The Neil Diamond Lyrics Page

• ALL I REALLY NEED IS YOU
• AMERICA
• AND THE GRASS WON’T PAY NO MIND
• AND THE SINGER SINGS HIS SONG
• AS IF
• BEAUTIFUL NOISE
• BLUE DESTINY
• BLUE HIGHWAY
• THE BOAT THAT I ROW
• BROTHER LOVE'S TRAVELING SALVATION SHOW
• BROOKLYN ROADS
• CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?
• CANTA LIBRE
• CAPTAIN SUNSHINE
• CHERRY CHERRY
• CHILDSONG
• COLDWATER MORNING
• CRACKLIN' ROSIE
• CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUITE
• DEEP INSIDE OF YOU
• DESIREE
• DONE TOO SOON
• DON’T THINK...FEEL
• DRY YOUR EYES
• EVERYBODY
• FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS
• FORTUNE OF THE NIGHT
• FREE LIFE
• THE GIFT OF SONG
• GIRL YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON
• GITCHY GOOMY
• GOLD DON'T RUST
• HEADED FOR THE FUTURE
• HEARTLIGHT
• HELLO AGAIN
• HIGH ROLLING MAN
• HOLLY HOLY
• HOME IS A WOUNDED HEART
• HOOKED ON THE MEMORY OF YOU
• IF I LOST MY WAY
• I'M A BELIEVER
• I AM I SAID
• IF THERE WERE NO DREAMS
• IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
• I GOT THE FEELIN' (OH NO, NO)
• I’VE BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE
• JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
• JUNGLETIME
• KENTUCKY WOMAN
• LADY MAGDELENE
• LADY-OH
• LIKE YOU DO
• LONELY LADY #17
• LONGFELLOW SERENADE
• LOVE ON THE ROCKS
• MARRY ME
• A MATTER OF LOVE
• MORNINGSIDE
• MOUNTAINS OF LOVE
• NO LIMIT
• OPEN WIDE THESE PRISON DOORS
• ONE GOOD LOVE
• PLAY ME
• PORCUPINE PIE
• REMINISCE FOR A WHILE
• ROSEMARY’S WINE
• SAVE ME
• SEPTEMBER MORN
• SHAME
• SHILO
• SIGNS
• SOLITARY MAN
• SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN YOU
• SONG SUNG BLUE
• SOOLAIMON
• STARGAZER
• STREET LIFE
• SURVIVING THE LIFE
• SWEET CAROLINE
• SWEET LA DAYS
• THE LAST PICASSO
• THE STORY OF MY LIFE
• THE WAY
• TALKIN OPTIMIST BLUES
• TENNESSEE MOON
• THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHT TIME
• WALK ON WATER
• WIN THE WORLD
• WISH EVERYTHING WAS ALRIGHT
• YES I WILL
• YESTERDAY'S SONGS
• YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS
• YOU GOT TO ME

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  ALL I REALLY NEED IS YOU

  Written by Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley and Alan Lindgren

  After all these years
  After all these tears between us
  Still I couldn't find
  Someone half as right as you
  And each time I stop to think
  What it is I really need
  Here's what I conclude
  All I really need is you

  Just say what you want to say
  You don't have a chance in the world
  Can I, knowing how I've tried
  Still come close to losing you, girl
  When you are my world
  Have I spent so many years
  Trying but in vain to tell you
  Don't you know it's true
  All I really need is you

  How was I to know
  We'd have ended here
  Where we finally did
  You tied you life to mine Once upon a starry night
  And when someone asks of me
  What it is that I believe
  Say, I believe it's true
  All I really need is you

  Just say what you want to say
  We don't have a chance in the world
  Can I, knowin' how I've tried
  Still come close to losing you, girl
  When you are my world

  Have I spent so many years
  Tryin' but in vain to tell you
  Feelings come and go
  Me, I'm never gonna ever let you go
  Promise you I'm gonna always love you so
  'Cause all I really need is you

  1991 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  AMERICA

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Far
  We've been traveling far
  Without a home
  But not without a star

  Free
  Only want to be free
  We huddle close
  Hang on to a dream

  On the boats and on the planes
  They're coming to America
  Never looking back again
  They're coming to America

  Home, don't it seem so far away
  Oh, we're traveling light today
  In the eye of the storm
  In the eye of the storm

  Home, to a new and a shiny place
  Make our bed, and we'll say our grace
  Freedom's light burning warm
  Freedom's light burning warm

  Everywhere around the world
  They're coming to America
  Every time that flag's unfurled
  They're coming to America

  Got a dream to take them there
  They're coming to America
  Got a dream they've come to share
  They're coming to America

  They're coming to America
  They're coming to America
  They're coming to America
  They're coming to America
  Today, today, today, today, today

  My country 'tis of thee
  Today
  Sweet land of liberty
  Today
  Of thee I sing
  Today
  Of thee I sing
  Today

  1980 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  AND THE GRASS WON’T PAY NO MIND

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Listen easy
  You can hear God callin’
  Walking barefoot by a stream
  Come unto me
  Your hair softly fallin’
  On my face as in a dream

  And the time will be our time
  And the grass won’t pay no mind

  Sayin’ nothin’
  Lyin’ where the sun is
  Bakin’ down upon our sighs
  My lips touch you
  With their soft wet kisses
  Your hands gentle in reply

  And the time will be our time
  And the grass won’t pay no mind

  Child, touch my soul with your cries
  And the music will know what we found
  I hear a hundred goodbyes
  But today I hear only one sound
  The moment we’re living is now
  Na, na, na, na, na, na

  Young bird flyin’
  And a soft wind blowin’
  Cools the sweat inside my palms
  Close my eyes and see the flowers growin’
  As you lay sleeping in my arms

  And the time will be our time
  And the grass won’t pay no mind

  1970 Stonebridge Music

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  AND THE SINGER SINGS HIS SONG

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Young it was, true it was, Days without wond’ring, Fall with a special thing, Laugh, if I could laugh, And I did. And the singer sings his song, And the children dance along, And the singer sings his song, And we dance along. Good it was when it was, We chased the flowers, Warm summer showers. Once, it was once long ago. And the singer sings his song, And the children dance along, And the singer sings his song, And we dance along. Once, it was once long ago. And the singer sings his song, And the children dance along, And the singer sings his song, And we dance along. And the singer sings his song and we dance along. 1969 Prophet Music, Inc.

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  AS IF

  Written by Neil Diamond

  It was more than a matter of knowing
  All the words that were finally said.
  It was more than the coming or going
  Or the things that remain in your head.
  It was more than a matter of wanting
  Or needing the foolish games we played. 
   
  As if I ever cared to make you cry!
  Coulda been right; you know that it was,
  And yet you knew I was sorry.
  I dared to make you cry.
  As if I would, as if I could, as if I tried.
  
  But the words that were finally spoken,
  Like the thoughts that were made in my soul,
  And the hearts that were finally broken,
  An embrace that would never be whole.
  And the words that I never told you,
  Could have told you the foolish things I’ve said?
  
  As if I ever cared to make you cry!
  I coulda been right; you know that I was,
  And yet you knew I was sorry.
  I dared to make you cry.
  As if I would, as if I could, as if I tried.
  
  As if I ever cared to make you cry!
  Coulda been right; you know that I was,
  And yet you knew I was sorry.
  I dared to make you cry.
  Coulda been strong, but the words didn’t rhyme;
  All the things that would come between us.
  1977 Stonebridge Music
  

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  BEAUTIFUL NOISE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  What a beautiful noise
  Comin' up from the street
  Got a beautiful sound
  It's got a beautiful beat

  It's a beautiful noise
  Goin' on everywhere
  Like the clickety-clack
  Of a train on a track
  It's got a rhytm to spare

  It's a beautiful noise
  And it's a sound that I love
  And it fits me as well
  As a hand in a glove
  Yes it does, yes it does

  What a beautiful noise
  Comin' up from the park
  It's the song of this kids
  And it plays until dark

  It's the song of the cars
  On their furious flights
  But there's even romance
  In the way that they dance
  To the beat of the lights

  It's a beautiful noise
  And it's a sound that I love
  And ist makes me feel good
  Like a hand in a glove
  Yes it does, yes it does
  What a beautiful noise

  It's a beautiful noise
  Made of joy and of strife
  Like a symphony played
  By the passing parade
  It's the music of life

  What a beautiful noise
  Comin' into my room
  And it's beggin' for me
  Just to give it a tune

  1976 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  BLUE DESTINY

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Once you were mine, and you wanted the whole world to know.
  Now ev’rytime I’m around, you’ve got somewhere to go.
  I ask my heart ev’ry day,
  “Can there be some other way?”
  Tell me, what can I do to change my blue destiny?
  
  First, you decide that our love will always be true.
  Next thing I know, you’re running with somebody new.
  Once you were mine alone.
  Now you’re just someone I’ve known.
  Tell me, what can I do to change my blue destiny?
  
  And there were times when love was new
  And both our hearts were gay.
  But now the signs say we’re through and
  Bound for separate ways.
  And how can you love when your love doesn’t want you at all?
  Girl, when you turn me away, got my back to the wall.
  
  Still, I forgive all your lies, ‘cause darlin’, I realize
  That it’s you, only you, can change my blue destiny.
  Baby, you, only you, can change my blue destiny.
  
  1962 Stonebridge Music
  
  
  

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  BLUE HIGHWAY

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Harlan Howard

  So long, big city; it's time to say goodbye.
  I'm longing for those country roads;
  I need to see the sky.
  Think I'll take a swing down south, visit Tennessee.
  See if that girl Annie still remembers me.
  
  Gonna take that blue highway and leave this sorry town.
  Stayed too long, but now I'm gone, and I know where I'm bound.
  I don't wanna take the interstate; it represents all the things I hate.
  I'm rollin' down that blue highway.
  
  So long, confusion; it's time to slow things down.
  Say goodbye to my old friends, ease on out of town.
  I made me some money here but paid for ev'ry day.
  And ev'ry mile just makes me smile, 'cause I made my getaway.
  
  Gonna take that blue highway and leave this sorry town.
  I've stayed too long, but now I'm gone, and I know where I'm bound.
  I've had it up to here with worry.
  From now on, I'm in no hurry, rollin' down that blue highway.
  
  I'll be ridin' that blue highway and leave this sorry town.
  I've stayed too long, but now I'm gone, and I know where I'm bound.
  I've had it up to here with worry.
  From now on, I'm in no hurry, rollin' down that blue highway.
  I'll be rollin' down that blue highway.
  You can find me on that blue highway.

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  THE BOAT THAT I ROW

  Written by Neil Diamond

  I don’t have a lot but with me that’s fine,
  Whatever I got, well, I know it’s mine.
  I don’t go around with the local crowd.
  I don’t dig what’s in, so I guess I’m out.
  I’m sayin’ these things so you know me, baby.
  So you understand what I’m all about.
  
  The boat that I row won’t cross no ocean;
  The boat that I row won’t get me there soon.
  But I got the love and if you got the notion,
  The boat that I row’s big enough for two,
  Just me and you.
  
  There ain’t a man alive can tell me what to say.
  I choose my own side and I like it that way.
  I don’t worry about all the things that I’m not.
  There’s only one thing that I want I ain’t got.
  You know that I’m talkin’ about you, baby.
  But you better know before you come along.
  
  The boat that I row won’t cross no ocean;
  The boat that I row won’t get me there soon.
  But I got the love and if you got the notion,
  The boat that I row’s big enough for two,
  Just me and you.
  
  I’m sayin’ these things so you know me, baby.
  So you understand what I’m all about.
  The boat that I row won’t cross no ocean;
  The boat that I row won’t get me there soon.
  But I got the love and if you got the notion,
  The boat that I row’s big enough for two,
  Just me and you.
  
