More Songs In The Key of Life (uh huh)

[Clear Skies]

Carey by Joni Mitchell

The wind is in from Africa
But last night I couldn't sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey
But it's really not my home
My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet
And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your cane
And I'll put on some silver
Oh you're a mean old Daddy
But I like you fine

Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe and I will
Buy you a bottle of wine
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down
Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers
A round for these friends of mine
Let's have another round for the bright red devil
Who keeps me in this tourist town

Come on Carey get out your cane
I'll put on some silver
Oh you're a mean old Daddy
But I like you

Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam
Maybe I'll go to Rome
And rent me a grand piano
And put some flowers 'round my room
But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now
The night is a starry dome
And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll
Beneath the Matalla Moon

Come on Carey get out your cane
I'll put on some silver
We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe
Have fun tonight

The wind is in from Africa
But last night I couldn't sleep
Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here
But it's really not my home

Maybe it's been too long a time
Since I was scramblin' down in the street
Now they got me used to that clean white linen
And that fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your cane
I'll put on my finest silver
We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe
Have fun tonight
I said, Oh, you're a mean old Daddy but I like you
But you're out of sight

[lightblue]

Alicia Keys

Caged Bird

Right now I feel like a bird
Caged without a key
Everyone comes to stare at me
With so much joy and revelry
They don't know how I feel inside
Through my smile, I cry
They don't know what they're doin’ to me
Keeping me from flyin’
That's why I say that
I know why the caged bird sings
Only joy comes from song
She's so rare and beautiful to others
Why not just set her free?
So she can
Fly, fly, fly
Spreadin’ her wings and her song
Let her
Fly, fly, fly
For the whole world to see
She's like caged bird
Fly, fly
Oooh, just let her fly
Just let her fly
Just let her fly
Spread the wings
Spread the beauty

[lightblue]

Nelly Furtado

Turn Off the Light

It's getting so lonely inside this bed
Don't know if I should lick my wounds or say woe is me instead
And there's an aching inside my head
It's telling me I'm better off alone
But after midnight morning will come
And the day will see if you will get some

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
They say that girl you know she act so rough rough rough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
And I say follow me follow me follow me down down down down
till' you see all my dreams
Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems

I looked above the other day
Cuz I think I'm good and ready for a change
I live my life by the moon
If it's high play it low, if it's harvest go slow and if it's full, then go
But after midnight morning will come
And the day will see if you're gonna get some

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
They say that girl you know she act so rough rough rough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
And I say follow me follow me follow me down down down down
till' you see all my dreams
Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems

I'm searching for things that I just cannot see
Why don't you don't you don't you come and be with me
I pretend to be cool with me, want to believe
That I can do it on my own without my heart on my sleeve
I'm running, I'm running, catch up with me life
Where is the love that I'm looking to find
It's all in me, can't you see, I can see, why can't you see it's all in me

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
They say that girl you know she act so rough rough rough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
And I say follow me follow me follow me down down down down
till' you see all my dreams
Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems

Where is your logic
Who do you need
Where can you turn in your delicate time of need
Follow me down, follow me down down down,
I do not need I do not need nobody
Where is your logic
Who do you need
Where can you turn in your delicate time of need.

[devilmunchkin]

lightblue:

Home by SEvendust

Wreckage-My mind
Insecure-All the time
ONCE LOVED-NOW PARALYZED
I ONCE THOUGHT-I'LL NEVER DIE

Frustrated-OUR SIMPLE LIVES
No one listens-EVERYONE LIES
Who said "HOME IS WHERE YOU HIDE"?

strong as **** and now you see

I'm home-leave it to me
(leave it to me now that you've seen)
I'm home-leave it to me
(leave it to me)

From left to right...
(repeat)

I tried-my father said
I'm scared-she always said
They grab and pull until I tear

MEANING-Too deep to swim
When's a good time for the end?
Who said I was YOUR FRIEND?

I'm home-leave it to me
(leave it to me now that you've seen)
I'm home-leave it to me
(leave it to me)

From left to right...
(repeat)
Suffocated-our simple life
No one listens-everyone dies
Never a chance-how could you see?

I'm home-leave it to me (leave it to me)
I'm home-leave it to me (leave it to me now that you've seen)
I'm home-leave it to me (leave it to me)
I'm home-leave it to me (what the **** did you say?)

from left to right...

