They love me like I was a brother  They protect me Listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine Made me happy Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream I call up my friend the good angel But she's out with her ansaphone She says that she would love to come help me but The sea would electrocute us all Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream If you think that you're strong enough If you think you belong enough If you think you belong In my solitude You haunt me With reveries Of days gone by In my solitude You taunt me With memories That never die I sit in my chair I'm filled with despair There's no one could be so sad With gloom everywhere I sit and I stare I know that I'll soon go mad In my solitude I'm praying Dear Lord above Send back my love Nice dream

Nice Dream, by Yorke/O'Brien/Selway (Radiohead)                                         Solitude, by Duke Ellington

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She touched me She put her hand near mine And then she touched me I felt a sudden tingle When she touched me A sparkle A glow Oh, she knew it It wasn't accidental No, she knew it She smiled and seemed to tell me so all through it She knew it.  I know She's real and the world is alive and shining I feel such a wonderful drive t'ward Valentining She touched me I simply have to face the fact She touched me Control myself and try to act As if I remember my name But she touched me She touched me And suddenly nothing is the same I hear singing and there's no one there  I smell blossom and the trees are bare All day long I seem to walk on air I wonder why I wonder why I keep tossing in my sleep at night And what's more I've lost my appetite Stars that used to twinkle in the sky Are twinkling in my eye I wonder why  I am dizzy  I am whirling I feel like my hair is curling All around my head Like a lucky bird Landed on my head I must pinch myself to see If this has happened and to me It's like a lucky bird Shat upon my head Ordinarily I'm meek But I could raise a fuss and shriek See that cloud I just might Jump right up Grab a bite But for a while I will Stand completely still My heart's trying to tell me something Yes, my heart begin Speak or pound or spin Tell me something Tell me something Yes, my heart She's wonderful Yes, my heart This is our chance But for a while I will Stand completely still Then I'll have to laugh and sing and dance My heart's tryin' to tell me something Tell me something Tell me something Tell me something Yes, my heart She's wonderful Yes, my heart This is our chance But for a while I will Stand completely still Then I’ll have to run and spin And shout and shriek And giggle and grin And leap and prance And laugh and sing and dance

She Touched Me, by I Levin/M Schafer from Drat!  The Cat!                                         You're Just in Love, by Irving Berlin from Call Me Madam                   Yes, My Heart, by Bob Merrill, from Carnival

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Remind me not to find you so attractive Remind me not to gaze at you again When I start to miss you To touch your hand, to kiss you Remind me, to count to ten I had the feeling when I met you You'd drive me crazy if I let you But all my efforts to forget you Remind me I'm in love again. I get my heart well in my hand and I'm certain That I can take you or leave you alone Then you begin that beguine again and boom I give in again I have a will made of steel my friend But when it seems about to bend Remind me not to mention that I love you Remind me to be sorry that we met Although I adore you remind me to ignore you You're one thing I will regret So when your charm begins to blind me I'll simply tie my hands behind me Don't let me kiss you please remind me Unless, my darling, you forget. I wish I could forget you  Erase you from my mind. But ever since I met you, I find I cannot leave the thought of you behind. That doesn't mean I love you... I wish that I could love you... I know that I've upset you. I know I've been unkind. I wanted you to vanish from sight, But now I see you in a different light, And though I cannot love you, I wish that I could love you. For now I'm seeing love  Like none I've ever known, A love as pure as breath, As permanent as death, Implacable as stone. A love that, like a knife, Has cut into a life I wanted left alone. A love I may regret, But one I can't forget. I don't know how I let you So far inside my mind, There you are and there you will stay. How could I ever wish you away? I see now I was blind. And should I die tomorrow, Another thing I see: Your love will live in me.

