Michael Franks

In loves unabridged There are certain words to master Using a sentence defined 

I lived in a painting by Renoir Dined late in those sidewalk cafes But lately I seem to be more inclined For a walk in the rain I dance to Grappelli and Django Saw candlelight through beaujolais But lately I seem to be more inclined For a walk in the r...

In your abandoned garden, sunlight still prevails: The jasmine climbs the trellis fragrantly, the jacaranda ultravioletly sways. The blossom. each of them by your hand planted, Will, even if I tell them of your sudden Disappearance from us, Not believe...

The night I met you We were tryin' to define What "hip" meant How could I forget you You were shakin' all that fine Equipment? Listen you, 's' been a week or two And still you got me waiting Anticipating Little fawn did you lead me on Because you re...

When I saw you on the beach I self-destructed My well constructed Counterpoint of cool. In that instant I imagined us together Hardly ever Resting to refuel. For forever you are all I need More than ever you are all I need. Every kiss perpetuates lik...

When I'm alone at night all I do is think about you Especially when I'm blue I just can't do without I love the way you shiver my timbers I need you here to keep myself limber When I'm alone I contemplate every way I'd like to rendez-vous you I only hope...

Inside my dream I hear the jungle parrots scream Just me and you Alone in our dugout canoe We kiss The snakes hiss We drift on Amazon Each day we fight To stay alive Make love each night Drunk with desire Asleep beside the jungle fire We are Lik...

Antonio lives life's frevo Antonio prays for truth Antonio says our friendship Is a hundred-proof The vulture that circles Rio Hangs in this L.A. sky The blankets they give the Indians Only make them die But sing the Song Forgotten for so lon...

Don't you ever invite your boyfriend here- I like to be here alone. Just answer the door and feed the deer, And fight the telephone. Got to learn these words and I know you will Or I'll send you right back to Guayaquil Say " B'wana - He no home." Say "...

Barefoot on the beach Warmed by the subtropic sun Easily seduced - I'm in Safely out of reach From faxes and the telephone I get happy when A dolphin joins me for a swim My Captiva Island hideaway Isn't complete Not without you - what about you? You...

Ev'ryone sings, "Home of the brave And land of the free" You've had twenty wins and one save, Now you're up against me How can I keep control of my nerves? The way you wind-up When you throw me those curves? I hear him yell, "strike", And it's a good...

You appear on the horizon far away My desire to be there with you stirs the wind and fills the sense In the bay I drop the anchor down swim ashore On the beach the coconut palms, orchids, planchoniana and you Your silent eyes convince me I'm your own We'...

(for P.Y.) Here I am: "Hometown Boy Makes Good" Writes one critic. All my childhood I lived By the blue Pacific. Anytime that reality Makes me heartsick I come here just to stare At the blue Pacific Sea. And barefoot on the beach I watch for you on t...

Dan expands like Gildersleeve: "You salty dogs, it's New Year's Eve." The Dali drools, the Hartley shines, But all I see is those Burchfield Nines. The artist weeps, the agent smiles; I'd like to learn to box like Miles. We're all such funny valentine...

Well, after all the tears and laughter You and I've been through How can you ask me what love is? Love is a chain, just a chain reaction Once you break it, you can't fake it Once you wind it up, you can't unwind it Once you lose it or misuse it You can...

Please tell me if you can, Doc What's causing my depression? The fact we now engage in Unprovoked aggression? These kids we're sending out To quote "defend our nation" Come home completely shattered A broken generation? I feel like a stranger In a strange land...

On the flight home to you Sure hope I don't miss my connection Nevertheless, if I do It's only a matter of time Until my arrival chez nous I'm heading in the right direction No turbulence-the sky is blue It's only a matter of time. When I come home W...

I can't forget the time We spent Christmas in Kyoto At that small hotel Overlooking the pagoda With a thousand statues standing at attention and that one the same like in one of those films by what's his name? Ah, Akira Kurosawa Who could forget the time We s...

April is not the cruellest month If I may disagree With the eloquent gloom Of the poet of doom All winter long the greenshoots hiding Inder ice and snow While they wait for the sun While they wait to become I can feel it coming to life Can't...

