B i o g r a p h y (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
Since he was the son of cult songwriter Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley faced more expectations and pre-conceived notions than most singer/songwriters. Perhaps it wasn't surprising that Jeff Buckley's music was related to his father's by only the thinnest of margins. Buckley's voice was grand and sweeping, which fit with the mock-operatic grandeur of his Van Morrison-meets-Led Zeppelin music. Buckley began playing while in high school. Eventually, he moved to Los Angeles to study music; while he was there, he performed with several jazz and funk bands, as well as playing with Shinehead, a leader in the dancehall reggae movement. A few years later, he moved to New York, forming Gods & Monsters with the experimental guitarist Gary Lucas. The band became a hip name, yet their lifespan was short. Buckley began a solo career playing clubs and coffeehouses, building up a considerable following. Soon, he signed a record deal with Columbia Records, releasing the Live at Sin-e EP in November of 1993. It received good reviews, yet they didn't compare to the raves Buckley's full-length debut, 1994's Grace, received. Unlike the EP, the album was recorded with a full band, which gave the record textures that surprised some of his long-time New York followers. Nevertheless, it made several year-end "Best of 1994" lists and earned him a belated alternative hit, "Last Goodbye," in the spring of 1995. A long hiatus followed as Buckley worked on material for his follow-up effort, provisionally titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk. Originally slated to be produced by Tom Verlaine, who later dropped out of the project, Buckley finally began work on the record in Memphis during the late spring of 1997. On the night of May 29, he and a friend traveled to the local Mud Island Harbor, where Buckley spontaneously decided to go swimming in the Mississippi River and waded into the water fully clothed. A few minutes later, he disappeared under the waves; authorities were quickly contacted, but to no avail — on June 4, his body was finally found floating near the city's famed Beale Street area. Buckley was 30 years old. A collection of unreleased recordings, Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk), appeared in 1998, and two live albums arrived during 2000-2001, Mystery White Boy and Live at L'Olympia.
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Grace - 1994-08-23 -
Mojo pin Grace Last goodbye Lilac wine So real Hallelujah Lover, you shoud've come over Corpus christi carol Eternal life Dream brother
The sky is a landfill Everybody Here Wants You Opened Once Nightmares By The Sea Yard of Blonde Girls Witches' rave New Year's Prayer Morning theft Vancouver You and I Nightmares By The Sea New Year's Prayer Haven't you heard I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Back in NYC Gunshot glitter Demon John Your Flesh Is So Nice Jewel Box Satisfied mind
Songs to no one - 2002-10-15 -
Hymne à l'amour How long will it take Mojo pin Songs To No One Grace Satisfied mind Cruel She is free Harem man Malign fiesta (No soul) Grace
Live At Sin-é for monologues - 2003-09-02 -
Be my Husband Lover, You Should’ve Come Over Mojo Pin Monologue - Duane Eddy, Songs For Lovers Grace Monologue - Reverb, The Doors Strange Fruit Night flight If You Knew Monologue - Fabulous Time For A Guinness Unforgiven (Last goodbye) Twelfth of never Monologue - Café Days Monologue - Eternal Life Eternal Life Just Like A Woman Monologue - False Start, Apology, Miles Davis Calling you Monologue - Nusrat, He's My Elvis Yeh jo halka halk saroor hai Monologue - I'm A Ridiculous Person If you see her, say hello Monologue - Matt Dillon, Hollies, Classic Rock Radio Dink’s Song Monologue - Musical Chairs Drown In My Own Tears Monologue - The Suckiest Water The Way Young Lovers Do Monologue - Walk Through Walls Je n'en connais pas la fin I Shall Be Released Sweet thing Monologue - Good Night Bill Hallelujah
Non Albums tracks - Misc - Alive All flowers in time bend towards the sun Alligator wine All tomorrows parties Angel Mine Auld Lang Syne Bluebird blues Catnip Dream Chocolate / Kangaroo Garage 94 Version Curtains Despite the tears Dream Brother (Live From The Bataclan EP) Dido's Lament Edna frau Faith Salons Farewell angelina Flutter girl Forget her Good morning little school girl Grace (Live at Palais Theatre) Hallelujah (Live From the Bataclan EP) Hallelujah (Live at Palais Theatre) Hymne à l'amour I against I I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby (Full Band version) I loves you porgy In the cantina I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain I want someone badly Je n'en Connais pas la fin / Hymne à l'amour (Live From The Bataclan EP) Jolly street Kashmir Kick out the jams Killing time Let's bomb the moonlight Lost highway Madam George Mama you been on my mind Mojo Pin (Live at Palais Theatre) New Year's Eve Prayer No one must find you here Once I was Ozark Melody
Non Albums tracks - Misc -
Parchman Farm Parlez moi d'amour People's parties Phantasmagoria in two Please send me someone to love Radio River of dope Rock me baby Sefronia - The King's chain Sky Blue Skin Strawberry Street The other woman The Twelfth Of Never The way young lovers do The Way Young Lovers Do (Live From The Bataclan EP) Thief without the take Thousand fold Three is a magic number Ulalume Untitled Acoustic Rarities from NYC We all fall in love sometimes When the Levee Breaks White Man Trouble Wild is the wind Will the circle be unbroken You and I (Guitar version)
Grace
Mojo Pin
I'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm This body will never be safe from harm Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal Touch my skin to keep me whole If only you'd come back to me If you laid at my side Wouldn't need no mojo pin To keep me satisfied Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow Black beauty I love you so Precious, precious silver and gold And pearls in oyster's flesh Drop down we two to serve and pray to love Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven Ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow Black beauty i love you so The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more Well it's you i've waited my life to see It's you i've searched so hard for Don't wanna weep for you, i don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow Black beauty i love you so Grace
