You Can Tell Everybody, This Is Your Song - Lyrics [Archive]

Bereta_Eder

January 1, 2004, 21:18

this song has stuck to my brain and won't go away :bash: :idiot: :idiot:

Star Academy 2
Paris Latino

Refrain
Que bueno, que rico, que lindo
Paris latino
Que bueno, que rico, que lindo
Paris latino
Bandolero rock
Bandolero choc
Bandolero rock
Bandolero choc

Joséphine blanche, robe rouge et noire
Danse avec le reflet du miroir
Arrivée direct from Mexico Don Diego de La Vega
Z comme Zorro
Ca se bouscule dans les couloirs
Les poseurs, les voyeurs
Tous ceux qui aiment s'faire voir
Tout le monde est là
Même ceux qu'on attend pas la playmate du mois
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Oh Miss Cha Cha Cha
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Que linda esta

Au milieu de tout ça, il y a nous, il y a moi et
(Don't forget me, I'm doctor B)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Don't forget me, I'm doctor B)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Doctor B, ah that's me)

Yes yes show
You don't stop
So come on come on
Let's see rock rock

Joséphine blanche, robe rouge et noire
Amoureuse folle du reflet dans le miroir
Repartie direct to Mexico Don Diego de La Vega
Sa cape son bandeau
Plus personne dans les couloirs, les poseurs
Les voyeurs sont allés s'faire voir
Odeur de tabac, de cendriers froids
Les parfums sucrés de Miss Cha Cha Cha
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Miss Cha Cha Cha
Que linda esta

Au milieu de tout ça, il y a nous, il y a moi et
(Don't forget me, I'm doctor B)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Don't forget me, I'm doctor B)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Doctor B, ah that's me)

Yes yes show
We don't stop
So come on come on
Let's see rock rock

Refrain (x2)

Au milieu de tout ça, il y a nous, il y a moi et
(Paris latino)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Paris latino)
Au milieu de tout ça, il y a nous, il y a moi et
(Don't forget me, I'm doctor B...)
Verre sur verre de Cuba libre
(Doctor B, ah that's me)

:madban:

SlowwHand

January 2, 2004, 18:03

Your Song
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside
I'm not one of those, who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again no,
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody, this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope don't you mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses, well thy've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song,
It's for people like you, that keep it turned on.

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the things, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen.

SlowwHand

January 2, 2004, 18:04

A Song For You
Leon Russell

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singin' this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but baby can't you see (baby can't you see now)
There's no one more important to me (baby)
Baby can't you please see through me
'cause we're alone now and I'm singin' this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth, withholdin' nothin'
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody (listen to the melody) cause my love's in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for my life, you are a friend of mine (you are a friend of mine)
And when my life is over, remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singin' this song for you
We were alone and I was singin' this song for you
We were alone and I was singin' this song, singin' this song for you

Jon Miller

January 3, 2004, 05:05

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Song:Fred Jones pt. 2 (live at The Fillmore)
Artist:Ben Folds
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Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark
There's an awkward young shadow
that waits in the hall
he has cleared all his things
and he's put them in boxes
things that remind him
that life has been good
twenty five years
he's worked at the paper
a man's here
to take him downstairs
and I'm sorry,
Mr. Jones,
It's time
there was no party
and there were no songs
cause today's just a day
like the day that he started
and no one is left here
that knows his first name
yeah and life barrels on
like a runaway train
where the passengers change
they don't change anything
you get off
someone else can get on
and I'm sorry,
Mr. Jones,
It's time
the streetlight
it shines through the shades
casting lines on the floor
and lines on his face
he reflects on the day
Fred gets his paints out
and goes to the basement
projecting some slides
onto a plain white canvas
and traces it,
fills in the spaces
he turns off the slides
and it doesn't look right
yeah, and all of these bastards
have taken his place
he's forgotten, but not yet gone
and I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
and I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
and I'm sorry, Mr. Jones, it's time

JOn Miller

SlowwHand

January 4, 2004, 13:54

LIL' RED RIDING HOOD
Sam the Sham

Owoooooooo!
Who's that I see walkin' in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.

Little Red Riding Hood
I don't think little big girls should
Go walking in these spooky old woods alone.
Owoooooooo!

What big eyes you have,
The kind of eyes that drive wolves mad.
So just to see that you don't get chased
I think I ought to walk with you for a ways.

What full lips you have.
They're sure to lure someone bad.
So until you get to grandma's place
I think you ought to walk with me and be safe.

I'm gonna keep my sheep suit on
Until I'm sure that you've been shown
That I can be trusted walking with you alone.
Owoooooooo!

Little Red Riding Hood
I'd like to hold you if I could
But you might think I'm a big bad wolf so I won't.
Owoooooooo!

What a big heart I have-the better to love you with.
Little Red Riding Hood
Even bad wolves can be good.
I'll try to be satisfied just to walk close by your side.
Maybe you'll see things my way before we get to grandma's place.

Hey there Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are looking good
You're everything that a big bad wolf could want.
Owoooooooo! I mean baaaaaa! Baaa?

http://www.threewisheslingerie.com/images/littlered2-hl.jpg

:naughty:

Jon Miller

January 4, 2004, 15:10

too many good lyrics from Ben folds

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Song:The Ascent of Stan
Artist:Ben Folds
Album:Rockin' the Suburbs
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Pangs of silence
From the room upstairs
How’s the view there?
Do you read what they’re saying about you?
That you’re no fun
Since the war was won
In fact, you have become all of the things you’ve always run away from
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
So where’d the years go?
All the time we had?
Being poor was not such a drag in hindsight
And you wonder why your father was so resigned
Now you don’t wonder any more
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
Stan: Once you wanted revolution
Stan: Now you’re the institution
Stan: How’s it feel to be the man?
It’s no fun to be the man
And now, watch it all go down
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
(Stan)
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
Stan: Once you wanted revolution
Stan: Now you’re the institution
Stan: How’s it feel to be the man?
It’s no fun to be the man

Jon Miller

SlowwHand

January 5, 2004, 09:50

Watching The Wheels
John Lennon

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strange
Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game

People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball?

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels fo round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

People asking questions lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry...
I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels fo round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

SlowwHand

January 5, 2004, 20:01

Dion And The Belmonts
Abraham, Martin, And John

Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
You know I just looked around and he's gone

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, it's gonna be one day

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John

Sikander

January 5, 2004, 21:26

Singapore

We sail tonight for singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here
I've fallen for a tawny moor, took off to the land of nod
Drank with all the chinamen, walked the sewers of paris
I danced along a colored wind, dangled from a rope of sand
You must say goodbye to me

We sail tonight for singapore, don't fall asleep while you're ashore
Cross your heart and hope to die, when you hear the children cry
Let marrow bone and cleaver choose, while making feet for children shoes
Through the alley, back from hell, when you hear that steeple bell
You must say goodbye to me

Wipe him down with gasoline, 'til his arms are hard and mean
From now on boy this iron boat's your home
So heave away, boys

We sail tonight for singapore, take your blankets from the floor
Wash your mouth out by the door, the whole town's made of iron ore
Every witness turns to steam, they all become italian dreams
Fill your pockets up with earth, get yourself a dollar's worth
Away boys, away boys, heave away

The captain is a one-armed dwarf, he's throwing dice along the wharf
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king
So take this ring

We sail tonight for singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here
I've fallen for a tawny moor, took off to the land of nod
Drank with all the chinamen, walked the sewers of paris
I drank along a colored wind, i dangled from a rope of sand
You must say goodbye to me

Written by: Tom Waits

Sikander

January 5, 2004, 22:06

9th & Hennepin

Well it's 9th and hennepin
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddam town is ready to blow
And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving like dogs

And the horses are coming down violin road
And dutch is dead on his feet
And all the rooms they smell like diesel
And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept there
And i'm lost in the window
And i hide in the stairway
And i hang in the curtain
And i sleep in your hat

And no one brings anything small into a bar around here
They all started out with bad directions
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
One for every year he's away she said
Such a crumbling beauty
Ah, there's nothing wrong with her a hundred dollars won't fix
She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
With the clang and the thunder of the southern pacific going by
And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
And you spill out over the side to anyone who'll listen

I've seen it all
I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train

Written by: Tom Waits

Grandpa Troll

January 5, 2004, 22:36

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Your Song
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside
I'm not one of those, who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again no,
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody, this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope don't you mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses, well thy've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song,
It's for people like you, that keep it turned on.

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the things, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen.

I am a 70's dude and although I dont agree with his "Lifestyle" choices, I do think he is a super talented individual..speaking of Reginald that is..

Eldeberry Wine

Crocodile Rock

Philadelphia Freedom

Benny & The Jets

to name a few

Peace

Grandpa Troll

Tiamat

January 5, 2004, 22:51

And in keeping with the Elton John note............:cute:

The Bitc* is Back

I was justified when I was five
Raising cane, I spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitc* gets back

Eat meat on Friday that's alright
Even like steak on a Saturday night
I can bitc* the best at your social do's
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

I'm a *****, I'm a bitc*
Oh the bitc* is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitc*, I can bitc*
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I don't like those, my God, what's that
Oh it's full of nasty habits when the bitc* gets back

I'm a *****, I'm a bitc*
Oh the bitc* is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitc*, I can bitc*
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

SlowwHand

January 6, 2004, 09:57

Ray Davies was shot in the leg this past weekend, while trying to stop a mugger who had grabbed a female companion's purse.
He was not seriously injured in the attack.

Lola

I met her in a club down in North Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Cherry Cola
C-O-L-A Cola.

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.
I asked her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy,
But when she squeesed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walks like a woman and talks like a man
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, we drank champagne and danced all night,
Under electric candlelight,
She picked me up and sat me on her knee,
She said, "Little boy won't you come home with me?"

Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy,
But when I looked in her eyes,
I almost fell for my Lola,
Lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola

I pushed her away. I walked to the door.
I fell to the floor. I got down on my knees.
I looked at her, and she at me.

Well that's the way that I want it to stay.
I always want it to be that way for my Lola.
Lo lo lo Lola.

Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world,
except for Lola. Lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo Lola.

Well I left home just a week before,
and I never ever kissed a woman before,
Lola smiled and took me by the hand,
she said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man."

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man,
but I know what I am and that I'm a man,
so is Lola.
Lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo Lola.

*****************************************

A Well Respected Man

'Cause he gets up in the morning,
And he goes to work at nine,
And he comes back home at five-thirty,
Gets the same train every time.
'Cause his world is built 'round punctuality,
It never fails.

And he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.

And his mother goes to meetings,
While his father pulls the maid,
And she stirs the tea with counselors,
While discussing foreign trade,
And she passes looks, as well as bills,
At every suave young man.

'Cause he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.

And he likes his own backyard,
And he likes his fags the best,
'Cause he's better than the rest,
And his own sweat smells the best,
And he hopes to grab his father's loot,
When Pater passes on.

'Cause he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.

And he plays at stocks and shares,
And he goes to the regatta,
And he adores the girl next door,
'Cause he's dying to get at her,
But his mother knows the best about
The matrimonial stakes.

'Cause he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.

C0ckney

January 6, 2004, 10:47

pf project - choose life

Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family,
Choose a ****ing big television
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance.
Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing ga me shows
Stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home
Nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed-up brats
You have spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future. Choose life.

Hueij

January 6, 2004, 11:11

One of the best punk songs ever:

Barbed Wire Love
Stiff Little Fingers

I met you in No Man's Land
Across the wire we were holding hands
Hearts a-bubble in the rubble
It was love at bomb site

All you give me is barbed wire love
All caught up in barbed wire love
Tangled up in barbed wire love
Throw my leg over barbed wire love
Barbed wire love snags my jeans

When I fell it was awful nice
Caught when not suspecting vice
The night was rife with wasteland life
You set my arm alight

Blasted by your booby traps
I felt the blow in both knee-caps
Your eyes did shine
Your lips were fine
And the device in your pants was out of site

SpencerH

January 6, 2004, 11:29

Here's a classic

Anarchy In The U.K.

Right! now ha, ha

I am an anti-Christ
I am an anarchist,
don't know what I want
but I know how to get it.
I wanna destroy the passer by
'cos I wanna be anarchy,
Ho dogs body

Anarchy for the UK
It's coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line.
Your future dream is a shopping scheme
cause I wanna be anarchy,
It's in the city

How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy.
I use anarchy
'cause I wanna be anarchy,

Its the only way to be

Is this the MPLA
or is this the UDA
or is this the IRA
I thought it was the UK
or just another country
another council tenancy.

I wanna be an anarchist
(oh what a name)
And l wanna be an anarchist
(I get pissed destroy)

Bas

January 6, 2004, 11:38

Husker Du - I Don't Know What You're Talking About

You're a student of the world, learning every day
Surrounded by these walls
Tell me, "Man, I've been around the block"
But you haven't seen it all
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know what you're talking about

Confrontations every day
Argue, then we go our separate ways
Always over as soon as it begins
Know that you're losing when you can't give in
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know what you're talking about

Now you live alone and it's always the same
Talking to yourself when you say that I'm to blame
There's more to life than being right and wrong
There's something in between called getting along
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know what you're talking about

Minor Threat - Look Back And Laugh

I want to tell you a little story
Cause it makes me warm inside
It's about some friends growing up
And all the things they tried
I'm not talking about staple ****
They went for something more
I guess it was too much dreaming
Too much to hope for
One day something funny happened
But it scared the **** out of me
Their heads went in different directions
And their friendship ceased to be

I'm telling you I want it to work
I don't like being hurt
Something's not right inside
And I can't always put it aside
What can we do, what can we do?

Try

I guess I make too much ****
Someday we'll look back and laugh

Mr. Present, go away
Come back and **** with us some other day
Mr. Feelings, run and hide
You have no right to what you feel inside
Mother****ers, quick to kiss
Talk you ****, but don't **** with this
All I want to know is
Am I holding on? Am I moving on?
What can we do, what can we do?

Husker Du - Masochism World

Can you feel it feel it feel it
In your soul
Can you tell me
Tell me if it's hot or cold

Can you tell me what it is
Does it hurt you when I do this

Stop it stop it stop it
You're pulling too hard
Stop it
You're going too far

I love it I hate it I love it I hate it too
I love it
So how about you?

Can you tell me 'cause I don't know
Why don't you tell me why is it so
Confusing!

Jon Miller

January 6, 2004, 11:45

Song:Best Imitation of Myself (live at the Roseland Ballroom)
Artist:Ben Folds
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I feel like a quote out of context
with holding the rest
so I can be for you what you want to see
I've got the gestures and sounds
got the timing down
its uncanny, yeah, you'd think it was me
Do you think I should take a class
to lose my southern accent?
did I make me up
or make the face till it stuck
I do the best imitation of myself
the "problem with you" speech
you gave me was fine
like the theories about my "little stage"
I swore I was listening
but I started drifting
'round the part about me "acting my age"
now if it's all the time
i've people to entertain
you know i'll juggle one-handed
do some magic tricks and
the best imitation of myself
maybe i'm thinking myself in a hole
wondering - who I am when I ought to know
straighten up now time to go
fool somebody else
fool somebody else
last night I was east with them
and west within
trying to be for you what you want to see
but I can't help it if you
good and bad comes through
hanging out with no one but me
yeah if it's all the same
it comes from the same place
and if my mind's somewhere else
you won't be able to tell
I do the best imitation of myself
yes, it's uncanny to see
you really think it was me
the best imitation of myself
do the best imitation of myself

Jon Miler

Alex

January 6, 2004, 12:54

Find the River

by R.E.M.

Hey now, little speedyhead,
the read on the speedmeter says
you have to go to task in the city
where people drown and people serve.
Don't be shy. Your just deserve
is only just light years to go.

Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
ocean storm, bayberry moon.
I have got to leave to find my way.
Watch the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.

The ocean is the river's goal,
a need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go.

I have got to find the river,
bergamot and vetiver
run through my head and fall away.
Leave the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.

There's no one left to take the lead,
but I tell you and you can see
we're closer now than light years to go.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
Fall into the ocean.

The river to the ocean goes,
a fortune for the undertow.
None of this is going my way.
There is nothing left to throw
of Ginger, lemon, indigo,
coriander stem and rose of hay.
Strength and courage overrides
the privileged and weary eyes
of river poet search naivete.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
All of this is coming your way.

Alex

January 6, 2004, 12:58

Saturn Return

R.E.M.

easy to poke yourself square in the eye
harder to like yourself, harder to try
these elvis poses, postcards and neopryn
roses a dollar a stem
everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul,
the keys in the cooler, it's 3 a.m.

and Saturn is beckoning no one
is off on its own
is offering up

late shift convenience store
cut out the lights
telescope roof towards the
north western sky
you pull the ladder up
no one's the wiser
you find your sights and discover

that Saturn is orbiting nothing
is off on its own
is breaking from home

harder to look yourself square in the eye
easy to take off

you found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
you've seen and you've marked horizons
mother was difficult she made you cry
cover the mirror, look to the sky
you climb into your rocketship triumph
lift up and hold out your hands

Saturn is orbiting nothing
is off on its own
is breaking from home

Saturn is orbiting nofhing
is off on its own
is breaking from home

Saturn refurn when you chase down its moons
throw them into a new gravity

harder to look yourself square in the eye
easy to poke yourself, easy as pie
easy to take off, harder to fly
harder to wake galileo.

SlowwHand

January 7, 2004, 10:39

TWILIGHT ZONE
Golden Earring

<Spoken>
Somewhere in a lonely hotel room
there's a guy starting to realize that eternal
fate has turned its back on him. It's 2 a.m.

It's two a.m.
The fear has gone
I'm sitting her waitin'
The gun's still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of taking chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose
Sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence
All circuits are dead
Cannot decode my whole life spins into a frenzy

Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved
Under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
(repeat)
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

I'm falling down a spiral
Destination unknown
Double crossed messenger, all alone
Can't get no connection
Can't get through where are you

Well the night weighs heavy
On his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hitman comes
He knows damn well
He has been cheated And he says
(repeat Chorus)

Bas

January 7, 2004, 11:05

Therapy? - Femtex

Masturbation saved my life
I was nervous as a child
You were someone out of my hand
Couldn't understand or have

She's not trying to catch your eye
She's just trying to get a life
He feels weak when she is strong
Feeling threatened when he's wrong

Femination generation
Femination generation

Do you want a ****?
Do you want a friend?
Do you want sex?
Do you want revenge?
You never make love with a smile on your face
Punished with love and rewarded with hate

Femination generation
Femination generation

Femination generation
Femination generation

Femination (I'm just with you, that will never mean that I'm just for you)
Generation (I'm just with you, that will never mean that I'm just for you)
Femination (I'm just with you, that will never mean that I'm just for you)
Generation (I'm just with you)

Therapy? - Unrequited

Don't wake me
I'm so empty

I, I, I tried
I'm sorry

I've seen you without me
I've seen you without me

You can say what you want

I've seen you without me
I've seen you without me
I've seen you without me (I know that you'll understand)
I've seen you without me (I know that you'll understand)

Jon Miller

January 7, 2004, 11:11

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Song:Brick (live at the Roseland Ballroom)
Artist:Ben Folds & Darren Jessee
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6am, day after Christmas,
I throw some clothes on in the dark,
The smell of cold,
Car seat is freezing,
The world is sleeping,
I am numb.
Up the stairs to her apartment,
And she is balled up on the couch,
Her Mom and Dad went down to Charlotte,
They're not home to find us out,
And we drive,
Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone,
Than I ever have before.
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly,
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere,
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly.
They call her name at 7:30,
I pace around the parking lot,
Then I walk down to buy her flowers and sell some gifts that I got,
Can't you see it's not me you're dying for?
Now she's feeling more alone than she ever has before.
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly,
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere,
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly.
As weeks went by it showed that she was not fine,
They told me "Son, it's time to tell the truth",
And she broke down and I broke down 'cause I was tired of lying.
Driving back to her apartment and for the moment we're alone,
Yeah she's alone,
I'm alone,
And now I know it.
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly,
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere,
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly.

JOn Miller

Stefan Härtel

January 7, 2004, 20:36

How I often feel...

Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell
And did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold country for change
And did you exchange
Your walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Since You Been Gone- Rainbow

I get the same old dreams same time every night
Fall to the ground then I wake up
So I get out of bed put on my shoes and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the break up

These four walls are closing in
Look at the fix you put me in

Since you been gone since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong? But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh
Since you been gone

So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon but night-time comes around too soon
You can't know what you mean to me

Your poison letter your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

Since you been gone since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong? But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh
Since you been gone

If you will come back baby you know you'd never do wrong

Since you been gone since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong? But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh
Ever since you been gone

Since you been gone since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Since you been gone since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it

Dream Of Mirrors- Iron Maiden

Have you ever felt
The future is the past
But you don't know how...?
A reflected dream
Of a captured time
Is it really now… is it really happening?

Don't know why I feel this way
Have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes into my mind
And I think I've seen your face
Seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind

All my hopes and expectation
Looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination?
I just can't take no more

The Dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

Think I've heard your voice before
Think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream?
Is this a new reality
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind

All my hopes and expectation
Looking for an explanation
Coming to the realisation
That I can't see for sure

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I am alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself

I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
Please save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

I get up put on the light
Dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again

Nothing that I contemplate
Nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head

Dread to think what might be stirring
That my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting
Saving me from myself

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in Black and White
To save me from myself

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in Black and White
To save me from myself …

Lost in a dream of mirrors
Lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning
Lost a nightmare I retrace

Lost a hell that I revisit
Lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence
Lost a nightmare I retrace

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in Black and White
To save me from myself

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in Black and White
To save me from myself

I only dream in Black and White
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in Black and White
To save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

boann

January 7, 2004, 20:52

HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN ?
(Bryan Adams)

To really love a woman
To understand her
You gotta know her deep inside
Hear every thought
See every dream
And give her wings when she wants to fly

And when you find yourself
Lying helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s the one
She needs somebody
To tell her that it’s gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
Really really ever loved a woman

To really love a woman
Let her hold you
Do you know how she needs to be touched ?
You gotta breath her
Really taste her
To you can feel her in your blood
Then when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s the one
She needs somebody
To tell her that you’ll always be together
So tell me have you ever really
Really really ever loved a woman

You got to give her some faith
Hold her tight
A little tenderness
You gotta treat her right
She’ll be there for you
Taking good care of you
You really gotta love your woman

And when you find yourself
Lying helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman
You tell her that she’s the one
She needs somebody
To tell her that it’s gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
Really really ever loved a woman
Just tell me have you ever really
Really really ever loved a woman
Just tell me have you ever really
Really really ever loved a woman.

boann

January 7, 2004, 20:58

LeAnn Rimes
Can't Fight the Moonlight

Under the lover-sky
Gonna be with you
And no one's gonna be around
If you think that you won't fall
Well just wait until
'Til the sun goes down

Underneath the starlight, starlight
There's a magical feeling so right
It will steal your heart tonight

You can try to resist
Try to hide from my kiss
But you know, but you know
That you, can't fight the moonlight
Deep in the dark, you'll surrender your heart
But you know, But you know that you
Can't fight the moonlight..No
You can't fight it...
It's gonna get to your heart

There's no escaping love
Once a gentle breeze
Weaves a spell upon your heart
No matter what you think
It won't be too long
'Til you're in my arms

Underneath the starlight, starlight
We'll be lost in the rhythm so right
Feel it steal your heart tonight

You can try to resist
Try to hide from my kiss
But you know, but you know
That you can't fight the moonlight
Deep in the dark, you'll surrender your heart
But you know, but you know that you
Can't fight the moonlight...No
You can't fight it
It's gonna get to your heart
No matter what you do
The night is gonna get to you

(You're gonna know
That I know)
Don't try, you're never gonna win, oh

Underneath the starlight, starlight,
There's a magical feeling, so right
It'll steal your heart tonight

You can try to resist, try to hide from my kiss
But you know, but you know that you
Can't fight the moonlight
Deep in the dark, you'll surrender your heart,
But you know, but you know that you
Can't fight the moonlight
No, you can't fight it

You can try to resist, try to hide from my kiss
But you know, but you know that you
can't fight the moonlight
Deep in the dark, you'll surrender your heart,
But you know, but you know that you
Can't fight the moonlight
No, you can't fight it
It's gonna get to your heart

Tiamat

January 7, 2004, 22:14

Originally posted by Stefan Härtel
Since You Been Gone- Rainbow

I love Rainbow! Boy that takes me back. Mr.Dio! What was the lead singer's name.....man did I have such a crush on him:blush:

Stefan Härtel

January 8, 2004, 08:22

Yeah, but Since You Been Gone was already in the Graham Bonnet era (1979). I agree that RJD is a great singer, however, and it was during his time that Rainbow had their prime.

Jon Miller

January 8, 2004, 09:09

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Song:One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces (live at 9:30 Club)
Artist:Ben Folds
-------------------------------------

September '75
I was 47 Inches high
my mom said by Christmas I would have
a bad-ass mother G.I Joe
for you little minds to blow
I still got beat up after class - yeah!
Now I'm big and important
one angry dwarf and
200 solem faces are you
if you really want to see me
check the papers and the tv
looks who's telling who what to do
Kiss my ass
goodbye
so don't give me that bullshit
you know who I am
I'm your nightmare little man
Vic you stole my lunch money made me cry
Jane remember second grade?
Said you couldn't stand my face
rather than kiss me you said you'd rather die
Now I'm big and important
one angry dwarf and
200 solem faces are you
if you really want to see me
check the papers and the tv
looks who's telling who what to do
Yeah - Kiss my ass
Goodbye
Awwwwwww ****
You'll be sorry one day
yeah you will - yes you will
you shouldn't push me around
cause I will - yes I will
you will be sorry when I'm big
yes you will - yes you will
you will be sorry
'cause I'm big and important
one angry dwarf and
200 solem faces are you
if you really want to see me
check the papers check the tv
oh, no, looks who's telling who what to do
kiss my ass - mother****er

Jon Millwe

DeathByTheSword

January 8, 2004, 09:13

INCUBUS
Clean
Today, everything was fine.
Until roundabout, quarter to nine
I suddenly found myself in a bind.
Was it something I said?
Something I read and manifested that's getting you down.
DOn't you dare come to bed with that ambiguous look in your eye, I'd sonner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.

Say what you will, say what you mean.
You could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.
Tomorrow, what price will I pay?

Could I make it all up to you by serving coffee for two in bed?
Would you then gimme the time of day?
I need a map of your head, translated into English so I can learn to not make you frown.
You'd feel better if you'd vent, put your frustrations into four letter words annd let them out on mine, the most weathered ears in town.

So say what you will, say what you mean.
you could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.

SlowwHand

January 8, 2004, 12:00

Hot 'N' Nasty

Find it)
(Who that?)
(Mercy)
(Who that sayin' mercy?)
So hot 'n' nasty
Oh, hey Joe, don't forget to shake it
While you sleepin' on that bed
You know it really makes it
Look at me shake a leg, oh
I got my head in a cloud
I'm gonna stand out in the crowd
I wanna sing out loud
Ooh, got to do it with the feelin'
Now you gonna hit the ceiling

Do you get the message?
Do you get the message?
Do you get the message?

Hey, boogaloo, I really love you
Look what you've done to my head
Take all my time
Take all my money
But most of all you take all my bread
Oh, I got my head in a cloud
I wanna sing it loud
I'm gonna stand out in the crowd
You got to do it with the feelin'
Well, you gonna hit the ceiling

Do you get the message?
Do you get the message?
Do you get the message?

Don't forget to shake that thing...
Do it with the feelin'
Then you gonna, then you gonna hit the ceiling

Hot 'n' nasty, hot 'n' nasty
It's hot 'n' nasty, so hot 'n' nasty
So hot 'n' nasty

**************************************

Black Coffee

Yer!
Black coffee is my name
Black coffee is not a thing
Black coffee freshly ground and fully packed
Hot black coffee boys
Black coffee
That's where it's at
Mean it!
Way back you all know
Since I don't know when
See I got to move on
Before I was 10
You see my skin is white
But my soul is black
So hot black coffee
That's where it's at
Black coffee
That's what I'm talkin' about boys
Black coffee
That's what I mean
Black coffee
Ooh! You've got to feel it in your hand
Black coffee
Hmm! Yer!
Black coffee
Well you hear that
Some black tea
Well it can't compare with me
That's right
Black tea well it's as good as
It's as good as
It's as good as it can be
But it's a cup of black coffee
That a working man needs to see yer
In America, well it's the land of the free
You can get what you want if you've got some do re me
Travelling far and I work like a slave
Now how can you get and you know I get L.A.
I get me a job and I build me a place
I got a spit of black coffee
Oh! How good it tastes!
I said a dime is all it costs in the states
For a cup of black coffee
How good it tastes!
Black coffee
Alright
Black coffee
Oh!
Black coffee
It's what I want now
It's what I need
Black coffee
To suit my soul
To suit my soul now
Black coffee
It's what I want
It's what I need
Black coffee
It's where it's at
It's where it's at
Black coffee
It's where it's at
It's where it's at

***************************************

One-eyed Trouser-Snake Rumba

I wanna know what you're living for
Are you the kinda girl that lives rather low
I got the key and you got the door
Throw away your troubles baby, gimme more

Gimme more, yeah, gimme more of that loving
Gimme more, oh oh, I want more

I wanna know why your face so red
You gotta lay down what's in your head
Do your time, top gay bag, it's said
No talk now honey, make the bed

Gimme more, yeah I got loving
Gimme more, oh oh, I want more

I wanna know what you're living for
Are you the kinda girl that lives rather low
I got the key and you got the door
Throw away your troubles honey, gimme more

Gimme more, yeah, gimme more of that loving
Gimme more, yeah, I said, I want more

Gimme more, oh oh, that's right
Gimme more, oh, I want more
Oh

Albert Speer

January 8, 2004, 12:05

another year of putting up the lyrics of bad songs?

SlowwHand

January 8, 2004, 12:13

No, another year of you running your mouth, but contributing nothing.

A Philly thing, it would appear. ;)

Albert Speer

January 8, 2004, 12:20

dont you got cows to herd, texas boy?

SlowwHand

January 8, 2004, 12:25

Albert, you really don't want to start with me.
You really don't.

Albert Speer

January 8, 2004, 12:31

i think i can handle it, old man... try me. that is, when you're not busy beating your mexican slaves.

SlowwHand

January 8, 2004, 19:51

Emotion
Samantha Sang

It's over and done
But the heartache lives on inside
And who's the one you're clinging to
Instead of me tonight

And where are you now
Now that I need you
Tears on my pillow
Wherever you go

I'll cry me a river
That leads to your ocean
You never see me fall apart
In the words of a broken heart

It's just emotion that's taken me over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul
But if you don't come back
Come home to me, darling
You know that there'll be nobody left in this world to hold me tight
Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight

Goodnight, goodnight

I'm there at your side
I'm part of all the things you are
But you've got a part of someone else
You've got to find your shining star

And where are you now
Now that I need you
Tears on my pillow
Wherever you go

I'll cry me a river
That leads to your ocean
You never see me fall apart
In the words of a broken heart

It's just emotion that's taken me over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul
But if you don't come back
Come home to me, darling
You know that there'll be nobody left in this world to hold me tight
Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight

Goodnight, goodnight

Ramo

January 8, 2004, 20:23

Janie Jones
The Clash

He's in love with rock'n'roll woaahh
He's in love with gettin' stoned woaahh
He's in love with Janie Jones
But he don't like his boring job, no...

An' he knows what he's got to do
So he knows he's gonna have fun with you
You lucky lady!
An' he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done he'll be over in his car for you

An' in the in-tray lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!

An' the invoice it don't quite fit,
There's no payola in his alphabetical file
This time he's gonna really tell the boss
Gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
It's pretty bad!

