Shirley Bassey - If And When / Just The Way You Are

1982 (Shirley performs a powerful rendition of the belter ballad, 'If and When', then follows with the great Billy Joel number, 'Just The Way You Are'. Performed on her TV Variety Special in 1982)

ABOUT the LP, All By Myself:
All by Myself is a 1982 album by Shirley Bassey. Having ended her contract with United Artists around 1980 (around the time that label was sold to Bassey's former home EMI), Bassey took a break from recording, and then began releasing albums on various labels. All by Myself was the first of these, issued on the Applause label. 1982 was the dawn of the CD era, and this was her first-ever album to be issued on CD. The album was also issued on LP and cassette. In the UK and some other countries, the album was titled Love Songs, with identical cover art, and under that name it charted for five weeks on the UK albums chart, on the K-tel label, peaking at #48. The original CD has since become scarce, though the songs have appeared on many compilations.

LYRICS - If And When:
If and when
I fall in love again
I shall remember when
My world was you

When and if
I get that ole terrific thrill
It will last until
I think of you

Live and learn
They say we live and learn
And maybe in return
We learn to live

Foolish me
How crazy can I be
When anyone can see
There's only you

If and when
Love ever calls again
I close the door and say
You've been this way before


If and when
Love ever calls again
I close the door and say
You've been this way .....
Before!



LYRICS - This Masquerade:
Are we really happy with this lonely game we play
Looking for words to say
Searching but not finding, understanding anyway
We're lost in a masquerade
Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over, but
the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
every time I see your eyes

No matter how hard I try
To understand the reasons why we carry on this way
We're lost in a masquerade
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/JDss ]
Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over, but
the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
every time I see your eyes

No matter how hard I try
To understand the reasons why we carry on this way
We're lost in a masquerade
We're lost in a masquerade
We're lost in a masquerade
We're lost in a masquerade
Masquerade
Masquerade
Masquerade
Masquerade

LYRICS - Just The Way You Are:
Don't go changing, to try and please me,
You never let me down before,
Don't imagine, you're too familiar,
And I don't see you anymore.

I would not leave you, in times of trouble,
We never could have come this far,
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times,
I'll take you just the way you are.

Don't go trying, some new fashion,
Don't change the colour of your hair,
You always have my, unspoken passion,
Although I might not seem to care.

I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew,
What will it take till you believe in me,
The way that I believe in you?

I said I love you, and that's forever,
And this I promise from the heart,
I couldn't love you, any better,
I love you just the way you are.

I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shirley Bassey
• Ornandel
• Norman Newell
• Billy Joel

[raul1252]

soy fan de barry white pero despues ella es mi diva como cantante la adoro su voz es maravillosa para mi es unica

[raul1252]

una voz magica 

[IFINEVERSING]

after a period of illness Shirley finally undertook a postponed 1982 concert tour with the love songs album including `if and when` . I saw the second night at BRIGHTON, all four nights at The Royal Albert Hall and Southhampton. At the Albert hall she wore the incredible half dress/half trousers with matching headband. Then came this TV special with the incredible introduction ........hers is the voice of heartache......"she is what love is all about .... she is Shirley Bassey"

[2010dispencer]

absolute perfection

[grai]

they say we live and learn and maybe in return we learn to live

who said Bassey belts everything