ME AND MY BABY - THUNDERBOLT SENTINEL RCA SF 8286

SF 8286 (LSP-4639)
VICTOR

THUNDERBOLT SENTINEL
ME AND MY BABY

SF 8286 Thunderbolt Sentinel/Me and My Baby
LSP-4639 Produced and Arranged by Jesse Coffey

Recording Engineer: Jim Crotty
Recorded at RCA Studio C, New York City

SIDE 1
Me and my baby - Help me make it through the night - Superstar - Vincent - If not for you - I can't give back the love I feel for you

SIDE 2
Come rain or come shine - You belong to me - Spanish Harlem - (Last night) I didn't get to sleep at all - If - Today I started loving you again

Ten-odd years ago, Thunderbolt Sentinel was a guardsman working for Princess Celestia in Canterlot. Of course, as luck may be, there came a day where it was proven that this was not his only talent. One day, another guardsman for Celestia caught eye of Thunderbolt Sentinel singing on the job. Remarked the guardsman to Celestia, ''It sounds like Sweetie Belle met her male self!'' Boy was he right; his talents as an entertainer are truly ones that are remarkable, to the point where entertaining the audience has almost fully replaced being a guardsman as his primary day job (he still works as a guardsman, though only when he is not entertaining the audience; as a side note, the little green one is his wife Stellar Bubbles). The title track that caps off this album has been in the Top 10 since its release this February; Mr. Sentinel sings some other songs on this record as well; from freshly developed ballads such as ''Vincent'' and ''Help Me Make it Through the Night'' to old standards such as ''Come Rain or Come Shine'' and ''You Belong to Me'', his voice is as pure, fresh and golden as it has always been. Thunderbolt Sentinel is, was, and always will be one of Equestria's definitive entertainers, a fact that could be made no further than this record.

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© 1972 RCA RECORDS Printed in England by Robert Stace

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We are people who love and understand
We are people who need each other so
We are people who crave and desire
The kind of love we never can let go

Me and my baby
are one and the same
people and ponies who
will never let each other go
Me and my baby
are in every way
happy to stay
and we love each other so

We are children who went to school together
We are children who became the best of friends
We are children who now live it all over again
and we never want it see it come to end

Me and my baby
are one and the same
people and ponies who
will never let each other go
Me and my baby
are in every way
happy to stay
and we love each other so

Me and my baby
are one and the same
people and ponies who
will never let each other go
Me and my baby
are in every way
happy to stay
and we love each other so

Me and my baby
are one and the same
people and ponies who
will never let each other go
Me and my baby
are in every way
happy to stay
and we love each other so

Take the ribbon from your hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Layin' soft upon my skin
Like the shadows on the wall

Come and lay down by my side
Till the early mornin' light
All I'm takin' is your time
Help me make it through the night

I don't care who's right or wrong
I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
'Cause tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night

I don't care who's right or wrong
I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
For tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night

I don't want to be alone
Help me make it through the night

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

Loneliness is a such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again

What to say to make you come again
Come back to me again
And play your sad guitar

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

(Instrumental break)

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night

You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could've told you Vincent
This world was never meant for
One as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

If not for you, babe, I couldn't find the door
Couldn't even see the floor
I'd be sad and blue if not for you.

If not for you, baby, I'd lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it will not be new if not for you.

If not for you, my sky would fall, rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you
And you know it's true.

If not for you, my sky would fall, rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
Oh what would I do if not for you ?

If not for you, winter would have no spring
I couldn't hear the robins sing
I just wouldn't have a clue
Anyway it wouldn't ring true if not for you
If not for you, if not for you.