There's the moon asking to stay Long enough for the clouds to fly me away Well it's my time coming, i'm not afraid to die My fading voice sings of love, But she cries to the clicking of time Of time Wait in the fire... And she weeps on my arm Walking to the bright lights in sorrow Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow Oh my love And the rain is falling and I believe My time has come It reminds me of the pain I might leave Leave behind Wait in the fire... And I feel them drown my name So easy to know and forget with this kiss I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow Last goodbye
This is our last goodbye I hate to feel the love between us die But it's over Just hear this and then i'll go You gave me more to live for More than you'll ever know This is our last embrace Must I dream and always see your face Why can't we overcome this wall Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye Did you say "no, this can't happen to me," And did you rush to the phone to call Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind Saying maybe you didn't know him at all You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know Well, the bells out in the church tower chime Burning clues into this heart of mine Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories Offer signs that it's over... it's over
Lilac wine
( Words by J. Shelton / Performed by Nina Simone) I lost myself on a cool damp night I gave myself in that misty light Was hypnotized by a strange delight Under a lilac tree I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its recipe It makes me see what I want to see And be what I want to be When I think more than I want to think Do things I never should do I drink much more than I ought to drink Because it brings me back you Lilac wine is sweet and heady, Like my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, Like my love Listen to me, I cannot see clearly Isn't that she, coming to me Nearly here Lilac wine is sweet and heady, Where's my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, Where's my love Listen to me, why is everything so hazy Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love Feel unready, for my love.
So real
Love, let me sleep tonight on you couch And remember the smell of the fabric Of your simple city dress Oh... that was so real We walked around til the moon got full like a plate The wind blew an invocation and i fell asleep at the gate And I never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother And I couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under Pulled me under Oh... that was so real I love you, but i'm afraid to love you I love you, but i'm afraid to love you Hallelujah
( Leonard Cohen ) I heard there was a secret chord That david played and it pleased the lord But you don't really care for music, do you Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... . Baby i've been here before I've seen this room and i've walked this floor I used to live alone before i knew you I've seen your flag on the marble arch But love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do you But remember when i moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was hallelujah Well, maybe there's a god above But all i've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you It's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... Lover, you should've come over
Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong But tonight you're on my mind so you never know When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun And much too blind to see the damage he's done Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return Oh will I ever learn Oh lover, you should've come over 'Cause it's not too late Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever Well maybe i'm just too young To keep good love from going wrong Oh... lover, you should've come over 'Cause it's not too late Well I feel too young to hold on And i'm much too old to break free and run Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done Sweet lover, you should've come over Oh, love well i'm waiting for you Lover, you should've come over 'Cause it's not too late
Corpus Christi Carol
( Benjamin Britten )
He bear her off, he bear her down He bear her into an orchard ground Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away And in this orchard there was a hold That was hanged with purple and gold And in that hold there was a bed And it was hanged with gold so red Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away And on this bed there lyeth a knight His wound is bleeding day and night By his bedside kneeleth a maid And she weepeth both night and day Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away By his bedside standeth a stone Corpus christi written thereon Eternal life
Eternal life is now on my trail Got my red glitter coffin man, just need one last nail While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal Angel Racist everyman, what have you done Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun All I want to do is love everyone And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal There's no time for hatred, only questions What is love, where is happiness, what is life, where is peace When will i find the strength to bring me release Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead And i've get a message for you and your twisted hell You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal Angel Dream brother