Let them know - how you feel

Ramo

January 8, 2004, 20:25

Chain Gang Blues
Ma Rainey

The judge found me guilty, the clerk he wrote it down (x 2)
Just a poor gal in trouble, I know I'm county road bound

Many days of sorrow, many nights of woe (x 2)
And a ball and chain everywhere I go

Chains on my feet, padlock on my hand (x 2)
It's all on account of stealing a woman's man

It was early this morning that I had my trial (x 2)
Ninety days on the county road, and judge didn't even smile.

C0ckney

January 8, 2004, 21:27

stereophonics - more life in a tramp's vest

I get camping eyes in the final hour
Last minute shoppers picking cauliflower
The fuss they make, you'd swear they were buying a car
They always moan, moan it's not so cheap
Cheaper still, cheaper still down the street
Lose my rag and tell them take your bag and shop down there
Closing down, they're closing down another road
One way, system steals the show
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest

The flower man sits down in the street
Surrounded by, the stock he bought last week
Bring back the ladies wearing lipstick on their teeth
Make up, we make up a crappy joke
Sit back, relax and have a smoke
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest

I get camping eyes in the final hour
Last minute shoppers picking cauliflower
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest

SlowwHand

January 9, 2004, 10:44

Rhythm Of The Rain
The Cascades

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
Telling me just what a fool I've been.
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain,
And let me be alone again.

Now the only girl I've ever loved has gone away.
Looking for a brand new start!
But little does she know that when she left that day.
Along with her she took my heart.

Rain, please tell me, now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care
I can't love another, when my heart's somewhere far away.

Rain, won't you tell her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to set her heart aglow
Rain in her heart and let the love we know start to grow.

Hueij

January 9, 2004, 11:01

Nice one Sloww... Time for another depressing song:

Sinatra, One for my baby (Mercer/Arlen)

It’s quarter to three,
There’s no one in the place ’cept you and me
So set ’em’ up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

We’re drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

I know the routine
Put another nickel in that there machine
I’m feeling so bad
Won’t you make the music easy and sad

I could tell you a lot
But you gotta to be true to your code
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

You’d never know it
But buddy I’m a kind of poet
And I’ve got a lot of things I wanna say
And if I’m gloomy, please listen to me
Till it’s all, all talked away

Well, that’s how it goes
And joe I know you’re gettin’ anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn’t mind
My bending your ear

But this torch that I found
It’s gotta be drowned
Or it soon might explode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

Bereta_Eder

January 9, 2004, 22:11

Me And You

Camouflage

Feel me,
Make it all come true,
Times change,
Between me and you.

Bring it all together,
Break it all down,
Nothing's quite forever,
Sometimes upside down...

It's me and you, (me and you)
Revolutionary true,
Colors will fade
From night to day
To something new.

It's me and you, (me and you)
Revolutionary true,
Colors will fade
From night to day
To something new.

Taste me,
Stick your head in clouds,
Make love,
Let it all come out.

Bring it all together,
Break it all down,
Nothing's quite forever,
Sometimes upside down...

It's me and you, (me and you)
Revolutionary true,
Colors will fade
From night to day
To something new.

It's me and you, (me and you)
Revolutionary true,
Colors will fade
From night to day
To something new.

Bereta_Eder

January 9, 2004, 22:39

Pretenders

Saving Grace

I've really made a fool of myself
I hit the wall but it never bothered you at all
oohhh
My pony bolted out too soon
Left me howling at the moon

You are my saving grace (oo my saving grace)
You put me in my place (you put me in my place)
I see your smiling face (I see your smiling face)
The clouds dissapper, and blue skies fill the space
You are my saving grace

I didn't know what I was s'posed to be
I tried to bluff, but I never offered you enough,
oohh
Now I'm feeling the remorse
I want you back because of course

You are my saving grace (oo my saving grace)
You put me in my place (you put me in my place)
I see your smiling face (I see your smiling face)
The clouds dissapper, and blue skies fill the space
You are my saving grace

Do you remember when, you gave your heart to me
I want it back again, I want it back again
Oh baby, Sweet baby

Won't you reconsider me?
Coz as anyone can see..

You are my saving grace (oo my saving grace)
You put me in my place (you put me in my place)
I see your smiling face (I see your smiling face)
The clouds dissapper, and blue skies fill the space
You are my saving grace
You are my saving grace

You are my saving grace
You put me in my place
I see your smiling face (I see your smiling face)
The clouds dissapper, and blue skies fill the space
You are my saving grace
You are my saving grace
You are my saving grace

C0ckney

January 10, 2004, 06:11

angel city ft. lara mcallen - love me right (oh shella)

ooh baby, love me right let me love you till you get it right
why cant you let the others be coz with you is where i got to be
ooh sugar where you been hangin' out with your male friends
listen...
somebodys gonna hurt you the way you love to keep hurtin' me (hurtin' me)

ooh baby, love me right let me love you till the mornin' comes
ooh sugar love me right you know i want to be the only one

whhhhhhooooooooooooaaaaaa
let me love you till you get it right
ooh baby understand i want you to be the only man (only man)
but it seems as though it's gettin' too hot i think i'll start to have my own fun
ooh baby it's plain to see that i'm qualified to feel your needs
you think you put it over on me, oh honey baby just you wait and see

ooh baby, love me right let me love you till the mornin' comes
ooh sugar love me right you know i want to be the only one

whhhhhhooooooooaaaaaaaaaa
let me love you till you get it right
love me right
you gotta love me
love me right
you gotta love me whoo whoo yeah

whhhhhhhooooooooaaaaaaaaa
let me love you till you get it right
ooh baby love me right let me love you till the mornin' comes
ooh sugar love me right you know i want to be the only one
ooh baby love me right let me love you till the mornin' comes
ooh sugar love me right you know i want to be the only one.

Mr. President

January 10, 2004, 07:28

After the Gold Rush

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armour coming,
sayin' something about a queen.
There were passants singin' and drummers drummin'
and the archer split the tree.
There's a fanfare blowin' to the sun
that was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the twentieth century,
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the twentieth century.

I was lyin' in a burned out basement
with the full moon in my eyes.
I was hopin' for replacement
when the sun burst through the sky.
There was a band playin' in my head
and I felt like getting high.
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said I was hopin' it was a lie.
Thinkin' about what a friend had said I was hopin' it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flyin'
in the yellow haze of the sun,
there were children cryin' and colours flyin'
all around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home.

Comment: I heard the Emmylou Harris / Dolly Parton / Linda Ronstadt version of this song this afternoon and it moved me very close to tears.

Tis I

January 10, 2004, 11:21

I went looking for someone I left behind
Yeah but no - one just a stranger did I find
I never noticed hadn't seen it as it grew
The void between us where the flame turns blue

Different places yeah but they all look the same
Dreams of faces in the streets devoured by names
I'm in collision with every stone I ever threw
And blind ambition where the flame turns blue

Worlds dismantled hey and all the books unbound
Conversations though we utter not a sound
I heard a rumour I don't know if its true
That you'd meet me where the flame turns blue

So I venture underneath the leaden sky
See the freight train with its one fierce eye
And then I listen as it tears the night into
With a whistle and the flame turns blue

In the morning I will sing
In the morning I will sing

Through the lemon trees the diamonds of light
Break in splinters on the pages where I write
That if I lost you I don't know what I'd do
Burn forever where the flame turns blue
Yeah if I lost you I don't know what I'd do
Burn forever where the flame turns blue

In the morning I will sing
In the morning I will sing

The Mad Monk

January 10, 2004, 11:30

Every time I see your handle, the first thing I think is, "LeClare!"

Bereta_Eder

January 10, 2004, 20:41

Ôá ðïëëÜ íá ãßíïõí üëá

ÁñâáíéôÜêç Åëåõèåñßá

ÌïõóéêÞ/Óôß÷ïé: Dinkjian Ara/ÃêáíÜò Ìé÷Üëçò
ÁðïóôïëÝáò: ËåõôÝñçò

Äßóêïò: «Ôá êïñìéÜ êáé ôá ìá÷áßñéá»

¢íïéîç æåóôÞ, Þëéïò êáé âñï÷Þ

ü,ôé âëÝðù ô’ áãáðÜù ôÝôïéá åðï÷Þ

Äñüìïé ÷áìÝíïé óôçí åîï÷Þ

ðüëç ðëõìÝíç áð’ ôç âñï÷Þ

¼ëá ãõñßæïõí êáé ìå êïéôïýí

ìå ôá ìÜôéá ðïõ ì’ áãáðïýí

ÌÜôéá ìïõ áãáðçìÝíá, êïßôá ìå îáíÜ

ôá ðïëëÜ íá ãßíïõí üëá êé üëá êïíôéíÜ

¼ìïñöïò êáéñüò, êüóìïò ëáìðåñüò

âÜäéóá ðïëý ìáæß óïõ êé Ýãéíá ÷ïñüò

ÂÞìá ôï âÞìá, üëá ãíùóôÜ

ìÝóá óôçí ðüëç ðïõ ìáò ÷ñùóôÜ

ìéá ôÝôïéá âüëôá üðùò áõôÞ

Ç áó÷Þìéá ðïý íá ‘÷åé êñõöôåß

ÌÜôéá ìïõ áãáðçìÝíá, êïßôá ìå îáíÜ

ôá ðïëëÜ íá ãßíïõí üëá êé üëá êïíôéíÜ

Ôïõ ñïý÷á ðïõ ìïõ ðÜíå

ãéá ÷Üñç óïõ öïñþ

êáé ëÜìðù óôï ðëåõñü óïõ

ìá÷áßñé óôï íåñü

¢íïéîç æåóôÞ, Þëéïò êáé âñï÷Þ

ü,ôé âëÝðù ô’ áãáðÜù ôÝôïéá åðï÷Þ

ÌÜôéá ìïõ ãëõêÜ, êïßôá ìå îáíÜ

ôá ðïëëÜ íá ãßíïõí üëá êé üëá êïíôéíÜ

Lonestar

January 10, 2004, 21:01

Space Between
Dave Matthews Band

You cannot quit me so quickly
There's no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I got all the time for you, love

The Space Between
The tears we cry
Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep safe from the pain

But will I hold you again?
These fickle, fuddled words confuse me
Like 'Will it rain today?'
Waste the hours with talking, talking
These twisted games we're playing

We're strange allies
With warring hearts
What wild-eyed beast you be
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep safe from the pain

Will I hold you again?
Will I hold...

Look at us spinning out in
The madness of a roller coaster
You know you went off like a devil
In a church in the middle of a crowded room
All we can do, my love
Is hope we don't take this ship down

The Space Between
Where you're smiling high
Is where you'll find me if I get to go
The Space Between
The bullets in our firefight
Is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you
The rain that falls
Splash in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into...
The Space Between
Our wicked lies
Is where we hope to keep safe from pain

Take my hand
'Cause we're walking out of here
Oh, right out of here
Love is all we need here

The Space Between
What's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you
The Space Between
Your heart and mine
Is the space we'll fill with time
The Space Between...

self biased

January 11, 2004, 04:50

1996, Marilyn Manson.

anti choice
anti girl
I am the anti-flag unfurled
anti white and anti man
I got the anti-future plan
anti fascist
anti mod
I am the anti-music god
anti sober
anti whore
there will never be enough of anti more

I can't believe in the things
that don't believe in me
now it's your turn to see misanthropy
anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar

anti money
anti hate
anti things I ****ed and ate
anti cop
anti fun
here is my anti-president gun
anti Satan
anti black
anti world is on my back
anti gay and anti dope
I am the faggot anti-pope

I can't believe in the things
that don't believe in me
now it's your turn to see misanthropy
anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar

anti peace
anti life
anti husband, anti wife
anti song and anti me
I don't deserve a chance to be

anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar

i put a spell on you (version.smells like children), marilyn manson.

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
I can't stand the things that you do.
No, no, no, I ain't lyin'. No.
I don't care if you don't want me
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.
Yeah, I'm yours, yours, yours.
I love you. I love you.
I love you. I love you. I love you.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah....
I put a spell on you.
Lord! Lord! Lord!
....'Cause you're mine, yeah.
I can't stand the things that you do
When you're foolin' around.
I don't care if you don't want me.
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.
Yeah, yours, yours, yours!
I can't stand your foolin' around.
If I can't have you,
No one will!
I love you, you, you!
I love you. I love you. I love you!
I love you, you, you!
I don't care if you don't want me.
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.

the better of two evils.

Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)

I won't look prettier if I smile for the picture
Mother****ers never liked me then and they
Sure won't like me now
Don't try to drag me down with your cliché
Your fake grin fits your faker face
But I find all my pleasure in your misery
Yeah

I will step on you on my way up
And I will step on you on my way down
I will step on you on my way up
And I will step on you on my way down
Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
I'll be your scapegoat, I'll be your saviour
I'm the better of two evils
I'm the better of two evils (yeah yeah yeah)

I want to hang all you cattle
With your VELVET ROPE,
Mother****ers step up and get into
An orderly line.
I'll show you how to make a muscle.
It takes less strength to grin than
It does to spit on all you
Paparazzinazis
Yeah

I will step on you on my way up
And I will step on you on my way down
Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
I'll be your scapegoat, I'll be your saviour
I'm the better of two evils
I'm the better of two evils (yeah yeah yeah)

Don't try to lead me to temptation
Don't try to lead me to temptation
Don't try to lead me to temptation
Don't try to lead me to temptation
I've been delivered and I already know the way

Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
Haters call me *****
Call me faggot call me whitey
But I am something that you'll never be
(Hey)
I'll be your scapegoat, I'll be your saviour
I'm the better of two evils
I'm the better of two evils (yeah yeah yeah)

SlowwHand

January 11, 2004, 19:47

Ocean Front Property
George Strait

If you leave me
I won't miss you
and I won't ever take you back
Girl your memory
won't ever haunt me
Cause I don't love you
Now if you'll buy that

Chorus:
I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
from my front porch you can see the sea
I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
An if you'll buy that I'll throw the Golden Gate in free

I don't worship
the ground you walk on
I never have and that's a fact
I won't follow or try to find you
Cause I don't love you
Now if you'll buy that

(Chorus)

(Chorus)

Yeah if you'll buy that I'll throw the Golden Gate in free

cinch

January 12, 2004, 02:10

Can't Keep It In (Cat Stevens)

Oh I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've got to show the world, world's got to see, see all the love
love that's in me.
I said, why walk alone, why worry when it's
warm over here.
You've got so much to say, say what you mean,
mean what you're thinking, and think anything.

Oh why, why must you waste you're life away,
you've got to live for today, then let it go
Oh, lover, I want to spend this time with you,
there's nothing I wouldn't do, If you let me know.

And I can't keep it in, I can't hide it and I can't lock it away.
I'm up for your love, love heats my blood,
blood spins my head, and my head falls in love, oh.

No, I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've gotta show the world, world's got to know,
know of the love, love that lies low, so
Why can't you say, If you know, then why can't you say.
You've got too much deceit, deceit kills the light,
light needs to shine, I said shine light , shine light.

Love, That's no way to live your life,
you allow too much to go by, and that won't do.
No, lover. I want to have you here by my side
Now don't you run, don't you hide, while I'm with you.

'N I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've got to show the world, world's got to see, see all the love
love that's in me. I said, why walk alone, why worry when it's
warm over here. You've got so much to say, say what you mean,
mean what you're thinking, and think anything. Why not?

Now why why why not?

SlowwHand

January 12, 2004, 18:53

In the Garden (I Come to the Garden Alone)

1.I come to the garden alone
while the dew is still on the roses,
and the voice I hear falling on my ear,
the Son of God discloses.
Refrain:
And he walks with me, and he talks with me,
and he tells me I am his own;
and the joy we share as we tary there,
none other has ever known.

2.He speaks, and the sound of his voice
is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
and the melody that he gave to me
within my heart is ringing.
(Refrain)

3.I'd stay in the garden with him
though the night around me be falling,
but he bids me go; thru the voice of woe
his voice to me is calling.
(Refrain)

SlowwHand

January 13, 2004, 19:04

Long and Winding Road
Beatles

The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me her
Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way

Many times I've been alone
And many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know
The many ways I've tried

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

self biased

January 14, 2004, 07:22

brasil, soulfly.

Vamos detonar essa porra -
Vamos levantar poeira
Vamos arrasar
Vamos arregaçar
Vamos detonar essa porra
Vamos rasgar o chão
Levanta mano, então
Vamos detonar essa porra
Vamos detonar essa porra

As casas
As cidades
As calçadas
As mulecadas
As esquinas
Os buracos
Balas perdidas
Os telhados
No Minhocão
A multidão
Favelas
Galera
Na madrugada
A gingada
E'o Brasil
Pais porrada

Os butecos
O concreto
As raizes
As cicatrizes
O Cristo Redentor
O sol nascente
Salvador
Nas Gerais
As catedrais
Pelourinho
Aleijadinho
Na Baixada
As peladas
E'o Brasil
Pais porrada

Brasil, Pais Porrada

As torcidas
As torturas
De longe vem a forte chuva
E' Meia Noite
Quebrando tudo
O berimbau Conquista o Mundo Da Lama ao Caos
Do Mangue
Manaus
Uai Gerais
O Brasil
E' muito mais

Verres

January 15, 2004, 12:54

To The End

Blur

All these dirty words
Jusqu'a la fin
They make us look so dumb
En plein soleil
Been drinking far too much
Jusqu'a la fin
And neither of us mean what we say
En plein amour

Well you and I
Collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes it looks like we've made it to the end

What happened to us
Soon it will be gone forever
Infatuated only with ourselves
And neither of us can think straight anymore

Well you and I
Collapsed in love
Annd it looks like we might have made it
Yes it looks like we've made it to the end

Bereta_Eder

January 15, 2004, 14:33

The mirror

Phoivos Delivorias

I have in front of me constantly a mirror
That hinders me to see what’s behind it
I’ve never seen a bigger liar
And the worst is that it’s the same as me
He looks very good while I’m not
He looks mean while I’m not that either
Those who tell me “ stay as you are mate”
Are those who swallowed the mirage
A mirror I constantly have in front of me
Against it my heart falls and breaks
A mirror I constantly have in front of me
It reflects what women want
And like this it convinces them that I’m their other half
In front of it they undress and speak sweet words
Behind its glass I all alone look
It does game even with my role models
The divine voices who talked to me when I was a kid
It brings them in front of me and to my size
I try to reach them and I clink against the glass
A mirror I constantly have in front of me
Against it my heart falls and breaks
I know that everyone by now believe in mirrors
In monitors, photocopies and projectors
They’ve even made games where players
Stand behind a glass jar and we all watch them
But I’ll break my mirror to pieces
I know that the one which hides behind it is you
You who look behind your black eyes
To only mirror me in life

curtsibling

January 15, 2004, 14:39

Mercenaries of Metal

By CRYONIC TEMPLE

Final hour is here - I don't fear the reaper
Fighting against the legions of hate
It's time to choose where you belong
Death comes quicker than you know

It's an illusion of what is fact of fiction
It's an illusion of why we have to die

We are the mercenaries of metal
We take no prisoners - kill or be killed
We are the mercenaries of metal
We take no prisoners - make a stand

Why am I here where will I go
Enemies die so fast by your sword
The quickening is here I live again
I will never die a holy man

It's an illusion of what is fact of fiction
It's an illusion of why we have to die

We are the mercenaries of metal
We take no prisoners - kill or be killed
We are the mercenaries of metal
We take no prisoners - make a stand

asleepathewheel

January 15, 2004, 15:07

Wilco

Misunderstood

When you're back in your old neighborhood
The cigarettes taste so good
But you're so misunderstood
You're so misunderstood

There's something there that you can't find
You look honest when you're telling a lie
You hurt her but you don't know why
You love her but you don't know why

Short on long term goals
There's a party there that we ought to go to
If you still love rock and roll
You still love rock and roll?

It's only a quarter to three
Reflecting off of your CD
You're looking at a picture of me
You're staring at a picture of me

Take the guitar player for a ride
'Cause he ain't never been satisfied
He thinks he owes some kind of debt
It'll be years before he gets over it

There's a fortune inside your head
When all you touch turns to lead
You think you might just crawl back in bed
With the fortune inside your head

I know you're just a mama's boy
You're positively unemployed
So misunderstood
So misunderstood

I know you've got a god-shaped hole
You're bleeding out your heart full of soul
You're so misunderstood
You're so misunderstood
You're so misunderstood
You're so misunderstood

I'd like to thank you all for nothing
I'd like to thank you all for nothing at all
I'd like to thank you all for nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all

curtsibling

January 15, 2004, 16:59

Diamonds Of The Black Chest

By RUNNING WILD

Since then he heard about the chest
He's so wild he can't get no rest
A million diamonds blinding his eyes
Brighter than fire but colder than ice
Sweat on his brow - greed burns his mind
Hands like claws - his teeth always grind
Soaked by sweat he wakes up and screams:
"Oh, no! It was only a dream!"

Diamonds! Diamonds...
Diamonds of the black chest!

Years and years he sought that chest
He runs most every risk - the man's obsessed
For too many years he's roamed all the lands
To feel the diamonds in his hands
He find the hallowed spot - breaking its lock
He opens the gate which is carved of rock
Finding the chest he exults and screams
"Oh, yeah! It's no dream!"

Diamonds! Diamonds...
Diamonds of the black chest!

He holds out his hands and he touches the chest
He breaks its seals - he disturbs its rest
Curious and slow he opens the lid
He stares over the edge - what he sees he can't grip
No diamonds but he sees own face
A possessed wreck with an empty gaze
Thrilled by madness he's dying in pain
"No dream! I'm insane!"

Diamonds! Diamonds...
Diamonds of the black chest!

molly bloom

January 15, 2004, 19:55

We are the 801,
We are the central shaft
And we are here to let you take advantage
Of our lack of craft:
Certain streets have certain corners
Sooner or later, we'll turn yours

We are the 801,
We are the central shaft
And thus throughout two years
We've crossed the ocean in our little craft (Row! Row! Row)
Now we're on the telephone,
Making final arrangements (Ding! Ding!)
We are the 801, we are the central shaft

Looking for a certain ratio
Someone must have left it underneath the carpet
Looking up and down the radio
Oh-oh, nothing there this time
Looking for a certain ratio
Someone said they saw it parking in a car-lot
Looking up and down the radio
Oh-oh, nothing there this time
Going back down to the radio
Oh, oh - oh, oh - oh, oh - here we go!

We are the table, the captain's table
Let's get it understood, let's get it understood
We are the losers, we are the bruisers
Let's get it understood, let's get it understood
We are the diners, the final diners
Let's get it understood, let's get it understood
Most of us tinkers, some of us tailors,
And we've got candlesticks, and lots of cocktail sticks
We saw the lovers, the modern lovers
And they looked very good, they looked as if they could
We are the neighbours, the nosy neighbours
We think just like we would, we think just like we should.

Oh, oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Brian Eno, The True Wheel, 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy'

Alternative hearings:

Of our lack of craft == of our lack of funds (-- DJ Tommy B)

Going back down to the radio == Going back down to the rodeo

we are the bruisers == we are the cruisers

the modern lovers == the modern mothers (-- Pat Destefano)

We are the neighbours, the nosy neighbours == We are the neighbors, those nosy neighbors (-- DJ Tommy B)

We think just like we would, we think just like we should == We think just like you would, we think just like you should (-- R Carlberg)

Just a quick ??... The True Wheel- 3rd line. And we are here to let you take advantage of our lack of......thought..?? (-- Ctglass99)

I always heard the line as - "We've crossed the ocean in our little craft (Ra! Ra! Ra!)" - the "Ra" as a reference to the Thor Heyerdahl´s Ra II expeditions in the papyrus boat Ra II (1970) Thanks for such a enjoyable site. The discussions on Brian's lyrics are intelligent and insightful. (-- Ben Lancini)

Wade McCarthy: I have an interpretation of a line in "The True Wheel" that surprises me that noone has noticed. The line "we saw the lovers/the modern lovers==we saw the models/ the modern models". It has both a machinistic/sexual connotation that makes the second line seem open ended: "and the looked very good/they looked as if they could..."...do anything, probably sexual. Thanks, for leaving me one crumb to add to your large, layered cake.

References:

"...I decided I wanted these picture-lyrics. Because love-songs don't do that. Love-songs make a number of statements - which I'm wary of doing - so I've avoided love-songs, and it's only on this album I've just done [ Before and After Science ] that anything like a love-song starts to appear."

Cut to Eno on the West Coast. It's Chinatown in San Francisco and he's shading his eyes to peer into the window of a small shop where stand displayed a set of postcard "stills" from a Red Chinese ballet-film called Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy.

Freeze frame and roll the intro to "The True Wheel"...

"It was so exciting! I thought 'That's the sort of lyric I want!' There was 'Tiger Mountain' which gave it a medieval, almost folksy, flavour - and 'By Strategy', which was very up-tempo and modern.

"So I bought the set and started carrying it around with me and thinking about it. And when I got to New York I went to stay with this girl called Randi and fell asleep after taking some mescaline and had this dream where this group of girls were singing to this group of sailors who had just come into port. And they were singing 'We are The 801 / We are the Central Shaft' - and I woke up absolutely jubilant because this was the first bit of lyric I'd written in this new style.

"Because I didn't know what it meant - but I got the feeling of 'Christ, this means something, this is interesting'. Except it wasn't specific, you know?"

-- Brian Eno, quoted by Ian MacDonald, in New Musical Express, November 26th 1977

"This track started from a dream. I was staying in the Drake hotel in New York with a girl called Randi N---. I had a dream about her and a group of other girls (Randi and the Pyramids) and guys singing the song ... They were sort of astronauts, but with all the psychological aspects of sailors.

... The other strange thing about this song is its inadvertent links with the Cabala. I found out, long after I had written the song, that the number 801 means 'Alpha and Omega' or 'the first and the last' in the Cabala and that this entity is a circular concept ... The number 801 (which, with all the rest of the chorus refrain, was plucked unaltered from my dream) has another meaning which I find interesting. In the Cabala, the twenty-two Tarot cards are arranged such that they rest on the paths between the Tree of Life. Each of the paths has a number, and each of the numbers corresponds to one of the cards in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. The paths 801 describe a pyramid whose individual sides are STRENGTH, THE FOOL, and THE MAGICIAN.

"...Apparently, rumour has it in America that 801 derives from Eight Nought One, the initials of which spell... Very ingenious, I thought, although it had never occurred to me." -- Brian Eno (More Dark Than Shark)

Re eno's kabalistic speculation on the numbers: the number eight is the letter chet and merely the eighth letter. The number 0 (pronounced "oh") could be vav or the word and the number one is alef and does signify the first. Chet (eight) does sound a little like tet (nine) but it is the final letter tav (another T sound, like tet) which is the last letter. 400 and 1 or 401 is actually a lot closer to the first and last. (-- mason)

the captain's table: To be invited to sit at the captain's table is a special privilege.

The voice on the retuning radio noises at the end of the track is probably that of the presenter Richard Baker.

I was wondering if there's any evidence that the "we saw the lovers, the modern lovers" line is a reference to Jonathan Richman's band "The Modern Lovers." As Jerry Harrison was a member of the Modern Lovers who later joined the Eno produced Talking Heads, I thought there might be some connection (of course in 1974 when Tiger Mountain came out the Modern Lovers were fairly obscure, but maybe Brain One was hip to them). (-- Russell Schaffer)

I always thought he was saying "We saw the bombers, the modern bombers", instead of "lovers". I was surprised to see no one else thought so. Fits in with the overall WWII aesthetic more, it seems to me. No response sought. Just a tidbit. (-- Xpin Loki Freign)

zero (the unsignified): Regarding The Third Wheel: In Alvin Toffler's 'Future Shock' (1975?) he posits that, since the dawn of modern man (Homo Sapiens) there have been about 800 generations of man: ie, 800 average lifetimes. And we are the 801st. Whilst I am sure that Eno genuinely received the lyrics in a dream, one has to wonder where he received them from... I've always pondered the fact that this lyric contains the names of three bands - two of whom took their name from the lyric. I harbour a secret desire (ooops - no longer secret!) to form a band called The Central Shaft - unless it's been done?

Simon Fluendy: Nice page! Regarding the true wheel on Taking Tiger... The line 'Looking for a certain ratio' relates to a speech by hitler regarding the number of jews in europe. This was later used as the name of a Caberet Voltaire type electro/industrial post-punk band, you may recall. Someone told me that 8 0 1 was also an indirect reference to this, but this may be bollocks.

Bereta_Eder

January 15, 2004, 21:49

All Still

Yannis Kotsiras

I say that my life fake goes
whenever they love me

But in my private car when I get a flat tire
And the mechanics take time to arrive

And all are still
Like the ink before the pen wakes up

Ah you my dreamy eyes
You ressemble everybody, you go along with noone
And if you're showing me such kindness
And you say you're real

Don't ask for a place in the dressing room
Get out with me on the stage

I say that my life fake goes
whenever they love me

But in my era one picture suffices
A thousand words are not enough.

Peter Triggs

January 15, 2004, 23:51

Searching for something else, I stumbled on this:

The most remarkable jam I ever saw was between Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison with Felix Cavalari and The Rascals playing backup. Jim Morrison was sloshed out of his mind, prancing lewdly around Jimi, chanting incoherently. Jimi, stoned but in a much cleaner groove, whaled back sharply on his guitar. It was the first time these greats ever jammed together, an electric moment for all. As soon as it began Steve Paul locked the doors, and they improvised, nonstop, until dawn. Linda [Eastman/McCartney] got it all on film. She was one of Jimi's favorite photographers. I remember him commenting how comfortable Linda made him feel. They were both quite shy, a mutual trait they shared in common.

This seems to be the best thread to post it in.

If it's true, I sure wish I was there.

Bas

January 16, 2004, 07:00

Sick Of It All - The Bland Within

This is what I am
I cant make it stop
No matter how much I want to change.
This is who I am
And I've made my peace.
Now the boredom can set in
I can't make it go away.

Progress made towards self discovery
Might not be progress at all.
Making light of the banality
Might be the only recourse.
Look out
See life close around you
The routine becomes what you are.
Look out
See all the mistakes
That you'll make a hundred times more.
Look out see life close around you
The routine becomes what you are
Look out see all the mistakes
You'll be making a hundred times
A thousand times
A million times more

This is what I am
I cant make it stop
No matter how much I want to change.
This is who I am
And I've made my peace
Now the boredom can set in
I can't make it go away.

The same old words
The same old voice
The same old options without much choice.
Now you know yourself
Now you see just how ****ed up
You're predisposed to be.

Sikander

January 16, 2004, 09:24

Originally posted by molly bloom
We are the 801,

<snip!>

Thanks for that Molly, interesting stuff. I really have to find myself a copy of More Dark than Sharp.

The diplomat

January 16, 2004, 09:31

Lean On Me
Bill Withers

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you don't let show

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Lean on me…

SlowwHand

January 16, 2004, 19:17

Blame It On Texas
Mark Chesnutt

Been havin’ a ball since I was a boy in Beaumont
Love that town but I just couldn’t stay
Two stepped all the way to Amarillo
Shuffled my way into Santa Fe
Just had to see the sun set out in Frisco
The Golden Gate is great
But it ain’t home
Give me a rodeo

Chorus:
Blame it on Texas
Don’t blame it on me
I am who I am
And that’s what I’m gonna be
You can say what you wanna say
About my insanity
Blame it on Texas
Don’t blame it on me

Met a girl out in eastern Oklahoma
Her daddy was a Tulsa millionaire
With miles and miles of oil wells he’d leave her
All a man could want was waitn’ there
But one night while she lay sleepin’ I slipped away
Like no man in his
Right mind would do
call me a fool

Repeat Chorus

molly bloom

January 16, 2004, 19:26

Originally posted by Sikander

Thanks for that Molly, interesting stuff. I really have to find myself a copy of More Dark than Sharp.

With the free print- don't forget the free print!

Lost my copy of the print from the vinyl version, but I still have the Peter Schmidt paintings from 'Before and After Science'.

