ROY DRUSKY
NOW (IS A LONELY TIME)
Mercury SR-61118September/1967
Produced by Jerry Kennedy
Recorded:Jan/1967, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
(The only warmth I know now is from a cup of coffee in these two lonely hands
And what a poor and silent partner regret is
What I had then and what I have now no use to know the hour
Now is a lonely time)
1.
NOW (IS A LONELY TIME)
(Ted Harris)« © '67 Plainspoken Music, ASCAP »
Now is a lonely time now you'll no longer be mine
Now and forever what can I do now that I'm losing you
Now is a time to regret now until I can forget
But you never told me how do I spend
The long lonely difference between now and then
Now is the last of the wine that's so sweetly flavored the time
Now there's no reason to see each day through now that I'm losing you
Now is a lonely time now you'll no longer be mine
Now and forever what can I do now that I'm losing you
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Snap of her purse being closed the flick of her cigarette lighter
The soft melody of her breathing after she went to sleep
All of these things had become part of me there goes my everything)
2.
THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING
(Dallas Frazier)« © '65 Husky Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
There goes my everything
I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor
And a voice that's softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more
There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possesion there goes my everything
[ steel ] As my mem'ry turns back the pages I can see the happy years we had before
Now the love that kept this old heart beating
Has been shattered by the closing of a door
There goes my reason for living...
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Here I am walking along quiet streets pass places of business and shops
That swarm with people during the day
But this time of morning all is still and even the buildings see my sleep
As if they were resting for another day of hustin' bustle
Up that block was our place but now it's just a number)
3.
APARTMENT NO. 9
(Johnny Paycheck - Bobby Austin)« © '66 Dream City Music, BMI »
Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine
You'll find me waiting here in Apartment No 9
Not so very long ago you walked away from me
And after all the plans we made you decided to be free
Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me
And the sun will never shine in Apartment No 9
[ steel ] I'll keep waiting in this lonely room just in case you'd change your mind
You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9
Loneliness surrounds me...
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Little paddles of water reflect the thousand thin points of color
As neon signs shine and glimmer down into them
There's a sad unshaven face looking back at me
From one of those little ponds that keeps asking
How did I get here where can I go
And even if I got there this aching in my heart would go with me)
4.
EARLY MORNING RAIN
(Gordon Lightfoot)« © '62 WB Music, ASCAP »
In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
And an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
I'm a long long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go
Out on runway No 9 big 7-0-7 set to go
But I'm stuck here in the grass where the cold wind blows
Now the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast
Well there she goes my friend she's a rolling now at last
[ guitar ] Hear that mighty engines roar see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound far above the clouds she'll fly
Where the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shine
She'll be flying o'er my home in about three hours time
This old airport's got me down it's no earthly good to me
Cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a big jet plane like you can an old freight train
So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain
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She has the face of summer could it be she has the heart of winter
I was warmed by summer withered by winter
Perhaps the hurt like the winter will go away after all it's only love)
5.
IT'S ONLY LOVE
(Hank Cochran)« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
If I don't act myself when I'm around you and I bring up things you used to say
Well I haven't learned to forget like you do but it's only love it will go away
And if I call at night when you're sleeping just to talk about yesterday
Then before I hang up I start weeping well it's only love it will go away
It's only love it will go away at least that's what you say
Yours did and mine will oh some day cause it's only love it will go away
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I've got no place to go and no reason for when I get there
But a trip along makes a distance twice as far)
6.
NEW LIPS
(John D. Carver)« © '67 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
These are new lips they're not your lips but they kiss me the way yours used to do
They're not your arms they're just two arms and they'll hold me until I'm over you
Makes no difference who I find to love me just as long as they take you off my mind
Anymore I just don't care who holds me I run to the nearest one I find
These are new lips...
And they'll hold me until I'm over you
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That look that touch silently and unnoticed slip away
And it all became an after glow to feeling of loss with no hope of finding
And then the hasty words and anger)
7.
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
(Roger Miller)« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Two broken hearts lonely looking like houses where nobody lives
Two people each having so much pride inside neither side forgives
The angry words spoken in haste such a waste of two lives
It's my belief pride is the chief cause and a decline
In the number of husbands and wives
A woman and a man a man and a woman come can and some can't and some can't
[ mandolin ] Two broken hearts lonely looking like...
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And now my food has no taste the sun no warmth laughter no music sleep no rest And tomorrow is gonna be worse than today)
8.
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE
(Dickey Lee - Steve Duffy)« © '62 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just before I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
But if she's happy thinking I still need her then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish oh where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
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Is it by the kind of teardrops the beats of your heart
The breath taking that makes one day
Or the tick of the clock that mark a long long night it's even more much more)
9.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE LONESOME
(Bill Anderson)« © '64 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
The streets are dark and empty and you walk them all alone
You think about your love affair and wonder what went wrong
You go to bed each night and pray you'll never see the dawn
Afraid of each tomorrow with its heartless cold unknown
And that's what it's like to be lonesome with a heart a broken love has taught to cry
Yes that's what it's like to be lonesome I know cause I'm a mighty lonesome guy
I know cause I'm a mighty lonesome guy
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It pleased me to touch you it lightened me to love you
It pained me to lose you and it hurts me to hope for your return
But perhaps someday somewhere my love)
10.
SOMEWHERE MY LOVE
(Paul F. Webster - Murice Jarre)« © '65 Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
Somewhere my love there will be songs to sing
Although the snow covers the hope of spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams all that your heart can hold
Someday we'll meet again my love
Someday whenever the spring breaks through
You'll come to me out of the long ago
Warm as the wind soft as the kiss of snow
[ mandolin ] Laura my own think of me now and then
God speed my love till you are mine again
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