Reflections

Carpenters Reflections Lyrics
1.I Need To Be In Love(Remix)

Written:R.Carpenter/John Bettis/Albert Hammond

The hardest thing I've ever done is keep believing
There's someone in this crazy world for me
The way that people come and go through temporary lives
My chance could come and I might never know

I used to say 'No promises, let's keep it simple'
But freedom only helps you say goodbye
It took a while for me to learn that nothing comes for free
The price I paid is high enough for me

* I know I need to be in love
I know I've wasted too much time
I know I ask perfection of a quite imperfect world
And fool enough to think that's what I'll find

+ So here I am with pockets full of good intentions
But none of them will comfort me tonight
I'm wide awake at 4 a.m. without a friend in sight
I'm hanging on a hope but I'm all right

repeat *
repeat +
repeat *


2.I Just Fall In Love Again

Written:S.Dorff/L.Herbstritt/G.Sklerov/H.Lloyd

Dreamin', I must be dreamin'
or am I really lyin' here with you?
Baby, you take me in your arms,
and though I'm wide awake
I know my dream is comin' true.

And, oh, I just fall in love again;
just one touch and then it happens every time.
And there I go, I just fall in love again,
and when I do can't help myself
I fall in love with you.

Magic, it must be magic,
the way I hold you and the night just seems to fly.
Easy for you to take me to a star.
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes. (chorus)

Can't help myself I fall in love with you.


3.Baby It's You(Remix)

Written:Mack David/Burt Bacharach/Barney Williams

It's not the way you smile that touches my heart.
It's not the way you kiss that tears me apart.
Many, many nights roll by.
I sit alone at home and cry over you.
What can I do?
Can't help myself,
Cause, baby it's you.

You should hear what they say about you. (cheatin')
They say you've never, never been true. (wow ooooo)
It doesn't matter what they say.
I'm gonna love you any old way,
What can I do when it's true.
Don't want nobody,
Cause, baby it's you.


4.Can't Smile Without You(Alternate Version)

Written:Chris Arnold/David Martin/Geoff Morrow

You know I can't smile without you.
I can't smile without you.
I cant' laugh and I can't walk,
finding it hard even to talk.

And I feel sad when you're sad.
I feel gland when your glad.
And you must know what I'm going through,
I just can't smile without you.

You came along just like a song
you brightened my days.
Who'd believe you were part of a dream
that always seemed light years away.

And you know I can't smile without you.
I can't smile without you.
And you must know what I'm going through,
I just can't smile without you.

Some people say
the happiness way
is something that hard to find.
Into the new, leaving the old behind me.

And I feel sad when you're sad.
I feel glad when your glad.
And you must know what I'm going through,
I just can't smile without you.

(Instrumental Break)

Into the new, leaving the old behind me.

And I feel sad when you're sad.
I feel glad when your glad.
And you must know what I'm going through,
I just can't smile without you.


5.Beechwood 4-5789

Written:William Stevenson/Marvin Gaye/George Gordy

You can have this dance with me
You can hold my hand and whisper
In my ear sweet words,
that I love to hear

Don't be shy,
just take your time
I'd like to get to know you
I'd like to make you mine

I've been waiting
Sitting here so patiently
For you to come over
and have this dance with me

and my number is
Beachwood 45789
You can call me up and have a date
Any old time

Don't be shy,
just take your time
I'd like to get to know you
I'd like to make you mine

Beachwood 45789
You can call me up and have a date
any old time

Don't be shy,
just take your time
I'd like to get to know you
I'd like to make you mine

And my number is
Beachwood 45789
You can call me up and have a date
Any old time
Beachwood 45789
You can call me up and have a date
Any old time
Beachwood 45789
You can call me up and have a date
Any old time


6.Eve(Remix)

Lyrics:John Bettis
Music:Richard Carpenter

Eve I can't believe that you could mean what you just said,
Think of what you are, how very far you are from being real,
Look into the mirror--nothing there to see,
Eve I can't believe you'd really leave him.

Notice how her image saddens, how lonely she's become,
Just once I'd like to see her happy, before the winter comes.

Eve I wouldn't lie, the open sky is not your home,
Wide as it may be, reality is here among the stones,
Thorns among the roses add to what is real,
Eve you are a rose among the thorns here.

Notice how her image saddens, how lonely she's become,
Just once I'd like to see her happy, before the winter comes.

I wish her only good times, before the winter comes.


7.All Of My Life(Remix)

Lyrics:Richard Carpenter
Music:Richard Carpenter

All of my life I have been waiting
for just one boy,
And all of my life I have been waiting
for all the joy
of having someone that I can call my own.
Who'll come to my side when I am all alone,

And now you are here and I've found
a whole new world has opened for me.
A world filled with love,
a world filled with all your love eternally,

For you say you're mine,
you'll love me all the time,
night and day,
come what may
And all of my life you will be my own.

(INSTRUMENTAL)

I just want someone that I can call my own,
To have at my side when I am all alone.

