Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody - Joni Mitchell/Hy Zaret, Alex Norton

    Caught in the middle
    Carol, we're middle class
    We're middle aged
    We were wild in the old days
    Birth of rock 'n roll days
    Now your kids are coming up straight
    And my child's a stranger
    I bore her
    But, I could not raise her
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Down at the Chinese Cafe
    We'd be dreaming on our dimes
    We'd be playing--
    "Oh my love, my darling"
    One more time

    Uranium money
    Is booming in the old home town now
    It's putting up sleek concrete
    Tearing the old landmarks down now
    Paving over brave little parks
    Ripping off Indian land again
    How long--how long
    Short sighted business men
    Ah, nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Down at the Chinese Cafe
    We'd be dreaming on our dimes
    We'd be playing--
    "You give your love, so sweetly"
    One more time

    Christmas is sparkling
    Out on Carol's lawn
    This girl of my childhood games
    With kids nearly grown and gone
    Grown so fast
    Like the turn of a page
    We look like our mothers did now
    When we were those kids' age
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Nothing lasts for long--
    Down at the Chinese Cafe
    We'd be dreaming on our dimes
    We'd be playing--
    "Oh my love, my darling
    I've hungered for your touch
    A long lonely time
    And time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much
    Are you still mine?
    I need your love
    I need your love
    God speed your love to me."
    (Time goes--where does the time go--
    I wonder where the time goes. . .)
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    Marco Giunco
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