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Anymore
 

I don't know you anymore
I don't have you as before
As the years go by the tears I cry
Will cease to be reality
I don't know you anymore

 

I can't take it anymore
I can't see beyond the door
If I had the time to fill your mind
I'd give you soul and rock 'n' roll
I can't take it anymore

 

You must realize
I'm not responsible for what I do
'Cos my inner soul has taken control
And is driving me out of my mind

 

I won't tell you anymore
I won't say it as before
I will turn my pain to clouds of rain
And let it pour forever more
I don't love you anymore

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

'Cos I Love You
 

I don't know if I mean what I say
After all words just get in my way
I have tried but you know it just won't do
'Cos I love you and I love you so
But I can't let you know oh woman

 

There will be times when it seems

    like I don't care
But please remember

    the love I want to share
And I'll remember

    the things you like to do
'Cos I love you and I love you so
But I can't let you know oh woman

Oh my woman oh my woman

 

Listen to me when I call your name
Help me through it, girl, 'cos

    things are not the same
And in my mind

    your love is running through
'Cos I love you and I love you so
But I can't let you know

    and I won't let you go
Oh no, oh no

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, ll Rights Reserved

 

 

Gimme, Baby
 

When I get your lovin'

    I get weak in the knees

Ready to roll over honey

    gimme a squeeze

Love me like ya did just the other night

Gimme whatcha wanna baby it's alright

'Cos I need ya so and girl don'tcha know

    that I love you

 

Early in the mornin'

    when the sun don't rise

I can see it shinin' baby in your eyes

Feelin' good all over 'cos you're so divine Feelin' even better

    'cos I know you're mine

And I need ya so and girl don'tcha know

    that I love you

 

Every time we get together

All is well with nothin' better goin' down

Every time our love we're makin'

I can feel your body shakin'

Makin' me believe in the love I found

 

Later in the evenin' when I take ya home

Sittin' there together and we're all alone

Nothin' gettin' to me

    when I'm in your arms

Gimme, baby, show me, baby,

    all your charms

'Cos I need ya so and girl don'tcha know

    that I love you

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Deep In Love
 

When I saw her sitting there

I knew that I never would forget her

From the start she had my heart

And now every day it's getting better

 

And deep in love is how I feel inside

And deep in love so long before denied

 

Later on when friends have gone

Knowing she would never let me tease her Hold her tight all through the night

Doing everything I can to please her

 

And deep in love is how she feels inside

And deep in love so long before denied

 

Neither know just where to go

Or what to do or say or show each other

I can feel our love is real

Knowing there will never be another

 

And deep in love is how we feel inside

And deep in love so long before denied

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch,  All Rights Reserved

 

 

Knight Ballad
 

Once rode a knight in armor black

    with a sword no stone could bend
He tortured all the countryside

    of which there was no end
A peasant came up to the knight

    and begged of him to stop
The bold knight said "I'll have your head"

    and did so with a chop

 

At this the people cried aloud

    "oh mercy, pray thee cease"
The laughter echoed far and near

    "as I live there'll be no peace"
To seek the help of neighbors near

    another slipped away
The deviled one soon spotted him

    and then said "thee I'll slay"

 

At this he drew his mighty sword

    and raised it to the clouds
And as the sword ran through his heart

    the peasant screamed aloud
"May you be damned for what you've

    done for soon I shall return
To take your soul to Satan's home

    where your cold heart shall burn"

 

At this the killer only laughed

    for he did not believe
He slew three other helpless souls

    and told the rest to leave
At this the countryside grew bare

    of every man and child
The knight demanded quietness

    so no one dared to be wild

 

The prince of darkness fell asleep

    but soon he wakened fast
For in a dream he heard the words

    "beware, I've come at last"
It was the ghost who'd cursed the knight

    and hell lay through the door
And to this day throughout the land

    the knight was seen no more

 

Words Copyright © 1973

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Help Me, Please
 

Help me, please I'm down on the floor
Help me, please can't take anymore

 

It's been a long time
Since I've been well
I may feel better tomorrow
Only time will tell
Only time will tell

 

Help me, please it's not much to ask
Help me, please to strip off my mask

 

My days are so different
They're all rearranged
It's hard to recognize the truth
It seems so very strange
Seems so very strange

 

Help me, please don't turn away
Help me, please tell me you'll stay

 

Words Copyright © 1973

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Wishing
 

When my love is far away
I feel like a cloudy day
And I'm wishing that you'd come home

 

When I cannot see you smile
The days seem endless all the while
And I'm wishing that you'd come home

 

And tomorrow when I see your face
My heart may be in another place
But you will know exactly how I feel

 

And if you would say that you'd be mine
Then all my wishes I would find
That suddenly they were very real

 

When I finally decide
My love for you I cannot hide
I'll be wishing that you'd come home
Come on home

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1975

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Pin-Ball Freak

 

