The fig leaves are falling
All over the place,
And that is a fact that
We've all got to face.
To all of you statues,
Hi-ho, here's looking at yous,
'Cause the fig leaves
Are falling everywhere.
The times are a-changing,
Yes, that's how it looks
In songs, and in movies,
In plays and in books.
With each day, that censor
Gets nervouser and tenser,
As the fig leaves
Go falling everywhere.
It started with Eve, they say
She wore 'em with Adam,
But I don't believe that Eve and Adam
Even had 'em.
That story's too glib, a fib,
A Biblical fable.
People dressed in fig leaves
Simply can't raise Cain, or Abel.
And so if you ever
Should travel to Greece,
You'll see why those sculptors
Can now rest in peace.
Throughout the acropolis,
They're bottomless and topless,
'Cause the fig leaves
are falling everywhere.
That stodgy old music hall
In Radio City
Is showing those shows
Where folks expose their nitty gritty.
Wherever you go, the walls
Are full of graffiti.
Have you seen those scenes from "War And Peace"
Or Warren Beatty?
I heard of a merger,
It happened last June.
Hugh Hefner, he bought the
Chicago Tribute.
So now in the funnies,
Dick Tracy's chasing bunnies,
'Cause the fig leaves are falling.
Ain't it appalling?
Those fig leaves are falling everywhere.
I wanna sing
All of my love song,
I wanna drink
All of my wine.
I wanna ride on a skylark
And fly a giraffe.
This life is my lark,
And I won't take half.
I wanna laugh
All of my laughter
Before I go.
I wanna chase
All of my rainbows
And spread my wings
And take the sky
I wanna burst my cocoon
'Cause that time's comin' soon
When this dull caterpillar
Becomes a butterfly.
I wanna light
All of my fireworks,
And see my sparks,
And feel my glow.
'Cause there's just one life,
That's mine,
What comes next I don't know.
I've got confetti,
I'm ready to go.
I wanna laugh
All of my laughter
Before I go.
When you were only you,
And I was merely me,
We never dreamed
A beautiful thing like we
Could be.
We're greater somehow,
And warmer 'cause now
We're us.
That fabulous plus
That adds up to you
And me.
Not you alone,
Not I alone,
But two in love
Whose love has grown
Into that special
Something known as
We.
Not you alone,
Not I alone,
But two in love
Whose love has grown
Into that special
Something known as
We.
My goodness, my badness,
My saneness, my madness,
My sorrow, my gladness.
I'm juggling day and night.
The suburb or the city,
Self-love, or just self-pity.
The ice cream or the diet,
To speak up or keep quiet.
The checked suit or the plain one,
The side road or the main one.
A simple or complex life,
A marriage or a sex life.
I juggle these and others.
I'd be wonderful at Ringling Brothers!
Juggling, and struggling
To keep things from falling.
My phone rings. Who's calling?
My girlfriend or my wife?
Decisions, decisions,
They stump you, they spin you.
Oh must I continue
This juggling all my life?
The suburb, or the city,
Self-love, or just self-pity.
The ice cream or the diet,
To speak up or keep quiet.
The checked suit or the plain one,
The side road or the main one.
A simple or complex life,
A marriage or a sex life.
I juggle these and others.
I'd be wonderful at Ringling Brothers!
Juggling, and struggling
To keep things from falling.
My phone rings. Who's calling?
My girlfriend or my wife?
Decisions, decisions,
They stump you, they spin you.
Oh must I continue
This juggling all my life?
My wristwatch said, "Keep going."
My heart said, "Stop and look."
And I found a buried treasure
In the moment that I took.
For there beside the flower,
I found again with joy
The long lost sense of wonder
I'd abandoned as a boy.
This time, I looked with wonder,
And I lost the grown-up me,
And that ordinary flower
Was a dazzling thing to see.
I saw fantastic colors,
A thousand shades of red.
A million sparks of sunlight
Went exploding through my head.
I climbed inside the petals,
I swooped along the curves.
A sudden glowing dizziness
Went tingling through my nerves.
My heart and I were playing
Inside a drop of dew.
Then I heard that flower saying,
"I'm alive! I'm alive! I'm alive!
Like you."
How long could I have stood there?
Oh God, I missed my train.
And when they ask me why I'm late,
Then how will I explain?
If I should tell the truth,
Then will they laugh, do you suppose?