Did you know the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has an Eno c.d. for sale- an ambient recording he used at an installation there a couple of years' ago?

boann

January 17, 2004, 11:32

Dido
White Flag

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up in surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules that "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All I was then
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

SlowwHand

January 17, 2004, 17:19

DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT THE NIGHT CAN DO?
Steve Winwood

Hear the night music playing?
Don't you know what it's saying?
We should feel it together
For forever

Feel the beat and just hold on
To the sweet midnight flowing
Feel the music inside you
I'll be there too

Now's the time our dreams are finally coming true
Feels so good we're crying
Now's the time when it's down to me and you
Spread these wings - we'll be flying

Don't you know what the night can do?
Don't you know when it's touching you?
Don't you know what the night can do?

Time to show all your feeling
All the night is revealing
Let the rhythm enfoled you
Let me hold you

Now we turn into music
Now we never will lose it
When the rhythm and night ride
No heart can hide

There are times that never ever come again
Mem'ries there for making
When the night calls, we better let it in
All this love for the taking

Don't you know what the night can do?
Don't you know when it's touching you?
Won't you help me to let it through?
Don't you know what the night can do?

SlowwHand

January 18, 2004, 17:55

Friends in Low Places
Garth Brooks

Blame it all on my roots
I showed up in boots
And ruined your black tie affair
The last one to know
The last one to show
I was the last one
You thought you'd see there
And I saw the surprise
And the fear in his eyes
When I took his glass of champagne
And I toasted you
Said, honey, we may be through
But you'll never hear me complain

'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away
And I'll be okay
I'm not big on social graces
Think I'll slip on down to the oasis
Oh, I've got friends in low places

Well, I guess I was wrong
I just don't belong
But then, I've been there before
Everything's all right
I'll just say goodnight
And I'll show myself to the door
Hey, I didn't mean
To cause a big scene
Just give me an hour and then
Well, I'll be as high
As that ivory tower
That you're livin' in

'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away
And I'll be okay
I'm not big on social graces
Think I'll slip on down to the oasis
Oh, I've got friends in low places

3rd Verse:
I guess I was wrong
I just don't belong
But then, I've been there before
And everything is alright
I'll just say goodnight
And I'll show myself to the door
I didn't mean to cause a big scene
Just wait 'til I finish this glass
Then sweet little lady
I'll head back to the bar
And you can kiss my ass

:p

Hueij

January 18, 2004, 18:02

Ahhh, that's nice of you Sloww :love:

The next one is for Ned for getting KH banned. The [insert bannable word here]...

Crippled Inside, John Lennon

You can shine your shoes and wear a suit
You can comb your hair and look quite cute
You can hide your face behind a smile
One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside

You can wear a mask and paint your face
You can call yourself the human race
You can wear a collar and a tie
One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside

Well now you know that your
Cat has nine lives
Nine lives to itself
But you only got one
And a dog's life ain't fun
Mamma take a look outside

can go to church and sing a hymn
You can judge me by the color of my skin
You can live a lie until you die
One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside

Well now you know that your
Cat has nine lives
Nine lives to itself
But you only got one
And a dog's life ain't fun
Mamma take a look outside

You can go to church and sing a hymn
You can judge me by the color of my skin
You can live a lie until you die
One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside

One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside
One thing you can't hide
Is when you're crippled inside

SlowwHand

January 18, 2004, 18:05

KH banned?!? :eek:

Hueij

January 18, 2004, 18:09

Originally posted by SlowwHand
KH banned?!? :eek:
Yep. Read all about it in the Swedish Art thread. He was pissed by KH's insults and had to whine to Ming about it. Couldn't stand his own ground I guess...

SlowwHand

January 18, 2004, 18:22

Ming.
That punkass bastard. Worthless. Rotten to the core.

Hueij

January 18, 2004, 18:30

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Ming.
That punkass bastard. Worthless. Rotten to the core.
Nah... Just doing his job, this isn't a democracy, just enforcing the rules set by the owners, yadda yadda, yadda...

This one's for Ming ;)

Love, John lennon

Love is real, real is love
Love is feeling, feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
We can be

Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living love
Love is needing to be loved

Sikander

January 18, 2004, 23:10

Originally posted by molly bloom

With the free print- don't forget the free print!

Lost my copy of the print from the vinyl version, but I still have the Peter Schmidt paintings from 'Before and After Science'.

Did you know the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has an Eno c.d. for sale- an ambient recording he used at an installation there a couple of years' ago?

I have the Before and After Science inserts from the vinyl edition also. I didn't know about the museum c.d., have you heard it? San Francisco seems to love Eno. When I was in Monterey we used to visit S.F. once a month or so, and I remember a radio station (KFOG iirc) announcing tongue-in-cheek that they were All Eno, all the time. My friends and I approved to say the least.

molly bloom

January 19, 2004, 00:09

Originally posted by Sikander

I have the Before and After Science inserts from the vinyl edition also. I didn't know about the museum c.d., have you heard it? San Francisco seems to love Eno. When I was in Monterey we used to visit S.F. once a month or so, and I remember a radio station (KFOG iirc) announcing tongue-in-cheek that they were All Eno, all the time. My friends and I approved to say the least.

I wish.

A friend of mine tried to buy it for me (he was in New York) and they wanted almost as much in shipping as they did for the c.d. . I mean, they only had to get someone to pick up a copy in the stock room, for Crissakes, and put it in a padded envelope!!!!

Tried buying it over the internet and its even more expensive. Grrrr!!!!

I do however have the Eno installation c.d.s from the Hayward Art Gallery in London and from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg- they're wonderful early Sunday morning pieces, for when the cat has come upstairs and is sleeping in between us. Very simialr to the Shutov Assembly album, or Neroli.

I do recommend a visit to Reckless Records in the Haight if you're back in San Francisco any time soon, as they get a lot of British imports from their sister shops in Soho and Islington in London- always worth checking out for British only tracks, or alternate versions.

Bryan Ferry is here in the first week of February, and Bowie is playing on my birthday on the 26th of that month, so the 70s are here again....

Sikander

January 19, 2004, 01:39

Originally posted by molly bloom

I wish.

A friend of mine tried to buy it for me (he was in New York) and they wanted almost as much in shipping as they did for the c.d. . I mean, they only had to get someone to pick up a copy in the stock room, for Crissakes, and put it in a padded envelope!!!!

Tried buying it over the internet and its even more expensive. Grrrr!!!!

I do however have the Eno installation c.d.s from the Hayward Art Gallery in London and from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg- they're wonderful early Sunday morning pieces, for when the cat has come upstairs and is sleeping in between us. Very simialr to the Shutov Assembly album, or Neroli.

I do recommend a visit to Reckless Records in the Haight if you're back in San Francisco any time soon, as they get a lot of British imports from their sister shops in Soho and Islington in London- always worth checking out for British only tracks, or alternate versions.

Bryan Ferry is here in the first week of February, and Bowie is playing on my birthday on the 26th of that month, so the 70s are here again....

I'm curious what year you were born in. I was born 5 MAR 1961.

molly bloom

January 19, 2004, 04:26

Originally posted by Sikander

I'm curious what year you were born in. I was born 5 MAR 1961.

26th February, 1963.

I vividly recall watching Roxy Music perform 'Virginia Plain' on Top of the Pops for the first time.

I remember going to school with the strains of 'Walk on the Wild Side' still with me.

I can remember having to get up very early to watch the Apollo moon landing on a black and white television, and now I find it funny that they used Bowie's 'Space Oddity' as background music, given that it's a song about despair and isolation.

And seeing David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars perform 'Starman' on Ayshea Brough's 'Lift-Off'.

I used to rush home from grammar school to watch Marc Bolan's show 'Marc' in 1977, and was rewarded with the Bowie video for 'Heroes' and his jamming session with Bolan.

BBC2 used to have an excellent arts programme called 'Arena' which had Eno's work as its soundtrack- you can still get the 4 trk 3" c.d. on e-bay sometimes.

Glam Rock was my first enthusiasm, then Motown, Punk, New Wave, Blues, and so on.

SlowwHand

January 19, 2004, 10:37

(The Man With The) RockAnd Roll Banjo
The Supremes (Clarence Paul/Berry Gordy)

He's a groovy swinging guy
With the rock and roll banjo band

I got a sweet little guy
Who lives down the street
But nobody knows his name
Everybody was sad and feeling so bad
But that was before he came

Now everybody in the neighborhood
Seems to walk with a steady beat
By the rhythm of the guy
With the rock and roll banjo band

The way he plays that thing
It makes my poor heart ring
I'm gonna marry that guy someday

If you wanna know why I love him so
Then you ought to come and hear him play
From the dawn to the sunset
He keeps a-strumming on his banjo strings

He's the groovy swinging guy
With the rock and roll banjo band

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

The way he plays that thing
It makes my poor heart ring
I'm gonna marry that guy someday

If you wanna know why I love him so
Then you ought to come and hear him play
From the dawn to the sunset
He keeps a-strumming on his banjo strings

He's the groovy swinging guy
With the rock and roll banjo band

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
He's the groovy swinging guy
With the rock and roll banjo band
He's the groovy swinging guy

SlowwHand

January 20, 2004, 11:11

Hell is for Children

They cry in dark,
so you can't see their tears.
They hide in the light,
so you can't see their fears.
Forgive and forget,
all the while...
Love and pain become one and the same
in the eyes of a wounded child.
Because--hell, hell is for children!
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell--hell is for children,
and you shouldn't have to pay for your love
with your bones and your flesh...
It's all so confusing,
this brutal abusing...
They blacken your eyes
and then apologize...
"Be daddy's good girl,
and don't tell mommy a thing"...
"Be a good little boy,
and you'll get a new toy--
tell grandma you fell from the swing."
Because--hell, hell is for children!
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell--hell is for children,
and you shouldn't have to pay for your love
with your bones and your flesh...

**************************************

Love Is A Battlefield

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no on can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

You're beggin' me to go, you're makin' me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way, or am I the best thing you've had
Believe me, believe me, I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love and I'm chained to your side

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demads
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no once can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefiled

We're losing control
Will you turn me away or touch me deep inside
And before this gets old, will it still feel the same
There's no way this will die
But if we get much closer, I could lose control
And if your heart surrenders, you'll need me to hold

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefiled

Verres

January 20, 2004, 13:37

Epiphany

Staind

Your words to me just a whisper
Your faces so unclear
I try to pay attention
Your words just disappear
'Cause its always rainning in my head
So I speak to you in riddles becasue
My words get in my way. I smoke the
Whole thing down to my head and feel it
Wash away 'cause i cant take anymore
Of this, i want to come apart,
or dig myself a little hole inside
inside your precious heart
'Cause its always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said
I am nothing more than a little boy inside
That cries out for attention,
though i always try to hide
And I talk to you like children
but i dont know
How I feel but I know
I'll do the right thing
If the right thing is revealed.
But its always raining in my head
- forget all the things
I should have said.

molly bloom

January 20, 2004, 19:17

Never win and never lose
There's nothing much to choose
Between the right and wrong
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Still things aren't quite the same
Between you and me

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I still hear your voice at night
When I turn out the light
And try to settle down
But there's nothing much I can do
Because I can't live without you
Any way at all

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

Lyrics/music: John Cale from the album ‘Music for a New Society’

Also as sung by Mathilde Santing, on her album ‘Breast and Brow’

Sikander

January 21, 2004, 08:32

Originally posted by molly bloom

26th February, 1963.

I vividly recall watching Roxy Music perform 'Virginia Plain' on Top of the Pops for the first time.

I remember going to school with the strains of 'Walk on the Wild Side' still with me.

I can remember having to get up very early to watch the Apollo moon landing on a black and white television, and now I find it funny that they used Bowie's 'Space Oddity' as background music, given that it's a song about despair and isolation.

And seeing David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars perform 'Starman' on Ayshea Brough's 'Lift-Off'.

I used to rush home from grammar school to watch Marc Bolan's show 'Marc' in 1977, and was rewarded with the Bowie video for 'Heroes' and his jamming session with Bolan.

BBC2 used to have an excellent arts programme called 'Arena' which had Eno's work as its soundtrack- you can still get the 4 trk 3" c.d. on e-bay sometimes.

Glam Rock was my first enthusiasm, then Motown, Punk, New Wave, Blues, and so on.

My introduction to Glam rock was a little later I suppose. My mother was an early Elton John fan, though his music was less glam than his look. Bowie wasn't nearly as big here until the mid-seventies, but when he did hit the radio here I was hooked. I was the first person that I know of to get into Queen. I heard their first album when it came out (1974, 1975?) and bought it. A few years later they released Bohemian Rhapsody and suddenly all of my friends were fans of the group. I never heard much Roxy Music either, they were much bigger in Britain. It wasn't until I was in college in the early eighties that one of my friends turned me on to them. Those were good times. The first I heard about Eno was in the late seventies. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy was the first album of his that I owned, followed almost immediately by Here Come the Warm Jets, Another Green World, and Before and After Science. After that I started collecting some of the ambient stuff, along with 801 Live and that album he did with Nico and Cale IIRC. I probably have about 20 of his albums now.

SlowwHand

January 21, 2004, 10:48

The End
The Doors

This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...**** you
C'mon baby, take a chance with us X3
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

OzzyKP

January 21, 2004, 12:29

Dyers Eve Metallica

Dear Mother
Dear Father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in day out live my life through you
Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life

Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired

Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I’m living blindly

Dear Mother
Dear Father
Time has frozen still what’s left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee, it’s life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chance

Dear Mother
Dear Father
You’ve clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I’ve outgrown that ****ing lullaby
Same thing I’ve always heard from you
Do as I say not as I do

I’m in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue me

Dear Mother
Dear Father
Hidden in your world you’ve made for me
I’m seething
I’m bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew

OzzyKP

January 21, 2004, 12:34

This one defined me 2 years ago.

The Tears of a Clown by: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.

Now if there's a smile on my face,
it's only there tryin' to fool the public,
but when it comes down to foolin' you;
Now honey, that's quite a different subject.

But don't let my glad expression
give you the wrong impression.
Really I'm sad.
Oh, sadder than sad.
You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.
Like a clown I pretend to be glad.

(Chorus)
Now there's some sad things known to man,
but ain't too much sadder than
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.

Oh yea, baby....

Now if I appear to be carefree,
it's only to camouflage my sadness.
In order to shield my pride I try
to cover this hurt with a show of gladness.

But don't let my show convince you
that I've been happy since you
decided to go.
Oh, I need you so.
I'm hurt and I want you to know
But for others I put on a show.

(Chorus)
There's some sad things known to man,
but ain't too much sadder than
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.

Just like Pagliacci did,
I try to keep my suface hid.
Smiling in the public eye
But in my lonely room I cry
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.

Oh yea baby,

Now if there's a smile on my face
Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression.
Don't let this smile I wear
Make you think that I don't care
Really I'm sad
Hurtin' so bad......

(W. Robinson/H. Cosby/S. Wonder)

Ramo

January 21, 2004, 12:34

The Sound of Sinners
The Clash

As the floods of God
Wash away sin city
They say it was written
In the page of the Lord
But I was looking
For that great jazz note
That destroyed
The walls of Jericho

The winds of fear
Whip away the sickness
The messages on the tablet
Was valium
As the planets form
That golden cross Lord
I'll see you on
The holy cross roads

After all this time
To believe in Jesus
After all those drugs
I thought I was Him
After all my lying
And a-crying
And my suffering
I ain't good enough
I ain't clean enough
To be Him

The tribal wars
Burning up the homeland
The fuel of evil
Is raining from the sky
The sea of lava
Flowing down the mountain
The time will sleep
Us sinners by

Holy rollers roll
Give generously now
Pass the hubcap please
Thank you Lord

Ramo

January 21, 2004, 12:39

Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Lou Reed

Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.

Plucked her eyebrows on the way
shaved her leg and then he was a she
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side

Candy came from out on the island
in the backroom she was everybody's darling

But she never lost her head
even when she was given head
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
and the coloured girls go

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo)

Little Joe never once gave it away
everybody had to pay and pay

A hustle here and a hustle there
New York city is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I Said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side

Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
lookin' for soul food and a place to eat

Went to the Apollo
you should have seen him go go go
They said, hey Sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
all right, huh

Jackie is just speeding away
thought she was James Dean for a day

Then I guess she had to crash
valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
and the coloured girls say

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo)

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 13:44

Children of Samarina

Demotic

You mwre children, sons of thieves (mountain fighters)
Children of Samarina, mwre poor children
Children of Samarina even if you’re stained

As you go mwre up to the mountains
As you go mwre up to the mountains
High in Samarina

Shot mwre do not throw
Shot mwre do not throw
Songs do not tell..

Lest my mother mwre hears them
Lest my mother mwre hears them
And my disfortunate sister

And lest they go out on the street mwre to see you
And lest they go out on the street mwre to see you
And come to ask you

Don’t say mwre that I was wounded
Don’t say mwre that I was wounded
Heavily to die…

Say mwre that I got married
Say mwre that I got married
That I got a good woman…

The stone I have mwre for stepmother
The stone I have mwre for stepmother
The black earth for woman…

And those mwre the mudrocks
For sisters and brothers

boann

January 21, 2004, 14:16

Faith Hill

Cry

If I had just one tear running down your cheek
Maybe I could cope maybe I'd get some sleep
If I had just one moment at your expense
Maybe all my misery would be well spent

Yeah.... Could you cry a little
Lie just a little
Pretend that you're feeling a little more pain
I gave now I 'm wanting
Something in return
So cry just a little for me

If your love could be caged, honey I would hold the key
And conceal it underneath the pile of lies you handed me
And you'd hunt those lies
They'd be all you'd ever find
And that'd be all you'd have to know
For me to be fine

Yeah.... And you'd cry a little
Die just a little
and baby I would feel just a little less pain
I gave now I'm wanting
Something in return
So cry just a little for me

Give it up baby
I hear your goodbye
Nothins goin save me
I can see it it your eyes
Some kind of heartache
Darlin give it a try
I dont want pity
I just want what is mine

Yeah... Could you cry a little
Lie just a little
Pretend that your're feeling a little more pain
I gave now I'm wanting
Something in retrun
So cry just a little for me

Yeah... Cry just a little for me

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 14:34

Haroula Alexiou

Two lads from Aivali

Two lads from Aivali
Entered Balis’ place
Entered Balis’ place
Entered Balis’ place in company (together)

And they both the two had zevda! (heavy emotional pain in the heart!)
And they both the two had zevda

And they drunk two seas drinks
And they drunk two seas drinks
For a woman from Aivali beautiful
For a woman from Aivali beautiful

They were drinking and there were smoking and they were cursing love
They were drinking and there were smoking and they were cursing love

Two lads from Aivali
Entered Balis’ place
And they didn’t leave a glass on the shelf (they broke everything)
For the damage to the magazi (place restaurant tavern etc)
For the damage to the magazi

They gave to old Balis
They gave to old Balis
A load of silver and gold
A load of silver and gold
They were drinking and they were smoking and they were cursing love

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 15:19

40 lads

demotic

Forty lads from Le, from Levadia
They go to step on the Tropo,
On the Tropolitsa
On the road as they went, an old man
Mwre an old man they meet
Joy and Health Old man
Welcome children , Welcome
Where are you going lads
Where are you going ore, ore children
We go to step on the Tropo
Mwre on the Tropolitsa
Come you too old man, to go for
To go for looting (fighting)
I cannot my children, because I’m ol
Because I’m old

Go over the shieling and the she
And the sheeps
And take my son the youn
Ore the youngest one
Who has feet of hare and partridge
And partridge wings
And who knows the paths bet
Better than everyone else

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 15:31

Farewel Dear world

demotic

Farewell dear world
Farewell dear world
Farewell sweet life
Farewel sweet life

Farewell little springs, lowlands, mountains and cliffsides
Farewell little springs, lowlands, mountains and cliffsides

On dry land the fish does not live
On dry land the fish does not live
And neither does a blossom on the sandy beach

And neither does a blossom on the sandy beach

Farewell little springs, lowlands, mountains and cliffsides
Farewell little springs, lowlands, mountains and cliffsides

On dry land the fish doesnot live
On dry land the fish doesnot live
And neither does a blossom on the sandy beach

And neither does a blossom on the sandy beach

And the Souliotes women do not live
And the Souliotes women do not live
Without Freedom
Without Freedom

*referance to the collective suicide of a region in Greece as the Turks were approaching. They jumped to their deaths with their children from a cliffside singing and dancing.

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 15:53

My little sea

island demotic

Sea, sea the seamen, my little sea
Sea, sea the seamen, my little sea
Do not seahit them

I drown for you I stay up all night

Rose water, rose water become, oh aman aman
Rose water, rose water become, oh aman aman

Their seapath to sprinkle
My little sea and bring back my little bird

To forget you, I can’t
Sea and salted water
Sea, sea where did you drown him and oh aman aman
Sea, sea where did you drown him and oh aman aman
The man of the lass

My little sea and bring back my little bird
And the lass, and the lass is young, my little sea
And the lass, and the lass is young, my little sea
And the black clothes do not suit her
My little sea and bring back my little bird

To forget you, I can’t
Sea and salted water
Sea, sea where did you drown him and oh aman aman
Sea, sea where did you drown him and oh aman aman
The man of the lass

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 16:23

Black eyes black eyebrows

Rebetiko

Vamvakaris

Black eyes, black eyebrows, black curly hair
White face like a lily and a beauty spot on the cheek
White face like a lily and a beauty spot on the cheek
Black eyes, black eyebrows, black curly hair
My blackeyes for you, I’ve been driven crazy
I will die, I can’t stand it I have become a phthisical
I have pains hidden inside the leaves of the heart
With your magical eyes when, my light, you look at me

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 16:51

Erotokritos

demotic (crete)

Have you heard my Aretoussa the sad news
Your lord has banished me to the paths of exile
And he exploded and he was slaughtered on his own pretext
When he heard of our marriage you told me to tell him
And such was his rage, so heavy it seemed to him
And my lord from his needles (pain) I suspect he’ll die
4 days alone he gave me to wait
And from there on to go in exile, to go far away
And how to tell you farewell how to part away
And how to live without you in this exile?
My end drows near and learn this my lady
That in foreign lands they buried me, my bones are there
I possess ( the knowledge) that your lord quickly he’ll marry you
A prince son, a lordchild, the likes of your (rank) he searches for
And neither can you resist to the wants of your parents
They defeat your knowledge and your appetite changes
One joy (favor) I want my lady and this I want alone
And after that, full of joy can my life end
The hour when you’ll become engaged and heavily you sigh
And when you as a bride adorn yourself and married you change
To tear up and to say “dear erotokritos,
What I’ve vowed you I forgot, you wanted it more, it is no longer”
And when in the love of another groom you give your worth
And he becomes houselord of your beauty
When he heartfully kiss you and carresses you
Remember one who for you he set forth to die
Remember how you wounded me and I have pain of death

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 17:08

Macedonia world known

demotic (estimated: second balkan war 1912-1913)

Macedonia world known
Land of Alexander
You who’ve driven the barbarians away
And now you’re free
You are and you will always be Hellenic
The pride of Hellenes
We shall all support you
Proudly once more
The Macedonians cannot
Live enslaved
And even if they lose everything
Their pride remains
Your diamond crown
Let’s see you placing it on your head
So your glory shines
Macedonia

Bereta_Eder

January 21, 2004, 17:24

40 Euzones

demotic (frontier)

Forty euzones (frontier soldiers) they’ve decided it
Forty euzones (frontier soldiers) they’ve decided it
To go to war, my Virgin Mary, to fight
To go to war, my Virgin Mary, to fight
On the path as they went on the black sea
On the path as they went on the black sea
Black tempest catches, my Virgin Mary, the sails tear apart
Black tempest catches, my Virgin Mary, the sails tear apart
Help my Virgin Mary for them to be saved
Help my Virgin Mary for them to be saved
And as many cressets as you have my Virgin Mary to make them silver
And as many cressets as you have my Virgin Mary to make them silver

SlowwHand

January 22, 2004, 10:27

Woodstock

Well I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him 'Tell me where are you going?'
This he told me

Said 'I'm going down to Yasgur's farm
Gonna join in a rock and roll band
Got to get back to the land to set my soul free

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Well then can I walk beside you
I have come to lose the smog
And I feel as I'm a cog in something turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devil's bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

***************************************

Teach Your Children

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Counter Melody To Above Verse:
Can you hear and do you care and
Cant you see we must be free to
Teach your children what you believe in.
Make a world that we can live in.

Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

****************************************

Old Man

Old man, look at my life.
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man, look at my life.
I'm a lot like you were.

Old man, look at my life.
Twenty-four and there's so much more.
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.

Love lost; such a cost.
Give me things that don't get lost
Like a coin that won't get tossed
Rollin' home to you.

Old man, take a look at my life.
I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me
The whole day through.
Ah, one look in my eyes
And you can tell that's true.

Lullbies; look in your eyes.
Run around the same old town.
Doesn't mean that much to me
To mean that much to you.

I've been first and last.
Look at how the time goes past,
But I'm all alone at last
Rollin' home to you.

Old man, take a look at my life.
I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me
The whole day through.
Ah, one look in my eyes
And you can tell that's true.

Old man, look at my life.
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man, look at my life.
I'm a lot like you were.

Bereta_Eder

January 22, 2004, 12:54

Once upon a turn

Mantinades (cretan)

Xilouris

There was once upon a time, my eyes, and a turn
A beautiful lady, a lordwoman, me to rejoice you
A small- aged married blonde daughter
Her lord she anticipates, night and morning
A Saturday night, good one, a Sunday
The sun, the moon, good one, she pleads
My sun, throw light on his path, my moon
Go and talk to him for my sake
He goes around and he sails, good one, the large seas
The pirates he scythes (kills) good one, and he demolishes them
In sun, in moon and in rain
And me he leaves me alone and deserted
A galley opens wide, my eyes, into the south
In battle throws itself, my eyes, and in brawl
Inside a pirate crowd
Inside a pirate crowd
I saw fire flare up and murder
I saw a fire flare up and murder

Bereta_Eder

January 22, 2004, 14:12

Kuro Siwo

Papakonstantinou

That first trip - a southern freight, by chance -
no sleep, malaria, difficult watches.
Strangely deceptive, the lights of the Indies -
they say you don't see them at a first glance.

Beyond Adam's bridge, you took on freight
in South China - soya, sacks by the thousand,
and couldn't get out of your mind for a second
what they'd told you in Athens one wasted night.

The tar gets under your nails, and burns;
the fish-oil stinks on your clothes for years,
and her words keep ringing still in your ears:
"Is it the ship or the compass that turns?"

You altered course when the weather turned,
but the sea bore a grudge and exacted its cost.
Tonight my two caged parrots were lost,
and the ape I'd had such trouble to train.

The ship! - it wipes out all our chances.
The Kuro Siwo crushed us under its heel,
but you're still watching, over the wheel,
how, point by point, the compass dances.

SlowwHand

January 22, 2004, 14:21

Geronimo's Cadillac
Michael Martin Murphy

Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.

Took Geronimo way down south where he couldn't look the gift horse in the mouth.
Sergeant, Sergeant can't you feel something's wrong with your automobile.
Warden, Warden listen to me be brave and set Geronimo free.
Governor, Governor, isn't it strange you never see your car on the Indian range.

Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.

Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.

People, people didn't you know a prison is not no place to go.
Took Ole Geronimo by storm, tore all his feathers on his uniform.
Took his land and the won't give it back but they sent Geronimo a Cadillac.

Hey , boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.

Took Geronimo way down south where he couldn't look the gift horse in the mouth.
Sergeant, Sergeant don't you feel something's wrong with your automobile.
Jesus told me and I believe its true.
"Red mans in sunset too" Took his land and we won't give it back
and we sent Geronimo a Cadillac.

Say ah, hey, boys take me back I want to ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.
(fade)
Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac.

molly bloom

January 22, 2004, 18:26

The Wife of the Soldier

What did the wife of the soldier get
From the ancient city of Prague?
From Prague she got the linen shirt
It matched her skirt did the linen shirt
That she got from the city of Prague

What did the wife of the soldier get
From Brussels the Belgian town?
From Brussels she got the delicate lace
Oh the charm and the grace of the delicate lace
That she got from the Belgian town

What did the wife of the soldier get
From Paris the City of Light?
From Paris she got the silken dress
Oh to possess the silken dress
That she got from the City of Light

What did the wife of the soldier get
From Libya's desert sands?
From Libya, the little charm
Around her arm she wore the charm
That she got from the desert sands

What did the wife of the soldier get
From Russia's distant steppes?
From Russia she got the widow's veil
And the end of the tale is the widow's veil
That she got from the distant steppes

Acknowledgements:Brecht/Scott

Transcribed by Garry Gillard.

Virgina Plain from the album:

Roxy Music (1972)

Lyrics/Music (Ferry)

Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed, I´ll take it
To Robert E. Lee I´ll show it
I hope and pray he don´t blow it ´cause
We´ve been around a long time, just try try try tryin´ to
Remake the big time...
Take me on a roller coaster
Take me for an airplane ride
Take me for a six days wonder but don´t you
Don´t you throw my pride aside, besides,
What´s real and make believe
Baby Jane´s in acapulco we are flyin´ down to rio

Throw me a line I´m sinking fast
Clutching at straws can´t make it
Havana sound we´re trying, hard edge the hipster jiving, oh oh,
Last picture shows down the drive-in
You´re so sheer you´re so chic
Teenage rebel of the week
Flavours of the mountain steamline
Midnight blue casino floors
Dance the cha-cha through till sunrise
Opens up exclusive doors, oh wow!
Just like flamingoes look the same
So me and you, just we two, got to search for something new
Far beyond the pale horizon
Some place near the desert strand
Where my Studebaker takes me,
That´s where I´ll make my stand, but wait-
Can´t you see that Holzer mane?
What´s her name? Virginia Plain!

SlowwHand

January 22, 2004, 18:36

Oh MAN, Molly.
I want to give a listen to "The Wife Of The Soldier" .

molly bloom

January 22, 2004, 19:01

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Oh MAN, Molly.
I want to give a listen to "The Wife Of The Soldier" .

Marianne Faithfull sings a storming version with Chris Spedding on the Weill/Brecht tribute 'Lost in the Stars'.

http://www.cybercomm.nl/~gugten/album148.htm

Steeleye Span recorded a folk rock version on their album 'Storm Force Ten'.

SlowwHand

January 22, 2004, 19:09

I have it in queue; I can't explain or Ming The Merciless Bastard will throw me in his dungeons. ;)
Steeleye Span is only version I've found since seeing your post, but in doing a Google, I saw the Marianne Faithful version listed, and will be trying to, uh, locate.

SlowwHand

January 23, 2004, 10:34

What You Will
Humble Pie

Thinking of the past I feel my life
Is slipping by at such a speed
Things I knew have gone and those I loved
I look for granted and deceived

Call me anything you will
I'll hide behind a purple pill
And though it seems I'm laughing still
I'm crying

Looking from my window I see winter
Almost too bare to believe
People change with seasons
And I wonder if it's my turn to receive

But they avoid the things I ask
Or quickly change their style of mask
The faith I had is fading fast
I'm dying

Seems to me the only way to be
Is like a businessman
And have bad colours round my head
Getting drunk to find some peace of mind and consolation
But there's still the problem of what happens when I'm dead

Bereta_Eder

January 23, 2004, 11:47

Olaria Olala!

Dionisis Savopoulos

Olaria Olala snow falls from up high
Snow falls and covers our yard, my mind flutters away
Snow falls and covers our roof and our sick dog soulbleeds

Olaria Olala black drum bangs
The kids who love toy soldiers, little horses and wooden swords
They've turned vampires in those verses, come inside and talk more softly

Olaria Olala bite me deeper
Ah, Oliver Twist smiles and Hitler carresses his hair
He wears him a diamond ring and they fly in eachothers arms far away

Olaria Olala with souravlia and violins
We will all find ourselves together, all the old company will be there
And we will drink from the same glass even the most bitter drop

Olaria Olala the kids all around
Marcise de Sant with a hippie, the killer with the victim in embrace
The secretary with the punk and the virgin with satan

Everyting is far away and happy
And the snow falls from up high
The couples swirl a bit further
And my girlfriend shines from happiness.

molly bloom

January 23, 2004, 19:43

Waters Ethel -

My Handy Man

Whoever said a good man was hard to find,
Postively, absolutely sure was blind;
I found the best that ever was,
Here's just some of the things he does:

He shakes my ashes, greases my griddle,
Churns my butter, strokes my fiddle;
My man is such a handy man!

