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Gilberto Blanco

Gilberto is Brazilian working here on a Green Card. He has recently graduated as an English Major and, you will see, he has mastered the language pretty well.

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Try to Recall

Try to recall
The thrill of it all
When love was young
And life was mellow
Try to recall
How we had it all
And life was fun
The sun was yellow

Try to recall
The feel of it all
The thrill of learning
Some new pleasure
Try to recall
How passions call
Was greater than
Any treasure

Try to recall
Why we lost it all
How love just slipped
Thru open fingers
Try to recall
When we had it all
Can’t you see how
My love still lingers

Be my Friend

Be my friend
Be my lover
Be my angel
Be my whore
Be my father
Be my mother
Be my lover for evermore

Be my conscience
Be my pleasure
Be my heaven
Be my hell
Be my sunrise
Be my censure
Be the things
You do so well

Be beside me
Be forgiving
Be my judge
Be in sight
Be my sunlight
In the morning
But be mine
Tonight

Catch the Rainbow

Catch the rainbow
Hold the scene
Keep the faith
Live the dream
Skate the wind
Fly the cloud
Catch the sunshine
Laugh out loud

Plough the ocean
Race the sea
Grasp the tide
Stay with me
Chase the moonlight
Grasp the light
Ride the stars
Do what’s right
Do whats right

All my Tomorrow’s Today

Now that you’ve gone
I can’t go on
Keeping the same old ways
All night long
It all goes wrong
All my tomorrow’s today

Here comes the night
And with the light
I knew you wouldn’t stay
I lose the fight
Nothing is right
All my tomorrow’s today

Now to the dreams
Now to the screams
I call for you to stay
Ah, but it seems
I’m lost in dreams
All my tomorrow’s today

How Many Ways Can I Say That I Love You

How many ways can I say that I love you
How many ways can I say that I care
How many ways can I say that I need you
How could I cope if you were not there

How many times do I call you
How many times do you come
How many times do I hold you
How can I believe that it’s done

How often have I loved you
How often have I cried
How often have you told me
How often have you lied

How can I count the heartbreaks
How can I last the night
How can I live without you
How could you snuff out the light

Remember My Name

When you are alone
And feeling high
When you are alone
And want to cry
When you go
Alone to bed
When you have doubts
That fill you head
When you break down
And feel the shame
Think of me and
Remember my name

When times are rough
And you’ve no friends
When life is tough
And pain won’t end
When nights are long
And dreams cause pain
When you’re not strong
And feel the strain
When all around shout out your shame
Think of me and remember my name

When you’re awake
And sleep won‘t come
When bitter tears
Just run and run
When summer skies
All fill with clouds
When fools will point
And laugh out loud
Think of our love
It wasn’t a game
Think of me and
Remember my name

Where We Can Find Love

Let us find a better way
Pack the car and drive away
Go and find another day
Where we can find love

Come tomorrow another day
Park the car and drive away
Go and find a better way
So we can find love

And so it seems we never stay
Always seek a better way
Take the car and leave today
And we may find love

Always looking the other way
Love comes but doesn’t stay
So we want to get away
Whilst we search for love

Another town, another day
We must work, we mustn’t play
So we can make a getaway
And we might yet find love.

And so it goes from day to day
Work all hours and take our pay
All the time push love away
So we won’t find love.

Farewell My Lovely

Farewell my lovely
Farewell my heart
Farewell my hopes
Now we’re apart
Farewell the dreams
Farewell the plans
Farewell the scenes
That we have planned

Chorus

Farewell Farewell
Slip away in the night
Farewell farewell
Alone in daylight

Farewell the nights
Farewell the days
Farewell the sights
Now you’re away
Farewell the life
Farewell the plans
Farewell the hopes
Slipped thru my hands

Farewell for now
Farewell for then
Farewell for good
I was more than a friend
Farewell my love
Farewell my life
Farewell for ever
Farewell my wife

One night I had a dream of you

One night I had a dream of you
Dreamt that it all came true
And I knew just what to do
And then I woke up crying

