Cher - The Very Best of Cher Album Lyrics

No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
It's so sad that you're leaving
It takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're gonna be the lonely one, oh

Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no

What am I supposed to do
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that
And there's no turning back
I need time to move on
I need a love to feel strong
'Cause I've had time to think it through
And maybe I'm too good for you, oh

Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no

Well I know that I'll get through this
'Cause I know that I am strong
I don't need you anymore
I don't need you anymore
I don't need you anymore
No I don't need you anymore

Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, no

I don't need your sympathy
There's nothing you can say or do for me
And I don't want a miracle
You'll never change for no one

I hear your reasons why
Where did you sleep last night?
And was she worth it was she worth it?

'Cos I'm strong enough
To live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go

There's no more to say
So save your breath
And then walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you gotta go

So you feel misunderstood
Baby, have I got news for you
On being used, I could write the book
You don't wanna hear about it

I've been losing sleep
You've been going cheap
She ain't worth half of me it's true
I'm telling you

Now I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quite crying
Long enough now I'm strong enough...
To know you've gotta go

Come hell or waters high
You'll never see me cry
This is our last goodbye, it's true

I'm telling you
That I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quite crying
Long enough now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go

There's no more to say
So save your breath
And you walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you've gotta go

If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
And you'd stay
I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Love's like a knife it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes
I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't want to see you go
I know I made you cry, but baby

If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do
If I could turn back time

My world was shattered I was torn apart
Like someone took a knife and drove it
Deep in my heart
You walk out that door I swore that I didn't care
But I lost everything darling then and there
Too strong to tell you I was sorry
Too proud to tell you I was wrong
I know that I was blind, and darling

If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do, oh

If I could turn back time (If I could turn back time)
If I could turn back time (If I could turn back time)
If I could turn back time, oh baby

I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't want to see you go
I know I made you cry

If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
If I could reach the stars
I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do

If I could turn back time (turn back time)
If I could find a way (find a way)
Then maybe maybe maybe you'd stay

Don't you know
So many things they come and go
Like your words that once rang true
Just like the love I thought I found in you

And I remember the thunder
Talkin' 'bout the fire in your eyes
But you walked away when I needed you most
Now maybe, baby, maybe, baby

[Chorus:]
I found someone
To take away the heartache
To take away the loneliness
I've been feelin' since you've been gone
Since you've been gone

Dry your eyes
I never could bare to see you cry
Someday your love will shine through
And show you the feelings
If you never really knew

But baby don't you lose that thunder
Talkin' 'bout the fire in your eyes
You're lookin' at me
But ya still don't believe
That maybe, baby, maybe, baby

[Chorus]

Too long on the border line
Wonderin' if your love was really mine
But you left me with open eyes
And when I realized, baby

[Chorus]
[repeat]

(this is) a song for the lonely
When you?re standing on the edge of no where
There?s only one way up so your heart?s got to go there
Through the darkest nights
You see the light shine bright
When heroes fall in love or war they live forever

(chorus)
This is a song for the lonely, can you hear me tonight?
For the broken hearted, battle scarred
I?ll be by your side
And this is a song for the lonely
When your dreams won?t come true
Can you hear this prayer
Because someone?s there for you

Though love don?t need a reason
She can pick you up or leave you bleeding
I?ve seen a strong man cry
I know the reason why
We all forgive, we all forget
We just keep believing

(chorus)
This is a song for the lonely, can you hear me tonight?
For the broken hearted, battle scarred
I?ll be by your side
And this is a song for the lonely
When your dreams won?t come true
Can you hear this prayer
Because someone?s there for you

Dont give up, so let it find you
Just hold on, wherever you may go
Anywhere, I?m right beside you
You don?t have to look no more
You don?t have to look no more

(chorus)
This is a song for the lonely, can you hear me tonight?
For the broken hearted, battle scarred
I?ll be by your side
And this is a song for the lonely
When your dreams won?t come true
Can you hear this prayer
Because someone?s there for you

It?s gonna be alright
It?s gonna be alright
It?s gonna be alright


Chorus
(repeat/mix a few times)

Put on my blue suede shoes
And I boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the
Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain
W.C. Handy - won?t you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a girl can be

Then I'm walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel

Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
Then I watched him walk right through
Now security they did not see him
They just hovered
'round his tomb
But there's a pretty little thing
Waiting for the King Down in the Jungle Room

[Chorus]

They've got catfish on the table
They've got gospel in the air
And Reverend Green be glad to see you
When you haven't got a prayer
But boy you've got a prayer in Memphis

Now Gabriel plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see him
And they asked me if I would - Do a little number
And I sang with all my might
And he said - Tell me are you a Christian child?
And I said Man I am tonight

[Chorus]

Put on my blue suede shoes

You're struttin' into town
Like you're slingin' a gun
Just a small town dude
With a big city attitude
Honey are you lookin'
For some trouble tonight
Well alright

You think you're so bad
Drive the women folk wild
Shoot'em all down
With the flash of your pearly smile
Honey but you met your match tonight
Oh, that's right

You think you'll knock me off my feet
'Til I'm flat on the floor
'Til my heart is cryin' Indian
And I'm beggin' for more
So come on baby come on baby
Come on baby show me
What that loaded gun is for

[Chorus:]
If you can give it I can take it
'Cause if this heart is gonna break
It's gonna take a lot to break it
I know tonight
Somebody's gonna win the fight
So if you're so tough come on and prove it
Your heart is down for the count
And you know you're gonna lose it
Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James

You're an outlaw lover
And I'm after you hide
Well you ain't so strong
Won't be long 'til your hands are tied
Tonight I'm gonna take you in
Dead or alive
That's right

You break the laws of love
In the name of desire
Take ten steps back
'Cause I'm ready baby
Aim and fire
Baby there's nowhere
You gonna run tonight
Ooh that's right

Well you've had your way with love
But it's the end of the day
Now a team of wild horses
Couldn't drag your heart away

So come on baby come on baby
Come on baby you know
There ain't nothing left to say

[Chorus]

You think you'll knock me off my feet
'Til I'm flat on the floor
'Til my heart is cryin' Indian
And I'm beggin' for more
So come on baby come on baby
Come on baby come on

If you can give it I can take it
'Cause if this heart is gonna break
It's gonna take a lot to break it

I know tonight
Somebody's gonna win the fight
So if you're so tough come on and prove it
Your heart is down for the count
And you know you're gonna lose it
Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James
Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James
Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James

I'm gonna shoot ya down Jesse James

When you pray with every breath
You know that is free as the love you have
Where does it end
It's too much for me to take
There's no peace, you close your eyes
I'm all out of truth, I'm outta alibis
Where does it end
It's too much for me to take

[Chorus]

We're gonna love one another 'til morning comes
Seek the sweet salvation for what we've done
Give up resisting one by one
One by one
He gives a new kinda meaning to what I am
I know that I could never love any other man
One of these days you'll understand
Understand

And his face his heaven sent
He makes me believe there must be something else
Where does it end
It's too much for me to take
I can feel the need in you
There isn't a thing, I want you do
Where does it end
It's too much for me to take

[Chorus x2]

We're gonna love one another 'til morning comes
Sweet salvation for what we've done
Give up resisting one by one One by one

We're gonna love one another

We're gonna love one another
Give up resisting one by one
One by one

Here here in this world
Where do we go, where can we turn
When we need some love
It seems that love just can't be found
Where where do we stand
When love's supply don't meet love's demand
We got enough stars
To light the sky at night
Enough sun to make the whole world bright
We got more than enough
But there's one thing there's just not enough of

[Chorus:]
Not enough love and understanding
We could use some love
To ease these troubled times
Not enough love and understanding
Why oh why-y-y

Spend all of our time
Building buildings up to the sky
Reaching everywhere but wherewe need to reach the most
Hearts never can wim
O-oh, in this race, this race that we're in
We got enough cars
To drive around the world
Enough planes to take us anywhere
We got more than enough
But there's one thing there's just not enough of

[Chorus]

We need some understanding
We need a little more love
Some love and understanding
Enough stars to light the sky at night
Enough sun to make the whole world bright
Enough hearts to find some love inside
We got more than enough
But there's one thing there's just not enough of

[Chorus]

We got to find
Love and understanding
We could find some love
To ease these troubled times
Not enough love and understanding
Why, oh why, why, why, why
Not enough love and understanding
We could use some love to ease these troubled times
Not enough love and understanding
Oh why, why, why, why, why
Not enough

I can't figure you out
But a heart must be the one thing you were born without
I've been wasting my time
I don't know where I'll sleep tonight
You say that you can do without me
Go ahead now try and live without me

[Chorus:]
Baby, save up all your tears
You might need them someday
When the tears start to fall
I won't wipe them away
When your cry in the night
For the love that you need
Baby, save up your tears
Cause you'll be crying over me (Oh yeah)

You got used to my touch
I got used to not feeling much
Winter set in your eyes
Time will melt your castle of ice
You think you wont feel the pain now
Your eyes will be crying like the rain now

[Chorus]

You don't know it now
You don't know it now
You don't know it now
You don't know it now
You don't know it now
But some wounds get deeper with time
You don't feel it now
Till the need burns, a knife turns
Your heart bleeds like mine

[Chorus]

Guarir non è possibile
La malattia di vivere
Sapessi com'è vera
Questa cosa qui

E se ti fa soffrire un po'
Puniscila vivendola
è l'unica maniera
Sorprenderla così...

Più che puoi, più che puoi
Afferra questo istante e stringi
Più che puoi, più che puoi
E non lasciare mai la presa
C'è tutta l'emozione dentro che tu voi
Di vivere la vita più che puoi

You've got one chance, the gift to feel
Love's deepest pain you cannot heal
It shatters every memory
That you keep inside

I tell you this because I know
Protect what's dear, dont'trade your soul
'cause there's nothing left around you
There's no place left to go

All you can, all you can
You gotta take this life and live it
All you can, all you can
Never let it go
There's one thing in this life I understand, ooh

Siamo noi, siamo noi
Che abbiamo ancora voglia di stupire noi
Siamo noi
Che la teniamo sempre accesa
Quest'ansia leggerisima che abbiamo poi
Di vivere la vita più che puoi

Respira profondo
Apri le tue braccia al mondo
E abbraccia tutto quello che ci sta
Tutta l'emozione che ci sta

All you can, all you can
You gotta take this life and live it
All you can
All you can
Never let it go
'cause there's one thing in this life I understand, ooh

Più che puoi, più che puoi
Aferra questa vita stringi più che puoi
Più che puoi
E non lasciare mai la presa
C'è tutta l'emozione dentro che tu vuoi
Di vivere la vita più che puoi
Di vivere la vita
Più che puoi.

I´d gladly walk across the desert
With no shoes upon my feet
To share with you the last bite
Of bread I had to eat

I would swim out to save you
In your sea of broken dreams
When all your hopes are sinking
Let me show you what love means

[Chorus]
Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don´t you think it´s time?
Don´t you think it´s time?

I would whisper love so loudly
Every heart could understand
That love and only love
Can join the tribes of man

I would give my heart´s desire
So that you might see
The first step is to realize
That it all begins with you and me

[Chorus]

When we stand together
It´s our finest hour
We can do anything, anything
Anything, anything
Keep believin´ in the power

[x 2]

Don´t you think it´s time?

Take me home, take me home
Want to feel you close to me
Take me home, take me home
With you is where I want to be

Wrapped in your arms tonight
Just makin' love
Music and candlelight
Stars up above

Take me home (take me home)
Take me home (take me home)
Oh can't you see I want you near
(Can't you see I want you)
Take me home (take me home)
Take me home (take me home)
Ooh, baby let's get out of here

I'd follow you anywhere
Your place or mine
Just a one-night affair
Would be so fine

I'm in heaven (heaven), seems like heaven (heaven)
So much in heaven (heaven)

(Take me home)

(Take me home)

One night with you
Lyin' here next to me
It's the right thing to do
It would be ecstasy

Ooh I'm in heaven (heaven), seems like heaven (heaven)
So much in heaven (heaven)

Take me home (take me home)
Take me home (take me home)
Ooh I want to feel you close to me
(I want to feel you close)
Take me home (take me home)
(Take me home) Ooh with you is where I want to be

Wrapped in your arms tonight
Just makin' love
Music and candlelight
Stars up above

Well I'm in heaven (heaven), seems like heaven (heaven)

(Take me, take me home, home with you)
c'mon and take me, ooh baby baby take me home
(Take me, take me home, home with you)
You'll be lyin' next to me, baby it'd me ecstasy
(Take me, take me home, home with you)
Ah can't you see I want you near, baby baby let's get out of here
(Take me, take me home, home with you)

Rudy toot, it's been a long time
Since we said goodbye
Last night Tina made me think of you
Don't you ask me why
When I heard that you were coming
My head was spinning
My heart was pumping
You're not mine
No you're not mine

[Chorus:]
Rudy toot, do you remember
All the nights we shared together
Rudy you're still always on my mind
Rudy if you find you're lonely
I will be your one and only
Rudy you're still always on my mind

Rudy you know you heard me crying
But you paid me no attention
All alone I was calling your name
But you left me in suspension
You know the love that you had taken
My world was shakin'
My heart was breaking
You're not mine
No you're not mine

[Chorus x3]
[fade]

Looking for some bad love in the night,
Feeling such a hot street I could find,
Need to have some bad, bad love to make it right.

I used to be a good girl, but no more,
I'm ready, now it's I learn to score,
Guess I know that bad love is my appetite.

Wanna find some hot shot on the street,
We'll make the fire and there'll be the heat,
Knew I wanna burn my candle at the dance.

I wanna meet a bad boy in the night,
We're gonna make some bad love, wrong or right,
Ooh, I know that bad love is all appetite.

Oh, baby baby, I'm ready,
Oh, baby give it to me,
Am I gonna know the view and that it'll show me the right way,
You got me bangin' on the floor,
Now what more do you want from me.

Bad boy in the night,
We're gonna learn some new tricks, wrong or right,
We need to have some bad, bad love to make it right.

We're gonna make some hot love on the street,
We'll make the fire, then we'll feel the heat,
Ooh, I'm gonna bad, bad la la lala,
Bad, bad la la lala
Bad love gets us through the night.

Oh, baby baby, I'm ready,
Oh, baby give it to me,
Am I gonna know the view and that it'll show me the right way,
You got me bangin' on the floor,
Now what more do you want from me.

Bad love in the night,
We're gonna make some new tricks, wrong or right,
All I know that bad love is out appetite.

We're gonna make some hot love on the street,
We'll make the fire, then we'll feel the heat,
Ooh, I'm gonna bad, bad la la lala,
Bad, bad la la lala
Bad love is my appetite.

Looking for some bad love in the night,
Feeling such a hot street I could find,
Need to have some bad, bad love to make it right.

I used to be a good girl, but no more,
I'm ready, now it's I learn to score,
Guess I know that bad love is my appetite.

I'm gonna find some hot love on the street,
I'll make the fire, then feel the heat,
Ooh, I'm gonna burn my candle at the dance.

I'm wanna meet a bad boy in the night,
We're gonna make some bad love, wrong or rightâ?¦

When the money's gone, will you be my friend
Float a small row boat, till the ship comes in
When the winter nights, chills us to the soul
Will you feed the fire
Spin the straw to gold
When the money's gone

When the money's gone, will you get cold feet
Will you still be there, if the ends don't meet
If we're in the red, just forget the green
Take a bus with me, no more limousines
When the money's gone
Will you still love me

Oh what a fine life, I give to you
All you ever want
Will you still be there
Will you pull me through
When the cash don't come
And if you're mine
Will you still love me
Whenever we fall
When the money's gone

When the money's gone
No more caviar
Will you eat fast food in a beat up car
Live life modestly, lost in lotto dreams
Will you find your way
Through it all with me
Through it all with me

Oh what a fine life I give to you
All it ever was
Will you still be there
Will you pull me through
When the cash don't come
Will you still love me
Whenever we fall

And a mile off the shore
Flies a bird who'll land no more
So you always will pull me forever more

I've been standing out in the rain
I've been calling your name
Got that lonely feeling again
Calling out your name
Do you hear me? Do you want me?

Baby it's all or nothing now
I don't want to run
And I can't walk out
You're breaking my heart
If you leave me now
Don't wanna wait for ever
Who do you think you're fooling
Who do you think you're fooling
Baby it's all or nothing
Baby it's all or nothing now

I've been trying to get to your heart
But I'm chasing shadows
We keep falling further apart
So near and you're so far
Do you care now? Do you know how?

Baby it's all or nothing now
I don't want to run and I can't walk out
Breaking my heart if you leave me now
Don't want to wait forever
Who do you think you're fooling
Who do you think you're fooling
Baby it's all or nothing
Baby it's all or nothing now

[Talking]
Sometimes when you touch me
I just can't help myself
Desire makes me weak
Desire makes me weak
Do you care now? Do you know how?

All alone I must stand
Even when I'm running
And it feels like a dream
I need to awaken from

I believe when it hurts
We must keep trying
But I want and I need
Like the river needs the rain

There's a bridge I need to burn
Before I leave
I just wanna breathe again
Like a summer day
I need to feel the heat again

I only wann keep the stone from rolling
I only wanna learn to feel the rain
Then maybe I could stop the leaves from falling
I only wanna learn to freeze the flame
I know I'll be alive again
I wanna be alive again

Here's the night
Where's the stars
'Coz I need some guiding
And it cuts like a knife
As I watch you walk away

There's a bridge I need to burn
Before I leave
I just wanna live again
Like the stormy rain
I need to hear it beat again
I only wanna keep the stone from rolling
I only wanna learn to feel the rain
Then maybe I could stop the leaves from falling
I only wanna learn to freeze the flame
I know I'll be alive again
I wanna be alive again
I wanna be alive again

'Coz I did my best
Baby who'd have guessed
That I've failed the test

'Coz when love ain't best
And it's laid to rest
It can leave a mess

I only wanna keep the stone from rolling
I only wanna learn to feel the rain
Then maybe I could stop the leaves from falling
I only wanna learn to freeze the flame
I know I'll be alive again
I wanna be alive again

What if the world was crazy
And I was sane
Would it be so strange
Cause I can't believe
That I am alone in saying
The things I'm saying
I am part of you
There are universal truths
We're all part of the light
That flows through everything

[Chorus:]
This is a different kind of love song
Dedicated to anyone
Different kind of love song-oh, oh
This is a different kind of love song
A higher plane we can flow on
Different kind of love song-oh, oh

What if the world calmed down
And we could all breathe together easier
Connecting the sky and the ground
With you and me and everything in between
I am part of you
We have living proof
There is some kind of light
That flows through everything

[Chorus]