THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE
(Al Western / Stephen Forest)

as recorded by Alma Cogan
1967


There's a time and place for everything but heartache,
Stop breakin' my heart and makin' a part of me lonely!
There's a time and a place for laughin',
There's a time and a place for cryin',
I could laugh if I tried but I seem to be cryin' only!

There's a time and place for everything but lyin',
Stop lyin' to me every time that you say you won't leave!
It's a lie every time you kiss me,
It's a lie when you say you miss me,
Though you smile tenderly, even that is a lie I can see!

Don't you know it, you are breakin' my heart?
I can't bear it every day we're apart!
Gotta be a time to make a new start,
And the time and place is now!

Stop breakin' my heart, don't keep makin' a part of me lonely!
Oh there's a time and a place for laughin',
There's a time and a place for cryin',
I could laugh if I tried but I seem to be cryin' only!

Every day I pray that you come back to love me,
Though you're so far away, even you hear me say I want you!
Oh I can't stop the tears from startin'
Now I know that we're really partin';
Darling come back to me and you'll see that I'll always love you!

Don't you know it, you are breakin' my heart?
I can't bear it every time we're apart!
Gotta be a time to make a new start,
And the time and place is now,
The time, the place is now,
The time, the place is now,
Oh the time, the place is now,
Yes the time, the place is now...




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - April 2020)