbye
I remember every moment of those endless summer nights
Just when I believed I couldn't ever want for more
Hold on to the nights
How do we explain something that took us by surprise
Hold on to the nights
Well, I think that I've been true to everybody else but me
Hold on to the nights ........
This ever changing world pushes me through another door
I saw you smile
And my mind could not erase the beauty of you face
Just for awhile
Won't you let me shelter you
Hold on to the memories
I wish that I could give you something more
That I could be yours
Promises in vain, love that is real but in disguise
What happens now
Do we break another rule
Let our lovers play the fool
I don't know how
To stop feeling this way
Hold on to the memories
I wish that I could give you something more
That I could be yours
And the way I feel about you makes my heart long to be free
Everytime I look into your eyes, I'm helplessly aware
That the someone I've been searching for is right there
Oceans apart day after day
If I see you next to never
I will be right here waiting for you
I took for granted, all the times
Oh, can't you see it baby
I will be right here waiting for you
I wonder how we can survive
Oh can't you see it baby
Whatever it takes
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain
How can we say forever
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now
You've got me goin' crazy
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance
You've got me goin' crazy
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
Waiting for you
Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm
I know
It's been comin' for some time
When it's over, so they say
It'll rain a sunny day
I know
Shinin' down like water
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Yesterday, and days before
Sun is cold and rain is hard
I know
Been that way for all my time
'Til forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow
I know
It can't stop, I wonder
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Yeah!
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Credence Clearwater Revival
(J.C. Fogerty)
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