I'm a freak on pin-ball

    though I'm not a wizard yet
I play for fun and honor but

    I take whatever I can get
The flippers show my style as they

    send the ball back to the top
I sacrificed my money now

    I'm winning and I cannot stop

 

I gotta have a good time
I gotta win a game
I gotta show the others
I gotta save my name
You know I gotta save my name

 

We had an all-night tourney

    I got to choose my best machine
The others couldn't touch me and

    they said I was the best they'd seen
So if you play the body-table

    practice and you can't be beat
It's fun to be a winner and

    it's good to be a pin-ball freak

 

I'm gonna have a good time
I'm gonna win a game
I'm gonna show the others
I'm gonna save my name
You know I'm gonna save my name
You know I'm gonna save my name

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

If This Is Love

 

What is this feeling deep within my bones
Won't let me be happy

    won't leave me alone
Before I could cope with life's realities
But now I'm changing over and

    falling to my knees

 

If this is love I don't need it
I'd rather be a stone
If this is love I don't want it
So leave me alone

 

Cracking in my brain and

    ringing through my spine
Let me live without you

    give me back my mind
For knowing there will come a day

    when we must part
I want to keep on living

    so give me back my heart

 

If this is love I don't need it
I'd rather be a stone
If this is love I don't want it
So leave me alone

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Every Friday Night

 

Monday always gets me down

    heavy on my mind
Tuesday's just another drag

    only wastes my time
Wednesday I can hardly take it

    feeling kinda blue
Thursday's almost over and

    I'm gonna be with you

 

Every Friday night I feel alright
You bring me to my feet
I believe it's true a night with you
Will make my world complete

 

Saturday I go insane

    wishing you were here
Sunday and I'm all alone

    wishing you were near
Starting over once again

    got to make it through
Waiting for the special night

    I will spend with you

 

Every Friday night I feel alright
You bring me to my feet
And you know it's true a life with you
Will make my life complete

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

A Song For Sue

 

Goddess of reality

Tell me what you mean to me
Is there something I should see

    that I don't


Lovely lady in disguise

Let me look into your eyes
If love comes to only lies then I won't

 

Love for me is something new
Something I can share with you
Without all will never do
Can't you see

 

When you softly hold me tight

I can brave the darkest night
For in your heart there shines a light

    shows the way


With a kiss I tell you so

Speak and let my feelings go
And I'm gonna let you know every day

 

Smile and tell me that you care
Help me to become aware
Let me know your love is there
Just for me

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

My World

 

My world is changing every day
Living so different in every way
Nothing's the same it's all a new game
But love will remain in my heart

 

Your world arranging

    thoughts in my head
Things you have done and

    words you have said
Fill up my mind leaving me blind
I'm hoping to find what it is

 

People I know and places to go

    bring memories to mind
But that's yesterday and this is today
And suddenly I find

    I'm happy 'cos you're mine
In love and feeling fine

 

Our world is changing all of the time
It's getting better in both of our minds
As good as can be both you and me
I think will agree

    that it's love love love love

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Country Soul

 

(Instrumental)

 

Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

African Sunrise

 

(Instrumental)

 

Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch & Kerry England,

    All Rights Reserved

 

 

Look

 

Look around you tell me who do you see
Look around you do you know that it's me
I'm right beside you in all you do
I'm here to guide you to make it through
And I, I love you

 

Look inside you

    tell me what's on your mind
Look inside you

    do you know what you'll find
You're not as lonely as you may seem
You're just the only girl in my dreams
And I, I love you

 

For only you
And only me too will do

 

Do you remember the other night
You held me close I held you tight
Oh I can't the first time that we met
And I remember yet holding you

 

Look into me tell me what can I be
Look into me do you know what you see
We're only lovers together as one
We're all the others we've just begun
And I, I love you

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

I Will Go Away

 

I still remember what you said to me
I still remember you were bad to me
But I won't take it anymore
I will leave you and close the door
I will go away but I'll come back someday

 

You should have said

    you would not be true
You should have said what you needed to
But you lied girl and I believed
Now it's gone and I feel relieved
I will go away but I'll come back someday

 

For the love we had was nothing bad
Instead it was something good
But you lost your head

    and the words you said
Were words that you never should
You know you don't mean them

 

Now in the evenings

    when I call your name
Now in the evenings girl I go insane
But I won't let my feelings show
I will hide them so no one knows
I will go away but I'll come back someday
I will go away

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1975

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

I Still Love You

 

Seeing you now
Remembering how
When I once loved you

 

Sitting so close
And nobody knows
That I still love you

 

What we had before has been gone
For such a long long time
Still each day I find it hard to erase
Your memory from my mind

 

Watching you leave
It's making me grieve
'Cos I still love you

 

Seeing your smile
I know all the while
That I still love you

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1975

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Love For Me Is You

 

What can I say about you
Except I can't live without

    the little things you do
And love for you is me

 

What can I do around you
When I'm so glad I found out

    that we'll always be
And love for me is you

 

Love is in the air you breathe
Love is here to stay
Love is all you really need
To chase your blues away

