You Can Tell Everybody, This Is Your Song - Lyrics

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Dust in the Wind
Kansas

I close my eyes
Only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind

[Playful]

Joshua Kadison

All I'll Ever Ask

Love means so many different things,
but you're all that matters,
and this is all I'll ever ask of you.

Tell me your dreams, so they could be mine too,
let me be there, to help them come true.
Tell me your fears, when you fell afraid,
come to my arms, let me rock them away.

That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
Of you...

Come to my shoulder, when you need to weep,
wake me up, when you cannot sleep.
Talk to me, when you want to be heard,
be silent with me, when you can't say a word.

That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
Of you...

I can't swear that you never, have to cry another tear.
But whenever you want, someone to hold you, Iim always right here.

So just, come to me, for anything at all,
call my name, itis yours to call.
Fell my faith in you, when you can't find your own,
and always remember, you're never alone.

That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
Of you...

I can't swear that you never, have to cry another tear.
But whenever you want, someone to hold you, remember, I'm always right here.

That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
That's all I'll ever ask.
Of you...

[SlowwHand]

Rock My Soul
Elvin Bishop


When you're feelin' down
Turn the music on and let it soothe ya
When you're feelin' good
Turn the music up and let it move ya
Make you wanna shoot and make you wanna holler:"Hallelujah"

Hallelujah (2x)

Rock my soul

Rock my soul (2x)

When you listen to the music let it sink into ya
You'd be surprised to find out how much good that little bit will do ya
Make you tremble make cold chills run through you
Make you wanna shoot and make you wanna holler:"Hallelujah"

Hallelujah (2x)

Rock my soul (Yeah, you rock my soul)
Rock my soul (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, rock mine)
Rock, my soul (Let me get back down baby)
Rock, my soul (Oh Woah Oh)

Hallelujah (Hallelujah)
Hallelujah (Hallelujah)

[asleepathewheel]

Death Cab for Cutie: The Sound of Settling

I've got a hunger
Twisting my stomach into knots
That my tongue was tied off

My brain's repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out"
But they never make it past my mouth.

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Our youth is fleeting
Old age is just around the bend
And i can't wait to go grey

And i'll sit and wonder
Of every love that could've been
If i'd only thought of something charming to say.

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

I've got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots.

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Square One
Coldplay

You're in control - is there anywhere you wanna go?
You're in control - is there anything you wanna know?
The future's for discovering
The space in which we're traveling

From the top of the first page
To the end of the last page
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are...

Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you
I need a compass, draw me a map
I'm on the top, I can't get back

First line on the first page
To the end of the last page, you were looking
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are...
It doesn't matter who you are

You just want somebody listening to what you say
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

Is there anybody out there
Who is lost and hurt and lonely too
Are they bleeding all your colors into one?
And if you come undone
As if you've been run through
Some catapult it fired you
You wonder if your chance will ever come
Or if you're stuck in square one...

[boann]

Alicia Keys

If I Ain't Got You


Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power, yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define what’s within
And I’ve been there before
But that life’s a bore
So full of the superficial


Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, yeah

Some people search for a fountain
That promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that’s the only way to prove you love him
Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be
With no one to share
with no one who truly cares for me


Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, you, you
Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, yeah


If I ain’t got you with me baby
So nothing in this whole wide world don’t mean a thing
If I ain’t got you with me baby

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Forgive me, I'm on a massive X&Y kick at the moment...

Low
Coldplay

You see the world in black and white
No color or light
You think you'll never get it right
But you're wrong, you might
The sky could fall, could fall on me
The parting of the sea
But you mean more, mean more to me
Than any color I can see

All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
All you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down or as up as us

You see the world in black and white
Not painted right
You see no meaning to your life
You should try...
You should try...

All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
All you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down or as up

Don't you want to see it come soon
Floating in a big white balloon
Come give her your own silver spoon
Don't you want to see it come down
There for throwing your arms around
And say "You're not a moment too soon..."

'Cause I feel loved
'Cause I feel loved
Oh, yeah, I feel loved
Oh, no... oh...

'Cause I feel loved
'Cause I feel loved
Oh, yeah, I feel loved
Oh, no... oh...

[SlowwHand]

Tripleshot Thusday; Harry Nilsson

Old Forgotten Soldier


Reaching for a butterfly
Old soldiers never die
and the gun against their shoulder
Well, it gets a little older
And just like that old shoulder
it just gets put away

Well, I'm an old, forgotten soldier,
since they put an end to war.
And i like to tell my story,
But you don't wanna hear about the war.

I'm an old, forgotten campain hero,
left without a cause,
because, they took away my wars.