  1966 Tallyrand Music, Inc.
  
  

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  BROTHER LOVE'S TRAVELING SALVATION SHOW

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Hot August night
  And the leaves hanging down
  And the grass on the ground smelling sweet
  Move up the road
  To the outside of town
  And the sound of that good gospel beat

  Sits a ragged tent
  Where there ain't no trees
  And that gospel group
  Telling you and me

  It's Love
  Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
  Pack up the babies
  Grab the old ladies
  Everyone goes
  Everyone knows
  Brother Love's show

  Room gets suddenly still
  And when you'd almost bet
  You could hear yourself sweat, he walks in
  Eyes black as coal
  And when he lifts his face
  Every ear in the place is on him

  Starting soft and slow
  Like a small earthquake
  And when he lets go
  Half the valley shakes

  It's Love, Love
  Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
  Pack up the babies
  Grab the old ladies
  Everyone goes
  Everyone knows
  Brother Love's show

  Sermon

  Take my hand in yours
  Walk with me this day
  In my heart, I know
  I will never stray
  Halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle

  
  It's Love, Love
  Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
  Pack up the babies
  Grab the old ladies
  Everyone goes
  Everyone knows
  Brother Love's show
  Amen

  1969 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  BROOKLYN ROADS

  Written by Neil Diamond

  If I close my eyes
  I can almost hear my mother
  Callin', "Neil, go find your brother
  Daddy's home, and it's time for supper
  Hurry on"

  And I see two boys
  Racin' up two flights of staircase
  Squirmin' into Papa's embrace
  And his whiskers warm on their face
  Where's it gone
  Oh, where's it gone

  Two floors above the butcher
  First door on the right
  Life filled to the brim
  As I stood by my window
  And I looked out of those
  Brooklyn roads

  I can still recall
  The smells of cookin' in the hallways
  Rubbers drying in the doorways
  And report cards I was always
  Afraid to show

  Mama'd come to school
  And as I'd sit there softly crying
  Teacher'd say, "He's just not trying
  He's got a good head if he'd apply it"
  But you know yourself
  It's always somewhere else

  I built me a castle
  With dragons and kings
  And I'd ride off with them
  As I stood by my window
  And looked out on those
  Brooklyn roads

  Thought of going back
  But all I'd see are stranger's faces
  And all the scars that love erases
  But as my mind walks through thoses places
  I'm wonderin'
  What's come of them

  Does some other young boy
  Come home to my room
  Does he dream what I did
  As he stands by my window
  And looks out on those
  Brooklyn roads

  1970 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME

  
  

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Bill LaBounty

  
  

  You got to take your time now, 
  If love is gonna take you by the hand.
  You need to take your time, though, 
  'Cause love is not a thing you can command.
  There's got to be a reason, got to be a closeness.
  It's got to have a fellin' only you can know.
  And when you find love, hold on tight.
  Don't ever waste another night.
  You're gonna make it through in spite of your fears.
  Can anybody hear me?
  Is anybody out there?
  
  I listen to the river and hear the river callin' out her name.
  I'm tryin' to forgive her, but nothin's ever gonna be the same.
  There's got to be a reason, got to be a closeness.
  It's got to have a fellin' only you can know.
  And when you find love, hold on tight.
  Don't ever waste another night.
  You're gonna make it through in spite of your fears.
  Can anybody hear me?
  Is anybody out there?
  
  There's got to be a reason, got to be a closeness.
  It's got to have a fellin' only you can know.
  And when you find love, hold on tight.
  Don't ever waste another night.
  You're gonna make it through in spite of your fears.
  Can anybody hear me?
  Is anybody out there?
  Can anybody hear me?
  Is anybody out there?
  

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  Canta Libre

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Canta libre, Canta vida, de mi madre, y mi padre, 
  Canta mi corazon, Para los ninos, y sus ninos, canta libre.
  
  I got music runnin' in my head, 
  Makes me feel like a young bird flyin',
  'Cross my mind and layin' in my bed, 
  Keeps me away from the thought of dyin'.
  Canta libre, Canta vida, de mi madre y mi padre.
  
  I got music runnin' in my brain, 
  Ev'ry song with it's own kind of meaning, 
  Cleanse the soul and wash away the pain, 
  Baptized by the song that you're singing. 
  Canta libre, Canta la vida, 
  siempre conmigo, canta libre.
  
  Canta libre, canta la vida.
  
  Canta mi corazon, Paralos ninos, y sus ninos, canta libre,
  de mi madre, y mi padre, canta libre, canta libre. 
  
  

  Captain Sunshine

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Captain Sunshine, make me drink wine, 
  Make me feel fine when I'm feelin' wrongly down.
  He don't take much, he don't make much,
  But ah, to be such a man as he,
  and walk so pure between the earth and the sea. 
  
  Captain Sunshine, he do me fine, 
  Make the words rhyme when he knows the tune is sad. 
  He don't take much, he don't make much,
  But ah, to be such a man as he,
  and walk so pure between the earth and the sea.
  
  He don't take much, he don't make much,
  But ah, to be such a man as he, 
  and walk so pure between the earth and the sea.
  
  

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  CHERRY, CHERRY

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Baby loves me
  Yes, yes she does
  Ah, the girl's outta sight, yeah
  Says she loves me
  Yes, yes she does
  Gonna show me tonight, yeah

  She got the way to move me, Cherry
  She got the way to groove me
  She got the way to move me
  She got the way to groove me

  Tell your mamma, girl, I can't stay long
  We got things we gotta catch up on
  Mmmm, you know
  You know what I'm sayin'
  Can't stand still while the music is playin'

  Y'ain't got no right
  No, no you don't
  Ah, to be so exciting
  Won't need bright lights
  No, no we won't
  Gonna make our own lighting

  She got the way to move me, Cherry
  She got the way to groove me
  She got the way to move me
  She got the way to groove me

  No, we won't tell a soul where we gone to
  Girl, we do whatever we want to
  Ah, I love the way that you do me
  Cherry, babe, you really get to me

  She got the way to move me, Cherry
  She got the way to groove me
  She got the way to move me
  She got the way to groove me

  1966 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  CHILDSONG

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Weeping sky
  We bring the sun
  To make you glad
  And fill you with the day.
  
  Quiet tree
  We have the wind
  To make you dance
  And fill you with our play.
  
  And you shall be glad
  And you shall dance
  And you shall come
  To hear our song
  And learn its tune
  Before it fades away.
  
  1970 Prophet Music, Inc.
  
  

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  COLDWATER MORNING

  Written by Neil Diamond

  One, knowing I’m one, hearing of two,
  And like a child believing dreams,
  Always a dream to take you home.
  
  Day, after the day, there comes the night,
  There comes the knowing when you laugh.
  If you should laugh, the night alone will hear,
  And the night don’t care.
  
  Coldwater morning,
  Take off your nighttime shoes.
  Coldwater morning,
  I been waiting so long for you.
  
  One, knowing I’m one, hearing of two,
  Hearing of things that I once had,
  That you once had.
  And when the night would come
  We’d sleep like one.
  
  Coldwater morning,
  Take off your nighttime shoes.
  Coldwater morning,
  I been waiting so long for you.
  
  I been waiting so long for you.
  
  1970 Prophet Music, Inc.
  
  

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  Common Ground

  written by Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley, and Alan Lindgren

  If you love me,
  say you love me.
  These are words we find hard to share.
  Would you trust me?
  Could I trust you?
  Will you always want me there?
  Or is this just some game called 'nothin' goes right'?
  Is this just me to blame
  for making these endless nights?
  And who do we think we are,
  some kind of cosmic shooting stars?
  No we're not.
  haven't got all that time.
  Got to find a common ground,
  not the other way around
  for you and I.
  We need to walk on common ground.
  We need to make a lovin' sound.
  While we got time,
  we got to try.
  
  Were you loving?
  Was I caring?
  These are feelings too hard to  measure.
  I'll be loving.
  You be caring.
  Will it always feel this way?
  Or will we find the way to make it alright?
  Will that sun come someday
  to wake up this endless night?
  And who do we think we are,
  some kind of cosmic shooting stars?
  No, we're not.
  Haven't got all that time.
  Looking for a common ground,
  not the other way around
  for you and I.
  Got to find a common ground.
  Need to make a lovin' sound
  while we got time,
  you and I.
  
  And we still have the time to make it work right,
  make that sun come to shine
  and wake up this endless night.
  And who do we think we are,
  some kind of cosmic shooting stars?
  No we're not.
  Haven't got all that time.
  Got to find a common ground,
  not the other way around,
  you and I.
  Got to walk on common ground.
  Got to make some lovin' sounds.
  We got time to look for some common ground,
  find a lovin' sound,
  you and I.
  Lookin' for a common ground,
  not the other way around
  for you and I.
  Got to walk on common ground,
  you and I.
  

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  CRACKLIN' ROSIE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Cracklin' Rosie, get on board
  We're gonna ride till there ain't no more to go
  Taking it slow
  Lord, don't you know
  Have me a time with a poor man's lady

  Hitchin' on a twilight train
  Ain't nothing there that I care to take along
  Maybe a song
  To sing when I want
  Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune

  Oh, I love my Rosie child
  She got the way to make me happy
  You and me, we go in style
  Cracklin' Rosie you're a store-bought woman
  You make me sing like a guitar hummin'
  So hang on to me, girl
  Our song keeps runnin' on

  Play it now
  Play it now
  Play it now, my baby

  Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile
  God if it lasts for an hour, that's all right
  We got all night
  To set the world right
  Find us a dream that don't asks no questions, yeah

  Oh, I love my Rosie child
  You got the way to make me happy
  You and me, we go in style
  Cracklin' Rosie, you're a store-bought woman
  You make me sing like a guitar hummin'
  So hang on to me, girl
  Our song keeps runnin' on

  Play it now
  Play it now
  Play it now, my baby

  Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile
  God if it lasts for an hour, that's all right
  We got all night
  To set the world right
  Find us a dream that don't asks no questions, yeah

  1970 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUITE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  I got a song been on my mind
  And the tune can be sung and the words all rhyme
  Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deet dee dee

  Though it don't say much and it won't offend
  If you sing it in school then they're liable to send you home
  Never knowing what you're showin'
  Think you're growin' your own tea
  Good lord!

  Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin'
  Crunchy granola's neat
  Sing it out
  Alright
  Da da da da
  Da da da da da
  Dee dee dee dum

  I know a man was outta touch
  And he'd hide in a house and he didn't say much
  Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deet dee doo

  And like a man with a tiger outside his gate
  Not only couldn't relax but he couldn't relate
  Now he can
  Family man
  Tried my brand
  Dig

  Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin'
  Crunchy granola's neat
  Sing it out
  Alright
  Da da da da
  Da da da da da
  Dee dee dee do
  Deedle-ee dum dum
  I'll have a double, please

  1972 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  DEEP INSIDE OF YOU

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Good morning. I love you.
  Now that you're here where you belong, 
  I want to be the man you need.
  Just tell me you love me, 
  Because I need to hear it, too.
  Just let me be the one you carry deep inside of you.
  
  I need you beside me; the road is so long.
  You run through my heart like the words of a bitter-sweet song.
  I'd travel the whole world, across the earth, around the sun
  if I could be the one you carry deep inside of you. 
  
  Without you beside me, the road is so long.
  You live in my heart, and it hurts when I think of you gone. 
  I need you in my way.
  I have no right to love so true.
  But let me be the one, the one who lives inside of you.
  Just let me be the one you carry deep inside of you.
  
