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Howl at the stars
Whisper when you're sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you
My precious friend
So try and stem the tide
Then you'll raise a banner
Send a flare up in the sky
Try to burn a torch
And try to build a bonfire
Every signal that you send
Until the very end, I'm there
So whistle down the wind
For I have always been right there
Howl at the stars
Whisper when you're sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you
My precious friend
So whistle down the wind
Let your voices carry
Drown out all the rain
Light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary
Every signal that you send
Until the very end, I'm there
So whistle down the wind
For I have always been right there
Note: The lines in italics are from the original song, but are not sung by Sarah.Away from you
The people I meet
Might as well be statues,
The words we exchange
Might as well be Greek.
The room that I'm in
May be bright and cheerful
But to me
It's dim and bleak.
I'm half alive
Until the moment
The door swings open
And you walk through.
Now my world starts to glow
Like a stained-glass window
And what was old and cold
Is warm and new.
And so you see
Why I can never be
Away from you.
Away from you
The world is lifeless
As though creation
Has gone awry.
The trees are bare,
There are no flowers,
The fields are thirsty,
The streams are dry.
We live, you and I,
For a breath of sunlight,
So brief an escape
From a world of gray.
Our moments of warmth
Have been touch and go, love,
But tonight, we'll touch
And stay.
The people I meet
Might as well be statues,
The words we exchange
Might as well be Greek.
The room that I'm in
May be bright and cheerful
But to me
It's dim and bleak.
I'm half alive
Until the moment
The door swings open
And you walk through.
Now my soul is afloat
On a wave of music
That I could feel such joy
I never knew.
And so you see
Why I can never be
Away from you.
(With one look - Italian version)
The words between brackets are rather uncertain.
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Guardami Non andare via Guardami Non vorrai di più
Non lasciar che così sia
Guardami
La mia anima è con te
Mai più vedrai
Tu sai che io
Guardami
Piano piano tra di noi
Guardami
E nell'ombra
Una dolce melodia
Guardami
Sento che adesso |
Look at me
Look at me
Do not allow this
Look at me
My soul is with you
Never again you'll see
You know that I
Look at me
Softly, softly between us
Look at me
And in the shadow
A sweet melody
Look at me
I feel I will |
The leaves may be falling,
But April is calling
And the prim roses beckon me yonder.
For one more walk around the garden
One more stroll along the shore.
One more memory I can dream upon
Until I dream no more.
For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
And one more prayer it's not too late
To gather one more rose
Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.
That old urge is saying
It's time to go straying
Where no one but April can find me.
To try and recover
The heart of a lover
That I left lying somewhere behind me.
Just one more walk around the garden
One more stroll along the shore.
One more memory I can dream upon
Until I dream no more.
For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
And one more prayer it's not too late
To gather one more rose
Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.
One more rose before I close the garden gate.
Battle field is still
Wild poppies on the hill
Peace can only come when you surrender
Here the tracers fly
Lighting up the sky
But I'll fight unto the end
Let them send their armies
I will never bend
I won't see you now till I surrender
I'll see you again when I surrender
If I ever fall in love again,
This is just the way it ought to be,
But if it's really love again,
I'll leave to fate, I'd rather wait and see.
How can I know
When my head is saying no
And my heart's telling me that it's real?
Can it be wrong
If I burst into song
At the wonder of feeling the way
That I suddenly feel?
If I ever fall in love again
I shall know exactly what to do.
And when I fall in love again
I know it must be someone just like you.
The way that I suddenly feel!
If I ever fall in love again
I shall know exactly what to do.
And when I fall in love again
I know it must be someone just like you.
Should you leave me
With just this moment
In my mind
I shall capture it anew,
Like some picture
Taken in my childhood
Half a moment
Spent with you.
Half a moment
I shall treasure,
Keep it locked away
For some future rainy day.
Should you leave me
With just this moment
In my mind
I shall capture it anew,
Like some picture
Taken in my childhood
Half a moment
Spent with you.
Countless vivid memories
Spin before my view,
Like some toy kaleidoscope
Images of you.
Time looks kindly
On fleeting lovers
They can turn the briefest hour
Into a day
Turn a moment
To a lifetime
Making it to last
Blending future with the past.
We're together,
What else can matter?
Even though
Half a moment is too few
I shall save it
'Til I have another
Making one whole moment
Filled with you.
(Memory - Italian version)
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Piano questi passi d'amore Sulla strada del cuore Che mi porta da te Soffia il vento del tempo Questa notte che va Sempre qui ci troverà Piano senza fare rumore Gira il mondo le ore Quanta fretta che ha Un ricordo domani Questa notte sarà Sempre qui poi tornerà Nasce il sole Che cosi Ci troverà abbracciati La sua mano Sulla porta piano Spalanca il cielo al mattino Giorno mentre arriva l'inverno Un fedele ritorno La sua neve cadrà E la notte più chiara Questa sera sarà Quando il buio scenderà Nasce il sole Che cosi Ci troverà abbracciati La sua mano Sulla porta piano Spalanca il cielo al mattino Forte e lo voglio gridare Questo amore più forte Questa notte sarà Quante volte Nel letto si è svegliato con me Questo amore è per te |
Softly
Softly these love steps
Softly without noise
The sun rises
A day while winter arrives
The sun rises
Loud I want to shout it |
What, thought I, could be duller,
More depressing, less gay.
Now my favourite colour
Is grey.
A wall of rain as it turns to sleet,
The lack of sun on a one-way street,
I love the grime all the time.
And what more do I need?
My window pane has a lovely view:
An inch of sky and a fly or two.
Why, I can see half a tree.
And what more do I need?
The dusk is thick and it's galling;
It simply can't be excused.
In winter even the falling snow looks
Used.
My window pane may not give much light,
But I see you, so the view is bright.
If I can love you, I'll pay the dirt no heed!
With your love, what more do I need?
Someone shouting for quiet,
Someone starting a brawl,
Down the block there's a riot,
And I'll buy it all!
Listen, now I'm ecstatic,
Hold me close and be still.
Hear the lovely pneumatic
Drill!
A subway train thunders through the Bronx,
A taxi horn on the corner honks.
But I adore ev'ry roar.
And what more do I need?
I hear a crane making street repairs,
A two-ton child running wild upstairs.
Steam pipes bang,sirens clang,
And what more do I need?
The neighbours yell in the summer,
The landlord yells in the fall,
So loud I can't hear the plumber
Pound the wall.
An aeroplane roars across the bay,
But I can hear you as clear as day:
You said you love me
Above the sound and speed.
With your love,
What more do I need?
Gazing into eyes,
Pretty eyes,
Which could be any eyes --
That's crazy.
Hands are just hands,
A face is just a face ...
They come and go --
They're easy to replace ...
There is more to love,
So much more,
Than moon-struck escapades --
That's nothing.
There is peace of mind,
So much peace,
In quiet company --
That's something.
Everyone but him
Seems wrong for me ...
Every time I feel
There has to be
More ...
If I could hear
The music I heard then,
I'd never let
It fade away again ...
There is more to love,
So much more,
Than simply making love --
That's easy.
Gazing into eyes,
Pretty eyes,
Which could be any eyes --
That's crazy.
Now each time
Love reaches out to me,
I can only feel
There has to be
So much more
To love ...
Long lost feelings stir inside me,
used to think nights were for sleeping,
being wanted is a thrill I never knew
till you.
Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
I'm how I want to be,
loving you I can be me,
just me.
It's the first time when you touch me,
now I long for rainy mornings,
I am certain you're the last man in my life.
I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
complete.
Long lost feelings stir inside me,
used to think nights were for sleeping,
being wanted is a thrill I never knew
till you.
Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
I'm how I want to be,
loving you I can be me,
just me.
It's the first time when you touch me,
now I long for rainy mornings,
tell each other to find all we're looking for
and more.
Found the rainbow I was after,
no more dreams with one face missing,
I am certain you're the last man in my life.
Note: Some words are still uncertain or missing ...Somehow by fate misguided,
A buttercup that did not please
The lovely peace of such a place.
And so it simply shriveled up
And begged each orchids pardon,
The little buttercup in the orchid garden.
The bees keep buzzing daily
And kiss the orchids gaily,
In the mandarin's orchid garden.
A buttercup sighed longingly,
But love was not for such as she.
And so one day it shriveled up and died,
Still begging pardon,
The lonely buttercup in the orchid garden.
I too have been misguided;
To long have I resided
In the mandarin's orchid garden.
And too for friendliness I yearn,
I do not know which way to turn.
Alone must I keep shriveled up,
To beg each lady's pardon.
A lonely buttercup
In the orchid garden.
Something new that is all it was
You know
But when you need someone any love will do
Sad but true
And nothing like we've ever known
That is how I thought all our tomorrows would be
I thought we were all we'd need
Goes to show you just how wrong two people could be
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Chi il bel sogno di Doretta Potè indovinar? Il suo mister come mai Come mai fini
Ahimè! un giorno uno studente
Ah! mio sogno!
Ah! mia vita!
Che importa la ricchezza |
Doretta's beautiful dream
Who could guess
One day a student
Oh! My dream!
Oh! My life!
Who cares for wealth |
From: Encore (2002); see the separate lyrics pages for details on the source of the lyrics.
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