There is a child sleeping near his twin The pictures go wild in a rush of wind That dark angel he is shuffling in Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled The love you lost with her skin so fair Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair Her green eyes bloom goodbyes With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips another Dream brother With your tears scattered round the world. Don't be like the one who made me so old Don't belie the one who left behind his name 'Cause they're waiting for you like i waited for mine And nobody ever came I feel afraid and i call your name I love your voice and your dance insane I hear your words and i know your pain Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another Your eyes to the ground And the world spinning round forever Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk The sky is a landfill Circle around the park Joining hands in silence Watch the evil black the sky The storm has ripped the shelter Of illusion from our brow This power is no mystery to us now. Leave your spirit genocide The cancer you won’t remove We cast our funeral rose inside And bury the need to prove Our mutilation is to gain from the system Ooh, turn your head away From the screen, oh people It will tell you nothing more Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public’s empty promise To the people that the public can ignore This way of life is so devised To snuff out the mind that moves Moving with grace the men despise And women have learned to lose Throw off your shame or be a slave to the system I see you take another drag One more lost soul to raise your flag The sky is a landfill I see you take another drag Let’s see you take another drag You like to dance to the rolling Head of the adulteress You sing in praise of suicide We know you’re useless Like cops at the scene of the crime With your steroids and your feedbag And your stable and your trainer I got a mail bomb for you Mister Strong Arm. Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes For the violence of a nation gone by Or the politics of weakness And the garbage dump of souls That will now black the sky Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes Will plug up the mind that moves Moving with grace the men despise And women have learned to lose We’ll share our bodies In disdain for the system Oh, I see you take another drag One nation bends to kiss the hag The sky is a landfill I see you take another drag I see you take another drag I have no fear of this machine! Everybody here wants you Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss A singing smile Coffee smell and lilac skin Your flame in me Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss A singing smile Coffee smell and lilac skin Your flame in me I’m only here for this moment I know everybody here wants you I know everybody here thinks he needs you I’ll be waiting right here just to show you How our love will blow it all away Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd I’m a stranger in this town You’re free with me And our eyes locked in downcast love I sit here proud Even now you’re undressed in your dreams with me Oh, I’m only here for this moment I know everybody here wants you I know everybody here thinks he needs you I’ll be waiting right here just to show you How our love will blow it all away I know the tears we cried Have dried on yesterday The sea of fools has parted for us There’s nothing in our way My love Don’t you see, don’t you see? You’re just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame And I’ll rise like an ember in your name I know I, I know I I know everybody here wants you I know everybody here thinks he needs you I’ll be waiting right here just to show you Oh let me show you That love can rise, rise just like embers Love can taste like the wine of the ages, oh babe, And I know they all looks so good from a distance But I tell you I’m the one I know everybody here, well, thinks he needs you Think he needs you And I’ll be waiting right here just to show you. Opened once I once was open And one with a travelling heart I loved this sweet guy Just like the fiction Rushing in your riverbed Arise like applause in my head And in the half-light Where we both stand This is the half-light See me as I am Just like the ocean Always in love with the moon It’s overflowing now Inside you We fly right over The minds of so many in pain We are the smile of light that brings them rain In the half light Where we both stand In the half light You saw me as I am I am a railroad track abandoned With the sunset Forgetting I ever happened That I ever happened Nightmare by the sea Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons Little girl wants to make her home with him In the middle of the shore, she wonders “Don’t know what you asked for.” “Don’t know what you asked for.” All young lovers know why Nightmares blind their mind’s eye Your rube is young and handsome So new to your bedroom floor You know damn well where you’ll go I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls With their bones they’ll scratch the window, I hear them call “Don’t know what you asked for.” “Don’t know what you asked for.” “Don’t know what you asked for.” All young lovers know why Nightmares blind their mind’s eye Your rube is young and handsome So new to your bedroom floor You know damn well where you’ll go Stay with me under these waves, tonight Be free for once in your life tonight Your rube is young and handsome So new to your bedroom floor You know damn well where you’ll go All young lovers know why Nightmares blind their mind’s eye Your rube is young and handsome So new to your bedroom floor You know damn well where you’ll go All young lovers know why Nightmares blind their mind’s eye Your rube is young and handsome So new to your bedroom floor You know damn well where you’ll go. Yard of blonde girls ( The Nymphs )
