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Nights In White Satin


Nights In White Satin
Italian Titles: Un Po D'Amore; Ho Difeso Il Mio Amore
Composer(s): Justin Hayward
Performer(s): The Moody Blues



Nights in white satin never reaching the end
Letters I've written never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more
'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you

Gazing at people some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through they can't understand
Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be you'll be in the end
And I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you, oh

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Isn't It Romantic?


Isn't It Romantic?
Composer(s): Lorenz Hart; Richard Rodgers
First performance by: Maurice Chevalier, Rolfe Sedan, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald - 1932
Covered by multiple other artists



I've never met you, yet never doubt, dear
I can't forget you, I've thought you out, dear
I know your profile and I know the way you kiss
just the things I miss on a night like this
If dreams are made of imagination
I'm not afraid of my own creation
With all my heart, my heart is here for you to take
Why should I quake? I'm not awake

Isn't it romantic?
Music in the night, a dream that can be heard
Isn't it romantic?

Moving shadows write the oldest magic word
I hear the breezes playing in the trees above
while all the world is saying you were meant for love
Isn't it romantic
merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn't it romantic?
Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss
Sweet symbols in the moonlight
do you mean that I will fall in love per chance?
Isn't it romance?

My face is glowing, I'm energetic
The art of sewing I found poetic
My needle punctuates the rhythm of romance
I don't give a stitch if I don't get rich
A custom tailor who has no custom
is like a sailor, no one will trust 'em
But there is magic in the music of my shears
I shed no tears, lend me your ears

Isn't it romantic?
Soon I will have found some girl that I adore
Isn't it romantic?
While I sit around my love can scrub the floor
She'll kiss me every hour or she'll get the sack
and when I take a shower she can scrub my back
Isn't it romantic?
On a moonlight night she'll cook me onion soup
Kiddies are romantic
and if we don't fight we soon will have a troupe
We'll help the population
it's a duty that we owe to dear old France
Isn't it romance?

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Nights Are Forever Without You


Nights Are Forever Without You
Composer(s): Parker McGee
Performer(s): Dan Seals;
and various other artists



Lyin' in bed with the radio on
Moonlight falls like rain
Soft summer nights spent thinkin' of you
When will I see you again

Chorus:
Soft and low the music moans
I can't stop thinking about you
Thinkin' 'bout you
I didn't know it would be so strong
Waiting and wondering about you
I didn't know it would last so long
Nights are forever without you

The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky
The sun'll be coming up soon
But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you
Here alone with the moon

(repeat Chorus)

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Isn't It A Pity? (George Harrison)


Isn't It A Pity?
(Spanish Version: No Es Una Pena? - 2008)
Composer(s): George Harrison
First release by: George Harrison - 1970
Covered by multiple other artists



Isn't it a pity, isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts, and
cause each other pain
How we take each other's love, without
thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity

Somethings take so long, but how do I
explain?
When not too many people can see we're
all the same
And because of all their tears, their eyes
can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them-oh
Isn't it a pity

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Nightingale


Nightingale
Composer(s): Richard Coburn; Vincent Rose
Performer(s): Frederick S. Manning



Somewhere the nightingale is singing from above
he promised that he's be my messenger of love
and I am yearning for his returning
It seems that's all I'm thinking of

The nightingale knows why I'm feeling sad and blue
somehow I know that he is feeling lonesome too
that's why he's heeding my tender pleading
and sings to her the whole night thru

Nightingale when you are singing tenderly oh tell her nightingale
That it's a lover's melody just so whenever you are singing
she'll know the message you are bringing
nightingale bring back my love to me

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No Es Una Pena?


No Es Una Pena?
(Adapted from: Isn't It A Pity? - 1970)
Composer(s): George Harrison; Pedro Aznar
Performer(s): Pedro Aznar - 2008



No te pone triste?
No te da dolor?
La crueldad de unos con otros
La sombra del rencor

Como a veces sin pensar
Tomamos el amor
Y no lo retribuimos
No te pone triste?

Las cosas llevan tiempo
No es fácil de explicar
Cuando tan poca gente
Ve al otro como igual

Y sus lagrimas sin fin
Quizás ya no le dejen ver
Lo bello que es el mundo
No te pone triste?

No te pone triste?
No te da dolor?
La crueldad de unos con otros
La sombra del rencor

Como a veces sin pensar
Tomamos el amor
Y no lo retribuimos
No te pone triste?

