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Van Morrison song lyrics:
You Win Again
(see Discography entry)

  1. There Stands the Glass
  2. Half As Much
  3. Things Have Gone to Pieces
  4. Big Blue Diamonds
  5. Playhouse
  6. Your Cheatin' Heart
  7. Don't You Make Me High
  8. My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
  9. Back Street Affair
  10. Pay the Devil
  11. What Am I Living For?
  12. This Has Got To Stop
  13. Once a Day
  14. More and More
  15. 'Til I Gain Control Again

Up There Stands the Glass

(Alice Gresham / Russ Hull / Mary Jean Shurtz)

There stands the glass
That will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain
It's my first one to day

There stands the glass
That will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears
Brother, I'm on my way.

I wonder where you are tonight
I wonder if you all right
I wonder if you think of me
In my misery

There stands the glass
Fill it up to the brim
While my troubles grow dim
It's my first one to day.

I wonder where you are tonight
I wonder if you all right
I wonder if you think of me
In my misery

There stands the glass
Fill it up to the brim
While my troubles grow dim
It's my first one to day.

Up Half as Much

(Curly Williams)

If you love me half as much as I love you
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down

If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you

If you love me half as much as I love you
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down

If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
If you only loved me half as much as I love you (one more time)
If you only loved me half as much as I love you

Up Things Have Gone to Pieces

(Leon Payne)

Oh the faucet, started dripping in the kitchen,
Last night your picture fell down from the wall.
And today the boss said: "Sorry son, I can't use you any more."
And tonight the light bulb went out down the hall.

O, things have gone to pieces since you left me.
Nothing turns out half right now, it seems.
There ain't nothing in my pocket, but three nickels and a dime,
And I'm holding to the pieces of my dream.

Somebody threw a baseball through my window,
And the arm fell off my favorite chair today.
Oh, the man he came today, said he'd haul all my things away,
If I didn't get my payments made by ten.

Things have gone to pieces since you left me.
Now, nothing turns out half right now, it seems.
There ain't nothing in my pocket, but three nickels and a dime,
And I'm holding to the pieces of my dream.

Up Big Blue Diamonds

(Earl J. Carson)

Blue diamonds, big blue diamonds, on her finger
Instead of a little band of gold
Big diamonds, big blue diamonds
Tell the story of the love
That no one man could hold

She wanted more than I had money to buy
So she left me, sad and lonely, I am told
Big diamonds, big blue diamonds
Now she'll trade them
For the love behind a little band of gold

Blue diamonds, big blue diamonds, how they sparkle
But what can they do to warm your heart and soul?
When you're lonesome in the moonlight
And you want lovin', yes
Big blue diamonds
Don't they seem so wreckless and bold

I'd gladly do my part to mend her broken heart
But a love that's warmed over soon grows cold
Big diamonds, big blue diamonds
I don't want them, no
I just want a love behind a little band of gold

Up Playhouse

(Van Morrison)

Tear your playhouse
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Oh all that money it's going underground

Baby all that money
All that money don't it make you frown
All that money don't it make you frown
Careless love done tore your playhouse down

All that money, all that money
All that pounds, shillings and pence
All that money, all that pounds, shillings and pence
All that money but it's just no common sense

Going down to Florida, going down to Florida
Gonna move you off my mind
Going down to Florida, I'm gonna get you off my mind
Going down to Florida just to bide my time

All that money
All that money don't it make you frown
All that money don't it make you frown
Careless love done burned your playhouse down, playhouse down

Careless love done burned your playhouse down
Burned your playhouse, burned your playhouse down

Up Your Cheatin' Heart

(Hank Williams)

Your cheatin' heart will make you weep,
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep,
But sleep wont come the whole night through,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down like falling rain,
You'll toss around and call my name,
You'll walk the floor the way I do,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down, like falling rain,
You'll toss around, and call my name,
You'll walk the floor, just the way I do,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you.

Up Don't You Make Me High

(Daniel Barker / Ken Harris)

Oh don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my leg
'Cos if you feel my leg, you'll want to feel my thigh
Don't you feel my thigh, you'll wanna move up high
So don't you feel my leg

Don't you buy no rye, don't you buy no rye
'Cos if you buy me some rye, you gonna make me high
If you make me high, you'll wanna loosen my tie
Don't you buy no rye

Now you say you'll take me out, buy me gin and wine
You got something different on your mind
Say we're gonna have a lovely time
But what I got I know is mine

Don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my leg
'Cos if you feel my leg, you'll want to feel my thigh
If you feel my thigh, you're gonna get a surprise
Don't you feel my leg

Now you say you'll take me out buy me gin and wine
Honey, you got something on your mind
Say we're gonna have a lovely time
What I got I know is mine

Don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my leg
'Cos if you feel my leg, you'll wanna feel my thigh
If you feel my thigh, you'll want to move up high
You're gonna get a surprise
So, don't you feel my leg
So, don't you feel my leg
So, don't you feel my leg
So, don't you feel my leg

Up My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

(Clarence Williams)

Well I'm standin' on a corner,
With my bucket in my hand
Sittin', waitin' for a woman,
Ain't got no man.

Well my bucket's got a hole in it
Well my bucket's got a hole in it
My bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer.

Well, I went up on the mountain,
Looked down in the sea
Seen the crabs and the fishes
Doin' the be-bop-bee.

Well my bucket's got a hole in it
Well my bucket's got a hole in it
My bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer.

Well, there ain't no use
Of me workin' so hard
Hell, I got a woman
In the boss man's yard.

And my bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Well my bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer.

Ho! My bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer.

Ho! My bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer.

Up Backstreet Affair

(Billy Wallace)

You didn't know I wasn't free
When you fell in love with me
And with all your young heart,
You learned to care

It brought you shame and disgrace
The world has tumbled in your face
Because they call our love
A backstreet affair.

