A state of anguish Faintness and fear A state of sorrow And no willing ear Out of the tail of my own eyes Illusive skies Bewildering my mind Endlessly
The Kashmir sky, the biggest face in snow Sixteen thousand feet, reaching from top to toe A sight of blinding splendor when destiny calls Straight on
The heart of a discoverer A poet in your soul The moving force inside you A vision and a goal The advent of an era At a cracking pace Scouting out the
I came from miles around to holy ground The riddance of my soul to take control So where are you? With all my heart I try To wish away the big goodbye
Come and stay, make my day Take away the gray And set the wheels in motion Down the road, what you do Come and fall into At the end of this day You
Are we beyond salvation? Can't read the runes, can't see Got lost in the translation Why, why, why did we? We're squaring the circle by powers unseen
The sleeping giant, entangled am I Ended in deadlock, mistreated by and by So mine a rich seam Do as you would be done by Caught in this here The sadness
the chain Pylon in the rain Beacon in the strain Pylon in the rain Diamond in the chain I'm solitaire, I'm solitaire Solitaire, I'm solitaire, woo-
Followed our wind to shape the course Had a blueprint, we are in mid ocean Hyaline, followed our devotion We followed traces into freedom Into the afterglow
And Solitaire is the only game in town And every road that takes him, takes him down While life goes on around him everywhere He's playing Solitaire
friendly game of solitaire Love is cruel, baby Love ain't fair And there ain't no map or book of rules to get you there It's just a friendly game of solitaire
Locked away in a cage My rage has got the best of me Time finds a way each day Of leaving less of me behind I find this fight must be won Inside my mind
it must be all a game of chess, he's playing But you're wrong, Steve You see, it's only solitaire
it must be all a game of chess he's playing But you're wrong, Steve, you see, it's only solitaire
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lover's warm embrace And the whole damned human race You can use and abuse In the end, you'll always lose at the game For I cheated myself at solitaire
that old feeling I'll be dealin' time away with solitaire And until you want to share that old feeling Honey, I'll be dealin' time away Dealin' time away with solitaire
SOLITAIRE (Neil Sedaka/Phil Cody) NEIL SEDAKA ANDY WILLIAMS