That's Why I'm Here

James Taylor That's Why I'm Here Lyrics
1.Everyday

Everyday it's getting closer
Going faster than a roller coaster
A love like yours would surely come my way

Everday seems a little faster
All my friends they say go on up and ask her
A love like yours would surely come my way

Everyday it seems a little stronger
Everyday it lasts a little longer
Come what may do you ever long for
True love from me

Everyday seems a little closer
Going faster than a roller coaster
A love like yours would surely come my way

A love like yours would surely come my way
Everyday


2.Going Around One More Time

My heart had been broken
And i couldn't take no more
I shuttered up my windows
And i bolted tight my door
Then i took one look at you
And i nearly lost my mind

Chorus:
Now i'm going 'round going 'round
Going 'round going around one more time
Yes i'm going 'roung going 'round
Going 'round goung around one more time

Betty was a little heartbreaker
It didn't quite work out
She did a number on my confidence
I was riddled with self doubt
I said that's it i'm through i quit
The juanita she looked so fine.

Chorus

'round and 'round in a circle
It's always the same
One moment you swear you've had enough
The next you've got to know her name

All on my own it wasn't that bad
I was getting by as i could get
I stopped into a drug store
For one pack of cigarettes
She did't have a quarter
Had to call her cousin kate
And could i lend her maybe
One thin dime

Chorus


3.Limousine Driver

Limousine driver
Big cadillac car
Rich and famous
No matter who you are you are
I seen a rock n roll rider
I seen a cinema star

Chorus:
Won't you roll down the road
Roll down the road roll down the
Roll down the road with me
Want you to roll down the road
Roll down the road roll down the
Roll down the road with me

Deep into the night
Blue velvet push
Cut glass crystal
I mean it means so much
Long cool fingeroos
Soft tenderloin touch

Chorus

City sidewalk shining wet with rain
Run through the run through one more again
Run through the jungle
Fetch a lady's glove
Kicking off a bundle
Go on and give it a shove
Speak up don't mumble
Who do you love


4.Mona

Life's good friends are hard to find
And now one of mine is dead
And things i should have said to her
I shall say to you instead

Mona mona
So much of you to love
Too much of you to take care of
Mona mona
You got too big to keep
And too damn old to eat

When you where just a football
At your mama's side
I reckon everyone figured you
For a bar-b-que when you died
And here i'm thinking about you
Lying underground
Pushing up a pine tree in my field

Oh mona mona
You can close your eyes
I've got a twelve gauge surprise
Waiting for you

Since the day she passed away
Everything's just the same
Everywhere i go
Somebody mentions her name
Sometimes it's easiest to tell
A friend a lie
They don't understand
The way i feel

Oh mona mona
So much of you to love
To much of you to take care of
So long

Now she is gone and i am
Left alone as you can see
But ever since i caused her death
I do miss her company


5.My Romance

My romance doesn't need to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may
No shining star
No hideaway
No soft guitar

My romance doesn't need a castle rising in spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake i can make my most fantastic dreams come true
'cause my romance doesn't need a thing but you


6.Only A Dream In Rio

More than a distant land
Over a shining sea
More than the steaming green
More than the shining eyes

Well they tell me it's only a dream in rio
Nothing could be as sweet as it seems
On this very first day down
They remind me 'son have you so soon forgotten
Often as not it's rotten inside
And the mask soon slips away'

Strange taste of a tropical fruit
Romantic language of the portuguese
Melody on a wooden flute
Somba floating in the summer breeze

It's alright you can stay asleep
You can close your eyes
You can trust the people of paradise
To call your keeper
And tender your goodbyes

Oh what a night wonderful one in a million
Frozen fire brazillian stars
Oh holy southern cross
Later on take me way downtown in a tin can;
Can't come down from the bandstand
I'm never thrown for such a loss when they say

Quando a nossa mae acordar
Andareimoz au sol
Quando a nossa mae acordar
Cantara' pelos sertao
Quando a nossa mea acordar
Todos os filios saberao
Todos os filios saberao
E regozilarao

Caught in the rays of the rising sun
On the run from the soldier's gun
Shouting out loud from the angry crowd
The mild the wild and the hungry child
I'll tell you there's more than a dream in rio
I was there on the very day
And my heart came back alive
There was more
More than the singing voices
More than the upturned faces
And more than the shining eyes

But it's more than the shining eye
More than the steaming green
More than the hidden hills
More than the concrete christ
More than a distant land
Over a shining sea
More than a hungry child
More like another time
Born of a million years
More than a million years

Portuguese version

Performed by james taylor & milton nascimento
Additional lyrics in portuguese by fernando brant
From 'angelus'

A terra ?minha mãe
O mar ?o meu chão
O verde ?a luz
Sorrindo em meu olhar

Pois eu digo, ?mesmo um sonho o rio
Tudo ser?como deve ser
Quero estar com voc?l?
Eu garanto, ?um lugar diferente
A minha gente carrega uma cruz
Mas tem força pra mudar

Strange taste of a tropical fruit
Romantic language of the portuguese
Melody on a wooden flute
Samba floating in the summer breeze
Float on

It's alright you can stay asleep
You can close your eyes
You can trust the people of paradise
To call your keeper
And to tender your goodbyes

Oh, what a night
Wonderful one in a million
Frozen fire brazilian
Oh, holy southern cross
Later on take me way downtown
In a tin can
I can't come down from the bandstand
I'm never thrown for such a loss
When they say

O lugar de onde eu vim
Brota no coração
O lugar aonde eu nasci
Est?no mundo e em mim

O lugar que a gente sonhar
Pode existir, existir?Vive em n e viver?Enquanto houver canção

Caught in the rays of the rising sun
On the run from the soldier's gun
Shouting out loud from
The angry crowd
The mild, the wild and the hungry child

