Cat Stevens & Carly Simon
- Cat Stevens and Carly Simon in
London during the recording of Anticipation. (1970)
- Photograph by Peter Simon
(Carlys' brother)
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Songs written by Carly
Simon for, or about Cat Stevens
- LEGEND IN YOUR OWN TIME
- (Carly Simon)
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- Well I have known you
- Since you were a small boy
- And your mama used to say
- My boy is gonna grow up and be
- Some kind of leader some day.
- Then you'd turn on the radio
- And sing with the singer in the band
- And your mama would say to you
- This isn't exactly what she had planned.
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- But you're a legend in your own time
- A hero in the footlights
- Playing' tunes to fit your rhyme
- But a legends only a lonely boy
- When he goes home alone.
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- And although I know you
- Still have the heart of that small boy
- Well, you lend it out far too much
- And no one woman loving you
- Can ever tell if you've been really touched.
- Then you turn on the radio
- And sing with the singer in the band
- And think kind of sadly to yourself
- This isn't exactly what you had planned.
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- But you're a legend in your own time
- A hero in the footlights
- Playing' tunes to fit your rhyme
- But a legends only a lonely boy
- When he goes home alone.
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- ANTICIPATION
- (Carly Simon)
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- Rumored to have been written
while Carly was waiting for Cat Stevens on a first date
- We can never know about the days to come
- But we think about them anyway
- And I wonder if I'm really with you now
- Or just chasing after some finer day.
- Anticipation, Anticipation
- Is making me late
- Is keeping me waiting
- And I tell you how easy it is to be with you
- And how right your arms feel around me.
- Bit I rehearsed those words just late last
night
- When I was thinking about how right tonight
might be.
- Anticipation, Anticipation
- Is making me late
- Is keeping me waiting
- And tomorrow we might not be together
- I'm no prophet, I don't know natures way
- So I'll try to see into your eyes right now
- And stay right here,
- 'cause these are the good old days.
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- Songs written by Cat Stevens for, or
about Carly Simon.
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- SWEET SCARLET
- ( Cat Stevens)
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- Once she came into my room, feathered hat
and all
Wearing a warm wool shawl wrapped around her shoulders
Two eyes like lights, milky marble whites looking up at me
Looking for a way, Moons in an endless day
All I knew was with her then, no couldn't see the time
As we drank down the wine to the last Sweet Scarlet
How was I to wonder why or even question this
Underneath her her kiss I was so unguarded
Every bottle's empty now and all those dreams are gone
Ah, but the song carries on...so holy
She was so much younger then, wild like the wind
A gypsy with a grin from and old far away country
but deep beneath her curls,
Beneath this misty pearl, there was more to see
She could move mountains in the dark as silent as a knife
She cut loose a life that she never no never really wanted
All those days are frozen now and all those scars are gone
Ah, but the song carries on...so holy
Come let us drink again, before the second show
I want you so to know there's no bridge between us
All those gates have opened now,- and through the light has shone
Ah, but the song carries on...so holy
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