The Lyric

Stacey Kent & Jim Tomlinson The Lyric Lyrics
1.Manha De Carnaval


2.Corcovado(feat. Stacey Kent)

Quiet nights of quiet stars,
quiet chords from my guitar
Floating in the silence that surrounds us
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
quiet walks by quiet streams,
and a window looking on to Corcovado.
How lovely! this is where i want to be.
Here, with you so close to me,
untill the final flicker of lifes ember.
I who was lost and lonely,
believing life was only
A bitter tragic joke, have found with you
The meaning of existence oh, my love.


3.I've Grown Accustomed To His Face(feat. Stacey Kent)

I've grown accustomed to his face
he almost makes the day begin
I've grown accustomed
to the tune that he whistles night and noon
his smiles, his frowns
his ups, his downs
are second nature to me now
like breathing out and breathing in

I was serenely independent
and content before we met
surely I could always be that way again
and yet, I've grown accustomed to his look
accustomed to his voice
accustomed to his face

I'm so used to hearing him say
'good morning,' every day
his joys, his woes
his highs, his lows
are second nature to me now
like breathing out and breathing in

I'm very grateful he's a man and so easy to forget
rather like a habit one can always break
and yet, I've grown accustomed
to the trace of something in the air

accustomed to his face...


4.If I Were A Bell(feat. Stacey Kent)

Ask me how do I feel
Ask me now that we're cosy and clinging
Well sir, all I can say, is if I were a bell I'd be ringing!

From the moment we kissed tonight
That's the way I've just gotta behave
Boy, if I were a lamp I'd light
And If I were a banner I'd wave!

Ask me how do I feel, little me with my quiet upbringing
Well sir, all I can say is if gate I'd be swinging!
And if I were a watch I'd start popping my springs!
Or if I were a bell I'd go ding dong, ding dong ding!

Ask me how do I feel from this chemistry lesson I'm learning.

SKY(spoken) Uh, chemistry?
SARAH(spoken) Yes, chemistry!

Well sir, all I can say is if I were a bridge I'd be burning!

Yes, I knew my moral would crack
From the wonderful way that you looked!
Boy, if I were a duck I'd quack!
Or if I were a goose I'd be cooked!

Ask me how do I feel, ask me now that we're fondly caressing
Well, if I were a salad I know I'd be splashing my dressing
Ask me how to describe this whole beautiful thing
Well, if I were a bell I'd go ding dong, ding dong ding!


5.I Got Lost In His Arms(feat. Stacey Kent)

I got lost in his arms
And I had to stay;
It was dark in his arms
And I lost my way.
From the dark came a voice
And it seemed to say,
There you go,
There you go.

How I felt as I fell
I just can't recall.
But his arms held me fast
And it broke the fall.
And I said to my heart,
As it foolishly kept jumping
All around,
I got lost,
But look what I've found.

There you go
There you go

How I felt as I fell
I just can't recall.
But his arms held me fast
As it broke the fall.
And I said to my heart,
As it foolishly kept jumping
All around,
I got lost,
But look what I've found.


6.What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life ?(feat. Stacey Kent)

What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and South and East and West of your life
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me
All the seasons and the times of your days
All the nickels and the dimes of your days
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
All begin and end with me

I want to see your face in every kind of light
In fields of dawn and forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make

Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In the world of love you keep in your eyes
I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes
It may take a kiss or two

Through all of my life
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life with you


7.Cockeyed Optimist(feat. Stacey Kent)

When the skies are brighter canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green.

I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead,
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head.

I hear the human race
Is fallin' on its face
And hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whippoorwill
Is sellin' me a bill,
And tellin' me it just ain't so.

I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
And appear more intelligent and smart,
But I'm stuck like a dope
With a thing called hope,
And I can't get it out of my heart!
Not this heart...


8.My Heart Belongs To Daddy(feat. Stacey Kent)

While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddie
but if I do, I don't follow through
'cause my heart belongs to daddy

If I invite a boy some night
to dine on my fine fin and hati
I just adore his askin' for more
but my heart belongs to daddy

Yes my heart belongs to daddy
and I simply couldn't be bad
yes my heart belongs to daddy
so I want to warn you laddy
though I know you're perfectly swell
that my heart belongs to daddy
'cause my daddy he treats me so well


9.The Surrey With The Fringe On Top(feat. Stacey Kent)

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey,
When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!
Watch that fringe and see how it flutters
When I drive them high steppin' strutters.
Nosey pokes'll peek thru' their shutters and their eyes will
pop!
The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown,
The dashboard's genuine leather,
With isinglass curtains y' can roll right down,
In case there's a change in the weather.
Two bright sidelight's winkin' and blinkin',
Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin'
You c'n keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd keer to swap
Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top!

I can see the stars gettin' blurry,
When we ride back home in the surrey,
Ridin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top!
I can feel the day gettin' older,
Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder,
Noddin', droopin' close to my shoulder, till it falls kerplop!
The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a hill;
The moon is takin' a header,
And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still,
A lark'll wake up in the medder.
Hush, you bird, my baby's a-sleepin'!
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'
Whoa! you team, and jist keep a-creepin' at a slow clip clop.
Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top!


10.Outra Vez


11.Jardin D'hiver

Je voudrais du soleil vert
Des dentelles et des theieres
Des photos de bord de mer
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Je voudrais de la lumiere
Comme en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Je veux changer d'atmosphere
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Ma robe a fleurs sous la pluie de novembre
Tes mains qui courent, je n'en peux plus de t'attendre
Les annees passent, qu'il est loin l'age tendre
Nul ne peut nous entendre

Je voudrais du Fred Astaire
Revoir un Latecoere
Je voudrais toujours te plaire
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Je veux dejeuner par terre
Comme au long des golfes clairs
T'embrasser les yeux ouverts
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Ma robe a fleurs sous la pluie de novembre
Tes mains qui courent, je n'en peux plus de t'attendre
Les annees passent, qu'il est loin l'age tendre
Nul ne peut nous entendre


12.Something Happens To Me


13.Stardust(feat. Stacey Kent)