Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1998 Jack Hardy Music (BMI)
your time is your own and your own is your time and time is your only sorrow the gift you give away today returns tenfold tomorrow with youth upon the green green fields and age upon the hills-o 'tis vanity to name the trees and claim more than your fill-o with the blue of earth upon your bones and your name upon the wind-o to choose between the bread and stone remains our only sin-o and all i own is within a song if written down would be wrong-o without the sounds to make it strong you think that life could be long-o (repeat first verse)
and though you say that you'll be mine i hear another voice in time and that voice plays a bitter song says i will stay but i won't stay long but who's to say who's true and who is not with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots when first i held you to my breast i would believe that east was west i would believe that right was wrong when first I heard your silken song believe that false was true and cold was hot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots and though you stayed when lilacs bloomed within the waning april moon and though you stayed 'till summer's end there was no way to stay as friends but who's to say this love was misbegot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots and in the still light of the morn you come to me in dreams forlorn you come to me upon the wind says those who stay are born to sin and this I knew was true yet soon forgot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots
piece of stone piece of loam piece of foam from waves-o living living live and quick to nick the prince of knaves-o the blue-green eggs lay in the nest a nest of wattles made-o two lay still two hatched at will and one had flown away-o (chorus:) fly away where is away? way beyond the dreams today never wish for what you wish you just might wish away-o riddle me this riddle me that a needle in the hay-o the girl i love in the window above will you come out to play-o? but while she watched another hatched and she began to cry-o i've big strong wings l've learned to sing but i have not learned to fly-o (repeat chorus) jack be nimble jack be quick does anybody care-o? jack be slow and everyone knows why johnny's too long at the fair-o there's none who'll die for a woman twice and once is no proof of love-o the blue-green eyes lay in disguise and life is long enough-o (repeat chorus)
without a sound the closing door see you around and say no more (chorus:) and if the trees could bear witness to the sound of i love you then this heart could ask forgiveness for the sound of one heart breaking in two and on the door she left a note seen it before that's all she wrote (repeat chorus) the same old song on the radio he done her wrong and she had to go (repeat chorus) a million ways to say good-bye but only one way to cry (repeat chorus)
(chorus:) free free fancy free who can be free enough footloose and fancy free to be the fool, the fool for love one for the road, two for the show three to get ready and go follow your heart, here is a start know you are meant to be free (repeat chorus) clothed in sky now you can fly now you know why to be free hoodman blind what can you find facing your back to the sea? (repeat chorus) crescent moon caressing the tune the islands left in the sea right or wrong lay down your song know you can follow me (repeat chorus)
gone is the four-leaf clover the summer had arranged that i would be forgotten when autumn brought her rain for the field is filled with clover and time is filled with tears and the fishes fill the oceans that carry off the years of all the summers washed away that day i remember best: you unhesitant and willing in your dark and flowered dress and you were with the warm south wind that blew the curtains wild but i was with the cold north wind that scares the autumn child for i was once a fisherman my boat named for that day her face was carved in oaken dreams and thrust into the spray and lady luck's for dreaming deep in this land-locked main though somewhere in those south sea isles blows a hurricane
all in time i crossed the river was no bridge, there was no road though the cold has made me shiver whence it came and where it flowed i have known you like this river flooding tears the ebbs and flows you the holder and the giver carried me where'er it goes (chorus:) all in time will become this river all in time will be broken all in time the words we'll find all in time will be spoken i can neither walk on water float like wood or sink like stone i am somewhere in between the fatted calf, the marrow bone tell me all your silent secrets whisper as the morning dew crystal drop which wets the petal is but a small part of you (repeat chorus) i can neither cry nor whisper bottled anger, anguished plea could have been but lost and shattered but you found and opened me all in time these banks are changing that try to hold this river in life that dreams are rearranging morning casts upon the wind (repeat chorus)
(chorus:) cross my heart and hope to die if my heart should tell a lie one little kiss (taste, bite) and my oh my cross my heart and hope to die in the summer of our discontent made glorious in this town, new york straight from the heart the double-cross you get too smart and you pay the cost ten little indians in a row if one should die then who should know? the great white father and the great white hope the great white lie of the rodeo (repeat chorus) take this cup away from me you indian-giver, johnny appleseed there's too much truth for all to see in little white lightning, in little ol' me the snake that rings the apple tree they'll name a county after me and call it manifest destiny you take manhattan, i'll take the beads (repeat chorus)
