Sarah Brightman Online

Lyrics

Encore
(2002)

  1. Whistle Down the Wind
  2. Away From You
  3. Guardami
  4. Think of Me
  5. One More Walk Around the Garden
  6. Surrender
  7. If I Ever Fall in Love Again
  8. Half a Moment
  9. Piano
  10. What More Do I Need
  11. There is More to Love
  12. The Last Man in My Life
  13. In the Mandarin's Orchard Garden
  14. Nothing Like You've Ever Known
  15. Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta
  1. Whistle Down the Wind
  2. Whistle down the wind
    Let your voices carry
    Drown out all the rain
    Light a patch of darkness
    Treacherous and scary

    Howl at the stars
    Whisper when you're sleeping
    I'll be there to hold you
    I'll be there to stop
    The chills and all the weeping
    Make it clear and strong
    So the whole night long
    Every signal that you send
    Until the very end
    I will not abandon you
    My precious friend

    So try and stem the tide
    Then you'll raise a banner
    Send a flare up in the sky
    Try to burn a torch
    And try to build a bonfire
    Every signal that you send
    Until the very end, I'm there

    So whistle down the wind
    For I have always been right there

    Howl at the stars
    Whisper when you're sleeping
    I'll be there to hold you
    I'll be there to stop
    The chills and all the weeping
    Make it clear and strong
    So the whole night long
    Every signal that you send
    Until the very end
    I will not abandon you
    My precious friend

    So whistle down the wind
    Let your voices carry
    Drown out all the rain
    Light a patch of darkness
    Treacherous and scary
    Every signal that you send
    Until the very end, I'm there

    So whistle down the wind
    For I have always been right there

  3. Away From You
  4. Away from you
    There is no music,
    There is no sunlight,
    The world is gray.
    Away from you
    The clocks are frozen,
    And time's a traveller
    Who's lost his way.

    The people I meet
    Might as well be statues,
    The words we exchange
    Might as well be Greek.
    The room that I'm in
    May be bright and cheerful
    But to me
    It's dim and bleak.

    I'm half alive
    Until the moment
    The door swings open
    And you walk through.
    Now my world starts to glow
    Like a stained-glass window
    And what was old and cold
    Is warm and new.
    And so you see
    Why I can never be
    Away from you.

    Away from you
    The world is lifeless
    As though creation
    Has gone awry.
    The trees are bare,
    There are no flowers,
    The fields are thirsty,
    The streams are dry.

    We live, you and I,
    For a breath of sunlight,
    So brief an escape
    Our moments of warmth
    Have been touch and go, love,
    But tonight, we'll touch

    The people I meet
    Might as well be statues,
    The words we exchange
    Might as well be Greek.
    The room that I'm in
    May be bright and cheerful
    But to me
    It's dim and bleak.

    I'm half alive
    Until the moment
    The door swings open
    And you walk through.
    Now my soul is afloat
    On a wave of music
    That I could feel such joy
    I never knew.
    And so you see
    Why I can never be
    Away from you.

  5. Guardami
  6. Guardami
    Non andare via
    Guardami
    Non vorrai di più

    Non lasciar che così sia
    Con un si vedrai
    Quello che vorrai

    Guardami
    Sono solo io
    Quella che
    Ti porterà via

    La mia anima è con te
    Non saprai di più

    Mai più vedrai
    La scena che farò
    E non fingerò
    Di saper di più

    Tu sai che io
    È lì che finirò
    Mentre guardo te
    Ti dirò cosa è

    Guardami
    Già non parlo più
    Sento ormai
    Che t'arrenderai

    Piano piano tra di noi
    È la musica che ti fa sognar

    Guardami
    Non ne posso più
    Questa si è la vita mia

    E nell'ombra
    Troverai
    Tutto quel che vuoi

    Una dolce melodia
    Che qualcuno avrà
    Cantato giù

    Guardami
    Una fiamma ormai
    Come me non ci saranno mai
    Sono ancora qui tra voi

    Sento che adesso
    Io rimarrò qui
    Solo adesso
    Sento che con te
    Sono io
    Guarda

  7. Think of Me
  8. Think of me, think of me fondly, when we've said goodbye
    Remember me once in a while
    Please promise me you'll try.

    When you find that, once again,
    You long to take your heart back and be free
    If you ever find a moment, spare a thought for me

    We never said our love was evergreen,
    Or as unchanging as the sea
    But if you can still remember, stop and think of me

    Think of all the things we've shared and seen
    Don't think about the things which might have been

    Think of me, think of me waking, silent and resigned

    Imagine me, trying too hard to put you from my mind

    Recall those days, look back on all those times
    Think of the things we'll never do
    There will never be a day when I won't think of you

    Can it be?
    Can it be, Christine?

    What a change!
    You're really not a bit the gawkish girl that once you were

    She may not remember me, but I remember her

    We never said our love was evergreen,
    Or as unchanging as the sea
    But if you can still remember, stop and think of me

  9. One More Walk Around the Garden
  10. That old April yearning
    Once more is returning
    And I have a longing to wander.

    The leaves may be falling,
    But April is calling
    And the prim roses beckon me yonder.

    For one more walk around the garden
    One more stroll along the shore.
    One more memory I can dream upon
    Until I dream no more.
    For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
    And one more prayer it's not too late
    To gather one more rose
    Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.

    That old urge is saying
    It's time to go straying
    Where no one but April can find me.

    To try and recover
    The heart of a lover
    That I left lying somewhere behind me.

    Just one more walk around the garden
    One more stroll along the shore.
    One more memory I can dream upon
    Until I dream no more.
    For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
    And one more prayer it's not too late
    To gather one more rose
    Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate. One more rose before I close the garden gate.

  11. Surrender
  12. No more wars to fight
    White flags fly tonight
    You are out of danger now
    Battle field is still
    Wild poppies on the hill
    Peace can only come when you surrender
    Here the tracers fly
    Lighting up the sky
    But I'll fight unto the end
    Let them send their armies
    I will never bend
    I won't see you now till I surrender
    I'll see you again when I surrender

    Battle field is still
    Wild poppies on the hill
    Peace can only come when you surrender
    Here the tracers fly
    Lighting up the sky
    But I'll fight unto the end
    Let them send their armies
    I will never bend
    I won't see you now till I surrender
    I'll see you again when I surrender

  13. If I Ever Fall in Love Again
  14. If I ever fall in love again,
    It'll be with someone just like you.
    I don't say that I'm in love again
    But on the day you came my way, I knew.

    If I ever fall in love again,
    This is just the way it ought to be,
    But if it's really love again,
    I'll leave to fate, I'd rather wait and see.

    How can I know
    When my head is saying no
    And my heart's telling me that it's real?
    Can it be wrong
    If I burst into song
    At the wonder of feeling the way
    That I suddenly feel?

    If I ever fall in love again
    I shall know exactly what to do.
    And when I fall in love again
    I know it must be someone just like you.

    The way that I suddenly feel!

    If I ever fall in love again
    I shall know exactly what to do.
    And when I fall in love again
    I know it must be someone just like you.

  15. Half a Moment
  16. Half a moment
    We are together
    I shall want no-one else
    And nothing new.
    Half a moment
    I shall treasure,
    Keep it locked away
    For some future rainy day.

    Should you leave me
    With just this moment
    In my mind
    I shall capture it anew,
    Like some picture
    Taken in my childhood
    Half a moment
    Spent with you.

    Half a moment
    I shall treasure,
    Keep it locked away
    For some future rainy day.

    Should you leave me
    With just this moment
    In my mind
    I shall capture it anew,
    Like some picture
    Taken in my childhood
    Half a moment
    Spent with you.

    Countless vivid memories
    Spin before my view,
    Like some toy kaleidoscope
    Images of you.

    Time looks kindly
    On fleeting lovers
    They can turn the briefest hour
    Into a day
    Turn a moment
    To a lifetime
    Making it to last
    Blending future with the past.

    We're together,
    What else can matter?
    Even though
    Half a moment is too few
    I shall save it
    'Til I have another
    Making one whole moment
    Filled with you.

  17. Piano
  18. Piano questi passi d'amore
    Sulla strada del cuore
    Che mi porta da te
    Soffia il vento del tempo
    Questa notte che va
    Sempre qui ci troverà

    Piano senza fare rumore
    Gira il mondo le ore
    Quanta fretta che ha
    Un ricordo domani
    Questa notte sarà
    Sempre qui poi tornerà

    Nasce il sole
    Che cosi
    Ci troverà abbracciati
    La sua mano
    Sulla porta piano
    Spalanca il cielo al mattino

    Giorno mentre arriva l'inverno
    Un fedele ritorno
    La sua neve cadrà
    E la notte più chiara
    Questa sera sarà
    Quando il buio scenderà

    Nasce il sole
    Che cosi
    Ci troverà abbracciati
    La sua mano
    Sulla porta piano
    Spalanca il cielo al mattino

    Forte e lo voglio gridare
    Questo amore più forte
    Questa notte sarà
    Quante volte
    Nel letto si è svegliato con me
    Questo amore è per te

  19. What More Do I Need
  20. Once I hated this city,
    Now it can't get me down.
    Slushy, humid and gritty,
    What a pretty town.

    What, thought I, could be duller,
    More depressing, less gay.
    Now my favourite colour
    Is grey.

    A wall of rain as it turns to sleet,
    The lack of sun on a one-way street,
    I love the grime all the time.
    And what more do I need?

    My window pane has a lovely view:
    An inch of sky and a fly or two.
    Why, I can see half a tree.
    And what more do I need?

    The dusk is thick and it's galling;
    It simply can't be excused.
    In winter even the falling snow looks
    Used.

    My window pane may not give much light,
    But I see you, so the view is bright.
    If I can love you, I'll pay the dirt no heed!
    With your love, what more do I need?

    Someone shouting for quiet,
    Someone starting a brawl,
    Down the block there's a riot,
    And I'll buy it all!

    Listen, now I'm ecstatic,
    Hold me close and be still.
    Hear the lovely pneumatic
    Drill!

    A subway train thunders through the Bronx,
    A taxi horn on the corner honks.
    But I adore ev'ry roar.
    And what more do I need?

    I hear a crane making street repairs,
    A two-ton child running wild upstairs.
    Steam pipes bang,sirens clang,
    And what more do I need?

    The neighbours yell in the summer,
    The landlord yells in the fall,
    So loud I can't hear the plumber
    Pound the wall.

    An aeroplane roars across the bay,
    But I can hear you as clear as day:
    You said you love me
    Above the sound and speed.

    With your love,
    What more do I need?

  21. There is More to Love
  22. There is more to love,
    So much more than simply making love
    That's easy.

    Gazing into eyes,
    Pretty eyes,
    Which could be any eyes
    That's crazy.

    Hands are just hands,
    A face is just a face
    They come and go
    They're easy to replace

    There is more to love,
    So much more,
    Than moon-struck escapades
    That's nothing.

    There is peace of mind,
    So much peace,
    In quiet company
    That's something.

    Everyone but him
    Seems wrong for me
    Every time I feel
    There has to be more

    If I could hear
    The music I heard then,
    I'd never let it fade away again

    There is more to love,
    So much more than simply making love
    That's easy.

    Gazing into eyes,
    Pretty eyes,
    Which could be any eyes
    That's crazy.

    Now each time
    Love reaches out to me,
    I can only feel
    There has to be so much more to love

  23. The Last Man in My Life
  24. I'm a lady when you kiss me,
    I'm a child when you are leaving,
    I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
    complete.

    Long lost feelings stir inside me,
    used to think nights were for sleeping,
    being wanted is a thrill I never knew
    till you.

    Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
    I'm how I want to be,
    loving you I can be me,
    just me.

    It's the first time when you touch me,
    now I long for rainy mornings,
    I am certain you're the last man in my life.

    I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
    complete.

    Long lost feelings stir inside me,
    used to think nights were for sleeping,
    being wanted is a thrill I never knew
    till you.

    Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
    I'm how I want to be,
    loving you I can be me,
    just me.

    It's the first time when you touch me,
    now I long for rainy mornings,
    tell each other to find all we're looking for
    and more.

    Found the rainbow I was after,
    no more dreams with one face missing,
    I am certain you're the last man in my life.

  25. In the Mandarin's Orchard Garden
  26. Somehow by fate misguided,
    A buttercup resided
    In the mandarin's orchid garden.

    A buttercup that did not please
    The lovely peace of such a place.
    And so it simply shriveled up
    And begged each orchids pardon,
    The little buttercup in the orchid garden.

    The bees keep buzzing daily
    And kiss the orchids gaily,
    In the mandarin's orchid garden.

    A buttercup sighed longingly,
    But love was not for such as she.
    And so one day it shriveled up and died,
    Still begging pardon,
    The lonely buttercup in the orchid garden.

    I too have been misguided;
    To long have I resided
    In the mandarin's orchid garden.

    And too for friendliness I yearn,
    I do not know which way to turn.
    Alone must I keep shriveled up,
    To beg each lady's pardon.

    A lonely buttercup
    In the orchid garden.

  27. Nothing Like You've Ever Known
  28. Nothing like you've ever known
    That's the life I thought that I was gonna show you
    Lonely girls believe such things
    That's one happy ever after that I owe you
    Married man always looking at
    You watch
    I wanted to spend more time than twelve till two
    Loving you
    And nothing like it should have been
    Every time I think it's gonna be the last time
    Each time I expect to much
    Being wrong can get to be a painful pastime

    Something new that is all it was
    You know
    But when you need someone any love will do
    Sad but true
    And nothing like we've ever known
    That is how I thought all our tomorrows would be
    I thought we were all we'd need
    Goes to show you just how wrong two people could be

  29. Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta
  30. Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
    Potè indovinar?
    Il suo mister come mai
    Come mai fini

    Ahimè! un giorno uno studente In bocca la baciò
    E fu quel bacio
    Rivelazione:
    Fu la passione!
    Folle amore!
    Folle ebbrezza!
    Chi la sottil carezza
    D'un bacio cosi ardente
    Mai ridir potrà?

    Ah! mio sogno!
    Ah! mia vita!

    Che importa la ricchezza
    Se alfine è rifiorita
    La felicità!
    O sogno d'or
    Poter amar così!