Here's a tear, for a souvenir
And a dream, that's torn at the seams
Here's a promise you made to me
Of the tomorrow I'll never see
And then you're free to go

But I can't give back the love
I feel for you
I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what I do

Take these arms that held you close
I thought I was the one you needed the most
Take these hands, they're no good to me
That used to touch you so tenderly

But I can't give back the love
That's a part of me
If you want just a little bit
You have to take all of me

Here's a ring
That didn't mean a thing
And the letters you wrote
That gave my young heart hope
Take the pillow where my dreams were made
And the mind, where the thought of you stayed
But baby, you should know

That I can't give back the love
I feel for you
I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what I do

Take these eyes that once could see
Now reflections of a misery
The hapiness I thought would last
Now a becoming just a thing of the past

But I can't give back the love
That's a part of me
If you want just a little bit
You have to take all of me

No, I can't give back
No, I feel for you
Oh, I'm gonna be stuck
No matter what I do
'Cause it'll grow 'till the world
Don't go 'round no more

But I can't give back the love
I feel for you
I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what I do

Oh I can't give back the love
I feel for you
I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what I do

I can't give back the love
I feel for you
I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what I do
(fades)

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I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you
Come rain or come shine.

High as a mountain, deep as a river
Come rain or come shine.

I guess when you met me
it was just one of those things
but don't you ever bet me
'cause I'm gonna be true if you let me

You're gonna love me, like nobody's loved me
Come rain or come shine.

We'll be happy together, unhappy together
Now won't that be just fine?

The days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in or out of the money
But I'm with you always
I'm with you rain or shine

I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you
Come rain or come shine.

High as a mountain, deep as a river
Come rain or come shine.

I guess when you met me
it was just one of those things
but don't you ever bet me
'cause I'm gonna be true if you let me

You're gonna love me, like nobody's loved me
Come rain or come shine.

We'll be happy together, unhappy together
Now won't that be just fine?

The days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in or out of the money
But I'm with you always
I'm with you rain or shine

See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise from a tropic isle
Just remember darling all the while
You belong to me

See the market place in old Algier
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

I'd be so alone without you
Maybe you'd be lonesome too and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me

I'd be so alone without you
Maybe you'd be lonesome too and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me!

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
It is the special one, it's never seen the sun
It only comes out when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are gleaming
It's growing in the street
Right up through the concrete
But soft and sweet and dreaming

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
With eyes as black as coal
That looks down in my soul
And starts a fire there and then I lose control
I have to beg your pardon
I'm going to pick that rose
And watch her as she grows in my garden

I'm going to pick that rose
And watch her as she grows in my garden

La la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la, la la la la
(fades)

Last night I didn't get to sleep at all, no, no
I lay awake and watched until the mornin' light
Washed away the darkness of the lonely night (lonely night)

Oh, and last night I got to thinkin' maybe I, I, I
Should call you up and just forget my foolish pride
I heard your number ringin', I went cold inside
And last night I didn't get to sleep at all

I know it's not my fault, I did my best
God knows this heart of mine could use a rest
But more and more I find the dreams I left behind
Are somehow too real to replace (to replace)

Oh, last night I didn't get to sleep at all, no, no
The sleepin' pill I took was just a waste of time
I couldn't close my eyes 'cause you were on my mind
And last night I didn't get to sleep, didn't get to sleep
No, I didn't get to sleep at all at all

[Instrumental Interlude]

But more and more I find the dreams I left behind
Are somehow too real to replace (to replace)

Oh-uh-oh last night I didn't get to sleep at all no, no
The sleepin' pill I took was just a waste of time
I couldn't close my eyes 'cause you were on my mind
And last night I didn't get to sleep, didn't get to sleep
No, I didn't get to sleep at all at all

I didn't get to sleep at all
Couldn't even get back to sleep at all
No way to get to sleep at all
(fades)

If a picture paints a thousand words
then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
the you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
and when my love for life is running dry
you come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
tomorrow and today
beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
and when the world was through
then one by one the stars would all go out
then you and I would simply fly away!

Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
then today I started loving you again.

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried.
I should have known the worst was yet to come.
And that crying time for me had just begun.

'Cause today I started loving you again,
I'm right back where I've really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
then today I started loving you again.

Comments

[Thunderbolt Sentinel]

Holy crap man! You're freaking awesome!