I'LL DREAM ALONE

Long
and lonely nights
I've waited for you
to put things to rights
leaving you to do
your thing without
disturbance from me
Somehow I doubt
you'll ever be
back
I'll keep your things
If you ever need them
the phone still rings
And now that you're free
of me at last
your time is your own
Go have a blast
and

I'll dream alone without you
I'll dream alone if I must
because I guess our little castle
in the sky just turned to dust
So I'll dream alone that's showbiz
and I'll be trying not to dream
of what once was and might have been
if only I'd known
I'll dream alone

I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU


A single rose in your garden dwells
Like any rose it's not itself
It is my love in your garden grows
but let's pretend it's just a rose
Well I'm sorry that I love you
It's a phase that I'm going through
There is nothing that I can do
and I'm sorry that I love you
Do not listen to my song
Don't remember it, don't sing along
Let's pretned it's a work of art
Let's pretend it's not my heart...
The rose will fade when summer's gone
The song will fade and I'll be gone
because my heart is dying too
and it's all the same to you

I'M TONGUE-TIED

I'm tongue tied and useless
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied and useless again

my heart pounds
I make sounds
my ears hum

my head pops
the shoe drops
I'm struck dumb

I'm tongue-tied and uselss
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied
and uselss again

you say things
the room swings
I feel faint

I've no doubt
I'll black out
grand, love aint

I don't die
I say "hi"
how clever

I turn blue
I love you
forever

I'm tongue-tied and useless
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied
and useless again
I'm tongue-tied
and uselss again

IF THERE'S SUCH A THING AS LOVE


Now the clock is striking one
So we might as well begin it,
As there's dancing to be done
And our time is not infinite.

If there's such a thing as love,
If there's such a thing as love,
I'm in it.

So you claim you love me too,
Lloyd's of London guarantee it.
Gaze into these eyes of blue,
You do love me I decree it.

If there's such a thing as love,
If there's such a thing as love,
Give me it.

When i was two and a half,
My momma said to me:
"Love is funny you will laugh
'Til the day you turn three."

Like a kitten up a tree
Needs a fireman to rescue it,
So your fireman i will be
And i'll really get into it.

If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
Let's do it.

I thought i'd known love before
That was not it but I thought it
So I thought i'd win the war
Or I never would have fought it

If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
I've caught it.
if there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
if there's such a thing as love,
I've caught it.
If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
Love caught it.

IF YOU DON'T CRY


Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and are
gone Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet and nothing gets done
An hour goes by She doesn't If you don't cry it isn't love If you don't
cry then you just don't feel it deep enough Dying all day in thousands of
little ways Dancing alone and drinking a lot Closing the clubs and haunting
the cabarets looking for what Another five years off your life... A year
goes by She doesn't...

IN AN OPERETTA


Sing me the kind of song
You hear in an operetta
Sing me the words I long
To hear out of Violetta
In an operetta
She will fast be outcast
From her castle, with nary a friend
But, since she's a princess,
There's hints of a prince
In the end
She'll enjoy some employ as a boy
With her name changed to Pip
Soon, by gum, she'll become
The brave captain of some
Pirate ship
Singing a thing fit for a king
In an operetta
In an operetta
It's the all-singing,all-dancing
Princess Violetta
Of the operetta
In an operetta
Within an operetta

IN MY CAR


You were mean to me and broke my heart
now you've gone away but we're apart
but I've got a special machine to take me where
things turned out differently and you still care

I'm in my car I'm in my car I'm taking a ride to
somewhere inside
where you never left and I never cried at the speed of
light in my car.
Never comin' back to the world
I know where I belong where I'm your girl
so I've got fuzzy dice to bring me luck
roll me to a better place where we can rock

IN MY SECRET PLACE


Time swings like a wrecking ball into things
Youth fades as quickly as a hit parade
But as the days go by in the gray world outside
days grow on colorful trees

In my secret place, in my secret place.

They'll sell you tickets for their carousel don't pay
They'll get your money either way
You can go up and go down you can go round and round
but there's a better fairground

In my secret place, in my secret place.

INFINITELY LATE AT NIGHT


It was infinitely late at night
The stars are still out there
But they're all out of light
Don't worry about me, I'll be all right
It's just infinitely late at night
It's still getting later
And later andlater
I feel like I'm in a falling elevator
I'd kill for a drink
But I can't find the waiter
I really believe he's gone home
Oh god I wish I could go home
But it's infinitely late at night
Is this a blackout
Or am I losing my sight?
It should have been noon now,
The sun should be bright
But it's infinitely...
The hour on the bar clock,
It isn't finite
It's all black and white
Without the white
It's just infinitely late at night

IRMA


Irma waits by the window,
Vaguely looking down at her socks
And humming. Possibly her
Father will come home with a box
Of chocolates. Possibly
Not. Father's memory
Was never what it once was.
Shouldn't really drive anymore,
Either. As if in answer,
With a sound like blowing up your
Ears, Father's jeep crashes
Through Irma's wall. She says
Bad words as several hundred
Boxes of her favorite kind
Of chocolate fill her bedroom.
But she doesn't actually mind