The Monkees Album

You call my name then you run for protection
I reach out to hold ya' but it's just a reflection
Throught the looking glass

Now you've been looking at your life through a mirror
It's time you started seeing things a little bit clearer than
Through the looking glass

Watch me break through, girl
I still love you, girl


I think you love me by the way you come on girl
Then I turn away for a minute, you're gone girl
Through the looking glass

Ahh...

You're looking through me
Like you never knew me

I've got some things that I'm tryin' to show ya
But you fade away how can I get to know 'ya
Through the looking glass

Don't listen to Linda
She said all those things before
She's just a pretender,
And though you couldn't love her more
She'll lead you on, and then one day
She'll say you'll have to part
Don't listen to Linda
She'll only break your heart.

Don't listen to Linda
If you want some good advice,
Just try to remember,
She did it once, she'll do it twice
There's more to her little games,
Than your eyes can see,
Don't listen to Linda,
Or you'll end up like me.

You'll never understand her
All the presents you could hand her,
Could never be enough, oh no,
So, don't underestimate her,
'Cause sooner or later,
The goings gonna start to get rough.

Don't listen to Linda,
Don't believe the things you hear.
You'll end up, contender,
For the "Loser Of The Year".
I've said everything I can
To try and make you see
Don't listen to Linda,
Or you'll end up like me.

Life is hard for me to touch now.
I just don't enjoy it as much now.
When she left, something inside of me died.
And I won't be the same without her,
No I won't be the same without her
By my side.

There's no end end to my sorrow.
I'm afraid to face tomorrow.
When she left, she took much more than my pride.
And I won't be the same without her,
No I won't be the same without her
By my side.

It isn't easy to forget her,
And the way it used to be.
She changed my life the day I met her.
And I won't be the same without her,
No I won't be the same without her
Close to me.

Repeat first verse.

There's a way
There's a way for you and I
If you'll just stay.
If you'll just stay to keep me hidden from the day,
And all its light,
That's covered up by night when you're away.
When you're away the image of your face is clear,
It is clear across the room and I am here,
Against the wall, afraid that it is all
Just a game.
Just a game that's played in fun
But not too real.
Not too real to take a chance on finding out
You've really lost.
I can't see you clearly while I'm here.
While I'm here and you are in my state of mind.
My state of mind is changing places all the time,
And I am lost
Trying to get across another time.
When you're away the image of your face is clear,
It is clear across the room and I am here,
Against the wall, afraid that it is all
Just a game
Just a game
Just a game.

written by Boyce/Hart

I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me
We had a fight last nioght about something or other
But it can't be too important if wqe love one another
True love always seems to take a little bit longer
But every time we break up, we make up a little bit stronger
I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me
Let me tell you know
I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me qo
Me without you, you without me
Me without you, you without me
Me without you, you without me'

Don't wait for me...I'll be a long time comin'
Unless by then, you have told me something
To show how much you care
I've done much more than as a man I should have
Why did you...not do all you could have...to show
How much you care?

Over and again I've wondered was I wrong
Kept thinkin' that I maybe shoulda come along
But there comes a time in every man's life
When he must be strong
And my time's come
And if you're gone
Then I guess I'll cry and hold to memories
Of "what might have beens"
And when I finally leave
That will show how much I care.
(repeat)

You and I have seen what time does, haven't we?
We both had time to grow
You know we've got more growing to do, me and you
And the rest of them too

You can see the changes we've been going through
Such a pity, what a shame
Who can we blame?
You and me, me and you, and the rest of them too

In a year or maybe two
We'll be gone and some one new will take our place
There'll be another song,
Another voice, another pretty face

You and I have seen what time does haven't we?
We've both had time to grow
You know we've got more growin' to do
Me and you, and the rest of them too

They told me what you'd do
If I ever stayed with you.
They told me that you'd laugh
While I cried.

They told me what you'd say
That you'd turn and walk away
And find another place to play,
While I cried.

Now I think back on those times
I didn't read between the lines.
How all the things that you said
Never seemed to match the things you did.

Thoughts keep turning round in my mind
Now I see reason and rhyme.
Time spent with you has brought me something
And I've lost nothing If you are that kind.

They told me what you'd do
If I ever stayed with you
And sure enough,
It all came true.

About as low as I felt in a long time
And I know that I did a wrong at the wrong time
It's plain to see, she's down on me
And I know she'll feel that way for a long time

I was high on top but I didn't know it
(tear drop city)
Tell me, why did I have to go and blow it?
(tear drop city)
I used my lines too many times
And now I've got a badly hurt heart to show it
(tear drop city)

Took me too long to discover
How much I really love her
How'd I ever end up in this bind?
What a drag

There she goes looking for pretty clover
(tear drop city)
No one knows what it's like until it over
(tear drop city)
Without a doubt, I just found out
And I suppose I never did get to know her
(tear drop city)
Tear drop city, tear drop city

Took me to long to discover
How much I really love her
How'd I ever end up in this bind?
What a drag

About as low as I felt in a long time...

Its old enough to try and tie you down
So, I just couldn't wait and hang around
You always said must be free
But you couldn't see you were loosing me
And messing up the one good thing we had

CHORUS:
And now I'm going out the way that I came in
The game is over now, I couldn't win
My heart is all I have to pack
And this time girl I wont be back
And years from now I'll turn around and see
The girl I left behind me

I told myself that things would be ok
You would come around to my way any day
As time went on you just stayed the same
No, you couldn't chang or be rearranged
I'm picking up the pieces of my life

CHORUS

As time went on you just stayed the same
No, you couldn't chang or be rearranged
I'm picking up the pieces of my life

CHORUS

Behind me...

With the music of life
My soul is out of tune
And I feel like I'm growing old
Much too soon
My love I just couldn't convey
And the key to my happiness
I let slip away

CHORUS:
Now I'm a man without a dream
I've got a heart that has no home
All my senses are numb
Loosing you I've become
A man without a dream

Instead of striving to reach my goals and my aims
I got distracted with meaningless games
For just an illusion I traded love that was real
Now my eyes cannot see and my heart cannot feel

CHORUS

Sometimes I think I'm a prisoner of fate
Doomed to find out things a little too late
And so I must play this broken man's roll
Unless you come home girl
And bring back my soul

CHORUS

Without a dream...

written by Micky Dolenz

Shorty Blackwell, Shorty Blackwell
Be friends with me, be friends with me
Shorty Blackwell, Shorty Blackwell
Be friends with me, be friends with me

I'm feeling very bad today
Another cat came into stay
He's eating all my food
He's speaking very rude
He's gonna change the mood

I'm feeling very bad today
A red balloon got in my way
It followed me around
But never touched the ground
What can I say?

He built a house upon a hill
Ask him if he's happy and then give him a pill
He's going mad
He bought another car today
Ask him if he's happy, then turn the other way
He's going mad (repeat over and over)

I'm feeling very bad today
Another cat came into stay
He's eating all my food
He's speaking very rude
He's gonna change the mood

Black and shiny now you've finally
Gotten everything you've wanted
And you're taunted by the power
That you really don't want anymore

Everybody's talking faster
Hurry up get me a master
I don't have much time to lose
And besides I'm polishing my shoes

Crossing the street
Watching your feet
Or you'll die in a thunderbird light
Wishing with all of your might
That you read the newspaper that
You forgot to buy today
How will you know what they do when they say
Say(repeat over and over)

I'm feeling very bad today
Another girl came by to stay
I can't think of a word
To tell you what I've heard
I've been away (10 times)

I am my? (repeat continually as it fades)

Some people always complain that their life is too short so they hurry it
along
Their worries drive them insane but they still go along for the ride
As for me
I have all the time in the world

I was born
A someday man
I'm a maybe child
I was born
A someday man
I was always wild

Tomorrow's a new day, baby
Anything can happen
Anything can happen at all

Some folks are working for reasons and waiting for answers they're never
gonna find
They keep on searching for pleasures and looking for what they can't see
But for me
Life can be a sweet holiday

I was born
A someday man
I'm a maybe child
I was born
A someday man
I was always wild

Tomorrow's a new day, baby
Anything can happen
Anything can happen at all

REPEAT AND FADE
I was born
A someday man
I'm a maybe child
I was born
A someday man
I was always wild

In a long and involved conversation with myself
I saw a precious thing come into view
When I poured through the files taken off my mental shelf
I dusted off some memories of you