Last night you came to me again
Brought me joy, brought me pain
Brought with you the clouds and rain
And then I woke up crying

At night you always come to me
Come to me, loved and free
And I know what I would be
And then I wake up crying

Tonight I’ll be with you once more
The love I loved who I adore
The one who always gives some more
And I know I’ll wake up crying

Walking in the footsteps

Walking in the footsteps
Of those that went before
Hearing all their echoes
Through the long closed door
Seeing in the sunset
Tears glitter in their eyes
And hearing in the news reports
The old repeated lies

Walking down the old roads
I feel them all around
Gazing at the new world
That they had never found
Hiding in the shadows
Seeing through dead eyes
If you listen carefully
You can hear their cries

Standing on the battlefields
Of wasted broken youth
If you listen carefully
You will hear the truth
Sweet young souls died here
Never asking why
We owe it to their memories
To nail the old cruel lies

Come to me and cry

When you think that the world’s
Had enough of you
When you can’t see the stars
When you think that the world
Can’t see the truth
When you can’t get too far
Just remember that I love you
I’ll love you til I die
When the heartbreak is over
Come to me and cry

When they all call your name
And mock all you’ve achieved
When good men cross to pass you by
On the far side of the street
When all around is breaking down
And you think your heart will die
Just remember that I love you
I’ll love you til I die

When the heartbreak is over
Come to me and cry

Is this the way it ends?

Is this the way it ends?
Not as lovers just as friends
Is this the time of tears
A lifetime of lonely fears
Is this the way
Is this the way it ends

Is this the day it dies
No more alibis
Is this the final scene
Children singing in a broken dream
Is this the way
Is this the way it ends

Is this the end of time
The end of yours and mine
Is this the final day
The day you packed and went away
Is this the day
Is this the day it ends

Is this normal broken night
The end of light once so bright
Is this how it all ends
Not as lovers, not as friends
Is this the day
Is this the day it ends

We went to look for the answers

We went to look for the answers
Travelled all over this country of ours
Me at the wheel your head on my shoulder
Slowly passing the afternoon hours

We saw a country unfolding
Its dreams and its past ‘neath the wheels
Talking ‘bout love and life unfolding
Trying to know how good it feels

But out in the desert some way from El Paso
Something changed in the heat of the night
I don’t know how or why you left me
Left me along in dawns early light

And now I’m travelling the road homeward
And staring the facts in their face
Looking and searching for you without ceasing
Seeing and hating each lonely place

Your love just left

Your love just left
She’s walking out the door
Another night of tears
She couldn’t take no more
And so you are alone
All thru’ the lonely night
Two stubborn and too stupid
To admit she was right

Golden days are gone
And lost in the dawn
You see no more sun rise
When the one you love has gone
The tears bite your eyes
You try not to cry
When you look in the mirror
You cannot meet your eye

Too late now the tears
Too late now the cause
Too late now the pleas
Now your on your own
Try to go back to her
Tell her you were wrong
Tell her you love her
The madness is all gone

Now that you’ve gone

When the night turns to day
And you’ve gone away
The days seem so long
Now that you’ve gone
Now that you’ve gone
And I’m all alone
I must face my fears
I must hide my tears
Now that you’ve gone
Now that you’ve gone

Bridge

And all the time I see your face
Smiling there before me
And all night long I hear your voice
Calling, calling for me

When the night turns to day
I’d just like to say
That life will go on
Now that you’ve gone
Now that you’ve gone
I must see what’s true
That I can’t love you
Now that you’ve gone

When all the love

When all the love
Is dead and laid to rest
Yours is the love
I’ll remember best
Yours is the face
That lit my darkest day
Mine are the tears
That never went away

Down through the years
Your beauty never died
Mine were the tears
Never ever dried
Mine is the loss
Emptiness inside
Yours was the love
The love that never died

Country song

In the cold light of morning
Tired and still yawning
I wake and rub the sleep out of my eyes
And I see you sleeping
And I start my weeping
I don’t know why you tell me lies

