 Genius Lyrics
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Melissa Manchester – Midnight Blue
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Whatever it is, it'll keep 'til the morning / Haven't we both got better things to do? / Midnight blue / Even the simple things become rough / Haven't we had enough? / And I think
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Melissa Manchester – Mathematics
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You ask me how I can be so sure / My love for you will endure / Right here and now / I'll show you how I know / I just take this pen here in my hand / Set down and equation
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Melissa Manchester – Caravan
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A bunch of weary voices / I mistook for angels / Telling me what to do with my life / Leaving me no choices / Putting me through changes / Telling me what to do with my life / Oh
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Melissa Manchester – Bad Weather
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[Intro] / Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh / [Verse 1] / Why is it we can't be / The way we used to be / Problems, we would work it out / Whenever there was any doubt
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Melissa Manchester – Home to Myself
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I wake up and see / The light of the day / Shining on me / Make my own time / It's mine to spend / Think to myself / My own best friend / It's not so bad all alone / Comin' home to
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Melissa Manchester – Pretty Girls
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He's triggered by the rise of their suburban eyes / He likes to stroke the curls of pretty baby girls / And he will never make it on the hit parade, oh no / Behind the counter
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Melissa Manchester – Walk on By
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If you see me walking down the street / And I start to cry each time we meet / Walk on by, walk on by / Make believe / That you don't see the tears / Just let me grieve / In
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Melissa Manchester – Through the Eyes of Love
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Please, don't let this feeling end / It's everything I am / Everything I want to be / I can see what's mine now / Finding out what's true / Since I found you / Looking through the
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Melissa Manchester – For The Working Girl
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I work in the chorus doing three shows a night / Wearing fishnets and feathers under blinding white lights / I've served shorts to hard hats who had booze on their lips / Been
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Melissa Manchester – Don't Cry Out Loud
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“Don’t Cry Out Loud” was written by Carol Bayer Sager & Peter Allen. As the story goes he was taught to put on a brave face and never show his emotions even after his father
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Melissa Manchester – If It Feels Good (Let It Ride)
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She opens the set with her Gospel like If It Feels Good (Let It Ride). Easy follows nicely with it’s ballad start up and dramatic finish. It was featured in Bob Fosse’s All That
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Collin Raye – A Mother and Father's Prayer (feat. Melissa Manchester)
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I know you're listening as I lay me down to sleep / It's not for me I ask, but my children's souls to keep / It seems the world is going crazy / And though I need to do my share
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Melissa Manchester – Inclined
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I'm not the only one in love with you / Lucky, it doesn't show / It's never easy to be ill at ease-- / Funny, you didn't know / You are a song seller / A story teller, a dream
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Melissa Manchester – Energy
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“Energy” is certainly a standout cut, but many others are strong cuts for the era, and still stand out today. It was a flop; now it’s a successful hit from 1985. I am hopeful that
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Melissa Manchester – We've Got Time
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Chorus 1: / We don't have to push it no more / We don't have to rush it no more / And as long as we keep an open line / We've got time / We've been chasing all the ancient shadows
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Melissa Manchester – Come In From The Rain
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Well, hello there / Good old friend of mine / You've been reaching for yourself / For such a long time / There's so much to say / No need to explain / Just an open door for you
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Melissa Manchester – Love Havin' You Around
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Every day I want to fly my kite / Every day I want to fly my kite / Every day I want to get on my camel and ride / Every day I want to shake your hand / For in the world making you
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Melissa Manchester – If This Is Love
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Guess I'm just afraid / I'm not the kind who makes it last forever / And in my selfish way I think I'm clever / Until you cry / Do you wanna leave? / You can let it go because you'
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Melissa Manchester – Lights Of Dawn
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The song that makes this album so sublime is “Lights of Dawn.”
A simple arrangement makes room for probably the best vocal performance of Melissa Manchester’s career.
