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Nancy Potter

Nancy is a New York girl through and through. She’s nineteen years old and currently studying for a degree at Columbia. (This is not her real name so don’t go looking for her there). Nancy is not a native New Yorker but comes from Ohio and has been down here now for a little over a year.

She finds time to do some writing and to meet up with the rest of us between her studies and working as a waitress down in the theater district. She has just moved out of her university accommodation and is enjoying a little freedom for the first time in the City.


Now that you’ve gone

I look at the sky
It starts to rain
I start to cry
I feel the pain
I look at my life
I watch it die
Can’t I just get
One more try

Chorus
Nothing is right
Everythings wrong
Now that you’ve gone
Now that you’ve gone

I hear your words
They’re all the same
Every word
Brings me more pain
I hear my friends
They don’t love you
They can’t see
Just what I do
Chorus
I know in my heart
That love is gone
I know it but
I just go on
I know my dream
Is bruised and beat
And so I lay
At your feet
Chorus

Too late

Too late the moon
Too late the sun
I thought that love
Had just begun
Too late the dream
Too late the tears
I live my life
In empty years

Too late for you
Too late for me
Too late the yearning
For to be free
Too late the dreams
Too late for you
Now that you’ve gone
What can I do

Too late the nights
Too late the days
Too late for us
Too late always
Too late the life
I gave to you
Too late the hope
That died with you

This bird has flown

You left me here cryin’
Cryin’ on my own
There’s no good in lyin’
This bird has flown

You say get together
I want to be alone
You were only fair weather
This bird has flown

You want to come around
But I have grown
Loves underground
This bird has flown

You say that you love me
You call me by ‘phone
Look closely and you will see
This bird has flown

In your ship

In your ship
I sail no oceans
In your ship
I sail no seas
In your ship
I place my everything
And your ship
Brings you to me

In our ship
We’ll sail the ocean
In our ship
We’ll sail the seas
In our ship
We will travel
In our ship
We will be free

Little ship
On the ocean
Little ship
On the sea
Little ship
Sails to heaven
Little ship
For you and me
Little ship
For you and me

Come to me

Come to me softly
Come to me now
Come to me quickly
Will you show me how

Come to me
Come to me

Come to me gently
Come to be rough
Come to me sweetly
I can’t get enough

Come to me
Come to me

Come to me nightly
Come to me again
Come to me once more
Come take the pain
Come to me
Come to me

Come to me today
Come to me tonight
Don’t go away
With you it’s alright
Come to me
Come to me

Take me

Take me
Baby wont you take me
Take me
Take me in your arms
Take me
Baby don’t forsake me
Take me
Keep me safe from harm

Take me
Baby won’t you take me
Take me
I’m here for you tonight
Take me
Baby wont you make me
Take me
Cos you know its right

Take me
I ask you please
Take me
Take me ‘way with you
Take me
Loving me wont break me
Take me
Like you always do

The night was made for loving

The night was made for loving
So take me by the hand
Let me take you some place
I call the promised land
The night was made for loving
Dreams were made to share
Come and sit beside me
Feel the magic in the air

The night was made for loving
Walk with me a while
I see my world turning
In the magic of your smile
The night was made for loving
We aren’t meant to be alone
Come with me tonight
And we shall see the dawn

The night was made for loving
The morning holds no fears
Take my love in your arms
Live a thousand years
The night was made for loving
And I was made for you
You were made for me love
We both know its true

Without you

Without you
I climb no mountains
Without you
I scale no peaks
Without you
My life it is empty
Without you
It’s incomplete

Without you
The day is colder
Without you
The night is long
Without you
I must be bolder
Without you
I don’t belong

Without you
There’s no tomorrow
Without you
A sad today
Without you
A life of sorrow
Without you
Can’t see the day

I don’t wanna bleed

I don’t wanna bleed
Take this hurt away from me
I don’t wanna bleed
I just wanna be free
I don’t wanna bleed
But I know I’ve no choice
I don’t wanna bleed
Can’t you hear it in my voice

I don’t wanna bleed
Though I’m a woman now
I don’t wanna bleed
Don’t want to know how
I don’t wanna bleed
Keep your hands off me
I don’t wanna bleed
I wanna stay free