Natural High by Union Underground

Times I'm uncertain I can't unwind
The **** we learned became a lie
Can't live forever angry and blind
The lengths we go to satisfy

It's a natural high

I'm not your savior no ****in' lie
I'd kill myself to stay alive
Forget the future regret the past
No present tense is gonna last

Swimming in a sea of a jealous tide
Won't wash your hate away
Selling your soul for a piece of mind
Can't buy yourself today

Ain't it funny how the power the money
The consistency of the truth
Bleed today but laugh tomorrow
In the burden of our youth

[Bas]

Therapy? - Femtex

Masturbation saved my life
I was nervous as a child
You were someone out of my hands
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)

[devilmunchkin]

I am by Static x

i've been talking abuse and it's senseless
fist into the wall and it's painless
i've been living the lie that i made me
live it
screaming into the mic and i like it
put it all over the air in thick slices
soak it all up in your head with the anger
like it
older
elder
i am
(grind on it)
deeper
bleaker
i am
brush the surface off and grind on it
put a gun in my mouth and threaten to shoot
justice died here

My December by Linkin Park

This is my December.
This is my time of the year.
This is my December.
This is all so clear.

This is my December.
This is my snow covered home.
This is my December.
This is me alone.

And I...
Just wish that I didn't feel.
Like there was something I missed.
And I...
Take back all the things I said.
To make you feel like that.
And I...
Just wish that I didn't feel.
Like there was something I missed.
And I...
Take back all the things that I said to you.

And I'd give it all away.
Just to have somewhere to go too.
Give it all away.
To have someone to come home too.

This is my December.
These are my snow covered dreams.
This is me pretending.
This is all I need.

And I...
Just wish that I didn't feel.
Like there was something I missed.
And I...
Take back all the things I said.
To make you feel like that.
And I...
Just wish that I didn't feel.
Like there was something I missed.
And I...
Take back all the things that I said to you.
And I'd give it all away.
Just to have somewhere to go too.
Give it all away
To have someone to come home too.

This is my December.
This is my time of the year.
This is my December.
This is all so clear.

And I'd give it all away...
Just to have somewhere to go to.
Give it all away....
To have someone to come home to.

[SlowwHand]

Who's Making Love
Blues Brothers

All you fellas, gather 'round me
and let me give you some good advice
What I'm gonna, gonna ask you now
You'd better think about it twice
While you're out cheatin' on your woman
there is something I never ever dreamed of and that is


Who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love
Who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love


I've known so, so many fellows
All in that same old bag
Thinkin' that a woman was made to
to be beat on and treated so bad
Well now fellows, let me tell you something
Something I never ever dreamed of


Who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love
Who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love


I know there are some woman guilty of this too
I'm not trying to run you life boy, the choice is up to you
Yeah you, you you


Reason why I ask this question
I used to be the same old way
'Til I started to straighten up
I found out it was a bit too late
Oh yeah, that's when it all started
Something I never ever dreamed of


Somebody was a lovin' my old lady
While I was out making love
Somebody was a lovin' my old lady
While I was out making love


Now who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love
Who's making love to your old lady
While you were out making love


Somebody was a lovin' my old lady
While I was out making love

[Clear Skies]

I Am, I Feel - Alisha's Attic

He said: "Angel put that purple skirt on, y'know it makes me hot"
He said: "Come on, Come on, get on, get up, look like
You're enjoying my company",
Oh and he said: "You can't change the world,
yr'another one of my fools
You were born to have my baby now.
Don't cry my precious one, coz
I ain't got no sympathy for you"
And I am, I feel, like
I wanna bite his head off
Yeah that'd be fun
Coz I sure got an appetite
I click my heels together three times
They sparked a little, but nothing happened
And the big bad wolf's still in my bed

I am, I feel
(I sometimes think that you forget) that
I am, I feel
I got to get away from here
I am, I feel
This girl's a person y'know
I am, I feel

Oh he said: "Angel your halo ain't fitted that good for a little while now
You ain't got that certain glow that I get a kick out of"
(Like it bothered me)
I'm taking it on the chin, with a grin
But my feet are itchin' and itchin',
He says: "Don't cry my precious one
Coz I ain't got no sympathy for you"

And I am, I feel, like
I wanna smash his face in
Yeah! That'd be fun
Coz I sure got a fist for a fight

I click my heels together three times
They sparked a little, but nothing happened
And the big bad wolf's still in my bed

And I am, I feel
(I sometimes think that you forget) that
I am, I feel
I got to get away from here
I am, I feel
And this girl's a person y'know
I am, I feel

Well it's had to get through it when you're knockin' on wood
And I got to thinkin' I was worth more than he put on my boots
I got a soul if you get down to the roots

I am, I feel
(I sometimes think that you forget) that
I am, I feel
I got to get away from here
I am, I feel
And this girl's a person y'know
I am, I feel

I am, and I feel
I am, and I feel

I am, I feel
This girl's a person y'know

I am, I feel
I am, I feel

(I sometimes think that you forget) that
I am, and I feel
I got to get away from here
I am, I feel
And this girl's a person y'know...