Makes no difference where you go Every journey ends. Each new landscape now you know. Is a steping-stone Till you're safe at home. Purple clouds, grey winds that rage, Lightning lines pale white- Choose new colors, turn the page Where there is no stor...

By day He's a grease monkey it's true A slave Fix your transmission like new Change oil Rotate your tires of course He toils Under the Flying Red Horse And at six he rolls Down his sleeves Turns his collar up When the boss man leaves Close up the s...

Don't Be Blue you ain't got far to go. You see better when you're moving slow. Don't get locked into your sadness, Cop a bluff, strut your stuff. If you stumble just be tongue and cheek. Love is always just like hide and seek. Atony and Cleopatra did it...

Every time you smile at me More profound than words can say I would walk a mile to be Nearer to you night and day All the signals that you send Broadcast with your silent eyes Surely seem to recommend We should touch not fantasize Every time I see yo...

Every time I asked you to be truthful you lied And when I lost my temper you cried Crocodile tears and spoke double talk It's the same old alibis and stories again I redeye there to meet you and then All you ever give me is double talk You think that lo...

Down in Brazil It takes a day to walk a mile Time just stand still And when the people you meet look at you they smile They still believe in style They serve you with their sambas 'til You really know you're down in ol' Brazil You can tell you're down i...

Deep in July Counting clouds floating by Keeps us busy The mockingbird's song In the palmetto palm Rivals Dizzy How we thrive deep in dragonfly summer Our new swimsuits have hardly been worn We revive deep in dragonfly summer Celebrating the day you...

Whenever I explore the land of Yin I always take one on the chin And now this lioness has almost made me tame. I can't pronounce her name but eggplant is her game. The lady sticks to me like white on rice. She never cooks the same way twice. Maybe it's...

Me again, you again Robin's egg blue again, Eagerly notice the crocuses, Suddenly, Spring arrives, In the sky bluebird reconnaissance, Phoebes dip straw in the mud- Winter's done, hallelujah! All the clouds ungather And the sun shines through. Swall...

There isn't any part of me she does not know We've been together about a thousand years or so Still almost instantly my love begins to show Every time she whispers It makes no difference if I'm down upon my luck When she invites me in, my gloom becomes u...

I've been waiting to meet you I know you're out there somewhere Are you waiting to meet me too? Every morning I start out Maybe today Every night turn my heart out Maybe tomorrow When I wander in dreamtime I feel you come closer Tell me is it the same...

I was convinced That Life was just a Ship of Fools That happiness always Had a broken string Then Karma kicked in While wandering through an ancient forest I found a feather from an angel's wing Now I know Now I know the destination's there If I want it My eye...

Drove past your house so slow Turned up my radio. I think you know the station Please open up your door I need some more flirtation Last night at Show and Tell You sure did ring my bell With cryptic conversation Sent shivers down my spine With all your fine f...

Look at him, he dials the number Lucky Jim, he's so misunderstood So he slams it down for good And he tells himself he's happy He tells himself he's happy He tells himself he's happy He tells himself Couldn't tape with Dr. Gizmo She's got the pain fo...

I put my faith in disguises Assuming my heart could remain concealed You sure were full of surprises Saw through me - my secrets were soon revealed To crash all my coconuts down you shook Examined my heart like an open book And weak from your sweet Ingr...

Hourglass, remember how I said I'd miss you? I confess I lied: Hourglass, I couldn't live without you If I tried, which I Do not intend to ever try My Hourglass, your sensual geography I live just to explore Your present, past, and future incar...

If it's true from the start That the names of those we love Are written in our hearts And we'll search 'til we find In this jungle of Confusion Something that reminds us How we love each other Then I think I've found the clue Because I certain I rememb...

Winter's hard to rhyme We're prisoners in some icy pantomime Just waiting for the wind to change his mind And sing us green April starts to whisper to the trees I hoe and you plant the trees Canterbury Bells begin to ring The sparrows are stealing strin...

I Don't Know Why I'm So Happy I'm Sad I'm in trouble See'n double I have been hurting for someone for so long Is it you Is it you We're like a scene from the African Queen We're so slam bang We're so yin yang You had my heart followed And you lock...

I love Lucy and she loves me We're as happy as two can be We have our quarrel bue then Girl,How we love making up again ? Lucy kisses like know one can She's my misses and I'm her man And life is heaven you see 'Couse I love Lucy , yesm i love Lucy An...

