The Manhattan Transfer Album

There ain't no good in our goodbye-in'
True love takes a lot of tryin',
Oh, I'm cryin'

(Chorus)
Let's hang on to what we've got
Don't let go, girl; we've got a lot
Got a lot of love between us
Hang on, hang on, hang on, to what we got
Dooh doot! Dooh doot! Dooh doot!

(Verse 1)
You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits
I wish you'd never said it (just breakin' up, forget it)
Oh no, we'll both regret it (Just breakin' up, and you'll regret it)

(Verse 2)
That little chip of diamond on your hand
Ain't a fortune, baby, but you know it stands
A love to tie and bind ya (just for your love, the love babe)
We just can't leave behind us (only the love, just for the love babe)
Baby, (don't you go)
Baby, (oh no no)
Think it over and stay - ay!

(Repeat Chorus)

(Verse 3)
There isn't anything I wouldn't do
I'd pay any price to get in good with you
Give me a second turnin'
(Then patch it up, come get it)
Don't cool off when I'm burnin'
(then patch it up, you won't regret it)

(Verse 4)
You've got me cryin', dyin' at your door
Don't shut me out, ooh let me in once more
Your arms I need to hold you
(then open up and mend it)
Your heart, oh girl, I love you
(just open up. Then you will mend it)
Baby, (don't you go)
Baby, (oh no no)

(Repeat Chorus)

(Breakdown)

Hangin' on to what we got
(let's hang on)
Let's hang on to what we got
(we're hangin' on)
Hangin' on to what we got
(let's hang on)
Let's hang on to what we got
(we're hangin' on)
Hangin' on to what we got
Let's hang on-on-on

(Repeat Chorus)

Just groovin'
Groovin' woh oh oh
Yeh e yeh e yeh groovin'
Woh oh oh

(Verse 1)
Groovin'
On a Sunday afternoon
Really
Couldn't get away to soon

(Chorus 1)
I can't imagine anything that's better
The world is ours whenever we're together
There ain't a place I'd like to be instead
Yeh, just groovin'

Just groovin'
Groovin' woh oh oh

(Verse 2)
Groovin'
Down a crowded avenue
Doing
Anything we like to do (anything, anything)

(Chorus 2)
There's always lots of things that we can see
We can be anyone we'd like to be
And all those happy people we could meet

Yeh
Groovin'
On a Sunday afternoon
Really
Couldn't get away too soon
No no no no

Ahh's

(Chorus 3)
We'll keep on spending sunny days this way
We're gonna talk and laugh the time away
I feel it coming closer day by day

Life would be ecstasy you and me endlessly

(Repeat Verse 1)

Groovin'
On a Sunday afternoon
Really (really now)
Couldn't get away
Yeh
Couldn't get away now
No, no, no groovin'

(Fade)
Just groovin' oh, oh yeh
Just groovin'
(Really)
Just groovin' yeh, yeh, yeh
(couldn't get away too soon, no, no, no)
Just groovin'

Loving you so,
I was too blind to see you letting me go
But now that you've set me free

It's gonna take a miracle
Yes, it's gonna take a miracle
To make me love someone new
'Cause I'm crazy for you

Didn't you know
It wouldn't be so easy letting me go
You can be sure that now

It's gonna take a miracle
Yes, it's gonna take a miracle
To make me love someone new
'Cause I'm crazy for you

Tho' I know I can't forget about you
I'm gonna try to show you how much you're turning me around
Destroying me
I'll never be the same anymore
You must realize you took your love and left me
Quite by surprise
You can be sure that now it's gonna take a miracle
Yes, it's gonna take a miracle
To make me love someone new
'Cause I'm crazy for you

It's gonna take a miracle
Yes, it's gonna take a miracle
To make me love someone new
'Cause I'm crazy for you

Oh, it's gonna take a miracle

(Repeat) (Fade)

Maybe you wanna give me kisses sweet
But for only one night with no repeat
Maybe you'll go away and never call
And a taste of honey is worse than none at all
In that case I don't want no part
That would only break my heart

But if you feel like loving me
If you've got the notion
I second that emotion
Say if you feel like giving me
A lifetime of devotion
I second that emotion

Maybe you think that love will tie you down
And you don't have the time to hang around
Maybe you think that love was made for fools
And so it makes you wise to break the rules
In that case I don't want no part
'Cause that would only break my heart
But if you feel like loving me
If you've got the notion
I second that emotion
Say if you feel like giving me
A lifetime of devotion
I second that emotion

In that case I don't want no part
That would only break my heart

But if you feel like loving me
If you've got the notion
I second that emotion
But if you feel like giving me
A lifetime of devotion
I second that emotion

But if you feel like giving me
A lifetime of devotion
I second that emotion

Verse 1:
Many guys have come to you
With a line that wasn?t true
And you passed them by (passed them by)
Are you in the center ring
And their lines don?t mean a thing
Why don?t you let me try (let me try)
Now I don?t wear a diamond ring
I don?t even have a song to sing

Chorus
All I know is la-la la-la la-la la-la la means, I love you
Oh, baby, please, now
La-la la-la la-la la-la la means, I love you

Verse 2:
If I ever saw a girl
That I needed in this world
You are the one for me (one for me)
Let me hold you in my arms
Girl, and thrill you with my charms
I?m sure you will see (you will see)
The things I am sayin? are true
And the way I'll explain them to you
Listen to me

Chorus

Instrumental break

Partial verse:
The things I am sayin? are true
And the way I explain them to you Yes, to you
Listen to me

Chorus

I ain't got time
to think about money
or what it can buy
And I ain't got time
to sit down and wonder
what makes the birdies fly

And I don't have the time
to think about what makes the flowers grow
and I never give it a second thought
to where the rivers flow

Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else
Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else

I ain't got time
to discuss the weather
or how long it's gonna last
and I ain't got time
to do no studying
once I get out of class

And I'm just a fellow
I got a one track mind
And when it comes to thinking 'bout
anything but my baby
I just don't have the time

Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else
Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else

All the diamonds and pearls in the world
could never match her worth
She's got some kind of wonderful, people tell you
I've got heaven right here on earth

And I'm just a fellow with a one track mind
And when it comes to thinking about anything but my baby
I just don't have the time

Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else
Too busy thinking about my baby
and I ain't got time for nothin' else

The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong baby
And you'll be sorry some day

The thrill is gone
It's gone away from me
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away from me
Although I'll still live on
But so lonely I'll be

The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
Someday I'll be over it all
Just like a good woman should

Y'know I'm free free now baby
I'm free from your spell
Y'know I'm free free now baby
I'm free from your spell
And now that it's all over
All I can do is wish you well

Hot fun in the summertime
Hot fun in the summertime
Hot fun in the summertime
Hot fun in the summertime

End of the spring
And here she comes back
Hi hi hi hi there
Well, summer days
Those summer days
I'd lie down when I want to
Out of school
County fair in the country sun
And everything is cool

(Repeat Chorus)

That's when I had most of my fun back
Hi hi hi hi there
Well, summer days
Those summer days

(Repeat Bridge)

(Repeat Chorus)

Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
someone calls on me
And every now and then, I spend my time at rhyme
and verse and curse those faults in me
But then Along Comes Mary-and does she wanna
give me kicks and be my steady chick
and give me pick of memories-
Or maybe rather gather tales from all the fails and
tribulations no one ever sees

When we met, I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
whose sickness is in the games they play-
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor
folks make jokes about who is most to blame today
And the Along Comes Mary-and does she wanna
set them free
and make them see realities from which she
got her name-
And will they struggle much when told that such a
tender touch
of hers will make them not the same

When we met, I was sure out to lunch-
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

(Breakdown)
Oh here she comes along - along she comes
Oh Mary comes along - oh here she comes
Ba ba ba - Ba ba ba
Sweet as the punch

Then when the morning of the warning's passed, the
gassed and
flaccid kids are flung across the stars-
The psychodramas and the traumas gone, the songs
are left unsung
and hung upon the scars-
And the Along Comes Mary - And does she wanna
see the stains-
the dead remains of all the pains she sent the night
before
Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies and make
them realize their urgent
cries for sight no more

When we met, I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)
Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)
Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)
Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)

Dream, Dream Lover
Dream, Dream Lover

(Verse 1)
Every night I hope and pray
A Dream Lover will come my way,
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
Because I want - a girl - to call - my own,

(Chorus 1)
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone

(Verse 2)
Dream Lover, where are you
With a love, oh so true,
And a hand that I can hold
To feel you near when I grow old
Because I want - a girl - to call - my own,

(Chorus 2)
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone

(Bridge)
Someday, I don't know how,
I hoe you'll hear my plea
Someway, I don't know how,
She'll bring her love to me

(Verse 3)
Dream Lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again.
That's the only thing to do
Until my lover's dream comes true
Because I want - a girl - to call- my own,

(Chorus 3)
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone

(Bridge)
Ooh, I got to hold on (someway)
But I don't know how, she'll bring her love to me,
her love to me

(Verse 3)
Dream Lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again.
That's the only thing to do
Until my lover's dream comes true
Because I want - a girl - to call- my own,

(Chorus 3)
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone
I want a Dream Lover so I don't have to dream alone

(Fade)
Dream, Dream Lover
Dream, Dream Lover

(Repeat)

(Dance with me, Dance with me)

You can dance every dance
With the guy that gives you the eye;
Let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile
For the man who held your hand
Beneath the pale moonlight

So don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So, darlin', save the last dance for me

(Dance with me)

Oh I know that the music's fine
Like sparkling wine;
Go and have your fun
Laugh and sing,
But while we're apart
Don't give your heart to anyone

So don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So, darlin', save the last dance for me

Baby, don't you know I love you so?
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you, oh so much

You can dance, go and carry on
Till the night is gone
It's time to go
If he asks if you're all alone,
Can he take you home,
You must tell him no

So don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So, darlin', save the last dance for me

(Solo)
So don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So, darlin', save the last dance for me

Dance with me
Dance with me
Dance with me
You can with me
Oh,
You can dance with me

So don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So, darlin', save the last dance for me

Save the last dance for me
Save the last dance for me
Save the last dance for me
Save the last dance for me, etc.

(Brian Wilson, Tony Asher)

I may not always love you
But as long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God only knows what I'd be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
What good would living do me
God only knows what I'd be without you,
without you

The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me
God only knows, God only,
God only knows just what I'd be without you
God only knows