Glad to Be Unhappy

by Lorenz Hart

Look at yourself
If you had a sense of humor
You would laugh to beat the band
Look at yourself
Do you still believe the rumor
That romance is simply grand?

Since you took it right on the chin
You have lost that bright toothpaste grin
My mental state is all a-jumble
I sit around and sadly mumble

Fools rush in, so here I am
Very glad to be unhappy
I can't win, but here I am
More than glad to be unhappy

Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad

Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad!

(You'd Be So) Easy to Love

by Cole Porter

I know too well that I'm
Just wasting precious time
In thinking such a thing could be
That you could ever care for me

I'm sure you hate to hear
That I adore you, dear
But grant me just the same
I'm not entirely to blame

For you'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize all others above
So sweet to waken with
So nice to sit down to eggs and bacon with

We'd be so grand at the game
So carefree together that it does seem a shame
That you can't see your future with me
'Cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

You'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize all others above
So worth the yearning for
So swell to keep every home-fire burning for

Oh, how we'd bloom, how we'd thrive
In a cottage for two, or even three, four, or five
So try to see your future with me
'Cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

You Never Need Nobody

by Zach Williams

You could break a heart in your sleep
The way you move makes a grown man weep
They all line up at your door
Saying, 'Please, please, I can't take no more'

You never need nobody
You've never been alone
And I try to get your affection
But all I ever do is wrong

You could calm a storm with your tone
The way you sing makes the mockingbird hum
The grass you walk on gives way
Saying, 'Please, please, come back this way'

Give me your hottest fever
Loudest scream in the crowd
All of these good times can't change
The way I feel 'bout you now

Now I know you got that smile
The way it shines can drive a man half-wild
I won't dance around this no more
I'm the only one you should smile for

What You Want

by Derek Webb

You're softer than a cannon blast
But your effects much longer last
And I want you just like a hole in my head
But I need you like a meal and a bed

And you say, Come on
I'm not what you're after
But I know you're not just anyone

But I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
But if you needed me
I could be someone

You're an army in a horse
And you have taken me by force
All the freedom in this world could not resist
The sweet temptation of your sweet elusiveness

So I say, Come on
As the gate swings open
I know you're not just anyone

And the lie's always cheaper than the truth
But the lie's all I've never known of you
So maybe none of this is true

'Cause I'm not what you want
No, I'm not anyone
But if you needed me
I could be someone

She's So High

by Tal Bachman

She's blood, flesh, and bone
No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste, and sound
But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's going to happen

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite

First class and fancy free
She's high society
She's got the best of everything
What could a guy like me
Ever really offer?
She's perfect as she can be
Why should I even bother?

She calls to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal
'Cause somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen

Young

by Chris Thile

Young and with no clue
And I want to love you
Give me the key to
What it's about

Everything I've read
Everything you've said
Prove you're over my head
Help me climb out

I know that you don't need nobody
Are you sure you're that sure about me?

Hey, what did I do?
I've spoken too soon
Listen to this tune
Forget the words

Wait until someday
'Cause when I know what to say
I'll say it in the best way
You've ever heard

I know that you don't need nobody
Are you sure you're that sure about me?

Young and with no clue
Still want to love you
Give credit where it's due
I've got good taste

It's not like I want to get married
I never asked you to kiss me
Just don't want you to be sorry
You didn't try

Girl Afraid

by Steven Morrissey

Girl afraid
Where do his intentions lay?
Or does he even have any?
She says, 'He never really looks at me
'I give him every opportunity
'In the room downstairs
'He sat and stared
'I'll never make that mistake again'

Boy afraid
Prudence never pays
And everything she wants costs money
'But she doesn't even like me
'And I know because she said so
'In the room downstairs
'She sat and stared
'I'll never make that mistake again, no'

It's Cold Outside

by Wally Bryson

My world used to be sunny
And jokes used to be funny
But now you're gone
And everything's turned all around

My world used to be warm
And there never was a storm
But now you're gone
And everything's turned upside-down

And now it's cold outside
And the rain is pouring down
And the leaves are turning brown
Can't you see
That now it's cold outside?
And it's all because of you
'Cause there's nothing I can do
To make you love me

Walk Away

by Joe Walsh

Taking my time
Choosing my line
Trying to decide what to do
Looks like my stop
Don't want to get off
Got myself hung up on you

Seems to me
You don't want to talk about it
Seems to me
You just turn your pretty head and walk away

Places I've known
Things that I'm growing
Don't taste the same without you
I got myself in
The worst mess I've been
And I find myself starving without you

Seems to me
Talk all night, here comes the morning
Seems to me
You just forget what we said and greet the day

I got to cool myself down
Stomping around
Thinking some words I can't name you
I'll meet you half way
I got nothing to say
Still I don't suppose I can blame you

Can't We Be Friends?

by Paul James

I took each word she said as gospel truth
The way a silly little child would
I can't excuse it on the grounds of youth
I was no babe in the wild, wild wood

She didn't mean it
I should have seen it
But now it's too late

I thought I'd found the girl of my dreams
Now it seems
This is how the story ends
She's going to turn me down and say
'Can't we be friends?'

I thought for once it couldn't go wrong
Not for long
I can see the way this ends
She's going to turn me down and say
'Can't we be friends?'

Why should I care
Though she gave me the air?
Why should I cry
Heave a sigh, and wonder why?

I thought I found the gal I could trust
What a bust
This is how the story ends
She's going to turn me down and say
'Can't we be just friends?'