  

  ---

  DESIREE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  It was the third of June
  On that younger day
  Well I became a man
  At the hands of a girl
  Almost twice my age
  And she came to me
  Just like a morning sun
  And it wasn't so much
  Her words as such
  As the way they were sung
  It was the way they were sung

  Desiree
  Oh, Desiree
  There I was found
  By the sweet passion sound
  Of you loving song
  Time was right, the night was long
  Remember, Desiree
  Oh Desiree
  Somehow I knew
  I could only have you
  'Til the morning light
  If only for that single night
  Sweet Desiree, you made it right.

  Then came the fourth of June
  On that sleepless night
  Well I tossed and I turned
  While the thought of her burned
  Up and down my mind
  For she was there and gone
  Without one regret
  But she continues on
  Like the words of a song
  I could not forget
  I could not forget

  Desiree
  Oh, Desiree
  There I was found
  By the sweet passion sound
  Of your loving song
  Time was right, the night was long
  Remember, Desiree
  Oh, Desiree
  And though somehow I knew
  I could only have you
  'Til the morning light
  The night was long, the time was right
  Do you remember, Desiree

  1977 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  DONE TOO SOON

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice,
  Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart and
  Genghis Khan and
  On to H. G. Wells.
  
  Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din
  Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth
  And Alexanders
  King and Graham Bell.
  
  Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler,
  Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo,
  Karl and Chico Marx,
  Albert Camus.
  
  E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau,
  Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman,
  Alan Freed and
  Buster Keaton too
  
  And each one there
  Has one thing shared:
  They have sweated beneath the same sun,
  Looked up in wonder at the same moon,
  And wept when it was all done
  
  For bein’ done too soon,
  For bein’ done too soon.
  For bein’ done.
  
  1970 Prophet Music, Inc.
  
  

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  Don't Think...Feel

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Sleepy old sun, sleepy old day, 
  sleepy old tree gonna make me some shade.
  Sleepy old time on my side of town, 
  I'm feelin' fine, I'll explain to you now.
  
  Don't think, feel; ain't no big deal.
  Just make it real and don't think, feel.
  It don't take plans to clap your hands,
  when it feels nice just don't think twice. 
  
  Some worry all day 'bout who they can trust, 
  some worry all night 'bout money and lust.
  Worry they do and worried they die--
  and after they're gone just the bankers cry.
  
  Don't think, feel; ain't no big deal.
  Just make it real and don't think, feel.
  It don't take plans to clap your hands,
  when it feels nice just don't think twice.
  
  Life is a card, you take what you get.
  You do what you can to feel no regret.
  You do what you can, forget about words, 
  just go with the feelin' it usually works.
  
  Don't think, feel; ain't no big deal.
  Just make it real and don't think, feel.
  It don't take plans to clap your hands,
  when it feels nice you don't think twice.
  
  Don't think, feel; ain't no big deal.
  Just make it real and don't think, feel.
  It don't take plans to clap your hands,
  when it feels nice you don't think twice.
  
  Don't think, feel; ain't no big deal.
  Just make it real and don't think, feel.

  ---

  Dry Your Eyes

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and J.R. Robertson

  Dry your eyes and take your song out, it's a newborn afternoon.
  And if you can't recall the singer you can still recall the tune.
  Dry your eyes and play it slowly like you're marching off to war;
  sing it like you know he'd want it, like we sang it once before.
  And from the center of the circle to the midst of the waiting crowd,
  if it ever be forgotten sing it long and sing it loud and come dry your eyes.
  
  And he taught us more about giving than we ever cared to know, 
  but we came to find the secret and we never let it go.
  And it was more than being holy and it was less than being free,
  and if you can't recall the reason can you hear the people sing.
  Right through the lightning and the thunder to the dark side of the moon,
  to that distant falling angel that descended much too soon
  and come dry your eyes.
  

  Come dry your eyes.

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  EVERYBODY

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Jesse Diamond

  Ev'rybody needs someone that they're gonna believe in. 
  Ev'rybody's the same around the world.
  If you wanna find someone, then you only have to show it.
  Nothin's sadder than love that's left unheard.
  
  Me, how I tried to deny that it pointed to you.
  Too many roads up ahead lookin' shiny and new.
  Ev'rybody needs someone, but it's gotta mean something.
  Giving up a piece of you's the hardest part.
  If you wanna have someone, then you really got to know it.
  Doesn't take very much to break a heart. 
  May I get lost in your eyes for a lifetime or two?
  Something about you and I leads me right to the truth.
  
  Some people always got something they got left to say.
  Some need to keep it inside; they just wanna hide away.
  
  And I'm glad I have you there, 'cause I would've been nowhere.
  Bein' here all alone's a lonely sound.
  
  Ev'rybody needs someone that they're gonna believe in.
  Ev'rybody's the same around the world.
  

  ---

  FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS

  Written by Neil Diamond and Richard Bennett

  Money talks
  But it don't sing and dance
  And it don't walk
  And long as I can have you here with me
  I'd much rather be
  Forever in blue jeans

  Honey's sweet
  But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat
  And if you pardon me
  I'd like to say
  We'll do okay
  Forever in blue jeans

  Maybe tonight
  Maybe tonight, you and I
  All alone by the fire
  Nothing around
  But the sound of my heart
  And your sighs

  Money talks
  But it don't sing and dance
  And it don't walk
  And long as I can have you here with me
  I'd much rather be
  Forever in blue jeans, babe

  1979 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

  Fortune Of The Night

  written by Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley, and Alan Lindgren

  Fortune of the night,
  callin' out my name and saying she'll be mine tonight,
  fortune of the night.
  
  Oh, my heart is tellin' me,
  oh, I better put a move on.
  If she got away,
  then not a day would go by without some blue song.
  
  All my life,
  I've waited for just tonight
  to say that I love her.
  And all this time,
  I've wanted to call her mine
  and how her I love her.
  
  Fortune of the night,
  callin' out my name and saying
  I will find her.
  Fortune of the night,
  is there any doubt I'll need to have her by my side,
  fortune of the night?
  
  Fortune of the night.
  And oh, I'm really movin' now 'cause,
  oh, I would feel like a fool, yeah,
  if she got away.
  They'd only say the rumors would truly be true, yeah,
  that all  this time
  I waited to call you mine.
  And you got to know it.
  
  Fortune of the night,
  callin' out my name and saying I will find her.
  Fortune of the night,
  isn't any doubt I'll need to have you by my side,
  fortune of the night.
  
  To want her,
  to love her,
  oh, I do.
  And now's my time.
  I've waited, but now's my time to show that I love her.
  Fortune of the night,
  callin' out to me and saying I was chosen.
  Fortune of the night,
  tellin' me that we'll be there
  until the morning light,
  fortune of the night.
  ah ah ah ah ah
  Fortune of the night,
  I hear you call.
  ah ah ah ah ah
  Are you gonna keep an eye on me tonight?
  ah ah ah ah ah Fortune of the night, I hear you call.
  ah ah ah ah ah are you gonna sing your song with me sometime?
  ah ah ah ah ah Fortune of the night, I hear you call.
  ah ah ah ah ah are you gonna shine your light on me and make her mine?
  

  ---

  FREE LIFE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Free life.
  Scratch on my head.
  Pick me a tune.
  Sing it like a black man,
  Oh, oh, oh, mm, mm, mm.
  
  Free life.
  You know my name.
  I’ll leave on a light
  And burn it in the window,
  Oh, oh, oh, mm, mm, mm.
  
  Talking ‘bout ‘round, brown ladies
  And maybe some wine.
  All be fine.
  If she ain’t no belle, hell, it’s OK;
  I won’t pay no mind.
  We’ll just have us a time.
  
  Free life.
  I’ll wait right here,
  But I ain’t no kid
  Believin’ in the Bible,
  Oh, oh, oh, mm, mm, mm.
  
  Ah, free life.
  
  1970 Prophet Music, Inc.
  
  

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  GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Love you so much can't count all the ways
  I'd die for you girl and all they can say is
  "He's not your kind"

  They never get tired of puttin' me down and
  I never know when I come around
  What I'm gonna find
  Don't let them make up your mind
  Don't you know

  Girl, you'll be a woman soon
  Please come take my hand
  Girl, you'll be a woman soon
  Soon, you'll need a man

  I've been misunderstood for all of my life
  But what they're sayin', girl, just cuts like a knife
  "The boy's no good"

  Well, I finally found what I've been lookin' for
  But if they get a chance they'll end it for sure
  Sure they would
  Baby I've done all I could
  it's up to you

  Girl, you'll be a woman soon
  Please come take my hand
  Girl, you'll be a woman soon
  Soon, you'll need a man

  1967 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  Gitchy Goomy

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Gitchy Goomy, gitchy gaddy, sit you laddie down on your daddy's knee,
  And ain't it a nice place to be?
  Goggin noggin, papa's rockin' like a mockin' bird in a windy tree,
  and that ain't no place for me. 
  Been there one time, been there two times, 
  been there three times more than I care to be, 
  But we're gonna make it through, Gitchy Goomy.
  
  Life is good, life is fine, life is warm, 
  life is kind, can you see it?
  Love is great, love is right, 
  keeps you warm late at night when you need it. 
  Baby boy, daddy's joy, life's a toy, 
  but you don't wanna break it. 
  Like a sweet symphony, all you need is the key, you can play it. 
  
  Gitchy Goomy, gitchy gaddy, sit you laddie down while I have my say,
  Now don't be runnin' away.
  Goggin Noggin, papa's talkin' 
  don't go walkin' off like you mean to play, 
  Well, you can have it your way.
  Been there one time, been there two times, 
  been there three times more than I care to say,
  But you're gonna be O.K. Gitchy Goomy.
  
  Life is good, life is fine, life is warm, 
  life is kind, can you see it?
  Love is great, love is right,
  keeps you warm late at night when you need it. 
  Baby boy, daddy's joy, life's a toy,
  but you don't wanna break it. 
  Like a sweet symphony, all you need is the key, you can play it. 
  
  Been there one time, been there two times,
  been there three times more than I care to be, 
  Seen it one time, seen it two times, 
  Seen it three times, Lord 'n' it's plain to see.
  Ah, you gonna make it through Gitchy Goomy.
  You 'n' me gonna make it through Gitchy Goomy.
  Ah, you gonna make it through Gitchy Goomy.
  
  

  ---

  HEADED FOR THE FUTURE

  Written by Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley and Alan Lindgren

  
  Hey, we're headed for the future
  Give us some room
  We're gonna build a new world

  Say, we're headed for the future
  Give us some time
  We're gonna make it work right

  Yeah, we're gonna build a new dream
  We've got to make it stand tall
  It's got to last a long time

  Lean on me
  And I'm gonna lean on you
  We're headed for the future
  And the future's now
  Show you how

  Yeah, we're headed for a new place
  A step at a time
  We're gonna take a long ride

  Time don't wait around forever
  We've got to do it right now
  Let's do it all together

  Lean on me
  And I'm gonna lean on you
  We're headed for the future
  And the future's now
  Show you how
  Lean on me
  'Cause I'm gonna lean on you

  We're headed for the future
  Come on, lean on me
  And I'm gonna lean on you
  We're headed for the future
  And the future's ours

  Come on, come on
  Come on, come on
  Come on, come on
  Yeah

  1986 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  HEARTLIGHT

  Written by Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager

  Come back again
  I want you to stay next time
  'Cause sometimes the world ain't kind
  When people get lost like you and me

  I just made a friend
  A friend is someone you need
  But now that he had to go away
  I still feel the words that he might say

  Turn on your heartlight
  Let it shine whereever you go
  Let it make a happy glow
  For all the world to see

  Turn on your heartlight
  In the middle of a young boy's dream
  Don't wake me up too soon
  Gonna take a ride across the moon
  You and me

  He's lookin' for home
  'Cause everyone needs a place
  And home's the most excellent place of all
  And I'll be right here if you should call me

  Turn on your heartlight
  Let it shine whereever you go
  Let it make a happy glow
  For all the world to see

  Turn on your heartlight
  In the middle of a young boy's dream
  Don't wake me up too soon
  Gonna take a ride across the moon
  You and me

  Turn on you heartlight now
  Turn on you heartlight now

  Stonebridge Music (ASCAP), New Hidden Valley Music (ASCAP) & Carole= Bayer Sager Music (BMI)

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  HELLO AGAIN

  Written by Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren

  Hello again, hello
  Just called to say 'hello'
  I couldn't sleep at all tonight
  And I know it's late
  But I couldn't wait

  Hello, my friend, hello
  Just called to let you know
  I think about you every night
  When I'm here alone
  And you're there at home
  Hello

  Maybe it's been crazy
  And maybe I'm to blame
  But I put my heart above my head
  We've been through it all
  And you loved me just the same
  And when you're not there
  I just need to hear

  Hello, my friend, hello
  It's good to need you so
  It's good to love you like I do
  And to feel this way
  When I hear you say
  Hello

  Hello, my friend, hello
  Just called to let you know
  I think about you every night
  And I know it's late
  But I couldn't wait
  Hello

  1980 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  High Rolling Man

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Roll 'em in the morning, roll without no warning, 
  Hot damn, hot damn, hot damn, you know that he could and he would, 
  He's a high rollin' man in a high rollin' neighborhood.
  
  Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em.
  Don't do much good, but good Lord, he could roll 'em.
  Lord, he was a dreamer, hardly worth redeeming,
  Hot damn, hot damn, hot damn, you know that he was, Lord, he was,
  But when it comes to his thumbs, ain't a man who can do what he does.
  
  Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll'em, 
  Don't do much good, but good Lord, he could roll 'em.
  Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, 
  Don't do much good, but good Lord, he could roll 'em.
  Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em, roll 'em,
  Don't do much good, but good Lord, he could roll 'em.
  

  ---

  HOLLY HOLY

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Holly holy eyes
  Dream of only you
  Where I am, what I am
  What I believe in
  Holly holy

  Holly holy dream
  Wanting only you
  And she comes
  And I run just like the wind will
  Holly holy

  Sing a song
  Sing a song of songs
  Sing it out
  Sing it strong

  Call the sun in the dead of the night
  And the sun's gonna rise in the sky
  Touch a man who can't walk upright
  And that lame man, he's gonna fly
  And I fly
  And I fly

  Holly holy love
  Take the lonely child
  And the seed
  Let it be filled with tomorrow
  Holly holy

  Sing a song
  Sing a song of songs
  Sing it out
  Sing it strong

  Call the sun in the dead of the night
  And the sun's gonna rise in the sky
  Touch a man who can't walk upright
  And that lame man, he's gonna fly
  And I fly, yeah
  And I fly

  Holly holy dream
  Dream of only you
  Holly holy love
  Holly holy love

  1969 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  ---

  Home Is A Wounded Heart

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Home is a wounded heart, haven't you heard the story?
  He's out for love and for glory and she's waitin' home by the fire.
  And wasn't it yesterday, wasn't it me who said it?
  I swore that you'd never regret it.
  Now home is a wounded heart.
  
  It's a complicated thing, not an ordinary thing
  and my heart just breaks in two 
  'cause I can see you standing there. 
  You know that I can't bear your wounded heart.
  
  Paint me a red balloon; give me a string and baby I'll tie it,
  give me a ring and baby I'll buy it and bring it on home to you.
  Home is a wounded heart.
  

  ---

  IF I LOST MY WAY

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Gary Burr

  If I lost my way, would you stand with me,
  would you love me still and care for what I need if I lost my way?
  If I lost the faith to face up to the test, would I let you down?
  Would you love me less if I lost my way?
  
  Tell me I'm afraid without good reason.
  Say that I'm a fool to feel this way.
  Could it be the me that you believed in
  is all you really need to make you stay?
  If I lost my way, if I lost my way.
  If I lost my dreams, could I keep your trust?
  Promise that our love would not turn to dust if I lost my way.
  
  Tell me I'm afraid without good reason.
  Say that I'm a fool to feel this way.
  Could it be the me that you believed in
  is all you really need to make you stay?
  If I lost my way, would you stand with me,
  would you love me still and care for what I need if I lost my way?
  If I lost my way, if I lost my way, if I lost my way.
  

  I

  ---

  THE GIFT OF SONG

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Songs to make you free
  And songs to take you to another time
  Forgotten reasons that are made of rhyme
  For you and me
  The songs of life
  That somehow make us free

  Songs to fill the heart
  Like quiet candles on a winter’s night
  They touch the space that lies between you and I
  And I will sing
  The songs of love
  That speak to you and me

  Then wake the sleeping child
  And let me sing to you of other times
  And let me make your dreams as sweet as mine
  For I will bring
  The gift of song
  That only makes us free

  1975 Stonebridge Music

  ---

  GOLD DON'T RUST

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond, Gary Burr and Bob DiPiero

  I know you worry ev'ry time I go away.
  You wonder will these sweet, sweet feelings shine or fade.
  Well, that's a question you don't have to ask.
  What heaven makes, it always makes to last.
  
  Gold don't rust. Love don't lie.
  I'll be true 'til the day that I die.
  Trust in me; you will find, baby, you're the gold in this heart of mine,
  and that gold will shine for a long, long time. 
  
  I wish that I could give you what you need from me.
  But what good is a promise or a guarantee?
  Love is still a simple act of faith.
  And a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
  
  Gold don't rust. Love don't lie.
  I'll be true 'til the day that I die.
  Trust in me; you will find, baby, you're the gold in this heart of mine,
  and that gold will shine for a long, long time. 
  
  Love is still a simple act of faith.
  And a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
  
  Gold don't rust. Love don't lie.
  I'll be true 'til the day that I die. 
  Trust in me; you will find, baby, you're the gold in this heart of mine,
  and that gold will shine for a long, long time. 
  Baby you're the gold in this heart of mine,
  and that gold will shine for a long, long, long time, yeah.
  
  

  Hooked On The Memory Of You

  written by Neil Diamond

  Stay with me, here with me.
  I want you near with me.
  I'm a man that's hooked on the mem'ry of you
  and I. Who knows why?
  I only know that I'm sure I am
  hooked on the mem'ry of you.
  
  Time, time standing still.
  I know it's you.
  I always will
  need you to
  lay with me; lie with me.
  Spend your desire with me
  if you can.
  I'm hooked on the mem'ry of you
  and I. Who knows why?
  I guess I wanted for you to be
  hooked on the mem'ry of me.
  
  Time, time standing still.
  I know it's you.
  I always will
  want you to be
  here wit me.
  I want you to stay right here with me.
  I need you to love with me;
  laugh with me.
  Forgive the past with me.
  I know you can.
  I'm hooked on the mem'ry of
  you and I. Who knows why?
  Guess I just wanted for you to be
  hooked on the mem'ry of me.
  
  Oh, you know that it's true.
  Not a thing I can do.
  I'm hooked on the mem'ry of you.
  

  ---

  ---

  I'M A BELIEVER

  Written by Neil Diamond

  I thought love was only true in fairy tales
  Meant for someone else but not for me
  Love was out to get me
  That's the way it seemed
  Disappointment haunted all my dreams

  Then I saw her face
  Now I'm a believer
  Not a trace of doubt in my mind
  I'm in love
  I'm a believer
  I couldn't leave her if I tried

  I thought love was more or less a giving thing
  Seems the more I gave, the less I got
  What's the use in trying
  All you get is pain
  When I needed sunshine, I got rain

  Then I saw her face
  Now I'm a believer
  Not a trace of doubt in my mind
  I'm in love
  I'm a believer
  I couldn't leave her if I tried

  1966 Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP) and Stonebridge Music= (ASCAP)

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  I AM... I SAID

  Written by Neil Diamond

  L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time
  And the feeling is 'lay back'
  Palm trees grow, and rents are low
  But you know I keep thinkin' about
  Making my way back

  Well I'm New York City born and raised
  But nowadays, I'm lost between two shores
  L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
  New York's home, but it ain't mine no more

  "I am," I said
  To no one there
  An no one heard at all
  Not even the chair
  "I am," I cried
  "I am," said I
  And I am lost, and I can't even say why
  Leavin' me lonely still

  Did you ever read about a frog who dreamed of bein' a king
  And then became one
  Well except for the names and a few other changes
  I you talk about me, the story's the same one

  But I got an emptiness deep inside
  And I've tried, but it won't let me go
  And I'm not a man who likes to swear
  But I never cared for the sound of being alone

  "I am," I said
  To no one there
  An no one heard at all
  Not even the chair
  "I am," I cried
  "I am," said I
  And I am lost, and I can't even say why
  Leavin' me lonely still

  1971 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

  Written by Neil Diamond

  When the night returns just like a friend
  When the evening comes to set me free
  When the quiet house that wait beyond the day
  Make peaceful sounds in me

  Took a drag from my last cigarette
  Took a drink from a glass of old wine
  I closed my eyes, and I could make it real
  And feel it one more time

  Can you hear it, babe
  Can you hear it, babe
  From another time
  From another place
  Do you remember it, babe

  And the radio played like a carnival tune
  As we lay in our bed in the other room
  When we gave it away for the sake of a dream
  In a penny arcade, if you know what I mean

  Here's to the songs we used to sing
  And here's to the times we used to know
  It's hard to hold them in our arms again
  But hard to let them go

  Do you hear it, babe
  Do you hear it, babe
  It was another time
  It was another place
  Do you remember it, babe

  And the radio played like a carnival tune
  As we lay in our bed in the other room
  When we gave it away for the sake of a dream
  In a penny arcade, if you know what I mean

  1976 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

  ---

  If There Were No Dreams

  written by Neil Diamond and Michel Legrand

  If there were no dreams
  and there were no dreamers,
  then how could I dream you up?
  You're still a mystery to me.
  The way that we love,
  the life that we're leading,
  I don't want to give you up.
  Whatever I have to do, I'll do.
  
  Put a mountain there, and I'll tear it down.
  If it's much too high, then I'll go around.
  I won't stop for anyone or anything.
  And I'd love you even if
  there were no dreams.
  
  If there were no dreams,
  how could we be lovers?
  And how could I need you so?
  The reason's clear to even me.
  I'll know that it's right.
  You don't need to wonder.
  If you're up against that wall,
  I'm gonna be up against it, too.
  
  If a mountain's there,
  we can tear it down.
  If it's much too high,
  then we'll go around.
  We won't stop for anyone or anything.
  We'd be lovers even if
  there were no dreams.
  Yes, we would:
  lovers even if there were no dreams.
  

  ---

  I GOT THE FEELIN' (OH NO, NO)

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Oh no, no, no, no
  Baby, something's wrong
  Oh no, no, no, no
  That old time fire is gone
  It's not so much the things you say, love
  It's what you don't say I'm afraid of

  I got the feeling'
  I'm hearin' goodbye
  Don't have to say it
  It's there in your eyes
  Oh why, oh my

  Oh no, no, no, no
  You don't smile the same
  Oh no, no, no, no
  Like you been hidin' pain
  I love you so much, I could taste it
  But girl, your eyes tell me it's wasted

  I got the feelin'
  I'm hearin' goodbye
  Don't have to say it
  It's there in your eyes
  Oh why, oh my

  Oh no, oh no
  Oh no, baby

  I got the feelin'
  I'm hearin' goodbye
  I got the feelin'
  That I'm gonna die

  1966 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  ---

  I’VE BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE

  
  

  Written by Neil Diamond

  
  I’ve seen the light
  And I’ve seen the flame
  And I’ve been this way before
  And I’m sure to be this way again

  For I’ve been refused
  And I’ve been regained
  And I’ve seen your eyes before
  And I’m sure to see your eyes again

  For I’ve been released
  And I’ve been regained
  And I’ve sung my song before
  And I’m sure to sing my song again

  Some people got to laugh
  Some people got to cry
  Some people got to make it through
  By never wondering why

  Some people got to sing
  Some people got to sigh
  Some people never see the light
  Until the day they die

  But I’ve been released
  And I’ve been regained
  And I’ve been this way before
  And I’m sure to be this way again

  One more time again
  Just one more time

  1975 Stonebridge Music

  ---

  JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

  Written by Neil Diamond

  BE

  Lost
  On a painted sky
  Where the clouds are hung
  For the poet's eye
  You may find him
  If you may find him

  There
  On a distant shore
  By the wings of dreams
  Through an open door
  You may know him
  If you may

  Be
  As a page that aches for a word
  Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
  While the Sun God will make for your day
  Sing
  As a song in search of a voice that is silent
  And the one God will make for your way

  And we dance
  To a whispered voice
  Overheard by the soul
  Undertook by the heart
  And you may know it
  If you may know it

  While the sand
  Would become the stone
  Which begat the spark
  Turned to living bone
  Holy, holy
  Sanctus, sanctus

  Be
  As a page that aches for a word
  Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
  While the Sun God will make for your day
  Sing
  As a song in search of a voice that is silent
  And the one God will make for your way

  LONELY LOOKING SKY

  Lonely looking sky
  Lonely sky, lonely looking sky
  And bein' lonely
  Makes you wonder why
  Makes you wonder why
  Lonely looking sky
  Lonely looking sky
  Lonely looking sky

  Lonely looking night
  Lonely night, lonely looking night
  And bein' lonely
  Never made it right
  Never made it right
  Lonely looking night
  Lonely looking night
  Lonely looking night

  Sleep we sleep
  For we may dream
  While we may
  Dream we dream
  for we may wake
  One more day
  One more day

  Glory looking day
  Glory day, glory looking day
  And all it's glory
  Told a simple way
  Behold it if you may
  Glory looking day
  Glory looking day
  Lonely looking night

  SKYBIRD

  Skybird
  Make your sail
  And every heart will know
  Of the tale

  Songbird
  Make you tune
  For none may sing it
  Just as you do

  Look at the way I glide
  Caught on the wind's lazy tide
  Sweetly how it sings
  Rally each heart at the sight
  Of you silver wings

  Skybird, skybird

  Nightbird
  Find your way
  For none may know it
  just as you may

  ANTHEM

  Sanctus
  Kyrie
  Sanctus
  Kyrie
  Kyrie Gloria
  Gloria Holy
  Holy, Holy
  Gloria

  Sanctus
  Kyrie
  Sanctus
  Kyrie
  Kyrie Gloria
  Gloria Holy
  Holy, Holy
  Gloria

  DEAR FATHER

  Dear Farther
  We dream
  We dream
  We dream
  While we may

  Who are we to need
  We need
  We need
  While we wait
  While we wait

  1973 Stonebrige Music (ASCAP)

  ---

  Jungletime

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Jungle time, time for the fight and it's time for the fury.
  Jungle time, settin' it right and then takin' the glory,
  Jungle time, rumble time, 
  baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
  
  Strut your stuff, lay it all out like you don't care who knows it.
  Strut your stuff, you keep your cool while the other guy blows it. 
  Strut your stuff, hangin' tough. 
  Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
  Jungle time, rumble time, tumble time.
  
  Hey, I'm walkin' proud, me and the boys got a date with the angels.
  Walkin' proud, we and them boys ain't exactly like strangers.
  Walkin' proud, talkin' proud. 
  Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
  Jungle time, rumble time, tumble time.
  
  Hey, I'm checkin' out, this ain't my style it it ain't my persuasion.
  Checkin' out, guess I ain't built for this kind of occasion.
  Checkin' out, steppin' out.
  Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama.
  
  Jungle time, rough, tough, tumble time.
  Jungle time rough, tough, tumble time.
  
  

  ---

  KENTUCKY WOMAN

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Kentucky woman
  She shines with her own kind of light
  She'd look at you once
  And a day that's all wrong
  looks all right
  And I love her
  God knows, I love her

  Kentucky woman
  If she get to know you
  She goin' to own you
  Kentucky woman

  Well, she ain't the kind
  Makes heads turn at the drop of her name
  But something inside
  That she's got turn you on just the same
  And she loves me
  God knows, she loves me

  Kentucky woman
  If she get to know you
  She goin' to own you
  Kentucky woman

  I don't want much
  The good Lord's earth beneath my feet
  A gentle touch
  From that one girl, and life is
  Sweet and good
  Ain't no doubt
  I'm talkin' about

  Kentucky woman
  If she get to know you
  She goin' to own you
  Kentucky woman

  1967 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  ---

  LIKE YOU DO

  
  

  Words and Music by Sandy Knox and Steve Rosen

  
  

  Love never doubts or suffers or cries
  Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.
  And love would never leave me in the dark.
  No, love never breaks my heart like you do, like you do.
  
  Love doesn't have unapproachable walls
  or a heart that becons and then withdraws.
  And love would never steal my dignity.
  Love has never made a fool of me like you do, like you do, like you do.
  
  Oh, and I have know times when love seems unsure.
  But when love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
  
  Love never threatens or frightens me.
  It's not held together with apologies.
  Love never screams my name.
  No, and love never turns away like you do, like you do.
  Oh, and I have know times when love seems unsure.
  But where love may be unkind, love never turns away like you do, 
  like you do, like you do, like you do.
  

  ---

  LONGFELLOW SERENADE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Lonfellow Serenade
  Such were the plans I'd made
  For she was a lady
  And I was a dreamer
  With only words to trade

  You know that I was born for a night like this
  Warmed by a stolen kiss
  For I was lonely
  And she was lonely

  Ride, come on baby, ride
  Let me make your dreams come true
  I'll sing my song
  Let me make it warm for you

  I'll weave his web of rhyme
  Upon the summer night
  We'll leave this worldly time
  On his winged flight

  Then come, and as we lay
  Beside this sleepy glade
  There I will sing to you
  My Longfellow serenade

  Longfellow serenade
  Such were the plans I made
  But she was a lady
  As deep as a river
  And through the night, we stayed

  And in my way, I loved her as none before
  Loved her with words and more
  For she was lonely
  And I was lonely

  Ride, come on baby, ride
  Let me make you dreams come true
  I'll sing my song
  Let me sing my song
  Let me make it warm for you

  I'll weave this web of rhyme
  Upon the summer night
  We'll leave this worldly time
  On his winged flight

  Then come, and as we lay
  Beside this sleepy glade
  There I will sing to you
  My Longfellow serenade

  1974 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

  ---

  LADY MAGDELENE

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  The man on the right is a man undone
  he'd give you his soul if you asked him for some.
  A child in his way for he needs to believe
  that love is a song for each man to sing.
  
  The man on the left is a prize unwon
  a candle unlit and a song unsung.
  Believing that love is a dreamer's dream,
  the man on the left the me in between.
  
  Lady Magdelene, I can hear your distant trumpet
  calling from the morning mountain, 
  singing to the passing river. 
  Take me home, show me peaceful days before my youth has gone.
  
  The man in between waits between the two
  not hearing the lie and not seeing the true.
  Unknowing what is and denying what seems
  and there he will sleep the man in between.
  
  Lady Magdelene, I can hear your distant trumpet
  calling from the morning mountain,
  singing to the passing river.
  Take me home, show me peaceful days before my youth has gone.
  
  Lady Magdelene, make the sound of silent thunder
  calling from the lips of Abraham
  make a sound that we may wonder, where we are.
  Take us to you soul for we have wandered far.
  
  The man on the right was a man undone
  the man on the left like a prize unwon.
  And God only knows what their time will bring
  or what will become of the man in between.
  
  

  
  

  ---

  Lady-Oh

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Lady-oh, Lady-oh, I walked the streets again last night. 
  I saw you in the city light like a vision, Lady-oh.
  Lady I, Lady I, I've been waitin' around such a long long time
  believin' I could make you mine, just wanting you Lady-oh. 
  
  But here I am and there you are, much too far to even hear me.
  Hurts a lot, you know it does, it hurts a lot.
  Oh, Lady-oh, am I gonna ever learn what I never learned before?
  
  City lights, city lights burn so warm and they burn so bright,
  but me, I walk the city night to forget you, Lady-oh. 
  
  But here I am and there you are, much too far to even hear me.
  Hurts a lot, you know it does, it hurts a lot. 
  Oh, Lady-oh, am I gonna ever learn what I never learned before?

  ---

  Lonely Lady #17

  written by Neil Diamond, Vince Charles, and King Erisson

  Lonely lady one, she run away.
  And number two, she do the same.
  Lady number three walk out on me
  like number four.
  Who's keeping score?
  Lady five, oh how she lied.
  She made me pay some dues.
  Six and seven, eight, nine, ten,
  they really were bad news.
  
  Oh no, they'd only break my heart.
  That's how it seems.
  And then I finally came upon
  a lady seventeen.
  
  Lonely lady number seventeen,
  she stayed a while.
  She had the style.
  Lonely lady number seventeen,
  she got to be with lonely me.
  Lonely, lonely lady number seventeen, yeah.
  Lonely lady!
  
  Ladies eleven, twelve and thirteen,
  they came and went.
  "Baby," I still can hear them sayin'
  "It's time to repent."
  I turned around,
  and there she was
  with such a sweet surprise:
  a lovin' face,
  lovin' smile,
  and love lights in her eyes.
  
  Lonely lady number seventeen,
  you stayed a while.
  You had the style.
  Lonely lady number seventeen,
  come on and be
  with lonely me
  Oh no, when lady fourteen walked out,
  that's when I screamed.
  No luck with lady fifteen
  or sweet sixteen.
  
  But lonely lady number seventeen,
  you stayed a while.
  You had the style.
  Lonely lady number seventeen,
  come on an be
  with lonely me.
  Lonely, lonely lady
  number seventeen, yeah!
  Lonely lady!
  She makes me feel so sociable
  

  ---

  LOVE ON THE ROCKS

  Written by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud

  Love on the rocks
  Ain't no surprise
  Pour me a drink
  And I'll tell you some lies
  Got nothin' to lose
  So you just sing the blues all the time

  Gave you my heart
  Gave you my soul
  You left me alone here
  With nothing to hold
  Yesterday's gone
  Now all I want is a smile

  First, they say they want you
  How they really need you
  Suddenly you find you're out there
  Walking in a storm
  When they know they have you
  Then they really have you
  Nothing you can do or say
  You've got to leave, just get away
  We all know the song

  You need what you need
  You can say what you want
  Not much you can do
  When the feeling is gone
  May be blue skies above
  But it's cold when you love's on the rocks

  First, they say they want you
  How they really need you
  Suddenly you find you're out there
  Walking in a storm
  When they know they have you
  Then they really have you
  Nothing you can do or say
  You've got to leave, just get away
  We all know the song

  Love on the rocks
  Ain't no surprise
  Pour me a drink
  And I'll tell you some lies
  Yesterday's gone
  And now all I want is a smile

  1980 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

  ---

  MARRY ME

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Tom Shapiro

  
  Say that you'll marry me, 
  Sometimes carry me.
  And I will be there forever more for you.
  And if you marry me, 
  I will give ev'ry thing.
  And I will do anything that you need me to.
  You'll know by the love in my eyes 
  And the beat of my heart I'll be there.
  You'll know 'cause you'll never be lonely 
  Again, anytime, anywhere.
  This I promise if you marry me. 
  