Everyone knows that the words of a love song Are seldom if ever true Now it's a periscope And I really hope it's you It's Prince of the Cynics they call me It's Three Hundred Shades of Blue It's multiple no-o But I really hope it's you I hope it's yo...

I fly solo The Number One's my logo Birth of the Cool's my theme song For me the whole love scene's wrong I surrender Take me prisoner right away I'm content with you inside I surrender Learned my lesson the hard way: "You can run but you can't hide"...

When you meet someone who inspires your worst angry voice Just retreat-happiness is always a much better choice Why chargin? If you're in- Sisting on the last word It's quite over-rated Like our mothers taught: Unkind words we just ought not to Hey, everything...

Summer retreats now Green kingdom's end Why can't I make Time suspend? The hummingbird would hover by me And never fly away If only I could Make September stay In every blossom She hides a song Sunshine be mine All year long The hummingbird would hum beside...

I've squandered love as I've wandered Lover to lover untrue Cut flowers pink tile showers Women I've counted like coups Been in search of the perfect shampoo You thrilled me Walked right up to me My follicles prayed it was true Don't panic, we're pur...

You kill me with kindness. You call me "Your Highness." But When I get Blue I can never find you. The circle keeps turning The sky is still burning. I hear from my ex- On the back of my checks. But hold me awhile And I'll hang up my guns, mama I kno...

No one here Venus and Mars And a skyful of stars It's been a slo-mo year A few stolen kisses And several near misses I wait (wish my mission was clearer) For the cherub's arrow Hesitate (one last look in the mirror) My lappels are narrow Down the sta...

Remember, when your kite hits the ground And your smile turns upside down It's only going on inside you Whenever the libretto won't do And all the notes become too blue Remember there's a song inside you Cara Mia, if you're ever lost at sea Just call o...

Keep believing you soon will earn your turn to flash in the pan It's deceiving 'cause nothing kills like this metropolis can Everywhere there's blind ambition Dog eat dog and screw you You do unto others and they do unto you Everyday you fight taxicabs a...

Wintertime when the city gets to me I climb on that plane at Kennedy And fly to the southern Hemisphere Where the sky is clear I abandon the bleak December chill There's nothing like Christmas in Brazil The weather's completely upside down When we touch down...

I used to be mellow 'Til you got a hold of me Now I feel like a fellow - dying of jealousy Were you late last night, I passed your house I saw no light I called you on the phone 100 times you weren't at home Don't say just out with friends, I can't believe tha...

After you hurt me, After I hurt you, And all of my bad dreams, One by one, came true You said it was goodbye But the eyes never lie And I knew That it was only Jive. So you found a new lover to wear your crown, And I found a cheap flat up in Chinato...

Brush every night, don't let the bedbugs bite The ones I'm referring to Till I get home I'll be Keeping my eye on you. Don't stay out late, stay home and cogitate, And write me a letter too, While I'm away I'll be Keeping an eye on you. May I suggest...

There's moon tonight And the mood feels right 'Cause it's Ladies' Nite At the Wishing Well Saloon Think I'll catch me one Play some One-on-One Have some harmless fun At the Wishing Well Saloon There's quite a crowd The music's loud The drinks are f...

I knew from the moment I saw you My bad luck in love was all in the past How true, been so high it's unreal And this feeling reminds me of Laughing gas How square that our Age is Atomic It's kind of tragicomic too But we can laugh away our blues, Babe...

I guess I flew too high Icarus falling from the sky But in the dense rainforest heat Somehow I landed on my feet with the will to survive And in the heart of darkness Without a chance of rescue I never quit, I just refused I thought of you, somehow I k...

Remember the first night we met? Your eyes convinced me to forget How easily love can fail Revive my hope I never could Inside I'd given up for good Until you broke the spell Heartaches, and making the most obvious mistakes Hindsight reveals is learnin...

When I met you I was blind Underneath a dark cloud couldn't find the blue And I wasn't sure quite what to do I wore my heart upon my sleeve Disappointed I could not believe at last That I had finally shaken off the past with you I don't know how you tra...

Cast upon the wind When it shifted i drifted Without a star to steer by Fowl weather took me by suprise I felt the sea begin to rise.. You are my lifeline When love ripped all my sails with rain, You saved me from this hurricane, You are my life...