Through the yard Through the yard of blonde girls Through the river and the sea Gold sharks glittering A tree of white Breaks the earth The streets where Lola played Very sexy, very sexy, okay, okay Fear, we may come X4 So run, run, run, run, run, run, run. It’s in your heart It’s in your art, your beauty Even in this world of lies There’s purity You’ve got innocence In your eyes Even in this world of lies You’re still hopeful Very sexy, okay, okay Fear, we may come X4 So run, run, run, run, run, run, run Through the yard Through the yard of blonde girls Through the river and the sea Gold sharks glittering A tree of white Breaks the earth The streets where Lola played Very sexy, very sexy, okay, okay Fear, we may come X4 So run, run, run, run, run, run, run. Witches' rave It sounds just like a scream I don’t know what you mean Your witchcraft’s all around me In your ragged pagan scene You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like I float just like a bubble Heading for a spike All is well between the breasts of passenger and slave We’ll never make it out alive to join The witches’ rave You’d like to see him suffer For you fantasy and thrill He fell sick while we made love He’s out there, somewhere, still Oh I feel the spell that you have cast, hot, pink, nasty Bubble gum, coming down just like a big red coal I can’t help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can’t help from looking Outside for a guarantee Hey! I try to keep all hidden When you come around Oh, no! The sight of broomsticks Sliding on the ground You’re levitating something 'Cause I feel so collectible We’re all lying natural He’s watching from a window up above I see he loves you, I’ll bring you closer Something in my fate says it’s not right for me Tell me Am I cursed or am I blessed? I can't tell, oh yes! 'Cause all is well between the breasts of Passenger and slave I’ll never make it out alive to join The witches’ rave I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee I can't help from looking Outside for a guarantee For a guarantee New year's prayer Oooooo, Fall in light, fall in light. Fall in light, fall in light Feel no shame for what you are X5 As you now are in your blood Fall in light Feel no shame for what you are Feel no shame for what you are Feel it as a water fall Fall in light, ooh Fall in light, fall in light, Fall in light, ooh Fall in light, fall in light, fall in light Grow in light Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing Past the sound within the sound Past the voice within the voice Leave your office Run past your funeral Leave your home, car Leave your pulpit Join us in the streets where we Join us in the streets where we Don’t belong, don’t belong You and the stars Throwing light Ooooooh Fall, fall Ooooooh Fall in light, fall in light. fall in light Oooooh Fall in light, fall in light fall in light Grow in light Morning theft Time takes care of the wound So I can believe You had so much to give You thought I couldn’t see Gifts for boot heels to crush Promises deceived I had to send it away To bring us back again Your eyes and body brighten Silent waters, deep Your precious daughter in the Other room, asleep A kiss “Goodnight” from every Stranger that I meet I had to send it away To bring us back again Morning theft Unpretender left Ungraceful True self is what Brought you here, to me A place where we can Accept this love Friendship battered down by Useless history Unexamined failure But what am I still to you Some thief who stole from you? Or, some fool drama queen Whose chances were few? That brings us to who we need A place where we can save A heart that beats as Both siphon and reservoir You’re a woman, I’m a calf You’re a window, I’m a knife We come together Making chance in the starlight Meet me tomorrow night Or any day you want I have no right to wonder Just how, or when You know the meaning fits There’s no relief in this I miss my beautiful friend I have to send it away To bring her back again. Vancouver Lady All the troubles are my fright, I disgust you Feel the power you cut the truth into you Why do you think I’d hidden out on this rely I could kiss you With lines of escape in my mouth Please let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman His eyes shined on my back as I slept and knew you You didn’t leave it all You made an even call My belly released the stars And tears between the scars We're where we belong It should end here Until the end of time Beyond the moment That ends our bondage I am your failed husband contender I’m your loan shark of bliss This dream you’ve ridden on Turns your world to explosions You need to be alone To heal this bleeding stone Now, smell the rain of London it still insists That we beg for our purity As if we are pure in the rain of our contentment As if I can think of this no more You & I You and I Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild You and I Tears that dry on a rude awakened child Where you look down I’ve walked before Burning holes With eyes of liquid brown If we had only known In a way We wouldn’t reach this ground You were my only home Silver eyes I want to see you shine And we will feel the weight Fall away from us in time Searching our past for the true You and I, you and I, you and I All for you Where you think you’ll fall I adore you Where you shut your soul I will open for you If we had only known In a way We’d never reach this ground I'll know Silver eyes I can see us shine I said, we will feel the weight Fall away from us in time Searching our past for a true You and I, you and I, you and I All for you. Haven't you heard Your wish is my command! Have you heard this talk about eye contact Gonna be the downfall of this town First the photographs take you to the right hands Leads you to the authority mold Paranoia will write the world prayer Make sure that you fit in the right holes But when you take his offer, you’re done for Done for, done for, oooh.... Phantoms in pockets, we’re in panic Making order in total disgust Oh, they read a list of all who cannot stay Take you down, on the ground Paranoia will write this world prayer Make sure that you fit in the right holes But when you take his offer, you’re done for Done for, oooh.... Make sure you learn to beware your neighbor Bolt the doors and hire your guards Suck your life with their virus called language Someone told you this all would go down And the last thing you see is the luster