You Can Tell Everybody, This Is Your Song - Lyrics

[Sikander]

Molly,

That sounds wild! I haven't been to a concert in ages, I guess the last one was Ian Anderson last year in our local theatre. It wasn't wild, but I sat not 10 feet from him and it was great to see him up close like that.

Clear Skies,

I have that Hedwid and the Angry Inch CD, and it's really good. I can't help visualizing the movie when it's playing, which usually cracks me up.

Six inches forward, five inches back, I've got an angry inch!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander
Molly,

That sounds wild!

Six inches forward, five inches back, I've got an angry inch!

I think, knowing something of yoru musical tastes, you'd have loved the concert- it was like 70s glam rock meets new wave meets street theatre thing.

Here's a little ditty in a similar (blue) vein to the Hedwig song :

Victoria Spivey: The Organ Grinder Blues


Organ grinder, organ grinder,
organ grinder, play that melody
Take your organ, and grind some more for me
Grind it north, grind it north,
grind it north, and grind it east and west,
When you grind it slow, I like it the best
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
you don't have to pass your hat no more
You're the grinder I've been waitin' for
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
your sweet music seems to ease my mind
It's not your organ, but it's the way you grind
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
Organ grinder, don't tell me you're through
If you are tired, let mama grind a while for you


And nary a double entendre in sight

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom


I think, knowing something of yoru musical tastes, you'd have loved the concert- it was like 70s glam rock meets new wave meets street theatre thing.

Here's a little ditty in a similar (blue) vein to the Hedwig song :

Victoria Spivey: The Organ Grinder Blues


Organ grinder, organ grinder,
organ grinder, play that melody
Take your organ, and grind some more for me
Grind it north, grind it north,
grind it north, and grind it east and west,
When you grind it slow, I like it the best
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
you don't have to pass your hat no more
You're the grinder I've been waitin' for
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
your sweet music seems to ease my mind
It's not your organ, but it's the way you grind
Organ grinder, organ grinder,
Organ grinder, don't tell me you're through
If you are tired, let mama grind a while for you


And nary a double entendre in sight

[Clear Skies]

I actually wasn't the world's biggest fan of the Hedwig movie; I mean, I liked it, but I didn't adore it the way some of my friends did. Bits of it were just a little too surreal and disjointed. But that song is one of the few that can actually move me to tears.
Another of that few follows

Two For Tuesday: Dar Williams

Mortal City

She never should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes though every crack she puts her hand up to
The radiator's broken, so she has to use electric heat

And tonight was the first date with the brother of the guy she worked next to
He lived a couple streets away
He listened, he had things to say
She asked him up for dinner sometime
Sometime was tonight

The radio gave updates on the ice storm while she made the dinner
They said, from all the talk, you shouldn't drive or even walk
And this just in, we're asking everyone to turn off their power
They need it at the hospital

She ran around pulling plugs, then she called him up
Maybe now they shouldn't meet
He said that he would brave the streets
She met him at the door with a blanket and a candle
Saying, I heard it on the radio, I had to turn my power off

He said, you're not the only one, the streets were dark tonight,
It was like another century
With dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy trees
And the clouds and a covered moon

She said what kind of people make a city
Where you can't see the sky and you can't feel the ground?

I tell you something, I have this feeling that this city's dying
He said, it's not dying, it's the people who are dying
She said yes, yes, I think the people are dying and nobody cares...

We had all this technology
Our dreams were bold and vague
And then one city got bad planners, one city got the plague

He asked, why did you move here? She said, for the job
For the job and I've been
So lonely here
So lonely
There's no one I can talk to, you know I don't even know your brother

He smiled and said, sometimes at night I walk out by the river
The city's one big town, the water turns it upside down
People found this city because they love other people
They want their secretaries, they want their power lunches

And think about tonight, I heard the same newscast you did
I unplugged everything, I looked out the window
And I think the city heard, I watched as one by one the lights went off
So that they could give their power to the hospital

They ate in silence while she thought this over
They sat together in a dark room in the Mortal City
Shifting in their blankets so they wouldn't get spaghetti on them

