Carpenters Ticket To Ride[Offering]

1.Invocation

Written：Richard Carpenter／John Bettis

For those whose eyes would see
Render them in faith to me.
For all those seeking peace
In my arms their strife shall cease
And place in me the agony you bear
Nothing can impair the perfect love I bring
In a simple offering.


2.Your Wonderful Parade

Lyrics：John Bettis
Music：Richard Carpenter

Your Wonderful Parade,
moving thru the towns that rise and then they fade,
Over streets that pass the houses where you've stayed,
Your Wonderful Parade.

Your daily masquerade,
paper masks that hide the faces you have made,
Crumbled down upon foundations you have laid,
Your daily masquerade.

Stand in line try to climb
meet your wife at cocktail time
you're sure to lose
so try and choose
a better way to fall.

Your marvelous charade,
Never could be worth
the prices that you've paid
Blindness is a part of
ev'ry game you've played,
Your Marvelous Parade.


3.Someday

Someday,
Rested from hours of sleeping,
We'll stay safely behind what we're keeping.
You'll seem warmer than I had remembered you,
Lying so close I'll be able to,
Fell you breathe;
I could never leave.

One day,
When I am able to love you,
I'll come back from wherever I've been to.
I'll see you looking the same as you always have.
Love so lovely
I'll cling to the love you give;
So I'll start to love.

Someday is coming,
If I believe it,
Someday always brings,
The good life you knew,
Ever back to you,
Oh! I need you.

Someday,
All I can give you is,
Someday.

＊Someday,
All I can offer is,
Someday.
Please say,
That you'll be waiting when someday comes,
Promise me this and a kiss,
To keep what you are,
Always close to me.

Oh! I need you,

Someday,
All I can give you is,
Someday.

Someday,
All I can give you is,
Someday.
(＊Repeat)
Someday.


4.Get Together

Lyrics：Chet Powers
Music：Chet Powers

Love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die,
You can make the mountains ring
or make the angels cry,
Tho' the bird is on the wing
and you may not know why.

C'mon people, now
smile on your brother,
ev'ry-body get together,
try to love one another right now.

Some will come and some will go
and we shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
returns for us at last
We are but a moments sunlight
fading in the grass.

C'mon people, now
smile on your brother,
ev'ry-body get together,
try to love one another right now.

If you hear the song I sing
you will understand
You hold the key to love and fear
in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both,
it's there at your command.

C'mon people, now
smile on your brother,
ev'ry-body get together,
try to love one another right now.


5.All Of My Life

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.


6.Turn Away

Lyrics：John Bettis
Music：Richard Carpenter

I guess you know what it's all about
All the answers so clear to you,
You know just exactly what you want to do,
And never allow a feeling of doubt.

I guess you see where your road can lead
And all the pain that you have in store,
For now you have chosen to lock ev'ry door
And find on your own what you think you need.

(Chorus)
TURN AWAY--find the way girl,
I'll be here waiting dear to say,
TURN AWAY-- find the way girl,
I'll still be calling your name.

And if I try to show you how
Tomorrow is just like yesterday,
Would you change your mind and see things my way
Or are you afraid that I'll bring you down.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Repeat Chorus ＆ Fade)


7.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.


8.Don't Be Afraid

Lyrics：Richard Carpenter
Music：Richard Carpenter

Don't be afraid to love and get love returned,
Don't be afraid to tell ev'ryone you loved
That love is a groovy thing,
it knows how to make you sing.
and it fills up your life with sunshine and joy.

Don't be afraid to give all you've got to give.
One of these days you'll find that's the way to live,
And living is what we all were put on this earth to do,
So come on and live and be happy
Don't be afraid to love.


9.What's The Use

Written：Richard Carpenter／John Bettis

Get me away from all the things that need doin'
Lazily here to lose the afternoon
Lyin' around here on the ground
is as close to gettin' up as I can go.

Takin' the chance to free myself from my worries
Cover them well enough and no one sees
Nobody knows until they show
and the only thing to do is try to cover them again.

Hurry yourself,
What's the use,
Mountains of wealth I refuse to be somebody's slave for a dime.
I've got plenty of mountains I'm lookin' to climb spendin' my
time.

Pleasein' myself is all that really needs doin'
Ev'ry thing else begins but never ends
Listen to me and you'll agree
that a man is better off if he has come to realize.

Hurry yourself,
What's the use,
Mountains of wealth I refuse to be somebody's slave for a dime.
I've got plenty of mountains I'm lookin' to climb spendin' my
time.


10.All I Can Do

Lyrics：John Bettis
Music：Richard Carpenter

Yesterday I though you'd stay
I though you'd see things my way,
But now I see my hopes rainy day.

I should have known when you said I was the one you wanted,
wanting meant nothing more than today,

All I can do is cry over you
and hope you return someday,
All I can do is cry over you
since you've gone away.

Ev'ry road that I follow leaves me with no tomorrow,
I need someone to show me the way,

All I can do is cry over you
and hope you return someday,
All I can do is cry over you
since you've gone away.


11.Eve

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.


12.Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing

Lyrics：Neil Young
Music：Neil Young

Who's that stompin' all over my face
Where's that sillouhette I'm tryin' to trace
Who's puttin' sponge in the bells I once rung
and takin' my gypsy before she's begun

Just singin' and dreamin' of what's in my mind
Before I can take home what's rightfully mine
Joinin' and a listenin' and talkin' in rhyme
To stop at the feelin' to wait for the time

Who's sayin' 'Baby, they don't mean a thing'
'cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

And who's all hung up on that happiness thing
Who's tryin' to tune all the bells that he rings
Who's in the corner and down on the floor
With pencil and paper just countin' the score

Who's tryin' to act like he's just in between
The night isn't black if you know that it's green
Don't bother lookin', you're too blind to see
Who's comin' on like he wanted to be

Who's sayin' 'Baby, they don't mean a thing'
'cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

And who's comin' home on old 95
who's got the feelin' you're here to keep him alive
Though havin' and sharin' it ain't quite the same,
Paint a gold nugget you can't lay a claim

Who's seein' eyes through the crack in the floor
There it is baby don't you worry no more
who should be sleepin', but 's writin' this song
Wishin' and hopin' he works so damn long

Who's sayin', 'Baby they don't mean a thing'
'cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing


13.Benediction

Written：Richard Carpenter／John Bettis

Unto you in the voice of love
In the song we sing an offering.