As the light streaks across you
I remember what I must do
I’ve gotta talk and get it straight
And so I creep across the floor
Get right up to the bedroom door
I gotta tell you before it’s too late

But you hear me moving
You wake to the morning
And smile at me in your special way
Why did I ever cheat you
You thought I never would do
I took the chance and threw it all away

I’ll see you later today
And tell you that I can’t stay
I love someone more than my life
I’ve got a family at home
I can’t leave them all alone
I don’t love you
I only love my wife

Somebody like me

You always seemed so out of place
But I always loved your face
Never once you called my name
But I love you just the same
And now you walk and talk to me
You tell me you are really free
But you have always wanted to be
With somebody like me

I always felt you were the best
When I compared you to the rest
A diamond in amongst the coal
The best of them all
And now you walk and talk to me
You tell me you are really free
But you have always wanted to be
With somebody like me

Hold me close to you always
I’m besotted by your ways
Hold me til days are done
Call me your only one
And now you walk and talk to me
You tell me you are really free
But you have always wanted to be
With somebody like me

There’s something

There’s something in the air tonight
There’s something on the breeze
See the way the starlight
Makes shadows in the trees
When you are here beside me
Everything’s alright
Let’s go to the forest lawn
And dance beneath the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everything is alright
Dancing in the moonlight

There’s something in the air today
There’s something in the sky
See the way the water
Glistens and ripples by
When you are here beside me
Everything is alright
Let’s paddle in the ocean
And dance beneath the moonlight

There’s something in the air I breathe
There’s something all around
I hear my world is changing
But I don’t hear a sound
When you are here beside me
Everything’s alright
Let’s spend the night together
And dance beneath the moonlight

The road to your place

The road to your place
Runs through my days
I need to see your face
I need your byways
The road to my lost love
Ran by your door
I couldn’t stay upon it
I couldn’t take no more

The road to my heart break
Is narrow and its long
Why do I walk upon it
What did I do so wrong
The road to perdition
Is sign posted well
Why do I stay upon it
When I know I am in hell

The road to salvation
Is wide and it is straight
If I try to walk on it
Will I be too late
The road to my ending
Is easy for me to see
It’s wide and unbending
Please show it now to me

A star

A star few over the house tonight
Shooting star, burning bright
What does it mean, I want to know
Should I stay or should I go

A black cat crossed my path today
I don’t know if I should go or stay
But every time I see a sign
I want to know if you are still mine

I tripped and broke a mirror but then
What does it mean, why and when
For all the signs that I can see
I don’t know if you still love me

So once again I search the skies
Search your face and look for lies
And every time I have a doubt
A little bit of trust leaks out

I loved you in the morning

I loved you in the morning
When love was shining new
Sunlight on your hair
Had eyes for only you
And every waking hour
I saw our love would grow
I never could believe
That you would ever go
But now your pillows cold
I cannot touch your hair
I think that I hear your voice
I see you everywhere
But you’ve gone
You are gone

I loved you in the evening
Starlight in your eyes
When I gave my love to you
You gave me only lies
And now I see I’ve lost you
I won’t see you again
Salt tears fill my eyes
My heart fills with pain
How could I’ve been so blind
Can lovers never see
Each and every day
I want you here with me
But you’ve gone
You are gone

All my life

All my life I’ve been waiting for
Waiting for someone like you
All last night I was waiting for someone
Waiting for my dreams to come true
And you came to me
Like the moon in the night
And you are to me
My love and my life

All my life I’ve been waiting for something
Something that I couldn’t see
All night long always waiting
But nothing happened to me
And you came to me
Like the moon in the night
And you are to me
My love and my life

All my life I’ve been hoping that someday
Someone like you’d come along
All my life I’ve been hoping that someway
It would stop always going wrong
And you came to me
Like the moon in the night
And you are to me
My love and my life

All these years have been wasted
Wasted without you
You’re the life that I’ve tasted
Won’t you show me what to do
And you came to me
Like the moon in the night
And you are to me
My love and my life


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