That Lyrics Thread

[bobsticks]

One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests
Where he lays in the reins
For all of the speed and the strength he gave

One more kiss tonight from some tall stable girl
She’s like grace from the earth
When you’re all tuckered out and tame

One more tired thing the gray moon on the rise
When your want from the day
Makes you to curse in your sleep at night

One more gift to bring we may well find you laid
Like your steed in his reins
Tangled too tight and too long to fight

[JohnMichael]

you tell me that I'm falling down
a drifter with no role
you tell me that I need a friend
to help me take control
well let it be I'm not alone
I'm only lonely see
and you can't tell me where to go
or what or who to be

I am exactly what I am
and not the way you'd like to see me be
I look outside long as I can
then I close my eyes and watch
my world unfold before me

I may not live a simple life
I've no love of my own
if no one gives me all his heart
I'll manage with a loan
I'm very used to feeling sad
it doesen't make me cry
and yes I do know how to love
so what you say's a lie

[3-LockBox]

What I have here in my hand
Is like faith but not faith
For those without faith also have
What I have here in my hand

What I have here in my hand
Is like feeling but deeper
It's why I am here

What I have here in my hand
Is knowledge without proof
What I have here in my hand
This is what I feel for you

It's why the earth is alive
It makes electricity work
And fire dance in the sky..

Feel it
Feel inside the atoms where the science breaks down
Feel inside the atoms where the science breaks down
If you don't believe in love
You'd have to make it up
You'd have to make it up
You'd have to make it up

What I have here in my hand
Is like faith but not faith
What I have here in my hand
This is what I feel for you

What I have here in my hand
Is like knowing but deeper
It's why I am here
It's why I am here

Faith by Marillion (from the album Somewhere Else)

[3-LockBox]

Death has done her work this morning
Cutting me back down to size
Frozen in this winter warning
Gentle in it's own demise

Starving sun in deep November
It cannot feed us any more
Leaving us this dark reminder
Of things we should have done before


Even as our days are numbered
I can feel it getting near
Deafened by the sounds of others
Who only got as far as here

In the chilling of the evening
They find the ones that won't survive
Taken as the day surrenders
While we fight to stay alive

Can you feel the summer ending?
Will this be the end of me?
Afraid of all that might have happened
And all that never came to be

Will you tell me when it's gone?
Will you tell me when it's over?
Even though it's just begun
Even though I'm going over

Death has done her work this morning
Cutting me back down to size


Snowman by Frost* (from the album Milliontown)

[Swish]

One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests
Where he lays in the reins
For all of the speed and the strength he gave

One more kiss tonight from some tall stable girl
She’s like grace from the earth
When you’re all tuckered out and tame

One more tired thing the gray moon on the rise
When your want from the day
Makes you to curse in your sleep at night

One more gift to bring we may well find you laid
Like your steed in his reins
Tangled too tight and too long to fight

...the artist and song name, or are you just posting them because you like them? Inquiring minds want to know!

Swish

He Lays in the Reins - Iron and Wine (w/Calexico)

[bobsticks]

I just like 'em, do what you will...

...although I can see how my omission of title and artist to lead to yer querry.

[3-LockBox]

I thought it was supposed to be a guessing game, though I too recognized the lyrics from Iron & Wine. I guess I could give names to my posts as well...

[noddin0ff]

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
They say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
What I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
We'll soon be laughing about this
They will never notice it was gone
And, I could bend the universe
If I can only get there first
There are some foolish fresh laid plans
My fate is firmly in your hands

Take If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things terribly…
undone

They say a man is just your seed
Spilled out on the thirsty earth
simple servant of your needs
from the moment of our birth
Tell me am I not your seed?
Tell me am I not your son?
Tell me have you just forgotten
All those years of devotion

Take
If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly...
Undone

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
They say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
What I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
We'll soon be laughing about this
They will never notice we are gone

Take
If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly...
Undone

[Swish]

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
They say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
What I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
We'll soon be laughing about this
They will never notice it was gone
And, I could bend the universe
If I can only get there first
There are some foolish fresh laid plans
My fate is firmly in your hands

Take If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things terribly…
undone

They say a man is just your seed
Spilled out on the thirsty earth
simple servant of your needs
from the moment of our birth
Tell me am I not your seed?
Tell me am I not your son?
Tell me have you just forgotten
All those years of devotion

Take
If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly...
Undone

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
They say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
What I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
We'll soon be laughing about this
They will never notice we are gone

Take
If you must take me
But I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly...
Undone


...Devotchka isn't discussed much here. I find them very interesting with all the unique instrumentation, well constructed songs, and, obviously, some solid lyrics. So many of us have heard them, and not necessarily by choice as they did many of the songs on the "Little Miss Sunshine' soundtrack, along with Sufjan Stevens.

Good one.

[Sugar Beats]

I would rather suffer in sweet silent solitude
Deathly defiant from drowning out
Filthy sounds stumbling ugly and crude
Between the lips of your beautiful mouth

Deep down within me words move in phrases
Frozen and still ‘til they decide
To melt and drip over the pages
Until that moment they live inside

My words enjoy the feel of the paper
Better than mingling with your consonants
Once they get going they never waver
And they slip in between your if, ands, and buts

When my words are hiding between the lines
Then I’m afraid they won’t hear me call
What if they fail me without a sign
What if they hardly surface at all

Screaming and throwing your weight around
My words choose knowledge over politics
You can’t kill my words, they know no bounds
My words are strong and they don’t make me sick

They still remain my only companion
Loyal and true to the very end
They’ll never ever completely abandon
Ever give up the paper and the pen

[Sugar Beats]

I didn't know what love meant before
I didnt know what you had waiting for me in store
I didnt know that I'd be finding out so much more
about the knowing and the knowing is all there is
about yes and yes, this is it
I didnt know

I didn't know what precious time would make
I didnt know how fragile a kiss could seem
I didnt know that finally all of dawn is trained
about the knowing and the knowing is all there is
about yes,and yes, this is it
I didn't know

I didn't know I'd never look at life the same
I didn't know until i walked with you in the rain
I didn't know until i found out you felt the same
about the knowing and the knowing is all there is
about yes and yes, this is it
I didn't know

I....didn't know until together we lay
I didn't know until you touched my soul that day
I didn't know that you would teach me in your own way
about the knowing and the knowing is all there is
about yes and yes, this is it
i didnt know

i didnt know

[bobsticks]

And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves

At the head of the river
At the source of the sea

Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Trying to write it down
Fitting in hard with harder to come
Trying to fight it
Down the river there's a
ship will carry you
Down river down stream
Down the river there's a
ship will carry the
Dream
Dream of the flood
Down the river there's a
ship will carry the
Dream of the flood

And her hallway...
As the water come rushing over
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Flood...Flood...

Push the glass, stain the glass
Push the writer to the wall
It may come but it will pass
Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood...
Flood...

And her hallway...


Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and
ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...

And her hallway...
Like...
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over

Sitting here now in this bar for hours
While these strange men
rent strange flowers
I'll be picking up your petals
in another few hours
In the metal and blood, in
the scent and mascara
On a backcloth of lashes and stars
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and
secondhand passion
And stolen guitars

And her hallway...
As the water come rushing in
(Like the sea)
As the water come rushing over
(Dream of the flood)
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...

As the water come
rushing in, rushing in

At the head of the river
At the source of the sea

And her hallway...
Like...

Flood...

[Davey]

Sitting here now in this bar for hours...
And ashes and ashes and
secondhand passion
And stolen guitars

Yea, I think Eldritch and his Sisters were probably Bowie fans, huh :)

The bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
you're the blessed, we're the Spiders From Mars

:)

Been listening to a lot of Andrew Bird the last few days, may be my favorite lyrics guy these days, there will be snacks, there will, but I do like this guy a lot too, specially when it gets a little bleak out ...

put Ariel on
and smoke away the night
and do the white net crawl
until the hammers fall

I kept your poem here
with all my other gear
but in the end
I missed what it meant

oh where you lay
your head tonight
I'll roll away alone
and close on down

[noddin0ff]

there will be snacks, there will

I love that line.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we dont discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters dont know the web we weave

One world, its a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... one world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You cant stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, its a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... one world

The dogs of war dont negotiate
The dogs of war wont capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know theyve been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, its a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
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[Sugar Beats]

Still night, nothing for miles
White curtain come down
Kill the lights in the middle of the road
And take a look around...
It don't help to be one of the chosen
One of the few, to be sure
When the wheels are spinning around
And the ground is frozen through, and you're
Driven like the snow
Pure in heart
Driven together
And given
Away to the west
A white dress
'Til the river don't run
A black dress
Looking like mine
'Til the sun don't shine no more
Where the sky meets the ground
Where the street fold round
Where the voice you hold don't
make no sound, look
Snow on the river and two by two
Took a lot to live a lot like you, I don't
Go there now, but I hear they sung
Their "F**k me and marry me young"
Some wild idea and a big white bed, now
You know better than that, I said
Like a voice in the wind blows little crystals down
Like brittle things will break before they turn
Like lipstick on my cigarette
And the ice get harder overhead
Like think it twice but never never learn...

And the mist will wrap around us
And the crystal, if you touch it...

And the cars
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the people that drive
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the cares I've
Lost in the drift
Are there
Theirs, ours
Lost in the drift
Are...
Driven
Driven together
And driven
Apart

[Sugar Beats]

It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
but it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says
It's not so hard to understand
It's just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find
It's just like always here again it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep
[repeat]
No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

[Sugar Beats]

Told you baby one more time
Don't make me sit all alone and cry
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
I'm like a fish out of water
A cat in a tree

You don't even want to talk to me
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
He won't take me back when I come around

Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
See I got a candle and it burns so bright

In my window every night
Well it's over I know but I can't let go
You don't like to see me standing around

Feel like I been shot and didn't fall down
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
He won't take me back when I come around

Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

Turn off trouble like you turn off a light

Went off and left me it just ain't right
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
Rounds every corner something I see

Bring me right back how it used to be
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
He won't take me back when I come around

Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

[ForeverAutumn]

In heavy consternation I move across the hall
I pictured this so many times
I wasn’t scared at all
but every time I got this far I never felt so small

My mind was full of questions
of arguments and lies
but every word was melted down
when I looked in your eyes
and I don’t need these memories
for now I’m mesmerized
and I’m staring down the barrel of my life

Now I’m entranced, you possess my full attention
how my thoughts dance freely on the journey
you intended all along, to somewhere I belong
like a pilot in the sky of dreams

Can you promise me the world
and everything I need
Can you promise me the world.

Can you promise me a sky
that’s trouble free and clear
so it’s safe for me to fly

But who can stop my plane (stop my plane)
from drifting out of range (far away)

Will this sky be precious to defend?
Will my sights go dark before the end?
Will I see the landing lights again?

Can you offer me the speed
to travel like the wind
if I ever feel the need?

Can you guarantee the sun
won’t melt away my wings
way before my journey’s done?

And who can stop my plane (stop my plane)
from drifting out of range? (far away)

Will this sky be precious to defend?
Will my sights go dark before the end?
Will I see the landing lights again?

drifting away out of the grey and out of control
such a nice day for drifting away

What became of the blue horizon?
Are you sure I was flying blind?
Never saw that the plane was diving
Never thought I was out of time
And now I’m disenchanted
You endure my disaffection
All my systems running red
The radio is down and there’s trouble ahead

Get me back down
I lost my way and I want to be grounded
Get me back down
I lost my way coming out of the storm

Did I promise you a sky
where rain would never fall
or did you listen to a lie?

Did you radio to base?
I waited for your call
but you left without a trace.

But I could stop your plane (stop your plane)
from drifting out of range! (far away)

Still this sky is precious to defend
Still your sights will last until the end
You will see the landing lights again

Now I’m entranced, you possess my full attention
how my thoughts dance freely on the journey
you intended all along, to somewhere I belong
like a pilot in the sky of dreams.

[Sugar Beats]

Just to sit and talk
The way we used to do
It just breaks my heart
That I can't get close to you

If our eyes should meet
Somewhere down the road
Will you stop and be sweet
Or will you just walk on

I thought things would stay the same
I thought things were right on
In our sunny days
How could we go wrong

Now these days have found us
Right here where we stand
We thought we were so tough
But nothing worked out like we planned

Of everything in this world
I guess I'll never know why
Something as good as this could
Flower up and die

When you lose your happiness
When no one's standing by
When nothing makes any sense
You got a reason to cry
When nothing makes any sense
You got a reason to cry

[Sugar Beats]

I lost my lover,
come set me free,
come fill me up,
with extacy,
surround my heartbeat,
with your fingertips
unbound my feet,
untie my wrists,
come into my world,
of lonelyness,
and wickedness,
and biterness,
i lost my love.

i'm suffering,
take away the pain,
unbruise my body,
wash away the stains.
annoint my head,
with your sweet kiss,
my joy is dead,
i long for bliss,
i long for knowledge,
within my fear,
undue my locker,
undue my fear,
i'm suffering.

I lost my lover,
set me free,
come fill me up,
with extacy,
surround my heartbeat,
with your fingertips,
unbound my feet,
untie my wrists,
come into my world,
of lonelyness,
and wickedness,
and biterness,
anoint my head,
with your sweet kiss,
my joy is dead,
i long for bliss
i long for knowledge,
within my fear,
undue my locker,
undue my fear,
i'm suffering.

I'm suffering.

[ForeverAutumn]

there will be snacks, there will,

And pony rides and dancing bears.

Funny, I just listened to that this morning and it's been months since I've spun it.

[Sugar Beats]

Youre not shy, you get around
You wanna fly, dont want your feet on the ground
You stay up, you wont come down
You wanna live, you wanna move to the sound

Got fire in your veins
Burnin hot but you dont feel the pain
Your desire is insane
You cant stop until you do it again

But sometimes I wonder as I look in your eyes
Maybe youre thinking of some other guy
But I know, yes I know, how to treat you right
Thats why you call me in the middle of the night

You say its urgent
So urgent, so oh oh urgent
Just wait and see
How urgent my love can be
Its urgent

You play tricks on my mind
Youre everywhere but youre so hard to find
Youre not warm or sentimental
Youre so extreme, you can be so temperamental

But Im not looking for a love that will last
I know what I need and I need it fast
Yeah, theres one thing in common that we both share
Thats a need for for each other anytime, anywhere

It gets so urgent
So urgent
You know its urgent
I wanna tell you its the same for me
So oh oh urgent
Just you wait and see
How urgent our love can be
Its urgent

You say its urgent
Make it fast, make it urgent
Do it quick, do it urgent
Gotta rush, make it urgent
Want it quick
Urgent, urgent, emergency
Urgent, urgent, emergency
Urgent, urgent, emergency

[Finch Platte]

Worst thread evar. I mean, Foreigner? :rolleyes5:

[Rich-n-Texas]

Rats, he beat me to it. I was having problems spelling Foreigner.

[noddin0ff]

If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Tap your toe

(Tap toes twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Tap your toe

(Tap toes twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Tap your toe.

(Tap toes twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Nod your head

(Nod head)

If you're happy and you know it,
Nod your head

(Nod head)

If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Nod your head.

(Nod head)

If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.

(Clap hands twice)

If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.

(Clap hands twice)

[Slosh]

sex & violence, sex & violence, sex & violence, sex & violence . . . . . . .

NP:

[noddin0ff]

sex & violence, sex & violence, sex & violence, sex & violence . . . . . . .

NP:

You mean...

Falling falling
Gonna drop like a stone
I'm falling through the atmosphere
On a warm afternoon
If lovers discover
That ev'ryone dies
So don't tell me, please hold me
It's a dangerous life

etc. etc...

??

[Sugar Beats]

Hey -
Foreigner was a joke!

[Sugar Beats]

Where's your sense of humor?

[Sugar Beats]

besides, I like that song!

[Rich-n-Texas]

One sunny day I was riding my bike,
And smokin' a joint, 'cause that's what I like
A police man stopped me and began to stare,
And he said "Hey sonny, whatcha smokin' there?"

I said..
It's a reefer, do ya want some, police man?
It's a reefer, do ya want a blast?
It's a reefer, do ya want some, police man?
Or would you prefer me to shove it up your ass?

Well he put me in his car and he left my bike,
And he took my reefer, which he quite liked
When we got to the station his eyes were all red,
And the Sergeant said "Constable, you're out of your head!"

He said "Yeah!
It's a reefer, do ya want some, Sergeant?
It's a reefer, do ya want a blast?
It's a reefer, do ya want some, Sergeant?
Or would you prefer me to shove it up your ass?"

