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Artist: Billie Holiday
Canonical path: /billie-holiday/body-and-soul
Related lyric paths: 6
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Body And Soul
Read Body And Soul lyrics by Billie Holiday on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Body And Soul
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You're making me blue
All that you do
Seems unfair
You try not to hear
Turn a deaf ear
To my prayer
It seems you don't want to see
What you are doing to me
My arms are waiting to caress you
And to my heart they long to press you, sweet heart
My heart is sad and lonely
For you I sight
For you, dear, only
Why haven't you seen it?
I'm all for you
Body and soul
I spend my days in longing
And wondering why it's me you're wronging
I tell you I mean it
I'm all for you
Body and soul
I can't believe it
It´s hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance
Are you pretending?
It looks like the ending
Unless I could have one more change to prove, dear
My life a wreck you?re making
You know I'm yours for just the taking
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you
Body and soul
Life's dreary for me
Day's seem to be long as years
I've looked for the sun
But can see none
Through my tears
Your heart must be like a stone
To leave me like this alone
When you could make my life worth living
By taking what I'm set on giving, sweet heart
My heart is sad and lonely
For you I cry
For you, dear, only
I tell you I mean it
I'm all for you
Body and soul
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Billie Holiday performs "Body And Soul", and this lyric page sits inside the Billie Holiday catalog on LyroVerse.
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