  Promise you'll stay with me. 
  We'll make some memories, 
  And maybe a dream or two will come true.
  Who knows?
  This I can say for sure: 
  All that I have is yours.
  You'll never wonder where I stand; it shows.
  You'll know by the love in my eyes
  And the beat of my heart. I'll be there.
  You'll know 'cause you'll never be lonely 
  Again, anytime, anywhere.
  All I promise you I will be 
  If you'll only say you'll marry me.
  I won't ever forget these words,
  and I'll love you for all I'm worth
  If you say you will marry me. 
  Won't you marry me?
  Marry me.
  

  ---

  A MATTER OF LOVE

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Tom Shapiro

  If you've been feelin' blue, 
  Hey, it's been the same for me.
  Now I'm here with you, 
  And you're exactly what I need.
  Put your defenses down. 
  Let me show you now 
  This heart to heart was meant to be.
  
  And ev'ry thing about you feels so right.
  I only want to have you in my life.
  All I really had to see was somebody there for me.
  And if we stay right here all night,
  don't you know it's a matter of love.
  Don't you know it's a matter of trust.
  The connection between you and me, 
  can't you see it's a matter trust, 
  Matter of us, 
  Matter of love. 
  
  We got magic here; 
  It's the power of love, I know.
  It's dancin' in the air, 
  And I can feel the feelin' grow.
  Put your defenses down.
  Let me hold you now, 
  And I won't ever let you go. 
  
  And ev'ry thing about you feels so right.
  I only want to have you in my life.
  All I really had to see was somebody there for me.
  And if we stay right here all night,
  don't you know it's a matter of love.
  Don't you know it's a matter of trust.
  Nothin's ever gonna separate us.
  You and me, it's a matter of trust, 
  Matter of us, 
  Matter of love.
  
  Put your defenses down.
  Let me hold you now, and I won't ever let you go. 
  And ev'ry thing about you feels so right.
  I only want to have you in my life.
  All I really had to see was somebody there for me.
  And if we stay right here all night,
  don't you know it's a matter of love.
  Don't you know it's a matter of trust.
  The connection between you and me, 
  can't you see it's a matter of trust, 
  Matter of us,
  Matter of love.
  It's a matter of love.

  ---

  MORNINGSIDE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Morningside
  The old man died
  And no one cried
  They simply turned away
  And when he died
  He left a table made of nails and pride
  And with his hands, he carved these words inside
  'For my childen'

  Morning light
  Morning bright
  I spent the night
  With dreams that make you weep
  Morning time
  Wash away the sadness from these eyes of mine
  For I recall the words an old man signed
  'For my children'

  And the legs were shaped with his hands
  And the top made of oaken wood
  And the children that sat around his table
  Touched it with their laughter
  Ah, and that was good

  Morningside
  An old man died
  And no one cried
  He surely died alone
  And truth is sad
  For not a children would claim
  the gift he had
  The words he carved
  became his epitaph
  'For my children'

  1972 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  Mountains Of Love

  Someday, make your way down the coast of South Africa.
  There you will say
  they're in need of a mountain of love.
  Sail away, and you reach all the way down to China.
  Don't look away.
  They're in need of what we've plenty of.
  Got enough to surround every living thing we see.
  There's enough to include even you and me.
  
  So just keep on tryin',
  climbin' to the top.
  Check out that view from above.
  At the top,
  there's mountains of love.
  In the end,
  Love is what I'm talkin' of.
  'Round the bend,
  there's mountains of love,
  mountains of love.
  
  I know from the glow that I see in the smallest child
  that we can go higher still than we ever dreamed of.
  Don't you know
  there are magical places inside the heart?
  Come on, let's go.
  We got room on that mountain of love,
  room enough to surround every living thing we seel
  room enough to include even you and me.
  
  So just keep on tryin',
  climbin' to the top.
  Check out that view from above.
  At the top, there's mountains of love.
  In the end,
  love always seems to shine through.
  'Round the bend
  for me and for you,
  there's mountains of
  (Love's all right, mountains made of love.
  Love's all right, mountains of love.)
  (Love's all right, mountains made of love.
  Love's all right, mountains of love.)
  To the top,
  let's check out that view from above.
  It never stops.
  There's mountains of love.
  
  In the end, love always seems to shine through,
  'round the bend for me and for you.
  At the top, top of those mountains of love...
  At the top,
  got more than enough.
  

  ---

  ---

  NO LIMIT

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Richard Bennett

  Some things got to be known.
  Some don't need to be said.
  Which way we gonna go?
  Stayin' home is just making me mad.

  Me, I got to get out.
  Me, I got to feel right.
  Don't need to worry or doubt 'cause I'm gonna be rockin' tonight.

  Get on board, check it out, look around.
  Ain't no limit to what love allows.
  You and me, let it be, be just fine.
  No limit to it any time.

  Me, I'm telling you true; say it right in a crowd.
  Any chance with you, hey, you know I'm gonna be 'round.
  Get on board, check it out, look around.
  Ain't no limit to what love allows.

  If we don't make it, we don't make it, and I won't cry.
  But I been thinkin' and I know one thing:
  we're never gonna make it if we don't try.

  Me, I'm fellin' it good.
  Ain't no foolin' around.
  I've been misunderstood, but I know what I'm talkin' about.

  Get on board, check it out, look around.
  Ain't no limit to what love allows.
  You and me got to fly, set it free.
  No limit if you just know how.
  Ain't no limit to what love allows.

  ---

  OPEN WIDE THESE PRISON DOORS

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Stewart Harris

  Tied by love to you, but I was tied too strong.
  Still, I'm afraid of knowin' what leavin' means.
  I know I lived for you in all I tried to do. 
  You were the keeper of my dreams.
  
  Open wide these prison doors.
  Take these chains from 'round my heart.
  Make believe that I'm no more.
  Pay no mind when I depart.
  Need to find another place where love is not just tossed away.
  If you really care for me, open wide these prison doors and set me free.
  
  You were always caring, always warm and kind.
  But that was long ago when love was blind.
  And I don't want to hurt you the way that I've been hurt.
  But if I stay, I'll lose my mind.
  
  Open wide these prison doors.
  Take these chains from 'round my heart.
  Make believe that I'm no more.
  Pay no mind when I depart.
  Need to find another place where love is not just tossed away.
  And if you really care for me, open wide these prison doors and set me free.
  
  Time is always moving while we're here standing still.
  I'll love you even though I'm leaving.
  And maybe I always will.
  
  Open wide these prison doors.
  Take these chains from 'round my heart.
  Make believe that I'm no more.
  Pay no mind when I depart.
  Need to find another place where love is not just tossed away.
  And if you really care for me, open wide these prison doors and set me free.
  If you really care for me, open wide these prison doors and set me free.
  Set me free. Set me free. Set me free.
  

  ---

  ONE GOOD LOVE

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Gary Nicholson

  It took a while for me to know 
  What I was looking for.
  And ev'ry heart I've ever known 
  Just left me wanting more.
  One good love can turn it all around,
  Take hold of a restless heart 
  And lead it back to solid ground.
  You can search the world for happiness 
  And never get enough, 
  When all you really need to find 
  Is one good love.
  
  I followed all life's pleasures 
  Wherever they would lead.
  But someone I can treasure 
  Is all I really need.
  One good love can turn it all around, 
  take hold of a restless heart 
  And lead it back to solid ground.
  One good love can take you to the light.
  With just one touch you can forget 
  A thousand empty nights.
  
  You can search the world for happiness 
  And never get enough, 
  When all you really need to find 
  Is one good love. 
  You can search the world for happiness 
  And never get enough,    
  When all you really need to find 
  Is one good love, one good love. 

  ---

  PLAY ME

  Written by Neil Diamond

  She was moring
  And I was night time
  I one day woke up
  To find her lying
  Beside my bed
  I softly said
  "Come take me"

  For I've been lonely
  In need of someone
  As though I'd done
  Someone wrong somewhere
  I don't know where
  Come lately

  You are the sun
  I am the moon
  You are the words
  I am the tune
  Play me

  Song she sang to me
  Song she brang to me
  Words that rang in me
  Rhyme that sprang from me
  Warmed the night
  And what was right
  Became me

  You are the sun
  I am the moon
  You are the words
  I am the tune
  Play me

  And so it was
  That I came to travel
  Upon a road
  That was thorned and narrow
  Another place
  Another grace
  Would save me

  You are the sun
  I am the moon
  You are the word
  I am the tune
  Play me

  1972 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  ---

  Porcupine Pie

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie,
  Vanilla soup, a double scoop please. 
  No, maybe I want, maybe I won't, maybe I will.
  The titti fruit, with fruity blue cheese. 
  
  Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie,
  Don't let it get on your jeans, I know it sounds a little strange, 
  but you got to eat it with gloves--or your hands will turn green. 
  
  Ah, but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie,
  It weaves its way through my dreams,
  And I do believe I'm gonna have one and leave enough room for dessert,
  chicken ripple ice cream.
  

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  REMINISCE FOR A WHILE

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Raul Malo

  Being here is being where I want to be.
  I don't suppose you'll ever know how much you mean.
  And for all the heartaches we've been through, 
  I know that I could not forget my time with you.
  
  I'd much rather stay, but I'll be on my way and never again see you smile.
  For all that it's worth, I'd move heaven and earth
  to just reminisce for a while. 
  
  There was a time I had the will to carry on, 
  but I let go even though you're what I want.
  "Could have beens" to keep you warm when I was gone,
  I never knew that near to you's where I belong.
  
  I'd much rather stay, but I'll be on my way and never again see you smile.
  For all that it's worth, I'd move heaven and earth
  to just reminisce for a while. 
  
  I'd much rather stay, but I'll be on my way and never again see you smile.
  For all that it's worth, I'd move heaven and earth
  to just reminisce for a while.
  We'll just reminisce for a while.

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  ROSEMARY’S WINE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  And her eyes
  Hurt the way they do
  Almost like they’d seen
  Almost like they knew

  And her words
  Soft as they could be
  Tied me to her soul
  And couldn’t set me free

  And the night
  That held us in its arms
  It held us once again
  But even then
  I knew this time
  That I would decline
  Sweet Rosemary’s Wine

  Lately I
  Seem to be inclined
  More to being cold
  Less to being kind
  And I suppose
  That I’ve been less than true
  Being what I am
  What was I to do?

  So I drink
  The sweetness of her soul
  And drink it once again
  But even then
  I guess I’d known
  That I would decline
  Sweet Rosemary’s wine

  1975 Stonebridge Music

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  SAVE ME

  Words and music by Neil Diamond

  Yeah, I know
  When the wind comes blowing across the meadow
  It sings your name
  And I've seen the starry nights
  Fall across the ghetto
  It seems the same
  
  And I feel the light in your eyes
  And it's calling me stay just a little longer
  It burns like a fiery star in the midst of the night
  It's putting me under
  
  Can  anybody save me
  Save me, save me from the storm
  Save me, save me
  Save me 'fore I'm gone
  I'm only a man
  And a man's gotta break
  There's a lot I can stand
  But not a lot I can take
  Save me, something is taking me over
  And there's no place that I can hide
  
  Sweet dreams,
  My love and I, by the edge of the river
  We're feeling that glow
  And we drink, making love in the sand
  And I love being with her
  But I got to go slow
  'Cause I know
  Just as sure as the waves come beat on the sand
  I'm a man that's divided
  And one night, burning hot with a kiss
  And I try to resist, but there's no way to fight it
  
  Hey, can anybody save me,
  Save me, save me from the storm
  Save me, save me
  Save me 'fore I'm gone
  I'm only a man
  And a man's gotta break
  There's a lot I can stand
  But not a lot I can take
  Save me, something is taking me over
  and there's nowhere that I can hide
  Won't you save me
  Someone is making me love her
  It's breaking me up inside
  
  Save me now...