Then came the awkward moment
After dinner, what to do
The ice was still falling, the streets were still dangerous
The cabs were not running
And this neighborhood was not the greatest

They both looked at the space where a couch would've been
She felt her stomach sink, she felt like she could hardly think

She said, I never should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes through every crack I put my hand up to
The radiator doesn't work, I have to use electric heat

And that settled it, they would both sleep in her bed
It was a matter of survival
She brought out t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats
If there was ever any thought of what would happen in that bed tonight
There was no question now
They could barely move
They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting for another season

They lay in bed, they listened to the pelting ice
He said, my brother's not a bad guy, he's just quiet
I wished you liked this city
She said, maybe I do

I think I have a special kind of hearing tonight
I hear the neighbors upstairs
I hear my heart beating
I hear one thousand hearts beating at the hospital
And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting
Saying that's my love in the white gown

We are not lost in the Mortal City
We are not lost in the Mortal City...


The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen

My name is Mary Magdalen
I come from Palestine
Please excuse these rags I’m in
I’ve fallen on hard times
But long ago I had my work
When I was in my prime
But I gave it up, and all for love
It was his career or mine

Jesus loved me, this I know
Why on earth did I ever let him go?
He was always faithful, he was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine

A love like this comes but once
This I do believe
And I’ll not see his like again
As I live and breathe
And I’m sorry if I might offend
But I’ll never see
How the tenderness I shared with him
Became a heresy

Jesus loved me, this I know
Why on earth did I ever let him go?
He was always faithful, he was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine

And I remember nights we spent
Whispering our creed
Our rituals, our sacrament
The stars our canopy
And there beneath an olive tree
We’d offer up our plea
God’s creation, innocent
His arms surrounding me

Jesus loves me, this I know
Why on earth did he ever have to go?
He was always faithful, he was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine
He was always faithful, he was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine

[molly bloom]

Bjork: Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu



Augun mÃn og Augun þÃn
Ó þá fögru steina
Mitt var þitt og þitt var mitt
þú veist hvað ég meina
Langt er sÃðan sá ég hann
Sannlega frÃður var hann
Allt sem prýða má einn mann
mest af lýðum bar hann
þig ég trega manna mest
Mædda af tára flóði
Ó að við hefðum aldrei sést
elsku vinurinn góði

from Hector Zazou's 'Songs From the Cold Seas' .

[Clear Skies]

10000 Maniacs - Eden
(alternate lyrics demo)

We are the roses in the garden
Beauty with thorns among our leaves
To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed
What is the reason for having roses
When your blood is shed carelessly?
It must be
For something
More than vanity...

Believe me, the truth is we're not honest, not the people
That we dream
Not as close as we could be
How can we know the one to follow?
With the best of the best we could lead
Toward a better life, toward
Decency

How we love the lives we're given
But we're trapped inside the prison
Of our goodness
Of our evil
Of our humanity

All in time
But the clock is another demon that divides our time in Eden
In our paradise
Will we know the simple pleasure?
Will we learn to love and treasure
These precious gifts of life?

Be enraptured
By the bounty
And the phrase we heard resounding...

[Clear Skies]

Fire Inc - Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young
lyrics by Jim Steinman

I've got a dream 'bout an angel on the beach
And the perfect waves are starting to come
His hair is flying out in ribbons of gold
And his touch has got the power to stun

I've got a dream 'bout an angel in the forest
Enchanted by the edge of a lake
His body's flowing in the jewels alive
And the earth below is starting to shake

But I don't see any angels in the city
I don't hear any holy choirs sing
And if I can't get an angel
I can still get a boy
And a boy'd be the next best thing
The next best thing to an angel
A boy'd be the next best thing

I've got a dream 'bout a boy in a castle
And he's dancing like a cat on the stairs
He's got the fire of a prince in his eyes
And the thunder of a drum in his ears

I've got a dream 'bout a boy on a star
Lookin' down upon the rim of the world
He's there all alone and dreamin' of someone like me
I'm not an angel but at least I'm a girl

I've got a dream when the darkness is over
We'll be lyin' in the rays of the sun
But it's only a dream and tonight is for real
You'll never know what it means
But you'll know how it feels
It's gonna be over
Over!
Before you know it's begun
Before you know it's begun...