Lady, lovely as light, you lie beside me While I dream, but at dawn you disappear Who decides how much longing is the right amount? So many times I nearly found you, I lost count Each time I think I'm close enough to touch you You hide from me seductively...

My memories of you Lunch in Le Blonde, speaking of the Amazon Or navigating through your hometown Ipanema Walking on the beach Holding our shoes You described just how amused Surrender to you, wave In one piece, no problema My memories of you always...

Here we are again That fatal combination I guess it's opposite attraction It's gone too far again This crazy conversation It's like a nuclear reaction Lady your lip service has no rival Don't you know deception is uncouth? Didn't you read somewhere in...

Books are stacked on my table, I've got books filling my shelves Day and night I've been trying to unravel myself But I've been looking for answers that don't seem to wanna be had And people don't live too long when they're feeling this bad So I don't wan...

Some sprint to snatch the prize in My goal's the far horizon I guess I'm obsessed With that long slow distance. The fleet of feet won't please you All speed, they love and leave you Not me, as you see I love long slow distance. Listen, my pulse beats s...

So empty like sky Without any sun Lotus Blossom, don't cry You and I were meant to be one And though we're apart It won't be for long I come to you In my song So happy we two Like sparrows in spring Lotus Blossom, it's true Me and you like bow upo...

Same old song Always blue Can't help thinking Of me and you All the love before Our goodbyes were spoken On the storm We were tossed Tragically Till our love was lost Drifting miles apart Both our hearts were broken Now when I meet you...

Misterioso how I met you Was it the Honolulu night? Stars so bright, sea so blue Down on Waikiki, With my arms around you With my arms around you One thing's for sure. I've been loving you more and more. And for sure I'll be loving you more and more....

How come the mice All the cute ones with their furry little suits on The gals and misters with the pretty little whiskers All want to stay? What's with the mice Are they Catholic with those families? Enough said... I confront them With a minimum of bloodshed T...

Before I was saved by my better half I once disappeared in a black-and-white Photograph That I was just staring at Framed on someone's wall How long it lasted I could not say But all of my heroes returned to play one Last gig and there was I In the mi...

Love has locked us up, peaches, Locked inside this zoo, Your bananas get thrown at me And mine get thrown at you. Ev'ry night we fuss and fight Like arabs and like jews, I guess love is always just: Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is,...

We touched like watercolour fawns In landscapes painted by Cezanne Like lovers floating painted by Chegall But you and I were you-I then We thought the rush would never end We thought the sky, the sky would never fall We lived we loved we laughed w...

In every city whether it be large or small His tired playlist drones But some of us remember how much choice there was Before he took the throne He's Mr. Smooth - His Hipness, the Great For Mr. Smooth's verdict we must wait So Mr. Smooth, when out turn...

I guess I never knew love Could ever be true love Life had left me gigantically Anti-romantic I was blue as Camus And I never quite understood why Love passed me by Though it's true that this ditty Begins in self-pity I can promise the ending Will be more asc...

Kid inside a candy store Sensation Temptation Always gotta have some more You love that sticky stuff Ain't no way you're lettin' go You tease me You squeeze me Well there's something you should know I never get enough I know I'm never I know I'm nev...

The music begins and the titles fade in, starrin' you and me The hero is struggling to say that his lady is far away In her prison of wishes We love and we fight but it's all day for night just a masquerade We'll read till the red light is off then we go...

Just yesterday I wandered lost Inside some loneliness My love worn heart could not undo But now your rainbow's shining through Somehow, now there's no one but you You gave me hope You tuned my heartbeat to one simple note You wrote the answer with you...

Beautiful you Do we dance to the same drum Sample my love Cause there's more where that came from Too Am I falling in love with you Miserable me Such a terrible loner Very low mileage and only one owner True Now I'm falling in love with you Why...

As a kid my nose would be Inside a book of poetry I memorized the movies where Into each other's eyes the lovers stare I.e. Zhivago with his Lara in their cottage In the snow Ten below with only love to keep the warm I soon discovered with alarm Real...