Well, he suspended the Constable for his little joke,
And he went to the bathroom to have a little toke
When he got back and rolled another eight,
And they were being passed 'round every copper in the place

Well, I sold them two ounces, and one sixteenth,
And they rolled the biggest joint that the world has ever seen

And they all sang together...
It's a reefer, do ya want some, mindless,
It's a reefer, do ya want a blast?
It's a reefer, do ya want some, mindless,
Thanks for your company, and thanks for the grass!

[Sugar Beats]

LOL, I don't think I've ever heard that one...

[Swish]

besides, I like that song!

...but we don't know you well enough. To tell you the truth, that was a pretty decent rock song in its day. I can't say much else good about Foreigner and their ilk (Bad Company is right there with 'em).

As for this thread, I don't want to read entire song lyrics as I don't have that much time on my hands. Why not just a couple favorite lines and leave it at that?

Just wondering.

[Swish]

LOL, I don't think I've ever heard that one...

...since anyone over 35...maybe 40...should know a Cheech and Chong tune.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Just following sticks' lead Swish. Some of us have nothing better to do so reading the entire song isn't an issue, IMO.

[Auricauricle]

I recall as a boy we would hop the freights
wasn't nothin' but a kick back then
there was no better thrill for my anxious heart
than a long flatcar
headin' out of the yard
and I knew even then she was in my blood
like the time when I first hired on
and the fireman laughed at my bony nose
but he tossed me a cap
said GM&O
and I was a man...
I gave her my best years
well, what can you do but laugh
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back
When we climbed up the great Appalachians
her engines would be raging like hell
then we'd come back down to the rising towns
where the cattle stare
in the frozen air
For me there nothing more sacred
than the beautiful sound she'd make
her long blue signal blowin' deep in the night,
it would get to me there,
it would get to me there
Now I'm afraid...
Afraid of these silent hours
awake underneath my old cap
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back
Well, I watched the beginning of the end for her
when I saw my first jet airplane
flying high overhead like a bird of prey
while the mighty fell
in the land of the brave
Now I'm alone.

[Sugar Beats]

I'm not a "lad" for one, which might be revelant pertaining to anything related to "Cheech & Chong!" Sorry, not interested there...Ha!

But am between 35 & 40, although I was asked out by some young fellow the other day, so I guess he didn't realize just how "old" I was, or he's maybe got a thing for older women!

[Auricauricle]

Well he's daddy's little boy he plays with his toys
He holds on to his daddy's hand
His daddy says sonny you're a big strong boy
You're gonna be a big strong man
And they go play catch they go play ball
They go take a walk along the sand
Big strong daddy and a big strong boy
Living in a big strong land

Daddy is he a goodie or a baddie
Daddy can I have a dinosaur
Once upon a time there were cannibals
Now there are no cannibals any more

Down in Louisiana there's a hurricane coming
The little boy climbs the stairs
And all along the levee all the people come running
And the little boy's saying his prayers
And a sleepy little laddie smiles up at his daddy
And he's asking for his G.I. Joe
And daddy tucks him in with a kiss upon the chin
And says my little one I love you so

Lay down your head now don't get out of bed
Don't you let the bedbugs bite
It's time to sleep now not another peep
And I'll see you in the morning light
And then the radio was playing and the weatherman was saying
The hurricane had blown away
And daddy's little boy was jumping up for joy
And he was singing at the break of day

Daddy is he a goodie or a baddie
Daddy can I be a warrior
Once upon a time there were cannibals
Now there are no cannibals any more

Yeah daddy is he a goodie or a baddie
Daddy why do people go to war
Once upon a time there were cannibals
Now there are no cannibals any more

[Sugar Beats]

You guys are lucky, I was just going to post another favorite... by Pat Benatar, can you guess which one?

[Sugar Beats]

Youre beggin me to go, youre 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 youve had?
Believe me, believe me, I cant tell you why
But Im trapped by your love, and Im chained to your side


LOL, but I love that song!

[ForeverAutumn]

Well it's 40 below and I don't give a ****
Got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo
And it's allemande left and allemande right
Come on ya ****in' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof, you know

You piss me off, ****in' jerk, get on my nerves

Well here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
And it's allemande left and allemande right
Come on ya ****in' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof, you know

You piss me off, ****in' jerk, get on my nerves

Well it's 40 below and I aint got a truck
and I dont give a **** cause I'm off to the rodeo
And it's allemande left and allemande right
Come on ya ****in' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof, you know

You piss me off, ****in' jerk, get on my nerves

Well here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
And it's allemande left and allemande right
Come on ya ****in' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof, you know

You piss me off, ****in' jerks, get on my nerves

This song used to crack me up every time I heard it!!!

Edit: I decided that the radio friendly version was more appropriate. You never know who's kid might be lurking.

[Sugar Beats]

Wow!:blush2:
I'm not quite sure how to respond to that?

Anyone? Anyone want to comment to that? :confused:

[Auricauricle]

SB: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"?

FA: Geeze, I've been keepin' mahself an' mah posts clean. Ya mean I kin open up a can?

[Slosh]

You mean...

Falling falling
Gonna drop like a stone
I'm falling through the atmosphere
On a warm afternoon
If lovers discover
That ev'ryone dies
So don't tell me, please hold me
It's a dangerous life

etc. etc...

??Nah, I mean this (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0s5yz0ylm4x).

[Rich-n-Texas]

Censored!
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
How in the world was she able to get all those F-bombs by the filter!!!

40 below, rodeo, allemande right and allemande left? :idea: Must be Canukian. :yesnod:

[ForeverAutumn]

FA: Geeze, I've been keepin' mahself an' mah posts clean. Ya mean I kin open up a can?

Just don't direct the can at me when you open it. That's all I'm asking.

[ForeverAutumn]

:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
How in the world was she able to get all those F-bombs by the filter!!!


:devil: :devil: :devil:

[Sugar Beats]

Nope. Not "Hit me w/ your best shot."

Better.

The ever popular anthem of young ladies everywhere...

"Love is a Battlefield"

Can't believe you didn't see that one coming after "Urgent"...

:hand:

[Sugar Beats]

I think when you cut and paste, you can get the F bomb through, I did on another song I posted, but went back and changed it to F***, so that's how she did it! Mystery solved.

[Auricauricle]

Doh!

Man, you ladies play mean!

[Rich-n-Texas]

Looks like FA plays meaner than SB. She's been here longer though and knows more of the tricks. :sosp:

[Rich-n-Texas]

Bright light almost blinding, black night still there shining,
I can't stop, keep on climbing, looking for what I knew.

Had a friend, she once told me, "You got love, you ain't lonely,"
Now she's gone and left me only looking for what I knew.

Mmm, I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy just...

Met a man on the roadside crying, without a friend, there's no denying,
You're incomplete, they'll be no finding looking for what you knew.

So anytime somebody needs you, don't let them down, although it grieves you,
Some day you'll need someone like they do, looking for what you knew.

Mmm, I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy just...

[Rich-n-Texas]

Then as it was, then again it will be
An' though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey
Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go

Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

Did you ever really need somebody, And really need 'em bad
Did you ever really want somebody, The best love you ever had
Do you ever remember me, baby, did it feel so good
'Cause it was just the first time, And you knew you would

Through the eyes an' I sparkle, Senses growing keen
Taste your love along the way, See your feathers preen
Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes, Didn't have to grow
We are eagles of one nest, The nest is in our soul

Vixen in my dreams, with great surprise to me
Never thought I'd see your face the way it used to be
Oh darlin', oh darlin'

I'm never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave
Holdin' on, ten years gone
Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone

[Rich-n-Texas]

The snakes and arrows a child is heir to
Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
We build our defenses, a place of safety
And leave the darker places unexplored

Sometimes the fortress is too strong
Or the love is too weak
What should have been our armor
Becomes a sharp and angry sword

Our better natures seek elevation
A refuge for the coming night
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

We hold beliefs as a consolation
A way to take us out of ourselves
Meditation or medication
A comfort ,or a promised reward

Sometimes the spirit is too strong
Or the flesh is too weak
Sometimes the need is just too great
For the solace we seek
The suit of shining armor
Becomes a keen and bloody sword

No one gets to their heaven without a fight

A refuge for the coming night
A future of eternal light
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

Confused alarms of struggle and flight
Blood is drained of color
By the flashes of artillery light
No one gets to their heaven without a fight
The battle flags are flown
At the feet of a god unknown
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

Sometimes the damage is too great
Or the will is too weak
What should have been our armor
Becomes a sharp and burning sword

[Swish]

I think when you cut and paste, you can get the F bomb through, I did on another song I posted, but went back and changed it to F***, so that's how she did it! Mystery solved.

...when typing the filthy expletive just put <a> after one of the letters, like f<a>u.....and so forth.

As for why I didn't realize you were a female, what can I say? Any guy that would choose Sugar Beats for a handle would be vilified here fur shur, but I'm amazingly oblivious to my surroundings. Just ask anybody. :out:

[Sugar Beats]

As for why I didn't realize you were a female, what can I say? Any guy that would choose Sugar Beats for a handle would be vilified here fur shur, but I'm amazingly oblivious to my surroundings. Just ask anybody.

I was kinda wondering that myself?

[ForeverAutumn]

...when typing the filthy expletive just put <a> after one of the letters, like f<a>u.....and so forth.

As for why I didn't realize you were a female, what can I say? Any guy that would choose Sugar Beats for a handle would be vilified here fur shur, but I'm amazingly oblivious to my surroundings. Just ask anybody. :out:

While that may work, it's not how I did it. Type the word then change the colour of one letter to black. I know it's already black, but for some reason editing the colour works.

[ForeverAutumn]

The snakes and arrows a child is heir to
Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
We build our defenses, a place of safety
And leave the darker places unexplored


Nice. Not their best lyrics IMO, but still...nice. :yesnod:

[Rich-n-Texas]

Maybe not, but when you put their music behind it, you'd be hard pressed to find a better song in their repertiore, IMO.

[ForeverAutumn]

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,
Afortune 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.

[JohnMichael]

To Brian


From bad luck I'm walking away
I'm not getting stuck
I'm not gonna stay

To good things I'm moving ahead
I'm tired of dying
I'm living instead

Once in a while I wake up
Wondering why we gave up
But once in a while
Comes and fades away

The sun's up and lighting the sky
I never could see it
It just passed me by

Good things keep moving along
I'm not looking backward
For something that's gone

Once in a while I'll wake up
Wondering why we gave up
But once in a while
Comes and fades away

I don't know what love is
I'm selfish and lazy
And when I get scared I can act like I'm crazy
But when I think of your kisses,
I'm still gonna smile
I'm still gonna miss you
Once in a while
Once in a while

Once in a while I'll wake up
Wondering why we gave up
But once in a while
Comes and it fades away

Good things keep moving ahead
I'm tired of dying I'm living instead

[JohnMichael]

You run yourself ragged tryin' to be strong
You feel bad when you done nothin' wrong

Love got all confused with anger and pride
So much abuse on such a little child

Someone you trusted told you to shutup
Now there's a pain in your gut
that you can't get rid of

No one heard your screams when you were nine
When bad dreams filled your summertime

So you don't always show your sweet side....

You're tough as steel and you keep your chin up
You don't ever feel like you're good enough

You've had the blues ever since you were six
Your little tennis shoes and your pick-up sticks

You were screamed at and kicked over and over
Now you always feel sick
and you can't keep a lover

Every Christmas and there were presents to unwrap
But the things you witnessed
when you were five and a half

So you don't always show your sweet side....

Someone deserted you, the damage is done
Now you don't deserve to be loved by no one

Hands that would feed you, when you were two
Were the same hands that beat you
black and blue

You get deffensive at every turn
You're overly sensitive and overly concerned

Few precious memories no lullabies
Hollowed out centuries of lies

So you don't always show your sweet side....

I've seen you in the kitchen cookin' me supper
I listened to your b!tchin'
and I watched you suffer

I still love you baby 'cause I know you
Don't mean to do the cruel things you do

I've seen you sewing buttons on your shirt
I've seen you throwing up when your
stomach hurt

I'll stick by you baby through thick and thin
No matter what kind of shape you're in

Cause I - I - I - I - I -I've seen your sweet side....
I - I - I - I - I - I - I've seen your sweet side....

[Davey]

Man, there's some awful lyrics in this thread :)

[bobsticks]

Man, there's some awful lyrics in this thread :)

Okay, how's 'bout these here:

ain`t none ever seen the face of his foe no
he ain`t made of flesh & bone
he`s the one who sits up close beside you
an when he`s there you are alone
every man is evil yes an every man is a liar
an unashamed with the wicked tongues sing
in the black soul choir
yes an no man ever seen the face of my lord no
not since he left his skin
he`s the one you keep cold on the outside girl
he`s at your door let him in
o i will forgive your wrongs
yes i am abel
an for my own i feel great shame
i would offer up a brick to the back of your head boy
if i were cain


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO9My5_H6dg&feature=related

[Sugar Beats]

Okay I saw 16 Horsepower on youtube, that is one unattractive dude!
Funky lookin' dude w/ funky lyrics.
Nice job sticks. You're always full of surprises. Sometimes I don't know how you find this stuff!

[Davey]

Okay, how's 'bout these here:

Well, as you know Edwards is one of my favorites, but as Swish Daddy hinted at earlier, most pop music lyrics are kind of clunky without the music and the vocal. I love those strange and twisted lyrics that people like Tim Rutili of Califone/Red Red Meat come up with, but they really don't make much sense beyond a few lines, which is one of the things I kinda like too. That's a good record, though. There wasn't really anyone like them. Still isn't I guess, except for Edwards own Woven Hand (and I think there was a "beautiful the axe that flies at me" thread back aways by someone around here :)). The one after Sackcloth is even better, probably the best for their own music. One of the songs "Dead Run" wound up on the Decade of Alt-Country comp we did around here all those years ago (2001). But Folklore is probably my favorite 16hp related album overall, hard to top the feel that one has. That and Blush Music, and yea I guess probably Mosaic. And that Lilium record is pretty nice too, but it only has one Edwards spot.

[bobsticks]

You're always full of surprises. Sometimes I don't know how you find this stuff!

Simple: If I want moody/weird I go to Davey, if I want really Texarcana/moody/weird I go to Troy, and for everything else I just buy albums purely for the cover art.





(I'm sure somewhere in there is a Finch Platte reference but at this hour it's beyond me)

[bobsticks]

Well, as you know Edwards is one of my favorites, but as Swish Daddy hinted at earlier, most pop music lyrics are kind of clunky without the music and the vocal..

Agreed, not only because most of the time it's the music that is, and should be, properly evocative of the desired mood but lyrics that are too on the nose become borderline poetry and open the artist up to all kinds of criticism vis-à-vis overt pomp and circumstance...

par exemple:

A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of the first light came
A tattered necklace of hedge end trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where Mary Dunoon's boy fell

Easter here again, a time for the blind to see
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free

Out of the port of Liverpool
Bound for the North of Ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below

And Easter here again, a time for the blind to see
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free

What will you do?
Make a stone of your heart?
Will you set things right?
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night?
With the plough and the stars alight?

What will you do?
With the wire and the gun?
That'll set things right
When it's said and done?
Will you sleep at night?
Is there so much love to hide?

Forgive, Forget
Sing "Never again."

[Davey]

Out of the port of Liverpool
Bound for the North of Ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below

Well there ya go. With the wave of a horsetail, you found the missing link between Marillion and Wovenhand. Well done, my clever, yet sometimes moody/weird buddy :)

He come up and
throw himself down
he finds no strength to get off this ground
by the wave of the horsetail

[dean_martin]

In our days we will live like our ghosts will live
pitching glass at the cornfield crows and folding clothes
Like stubborn boys across the road, we’ll keep everything
Grandma’s gun and the black bear claw that took her dog
And when sister Lowery says “Amen,” we won’t hear anything
The ten-car train will take that word, that fledgling bird
and the fallen house across the way, it’ll keep everything
the baby’s breath, our bravery wasted and our shame

And we’ll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

In our days, we will say what our ghosts will say
“We gave the world what it saw fit, and what’d we get?”
Like stubborn boys with big green eyes, we’ll see everything
in the timid shade of the autumn leaves and the buzzard’s wing

Then we’ll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Our tender bellies all wound around in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

[bobsticks]

deano, I never pictured you as an I&W fan...live and learn, eh?

salut

[bobsticks]

Long before song before song blues
Babbette baboon abba zaba zoom
Two shadows at Noon, Babbette baboon
Comin' over pretty soon, Babbette baboon
Run, run, catch her soon, draft of dawn, sunshine on Babbette baboon
Mother say son, she say son, you can't lose, with the stuff you use
Abba Zaba go-zoom Babbette baboon
Run, run, monsoon, Indian dream, tiger moon
Yellow bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at Noon
Babbette baboon gonna catch her soon Babbette baboon
Song before song before song blues
Babbette baboon abba zaba zoom
Two shadows at noon, abba zaba zoom
Gonna zaba her soon Babbette baboon abba zaba zoom
Gonna catch her soon

[dean_martin]

deano, I never pictured you as an I&W fan...live and learn, eh?

salut

My home is on a dirt road with fields on two sides.
I see the fallen house across the way everyday.
I've seen Grandma shoot and kill a rattlesnake.
I know the Lowerys.
I can see the tracks. I hear the train at least 8 times a day.
I've heard stories about the black bears just below the state line in NW FL.
I grew up with the stubborn boys across the road.
I often see the buzzards on the rural routes between my home and office.