I'm an old, forgotten railroad,
a broken, lonely ammo-train.
And my rusty ammunition
has been left out in the rain

I'm an old, forgotten part-time doughboy
I tried to save the world
The world was round,
we fired around,
heard all around the world

I'm an old, forgotten campaign hero
Left without a cause,
because, they took away my wars.

I'm an old, forgotten railroad
A deserted ammo-train
And my rusty ammunition
has been left out in the rain.

...


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The Moonbeam Song

Have you ever watched a moonbeam
As it slid across your windowpane
Or struggled with a bit of rain
Or dance about the weathervane
Or settle on a moving train
And wonder where the train has been

Or on a fence with bits of crap
Around its bottom
Blown there by a windbeam
Who searches for a moonbeam
Who was last seen
Looking at the tracks
Of the careless windbeam
Or moving to the tracks
Of the tireless freight train
And lighting up the sides
Of the weathervane
And the bits of rain
And the windowpane
And the eyes of those
Who think they saw what happened

Have you ever watched a moonbeam
As it slid across your windowpane
Or struggled with a bit of rain
Or dance about the weathervane
Or settle on a moving train
And wonder where the train has been

Ah-ah-aah-ah
Ah-ah-aah-ah
Ah-ah-aah-ah
Looking at the tracks
Of the careless windbeam
And moving to the tracks
Of the tireless freight train
And lighting up the sides
Of the weathervane
And the bits of rain
And the windowpane
And the eyes of those
Who think they saw what happened

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Without You

No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows

No, I can't forget tomorrorow
When I think of all my sorrows
When I had you there but then I let you go
And now it's only fair that I should let you know
What you should know

I can't live if living is without you
I can't live, I can't give any more
Can't live if living is without you
I can't give, I can't give any more

No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows

Can't live if living is without you
I can't live, I can't give anymore
I can't live if living is without you
Can't live, I can't give anymore
(Living is without you)

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Nine minutes of a ****ing reality overload right here.

Jesus of Suburbia
Green Day

"Jesus of Suburbia"

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
The bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell as far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe that don't believe in me

Get my television fix sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the moms and grads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe that don't believe in me

"City of the Damned"

At the center of the Earth in the parking lot
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says "home is where your heart is", but what a shame
Cause everyone's heart doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time

City of the dead at the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much but it only confirmed
That the center of the earth is the end of the world
And I could really care less

City of the dead at the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care...

"I Don't Care"

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care

I don't care...

Everyone's so full of s***, born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved from the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace from Anaheim to the Middle East
We are the stories and disciples of the Jesus of suburbia

Land of make believe and it don't believe in me
Land of make believe and I don't believe
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care!

"Dearly Beloved"

Dearly beloved, are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in-between insane and insecure

Oh, therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

"Tales of Another Broken Home"

To live and not to breathe is to die in tragedy
To run, to run away, to find what you believe
And I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies

I lost my faith to this, this town that don't exist
So I run, I run away to the light of masochists
And I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
And I walked this line a million and one f***ing times
But not this time!

I don't feel any shame, I won't apologize
When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain when you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home...

You're leaving
You're leaving
You're leaving
Ah, you're leaving home...

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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
The Beatles

I once had a girl
Or should I say, she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn't a chair

I sat on the rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two
And then she said, "It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

[Hueij]

Can't beat John Lennon...

But I found a "best of" double cd of Shocking Blue last week. Man, if only it could be 1969 again, knowing then what I know now...

Venus - Shocking Blue

A Goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
The summit of Beauty in love
And Venus was her name

REFRAIN:
She's got it yeah, Baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Her weapon were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had
Wa!

REFRAIN

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Bathtub Gin
Phish

Brett is in the bathtub
Making soup for the ambassadors
And I am in the hallway
Singing to the troubadours
The kings are all lined up outside the gate
And the autumn bells are ringing
But they'll just have to wait

Where is the joker?
Have you seen him around?
With his three-coned cap
That he wears like a crown?
Have you seen his stripped stockings
And heard his sad tale
About the kids under the carpet
And the purple humpbacked whales?

Here come the ambassadors
They show up one by one
Brett is tasting all the soup to see if it is done
Wendy's on the windowsill waiting to be let in
And we're all in the bathtub now
Making bathtub gin

The kings storm the hallway
They've climbed up through the gate
They didn't mean to be impolite
But they just couldn't wait
Here comes the joker with his silly grin
He carries a martini made of bathtub gin

Here comes the joker; we all must laugh,
'Cause we're all in this together
And we love to take a bath...

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I love these multi-part epics.

