Patricia Barber

What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? Are we meant to take more than we give Or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools are kind, Alfie Then I guess it is wise to be cruel And if lif...

All or nothing at all Half a love never appealed to me If your heart, never could yield to me Then I'd rather have nothing at all All or nothing at all If it's love, there is no in between Why begin then cry, for something that might have been No, I'd ratherh...

Pack up all my care and woe, Here I go, Singing low, Bye bye blackbird, Where somebody waits for me, Sugar's sweet, so is he, Bye bye Blackbird! No one here can love or understand me, Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me, Make my bed and light the ligh...

When love comes in and takes you for a spin Ooh, la, la, la, la, c'est magnifique When every night your loved one holds you tight Ooh, la, la, la, c'est magnifique But when one day your loved one drifts away Ooh, la, la, la, la, it is so tragique But when once...

If you're feeling sad and lonely There's a service I can render Tell the one who loves you only I can be so warm and tender Call me, don't be afraid You can call me Call me and I'll be around When it seems your friends desert you There's somebody thinking of...

Split seconds can carry quite a surprise, diffuse white matter will close my eyes thus brutalized I will sleep as if I were dreaming Emergency downbeat Code Cool begins rapid sequence intubation IV squeeze and circulation thus stabilized I inspire as if I we...

When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze And touches with her hand the summer trees, Perhaps you'll understand what memories I own. There's a dance pavilion in the rain, all shuttered down, A winding country lane all russet brown, A frosty wi...

For you'd be so easy to love So easy to idolize all others above So worth the yearning for So swell to keep every home fire burning for We'd be so grand at the game So carefree together that it does seem a shame That you can't see your future with me 'Cause y...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Get out of town Before it's too late, my love Get out of town Be good to me, please Why wish me harm Why not retire to a farm And be contented to charm The birds off the trees Just disappear I care for you much too much And when you’re near So...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Whenever skies look gray to me And troubles begin to brew Whenever the winter winds become too strong I concentrate on you When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!' to me And people declare we're through Whenever the blues become my only song I concentrate o...

I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too ea...

Download "I Wait for Late Aft…" Ringtone They say that I don't know love, I say yes I do They say they are counting love, I say I am too They mark the years with rings like a tree they say I count on smaller things, minutes, seconds, days I wait for late after...

In the still of the night as I gaze out of my window At the moon in it's flight my thoughts all stray to you In the still of the night while the world is in slumber Oh, the times without number, darling when I say to you Do you love me as I love you? Are you...

Inch worm, inch worm Measuring the marigolds You and your arithmetic You'll probably go far Inch worm, inch worm Measuring the marigolds Seems to me you'd stop and see How beautiful they are ~~~♫♫♫~~~ Two and two are four Four and four are eight Eight and e...

You and your smile hold a strange invitation Somehow it seems we've shared our dreams But where? Time after time in a room full of strangers Out of the blue, suddenly you are there Wherever I go you're the glow of temptation, Glancing my way in the grey of t...

It was just one of those things Just one of those crazy flings One of those bells that now and then rings It was just one of those things It was just one of those nights Just one of those fabulous flights A trip to the moon on gossamer wings It was just one o...

Laura is the face in the misty lights. Footsteps that you hear down the hall. The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall. And you see Laura on a train that is passing through. Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very f...

You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in...

where is the green in the leaf? where is the movement in the molecules? where is the up in the beat? where is the thrill in the chill of the night? where is the bee in the sting? when did the earth lose circumference? when did the map lose relief? where...

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, madam Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today She is sorry to be delayed But last evening down in lover's lane she strayed, madam Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today When she woke up and found tha...

[Winter] til you call the redhead guy is warm enough through the snowfall he’s funny and he’s tough weren’t we all? suntanned rough and tumble i’ll stay up i won’t sleep til you call. [Spring] til you call the days stay light too white too lo...

If today I follow death, go down its trackless wastes, salt my tongue on hardened tears for my precious dear time's waste race along that promised cave in a headlong deadlong haste, Will you have the grace to mourn for me? Will you have the gr...