I've been hooked on that song since picking up the album.

[Sugar Beats]

I try to make it through my life
In my way
There is you
I try to make it through these lies
And that’s all I do

Just don't deny it
Don’t try to fight this
And deal with it
And that’s just part of it

You tried to break me
You wanna break me
Bit by bit
That’s just part of you

If you were dead or still alive,
I don't care,
I don't care,
And all the things you left behind,
Cause I swear,
I don't care

I try to make you see my side
I always try to stay in line
But you’re eyes see right through
That’s all they do
I’m getting buried in this place
I got no room, your in my face
Don’t say anything, just go away

But if you wanted me just deal with it

So...

If you were dead or still alive,
I don't care,
I don't care,
Just go and leave this all behind,
Casue I swear (I swear)
I don't care

(I never cared about, I never cared about)
I’m changing everything,
You won’t be there for me.
I’m changing everything,
You won’t be there for me.

If you were dead or still alive,
I don't care,
I don't care,
Just go and leave this all behind,
Cause I swear (I swear)
I don't care

If you were dead or still alive,
I don't care,
I don't care,
Just go and leave this all behind,
I swear I don’t care,
I don't care
at all…

[Rich-n-Texas]

"The Barry Williams Show"

let's go

one man at the window
one girl at the bar
saw that look of recognition
when they know just who you are
i seen you on the tv
i seen you on that show
you make the people crazy
and then you let them go

before the show we calm them
we sympathise, we care
and the hostile folk we keep apart
'til the red light says 'on air'
did you see our leather lovers
all tied up to the chair
did you catch those child molesters
no one else goes there

what a show, the barry williams show
what a show,
dysfunctional excess
is all it took for my success
the greater pain that they endure
the more you know the show will scored
it's showtime

got the reputation of a surgeon
'cos they cannot feel the cut
it looks so very simple
but it really is an art
they call our studio 'the hospital'
making money from the sick
we let people be themselves
there is no other trick

'my lover stole my girlfriend'
'i keep beating up my ex'
'i want to kill my neighbour'
'my daughter's selling sex'
'my s/m lover hurt me'
'my girl became a man'
'i love my daughter's rapist
'my life's gone down the pan'

what a show, the barry williams show
the barry williams show
dysfunctional excess
is all it took for my success
and when the punches start to fly
the ratings always read so high
it's showtime

'that girl has got no scruples'
not a wrinkle on her face
you would not believe the plot she conceived
so they'd let her take my place
well, no man is an island
no man is a sea
but this display of emotion
is all but drowning me

what a show, oh what a show
on my show, the barry williams show
it's my show
what a show
dysfunctional excess
is all it took for my success

the best tv you've ever seen
where people say the things that they really mean
i hear my name, i hear them roar
for the one more time i take the floor
just one more barry williams show
we're gonna take you where you want to go
it's showtime

come on down
come on down

[Worf101]

I was driving in this morning and heard this song for the first time EVER!!! Wow if ever lyrics still resonate particularly the last set from a dead man about a some man we all know rather well now...

What Made America Famous
by Harry Chapin

It was the town that made America famous.
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell.
Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean.
The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well.


They were the folks that made America famous.
The local fire department stocked with shorthaired volunteers.
And on Saturday night while America boozes
The fire department showed dirty movies,
The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams
Come to life on the movie screens
While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen
As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears.
But something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?


We were the kids that made America famous.
The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to dispair.
We were lazy long hairs dropping our, lost confused, and copping out.
Convinced our futures were in doubt and trying not to care.

We lived in the house that made America famous.
It was a rundown slum, the shame of all the decent folks in town.
We hippies and some welfare cases,
Croweded families of coal black faces,
Cramped inside some cracked old boards,
The best that we all could afford
But still to nice for the rich landlord
To tear it down and we could hear the sound
Of something burning somewhere. Is anybody there?


We all lived the life that made America famous.
Our cops would make a point to shadow us around our town.
And we love children put a swastika on the bright red firehouse door.
America, the beautiful, it makes a body proud.


And then came the night that made America famous.
Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke.
In the tinder box trap that we hippies lived in someone struck a spark.
At first I thought I was dreaming,
Then I saw the first flames gleaming
And heard the sound of children screaming
Coming through the smoke. That's when the horror broke.


Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?

It was the fire that made America famous.
The sirens wailed and the firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes.
And the plumber yelled: "Come on let's go!"
But they saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow,
Let'em sweat a little, they'll never know
And besides, we just cleaned the chrome." Said the plumber: "I'm going alone."


He rolled on up in the fire truck
And raised the ladder to the ledge
Where me and my girl and a couple of kids
Were clinging like bats to the edge.
We staggered to salvation,
Collapsed on the street.
And I never thought that a fat man's face
Would ever look so sweet.


It was the scene that made America famous.
If not the love that made America great.
You see we spent the rest of that night in the home of a man I'd never known before.
It's funny when you get that close it's kind of hard to hate.


I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous.
I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school.
Of the America that made America famous...and
Of the people who just might understand
That how together yes we can
Create a country better than
The one we have made of this land,
We have a choice to make each man
who dares to dream, reaching out his hand
A prophet or just a crazy God damn
Dreamer of a fool - yes a crazy fool


There's something burning somewhere.
Does anybody care?
Is anybody there?

[JohnMichael]

I get along without you very well
Of course I do
Except when soft rains fall
And drip from leaves, then I recall
The thrill of being sheltered in
your arms
Of course I do
But I get along without you
very well

I've forgotten you just like I
should
Of course I have
Except to hear your name
Or someone's laugh that is just
the same
But I've forgotten you just like I
should

What a guy
What a fool am I
To think my breaking heart could
kid the moon
What's in store
Should I phone once more
No it's best that I stick to my tune

I get along without you very well
Of course I do
Except perhaps in Spring
But I should never think of Spring
For that would surely break my
heart in two

[nobody]

<b>Redd Kross - Linda Blair</b>

In the Exorcist, baby
You were really insane
You got busted, you got dusted
You got busted for cocaine
Your born innocent, girl
And that ain't all
You got it for the first time baby
In a shower stall

Kidnapped raped and possessed
Linda is the Best
She used to be on the run
But now she thinks it's a lot of fun
She takes her cigarettes from her sleeve
Now she never wants to leave
Not even when she's eighteen

Liiiiiiiiiiinda, Liiiiiiiiiiinda, Liiiiiiiiiiinda, Liiiiiiiiiiinda

[Sugar Beats]

How bout' these? One of my favorite songs (lately)...


I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything
When you're loving me

Oh girl lets take it slow
So as for you, well you know where to go
I want to take my love
And hate you til the end

It's not like you to turn away
From all the bull**** I can't take
It's not like me to walk away

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything
When you're loving me

Yeah

I know it's getting rough
All the times we spend
Trying to make this love
Something better than
Just making love again

It's not like you to turn away
All the bull**** I can't take
Just when I think I can walk away,

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything
When you're loving me

When you're loving me

How can I make it through
All the things you do
There's just got to be more to you and me

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything
It's unlike anything

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me

Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything
I'm so addicted to you
Addicted to you

[Luvin Da Blues]

Well, that's gunna drive Rich nuts. LOL

[bobsticks]

I was listening to some Ray today and this one always gets me. So, yeah, I know it's been posted in other threads before. Eat my shorts.

Cocaine flame in my bloodstream
Sold my coat when I hit Spokane
Bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes in the early morning rain
Lately my hands they don't feel like mine
My eyes been stung with dust and blind
Held you in my arms one time
Lost you just the same
Jolene
I ain't about to go straight
It's too late
I found myself face down in a ditch
Booze in my hair
Blood in my lips
A picture of you holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Still don't know what love means
Jolene
Been so long since I seen your face
Or felt a part of this human race
I've been living out of this here suitcase for way too long
A man needs something he can hold onto
A nine pound hammer or a woman like you
Either one of them things will do
Jolene
I ain't about to go straight
It's too late
I found myself face down in a ditch
Booze in my hair
Blood on my lips
A picture of you holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Still don't know what love means
Jolene
Jolene
Jolene

As an afterthought, can anyone think of any other single-word or name titles that have spawned not one, not two, but three decent tunes?

[Sugar Beats]

Well, that's gunna drive Rich nuts. LOL

I know! Heeheehee! (Sometimes it's fun to be evil!)

[bobsticks]

I heard he was gonna marry some girl from Denver
Then my sister came over, had the Sunday paper with her
There was the girl on the social page
Lookin' in love and all engaged
We decided she don't take a very good picture

It may be my family's redneck nature
Rubbin' off, bringin' out unlady-like behavior
It sure ain't Christian to judge a stranger
But I don't like her
She may be a stranger who spends all winter
Bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner
But I really hate her
I'll think of a reason later

I drew horns and blacked out her tooth with a marker
Childish, yes, but she made such a thin little target
I couldn't be happier on my own
But I've got the slightest of a jealous bone
And seein' her with him tends to enlarge it

It may be my family's redneck nature
Rubbin' off, bringin' out unlady-like behavior
It sure ain't Christian to judge a stranger
But I don't like her
She may be a stranger who spends all winter
Bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner
But I really hate her
I'll think of a reason later

Inside her head may lay all the answers
For curin' diseases from baldness to cancer
Salt of the earth and a real good dancer
But I really hate her
I'll think of a reason later

(Spoken) Well, it was just one tooth
Did I mention I don't particularly care for her?
She makes me sick...

Pretty sure I know this gal and her friends...

[thekid]

Change of pace.....
From a Jackson Browne bootleg from several years back.......

Well it came to me as you came
You don't even know my name
You'd just as soon be f*^*ing a door knob
You a**hole you
You toy with my affection and laugh at my erection
You a**hole you

Not as deep or poetic as some of the other lyrics here but pretty darn funny.....

[Sugar Beats]

Change of pace.....
From a Jackson Browne bootleg from several years back.......

Well it came to me as you came
You don't even know my name
You'd just as soon be f*^*ing a door knob
You a**hole you
You toy with my affection and laugh at my erection
You a**hole you

Not as deep or poetic as some of the other lyrics here but pretty darn funny.....

LOL!

What's poetic or deep about (I know GM, I know!)

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Oh the sound you make
With every breath you take
It's unlike anything

? Just like em'. That's all.

[Sugar Beats]

I was listening to some Lil' Wayne today, what can I say, it kinda grows on you & gets stuck in your head.


I said he's so sweet
make her wanna lick the rapper
So i letta lick the rapper

Shawty said l-l-lick like a lollipop
She said l-l-lick like a lollipop
Shawty said I l-l-like a lollipop
She said like a lollipop

Okay, lil' mama had a swag like mine
She even wear her hair down her back like mine
I make her feel right when it's wrong like lyin'
Man, she ain't never had a love like mine

And that's when she said I'm lick like a lollipop
(Oh yeah I like that)
She said l-l-lick like a lollipop
(Oh yeah I like that)
She said lick like a lollipop
(Oh yeah I like that)
Shawty said like a lollipop

Get up, like you make it up, don't stop
Drop it shawty, drop it like it's hot
Drop, dr-dr-drop it like it's hot
Do it shawty, don't stop

Shawty wanna thug
(Yeah I like that)
Bottles in the club
(Yeah I like that)
Shawty wanna hump
And oh I like to touch ya

Shawty wanna l-l-lick like a lollipop
Shawty said I'm l-l-like a lollipop
So I let her lick the rapper, like a lollipop

Call me so i can make it juicy for ya
c-c-call me so i can do it juicy for ya
c-c-call me so i can make it juicy for ya
c-c-call me so i can do it juicy for ya

Shawty wanna thug( oh yeah i like that )
bottles in the club( oh yeah i like that )
I get her on top she drop it like it hot
and when im on the bottom she hit the very bottom
then we in the bed givin gettin head ( givin gettin hed givin gettin head )

I said mmm I like that
She said mmm yeah I like that
I said mmm yeah I like that
mmm hmm

call me so i can make it juicy for ya
c-c-call me so i can get it juicy for ya

Shawty wanna l-l-lick me like a lollipop
She said I'm like a lollipop
She's saying he's so sweet
Make her wanna lick the rapper
What'd she do?
So I let her lick the rapper

Everyone likes lollipops' don't they?

[Luvin Da Blues]

I am just a poor man,
I've got no where to go,
all my leaves have fallen,
left me all alone,

If I was a rich man,
if I was a king,
I would give you all I have,

I would give you everything,
if you,
Just take me

[Sugar Beats]

Wound up, cant sleep, cant do anything right, little honey
Oh, since I set my eyes on you
I tell you the truth
T-t-t-t-twistin like a flame in a slow dance, baby
Youre driving me crazy
Come on, little honey
Come on now

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire, yeah
Smoke on the horizon, well
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smokestack lightning
Smokestack lightning

Well, shake it up, youre to blame, got me swayin little honey
My hearts a ball of burnin flame
Oh, yes it is
Trancing like a cat on a hot tin shack
Lord, have mercy
Come on little sister
Come on and shake it

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smoke on the horizon, yeah
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smokestack lightning, baby

I was thinking what Ive been missing
Ill tell you truthfully, well
Shes coming close now
Oh, I can feel her
Shes getting close to me
And I never, yeah

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smoke on the horizon
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising, rising, rising fire
Smokestack lightning
A-j-j-j...

Burnin out
And shake it baby
Gotta have money

Stand down in front of me
Say, stand down in front of me
Say, stand down in front of me, yeah

Fire woman, youre to blame...

[rob7]

What have you done, my little spark?
Cursing my name 'cause again I put you out
Falling apart, you tell yourself you are
Dreaming only of the ones who never dream of you

I'm your disappearing one
Vanish when the curtain's drawn
But I will come again, and you will let me in
And you'll see I never disappear for long

Into your room I stumble now
Too tired to cower, and it's too late to draw you out
And there you lie like a painting of Christ
Bleeding on the heads of the ones who nailed you down

I'm your disappearing one
Vanish when the curtain's drawn
But I will come again, and you will let me in
And you'll see I never disappear for long

[Rich-n-Texas]

I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didn't get to sleep last night 'till the morning came around.

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills
I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills.

Set out runnin' but I take my time, a friend of the devil is a friend of mine,
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air.

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night,
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie, and she's my hearts delight.
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail,
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail.

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me.

Set out runnin' but I take my time,
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine,
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

[kexodusc]

Okay, I'll play....
:4:
On a cold and misty night,
a ring of torches light the hallowed ground
where his father's laid to rest

In the reflection of a sword
he sees his destiny and he swears up to the sky:
"You will not have died in vain!"

On the field - with sword and shield
amidst the din of dying man's wails
War is waged - and the battle will rage
until only the righteous prevail

From the shadows comes a man,
returning to his land - Winds of change
taint the sweet smell of home

And all around him, he can see
the pain and misery
this tyrant's reign is through
"I will stand and fight... Will you?"

A heart of gold pumps within his metal skin
A noble line he carries on

On the field - with sword and shield
amidst the din of dying man's wails
War is waged - and the battle will rage
until only the righteous prevail

I wish to stay, to be here with you
You were my strength, how can I go on?

