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The Wishing Song

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1965)
 
Lead vocals:
Noeleen Batley
 
Album:


What am I wishing for?
Something I’ve had before
I’ve seen your face in the firelight
I’ve needed your love in the dark of the night
What am I wishing for?
Someone like you, someone like you

I know that someday, my love, it’s gonna be all right
Someday, my love, waiting for you tonight
Love grows, I know, it’s gonna be all right now

What am I wishing for?
Something I’ve had before
I’ve seen your face in the windowpane
I’ve needed your love when you’re home again
What am I wishing for?
Someone like you, someone like you
I know that someday, my love, it’s gonna be all right
Someday, my love, waiting for you tonight
Love grows, I know, it’s gonna be all right now

What am I waiting for?
Someone like you, someone like you

I know that someday, my love, it’s gonna be all right
Someday, my love,waiting for you tonight
Love grows, I know, it’s gonna be all right now

What am I wishing for?
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you.

The Wishes We Share (Secrets)

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
(1979)

Lead vocals:
Elaine Paige

Album:
Elaine Paige: Elaine Paige (1981)

This song can be found under the title ‘The wishes we share’ and sung by Barry Gibb on the bootleg Guilty Demos

Transcript by Lucas


    Hold on forever, the face in the sun
Try to remember me there love
Roses and rainbows we follow as one
These are the secrets we share love
One love daring to laugh in the rain
Changing but always the same

Out on a moonbeam or here in my arms
These are the wishes we share love
High love lost in a wide open sky
Somehow your smile passed me by
There lies tomorrow don’t hurry it on
Let us be children who care love

Out on a moonbeam or here in my arms
These are the wishes we share love
High love lost in a wide open sky
Somehow your smile passed me by
Roll on my baby I love you alone
These are the wishes we share love
These are the secrets we share love

The Way It Was

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Blue Weaver
(1976)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Children of the world
(1976)


I don’t know how,
but nights get lonely now,
they keep appearing in my eyes,
such a warm and tender glow,
for just one moment
I remember all.
 
The love we had was never all that bad,
there were smiles and there were tears,
on that special starry night,
with your arms around me,
held on tight.
 
Wasn’t that the way it was,
two strangers reaching for
a worthless cause?
Wasn’t that the love we shared
or just the restless years
when no-one cared?
 
I don’t know why
it’s hard to say goodbye
or even justify the end.
You meant so very much to me,
then to let you go,
start my life again.
 
The love we had was never all that bad,
there were smiles and there were tears,
till that special summer day
when I reached out for you,
you just walked away.
 
Wasn’t that the way it was,
two strangers reaching for
a worthless cause?
Wasn’t that the love we shared
or just the restless years
when no-one cared?
Ah

The Walls Fell Down

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)
 
Lead vocals:
Graham Bonnet
 
Album:
The Marbles: The Marbles
(1970)
 
Transcript by
Alice Keymer


When morning time breaks
My lonely heart aches, yeah.
But no one I touch
Can tell me how much
A lonely heart takes.

‘Cause the walls fell down.
And the seas will drown.
But nobody listens to my song.
And the storm just broke.
And the rain came down.
But nobody listens to a clown.

I look for your light
by day and by night.
I’m wasting my time
just trying to find
your face in my life.

‘Cause the walls fell down.
And the seas will drown.
But nobody listens to my song.
And the storm just broke.
And the rain came down.
But nobody listens to a clown.

‘Cause the walls fell down.
And the seas will drown…

The Twelfth Of Never

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Written by:
Webster
Livingstone
(1956)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Brilliant from birth
<compilation>
(1998)


You ask how much I need you
Must I explain
I need you oh my darling
Like roses need rain

You ask how long I’ll love you
I’ll tell you true
Until the twelfth of never I’ll still be loving you

Hold me close
Never let me go
Hold me close
Melt my heart like April snow

I’ll love you ‘till the blue bells forget to bloom
I’ll love you ‘till the clover has lost its perfume
I’ll love you ‘till the poets run out of rhyme

Oh, until the twelfth of never
And that’s a long long time
Until the twelfth of never
And that’s a long long time.

The Three Kisses Of Love

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1963)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
-Turn around look at us (1967)
-Brilliant from birth
<compilation> (1998)


Kiss me once, oh yeah, baby.
Kiss me twice, oh yeah, crazy.
Kiss me three times
the three kisses of love, oh yeah .
 
Morning, noon, and at night,
never gonna let you out of sight,
kiss me three times
the three kisses of love.
 
Tell me that you really care.
I run your fingers through my hair.
Kiss me once,
kiss me twice
and I’m in paradise.
 
Kiss me once, oh yeah, baby.
Kiss me twice, oh yeah, crazy.
Kiss me three times
the three kisses of love.
 
Tell me that you really care.
I run your fingers through my hair.
Kiss me once,
kiss me twice
and I’m in paradise.
 
Kiss me once, oh yeah, baby.
Kiss me twice, oh yeah, crazy.
Kiss me three times
the three kisses of love,
the three kisses of love.

The Singer Sang His Song

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
Tales from the brothers Gibb
<compilation>
(1990)


He’d sing his song most every night
wishing she was there behind the light.
The people danced and sang along
on the cardboard stage he never sang it wrong.
And the piper played the tune.
And the drummer wore his spurs.
But the song that the singer sang was for her.
 
Now the singer’s song is never heard.
And the visions he once saw are disappeared.
Now they never dance or sing along.
But on the cardboard stage he never sang it wrong.
And the piper played the tune.
And the drummer wore his spurs.
But the song that the singer sang was for her.

These Walls Have Eyes

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1985)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb

Album:
Robin Gibb:
Walls have eyes
(1985)


How can you decide what’s better from inside your heart.
Better not to try.
It’s better not to start.
Someone making love to you.
It shows under the skin.
Anyone can win.
Someone like me can win.

In it for the money.
Whatever, whatever.
In for the love
that hungers me for the start of things.
Someone else’s body.
All your loving brings.
There must be something more,
something more.

These walls have eyes.
These walls have ears.
They see the lies
that hide the fears.

They watch us live.
They watch us grow.
What lies ahead.
What lies below.

When that magnificent woman lays back,
behind the beat,
better not to sleep.
Someone making love to you.
Perform that magical skill.
Go in for the kill.
You move in for the kill.

Kill for the money,
whatever it takes.
Kill for the love,
waiting until the hunger breaks.
Someone else’s body.
Your destiny.
And even all that is sacred,
is sacred, is the secret, is mine.

These walls have eyes.
These walls have ears.
They see the lies
that hide the fears.

Each baby’s cry,
each song is sung
these walls have heard,
each bell that’s rung.

If spiders crawl
these walls within
there’s room for all.
When fate steps in
we celebrate
all things we crave.
What life is lost
What love we save.

One for the money.
Oh the planet shakes whenever we burn.
I want my love all over you.
It’s all the love was meant to be.
We keep the secret with me.

These walls have eyes.
These walls have ears.
They see the mask
that hides the years.

One spark of joy.
One voice to laugh.
Those days foretold
in photograph.

They watch us live.
They watch us grow.
What lies ahead.
What lies below.

These walls have eyes.
These walls have ears.
These walls have eyes.
These walls have ears.
They won’t survive
for all the tears.

The Runaway

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Written by:
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1986)
 
Lead vocals:
Carola
 
Album:
Carola:
Runaway
(1986)


So many things that you could say or do.
Don’t wanna say goodbye .
So many nights that I would cry for you.
But you were cold as ice.
Now I’m searching for
someone I can be sure of.
Sacrifice the only one that I need.

No hideaway for the runaway.
Every creature of love had excited me.
Someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).
So tomorrow I’ll tell you that I’m sorry.
And it’s too late to worry if
someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).

Just an echo of a distant dream
that slowly disappears in the magic of the ecstasy,
that flows between the tears.
Then before my eyes the crystal was broken
I swallowed every promise you made.

No hideaway for the runaway.
Every creature of love had excited me.
Someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).
So tomorrow I’ll tell you that I’m sorry.
And it’s too late to worry if
someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).

Moonlight is cruel as the light.
And the future is only a lie.
Oh, baby.
Birds of a feather will fly.
I’m alone in the night.

No hideaway for the runaway.
Every creature of love had excited me.
Someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).
So tomorrow I’ll tell you that I’m sorry.
And it’s too late to worry if
someone is breaking your heart (heart) (heart).

The Only Love

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1990)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
High civilization
(1991)


I can relate the story of my life.
No brighter hope, no stronger emotion.
And I believed I could die over you.
How you could ever
break down and never see me through,
through my darkest night.
 
And as I lie awake,
one prayer within me burning.
And there’s no price on what you hold till it’s gone,
then it keeps moving on.
 
Where is my heart?
You know I will be waiting to be a part of you
and never feel the pain.
How can you say to me that I should go on living?
I left the only life I had with you.
 
The only love.
No use in me pretending
to be a part of you
and you the heart of me.
How can you say to me that I should go on living?
I left the only life I had
with, with you.
With you.
 
So we agree to let each other go.
No long goodbye.
Just your way and my way.
And I can stand how you cried to be free.
High as the wind blows,
but not enough to bring you home to me.
And only lonely knows.
 
You see my open arms.
You know my flame is burning.
But I’m too blind to see the end has begun.
And it keeps moving on.
 
The only love.
No use in me pretending
to be a part of you
and you the heart of me.
How can you say to me that I should go on living?
I left the only life I had
with you.
 
The only love.
No use in me pretending
to be a part of you
and you the heart of me.
How can you say to me that I should go on living?
I left the only life I had
with you.
 
The only love.
One love that will not die.
You may be sorry that I built my world around you.
The only love
is only you and I.
There will be others who would leave you as I found you.
 
The only love.
One love that will not die….

Then You Left Me

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1969)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Cucumber castle
(1970)


I never ask for any time from you, baby.
I never ask for any lies.
You only hurt the one you love the most, baby.
You only had to make me cry.
 
‘Cause you left me (you left me)
all alone (you left me).
You left me (you left me)
to stand alone.
 
And every night I sit beside my bed, baby.
And I keep thinking of your love.
The things we dreamt about.
How much I love you, baby.
We had the world and the stars above.
 
But then you left me (you left me)
all alone (you left me).
You left me, you left me (you left me)
to stand alone.
 
Ah. You left me to stand alone.
Ah. You left me to stand alone.
You left me. You left me.
You left me. You left me.

The Love Of A Woman

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1969)
 
Lead vocals:
Samantha Sang
 
Album:
Samantha Sang:
Emotion
(1977)


    When the day is done and the night is near
Happiness is gone when you’re not here
And all the games and songs, they disappear
When the day is done.

I believed in you, what you were to me
every dream I knew became reality
And all the worlds I knew became a memory
‘cause I believed in you.

I gave you every thing love
Together we could bring love
I remember when I gave you
The love of a woman
The love of a woman.

I believed in you, what you were to me
every dream I knew became reality
And all the worlds I knew became a memory
‘cause I believed in you.

I gave you every thing love
Together we could bring love
I remember when I gave you
The love of a woman
The love of a woman…

The Love Inside

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1978)
 
Lead vocals:
B.Streisand
<demo:
Barry Gibb>
 
Album:
-B.Streisand: Guilty (1980)
-Guilty demos <bootleg>


So the word is goodbye.
makes no difference how the tears are cried.
It’s over.
And my heart lives alone.
I can’t make believe you need me
when it’s over.

And we can’t take it home
the fire that was burning,
when all around was turning
and we were cruising for the ride.

Got to give a little of the love inside.
Not to take it all
and watch me fall.
I got me loving you,
I had you loving me.

And we both played along.
Love is easy on the young.
Life was together.
As the world fades away
into yesterday
I’m losing you forever.

I’m just an empty shell
with nothing for tomorrow.
I’m here to face the sorrow.
The dream we sailed was far and wide.

Got to give a little of the love inside.
Not to take a part,
this breaking heart.
I got me loving you,
I had you loving me.

So the word is goodbye.
Makes no difference how the tears are cried.
It’s over.
And my heart lives alone.
I can’t make believe you need me
when it’s over.

And we can’t take it home,
the fire that is burning
when all around is turning,
the dream we sailed was far and wide.

Got to give a little of the love inside,
the love inside…

The Longest Night

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1986)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
E.S.P.
(1987)


You know a love so fine, so high above,
goes on forever but the road is rough,
reaching for another as truth will show,
try to live without it but you can’t let go.
 
We don’t talk about it, we got no doubt,
we can love each other when the lights go out.
I got nobody, my bird has flown,
anyone can see I’m walking alone,
walking alone.
 
In your quiet moments, in your silent prayer,
I’ll be with you baby, I’ll be there.
In your darkest hour, on your longest night,
I’ll be with you baby,
make it right
on your longest night.
 
You know it breaks my heart and it hurts my pride
to know I lost you to the world outside.
Feelings when you touch me they rise and fall,
try to live without it ain’t no love at all.
 
We don’t talk about it but somebody knows,
we can love each other when the candle glows.
Open my eyes and the moment is gone,
anyone can see I’m walking alone,
walking alone.
 
In your darkest hour, on your longest night,
I’ll be with you baby,
make it right.
 
Nobody cries,
nobody cries, cries
for the pain I feel.
Nobody knows, nobody knows
and it makes me wanna die.
 
In your quiet moments, in your silent prayer,
I’ll be with you baby, I’ll be there.
In your darkest hour, on your longest night,
I’ll be with you baby,
make it right
on your longest night.

The Loner

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Written by:
Maurice Gibb
Billy Lawrie
(1969)

Performed by:
Maurice Gibb

Album:
[bootleg]

Transcript by
Mohamad Farghaly


    Some other types who just don’t do wrong
In the sense they always believed

Guess I’m the type who just don’t know wrong
Never been played by pride or greed

I’ve been hung up and I’ve been left out
By the only friends I had

But all these troubles don’t get me down
It maybe you right or it maybe that

I’m the loner
I’m the loner

The Hunter

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
George Bitzer
(1984)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Barry Gibb:
Now voyager
(1984)


    Not many days when the summer is gone
and the water is dry.
The silence of war.
You can never go home.
You cannot ever go home.

So many lights in the heaven I saw
when the living were dead
and the mother instead
keeps her little boy warm,
keeping her little boy warm.

Fools never knowing
never knew which storm was blowing.
No one left to save the day.

Only nights last forever.
All the truth don’t change my weather.
Let me live, let me hide away.

And all my world has torn apart.
No glow of love, no beating heart.
There is danger on the earth tonight.
And I’m alone.

When the hunter comes.
When the hunter comes.

Down from the cities and the valleys of woe,
and the rivers of blood,
and the army of souls.
They will never grow old.
Nor will they ever be cold.

So many nights with the love in my arms.
When I lay down beside you.
Who can tell when the moment is gone.
Never be over and done.

Fools never trying,
never knew which child was crying.
You’re the reason for the rain.

It’s the road that you followed.
Make it so, there’s no tomorrow.
Only people are that insane.

And all my love is nothing more
than feelings that I had before.
There are strangers on the earth tonight.
And I’m alone.

When the hunter comes.
When the hunter comes.
When the hunter comes.

There’ll be no return.
Should be die to learn.

When the hunter comes.

When the hunter comes.
When the hunter comes.

The Greatest Man In The World

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1971)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Trafalgar
(1971)


Before I heard your voice
I never heard a sound like that before.
I wanna hear it more and more.

Take me to heaven.
My love is stronger than the wall.
I’ll climb it till I fall
so I can hear you call
your love.

I’d be the greatest man in the world
‘cause I can say I got the greatest girl.
I’d be the greatest man in the world
‘cause I can say I got the greatest girl.

Before I saw your face
I never saw a dream like that before.
I wanna see it more and more.

Take me to heaven.
My love is stronger than the wall.
I’ll climb it till I fall
so I can hear you call
your love.

Be the greatest man in the world
‘cause I can say I’ve got the greatest girl.
Be the greatest man in the world
‘cause I can say I got the greatest girl,
the greatest girl.

Be the greatest man in the world.
Oh. Be the greatest man in the world.
Be the greatest man, the greatest man in the world.
The greatest man, be the greatest man in the world.

The First Noel

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Written by:
(traditional)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb

Album:
Robin Gibb:
My Favourite Christmas Carols
[2006]

Transcribed by
Marcel Schildermans


    The first Noel the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds
In fields where they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep

Save the children of the world,
No war, no war
We are their saviours and love is their cure
No war, no war
The children cried
We are their saviours, with love on our side

And the star drew nigh to the northwest
O’er Bethlehem the little kid rest
And there it did both pause and stay
And over the place where Jesus did lay

Save the children of the world,
No war, no war
We are their saviours and love is their cure
No war, no war
The children cried
We are their saviours, with love on our side

The first Noel the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds
In fields where they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep

Save the children of the world,
No war, no war
We are their saviours and love is their cure
No war, no war
The children cried
We are their saviours, with love on our side

Save the children of the world,
No war, no war
We are their saviours and love is their cure
No war, no war
The children cried
We are their saviours, with love on our side

The 1st Mistake I Made

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1970)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
2 years on
(1970)


    I ain’t got no claim to nothing,
I don’t mess with anyone,
I walk my way
living in a masquerade.

And one day I looked behind me
at all the things I’ve done,
that’s the first mistake
I ever made.

I was born to a lonely woman
in a town called Buffalo.
Never knew the man
who never stayed.

With my 12-string on my back
I discovered every track,
that’s the first mistake
I ever made.

With a million hearts I’ve broken.
I never kept the score.
Memories of good love
hate to stay.

But I still remember someone
who loved me so much more,
that’s the first mistake
I ever made.

So, when nothing’s worth the living
and in the night I look above.
Prayed, about a million times
I prayed.

I know my story ended
when I lost my only love,
that’s the first mistake
I ever made.

I was born to a lonely woman
in a town called Buffalo.
Never knew the man
who never stayed.

With my 12-string on my back
I discovered every track,
that’s the first mistake
I ever made.

The Extra Mile

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(2000)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
This is where I came in
(2001)


I want to go where no one’s gone before.
And my faith will find the way.
And I’m not afraid.
Now I am here with all that is true.
So many times.
You lived with my strength and my pain.
You are my friend.

I’m ready to walk that line,
ready to fight, for
I’m not alone in the night,
You’re always in sight and it’s so right.
For once in your life, let your soul shine through
and know I will go
that extra mile for you.

In all the years, you suffer for your love.
And my tears will fade away.
Heaven above.
Now I can steer my ship to the shore.
Borne on the wind.
All’s fair in love and in war.
Steady and sure.

I’m ready to walk that line,
ready to fight, I’ll
weather the storm in the night.
You’re always around and it’s so right.
For once in your life let your soul shine through
and know I will go
that extra mile for you.

Ready to walk that line,
ready to fight, I’ll
weather the storm in the night
You’re always in sight and it’s so right.
For once in your life let your soul shine through
and know I will go
that extra mile for you.