One More Ride on the Merry Go Round - Neil Sedaka

Look at the world I have conquered

I’ve won every spin of the wheel

I get everything I go after

They ask me how does it feel

I tell them that I’d trade the moon

For a string with an orange balloon

And the days when my only dream

Was a dish of vanilla ice cream

Give me one more chance at the midway

Let me laugh and be gay as a clown

Give me back the world I remember

One more ride on the merry go round

I do my shopping in Paris

My clothes are Cardin and Dior

There’s money to buy friends and lovers

Well, isn’t that what it’s for?

But when I go to my bedroom

And stare at my hand-painted sky

I think of a world far behind me

A world that my money can’t buy

Give me one more chance at the midway

Let me dance with my feet off the ground

Give me back the world I remember

One more ride on the merry go round

Now that I stare at the future

I feel so close to the past

I’m so afraid of tomorrow

Wondering which one is the last

Here in the cold of December

I cling to a fragment of May

I’d trade you the world I have conquered

For a moment of one yesterday

Give me one more chance at the midway

Stop the clock from spinning around

Give me back the world I remember

One more ride on the merry go round

La la la la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la la

Give me back the world I remember

One more ride on the merry go round