On the field - with sword and shield
amidst the din of dying man's wails
War is waged - and the battle will rage
until only the righteous - only the righteous - only the righteous prevail!:3:

[Sugar Beats]

We make the music that divides you
It's handed down as a thing to cry to
And all my wars they treat you kindly
There's nothing more important that i see
There was a time when all was empty
Unorganized a clog a death scene
Things opened up and there's so many
Paths to walk ports of entry
Now that I'm gone
Now that i'm long gone
This minute has come and gone
I never said to do anything but forget me
I can't be lost
I've learned everything form loss
For what's gained there's an inner cost
I won't pay it i never would
We left the seasons back in Long Town
There was a hint of sadness going round
We met the brothers who drove arrows
And shot assumptions wide and narrow
I know i mean what i'm forgetting
We give for everything we're getting
A lot that hasn't been put away
It's building up for that fateful someday
Now that i'm gone
Now that i'm long gone
This minute has come and gone
I never said to do anything but forget me
When it seems i'm around
Check again what's up and what's down
Any silences make a sound
before the equation i'm the answer

[Sugar Beats]

Day after day
I will work, and I will play
But the day, after today
I will stop, and I will start

Why can't I get just one kiss?
Why can't I get just one kiss?
Believe me,
Some things I wouldn't miss
But I look at you pants and, I need a kiss.

Why can't I get just one screw?
Why can't I get just one screw?
Believe me,
I'd know what to do.
But something won't let me make love to you.

Why can't I get just one fuc!?
Why can't I get just one fuc!?
I guess it's got something to do with luck
But I've waited my whole life for just one

Day after day
I get angry
And I will say
That the day
is in my sight
When I take a bow and say goodnight

Oh my my my my my oh my mum
Have you kept your eye
Your eye on your son?
I know you've had problems
You're not the only one
When your sugar left, he left you on the run

said Mo my my my my my mo my mum
Take a look now at what your boy has done
He's walking around like he's number one
You went downtown and got him a gun.

Don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me
Don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me
You know you got my sympathy
But don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me
Don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me
Don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me
You know you got my sympathy
But don't shoot shoot shoot that thing at me

Broken down kitchen at the top of the stairs
Can I mix in with your affairs?
Share a smoke, Make a joke
Grasp and reach for a leg of hope
Words to memorize, words hypnotize
Words make my mouth exercise.
Words all fail the magic prize
Nothing I can say when I'm in your thighs

Oh my my my my my mo my mother
I would love to love you lover
City's restless
It's ready to pounce
go Here in your bed from ounce to ounce
Sayin' oh my my my my my mo my mother
I would love to love you lover
The city's restless
It's ready to pounce
go Here in your bed from ounce to ounce

I've given you a decision to make
Things to lose, things to take
Just as she's about ready to cut it up
She says
Wait a minute honey I'm gonna add it up
Add it up
Day after day
I get angry and I will say
That the day is in my sight
When I take a bow and say goodnight

[Sugar Beats]

She floats like a swan
Grace on the water
Lips like sugar
Lips like sugar
Just when you think you've caught her
She glides across the water
She calls for you tonight
To share this moonlight

You'll flow her river
She'll ask & you'll give her...
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She knows what you know
I know what she's thinking
Should be kissing, should be kissing
Just when you think she's yours
She's flown to other shores
To laugh at how you break
And melt into this lake

You'll flow down her river
But you'll never give her...
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
Loose women
The king of Siam
And my siamese twin
Alone in the river
Mirror kisses, mirror kisses...

Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses.....

[Rich-n-Texas]

I'm ever upper class high society,
God's gift to ballroom notoriety,
I always fill my ballroom
(The event is never small)
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

Oh I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all

And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No-one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Oh I've got big balls
repeat

Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best.
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night

Oh I've got big balls
repeat

And I'm just itching to tell you about them
Oh we had such wonderful fun
Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish...
Ball sucker

[RoyY51]

Stuck in this old city, now, where livin' ain't no fun; where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun;
And I'm thinking of last winter, now, when we walked hand in hand; on the trails of the Colorado Rockies.

The wind sang us a lullaby, the snow was thick as cream; and icicles were chandeliers like crystals in a dream;
and the streams were strips of diamonds; and the hills were white as snow;
and a bear ate all our soybeans in the night.

Oh, Colorado's calling me, from her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and ravines;
When blizzards snap the powerlines and all the toilets freeze
in December in the Colorado Rockies.

We had time and space and freedom; we had love and peace to spare;
'though we ran out of things to smoke, to say and eat and wear.
And the morning of the avalanche the Yeti kidnapped Blanche
and took her to his cave up in the Rockies.

Oh, Colorado's calling me; from her glaciers and her canyons, and her badlands and ravines.
When infectious hepatitis was all that came to stay
in January in the Colorado Rockies.

The baby didn't die until we burned up all our wood;
Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good.
And the facist health inspectors dug us out and mailed us home;
Except for Blanche, who wouldn't leave her mate.

Oh, Colorado's callin' me, from her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and ravines;
They tell me I'll be cured soon for I'm ready to return
When it's April in the Colorado Rockies.


Any guesses?

[Sugar Beats]

To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
Moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth

[unleasHell]

It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
but it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says
It's not so hard to understand
It's just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find
It's just like always here again it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep
[repeat]
No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

very cool...Sisters of Mercy!

[unleasHell]

And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves

At the head of the river
At the source of the sea

Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Trying to write it down
Fitting in hard with harder to come
Trying to fight it
Down the river there's a
ship will carry you
Down river down stream
Down the river there's a
ship will carry the
Dream
Dream of the flood
Down the river there's a
ship will carry the
Dream of the flood

And her hallway...
As the water come rushing over
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over
Flood...Flood...

Push the glass, stain the glass
Push the writer to the wall
It may come but it will pass
Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood...
Flood...

And her hallway...


Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and
ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...

And her hallway...
Like...
As the water come rushing in
As the water come rushing over

Sitting here now in this bar for hours
While these strange men
rent strange flowers
I'll be picking up your petals
in another few hours
In the metal and blood, in
the scent and mascara
On a backcloth of lashes and stars
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and
secondhand passion
And stolen guitars

And her hallway...
As the water come rushing in
(Like the sea)
As the water come rushing over
(Dream of the flood)
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...

As the water come
rushing in, rushing in

At the head of the river
At the source of the sea

And her hallway...
Like...

Flood...
MORE Sisters of Mercy... nice

[unleasHell]

I am just a poor man,
I've got no where to go,
all my leaves have fallen,
left me all alone,

If I was a rich man,
if I was a king,
I would give you all I have,

I would give you everything,
if you,
Just take me

awesome Status Quo...

[unleasHell]

One cold damp evening
The world stood still
I watched as I held my breath
A silhouette I thought I knew
Came through
And someone spoke to me
Whispered in my ear
This fantasy's for you
Fantasies are "in" this year

My whole life passed before my eyes
I thought
What they say is true
I shed my skin and my disguise
And cold, numb and naked
I emerged from my cocoon
And a half remembered tune
Played softly in my head

Then he turned smiling
And said
I realize a miracle is due
I dedicate this melody to you
But is this the stuff dreams are made of?
If this is the stuff dreams are made of
No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air
Everywhere
It feels like I'm everywhere

It's like you fail to make the connection
You know how vital it is
Or when something slips through your fingers
You know how precious it is
Well you reach the point where you know
It's only your second skin

Someone's banging on my door

[MasterCylinder]

Sacrificed Sons

[Music: Dream Theater, Lyrics: James LaBrie]


Walls are closing
Anxiously
Channel surfing
Frantically

Burning City
Smoke and fire
Planes we're certain
Faith inspired

No clues
A complete surprise
Who'll be
Coming home tonight

Heads all turning
Towards the sky
Towers crumble
Heroes die

Who would wish this
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed Sons

Teach them
What to think and feel
Your ways
So enlightening

Words they preach
I can't relate
If God's true Love
Are acts of Hate

God on High
Our mistakes
Will mankind be extinct?
There's no time to waste
Who serves the truth
For Heavens' sake

[Sugar Beats]

very cool...Sisters of Mercy!


A Sisters of Mercy Fan... what else do you like?

[MasterCylinder]

Pick your favorite language and everyone sing along now..............


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
REQUIEM [d-moll KV 626.]

Languages: Latin, German




Latin:


1. Requiem
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis, te decet
hymnus, Deus in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem; exaudi
orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.
2. Dies irae
Dies irae, dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla, teste David cum Sybilla.
Quantus tremor est futurus, quando judex est venturus, cuncta stricte
discussurus.
3. Tuba mirum
Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum.
Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura, judicanti responsura.
Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur.
Judex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet apparebit, nil inultum remanebit.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? quem patronum rogaturus, cum vix justus
sit securus?
4. Rex tremendae
Rex tremandae maiestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me, fons
pietatis.
5. Recordare
Recordare Jesu pie, quod sum causa tuae viae, ne me perdas illa die.
Quaerens me sedisti lassus, redemisti crucem passus; tantus labor non
sit cassus.
Juste judex ultionis, donum fac remissionis ante diem rationis.
Ingemisco tanquam reus, culpa rubet vultus meus; supplicanti parce Deus.
Qui Mariam absolvisti, et latronem exaudisti, mihi quoque spem dedisti.
Preces meae non sum dignae, sed tu, bonus, fac benigne, ne perenni
cremer igne.
Inter oves locum praesta, et ab hoedis me sequestra, statuens in parte
dextra.
6. Confutatis
Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me cum benedictis.
Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis, gere curam mei finis.
7. Lacrymosa
Lacrymosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce Deus, pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem! Amen!
8. Domine Jesu
Domine Jesu Christe! Rex gloriae! Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum
de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu!
Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas Tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum:
sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam, quam olim
Abrahae promisisti, et semini ejus.
9. Hostias
Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus.
Tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus: fac eas,
Domine, de morte transire ad vitam, quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et
semini ejus.
10. Sanctus
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth! pleni sunt coeli et terra
gloria tua.
Osanna in excelsis.
11. Benedictis
Benedictis, qui venit in nomine Domini.
Osanna in excelsis.
12. Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam.
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis in aeternum, quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.



German:

1. Requiem
Ewige Ruhe gieb ihnen, Herr, und ewiges Licht leuchte ihnen; dir
gebuehret Lobgesang, Gott in Zion, und Anbetung soll dir werden in
Jerusalem; erhoehe mein Gebet, zu dir kommt alles Fleisch. Ewige Ruhe
gieb ihnen, Herr, und ewiges Licht leuchte ihnen. Herr erbarme dich!
Christe erbarme dich! Herr erbarme dich!
2. Dies irae
Tag der Zornes, Tag der Klage, der die Welt in Asche wandelt, wie
Sybill' und David zeuget. Welches Zagen wird sie fassen, wenn der
Richter wird erscheinen, Recht und Unrecht streng zu richten.
3. Tuba mirum
Die Posaune wundertoenend durch die grabgewoelbten Hallen, Alle vor den
Richter fordert. Tod und Leben wird erbeben, wenn die Welt sich wird
erheben, Rechenschaft dem Herrn zu geben. Ein geschrieben Buch
erscheinet, darin alles ist enthalten, was die Welt einst suehnen soll.
Wird sich dann der Richter setzen, tritt zu Tage was verborgen; nichts
wird ungeraecht verbleiben. Was werd', Armer, ich dann sprechen?
welchen Mittler soll ich rufer, da selbst der Gerechte zittert?
4. Rex tremendae
Herr, dess' Allmacht Schrecken zeuget, der ich fromm den Frommen
neiget, rette mich Urquell der Gnade!
5. Recordare
Ach! gedenke, treuer Jesu, dass du einst fuer mich gelitten; lass mich
jetzt nich untergehen! Muede, hast du mich gesuchet, Kreuzestod auf
dich genommen; lass die Mueh' nicht fruchtlos werden. Richter im
Gericht der Rache, lass von mir die Gnade finden, eh' der letzte Tag
erscheinet. Schuldich seufze ich und bange, Schuld erroethet meine
Wange; Herr, lass Flehen dich versoehnen! Der Marien hat erloeset, und
erhoeret hat den Schaecher, mir auch Hoffnung hat gegeben. All' mein
Flehen ist nicht wuerdig, doch, du guter, uebe Gnade, lass mich ewig
nicht verderben. Lass mich unter deiner Heerde, von der Strafe
freigesprochen, dann zu deiner Rechten steh'n.
6. Confutatis
Wenn Empoerung, fluch und Rache wird gebuesst in heissen Flammen, o!
dann rufe mich zu dir! Flehend demuthvoll ich rufe, und mein Herz beugt
sich im Staube: sorgend denk' ich der Erloesung!
7. Lacrymosa
Thraenenvollster aller Tage, wenn die Welt der Asch' entsteiget,
suendvoll sich dem Richter neiget: Herr, dann wolle ihr verzeihen!
treuer Jesu, Weltenrichter, sel'ge Ruhe ihr verleihen! Amen!
8. Domine Jesu
Herr Jesu Christ! Koenig der Ehren! Befreie die seelen allen treuen
Abgeschiedenen von den Strafen del Hoelle und von dem tiefen Abgrunde.
Errette sie aus dem Rachen der Loewen, dass die Hoelle nicht
verschlinge, und sie nicht fallen in die Tiefe: sondern das Panier des
heiligen Michael begleite sie zum ewigen Lichte, welches du verheissen
hast Abraham und seinem Geschlechte.
9. Hostias
Opfer und gebet bringen dir, Herr, lobsingend wir dar. Nimm es gneadig
an fuer jene Seelen, deren wir heut' gedenken: Lass sie, o Herr, vom
Tode zu dem Leben uebergehen, welches du verheissen hast Abraham und
seinem Geschlechte.
10. Sanctus
Heilig, heilig, heilig ist der Herr Gott Zebaoth! Voll sind Himmel und
Erde deiner Ehre! Hosanna in der Hoehe!
11. Benedictus
Gesegnet sei, der da kommt im Namen des Herrn! Hosanna in der Hoehe!
12. Agnus Dei
Lamm Gottes, das du traegst die Suende der Welt, schenke ihnen Ruhe.
Lamm Gottes, das du traegst die Suende der Welt, schenke ihnen ewige
Ruhe. Ewiges Licht leuchte ihnen, Herr, mit allen deinen Heiligen in
Ewigkeit, denn du bist ewig gut. Ewige Ruhe gieb ihnen, Herr, und
ewiges Licht leuchte ihnen.

[kexodusc]

I don't speak Latin, but this one's cool...

In the life of the wrong a love lingered on,
Love lingered on to frustration.
And if our love is so wrong, what should we do alone?
Or am I just a picture in a photograph?
Why are we stuck in this pantomime fearing a god who died?
One who would not deny lovers?
And I don't care what they say, if what you need is your faith,
Then take a look at my face and know

That till your rapture falls to pieces
Until your rapture falls to pieces
Find in me the room to breathe,
Simple things like suffering
Life had gone this way
Life is gone this way

Still in the life of the wrong we all moved along
Another life evolved to gestation
And so she made her way with the mistake we made
But she was still a picture from a photograph

So she walked in the baby's room
Knowing what she should do leaves me in
Absolute horror
She put her hands on its lips and gave it
One last kiss
And sang some tune that went

Until your rapture falls to pieces
Till your rapture falls to pieces
Find in me, the room to breathe,
Simple things like suffering

And I would and I would destroy your god
Yes I would if I could destroy your god
Because you're born again
Until you're worn again,

Until your rapture falls to pieces
Till your rapture falls to pieces
Find in me the room to breathe,
Sinful things are suffering
Till your rapture falls to pieces
Till your rapture falls to pieces

But, this must be, then burn with me
Anything
Just don't leave

So find in me room to breathe
Sinful things like suffering
Till your rapture falls to pieces

She swore she heard the voice of Jesus
Telling her it was wrong to keep it
And one more thing, it looked like me
Back when it breathed
Rest in peace
Until the rapture comes to meet us

[Sugar Beats]

On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go


In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

On my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on

[nightflier]

I don't wanna live
to be thirty-four
I don't wanna die
in a nuclear war

go on out
get some more
go on out
to the bar, the market or the liquor store

I don't wanna live
to be fourty-three
I don't like
what i see going on around me

go on out
get some more
go on out
get ****ed up and pass out on the floor
go on out
get some more
go on out
to your favorite liquor store
go on out
don't worry about it any more
go on out
get ****ed up
i don't know what for

I don't wanna live
to be fifty-seven
I'm living in hell
is there a heaven?

live fast, die young!
live fast, die young!
live fast, die young!
live fast, die young!

[3-LockBox]

Macho City
Macho City
Macho City
Macho City

Welcome to the entertainment
Here now are the facts
Presented by reporters
Wearing macho slacks

All around the world
The message is hot and smoking
Would you like to see the future
Nobody's joking

Velcro people with
X-Ray sight
Will be making judgements
About what's wrong and what's right

Politicians and lawyers
All know what it means
They'll be keeping it all legal
With political visquine

Macho City
Macho City

As time marches
Through the ages
Macho men always
Shooting up history's pages

Taking over this (ooh)
Taking over that (ooh)
Macho men always
Where it's at

El Salvador
Afghanistan
Ask those people
About the macho plan

Macho City

Talking about
Zombie servants
Mystic mud
Silver bullets
Head green ton stud
Black cat bone
The heebee-jeebees
John the Conqueroo's personal voodoo keys

Way over yonder
Over on yonder's wall
Looks like Macho Man's
Headed for a big fall

How can Macho Man
Heal his soul?
Will powerful root man
Let him go?