Hold the razor, goodbye to your friends Would your underground please call the mayor Call the neighbor, call your friends Paranoia will write the world prayer Make sure that you fit in the right holes But when you take his offer, you’re done for Done for, done for, oooh.... Well, when he first saw you You’d need no protection Eyes trained on your mouth You’ll learn to take him Hmmm, It’s a brand new power, oh My friends had her questions right Beware your neighbor Haven’t you heard, haven’t you heard That we’re done for. Oh Learn to beware your neighbor And the right mode Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you heard That we’re done for, done for ? Oh When I count down from ten You’ll feel the lead in your lids You’ll have no need to exist And wake up refreshed. I know we could be so happy baby (If we wanted to) There’s no easy answer None to blame or forgive Two cripples dancing To the end we live I’m not with you not of you Not with you, not of you You are soft and young to me I am the ghost who comes and goes And I hope I’ll catch you In the throws of one last look at the wonder One last look at the wonder O, God, I love you And all the past we once knew Some other love becomes you Whatever else we come to I know we could be so happy, baby If we wanted to be You are soft and young to me I am the ghost who comes and goes I'm hoping that I’ll catch you in the throws Of one last look at joy that we’ve become But there’s no easy answer, none to blame or forgive We were two cripples dancing To the bitter end we live I’m not with you, but of you I’m not with you but of you O, God, I loved you And all the past we once knew Some other love becomes you Whatever else it comes to I know we could be so happy, baby If we wanted to be We had a birthplace in common We had separate beds and lives I’ll just sit here and glow Break out the oldest pictures Hand your ruined letters out to dry We had a birthplace in common And separate beds and lives And lives, and lives I know that we could be so happy, baby If we wanted to be I know that we could be so happy, baby Yeah oh. Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Would you like to meet the villain somewhere Underneath the skull of a moon Fire burned his eyes out 'cause his chains are too long for you Someone has to pay for the damage done No-one’s gonna love you now Your whole family’s splintered You’re a slave to it all now Oooooh Ahhhhh Oh You’re a slave to it all now You’re a slave Welcome down to paradise rock There is no single entrance With the stars to revolve around There is no real underground No stars to revolve around Here, they’re fashioning the noose Sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell You know it’s not long for you Sick of all the vomit childhood Not a trampoline of the freaks Not even a slave to your father Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now Welcome down to paradise rock There is no single entrance With the stars to revolve around There is no real underground There is not single entrance There’s no stars to revolve around There is no real underground You’re a slave to it all, now. Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Back In N Y C (Genesis) I see faces and traces of home Back in New York City So you think I'm a tough kid Is that what you heard Well I like to see some action And it gets into my blood Let me out of Pontiac When I was just seventeen I had to get it out of me If you know what I mean, what I mean You say I must be crazy 'Cos I don't care who I hit, who I hit 'Cause I know it's me that's hitting out And I'm not full of shit Down by my bottle Filled up high with gasoline You can tell by the night fires Where Rael has been, has been As I cuddled the porcupine He said I had none to blame, but me Held my heart, deep in hair Time to shave, shave it off, it off No time for romantic escape When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No! No time for romantic escape When your fluffy heart is ready for rape Off we go, off we go, off we go You're sitting in your comfort You don't believe I'm real You never buy protection From the way that I feel Your progressive hypocrites Hand out their trash It was mine in the first place So I'll burn it to ash And I've taken all the strongest meats And laid them down in colored sheets Laid them down in colored sheets Who needs illusion Of love and affection When you're out walking in the streets With your mainline connection, connection. As I cuddle the porcupine He said I had none to blame, but me. Held my heart, deep in hair. Time to shave, shave it off, it off. No time for romantic escape, When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No! No time for romantic escape, When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No! No time for romantic escape, When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No time Back in New York City
Gunshot Glitter Don't you wanna let go of your heart Or you resist the beds of bliss Fortune makes fools of us all My dear materialista, silence was insane, The parting was mutual. Don't you want the rocket to rock out? There's room for us both to fly. Tell the man I'm never coming back again. Tell the man I'm never coming back again. Why should you notice at all? Gone again beside you will fall Down to the sea out of the skies Of gold cards and casual tears I have only come to see you shine Feminine smiles the right side is wise, more than I. I wanna be your lover, Lipstick my name across your mirror. Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter And be one with all you disowned in your young life. You paranoia politician diva. You paranoia politician diva. Will you let go of your heart, Left behind a hypnotizing swirl The semi's left behind. Don't you want to rocket to rock? There's room for both of us to fly Same show everyday, don't have to blow up in the sky. So I just came from Hicks town, Left my coins behind Maybe some poor cloths pony will himself a life Why should you care if I crash your affair? Why should you notice me? I really wanna see you shine. I wanna be your lover, Lipstick my name across your mirror. Now, be one with all you disown, True love has come to us all. Blinded by the flame, right side smiles, Organized male, love, my silence was insane. The parting was mutual the moment I became A paranoia politician diva A paranoia politician diva A paranoia politician diva A paranoia politician diva Diva, diva, diva