And now you are here and I've found
a whole new world has opened for me.
A world filled with love,
a world filled with all you love eternally,

For you say you're mine,
you'll love me all the time,
night and day,
come what may
And all of my life you will be my own.


8.Reason To Believe(Remix)

Lyrics:Tim Hardin
Music:Tim Hardin

If I listen long enough to you,
I'd find the way to believe that it's all true,
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried,
Still I looked to find the reason to believe.

Someone like you makes it hard
To live without somebody else.
Someone like you makes it easy to give
Never thinking of myself.

If you took the time to change my mind,
I'd find the way to leave the past behind,
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried,
Still I looked to find the reason to believe.


9.Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore

Lyrics:John Bettis
Music:Richard Carpenter

Just take some loneliness and add a tear or two,
Throw in some emptiness, next to your bluer than blue.
Keep it all under cover, next to your broken dreams.
And when you're through, then you'll know how I sit alone and
cry,
As the night go by, makes you want to die.
'Cause

(chorus)
Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore
Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore

You try to make believe it doesn't bother you.
For your own sake, believe you'll make it through.
Just make a vow ev'ry morning,
That today you will change your point of view.
But it's all a game that you play in vain.
And you live in pain, 'cause it's very plain,
When

(repeat chorus)

Give it up!

And there's nothing that you can do, but to break down and cry.
It's over for you
When

(repeat chorus)


10.Maybe It's You(Remix)

Lyrics:Richard Carpenter
Music:Richard Carpenter

Maybe it's you, maybe it's me
Maybe it's just the constant rhythm of the sea
Maybe it's just that I've never been the kind
who can pass a lucky penny by

Maybe it's wise, maybe it's not
Maybe it's you who brought the caring I forgot
Isn't it nice to talk about the special way
that you smile whenever I'm around

Rising on the shore the ocean came
Walks along the waves of velveteen
His only thought was love for me

Couldn't we stay or must you go
Couldn't we stay and watch the splashing rocks we throw
Only a fool would want to leave the paradise
that I find whenever you're around
Only a fool

Isn't it nice to talk about the special way
that you smile whenever I'm around

Rising on the shore the ocean came
Walks along the waves of velveteen
His only thought was love for me

Couldn't we stay and watch the splashing rocks we throw
Only a fool would want to leave the paradise
that I find whenever you're around
Only a fool.


11.Ticket To Ride

Lyrics:John Lennon
Music:John Lennon

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today Yeah
The boy that's driving me mad is going away.

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
and he don't care.

He said that living with me
was bringing him down Yeah
He would never be free
when I was around.

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
and he don't care.

Don't know why he's riding so high
He oughta do right
He oughta do right by me
Before he gets to saying goodbye
He oughta do right
He oughta do right by me

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today Yeah
The boy that's driving me mad is going away.

He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
and he don't care, don't care.


12.Sweet, Sweet Smile

Lyrics:Juice Newton/Othat Young
Music:Juice Newton/Othat Young

You're always in my heart
From early in the mornin' til it's dark
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day

When I wake up in the mornin'
And I see you there
I always whisper a little prayer
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day

** I gotta know that you love me
And that you want me
And that you'll always be there
I've gotta know that you care

## And I gotta feel your arms around me
And that you need me
And that you'll always be there
I've gotta know that you care

If my times bring me down
You're the only one that I want around
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day

And if I'll all strung out
You're the only one who can straighten me out
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day

Repeat **
Repeat ##
Repeat **
Repeat ##

You're always in my heart
From early in the mornin' til it's dark
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day
I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day


13.A Song For You(Remix)

Lyrics:Leon Russell
Music:Leon Russell

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see
There's no one more important to me
Darlin' can't you please see through me
Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you
We were alone and I was singing this song for you


14.Because We Are In Love (The Wedding Song)

Written:Richard Carpenter/John Bettis

Children
It was more fun to be children
We just took life as it happened
Run thru the days
Don't look behind
Over wink of an eye and it's over
What a surprise to discover
We were people ourselves
What kind of people did we want to be
No answer ever come to me.

I didn't sleep at all last night
Mom, I've come to you like yesterday
About today
Hon, come and sit by my side
Listen to me
Words come so hard
But what my hear says
I will give you.

Because you are in love
Your eyes begin to open
As is you had awoken from a sleep
Because you are in love
You use imagination
And lose you concentration
When someone drops his name
You're back in his arms as always
Your day - dreams work out that way
It's all just a trick you mind plays
The more love grows
The more it stays the same

(Same little girl who's frightened)
But I love him so
(Same little girl who's sure)
That she loves him so
(Sees with a woman's vision knows what a woman knows)

Because we are in love
We've reach for our tomorrow's
And know we won't be lonely
In laugher and in sorrows
Where love abides
There is the place we'll keep our home forever
You and I
Because we are in love.
Where love abides
There is the place we'll keep our home forever
You and I
Because we are in love.