He threads my needle, creams my wheat,
Heats my heater, chops my meat;
My man is such a handy man!

Don't care if you believe or not,
He sure is good to have around;
Why, when my furnace gets too hot,
He's right there to turn my damper down!

For everything he's got a scheme;
You ought to see his new starter that he uses on my machine;
My man is such a handy man!

He flaps my flapjacks, cleans off the table, He feeds the horses in my stable; My man is such a handy man!

He's God's gift!

Sometimes he's up long before dawn,
Busy trimming the rough edges off my lawn;
Oooh, you can't get away from it! He's such a handy man!

Never has a single thing to say,
While he's working hard;
I wish that you could see the way
He handles my front yard!

My ice don't get a chance to melt away,
He sees that I get that old fresh piece every day;
Lord, that man sure is such a handy man!

sung by Alberta Hunter on 'Amtrak Blues'.

Patti Smith: Album- Horses

Song:

Land of a Thousand Dances

La Mer (de)

The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea
From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating
Another boy was sliding up the hallway
He merged perfectly with the hallway,
He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway

The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run,
but the movie kept moving as planned
The boy took Johnny, he pushed him against the locker,
He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in Johnny
The boy disappeared, Johnny fell on his knees,
started crashing his head against the locker,
started crashing his head against the locker,
started laughing hysterically

When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by
horses, horses, horses, horses
coming in in all directions
white shining silver studs with their nose in flames,
He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses.
Do you know how to pony like bony maroney
Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this
Baby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator
And you twist the twister like your baby sister
I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister, dig your baby sister
Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee,
Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control,
Got to lose control and then you take control,
Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that,
Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that,
Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi
Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin
Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy,
Can't you show me nothing but surrender ?”
Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket,
Taped to his chest there's the answer,
You got pen knives and jack knives and
Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred
Then he cries, then he screams, saying
Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain
And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud,
Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud,
And go Johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi

There's a little place, a place called space
It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks,
Across the tracks and the name of the place is you like it like that,
You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that,
And the name of the band is the
Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes,
Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes

Baby calm down, better calm down,
In the night, in the eye of the forest
There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair,
I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair,
I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that
up there -- there is a sea
up there -- there is a sea
up there -- there is a sea
the sea's the possibility
There is no land but the land

(up there is just a sea of possibilities)
There is no sea but the sea

(up there is a wall of possibilities)
There is no keeper but the key

(up there there are several walls of possibilities)
Except for one who seizes possibilities, one who seizes possibilities.

(up there)
I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me
I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor

(in a sea of possibilities) I felt his hand on my knee

(on the screen)
And I looked at Johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame

(in the heart of man)
The waves were coming in like Arabian stallions
Gradually lapping into sea horses
He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat

(the spoon)
And let it deep in

(the veins)
Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening
Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening in my hand
And I felt the arrows of desire

I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour
But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area

(go Rimbaud go Rimbaud go Rimbaud)
And go Johnny go and do the watusi,
Yeah do the watusi, do the watusi ...
Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling
Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining
Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse
And my fingers all entwined through the air,
I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers,

(I feel it I feel it I feel it I feel it)
The hairs were like wires going through my body
I I that's how I
that's how I
I died

(at that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after)

(they knew what they were after)
[Everything on the current] moved up
I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth,
Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility, the possibility
Was a blade, a shiny blade, I hold the key to the sea of possibilities
There's no land but the land

looked at my hands, and there's a red stream
that went streaming through the sands like fingers,
like arteries, like fingers

(how much fits between the eyes of a horse?)
He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes)
He opened his throat (your eyes)
His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse) mad pituitary glands
The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart) pitched that nobody heard,
No one heard that cry,
No one heard (Johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat,

(His fingers)
Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly,
And so he seized the first

(his vocal chords shot up)

(possibility)

(like mad pituitary glands)
It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate

(there is nothing happening at all)
and go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep
saw this sweet young thing (Fender one)
Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter

In the sheets
there was a man
dancing around
to the simple
Rock & roll
song

Zero

January 23, 2004, 19:57

I hate when Moby's songs are stuck on my head. The lyrics are so repetitive

Why does my hear feel so bad - Moby

Why does my heart feel so bad
Why does my soul feel so bad
10^100000X repeat

These open doors
10^10000X repeat

molly bloom

January 24, 2004, 04:08

Iris Dement- Infamous Angel

Our Town

Chorus:
And ya know the sun's settin' fast
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts
Go on now and kiss it goodbye
But hold onto your lover 'cause your heart's bound to die
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town
Goodnight

Up the street by that red neon light
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night
He was the ‘tender and I ordered a beer
It's been forty years, and I'm still sitting here

Chorus

It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist
Over there is where I bought my first car
It turned over once but then it never went far

Chorus

I've buried my Ma and I've buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring 'em flowers about ev’ryday
But I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say

Chorus
If they could see how the sun's setting fast ...

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightnin' bugs fly
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes
I'm leavin' tomorrow but I don't wanna go
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul

But I can see the sun's settin' fast
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts
Go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye
But I'll hold onto my lover 'cause my heart's 'bout to die
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town
I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town
Goodnight, Goodnight

One Hour Mama

(Ida Cox). This is from Collector's Classics LP CC56, from a session recorded by Ida Cox and her All Star Band in New York on 31 October 1939. Her All Stars included a.o. Hot Lips Page on trumpet and James P. Johnson at the piano.

I've always heard that haste makes waste
So I believe in takin' my time
The highest mountain can't be raced
It's something you must slowly climb
I want a slow and easy man
He needn't ever take the lead
Cause I work on that long-time plan
And I ain't a-lookin' for no speed

I'm a one hour mama
So no one minute papa
Ain't the kind of man for me

Set your alarm clock papa
One hour, that's proper
Then love me like I like to be
I don't want no lame excuses
'Bout my lovin' bein' so good
That you couldn't wait no longer
Now I hope I'm understood

I'm a one hour mama
So no one minute papa
Ain't the kind of man for me

I can't stand no greenhorn lover
Like a rookie goin' to war
With a load of big artillery
But don't know what it's for
He's got to bring me a reference
With a great long pedigree
And must prove he's got endurance
Or he don't mean that to me

I don't like no crowin' rooster
What just kicks a lick or two
Action is the only booster
Of just what my man can do
I don't want no imitation
My requirements ain't no joke
Cause I've got pure indignation
For a guy what's lost his stroke

I'm a one hour mama
So no one minute papa
Ain't the kind of man for me

Set your alarm clock papa
One hour, that's proper
Then love me like I like to be
I may want love for one hour
Then decide to make it two
Takes an hour before I get started
Maybe three 'fore I'm through

I'm a one hour mama
So no one minute papa
Ain't the kind of man for me

SlowwHand

January 24, 2004, 19:26

Diamonds and Rust
Judas Priest
(original lyrics by Joan Baez)

I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again
but that's not unusual
it's just that the moon is full
and you decided to come
And here I sit, hand on the telephone
hearing the voice I'd known
a couple of light years ago
headed straight for a fall
But we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
yes we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
Now I see you standing with brown leaves all around and snow in your hair
Now we're smiling out the window of the crummy hotel over washington square
and then comes that white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
we both could've died then and there
Now you're telling me you're not nostalgic
then give me another word for it
you were so good with words
and at keeping things paid
cause I need some of that vagueness now, it's all come back too clearly
yes, I love you dearly
and if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
But we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
yes we both know what memories can bring
they bring Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust

molly bloom

January 25, 2004, 04:09

I Am a Town

I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride
For a 'phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side
I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five
I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind
I am peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall
I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl
I'm the pines behind the graveyard, and the cool beneath their shade,
Where the boys have left their beer cans
I am weeds between the graves.

My porches sag and lean with old black men and children
Their sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfil them
I am a town.

I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain
I'm a Baptist like my daddy, and Jesus knows my name
I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age; I am not your destination
I am clinging to my ways
I am a town.

I'm a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields
I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels
I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South"
I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign, on the rural route
I am a town
I am a town
I am a town
Southbound.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Fighting for Strangers

What makes you go abroad fighting for strangers
When you could be safe at home free from all dangers?

A recruiting sergeant came our way
To an inn nearby at the close of day
He said, 'Young Johnny you're a fine young man
Would you like to march along behind a military band,
With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat,
And a musket at your shoulder?',
The shilling he took and he kissed the book,
Oh poor Johnny what will happen to ya?
The recruiting sergeant marched away
From the inn nearby at the break of day,
Johnny went too with half a ring
He was off to be a soldier he'd be fighting for the King
In a far off war in a far off land
To face a foreign soldier,
But how will you fare when there's lead in the air,
Oh poor Johnny what'll happen to ya?

What makes you go abroad fighting for strangers
When you could be safe at home free from all dangers?

The sun shone hot on a barren land
As a thin red line took a military stand,
There was sling shot, chain shot, grape shot too,
Swords and bayonets thrusting through,
Poor Johnny fell but the day was won
And the King is grateful to you
But your soldiering's done and they're sending you home,
Oh poor Johnny what have they done to ya?
They said he was a hero and not to grieve
Over two wooden pegs and empty sleeves,
They carried him home and set him down
With a military pension and a medal from the crown.
You haven't an arm and you haven't a leg,
The enemy nearly slew you,
You'll have to go out on the streets to beg,
Oh poor Johnny what have they done to ya?

What makes you go abroad fighting for strangers
When you could be safe at home free from all dangers?

Steeleye Span

self biased

January 25, 2004, 04:39

opticon, orgy.

Let's fake an answer for the curious
Let's fake it all for the fame
They'll think delivering was easy
Living the fairy tales and the lies, lies

Message from Opticon blessed from the fashion bomb
so helpless
guess what you're out of time

New alien spawn we reinvent the dawn
and no one's style compares
those neon eyes make mom and dad think
that we've lost our minds
They're just terrified of all new things

Message from Opticon blessed from the fashion bomb
so helpless
guess what you're out of time

Opticon is here to lead us
Opticon is in control
So quick to change us
And imitate us

faces, orgy.
Did you think I'd play these games with you?
Did you think I couldn't help it?
I'm strong enough
I'm good enough
Step down step down, you're the big mistake
I'm losing all control and this is my face
From here on out you can always count on me
count on me to be your enemy, count on me

These are the faces
(faces of time)
That's what you're living through
This is all about you

You're slipping in and out of time, who are you to decide
which one of us winds up broken for a lifetime
and still you'll never be satified until one of us falls apart
I've had enough of this
And these are the faces

You've lost your golden reigns, you've failed to read the signs
you'll find out there's no answers to your stupid ass questions
you can try and tell yourself that everythings all right

When someone is taking all your fame
Thats what youre living through these are the faces
And I think that theyre all coming after you!

When you're slipping in and out of time, who are you to decide
which one of us winds up broken for a lifetime
and no you'll never be satified until one of us falls apart
I've had enough of this
And these are the faces

And nothing can go away (the way you do) and nothing can go away
two faced and pretentious!

When you're slipping in and out of time, who are you to decide
which one of us winds up broken for a lifetime
and no you'll never be satified until one of us falls apart
I've had enough of this
And these are the faces

Mr. Harley

January 25, 2004, 06:12

Poco - Crazy Love

Tonight I'm gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I'll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory

Just when I think I'm over her
This broken heart will mend
I hear her name and I have to cry
The tears come down again

It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh, ooh crazy love
ahhhh haaa

Count the stars in a summer sky
That fall without a sound
And then pretend that you can't hear
These teardrops comin' down

It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh, ooh crazy love
ahhhh haaa

Tonight I'm gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I'll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory

It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh, ooh crazy love
ahhhh haaa

Tonight I'm gonna break away

Enya - Only Time

Who can say
Where the road goes
Where the day flows
Only time

And who can say
If your love grows
As your heart chose
Only time

Who can say
Why your heart sighs
As your love flies
Only time

And who can say
Why your heart cries
When your love lies
Only time

Who can say
When the roads meet
That love might be
In your heart

And who can say
When the day sleeps
If the night keeps
All your heart

Night keeps all your heart

Who can say
If your love grows
As your heart chose
Only time

And who can say
Where the road goes
Where the day flows
Only time

Who knows
Only time
Who knows
Only time

boann

January 25, 2004, 17:56

Willie Nelson
You Remain

What do you do with the sands of time
When they carve out lines around your eyes
I can close my fists up good and tight
But I can’t hold back the sands of time

What do you do with a memory
That just hangs around and stares at me
I can tear that frame down off the wall
But it won’t erase the things I saw

Night and day
Night and day
You remain
You remain

What do you do with old regrets
There’s a box full underneath the bed
Just close enough not to forget
But what do you do with old regrets

There’s an old house key in a kitchen drawer
To the door I can’t unlock no more
Sometimes I hold that key real tight
But what do you do after goodbye

Night and day
Night and day
You remain
You remain

Night and day
Night and day
You remain
You remain

SlowwHand

January 25, 2004, 20:08

I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me
Randy Hanzlick

Jimmy and I were brothers.
We went down different paths.
Jimmy always listened to my mother,
And me, I never like to take a bath.

As we grew and tumbled through adulthood
The pressure caused emotional drain.
So now I'm slowly dying in the bottle
and Jimmy has to live with half a brain.

Yes, me, I've got a bottle in front of me,
And Jimmy has a frontal lobotomy.
Just different ways to kill the pain the same.

But I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy.
I might be drunk, but at least I'm not insane.

Jimmy let his troubles drive him crazy.
He never tried to drown it in a drink.
I know that drinking makes my thinking hazy,
But at least I still have brains enough to think.

Jimmy's got a brain that isn't stable.
He doesn't have the sense to say his name.
I'm sorry that his doctor was unable
To remove the proper portion of his brain.

Yes, me, I've got a bottle in front of me,
And Jimmy has a frontal lobotomy.
Just different ways to kill the pain the same.

But I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy.
I might be drunk, but at least I'm not insane.

Funny how the world works.
People can be real jerks.
Some prefer the tension over booze.

Either way it ends the same.
Hard to beat the living game.
Might as well enjoy it while you lose.

When I need a drink I start to shiver
And Jimmy always viewed it with concern.
But I'd rather have cirrhosis of the liver
Than an intellect that's second to a fern.

I wonder if old Jimmy's gonna hear it
When I tell him that his logic wasn't sound.
They'll dose him up on lots of evil spirits
When they take him to the psychiatric grounds.

Yes, me, I've got a bottle in front of me,
And Jimmy has a frontal lobotomy.
Just different ways to kill the pain the same.

But I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy.
I might be drunk, but at least I'm not insane.
I might be drunk, but at least I'm not insane!

Sikander

January 25, 2004, 23:11

Artist: Mr. Bungle
Song Title: Pink Cigarette
Album: California

-----

Hush me, touch me
Perfume, the wind and the leaves
Hush me, touch me
The burns, the holes in the sheets

I'm hoping the smoke
Hides the shame I've got on my face
Cognac and broken glass
All these years I've been your ashtray

Not today

I found a pink cigarette
On the bed the day that you left
And how can I forget that your lips were there
Your kiss goes everywhere, touches everything But me

Hush me, touch me
Champagne, your hair in the breeze
Hush me, touch me
Lipstick, a slap on my cheek

Your eyes cried at last
Told me everything I was afraid to ask
Now I'm dressed in white
And you've burned me for the last time

This ain't the last tine

You'll find a note and you'll see my silhouette...

There's just 5 hours left until you find me dead
There's just 4 hours left until you find me dead
There's just 3 hours left until you find me dead
There's just 2 hours left until you find me dead
There's 1 more hour and then you will find me dead
There's just.....................

SlowwHand

January 26, 2004, 09:54

Travelin' Soldier
Dixie Chicks

Two days past eighteen
He was waitin' for the bus in his army greens
Sat down in a booth a café there
Gave his order to the girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gave him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talkin' to me I'm feelin' a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I've got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin home

So the letters came
From an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be lovin'
All of the things he was so scared of
Said when it's gettin kinda rough over here
I think about that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home

(Martie's fiddle break - Emily's dobro break)

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For the list of the local Vietnam dead
Cryin' all alone under the stands
Was the piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and no body really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin home

molly bloom

January 26, 2004, 16:50

Friendship

Prime Artist: Judy Garland (b. Frances Ethel Gumm)
Vocal: Johnny Mercer

Written by: Cole Porter (C. Albert P.)

From the Show: DuBarry Was A Lady 1939 (S)

Lyrics:

If you’re ever in a jam, here I am. If you’re ever in a mess, S.O.S.
If you’re so happy, you land in jail. I’m your bail.
It’s friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgot, ours will still be hot.
Da da da da da da dig dig dig.

If you’re ever down a well, ring my bell. If you’re ever up a tree, just phone to me.
If you ever loose your teeth when you’re out to dine, borrow mine.
It’s friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgeet, ours will still be great.
Loddle doddle chuck chuck chaa.

If they ever black you’re eyes, put me wise. If they ever cook your goose, turn me loose.
And if they ever put a bullet through your brain, Ill complain.
It’s friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgit, ours will still be it.
Ah loddle doddle hip hap hap.

If you ever loose your mind, I’ll be kind. And if you ever loose your shirt, I’ll be hurt.
If you’re ever in a mill and get sawed in half, I won’t laugh.
It’s friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are are up the crick, ours will still be slick.
Ah loddle doddle woof woof woof, hep hep hep, chopp chop chop, dig dig dig.

Good evening friends.

Magazine: The Light Pours Out Of Me
Lyrics:

Time flies
Time crawls
Like an insect
Up and down the walls

The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me

The conspiracy
Of silence ought
To revolutionise
My thought

The light pours out of me ...

The cold light of day
Pours out of me
Leaving me black
And so healthy

The light pours out of me ...

It jerks out of me
Like blood
In this still life
Heart beats up love

The light pours out of me ...

curtsibling

January 26, 2004, 17:24

Through the Skies

By CRYONIC TEMPLE

In the morning my engines are hot,
I am ready to fly,
Scan horizon, I see a black spot,
And the hunt has begun!

Throttle up I 'm clear for a fight,
Hear my engines they roar,
Closing up my guns are prepared,
They are the bringer of death!

Never gonna give up!
Always clear for attack!
Save your prayers in the sky!
In the sky you will die!

Through the skies!
I will fly on my wings made of steel!
Through the skies!
I will go behind enemy lines!
Through the skies!
I'm fast! I 'm mean! I am steel!
Through the skies!
To the end of the line I will fly!

Tails in sight you always can try
To hide in the clouds,
There's no use it's only one way,
To the ground you will go!

I am pulling the trigger of death,
The time is now short,
Feel the flames that burns in your back,
This was your last attack!

Never gonna give up,
Always clear for attack,
Save your prayers in the sky,
In the sky you will die!

Through the skies!
I will fly on my wings made of steel!
Through the skies!
I will go behind enemy lines!
Through the skies!
I'm fast! I 'm mean! I am steel!
Through the skies!
To the end of the line I will fly!

SlowwHand

January 27, 2004, 09:57

I Guess You Had To Be There

Hello, honey, how was your day?
Well, you're sure in a good mood tonight,
Oh, by the way,
I was downtown this afternoon
And I saw the most amazing sight.

Through the window of a small cafe,
I saw a man and a woman holdin' hands
And they looked so in love,
It took my breath away,
Can't you see it, don't you understand?

Chorus:
Well (So), I guess you had to be there,
You really had to be there,
Some things you just can't explain,
It's just not the same,
I guess you had to be there.

I just stood there, my heart pounding,
I couldn't move, all I could do was stare,
I kept remembering,
When we used to look like that,
Two people with so much to share.

They were talkin' and they were laughin',
Just like we used to do everyday,
Then he kissed her so tenderly,
What's the matter?
You don't have much to say.

Repeat Chorus:

And as I watched you with your new love,
I hadn't seen you that happy in years,
We've drifted so far apart
And it's hard to admit it,
But there's nothin' left for you here.

Repeat Chorus:

I guess you had to be there.

*********************************

Something In Red

I'm looking for something in red
Something that's shocking to turn someone's head
Strapless and sequined and cut down to there
Stockings and garters and lace underwear
The guaranteed number to knock the man dead
I'm looking for something in red

I'm looking for something in green
Something to outdo an ex-high school queen
Jealousy comes in the color of jade
Do you have some pumps and a purse in this shade
And a perfume that whispers please come back to me
I'm looking for something in green

I'm looking for something in white
Something that shimmers in soft candlelight
Everyone calls us the most perfect pair
Should I wear a veil or a rose in my hair
Well the train must be long and the waist must be tight
I'm looking for something in white

I'm looking for something in blue
Something real tiny, the baby's brand new
He has his father's nose and his chin
We once were hot lovers now we're more like friends
Don't tell me that just what old married folk do
I'm looking for something in blue

I'm looking for something in red
Like the one that I wore when I first turned his head
Strapless and sequined and cut down to there
Just a size larger than I wore last year
The guaranteed number to knock the man dead
I'm looking for something
I've gotta have something
I'm looking for something in red

curtsibling

January 27, 2004, 13:04

The War Of Wrath

By BATTLELORE

The northern winds,
Of baneful colds,
Forever night,
Of northern lights.

In the Elder Days!
Margoth's realm in Northern Waste,
Great threat to Arda's child,
The War of Wrath is to become!

Centuries of forlorn fight,
Last hope, the aid divine,
Guardian of the world,
Gods of justice and light,
Came and defeated the one,
The master of disharmony!

All ablaze by the glory of their arms!
Swell of the trumpets filled the sky!
Morgoth banished from the Middle-earth!
His reign, never shall rise again!

In the Elder Days!
Margoth's realm in Northern Waste,
Great threat to Arda's child,
The War of Wrath is to become!

All ablaze by the glory of their arms!
Swell of the trumpets filled the sky!
Morgoth banished from the Middle-earth!
His reign, never shall rise again!

molly bloom

January 27, 2004, 18:20

Track Title: Let's Misbehave

Artist: Ben Bernie Written by: Cole Porter (C. Albert P.)

Outtake from: Paris 1928 (S)

Lyrics:

We're all alone,
No chaperone
Can get our number...
The world's in slumber;

Let's misbehave!

There's something wild
About you, child,
That's so contagious...
Let's be outrageous:

Let's misbehave!

When Adam won Eve's hand,
He wouldn't stand
For teasin'...
He didn't care about those apples out of season.
They say the spring
Means just one thing
To little love birds.
We're not above birds:

Let's misbehave!

(Chorus)

If you'd be just so sweet
And only meet
Your fate, dear,
It would be the great event of twenty twenty-eight, dear.

(Chorus)

Let's misbehave!

Artist: Son House

Song: Death Letter Blues

Lyrics:

Hey, I solemnly swear, Lord, I raise my right hand
That I'm goin' get me a woman, you get you another man
I solemnly swear, Lord, I raise my right hand
That I'm goin' get me a woman, you get you another man

I got a letter this morning, how do you reckon it read?
"Oh, hurry, hurry, gal, you love is dead"
I got a letter this morning, how do you reckon it read?
"Oh, hurry, hurry, gal, you love is dead"

I grabbed my suitcase, I took off, up the road
I got there, she was laying on the cooling board
I grabbed my suitcase, I took on up the road
I got there, she was laying on the cooling board

Well, I walked up close, I looked down in her face
Good old gal, you got to lay here till Judgment Day
I walked up close, and I looked down in her face
Yes, been a good old gal, got to lay here till Judgment Day

Oh, my woman so black, she stays apart of this town
Can't nothin' "go" when the poor girl is around
My black mama stays apart of this town
Oh, can't nothing "go" when the poor girl is around

Oh, some people tell me the worried blues ain't bad (note 1)
It's the worst old feelin' that I ever had
Some people tell me the worried blues ain't bad
Buddy, the worst old feelin', Lord, I ever had

Hmmm, I fold my arms, and I walked away
"That's all right, mama, your trouble will come someday"
I fold my arms, Lord, I walked away
Say, "That's all right, mama, your trouble will come someday"

Patti Smith: Piss Factory

Lyrics:

Sixteen and time to pay off
I got this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
Forty hours thirty-six dollars a week
But it's a paycheck, Jack.
It's so hot in here, hot like Sahara
You could faint in the heat
But these *****es are just too lame to understand
Too goddamned grateful to get this job
To know they're getting screwed up the ass
All these women they got no teeth or gum or cranium
And the way they suck hot sausage
But me well I wasn't sayin' too much neither
I was moral school girl hard-working *******
I figured I was speedo motorcycle
I had to earn my dough, had to earn my dough

But no you gotta, you gotta [relate, babe,]
You gotta find the rhythm within
Floor boss slides up to me and he says
"Hey sister, you just movin' too fast,
You screwin' up the quota,
You doin' your piece work too fast,
Now you get off your mustang sally
You ain't goin' nowhere, you ain't goin' nowhere."
I lay back. I get my nerve up. I take a swig of Romilar
And walk up to hot sh!t Dot Hook and I say
"Hey, hey sister it don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow,
There's always more labour after."
She's real Catholic, see. She fingers her cross and she says
"There's one reason. There's one reason.
You do it my way or I push your face in.
We knee you in the john if you don't get off your get off your mustang Sally,
If you don't shake it up baby." Shake it up, baby. Twist & shout"
Oh that I could will a radio here. James Brown singing
"I Lost Someone" or the Jesters and the Paragons
And Georgie Woods the guy with the goods and Guided Missiles ...
But no, I got nothin', no diversion, no window,
Nothing here but a porthole in the plaster, in the plaster,
Where I look down, look at sweet Theresa's convent
All those nurses, all those nuns scattin' 'round
With their bloom hoods like cats in mourning.
Oh to me they, you know, to me they look pretty damn free down there
Down there not having crystal smooth
Not having to smooth those hands against hot steel
Not having to worry about the [inspeed] the dogma the [inspeed] of labor
They look pretty damn free down there,
And the way they smell, the way they smell
And here I gotta be up here smellin' Dot Hook's midwife sweat
I would rather smell the way boys smell--
Oh those schoolboys the way their legs flap under the desks in study hall
That odor rising roses and ammonia
And way their d!cks droop like lilacs
Or the way they smell that forbidden acrid smell
But no I got, I got pink clammy lady in my nostril
Her against the wheel me against the wheel
Oh slow motion inspection is drivin' me insane
In steel next to Dot Hook -- oh we may look the same--
Shoulder to shoulder sweatin' 110 degrees
But I will never faint, I will never faint
They laugh and they expect me to faint but I will never faint
I refuse to lose, I refuse to fall down
Because you see it's the monotony that's got to me
Every afternoon like the last one
Every afternoon like a rerun next to Dot Hook
And yeah we look the same
Both pumpin' steel, both sweatin'
But you know she got nothin' to hide
And I got something to hide here called desire
I got something to hide here called desire
And I will get out of here--
You know the fiery potion is just about to come
In my nose is the taste of sugar
And I got nothin' to hide here save desire
And I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get out of here
I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna get on that train,
I'm gonna go on that train and go to New York City
I'm gonna be somebody, I'm gonna get on that train, go to New York City,
I'm gonna be so bad I'm gonna be a big star and I will never return,
Never return, no, never return, to burn out in this piss factory
And I will travel light.
Oh, watch me now.

curtsibling

January 27, 2004, 18:36

Disdaining Fortune

By REBELLION

Hail Hail Hail Macbeth!

"Macdonwald I'll take your head and hold it to the sky!"

Brothers look down in the valley
The traitors are strong their numbers are great
here we are we won't surrender
Fight for glory or meet our fate

Macbeth traitor know my name
I will take your head in shame
I kill those who do betray
Come now come and make my day

For my King and for Scotland into battle I ride
Disdaining Fortune
Brothers march at my side
King Duncan you rule all hail to thy name
Disdaining fortune
For Scotland's fame

Into battle anger in my brain
I fight like a madman insane
Like a lion feasting on the prey
I will just take your life away

I bathe in your reeking wounds
I slay bloody life too soon
I drink blood of enemies
I kill in perfect harmony

For my King and for Scotland into battle I ride
Disdaining Fortune
Brothers march at my side
King Duncan you rule all hail to thy name
Disdaining fortune
For Scotland's fame

cinch

January 28, 2004, 01:47

And my favourite communist anthem from the prairies ;) :

Share The Land (The Guess Who)
(Cummings)

Have you been around
Have you done your share of coming down
On different things that people do
Have you been aware
You got brothers and sisters who care
About what’s gonna happen to you
In a year from now...

Maybe I’ll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I’ll be there to share the land
That they’ll be giving away
When we all live together.

Did you pay your dues
Did you read the news
This morning when the paper landed in your yard
Do you know their names
Can you play their games
Without losing track
And coming down a bit too hard...

Shake your hand, share the land
Shake your hand, share the land
You know I’ll be standing by
To help you if you worry....

SlowwHand

January 28, 2004, 10:28

Rock & Roll Soul
Grand Funk Railroad

We're having a party, yeah, yeah, everybody's invited,
The new generation along with the old.
If you could get with it just a little more, it don't take much tryin',
You'll find out if you've got some rock & roll soul, baby.

Ain't everybody in the world. So when you know what you got, let everybody know,
You got some rock & roll soul.
So when you know what you got, let everybody know,
You got some rock & roll soul.

I know it when I'm feelin' groovy,
It's kind of funky like an old-time movie.
I can feel it and it's really something,
It's really something when my heart starts pumpin', yeah.

Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.
Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.

Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.
Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.
Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.
Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.
Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.

curtsibling

January 28, 2004, 10:51

Killing Machine

By JUDAS PRIEST

I never give no answers, I never tell no lies
I never walk a straight line, so I never get surprised
I don't ask no favors so I won't get abused
I learned to win when I was young, so I'm never ever gonna lose!

They pay me the money - and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract, on you

I never ask no questions, I never speak my mind
I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
I take care of business, It takes care of me
I look after myself and do it well
Because somebody's always looking for me!

They pay me the money - and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you

What manner of man am I?
A gun, lump sum and then I move on
What manner of man are you?
You stab a friend's back to jump a queue

I do what I do 'cos I can't do nothing better
You do what you do, just defendin' yourself

'cos you ain't got nothin' better to do!

I got no place, no name, I'm just a killing machine
I keep the population down, if you know what I mean
I never stop in one place, I move about the cities
Got expensive tastes, but I hasten to add that I'm the best that there is!

They pay me the money - and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you

I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you

self biased

January 28, 2004, 13:49

Control It, static-x.

Everybody, soul and body cold
All this sickness, you lost control
You can't get it
You just don't get it, no
You can't get it
You got zero

Look within me, am I evil enough
Memories bring tears of years old
You can't get it
You just don't get it, no
You can't get it
You got zero

Life - you take it
Lies - you fake it
Suffer - within me
Torn - you break it
Life - control it
Lies - withhold it
Suffer - you're skinny
Torn - you're wasted

Kids with defects
We're all rejects, so
Don't forget it, cold inside
You can't get it
You just don't get it, no
You can't get it
You got zero

Break this take control
Take this I control it
Break this take control
Take this I control it

Destroy All, Static-X.