 

What can I be inside, love
If I can't be beside you when I need to be
And love for me is you

 

Love is in the air you breathe
Love is here to stay
Love is all you really need
To chase your blues away

 

What can I be inside, love
If I can't be beside you when I need to be
And love for me is you

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

 

I Wanna (And Yet)

 

I wanna live and yet I wanna die
I wanna tell you and yet I've got to lie
I wanna show you and yet I cannot say
I wanna stay here and yet I run away

 

I wanna love you

    and yet you don't want me
I wanna end it and yet I wanna be
I wanna have you and yet I wanna go
I wanna know you and yet what do I know

 

I wanna make you

    and yet it's looking down
I wanna see you

    and yet you're not around
I wanna stop it and yet it's now too late
I wanna forget you and yet I cannot wait

 

I wanna love you

    and yet you don't want me
I wanna end it and yet I wanna be

I wanna have you and yet I wanna go

I wanna know you and yet what do I know

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


Light Of Love

 

Out of the darkness

    there shines a broken light
Shines not too strong

    and shines not too bright
But it shines for all of those

    who share in love
Let it shine on me

 

The love light begins

    as the smallest of flames
Which must be kindled and finally tamed
And forever to glow for the ones who love
Let it glow for me

 

Only when you have it

    can you give it away
Only when you give it can you feel
Only when you lose it can you realize
What you had to lose

    was something real

 

As the flame grows stronger with

     every passing day
One becomes the other

    in each and every way
And to those who may smile and

    say it must be love
Let them smile on me
Let it glow for me
Let it shine on me
The light of love

 

Words Copyright © 1974

    Susan Sommer & Sherman Crouch,

    All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


Now That It's Over

 

Now, now that it's over
I love you more more than ever
Since you've been gone my heart
    just can't get over
The love I feel for you inside forever

 

Since that night not long ago
When I realized that we were apart
There's been an emptiness in my heart
The loneliness that swallows me
And makes me feel like an actor in a part

 

When I see you now

    having fun and smiling

    (smiling, smiling)
I don't see any hurt in your eyes
But I can't get away from the hurt

    inside me oh no
And whenever I go to look
I can only see with empty eyes

 

But now, now that it's over
I still love you more more than ever
Since you've been gone my heart
    just can't get over
The love I feel for you inside forever
The love I feel for you inside forever

 

Words Copyright © 1974

    Steve Whitsitt, All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


Season Of Love
 

Spring is the season of love
Life is in the air everywhere
And I see it

 

Summer is the season of love
Warmth is on the ground all around
And I feel it

 

Fall is the season of love
Parting of the leaves from the trees
And I know it

 

Winter is the season of love
Snowing in the night what a sight
And I hear it

 

Today is the season of love
The sun is in my heart what a start
And I love it

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


Bores Me To Death
 

Hear of the troubles that others may have
The troubles that I have myself
Wondering if they will make it alright
And will I as everyone else

 

I'm yawning and yearning and

    tossing and turning
A restless sound on my breath
Whatever I do and no matter with whom
You know it bores me to death

 

Listen to people who talk all their lives
Wanting to shut off my ears
Few are the times when they

    say what they mean
But they know that nobody hears

 

They're chitting and chatting and

    spitting and spatting
When all the others have left
But still I'm around and every sound
You know it bores me to death

 

Words & Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


My Love, I Love You More

 

Even though I love my beard

    I'll shave it off for you
Cut off both my sideburns and

    trim my mustache too
I'll even cut my two-foot hair and

    this I'll do for sure
For though I love to be a freak

    my love, I love you more

 

Even though I wear no shoes

    I'll buy a brand new pair
Brush my teeth and clean my nails and

    even comb my hair
I'll wear a suit instead of jeans and

    you know what it's for
'Cos though I love to be a freak

    my love, I love you more

 

Even though I ride a bike

    I'll trade it for a car
Never drink or take a drug

    so I'll know where you are
I'll even sell my sweet guitar

    for now it's just a bore
And though I used to love these things

    my love, I love you more

 

Words Copyright © 1975

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 


She's Going Home

 

Yesterday I met her

    when I was down and out
I guess we showed each other

    what love was all about

She took my mind and took my soul and

    made me realize
That love can be a different word

    in everybody's eyes

 

Today as I still love her

    my heart can't understand
How she can say she loves me

    but loves another man
I told her once and told her twice

    my love I cannot share
But still she loves the two of us

    as if she didn't care

 

Now she's going home

    to the guy she knew before
And though I love her more

    she's going home

 

Tomorrow when I see her

    I wonder what she'll say
Will everything still be the same

    as when she went away
Or will her love belong to me

    and not to someone else
But if it doesn't then I'll know

    I've only hurt myself

 

Now she's going home

    to the guy she knew before
And though I love her more

    she's going home

 

Words Copyright © 1974

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved
Music Copyright © 1975

    Sherman Crouch, All Rights Reserved

 

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