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Really Useful Records released Encore in 2001, soon after the release of Brightman's album Classics.  Both, of which, are compilation discs.  Most of these songs are either from The Songs That Got Away or Surrender: The Unexpected Songs.  "Think of Me" is from The Phantom of the Opera original cast recording.  Tracks 1, 4 ,5 ,10 ,13 are previously unreleased.
















 

Whistle Down the Wind

From Whistle Down The Wind

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Jim Steinman

(3:28)

 

Whistle down the wind

Let your voices carry

Drown out all the rain

Light a patch of darkness

Treacherous and scary

 

Howl at the stars

Whisper when you're sleeping

I'll be there to hold you

I'll be there to stop

The tears and all the weeping

Make it clear and strong

So the whole night long

Every signal that you send

Until the very end

I will not abandon you

My precious friend

 

So try and stem the tide

Then you'll raise a banner

Send a flare up in the sky

Try to burn a torch

And try to build a bonfire

Every signal that you send

Until the very end, I'm there

 

So, whistle down the wind

For I have always been right there

 

Howl at the stars

Whisper when you're sleeping

I'll be there to hold you

I'll be there to stop

The chills and all the weeping

Make it clear and strong

So the whole night long

Every signal that you send

Until the very end

I will not abandon you

My precious friend

 

So, whistle down the wind

Let your voices carry

Drown out all the rain

Light a patch of darkness

Treacherous and scary

Every signal that you send

Until the very end, I'm there

 

So whistle down the wind

For I have always been right there

 

 

Away From You

From Rex

Music: Richard Rodgers

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

(3:29)

 

Away from you

There is no music,

There is no sunlight,

The world is gray

Away from you

The clocks are frozen,

And time's a traveler,

Who's lost his way

 

The people I meet

Might as well be statues,

The words we exchange

Might as well be Greek

The room that I'm in

May be bright and cheerful

But to me

It's dim and bleak

 

I'm half alive

Until the moment

The door swings open

And you walk through

And so you see

Why I can never be

Away from you

 

The people I meet

Might as well be statues,

The words we exchange

Might as well be Greek

The room that I'm in

May be bright and cheerful

But to me

It's dim and bleak

 

I'm half alive

Until the moment

The door swings open

And you walk through

Now my soul is afloat

On a wave of music

That I could feel such joy

I never knew

And so you see

Why I can never be

Away from you

 

 

Guardami (With One Look)

From Sunset Boulevard

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Don Black

(3:38)

 

Guardami

No andare via

Guardami

Non vorrai di più

 

Non lasciar che così sia

Con un si vedrai

Quello che vorrai

 

Guardami

Sono solo io

Quella che

Ti porterà via

 

La mia anima è con te

Non saprai di più

 

Mai più vedrai

La scena che faro

E non fingero

Di saper di più

 

Tu sai che io

È lì che finirò

Mentre guardo te

Di dirò cosa è

 

Guardami

Già non parlo più

Sento ormai

Che t'arrenderai

 

Piano piano tra di noi

È la musica che ti fa sognar

 

Guardami

Non ne posso più

Questa si è la vita mia

 

E nell'ombra

Troverai

Tutto quel che vuoi

 

Una dolce melodia

Che qualcuno a vrà

Cantato giù

 

Guardami

Una fiamma ormai

Come me non ci saranno mai

Sono ancora qui tra voi

 

Sento che adesso

Io rimarrò qui

Solo adesso

Sento che con te

Sono io

Guarda

 

 

Think of Me

From The Phantom of the Opera

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe

(3:15)

 

Christine (Sarah Brightman):

Think of me

Think of me fondly,

When we've said

Goodbye.

Remember me

Once in a while,

Please promise me

You'll try

 

When you find

That, once

Again, you long

To take your heart back

And be free,

If you

Ever find

A moment,

Spare a thought

For me...

 

We never said

Our love

Was evergreen,

Or as unchanging

As the sea -

But if

You can still

Remember,

Stop and think

Of me...

 

Think of all the things

We've shared and seen,

Don't think about the things

Which might have been...

 

Think of me,

Think of me waking,

Silent and

Resigned

 

Imagine me,

Trying too hard

To put you

From my mind

 

Recall those days,

Look back

On all those times,

Think of the things

We'll never do,

There will

Never be

A day, when

I won't think

Of you...

 

Raoul (Steve Barton):

Can it be?

Can it be Christine?

Bravo!

 

What a change!

You're really

Not a bit

The gawkish girl

That once you were...

 

She may

Not remember

Me, but

I remember

Her...

 

Christine (Sarah Brightman):

We never said

Our love

Was evergreen,

Or as unchanging

As the sea -

But please

Promise me

That sometimes

You will think

Ah-ah-ah-ah-aaah-of me!

 

 

 One More Walk Around the Garden

From Carmelina

Music: Burton Lane

Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner

(3:18)

 

That old April yearning

Once more is returning

And I have a longing to wander.

