If I Never Sing Another Song

If I Never Sing Another Song

- Matt Monro

In my heyday

Young girls wrote to me

Everybody seemed to have time

to devote to me

Everyone I saw

all swore they knew me

Once upon a song

Main attraction,

couldn't buy a seat

The celebrity celebrities

were dying to meet

I've had every accolade

bestowed on me

And so you see

If I never sing another song

It shouldn't bother me

I've had my share of fame

You know my name

If I never sing another song

Or take another bow

I would get by,

but I'm not sure how

Always posing,

but you love it all

Though you have to learn to act

like you're above it all

Everything I did

the world applauded

Once upon a star

Framed citations,

hung on every wall

Got a scrapbook full of quotes

I can't recall at all

There were times

I felt the world belonged to me

And so you see

If I never sing another song

It shouldn't bother me

I've had my share of fame

You know my name

If I never sing another song

Or take another bow

I would get by,

but I'm not sure how

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