It's Christmastime, afraid
At Christmastime,
we let in light and we banish shade
there's no need to be
And in our world of plenty
we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
at Christmastime
pray for the other ones
At Christmastime it's hard,
but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window,
and it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing
is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring there
are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them
instead of you
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life(Oooh)
Where nothing ever grows
No rain or rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
Here's to them underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
Feed the world
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmastime again
Let them know it's Christmastime again
EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY
Interprétée par George Michael et Paul Young
Musiciens : Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins
Prince trust 1986
Hey!, if we can solve any problem
Then why do we lose so many tears
Oh, and so you go again
When the leading man appears
Always the same thing
Can't you see, we've got everything goin' on and on and on
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Go on and go free, yeah
Maybe you're too close to see
I can feel yor body move
It doesn't mean that much to me
I can't go on sayin' the same thing
Just can't you see, we've got everything do you even know we know
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you, oh
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
I can't go on sayin' the same thing
'Cause baby, cancha see, we've got everything goin' on and on and on
Interprétée par George Michael et Deon Estus
Wembley - AIDS Benefit - Stand By Me Concert - 1987
1-2-3, oh, that's how elementary it's gonna be
C'mon, let's fall in love, it's easy (it's so easy)
Like takin' candy (like takin' candy) from a baby
A-B-C (A-B-C) fallin' in love with you was easy for me
(easy for me)
And you can do it, too, it's easy (it's so easy)
Like takin' candy (like takin' candy) from a baby
Baby, there's nothin' hard about love
Basically, it's as easy as pie
The hard part is livin' without love
Without your love, baby, I would die
(Break)
It's easy (it's so easy)
Like takin' candy (like takin' candy) from a baby, yay
One and one are two (one and one are two)
I know you love me and oh,oh, how I love you (how I love you)
Don't try to fight it 'cause it's easy (it's so easy)
Like takin' candy (like takin' candy) from a baby, yay
1-2-3 (1-2-3) oh, that's how elementary it's gonna be
(it's gonna be)
C'mon, let's fall in love, it's easy (1-2-3)
(Fade)
Oh, that's how elementary
Heaven Help Me
Deon Estus et George Michael 1989If you want it you can have it
That's what you said
But I don't want the things that you leave behind
Take the pictures, take the windows and the walls
But baby won't you leave me my peace of mind
Oh such a waste of time
Oh such a waste
I still want you baby
Talk to strangers talk to strangers
Heaven help me
Over you
Help me over you
I can't seem to take these changes
Everything reminds my heart of you
Of being apart
Now I find I'm having to search again
It'll happen
It's gotta happen
Come together
I just wish somebody would tell me when
Oh such a waste of time
Oh such a waste
I still want you baby
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
Heaven help heaven help
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
Heaven help heaven help
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
Heaven help heaven help
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
So sad without you darlin'
The gods of love can't help me now
Heaven help heaven help
Heaven, heaven heaven help me
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
Interprétée par George Michael et Sting
au Rainforest Concert - Carnegie Hall N.Y 1993
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Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you O can't you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches With every step you take Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Since you've been gone I been lost without a trace I dream at night I can only see your face I look around but it's you I can't replace I feel so cold and I long for your embrace I keep crying baby, baby, please O can't you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches With every breath you take Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake Every move you make Every step you take I'll be watching you |
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LIVING FOR THE CITY
Avec Stevie Wonder
THE HONORS VH1 1997
Paroles et musique : Stevie Wonder
A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha!
His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city... yeah!
His sister's black but she is sho'nuff pretty
Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
To walk to school she's got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum
Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many
His patience's long but soon he won't have any
To find a job is like a haystack needle
Cause where he lives they don't use colored people
Living just enough, just enough for the city...
Living just enough...
For the city... ooh, ooh
(Repeat several times)
His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
He spends his life walking the streets of New York City
He's almost dead from breathing in air pollution
He tried to vote but to him there's no solution
Living just enough, just enough for the city...
yeah, yeah, yeah!
I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow
And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
This place is cruel no where could be much colder
If we don't change the world will soon be over
Living just enough, stop giving just enough for the city!!!!
La, La, La, La, La, La,
Da Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da
Da Da Da Da Da Da
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da
(Repeat to end)
(Interprété par George Michael durant The Cover To Cover Tour 991 )
WALTZ AWAY DREAMING
Avec Tony Bourke
Paroles et musique : George Michael/Tony Bourke
She´s got a song in her head and she´ll sing to me
She´s got a laugh that reminds me of why she´s in love with me
She´s never let show she was lonely in case it had frightened me
She was carpet and stone, independent, alone
But her love always shone around me
Every time...
Waltz away dreaming till your day begins again
Free from the seasons and this state I´m in
And oh, I can´t hold it all under one love
It was so long ago when we kissed in the streets
Now you fly like an eagle above
While I waltz away anyway
I´ll be waltzing my days away
Searching for this woman I love
She had a history of joy and pain in time
And she chose to leave
She had a thousand and one photographs
That you would not believe
She´ll come to you in disguise
She´s there in your children´s eyes
Still our mother...
She´s still your wife
(So let her...)