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Nighthawkin'


Nighthawkin'
Composer(s): Tim Buckley
Performer(s): Tim Buckley



I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi
My fare was a shaky ol' lush
So I kicked it over and took off
Then he whipped out this switch blade
Straight outta nowhere level to my throat
He said "See reb I've been over to the war boy"
I said "I was a combat paratrooper daddy"
Well now he slupped back cool and he pocket that steel
He said "Get me down to fourth and main"

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Isn't It A Pity? (George Givot & Josephine Huston)


Isn't It A Pity?
Composer(s): George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin
First performance by: George Givot & Josephine Huston - 1933
Covered by multiple other artists



Why did I wander here and there and yonder
Wasting precious time for no reason or rhyme?
Isn't it a pity? Isn't it a crime?
My journey's ended, everything is splendid
Meeting you today
Has given me a wonderful idea - here I stay

It's a funny thing
I look at you, I get a thrill I never knew
Isn't it a pity we never met before?

Here we are at last
It's like a dream, the two of us a perfect team
Isn't it a pity we never met before?

Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted
You with the neighbors, I at silly labors
What joys untasted
You reading Heine, me somewhere in China

Let's forget the past
Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me
And it's such a pity we never, never met before

Imagine all the lonely year's we've wasted
Fishing for salmon, losing at backgammon
What joys untasted
My nights were sour spent with Schopenhauer

Let's forget the past
Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me
And it's such a pity we never, never met before

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Nightflight To Venus


Nightflight To Venus
Composer(s): Frank Farian; Fred Jay; Dietmar Kawohl
Performer(s): Boney M.



Ladies and Gentlemen welcome aboard the starship Boney M
for our first passenger flight to Venus

Ready for count-down:
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - ignition - lift off

Nightflight to Venus
Way out there in space
Nightflight to Venus
Our new fav'rite place

Nightflight to Venus
All systems are go
Nightflight to Venus
The sky is aglow

Ladies and Gentlemen, we've had a successful
take-off on this first Nightflight to Venus
Our flying time will be 8 hours
We'll be travelling at a speed of 2183 miles per second

Nightflight to Venus
Nightflight to Venus

Captain - unidentified object at 8 o'clock - 2 million miles away
Stand by for emergency manoeuvre
Object coming closer at the speed of light
We have 8 more seconds
Change course by 4 point 6 degrees
Order admitted

Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes we are going
to be landing on Venus, push the button on your left side
the safety mechanism will do the rest for you
We hope you enjoyed the world's first Nightflight to Venus
have a good time there

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Isle Of Islay


Isle Of Islay
Composer(s): Donovan Leitch
Performer(s): Donovan; Jerry Peel; Winter Flowers



How high the gulls fly o'er Islay
How sad the farm lad deep in play
Felt like a grain on your sand

How well the sheep's bell music makes
Rovin' the cliff when fancy takes
Felt like the tide left me here
How blest the forest with birds' song
How neat the cut peat laid so long
Felt like a seed on your land

How high the gulls fly o'er Islay
How sad the farm lad deep in play
Felt like the tide left me here
Felt like a grain on your sand
Felt like a grain on your sand

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Nightclubbing


Nightclubbing
Composer(s): David Bowie; Iggy Pop
Performer(s): Iggy Pop;
and various other artists



Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're what's happening
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're an ice machine
We see people brand new people
They're something to see
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
Oh isn't it wild?

Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're walking through town
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When we're nightclubbing
Bright white clubbing
Oh isn't it wild...

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Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears


Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears
Composer(s): Brendan Graham
Performer(s): Seán Keane
and multiple other artists



On the first day on January
Eighteen ninety-two
They opened Ellis Island and they let
The people through
And the first to cross the treshold
Of that isle of hope and tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of fifteen years

Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind

In a little bag she carried
All her past and history
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years

Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind

When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen fourty-three
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years

Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind

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Nightbird


Nightbird
Composer(s): Stevie Nicks; Sandy Stewart
Performer(s): Stevie Nicks



And the summer became the fall
I was not ready for the winter
It makes no difference at all
Cause I wear boots all summer long

My makeup dark and it's careless
Same circles around my eyes
Sometimes the real color of my skin
Is my eyes without any shadow

And when I call
Will you walk gently
Through my shadow
The ones who sing at night
The ones who sing at night
The ones you dream of

The ones who walk away
With their capes pulled around them tight
Cryin for the night
Cry for the nightbird tonight

The winter's really here now
And the blankets that I love
Sometimes I am surrounded
By too much love

And when I call
Will you walk gently
Through my shadow
The ones who sing at night
The ones who sing at night
The ones you dream of
The ones who walk away
With their capes pulled around them tight
Cryin for the night
Cry for the nightbird tonight

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Isle Of Capri


Isle Of Capri
Composer(s): Will Grosz; Jimmy Kennedy
Performer(s): Frank Sinatra
and multiple other artists



`t Was on the Isle of Capri that I found her
Beneath the shade of an old walnut tree
Oh, I can still see the flowers blooming round her
Where we met on the Isle of Capri

She was as sweet as a rose at the dawning
But somehow fate hadn't meant her for me
And though I sailed with the tide in the morning
Still my heart's on the Isle of Capri

Summertime was nearly over
Blue Italian sky above
I said "Lady, I'm a rover,
Can you spare a sweet word of love?"