-The Steve Miller Band

[3-LockBox]

While that may work, it's not how I did it. Type the word then change the colour of one letter to black. I know it's already black, but for some reason editing the colour works.

Great! Thanks FA! I now get to type the name Donald ***en without it asterisking out the first three letters.

****in awesome!!!!

[RoyY51]

Stuck in this old city, now, where livin' ain't no fun; where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun;
And I'm thinking of last winter, now, when we walked hand in hand; on the trails of the Colorado Rockies.

The wind sang us a lullaby, the snow was thick as cream; and icicles were chandeliers like crystals in a dream;
and the streams were strips of diamonds; and the hills were white as snow;
and a bear ate all our soybeans in the night.

Oh, Colorado's calling me, from her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and ravines;
When blizzards snap the powerlines and all the toilets freeze
in December in the Colorado Rockies.

We had time and space and freedom; we had love and peace to spare;
'though we ran out of things to smoke, to say and eat and wear.
And the morning of the avalanche the Yeti kidnapped Blanche
and took her to his cave up in the Rockies.

Oh, Colorado's calling me; from her glaciers and her canyons, and her badlands and ravines.
When infectious hepatitis was all that came to stay
in January in the Colorado Rockies.

The baby didn't die until we burned up all our wood;
Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good.
And the facist health inspectors dug us out and mailed us home;
Except for Blanche, who wouldn't leave her mate.

Oh, Colorado's callin' me, from her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and ravines;
They tell me I'll be cured soon for I'm ready to return
When it's April in the Colorado Rockies.


Any guesses?
I get the feeling that no one read past the first sugar-coated verses to get to the good stuff. These lyrics are from the National Lampoon's "Lemmings" album, circa 1973. The song, "Colorado" (subtitled "Entrails of the Rockies") was a John Denver parody sung by Chevy Chase, with backing vocals by John Belushi and Gilda Radner. Chevy didn't sound a whole lot like Denver, but the instrumentation, arrangement and over-all John Denver "feel" were spot on.

[Sugar Beats]

I go ooh ooh, you go ah ah
lalalalalalalala

lalalalalalalala
I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want
Don't stop
Give me give me give me what you got got
Cause I can't wait wait wait any more more more more
Don't even talk about the consequence
Cause right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think think
Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time for ever, never wanna hear you say goodbye (bye bye bye)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched
And I need you so much

See you, breathe you, I want to be you
Alalalala alalalala
You can take take take take take time time
To live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
Give me give me give me all of you you
Don't be scared
I'll see you through the loneliness of one more more more
Don't even think about what's right or wrong, wrong or right
'Cause in the end it's only you and me and no one else is gonna be around
To answer all the questions left behind
And you and I are meant to be so even if the world falls down today
You've still got me to hold you up up
And I will never let you down (down)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched
Alalalala alalalala
Untouched
Alalalala alalalala

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

[noddin0ff]

A divorced lady arrives home from a bar
Guess, guess what she sees, sees there
There is a naked person in my flat!
He's got a weird expression on his face!
Oh my god and jesus as well!
W-what are you doing here?
Are you hurting your chest?
Offending yourself!?

Forcing yourself into pain and sorrow like there is no tomorrow?
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!

He looks at me hopeless with tears in his eyes
Goes out of the window and up on the roof
Naked man, naked man calm down!
I-I'll give you some strawberry cake

Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and the sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!

Aaaaaow!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Don't act
Don't act
Don't act-act

Like there's no tomorrow!
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour

Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour

Ta ta ta ooh woah!
oooh...ooh....
Life's both sweet and sour
Life's both sweet and sour


--The Sugarcubes (aka Bjork)

[Rich-n-Texas]

On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go


In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

On my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on
"Like a Stone" by Audioslave.

Compare lyrics like this with the one that nightflier posted, and you'll understand why I say I've yet to see anyone come along in recent times who even comes close to Chris Cornell's mastery.

[nightflier]

Tex, I was just contributing. It wasn't an attempt at being poetic... Circle Jerks never were about being poetic anyhow, but they were local, and I guess that's something.

& that was a different time....

[bobsticks]

Du auf dem Schulhof
ich zum Töten bereit
und keiner hier weiß
von meiner Einsamkeit

Rote Striemen auf weißer Haut
ich tu dir weh
und du jammerst laut

Jetzt hast du Angst und ich bin soweit
mein schwarzes Blut versaut dir das Kleid

Dein weißes Fleisch erregt mich so
ich bin doch nur ein Gigolo
dein weißes Fleisch erleuchtet mich

Mein schwarzes Blut und dein weißes Fleisch
ich werd immer geiler von deinem Gekreisch
der Angstschweiß da auf deiner weißen Stirn
hagelt in mein krankes Gehirn

Dein weißes Fleisch erregt mich so
ich bin doch nur ein Gigolo
mein Vater war genau wie ich
dein weißes Fleisch erleuchtet mich

Jetzt hast du Angst und ich bin soweit
mein krankes Dasein nach Erlösung schreit
dein weißes Fleisch wird mein Schafott
in meinem Himmel gibt es keinen Gott

Dein weißes Fleisch erregt mich so
ich bin doch nur ein Gigolo
dein weißes Fleisch erleuchtet mich
mein Vater war genau wie ich
dein weißes Fleisch erregt mich so
ich bin ein trauriger Gigolo
dein weißes Fleisch erleuchtet mich

[Rich-n-Texas]

Tex, I was just contributing. It wasn't an attempt at being poetic... Circle Jerks never were about being poetic anyhow, but they were local, and I guess that's something.

& that was a different time....
Circle jerks that were local huh?

Hmmmmm...... :sosp:


:smilewinkgrin:

[Luvin Da Blues]

....Circle Jerks never were about being poetic anyhow, ................

This is the part I had to laugh at.

[bobsticks]

That Orange County/SoCal scene was pretty badass while it lasted...

[nightflier]

Tex, LDB, and the rest of the giggling pre-pubescents in the back of the classroom... you have to see the irony in it. It was an anti-establishment statement for the band to choose the name, right when everybody was so uptight about this sort of stuff (you know, the Carter & Reagan years). I doubt the Sex Pistols would be insulted.

[ForeverAutumn]

I was driving in this morning and heard this song for the first time EVER!!! Wow if ever lyrics still resonate particularly the last set from a dead man about a some man we all know rather well now...

What Made America Famous
by Harry Chapin

It was the town that made America famous.
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell.
Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean.
The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well...

Harry Chapin was a lyrical genius IMO. I'm not familiar with this tune. But I'm going to look it up on iTunes. Thanks for posting this one Worf.

I love a song that tells a story. Here's one that I was listening to this morning...

The fix is in
There's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom

The fix is in
Can't wait to see how it upsets 'em

Too many times we've been postally pipped
We've loaded the saddles, the mickeys are slipped
We're swapping the turf for the sand and the surf and the sin
Cause the fix, the fix is in

The fix is in
The odds that I got were delicious

The fix is in
The jockey is cocky and vicious

The redoubtable beast has had pegasus pills
We'll buy him the patch in the Tuscany hills
And the Vino di Vici will flow like a river in spring
Now the fix, the fix is in

The fix is in
The snaps of the steward so candid

The fix is in
Yes, our pigeons have finally landed

The Donahue sisters will meet us in France
In penguins and pearls, we'll drink and we'll dance
'Til the end of our days, cause it ain't left to chance
That we win
Cause the fix, the fix is in

[ForeverAutumn]

No lyrics thread would be complete without some Al Stewart, IMO. Here's one of my favourites...

One Stage Before

It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before
And juggled away the night for the same old crowd
These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor
As here once again they strut and they fret their hour
I see those half-familiar faces in the second row
Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes
But where or when we met like this last time I just don't know
It's like a chord that rings and never dies
For infinity

And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes
Are waiting around for someone to call their names
They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing-rooms
And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames
But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago
In some play in Paris or Madrid?
And was I there among them then, in some travelling show
And is it all still locked inside my head
For infinity

And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play
Although we may not meet still you know me well
While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say
And nothing I do or try can get through the spell
So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up
And play again like all the times before
But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds
Of laughter like the waves upon the shores
Of infinity

[Auricauricle]

Good stuff, good stuff....How about:

"...Far away accross the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells."

I always likes that.

[ForeverAutumn]

I was listening to some Ray today and this one always gets me. So, yeah, I know it's been posted in other threads before. Eat my shorts.

[I]Cocaine flame in my bloodstream
Sold my coat when I hit Spokane
Bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes in the early morning rain
Lately my hands they don't feel like mine
My eyes been stung with dust and blind
Held you in my arms one time
Lost you just the same...


And you just keep on posting it. It's a beauty and one of my faves also.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Good stuff, good stuff....How about:

"...Far away accross the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells."

I always likes that.
Count Roger Waters as another one of my favorite lyricists.

[Auricauricle]

I still like Adrian:

"...I took the stairs from my head to my heart
I didn't know they were so far apart
The heart is like a little chapel somewhere,
The pretty lights and the empty chairs
But I'm gonna bring a broom next time
I'll sweep out all the broken strings I find.

She walks me down to my private train
And lays me down in my sleeping car
She keeps my elephant out of the rain
And sees to the care of my vintage cars
She is the blood of my life
Without her I would starve..."

[nightflier]

the lyrics to Subdivisions made quite a splash, back in the day:

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions ---
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions ---
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[Rich-n-Texas]

Good point flyboy. Great songwriting... back in the day.

[nightflier]

We're just old farts, aren't we?

[bobsticks]

Each is not my love, moan I for what
I make up hundreds so I know how to make love
There, you can have my youth, I know I have loved
Started to see him, 'till when I married him

To yearn admits you're outside to me
Grow up

I have seen these all my life, perhaps a lot more
And I have been so naive
All move and try he knew not
And your spangle, how it hurts, and I have feelings

To yearn admits you're outside to me
Grow up

[Auricauricle]

Old farts never die....They just fade away.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Hey, anybody know what sticks's talkin 'bout? :sosp:

[nightflier]

Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll

Sticks, I didn't figure you for the romantic type... or are you trying to head Tex off at the pass and sweep SB off her feet?

[Auricauricle]

Sounds like word salad t'me....But then again, I'm just an ignorant, old fool.

[bobsticks]

Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll

Sticks, I didn't figure you for the romantic type... or are you trying to head Tex off at the pass and sweep SB off her feet?

Twould n'er occur t'me...fair damsel's heart may b'long to the south.

I am the essence of romance though.

[Auricauricle]

Anybody remember thissun?

Some expression in your eyes
Overtook me by surprise
Where was I?
How was I to know ?
How we can drive to a movie show
When the music is here in my car ?
There's a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They're playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
And so it came to be our song
And so on through all summer long
Day and night drifting on into love.
Driving you home from a movie show
So in tune to the sounds in my car.
There's a band playing on the radio
It's some time since we said goodbye
And now we lead our seperate lives.
But where am I?
Where can I go ?
Driving alone to a movie show
So I turn to the sounds in my car.
There's a band playing on the radio
And it's drowing the sound of my tears.
They're playing Oh Yeah on the radio...

[nightflier]

Roxy Music or Brian Ferry?

[Auricauricle]

You got it, dude! It's Oh Yeah, from Flesh and Blood....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjcVpQsYKfo&feature=related

(Pretty cheesy lip synch; just listen)

[nightflier]

Here's another controversial one:

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liqueur
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows
Away tomorrows

Evil thoughts and evil doings
Cold, alone you hang in ruins
Thought that you'd escape the reaper
You can't escape the master keeper

'Cos you feel life's unreal, and you're living a lie
Such a shame, who's to blame, and you're wondering why
Then you ask from your cask, is there life after birth
What you saw can mean hell on this earth
Hell on this earth

Now you live inside a bottle
The reaper's travelling at full throttle
It's catching you, but you don't see
The reaper's you, and the reaper is me

Breaking laws, knocking doors
But there's no one at home
Made your bed, rest your head
But you lie there and moan
Where to hide, suicide is the only way out
Don't you know what it's really about

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liqueur
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows

[Sugar Beats]

Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll

Sticks, I didn't figure you for the romantic type... or are you trying to head Tex off at the pass and sweep SB off her feet?

Flier,

Just to be clear, there's no amount of "romance" sticks could use that would ever sweep me off my feet...

My heart belongs to another.

[Sugar Beats]

Here's another controversial one:

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liqueur
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows
Away tomorrows

Evil thoughts and evil doings
Cold, alone you hang in ruins
Thought that you'd escape the reaper
You can't escape the master keeper

'Cos you feel life's unreal, and you're living a lie
Such a shame, who's to blame, and you're wondering why
Then you ask from your cask, is there life after birth
What you saw can mean hell on this earth
Hell on this earth

Now you live inside a bottle
The reaper's travelling at full throttle
It's catching you, but you don't see
The reaper's you, and the reaper is me

Breaking laws, knocking doors
But there's no one at home
Made your bed, rest your head
But you lie there and moan
Where to hide, suicide is the only way out
Don't you know what it's really about

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liqueur
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows

Thanks Flier,
I do enjoy some occasional ozzy.

[Sugar Beats]

And the days go by...
Like a strand in the wind...
In the web that is my own...
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby...
Nothin else mattered

He was no more... than a baby then
Well he... seemed broken hearted...
Something within him
But the moment... that I first laid...
Eyes... on... him... all alone...
On the edge of... seventeen

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo...

Well I went today... maybe I will go again...
Tomorrow
Yea yea well the music there well it was hauntingly...
Familiar
Well I see you doing...
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet...
And a voice from a choir
And a melody... nothing else mattered

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

The clouds... never expect it...
When it rains
But the sea changes color...
But the sea...
Does not change
And so... with the slow... graceful flow...
Of age
I went forth... with an age old...
Desire... to please
On the edge of... seventeen

Oooooooooaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

Well then suddenly...
There was no one... left standing
In the hall... yeah yeah...
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Well I went searchin for an answer...
Up the stairs... and down the hall
Not to find an answer...
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird... singing...
Come away...
Come away...
Come away...

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo

Well I hear you in the morning...
And I hear you...
At nightfall...
Sometimes to be near you...
Is to be unable... to hear you...
My love...
I'm a few years older than you...
My love

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

[bobsticks]

Flier,

Just to be clear, there's no amount of "romance" sticks could use that would ever sweep me off my feet...

My heart belongs to another.


...nor is there any amount that sticks would try....:ciappa:

[Sugar Beats]

...nor is there any amount that sticks would try....:ciappa:


Good! Happy to hear it!

What I mean is, it may be a little embarrassing for you to get the "shut-down" in front of all the other guys here on AR, especially the ones who hold you in such high esteem.

[02audionoob]

Well, all you young ladies
Who dream of tomorrow
While you're a listenin
These words will I say
Cling to today with its joy
And its sorrow
You'll need all your memories
When youth melts away.

[rob7]

Let me tell you a story to chill the bones
About a thing that I saw
One night wandering in the everglades
I'd one drink but no more

I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight
Gazing up at the stars
Not aware of a presence so near to me
Watching my every move

Feeling scared and I fell to my knees
As something rushed me from the trees
Took me to an unholy place
And that is where I fell from grace

Then they summoned me over to join in with them
To the dance of the dead
Into the circle of fire I followed them
Into the middle I was led

As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear
But still I wanted to go
And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me
As I walked onto the coals

And I felt I was in a trance
And my spirit was lifted from me
And if only someone had the chance
To witness what happened to me

And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them
All had death in their eyes
Lifeless figures they were undead all of them
They had ascended from hell

As I danced with the dead
My free spirit was laughing and howling down at me
Below my undead body
Just danced the circle of dead

Until the time came to reunite us both
My spirit came back down to me
I didn't know if I was alive or dead
As the others all joined in with me

By luck then a skirmish started
And took the attention away from me
When they took their gaze from me
Was the moment that I fled

I ran like hell faster than the wind
But behind I did not glance
One thing that I did not dare
Was to look just straight ahead

When you know that your time has come around
You know you'll be prepared for it
Say your last goodbyes to everyone
Drink and say a prayer for it

When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed
And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead
When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed
And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead

To this day I guess I'll never know
Just why they let me go
But I'll never go dancing no more
'Til I dance with the dead

[bobsticks]

A Rainy Night in Soho
By Shane MacGowan

I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
But there's a light I hold before me
And you're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The gingerlady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you in my head
I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

[nightflier]

A little Stevie Nicks, a little Maiden, this thread is going places for a Monday. Audionoob, can't quite place that one, though. What is it?