I'm falling in love with her Hopelessly smitten and strangely driven To stop and stare and wonder How have I been here before? And why do I want more and more? Each into the other This plainly forbidden fruit that has given Form to what was private bliss Upon...

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" Then she...

Summer pales, like a ghost of stubborn Spring This itch, this prayerful longing for heat Belies an angel's desire to take wing So as you fall, then fall into me sweet Persephone now your poet and guide Night after day after night I'll complete Your saintly g...

There's a piece on the chair A piece in the hall A nice piece of me Stuck to the wall Divide and conquer The jigsaw in you Has left me asunder All over the room There's a piece by the clock Clinging awkwardly to time There's a piece at the piano Cl...

i connect the dots even though I’m not qualified to plot our relative positions something in the air something whispered where something we should share is suddenly suspicious while the world was flat while content with that still there was a lack...

light as a crystal that flows to sea you slip like sand away from me you slip like sand away from me pray the gods will grant me air tell them i may follow there whisper your name and i will hear tender the dawn i will be where love waits for me 

You better watch out, you better not cry Better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is comin' to town He's making a list , checking it twice Gonna find out who's naughty and nice Santa Claus is comin' to town He sees you when you're sleepin' He knows wh...

Scream when Sunday finally comes and God isn’t there Scream the farmer’s work is done and the rain isn’t there Scream investment bankers won and the money isn’t there Scream the soldier has his gun and the war isn’t where we thought...

Do you think of me like snow Cool, slippery and white? Do you think of me like jazz As hip as black as night? Do you think of me like linen Summer sheets on which you sleep? Do you think of me like ink Skinny words you want to keep? Do you think of me like fat...

Someone to hold me tight That would be very nice Someone to love me right That would be very nice Someone to understand Each little dream in me Someone to take my hand And be a team with me So nice, life would be so nice If one day I'd find Someone who would...

The beat goes on, the beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain La de da de de, la de da de da Charleston was once the rage, uh huh History has turned the page, uh huh The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh Teenybopper is our newborn kin...

I have loved you a thousand times, cared not a whit you were not mine. The wise men say I dove too deep, but fools can swim and breathe in sleep. Under the blue, under the air, Magicians we can conjure where the slightest sigh above the floor is like a scream...

so fleet so like goodbye with you at once too much too fast too good to end too soon my love next time let’s lie let’s lie let’s wait here for the moon to light the shore to swim to sleep to love too deep too late to stop let’s not...

The thrill is gone The thrill is gone I can see it in your eyes I can hear it in your sighs Feel your touch and realize The thrill is gone. The nights are cold, For love is old, Love was grand when love was new, Birds were singin', skies were blue, Now it don...

I've got a brain that's black and blue a waking state that feels like slumber can't find guitars that scream like you a raw desire that pulls me under This is too rich for my blood Inside the cold of small success the chilling glare of younger failure a stran...

If you're feeling fancy free, Come wander through the world with me, And any place we chance to be Will be our rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel down the years, Collecting precious memories, Selecting souvenirs and living life, The way we please. In...

My friends feel it's their appointed duty They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff Is I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up U...

What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love Who can solve its mystery? Why should it make a fool of me? I saw you there one wonderful day You took my heart and threw it away That's why I ask the Lord above What is this thing called love? ~~~...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Yesterdays, yesterdays Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days Olden days, golden days Days of mad romance and love Youth was mine, truth was mine Joyous free and flaming life, forsooth was mine Sad am I, glad am I For today I'm dreaming of ye...

You and the night and the music Fill me with flaming desire Setting my being completely on fire. You and the night and the music Thrill me but will we be one After the night and the music are done? Until the pale light of dawning and daylight Hearts will be t...

You give your hand to me and then you say, "Hello" And I can hardly speak, my heart is beating so And anyone can tell you think, you know me well Well, you don't know me No, you don't know the one who dreams of you at night And longs to kiss your lips an...

You're the top - you're the Coliseum You're the top - you're the Louvre museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet, You're Mickey Mouse You're the Nile - You're the tower of Pisa You're the smile - on the M...