 

The leaves may be falling,

But April is calling

And the prim roses beckon me yonder.

 

For one more walk around the garden

One more stroll along the shore.

One more memory I can dream upon

Until I dream no more.

For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait

And one more prayer it's not too late

To gather one more rose

Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.

 

That old arch is saying

It's time to go straying

When no one but April can find me.

 

To try and recover

The heart of a lover

That I left lying somewhere behind me

 

Just one more walk along the garden

One more stroll along the shore.

One more memory I can dream upon

Until I dream no more.

For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait

And one more prayer it's not too late

To gather one more rose

Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.

 

One more rose before I close the garden gate.

 

 

Surrender

From Sunset Boulevard

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Don Black, Christopher Hampton

(3:06)

 

No more wars to fight

White flags fly tonight

You are out of danger now

Battlefield is still

Wild poppies on the hill

Peace can only come when you surrender

 

Here the tracers fly

Lighting up the sky

But I'll fight unto the end

Let them send their armies

I will never bend

I won't see you now till I surrender

I'll see you again when I surrender

 

Battlefield is still

Wild poppies on the hill

Peace can only come when you surrender

 

Here the tracers fly

Lighting up the sky

But I'll fight unto the end

Let them send their armies

I will never bend

I won't see you now till I surrender

I'll see you again when I surrender

 

 

If I Ever Fall in Love Again

From The Crooked Mile

Music: Peter Greenwell

Lyrics: Peter Wildeblood

(3:59)

 

If I ever fall in love again,

It'll be with someone just like you

I don't say that I'm in love again

But on the day you came my way, I knew

 

If I ever fall in love again,

This is just the way it ought to be,

But if it's really love again,

I'll leave to fate; I'd rather wait and see

 

How can I know

When my head is saying no

And my heart's telling me that it's real?

Can it be wrong

If I burst into song

At the wonder of feeling the way

That I suddenly feel?

 

If I ever fall in love again

I shall know exactly what to do

And when I fall in love again

I know it must be someone just like you

 

The way that I suddenly feel!

 

If I ever fall in love again

I shall know exactly what to do

And when I fall in love again

I know it must be someone just like you

 

 

 Half A Moment

From Jeeves

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Alan Ayckbourn

(3:59)

 

Half a moment

We are together

I shall want no one else

And nothing new

Half a moment

I shall treasure,

Keep it locked away

For some future rainy day

 

Should you leave me

With just this moment

In my mind?

I shall capture it anew,

Like some picture

Taken in my childhood

Half a moment

Spent with you

 

Half a moment

I shall treasure,

Keep it locked away

For some future rainy day

 

Should you leave me

With just this moment

In my mind?

I shall capture it anew,

Like some picture

Taken in my childhood

Half a moment

Spent with you

 

Countless vivid memories

Spin before my view,

Like some toy kaleidoscope

Images of you

 

Time looks kindly

On fleeting lovers

They can turn the briefest hour

Into a day

Turn a moment

To a lifetime

Making it to last

Blending future with the past

 

We're together,

What else can matter?

Even though

Half a moment is too few

I shall save it

'Til I have another

Making one whole moment

Filled with you

 

 

Piano (Memory) 

From Cats

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Roberto Ferri

(5:07)

 

Piano questi passi d'amore

Sulla strada del cuore

Che mi porta da te

Soffia il vento del tempo

Questa notte che va

Sempre qui ci troverà

 

Piano senza fare rumore

Gira il mondo le ore

Quanta fretta che ha

Un ricordo domani

Questa notte sarà

Sempre qui poi tornerà

 

Nasce il sole

Che cosi

Ci troverà abbracciati

La sua mano

Sulla porta piano

Spalanca il cielo al mattino

 

Giorno mentre arrival l'inverno

Un fedele ritorno

La sua neve cadrà

E la notte più chiara

Questa sera sarà

Quando il puio scenderà

 

Nasce il sole

Che cosi

Ci troverà abbracciati

La sua mano

Sulla porta piano

Spalanca il cielo al mattino

 

Forte e lo voglio gridare

Questo amore più forte

Questa notte sarà

Quante volte

Nel letto si è svegliato con me

Questo amore è per te

 

 

What More Do I Need?

From Saturday Night

Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

(3:04)

 

Once I hated this city,

Now it can't get me down.

Slushy, humid and gritty,

What a pretty town

 

What, thought I, could be duller,

More depressing, less gay

Now my favourite colour

Is grey

 

A wall of rain as it turns to sleet,

The lack of sun on a one-way street,

I love the grime all the time

And what more do I need?

 

My windowpane has a lovely view:

An inch of sky and a fly or two

Why, I can see half a tree

And what more do I need?

 

The dusk is thick and it's galling

It simply can't be excused

In winter even the falling snow looks

Used

 

My windowpane may not give much light,

But I see you, so the view is bright

If I can love you, I'll pay the dirt no heed!