I'll tell you it's more than
A dream in rio
I was there on the very day

D demais o coração, e era mais
Mais do que nossas vozes
Mais do que o nosso rosto
Mais do que a luz do olhar

But it's more than the shining eye
(mais do que a luz do olhar)
More than the steaming green
(mais do que o verdejar)
More than the hidden hills
(tudo o que não se viu)
More than the concrete christ
(mais do que o redentor)
More than a distant land
(mais do que a terra mãe)
Over the shining sea
(mais do que o c e o mar)
More than a hungry child
(a fome a nos doer)
More like another time
(o tempo a nos curtir)
Born of a million years
(mais do que um milhão)
More than a million years
(de anos pra sonhar)


A translation of the portuguese:

Quando a nossa mãe acordar
When our mother awakes
Andaremos ao sol
We shall walk in the sun
Quando a nossa mãe acordar
When our mother awakes
Cantar?pelo sertão
She shall sing in the wilderness
Quando a nossa mãe acordar
When our mother awakes
Todos os filhos saberão
All her children shall know
Todos os filhos saberão
All her children shall know
E regozijarão
And they shall rejoice


7.Only One

Chorus:
You are my only one
You are my only one
Well i'm telling you now you're my only one

I've got two long legs like to carry me
Two sharp eyes to look for the fight
Two strong arms to hold on tight
Two good friends on my left and right
But only one only one

Chorus:
You are my only one you are my only one
Don't be leaving me now you're my only one

There's only one road before me
Too many turns in the way
Thousands of things to do today
Millions of moments i must admit
But only one only one

Chorus

Taken for granted and pushed aside
All that it wanted was a place to run and hide
Missing message in a hollow tree
Hidden deep inside a memory
And the memory seems like dreams
Hundreds of hopes in the past
Nevertheless it was never the last
Hold on strong or you fade out fast
And only one only one

Chorus


8.Song For You Far Away

People around
Me are at it again
God only knows how they do it
One to another then back again
Something keeps putting them through it
Me i've been watching more than fifteen years
And it hasn't changed a bit
People keep talking 'bout a different line
But it never seems to fit

This is a song for you
Far away far away
This is a song for you
Far away from me
This is a song for you
Far away far away
This is a song for you
Far away from me

Sitting here all alone
Is bringing it on again i'm gone again
Sitting here thinking of you
Is driving it home again
This is a song for you far away so far away
This is a song for you far away from me
Open the door it takes me back
Oh it takes me back
Mention your name and i'm gone again
Oh i'm gone again
This is a song for you far away from me
Far away from me


9.That's Why I'm Here

Person to person and man to man
I'm back in touch with my long lost friend
Listen to reason and understand
And think of me from way back when
He said me and melissa well we fell out of love
We ran out of luck seems like lightning struck
I've been thinking of leaving but i can't raise a buck
James i'm wondering could i borrow your truck

I said that's why i'm here
Got no other reason
That's why i'm standing before you
That's why i'm here

John's gone found dead he dies high he's brown bread
Later said to have drowned in his bed
After the laughter the wave of the dread
It hits us like a ton of lead
It seems 'learn not to burn' means to turn on a dime
And walk on if you're walking even if it's an uphill climb
And try to remember that working's no crime
Just don't let 'em take and waste your time
That's why i'm here

This is an iou
I reckon' i owe you one now
Listen wendy and listen gloria
This'll be better tomorrow

Fortune and fame's such a curious game
Perfect strangers can call you by name
Pay good money to hear fire and rain
Again and again and again
Some are like summer coming back every year
Got your baby got your blanket got your bucket of beer
I break into a grin from ear to ear
And suddenly it's perfectly clear
That's why i'm here

This is the part about kitty and bim
He loved her and she loved him
Wake 'em up shake 'em up the middle of the night
Got to tell me everything's alright
He said that's why i'm here

That's right


10.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

When liberty valance came to town
The women folk would hide
They'd hide
When liberty valance walked around
The men would step aside
Because the point of a gun
Was the only law that liberty understood
When it came to shooting
Straight and fast
He was mighty good

From out of the east a stranger came
A law book in his hand
A man the kind of man
The west would need to ease a troubled land
Because the point of a gun
Was the only law that liberty understood
When it came to shooting
Straight and fast
He was mighty good

Many a man would face his gun
And many a man would fall
The man who shot liberty valance
He shot liberty valance
He was the bravest of them all

Now the love of a woman can make a man
Stay on when he should go
Stay on
Just trying to build a peaceful life
Where love is free to go
But the point of a gun
Was the only law that liberty understood
When it came to shooting
Straight and fast
He was mighty good

Alone and afraid she prayed that he'd
Return that fateful night
That night
When nothing she said could keep her man
From going out to fight
But the point of a gun
Was the only law that liberty understood
When the final showdown came to pass
A law book was no good

Out in the sun two shots rang out
The shots made liberty fall
The man who shot liberty valance
He shot liberty valance
He was the bravest of them all


11.Turn Away

I open my arms to hold you
You turn away you turn away
I feel it just like i told you
How can you turn away
The things that we said last saturday night
You turn away you turn away
Now you want to throw that away
How can you turn away

Bridge
It was true love it was you and me
And the sliver moon and the shining sea]
It was new but it felt to me
Just like love was suppsosed to be
Finally

And now your eyes won't meet mine
You turn away you turn away
I never want to taste that sweet wine again
How can you turn away

Bridge

And after this love i'm keeping for you
You turn away you turn away
I never want to taste that sweet wine again
How can you turn away

Bridge

And after this love i'm keeping for you
You turn away you turn away
I'll dry these tears that i'm weeping for you
And take my turn to turn away yeah