Playlist Carly Simon

carly simon - coming around again

Baby sneezes
Mommy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
But so bewildering

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

You pay the grocer
Fix the toaster
Kiss the host Good-bye
Then you break a window
burn the Soufflé
Scream a lullaby

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

And I believe in love
But what else can I do
I'm so in love with you

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It will be coming around again

Baby sneezes (I believe in love)
Mommy pleases (I believe in love)
Daddy breezes in (I believe in love)

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It will be coming around again

I do believe
I do believe
I believe in love...

Coming around again
Coming around again
Nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It will be coming around again

I believe in love (I believe in love)
I believe in love (I believe in love)
And it's coming around again...

carly simon - you know what to do

The night is filled with pretty girls
Dancing shoes and flying hair
Not one of them would refuse
To follow you up the stairs
You could have your pick of them
Why decide to pick on me
You promised me you?d stay away
You promised me you?d set me free
Pounding of my heart
Trembling of my hands
Somethings i?ll just never understand

Chorus:
You know what to do to me
You know what it does to me
You know what to do to me
You know what it does to me
You know what to do

The night is filled with shooting stars
I watch them fall ?cause i can?t sleep
I pray that you won't call at all
I?m still awake at ten to three
I hear your motorcycle roar
You pull up short outside my door
I don?t know how i got outside
I don?t know why i?m on this ride

We make love like a house on fire
We make love like dogs gone mad
Somethings i?ll just never understand

Chorus

Pounding out my heart
Trembling of my hands
Somethings i?ll just never understand

Chorus

carly simon - moonlight serenade

I stand at your gate
And the song that I sing is of moonlight

I stand and I wait
For the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing
A moonlight serenade

The stars are aglow
And tonight how their light sets me dreaming
My love, do you know
That your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and sing you
A moonlight serenade

Let us stray 'til break of day
In love's valley of dreams
Just you and I, a summer sky
A heavenly breeze kissing the trees

So, don't let me wait
Come to me tenderly in the June night
I stand at your gate
And I sing you a song in the moonlight
A love song, my darling,
A moonlight serenade

carly simon - spring will be a little late this year

Spring will be a little late this year
A little late arriving
In my lonely world over here
For you have left me
And where is our April love old
Yes you have left me
And winter continues cold
As if to say that spring will be
A little slow to start
A little slow reviving
That music it made in my heart
Cause time heals all things
So I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be
A little late this year
Yes time heals all things
So I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be
A little late this year

carly simon - back down to earth

We jumped into a river on the moon
But the water was too cold
We tried to buy the morning star
But it was already sold
I wanted to make it big with you
But my plans must have been too bold

And it's back down to earth again
Back in my car and gone
Back on the road
Back on the road alone

You were my summer angel
Your eyes how they shone
Just last night we were talking about
How much our love had grown
I wanted to prove how good it could be
But my plans will have to be postponed

'Cause it's back down to earth again
Back in my car and gone
Back on the road
Back on the road alone

carly simon - the carter family

The Carter family lived next door
For almost 14 years
With Gwen and I inseperatable
From rag dolls through brassieres

Then Gwen began to bore me
With her giggles and her fears
The day the Carters moved away
I had to fake my tears

I told new friends Gwen Carter
Had become a silly pest
And then I found I missed her
More than I'd ever have guessed

Grandma used to nag at me
To straighten up my spine
To act respectful and read good books
To take care of what was mine

I hated being criticized
And asking her permission
So what if her advise was wise
It always hurt to listen

I didn't cry when Granny died
She made me so depressed
And then I found I missed her
More than I'd ever have guessed

You used to make me moan in bed
But that can't be enough
My friends complained your jokes were crude
Your manners were too rough

Don't know just what I wanted
But I know I wanted more
Someone smooth, presentable
To blend with my decor

And now at night I think of how
You grinned when you undressed
And I find I miss you
More than I'd ever have guessed

carly simon - nobody does it better

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby you're the best

I wasn't looking
but somehow you found me
I tried to hide from your lovelight
but like heaven above me
the spy who loved me
is keeping all my secrets safe tonight

And nobody does it better
Though sometimes I wish someone would
Nobody does it quite the way you do
Why d'you have to be so good?

The way that you hold me
whenever you hold me
There's some kind of magic inside you
that keeps me from runnning
but just keep it coming
how'd you learn to do the things you do

And nobody does it better
makes me feel sad for the rest
nobody does it half as good as you
baby baby darling
you're the best
baby you're the best

carly simon - raining

Raining
Raining for days on end
Staying inside again
Making up lists
Of things to do
When the rain ends
The Children are restless
They played all their games
Again and again and again
If we knew anyone
We could call up a friend

But it's raining
Raining, raining, raining

The sheets are damp
And the towels won't dry
Why bother to take all the
Clothes in from the line
Cause tomorrow may be

Raining
On a summer vacation
Here by the ocean
Look in the attic
To see if you might
Find an old toy
Maybe a magazine
Maybe a mystery
Something to look at
Or something to read

Cause it's raining
Raining, raining, raining

The salt won't shake
And the cards won't play
Damned if we go
But damned if we stay
Cause tomorrow
May be raining

Raining for days on end
Staying inside again
Making up lists
Of things to do
When the rain ends
Oh, it's raining
Raining, raining, raining

carly simon - you re so vain

You walked into the party
like you were walking onto a yacht
your hat strategically dipped below one eye
your scarf it was apricot
you had one eye in the mirror
as you watched yourself gavotte

and all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
they'd be your partner and

you're so vain
you probably think this song is about you
you're so vain
I bet you think this song is about you
don't you, don't you, don't you

well you had me several years ago
when I was still quite naive
well you said that we made such a pretty pair
and that you would never leave
but you gave away the things you loved
and one of them was me

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
clouds in my coffee and

you're so vain
you probably think this song is about you
you're so vain
I bet you think this song is about you
don't you, don't you, don't you

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
clouds in my coffee and...

you're so vain
you probably think this song is about you
you're so vain
I bet you think this song is about you
don't you, don't you, don't you

well I hear you went up to Saratoga
and your horse naturally won
then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
to see the total eclipse of the sun
well you're where you should be all the time
and when you're not
you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
wife of a close friend

you're so vain
you probably think this song is about you
you're so vain
I bet you think this song is about you
don't you, don't you, don't you

carly simon - laura

Introduction: "Haunting" by Carly Simon)
There's always someone, haunting someone, haunting someone,
I can't sleep easy, cause I'm afraid of dreaming
And then the memory of the dream
There's always someone, haunting someone, haunting someone
Laura is the face in the misty night
Footsteps that you hear down the hall
The laugh that floats on a summer's night
That you might never quite recall

And you see Laura on a train that is passing through
Those eyes how familiar they seem
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was Laura but she's only a dream

She gave your very first kiss to you
That was Laura
But she's only a dream

Yes she gave your very first kiss to you
That was Laura, but she's only a dream
A dream, a dream

carly simon - davy

Davy, is there a song out there
In the night for us

Davy, is there the kind of smile
That you read about

There are ghosts who would warn me
Keep me alone

Davy, are you the heat I feel
In my foolish heart

Davy, there?s not a day that I haven?t prayed
To feel something so worthy
For someone like you

Davy, could there be love so bright
Like to jump off the sea?

Davy, did I imagine it
Or did you look at me
With a look so bold
That I had to look away

But if it feels all right
If it feels all right and it feels all right
Davy, Davy, Davy........

carly simon - how can you ever forget

I love you more than the first sunset
The first star I saw I would surely bet
So how could you ever, could you ever forget?
You're here but you're gone
It's in your eyes
Something's gone wrong
You've stifled your cries
You can't expect that I'll ever forget
All the details of your mind you would tell me through the night
After we'd made love and the way was so open
Now you turn your back to me
As if we'd never spoken
But I still love you more than the first sunset
I swear I caught a shooting star the first time we met
So how could you ever
I know that I'll never
How could you ever, ever forget?

carly simon - every time we say goodbye

Everytime we say goodbye
I die a little
Everytime we say goodbye
I wonder why a little
Why the gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go

And when you're near there's such an air of Spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it

There's no love song finer
But how strange the change from major to
minor
Everytime we say goodbye

Why the gods above me
Who must be in the know
Think so little of me
They'd allow you to go

And when you're near there's such an air of Spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it

There's no love song finer
But how strange the change from major to
minor
Everytime we say goodbye, everytime we say goodbye
Everytime we say goodbye, everytime we say goodbye.....

carly simon - we re so close

I've lived in all of the houses he's built
The one in the air
The one underground
The one on the water
The one in the sand

He says: It doesn't matter how we live
He says: It doesn't matter where we live
We're so close we can dispense with houses
We don't need a home at all

It's come to be a habit with me to dine alone
You're never home
And the evenings end so early

He says: We can be close from afar
He says: The closest people always are
We're so close that in our separation
There's no distance at all

Sometimes I go out to the car
Turn on the headlights
Intending to leave
Sometimes I need to hear the words
My imagination's not as strong as you'd believe

Oh, but I've talked to you
You haven't listened at all
I've said I'm numb
I can't even cry
I'm stuck with acting out a part

He says: Wwhat do words ever reveal?
He says: In speaking one can be so false
We're so close we have a silent language
We don't need words at all

There's a husky voice
That speaks to me in the dark
And on the phone from studios
And West side bars
Through tunnels of long distance

He says: We're beyond flowers
He says: We're beyond compliments
We're so close we can dispense with love
We don't need love at all

carly simon - over the rainbow

Somewhere
Over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land
That I've heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere
Over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams
That you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day
I'll wish upon a star
And wake up
Where the clouds
Are far behind me
Where troubles melt
Like lemondrops
Away above
The chimney tops
That's where
You'll find me

Somewhere
Over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly
Over the rainbow
Why then
Oh why, can't I?

If happy
Little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why, can't I?

carly simon