[SlowwHand]

Basketball Jones
Written by Richard A. "Cheech" Marin and Thomas Chong


Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones
Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo

Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'
In fac', I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me

I even put that basketball underneath my pillow
Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night
I need help, ladies and gentlemens
I need someone to stand beside me
I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life
Someone I can pass to
Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go
And not end up in the popcorn machine
So cheerleaders, help me out

{cheerleaders sing repeatedly...}
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones)
(I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo)

{while Tyrone Shoelaces sings/speaks...}
Oh, that sounds so sweet
Sing it out
C'mon Coach Booty, Red Blazer, sing along with me
That be bad, honky
Yeah
I want everybody in the whole stadium to stand up and sing with us
Oh yeah, sing it out like you're proud
All right, everybody watchin' coast-to-coast, sing along with us
Bill Russell, sing along with us
Chick Hearn, sing along with us
Chris Schenkel, don't sing nothin'

Oh, it feels so good
Gimme the ball
I'll go one-on-one against the world, left-handed
I could stuff it from center court with my toes
I could jump on top of the backboard, take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents change I
could, I could dribble behind my back I got more moves than Ex-Lax I'm bad I could
dribble with my tongue Here I go down court, try to stop me You can't stop me 'cause I
got a Basketball Jones Here I come That's my hook shot with my eyebrow Yeah, I could
dunk it with my nose I'm, I'm bad as King Kong, gimme the ball I'm hot, I'm hot as...,
I'm hot as..., I'm hot as... uh Uh, uh, uh, uh

(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
{fade}

[Clear Skies]

Talking About a Revolution - Tracy Chapman

Don’t you know
They’re talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know
They’re talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper

While they’re
Standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around, waiting for our promotion
Don’t you know
They’re talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper

Poor people gonna rise up
Get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
Take what’s theirs

Don’t you know you’d better
Run run run run run run
run run run run run run
Oh I said you’d better
Run run run run run run
run run run run run run

‘Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Yes finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution, oh no
Talking about a revolution, oh

While they’re
Standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around, waiting for our promotion
Don’t you know
They’re talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper

And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Yes finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution, oh no
Talking about a revolution, oh no
Talking about a revolution, oh no

[Clear Skies]

Rise - Gabrielle


I know that it's over
but I can't believe we're through
they say that time's a healer
and I'm better without you

it's gonna take time I know
but I'll get over you

look at my life
look at my heart
I have seen them fall apart
now I'm ready to rise again
look at my hopes
look at my dreams
I'm building bridges from these scenes
now I'm ready to rise again

caught up in my thinking
like a prisoner in my mind
you pose so many questions
but the truth was hard to find
I better think twice I know
that I'll get over you

(chorus)

much time has passed between us
do you still think of me at all?
my world of broken promises
now you won't catch me when I fall

(chorus)

[lightblue]

And staying in the basketball mood:

Jurassic 5

The Game

All right, everybody shut up
I said shut up!
Now are you ready to play the game?
NO!
Are you ready to play the game?
YEAH!

The Game
Playing to survive
Aiming to win anyway they can

Yo, yo
Pass the ball, final casting call
First of all, verbal basketball
Off the glass, smash your jaw
Too fast for y'all
You might take a nasty fall
Trying to stick with the prehistoric passenger
(Foul Ball)
All breath, no physical contact
Bounce back, demonstrate invincible bomb raps
Not no hustler no player or speakin no crime crap
I'm vocally trying to score before my time lapse

Uh! Full court press, hands in your chest
Runnin' cause I'm a rebel with the ghetto finesse
No fouls just checks, make a brother sweat
Word for y'all to earn my reject
Get it out of here, attack from the rear
Ya'll niggas aint nothin but some ***** ass queers
I'll be in your ear, increase the fear
Rippin with the shears as the crowd just cheers

Bring on the opposition
Cause my position is to shut you down
As the basketball pounds on the concrete floor
Envisioning moves to freak brothers every which way
Dominating like Doc J.
Pass me the rock, I know just what to do with it
It's real vivid, I pivot, through the lane
Three hundred and sixty behind my back
I take your monkey ass to the rack like Jerry Stack

I'm sought by most recruiters and heavily recommended
Stickin your best shooters they lower verbal percentage
It's takin its toll, 24-second clock control
Stoppin this obstacle, impossible
I was the number one block project in the city
Prospect, now thats something that you can believe
So be it, whether pro or collegiate, the hit but don't miss
Prime time the offense, switch