They say you wrecked my home
I'm a husband that's gone wrong
They don't know the sorrow
That we've had to bear

While the one I was tied to
Was the first to be untrue
How can they call our love
A backstreet affair?

Well, we have each other now
That's all that matters anyhow
While the judgement
Of gossip's never fair

We'll just be brave and strong
Then some day they'll see they're wrong
So let them call our love
A backstreet affair.

We'll be free to love someday
When all the talk has died away
And the happiness we hoped for
Then we'll share

And I'll climb a mountain high
And the world will hear me cry
That our love is not
A backstreet affair.

Up Pay the Devil

(Van Morrison)

One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's gain can be another man's loss
I'm travelling down the lonely highway
'Cos a rolling stone don't gather no moss

Once I thought I could live the kind of life I wanted
But the wayward wind made me restless and a fool of me
'Cos I thought I could settle for the nine to five life
Well I guess it just was never meant to be

Now people talk and they speculate about what other people would do
But they can't put themselves within my shoes
It used to be my life, now it's become my story
I'm heading down this highway with those blues

Well I'd love to see the sun setting on the riverside
Just to go back home and I want to settle down
Well I have to pay the devil for my music
Why I have to keep on with this roaming around

Have to pay the devil for my music
Keep on rolling from town to town
Have to pay the devil for to play my music
Keep on rolling from town to town

Up What Am I Living For?

(Art Harris / Fred Jay)

What am I living for, if not for you?
Tell me what am I living for, if not for you?
What am I living for, if not for you?
Oh nobody else, nobody else will do

What am I longing for each lonely night?
To feel your lips to mine and hold you tight
You'll be my only love my whole life through
Baby nobody else, nobody else will do

I want you close to me, oh that's all I know
I want you all the time, darlin' I love you so

What am I living for, if not for you?
Oh what am I living for, child if not for you?
I wanna know what am I livin' for if not for you?
Oh now, nobody else, nobody else will do

I want you close to me, oh that's all I know
I want you all the time, darlin' I love you so

Oh what am I living for, if not for you?
Oh, what am I living for, if not for you?
What am I living for, if not for you?
Oh nobody else, nobody else will do
Oh no, nobody else, nobody else will do, child

Up This Has Got To Stop

(Van Morrison)

I'm giving you my heart and my soul
I'm giving you more than you'll ever know
I'm giving you just about everything I can
Can't you see that I'm just only one man

I took you out to the picture show
Then I took you walkin' outdoors
I walked you up and down the block
And I warned you baby this has got to stop

This has got to stop, you're way over the top
Pack my things and walk, we can't even talk
This has got to stop, I just had enough
I'm gonna call your bluff, walk you one more lap

And I watched you watching me as I watched you walk away from me
And I went off to that far country
I took a plane out to that Newfoundland
And you said to me that you didn't understand

This has got to stop, you're way over the top
I'm gonna pack my things and walk, we don't even talk
This has got to stop, baby I just had enough
I'm gonna call your bluff, walk me one more lap

Well I came back home and I burnt our house down
I watched it crumble to the ground
Oh it caved in like a piece of balsa wood
I turned to you and said baby, this is just no good

And I worked and I tried to build it all back up again
Today you told me that you had really changed
Then you knocked down all my castles in the sand
Then I said baby, I know now just where we stand

This has got to stop, you're way over the top
Pack my bags and walk, we don't even talk
This has got to stop, I've just had enough
I'm gonna call your bluff, this has got to stop

This has got to stop
Stop, stop I've had enough
I'm gonna call your bluff
Stop, stop, stop
This has got to stop

Up Once A Day

(Bill Anderson)

When you found somebody new, I thought I never would
Forget you for I thought then that I never could
But time has taken all my pain away
Until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day

Once a day, all day long,
And once a night, from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish that you weren't gone
Is once a day, every day, all day long

And I'm so glad I'm not like a friend I knew one time
He lost the one he loved, and then he slowly lost his mind
Sat around and cried his life away
Lucky me, I'm only hurtin' once a day

Once a day, all day long
And once a night, from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish that you weren't gone
Once a day, every day, all day long

Once a day, all day long
And once a night, from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish that you weren't gone
Once a day, every day, all day long

Once a day, every day, all day long
Once a day, every day, all day long

Up More and More

(Webb Pierce / Merle Kilgore)

More and more, I'm forgettin' the past
More and more, I'm livin' at last
Day by day, I'm losin' my blues
More and more, I'm forgettin' about you.

You know how I tried, to keep you by my side
You know how I cried, the day you said goodbye
Day by day, I'm losin' my blues
More and more, I'm forgettin' about you.

But oh, how I tried, to keep you by my side
And oh, how I cried, the day you said goodbye
Day by day, I'm losin' my blues
More and more, I'm forgettin' about you.

Day by day, I'm losin' my blues
More and more, I'm forgettin' about you.

Up Till I Gain Control

(Rodney Crowell)

Just like the sun shinin' over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time
Watch the sunlight dancing on your skin

I've never gone so wrong, but telling lies to you
What you've seen is what I've been
There is nothing I can hide from you
You see me better than I ever can

Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
Darling, I only hope, only hope that you will hold me now
Until I can gain control again

Just like the lighthouse, I must stand alone
Landmarks that mark the sailor's journeys end
No matter what sea I've been sailing on
You know, you know, I'll always roll this way, this way again

Out on the road that lies before me now
Surely there will be some turns where I will spin, spin
I only hope, I only hope that you, you will hold me now, hold me know
'til I gain, 'til I gain, control, control again

Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns, some turns where I will spin, spin
I only hope, I only hope that you will hold me now, hold me know
Until I gain control again
'til I gain control

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