You got something to say
Better off stay away
My head's a loaded gun
Waiting to go off

You keep your eyes on yourself
You slit you throat with your guilt
My hands are ringing necks
In my waking thoughts

Destroy, destroy all

molly bloom

January 28, 2004, 18:09

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST

I've heard them liltin', at the ewe milkin,'
Lasses a-liltin' before dawn of day.
Now there's a moanin', on ilka green loanin'.
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.
As boughs in the mornin', nae blithe lads are scornin',
Lasses are lonely and dowie and wae.
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighin' and sobbin',
Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away.
At e'en in the gloamin', nae s****ies are roamin',
'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play.
But ilk maid sits drearie, lamentin' her dearie,
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.
In har'st at the shearin' nae youths now are jeerin'
Bandsters are runkled, and lyart, or grey.
At fair or at preachin', nae wooin', nae fleecin',
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.
Dool for the order sent our lads to the Border,
the English for ance by guile wan the day.
The flowers of the forest, that fought aye the foremost,
The prime of our land lie cauld in the clay.
We'll hae nae mair liltin', at the ewe milkin',
Women and bairns are heartless and wae.
Sighin' and moanin' on ilka green loanin',
The flowers of the forest are all wede away.

recorded by Hickerson on Dull Care II
and MacColl & Lloyd Songs & Ballads of Scottish Wars

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter

Song: Downtown Train (Tom Waits)

Lyrics:

Outside another yellow moon
Has punched a hole in the nighttime
I climb through the window and down to the street
I'm shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full
With all those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little world

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Oh, be careful of them in the dark

And if I was the one
You chose to be your only one
Oh baby now, can't you hear me now

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night is just the same
You leave me lonely now

I know your window and I know it's late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the fourway

You watch them as they fall
Ooh, they all have heart attacks
They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same, you leave me lonely / Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same, all upon a downtown train

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same,
you leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where all my dreams just fall like the rain,
all upon a downtown train

Artist: PJ Harvey

Album: To Bring You My Love

Song: Send His Love To Me

Lover had to leave me
'Cross the desert plain
Turned to me his lady
Tell me 'lover wait'
Calling Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Oh, wind and rain they haunt me
Look to the North and pray
Send me, please, his kisses
Send them home today
I'm begging, Jesus, please
Send his love to me
Left alone in desert
This house becomes a hell
This love becomes a tether
This room becomes a cell

SlowwHand

January 29, 2004, 10:11

Father And Daughter

If you leap awake in the middle of a bad dream
And for a fraction of a second you can't remember where you are
Just open your window and follow your memory upstream
To the meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star
I believe the light that shines on you will shine on you forever
And though I can't guarantee there's nothing scary hiding under your bed
I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard of a golden retriever
And never leave til I leave you with a sweet dream in your head

I'm gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you'll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you

Trust you intuition
It's just like goin' fishing
You cast your line and hope you get a bite
But you don't need to waste your time
Worrying about the marketplace
Try to help the human race
struggling to survive it's harshest night

I'm gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you'll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you

I'm gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you'll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you

**************************************

Slip Slidin' Away

CHORUS:
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away

I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you’s so overpowering
I’m afraid that I will disappear

CHORUS

know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been

CHORUS

And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he’d done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again

CHORUS

God only knows
God makes his plan
The information’s unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway
When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away

****************************************

You Can Call Me Al

A man walks down the street,
He says, Why am I soft in the middle now?
Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard!
I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption!
Don't want to end up a cartoon,
In a cartoon graveyard .....

Bonedigger, Bonedigger,
Dogs in the moonlight.
Far away, my well-lit door.
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly,
Get these mutts away from me!
You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore ....

If you'll be my bodyguard,
I can be your long lost pal!
I can call you Betty,
And Betty, when you call me,
You can call me Al!

A man walks down the street,
He says, Why am I short of attention?
Got a short little span of attention,
And whoa, my nights are so long!
Where's my wife and family?
What if I die here?
Who'll be my role-model?
Now that my role-model is ....
Gone ...... gone,
He ducked back down the alley,
With some roly-poly, little bat-faced girl.
All along .... along ....
There were incidents and accidents,
There were hints and allegations .....

If you'll be my bodyguard,
I can be your long lost pal!
I can call you Betty,
And Betty, when you call me,
You can call me Al!
Call me Al ......

A man walks down the street,
It's a street in a strange world.
Maybe it's the Third World.
Maybe it's his first time around.
He doesn't speak the language,
He holds no currency.
He is a foreign man,
He is surrounded by the sound, sound ....
Cattle in the marketplace.
Scatterlings and orphanages.
He looks around, around .....
He sees angels in the architecture,
Spinning in infinity,
He says, Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard,
I can be your long lost pal!
I can call you Betty,
And Betty, when you call me,
You can call me Al!
You can call me Al ......

SlowwHand

January 29, 2004, 16:10

Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Jet

Go!!

So 1,2,3, take my hand and come with me
because you look so fine
and i really wanna make you mine.

I say you look so fine
that I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 c'mon and get your kicks
now you dont need that money
when you look like that, do ya honey.

Big black boots,
long brown hair,
she's so sweet
with her get back stare.

Well I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain't got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Well, so 1,2,3, take my hand and come with me
because you look so fine
and i really wanna make you mine.

I say you look so fine
that I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 c'mon and get your kicks
now you dont need that money
with a face like that, do ya.

Big black boots,
long brown hair,
she's so sweet
with her get back stare.

Well I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain't got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Oh yea. Oh yea. C'mon!
I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain't got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
Uh, be my girl.
Be my girl.
Are you gonna be my girl?! Yea

[Thanks to acw64@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
[Thanks to jkbeck@comcast.net for correcting these lyrics]

self biased

January 30, 2004, 03:26

space is the place, spacehog.

And when you kiss your other lover
Well I will try to understand
And just because you're f*cking him
It doesn't mean you don't love me
I do what you want, be what you want to be

Space is the place where I will go when I am all alone and
When nobody calls me on the phone and I am all alone and
I'm meditating in the zone, all alone and
Space is the place where I will go

And just because you kissed your brother
It doesn't mean to say you're gay
'Cause even when you're f*cking him
It doesn't mean you don't love me
I do what you want, be what you want to be

Space is the place where I will go when I am all alone and
When nobody calls me on the phone and I am all alone and
I'm meditating in the zone, all alone and
Space is the place where I will go

SlowwHand

January 30, 2004, 12:39

Only Time Will Tell
Asia

You're leaving now
It's in your eyes
There's no disguising it
It really comes as no surprise
To find that you'd planned it all along

I see it now
It comes so clear
Your insincerity
And me all starry eyed
To think that I would have know by now

Now, sure as the sun will cross the sky
This lie is over
Lost, like the tears that used to tide me over

One thing is sure
That time will tell
If you were wrong
The brightest ring around the moon
Will darken when I die

You're on your own
Inside your room
You're claiming victory
You were just using me
And there is no one you can use now

One thing is sure
That time will tell...

SlowwHand

January 31, 2004, 10:23

She's Leaving Home
Beatles

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turing the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She (What did we do that was wrong?)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years. Bye, bye
She's leaving home. Bye, bye

boann

January 31, 2004, 13:13

moody blues

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

The mist is lifting slowly
I can see the way ahead
And I've left behind the empty streets
That once inspired my life
And the strength of the emotion
Is like thunder in the air
'Cos the promise that we made each other
Haunts me to the end

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

The secret of your beauty
And the mystery of your soul
I've been searching for in everyone I meet
And the times I've been mistaken
It's impossible to say
And the grass is growing
Underneath our feet

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

From the words that I remember
From my childhood still are true
That there's no so blind
As those who will not see
And to those who lack the courage
And say it's dangerous to try
Well they just don't know
That love eternal will not be denied

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

Yes I know it's going to happen
I can feel you getting near
And soon we'll be returning
To the fountain of our youth
And if you wake up wondering
In the darkness I'll be there
My arms will close around you
And protect you with the truth

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

SlowwHand

February 1, 2004, 10:33

Space Cowboy
Steve Miller Band

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

People talk about me, baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry baby
Don't worry
Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home

Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one

Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin on the run
Wooo Woooo
Wooo Hooooo

You're the cutest thing
That I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Ooo-eee baby, I'll sure show you a good time

Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin on the run

Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one

People keep talking about me baby
They say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
Cause I'm right here at home

You're the cutest thing I ever did see
Really love your peaches want to shake your tree
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Come on baby and I'll show you a good time

SlowwHand

February 2, 2004, 10:15

If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body
Bellamy Brothers

CHORUS:
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

Now we can talk all night about the weather
Tell you 'bout my friends out on the coast
I could ask alot of crazy questions
Or I could ask what I really want to know

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

Now rain can fall so soft against the window
The sun can shine so bright up in the sky
But daddy always told me, "Don't make small talk"
He said, "Come on out and say what's on your mind"

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

SlowwHand

February 2, 2004, 17:53

Toby Keith
Weed With Willie

I always heard that his herb was top shelf
I just could not wait to find out for myself
Don't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friend
And I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town
He fired up a fat boy and passed him around
The last words that I spoke before they tucked me in
Was I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I hopped on his old bus, the Honey Suckle Rose
The party was Vegas it was after the show.
Alone in the front lounge with just me and him,
With one parting puff grim creeper set in.

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

Now we're passing the guitar and telling good jokes
I know ones a-comin' cause I'm smelling smoke
No I do not partake, I just let it pass by
With a smile on my face and a great contact high

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

In the fetal position with drool on my chin
I messed up and smoked weed with Willie again

Drogue

February 2, 2004, 20:49

Feeling very emotional today, so thought i'd share a few of the sad songs that i listen to when i feel like this:

Feels Like Home
Chantal Kreviazuk

There's something in your eyes
Makes me wanna lose my self,
Makes me wanna lose myself in your heart,
There's something in your voice
That makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
For the rest of my life

If you knew how lonely
My life has been
And how long I've been so alone
And if you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you've done

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong

A window breaks down on Lombard Street
And a siren rings in the night
But I'm all right cuz I have you here with me,
And I can almost see through the dark there is light

Well if you knew how much this moment means to me
And how long I've waited for your touch
And if you knew how happy you are making me
I never thought that I'd love anyone so much

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong

It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong.

****************************************

Hear You Me
Jimmy Eat World

There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
now I'll never have a chance.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
So what would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
now I'll never have a chance.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
And if you were with me tonight,
I'd sing to you just one more time.
A song for a heart so big,
god wouldn't let it live.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.

****************************************

True Love Waits
Radiohead

I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like your niece
And wash your swollen feet

Just don't leave
Don't leave

I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kiss and smile

Just don't leave
Don't leave

And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps

Just don't leave
Don't leave

Just don't leave
Don't leave

****************************************

I can't believe I'm sharing this, but this is the sadest song I know. It was given to me by a friend a couple of years ago, and it always makes me cry listening to it. If I somehow think of it as a noble song, although I have no idea why.

Angel
Sarah McLachlan

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness
oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

:(

Drogue

February 3, 2004, 09:41

If You're Gone
Matchbox 20

I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
You think I'm weak, I think you're wrong.
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
But now I'm relaxed, I can't be sure.

I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need, this in my life
I think I'm scared, I think too much
I know it's wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone, maybe it's time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone, baby you need to come home, come home
There's a little bit of something me
In everything in you.

I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the moon just won't shine
I bet my hands I can stay here
And I bet you need, more than you mind.

I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need, this in my life
I think I'm just scared, that I know too much
I can't relate and that's a problem I'm feeling

If you're gone, maybe it's time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone, baby you need to come home, come home
There's a little bit of something me
In everything in... you.

I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need, this in my life
And I think I'm scared, do I talk too much?
I know it’s wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone, maybe it's time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone, hell, baby you need to come home
There's a little bit of something me
In everything in you, everything... in you.

boann

February 3, 2004, 13:27

Sweet Southern Comfort
Buddy Jewell

A misty sunrise in my hometown,
Rows of cotton 'bout knee high.
Mrs. Baker down the dirt road,
Still got clothes out on the line.
Irwin Nichols, there with Judsley,
Playin' Chequers at the gin.
When I dream about the Southland,
This is where it all begins.

From Carolina down to Georgia,
Smell the Jasmine and Magnolia.
Sleepy sweet home, Alabama,
Roll Tide Roll.
Muddy water, Mississippi,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me.
Carry on, carry on:
Sweet southern comfort, carry on.

Catchin' catfish on the river;
Chasin' fireflies by the creek.
Kissin' Gary Williams' sister,
On the porch, homecoming week.
With rusted cars and weepin' willows,
Keepin' watch out in the yard.
Just a snapshot of downhome Dixie,
Could be anywhere you are,

In Carolina or in Georgia,
Open arms are waitin' for you.
Louisiana, Yellow Rose of,
San Antone.
Arkansas, Mississippi,
Old man river whispers to me:
Carry on, carry on:
Sweet southern comfort, carry on.

As I sit here I'm surrounded,
By these priceless memories.
I don't have to think about it:
Theres no place I'd rather be.

Than Carolina or in Georgia,
Smell the Jasmine and Magnolia.
Sleepy sweet home, Alabama,
Roll Tide Roll.
Muddy water, Mississippi,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me.
Carry on, carry on:
Sweet southern comfort,
Carry on, carry on:
Sweet southern comfort, carry on.

boann

February 3, 2004, 13:34

i like those songs drogue
sorry your feeling sad today :love:

Verres

February 3, 2004, 14:24

Falling Away with You
Muse

I cant remember when it was good
moments of happiness elude
maybe I just misunderstood

all of the love we left behind
watching the flash backs intertwine
memories I will never find

and I feel my world crumbling
I feel my life crumbling
I feel my soul crumbling away
and falling away
falling away with you

staying awake to chase a dream
tasting the air you're breathing in
I know I wont forget a thing

promise to hold you close and pray
watching the fantasies decay
nothing will ever stay the same

all of the love we threw away
all of the hopes we cherished fade
making the same mistakes again
making the same mistakes again

I can feel my world crumbling
I can feel my life crumbling
I can feel my soul crumbling away
and falling away
falling away with you

all of the love we've left behind
watching the falsh backs intertwine
memories I will never find
memories I will never find

Drogue

February 3, 2004, 15:13

:hug:

Lose Your Way
Sophie B. Hawkins

I have no confidence
And I can’t see why I should
But I could do most anything for you
And you know I would
I try too hard
And then I give up way too easily
I'm the runner up inside of you
And you’re the winner inside of me

Lose your way
And I will follow
Here today
And here tomorrow
Like my freedom I know
I’ll never let you go

I still wish on the evening star
And I s’pose I always will
Every child loses something
A whole life can’t fulfill
And when you cry I feel the sky
Burst open in my veins
If loving you makes a slave of me
Then I'll spend my whole life in chains

Lose your way
And I will follow
Here today
And here tomorrow
Like my freedom I know
I’ll never let you go.

Walk the line
I’ll walk inside you
Change your mind
Let your love decide you
It’s the reason I know
You’ll never let me go

********************************************

For Louise :love:

At My Most Beautiful
REM

I've found away to make you,
I've found a way,
A way to make you smile.

I read bad poetry, into your machine,
I save your messages, just to hear your voice,
You always listen carefully, to what went wrong,
You always say your name, like I wouldn’t know it’s you
At your most beautiful.

I've found a way to make you,
I've found a way,
A way to make you smile.

At my most beautiful,
I count your eyelashes, secretly,
With every one whisper I love you, I let you sleep,
I know you closed eye watching me, listening,
I thought I saw a smile.

(dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut durrurrurrurr)

I've found a way to,
I've found a way,
A way to make you smile.

Drogue

February 3, 2004, 15:47

Originally posted by boann
i like those songs drogue
sorry your feeling sad today :love:
Thanks :hug: It's much appreciated.

SlowwHand

February 3, 2004, 16:59

The Day The Music Died
American Pie

Verse 1
A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died

{Refrain}

So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

Verse 2
Did you write the Book of Love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so
Do you believe in rock n' roll
Can music save your mortal soul
And can you teach me how to dance real slow
Well, I know that you're in love with him
'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, I dig those rhythm & blues
I was a lonely, teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singin'

{Refrain}

Verse 3
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
In a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the King was looking down
The Jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singin'

{Refrain}

Verse 4
Helter Skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
With the Jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the Sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died
We started singing

{Refrain}

Verse 5
Oh, and there we were, all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on, Jack, be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devils only friend
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell
And as flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing

{Refrain}

Verse 6
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play

And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
And they were singin'

{Refrain}

Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levy
But the levy was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this'll be the day that I die

They were singin'
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levy
But the levy was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this'll be the day that I die

*********************************
Chantilly Lace
Big Bopper

Hello baby, yeah, this is the Big Bopper speaking
Oh you sweet thing
Do I what
Will I what
Oh baby you know what I like

Chantilly lace and a pretty face
And a pony tail hanging down
That wiggle in the walk and giggle in the talk
Makes the world go round
There ain't nothing in the world like a big eyed girl
That makes me act so funny, make me spend my money
Make me feel real loose like a long necked goose
Like a girl, oh baby that's what I like

What's that baby
But, but, but, oh honey
But, oh baby you know what I like

Chorus

What's that honey
Pick you up at 8 and don't be late
But baby I ain't got no money honey
Oh alright baby you know what I like

Chorus

**************************************

Rave On
Buddy Holly

Well the little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you
Rave on it's a crazy feelin and
I know its got me reelin
When you say, I love you
Rave on

The way you dance and hold me tight
The way you kiss and say goodnight
Rave on it's a crazy feelin and
I know its got me reelin
When you say, I love you
Rave on

Well rave on
Its a crazy feelin
and I know
Its got me reelin
Im so glad
That you're revealin your love for me

Well rave on
Rave on and tell me
Tell me
Not to be lonely
Tell me
You love me only
Rave on to me

Well rave on
Its a crazy feelin
and I know
Its got me reelin
Im so glad
That you're revealin your love for me

Well rave on
Rave on and tell me
Tell me
Not to be lonely
Tell me
You love me only
Rave on to me

****************************************

Donna
Ritchie Valens

Oh, Donna, Oh, Donna
Oh, Donna, Oh, Donna

I had a girl
Donna was her name
Since she left me
I've never been the same
'cause I love my girl
Donna, where can you be? Where can you be?

Now that you're gone
I'm left all alone
All by myself
To wander and roam
'cause I love my girl
Donna, where can you be? Where can you be?

Well, darlin', now that you're gone
I don't know what I'll do
All the time and all my love for yo-ou-ou

I had a girl
Donna was her name
Since she left me
I've never been the same
'cause I love my girl
Donna, where can you be? Where can you be?

Oh, Donna, Oh, Donna
Oh, Donna, Oh, Donna

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SlowwHand

February 4, 2004, 10:16

Clap For The Wolfman
Guess Who

Clap for the Wolfman
He gonna rate your record high
Clap for the Wolfman
You gonna dig him til the day you die

Do Ron Ron and the Duke of Earl
They were friend's of mine
The highway's on my moonlight drive
Snuggled in, said "baby, just one kiss"
She said "no, no, no"
Romance ain't keepin' me alive
I said "hey babe, do you want to coo, coo, coo"
She said "uh, uh, uh"
So I was left out in the cold
I said "you're what I've been dreamin' of"
She said "I don't want to know"
(Wolfman Jack: "Oh you know, she was diggin' the cat on the radio")

Clap for the Wolfman
He gonna rate your record high
(WJ: "Yes baby, I your doctor in love")
Clap for the Wolfman
You gonna dig him til the day you die
(WJ: "Everybody talkin' about the Wolfman's confidence of love")

Seventy five, eighty miles an hour
She hollers "slow, slow, slow"
"Baby I can stop right on a dime"
I said "hey baby, give me just one kiss"
She said "no, no, no"
But how was I to bide my time
I said "Hey baby, do you want to coo, coo, coo"
She said "uh, uh, uh"
Said I'm about to overload
I said "you're what I've been livin' for"
She said "I don't want to know"
(WJ: "Oh, you thought she was digging you but she was digging me")

Clap for the Wolfman
He gonna rate your record high
(WJ: "As long as you got the curves baby, I got the angles")
Clap for the Wolfman
You gonna dig him til the day you die
(WJ: "It's all accoridng to how your boogaloo situation stands, you
understand")

Clap for the Wolfman
He gonna rate your record high
(WJ: "You ain't gonna get 'em, cuz I got 'em")
Clap for the Wolfman
You gonna dig him til the day you die
(WJ: "You might wanna try, but I'm gonna keep 'em")
Clap for the Wolfman
Clap for the Wolfman
(WJ: "And I got 'em all")
Clap for the Wolfman

Bereta_Eder

February 4, 2004, 14:04

Zounds

Demystification

I look out the window and I wonder at it all,
Staring at the symbols that decorate the wall,
And everybody's calling to come and join them all,
But I can't go with no one till I understand the call.

Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I want.

I want some demystification,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification about what's going on.

My electronic shaver won't plug into the wall,
Now I can't go to the party the electrician didn't call,
And I hear they're counting numbers in a store down in Whitehall,
So much information what can they do with it all?

Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I want.

I want some demystification,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification about what's going on.

Some people talk of Shiva and some they talk of God,
Some talk of politicians and some they talk of love,
Demystify their heroes with the chances we could take,
I'm not looking for escapism I just want to escape.

Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I want.

I want some demystification,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification about what's going on.

Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I,
Don't come round for me unless you've got what I want.

I want some demystification,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification about what's going on,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification,
I want some demystification about what's going on.

Bereta_Eder

February 4, 2004, 15:47

Bereta_Eder

February 4, 2004, 15:48

Big Sleep

Looking for a girl with a washing machine (http://baronrouge.com/audio/washing.mp3)

I'm looking for a girl
with a washing machine
and a room that's cool and shady
I'm looking for a girl
with a shower and bath
come on, baby, don't look at me like that

I'm looking for a girl
with a washing machine
I ain't saying
I ain't saying I'm dirty
and I ain't saying I'm clean

oooh oooh

Cracker

I Hate My Generation

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation, yeah

I hate my generation
I picked it up and threw it away
I hate my generation

It's alright
It's alright

I hate my generation
Now that I said it
I feel liberated
I hate my generation now

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation now

It's alright
alright
alright

I hate my
I hate my
I hate my

self biased

February 4, 2004, 16:19

heresey, nine inch nails.

he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
he tries to tell me what I put inside of me
he's got the answers to ease my curiosity
he dreamed up a god and called it Christianity
your god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I will see you there
he flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
he made a virus that would kill off all the swine
his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain
demands devotion atrocities done in his name
your god is dead and no one cares
drowning in his own hypocrisy
and if there is a hell I will see you there
burning with your god in humility
will you die for this?

February 4, 2004, 18:12

Messiah don't come / Shalom Hanoh
( Translation from Hebrew : me )

Sitting for hours waiting for the Messiah to come
Messiah's a key man, and got connections like none
a thick cloud of smoke, Jeruham lets out a sigh
Judas looks at the clock, a blank stare in his eye

An office up north, Artzieli consulting and law
It's the mid-of the day, and Messiah won't show
Presses the buzzer, and says " hey,
will you bring us some coffee today".

Messiah won't come.
Messiah won't answer the phone.

A roaring silence, five people nervously wait
The door slowly opens, Yardena comes with a plate
The black one to Judas, The son asks for a coke
Yardena walks out, Ezra continues to smoke

Because hours just continue to pass along by
Old man Artzieli feels that he somehow knows why
wiping his sweat,
he yells at his son..

Messiah won't come,
Messia won't answer the phone.

The Door bell ring tears through the hum of the fan
Jeruham runs to the door, as fast as he can
Artzieli the son takes a look his dad
And in the entrance a policeman is standing, quite sad

And Judah says
Something happened I guess
Jeruham answers
They don't just send them, so probably, yes

The Policeman says
there was an accident, so

Messiah won't come,
Messiah won't answer the phone

An accident for whom, asks Artizeli the son
For the whole country,you see, answers the cop
The stock market crashed, people jump of the roof
Messiah jumped, he's dead now, and we have a proof.
We're all doomed, Ezra the contractor cries
We have no money, and Messiah's up in the skies.
And pretty Yardena grumbles quietly,
This cannot be!

Messiah won't come.
Messiah won't answer the phone.

"Black december" the fronts of the newspapers say
The minister of Finance gave an interview today
"The public is stupid, so the public will pay"
"As easy as it comes, as easy it will go away"
The man on the street will pay all of the cost
And to me Yardena is interesting the most

Go to the army,
and count the money that's gone

And Messiah won't come
Messiah won't answer the phone

Repeat Chorus

SlowwHand

February 5, 2004, 10:07

Thanks, Azazel. :b:

SlowwHand

February 5, 2004, 10:08

Hugo The Human Cannonball

Well, they came to town
With their elephants and clowns
On a hit sticky August day

And every telephone pole
Had a poster that told
Of the thrills that were coming our way

There were trapeze fliers
And men that ate fire
And things we never dreamed existed

And the radio and TV
Told us we’d be
Fools if we dared to miss it.

Now all three rings
Held wondrous things
Marvels of every invention

But the big long shrouded
Shape in the corner
Increasingly drew our attention

There were bareback riders
Lions and tigers
And clowns in their itty bitty car

But every woman and man
And child in the stand
Had come to see the star

Then a hush fell on the crowd
As the men pulled the shroud
From the muzzle that was 30 feet long

And to screams and cheers
He finally appeared
And flamboyantly bowed to the throng

He wore red sequined tights
That sparkled in the lights
And boots that came to his knees

And a chromium
football helmet
And a cape that flapped in the breeze

And the dazzled crowd
Shouted out loud
You could hear them one and all

We want Hugo!
Hugo! Hugo!
The Human Cannonball

The aim was carefully calculated
The trajectory was precise

The charge was carefully measured
And poured into the loading device

The fuse was trimmed, the lights were dimmed
Hugo slid down the barrel and then

All was ready and Hugo’s daddy
Counted down from

Ten!
And the drums rolled

Nine
And our blood ran cold

Eight!
The ambulance stood by

Seven!
Several woman cried

Six!
The spotlight hit the net

Five!
No one would ever forget

Four!
Eternity passed

Three!
Every heart beat fast

Two!
And Hugo’s daddy said, “Are you ready Hugo?”

One!
And from the bowels of the gun, “I’m a-ready, Papa!”

Boom!

Well, fire and smoke belched
Out of the cannon
And the earth trembled for a while

And the big gun roared
And Hugo soared
Through the air like a projectile.

Two hundred and fifty
Feet he flew
Like an Air Force fighter jet

But at the apex
Of his trajectory
He knew he’s gonna miss the net

Oh! Arms flailing
He kept on sailing
A terrified screaming creature

And the crowd scattered
As Hugo splattered
All over the upper bleacher

In the aftermath
Of this tragic event
Disbelief filled every face

There was Hugo
And there was Hugo
There was Hugo all over the place!

Well, the dust has
Finally settled and
The smoke has finally cleared

Hugo’s name
And Hugo’s fame
Will always be revered

But no one
Ever too his place
No matter who they were

Because they never found
Another man
Of Hugo’s – caliber

The Circus’ main attraction
The greatest star of all

Was Hugo!

Hugo!

The Human Cannonball!

**************************************

Osama Yo' Mama

Osama - yo' mama didn't raise you right
When you were young she must have wrapped yo' turban too tight
She should have kept you home on those arabian nights
It's plain to see - you need to stay out of those fights

Osama - yo' mama could have done a lot better
Though I bet every day you did somethin' to upset her
By the way, we got an answer to your anthrax letter
New York City's where it's from - its the news header

And I can hear yo' mama sayin' now, "You in a heap o' trouble son
Now just look what you've done!
Saw you on TV with yo' gun
Mercy sakes, I can't do a thing with you hon."

And I can just hear dubyah sayin', "You in a heap 'o trouble boy
And I don't think you will enjoy
Our game of search and destroy
We got your terror right here, son yu sure are the real mecoy.

Osama - yo' mama didn't teach you how to act
You've crossed the line too far this time, there ain't no turnin' back
You're startin' to remind us of another maniac
Yeah, you know what we shoud of stuffed you in an over sized sack!

Osama - yo' mama didn't teach you to behave
Now they say you're hangin' with the bats in a cave
Well, pullin' off that sneak attack was not too brave
Kinda makes us wonder if your digging your own grave?

And I can hear yo' mama sayin' again, "You in a heap o' trouble son
Now just look what you've done
Saw you on TV with yo' gun
Mercy sakes, you need to settle down hon!

And I can just hear dubyah sayin', "You in a heap 'o trouble boy
And I don't think you will enjoy
Our game of search and destroy
We have made a son that is a real mecoy!

Osama yo' karma's really got you in a jam
But that's just what you get - when you mess with Uncle Sam

Osama the Taliban is history
Nobody wants to see you startin' World War Three

Osama you know the al-Qaida won't last
Osama, just like you, it's future's in the past

Lets just pray your mama will be plastered!
because oshama you sure are a basturd!

**************************************

The Preacher And The Bear

The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one Sunday morn'
It was against his religion, but he took a shotgun along
He got himself a mess a' mighty fine quail and one old scraggly hare
And on the way home he crossed the path of a Great big grizzly bear

Well the bear got down lookin' ready to charge
The preacher never seen nothin' quite that large
They looked each other right smack in the eye
Didn't take that preacher long to say bye
The preacher he run till he spotted a tree
He said "up in that tree's where I auta be"
By the time that bear made a grab for him
The preacher was a sittin' on top a that limb
Scared to death, he tuned about
He looked to the sky and began to shout,

Chorus;
Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion's den
You delivered Joana, from the belly of the whale and then,
The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace so the good books do declare
Hey lord, if you can't help me, for goodness sake don't help that bear

Ya, look out preacher
Well, about that time the limb broke off and the preacher came tumblin' down
Had a straight razor out of his pocket by the time he lit on the ground
He landed on his feet right in front a that bear and lord what an awful fight
The preacher and the bear and the razor and the hair flyin' from left to right

Well first they was up and then they was down, the preacher and the bear runnin' round n' round
The bear he roared and the the preacher he groaned, he was havin' a tough time holdin' his own
He said Lord if I get out a here alive, to the good book I'll abide
No more huntin' on the Sabbath day, come Sunday I'm headin' to the church to pray
Up to the heavens the preacher glanced, he said Lord won't you give me just one more chance
So the preacher got away, he looked around seen a tree where he'd be safe and sound
Jumped on a limb, turned about, looked to the sky and began to shout

Bereta_Eder

February 5, 2004, 13:11

Where are we heading Gentlemen?

Lukianos Kelaidonis

Minas got together with Aneta
Who was with Demos the crazy one
Christakis split with Teta
And got together again with Zozo
And Mari got together with Aris and Charis
Who was with Rena and then with Nana
And Michalis with Annie who was with Yanni
Tangled up and got together again
Marie suddendly got together with Leuteris
Who fancied Nena before he met Yoyo
Who was with Aris before he was with Mary
And that sometime I fancied her too
Thomas split with Barbara
And Nikos the tall with Phanie
Kostakis got together with Mara
And Demetris met Vivi
And Emi got together with Artemis
And got him away from Mania who was sticking to Toto
Who flerted with Vasso who was together with Tassos
Before she caught him in the act with Rania
Tassia got in between Nikita and Cia
Who fancied Stathis who loved Yoyo
Who was with Aris before he got together with Marie
And who at sometimes maybe I fancied her too
Loukas split with Marina
And went back again to Athina
Antonis went crazy with Dina
Who was with a friend of Minas
And Geli got suddenly together with Vagelis
Who was with Gina and before that with Ero
Who loved Elia who was with Lia
Little before Argyro made a move on him
And Rea finally got together with Andrea
Who Nina also wanted him before she met Thalis
Who was with Lola and flerted with Stela
Before he met with Lili
Maroula got Manolis from Roula
Who also liked Mina that Yoyo introduced to him
Who was with Aris before he got together with Mari
And who maybe I “jumped” her too

February 5, 2004, 15:59

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Thanks, Azazel. :b:

No problem. I like your thread , so I felt I have to contribute something myself.

SlowwHand

February 6, 2004, 09:54

We Don´T Need Another Hero
Tina Turner

Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can´t make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And i wonder when we are ever going to change
Living under the fear ´till nothing else remains

We don´t need another hero
We don´t need to know the way home

All we want is life beyond thunderdome

Looking for something we can rely on
There´s got to be something better out there:
Love and compassion
That day is coming
All else are castles built in the air

And i wonder when we are ever going to change
Living under the fear ´till nothing else remains
All the children say:

We don´t need another hero...