Homecoming
Green Day

"The Death of St. Jimmy"

My heart is beating from me
I am standing all alone
Please call me only
If you are coming home
Waste another year flies by
Waste a night or two
You taught me how to live

In the streets of shame
Where you've lost your dreams in the rain
There's no signs of hope
The stems and seeds of the last of the dope
There's a glow of light
The St. Jimmy is the spark in the night
Bearing gifts and trust
A fixture in the city of lust

What the hell's your name?
What's your pleasure, what is your pain?
Do you dream too much?
Do you think what you need is a crutch?

In the crowd of pain
St. Jimmy comes without any shame
He says we're ****ed up but we're not the same
And Mom and Dad are the ones you can blame

Jimmy died today
He blew his brains out into the Bay
In the state of mind
It's my own private suicide

"East 12th Street"

Well nobody cares
Well nobody cares
Does anyone care if nobody cares?

Well nobody cares
Well nobody cares
Does anyone care if nobody cares?

Jesus's filling out paperwork now
At the facility on East 12th Street
He's not listening to a word now
He's in his own world and he's daydreaming
He'd rather be doing something else now
Like cigarettes and coffee with the underbelly
His life's on the line with anxiety now
Well, she had enough and he had plenty

Someone get me out of here
Anybody get me out of here
Someone get me out of here
Get me the **** right out of here

So far away
I don't want to stay
Get me out of here right now
I just wanna be free
Is there a possibility?
Get me out of here right now...
This life-like dream ain't for me!

"Nobody Likes You!"

I fell asleep while watching Spike TV
After ten cups of coffee and they're still not here
Dreaming of a song but something went wrong
And you can't tell anyone 'cause no one's here

Left me here alone and I should have stayed home
After ten cups of coffee I'm thinking (Where'd you go?)

Nobody likes you, everyone left you (Where'd you go?)
They're all out without you having fun (Where'd you go?)
Everyone left you, nobody likes you (Where'd you go?)
They're all out without you having fun (Where'd you go...?)

"Rock & Roll Girlfriend"

Jeez...

I got a rock-and-roll band
I got a rock-and-roll life
I got a rock-and-roll girlfriend
And another ex-wife

I got a rock-and-roll house
I got a rock-and-roll car
I play the **** out the drums
And I can play the guitar

I got a kid in New York
I got a kid in the Bay
I haven't drank or smoked nothing
In over twenty-two days

So get off my case!
Off of my case!
Off of my case!

"We're Coming Home Again"

Here they come marching down the street
Like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat
Coming back from the edge of town
Underneath their feet
Their time has come and it's going nowhere
Nobody ever said that life was fair now
Go-carts and guns are treasures they will bear
In the summer heat

The world is spinning around and around
Out of control again
The 7-11 to the fear of breaking down
To send my love a letterbomb
And visit me in hell
We're the ones going...

Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!

I started ****ing running
As soon as my feet touched ground
We're back in the barrio
And to you and me, a jingle town, that's...

Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!

Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!
Home! We're coming home again!

Nobody likes you, everyone left you
They're all out without you having fun...

[SlowwHand]

Joe Cocker
Pardon Me Sir


Pardon me friend
If what I'm saying don't seem right
But that's the only chance I get now for being, man - heah
Pardon me Sir
If what I'm saying frays you now
But that's the only way to show you that I'm a clown - oho, heah

I'm crying to you understand - my baby
I'm crying to you understand

Pardon me friend
If what I'm saying don't rang true
But that's the only way I know now to get through to you - ooh
Well, pardon me Sir
If what I'm doing brings you down
But that's the only place I know, Sir, it is time for town - heah

I'm crying to you understand - my baby
Hope you do, hope you do, let me see it right now
I'm crying to you understand

I'm crying to you understand - my baby
I'm crying to you understand

Yeah, pardon me friend
If what I'm saying don't seem right
Ooh now, but that's the only, yeah, yes that's the only way now
Oh, that's the only, that's the only way
That's the only, oh that's the only way I know
That's the only, that's the only way
That's the only, only thing I know ....

[Saras]

Harvest, by Opeth

Stay with me awhile
Rise above the vile
Lay my final rest
Poured into my chest

Into the orchard I walk peering way past the gate
Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait
Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead
Halo of death, all I see is departure
Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr

Pledge yourself to me
Never leave me be
Sweat breaks on my brow
Given time ends now

Into the orchard I walk peering way past the gate
Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait
Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead
Halo of death, all I see is departure
Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr

Spirit painted sin
Embers neath my skin
Veiled in pale embrace
Reached and touched my face

Into the orchard I walk peering way past the gate
Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait
Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead
(Release your grip, let me go, into the night)
Halo of death, All I see is departure
Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr