Saving The Best For Last lyrics - Marc Cohn

Got into a cab in New York City
Was an Oriental man behind the wheel
Started talking about heaven
Like it was real
Said "They got mansions in heaven
Yeah the angels are building one for me right now
And I know...

They're saving the best for last
Look around this town
And tell me that it ain't so
They're saving the best for last
Don't ask me how I know
'Cause it must be
Saving the best for last for me

You can go a hundred miles a second
Don't have to drive no lousy cab
Got everything you want and more man
And the King picks up the tab
You walk around on streets of gold all day
And you never have to listen
To what these customers say and I know...

They're saving the best for last
Look around this town
And tell me that it ain't so
They're saving the best for last
Don't ask me how I know
'Cause it must be
Saving the best for last for me

I remember when I was a child
Lost in the streets of Chinatown
My mother had a vision and I was found
(Saving the best for last for me)
Oh-oh -- saving the best for last

And when I finally take this journey
I'm gonna wave goodbye to Earth
Gonna throw this meter in the ocean
And prove what I was worth
And I don't care who tries to flag me down
They're gonna have to find another ride uptown
And I know
They're saving the best for last..."

Strangers In A Car lyrics - Marc Cohn

There's a stranger in a car
Driving down your street
Acts like he knows who you are
Slaps his hand on the empty seat and says
"Are you gonna get in
Or are you gonna stay out?"
Just a stranger in a car
Might be the one they told you about

Well you never were one for cautiousness
You open the door
He gives you a tender kiss
And you can't even hear them no more --
All the voices of choices
Now only one road remains
And strangers in a car
Two hearts, two souls, tonight, two lanes

You don't know where you're goin'
You don't know what you're doin'
Hell it might be the highway to heaven
And it might be the road to ruin
But this is a song
For strangers in a car
Baby maybe that's all
We really are

Strangers in a car
(Driving down your street)
Just strangers in a car
(Driving down your street)
Strangers in a car

29 Ways lyrics - Marc Cohn

I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
And if she needs me bad
I can find about two or three more

I got one through the basement
Two down the hall
And when the going gets tough
I got a hole in the wall

I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
And if she needs me bad
I can find about two or three more

I can come through the chimney like Santa Claus
Go through the window and that ain't all
A lot of good ways I don't want you to know
I even got a hole in the bedroom floor

I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
And if she needs me bad
I can find about two or three more

I got a way through the closet behind her clothes
A way through the attic that no one knows
A master key that fits every lock
A hidden door behind the grandfather clock

I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
And if she needs me bad
I can find about two or three more

Perfect Love lryics - Marc Cohn

Down by the boathouse at Shaker Lake
When there wasn't nothing but love to make,
They were two young lovers wishing on the stars above.

Well, they carved their initials in an old birch tree
with a heart and an arrow and a 'sixty-three.
You had to be blind not to see...
It was a perfect love.

It was a perfect love.
Ooh, yeah, yeah.
Well, they worked one summer together at the '64 World's Fair.
They met Robert Kennedy there.
Well, that was... right before the fall.

They saved up a little money for his carreer
And they talked about the future, underneath the giant sphere
And all around them the little voices were singing:
It's a small world after all.
Yes it is, it's a small world after all.

And it was... Perfect love.
It was a perfect love.
(Under the moon and the stars above, it was a perfect love)
They were dizzy from dancing on Rockaway Beach
They came to Rockaway

Yeah and everything they dreamed of was still within reach
Dreaming, Dreaming as the years roll by
Like they always do

Well, they had their share of hard times too
But whatever they were, they never let it get them down.
Now, they just go walking down a country lane
See the leaves are changing, in a misty rain

And only one thing remains the same, wo-oh.
Ooh, yeah, yeah.

Just a perfect love
(Under the moon and stars above it was a perfect love)
Ooh, yeah, yeah.

True Companion lyrics - Marc Cohn

Baby I've been searching like everybody else
Can't say nothing different about myself
Sometimes I'm an angel and sometimes I'm cruel
But when it comes to love I'm just another fool

Yes I've climbed a mountain
I'm gonna swim the sea
There ain't no act of God, girl
Could keep you safe from me
My arms are reaching out,
out across this canyon

I'm asking you to be my true companion
True companion
True companion

So don't you dare and try to walk away
I've got my heart set on our wedding day
I've got this vision of a girl in white
Made my descision that its you alright
When I take your hand, I watch my heart set sail
I'll take my trembling fingers, and I'll lift up your veil
Then I'll take you home and with wild abandon
Make love to you just like a true companion
You are my true companion
I got a true companion
Whoa true companion

When the years have done irreparable harm
I can see us walking slowly arm in arm,
Just like that couple on the corner do
Cause girl I will always be in love with you
When I look in your eyes, I still see that spark
Until the shadows fall, until the room grows dark

Then when I leave this earth I'll be with the angels standing
I'll be out there waiting for my true companion
Just for my true companion
True companion
True companion

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Blow On Chilly Wind lyrics - Marc Cohn

A little gray around the crown
A little hint of slowing down
She puts on some old evening gown
And dances alone
Years are hazy and days are slow
The seasons come and the reasons go
And while the wind and memory blows
She turns to stone

Sayin'
Blow on, blow on chilly wind
Go ahead and blow
Blow on chilly wind
Just let the chilly wind blow
Yeah let the chilly wind blow

Down the halls that whisper names
Through the walls and the picture frames
It's not just old in here
It's swirling underneath the door
And all around the cabinet drawers
It's getting pretty cold in here

But I say
Blow on, blow on chilly wind
Go ahead and blow
Blow on chilly wind
Just let the chilly wind blow
Let the chilly wind blow
And the chilly wind will blow

I took a walk down by Shaker Square
A Christmas tree was standing there
That same old chill was in the air
And I buttoned up my overcoat
I thought of things that change and things that don't
How they say some folks will and some folks won't

But I say
Blow on, blow on chilly wind
Go ahead and blow
Blow on chilly wind
Just let the chilly wind blow
Let the chilly wind blow
And the chilly wind will blow

Said you must blow on, Mama
Blow on chilly wind
You must blow on

Fever lyrics - Marc Cohn

You'll never know how much I love you
You'll never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear

(You give me such a)
Fever in the morning
Fever all through the night
Fever when you kiss me, baby
And fever when you hold me tight

The sun lights up the daytime
The moon lights up the night
Yeah but I light up every time you call my name
And I know you're gonna treat me right

(You know I just can't stand by myself,
'Cause I got a fever....)

Isn't That So lyrics - Marc Cohn

Did he know what he was doing
Putting eyes into my head
If he didn't want me watching women
He should've left my eyeballs dead

Isn't that so
Isn't that so
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so

Did he know what he was doing
When he divided high and low
You've got to bury the seeds in the dirt my friend
If you want the thing to grow

Isn't that so
Isn't that so
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so

Well it's the line of the least resistance
That leads me on....

Did he know what he was doing
When he made that perfect vine
His own son got the reputation
of turning water into wine

Isn't that so
Isn't that so
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so

You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so

Take Me To Hamburg lyrics - Marc Cohn

Let's go down to Hamburg
Let's go down right now
Let's go down to Hamburg
Let's go down right now

I don't wanna go to Berlin
Would be such a sin
Let's go down to Hamburg
Right now

Don't gimme no Paris
Don't gimme no France
Take me to Hamburg, baby
Where they know how to dance

I don't need Munich
And I don't want Rome
Just take me to Hamburg
'Cause I can't find Cologne

Just take me to Hamburg
In the Music Hall
Take me to Hamburg
I'm sure we're gonna have a ball

Take me to Hamburg....

I really don't miss the USA
I'll stay in Europe any old day
I wanna be where I get relief
Give me the place where they invented beef

Take me to Hamburg....

The Coldest Corner In The World lyrics - Marc Cohn

The Weatherman says a front is moving in
It's coming from the Arctic
On a bone chilling wind
That ain't news to me
It's the way its always been
'Cause I live on the coldest corner in the world

Tree Man came down from Canada today
He smiles at me and now I know Winters here to stay
But I don't need no pine tree to remind me anyway
'Cause I live on the coldest corner in the world

Somebody help me!
Help me please!
I'm suspended in a deep freeze
And I don't need the Savior
I need 85 degrees
And a woman...who loves me.

The wind keeps whipping off the river
Is it the wind or something else
That make me shiver
It don't matter anyway
'Cause I know soon I'll be delivered
From the coldest corner in the world

Somebody help me!
Help me please!
I am suspended in a deep freeze
And I don't need the Savior
I need 85 degrees
And a woman...who loves me.

...a woman who loves me.