Liza Minnelli - You've Let Yourself Go Lyrics
I guess just about the hardest thing to do, when you're doing something like thisis to find a new love song to sing, because they're almost always about one of threethings. Right, they're either the, ah, the guy meets the girl or the guy loses the girl,or the guy gets the girl. Well I found this song and it isn't about any of those three things.This song is about two people who have already known each other for quite a while.So we're alone again tonight, I read a book, you watch the fightA stifled yawn, a can of beer, what an enthralling atmosphereAnd yet the sight of us this way, helps me to say what I must sayIt helps me to think a thought or two, to pass it right along to youAnd just for starters you should know I thinkYou've let yourself goDown through the years each sage repeats, grass never grows on busy streetsWhich might explain that balding spot, were you a thinker, which you're notAnd where's that slender youth I knew, I fear he's grown an inch or twoNot up and down my joy and pride but more precisely side to sideWhen at a party, now and then, you tell the same old jokes againOr wear a lampshade for a hat, who could be wittier than thatWith one too many you just might, pick some unnecessary fightThough in the morning with the sun, you can't remember what you've doneIf there's regret, it doesn't show, you knowYou've let yourself goYou never care the way you dress, you stay unshaven, you look a messThe smallest thing is too much to do, I even hold the door for youAnd every rose upon the shelf, is one that I've supplied myselfIt's not the same, I'm well aware, yet I need to see them thereI don't know why I say it now, why I don't h
