When you walk away from me there is no place to put my hand
Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
I watch you walk away somehow I have to let you go now it's over
If you knew just how I really feel you might return and yet
There are so many times that people have to love and then forget
Though there might have been a way I have to force myself to say it's over
So I turn my back and turn my colar to the wind
Move along in silence trying not to think at all
I send my feet before me walk the silence street before me it's over [ strings + horns ]
If time were not a moving thing...
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By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working
She'll probably stop at lounch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing
Off the wall that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
She didn't know that I would really go
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Once I could see once I could feel
Now I am numb I've become unreal
I walk the night but without a goal
Stripped of my heart my soul
What now my love now that it's over
I feel the world closing in on me
Here come the stars tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be
What now my love now that you're gone
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care no one would cry
If I should live or die
What now my love now there is nothing
Only my last goodbye
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Pardon the way that I stare is nothing else to compare
The sign of you usually weak there are no words left to speak
But if you feel like I feel please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you [ horns ]
I love you baby and if it's quite all right
I need you baby to warm your lonely night
I love you baby trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby come on and find you stay
And let me love you baby let me love you
You're just too good to be true...
Can't take my eyes off of you can't take my eyes off of you
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Guess I could find somebody too but I don't want no one but you
How could you leave without regret am I that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find you want his love much more than mine
Cause I'll just say we've never met if I'm that easy to forget [ horns ]
They say you've found somebody new...
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The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really sayin' I love you
I hear babies cry I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world
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She wrecked the car and she was sad so afraid that I'd be mad but what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be guess you could say she saw through me and hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly caught her crying needlessly in the middle of the day
Then it was in the early spring when flowers bloom and robins sing she went away
And honey I miss you and I'm being good and I'd love to be with you if only I could
Yes one day while I was not at home when she was there and all alone the angels came
Now all I have is memories of honey and I wake up nights and call her name
And now my life's an empty stage where honey lived and honey played and love grew up
A small cloud passes overhead and cries down on the flower bed that honey loved
Yes see the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig
And honey I miss you and I'm being good and I'd love to be with you if only I could
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No matter who's a gettin' those kisses so fine
I wish those sweet lips were your lips meet mine
To see is to love you to lose leaves a scar
No matter whose baby you are
No matter whose baby you are
Someone is your lover I wish I could be
Your kind of loving was ordered for me
I wish you were mine it's my wish on a star
No matter whose baby you are
No matter whose baby you are
Somebody's warm arms are holding you tight
While my dreams awaken me all through the night
I'm sure that our love would be up too far
No matter whose baby you are
No matter whose baby you are
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It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
You're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
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From this minute on you're all I'm living for
From this minute on I'll need you more and more
And I promise that you'll never be alone
I'll be by your side from this minute on
With every beat of my heart every breath that I take
Darling you'll be a part of every move that I make
From this minute on I'll never change my mind
From this minute on until the end of time
No greater love the world has ever known
That my love for you from this minute on
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A perfect love a lasting love a love completely true
Is like a pretty evergreen that never turns to blue
And every tree's not ever green and every love's not true
Evergreen evergreen I'm lucky I found you
Evergreen evergreen I'm lucky I found you
My pretty evergreen
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