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

by Bob Hilliard

When the sun is high
In the afternoon sky
You can always find something to do
But from dusk til dawn
As the clock ticks on
Something happens to you

In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never even think of counting sheep

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You'd be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all

The Trains

by Carl Rusk

She acts unaware of her smile
Or the scent of her hair
When she leaves the room
She takes everyone's eyes out with her

But I've learned too much to let her bring me down
But when she's not around
I can hear the trains underground
When I'm alone
I can feel the sun going down

How can I explain
All the reasons she frightens me so?
When she has the power
To burn me right down to my soul

But then every night I see her in my dreams
But the days in between
She tears me apart at the seams
Once I was strong
She's taught me what loneliness means

No, nobody else could understand it like I do
So I got to make her realize she loves me too
And I do, I really do

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

by Steven Morrissey

Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm

Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm

So tell me, how long
Before the last one?
And tell me, how long
Before the right one?

This story is old
I know
But it goes on

I Had the Craziest Dream

by Mack Gordon

In a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear
And what insane and silly things we do
Here is what I see before me, vividly and clear
As I recall it, you were in it, too

I had the craziest dream last night
I never dreamed it could be
Yet there you were, in love with me

I found your lips close to mine, so I kissed them
And you didn't mind it at all
When I'm awake, such a break never happens
How long can a guy go on dreaming?

If there's a chance that you care
Then please, say that you do
Say it and make my craziest dream come true

Light Blue Lover

by Reid Genauer

Who left this light blue lover
Lying in the cave of my chest?
Who left me holding silence
Even though it might have been best?
No way, no one, nowhere could ever confess
To have known such pleasure in such plural excess
I hope that one day I might catch my breath
But I gotta let her go, I guess

My shadow aches and itches
It's a sentiment my silence permits
I walk through foggy feelings
With punctuated pain when it hits
No way, no one, nowhere could ever express
The way her body met the hem of her dress
I hope that someday I might churn with her flesh
But I gotta let her go, I guess

There's no light
There's just night
I hope to rest
But I gotta let her go, I guess
Light blue lover in my chest

Everything You Want

by Matthew Scannell

Somewhere there's speaking, it's already coming in
And it's rising in the back of your mind
You never could get it unless you were fed it
Now you're here, and you don't know why

But under skinned knees and the skid marks
Past the places where you used to learn
You howl and listen, listen and wait for
The echoes of angels who won't return

He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why

You're waiting for someone to put you together
You're waiting for someone to push you away
There's always another wound to discover
There's always something more you wish he'd say

But you'll just sit tight and watch it unwind
It's only what you're asking for
And you'll be just fine with all of your time
It's only what you're waiting for

Out of the island and into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
You never did notice, but you still hide away
Anger of angels who won't return

I am everything you want
I am everything you need
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
But I mean nothing to you
And I don't know why

When You're on Top

by Jakob Dylan

I need a bed that nobody's slept in
I need some air nobody's been breathing
I need a thought that I can believe in
Is this fog or is the building really burning?

I need you now much more than ever
I'm making new friends, but none of them matter
Maybe now we don't fit together
But you've got your arms around no one but strangers

I feel fine with the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
I'm falling out of this sky
I'm doing better than I thought I would
But nothing's ever as good
As when you're on top

I want to wake up and just start running
Into a ditch or straight up a mountain
I want to get what no one's been getting
Make it deeper than hell or make it higher than heaven

I need someone whose price hasn't been met
When everybody's disappearing by the minute
There isn't anyone left I haven't met yet
I remember when they hadn't gotten to you yet

I'm half-way up and over this rainbow
I heard a shot fire up from the ghettos
As I drop, I didn't think you'd follow
Just didn't know the sky was this shallow

I need a garden where nothing's forbidden
I need an apple that no one's been eating
I want to start again back at the beginning
I had a vision that this feeling maybe has an ending

I need you now much more than ever
I want to start again back at the beginning

If You Change Your Mind

by Eric Carmen

Well, it's all been said, it's over now
I guess that I should leave
'Cause there's nothing left for me to do
Except to set you free

So let me leave now before I cry
I'll just go back to my room and hide
And never let no one else inside
To do this again

But if you change your mind
Won't you take some time
And let me know that you
Still want me too?
'Cause I'll wait night and day
Until you say
That you have changed your mind
Won't you change your mind?
If you should change your mind

Well, I tried so hard to be the one
That you were dreaming of
But I guess it wasn't quite enough
To make you fall in love

So walk away, leave me by myself
And let me crawl back into my shell
And be the me that I knew so well
Before I met you

I'll be waiting at home
Just call me up on the phone
And I'll be by your side
There's no reason to hide
If you need me, just call
Don't you worry at all
But if this is the end
And I can't see you again
I just can't carry on
It's so hard when you're gone

Painted from Memory

by Burt Bacharach
and Elvis Costello

Such a picture of loveliness
Didn't you notice the resemblance?
Doesn't it look like she could speak?
Those eyes I tried to capture
They are lost to me now forever
They smile for someone else

Funny how looks can be deceiving
But she's not easily painted from memory

You'd think that I would know by now
Those eyes I tried to capture
They are lost to me now forever
They smile for someone else

And so this had to be painted from memory

She is gone and I must accept it
She is lost to me now
But I can't look away just yet though
She smiles for someone else

And so this had to be painted from memory
Funny, now I can see how looks can be deceiving

Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

by Zooey Deschanel

Why do you let me stay here
All by myself?
Why don't you come and play here?
I'm just sitting on the shelf

Why don't you sit right down and stay a while?
We like the same things, and I like your style
It's not a secret
Why do you keep it?
I'm just sitting on the shelf

I've gotta get your presence
Let's make it known
I think you're just so pleasant
I would like you for my own

Why don't you sit right down and make me smile?
You make me feel like I am just a child
Why do you edit?
Just give me credit
I'm just sitting on the shelf