It's all we really got tonight
Stop your cryin', hold on
Tonight!
Before you know it it's gone
Tonight!
Tonight is what it means to be young
Tonight is what it means to be young

Let the revels begin
Let the fire be started
We're dancing for the restless and the broken-hearted
Let the revels begin
Let the fire be started
We're dancing for the desperate and the broken-hearted

Say a prayer in the darkness for the magic to come
No matter what it seams
Tonight is what it means to be young
Before you know it it's gone
Tonight is what it means to be young
Before you know it it's gone

The things they say
And then the things they do
Nothin's gonna stop us if our aim is true...
The things they say
And then the things they do
Nothin's gonna stop us if our aim is true
Because tonight is what it means to be young...

[molly bloom]

Boys of Bedlam

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I'd travel
Mad Magdalen goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel

Chorus:

Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys
Bedlam boys are bonnie,
For they all go bare and they live by the air
And they want no drink nor money

I went down to Satan's kitchen
For to get me food one morning
And there I got souls piping hot
All on the spit a-turning

Chorus

Me staff has murdered giants
And me bag a long knife carries
For to cut mince pies from children's thighs
With which to feed the fairies

Chorus

This spirit's white as lightning
Would on me travels guide me
The moon would shake and the stars would quake
When ever they espied me

Chorus

And when that I have murdered
The man in the moon to a powder
His staff I'll break and his dog I'll shake
And there'll howl no demon louder

Chorus

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand years I'd travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel

Chorus

[Clear Skies]

Pandora's Box - Good Girls Go To Heaven

When the wind is howling through your window pane
It's not the only pain of the night
You're burning up in your bed, you got a fever of love
And there's not an anti-body in sight

Hey Jenny, Jenny
Why are you crying?
There's a beauty of a moon in the sky
But I guess when you've been leading such a sheltered life
You never lift your head and look so high

You don't have a lot
But it's all that you got
And you can turn it into more than it seems
Just give it a shot
Fantasise every movement and
Imagine every inch of your dream

No one said it had to be real
But it's gotta be something you can reach out and feel
It ain't right
It ain't fair
Castles fall in the sand
And we fade in the air
And the good girls go to heaven
But the bad girls go everywhere
Good girls go to heaven
And the bad girls go everywhere

Somebody told me so
Somebody told me, now I know
Every night in my prayer
I'll be praying that the
Good girls go to heaven
But the bad girls go everywhere

When the sweat is sizzling on your skin in the dark
And you're desperate now for somewhere to turn
Every muscle in rebellion
Every nerve is on edge
And every limb has been erotically burned

Hey Johnny, Johnny
Why are you shaking?
When a boy should do whatever he can
You've been nothing but an angel
Every day of your life
And now you wonder what it's like to be damned

You don't have a lot
But it's all that you've got
And you can turn it into more than it seems
Just give it a shot
Fantasise every movement and
Imagine every inch of your dream

No one said it had to be real
But it's gotta be something you've been wanting to feel
It ain't right
It ain't fair
Castles fall in the sand
And we fade in the air
And the good boys go to heaven
But the bad boys go everywhere
Good boys go to heaven
Bad boys go everywhere

Somebody told me so
Somebody told me now I know
Every night in my prayer
I'll be praying that the
Good boys go to heaven
But the bad boys go everywhere

Every time I try and dream you
I can't believe how hard it's been to
Conjure up your face and trace your body in the air
All the seconds go on forever
But the thirds and the fourth ones are even better
Every time I do it just a little bit longer
Every time I dream it's just a little bit stronger
Than real life

No one said it had to be real
But it's gotta be something you can reach out and feel
It ain't right
It ain't fair
Castles fall in the sand
And we fade in the air
And the good girls go to heaven
But the bad girls go everywhere
Good girls go to heaven
Bad girls go everywhere...

[molly bloom]

Artist: Horse


Song: The Wild Mountain Thyme


O the summer time has come
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?

Chorus
And we'll all go together,
To pull wild mountain thyme,
All around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a tower,
By yon clear crystal fountain,
And on it I will pile,
All the flowers of the mountain.
Will you go, lassie, go?

