Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody , by - Joni Mitchell. Song from the album Hits, in the genre Release date: 28.10.1996
Record label: Reprise
Song language: English
Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody |
| Caught in the middle |
| Carol we’re middle class |
| We’re middle aged |
| We were wild in the old days |
| Birth of rock 'n' roll days |
| Now your kids are coming up straight |
| And my child’s a stranger |
| I bore her |
| But I could not raise her |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Down at the Chinese Cafe |
| We’d be dreaming on our dimes |
| We’d be playing «Oh my love, my darling» |
| One more time |
| Uranium money |
| Is booming in the old home town now |
| It’s putting up sleek concrete |
| Tearing the old landmarks down now |
| Paving over brave little parks |
| Ripping off Indian land again |
| How long how long |
| Short sighted business men |
| Ah nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Down at the Chinese Cafe |
| We’d be dreaming on our dimes |
| We’d be playing «You give your love, so sweetly» |
| One more time |
| Christmas is sparkling |
| Out on Carol’s lawn |
| This girl of my childhood games |
| With kids nearly grown and gone |
| Grown so fast |
| Like the turn of a page |
| We look like our mothers did now |
| When we were those kids' age |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Nothing lasts for long |
| Down at the Chinese Cafe |
| We’d be dreaming on our dimes |
| We’d be playing |
| «Oh my love, my darling |
| I’ve hungered for your touch |
| A long lonely time |
| And time goes by so slowly |
| And time can do so much |
| Are you still mine? |
| I need your love |
| I need your love |
| God speed your love to me» |
| (Time goes — where does the time go |
| I wonder where the time goes) |