  ---

  SEPTEMBER MORN

  Written by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud

  Stay for just a while
  Stay, and let me look at you
  It's been so long, I hardly knew you
  Standing in the door
  Stay with me a while
  I only wanna talk to you
  We've traveled halfway 'round the world
  To find ourselves again

  September morn
  We danced until the night became a brand new day
  Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
  September morning still can make me feel that way

  Look at what you've done
  Why, you've become a grown-up girl
  I still can hear you crying
  In a corner of your room
  And look how far we've come
  So far from where we used to be
  But not so far that we've forgotten
  How it was before

  September morn
  Do you remember how we danced that night away
  Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
  September morning still can make me feel that way

  1979 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  SHAME

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Hal Ketchum

  (Spoken)  Check it out now. I'm a little man, 
  but you're my woman, 
  and together we're strong.
  
  The end of the road is lonesome and cold;
  ain't no place for makin' a stand.
  I got too much of you on my mind, 
  too much time on my hands.
  Some people say there just ain't no way 
  we can hold on
  and see this thing through.
  I don't care what they say; 
  ]they never loved one like you.
  
  Shame: it comes in ev'ry size, 
  touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
  Shame: I've seen it in your eyes.
  They hurt you with their lies, 
  but words don't count at all.    
  'Cause I don't care what they say; 
  there ain't no shame in loving you.
  
  I remember the day that I drove you away;
  Lord, that whistle gave a lonesome moan.
  That train that took you away, 
  it's gonna bring you back home.
  And I'll be standing right there 
  in the cold morning air
  when that train comes a rollin' in.
  Lorene, once you're back in my arms, 
  you won't be leaving again. 
  
  Shame: it comes in ev'ry size, 
  touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
  Shame: I've seen it in your eyes.
  They hurt you with their lies; 
  their words don't count at all. 
  And I don't care what they say;
   there ain't no shame in loving you.
  No, I don't care what they say; 
  there ain't no shame in loving you.
  Me, I don't care what they say; 
  there ain't no shame loving you.  
  

  ---

  SHILO

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Young child with dreams
  Dream ev'ry dream on your own
  When children play
  seems like you end up alone

  Papa says he'd love to be with you
  If he had the time
  So you turn on the only friend you can find
  There in your mind

  Shilo, when I was young
  I used to call you name
  When no one else would come
  Shilo, you always came
  And we'd play

  Young girl with fire
  Something said she understood
  I wanted to fly
  She made me feel like I could

  Held my hand out, and I let her take me
  Blind as a child
  All I saw was the way that she made me smile
  She made me smile

  Shilo, when I was young
  I used to call you name
  When no one else would come
  Shilo, you always came
  And you'd stay

  Had a dream, and it filled me with wonder
  She had other plans
  "Got to go, and I know that you'll understand"
  I understand

  Shilo, when I was young
  I used to call you name
  When no one else would come
  Shilo, you always came
  Come today

  1970 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  Signs

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Signs that burn like shooting stars
  that pass across the nighttime skies,
  they reach out in their mystic language
  for us to read between the lines.
  Some are born who would defy them,
  others still who would deny them, signs.
  
  Signs like moments hung suspended, 
  echoes just beneath the heart
  speak in voices half remembered
  and half forgotten play their part.
  Signs that come as we lay sleeping
  left behind for our keeping, signs.
  
  Sail along, sail along the reefs and the coves inside your soul.
  Sail along, sail along in search of a star that you can hold.
  And we journey far to where that star may lead to (lead to).
  
  Signs that whisper in the dreams of sailors
  and of river queens of paupers and of men with means, 
  it all depends on how it reads.
  Some are born who never need them,
  others still who never read them, signs. 
  
  Sail along, sail along the reefs and the coves inside your soul.
  Sail along, sail along in search of a star that you can hold.
  And we journey far to where that star may lead to (lead to).
  Signs, signs.
  
  Some are born who never need them, 
  others still who never read them, signs.

  ---

  SOLITARY MAN

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Melinda was mine
  'Til the time
  That I found her
  Holding Jim
  Loving Him

  Then Sue came along
  Loved me strong
  That's what I thought
  Me and Sue
  But that died too

  Don't know that I will
  But until I can find me
  The girl who'll stay
  And won't play games behind me
  I'll be what I am
  A solitary man
  Solitary man

  I've had it to here
  Bein' where
  Love's a small word
  Part-time thing
  Paper ring

  I know it's been done
  Havin' one
  Girl who'll love me
  Right or wrong
  Weak or strong

  Don't know that I will
  But until I can find me
  The girl who'll stay
  And won't play games behind me
  I'll be what I am
  A solitary man
  Solitary man

  1966 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  Someone Who Believes In You

  written by Neil Diamond

  Believe me;
  I'm someone who believes in you.
  Say you really had a million dollars
  and a car for ev'ry day of the week,
  so what?
  You know what?
  It wouldn't mean not a single thing
  without that someone who believes it, too.
  Yeah, you gotta have someone who believes in you.
  
  Say you really had a Hollywood contract
  and your face upon a big billboard,
  big car, big star.
  You'd move a lot, but you wouldn't get far
  without that someone who believes it, too.
  You better have someone who believes in you.
  
  You are the truest part of me,
  that quiet place
  where I can be strong.
  You come to fill my deepest need.
  You call my name,
  and I hear your song.
  
  Believe me;
  there's someone who believes in you.
  So you really got the hots for stardom.
  All you need is some big guitar to take you
  and make you into an overnight star,
  and then you'll find that stars get lonesome, too.
  And you better have someone who believes in you.
  
  You are the truest part of me,
  that tender place
  where I can be strong.
  You come to fill my deepest need.
  You speak my name,
  and I hear your song.
  
  So you really want a job in the circus.
  Paint your face and make the people smile.
  Hey clown, come on down.
  You've been too long walkin' that high wire.
  When you're falling, you'll be calling, too,
  callin' out to someone who believes you,
  someone who's there when nobody needs you,
  callin' out to someone who
  believes in you.
  

  ---

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  SONG SUNG BLUE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Song sung blue
  Everybody knows one
  Song sung blue
  Every garden grows one

  Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
  But when you take the blues and make a song
  You sing them out again
  Sing them out again

  Song sung blue
  Weeping like a willow
  Song sung blue
  Sleeping on my pillow

  Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
  And before you know, start to feeling good
  You simply got no choice

  Song sung blue
  Everybody knows one
  Song sung blue
  Every garden grows one

  1972 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  SOOLAIMON

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Come she come say
  Ride on the night
  Sun becomes day
  Day shall provide

  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon
  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon
  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon

  God of my want, want, want
  Lord of my need, need, need
  Leading me on, on, on
  On to the woman, she dance for the sun
  God of my day, day, day
  Lord of my night, night, night
  Seek for the way, way, way
  Taking me home

  She callin'
  Bring home my name
  On the wings of a flea
  Wind in the plains
  Dance once for me

  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon
  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon
  Soo, soolaimon
  Soolai, soolai, soolaimon

  1970 Prophet Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  Stargazer

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Stargazer, you with your head in the heavens, 
  you'll never get by walkin' that high off the ground.
  Moon dreamer, I've been around and I've seen it;
  the higher you get--the harder they let you down.
  You pay your dues, it seems forever.
  And if you're clever you may be in for a while, 
  then you're out of style.
  
  Stargazer, probably think I'm crazy, 
  and haven't you heard one single word I've said?
  Now, I don't want to burst your bubble, but you got trouble.
  Don't you know the higher the top the longer the drop.
  Hey, Stargazer.
  
  Now, I don't want to burst your bubble, but you got trouble. 
  Don't you know the higher the top the longer the drop.
  Hey, Stargazer
  

  ---

  THE LAST PICASSO

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  The last Picasso, the last Picasso was just acquired by some old museum, and Don Quixote, Well Don Quixote the old man's rhyme has lost its reason; which only reminds me have I remembered to say that without you this life of plenty, would seem so empty, the last Picasso. Oh me and you--me oh me oh me oh me and you-- We, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. The last Picasso, the last Picasso may gather dust amid the ruins, and Don Quixote, Well Don Quixote may no longer make his wishful tunes; but I still have you and I will have you when ev'rything else is gone and done with. We'll be like one with the last Picasso. Oh me and you--me oh me oh me oh me oh me and you-- We, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. Oh, me and you--me oh me oh me oh me oh me and you-- We, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. Oh, me and you--we we can sigh me oh me oh me oh we can sign. Oh, me and you.
  

  ---

  THE STORY OF MY LIFE

  Words and music by Neil Diamond

  The story of my life is very plain to read
  It starts the day you came
  And ends the day you leave
  The story of my life begins and ends with you
  The names are still the same
  And the story's still the truth
  
  I was alone.
  You found me waiting and made me your own
  I was afraid
  That somehow I never could be a man that you wanted of me
  
  You're the story of my life, and every word is true
  Each chapter sings your name
  Each page begins with you
  It's the story of our times and never letting go
  If I die today, I wannted yo to know
  
  Stay with me here
  Share with me, care with me
  Stay and be near
  and when it began I'd lie awake every night
  Just knowing somewhere deep inside
  That our affair just might write
  
  The story of my life is very plain to read
  It starts the day you came
  It ends the day you leave
  

  The Way

  written by Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley, and Alan Lindgren

  The way,
  as far as I can see it,
  I need to find the way to make you mine.
  And someday,
  when you least expect it,
  I hope you find the way
  to love me in kind.
  
  The way
  leading to your heart
  can never go wrong.
  Leading to your soul,
  no road is too long.
  And now,
  having said I love you,
  I've got to find the way to say that I care.
  And the way,
  having been decided,
  is for me to stay
  and always be there.
  
  The way
  leading to your heart
  can never go wrong.
  Leading to your soul,
  no road is too long.
  
  Be a part of me;
  that's all I can say.
  I may not know the words,
  but I know the way to you.
  
  The way leading to your heart
  can never go wrong.
  Leading to your soul,
  no road is too long.
  Be a part of me;
  that's all I can say.
  I'm a part of you,
  and I know that you are the way.
  
  Just need the way to find you.
  I need to find, I need to find, I need to find, I need to find the way to you.
  
  You are the way. You are the way. You are the way. You are the way,
  the way for me.
  

  ---

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  Street Life

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Hey, let me show you the street life.
  Hey, let me show you the finks, the punks, the judge, the junkie.
  Stay close to me for a while, for a while, for a while.
  Say boy, you got to get street wise.
  Hey, little boy, you're a babe in arms, stay out of harm's way
  right here with me for a while, for a while, for a while.
  
  Street life, hell in the city.
  You got to really watch out for that street life.
  Say, it ain't pretty, you got to know your way around
  or somehow you might get hurt, get hurt, get hurt.
  
  Say, let me show you the night life. 
  Say, let me show you the queens, the dudes, 
  the class, the crudes, the folks that inhabit the night.
  Let me set it right.
  I'm gonna give you my warning, 
  I'm gonna tell you the street's alive the sound of jive,
  you've just arrived.
  Try it for size for a while, for a while.
  
  Street life, hell in the city.
  You got to really watch out for that street life.
  Say, it ain't pretty, you got to know your way around
  or somehow you might get hurt, get hurt, get hurt.
  

  ---

  Surviving the Life

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Surviving the life, got some highs, got some lows,
  but the wise man, he knows what it's really about.
  When you're doin' without, surviving the life.
  
  Providing the soul, it ain't easy to do 
  when you got to get through any way that you can.
  Join the fam'ly of man providing the soul.
  
  Pass the plate that serves it, 
  ev'ry heart deserves it; you and me, we do.
  Life ain't easy, but it ain't that bad.
  Sing the song that tells it, praise the man that sells it;
  you're alive, you might as well be glad.
  
  Revealing the heart, you know that some people try
  but it's hard to get by without giving a thing.
  You only get what you bring, revealing the heart.
  