She whispered softly "It's best not to linger"
And then as I kissed her hand I could see
She wore a lovely meatball on her finger
't Was goodbye at the Villa Capri

Summertime was nearly over
Blue Italian sky above
I said "Lady, I'm a rover,
Can you spare a fine word of love?"

She whispered softly "It's best not to linger"
And then as I kissed her hand I could see
She wore a plain golden ring on her finger
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri

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Night Vision


Night Vision
Composer(s): K. Elam; Victor Flowers; Isaac Hayes
Performer(s): Guru & Isaac Hayes



(Isaac Hayes)
When the sun goes down and the moon comes up
You can see a lot of things if you look deep enough
It's all around

(Guru)
The city skyline, in the nighttime, be the right time, to ball out
(Yeah) Who's the real pimp, gangster hustler, you call out
Is it him, is it him or is it, Dukes over there?
Real recognizes real, so yo, no one cares
The chief executive mack, in so deep you can't imagine
I've seen the beatdowns, the gunfights, plus the paddywagon
See daddy with his pants saggin, pushin whips that's too fly
Switchin up to a suit and tie, ladies say he's too cute to lie
(Forget about it) And none of my girls, wanna, talk to you
Plus, none of my boys, gotta, talk to you
Cause when you see me, they'll be somewhere in the cut
And you can't be me, so nip that weak talk in the butt
The party's crowded, and everyone, is showin love
Whassup, what's the deal, how's things holdin up?
(Whassup young blood?)
The smooth dude, that moves through, with the utmost precision
Truly a wiseguy, seein life with my night vision

(Isaac Hayes)
See that young blood, comin down the street
Don't be hypnotized by the stride of his feet..
Pickpockets.. streetwalkers.. number runners.. hustlers

(Guru)
Lots of ladies, wanna, check me out
And lots of haters, wanna, X me out
I got more style than Gucci, Louis or Prada
Drop more jewels on you, than your uncle or father
Once this envious kid, was temptin me kid
to stoop down to his level and cold empty his wig
He was mad cause his girl wanted up in my world (hahahaha)
I looked the other way, and she was still, stuck in my world
Aiyyo; baby wants to run with me, come with me, have fun with me
I be the man when I'm dipped, or in a t-shirt, and dungarees
I overheard her man, that was screamin in her ear
while I nodded to my peeps, who was schemin in the rear
If he's gon' flip, he's gonna, find out quick
That I stroll with a click, and we roll mad thick
He shook my hand and laughed it off, that was his best decision
We keep it tight aight? Hangin out, with that night vision

(Isaac Hayes)
I bust into this night club
I can see you perpetraters
Passin out your BID'ness cards
Wearin your knockoff gators
Pimps.. heartbreakers.. dumb-ass Johns..
You got to make a decision, to go witcha instincts
and rely on your night vision

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Islands (King Crimson)


Islands
Composer(s): Robert Fripp; Peter Sinfield
Performer(s): King Crimson



Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island
My sunsets fade
Field and glade wait only for rain
Grain after grain love erodes my
High weathered walls which fend off the tide
Cradle the wind to my island

Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
Mournfully glide o'er my island
My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale
Dissolves in the sun
Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run
Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls
know my eyes
Violet skies
Touch my island
Touch me

Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands
'Neath heaven's sea

Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone
Hungrily reach from my island
Clutch sailor's words - pearls and gourds
Are strewn on my shore
Equal in love, bound in circles
Earth, stream and tree return to the sea
Waves sweep sand from my island, from me

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Night Train


Night Train
Composer(s): Rickie Lee Jones
Performer(s): Rickie Lee Jones



Here I'm going
Walking with my baby in my arms
Cuz I am in the wrong end of this eight ball black
And the devil, see, he's right behind us
And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby
My little angel black
But they won't getcha
Cuz I'm right here witcha
On the Night Train

Swing low, Saint Cadillac
Tearin' down the alley
And I'm reaching so high for ya
Don't let 'em take me back
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain
That cry and quiver
When a Blue Horizon is sleeping in the station
With a ticket for a train
Surely mine will deliver me there

Here she comes...

I'm safe here with you
On the Night Train
Oh mamma, mamma
Concrete is wheeling by
Down at the end of a lullaby
On the Night Train

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Islands (Bonnie Tyler)


Islands
Composer(s): Mike Oldfield
Performer(s): Bonnie Tyler



Islands, from the first time we saw
We could wait for this moment, like rocks on the shore
We can never be closer, somehow
For the moment that lasts, is this moment now
When the night's on fire, will you keep the candlelight burning?
Hold on to your heart's desire (When the night's on fire)
When you see one bird into the wind, another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher

We are islands, but never too far
We are islands
And I need your light tonight
And I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far
We are islands
And I need your light tonight
And I need your light tonight

Islands, never been to before
And we climb so high to where the wild birds soar
There's a new path that we found just today
I was lost in the forest and you showed me the way

When the night's on fire, will you keep the candlelight burning?
Hold on to your heart's desire (When the night's on fire)
When you see one bird into the wind, another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher

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Night Time Is The Right Time


Night Time Is The Right Time
Composer(s): Napoleon Brown; Ozzie Cadena; Lew Herman
Performer(s): Ray Charles;
and various other artists



You know the night time, darling
(night and day)
Is the right time
(night and day)
To be
(night and day)
With the one you love, now
(night and day)
Say now oh baby
(night and day)
When I come home baby, now
(night and day)
I wanna be with the one I love, now
(night and day)
You know what I'm thinking of
(night and day)
I know the night time
(night and day, oh)
Whoa, is the right time
(night and day, oh)
To be with the one you love, now
(night and day)
I said to be with the one you love
(night and day)
You know my mother, now
(night and day)
Had to die, now
(night and day)
Umm, and my father
(night and day)
Well he broke down and cry
(night and day)
Whoah! whoa baby
(night and day)
When I come home baby now
(night and day)
I want you to hold my hand
(night and day)
Yeah, tight as you can
(night and day)
I know the night time
(night and day, oh)
Whoah is the right time
(night and day, oh)
To be with the one you love
(night and day)
You know what I'm thinking of
(night and day)
Whoah! sing your song, Margie
Baby
(night and day)
Baby
(night and day)
Baby
(night and day)
Oh, Baby
(night and day)
Do I love you?
(night and day)
No one above you
(night and day)
Hold me tight
(night and day)
And make everything all right
(night and day)
Because the night time
(night and day)
Oh, is the right time
(night and day)
To be with the one you love now
(night and day)
Oh yeah
(night and day)
Tease me
(night and day)
Squeeze me
(night and day)
Leave me
(night and day)
Ah, don't leave me
(night and day)
Lawdy baby
(night and day)
Take my hand, now
(night and day)
I don't need
(night and day)
No other man
(night and day)
Because the night time
(night and day)
Ow, is the right time
(night and day)
To be with the one you love
(night and day)
Oh yeah
(night and day)
I said baby
(night and day)
Baby
(night and day)
Baby
(night and day)
Baby
(night and day)
Whoah! baby now
(night and day)
Oh come on baby
(night and day)
You know I want you by my side
(night and day)
I want you to keep
(night and day)
Oh keep me satisfied
(night and day)
I know the night time
(night and day)
Everyday is the right time
(night and day)
Yeah to be with the one you love now
(night and day)
Well you know it's all right

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Island Of Lost Souls


Island Of Lost Souls
Composer(s): Debbie Harry; Christopher Stein
First release by: Blondie - 1982



In Babylon
On the boulevard of broken dreams
My will power at the lowest ebb
Oh what can I do?
Oh buccaneer
Can ya help me put my truck in gear?
Can ya take me far away from here?
Save my soul from sin?

You wanna get away you've had it man
Nothing's going right
So come sit on the sands of the island
Island of Lost Souls

No luxuries, no no amenities
Too dull, your senses
Oh oh only primitive
"Hey hey really get away," is what he said

Where did he go?
I'm tired of waiting here for him
Where can he be?
He's not with me
Where did he go?
What will I do alone?
Why did he run, run away from me?

The sky is blue the sea is warm and clear
And golden sands are calling out to you inviting
Make a new man outa you

You can come for a while come with a friend
Forget about work start all over again
Let the real you through, here's what we do

Where did he go?
I'm tired of waiting here for him
Where can he be?
He's not with me
Where did he go?
What will I do alone?
Why did he run, run away from me?

No luxuries, no no amenities
Too dull, your senses
Oh oh only primitive
Hey hey really get away
Island of Lost Souls

Ayya ayya ayya Island of Lost Souls

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