Don't Wait Too Long

You can cry a million tears

You can wait a million years

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

When your morning turns to night

Who'll be loving you by candlelight

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe I got a lot to learn

Time can slip away

Sometimes you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

It may rain, it may shine

Love will age like fine red wine

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe you and I got a lot to learn

Don't waste another day

Maybe you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Don't wait

Hmm... Don't wait

don't wait too long

You can cry a million tears

You can wait a million years

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

When your morning turns to night

Who'll be loving you by candlelight

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe I got a lot to learn

Time can slip away

Sometimes you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart.

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

It may rain, it may shine

Love will age like fine red wine

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe you and I got a lot to learn

Don't waste another day

Maybe you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Don't wait

Hmm... Don't wait

Half The Perfect World

Every night he'd come to me

I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea

I was in my thirties then

Had made some money, lived with men

We'd lay us down to give and get

Beneath the white mosquito net

And since no counting had begun

We lived a thousand years in one

The candles burned

The moon went down

The polished hill

The milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us

On that fundamental ground

Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found

The candles burned

The moon went down

The polished hill

The milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us

On that fundamental ground

Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found

this is heaven to me

When I hear them say

There's better living

Let them go their way

To that new living

I won't ever stray

'Cause this is heaven to me

Long as freedom grows

I want to seek it

If it's yes or no

It's me who'll speak it

'Cause the lord, He knows

That this is heaven to me

If you've got your hands

And got your feet

To sing your song

All through the street

You raise your head

When night is done

Shout your thanks up to the sun

So when I hear them say

There's better living

Let them go their way

To that new living

I won't ever stray

'Cause this is heaven to me

'Cause this is heaven to me

once in a while

From bad luck I'm walking away

I'm not getting stuck

I'm not gonna stay

To good things I'm moving ahead

I'm tired of dying

I'm living instead

Once in a while I wake up

Wondering why we gave up

But once in a while

Comes and it fades away

The sun's up and lighting the sky

I never could see it

It just passed me by

Good things keep moving along

I'm not looking backward

For something that's gone

Once in a while

I'll wake up

Wondering why we gave up

But once and a while

Comes and fades away

I don't what love is

I'm selfish and lazy

And when I get scared I can act like I'm crazy

But when I think of your kisses

I'm still gonna smile

I'm still gonna miss you

Once in a while

Once in a while

Once in a while I'll wake up

Wondering why we gave up

But once in a while

Comes and it fades away

Good things keep moving ahead

I'm tired of dying I'm living instead