That for the first time in my life,
Today, I saw a rose!
The fig leaves are falling
All over the place,
And that is a fact that
We've all got to face.
To all of you statues,
Peek-a-boo, here's looking at yous,
'Cause the fig leaves
Are falling everywhere.
The fig leaves are falling.
Why, only last June,
Hugh Hefner, he bought the
Chicago Tribute.
So now in the funnies,
Dick Tracy's chasing bunnies,
'Cause the fig leaves
Are falling everywhere.
It started with Eve, they say
She wore 'em with Adam,
But I don't believe that Eve and Adam
Even had 'em.
That story's too glib, a fib,
A Biblical fable.
People dressed in fig leaves
Simply can't raise Cain, or Abel.
And meanwhile, the hemlines
Continue to rise.
First ankles, then kneecaps,
And then we have thighs.
We'll soon have Jane Fonda
Stark naked on a Honda,
'Cause the fig leaves
Are falling everywhere.
That stodgy old music hall
In Radio City
Is showing those shows
Where folks expose their nitty gritty.
The movies that once were banned
And good to be seen there,
Now are filmed in Sweden
And released by Joe Levine there.
My girlfriend in Vegas
Once met Howard Hughes,
That rich billionaire
Who wears old tennis shoes.
He made her the owner
Of Phoenix, Arizoner,
'Cause the fig leaves are falling.
Ain't it appalling?
Those fig leaves are falling everywhere.
Plant one acorn,
One small seed.
Just one acorn,
One small seed.
Time will pass, the sun'll keep shining,
Rain will fall and wind'll blow.
Plant one acorn,
Just one acorn.
Soon a forest gotta grow.
Lift one spirit,
Got to cause, gotta cause one smile.
One low spirit,
One, one new smile.
Make one soul a little bit warmer,
Take one heart into your own.
Lift, lift one spirit.
Oh, just, just one spirit,
And you'll never be alone.
Fight, got to fight one dragon,
Oh face, got to face one fear.
Just one dragon,
Oh, just, just one fear.
Walk right up and look at that dragon,
Shake your fist, and holler, "Boo!"
Fight, got to fight your dragon.
Oh fix, got to fix his wagon.
You'll find the dragon's scared of you.
Oh light, light one candle.
Oh plant, plant one acorn.
Oh lift, lift one spirit...
May the lightning strike me,
May I sink through the floor,
If I've ever seen things like yours
On any girl before.
Would I lie about eyes like yours?
Would I lie about lips like yours?
Do you think that I'm capable
Of lying 'bout a shape
Like yours?
May I fall in a faint,
May I sit in wet paint,
May I step on a manhole
Where the cover just ain't,
If I've ever seen eyes and lips the way you got 'em
And charms like yours from top to bottom
And all those beautiful things like yours.
If I'd never heard words like yours,
If I'd never heard talk like yours,
I would think it's divine
When someone handed me a line
Like yours.
May I lose my bikini,
May I break all my nails,
If I haven't heard things
That sound more true in fairy tales.
Have I ever heard lies like yours,
Comin' out of a mouth like yours?
Have I heard an amazing list
Of tired old cliches
Like yours?
May my mail be all bills,
May I suffer from chills,
Be marooned with Paul Newman
When I've run out of pills
If I ever met anyone as fake and phony
And full of, shall we say, baloney,
And other beautiful things like yours.
All those beautiful things like yours.
Like yours!
Through all the years of my life,
The dreams and fears of my life,
I need you to understand the laughter
And the tears of my life.
Come live with me
All the days of my life,
And all the nights of my life.
May the love of my life
Help me taste the delights of my life.
And climb the hills of my life,
And reach the crest of my life.
And give the best of my life,
The rest of my life,
To you.
And climb the hills of my life,
And reach the crest of my life.
And give the best of my life,
The rest of my life,
To you.
And give the best of my life,
The rest of my life,
To you.
You eat, you drink,
You feel, you think.
You play, you grow,
You learn, you know.
And then one day,
You find a way
To talk.
You're young, you fly,
You laugh, you cry.
You're grown,
You're on your own at last.
You lose, you win,
Your days begin
To slip away
Too fast, too fast.
Too soon you'll hear
A distant drum.
Too soon the time
To go will come.
And time won't wait.
Is it too late to ask:
Did I ever love?
Did I ever give?
Did I ever really live?