Chorus

I will range through the wilds
And the deep land so dreary
And return with the spoils
To the bower o' my dearie.
Will ye go lassie go ?

Chorus

If my true love she'll not come,
Then I'll surely find another,
To pull wild mountain thyme,
All around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?

Chorus

[Ramo]

What Would Willie Do?
Gary Allan

I was lost in trouble and strife, I heard a voice and it changed my life
And now it's a brand new day, and I ain't afraid to say
You're not alone when you're down and out
And I think you know who I'm talking about
When I don't know how I'll get through
I ask myself what would Willie do

What would Willie do, well he'd travel so far with nothing but a song and his old guitar
And a tour bus and some semi-trucks, thirty crew men and a little bit of luck
Well he loves all the people, the ugly and the randy
If you don't believe me take a look at the family
And they'll tell you that it's true
When skies are gray what would Willie do

Well long ago he came unto us, his words were simple but they went right through us
And the whole world sang along, but then they didn't want to hear his songs
He was gone and we thought we'd lost him
But he grew his hair and he moved to Austin
And all of the people smiled, they came to hear him sing from miles
Like a miracle all those rednecks and hippies
From New York City down to Mississippi
Stood together and raised a brew
When it's all gone wrong what would Willie do

You know sometimes I wonder when I ain't gettin' nowhere
What would old Willie do when it all gets too much to bear
And I can see him on his lonely old tour bus
And he's got his problems just like any of us
Well he'd just take a deep breath and then he'd let it all go
And he'd take another deep breath and let it all go
And he'd take another deep breath...and he'd hold it
Ah and I bet he'd feel hungry in a way that seems strange
Yeah hungry for all the things that he just can't change
Like the time he passed out in is own bedroom
And his wife sewed him up in the sheets and beat him with a broom and he forgave her
And you think that's rough, well then the IRS came and they took away all of his stuff
They took his golf course and his recording studio, and he just went out and did another show
So when it's all coming down on you
You better ask yourself what would Willie do

What would Willie do, well he'd take a little time
And talk to old rooser as he'd drive on down the line
And there's millions down that road, and with a word he's gonna lighten their load
He loves all the people no matter their races
Hell he even had a hit country song with Julio Iglesias
And that ain't easy to do, so when it's all too much, what would Willie
When the game gets tough what would Willie
When they call your bluff what would Willie do

[OzzyKP]

If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for

Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time

I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for

I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Billy Joel - "For the Longest Time"

[molly bloom]

A cheery one for a snowy day in London:

Artist: Ida Cox

Song: Death Letter Blues


I received a letter that my man was dyin'
I received a letter that my man was dyin'
I caught the first plane and went home flyin'

When I got there the folks had gathered around
When I got there the folks had gathered around
His eyes was set and his face was full of frowns

He wasn't dead but he was slowly dyin'
He wasn't dead but he was slowly dyin'
And to think of him I just can't help from cryin'

I followed my daddy to the buryin' ground
I followed my daddy to the buryin' ground
I watched the pall bearers slowly let him down

That was the last time I saw my daddy's face
That was the last time I saw my daddy's face
Mama love you sweet papa but I wish I could take your place

[Clear Skies]

For some reason this seems appropriate.

Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens

Post office clerks put up signs saying 'position closed'
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
And janitors padlock the gates
For security guards to patrol
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
While the married ones turn on a chat show

And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve any more
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go
And by five o'clock everything's dead
And every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in their beds
Like the doped white mice in the college lab

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care
And closed-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While Angry from Manchester writes to complain about
All the repeats on T.V.
And computer terminals report some gains
In the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
And we'll all go along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

[molly bloom]

Artist: Julie Covington

Song: Only Women Bleed



Man got his woman to take his seed
He got the power - oh, she got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can

She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

Man makes your hair gray, he's your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for is an even break
He lies right at you, you know you hate this game
He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain

She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

Man got his woman to take his seed
He got the power - oh, she got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can

She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

Black eyes all of the time
Don't spend a dime
Clean up this grime
And you there down on your knees begging me please
Come watch me bleed

Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed