I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow

You callin' us heathens with zero respect for the law But we're only songwriters just writing our songs and that's all We write what we live and we live what we write is that wrong If you think it is Mr Music Executive why don't you write your own songs. And don't listen to mine they might run you crazy They might make you dwell on your feelings a moment too long We're making you rich and you're already lazy So just lay on your ass and get richer or write your own songs. Mr Purified Country don't you know what the whole things about Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out The world's gettin' smaller and everyone in it belongs And if you can't see that Mr. Purified Country Why don't you write your own songs. And don't listen to mine they might run you crazy They might make you dwell on your feelings a moment too long We're making you rich and you're already lazy So just lay on your ass and get richer or write your own songs. So just lay on your ass and get richer or write your own songs...

We walked to the sea Just my father and me And the dogs played around on the sand Winter cold cut the air Hangin' still everywhere Dressed in gray, did he say hold my hand I said, love's easier when it's far away We sat and watched a distant light We're two ships that pass in the night We both smile and we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night There's a boat on the line Where the sea meets the sky There's another that rides far behind And it seems you and I Are like strangers, a wide ways apart As we drift on through time He said, it's harder now, we're far away We only read you when you write We're two ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night We're just ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night

Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me I'm going to be a farmer Blowing the fields in the morning sun I'll have a million horses Take me a ride when the work is done I'm going to have a sweet life Sweetest life you ever seen And when the day is over Going to go to sleep in the field of green Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me Daddy do you know what I mean Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me Daddy do you know what I mean Going to be a actor Playing a part in a light of gold Oh yes I will I'm going to make a lot of money Going to spend it all before I get to old And I'm going to have a sweet life Sweetest life you ever seen And you know when the day is over now I'm going to go to sleep in a field of green Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me Daddy do you know what I mean (Repeat) Got, got to have a sweet life Got to have a sweet life Daddy do you know what I mean Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me Mamma can you hear me Daddy do you know what I mean