Waltz away dreaming till your day begins again
Free from the seasons and this state I´m in
And oh, (trust me, she ain´t going anywhere)
I can´t hold it all under one love
(Trust me, she told me, when you´re ready she´ll be there)
It was so long ago (no don´t let go of her)
When we kissed in the streets
Now you fly like an eagle above
While I waltz away anyway
I´ll be waltzing my days away
Searching for this woman I love
And the moment you see me
I will live in your life
We will walk through my garden
I will see through your eyes
I was in despair ´till she found me there
Every grown man cries with his mother´s eyes
And when you´re ready too
She´ll come back to you
She´s waiting
Father...
She´s waiting...
You´ll see me...
IF I TOLD YOU THAT
Avec Withney Houston
Greatest Hits W. Houston 2000
Paroles et musique : R. jerkins/F. Jerlins/ L.
Daniels/ T. Estes
If I told you that I had feelings for you? yeah
Tell me baby
And would it be so wrong to say
What's on my mind?
I'm sorry I have to
We were friends but with time
What I feel inside for you
Has changed
But I'd give up on love
If I thought that it was
Untrue for you
If I told you that
I wanted to see you
And if I told you that
I'd beg to please you
If I told you that
I'll always keep you
What would you say
If I told you that
I know that we're just friends
But what if I decide
To bring something in? ooh yeah baby, baby
I hope it won't offend the trust we have cause I
Don't want this to end
If you think we will lose what we have
Then I'd just rather stay the same
Cause I don't wanna choose
Because you are the most precious things to me
If I told you that
I wanted to see you
And if I told you that I'd beg to please you
If I told you that I'll always keep you
What would you say
If we take this chance
And extend to each other romance
I hope it would be
The right thing for you and me oh yeah
If I told you that
I wanted to see you
And if I told you that
I'd beg to please you
If I told you that
I'll always keep you
What would you say
If I told you that
Would you be there for me ?
Could you dare to hold me ?
Will my feelings leave me ?
Lonely if I told you
If I told you that
I wanted to see you
And if I told you that I'd beg to please you
If I told you that I'll always keep you
What would you say
Would you be there for me
Could you
I'd beg to please you
Will my feelings leave me
Lonely if I told you
FAITH 2003
DUO avec Miss Dynamit
LIVE MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARD
Paroles et musique : George Michael/ Miss Dynamite
We’ve been here before
Talk of finance and talk of war
I don’t want to see the children
die no more
So I gottamake a stand
Can you hear my voice
Taking a life is only gods choice
I don’t want blood on my hands
I am a wise man
A wise man warns me but my daddy says
A wise man lives to fight another day
And he don't wanna
See no more mothers cry
I don’t want to see no fathers die
So I gotta have faith
(George’s vocal enters) I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
Lady, I guess you heard the news today
There’s got to be a better way
You know it’s given me the blues
Maybe, we’ve got time to make it plain
People you’ve gotta get up off your
knees and say we really don’t want it
I don’t want it (we don't want it)
I don’t want it
Before this river becomes and ocean
Of tears and fears
They think they know what they’re doing, pursuing
Me ain't gonna take that fall
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I’ve got to hope for more
Cause I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
D to the Y to the – Allah we pray
D to the Y to the – Jesus will save
D to the Y to the – it’s all the same
D to the Y to the – if you want love
D to the Y to the – Allah we pray (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the – Jesus will save (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the – it’s all the same (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the – if you want love
All you’ve got to do is have faith
(Before this river becomes an ocean)
All you've got to do is have faith in what you can do
(Of tears and fears - if you want love)
One love, one love
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I gotta hope for more
Cause I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
BLAME IT ON THE SUN
Duo avec Ray Charles
Genius and Friends 2005 -
Paroles et musique : STEVIE WONDER
Where has my love gone?
How can I go on?
It seems dear love has gone away
Where is my spirit?
I'm nowhere near it,
Oh yes, my love has gone astray
But I'll blame it on the sun,
The sun that didn't shine,
I'll blame it on the wind and the trees
I'll blame it on the time that never was enough,
I'll blame it on the tide and the sea,
But, my heart blames it on me
Who poured the love out?
What made this bitter doubt?
Is peace not here for me to see?
Wish I could tell you,
What I am feeling,
But, words won't come for me to speak
But I'll blame it on the sun,
That didn't fill the sky,
I'll blame it on the birds and the trees
I'll blame it on the day that ended once too soon,
I'll blame it on the nights that could not be,
But, my heart blames it on me
[Background]...Yeh, yeh, yeh, ooh,
Your heart blames it on you this time
HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING
(Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Michel Legrand)
Duo avec Tony Bennet sur l'album DUETS
"AN AMERICAN CLASSIC " 2006
How do you keep the music playing?
How do you make it last?
How do you keep the song from fading too fast?
How do you lose yourself to someone?
And never lose your ways
How do you not run out of new things to say?
And since we're always changing
How can it be the same?
And tell me how year after year
You're sure your heart will fall apart
Each time you hear his name
I know the way I feel for you
It's now or never
The more I love the more that i'm afraid
That in your eyes I may not see forever..
Forever...
If we can be the best of lovers
Yet be the best of friends
If we can try with everyday to make it better as it grows
With any luck, then I suppose
The music never ends
I know the way I feel for you
It's now or never!
(How do you keep the music playing?)
The more I love the more that I'm afraid
(How do you make it last)
That in your eyes I may not see forever
Forever...
(How do you keep the song from fading, keep the song from fading too fast)
If we can be the best of lovers
Yet be the best of friends
If we can try with everyday to make it better as it grows
With any luck, then I suppose
The music never ends
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