LOVE SONG LYRICS

If music be the food of love, just read these lyrics:

"I can hardly wait to hold you, feel my arms around you.
How long I have waited, waited just to love you"
- Burt Bacharach, Hal David
THE LOOK OF LOVE (1967)

"Tonight with words unspoken You say that I'm the only one.
But will my heart be broken When the night meets the morning sun?"
- Gerry Goffin, Carole King
WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW (1960)

"Ooo-wee, this feelin's killin' me, Ah shucks, I wouldn't stop for a million bucks. I love you so, Just hold me tight and Don't Let Go!"
- Jesse Stone
DON'T LET GO (1957)

"Love is lovelier The Second Time Around,
Just as wonderful with both feet on the ground.
It's that second time you hear your love song sung
Makes you think perhaps that love like youth
Is wasted on the young"
- Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen
THE SECOND TIME AROUND (1960)

"I saw him today, I saw his face, It was the face I love
And I knew I had to runaway And get down on my knees and pray
That they'd go away"
- Sonny Bono, Jack Nitzsche
NEEDLES AND PINS (1963)

"Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by,
I say to myself you're such a lucky guy
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellas in the world, she belongs to me.
- Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong
JUST MY IMAGINATION (RUNNING AWAY WITH ME) (1966)

"At Last my love has come along, My lonely days are over and life is like a song.
At Last the skies above are blue,
My heart was wrapped in clover the night I looked at you"
- Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
AT LAST (1942)

"So Far Away, doesn't anybody stay in on place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door"
- Carole King
SO FAR AWAY (1971)

"No summer's high, no warm July, No harvest moon to light one tender
August night.
No autumn breeze, no falling leaves, Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies"
- Stevie Wonder
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU (1984)

"Laura is the face in the misty light,
Footsteps that you hear down the hall.
The laugh that floats on a summer night
That you can never quite recall"
- Johnny Mercer, David Raksin
LAURA (1945)

"So if you feel like giving me A lifetime of devotion,
I Second That Emotion"
- William 'Smokey' Robinson, Alfred Cleveland
I SECOND THAT EMOTION (1967)

"This time we almost made our poem rhyme,
This time we almost made that long hard climb,
Didn't We almost make it this time?"
- Jimmy Webb
DIDN'T WE (1966)

"Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me all through the night?
Think of all that we've been through
And Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
- Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO (1962)

"I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me
And when I'm away from you, I love how you miss me"
- Barry Mann, Larry Kolber
I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME (1961)

"Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night
Dreaming of a song.
The melody haunts my reverie and I am once again with you
When our love was new and each kiss an inspiration,
But that was long ago:
Now my consolation is in the star dust of a song"
- Mitchell Parish, Hoagy Carmichael
STAR DUST (1929)

"The sun closed her eyes as it climbed in the skies and it started to swelter.
The sweat trickled down the front of her gown
And I thought it would melt her"
- Bobby Goldsboro
SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) (1973)

"My love has no beginning, my love has no end,
No front nor back and my love won't bend,
I'm in the middle lost in a spin loving you.
And you don't know, you don't know, you don't know,
You don't know how glad I am"
- Jimmy Williams & Larry Harrison
(YOU DON'T KNOW) HOW GLAD I AM (1964)

"Could there be eyes like yours, Could there be lips like yours,
Could there be smiles like yours, honest and truly?"
- Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown
YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM (1940)

"Our wistful little star was far too high. A teardrop kissed your lips and
so did I.
Now when I remember spring, All the joy that love can bring,
I will be remembering The Shadow Of Your Smile"
- Paul Francis Webster, Johnny Mandel
THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (1965)

"But if you leave me a hundred times
A hundred times I'll take you back.
I'm yours whenever you want me
I'm not too proud to shout it,
Tell the world about it 'cause I love you"
- Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Sylvia Moy
THIS OLD HEART OF MINE (IS WEAK FOR YOU) (1966)

"Don't you know that there Ain't No Mountain High Enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe"
- Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH (1967)

"I remember the things that we used to do...
A kiss in the rain till the sun shined through.
I tried to deny it, but I'm still in love with you
- Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser, Preston Glass
MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY (1989)

"I want him and I need him
And someday, some way, I'll meet him.
He'll be kind of shy but real good lookin' too
And I'll be certain he's my guy
By the things he'll like to do"
- Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector
WALKING IN THE RAIN (1964)

"For Once In My Life I won't let sorrow hurt me,
Not like it's hurt me before,
For once I have something I know won't desert me,
I'm not alone anymore.
For once I can say this is mine, you can't take it,
Long as I know I have love, I can make it,
For Once In My Life I have someone who needs me"
- Ronald Miller, Orlando Murden
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE (1965)

"Pillow drippin' soaking wet from dreams of you babe,
I'm trying hard to forget you but what's the use?
I'm hooked on you and I Miss You, babe"
- Tony Hester
I MISS YOU (1974)

"Mem'ries light the corners of my mind,
Misty water color mem'ries of the way we were"
- Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch
THE WAY WE WERE (1973)

"Our love affair, may it always be A flame to burn through eternity.
So take my hand with a fervent prayer That we may live and we may share
A love Affair To Remember"
- Harold Adamson, Leo McCarey, Harry Warren
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)

"In love's smoldering ember, one spark may remain
If love still can remember, the spark may burn again.
I know that I'll be contented with yesterday's memory
Knowing you think of me Once In A While"
- Bud Green, Michael Edwards
ONCE IN A WHILE (1937)

Chartwatch...
Shaggy's MCA track "Angel" featuring a sample of Chip Taylor's classic ANGEL OF THE MORNING rode into the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot 100 in January, 2001, making it virtually the first time Chip's song has been in the Top Ten here since Juice Newton's Capitol version was there on May 23,
1981!

ROCK ON !
Alan Warner