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James Taylor - Ananas - lyrics

Notes:
Jt on sony.com: ananas is french for pineapple. the song translates itself as it goes along. dont play it for anyone who actually speaks french.
Pineapple est anglais pour ananas. la chanson se traduit en courant. ne jouez pas pour ceux qui parlent actuellment le francais.
Je taime encore
Means I love you still
Cest pour toujours
Means I always will
Tu me manquais trop
Means I missed you too much
Je fait ce quil faut
Means Ill do what I must
Me voici ? ta fentre
Tous tes gens me voient ici
Here I am at your window darling
For all your people to see me
Chorus:
Ananas laisse moi une fois
Laisse moi te voir
Let me one more time, ananas
Ananas, Im lopin along hopin youre home
Open up and let me on in
Maybe I rise and maybe I fall
Maybe you lie underneath it all
I aint got nothin but for what you see
Even my own heart dont belong to me
Got your river running in my blood
Got your fire burning in my heart
You got me falling like a shooting star
Just like some tragic work of art
Repeat chorus
Here I am at your window baby
For all your people to see
Howling like a dog on the moonlight
Wont you have pity on me
Repeat chorus

James Taylor - Another Day - lyrics

Notes:
Jt on sony.com: the songs been waiting for a verse since 1985 when I first put it down at air studios, montserrat. frank was at the console then too.
Wake up suzy
Put your shoes on
Walk with me into this light
Finally this morning
Im feeling whole again
It was a hell of a night
Just to be with you by my side
Just to have you near in my sight
Just to walk a while in this light
Just to know that life goes on
Wake up suzy
Put your shoes on
Walk with me into this light
Another night has gone
Life goes on
Another dawn is breaking
Turn and face the sun
One by one
The world outside is waking
Morning light has driven away
All the shadows that hide your way
And night has given away
To the promise of another day
Another day
Another chance that we may
Finally find our way
Another day
The sun has begun
To melt all our fears away
Another day
Another day
Oh wake up suzy
Put your shoes on
Walk with me into this light

James Taylor - A Junkie's Lament - lyrics

Rickys been kicking the gong
Lickety split didnt take too long
A junkies sick
A monkeys strong
Thats whats wrong
Well, I guess hes been messing around downtown
So sad to see the man losing ground
Winding down behind closed doors
On all fours
Mama, dont you call him my name
He cant hear you anymore
And even if he seems the same to you
Thats a stranger to your door
Ask him whats he come here for
Oh my god, a monkey can move a man
Send him to hell
And home again
With an empty hand in the afternoon
Shooting for the moon
Its halfway sick
And its halfway stoned
Hed sure like to kick
But its too far gone
They wind him down with the methadone
Hes all on his own
But baby, dont you throw your love away
I hate to seem unkind
Its only that I understand the man
That the monkey can leave behind
I used to think he was a friend of mine

James Taylor - Ain't No Song - lyrics

There aint no melody
And I cant find a harmony
If there were a way to say it
You know I would have played it
Well, Im a man of few words
Trying to find a rhyme
And finally it occurred to me
That Im wasting my time
There aint no rhyme or reason
Aint no time or season
Aint no way around it
I know I would have found it
There aint no song in the whole wide world
Could hardly sing without you
There aint no song in the whole wide world
To tell you the way that I feel
Painters use their eyes
To show us what they see
But when that canvas dries
We all see it differently
There aint black or white
There aint no day or night
There aint no way around it
You know I would have found it
Chorus
No, no, no, I might as well pack it on up
Not even this songs gonna tell you the way that I feel

James Taylor - Auld Lang Syne - lyrics

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We twa hae run about the braes,
An pou'd the gowans fine
But we've wander'd mony a weary fitt,
Sin' auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd,
Sin auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll take a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

James Taylor - B. S. U. R. - lyrics

Shes been holding on too long
Hoping Im gonna change
Giving it up just a little bit more
Each time I come home
Looking and acting strange
Putting her down for putting up with me
(chorus)
Be as you are
As you see as I am I am
Be as you are
As you see as I am I am
Do you think you might improve me
Trying to take control
Watching every little thing I do
Just like a bleeding movie
Just like a leading role
Mama, this aint me and I dont
Believe thats you
- chorus -
First you make believe
I believe the things
That you make believe
And Im bound to let you down
Then its I who have been deceiving
Purposely misleading
And all along you believed in me
So we circle around one another
Playing I guessing game
Strangers at this masquerade
Pretending to know each other
We strain to catch a name
And never see the mistakes we must have made
- chorus -