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Melissa Manchester – Better Days
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Well, another day has come / After all is said and done / You are here as you were before / 'Cause it feels as if we've been / Through it all and back again / Now I know there'll
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Melissa Manchester – Wish We Were Heroes
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Somewhere down the line / We found the rhythm and the rhyme / Like two notes played out of time / Now we don't fit in the score, no, no / Somehow through the years / We let the
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Melissa Manchester – Thief of Hearts
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[Verse 1] / Somewhere deep inside of a stranger's eyes / There are stranger things I see / Shades of light on a secret part of me / Living in the shadows hiding from my life / I
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Melissa Manchester – Still Myself
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Thought I'd live by your side / And die in your arms / We were close as the wind to the rain / Thought I'd take on your dreams / And bathe in your light / But this moment is all
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Melissa Manchester – Stevie's Wonder
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You've got heaven on Your shoulder / I've been told You got a special in with him or her / They say You've got heaven on Your shoulder / I've been told / You know how energy begins
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Melissa Manchester – I'll Always Love You
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Standing by my window, listening for your call / Seems I really miss you after all / Time won't let me keep these sad thoughts to myself / I'd just like to let you know, I wish I'd
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Melissa Manchester – I Don't Care What The People Say
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[Verse 1] / Everybody says / That you and I are just / Afraid to face the truth / They shake their heads and say / We're just like night and day / A case of crazy youth / [Pre
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Melissa Manchester – End Of The Affair
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I call you up / You let me down / I every way I turn / I watch the baby visions of our love / Baby they burn my eyes / I ... away each due / I hope and prey that you are join us
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Melissa Manchester – I Got Eyes
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“I Got Eyes” is the ninth track from her album, “Melissa”.
And, yes, I want to smother my perfect lover
With candy kisses to make him wise, in I GOT EYES. Written by Melissa
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Melissa Manchester – Someone To Watch Over Me
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There's a saying old, says that love is blind / Still we're often told, seek and ye shall find / So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind / Looking everywhere, haven't
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Melissa Manchester – It's All In The Sky Above
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When the man don't give me the food I need / The fuel to feed the fire / I'd gladly turn my back on him / And lift my hopes up high / We're so busy talking / Ah but talk don't mean
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Melissa Manchester (Ft. Arnold McCuller) – Whenever I Call You "Friend"
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Whenever I Call You “Friend”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Whenever I Call You "Friend”"
Single by Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks
from the album Nightwatch
B-side “
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Melissa Manchester – Hey Ricky (You're A Low Down Heel)
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Hey, sugar, where'd you get that sweet tooth? / Where'd you get that swagger? / Where'd you get off acting like Babe Ruth? / When you look just like the others / And you wouldn't
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Melissa Manchester – O Heaven (How You've Changed To Me)
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-and the one thing you taught me / Clearly to see- / Is that the miracle is in my soul. .. / I used to dream of heaven / As the home of the final down / If you were good you went
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Melissa Manchester – Party Music
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Stunning opener “We’ve Got Time” is soulfully sung power ballad that is sheer listening pleasure, funky jam “Party Music” cooks with interesting tempo changes, “Just Too Many
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Melissa Manchester (Ft. Peabo Bryson) – Lovers After All
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[Melissa Manchester] / When I look deep into your eyes / That's when I know I'm living / [Peabo Bryson] / For every moment of our lives / We should be forgiven, oh / [Melissa
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Melissa Manchester – A Mother's Prayer
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I know you're listening / As I lay me down to sleep / It's not for me, I ask / But my children's souls to keep / It seems the world is going crazy / And though I need to do my
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Melissa Manchester – Just You And I
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JUST YOU AND I Melissa Manchester When your heroes go up in a puff, And there's not enough to hang on to And the ones you would count on to call They all fall down all around you
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Melissa Manchester – Sing, Sing, Sing
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“Sing, Sing, Sing” is the last track, written and performed by pop star Melissa Manchester, taken from her 1976 album, “Better Days And Happy Endings”.
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Melissa Manchester – Happy Endings
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Some women you make love to / And some you marry / But I just sing my songs for you / To keep us free from worry / Chorus: / Oh, no, I feel it coming on again / I must be fantasy’s
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Melissa Manchester – Be Somebody
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Be somebody, be somebody, be somebody / Be somebody, be somebody, be somebody / I can tell by looking in your eyes / There is something on your mind / Restless soul, it's time to
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Melissa Manchester – Bright Eyes
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Bright eyes is here again / And I am so low, and so alone / Sweet lady night / Keep me from sunny's light / Slippin' through stone / I'm into bein' bone / I was raised on the good
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Melissa Manchester – La vie en rose
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La Vie En Rose / (M. David, Louiguy, E. Piaf) / I thought that love was just a word / They sang about in songs I heard / It took your kisses to reveal / That I was wrong, and love
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Melissa Manchester – Shine Like You Should
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Here's the real stuff that life is made of / It's the mother and father of love / It is out there and inside your mind / It's the part of the heart / That is measuring time / It's
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Melissa Manchester – Through The Eyes Of Grace
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Grace and John are in their morning places / He looks at the paper: she looks straight ahead / Neither one is hungry, but they need to be fed / Yesterday the kids came by to see
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