In slow-motion I'm reborn I need a week to mow the lawn I eat dinner with my flip-flops on Now that the summer's here With my chores I only flirt Hung in my hammock reading Kurt Struggling to remain inert Now that the summer's here Now that the summe...

You used to be her space invader Snatching her free from King Kong's choke She's allons-y She'll catch you later Now that your joystick's broke You had it made with all the women At the arcade nor you're the joke Still wear the shades But who you kiddi...

I was just a stand-in Someone love abandoned - not the leading man But my heart yelled "Action" What does "fall in love" mean? We rehearsed the Love Scene unaware of this Till we tried The Kiss and Now... now you're in my dreams Love was such a mystery...

Lost my way again And it wasn't hard to do When I'm away from you It seems the meaning runs out of my life Swept away again Like a sailor tossed on the tide How much longer can I hide The pain I feel with you out of my life And we cut to ending......

Remember, when your kite hits the ground And your smile turns upside down It's only going on inside you Whenever the libretto won't do And all the notes become too blue Remember there's a song inside you Cara mia, if you're ever lost at sea Just call o...

Here's my routine, I have retired from the late scene When midnight rings I'm in bed listening I wake up at five, Run by the river 'til the sunrise. As ev'ry body knows, I'm disciplined (chorus) I just have one bad habit, Only one bad habit Yes...

The year was 1963 We toured through France My thumb and me We yankees then Were seen as friends And so I bummed my way One summer day in St. Tropez Outside Toulon an XKE On some blue highway Stopped for me The driver's seat Held blonde Brigitte With whom I pa...

Love will soon ignite Now we move so right Please don't say goodnight Just let me count the freckles on your knees Baby please don't say goodnight Sleep beneath the poinciana trees Baby please don't say goodnight Those Lahaina lights Are so far fro...

And when God gave out rythm He sure was good to you. You can add, subtract, multiply and divide... By two. I know today's your birthday, And I did not buy no rose. But I wrote this song instead and I call it, "Popsicle Toes". Popsicle toes. Popsicle...

I give my love to you And you give your love to me That endless curve They use for Infinity Would best describe The way this puzzle fits Darlin' you inspire me But even I run out of adjectives I have heard it said "Nothing is perfect" How untrue! Perf...

You're the queen of the underground I met you Sunday at the Dalai Lama's You bought some pictures in those silk pyjamas And you seemed like someone from another planet With your eyes so jet and your lips so pomegranate And the coiffure you wore was Earl...

Seventh of September Remember when We met at the shrine Your kimono looked so fine Temple dancers swaying Flutes playing then I was yours and you were mine Paul Desmond on the stereo We sipped the sake very slow Kissing in the candleglow That rainy n...

Read my lips It must be obvious I love you Read my lips It must be obvious Read my lips Though, I can't tell you that I love you Read my lips It must be obvious Hard as I try to fight it Anything can excite it Merely the meeting of our eyes It just...

Once January arrives Soon as the mercury dies I start to wonder how long it will take Before my weakened will power just breaks And I'm convincing you To rendezvous in Rio Dance the samba in Bahia On the beach we'll chill So atmospherically contented...

We said goodbye one last time at the Louvre Our long happy Summer was through Just lovers in Paris as common as doves But I still think of you, Samba Blue Just how long has it been? I still remember when We strolled the Champs Elysees Sharing a warm ba...

When I walk around Soho I remember Gamboa There's a feeling, there's a beat That hugs me like a boa Walking by the docks Where Donga make the samba In the rhythm of the people From Angola from Ruanda Suffering along in the wonderful dilemma Falling...

Now I used to smoke the twine And I used to chop the line Every morning pay the fine Wake up red-eye from the wine Then a bird taught me to sing And I met the Lotus King And my residence was through In the Land of Sanpaku I chewed the root until my brain was...

If you shine me on it'll haunt you Let's play me and you don't you want to Take a great big bite of the apple What the hell Might as well Let's play pin the tail on the bunny Let's play grizzly bear finding honey Let the lukewarm milk of precaution Be...

Ran to Penn Station and mad my train Immediately fell asleep until I heard The conductor say: "Next stop Where-it's-Atsville." Sunlight on the Hudson an amber glow Like "Crepuscule with Nellie" dialed Down low When I reached my stop The platform sign s...