James Taylor - (I'm A) Road Runner - lyrics

Money, who needs it
Let me live a life free and easy
Put a toothbrush in my hand
Let me be a travelling man
I'm a roadrunner baby
I'm a road runner baby
Any place is my home
I'm a road runner baby
You look for me and I'll be gone
Well you can love me if you want
But I do declare
When I get restless
I've got to move somewhere
I'm a road runner baby
Just got to keep on keeping on
And I love the life I live
And I'm gonna live the life I love
Don't want no woman
To tie me down
Gotta be free baby
To roam around
All my life it's been like this
If you love me it's your own risk
When the dust hits my shoes
I got the urge to move
I'm a road runner baby
Anyplace is my home
And I love the life I live
And I'm gonna live the life I love
Roadrunner baby

James Taylor - (I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' 'bout That - lyrics

I like to think about the time I met you
Living with your people down in New Orleans
Mad at your mama cause she'd never let you
Ride in no nasty limousine
Later on the levee with the moon up above
I lost my heart and confessed my love
Oh Lucy, God have mercy
I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout that
One Summer night in a field of wheat
God's sweet lanterns hanging in the sky
Moving light on your tiny feet
I knew I had to love you till the day I die
They talk about Amazing Grace
It meant something when I saw your face
Oh Lucy, God have mercy
I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout that
I think of all the little things that I never told you
I think I may get to hold you someday
It's my brain just like a man possessed
I can't do me no work, I can't get me no rest
I can't understand it baby
Don't like to think about the way it ended
I hate remembering the things that I said
I dream a dream of love so splendid
I wake up hard in an empty bed
I wonder who'll be loving you next
Some fool will be writing bad checks
Oh now Lucy, God have mercy
I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout you

James Taylor - Anywhere Like Heaven - lyrics

When I walk along your city streets
And look into your eyes
When I see that simple sadness
That upon your features lies
If my spirit starts to sink
It comes as no surprise
Its been a long way from anywhere
Like heaven to your town, this town
Theres a pasture in the countryside
I used to call my own
Theres a natural pillow for my head
The grass theres overgrown
I think of that place from time to time
When I want to be alone
Its been a long way from anywhere
Like heaven to your town, this town
Now, people live from day to day
But they do not count the time
They dont see the days slipping by
And neither do i
Now, people live from day to day
But they do not count the time (you know)
They dont see their days slipping by
And neither do i
When I walk along your city streets
And look into your eyes
When I see that simple sadness
That across your features lies (I see lies)
If my spirit starts to sink
It comes as no surprise
Ive come a long way from anywhere
Like heaven to this town, your town

James Taylor - Baby Boom Baby - lyrics

Somehow the season always brings a picture of you
Baby boom baby
Holding on for everything you figured youre due
Little turtleneck girl
The moon on your shoulder
The wind in your lovely hair
Oh what a night
We sat on the beach and watched as the sun
Rose into the summer air
You said we couldnt miss what we never knew
Something about something that you had to do
Sitting on the sand with a hole in my shoe
I had no way of knowing where you might have been
Time goes by
All on my own I imagine you a life in between
All own my own
I worked on a letter but it never made it out of my head
Somehow reading your name it wasnt the same
As leaving the thing unsaid
How come I miss what I never knew
And drag out the past just to paint it blue
And spend my days with a dream of you
Oh, after a fall
Here Im trying to find our name on the wall
It was neither yours nor mine
It was something of the two combined
From a time spent out of time
I work hard to see that you remember my name
Nod your head yes
Do all I can to make you want to see me again
Oh what a night
Got a letter from the mail, got a message from the telephone
Seems youre working in town
Moving around
Living alone
Now Im caught in the spotlight
Walking the wire
My feet are frozen and my hearts on fire
What do I do if my dream come true
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