Here's another one that got the thought police all in a an uproar, although by today's standards, we wonder why...

It was January, 1963
When Johnny came home with a gift for me
He said I bought it for you because I love you
And I bought it for you because it's your birthday, too
He was so very nice, he was so very kind
To think of me at this point in time
I used to think of him, he used think of me
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw tears were in his eyes
He never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, don't point that gun at me
Can I save my life at any price?
For God's sake won't you listen to me?

And though he was ashamed that he had took a life
Johnny came home with another wife
And he often remembered how it used to be
Before that special occasion, 1963
There was too many ways that you could kill someone
Like in a love affair, when the love is gone
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw hatred in his eyes
He never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, you keep on using me
Can I change my life for any price?
Oh, Johnny, won't you listen to me?

He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw hatred in his eyes
But he never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, you keep on using me
Can I change my life for any price?
Oh, Johnny, won't you listen to me?

I just want you to be mine,
I don't want this world to shine
I don't want this bridge to burn
Oh, Johnny, do you miss me?
I just want to feel for you
I will always feel for you...

[02audionoob]

A little Stevie Nicks, a little Maiden, this thread is going places for a Monday. Audionoob, can't quite place that one, though. What is it?


That's "Catfish Song" by Townes Van Zandt.

[bobsticks]

Loves me some New Order...what a classic double.

[nightflier]

Sticks, I see you're quite familiar with the controversial stuff. Let me see if I can find another one for ya. Oh yes, here is one that got blasted in the press because of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightprowler:

Somewhere a clock strikes midnight
And there's a full moon in the sky
You hear a dog bark in the distance
You hear someone's baby cry
A rat runs down the alley
And a chill runs down your spine
And Someone walks across your grave
And you wish the sun would shine
Cause No one's gonna warn you
And no one's gonna yell 'Attack'
And you don't feel the steel
Till it's hanging out your back
CHORUS:
I'm your Night Prowler, asleep in the day
I'm your Night Prowler, get out of my way
Look out for the Night Prowler, watch you tonight
I'm the Night Prowler, when you turn out the light ...
Too scared to turn your light out
'Cos there's something on your mind
Was that a noise outside your window?
What's that shadow on the blind?
As you lie there naked
Like a body in a tomb
Suspended animation
As I slip into your room

[bobsticks]

...how's about some of The Gun Club?

In my sleep,
in my sleep last night

In my dream,
in my dream last night

In the dark,
in the dark last night

In the hall,
walked Richard Speck last night

[Going back. Going way back. Rewind. Chichichichichichi. Going way back to 1966.
My mother was talking with her sister about some nurses who were murdered up in
Seattle late in the night. Her description of these murders was vivid, and she
accurately identified with the fear that the surviving must have felt, all curled
up underneath that bed listening to her friends get killed one at a time. Waiting
for the moment she too would be discovered and disposed of.

Hence, in my overcrowded childhood mind, these murders played out time and time again
like a sickly off-Broadway production that keeps getting revived. And so, sometimes in
my dreams, Richard Speck walks the hall at night.]

[bobsticks]

...my personal favorite ,from Jane's A.


"Ted, Just Admit It..."

Camera got them images
Camera got them all
Nothing's shocking...
Showed me everybody
Naked and disfigured
Nothing's shocking...
And then he came
Now sister's
Not a virgin anymore
Her sex is violent...

The T.V.'s got them images
T.V.'s got them all
It's not shocking!
Every half an hour
Someone's captured and
The cop moves them along...
It's just like the show before
The news is
Just another show
With sex and violence...

Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent!

I am the killer of people
You look like a meatball
I'll throw away your toothpick
And ask for your giveness

Because of this thing!
Because of this thing!
Because of this thing!

That's in me
Is it not in you?
Is it not your problem?
A baby to a mother...

You talk too much
To your scapegoat
That's what I say
He tells you everyone is stupid
That's what he thinks!

Snapshots
Make a girl look cheap
Like a tongue extended
A baby's to a mother

Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!

[dean_martin]

8 weeks, 8 weeks
in a bar room
8 weeks with my head hangin' low
drinkin'
thinkin'
of my darling
would somebody tell me,
where did she go?

The light around the jukebox
is gettin' dimmer
the stools won't be still anymore
oh how, oh how
my head is achin'
look at the snakes on the floor

(spoken)
Would someone please, please tell me,
what's that weary, weary sound?
I hear lonesome dogs howlin'
there's li'l devils
dancin' all around

They've even took my name off my mail box
there's other faces 'round my door
A great big car's parked in my driveway
I can't park there anymore

8 weeks, 8 weeks
in a bar room
8 weeks with my head hangin' low
drinkin',
thinkin'
of my darling
would somebody tell me,
where did she go?

[Rich-n-Texas]

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I had to put her six feet under
And I can still hear her complain

I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, oo, yeah
But I had to kill her
I knew I'd miss her
So I had to keep her
She's buried right in my backyard
Oh yeah
Oo yeah
Whoa, oh yeah

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
She *****ed so much
She drove me nuts
And now I'm happier this way, yeah
Whoa, oh yeah

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I had to put her, oo, six feet under
And I can still hear her complain

[Auricauricle]

I still like Careful With that Axe, Eugene. At least I can remember the words. Lessee...

Gotta go. The night is gettin' later and my eyelids are bleedin'....Here, I'll share one mah poems:

Melancholy seeps like the sludge of leaves
Beneath the cracks and roots
Unseen they decay in silence entombed.

Melancholy is a voice that calls in the fog
Echoing in the sound, it is lost:
It is a whisper, as silent as a vinegaroon.

In turns, the mourning and the weary
Pace through the gloom of day
Waiting for night, for the cool embrace of ebony.

Waking days sear through heart and fiber
Bright light is no friend to those
More suited to angst and anomie.

Melancholy is a spike that strikes
Deep within bone and sinew.
It strikes with no regard to want of vim.

Melancholy pauses and never stirs
It lies in wait like a lynx
Crouched and patient and thin.

Melancholy is a friend to the friendless
It is a lover to the loveless
A prostitute with promises of retreat and refuge.

In melancholy, the days blend and blur
In an opium drenched reverie:
A secret, wrapped in veiled subterfuge.

[nightflier]

What else would you expect from a band called Jane's Addition? I guess the same can be said for Guns & Roses. I guess I remember my head-banger days better than I thought. DM, I can't place that one. Got a hint?

So this thread has turned pretty sour. Where's Sugar Beats to bring a little the sunshine back into this thread? Oh who am I kidding, this is good stuff. Let me see what I can dig up. This one was always toe-tapping and the band wasn't exactly popular with the mainstream:

She used to be an iron horse
Twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me
Through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her
Steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky

Chorus

Speeding, sparks like lightning
Engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate
Shining in the night
Iron striking metal
The sound of racing steel
It's all I ever wanna hear
It's music to my ears

Chorus

Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
Steaming red hot pistons
See the wheels flash by
Hear the whistle blowing
Streaking down the track
If I ever had my way
I'd bring the princess back one day

Chorus

[ForeverAutumn]

Alright, you want to lighten things up?

There's a spider in my room
There's a spider in my room

And then a voice above my head
Said if that spider were made dead
I'd better grow some fins 'cause
It would make it easier to swim

I don't like spiders and snakes
The way they crawl, the way they shake
If a spider gets killed how does that make it rain
How could I be the one to blame

A whisper drizzled down from the ice in its eyes
it said, "Try pickin' on your own damn size,"
But the Hoover was quick, termination complete
In its bedroom home got a chance to eat.

In the corner beside my bed
Very busy spinning thread
Eight legs and a little head

I hear the thunder from outside
And the water's gettin' high

I don't like moths and bugs
They buzz, they get in the rugs
But where does a guy find some room
in this life raft home, a little rubber tomb

There's a spider in my room
There's a spider in my room

[ForeverAutumn]

We could have been God's dream
We could have lived the LIFE!
Could have done great things

Man, it would have been so nice
It could have been me
Could have been you
We could have done anything we wanted to do
Ant I don't know how it happened
But we got it all wrong
The bad don't mean anything
And the good don't last too long

We could have watched 'Black Like Me'
Instead we watched the big guns
And everybody knows the words
To "seasons in the sun"

Could have had give
Could have had take
We could've made anything we wanted to make
So we made 'Wheel Of Fortune'
And all the popular songs
We made a land where crap is king
And the good don't last too long

Now there's darkened doorways creaking in my bed
I got the Mannix theme song playing in my head
Put this one to bed

[dean_martin]

DM, I can't place that one. Got a hint?



It's a little country & western diddy by Ramblin' Red Bailey from a compilation that contains other tunes from the darkness such as "Too Many Pills" and "Please Don't Go Topless, Mother."

[nightflier]

Please don't go Topless, Mother. Yeah, that's definitely country, LOL.

FA, I don't know if that was much lighter, although Barenaked Ladies is a fun name. I had to look the other one up: Spock's Beard.

Let's see what else I have:

Fog in the streets
A church clock beats
Midnight - darkness all around
You better beware
You better take care
Be prepared for the shock
The time has come
And he's the one
Who's breathing down your neck
Coming from behind
Now it's your time
A loser will die
Fast as a shark he'll cut out of the dark
He's a killer - he'll rip out your heart
On a one way track and you're not coming back
'cause the killer's on the attack
Surprise attack
Coming from the back
An expert of the deadly knack
Just take care
Just beware
Be prepared for the fight
Fast as a shark he'll cut out of the dark
He's a killer - he'll rip out your heart
On a one way track and you're not coming back
'cause the killer's on the attack
Watch out - watch out
Fast as a shark he'll cut out of the dark
He's a killer - he'll rip out your heart
On a one way track and you're not coming back
'cause the killer's on the attack
Fast as a shark he'll cut out of the dark
He's a killer - he'll rip out your heart
On a one way track and you're not coming back
'cause the killer's
'cause the killer's
'cause the killer's on the attack

[Auricauricle]

Y'know thissun?

I know something about opening windows and doors
I know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floors
I know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawers
Slipping the clippers
Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires
The sense of isolation inspires
Inspires me
I like to feel the suspense when I'm certain you know I am there
I like you lying awake, your baited breath charging the air
I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear
Intruders happy in the dark
Intruder come
Intruder come and leave his mark, leave his mark

[Rich-n-Texas]

Frank Zappa.

[Auricauricle]

Um, no.....

[Rich-n-Texas]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh...

Whadda you know?

[thekid]

Y'know thissun?

I know something about opening windows and doors
I know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floors
I know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawers
Slipping the clippers
Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires
The sense of isolation inspires
Inspires me
I like to feel the suspense when I'm certain you know I am there
I like you lying awake, your baited breath charging the air
I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear
Intruders happy in the dark
Intruder come
Intruder come and leave his mark, leave his mark

Peter Gabriel???????

I am a bit of an oddity in that I like Genesis more post Gabriel and I like Gabriel more as a solo act.......

[Auricauricle]

I kin diggit...

Whadda I know? Not much, but I like whadda I know....

[nightflier]

So it is Peter Gabriel? What song?

'ere's ah'nuther band for y'all dat got dem Bibble thump'rs allina fit:

Take an aphrodisiac, don't do nothing, just relax
Your heart goes piddle-pat, take an aphrodisiac
If you want to fall in love with somebody
Somebody that you're not in love with at all
With an aphrodisiac, your heart goes piddle-pat
Don't do nothing, just relax with an aphrodisiac
If you want to fall in love with somebody - hey
Somebody that you're not in love with at all
Exciting you, just make you love me too
Somebody that you're not in love with at all
I'm your aphrodisiac, don't do nothing, just relax
Gives you a heartattack, just take your clothes off, this is over jack
If you want to fall in love with somebody
Somebody that you're not in love with at all
Take an aphrodisiac, don't do nothing, just relax
Elephants is unagreed, were to succeed
Aphrodisiac, gives you a heart attack
Don't do nothing, just relax, I'll be your aphrodisiac
Don't do nothing, just relax, with an aphrodisiac

[dean_martin]

I wake up and look upon your painted eyelids
The world is your oyster
And the trash bags are your kids
The ceiling is invisible
There's a bird sinking through the sky
And every hour that passes
Is teaching me how to cry
Cuz it's lonely here
In the ugly part of town
The buildings are all vacant
And the telephones are down

There's a police siren singing
Like a tiger with no skin
The sewer drain is glowing
And I don't know what state I'm in
And the river is on fire
There's chemicals and debris
And all the roads are blocked off
Cuz they're just too hard to see
So cancel my appointments
And set up a whole new show
Cuz I'm in need of a good hot meal
And a life to call my own

So get me a plate of money
And get me a blanket and a chair
The limitations are limitless
They're floating through the air
Because it's real and it's true
The things I see in you
And there's nothing I wouldn't talk about
You're the clearest dream
that ever passed me by

[Auricauricle]

So it is Peter Gabriel? What song?

Intruder

For lack of a better way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvysgS64DNw&feature=related

[nightflier]

Beck?

[dean_martin]

Beck?

yes!

"Painted Eyelids" on the album One Foot in the Grave. I also like this one from that album:

Open up the door
Lay the orange juice on the floor
We're having a picnic
On the other side of town

There's sleeping bags and fire
And it's getting down to the wire
So grab yourself a spot
And settle down awhile

'Cause it's getting hard to think
And my clothes are starting to shrink
And the moon is sagging down
Like a metal ball

And the world is a holiday
Smoking' in an old ashtray
They just blow it out their nose
And say ok

So let's try to make it last
The past is still the past
And tomorrow is just another crazy scam.

[nightflier]

So I'm digging through some old stuff and ran across April Wine. I actually have several cassettes of their stuff. Pretty decent band. Here's one called Sign of the Gypsy Queen:

Lightning smokes on the hillrise
Brought the man with the warning light
Shouting loud "you had better fly"
While the darkness can help you hide
Trouble's comin' without control
No one's stayin' that's got a hope
Hurricane at the very least
In the words of the gypsy queen

Sign of the gypsy queen
Pack your things and leave
Word of a woman who knows
Take all your gold and you go

Get my saddle and tie it on
Western wind who is fast and strong
Jump on back, he's good and long
We'll resist till we reach the dawn
Running seems like the best offense
Staying just don't make any sense
No one could ever stop it now
Show the cards of the gypsy town

Sign of the gypsy queen
Pack your things and leave
Word of a woman who knows
Take all your gold and you go

Shadows movin' without a sound
From the hold of the sleepless town
Evil seems to be everywhere
Heed the spirit that brought despair
Trouble's comin' without control
No one's stayin' that's got a hope
Hurricane at the very least
In the words of the gypsy queen

Sign of the gypsy queen
Pack your things and leave
Word of a woman who knows
Take all your gold and you go
Sign of the gypsy queen
Pack your things and leave
Word of a woman who knows
Take all your gold and you go
Sign of the gypsy queen
Pack your things and leave
Word of a woman who knows
Take all your gold and you go

[Sugar Beats]

Hey Flier!
So you missed me? That's good. It's always nice to be missed.

How bout these? (I've been listening to all kinds of stuff lately!)

Lay where you're laying
Don't make a sound
I know they're watching
They're watching

All the commotion
the killing of pain
Has people talking
Talking

You
Your sex is on fire

The dark of the alley
The break of the day
Head while I'm driving
I'm driving

Soft lips are open
Them knuckles are pale
Feels like you're dying
You're dying

You
Your sex is on fire
Consumed
With what's just transpired

Hot as a fever
Rattling bones
I could just taste it
Taste it

But it's not forever
But it's just tonight
Oh we're still the greatest
The greatest
The greatest

You
your sex is on fire

You
Your sex is on fire

Consumed
With what's just transpired

And You
Your sex is on fire

ConsumedWith what's just transpired

[Sugar Beats]

I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created

You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction

You will be the death of me
You will be the death of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out

I wanted freedom
Bound and restricted
I tried to give you up
But I'm addicted

Now that you know I'm trapped sense of elation
You'd never dream of
Breaking this fixation

You will squeeze the life out of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out
How did it come to this?
Oh

You will suck the life out of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out
How did it come to this?
Oh

[nightflier]

Polyvore & Muse.