Then I thought about the times
When all the world was green
How the pheonix of our love first flapped its silver wings
All the urgency and passion of each new day as it happened
And how it all mellowed as it grew

I remember the times that our laughter would explode
And how you would turn to hide your smile
Then the hours of silence while the perfumed candle glowed
And both of us meandered on for miles

I remember the time I said I really had to go
I remember the tears that filled your eyes
Then I touched your hand and told you that it really was a lie
And though you never knew I did, I cried

It's amazing how time can so softly change your ways
And make you look at things that can't be seen
How the years that roll by can start you listening
Not just to what they say, but what they mean
So forgive me my dear if I seem preoccupied
If the razor edge of youth filled love is gone
But we're both a little older, our relationship has grown
Not just in how it's shaped, but how it's shown
So forgive me my dear if I seem preoccupied
If the razor edge of youth filled love is gone
But we're both a little older and our relationship has grown
Not just in how it's shaped, but how it's shown

Rosemarie, what's your faith?
Can't you see, straight
Straight into Rosemarie
Now why don't you quit?
Why did he, why did he split?

Have you ever asked yourself
Or didn't your eyes just pass yourself
Oh Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, think!

Rosemarie, gotta hold on
Where has he, where has gone, gone, gone to
Rosemarie, spin, spin your tongue
Rosemarie, what's the key... stop!

All your friends and dreams are dead
It's time for you to lose your head
Oh Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, think!

Rosemarie, you've gotta keep on holdin' on
Listen to me Rosemarie, where has he, where has gone, gone, gone to

Da da da, da da da da da da, da da da...
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da...

All your friends and dreams are dead
It's time for you to lose your head
Oh Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, think!

Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie...
Why don't cha, don't cha quit...
You keep on, keep on hangin', hangin' on...
But he's gone, but he's gone, but he's gone...
You keep, you keep hangin' on...
You've gotta, spin, spin, your top...
You've gotta, you've gotta, spin, spin, your top...
Tell me when...
You've got to use, use your head, Rosemarie, THINK!

I wake to the sun shining, orange and blue skies
Oh, what a feeling deep inside
It's so hard for me to hide

You cannot imagine, a feeling so different
You've come so far, you're at my door
You're knocking at my door

Won't you come inside and talk awhile?
What I have to say may make you smile
Smile, smile, smile

I wake to the sun shining, orange and blue skies
Oh, what a feeling deep inside
It's so hard for me to hide

Won't you come inside and talk awhile?
What I have to say may make you smile
Smile, smile, smile

By Michael Nesmith

She walks around on brass rings that never touch her feet.
She speaks in conversations that never are complete.
And looking over past things that she has never done
She calls herself St. Matthew, when she is on the run.

She stoops down to gather partly shattered men
And knows that when it's over it will start again.
Both the times she smiled it was a portrait of the sun.
She calls herself St. Matthew, when she is on the run.

Part of it is loneliness and knowing how steal.
But most if it is weariness from standing up, trying not to kneel.

She discovered three new ways that she could help the dead.
Sometime she must raise her hand to tell you what she said.
Then standing in a landslide she suddenly becomes
A girl that's named St. Matthew, when she is on the run.

Part of it is loneliness and knowing how steal.
But most if it is weariness from standing up, trying not to kneel.

She discovered three new ways that she could help the dead.
Sometime she must raise her hand to tell you what she said.
Then standing in a landslide she suddenly becomes
A girl that's named St. Matthew, when she is on the run.

written by Boyce/Hart

I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me
We had a fight last nioght about something or other
But it can't be too important if wqe love one another
True love always seems to take a little bit longer
But every time we break up, we make up a little bit stronger
I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me
Let me tell you know
I wonder just how long it would be
Me without you, you without me qo
Me without you, you without me
Me without you, you without me
Me without you, you without me'

You call my name then you run for protection
I reach out to hold ya' but it's just a reflection
Throught the looking glass

Now you've been looking at your life through a mirror
It's time you started seeing things a little bit clearer than
Through the looking glass

Watch me break through, girl
I still love you, girl


I think you love me by the way you come on girl
Then I turn away for a minute, you're gone girl
Through the looking glass

Ahh...

You're looking through me
Like you never knew me

I've got some things that I'm tryin' to show ya
But you fade away how can I get to know 'ya
Through the looking glass