Y'all can't ball, Y'all can't ball
Yo ref, where's the tech? Man, make the call
The game is gettin tight verbal victories in sight
What counts is what you write not concerned about the height
My rhymes go baseline so why you tryin to take mine?
Last man tried just died inside the paint line
I bank rhymes, got a call so I flex
I'm on the foul line with a few verses left
When my flow hits the net, the next brother flex

I put my foot in the pavement
With the brothers I'm raised with
Play with and break dance back in the days with
And still in the game with 12 points, no assists
Get up in the game, in your face like swish
Crash the boards with metaphors
In the air like a concord
Aiyyo what you out for?
Yo I'm out for the whole score
22 flat seconds for me to win
I can't win for losin with this cheatin ass ref

[Clip from Laker game]

My squad's supreme
So I don't need Clyde or the dream
Next time you play the game boy pick a better team
Your choice is short when you on a concrete court
But my mental cohorts is bout to change the whole sport
Give me the bill boy, crossover with the skills
Wrap around pass, fly right past your grill
Take off from half court, in some J5 shorts
The rap band with the man when my words play sports
Comin' through your lane, with pure skills so stand clear
Vocal charge is a mirage, I still stand here
Damn near, make your **** look soft like Pam Grier
Fans cheer for the paragraph Bill Lambier

Show me the rock, so I can show these fool what I got
(He's heating up) **** that, I'm flaming hot
Verbally take you to the blacktop, and wreck shop
Turn my game up a notch, pass me the rock
1 on 1, 3 on 3, 5 on 5, horse, 21
It really don't matter cause son you'll still get done
Yo you should know better than try to barter with this globetrotter
Militious, vicious dunks, I'm Vince Carter
And it's the high draft pick, flashin it
Still can penetrate and slightly overweight
But whatever it takes my shot can elevate
No pain, no gain for the brothers with no game

[boann]

Strange Magic
ELO


You're sailing softly through the sun
in a broken stone age dawn.
You fly so high.

I get a strange magic,
oh, what a strange magic,
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,
got a strange magic.

You're walking meadows in my mind,
making waves across my time,
oh no, oh no.

I get a strange magic,
oh, what a strange magic,
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,
got a strange magic.

Oh, I'm never gonna be the same again,
now I've seen the way it's got to end,
sweet dream, sweet dream.

Strange magic,
oh, what a strange magic,
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,
got a strange magic.

It's magic, it's magic, it's magic.

Strange magic,
oh, what a strange magic,
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic.

Strange magic STRANGE MAGIC
oh, what a strange magic STRANGE MAGIC
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic.

Strange magic STRANGE MAGIC
oh, what a strange magic STRANGE MAGIC
oh, it's a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,
got a strange magic,
you know I got a strange magic,
yeah, I got a strange magic,
oo-o-o-oo, strange magic. (fade)


- Jeff Lynne



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[SlowwHand]

Going Down Slow
by St. Louis Jimmy

I have had my fun if I never get well no more.
I have had my fun if I never get well no more.
All of my health is failing;
Lord, I'm going down slow,
I'm going down slow.

Please write my mother and tell her the shape I'm in.
Please write my mother and tell her the shape I'm in.
Tell her to pray for me,
Forgive me for my sin,
For all of my sin.

On the next train south, look for my clothes back home.
On the next train south, look for my clothes back home.
'Cause all of my health is failing;
Lord, I'm going down slow,
I'm going down slow.

All of my health is failing;
Lord, I'm going down slow,
I'm going down slow.

Feel like I'm going, like I'm going down slow.
I feel like I'm going, like I'm going down slow.
I feel like I'm going, like I'm going down slow.
I feel like I'm going, like I'm going down slow.
I feel like I'm going, like I'm going down slow.

[devilmunchkin]

Sometimes Wanna die by Joydrop

Don’t worry ‘bout one thing
Don’t worry bout nothin she said
I'm not gonna let this one go
Nobody’s on my side
Nobody seems to see how much,
How deep, how far these things can be,
My eyes are dry and I,
My eyes are dry and
I, I, still don’t even know you
I, I, still wish that I could hold you
I, I, I sometimes wanna die

And everywhere I go
And everyone I see
Somehow
Almost sets me free
And the space where we meet
Is different from the rest
And I just can't seem to forget that.
My eyes are dry and
I, I, still don’t even know you
I, I, still wish that I could hold you
I, I, I sometimes wanna die
I sometimes wanna die
I sometimes wanna…

And u were at the start
And now you are the end
And you left me with nothing to defend
I need the voice of a good friend.

Can't stop myself from laughing
No matter how sad
These things can be
These things can be
My eyes r bright and
I, I, still don’t even know you
I, I, still wish that I could hold you
I, I, still don’t even know you
I, I, I sometimes wanna die
I sometimes wanna die
I sometimes wanna die
Yeah I sometimes wanna die…