LEO SAYER

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE (1983)

‘TIL YOU COME BACK TO ME
(S. Wonder / C. Paul / M. Broadnax)

Though you don’t call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I’ll rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I want to tell you baby
Changes I’ve been going through
Missing you, listen you
‘Til you come back to me
That’s what I’m gonna do
Why did you have to decide
You had to set me free
I’m gonna swallow my pride
I’m gonna beg you to please
Baby won’t you please see me
I’m gonna walk by myself
To prove that my love is true
Oh, for you baby
‘Til you come back to me
That’s what I’m gonna do
Living for you my dear
Is like living in a world of constant fear
Hear my plea, I’ve got to make you see
That our love is dying
Our love is dying
It’s dying
Although your phone you ignore
Somehow I must explain
I’m gonna rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I’m gonna camp on your step
Until I get through to you
I’ve got to change your view baby
‘Til you come back to me
That’s what I’m gonna do
Yeah ‘til you come back to me
That’s what I’ll do
‘Til you come back to me
That’s what I’m gonna do

SEA OF HEARTBREAK
(H. David / P. Hampton)

Oh the lights in the harbour
They don’t shine for me
I’m like a lost ship
Adrift on the sea
Sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine
How I wish
You were mine again my dear
I’m on the sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak
Oh, how did I lose you
Oh where did I fail
Why did you leave me
Always to sail
Sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine
How I wish
You were mine again my dear
I’m on the sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak
Oh what I’d give to sail back to shore
Back to your arms once more
(Solo)
Come to my rescue, oh come here to me
Take me and keep me away from the
Sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine
How I wish you were mine again my dear
I’m on a sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

MORE THAN I CAN SAY
(Sonny Curtis/Jerry Allison)

Woh, woh, yeah, yeah
I love you more than I can say
I love you twice as much tomorrow, woh
Love you more than I can say
Woh, woh, yeah, yeah
I miss you every single day
Why must my heart be full of sorrow, oh
I love you more than I can say
Ah don’t you know I need you so
So tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Oh woh, yeah, yeah
I miss you more than I can say
Why must my life be filled with sorrow, woh, woh
Love you more than I can say
(Solo)
Oh don’t you know I need you so
So tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Woh, woh, yeah, yeah
I love you more than I can say
I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow
Love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say, oh
More than I can say – ooh
More than I can say
I love you twice as much tomorrow
Ooh - more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
More than I can say
I love you more than words can say

DARLIN’
(B. Wilson/M. Love)

I don’t know if words can say
But darlin’ I’ll find a way
To let you know what you mean to me
I guess it was meant to be
Now I hold you in my heart
As my life’s most precious part
Oh darlin’
I dream about you often my pretty darlin’
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love, oh
Now I was living like half a man
And then I couldn’t love but now I can
You pick me up when I’m feeling sad
You give me soul I never had
I’m gonna love you every single night
Cause I think you’re outta sight
Oh darlin’
I dream you often my pretty darlin’
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love, oh, oh
I’m crazy but I wake up in the dead of night
I think some other fella’s gonna hold you tight
What would life be like without you by my side
I’m crazy but I worry ‘bout you day and night
Oh
Ooh darlin’
Ooh
Oh darlin’
I dream about you often my pretty darlin’
Love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love oh, oh
You soften my life with your precious love, oh
I love the way you soften my life with your love
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Oh darlin’
I love the way you soften my life
With your love
Oh darlin’
I worry all about you darlin’
Couldn’t live without you darlin’
I worry all about you darlin’, yeah
Crazy all about you darlin’
Oh darlin’

DON’T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
(Leo Sayer/A. Tarney)

Don’t wait until tomorrow
It may come too late
Don’t wait until tomorrow
Only fools hesitate
Take hold of every chance
That’s offered to you
Don’t say it can wait
That never will do
Don’t wait until tomorrow
‘Cos it won’t wait for you
Well I wonder sometimes
What the future will be
And all that it tells me
Is wait and see
Should I let the wind carry me
Like a wave on the shore
But I don’t want my life
To just pass me by
When I think I’ll grow old
It just makes me cry
There’s too much to do and to say
And I don’t have the time
It’s all a waste of time
Don’t wait until tomorrow
The waiting’s no fun
Don’t wait until tomorrow
Tomorrow never comes
Take hold of every chance
That’s offered to you
Don’t say it can wait
That never will do
Don’t wait until tomorrow
‘Cos it won’t wait for you
(Solo)
And this is the time where my heart belongs
I’ve waited in this town for much too long
Feeling like a leaf on a tree
I’m waiting to fall
I think I’ve seen it all
Don’t wait until tomorrow
It may come too late
Don’t wait until tomorrow
Only fools hesitate
Take hold of every chance that’s offered to you
Don’t say it can wait that never will do
Don’t wait until tomorrow
‘Cos it won’t wait for tomorrow, no
Don’t wait until tomorrow
It won’t wait for you
(Solo)
It won’t wait for you

HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE
(P. Beloved/ J. Greaves)

From the window of our honeymoon
The night looks a mite bizarre
They’re burning us in effigy
And smoke’s blots out the stars
They’re torturing our servants
By the light of an armoured car
Please don’t ask if it’s the end of the line
As I never could see that far
Tonight I’d rather look at you
How beautiful you are
If they ask you “what are lovers”
Tell them “lovers are
Set against the order
We live outside the law”
I’m no hero under torture
I’ll tell them all I heard and saw
I saw everything in you, my love
How beautiful you are
(Solo)
Through a broken telescope
We focus on the stars
I don’t want my vision magnified
I don’t need to see that far
From the window of our honeymoon
Draw the curtains cross the bars
Let’s spare ourselves the spectacle
The problem’s theirs not ours
Tonight I’d rather look at you
How beautiful you are
How beautiful you are
How beautiful
How beautiful
How beautiful you are
You are

ORCHARD ROAD
(Leo Sayer/Alan Tarney)

To tell the truth it’s really such a sad affair
Standing here waiting in the cold night air
But I’ve got to make this call
‘Cos my heart is breaking
I hear the pips drop a coin in the slot
Has it been that long
I thought you’d forgotten me
Well I know that it’s getting late
But I just couldn’t wait
Will I have the nerve to say
I just wanna come back
You shouldn’t just go away
I just wanna come back
I’ve been struck by such a bad luck
I need a place a little happiness and some love
I think I can see it now
Now let me paint the picture
It’s twelve o’ clock and the curtains are drawn
They’re counting sheep down in Orchard Road
You’re hanging on the telephone line tonight
And I wish I could be
In Orchard Road
Not much been happening here
I think I’ve got a job
They’re gonna call me next week
And I’ll be working out of town
Well it sure beats hanging around
What’s that
Tomorrow at two
You’re kidding me, no
Is it alright with you
I don’t know what to say
It’ll be like a holiday
When you say you’re all alone
Makes me wanna come back
And this house is not a home
I just gotta go back
It’s twelve ten when I put down the phone
The moon’s shining down on Orchard Road
And I’m feeling like a schoolboy again and tonight
I’ll see you in my dreams of Orchard Road
(Solo)
It’s funny but I thought I’d never go back
I think sometimes I might lose track
But I remember you and the things we do
And I want it back
In Orchard Road you’ve got my heart
I left it in your doorway
In Orchard Road a welcome mat
Is waiting there just for me
In Orchard Road
The sun will shine again, I know, I know
In Orchard Road you keep my love
It’s waiting there for me
It’s eight o’clock and the dawn’s arrived
In Orchard Road it’s breakfast time
I climb in my car and I turn the key and I’m gone
I am coming home
To Orchard Road
I’m coming home

AVIATION
(T. Clarke)

He was working for the airline one day
And out on the street the next
The company always came first with him
She came second best
His life was aviation
He was rising fast
They let him go
He became
A victim of the past
She lost her job the same month
At “Fashions For You”
She lost her chance of ever seeing Paris
Lost the baby too
They took all their belongings
And managed to get a loan
And put it all into this broken down building
That called itself a restaurant
He waits tables
She does the cooking
He can remember
Seeing her look so beautiful
And now she is just fading away
She waits tables
He does the cooking
They don’t owe nobody nothing
If there’s a God up there in heaven
Must have lost his touch
Maybe he’s out to lunch
His life was aviation
He was rising fast
But who needs expert in fuel conservation
When the planes are out of gas
He still reads “Aviation”
When he has the time
And if he gets to talk to God he’s gonna
Give him a piece of his mind, yeah
He waits tables
She does the cooking
He can remember
Seeing her look so beautiful
Now she’s just fading away
She waits tables
He does the cooking
They don’t owe nobody nothing
If there’s a God up there in heaven
He must have lost his touch
Maybe he’s out for lunch
He waits tables
She does the cooking
He can remember
Seeing her look so beautiful
Now she is just fading away
She waits tables
He does the cooking
They don’t owe nobody nothing
If there’s a God up there in heaven
Maybe he’s not to blame
Maybe he’s changed his name

HEART (STOP BEATING IN TIME)
(B. Gibb/ R. Gibb/M. Gibb)

We’re giving up on all the emptiness
I fill it up with your sweet love beside me
Ain’t no fun to be a rolling stone inside
You buy the feeling and then you pay with tears
For what it matters you go with the motion
Then out of nowhere there’s a full moon rising
And it’s mine
And every, every moment is the history we make and more
We got a legacy of understanding, I
Can love you better but don’t let your
Heart stop beating in time
Don’t take me below the danger level
Caught up in the middle of a misery
Don’t let me die
And I warn you if you let your
Heart stop beating in time
Don’t make it a fatal combination
I won’t ever find another your love like yours, no, no
Got to get closer, got to be in sight
You make it heaven to breathe with you woman
Don’t you get lonely in the midnight hour like me
And there’s an angel that I follow on the wind, and more
Within a universe of undiscovered eyes
We found each other so don’t let your
Heart stop beating in time
Don’t take me below the danger level
Caught up in the middle of a misery
Oh baby don’t let it be
Save my soul
I don’t wanna be no chains that hold
Gotta be a wild new world out
There is a plan
I don’t wanna be no one night stand
Gonna be alive for you
Now here is the love
I can hold it in my hand
Can you feel it
I’m nothing if you let your
Heart stop beating in time
Don’t take me below the danger level
Caught up in the middle of this misery
Don’t let me down
If you let your heart stop beating in time
You’re making a fatal combination
I wont’ ever find another love like yours
Don’t let me down
Don’t let your heart stop beating in time
Don’t take me below the danger level
Living in the middle of this misery
Don’t let it die

YOUR LOVE STILL BRINGS ME TO MY KNEES
(R. Cooke/ B. Wood)

Your love still brings me to my knees
From day to day you feel my needs
This flame that burns
Within my heart will never die
Oh I bless the day you come along
You turned my life into a song
There is no greater love
And there will never be
‘Cos you’re the only one
(Your love still brings me to my knees)
Brings me to my knees
(Your love has given me)
Your love still brings me to my knees
(Your love has given me)
I find each day I love you more
Always the one I’m waiting for
No matter where I go
No matter what I do
‘Cos you’re the only one
(Your love still brings me to my knees)
Still brings me to my knees
(Your love has given me)
You bring me to my knees
(Your love has given me)
Now I never knew
What life was all about, yeah
Then you came along
And gave me a reason to understand what it’s about, oh darling
(Solo)
Your love still brings me to my knees
From day to day you feel my needs
There is no greater love
And there will never be
‘Cos you’re the only one
(Your love still brings me to my knees)
It brings me to my knees
(Your love has given me)
Still brings me to my knees
(Your love still brings me to my knees)
You’ve given me everything
Given me everything, darling

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE
(A. Hill / P. Sinfield / J. Danter)

In the morning light
Half awake and half asleep
Have you ever lay there thinking
Was it all in a dream
But you reach out and she’s there
Every moment everywhere
Have you ever been in love
Have you ever felt
How far a heart can fall
Have you ever stayed up waiting
For a telephone call
Just to hear her say hello
‘Cos you miss each other so
Have you ever been in love
Have there been times to laugh
And times you really wanna cry
Finding reasons to believe her
‘Cos she’d die a little if she lied
And when in times of doubt
Have you ever tried to work it out
But still she leaves you wondering
What it’s all about
When she’s far away
Did you ever felt the need to stray
And tried and then discovered
It just doesn’t pay
And with her you can be true
For with her you can be you
Have you ever been in love
Have there been times to laugh
And times you really wanna cry
Finding reasons to believe her
‘Cos she’d die a little if she lied
And when in times of doubt
Have you ever tried to work it out
But still she leaves you wondering
What it’s all about
(Solo)
And when in times of doubt
Have you ever tried to work it out
Ah, still she leaves you wondering
What it’s all about
And when the night comes down
Can you call this house a home
Do you dream you’re still together
And wake up alone
Have you ever been in love
The way that I’m in love
Have you ever been in love

WOUNDED HEART
(S. Climie/C. Carter)

I don’t need you to mend my broken heart
Not afraid you can throw your sticks and stones
But this love is tearing me apart
I’ve got a wounded heart
And it won’t stop beating
Tried to keep it a casual affair
Nonetheless we get careless ‘cos we care
Why does love make me fall apart
It only hurts my heart
And it won’t stop beating
Got a wounded heart
And it won’t stop beating
No matter what I do
A wounded heart
That keeps repeating
I’m missing you
Missing you
Got a wounded heart
And it won’t stop leading
Me right back to you
A wounded heart
Do you need me like I need you
You know I’m tryin’
To get some piece of mind
But I can’t seem to put
The past behind
I don’t want you
Living in my dreams
No matter how it seems
I don’t want you
I gotta wounded heart
And it won’t stop beating
No matter what I do
A wounded heart
That keeps repeating
I’m missing you
Missing you
Got a wounded heart
And it won’t stop leading
Me right back to you
A wounded heart
You need me like I need you
(Solo)
Oh you know I’m missing you, ooh
I gotta wounded heart
And it won’t stop beating
No matter what I do
A wounded heart
That keeps repeating
I’m missing you
I’m missing you, missing you
Got a wounded heart
And it won’t stop leading
Me right back to you
A wounded heart
Keeps repeating
I’m missing you

LOVE GAMES
(T. Mackay)

When it started out so easily
She was lonely I was free
I couldn’t pass another lonely night on my own
She just poured her life into a drink
Looked at me said what do you think
I said you need a little loving baby
So I picked her up
She gave me all the loving that I would ever need
Oh she picked me up
I didn’t know her name
I’m playing love games
Keep on playing love games
Win or lose
I get a broken heart
Just playing love games
Ain’t no doubt in my mind
These love games
Are tearing me apart
Oh, this game of love is burning me
No way out that I can see
It’s like a fire I can’t control, I can’t control
Oh, they pick me up
Give me all the loving
I’ve ever need
Yeah, I love and run
I never know their names
Just playing love games
I keep on playing love games
Win or lose
I get a broken heart
Playing love games
Ain’t no doubt in my mind
That these love games
Are tearing me apart
Now my love is like a fire
Burning me up
And the flames
Are getting higher
Up to my heart
I’m playing love games
Keep on playing love games
Win or lose
I get a broken heart
Just playing love games
Ain’t no doubt in my mind
That these love games
Are tearing me apart
I keep on playing love games
Keep on playing love games
Whether I win
Or whether I lose
I end up with a broken heart
Keep playin’ love games
Ain’t no doubt about it
Oh these love games
Are tearing me apart

NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE
(S. Moy/ S. Wonder/ H. Cosby)

I never, never had
A dream come true
In my every dream
I’m loved by you
And we’re free as the wind
And true love is no sin
Therefore men
Men are men and not machines
Doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, ooh
Doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, ooh
I never, never had
A dream come true
Without you, the world
Is painted shades of blue
It seems my folks are ashamed
They say I ain’t
I ain’t worth the pain
Oh, but I’m glad
I’m glad I’m chained to my dreams
Doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, ooh
Doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doop
Doo, ooh
I wish I was free as the wind
And true love was no sin
In a place where men where men
And not machines
And every dream came true
Babe for me and you
Ooh doo, doo,
Doo, doo, doo, doo,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(Solo)