So, what do we do withour lives?
...
Will our story shine like a light?
...

We don´t need another hero...

SlowwHand

February 6, 2004, 21:36

River Of Dreams
Billy Joel

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep
I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross

And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep
And I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I would never lose
Something somebody stole

I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the jungle of doubt
To a river so deep
I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night

I'm not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That runs to the promised land

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Though the desert of truth
To the river so deep
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
In the middle of the night

SlowwHand

February 6, 2004, 21:40

Captain Jack
Billy Joel

Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
You're tired of livin' in your one horse town
You'd like to find a little hole in the ground
For a while...

So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It's like some pornographic magazine
And you smile...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah

Your sister's gone out, she's on a date
And you just sit at home and masturbate
Your phone is gonna ring soon, but you just can't wait
For that call...

So you stand on the corner in your new English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
But still your fingers gonna pick your nose
After all...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah

So you decide to take a holiday
You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet
Ah but there's no place to go anyway
And what for...

You've got everything but nothing's cool,
They've just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won't be going back to school
Anymore...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah

So you play your albums and you smoke your pot
And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got
What went wrong...

And if you can't understand why your world is so dead
And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head
Well, you're twenty-one and still your mother makes your bed
and that's too long...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight

Frankychan

February 6, 2004, 22:04

"Why Don't You And I"
by Santana and Chad Kroeger

Since the moment I spotted you
Like walking round with little wings on my shoes
My stomach's filled with butterflies
Ooh and it's alright
Bouncing around from cloud to cloud
Got the feeling like I'm never gonna come down
If I said I didn't like it then you'd know I'd lied ooooh
And everytime I try to talk to you
I get tounge tied turns out
Everything I say to you
Comes out wrong and never comes out right
So I'm singing
Why Don't You and I get together
We'll take on the world and be together forever
Heads we will, Tails we'll try again
And I'm singing
Why Don't You and I get together
And fly to the moon and straight on to Heaven
'Cause without you they're never gonna let me in
When's this fever gonna break
I think I've handled more than any man can take
I'm like a love sick puppy chasing you around
Oooh and i'ts alright
Bouncing around from cloud to cloud
I got the feeling like I'm never gonna down
And if I said I didn't like it then you'd know I'd lied
Oooh
And everytime I'd try to talk to you I'd get tounge tied turns out
Everything I say to you comes out wrong and never comes out right
So I'm singing
Why Don't you and I get together
Let's take on the world and be together forever Heads we will and Tails we'll try again
So I'm singing
Why Don't You and I get together
We'll fly to the moon and straight on to Heaven
'Cause without you they're never gonna let me in
Slowly I begin to realise that this is never gonna end and the moment you walk by it's like oh here we go again oh
So I'm singing
Why Don't you and I get together
We'll take on the world and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
And I'm singing
Why Don't You and I get together
And fly to the moon and straight on to Heaven
'Cause without you they're never gonna let me in
(repeat to fade)

Bereta_Eder

February 6, 2004, 22:11

Anemologio (wind + word)

Yoryos Dalaras

History got stink out (said) that we're through

We are, she says, the odd song inside the beautiful odes

And, finally, shut up rhetors, you've talked too much

From here on, we'll be playing in this thiasos (theater) only as ghosts

Down the flags on the boulevards where we paraded

They say the anemologio and the horizons have changed

They do us a favour that they tolerate us and that we laughed

Now publicly, only the knowedgables will have a microphone

Reports got out and it was officially announced

We are the mistake in the chapter of the mistaken verse

The rotten world there as it was rotting, revitalized

And our revolts are now in general out of climate (out of place)

The slut history declared that we got old

The garbage cars collect our fixations

Dreams foreign but also allotria (alien, degrading) we cheered

And now we receive from the audience sits rain the coins (coins as many as rain)

She ripped apart the slut history ancient visions

Now she sends us for service and for chamomile

Her virginity we reconstituted tighly with stiches

We carried her and she carried us to the windmile.

Bereta_Eder

February 6, 2004, 22:25

Velzevul

Dalaras

Velzevul rang my bell at early dawn
devil poor devil and desesparated full
Look at what you can do 'cause I'm broke and dry
The aboves threw me in washing, I'm looking for a good deal
It doesn't say to trust the civilized
They legally drive you out of your home even the hellish ones
Oi there little devil, Hell's chiefs dug your lake
He fell to the living room, flat out , the away of here
Pathetic, thrice pathetic, I'm ashamed to see
I no longer have prestige and respect even if I was Eva's loverboy
Not even the religious ones fear me anymore and they think I'm dirty scotch
It doesn't say to trust the ethics of the market
The way they've screwed up the fairytale
Oi there little devil, Hell's chiefs dug your lake
He shivered inside his cape, dead tired Velzevoul
Miserable, all miserable but he remained cool
Do you know someone who has vices, I give the organs for cuttlery
Give wire to your buddies in case we sell the firm
And if you know a hellbend what's his offer
to take a devil out of charity
Oi there little devil, Hell's chiefs dug your lake

SlowwHand

February 8, 2004, 16:54

San Francisco
Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

curtsibling

February 8, 2004, 16:59

Crimson Thunder

By HAMMERFALL

We are the voices in the dark
Inside the fire we are the
Eternal Spark that will guide the way

We are the stars up in sky
We gather winds so you can fly
We are the light when you're sleeping

All your dreams can come true
"Where do we go?"
We're just a heartbeat away

Follow the signs of the Crimson Thunder
We will stay by your side
Let our voices be there to guide you

We are forces in the rain
Inside your heart we are the
unending answer to all your fears

So take a step towards the light
The crimson sky fullfills the night
The revelation is near

All your dreams can come true
"Where do we go?"
We're just a heartbeat away

Follow the signs of the Crimson Thunder...
We will stay by your side
Let our voices be there to guide you

All your dreams can come true...

Follow the signs of the Crimson Thunder...

Drogue

February 8, 2004, 17:18

A new Brit band, just released their (debut?) album, Final Straw, and it's fantastic. Absolutly fantastic. I'm actually shocked by how much I like this.

How to be Dead

Please don't go crazy if I tell you the truth
No you don't know what happened and you never will
If you don't listen to me while I talk to the wall
This blanket is freezing, it's been out in the hall
Where you've had me for hours til i'm sure what I want
But darlin' I want the same thing as I wanted before
So sweetheart tell me what's up, I won't stop. No way.

Please keep your hands down and stop raising your voice
It's hardly what i'd be doing if you gave me a choice
It's a simple suggestion, can you give me some time?
So just say yes or no, why can't you shoulder the blame?
Cos' both my shoulders are heavy from the weight of us both
You're a big boy now so let's not talk about growth
You've not heard a single word I have said. Oh my God.

Please take it easy, it can't all be my fault
I haven't made half the mistakes that you've listed so far
Baby let me explain something, it's all down to drugs
At least I remember taking them and not a lot else
It seems i've stepped over lines you've drawn again and again
But if the ecstacy's in the wit is definately out
Doctor Jekyll is wrestling Hyde with my pride.

Run

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all i've done.

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Anywhere from here

Light up, Light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
It makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
I nearly do.

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

Slower, slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess.

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear.

Somewhere a Clock is Ticking

I’ve got this feeling, that there’s something that I missed
(I could do most anything to you)
Don’t you breathe, don’t you breathe
(I could do most anything to you)
Something happened that I never understood
(I could do most anything to you)
You can’t leave, you can’t leave

Every second dripping off my finger tips
(I could do most anything to you)
Wage your war, wage your war
(I could do most anything to you)
Another soldier says he’s not afraid to die
(I could do most anything to you)
I am scared, I’m so scared

In slow motion the blast is beautiful
(I could do most anything to you)
Doors slam shut, doors slam shut
(I could do most anything to you)
A clock is ticking but it’s hidden far away
(I could do most anything to you)
Safe and sound, safe and sound

(I could do most anything to you)
(I could do most anything to you)
(I could do most anything to you)
(I could do most anything to you)
(I could do most anything to you)
(I could do most anything to you).

self biased

February 9, 2004, 04:49

for Ramo:

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, Public Enemy, as performed by Seputura.

I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me given' a damn I said never
Here is a land that never gave a damn
About a brother like me and myself
Because they never did
I wasn't wit' it but just that very minute...
It occurred to me
The suckers had authority
Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell
How long has it been?
They got me sittin' in the state pen
I gotta get out - but that thought was thought before
I contemplated a plan on the cell floor
I'm not a fugitive on the run
But a brother like me begun - to be another one
Public enemy servin' time - they drew the line y'all
To criticize me some crime - never the less
They could not understand that I'm a Black man
And I could never be a veteran
On the strength, the situation's unreal
I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steel

They got me rottin' in the time that I'm servin'
Tellin' you what happened the same time they're throwin'
4 of us packed in a cell like slaves - oh well
The same mother****er got us livin' is his hell
You have to realize - what its a form of slavery
Organized under a swarm of devils
Straight up - word'em up on the level
The reasons are several, most of them federal
Here is my plan anyway and I say
I got gusto, but only some I can trust - yo
Some do a bid from 1 to 10
And I never did, and plus I never been
I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fall
Cell block and locked - I never clock it y'all
'Cause time and time again time
They got me servin' to those and to them
I'm not a citizen
But ever when I catch a C-O
Sleepin' on the job - my plan is on go-ahead
On the strength, I'm tell you the deal
I got nothin' to lose
'Cause I'm goin' for the steel

You know I caught a C-O
Fallin' asleep on death row
I grabbed his gun - then he did what I said so
And everyman's got served
Along with the time they served
Decency was deserved
To understand my demands
I gave a warnin' - I wanted the governor, y'all
And plus the warden to know
That I was innocent -
Because I'm militant
Posing a threat, you bet it's ****in' up the government
My plan said I had to get out and break north
Just like with Oliver's neck
I had to get off - my boys had the feds in check
They couldn't do nuthin'
We had a force to instigate a prison riot
This is what it takes for peace
So I just took the piece
Black for Black inside time to cut the leash
Freedom to get out - to the ghetto - no sell out
6 C-Os we got we ought to put their head out
But I'll give 'em a chance, cause I'm civilized
As for the rest of the world, they can't realize
A cell is hell - I'm a rebel so I rebel
Between bars, got me thinkin' like an animal
Got a woman C-O to call me a copter
She tried to get away, and I popped her
Twice, right
Now who wanna get nice?
I had 6 C-Os, now it's 5 to go
And I'm serious - call me delirious
But I'm still a captive
I gotta rap this
Time to break as time grows intense
I got the steel in my right hand
Now I'm lookin' for the fence

I ventured into the courtyard
Followed by 52 brothers
Bruised, battered, and scarred but hard
Goin' out with a bang
Ready to bang out
But power from the sky
And from the tower shots rang out
A high number of dose - yes
And some came close
Figure I trigger my steel
Stand and hold my post
This is what I mean - an anti-nigger machine
If I come out alive and then they won't - come clean
And then I threw up my steel bullets - flew up
Blew up, who shot...
What, who, the bazooka was who
And to my rescue, it was the S1Ws
Secured my getaway, so I just gotaway
The joint broke, from the black smoke
Then they saw it was rougher than the average bluffer
'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact
Now the chase is on tellin' you to c'mon
53 brothers on the run, and we are gone

Bereta_Eder

February 10, 2004, 15:18

Tsamiko

Savopoulos

So many people went by him and got past him. What could it be he asks?
A provincial in Omonia inside the thin rain, beginning of May
Multicoloured souls and not even a face. What is he waiting for?
Clarinets playing, people partying. What’s the time? What’s the time?
Foreign up to his joy Saturday midnight
My all lonely little songs if I met you I would have gotten somewhere
Inside your rhythm I dream and I go abroad on its steps
Somewhere around here, I know some people but let me not weight on them in such an hour
Long live Greece and everything that’s lonely in this world:
Ellassona, Levadia, Melbourne, Munich, Alamana, and Gravia, America, Velestino, 40 Saints, Eski Shechir
Kostas, Kostas, Manolis. Petros, Giannis, Takis
Navarino Plaza, Administration and Exarhia street, Alekos, Vassilis, Aggelos
Bizaniou and Ascension street, Holy Trinity’s and 25th of March
Greece that resists, Greece that persists
And whoever doesn’t understand, he doesn’t know where he stands and where he’s going
Welcome my bird, my Greek loneliness
From love you leave, you come, you come and go like my breath
And from the deserted distance my feast takes substance
And from our two rivers, the desert will one day taste fruit.

cinch

February 10, 2004, 22:09

Hear Me Lord (Harrison)

(Hear me lord)

Forgive me lord
Please, those years when I ignored you, hmm
Forgive them lord
Those that feel they can't afford you, hmm

Help me lord, please
To rise above this dealing, hmm
Help me lord, please
To love you with more feeling, hmm

At both ends of the road
To the left and the right
Above and below us
Out and in, there's no place that you're not in
Oh, won't you hear me lord

(Hear me lord)
(Hear me lord)
(Hear me lord)
(Hear me lord)

At both ends of the road
To the left and the right
Above and below us
Out and in, there's no place that you're not in
Oh, won't you hear me lord

Help me lord, please
To rise a little higher, hmm
Help me lord, please
To burn out this desire, hmm

Hear me lord, please
Hear me lord, please

Oh, won't you please, please
Hear me lord
Oh, hear me lord
Hear me lord

Oh, won't you please, please
Hear me lord
My lord, my lord, my lord
(Hear me lord)

Now, won't you please (hear me lord)
My lord, my lord, my lord
Won't you please / (Hear me lord)
Oh, hear me lord, hear me lord
(Hear me lord)
*************************************

The power of Harrison is that he can make me love a song the point of which I tend to disagree with.

self biased

February 12, 2004, 07:12

three for thursday:

"the fragile," nine inch nails.

she shines
in a world full of ugliness
she matters when everything is meaningless

fragile
she doesn't see her beauty
she tries to get away
sometimes
it's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away

I won't let you fall apart

she reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by
hoping someone can see
if I could fix myseld I'd - but it's too late for me

I wont let you fall apart

we'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide
I'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side
...but they keep waiting
...and picking...

it's something I have to do
I was there, too
before everyhting else
I was like you

i won't let you fall apart.

"The Day The World Went Away"
I'd listen to the words he'd say
but in his voice I heard decay
the plastic face forced to portray
all the insides left cold and gray
there is a place that still remains
it eats the fear it eats the pain
the sweetest price he'll have to pay
the day the whole world went away

"The Great Below"

staring at the sea
will she come?
is there hope for me
after all is said and done
anything at any price
all of this for you
all the spoils of a wasted life
all of this for you
all the world has closed her eyes
tried faith all worn and thin
for all we could have done
and all that could have been

ocean pulls me close
and whispers in my ear
the destiny I've chose
all becoming clear
the currents have their say
the time is drawing near
washes me away
makes me disappear

I descend from grace
in arms of undertow
I will take my place
in the geat below

I can still feel you
even so far away

SlowwHand

February 12, 2004, 21:11

You've Made Me So Very Happy

I lost at love before
Got mad and closed the door
But you said "Try, just once more"
I chose you for the one
Now we're having so much fun
You treated me so kind
I'm about to lose my mind
You made me so very happy

The others were untrue
But when it came to loving you
I'd spend my whole life with you
Cause you came and you took control
You touched my very soul
You always showed me that
Loving you was where it's at
You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life yeah

I love you so much you see
You're even in my dreams
I can hear you, I can hear you callin me
I'm so in love with you
All I ever want to do is
Thank you baby, thank you baby

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life
You made me so very happy
You made me so so very happy baby
I'm so glad you came
Into my life
I want to thank you girl
Every day of my life
I want to thank you
You made me so very happy (fade)

**********************************

LUCRETIA MACEVIL

Lucretia Mac Evil, little girl, what's your game?
Hard luck and trouble, bound to be your claim to fame
Tail shakin, home breakin truckin through town
Each and every country mother's son hangin round
Drive a young man insane Evil, that's your name

Lucretia Mac Evil, that's the thing you're doin fine
Back seat Delilah, that's your sixth big jug of wine
I hear your mother was the talk of the sticks
Nothin that your daddy wouldn't do for kicks
Never done a thing worthwhile, evil woman child

Devil got you, Lucy under lock and key
Ain't about to set you free
Signed, sealed and witnessed on the day you were born
No use trying to fake him out, no use trying to make him out
Soon he'll be taking out his doom
What you gonna do Lucretia Mac Evil

Honey, where you been all night?
You hair's all messed up baby
N the clothes your wearin just don't fit you right
Big Daddy Joe's paying your monthly rent
Tells his wife he can't imagine where the money's went
Dressing you up in style, evil woman child
Oh Lucy you're just so damn bad

***************************************

And When I Die

I'm not scared of dying,
And I don't really care.
If it's peace you find in dying,
Well then let the time be near.
If it's peace you find in dying,
And if dying time is here,
Just bundle up my coffin
'Cause it's cold way down there.
I hear that its cold way down their.
Yeah, crazy cold way down their.

Chorus:

And when I die, and when I'm gone,
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on,
to carry on.

Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well.
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.
Yes only my dying will tell.
Yeah, only my dying will tell.

Chorus

Give me my freedom for as long as I be.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me,
And all I ask of dying is to go naturally.
Oh I want to go naturally.

Here I go,
Hey Hey!
Here comes the devil,
Right Behind.
Look out children,
Here he comes!
Here he comes! Hey...

Don't want to go by the devil.
Don't want to go by demon.
Don't want to go by Satan,
Don't want to die uneasy.
Just let me go naturally.

and when I die,
When I'm dead, dead and gone,
There'll be one child born in our world to carry on,
To carry on.
Yeah, yeah...

cinch

February 12, 2004, 21:50

Yusuf Islam 3-in-1

____________________________

Longer Boats

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

I don't want no god on my lawn
Just a flower I can help along
'Cause the soul of no body knows
how a flower grows... Oh how a flower grows.

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

Mary dropped her pants by the sand
And let a parson come and take her hand
But the soul of no body knows
Where the parson goes, where does the parson go?

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

___________________________________

The Wind

I listen to the wind
to the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never

I listen to my words but
they fall far below
I let my music take me where
my heart wants to go
I swam upon the devil's lake
But never, never never never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never

_____________________________________

Tea for the Tillerman

Bring tea for the Tillerman
Steak for the sun
Wine for the women who made the rain come
Seagulls sing your hearts away
'Cause while the sinners sin, the children play

Oh Lord how they play and play
For that happy day, for that happy day

____________________________

SlowwHand

February 13, 2004, 11:09

"Tea For The Tillerman" :b:

Walking on a Thin Line
Huey Lewis and the News

Sometimes in my bed at night
I curse the dark and a pray for light
And sometimes, the light's no consolation
Blinded by a memory
Afraid of what it might do to me
And the tears and the sweat only mock my desperation
Don't you know me I'm the boy next door
The one you find so easy to ignore
Is that what I was fighting for?
Walking on a thin line
Straight off the front line
Labeled as freaks loose on the streets of the city
Walking on a thin line
Straight off the front line
Take a look at my face, see what it's doing to me
Taught me how to shoot to kill
A specialist with a deadly skill
A skill I needed to have to be a survivor
It's over now or so they say
Well, sometimes, it don't turn out that way
Cause your never the same when you've been under fire
Don't you know me I'm the boy next door
The one you find so easy to ignore
Is that what I was fighting for?
Walking on a thin line
Straight off the front line
Labeled as freaks loose on the streets of the city
Walking on a thin line
Straight off the front line
Take a look at my face, see what it's doing to me

Al'Kimiya

February 13, 2004, 11:59

God's Golden Sperm
Death in June

Paranoia is an icy start
But a start, nonetheless
A convenient memory is a gift from God
A gift from life and sodomy

The domination of lies
Break and brand all secret dreams
Divine, god like, gold like, sperm like
We gather, we sow, we scheme

And phrase for us, near certainty
The siren voids all fool's destiny
The death will seal their prince liberty
Courting sudden endless, earthless, vacancy

The domination of lies
Break and brand all secret dreams
Divine, god like, gold like, sperm like
We gather, we sow, we scheme

Paranoia is an icy start
But a start, nonetheless
A convenient memory is a gift from God
Bereft of life and sodomy

The siren voids old fool's destiny
The death will seal their crown prince liberty

boann

February 13, 2004, 12:03

Neil-Young - Harvest Moon

Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin’
We could dream this night away.

But there’s a full moon risin’
Let’s go dancin’ in the light
We know where the music’s playin’
Let’s go out and feel the night.

Because I’m still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I’m still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart.

But now it’s gettin’ late
And the moon is climbin’ high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin’ in your eye.

Because I’m still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I’m still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

molly bloom

February 13, 2004, 20:58

Happy Valentine's Day Everybody!

Billy Bragg: Valentine’s Day is Over

Some day boy you’ll reap what you’ve sown
You’ll catch a cold and you’ll be on your own
And you will see that what’s wrong with me
Is wrong with everyone that
You want to play your little games on

Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
You’ve gone to the dogs again and I’m not placing bets
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise

Valentine’s day is over, it’s over
Valentine’s day is over

If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
Don’t come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
God didn’t make you an angel the devil made you a man
That brutality and economy are related now I understand
When will you realise that as above so below there is no love

For the girl with the hour glass figure
Time runs out very fast
We used to want the same things but that’s all in the past
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher

Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
That love between two people must be based on understanding
Until that’s true you’ll find your things
All stacked out on the landing, surprise, surprise

Track Title: Love For Sale
Album Title: Cole Porter Songbook, disc 2
Prime Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Producer: Norman Granz
Written by: Cole Porter (C. Albert P.)
From the Show: The New Yorkers 1930 (S)

Lyrics:

When the only sound in the empty street,
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
I open shop.

When the moon so long has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town.
That her smile becomes a smirk,
I go to work.
Love for sale.

Advertising young love for sale.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,
Love that's only slightly soiled,
Love for sale.

Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price,
For a trip to paradise?
Love for sale.

Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way,
I know every type of love
Better far than they.
If you want the thrill of love,
I've been through the mill of love;
Old love, new love,
Every love but true love,
Love for sale.

Advertising young love for sale.
If you want to buy my wares,
Follow me and climb the stairs,
Love for sale.
Love for sale.

Goldfrapp: Strict Machine

I get high on a buzz
Then a rush when I'm plugged in you
I connect
When I'm flush
You get love when told what to do

Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

When you send me a pulse
Feel a wave of new love
Through me
I'm dressed in white noise
You know just what I want
So please

Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine ...

Album: Black Cherry (2003) Lyrics

SlowwHand

February 15, 2004, 15:38

Havana Moon
Santana

Chant...

Me all alone
Jug of rum
Me stand and wait for the boat to come
Is lonely night is quiet the dark
The boat she late it's 12 o' clock
Me watches the tide easin' in
Is low the moon and high the wind

Havana Moon
Havana Moon

Me all alone
Me open the rum
Is long the wait for the boat to come
American girl come back to me
Sail way across the sea
We dock in New York the buildings high
We find a home up in the sky

Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...

Me still alone me drinkin' the rum
Begin to think that the boat no come
American girl she tell a lie
She say till then, but she mean goodbye

Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...

Me lay down alone, no good the rum
Me fall asleep and the boat she come
The girl she look till come the dawn
She weep and she cry
Return for home
The whistle blow me open my eyes
Bright the sun blue the sky
Me grab me shoes, me jump and me run
Me see the boat head for horizon
Havana Moon is gone da rum
The boat she sail me love she gone

Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...

SlowwHand

February 16, 2004, 16:16

American Soldier
Toby Keith

I’m just tryin’ to be a father, raise a daughter and a son
Be a lover to their mother, everythin’ to everyone
Up and at ‘em bright and early, I’m all business in my suit
Yeah I’m dressed up for success, from my head down to my boots
I don’t do it for money, there’s bills I that I can’t pay
I don’t do it for the glory, I just do it anyway
Providing for our future’s, my responsibility
Yeah I’m real good under pressure, being all that I can be
And I can’t call in sick on Mondays when the weekend’s been too strong
I just work straight through the holidays, and sometimes all night long
You can bet that I stand ready, when the wolf growls at the door
Hey I’m solid, hey I’m steady, hey I’m true down to the core.

And I will always do my duty no matter what the price
I’ve counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice
Oh and I don’t want to die for you, but if dyin’s asked of me
I’ll bear that cross with honor, cause freedom don’t come free.

I’m an American Soldier an American
Beside my brothers and my sisters, I will proudly take a stand
When liberty’s in jeopardy, I will always do what’s right

I’m out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight
American Soldier, I’m and American, Soldier.

An American Soldier an American
Beside my brothers and my sisters, I will proudly take a stand
When liberty’s in jeopardy, I will always do what’s right
I’m out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight
American Soldier, I’m and American, an American, an American, Soldier.

curtsibling

February 16, 2004, 16:24

Bad to the Bone

By RUNNING WILD

Sixty years ago with the world at war
Lands bloodied - devastated
Better believe they're back for more
Pounding the world with a fist of steel
Jack booted, heavy handed
Careless of the pain we feel

Bastards - throwing life away
Killers - Alive today

Don't tell no lies
I see through your eyes
You're bad to the bone

Don't tell no lies
You can't hear the cries
Because you're bad to the bone

Times have changed but he don't know
Zoot suit, black tie
Careless that the lies are low
One for all and all for one
Talking smooth - hidden truth
Time bomb ticking just begun

Standing alone for the world to see
Non-starter - push harder
He still believes his time will come
Small wonder - old thunder
Can't he see that he's wrong

Bastards - throwing life away
Killers - Alive today

Don't tell no lies
I see through your eyes
You're bad to the bone

Don't tell no lies
You can't hear the cries
Because you're bad to the bone

chequita guevara

February 16, 2004, 16:25

That's assuming I ever read any of these threads, which I don't. Except this page in this thread, once.

Coincidence or? :hmmm:

SlowwHand

February 16, 2004, 16:29

That's certainly your loss. ;)

curtsibling

February 16, 2004, 16:36

SlowwHand!

More cheesy patriot songs, please!

SlowwHand

February 17, 2004, 09:50

And Curt, go **** yourself. It's all you'll get. ;)

Runnin' Down A Dream

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, I was drivin'
trees flew by, me and Del were singin little Runaway
I was flyin'

Chorus:
Yeah runnin' down a dream
that never would come to me
workin' on a mystery, goin wherever it leads
runnin' down a dream

I felt so good like anything was possible
hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
the last three days the rain was un-stoppable
it was always cold, no sunshine

Chorus

I rolled on; the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
there's something good waiting down this road
I'm pickin up whatever is mine

Chorus

Chorus

*************************************

Free Fallin'

She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day living in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy cos I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts

And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

(Backing Vocals)
Free fallin', now I'm a, free fallin', now I'm a
Free fallin', now I'm a, free fallin', now I'm a

I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
Gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while

(with backing vocals)
And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

(with backing vocals)
And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

mactbone

February 18, 2004, 01:22

Bringin' it back from the dead.

All girl punk bands rock.

"don't you wanna feel it inside
they say that it feels so nice
all girls should have
a real man
should i buy it? i don't wanna

i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love
i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love

if you had it in your thighs
you'll see that it feels so nice
"you wait, you'll *** every time"
i'm not that dumb
i don't wanna

i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love
i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love

don't you wanna feel it inside
they say that it feels so nice
all girls should have
a real man
should i buy it? i don't wanna "
-Sleater-Kinney, "A Real Man"

mactbone

February 18, 2004, 01:31

Yule Brynner is a genius, as is Stephen Malkmus even if he is an egomaniac.

"I'm not what you think I am
I'm the king of Siam
I've got a bald head
My name is Yul Brynner
And I am a famous movie star
Perhaps you saw me in Westworld
I acted like a robotic cowboy
It was my best role
I can not deny I
Felt right home deep inside
That electronic carcass

You're such monumental slime
Let the punishment fit the crime
Tie it to a chair
The house music will blare
And turn your ears into
A medicinal jelly
Stay inside on Christmas Day
And make believe that you are my candy cane
You said, "I'm not that type,
No I'm not sweet, and I'm not overripe

Bob Dylan sang in
"Its alright mama im only bleeding",
Everything from toy guns that spark to flesh colored Christs that glow in the dark
Its easy to see we got in too far and not much is really sacred. "
-Stephen Malkmus, "Jo Jo's Jacket"

SlowwHand

February 18, 2004, 11:06

Funny How Time Slips Away
Willie Nelson

Well, hello there
My, it's been a long, long time
How am I doing?
Oh, I guess that I'm doing fine
It's been so long now,
But it seems now, that it was only yesterday
Gee, ain't it funny, how time slips away.

How's your new love?
I hope that he's doin fine
I heard you told him,
That you'd love him till the end of time
Now, that's the same thing that you told me
Seems like just the other day
Gee, ain't it funny, how time slips away.

I gotta go now
I guess I'll see you around
Don't know when though
Never know, when I'll be back in town
But remember, what I tell you
In time your gonna pay
And it's surprising, how time slips away...

asleepathewheel

February 18, 2004, 11:12

Music by wilco; Lyrics by Woody Guthrie

Airline to Heaven

There's an airline plane
Flies to heaven everyday
Past the pearly gates

If you want to ride this train
Have your ticket in your hand
Before it is too late

If the world looks wrong
And your money's spent and gone
And your friend has turned away

You can get away to heaven
On this aeroplane
Just bow your head and pray

Them's got ears, let them hear
Them's got eyes, let them see
Turn your eyes to the lord of the skies

Take this airline plane
It'll take you home again
To your home behind the skies

Well a lot of people guess
Some say no and some say yes
Will it take some and leave some behind?

But you will surely know
When to the airport go
To leave this world behind

Oh a lot of speakers speak
A lot of preachers preach
When you lay their salary on the line

You hold your head and pray
It's the only earthly way
You can fly to heaven on time
Fly to heaven on time

Them's got ears, let them hear
Them's got eyes, let them see
Turn your eyes to the lord of the skies

Take that airline plane
It'll take you home again
To your home behind the skies

Your ticket you obtain
On this heavenly airline plane
You leave your sins behind

You've got to take this flight
It may be daytime, might be night
But you can't see your way if you're blind

Them's got ears, let them hear
Them's got eyes, let them see
Turn your eyes to the lord of the skies

Take that airline plane
It'll take you home again
To your home behind the skies

curtsibling

February 18, 2004, 12:00

Originally posted by SlowwHand
And Curt, go **** yourself. It's all you'll get. ;)

The distaste is mutual, cowgirl! :D

This song is named for my reaction to you...