  Pass the plate that serves it, 
  ev'ry heart deserves it'; you and me, we do.
  Life ain't easy, but it ain't that bad.
  Sing the song that tell it, praise the man that sells it;
  you're alive, you might as well be glad. 
  
  Providing the soul, revealing the heart, surviving the life.

  ---

  SWEET CAROLINE

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Where it began
  I can't begin to knowin'
  But then I know it's growing strong

  Was in the spring
  And spring became the summer
  Who'd have believed you'd come along

  Hands, touchin' hands
  Reachin' out
  Touchin' me
  Touchin' you

  Sweet Caroline
  Good times never seemed so good
  I've been inclined
  To believe they never would

  But now I
  Look at the night
  And it don't seem so lonely
  We fill it up with only two
  And when I hurt
  Hurtin' runs off my shoulders
  How can I hurt when I'm with you

  Warm, touchin' warm
  Reachin' out
  Touchin' me
  Touchin' you

  Sweet Caroline
  Good times never seemed so good
  I've been inclined
  To believe they never would
  Oh, no, no

  Sweet Caroline
  Good times never seemed so good
  I've been inclined
  To believe they never would
  Sweet Caroline

  1969 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  Sweet L.A. Days

  written by Neil Diamond and Doug Rhone

  I can see it all now.
  I will never forget
  what you meant to me.
  Don't have a single regret.
  And I was feelin' alright
  when it was just me and you.
  
  We loved with all of our might.
  That's all we wanted to do.
  There ain't a lot we had to know
  except that I wanted you
  to be wherever I'd go.
  Will anything ever be sweeter than those days?
  Nobody's gonna replace
  all that we shared with each other in those days,
  back in those sweet L.A. days,
  sweet L.A. days.
  
  No one could ever replace
  how on a Saturday night
  we would jump in your car
  and how we'd drive through the night
  and maybe not get that far.
  There wasn't much we had to learn
  except that we knew the road would take us through every turn.
  
  Will anything ever be sweeter than those days?
  Nobody's gonna replace all that we shared
  with each other in those days,
  back in those sweet L.A. days, sweet L.A. days.
  
  Ooee baby it's takin' me back,
  back to those L.A. days,
  sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet L.A. days.
  They can't be taken away,
  not those L.A. days, no,
  those L.A. days,
  sweet L.A. days.
  

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  TALKING OPTIMIST BLUES (GOOD DAY TODAY)

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Gretchen Peters

  I got worries by the ton; gettin' cancer's only one.
  Overtaxed and alimonied, tired of eatin' fried baloney.
  I got burdens on my shoulders, dying young or growin' older.
  There's some brain cells I'm missin',
  but despite it all, I'd like to say--
  
  I'm gonna have a good day today.
  Gonna have a good time anyway.
  Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
  Gonna be a good day today.
  
  Bills and pills and former wives, 
  past mistakes and former lives.
  Bank account is overdrawn,
  out of Prozac, hairline's gone.
  Hearing voices in my head;
  say I should've stayed in bed.
  Dog just died, but what the heck;
  nothing worse can happen anyway.
  
  So, I'm gonna have a good day today.
  Me, I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
  Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
  Gonna be a good day today.
  
  Pulled my back and wrecked my car.
  Girl-friend stole my V.C.R.
  Letter came from Sixty Minutes;
  say they wanna put me in it.
  Tell me my career just died.
  Years ago I might've cried.
  Now I'm just too old to do it. 
  May be true, but screw it anyway.
  
  Me, I'm gonna have a good day today.
  And I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
  Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
  Gonna be a good day today.
  
  Hey, I'm gonna have a good day today.
  Me, I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
  Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
  Gonna be a good day today.
  
  

  ---

  TENNESSEE MOON

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Dennis Morgan

  
  Hollywood don't do what it once could do.
  I used to wake up and write me a song before noon.
  So I packed my dusty bags one night, grabbed an old guitar,
  and I caught a red-eye flight.

  In search of a dream underneath the Tennessee moon,
  I fell in love to an old Hank Williams tune.
  Makes me wonder: is it the same moon Hank played under?

  Touched down and she stole my heart right away.
  Began to think for the first time I might stay.
  And when I heard that lonesome whistle moan,
  knew I'd fin'lly found my way back home.

  In search of a dream underneath the Tennessee moon,
  I fell in love to an old Hank Williams tune.
  And I wonder: is it the same moon Hank stood under
  when he sang about jambalaya and bein' lonesome enough to cry?
  And I can hear the echos in the sounds of his guitar.
  And his words still paint a picture in my heart.

  Yeah, in search of a dream underneath the Tennessee moon,
  I fell in love to an old Hank Williams tune.
  I was in search of a dream underneath the Tennessee moon,
  yes, I fell in love to an old Hank Williams tune.

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  THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHT TIME

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Daytime turns me off, and I don't mean maybe
  Nine-to-five ain't takin' me where I'm bound
  When it's done, I run out to see my baby
  We got groovin' when the sun goes down

  I thank the Lord for the night time
  To forget the day
  A day of up-, uptight time
  Baby, chase it away
  I get relexation
  It's a time to groove

  I thank the Lord for the night time
  I thank the Lord for you

  I'll talk about plans now Baby, I got plenty
  Nothing ever seems to turn out the way it should
  Talk about money, girl, I ain't got any
  Seems like just one time I'm feeling good

  I thank the Lord for the night time
  To forget the day
  A day of up-, uptight time
  Baby, chase it away
  I get relexation
  It's a time to groove

  I thank the Lord for the night time
  I thank the Lord for you

  1967 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

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  Walk On Water

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond

  Walk on water, ain't it like her, 
  She leads the children,
  Ain't it right, ain't it right, ain't it right!
  
  And ain't it wond'rous, the way she does it, 
  Gives love and loves it, 
  Ain't it right, ain't it right, ain't it right!
  
  Light de light, we got mornin', mornin' makes another day,
  Glory sight, got de dawnin',  
  Lordy, light the night away!
  
  Light de light, we got mornin', mornin' makes another day,
  Glory sight, got de dawnin'
  Lordy, light the night away!
  
  Light de light, we got mornin', mornin' makes another day,
  Glory sight, got de dawnin'
  Lordy, light the night away!
  
  She walks on water, ain't it like her,
  She leads the children, 
  Ain't it right, ain't it right, ain't it right!
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  WIN THE WORLD

  Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Susan Longacre

  I never noticed when you changed your hair,
  just another of those moments I was only half there.
  When you wore that red dress that was cut up to here,
  I never noticed you were wearing a tear.
  
  I was always try'n' to win the world.
  What on earth was I thinking of?
  One time too often I didn't hold you enough.
  I was always try'n' to win the world,
  but somewhere I lost you.
  ('Cause)I never saw you only try'n' to win my love.
  
  It should have been me there for all of those times.
  It would have been me there if I knew the signs.
  When you wore that red dress, 
  how could I know then you'd wear it for me once 
  and never wear it again?
  
  I was always try'n' to win the world.
  What on earth was I thinking of?
  One time too often I didn't hold you enough.
  I was always try'n' to win the world,
  but somewhere I lost you.
  ('Cause) I never saw you only try'n' to win my love.
  Somewhere I lost you, 'cause I never saw you 
  only try'n' to win my love.
  

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  Wish Everything Was Alright

  written by Neil Diamond, Doug Rhone, and Hadley Hockensmith

  The more you explain,
  the less I feel assured.
  The closer I come,
  the more you'd hide.
  And here's what I think:
  we better get in touch.
  Wish I could tell you ev'ry thing was alright;
  wish ev'rything was alright.
  
  The bigger the thrill,
  the more we're gonna pay.
  You figure the bill,
  it's gonna bite.
  The higher we get,
  the more we're hangin' on.
  Wish I could tell you ev'ry thing was alright;
  wish ev'rything was alright.
  
  And I know, I know, I know I love you.
  We can make it what we want it to be.
  You know, you know, you know you love me.
  So ask yourself:  where does it lead?
  
  The more we expect,
  the less we're gonna find.
  Whatever we get
  is gonna go.
  And here's what I think:
  we better stay in touch.
  Wish I could tell you ev'ry thing was alright;
  wish ev'ry thing was alright.
  Wish I could tell you ev'ry thing was alright,
  wish ev'rything was alright.
  

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  YES I WILL

  Words And Music By Neil Diamond

  Yes I will, 'deed I will.
  If I may, if I might, if I can.
  
  Once upon a passing night dream
  he beheld a mystic image bathed in blue reflection.
  Then he stood and made his song,
  closed his eyes to feel the thunder
  echo like a wave around him; 
  love was in this strange house,
  and he knew he did belong, yes he did belong.
  Yes I will, 'deed I will. If I can.
  
  And cold it was within the marrow, 
  waiting like a wounded sparrow, 
  helpless and forgotten while the radio played on.
  Sing your song you fool, you dreamer;
  'cross the space that lies between us;
  cast the stones of fortune,
  for the journey has begun, yes it has begun.
  
  So you do, so you want to be giving.
  Say it out loud if you need to be holy.
  So you do, so you want to be loving;
  say it out now if you need to be holier still. 
  
  So it seems or so it may be, 
  I can't know for sure but lately seems I'm on a journey
  to a place I've never been.
  And baby if I had the answers I would lay them all before you;
  plainly it's a circle, one that ends and then begins, and begins again. 
  Yes I will, 'deed I will. If I can.
  
  

  
  

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  YESTERDAY'S SONGS

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Yesterday's songs
  Don't stay around long
  Not much anymore

  Yesterday's words
  Don't make themselves heard
  Like they did before

  Baby, yesterday's blues
  May be yesterday's news
  But the truth always stays the same
  And the good things will never change
  Like sayin' 'I love you'
  Sayin' 'I love you'

  Yesterday's songs
  Don't seem to belong
  They're here and they're gone

  Yesterday's moves
  Don't stay in the grooves
  They keep moving on

  Maybe yesterday's rhyme
  Was for yesterday's time
  And the future's not ours to see
  But there's some things that always will be
  Like sayin' 'I love you'
  Sayin' 'I love you'

  1981 Stongebridge Music (ASCAP)

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  YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS

  Written by Neil Diamond, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

  You don't bring me flowers
  You don't sing me love songs
  You hardly talk to me anymore
  When you come through the door
  At the end of the day

  I remember when
  You couldn't wait to love me
  Used to hate to leave me
  Now after lovin' me late at night
  When it's good for you
  And you're feeling alright
  Well you just roll over
  And you turn out the light
  And you don't bring me flowers anymore

  It used to be so natural
  To talk about forever
  But 'used to be's' don't count anymore
  They just lay on the floor
  'Til we sweep them away

  And baby, I remember
  All the things you taught me
  I learned how to laugh
  And I learned how to cry
  Well I learned how to love
  Even learned how to lie
  You'd think I could learn
  How to tell you goodbye
  'Cause you don't bring me flowers anymore

  1978 Stonebrige Music (ASCAP) & Threesome Music (ASCAP)

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  YOU GOT TO ME

  Written by Neil Diamond

  Mama told me that some day it would happen
  But she never said that it would happen like this
  Papa said, "Look out, some girl'll catch you nappin'
  Some little girl will get to you with her kiss"

  You got to me
  You brought me to may knees
  Never thought I'd say please, girl
  You got to my soul
  You got control
  You got to me, you got to be mine

  Used to slip though every girl's hand like water
  There never was one who could ever tie me down
  Straight ahead and steady as Gibraltar
  'Til you brought me tumblin' to the ground

  You got to me
  You brought me to may knees
  Never thought I'd say please, girl
  You got to my soul
  You got control
  You got to me, you got to be mine

  1967 Tallyrand Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

  Thanks to Arne Koehler, Linda Pollard, and Iris Gerhardt for all their help with these lyrics.
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