[Sugar Beats]

I'm going away, forever,
I'm going away, forever,
Never coming back this way,
Never coming back to this place.

What I need is a heaven,
What I really need is a heaven,
A place to go where I can really be,
A place to go where I can really be
Where I can really be.

Dreaming my life away, counts for nothing,
Dreaming my life away, counts for nothing,
But nothing ever is the end,
No, nothing ever is the end.

It's sure been a full life for me, yeah
It's sure been a full life for me, yeahh
It's sure been a full life for me, baby, its sure been a full life for me

[Sugar Beats]

Polyvore & Muse.


Kings of Leon & Muse...

Not bad, what else you got?

[Sugar Beats]

To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
Moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth

In the shadowplay acting out your own death, knowing no more
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor
And with cold steel, odour on their bodies made a move to connect
I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything I wanted to
I let them use you for their own ends
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you

[Sugar Beats]

Screams break the silence
Waking from the dead of night
Vengence is boiling
Hes returned to kill the light
Then when hes found who hes looking for
Listen in awe and youll hear him

Bark at the moon

Years spent in torment
Buried in a nameless grave
Now he has risen
Miracles would have to save
Those that this beast is looking for
Listen in awe and youll hear him

Bark at the moon

They cursed and buried him
Along with shame
And thought his timeless soul had gone
In empty burning hell--unholy one
But now hes returned to prove them wrong (oh no)

Howling in shadows
Living in a lunar spell
He finds his heaven
Spewing from the mouth of hell

And when he finds who hes looking for
Listen in awe and youll hear him
Bark at the moon.

[nightflier]

Killers & Ozzy.

[Auricauricle]

And....

Don't see me from a distance
Don't look at my smile
And think that I don't know
What's under and behind me
I don't want you to look at me and think
What's in you is in me
What's in me is to help them
I assume the reasons that push us to change everything
I would like us to forget about their color
So they can try to be optimistic
Too many views on rave that make them desparate
Let's leave the door wide open
So they can talk about their pain and joy
Then we can give them information
That will bring us all together

Chorus:
It's not a second
7 seconds away
Just as long as I stay
I'll be waiting

Nothing can move us, we should be moving
from the ones who practice wicked charms
For the son and the stone
Bad to the bone
Man is not evil, even when it's born
And when a child is born into this world
It has no concept
The tone the skin is living in

(chorus)
There's a million voices
There's a million voices
To tell you what she should be thinking
so you better sober up for a second

[Sugar Beats]

Okay, Last ones for now...

All of my love has been taken for granted
I've been fair but you've been underhanded
I've been disgraced but I can't bear to face it
Cause the truth is my heart has been abandoned
I was hoping for heaven but baby I ain't blind
This ain't the first time I've been undermined
Sad eyes and crooked smile that I remember well
Now it looks like all I got is time to kill
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes
Everything I thought we had
Has all been cast aside
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes


These boots are the same boots I was wearing then
And this beer I'm drinkin is still the same old brand
But these blues are something new
They came around when I lost you
And it looks like I got stuck with an empty hand
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes
Everything I thought we had
Has all been cast aside
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes
You can't fool me I see it in your eyes

[Sugar Beats]

Killers & Ozzy.


Yep! 2 for 2.

I love The Killers & Ozzy. Good stuff.

but I think you missed one? I'll wait to see if you figure that one out & the last one! Ha! What fun!

[nightflier]

Here you go, SB. Don't hear this band much anymore but they were all the rage, back in the day:

Daddy don't go out tonight
Just stay home till morning light
Me and mamma don't feel right
Please hold us tight

Daddy why did you go to work
When you know just how much we love you so
Please come back tomorrow

They're giving out guns in the ghetto
They're saying they will set you free
One day I'll have children of my own
But I'm afraid they won't have me

Mamma, is Daddy home
Why are you crying all alone
Grandma's tears have turned to stone
And I'm all alone

Mamma isn't daddy back
I'm getting scared and that's a fact
Why are we all dressed like that
All in black

[Chorus]

Daddy don't go out tonight
Please stay home till morning light
Me and mamma don't feel right
Please hold us tight

Daddy why did you go to work
When you know just how much we love you so
Please come back tomorrow

[Chorus]

Mamma, is Daddy home
Why are you crying all alone
Grandma's tears have turned to stone
And I'm chilled to the bone

Mamma isn't daddy back
I'm getting scared and that's a fact
Why are we all dressed like that
All in black

[nightflier]

Auric, Neneh Cherry? That doesn't sound like your fare...

[nightflier]

Lucinda.

[Auricauricle]

Good call, nf! Shoosh, yeah.....I like Youssou N'dour very much. His Chimes of Freedom Flashing gets to me...here (tap, tap).

[nightflier]

Yes, I guess that kind of fits the whole Lebowski theme....

[Sugar Beats]

Okay, wait, I got one more totally for kicks. This is was from one of those movies that was popular when I was, say in my formative years?!


Caroline laughs and
It's raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place
In the side of our lives
Where nothing is
Ever put straight
She turns herself round
And she smiles and she says
'This is it'

'That's the end of the joke'
And loses herself
In her dreaming and sleep
And her lovers walk
Through in their coats

Chorus

All of her lovers
All talk of her notes
And the flowers
That they never sent
And wasn't she easy
And isn't she
Pretty in pink
The one who insists
He was first in the line
Is the last to
Remember her name
He's walking around
In this dress
That she wore
She is gone
But the joke's the same

Chorus

Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes
She says
'I love you' and
'Too much'
She doesn't have anything
You want to steal
Well
Nothing you can touch
She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic
Is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She gives you her clothes
These cars collide

I love it when you hear a song and you go back in time to something or some memory that was nothing but fun.

[Sugar Beats]

Auric, Neneh Cherry? That doesn't sound like your fare...


WTH? NOPE! Your right, not my fare!

Lucinda is one...

[Auricauricle]

Try it. You'll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7Se7c8C4s

Er, what "Lebowski theme" are you talkin', about Willis?

[Sugar Beats]

Lucinda.


And Mr. Johnny Frusciante (I think that's the one you missed!)

I'm still LMAO @ Neneh Cherry though!

[Sugar Beats]

Here you go, SB. Don't hear this band much anymore but they were all the rage, back in the day:

Daddy don't go out tonight
Just stay home till morning light
Me and mamma don't feel right
Please hold us tight

Daddy why did you go to work
When you know just how much we love you so
Please come back tomorrow

They're giving out guns in the ghetto
They're saying they will set you free
One day I'll have children of my own
But I'm afraid they won't have me

Mamma, is Daddy home
Why are you crying all alone
Grandma's tears have turned to stone
And I'm all alone

Mamma isn't daddy back
I'm getting scared and that's a fact
Why are we all dressed like that
All in black

[Chorus]

Daddy don't go out tonight
Please stay home till morning light
Me and mamma don't feel right
Please hold us tight

Daddy why did you go to work
When you know just how much we love you so
Please come back tomorrow

[Chorus]

Mamma, is Daddy home
Why are you crying all alone
Grandma's tears have turned to stone
And I'm chilled to the bone

Mamma isn't daddy back
I'm getting scared and that's a fact
Why are we all dressed like that
All in black


UB40? I don't know much of their stuff!

[nightflier]

Good call on UB40. The song is the title track on their Guns in the Ghetto.

So were you one of those softies who cried when Ducky got shot down? Ironically, he's the only one who actually made a career for himself after that movie (he's on Two and a Half Men)

[Auricauricle]

Heathens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBSDE-Dywo&feature=related

[ForeverAutumn]

Jann Arden - Insensitive

How do you cool your lips
After a summer’s kiss
How do you rid the sweat
After the body bliss
How do you turn your eyes
From the romantic glare
How do you block the sound
Of a voice you’d know anywhere

Oh, I really should have known
By the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes
Your casual good-byes
By the chill in your embrace
The expression on your face
That told me
Maybe You might have some advice to give
On how to be
Insensitive
Insensitive
Insensitive

How do you numb your skin
After the warmest touch
How do you slow your blood
After the body rush
How do you free your soul
After you’ve found a friend
How do you teach your heart
It’s a crime to fall in love again

Oh, you probably won’t remember me
It’s probably ancient history
I’m one of the chosen few
Who went ahead and fell for you
I’m out of hope, I’m out of touch
I fell too fast, I feel too much
I thought that you might have
Some advice to give on how to be
Insensitive

I really should have known
By the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes
Your casual good-byes
By the chill in your embrace
The expression on your face
That told me
Maybe You might have some advice to give
On how to be
Insensitive
Insensitive
Insensitive


Luke Doucet - Broken One

One day you're gonna miss me.
One day you're gonna wake up cold.
Then you'll wish that you could kiss me when you're old and you're alone.
So cry if you want to.
Yeah, you can come undone but you've gotta have a heart to have a broken one.

You can take your accusations.
You can have all your records back.
You can have an opinion or a heart attack,
'cause if you lose a kindred spirit, you'll find another one.
But you've gotta to pull the trigger to have a smoking gun.

Oh my girl, it must be so tight in your skin 'cause there's no room to breathe- this fantasy you're living in.
I need a new perpective, I need a fresh start.
I need a girl like you like a stolen car because we all love the joyride until you wind up dead.
You see, you don't need a heart to have a swollen head


Queen - Death on Two Legs

You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you preach
Screw my brain till it hurts
You've taken all my money
And you want more

Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules
With your narrow minded cronies
Who are fools of the first division

Death on two legs
You're tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You've never had a heart of your own

Kill joy bad guy big talking small fry
You're just an old barrow boy
Have you found a new toy to replace me?
Can you face me?
But now you can kiss my ass goodbye
Feel good are you satisfied?
Do you feel like suicide?
(i think you should)
Is your conscience all right
Does it plague you at night?
Do you feel good feel good?

You talk like a big business tycoon
You're just a hot air balloon
So no one gives you a damn
You're just an overgrown schoolboy
Let me tan your hide

A dog with disease
You're the king of the 'sleaze'
Put your money where your mouth is
Mister know-all
Was the fin on your back
Part of the deal? (shark)

Death on two legs
You're tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You've never had a heart (you never did) of your own
(right from the start)

Insane you should be put inside
You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null and void
Make me feel good i feel good

[nightflier]

Auric, just admit it, she's a Caribbean hottie.

[Auricauricle]

Well....You still 'aven't splained the cuttin' "Lebowski" thing, yet....

[nightflier]

SB, Hate songs? Queen?

Auric, I'm only saying that I could picture him chillin' to some UB40, that's all.

Since we're expanding our cultural horizon, does anyone remember this ditty? It's a bit long, but what a message:

Broken glass everywhere
People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
'cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car

Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
Uh huh ha ha ha

It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window
Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a *** hag
Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango
A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps
So she can tell her stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got social security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

[chorus]

My brother's doin' fast, on my mother's TV
Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy
"All My Children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors, they ring my phone
and scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane
I swear I might hijack a plane!

[chorus]

My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
'cuz the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
if I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
'cuz it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
Hear them say "You want some more?"
Livin' on a see-saw

[chorus]

A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alleyway
You'll admire all the number-book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
Drivin' big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers, even panhandlers
You say I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool
But then you wind up droppin' outta high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
Got sent up for a eight-year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
Spend the next two years as a undercover ***
Bein' used and abused to serve like hell
'til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young so...

[chorus]

[Auricauricle]

Ah, gottit....Cool. Could use a little Full Circle, too....

[Sugar Beats]

Auric, just admit it, she's a Caribbean hottie.


I will admit no such thing! Did Auric, btw? Did he admit it? Or are you all alone on that one flier?

[Sugar Beats]

[QUOTE=nightflier]SB, Hate songs? Queen?

What hate songs? It's all good. I think the "Queen" not only is, but was FA!

[nightflier]

Just making conversation, SB. Queen is definitely a great band. Not too crazy about the Paul Rogers transition, but their older stuff, even up to Radio Gaga, is quite good. I used to have all their old records, Night at The Opera, Queen, News of the World, but I may have lost them because they are not where they should be. That would be a major loss.

So no one guessed at the Bow Wow Wow lyrics, not even Sticks?

Let's see what else I can dig up. I got something here. Now this one belongs in the history books, I think:

To A Special Kind Of Person
The Kind Of Person That's Hiding
Under Rocks And In Closets
Wherever You Go
Hiding
Behind A Guise Of Respectability
The Cowardly Journalist
Who Hides Behind His Typewriter
Exploiting People Who Can't Fight Back
The Assassin
Who Strikes People By Surprise
The Sickie Sadist
Who Hides Behind His Police Badge
To Commit Crimes Of Violence
Against Other People
Whatever Role They Are Playing
These Creeps
Are Always The Same
Because
A Pig Is A Pig
And That's That
(Ichi Ni San Shi)
Your Stinkin' Lies Are So Lame
Your Stupid Ideas Are The Same
A Pig Is A Pig
And That's That
You Know Who You Are
Your Phoney Pose Is So Old
You're Just A Product From The Mold
A Pig Is A Pig
And That's That
You Know Who You Are
I Can Predict What You'll Do
'cause Everyone Else Is Like You
A Pig Is A Pig
And That's That
Stupid Mean And Ugly
Down In The Dirt Where You Go
Lower Than You You Can't Go
A Pig Is A Pig
And That's That
Big Brother's Watching You
You Can Dress Up In Disguises
You Can Try To Mesmerize 'em
You Can Surround
Yourself With Friends
Who Tell You What You Want To Hear
But In The End No Matter What You Do
You Will Come Shining Through

[Auricauricle]

Geeze, nf, where'd the hell didja pull all this out from? Or are you jus' fakin' it t' impress the chicks?

[nightflier]

I don't need to fake anything....

[Auricauricle]

That's fine, Red....It's all good, here...

[Sugar Beats]

I don't need to fake anything....


Plasmatics, but I had to look it up. Laters I'll have to hear it, don't believe I have....

[Auricauricle]

Ah, SB....Utah must be gettin' so warm this time o' year....

[Sugar Beats]

Ah, SB....Utah must be gettin' so warm this time o' year....


We just got new snow last night, more for tonight... It's not really that warm...

I'm not sure if I'm following you?

I'm always HOT!

That's all I know!.

[Sugar Beats]

Take this pink ribbon off my eyes
I'm exposed
And it's no big surprise
Don't you think I know
Exactly where I stand
This world is forcing me
To hold your hand
'Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me
Don't let me out of your sight
I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don't let me have any rights

Oh...I've had it up to here!
The moment that I step outside
So many reasons
For me to run and hide
I can't do the little things I hold so dear
'Cause it's all those little things
That I fear

'Cause I'm just a girl I'd rather not be
'Cause they won't let me drive
Late at night I'm just a girl,
Guess I'm some kind of freak
'Cause they all sit and stare
With their eyes

I'm just a girl,
Take a good look at me
Just your typical prototype

Oh...I've had it up to here!
Oh...am I making myself clear?
I'm just a girl
I'm just a girl in the world...
That's all that you'll let me be!
I'm just a girl, living in captivity
Your rule of thumb
Makes me worry some

I'm just a girl, what's my destiny?
What I've succumbed to Is making me numb
I'm just a girl, my apologies
What I've become is so burdensome
I'm just a girl, lucky me
Twiddle-dum there's no comparison

Oh...I've had it up to!
Oh...I've had it up to!!
Oh...I've had it up to here

[Sugar Beats]

You've got me captured
I'm under your spell
I guess I'll never learn
I have your picture
Yes I know it well
Another page is turned

Are you for real?
It's so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I wrote a letter
And told her these words
That meant a lot to me
I never sent it
She wouldn't have heard
Her eyes don't follow me

And while she watches
I can never be free
Such good photography

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

You can't imagine
What your image means
The pages come alive
Your magic free
To everyone who reads
Heartbreakin' motor drive

Are you for real?
It's so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I'll wait

[Sugar Beats]

Sort of wonder why No one said a word
Don't you like it on the sly?
Don't you like it till it hurts?
Have I been on your mind? What's a voice without a song?
Something in your head You've been fighting all along...

I don't want to say it, The news is not so good
We'll never get away, And even if we could
We'd just play the tambourine Around an open flame
Oversleep and burn To be back in the game

'Cause summer never comes Nowhere near high noon
And winter never comes Nor the harvest moon

Raw sugar
I don't want to die living in a high rise grave
My baby come home
(same black day, high rise grave)

No I'm not complaining, Yes it could be worse
Ferment on the wish bone, Match the lips to the purse
Neighborhood's a runway, Fry the ass and thighs
Dirty diamond dealers, pushed behind the ire's

And summer never comes Nowhere near high noon
And winter never comes Nor the harvest moon

Raw sugar
I don't want to die living in a high rise grave
My baby come home
(same black day, high rise grave)

Still I wear the red dress, Paint my toes and twirl
Take it back to old times,when I was still a girl
'Cause now I'm all baboon boys, Cootchie Cootchie Coo
Sort of wonder why I missed a kiss for you

'Cause summer never comes (same black day, high rise grave)
Winter never comes (same black day, high rise grave)

[nightflier]

No Doubt, VH, Metric.

