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Tierney Sutton – It's Only A Paper Moon lyrics
Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

It's phony, it's plain to see
How happy I would be
If you believed in me
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Songwriters: Billy Rose, E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen
It's Only A Paper Moon lyrics © S.A. MUSIC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    davidhbrown 2009-08-31 03:21:34
    Ms. Sutton opens this song (and the album) with words from her Bahai faith: "O SON OF BEING! Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants." "O SON OF THE SUPREME! To the eternal I call thee, yet thou dost seek that which perisheth. What hath made thee turn away from Our desire and seek thine own?"
    In the song itself, Ms. Sutton ends each verse with "If you believed...", deliberately omitting "in me."
    The belief is not in another person, but in the Divine. Without faith, the world is "as phony as it can be."
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    [Intro][Verse][Pre-Chorus][Chorus][Hook][Bridge][Outro]