When circumstance divides us, I always close my eyes. My thoughts retrace the image of your face: Somehow our love survives. Now we're in our prime and it's Once Upon a Time... Paper lanterns in the trees. The photograph is framed But the feeling's stil...

Life read the grooves and your voice ...across the years time travels Disappeared songbird I hear ...you and my heart unravels When I consider ...your absence then my smile erases Sure the Creator creates ...but rarely He replaces Songbirds as perf...

I know whereof I speak Believe me When it comes to the subject Of loneliness look it up you'll see There is a picture of me But that's ancient history now Completely Now when it comes to the subject Of happiness I'm the man to see And my advice in su...

From the Towers of Babylon The beat goes on- All voices of the insincere. Confusion is middle C Your frequency is what I need to hear. Why won't you speak to me? Show me some affection, Give me some direction, Lead me to your love? Just speak to me-...

When I start to care Then I find there is no one there But I think of you And I know, we are something new We get higher and higher Crazy blue Like St. Elmo's Fire Loves so sharp and flat That it's hard to know just where your at Now I know I want yo...

in watercolor the lovers enraptured the moment is captured the faint light reveals them their closeness conceals them the warmth of the scene floats in ultramarine it rivets the vision it's great composition the curve of her hair and the manner in wh...

All our lives Searching for the secret of joy Each time we think we find the way Confusion leads us astray Love arrives At the very moment we cry For someone to be our heart's home Instead of blue monochrome Suddenly, the Rainbow Hits us from a diff...

Come, Loved One, let's ride that silver train Right down the Hudson Have lunch in midtown It's summer in New York Postprandial, meander through the Met Just like we used to The odds are King Tut still Summers in New York We'll both review Fifth Avenue From upt...

Buried alive hoping to survive 'Til the weekend Can't write the song Struggle all week long Bitter blue But up on the roof we are living proof Love's nutritious Such delicious Like the river we journey déjà vu Sunday morning here with you Your kisse...

Had to get away I couldn't stand another dreary day Of people with the same expression on each face Guess I needed to find some secret place I bought a round trip cheap I broke my lease and gave away my heap I flew down to Tahiti where soft breezes blow...

Love, when we touch I shiver Just body language can you blame it My love's like a raging river And I think you're the one to tame it You, you're the quiet, shy type You always whisper never shout it Ooh, Baby, you are my type Why don't you tell me all a...

He had strong defenses built, His heart to surround Not for long, when she appeared All the walls tumbled down She had scars reminding her She was easily deceived Only tears convinced her Once again to believe His ego would bend Learning the...

Give them their freedom - unless you do The tide of suffering's sure to rise You see it coming - o yes you do And the camera never lies No the camera never lies They send the pictures by satellite Somehow they travel through the skies To all the homes...

Why can't we free the love inside us? Those inhibitions which divide us Is it naive of me to seek such ecstasy? I crave the chemistry of love. Let's build the Taj Mahal of pleasure Follow the blue print to those treasures A formula aside should help us...

Am I a dinosaur, yeah you bet I grew up listening to Mose and Chet Let others fume and fuss Belabor the Obvious Me, I'm a child of the Cool School Me, I attended the Cool School When we make love I'm too lost to speak I sing no arias cheek-to-cheek Sh...

The critics are never kind They thrive on the negative They seldom give Their praise or their thanks And their word is sacrosanct The critics are always blind Deaf and dumb when it comes to change Their feeble brains cannot penetrate Until it's...

I had this dream In which I swam with dolphins In open sea a transparent blue (Maybe you dreamt it too) And on the earth The trees grew heavy with blossoms The rainforests had not died And the Amazon shined like an emerald Somewhere, somehow, some way...

My purring Bavarian machine Required a drink of gasoline I swerved to a city names St. Augustine In Upper Florine I drove through the town and quite By chance Hooked up with a lady circumstance Produced to renew my heart with True romance Which she d...

Daddy plays the ashtray Baby starts to cry The lady wants to know The reason why Daddy's just like coletrane Baby's just like miles Lady is just like heaven When she smiles The lady wants to know She wants to know the reason Got to know the reason...

I've searched this whole wide world The earth's circumference crossed 2 times of 3 Still solo I and the question is why Won't you come to me? I've sent an sos In hopes you'd hear My heart's telegraphy But no reply And the question still why Won't you...