softly, ever so softly as you came into the room came upon me a deeper feeling that i could not place in tune and all the walls they started reeling that i tried to hold on to softly melting my defenses do not give your heart too soon found a penny, silver penny at the crossing of the street where a child had stopped his playing leaving life as incomplete and so i tossed it in the air to see if love was dark or fair said the penny, silver penny when you ask you never dare softly, ever so softly came the closing of the door and the sound of cloth in falling as it softly touched the floor of all the answers and the questions hung upon that silver moon came the answer in reflection you cannot give your heart too soon
because i love you not just when you sing the nightingale's sister the moon's offspring and i just a listener lost in my room the window left open to hear your sweet tune because i love you because i love you not just in my mind outside was the garden the garden was mine and all of the flowers were only one hue when into the garden the nightingale flew because i love you because i love you and love you i will the nightingale landed on my windowsill flaunting in freedom and taunting in tune i have only one question one question of you: why your flowers are blue because i love you when the summer was through and the wildflowers made the blue garden not blue the window left open left open too long i was left with her song alone and bemused because i love you
three days before the moon i came warning you it's not the phrase you turn or the lines you learned to form in school i know just what you think i want to know what you feel we can all agree, i think that the sound of the heart is real (chorus:) came a warning...he shall turn came a feeling...he shall yearn came a messenger...he shall burn who stole fire from the gods he is yours two days before the moon twice i denied you twice i spoke your name in vain and tried to cover up the pain i tore the page in two the one where i told my fears am i afraid of love and what does that have to do with you? (repeat chorus) one day before the moon nowhere to run or hide from you what's that hanging up there something to shoot or something to dare? we can all agree to hear anything we want to hear not only the sound of the heart but the flame that echoes off the moon (repeat chorus)
look how the wick bends over 'neath the weight of the flame blue on the bottom and clear in the middle of the same frames me in shadow the hour is filled with the pain though a friend gave me orders not to utter that word again the mouse comes on little cat feet just to purloin a peek at this curious creature who sits on his bottom and weeps could this be the friend that i've waited for monsieur souris yet he runs for his life at the instant he hears me speak (chorus:) empty the table and empty the heart that i hold promises broken and nothing has meaning, i'm told empty the bottle that fills me with an entrance so bold empty the promise that leaves me with have and to hold the mouse comes at quarter past three just to see what i've done he leaves in the belly of the beast just to pay for his crumb i don't need him to tell me it takes one to know one i don't need him to tell me that i haven't had any fun the night is the prurient interest of hours of light blue on the bottom and clear in the middle of flight i have no hidden meanings or ancient secrets of sight nor answers to questions that I ask myself tonight (repeat chorus)
of all of the sorrows these eyes have seen she carries her burden as if in a dream the laundry, the groceries she drags on the street and waits for the day she dreads he might leave she stares at the playground, no child of her own the winter blows barren, the seeds have all flown the candlestick maker is lost in his gloom the tinker, the tailor, the dark side of the moon of all of the sorrows this woman has seen the blisters, the beggars, the brothers of dreams her open umbrella to shield off the rain her hand feels the longing, her feet feel the pain she stares out the window, no warmth in her bed she has bitten her fingernails down to the red she cradles her vision and screams out of tune the tinker, the tailor, the dark side of the moon of all of the sorrows what's left but the bone ashes to ashes, and feelings to stone someday you'll learn to stand on your own and when you do, i swear you won't stand alone until then the madness will feed from your sins tearing your heart, you tear all your friends i cannot convince you it's never too soon the tinker, the tailor, the dark side of the moon of all of the sorrows these eyes have seen
(chorus:) whose fault? oh, none at all or none that anyone can see whose fault? go lay the blame right beneath my feet i gave her everything she could want i gave her everything she needs she wanted more than i could give she wanted more than me the dove is beauty, the wren is sweet the thrush knows how to sing you feed the birds all winter long they fly away in spring (repeat chorus) so many miles these feet have trod oh, so many miles never in my wildest dreams saw a girl who would not smile so many years, so many years living 'round these parts never in my darkest days found a woman without a heart (repeat chorus) so many books, open books read between the lines doesn't matter how hard you look the truth you'll never find the child knows hunger, the child knows fear the child knows how to sing but we grow old and we are told to put away childish things (repeat chorus)