Make Me Laugh

By ANTHRAX

Spread the word
Through me God is heard
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killing joke
Evangelist
You're making me laugh

Jesus saves
But only after I've been paid
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killing joke
Evangelist
End your hoax

God says have a T.V. show
God says baby do some blow
God says taxes are a sin
God says pour the money in
Rape the poor, faith no more
Faith for cash, make me laugh
Faith no more, hire a whore
Sell your past, make me laugh

Never, never, ever sin
Unless God says to stick it in
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killing joke
Evangelist
The truth can choke
Defrocked from your seat
Don't **** where you eat
You're making me laugh
Tell me your killing joke
That God talks to you
There's no hope

God says have a T.V. show
God says baby do some blow
God says taxes are a sin
God says pour the money in
Rape the poor, faith no more
Faith for cash, make me laugh
Faith no more, hire a whore
Sell your past, make me laugh

God says have a swimming pool
God say keep the doghouse cool
God says planes and boats and cars
God says have an amusement park
God says file taxes late
God says paint your face all sick
God says be a real pr!ck
God says have a T.V. show
God says baby do some blow
God says taxes are a sin
God says pour the money in...

mactbone

February 18, 2004, 22:08

Well I remember my first day at public school
I was very scared of getting pummeled
And sure enough I did at first recess
I got pegged in the head by a big red ball
It stung and my head hung
Back to class with a bloody nose
And soon it was lunchtime

Mom said I should ask about how poor kids can get fed
So I got a book of tickets and a schedule and it read:
Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week
All the kids would line up super early just to eat

Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week
It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans

Hooray for Pizza Day
Hooray for Pizza Day
I miss Pizza Day
The best day of the week

Well, I remember my first day in Jr. High
I had hairspray in my hair
And my pants were way too tight
And all the breakers and new wavers
And the rockers and the preps
Would all be in their places
On the front lawn or the steps
I hung out with some punker kids
Who used to make me laugh
I got thrown in the dumpster
By some rich kids near the café

As time went on we figured out
It was totally uncool
To eat the welfare lunch
Provided by the school
So in poser-punker fashion
We just mooched off all the kids
And lived off eating candy bars
And bags of nacho chips

Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week
It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans

Hooray for Pizza Day
Hooray for Pizza Day
I miss Pizza Day
The best day of the week

Well now I?m out of school
And I don?t have a job
(You?re a slob!)
I just sit around all sweaty and lethargic
And I?m just thinking ?bout where it all went wrong
Why I can?t concentrate
On anything but reruns
I wish I had some more stability
I wish I had somebody making lunch for me
I guess I miss the simple things in life
The thought of Pizza Day
I thought it was stupid then
But I wish I had it now
I miss my

Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week
It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans

(repeat)

Hooray for Pizza Day
Hooray for Pizza Day

Hooray for Pizza Day
Hooray for Pizza Day
I miss Pizza Day
Best day of the week!
-The Aquabats, "Pizza Day"

Bereta_Eder

February 18, 2004, 23:50

To be '21

Dalaras

One by one glorious years return to my memory
To have been '21, an instance to arrive
To cross, a rider, on the wide plains
With Kolokotronis to drink wine

To fight at daytimes at the castles
And my sword to be envelopped in fire
And to hold at nightimes with the stars
A beauty in my embrace

One by one glorious years return to my memory
To have been '21 an instance to arrive

First one, to lead the dance on the roads of Moria
And behind me Maniates and Psarianoi
And when wounded I'd lean behind the flower gardens
To be springled by menexedes hands and skies

To fight at daytimes at the castles
And my sword to be envelloped in fire
And to hold at nightimes with the stars
A beauty in my embrace

One by one glorious years return to my memory
To be '21 to arrive one night

SlowwHand

February 19, 2004, 10:06

The Howling Wolf

(Sound like I hear that wolf howlin'...)

Yeah I'm the wolf and everybody in the world,
Trying to find out who I prowl
I'm the wolf and everybody in the world,
They're trying to find out who I hound
Well you know they can't see me at night,
But they can hear me when I howl

(Howl, wolf... I said howl... Now you're howlin'!...)

I take time when I'm prowlin',
Wipe my tracks out with my tail
(A lot of people wonder why I do this but I wanna tell you)
I take time when I come prowlin',

Wipe my tracks out with my tail
That's in order that no one discover,
Whoa Lord he can't cross my trail

I'm that wolf, dig a hole,
Stick my nose down in the ground (hound)
I'm that wolf, dig a hole,
Stick my nose deep down in the ground
Yeah you know I'll be hiding right at you baby,
You'll think I'm way out on the outskirts of town

(That's that wolf)

**************************************

Happy Blues For John Glenn

People I was sittin' this mornin' with this on my mind
Said there ain't no livin' man who gone around the world three time
But John Glenn did
Yes he did
He did it, I'm talkin' about him
Only did it for fun

Half a million dollars made him feel so well
He got to eatin' his lunch and couldn't hardly tell
He said I feel all right
John Glenn said it
Everybody was laughin'
And dipped in the gritty

It was a million prayer went up
Prayin' that he would land
I looked at a schoolhouse full of men and they didn't know what to say
But they said "Let him come back, God
Please let him land
You know that's the onliest man ever did it
And you're the helpin' hand"

I see'd him when he left but I didn't see him when he land
But I knowed he was doin' all right when they said it is OK to give him a great big hand
He'll be in on the ship
They say he's on deck
His mother say I know my son gonna make it, it ain't never been no mistake

You know I wanna tell you somethin', this ain't lyin'
You know that man must had on his mind flyin'
It ain't nobody will take that for his tryin',
unless they gonna build him his own self airplane and they gonna go flyin'
They told him "Don't worry, this is true
You may miss me for a few minutes but I'll be back to see about you" - He did!
Yes he did
Yes when he done it, didn't know what had happened the helicopter say -

You know they tested that boy's body, even test his heart
They knowed he was all right when he was gettin' to start
I mean he's made it!
He went around the world three times
You know he went and got him an airplane,
and he made up and had it on his mind

That's what he had on his mind
He didn't have no kid and he didn't have no digs
He just had it in his mind flyin'

****************************************

Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run

I'm goin' to Dallas, see my pony run
Goin' to Dallas, just to see my pony run
I'm goin' to Dallas, just to see my pony run
If I win any money, gonna bring my baby some

She's a cold black mare, put on a racetrack anywhere
She's a cold black mare, put on a racetrack anywhere
If I get to the place and it's crowded, I'll say have you got any room to spare?

I'm going to Dallas, see my pony run
Going to Dallas, see my pony run
I'm going to Dallas, just to see my pony run
She wins every race and I can't see how it's done

She got a long life to live, cold black way remains
Long life to live, cold black way remains
When that horse wins that race she don't look like she's ashamed

I'm going to Dallas, see her run one more time
Going to Dallas, see her run one more time
If she wins this race for Lightnin', I'm gonna tell her she can retire

devilmunchkin

February 19, 2004, 23:56

Wrong Number by the Cure

lime green lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes i'm seeing
lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

lime green lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes i'm seeing
lime green lime green and tangerine
are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams
it gets to friday and i give you a call
"you know i'm getting kind of worried
no she doesn't seem herself at all...
lime green and a sickly kind of orange
i've never seen her like this before..."

i had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
i had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
and now i dig it in the dirt
and i'm down here for a while...

you've got to make up your mind and make it soon
is there room in your life
for one more trip to the moon?
is there room in your life
for one more?

burn red burn red burn red burn red and gold
are the deep dark colours of the snakes i hold
burn red burn red burn red and gold
are the deep dark colours of the devil at home
"she pulls me down just as i'm trying to hide
grabs me by the hair and drags me outside
and starts digging in the dirt...
for a not so early bird it's the only way
for her to get the worm..."

i had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
i had the best laid plans this side of america
started out in church and finished with angelica
and now i dig it in the dirt
and i'll be down here for a while...

"hello? are you still there?"
... and much too late...
"... sorry... wrong number..."

Ramo

February 20, 2004, 01:13

Dollar Bill Blues
Townes van Zandt

If I had a dollar bill
yes, I believe I surely will
go to town and drink my fill
early in the morning

Little darling, she's a redhaired thing
man, she makes my legs to sing
gonna buy her a diamond ring
early in the morning

Mother was a golden girl
I slit her throat just to get her pearls
cast myself into a whirl
before a bunch of swine

It's a long way down the Harlan road
busted back and a heavy load
won't get through to save my soul
early in the morning

I've always been a gambling man
I've roled them bones with either hand
seven is the promised land
early in the morning

Whiskey'd be my dying bed
tell me where to lay my head
not with me is all she said
early in the morning

If I had a dollar bill
yes, I believe I surely will
go to town and drink my fill
early in the morning

SlowwHand

February 20, 2004, 09:58

I Feel Free
Cream

Feel when I dance with you,
We move like the sea.
You, you're all I want to know.
I feel free, I feel free, I feel free.

I can walk down the street, there's no one there
Though the pavements are one huge crowd.
I can drive down the road; my eyes don't see,
Though my mind wants to cry out loud.

I feel free, I feel free, I feel free.

I can walk down the street, there's no one there
Though the pavements are one huge crowd.
I can drive down the road; my eyes don't see,
Though my mind wants to cry out loud,
Though my mind wants to cry out loud.

Dance floor is like the sea,
Ceiling is the sky.
You're the sun and as you shine on me,
I feel free, I feel free, I feel free.

molly bloom

February 20, 2004, 18:15

Grey Funnel Line

Melody & text - Cyril Tawney

Sung by Maddy Prior and June Tabor

Album: Silly Sisters

Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea
The weary night never worries me
But the hardest time in a sailor's day
Is to watch the sun as it dies away
Here's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line

The finest ship that sails the sea
Is still a prison for the likes of me
But give me wings like Noah's dove
I'll fly up harbour to the girl I love
Here's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line

O, once my heart was wild and free
Like a flashing spar on the open sea
But now that spar has washed ashore
And come to rest at my true love's door
Here's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line

Each time I gaze behind the screws
Makes me long for Saint Peter's shoes
I'd dance on down that Walker Shore
And rest in my true love's arms once more
Here's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line

O Lord if dreams were only real
I'd feel my hands on that wooden wheel
And with all my heart I'd turn her round
And tell the boys that we're homeward bound
Here's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line

I'll pass the time like some machine
Until the waters turn to green
Then I'll dance on down that walk ashore
And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more
And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more

Handbags and Gladrags: sung by Mary Coughlan

Album: Sentimental Killers

Ever seen a blind man cross the road
trying to make the other side
Ever seen a young girl growing old
trying to make herself a bride
So what becomes of you my love
When they have finally stripped you of
The handbags and the gladrags
That your Grandad had to sweat so you could buy
Baby
Once I was a young man
and all I thought I had to do was smile
You are still a young girl
and you bought everything in style
Listen
But once you think you're in you're out
cause you don't mean a single thing without
the handbags and the gladrags
that your Grandad had to sweat so you could buy

Sing a song of six-pence for your sake
And take a bottle full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake
And bake them all in a pie

They told me you missed school today
So what, I suggest you just throw them all away
the handbags and the gladrags
that your poor old Granddad had to sweat to buy

They told me you missed school today
So I suggest you just throw them all away
the handbags and the gladrags
that your poor old Granddad had to sweat to buy ya

Kate Bush

The Sensual World

Lyrics:

Mmh, yes,

Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes,
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes,

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.
Stepping out...

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes,
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes,

And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words--just one kiss, then another.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes,
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes,
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes,
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes,
I said, mmh, yes,
But not yet, mmh, yes,
Mmh, yes.

Ben Kenobi

February 20, 2004, 20:44

Never posted in one of these before...

Just listening to this song, can't get it out of my head.

Beatles,

Don't Let Me Down

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

Nobody ever loved me like she does,
Oo, she does, yeh, she does.
And if somebody loved me like she do me,
Oo, she do me, yes, she does.

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

I’m in love for the first time.
Don’t you know it’s gonna last.
It’s a love that lasts forever,
It’s a love that had no past.

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

And from the first time that she really done me,
Oo, she done me, she done me good.
I guess nobody ever really done me,
Oo, she done me, she done me good.

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

Verres

February 21, 2004, 05:24

Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever?

There's no time for us, There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever, Who wants to live forever....?

There's no chance for us, It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us
Who wants to live forever, Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever?... When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips, Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever, And we can love forever
Forever is our today

Who wants to live forever, Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today... Who waits forever anyway?

Green Day - Basket Case

Do you have the time
to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything
all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
she says it's lack of sex
that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
he said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause
it's bringing her down

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Uh,yuh,yuh,ya

Grasping to control
So I better hold on

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paraoid?
Or am I just stoned

SlowwHand

February 21, 2004, 18:52

Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Blues for Jimi and Janis)
John Lee Hooker

Looka here
I'm gon' tell you a story
About two friends
Whom I known
And the whole world knowed 'em
The one and only
Jimi Hendrix
And Janis Joplin
Who passed on
From the needle
They O.D.'d
Ah what a big loss
To this wonderful world
's Sad...

Dope addicts, dope addicts
You better watch yourself
Dope addicts, dope addicts
You got to watch yourself
You one of these days, one of these days
You might pass on
Stop shootin' no needle
And stop swallowin' that LSD
Stop shootin' no needles
And stop swallowin' in those pills
That needle's too heavy
Your heart can't take it none
Hey hey
I know, so many young folks
They're hooked, they're doomed to die
So many young folks
They're hooked, they're doomed to die
You better try and kick it
But you can't last long this way
Yeah...

Drug addict, drug addict
You better wake up and get wise
Drug addict, drug addict
You better wake up and get wise
Your days are numbered, your days are numbered
Your day you just don't know
You better try and kick it
You better try and kick it
That needle is too heavy for ya
It's too heavy
Hey, it's too heavy
It's too heavy for your heart, for your heart
Hey hey
It's too heavy
It's too heavy
You better kick it right now
I know you better kick it
I know it's hard
You better suffer and kick it
You better suffer and kick it
You got to suffer some
To kick
Hey it's too heavy for you
(...fades)

cinch

February 21, 2004, 19:01

Rock Hard Times (eels)

They told me that I couldn’t come back here again
Took me for some kind of fool
Said I was doing things that never should be done
But I don’t care about their rules

As if I cared ‘bout the little minds
In the little heads of the herd
There’s nothing you could dream
Would be more absurd

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times

I don’t know what it is they’re trying to do to me
Make me into some sick joke
But no one’s laughing
And least of all not me
It’s hard to laugh as you choke

Hollywood lies piled up to the sky
Floating your way soon
Hope you like the rotten stench of doom

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times

I don’t know what it is they think I’m gonna try
They don’t know what they need to fear
The surest sign that the end is coming soon
Is right there in the bathroom mirror

And everybody knows these are rock hard times
I gotta make it through
These are rock hard times
These are rock hard times

Drogue

February 21, 2004, 19:33

My Aphrodisiac Is You
Katie Melua

Some people say
That oysters make you come on strong,
But i don't buy it,
I don't believe my diet turns me on,
Won't take no pills,
That's the last thing that i need to do,
i can't deny it, my aphrodisiac is you.

Alright,
I could sniff some powdered rhino horn,
And go to bed in rubber gloves.
But i don't need no stimulation,
Potions, balms or embrocation,
I'm in love, - in other words:

Don't smoke no grass
or opium from old Hong Kong,
That Hubble-bubble
Just makes me see you double all night long.
Don't waste my time,
With Spanish fly and roots to chew,
They cause me trouble
Because my aphrodisiac is you

Alright,
I could sniff some powdered rhino horn,
And go to bed in rubber gloves.
But i don't need no stimulation,
Potions, balms or embrocation,
I'm in love, - in other words:

Some people like
To read the Karma Sutra first,
But i don't need it
I think if i should read it i'd be worse!
Don't ask me why,
'cause baby, i aint got a clue.
I just concede it,
My aphrodisiac is you.

:love:

SlowwHand

February 22, 2004, 18:20

Some Of My Lies Are True
Huey Lewis And The News

Say you wanna be a friend of mine
See me all the time
You don't care what I do
But it all sounds the same to me

Hey, can't you see
It's just like I told you

I know you think that I've
Been stringing you along
And that I've told you a few, but

(Chorus)
Sooner or later when you say I love you
You're gonna realize that
Some of my lies are true

I never told you that I was the one
Said it just for fun
You know, you knew it too
So why so much on the telephone
I'm never home

It's just like I told you

Because it's real the way you used to make me feel
It makes it so hard to say
But nothing can change the way I feel today
Don't you see that

Sooner or later when you say I love you
Your gonna
Realize that some of my lies are true

(Repeat chorus x 2)

Because it's real the way you used to make me feel
It makes it so hard to say but
Nothing can change the way I feel today
Don't you see that

(Repeat chorus x 3)

asleepathewheel

February 23, 2004, 00:52

B. Dylan, Song to Woody

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
I'm seein' your world of people and things
Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny old world that's a-comin' along
Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
It looks like it's a-dyin' and it's hardly been born.

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things I'm a-sayin', and many times more
I'm a-singin' every song, but I can't sing enough
Cause there's not many men done the things that you done.

Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly, too
And to all the good people that traveled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind

I'm a-leavin' tomorrow, but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday
The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say I'd been hittin' some hard travelin' too.

Sikander

February 23, 2004, 01:00

Bitter - Sweet

(Ferry/Mackay)

Well this is such
A sad affair
I've opened up my heart
So many times
But now it's closed
Oh my dear
Every salted tear
It wrings
Bitter - sweet applause

But when the show's in full swing
Every once in a while
High stepping chorus lines
Mean I'm forgetting
Mein lullaby - liebchen

How rich in contrast
Love can be
Sometimes I'm quite amused
To see it twist and turn
To taste - both sweet and dry
These vintage years!
Lovers you consume, my friend
As others their wine

Nein - das ist nicht
Das ende der welt
Gestrandet an leben und kunst
Und das spiel geht weiter
Wie man weiss
Noch viele schönste...wiedershen

And now, as you turn to leave
You try to force a smile -
As if to compensate -
Then you break down and cry

E.G. Music Ltd © 1974

cinch

February 23, 2004, 01:08

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
B. Dylan, Song to Woody

:b: :b: :b: :b: :b:

Blow Away (George Harrison)

Day turned black, sky ripped apart
Rained for a year 'til it dampened my heart
Cracks and leaks
The floorboards caught rot
About to go down
I had almost forgot.

All I got to do is to love you
All I got to be is, be happy
All it's got to take is some warmth to make it
Blow Away, Blow Away, Blow Away.

Sky cleared up, day turned to bright
Closing both eyes now the head filled with light
Hard to remember what a state I was in
Instant amnesia
Yang to the Yin.

All I got to do is to love you
All I got to be is, be happy
All it's got to take is some warmth to make it
Blow Away, Blow Away, Blow Away.

Wind blew in, cloud was dispersed
Rainbows appearing, the pressures were burst
Breezes a-singing, now feeling good
The moment had passed
Like I knew that it should.

All I got to do is to love you
All I got to be is, be happy
All it's got to take is some warmth to make it
Blow Away, Blow Away, Blow Away.

self biased

February 23, 2004, 01:22

Penalty, Biohazard.

What's inside my state of mind, can you deal with reality?
Who pays the price for hating, who decides our final fate?
Can you reall trust the government, can you really believe the truth?
Will you die for what you believe or will you suffer like a fool?
Sacrifice, penalty
You gave your life
And paid the price of hate
Is there anyone you can count on when it's time to do things right?
Or are these people just ****ing maggots sucking you for all your life?
Who looks out for our best interests, who cares about their fellow man?
Or are we all just ****ing animals ****ing each other anytime we can?
Who's gonna beg for mercy
When the time to fight back comes
Get down on bended knee and pray
For our salvation

Bereta_Eder

February 23, 2004, 05:29

Dany Brillant

Les envieux (Havana)

quand la vie nous brise un peu
en traçant ses blessures
que le ciel devient moins bleu
que tout paraît moins sûr
quand on se moque de toi
que tu les entends rire
tu es seul et tu as froid
tu es à la dérive
un jour tu t'es envolé
pour forger ton destin
mais tu veux t'arrêter
au détour du chemin
à cause de quelques uns
qui font dévier ta route
qui ne te veulent que du bien
et mettent en toi le doute

ils passent leur temps à parler
de ce que tu espères
que tu cesses de rêver
que tu as mieux à faire
mais s'ils s'amusent de ça
c'est que ça les dérange
s'ils sont cruels envers toi
c'est l'envie qui les ronge

et ils te crachent dessus
ils n'ont rien d'autre à faire
est-ce qu'ils n'auraient pas reçu
la grâce et le mystère
il y a quelque chose en toi
que le ciel t'a donné
c'est leur jeu que tu ferais
si tu y renonçais

un beau jour ne dis plus rien
et sèche un peu tes larmes
tu ravales ton chagrin
et tu t'en fais une arme
regarde les trépigner
dans leurs petits souliers
et laisse les bien s'agiter
et laisse les bien s'énerver
et laisse les bien critiquer
le temps va les saigner
le temps va les saigner

Bereta_Eder

February 23, 2004, 05:58

Dany Brillant
Ronsard 96

Quand tu t'en vas, que tu me laisses
Pour aller vers d'autres amants,
Que tu ne tiens plus tes promesses
Et joue avec mes sentiments,
Alors en moi, je deviens bête
Et j'ai de mauvaises pensées.
Je songe au temps de ta défaite,
Lorsque le temps t'aura vidée.
Quand t'auras perdu ta jeunesse,
Tu ne seras qu'une fleur fânée.
Je veux que tes amants te laissent
Et que tu te mettes à douter.
Je veux qu'un jour tu connaisses
La peur de ne plus être aimée,
Qu'un jour, ta beauté disparaisse,
S'essouflant avec les années.

Quand tu n'auras plus cette grâce
Qu'ont les jeunes filles de quinze ans,
Ce jour-là, tu perdras la face
A la face de tes soupirants.
Tu auras beau faire des manières
Mais tout ça ne changera rien.
Celle qui vit sur sa chair
Ne peut faire un très long chemin.
Quand t'auras perdu ta jeunesse,
Tu te lèveras tôt le matin
Pour dissimuler les faiblesses
De ce visage que tu peins.
Alors moi, j'aurai un sourire
Et je me souviendrai du temps
Où tu avais un avenir
Dans la splendeur de tes vingt ans.

Mais je m'égare et je délire
Car tu es si belle à présent.
J'aurai moi aussi à souffrir
De ce temps voleur de printemps,
Mais, que veux-tu, c'est ma vengeance
De penser que ce jour viendra
Où tu connaîtras la souffrance
Que je connais à cause de toi.

SlowwHand

February 23, 2004, 10:01

99 Tears Is Almost for Life
Flatt And Scruggs

The courtroom was crowded the judge waited there
My mother was crying when I left my chair
The sentence were sharpful they cut like a knife
For ninety ninety years folks is almost for life
I dreamed of the whistle I heard the bells ring
My sweetheart was coming some good news to bring
I knew that she loved me and that she'd be true
She said she would save me I'm guilty as you
She went for a pardon or else for parole
I know she'll come back for she's part of my soul
If she ever fails me I'd be mighty blue I'll stay in this jailhouse I'll die in here too
[ dobro ]
They said I was a criminal and to my despair
They sent me to Nashville and shaved off my hair
So come hear my story I'll tell you my fate
I'm serving in Nashville for another man's hate
I just got a letter from Nashville town and after I read it my spirit broke down
It's sad that my sweetheart and the judge would be wed
And here in this jailhouse I wish I was dead
No matter how right folks a man he may be
Bad company will sent him to prison like me
So take a good woman and make her your wife
For ninety ninety years folks is almost for life

Drogue

February 23, 2004, 11:09

Have listened to this song so much over the last few weeks that it would be sacrilege not to post it:

Def Leppard
Pour Some Sugar On Me

Step inside, walk this way
You and me babe, Hey, hey!

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah

Hey!
C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

Listen! red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little
Tease a little more
Easy operator come a knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

[guitar solo]

You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
'Cos I'm hot, say what, sticky sweet
From my head, my head, to my feet

Do you take sugar? one lump or two?

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
Pour some sugar on me
Oh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
Get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me
Ooh
Pour some sugar on me
Yeah! Sugar me!

Ben Kenobi

February 23, 2004, 14:47

thanks Slowwy. :b:

Beatles:

You've got to hide your love away.

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

How could I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in

How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

molly bloom

February 23, 2004, 17:34

Nails

88 Lines About 44 Women

Deborah was a Catholic girl, she held out to the bitter end.
Carla was a different type, she's the one who put it in.
Mary was a black girl, and I was afraid of a girl like that.
Susan painted pictures sitting down like the Buddhists sat.

Reno was an aimless girl, a geographic memory.
Cathy was a Jesus-freak, she liked that kind of misery.
Vicky had this special way of turning sex into a song.
Carmela couldn't sing, kept the beat and kept it strong.

Xylla was an archetype, the voodoo queen, the queen of rap.
Joan thought men were second best to masturbating in the bath.
Sherri was a feminist, she really had that gift of gab.
Kathleen's point of view was this: take whatever you can grab.

Seattle was another girl who left her mark upon the map.
Karen liked to tie me up, and left me hanging by a strap.
Jeannie had this nightclub walk that made grown men feel underage.
Mary Ellen, who had a son and said "I must go, but finally stayed.

Gloria, the last taboo was shattered by her tongue one night.
Mimi brought the taboo back and held it up before the light.
Marilyn, who knew no shame, was never, ever satisfied.
Julie came and went so fast, she didn't even say good-bye.

Well, Rhonda had a house in Venice, lived on brown rice and cocaine.
Patty had a house in Houston, shot cough syrup in her veins.
Linda thought her life was empty, filled it up with alcohol.
Katherine was much too pretty, she didn't do that sh!t at all.

Uh-uh. Not Katherine.

Pauline thought that love was simple, turn it on and turn it off.
Kit-Marie was complicated, like some French film-maker's plot.
Gina was the perfect lady, always kept her stockings straight.
Jackie was a rich punk-rocker, silver spoon and a paper plate.

Sarah was a modern dancer, a lean pristine transparency.
Janet wrote bad poetry in a crazy kind of urgency.
Tanya Turkish liked to f*** while wearing leather biker boots.
Brenda's strange obsession was for certain vegetables and fruits.

Rowena was an artist's daughter, the deeper image shook her up.
Dee-dee's mother left her father, took his money and his truck.
Debbie-Rae had no such problems, perfect Norman Rockwell home.
Nina, sixteen, had a baby, left her parents, lived alone.
Bobbie joined a new-wave band, and changed her name to Bobbie-Sox.
Eloise, who played guitar, sang songs about whales and c@cks.
Terri didn't give a sh!t, just a nihilist.
Ronnie was much more my style, she wrote songs just like this.
Jezebel went forty days drinking nothing but Perrier.
Dinah drove her Chevrolet into the San Francisco bay.
Judy came from O-hi-o, she's a Scientologist.
Pomerante, here's a kiss, I chose you to end this list.

Eighty-eight lines about forty-four women.

Marc Almond

Title: There Is a Bed

Album: Mother Fist And Her Five Daughters

There is a bed where I can end my days
To think about the road I've run, the miles I've come
There is a bed where troubles melt away
My lonely hours or hours with you
The times that we've come through

There is a bed where we shared times of love
And out of love those nights are memories best forgot
We argued about trivial things
And slept apart, a wall we built among the sheets

There is a bed where sickness left its touch
And fever damp the sheets where I would shake all night
Cold burning on my brow
Hallucinations here and now
A fight to live or die

There is a bed where first we both made love
And left the marks, reminders of how good it felt
The hard, the soft, the sweat in midnight's hour
We built the fort, we climbed the tower

There is a bed where years will make us wise
Truth and lies defeat, despise and forgiving
The sheets our cradle birth to death
The twists and turns of love, the life we're living

There is bed where nights I lay awake
To think about my future to forget my past
My bed a boat to sail the seas
To land where safety finds me gripping to the mast

And though I feel the years slip through my fingers
Sorrow lingers and won't go away
There is a bed that is my sanctuary
A bed where I can end my days

There is a bed

MISS SHAPIRO

801

From "801 Live"

All the peasants in the squares
With the tables and the chairs
Set to salvage certain numbers
From the wonder of the tundra
And the muses in the gloom
Counting needles in their rooms
On the carpet in the corner
In a kind of secret slumber
While the information rains
Slash the dirty windowpanes in the square.

Smokey broads and smoky windows in the square
Come come charmer come on over for the day
Disappearing cocoa forests flash and die
Fortunes crumble all demolished in the bay.

Over forty pointed people
In the perfect pointed steeple
Looked to see the lucky number
Yes the wonder of the Tundra
Had come up for fame and fortune
Singing his tune, my tune, your tune
Wooing daughters of the gifted
On the carpets in the courtrooms
While the tickets were expensive
The show was quite relentless in the square.

Smoky broads and smoky windows in the square
Come come charmer come on over for the day
Disappearing cocoa forests flash and die
Fortunes crumble all demolished in the bay

Dalai Lama llama puss puss
Stella maris missa nobis
Miss a dinner Miss Shapiro
Shampoos pot - pot pinkies pampered
Movement hampered like at Christmas
Ha – ha, isn't life a circus?
Round in circles like the Archers
Always stiff or always starchy
Yes it's happening and it's fattening
And it's all that we can get into the show.

Smoky broads and smoky windows in the square
Come come charmer come on over for the day
Disappearing cocoa forests flash and die
Fortunes crumble all demolished in the bay

SlowwHand

February 24, 2004, 12:32

Rambling On My Mind
From the November 23, 1936 session in San Antonio.

I got ramblin', I’ve got ramblin' on my mind
I got ramblin', I’ve got ramblin' all on my mind
Hate to leave my baby, but she treats me so unkind

I got mean things, I’ve got mean things all on my mind
Little girl little girl, I got mean things all on my mind
Hate to leave you here baby, but you treat me so unkind

Runnin' down to the station, catch the first mail train I see
Runnin' down to the station, catch that ol’ first mail train I see
I got the blues about miss so-and-so, and the child's got the blues about me

And I'm leaving this morning, with my arms fold up and cryin'
And I'm leaving this morning, with my arms fold up and cryin'
I hate to leave my baby, but she treats me so unkind

I got mean things, I’ve got mean things all on my mind
I got mean things, I’ve got mean things all on my mind
I got to leave my baby, but she treats me so unkind

***************************************

Sweet Home Chicago
Recorded on 23 November 1936 in San Antonio

Oh, baby don't you want to go
Oh, baby don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

Oh, baby don't you want to go
Oh, baby don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

Now, one and one is two, two and two is four
I'm heavy loaded baby, I'm booked, I gotta go
Cryin' baby, honey, don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

Now two and two is four, four and two is six
You gon' keep on monkeyin' 'round here, friend-boy, you gon' get your business all in a trick
I'm cryin' baby, honey, don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

Now six and two is eight, eight and two is ten
Friend-boy, she trick you one time, she sure gon' do it again
I'm cryin' hey, hey, baby, don't you want to go
To the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

I'm goin' to California, from there to Des Moines, Iowa
Somebody will tell me that you need my help someday
Cryin' hey, hey, baby, don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago

devilmunchkin

February 24, 2004, 21:38

Licking Cream by Sevendust

Corrupt my hope
In joyous hell
Between the lines
Lick the cream that smells

I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(crawling down your spine to make you stay)
I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(covering your eyes to make you pay)

Beyond the high
Lies burning eyes
Crashed down to soil
****ed up and coiled

I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(crawling down your spine to make you stay)
I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(covering your eyes to make you pay)

Too beautiful

(repeat)

You want to feel it
But you can't reveal that
Conceived the meaning
And caress the demon
All those callous eyes
How they infect you world
So you pretend to reason
But you've lost your soul

I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(crawling down your spine to make you stay)
I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(covering your eyes to make you pay)
You shouldn't be so beautiful in my eyes
(crawling down your spine to make you stay)
I wish you weren't so beautiful in my eyes
(covering your eyes to make you pay)

Too beautiful

cinch

February 24, 2004, 21:42

Two Georgie's For Tuesday

________________________________

Here Comes The Sun

Here comes the sun (Du du du du)
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun (Du du du du)
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Here comes the sun (Du du du du)
Here comes the sun
It's alright
It's alright

____________________________________________

Here Comes The Moon

Everybody's talking up a storm
Act like they don't notice it
But here it is and here it comes . . .
Here comes the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon.

Impulse always quickens when it's full
As it turns my head around me
Yes it does and here it comes
Here comes the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon.

God's gift I see that's moving up there into the night . . .
Though dark the mirror in the sky reflects us our light:
Looks like a little brother to the sun
Or mother to the stars at night
And here it is and here it comes
Here comes the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon, the moon.