Remind Me, by  Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields from the 1940 movie musical One Night in the Tropics                                                   I Wish I Could Forget You, by Stephen Sondheim from Passion

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What now, my love  Now that you've left me How can I live Through another day Watching my dreams Turn into ashes And my hopes Into bits of clay Once I could see Once I could feel But now I'm numb I've become unreal I walk the night Without a goal Stripped of my heart My soul What now my love Now that it's over I see the world Closing in on me Here come the stars Tumbling around me There's the sky where the sea should be What now my love Now that you've gone I'd be a fool to go and on No one would care No one would cry If I should live or die What now my love Now there is nothing Only my last goodbye

What Now My Love, by Becaud/Sigman

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How can I lose you?  You're all that I know What will I do now? Where will I go? We were together Now we are through Why am I losing you? How can you leave me Leave me this way Leave me to miss you Day after day I look around me You're all I see Pictures of you leaving me No one should always lose Can't I find some kind of peace Nobody owns the blues But I have a long term lease I'll never know why I never know when I'm going along, it happens again I have a blind spot forty miles wide I have a terrible weakness inside That's how I lose you That's how I lose you I was another boy Simple and happy and free He was a bundle of joy When did he turn into me? How can I lose you? You're all that I had Where could I go? What do I say now How was I bad? Who can I turn to? Where will I go? How can I live now Missing you so? How can you leave me? You're all that I know Oh! That's how I lost you That's how I always lost you That's how I'll always lose you Oh!

How Could I Lose You?, by Adam Guettel from Saturn Returns

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It's a God awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair And her Mummy is yelling "No" But her Daddy has told her to go And her friend is nowhere to be seen As she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! I wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lenin's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? Is there life on Mars?

Life on Mars, by David Bowie

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Prelude No.8 in E flat minor, BWV 853 Over my head I hear music everywhere Over my head I hear music everywhere Over my head I hear music everywhere There must be a God somewhere  Is it warm? Is it soft against your face Beside the breeze? Do you feel a kind of grace? Will there be trees? Is there light? Does it harbour on the ground? Does it shine from all around? Or just from you? Is it endless and empty And you wander on your own Slowly forget about the folks that you have known? Or does rising bread Fill up the air From open kitchens everywhere Familiar faces far as you can see? Like a family? Do we live? Is it like a little town? Do we get to look back down At who we loved? Are we above? Are we everywhere? Are we anywhere at all? Do we hear a trumpet call us And we're by your side? Will I want? Will I wish for all the things I should have done Longing to finish what I've only just begun? Or has shining truth been waiting there? For all the questions everywhere In a world of wondering Suddenly you know And you will always know Will my mother be there waiting for me Smiling like the way she does And holding out her arms as she calls my name? She will hold me Just the same Only heaven knows how glory goes What each of us is meant to be In the starlight That is what we are I can see so far

JS Bach Over My Head - trad             Glory Goes, by Adam Guettel, from Floyd Collins

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Alone together  Beyond the crowd Above the world We're not too proud To cling together We're strong as long as we're Together Alone together The blinding rain The starless night Were not in vain For we're together And what is there to fear Together Our love is as deep as the sea Our love is as great as a love can be And we can weather The great unknown If we're alone together Together Together If we're alone Together

Alone Together, by Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz from the 1932 Broadway musical Flying Colors

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The stars are gone  Slipped out of sight I ought to follow them Into the night But here is good Feels almost right Don't call it love yet Just call it light This is what it is to wake up, yeah This is what it is to feel warm, yeah This is what it is to be filled, sure This is what it is to be lost,  help This is what it is to feel scared, God This is what it is This is what it is to know the day And meet the sun And find that I am not the only one I am not the only one Who's afraid of a world Too big, too bright This is what it is, this is what it is To live in light

This is What it is, by Michael John LaChiusa from The Wild Party

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After the ball is over  After the break of morn After the dancers' leaving After the stars are gone Many a heart is aching If you could read them all Many's the  fears that have vanished After the Ball

After the Ball is Over, by Oscar Hammerstein II/ Charles K Harris from the 1893 Broadway musical A Trip to Chinatown