I don’t wanna bleed
Take the hurt away
I don’t wanna bleed
Does forever start today
I don’t wanna bleed
But I know I will
I don’t wanna bleed
I don’t want this bitter pill

Every

Every night it still the same
Another dream and yet more pain
Every night I see your face
But now you’re in another place

Every dream your always there
Eyes of fire and flaming hair
Every dream will come true
Every day I yearn for you

Every time I call your name
I feel the hurt just the same
Every time I see the dawn
I feel the pain of being alone

Every kiss I ever knew
Brings my thoughts back to you
Every word of love I’ve known
Is due to you alone and you alone

In the heat of the night

In the heat of the night
I call your name
Eyes filled with sorrow
Head filled with pain
All through the dark
Until first light
Your always here
You come each night

In the cool of the day
I sit and wait
I know you’ll come
When it gets late
Although your gone
Your love burns bright
Your always here
You come each night

I know

I know why the white dove sails
Above the silver sea
I know how love’s hope fades
Between you and me
I see southward flying birds
Cross the autumn sky
Yes I see all these things
And still I wonder why

I know why the tiger prowls
Its meagre cage at night
I know why he dreams his dreams
Never in the light
I see the saints looking down
Each hides his face from me
I see all these things
But still I am not free

I know why you took your love
Took it away from me
I know why it turned to dust
There for all to see
I see myself in mirrors
Hanging on every wall
Oh what have you done to me
How did I lose it all

Sister under the skin

The time has come
They say to us
To sort the gold
Out from the dust
But they don’t know
How to begin
Cause they cant see we’re
Sisters, under the skin

They tell us this
They tell us that
They want us thin
They want us fat
Oh cant they see
They cannot win
Cant they see we’re
Sisters, under the skin

They write for us
They preach to us
But they don’t know
Zip about love
They cant see
That we will win
Cant they see we’re
Sisters, under the skin

So come on girls
Don’t hear their lies
We have heard
Their alibis
We can see
We know we’ll win
Because we are
Sisters, under the skin

Does my bum look big in this

Does my bum look big in this?
Do I remind you of a bus
Do my cheeks look good to kiss
Or is it just too much

Do my hips look big to you
Is there anything I can do
Diets just aint for me
Do I look better in the blue

Why are my breasts so small
Thank heaven for these new bras
I used to be so shy
Now I hang around in bars

Is my hair just too long
Shall I get it cut
Why do I talk to you
Your mouth is always shut

I’ve tried a million things
Come give me a little kiss
Your such a lovely guy
Does my bum look big in this

Love still dies

Love still dies
Love still lives
Love still flies
Love still gives
In my soul
In my eyes
I give it all
Love still dies

Love still dies
Every day
Don’t tell lies
Don’t go away
In your soul
In your eyes
I give it all
Love still dies

Love still dies
Love still bleeds
Love has highs
Love has needs
In my heart
In my eyes
We’re apart
Love still dies

My life is like a bird

My life is like a bird
That flutters in your hand
Struggling to be free
Hold it whilst you can
My life is like my love
Captured in your heart
I know that I would die
If you and I should part

My love is like a flower
Blowing in the breeze
Please hold me now
I only want to please
The flower is like a prayer
Offered up above
To help you to know
The meaning of my love

My prayer is like an arrow
Shot from cupids bow
I know I don’t know much
But I know I love you so
The arrow found its mark
In the heart of the bird
And stopped its pretty song
A song you never heard

Bertha and Doris

Bertha and Doris
Had such ugly names
Wherever they went
They caused them shame
So Michelle and Marie
Were born full grown
To live and have fun
Lives of their own

To Cancun they flew
Their heads full of scenes
Of enjoying themselves
And living their dreams
And straight to the bar
Our heroines fled
To grab them some guys
And drag them to bed

When they woke in the morning
With two hairy men
And barf on the sheets
As presents from them
They looked at each other
And solemnly swore
To be Bertha and Doris
And go clubbing no more

You’re my light

You’re my light
In the sky
You’re the life
That cant die
But they took
You from me
Far away
‘cross the sea

Now you’re gone
And I’m alone
No place to go
No peace at home
All of the stars
Fell from the sky
And I remember
And I ask why

You were the stars
You were the sun
What do I do
Now you have gone
So I just sit
Alone and cry
Why did you
Have to die


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