Breath is always taken when it's new
Enhance upon the clouds around it
Yes it is and here it comes
Here comes the moon, the moon, the moon.
_________________________________________

Bereta_Eder

February 25, 2004, 02:01

Papadopoulos

Little spin around (go around)

The night you counted all the stars
The night you read road in the cup
The night you drove out the postman
And wore careau dress

The night it didn't bring me morning (only)
A mass that corrugates the universe
And I was left, a half crazed child, to rip
To rip clothes on the balcony

Little spin around, I'm afraid of you
Little spin around, I don't sleep
Little spin around, I'm afraid of you
Little spin around, I don't sleep

The night you erased everything
And that each morning brought you dizzyness
The night you counted your words
And told me hold me, I'll leave again

Little cosmic (worldly) spin around
Little little spin around of the boredom
Virgin with the jasmine
And the result of polycosmia (too much crowds/world)

SlowwHand

February 25, 2004, 09:43

Texas Bound And Flyin'
Jerry Reed

Well if I can keep it on the ground
when I put that hammer down
then I'll be Texas bound and aflyin'

Ive got my 10 in the wind
let it all hang out again
Cause how're you gonna win
if you ain't trying

Well now we're all back together
and we're burnin' up the road
and that old sheriff's doggin' us today
He thinks he's really got it cookin'
plans to do a lot of bookin'
only trouble he keeps lookin'
where we've already been!

So if I can keep it on the ground
when I put that hammer down
then I'll be Texas bound and aflyin'

Well if I can keep it on the ground
when I put that hammer down
then I'll be Texas bound and aflyin'

Ive got my 10 in the wind
let it all hang out again
Cause how're you gonna win
if you ain't trying

Now 'Smokey and the Bandit'
is a tale you don't forget
everytime you time your hear
an engine scream and whine
You have to think about ol' Bandit,
ol' Buford, Frog, and Fred, and Snowman
Their story is a legend
that will live on in time!

So if I can keep it on the ground
when I put that hammer down
then I'll be Texas bound and aflyin'

Bereta_Eder

February 26, 2004, 06:32

Kazadzidis

I will not love again

My share of hapiness
Others have took it
Because I had clean hands
And a big heart

My share of hapiness
Others have took it
Because I had clean hands
And a big heart

My God the second time
That I will come to live
As much as the heart craves
I'll not love again

My God the second time
That I will come to live
As much as the heart craves
I'll not love again

Like a seabeaten brick
Like a devastated rock
Like an outsider I came to life
And I leave as an outsider

Like a seabeaten brick
Like a devastated rock
Like an outsider I came to life
And I leave as an outsider

My God the second time
That I will come to live
As much as the heart craves
I'll not love again

My God the second time
That I will come to live
As much as the heart craves
I'll not love again

Bereta_Eder

February 26, 2004, 07:00

Kotsiras

Our First Time

Like this as I hold you in my arms
And you have laied on the sheets
I say My God make it that our first night
Lasts for a thousand years

From your soft body
I drink the drops like honey
Come to fly together
In love forever throughout the centuries

Touch me, make me dizzy take me high
Kiss me wrap me in your warm hands
And let's say it and let's swear, our every night
As long as we live to relive our first time

Like this as we leave ourselves sweetly now and sleepy on the bed
I say My God may we always be well always forgotten inside love
You are tired but I am here lay against my body and sleep

Wherever it leads I'l love you
Your life has by now become mine

Touch me, make me dizzy take me high
Kiss me wrap me in your warm hands
And let's say it and let's swear, our every night
As long as we live to relive our first time

Bereta_Eder

February 26, 2004, 07:48

Lidakis

Stars don’t scold me

Stars don’t scold me
Stars don’t scold me
Stars don’t scold me
Because I sing at night

Oh because I had pain in the heart
Because I had pain in the heart my little tall brunette
Because I had pain in the heart and I came out and told it

Stars don’t scold me
Because I sing at night
Stars don’t scold me
Because I sing at night

To the stars I’ll tell my pain
To the stars I’ll tell my pain
To the stars I’ll tell my pain
Who don’t betray it

Oh, who also have patience
Oh, who also have patience, ah the way you made me end up
Who also have patience for hours to pay heed

To the stars I’ll tell my pain who don’t betray it
To the stars I’ll tell my pain who don’t betray it

Ask the stars of the heaven
Ask the stars of the heaven
Ask the stars of the heaven
And they will tell you

How my little eyes cry
How my little eyes cry, ah the way you made me end up
How my little eyes cry when they remember you
Ask the stars of the heaven and they will tell you
Ask the stars of the heaven and they will tell you

Bereta_Eder

February 26, 2004, 09:14

Machairistas

Come my little soul

You're such a child deep down
You're so good by mistake
You're so naive that if you want You can
Find everything the clever onces lose

You're such a funny little tough one
I even kiss your little finger
That got hurt
What do you want the brawl for
What do you want it since you get the nice deal

Come on my little soul, come on my little heart
I know you're not what you let be seen
Others have played you
Others got you in a mess
Cry because when you cry you look younger

Bite your lips
I'm your handkerchief
I wipe out the ice from the glare
Come on my little dummie, take a hold from my caress
Hold on here lest the current carries you away

Don't pose as a rotten one to me
I don't play you with hidden cards
I find this crack where the raw life
Adores the lost body

There are no waters of Jordanes
And when my baby you "catch" harbor
Don't think it too much, all sinners
All from they same blend

Come on my little soul, come on my little heart
I know you're not what you let be seen
Others have played you
Others got you in a mess
Cry because when you cry you look younger

SlowwHand

February 26, 2004, 09:48

Like A Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

**************************************

Tangled Up In Blue

Early one morning the sun was shining.
I was laying in bed
Wondering if she'd changed it all.
If her hair was still red.
Her folks, they said, our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough.
They never did like Mama's homemade dress.
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough
And I was standing on the side of the road,
Rain falling on my shoes,
Heading out for the east coast.
Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through,
Tangled up in blue.

She was married when we first met.
Soon to be divorced.
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could;
Abandoned it out west.
Split it up on a dark sad night;
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walking away.
I heard her say over my shoulder
"We'll meet again someday on the avenue."
Tangled up in blue.

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell,
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the axe just fell.
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I happened to be employed
Working for a while on a fishing boat
Right outside of Delacroix,
But all the while I was alone.
The past was close behind.
I seen a lot of women,
But she never escaped my mind and I just grew
Tangled up in blue.

She was working in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer.
I just kept looking at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same,
She was standing there in back of my chair.
Said to me "Don't I know your name?"
I muttered something underneath my breath.
She studied the lines on my face.
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe.
Tangled up in blue.

She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe.
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said,
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me.
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burning coal
Pouring off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Tangled up in blue.

I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs.
There was music in the cafe's at night
And revolution in the air.
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died.
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
And when finally the bottom fell out,
I became withdrawn.
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue.

So now I'm going back again.
I got to get her somehow.
All the people we used to know;
They're an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians.
Some are carpenter's wives.
Don't know how it all got started.
I don't what they're doing with their lives,
But me, I'm still on the road
Heading for another joint.
We always did feel the same.
We just saw it from a different point of view.
Tangled up in blue.

**************************************

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around an ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpools
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

boann

February 26, 2004, 11:24

KEITH URBAN - You'll Think Of Me

I woke up early this morning around 4am
With the moon shining bright as headlights on the interstate
I pulled the covers over my head and tried to catch some sleep
But thoughts of us kept keeping me awake
Ever since you found yourself in someone else's arms
I've been tryin' my best to get along
But that's OK
There's nothing left to say, but

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don't need'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me

I went out driving trying to clear my head
I tried to sweep out all the ruins that my emotions left
I guess I'm feeling just a little tired of this
And all the baggage that seems to still exist
It seems the only blessing I have left to my name
Is not knowing what we could have been
What we should have been
So

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don't need'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

Someday I'm gonna run across your mind
Don't worry, I'll be fine
I'm gonna be alright
While you're sleeping with your pride
Wishing I could hold you tight
I'll be over you
And on with my life

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don't need'em
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don't need'em
Take your space and all your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we got nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me, yeah

And you're gonna think of me
Oh someday baby, someday

cinch

February 26, 2004, 18:12

White Light, White Heat

White light, White light goin' messin' up my mind
White light, and don't you know its gonna make me go blind
White heat, aww white heat it tickle me down to my toes
White light, Ooo have mercy white light have it goodness knows

White light, White light goin' messin' up my brain
White light, Aww white light its gonna drive me insane
White heat, Aww white heat it tickle me down to my toes
White light, Aww white light I said now goodness knows, do it

Hmm hmm, White light
Aww I surely do love to watch that stuff tip itself in
Hmm hmm, White light
Watch that side, watch that side don't you know it gonna be dead in the drive
Hmm hmm, White heat
Hey foxy mama watchin' her walk down the street
Hmm hmm, White light
Come up side your head gonna make a deadend on your street

White light, White light moved in me through my brain
White light, White light goin' makin' you go insane
White heat, Aww white heat it tickle me down to my toes
White light, Aww white light I said now goodness knows

White light, Aww white light it lighten up my eyes
White light, don't you know it fills me up with suprise
White light, Aww white heat tickle me down to my toes
White light, Aww white light I tell you now goodness knows, now work it

Hmm hmm, White light
Aww she surely do moves me
Hmm hmm, White light
Watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak everybody gonna go and make it every week
Hmm hmm, White heat
Aww sputter mutter everybody gonna go kill their mother
Hmm hmm, White light
Here she comes, here she comes, everybody get 'n gone make me run to her

Here She Comes Now

Now, if she ever comes now, now
If she ever comes now, now
If she ever comes now...
Now, if she ever comes now, now
If she ever comes now, now
If she ever comes now...

Ah oh, it looks so good
Ah oh, she's made out of wood
Just look and see

Oh, it's made out of wood
Just look and see now
She ever comes, she ever comes now
Now, now, now, now
She ever, ever, ever comes n-n-n-now...

Lady Godiva's Operation

Lady Godiva here dressed so demurely
Pats the head of another curly haired boy, just another toy
Sick with silence she weps sincerely
saying word that have oh so clearly been said
so long ago
Draperies wrapped gently 'round her shoulder
Life has made her that much bolder now
that she's found out how
Dressed in silk, latin lace and envy
Pride and joy of the latest penny faire
pretty passing care
Hair today now dipped in the water
Making love to every poor daughter's son
isn't it fun
Now today propping grace with envy
Lady Godiva peers to see if anyone's there
and hasn't a care
Doctor is coming the nurse thinks SWEETLY
Turning on the machines that NEATLY pump air
the body lies bare
Shaved and hairless what once was SCREAMING
now lies silent and almost SLEEPING
the brain must have gone away
Straped securly to the white table
ether caused the body to wither and writhe
underneath the white light
Doctor arrives with knife and baggage
sees the growth as just so much cabbage
that now
must be cut away
Now come the moment of Great! Great! Decision!
The doctor is making his first incision
One goes here--one goes there
The ether tube's leaking says someone who's sloppy
the patient it seems is not so well sleeping
The screams echo up the hall
Don't panic someone give him pentathol instantly
Doctor removes his blade
cagily slow from the brain
By my count of ten--
the head won't move

SlowwHand

February 27, 2004, 11:47

The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Charlie Daniels Band

The Devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal
He was in a bind, cause he was way behind
And he was willing to make a deal

Well he come across a young man sawing on a fiddle and he played it hot
The Devil jumped up on a hickory stump
And said "Boy, let me tell you what

In case you didn't know it, I'm a fiddle player too
And if you care to make a dare
I'll make a bet with you

Now you play pretty good fiddle, son but give the Devil his due
I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul
Cause I think I'm better than you"

Well the boy said "My name's Johnny, and it might be a sin
But I'll take your bet you're gonna regret
Cause I'm the best there's ever been"

Johnny rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard
Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia
And the Devil deals the cards

And if you win you'll get this shiny fiddle made of gold
But if you lose the Devil gets your soul
The Devil opened up his case, and said, "I'll start this show"
And fire flew from his finger tips as he rosined up his bow
When he pulled that bow across the strings, it made an evil hiss
And a band of demons joined in, it sounded just like this

When the Devil finished, Johnny said, "Well you're pretty good old son
But just sit down in that chair right there and let me show you how it's done"

He played Fire on the Mountain, run, boys, run
The Devil's in the house with the rising sun,
Chicken in the breadpan picking out dough,
Granny does your dog bite, "No, child, no"

The Devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat
And he laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet
And Johnny said, "Devil, come on back if you ever want to try again
But I told you once, you son of a *****, I'm the best there's ever been!"

He played Fire on the Mountain, run, boys, run
The Devil's in the house with the rising sun
Chicken in the breadpan picking out dough
Granny does your dog bite, "No, child, no"

self biased

February 28, 2004, 03:15

down in a hole, alice in chains.

Bury Me Softly In This Womb
I Give This Part Of Me For You
Sand Rains Down And Here I Sit
Holding Rare Flowers
In A Tomb.....In Bloom

Down In A Hole And I Don't Know
If I Can Be Saved
See My Heart I Decorate It
Like A Grave
You Don't Understand Who They
Thought I Was Supposed To Be
Look At Me Now A Man
Who Won't Let Himself Be

Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Losin' Control
I'd Like To Fly
But My Wings Have Been So Denied

Down In A Hole And They've Put All
The Stones In Their Place
I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue
Has Been Burned Of The Taste
I Have Been Guilty
Of Kicking Myself In The Teeth
I Will Speak No More
Of My Feelings Beneath

Oh I Want To Be Inside Of You

got me wrong.
Yeh, it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No color clay
Individuality not safe

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong

I can't let go
Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow
Feel a tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me to

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong

I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don't last forever
Something's gotta turn out right

You sugar taste
Sweetness doesn't often touch my face
Stay if you please
You may not be here when I leave

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong

I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
Strong, I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don't last forever
Something's gotta turn out right

rooster.
Ain't Found A Way To
Kill Me Yet
Eyes Burn With Stinging
Sweat
Seems Every Path Leads Me To
Nowhere
Wife And Kids And Household Pet
Army Green Was No Safe Bet
The Bullets Scream To Me From Somewhere

Here They Come To Snuff The Rooster
Yeah Here Come The Rooster
You Know He Ain't Gonna Die

Walkin' Tall Machine Gun Man
They Spit On Me In My Homeland
Gloria Sent Me Pictures
Of My Boy
Got My Pills 'Gainst
Mosquito Death
My Buddy's Breathin'
His Dyin' Breath
Oh God Please Won't You Help
Me Make It Through

Bereta_Eder

February 28, 2004, 11:46

Arvanitaki

I'm in love with your eyes

For your two light blue eyes
That are such grace and caprice
I've sent away any of my old loves
And I go around the winecups

What if with lies they trick me
What if others with love they look
I cannot for a minute deny them
And fall in love with other eyes

I'm in love with your eyes (your eyes)
I told you and I'll always tell you
And if I lose it in front of your stairway
(oh oh oh )
Nights without dawn I'll be crying

I can even become a murderer
Even if the crowd laughs at me

I'm in love with your eyes
I told you and I'll always tell you

It's like they've left the heavens
And they look with such pride
Those little eyes that light fires
Wherever they tell the world's lies

In front of them the stars lower
And the tough dudes end up in a brawl
Eyes whom whoever saw just for one night
Got damage in the heart

I'm in love with your eyes (your eyes)
I told you and I'll always tell you
And if I lose it in front of your stairway
(oh oh oh )
Nights without dawn I'll be crying

I can even become a murderer
Even if the crowd laughs at me

I'm in love with your eyes
I told you and I'll always tell you

SlowwHand

March 2, 2004, 13:26

Vagabond Virgin

Tell me how you want me to be, then look again and you will see
That I still look the same, love
Think me into any shape, your twisted mind has no escape
But don't be ashamed, love, it's just a game, love
You can learn how to play
Born like you were in a terrible mess,
Didn't know what it was to have a new dress
You just wanted to scream my name
Till somebody said,'Let me take you to bed'
And with money and lies, they filled your head
You were barely thirteen, a child from the villages
So fresh on the scene.

*****************************************

Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring

We are not like all the rest
You can see us any day of the week.
Come around, sit down, take a sniff, fall asleep
Baby you don't have to speak.
I'd like to show you where it is
But then it wouldn't even mean a thing.
Nothing is easy, baby just please me
Who knows what tomorrow may bring.

If for just one moment
You could step outside your mind.
And float across the ceiling
I don't think the folks would mind.

We are not like all the rest
You can see us any day of the week.
Come around, sit down, take a sniff, fall asleep
Baby you don't have to speak.
I'd like to show you where it is
But then it wouldn't even mean a thing.
Nothing is easy, baby just please me
Who knows what tomorrow may bring.

Well if for just one moment
You could step outside your mind.
And float across the ceiling
I don't think the folks would mind.

Who knows (who knows, who knows) what tomorrow may bring (repeat to fade)

self biased

March 2, 2004, 13:43

Where You Come From, Pantera.

When the world pronounced me dead
put me in the grave
the cut off my legs
it was not long
I couldn't hold my mouth
I ran my head
I ran my head

It's strange to be around again
things might have killed me
but not the bastard in the skies
I was f*cking with the plan
asking for it all,
call it karma or guilt
being dragged down the road
call it wisdom or ignorance

But it's still alive
and it's in me now
and it lives and breathes
but, I can't give a f*ck
I've got a big mouth
and there's a lot to learn
from a bottle of whiskey
it's where you come from
(the south)

A remedy to the curse
cold turkey, drop the bomb
on harder wares control
suspend above, become one
Look at what's around
It may piss you off
It might be sh*t
But I just can't lie around
Feeling sorry for myself

I could care less
(from weed and whiskey)
I fell in front of my friends
I dropped out in front of the world
you call that supernatural?
I ain't

Black wings will weather your flight
for some there's no second time
following paths of your life
I stepped off the mountain to the sky

watch your ass no
it's where you come from

Bereta_Eder

March 2, 2004, 14:07

Loizos

The Accordion
(allegory song for the junta)

In my old neighborhood I had a friend
Who knew and played the accordion

When he sung he was the spitting image of the sun
The accordion kindled fires in his hands

But one night, dark as all others
He kept watch while playing the accordion

German vans stood in the yard
And a blast stopped the accordion

The signal-that-had-started, always stays with me
Whenever from then on I listen to accordion

And it has marked my life like a stamp
And it has marked my life like a stamp

Fascism will not pass
Fascism will not pass

SlowwHand

March 2, 2004, 19:19

Tightrope
Electric Light Orchestra

They say some days you're gonna win,
They say some days you're gonna lose.
I tell you I got news for you
Your losin' all the time you never win
If you believe that's how it's gonna be I'd better put you down
Get off your tightrope up there come down on
The ground you gotta save me now,
You better turn around.
When I looked around, I was heading down.
Won't somebody throw me down a line.

They say some days you gotta give--
They say some days you gotta take--
If that's the way it's gotta be,
Roll it over and you will see.
The city streets are full of people going nowhere making time.
The change from night to day is really only hours,
It's just along the line can't you see the sign
When I looked around, I was heading down,
Won't somebody throw me down a line.

I want to look you straight in the eye,
I want to tell you how I really feel,
I can feel the wheels turnin' round,
Won't somebody throw me down a line
The city streets are full of people going nowhere making time,
The change from night to day is really only hours
It's just along the line, can't you see the sign
When I closed my eyes, I was so surprised
Somebody had thrown me down the line--stopped me drownin

SlowwHand

March 5, 2004, 10:33

Tales of Brave Ulysses
Cream

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.

And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses:
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.

The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.

The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

SlowwHand

March 6, 2004, 18:57

The Warrior
Scandal

You run, run...run away
It's your heart...that you betray
Feeding on...your hungry eyes
I bet you're not so civilized

Well, isn't love..primitive
A wild gift...that you wanna give
Break out of captivity
And follow me, stereo jungle child
Love is the kill.....your heart's still wild

Chorus:
Shootin' at the walls of heartache, bang, bang, I am the warrior
Well I am the warrior, and heart to heart you'll win..if you survive
the warrior....the warrior

You talk, talk, you talk to me
Your eyes touch me physically
Stay with me, we'll take the night
As passion takes another bite

Who's the hunter...who's the game?
I feel the beat...call your name
I hold you close...in victory
Idon't wanna tame your animal style..
you won't be caged...in the call of the wild....

Repeat Chorus

Shootin' at the walls of heartache (shootin' at the walls of heartache)
The warrior.....
I am the warrior, and heart to heart you'll win
heart to heart you'll win...if you survive
The warrior...the warrior

shootin' at the walls of heartache, bang, bang, I am the warrior
yes I am the warrior and victory is mine
The warrior...the warrior

cinch

March 6, 2004, 19:19

Visions of Johanna (Bob Dylan)

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

SlowwHand

March 7, 2004, 10:56

The Horses
Kenny Loggins

We will fly way up high
Where the cool winds blow
Or in the sun laughing having fun
With all the people that we know
If the situation should keep us separated
I know the world won't fall apart
You will free the beautiful bird
Caught inside your heart

Can you see her oh she flies so proud
Cast her wild wings over water and cloud

That's the way it's gonna be little darling
You'll go riding on the horses
Way up to the sky little darling
If you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up

You will grow until you go
I'll be right there by your side
And even then a whisper the wind
And she will carry up your life
I hear all the people of the world
In my one bird's lonely cry
I see them trying every way they know how
To make their spirits fly

Can you see her moonlight in her eye
Coming from under my wing
You were born to fly

That's the way it's gonna be, little darling
You'll go riding on the horses
Way up to the sky little darling
If you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up

SlowwHand

March 8, 2004, 11:39

For Joe Bolin. Bartender, fellow S.A.L. brother, and friend.

Picasso's Last Words
Paul McCartney

The grand old painter died last night
His paintings on the wall
Before he went he bade us well
And said goodnight to us all.
Drink to me, drink to my health
You know i can't drink any more
Drink to me, drink to my health
You know i can't drink any more

3 o'clock in the morning
I'm getting ready for bed
It came without a warning
But i'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be waiting for you there

So drink to me drink to my health
You know i can't drink any more
Drink to me drink to my health
You know i can't drink any more

French interlude

Temp change

Jet... drink to me

Drunken chorus

French (tempo) drink to me... ho hey ho

boann

March 15, 2004, 11:43

brand new neil young..... album called Greendale

"be the rain"

save the planet for another day
"attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save"
save the planet for another day
"save alaska! let the caribou stay"
don't care what the governments say
"they're all bought and paid for anyway"
save the planet for another day
"hey big oil, what do you say?"

we were runnin' through the night
never knowin' if we would see the light
paranoid schizophrenic visions
livin' in fear of the wrong decisions

we got to wake up
we got to keep goin'
if they follow us
there's no way of knowin'

we got a job to do
we got to
save mother earth

be the ocean when it meets the sky
"you can make a difference, if you really try"
be the magic in the northern lights
"six days....six nights"
be the river as it rolls along
"it has three eyed fish and it's smellin' strong"
be the rain you remember fallin'
"be the rain, be the rain"

yeah rain was fallin' and we're soakin' wet
hail is beatin' down on our heads
the wind is blowin' through our hair
faces frozen in the frigid air

we got to get there
alaska
we got to be there
before the big machines

we got a job to do
we got to
save mother earth

dream the hunter on the western plain
"the birds are all gone, where did they go?"
dream the fisherman in his boat
"he's comin' home empty, he's barely afloat"
dream the logger in the great northwest
"they're runnin' out of trees, they got to give it a rest"
(there's no other way to cut it)
dream the farmer in the old heartland
"corporate greed and chemicals are killin' the land"

next mornin' sun was up at dawn
she looked around and earth was gone
dark visions he had last night
he needed peace, he needed light

he heard the rumble and
he saw the big machines
the green army rose
it was a bad dream

he had a job to do
he had to
save mother earth

be the ocean when it meets the sky
"greek freighters are dumping crap somewhere right now"
be the magic in the northern lights
"the ice is melting!"
be the river as it rolls along
"toxic waste dumpin' from corporate farms"
be the rain you remember fallin'
"be the rain, be the rain"
save the planet for another day
"be the rain, be the rain"
be the river as it rolls along
"be the rain, be the rain"

Drake Tungsten

March 29, 2004, 06:39

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit
Wu-Tang Clan

Intro: RZA

[Tiger style]
[Tiger style] Tiger style
Yo, huh, huh
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin Ta **** Wit
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin Ta **** Wit
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin Ta **** Wit
There's noplace to hide once I step inside the room
Dr. Doom, prepare for the boom
BAM! Aw, MAN! I SLAM
JAM, now scream like Tarzan

Verse One: RZA

I be tossin, enforcin, my style is awesome
I'm causin more Family Feud's than Richard Dawson
And the survey said -- ya dead
Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your ****in head
MZA who was that? Aiyyo, the Wu is back
Makin niggaz go BO BO!, like on Super Cat
Me fear no-one, oh no, here come
The Wu-Tang shogun, killer to the eardrum!

Verse Two: Inspectah Deck

I puts the needle to the groove, I gets rude
And I'm forced to **** it up
My style carries like a pickup truck
Across the clear blue yonder
Seek the China Sea, I slam tracks like quarterbacks sacks from L.T.
Now why try and test, the Rebel INS?
Blessed since the birth, I earth-slam your best
Cause I bake the cake, then take the cake
and eat it, too, with my crew while we head state to state!

Chorus: RZA

And if you want beef, then bring the ruckus
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuttin ta **** with
Straight from the mother****ing slums that's busted
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuttin ta **** with

Interlude: RZA

Hyah!
Step up, boy!
Represent!
Chop his head off, kid!

Verse Three: Method Man

The Meth will come out tomorrow,
Styles, is wild, berserk, bizarro
Flow, with more afro than Rollo
Comin to a fork in the road which way to go just follow
Method, the Legend, niggaz is Sleepy Hollow
In fact I'm a hard act to follow
I dealt for dolo, Bogart comin on through
Niggaz is like "Oh, my God, not you!"
Yes, I, come to get a slice of the punk and the pie
Rather do than die, check my
flava, comin from the RZA
which is short for the razor
Who make me reminisce true like Deja, Vu!
I'm rubber, niggaz is like glue
Whatever you say rubs off me sticks to you

[Chorus]

[RZA]
Ahh-hah! Yeah
Representin Brooklyn Queens
Long Island, Manhattan Bronx
The Rugged Lands of Shaolin
Niggaz from Virginia, Atlanta
Our boys in Ohio
comin through with the crazy, why-oh why-oh
Yo, niggaz from The Source
My man Kelly Moon from the GAVIN
Rod Strickland, Jason ? and yeah
true, true, my nigga ? it's goin down boy
We ain't nuttin ta **** wit
The whole Texas mob, the Chicago mob
Niggaz from Detroit, ****in California squadron
comin through knahmsayin? The whole ****in West coast
to the whole East, niggaz from D.C.
Down in Maryland, all the way over there in Morgan State
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuttin ta **** wit
all over the whole ****in globe, comin through boy
Peace to the ****in Zulu Nation
Peace to all the Gods and the Earths, word is bond
Wu-Tang slang, choppin heads boy
It ain't safe no more!
Peace..

mactbone

April 7, 2004, 00:49

http://www.epitonic.com/art/artists/grandaddy/thesophtwareslump_cover250.jpg

This song always makes me think about how far I've come in the four years I've been at college.

Miner at the Dial-A-View
- Grandaddy

I found your house and I saw your car
But I’ve no idea where you are
From the dial-a-view

Tire scraps on the federal roads
Look like crash landed crows
From the dial-a-view

I dream at night
of going home someday...
somewhere... so far... away

So dream alright
I know it’s gonna take some time
I’m going home someday

Fifteen years is almost done
and I don’t recognize anyone
from the dial-a-view

my home, my friends, and you
I watched them fade, but what can I do?
From the dial-a-view

Pax

April 7, 2004, 01:31

Digable Planets - Last Of The Spiddyocks

[Butterfly]
The season's been good like a sweet
I hang out with a gang out Flatbush with cool beats
I foun the reverberated shout was "god damn"
And questions about the methods how the Planets made jams
Wallowed through a gang of mirk in the interim
A couple of times we got jerked but still invented them
Wicked litle kick it joints that got us ghetto wheight
And also kept the jazz alive by pulling off the plates
Maybe only we was hip to stretching out the brain
I felt like Bird Parker when I shot it in my vein
I toss these major losses on a Mingus jazzy strum
Flip off into a nod and dig myself for dying young
It's like cool was the bop and the flair
I kicks it to my pools by the nap of the hair
I'm pinning Uncle Sam for the death of swinging quotes
For losing Bud Powell sliding over Dizzy's notes
Was it that the rebirth was the birth of new **** or cool ****
The jazz power shower showed the crew was sure legit
But hey presence is gone
Hank Mo's gone
They killed the coolest breeze in this land of the free
And it been like that since they lied about they flag
Like all my main man's gave their beats up for skag
So I pops it at your crew like Bu I did a lid
But I use Lee's Cooker I got my buzz around midnight

[Ladybug]
The season's been smooth like the suede
Pumas that Butter got when Butter got paid
Or better yet Dolphy's archetypes for cool dudes
Or better still 'Trane using space in afro blue
It's simple
Swing be the freakin' of the time
The spinning by the King's good for speaking of the mind
The 47 sessions gave the buzzes that I caught
They asked me was it cool blues Knowledge
{What you thought?}
I told them it was solid, dig, the licks was way out
My baby loves to kiss when Ornette just lays out
So the quotes be as such about the kits, uh
{You down with Digable Planets you is a hipster, ****}
I lay it on the cats about Monk
The logical extensions coming booming out that trunk
Assuming that the room in which you zoom's designed by your mind,
not the stars and stripes
But Red Callis booms and the rat-a-tat-tat by Max or Philly Joe
On we go

[Doodlebug]
The season's been fat like some boom
Doodlebugs math jazz fillin gup the room
When Booker jammed with Eric at the funky 5 spot
And Jimmy Cob's job was laying crashes on the top
Butter cops his lid at this little Harlem jam
The tenor bopped the middle in his shades and his tam
I'm digging how these dudes made my buzz a little hipper
And angles on the mood really couldn't get no blacker
I'm sinking deep to the slickness of the horn
I'm thinking take the hipness and just lay it in my form
So when the hoodlums flood waiting for another anthem
I say it's in the blood 'cause it ain't nothing but rhythm
And rhythm goes on and on to the break of moon baby
The dads is gone but the youth still come lovely
The sickness towards the world when Sam caused the blues
But hipness takes a swirl in jams by my crew

cinch

April 17, 2004, 01:07

This thread needs revival, double-header style:

Let's Make The Water Turn Black (Frank Zappa)

Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn't know
Early in the morning Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps & chairs to San Ber'dino squares
And I still remember Mama with her apron & her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe!

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day . . .
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room
(A marvel to be seen: dysentery green)
While Kenny & his buddies had a game out in the back:
LET'S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK

We see them after school in a world of their own
(To some it might seem creepy what they do . . . )
The neighbors on the right sat & watched them every night
(I bet you'd do the same if they was you)

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day . . .
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie's in the Army now & Kenny's taking pills
Oh! How they yearn to see a bomber burn!
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine!
(Wait till the fire turns green . . . wait till the fire turns green)
WAIT TILL THE FIRE TURNS GREEN!

This would be a little bit of vocal teen-age heaven, right here on Earth!

*******************************************

Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off (Hawksley Workman)

look at those buggers who are looting the crash site
taking the ring off your sweet little finger
that i gave to you, when we got married
you're under water now, you're getting back to where you came from
no stealing of your beauty that could naturally flow
from the center of all that you are, all that you are

your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me

if we had children they'd be lovely and beautiful
and posses a peace and strength and a depth in their eyes
and a soundless in heart, even as they cry
and we as lovers bloom like lilies in midnight
to taste our bellies before god
we are witness to currents we cannot control, cannot control

your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me
your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me

it's all the faces that you never have, or that you never had
to the shivers you couldn't shake the planes
you didn't make the hooks that didn't take off at night
in your window as you fight with the curtains
to cover up your nakedness from the neighbour's gaze such a sweet display
of nothingness of everything of nevermind
these thing are fine the sweet tooth sunsets forgets tonight

cacaphony, cacaphoney

so let me say that you look lovely in all of this
and let me say that the death that i fear
could in part be a fear that i'd lose you, you're just as i found you

your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me
your beauty must be rubbing off
your beauty must be rubbing off on me

don't be a stranger to the danger that is kissing you
your beauty must be rubbing off