With your love, what more do I need?

 

Someone shouting for quiet,

Someone starting a brawl,

Down the block there's a riot,

And I'll buy it all!

 

Listen, now I'm ecstatic,

Hold me close and be still

Hear the lovely pneumatic

Drill!

 

A subway train thunders through the Bronx,

A taxi horn on the corner honks

But I adore every roar

And what more do I need?

 

I hear a crane making street repairs,

A two-ton child running wild upstairs

Steam pipes bang; sirens clang,

And what more do I need?

 

The neighbours yell in the summer,

The landlord yells in the fall,

So loud I can't hear the plumber

Pound the wall

 

An aeroplane roars across the bay,

But I can hear you as clear as day:

You said you love me

Above the sound and speed

 

With your love,

What more do I need?

 

 

There Is More To Love

From Aspects Of Love

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Don Black, Charles Hart

(2:34)

 

There is more to love,

So much more,

Than simply making love,

That's easy

 

Gazing into eyes,

Pretty eyes,

Which could be any eyes,

That's crazy

 

Hands are just hands,

A face is just a face...

They come and go,

They're easy to replace...

 

There is more to love,

So much more,

Than moon-struck escapades,

That's nothing

 

There is peace of mind,

So much peace,

In quiet company

That's something

 

Everyone but him

Seems wrong for me...

Every time I feel

There has to be

More...

 

If I could hear

The music I heard then,

I'd never let

It fade away again...

 

There is more to love,

So much more,

Than simply making love,

That's easy

 

Gazing into eyes,

Pretty eyes,

Which could be any eyes,

That's crazy

 

Now each time

Love reaches out to me,

I can only feel

There has to be

So much more

To love...

 

 

The Last Man in My Life

From Song & Dance

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Don Black

(3:10)

 

I'm a lady when you kiss me,

I'm a child when you are leaving,

I'm a woman every time our bodies meet,

Complete

 

Long lost feelings stir inside me,

Used to think nights were for sleeping,

Being wanted is a thrill I never knew

Till you

 

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,

I'm how I want to be,

Loving you I can be me,

Just me

 

It's the first time when you touch me,

Now I long for rainy mornings,

I am certain you're the last man in my life.

 

I'm a woman every time our bodies meet

Complete

 

Long lost feelings stir inside me,

Used to think nights were for sleeping,

Being wanted is a thrill I never knew

Till you

 

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,

I'm how I want to be,

Loving you I can be me,

Just me

 

It's the first time when you touch me,

Now I long for rainy mornings,

Tell each other to find all we're looking for

And more

 

Found the rainbow I was after,

No more dreams with one face missing,

I am certain you're the last man in my life

 

 

In The Mandarin's Orchid Garden

From East Is West

Music: George Gershwin

Lyrics: Ira Gershwin

(3:17)

 

Somehow by fate misguided,

A buttercup resided

In the mandarin's orchid garden

 

A buttercup that did not please

The lovely peace of such a place

And so it simply shriveled up

And begged each orchids pardon,

The little buttercup in the orchid garden

 

The bees keep buzzing daily

And kiss the orchids gaily,

In the mandarin's orchid garden

 

A buttercup sighed longingly,

But love was not for such as she

And so one day it shriveled up and died,

Still begging pardon,

The lonely buttercup in the orchid garden

 

I to have been misguided

Too long have I resided

In the mandarin's orchid garden

 

And too for friendliness I yearn,

I do not know which way to turn

How long must I keep shriveled up,

To beg each lady's pardon?

 

A lonely buttercup

In the orchid garden

 

 

Nothing Like You've Ever Known

From Tell Me On A Sunday/Song & Dance

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Don Black

(3:11)

 

Nothing like you've ever known

That's the life I thought that I was gonna show you

Lonely girls believe such things

That's one happy ever after that I owe you

Married man always looking at

You watch

I wanted to spend more time than twelve till two

Loving you

And nothing like it should have been

Every time I think it's gonna be the last time

Each time I expect to much

Being wrong can get to be a painful pastime

 

Something new that is all it was

You know

But when you need someone any love will do

Sad but true

And nothing like we've ever known

That is how I thought all our tomorrows would be

I thought we were all we'd need

Goes to show you just how wrong two people could be

 

 

Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta

From La Rondine

Music: Giacomo Puccini

Lyrics: Giuseppe Adami

(2:45)

 

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Potè indovinar?

Il suo mister come mai

Come mai fini

 

Ahimè! un giorno uno studente

In bocca la baciò

E fu quel bacio

Rivelazione:

Fu la passione!

Folle amore!

Folle ebbrezza!

Chi la sottil carezza

D'un bacio cosi ardente

Mai ridir potrà?

 

Ah! mio sogno!

 

Ah! mia vita!

 

Che importa la ricchezza

Se alfine è rifiorita

La felicità!

O sogno d'or

Poter amar così!

 

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