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Cat Stevens & Carly Simon

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Cat Stevens and Carly Simon in London during the recording of Anticipation. (1970)
Photograph by Peter Simon (Carlys' brother)
 

Songs written by Carly Simon for, or about Cat Stevens

LEGEND IN YOUR OWN TIME
(Carly Simon)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
ANTICIPATION
(Carly Simon)
 
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.
 
Songs written by Cat Stevens for, or about Carly Simon.
 
SWEET SCARLET
( Cat Stevens)
 
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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