BTW, SB, the reason I posted that tune from the Plasmatics, is because it's the song Wendy wrote after she & Rod were beaten senseless by the cops for "indecent exposure" at a concert in Milwaukee. Mind you, Rod's only "indecent exposure" was wearing a dress on stage, although Wendy did go a bit farther. Nowadays there would be a busload of lawyers ready to pro-bono the case, but back then things were very different and the cops were pretty much untouchable. The cops even wrote in their report that they didn't lay a hand on her and blamed the "unruly crowd," but after several photos appeared showing multiple officers beating Wendy with nightsticks as she was handcuffed and immobile on the ground, they recanted that statement. The cops were never charged, and the Plasmatics nearly went bankrupt from their legal bills.

For many people in the punk movement, and even in the women's lib movement, this was a seminal event. There's a lot of debate about Wendy's performances and whether she should have done things just that way, but there's no denying that she was a symbol of something greater within the Punk movement. Unfortunately she ended up taking her own life in 1998, and IMO, that was a significant loss, even if I didn't really care much for the music or the shows.

[MasterCylinder]

Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool Moonlight

Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct

Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low

Gold Amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights

Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright

Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow

When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep
slowly from your eyes
And you remember
Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct
Soho neon glow......

[Sugar Beats]

Hey Flier,
Ever listen to these guys?

Wake up
(wake up)
Grab a brush and put on a little make up
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
(hide the scars to fade away the shakeup)
Whyd you leave the keys up on the table
There you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put on a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
You wanted to
Whyd you leave the keys up on the table
I dont think you trust in my self righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die (die)
Wake up
(wake up)
Grab a brush and put on a little make up
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
(hide the scars to fade away the shakeup)
Whyd you leave the keys up on the table
There you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put on a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
You wanted to
Whyd you leave the keys up on the table
I dont think you trust in my self righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
In my self righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
Father father father father
Father into your hand I comend my spirit
Father into your hand why have you forsaken me in your eyes
Forsaken me in your thoughts
Forsaken me in your heart
Forsaken me ohh
Trust in my self righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
In my self righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die

[nightflier]

Chop Suey? I know SOAD, but I can't say it's my type of music, really.

[rob7]

Beginning of this world swelled with mankind
Who built a tool to kill a fool and lead the blind
Invent a rule to keep you down & call it sin
Then stand behind the wall and watch the games begin

Separate by class but keep the middle low
Instill the order with a border just for show
Give them weapons and let them have their piece of mind
Then tip them off so they can kill what's not their kind

And watch them shake like you

If tales come true when judgement's due they'll call us all liars
And put us in their hell and set our souls on fire
Remember sin your only friend he brought you through
Hallucinate with hate and watch them shake like you...

[nightflier]

How could I have missed these guys, they ooze controversy:

Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
It's like I concentrate real hard and it doesn't work out.
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out.
It's like I need time to figure these things out.
But there's always someone there going.

Hey Mike:
You know we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately.
You know, maybe you should get away and maybe you should talk about it, maybe you'll feel a lot better

And I go:
No it's okay, you know I'll figure it out, just leave me alone I'll figure it out.
You know I'll just work by myself.

And they go:
Well you know if you want to talk about it I'll be here you know and you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it.

And I go:
No I don't want to I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself and they just keep bugging me and they just keep bugging me and it builds up inside and it builds up inside.

So you're gonna be institutionalized
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
You won't have any say
They'll brainwash you until you see their way.

[Chorus:]
I'm not crazy - in an institution
You're the one who's crazy - in an institution
You're driving me crazy - in an institution
They stuck me in an institution
Said it was the only solution
To give me the needed professional help
To protect me from the enemy -- myself.

I was in my room and I was just like staring at the wall thinking about everything
But then again I was thinking about nothing
And then my mom came in and I didn't even know she was there she called my name
And I didn't even hear it, and then she started screaming: MIKE! MIKE!
And I go:
What, what's the matter?
And she goes:
What's the matter with you?
I go:
There's nothing wrong mom.
And she goes:
Don't tell me that, you're on drugs!
And I go:
No mom I'm not on drugs I'm okay, I was just thinking you know, why don't you get me a Pepsi.
And she goes:
NO you're on drugs!
I go:
Mom I'm okay, I'm just thinking.
She goes:
No you're not thinking, you're on drugs! Normal people don't act that way!
I go:
Mom just give me a Pepsi, please
All I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me.
Just a Pepsi.

They give you a white shirt with long sleeves
Tied around you're back, you're treated like thieves
Drug you up because they're lazy
It's too much work to help a crazy

[Chorus]

I was sitting in my room and my mom and my dad came in and they pulled up a chair and they sat down, they go:
Mike, we need to talk to you
And I go:
Okay what's the matter
They go:
Me and your mom have been noticing lately that you've been having a lot of problems,
You've been going off for no reason and we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody,
We're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself.
So we decided that it would be in your interest if we put you somewhere
Where you could get the help that you need.
And I go:
Wait, what are you talking about, we decided!?
My best interest?! How can you know what's my best interest is?
How can you say what my best interest is? What are you trying to say, I'm crazy?
When I went to your schools, I went to your churches,
I went to your institutional learning facilities?! So how can you say I'm crazy?

They say they're gonna fix my brain
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
But by the time they fix my head
Mentally I'll be dead

[Chorus]

It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway

[nightflier]

Say, where's SugarBeats? Did we scare her away?

[MasterCylinder]

Say, where's SugarBeats? Did we scare her away?

It wasn't us; it was him.





How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me
How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me
How can I know so many
Never really knowing anyone

If I seem superhuman
I have been
Misunderstood

[bobsticks]

Drinking, gambling and women
Stealin' hearts and playin' with guns
But the laws the law and baby that's a fact
And now I'm on the run

Chorus:
But this song ain't about none of the above
We're not punished for our sins, but "by them"
Thought I'd get myself a little passion play
But I can still hear them sayin'That crime don't pay

My poor heart is aching
It never did before
It seems my "indiscretion" served a "painful lesson"
And I'm still begging for more

Chorus:
I tried to mix romance with deceit
A little pleasure now with my pain
And I felt the loss on judgement day
And I can still hear them sayin'That crime don't pay!

Pour yourself a drink now
Make it a double and chase it with tears
But take heed my friends to this warning I give
Before you're faced with all your fears

Chorus:
I'd rather face ten men than have a broken heart
My crimes of passion have done me in
I'm sentenced to life each and every lonely day
And I can still hear you sayin'That crime don't pay!

[nightflier]

Still pining over SB, huh?

[dean_martin]

My dreams are all dead and buried.
Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode.
When God comes and calls me to his kingdom,
I'll take all you sons of *****es when I go.

(Hey man let me drive that thing...come on.
DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIM!)

[Rich-n-Texas]

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and
Something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to the land
And no one crosses there alive
And no one speaks
And no one tries
And no one flies around the sun

And now this is the day you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Comes streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
And so I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky

I remember now what acid sounds like.

[nightflier]

Tex, is that your serenade to get SB to come back?

[Rich-n-Texas]

Sounds like you're missing her more than us 'flier. :smilewinkgrin:

[nightflier]

Ha ha. No. I just appreciated the fact that we had one more woman around. There's something a bit unnaturally isolationist about an all-guys club, especially if you consider how lop-sided our hobby has become.

And SB sure added a little spark to the conversations around here. Now don't even start telling us that you don't miss her. As I recall you two certainly had a considerable little thing going. With the exception of FA, I guess it's just back to an all guy's club, then.

[Rich-n-Texas]

I'm faithful to my dear sweet FA and no one else...

:ihih:

[bobsticks]

Still pining over SB, huh?

Oh, the irony...

[bobsticks]

So, I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said : "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
I said : "That's nothing - you should hear me play piano"

[ForeverAutumn]

Let them in, Peter
For they are very tired
Give them couches where the angels sleep
And light those fires
Let them wake whole again
To brand new dawns
Fired by the sun
Not war-times bloody guns
May their peace be deep
Remember where the broken bodies lie
God knows how young they were
To have to die

You know God knows how young they were
To have to die

Give them things they like
Let them make some noise
Give dance hall bands not golden harps
To these our boys
Let them love Peter
For they've had no time
They should have bird songs and trees
And hills to climb
The taste of summer
And a ripened pear
And girls as sweet as meadow wind
And flowing hair
And tell them how they are missed
But say not to fear
It's gonna be all right
With us down here

Let them in, Peter
For they are very tired
Give them couches where the angels sleep
And light those fires
Let them wake whole again
To brand new dawns
Fired by the sun
Not war-times bloody guns
May their peace be deep
Remember where the broken bodies lie
God knows how young they were
To have to die

You know God knows how young they were
To have to die

And tell them how they are missed
But say not to fear
It's gonna be all right
With us down here

It's gonna be all right
With us down here

[Auricauricle]

A cloud of eiderdown draws around me
Softening the sound
Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
And she's breathing low, and the candle dies

When night comes down you lock the door
The book falls to the floor
As darkness falls and waves roll by
The seasons change the wind is warm

Now wakes the owl, now sleeps the swan
Behold a dream, the dream is gone
Green fields, a cold rain
Is falling in a golden dawn

And deep beneath the ground the early morning sounds
And I go down
Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
And she's breathing low
And I rise like a bird,
In the haze when the first rays touch the sky
And the night winds die.

[Auricauricle]

Sasi sasi ae ko taro taro amu
Ko agi agi boroi tika oli oe lau
Tika gwao oe lau koro inomaena
I dai tabesau I tebetai nau mouri
Tabe ta wane initoa te ai rofia

Sasi sasi ae kwa dao mata ole
Rowelae e lea kwa dao mata biru
I dai tabesau I tebetai nau mouri

Sasi sasi ae ko taro taro amu
Ko agi agi boroi tika oli oe lau
Tika gwao oe lau koro inomaena
I dai tabesau I tebetai nau mouri.

This song, recorded originally by ethnolusicologist Hugo Zemp and used in the album Deep Forest under the title, Sweet Lullaby, is from the Solomon Islands. Its original title is Rorogwela and is sung by a boy responding to his crying brother, appealing to the dead parents to keep the crying youngster comforted.

When Deep Forest was recorded, they altered the song slightly. Nevertheless, the heartbreaking beauty of the song was retained. It is translated:

Little brother, little brother, stop crying, stop crying
Though you are crying and crying, who else will carry you
Who else will groom you, both of us are now orphans

Little brother, little brother our mother and father
They have died and now live in on the island of the dead
From the island of the dead, their spirit will continue to look after us
Just like royalty, taken care of with all the wisdom of such a place

Little brother, little brother even in the gardens
This lullaby continues to the different divisions of the garden,
And even to each house visited, this lullaby seems endless
Little brother, little brother
Though you are crying and crying, who else will carry you

Oh, oh…my heavens.. be quiet, be quiet
I am just a boy what have I done to you

Little brother, little brother you stop crying
Our mother and our father have died
Both of us are now orphans, little brother, little brother.

Source: http://www.deepforestmusic.com/lyrics.htm#lyric_deepforest

[bobsticks]

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I met him on a monday and my heart stood still
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
Somebody told me that his name was Bill
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
Yes, my heart stood still.
Yes, his name was Bill.
And when he walked me home,
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.

He knew what he was doin when he caught my eye
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
He looked so quiet, but my oh my,
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
Yes, he caught my eye,
Yes, but my oh my.
And when he walked me home,
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.

He picked me up at seven and he looked so fine
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
Someday soon I m gonna make him mine
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron.
Yes, he looked so fine.
Yes, I m gonna make him mine.
And when he walked me home,
Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

[ForeverAutumn]

So I'm there charging around with a juggernaut brow
Overdraft, speeches and deadlines to make
Cramming commitments like cats in a sack
Telephone burn and a purposeful gait

When out of a doorway
The tentacles stretch of a song that I know
And the world moves in slow-mo
Straight to my head like the first cigarette of the day

And it's you and it's me
And we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away

Do I have time? A man of my caliber stood in the street
Like a sleepwalking teenager I know
And I dealt with this years ago
I took a hammer to every memento

But image on image like beads on a rosary
Pulled through my head as the music takes hold
And the sickener hits, I can work till I break
But I love the bones of you that I will never escape

And it's you and it's me
And we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away

And I can't move my arm
For the fear that you will wake
And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away

And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away
And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away

And it's you and it's me
And we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago
And three thousand miles away

[Ajani]

It was on the street so evil,
so bad that even hell disowned it.
Every single step was trouble for the fool who stumbled on it.
Eyes within the dark were watchin',
I felt that sudden chill of danger.
Something told me to keep on walkin',
told me I should not have gone there.

Baby, because you cut me like a knife, without your love in my life.
I'm out, I'm walkin' the night 'cause I just cant stop this feelin'.
It's torture, it's torture, it's torture.

She was up a stair to nowhere.
A room forever I'll remember.
She said as though I should have known her,
Tell me, what's your pain or pleasure?
Every little thing you find here is simply for the thrill you're after.
Loneliness or hearts on fire.
I am here to serve all masters.

She said Reality is a knife, when there's no love in your life.
Unmerciful is the night when you just can't stop this feelin'.
It's torture, it's torture, it's torture.

And I still can't find the meaning, of the face I keep on seeing.
Was she real or am I dreaming?
Did the sound of your name turn a wheel, strike a flame in me?

Baby, because you cut me like a knife, without your love in my life.
I'm out, I'm walkin' the night and I just can't stop this feeling.
It's torture, it's torture, it's torture.

She said Reality is a knife, when there's no love in your life.
Unmerciful is the night when you just can't stop this feelin'.
It's torture, it's torture, it's torture.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...
This song by Geddy, Neil and Alex, more than anything I've listened to in my +35 years of rock-n-roll passion has held such a strong tug on my heart strings. But it's the way the song ends that without fail brings a tear to my eyes every time I listen to it. Goes something like this with Geddy & Neil harmonizing with their guitars:

Laaa, la la laaaa, la la la laaa, la la laaaaaa, la la la la laaaaa la... and so on.

[nightflier]

Yes, it smelled like the teen spirit of that generation...

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over-bored and self-assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey, yay

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey, yay

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido

A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial

[Rich-n-Texas]

Edit to my post: Geddy on keyboard and Alex on guitar at the end of the song. :blush2:

[Stone]

I like short songs
[Repeat 13 times]

[bobsticks]

A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar of some obscure Scottish poet

The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase

[bobsticks]

We're Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
We're Knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

In war we're tough and able,
Quite indefatigable.
Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.
It's a busy life in Camelot.

I have to push the pram a lot.

[dean_martin]

I'm givin' up my anonymity, but this here's me singin' my own lyrics:

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[bobsticks]

]hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of ****
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way


sticks...

[Rae]

You okay, sticks? Or just in a Johnny Cash mood?

~Rae

[dean_martin]

You okay, sticks? Or just in a Johnny Cash mood?

~Rae

Is there a reason to be concerned? I hope not. Maybe these lyrics will cheer him up. They're from a song in a little known Richard Blackburn movie - Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973).

PAPER ANGEL
She was holy and divine, and I wished that girl was mine
Her eyes they were the bluest of them all
But on that dark black day when she laughed and walked away
I knew she was a-headin' for a fall

She had lovely golden hair that would perfume up the air
I told that girl that one day we'd be wed
But she only laughed at me, I wasn't good enough, you see
And that is what this paper angel said

Well I saw her late last night, Oh God, she was a sight
All painted up and powdered like a whore
And I knew that wife of mine is the one that's so divine
And there ain't no paper angel anymore

[bobsticks]

You okay, sticks? Or just in a Johnny Cash mood?

~Rae

Actually I am going through a long overdue breakup but the true inspiration for this was a high volume perusing of this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3450292533_ec7ddce0a6_o.jpg

Thanks for askin' though :D

[dean_martin]

Was this from a "looking for" personal ad on craigslist?

A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breasts and all the rest
A friend who's dressed in leather

[ForeverAutumn]

I'm givin' up my anonymity, but this here's me singin' my own lyrics:

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I don't know how I missed this! Is that really you Dean? It sure is nice to see and hear you. :)