Playlist Shirley Bassey

shirley bassey - after the rain

After the rains have gone
Something inside me
I know is dying for you
The sleet and the snow
Does this mean I know the way

After the rains have gone
Something inside me cries
What's behind that door
This girl just can't take it anymore
This girl just can't take it anymore

After the pain has gone
I finally open my eyes
Not crying anymore
We drifted apart
It's broken our hearts surviving

After the rains have gone
Something inside me cries
What's behind that door?
This girl just can't take it anymore
This girl just can't take it anymore

After the rains have gone
Something inside me cries
What's behind that door?
This girl just can't take it anymore
This girl just can't take it anymore

Oh, I just can't take
Got my love, don't want to fake
This girl just can't take it anymore
This girl just can't take it anymore
This girl just can't take it anymore

shirley bassey - all by myself

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Livin alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home

All by myself
Dont wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Dont wanna live
All by myself anymore

Hard to be sure
Some times I feel so insecure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Dont wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Dont wanna live
All by myself anymore

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin love was just for fun
Those days are gone

All by myself
Dont wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Dont wanna live
All by myself anymore

All by myself
Dont wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Dont wanna live
All by myself anymore

shirley bassey - all i ask of you

No more talk of darkness
Forget those wide eyed fears
I'm here, nothing can harm you
My words will warm and calm you

Let me be your freedom
Let daylight dry your tears
I'm here with you, beside you
To guard you and to guide you

Say you love me
Every waking moment
Turn my head
With talk of summertime

Say you need me
With you now and always
Promise me that all you say is true
That's all I ask of you

Let me be your shelter
Let me be your light
You're safe, no one will find you
Your fears are far behind you

All we need is freedom
A world that's warm and right
And you always behind me
To hold me and to hide me

Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Let me lead you from your solitude

Say you need me
With you here, beside you
Anywhere you go, let me go too
That's all I ask of you

Say the word
And I will follow you
Share each day with me
Each night, each morning

Say you feel the way I do
That's all I ask of you

shirley bassey - all the things you are

Time and again I've longed for adventure
Something to make my heart beat the faster
What did I long for I never really knew?
Finding your love I found my adventure
Touching your hand my heart beats the faster
All that I want in all of this world is you

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song

You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I known are what you are
Someday my happy arms will hold you
And someday I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine

shirley bassey - almost there

If you're listening now
I hope that I make more sense
'cause now I'm not quite so young
I'm not quite so foolish in my defense

Pictures that I hid in my room
They now come out
And those places we used to go
I talk about

And now I'm not the girl of your dreams
Well, I took you almost there
I'll be damned if I care
Now if I'm not girl, we were almost there

Looks like I've lost you somewhere
And now I'm not the girl in your life

Well okay, maybe it hurts
And maybe I still feel my lips brush your face
What the hell, I'm not fool enough
To claim that I'm over you as yet

No, oh no
And though I've still got some way to go
Well, lately I'm almost there
I'll be damned if I care
Now that I'm not your girl, we were almost there

Watch me someday
Yeah, somehow I will make it somewhere
Going higher, I'll rise so much higher
And I'll hold my head higher

Almost there, that perfume that you wear
Now that I'm not your girl, we were almost there
Almost there

shirley bassey - alone again

In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower

And climbing to the top
Will throw myself right off
In an effort to make it clear to whoever
What it's like when you're shattered

Left standing in the lurch
At a church where people saying
"my god, it's tough, she's stood him up
No point in us remaining
We might as well go home"

As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to, who wouldn't do?
The role I was about to play

As if to knock my down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces

Leaving me to doubt talk about
God in his mercy
Who if he really does exist
Why did he desert me?
In my hour of need

I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally

It seems to me
That there are more hearts
Broken in the world
That can't be mended left unattended
What do we do? what do we do?

Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears

And at sixty-five years old
My mother, god rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken

Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
When she passed away
I cried and cried all day

Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

shirley bassey - and i love you so

refrain:
And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I've lived till now
I tell them I don't know

I guess they'll understand
How lonely life has been
But life began again
The day you took my hand

And yes I know
How lonely life can be
The shadows follow me
And the night want set me free
But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me

And you love me too
Your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirit free
I'm happy that you do
The book of life is brief
And once a page is read
Oh, but love is dead
That is my believe

And yes I know
How lonely life can be
The shadows follow me
And the night want set me free
But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me

refrain

shirley bassey - apartment

I'm runnin' away from cinderella
Don't want to go to rapunzel's hairdresser
Get me outta this, this, this here fairytale
According to me dreams are hell

I don't wanna kiss that faggot froggy
Don't want to fall in love with the beast or the beauty
Get me outta this, this, this here fairytale
According to me dreams are hell

All I want is an apartment
All I need is an apartment
If you've any leads on an apartment, tell me please
'cause I'm runnin' away from cinderella

I don't wanna fly on a dragon
God knows I've had so many drags, so many of them
Get me outta this, this, this here fairytale
According to me real life is swell

All I need is an apartment
All I want is an apartment
If you've any leads on an apartment, tell me please
'cause I'm runnin' away, I'm runnin' away
I'm runnin' away from cinderella

shirley bassey - as i love you

I will love you
As I love you all my life
Every moment spent with you
Makes me more content with you
Just as you are
You are all I could pray for
All that you are
That's what I wake up each day for

Every single touch and tingle I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer then the one before
As I love you more and more and more

Every single touch and tingle I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer then the one before
As I love you more and more and more

shirley bassey - as long as he needs me

As longs as he needs me
I know where I must be
I'll cling on steadfastly
As longs as he needs me
As long as life is long
I'll love him, right or wrong
And somehow I'll be strong
As long as he needs me

If you are lonely then you will know
When someone needs you you love them so
I won't betray his trust
Though people say I must
I've got to stay true just
As longs as he needs me

If you are lonely then you will know
When someone needs you you love them so
I won't betray his trust
Though people say I must
I've got to stay true just
As longs as he needs me

shirley bassey - ballad of the sad young men

Sing a song of sad, young men, glasses full of rye
All the news is bad again, kiss your dreams goodbye
All the sad, young men, sitting in the bars
Knowing neon nights and missing all the stars

All the sad, young men, drifting through the town
Drinking up the night, trying not to drown
All the sad, young men, singing in the cold
Trying to forget that they're growing old

All the sad, young men, choking on their youth
Trying to be brave, running from the truth
Autumn turns the leaves to gold, slowly dies the heart
Sad, young men are growing old, that's the cruelest part

All the sad, young men, seek a certain smile
Someone they can hold for just a little while
Tired, little girl, does the best she can
Trying to be gay for a sad, young men

While a grimy moon watches from above
All the sad, young men who play at making love
Misbegotten moon shine for sad young men
Let your gentle light guide them home again
All the sad, sad, sad, young men

shirley bassey - born to lose

Born to lose, born to lose the game
Born to cry when I hear you're near
Born to smile through a mist of tears
Born to live, lost in lonely years

Born to lose every game I play
You must go, there's no other way
Touch my life with your love once more
It must last till forever more

Take my love, take my life, my soul
Take my dreams, take my word, my own
Would I change? could I only choose?
No, not me, I was born to lose

Take my love, take my life, my soul
Take my dreams, take my word, my own
Would I change? could I only choose?
No, not me, I was born to lose

Take my love, take my life, my soul
Take my dreams, take my word, my own
Would I change? could I only choose?
No, not me, I was born to lose

Take my love, take my life, my soul
Take my dreams, take my word, my own

shirley bassey - as time goes by

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny

Well, it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny

Well, it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

shirley bassey - big spender

The minute you walked in the joint,
I could see you were a man of distinction,
A real Big Spender,
good looking, so refined.
Say, wouldn't you like to know what's going on in my mind?

So let me get right to the point,
I don't pop my cork for every guy I see.
Hey! Big Spender,
spend a little time with me.

Wouldn't you like to have fun? Fun? Fun?
How's about a few laughs? Laughs? Laughs?
I can show you a good time,
Let me show you a good time.

The minute you walked in the joint,
I could see you were a man of distinction,
A real Big Spender,
good looking, so refined.
Say, wouldn't you like to know what's going on in my mind?

So let me get right to the point,
I don't pop my cork for every guy I see.
Hey! Big Spender,
Hey! Big Spender,

spend a little time with me
spend a little time with me
spend a little time with me.

shirley bassey - breakfast in bed

You've been crying, your face is a mess
Come here baby
You can dry the tears on my dress
She's hurt you again, I can tell
Oh, I know that look so well

Don't be shy
You've been here before
Pull your shoes of, lie down
And I will lock the door

And no one has to know
You've come here again
Darling, it'll be
Like it's always been before
Come over here

Breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
You don't have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed, nothing need be said
Ain't no need

What's your hurry?
Please don't eat and run
You can let her wait
My darling, it's been so long

Since I've had you here
You can come again
Darling, it will be
Like it's always been before

Just a little breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
You don't have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed, nothing need be said
Ain't no need

Breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
You don't have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
Honey, you don't have to say you love me

Breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
Oh darling, come on over here, darling
And gimme a breakfast in bed and a kiss or three
You don't have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed, a kiss or three

shirley bassey