Weekend In New England - Barry Manilow

You spend an awful lot of time in Massachusetts Seems like every other week and there's a meeting waiting there Business must be booming or could something else Be moving in the air up there You say that it's important for our future An executive on her way up has got to play the part And each time duty calls you've got to give it all You've got with all your heart So when whoever's in New England's through with you And Boston finds better things to do You know it's not too late 'Cause you'll always have a place to come back to When whoever's in New England's through with you I hear the winter time up north can last forever I've been told it's beautiful to see this time of year They say the snow can blind you till the world you left behind Just disappears I hear I packed your bags and left them in the hallway But before you leave again there's just one thing you outta know When the icy winds blows through you remember that it's me Who feels the cold most of all So when whoever's in New England's through with you And Boston finds better things to do You know it's not too late 'Cause you'll always have a place to come back to When whoever's in New England's through with you

You spend an awful lot of time in Massachusetts Seems like every other week you've got a meeting waiting there Business must be booming or could something else Be moving in the air up there You say that it's important for our future An executive on his way up has got to play the part And each time duty calls, you got to give it all You've got with all your heart When whoever's in New England is through with you And Boston finds better things to do You know it's not too late 'Cause you'll always have a place to come back to When whoever's in New England is through with you I hear the winter time up north can last forever And I've been told it's beautiful to see this time of year They say the snow can blind you till the world you left behind Just disappears, I hear I packed your bags and left them in the hallway But before you leave again there's just one thing you oughta know When the icy winds blow through you remember that it's me Who feels the cold most of all When whoever's in New England is through with you And Boston finds better things to do You know it's not too late And you'll always have a place to come back to When whoever's in New England is through with you

She's a great little housewife Though sometimes she talks like a fool But she helps at the store in the holiday rush And she picks up the kids after school And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home And she changes from mother to wife 'Til she feels the words hanging between them And she hangs by her words to her life She says I swear I love my husband, I love my kids I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed She's a sweetheart, except when she's moody It's hard to get through to her then Depressed for a while when the youngest was born Oh but that happens now and again She might take a drink with the housework Or when Michael's kept late at the shop A Martini or two before dinner But she always knows when to stop She says I swear I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed Oh they used to hold hands at the movies Now it's seldom if ever they go Once you've paid for the sitter and parkin' the car There's no money left for the show She was doing the dishes When a glass fell and broke on the tile And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake) It was real touch and go for a while She says Oh God I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my, my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed

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