See that shadow cross the mountain, Summer in the warbler's eye, Beauty never is forgotten, though the moment passes by, [?] the evening slowly dires down the light, All the flora seems to smolther Water-coloring into the muted pallet of the night. C...

Most of the time He's the lord of the jungle Everyone grins while he gripes Usually he's found just Lounging around in his stripes His tiger lady's A superfine feline Just what his highness deserves A sweet purring pussycat Proud of her pussycat curv...

Flora, though you sleep On our guru's lap now All we see everywhere is you As we recall our time together Lucky is how we felt The day we found you And we were such a happy three O how we loved our time together Why must the Present Turn to Past so fast? The d...

Snow in my shoes Mid-WInter blues Have got me down (Just point me South... let's go now) The clothes on my back Are to Pasternak From solo to crown Where in the hell's the snowplow? Down 95 We'll come alive And by the time we get somewhere Near Sava...

Underneath the apple tree Mama's got her eye on me Just wearing suntan lotion This is how we spend each day May, June, and July Sunning in our birthday suits Eating that forbidden fruit It's like perpetual motion The dogs are sleeping in the shade Gue...

How did you ever find her? She tried so hard to disappear. Somebody rang the bell and Handed her Vincent's ear. And no one understands All the love inside he tried to give No one understands His wife was hard to live No one understands In a past which...

Lady, when you love me I feel home, Sweet-home Inside of your Sublime This Garden's, sure to grow You know our love, Is just like Summertime Parrots, eye the fruit, And we make love Between the harpsichords, and lutes? Our greenlimbs, intertwine,...

Whenever I am lost at sea I remember you are here with me You surrender to the fantasy When I give my love to you Running from the hurricane Helter-skelter in the wind and rain I find shelter, I find peace again When I give my love to you When...

Lovers from Shakespeare come to mind The "parting is such sweet" "Wherefore art thou" kind Shattered illusions, sad conclusions When I think of us Love called the shots and we believed We gave new meaning to the word "naive" Can't comprehend the logic o...

Everywhere the lady goes Sunshine follows All her men return to her Like Capistrano swallows She is like a butterfly Kind of shy So she smiles Lost in Hollywood was I High and dry The lady never beat about She just sighed And threw her lifeline...

When Sly calls The profit speaks When Sly calls The secret leaks The sky falls The dice are tossed The war is won The battle's lost When Sly calls It's thirteen takes When Sly calls The summer breaks The sky falls The rain begins And on the box s...

When the cookie jar is empty Baby gets so glum When the cookie jar is empty Baby sucks her thumb Baby breaks her dishes And she won't eat her peas Baby never misses When she throws her spoon at me Leo is high as I am leaving; Love is the web...

Love is never obbligato Love is always improvised Ultra blue, I was always unhappy A lark without a song Never knew I could be happy Until you came along Cut to a love scene in some fantasy When you smiled at me Dancers in a dream, perfect harmony Wh...

Never knew the point of No Return til I crossed it Never knew there could be Love Supreme til I lost it Playing solo seemed ultra-cool - now it's clear Our mid-winter goodbye must be why Spring ain't here Buds unopening refuse to bloom in low pressure I...

Love's so convincing when it begins Righteous and real, but it soon deserts you Before you know it you've reached the end Honestly, I never meant to hurt you. The moment that I found you I built my world around you You changed your name and you became m...

When I was a boy of twenty-two I stood before a statue Was it you? They shake the fruit when they dance You should try some when you have the chance. Her face had no power to deceive She wore her beauty shamelessly Like Eve. Guavas can be bittersweet...

You got thirteen wish bones on your kitchen wall You got your Chinese Ginseng tea You got a blue kimona And a D-18 You got me You know I'd like to love you but I don't know how I got these wings they're on my feet I just keep on chewing on the sacred...

Flirting with temptation Falling helplessly From the moment I saw you I new that You were meant for me All those years to find you Love's telepathy Guided me like a heartbeat Repeating: You were meant for me Such a samba Ay caramba! Dancing close...

Lost your toy lover boy In the mirror take a look You're much older now You used to be twenty-three Suddenly the summer ends And you don't know how It was in this fun, hit and run Sweeter was your lemonade Always on the prowl Just one dance, no ro...