Time And Again (一次又一次)-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:Time And Again] [ar:Noel Coward----(replace by 84005)] [al:Noel Coward In New York] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Time And Again (一次又一次) - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:05.54]Life is what you make it [00:07.38]As someone once observed [00:08.79] [00:09.60]A phrase the sounds a trifle glib [00:12.41] [00:14.22]But whoever thought it out [00:16.65]Had clearly never sorted out [00:18.58]The vexing problem of Adam's spare rib [00:22.29] [00:22.98]Chastity I take it [00:25.11]Is specially reserved [00:26.68] [00:27.25]For those possessing moral fibres [00:30.06] [00:31.82]Mine fail me all the time [00:33.97]And maybe that's the reason I'm [00:36.33]A baa baa black sheep [00:38.25] [00:39.04]Calling all subscribers [00:40.77] [00:42.46]Time and again [00:43.81] [00:44.36]I'm tortured with contrition [00:45.94] [00:46.46]And swear that I'm sorry I've sinned [00:49.76] [00:51.27]Then when I've got the whole thing sewn up [00:55.20] [00:55.74]I must own up [00:58.04]Everything gets blown up [00:59.84] [01:00.37]Freud could explain my curious condition [01:04.15] [01:04.71]And jung would have certainly grinned [01:07.70] [01:09.08]When I meet some sly dish [01:11.66]That looks like my dish [01:13.96]I'm sunk drunk gone with the wind [01:18.16]How can I start a fresh [01:20.36]When the sins of the flesh override me [01:25.47] [01:27.04]Maybe some psycho analyst [01:30.14]Might slap my wrist [01:32.08]And give a twist [01:33.79]To what goes on inside me [01:36.26] [01:36.84]If I could feign [01:37.96] [01:38.77]The glandular transition [01:40.64] [01:41.19]I'd settle for taking the veil [01:44.42] [01:46.15]Time and again I try [01:49.48] [01:50.54]Time and again I fail [01:54.27] [01:57.44]Moralists disparage [01:58.77] [01:59.38]A variable heart [02:00.90] [02:01.55]And say that it should be fenced in [02:04.98] [02:06.54]But they never think about [02:08.61]Effective means of casting out [02:10.70]That dear old die hard original sin [02:14.39] [02:15.29]Table d'hôte is marriage [02:17.40]Free love is à la carte [02:18.90] [02:19.53]And once you've crossed forbidden fruits off [02:22.90] [02:24.01]You merely find that you've [02:26.36]Unwittingly set out to prove [02:28.80]The age old saying better with your boots off [02:33.99] [02:35.05]Time and again [02:36.22] [02:36.91]I've tried to form a credo [02:39.17]But some how I don't seem to learn [02:43.33] [02:43.91]Just when I think my guardian angel's winning [02:47.74] [02:48.35]I go spinning [02:49.92] [02:50.58]Back to the beginning [02:52.68]I can't refrain from firing a torpedo abaft [02:58.69]Or ahead or astern [03:00.40] [03:01.39]If I hit my quarry [03:04.04]I can't feel sorry [03:06.42]I'm hooked cooked done to a turn [03:10.64]Though I frequently wish [03:13.08]I could curb my conditioned reflexes [03:17.59] [03:19.10]I'll be damned if I'll sacrifice [03:22.60]Sugar and spice [03:24.64]To be precise nothing as nice as sex is [03:29.25]I can't restrain my lecherous libido [03:33.30] [03:33.81]From slipping and tipping the scale [03:37.35] [03:38.49]Time and again I try [03:42.58] [03:43.36]Time and again I fail