Demon John Say farewell G’night, Sonny-Jim In your defenseless Winning smile What do you hope to win? And bliss face down, defended Well, now stoned Demon John There’s no town the boy cannot belong Why did you come here? Is it to excavate all your sins? Boil within? Slaughter like the daughter of the devil you send me I have to deal, you called me here You couldn’t say that you were juiced The night that you were introduced To Demon John Gonna take him with you when you go? Dance down slow Oh, way down You cannot escape the bar-side angel dissector You undo your life with too much cocoon Who’s your protector? Dark is the city where the white girls walk by Down below your eyes, just like fireflies You call me here, come on here, follow me dear Past cascades of rage and fear You called me here You couldn’t say that you had been juiced The time that you were introduced To Demon John Well, you knew you had to want to go Dance down slow By the light of the sun Murder comes Today or tonight Better get yourself together And transcend it, a burst of light Blaze stars into me While the love breaks through here and now So, murder by the light of the sun Please, don’t get too close to me You said you are for real, it’s not pretend All memories stolen, know this for yourself How would you like to be the happiest man in the world? Behind the weathered field hands Whose blistered paws Harvest cut For wedding clothes they’ll never wear Marching down a road that was never there It takes place on a sunlit lace and the backbone broken Please bring us light Demon John You Demon John Take him with you When you go. Your flesh is so nice I want to tell you a story About a little cutey She's ass-slappin' pretty And voluptuous fingers Wanna let her lick me Stick the thick of my pussy And as I cross the street She looks good enough to eat me Kitty! Your flesh is so Your flesh is nice Your flesh is nice Let me take a bite Flesh is so nice Oh, I take off my belt Oh, I whip the staircase Whip the staircase Oh, kill all the men Everything's dead to them You're the only one I follow Come on and let me give you that "O" Flesh is nice Your flesh is so I wanna take you twice Your flesh is nice Your flesh is so Your flesh is nice Your flesh is nice Wanna take a bite Your flesh is so (x13) Your flesh is so nice (x9) Your flesh is so (x3) Your flesh is nice Your flesh is so Your flesh is nice Your flesh is so Your flesh is nice (x4) Jewel Box I know you’re a woman By the way you burn below I’ll tell you secrets so good You’ll never tell a soul Come closer, that bonfire holds his life like stones My years, my life unknown Diamonds from the pavement Where a broken glass had been Just like these troubles that I’m leaving to the wind Like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end Like thieves, my bad luck grows Jewel box of sadness Bring to catch your tear Crystalize illusion shine forgot I’m here Jewel box of sadness Bring to catch your tear Oh, you left some stars in my belly Star crossed child’s love on the bands of wedding gold Silver studs of promise hide in the red crushed velvet folds Inaction, intention, like emeralds I stole My speech of custom gold I think I ought to know Jewel box of sadness Bring to catch your tears Crystalize illusion shine, forgot I’m here Jewel box of sadness Bring to catch your tear Oh, you left some stars in my belly You left some stars in my belly You left some star in my belly. Satisfied mind ( J.H."Red" Hayes/Jack Rhodes ) How many times have you heard someone say If I had money, I will do things my way But little they know, that it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind Money can't buy back all your youth when you're old A friend when you're lonely, oh peace to your soul The wealthiest person is a pauper at times Compared to the man with a satisfied mind My life is over and my time has run out My friends and my loved ones I will leave them no doubt But one things for certain When it comes my time I'll leave this old world, oh yeah oh yeah, with a satisfied mind One things for certain, when it comes my time, oh yeah, I'll leave this old world, oh with a satisfied mind Mind mind mind mind, satisfied mind
Mystery white boy Woke up in a strange place Ghost comes to visit with my keys in his pocket Kisses in my mouth with his eyes hanging out of his sockets Memories crumbling under still resistance I was torn out like pages from the book of existence I woke up in a strange place Music so loud that i spilled all my beer I made a call for a blackened cab Some destination was moving on in I remember the words that you told me Now they come down so hard, so plain Fate is gonna find your love in a glass of champagne Love came calling as a counterfeit mistress Stealing from the pockets of a sadomasochist And she's mouthing for this place like a tongue on crystal meth Her cigarette smelling like the fear inside my chest I woke up in a strange place My mind a blur and some red on my chin I made a call for a blackened cab Some destination was moving on in Easy now, this car was speeding up For my last chance crashing to freedom Fate is gonna find your love in a glass of champagne Sweat pours down You're in the back seat sleeping And she waits by the window From an empty bed, weeping The ghost guns the motor To the promised land he promised you I guess this is the time when the best intentions become facts again Well, this is no story for the dislocated You're gonna love but it turned to be hated Because the lies of the spirit possessed you Because the eyes of your lover resist you Listen now, you keep your aim steady As your temple turns to kiss the pistol Fate is gonna find your love In a glass of champagne Thank you
What will you say ?
Last goodbye
French part : ( Quoi ? qu'est ce que c'est ? / What ? what's this? Qu'est ce que c'est piaf ? / What is piaf ? Ah Paris ! Manger beaucoup le fromage ! / Ah Paris ! Eat a lot of cheese ! La la la la la last goodbye... ) This is our last goodbye I hate to feel the love between us die But it's over Just hear this and then i'll go You gave me more to live for More than you'll ever know This is our last embrace Must I dream and always see your face Why can't we overcome this wall Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye Did you say "no, this can't happen to me," And did you rush to the phone to call Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind Saying maybe you didn't know him at all You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know Well, the bells out in the church tower chime Burning clues into this heart of mine Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories Offer signs that it's over... it's over
Moodswing whiskey Moodswing whiskey Drank it all in the trailer Waiting for the dark to move in Sitting in my step-sister’s kitchen Horse flies on the window sill Eyes trained on the lemon peeler And wishing it were a gun I’m thinking of my wedding ring Trapped inside the heater Spring water on the floor of this Sex starved room Your nightmare falls around me In waves of bliss Tried to stop it with my hand I was lost in a kiss With you moodswing whiskey Your bliss The actress bliss The assassin bliss The abyss Took a crazy shot of whiskey In about zero to sixty All i could see was the bill I was singing through a melody With a drink in my right hand Eyes sparkling, aflame and amazed I said buzz me up to your junkyard paradise Buzz me up to your junkyard paradise Baby i need a sweet-ass photo of you I cheated and i lied and you stung her Stung my tongue just like Sweat from her shoulder Ooh moodswing whiskey You love the destroyer Love the destroyer Love Yes moodswing whiskey flipped my brain Only you could break this chain I need her in my bed again Yeah yeah oh yeah oh yeah x 4 Yeah going down to the subway station I’m packing a rod All unnecessary histories erased I am a punishing god Moodswing whiskey Your prodigal son has returned This is for all the headless acrobats Faces crushed in the circus dust All in the name of gravity And the price of admission Beautiful loser what has it left you now Beautiful loser what has it left you ‘cause you’re beautiful I think of mankind in quotation marks Ever since i took a drink of you
*** Thanx a lot to Sammy & Daevid who corrected this one ***
The Man That Got Away
(Words by Ira Gershwin, Music by Harold Arlen & Performed by Judy Garland) Very nice man The road is bitter, The stars have lost their glitter; The winds grow colder Suddenly you're older And all because of the man that got away. No more his eager call The writing's on the wall The dreams you dreamed Have all gone astray The man that won you Has run off and undone you. That great beginning Has seen the final inning Don't know what happened It's all a crazy game A game No more that all-time thrill For you've been through the mill And never a new love Will be the same Good riddance, good-bye Every trick of his you're on to But fools will be fools And where's he gone to? The road gets rougher It's lonelier and tougher With hope you burn up Tomorrow he might turn up There's just no letup The live-long night and day Ever since this world began There is nothing sadder than A one-man woman looking for The man that got away The man that got away
Kangaroo
( Originally performed by Alex Chilton & Big Star )
I first saw you You had on blue jeans Your eyes couldn't hide Anything I saw you leaving, oh I saw you staring out in space I next saw you You were at the party Thought you was a queen Oh so flirty I came against Didn't say excuse Knew what i was doing We looked very fine As we were leaving As we were making What we were making Saint joan Doing a cool jerk, hey Oh, i want you Like a kangaroo Yes yes yes yes, oh oh ... Sydney
Hallelujah / I know it's over
I heard there was a secret chord That david played and it pleased the lord But you don't really care for music, do you Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing hallelujah Hallelujah... Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the hallelujah Hallelujah... Baby i've been here before I've seen this room and i've walked this floor I used to live alone before i knew you I've seen your flag on the marble arch But love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah... Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do you? But remember when i moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was hallelujah Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head And as i climb into an empty bed - oh well, enough said I know it's over still i cling, i don't know where else i can go, over and over... Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head See the sea it wants to take me, the knife wants to slit (cut) me Do you think you can help me? Sad veiled bride please be happy - handsome groom give her room Loud loutish lover treat her kindly though she needs you More than she loves you - and i know it's over - still i cling I don't know where else i can go - over and over..... Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head Well, maybe there's a god above But all i've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you It's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah... That's all I ask ( By Horace Ott & Performed by Nina Simone ) This is another nina Simone song Don't try to blow out the sun for me baby I'm not hope for what I know can't be All that I ask is for a kiss each day And I'll give you love that'll never go away Yes I will yes I will yes I will This girl I wouldn't ask you to lift up this great Big world little baby I know that you're not that kind of a girl All that I ask Is for a kiss or two And nothing in this world will be too good for you Nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody Nobody knows How deep my love for you really goes Never mind now in your heart how much is owed... Cause girl I want you to know I wouldn't ask you to hold back the dawn, madame George, baby That's just a little too much to ask to anyone All that I ask is for your loving ways And I'll keep you happy for the rest of your natural born days Never mind now in your heart how much is owed...
Songs for no one
Hymne à l'amour
(M. Monnot/E. Piaf with English lyrics by G. Parsons)
If the sun should tumble from the sky If the see should suddenly run dry If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I don't care Shall I catch a shooting star Shall I bring it where you are If you want me to, I will. You can set me any task I'll do anything you ask If you'll only love me still When at last, our life on earth is through I will spend eternity with you If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I won't care
How long will it take
Stood along this lonely track Watching the trains speed along Weep, oh willow weep Let me hear your song So that my soul can be filled with joy My heart and I So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked "How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?" Tell me Mama "Oh How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?" As I try my best not to sigh I still feel the tears on my face I'm hated by you, you're loved by me Though I can't take it, I will try not to break it My heart and I So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked "How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?" Oh tell me now "How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?" As I try my best not to sigh I still feel the tears on my face I'm hated by you, you're loved by me Though I can't take it, I will try not to break it My heart and I So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked "How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?" Tell me sister How long will it take me, will it take me Oh so alone in the fright I bear, so I asked How long will it take me, will it take me to be your man again?" Will it take me to be your man again
*** Thanx a lot to Gabrielle for this one ***
Songs To No One Back when I was a baby, a baby saying his prayers, prayers soft and lonely, lonely all these days, days that meld into nothing, and nothing left for a boy but to hide his dreams away, hide all his dreams away Daisies after daisies, a daisy for your floor Ah days that melt into nothing A promise piled to the door, door the door was open There's nothing left for a boy but to hide these dreams away …All those dreams decay Laura…know this song for always Laura…show this song to no one I had to fight for these moments, sweet moments of mine Each line must blossom and die but my song comes strong in time Nothing left for a boy, nothing left for a boy But to hide those dreams away, all those dreams decay Laura…know this song for always Laura…show this song to no one Oh I had to fight for these moments, these sweet moments of mine Each line must blossom , but my song comes strong in time Although the door was open, there's nothing left for you now But to hide your dreams away till they come into play Laura…know this song for always Laura…show this song to no one Laura…know this song for always Laura...Laura…show this song to no one Show this song to no one
Cruel Oh Yeah Born no longer just a baby Always trying to keep in one place for long, oh long enough to sleep Oh sleep and dreams are here the same ??? got no rest they'll no longer speak to you Moving on again I'm moving... moving on again Well i'm moving... moving on again Baby... you're so cruel You're cruel to yourself, so you never understand Boy'l never do ya no harm, For you to build the frame of the bed you sleep upon So spill your milk and honey, get your kicks off your next man. Bigger than you think and make him go, go on. Make him move on, moving on again Oh he's moving... moving on again Baby, you're so cruel They thought about the dream is so real now These are dreams of mine You're so aimless, so aimless You baby, you're so cruel You're so cruel Wonder what your gonna think of yourself when the phone calls fade away As you hold his shoulders Did you think it would come to this day? Ask yourself why he's off when others surround you He was one of many on the day he found you Uh huh, you're moving, moving again, Yeah, you're moving, moving on again Yeah, you're moving, moving on again Baby, you're so cruel
She Is Free
Cold wind blow this waiting blood Flow into my ashen arms Ice stream prick my sleeping skin She is like the so black time Race on in and never go away She's just like the wind Black car with your creaking wheel Take away these thoughts of mine Once there was a crazy man Staring from his drunken eyes Staring stony into her elbow's way Stared at me and tellin' me 'stead of 'oh poor lonely me I claw the bed and I claw my hair Oh black car with your creaking wheel Take away these thoughts ofmine Pictures sing in rhythm with 'em Dig the holes for me to sleep inside She is free A shadow crossing the sky Free from hope and this misery She's beautiful, so beautiful away from me She is free She is free Instead of me is this creaking wheel Take away these thoughts of mine Pictures sing in rhythm with 'em Dig the holes for me to sleep inside Black car with your creaking wheel Take away these thoughts of mine Catch us sing in rhythm with 'em Dig both holes for me to sleep inside She is free Shadow crossing the sky Free from hope and this misery So beautiful away from me She is free She is free
Harem Man
Alright alright alright alright woah! Well yeah Well I'm your harem man I was paid two by two Well I'm your harem man I will sing and dance for you Oh Baby say it My love is great ??? Well well Lay your hails down 'till they race over me Oh sweet pussy cat race your hails all over me Oh you're so sweet, your pussy cat i'm gonna show you where it's at Why don't you think I can ?? free I wanna be your fire when it's cold It's raining outside mama don't wait until you get too old Take home a liter and push it in me I wanna inject you in my blood I wanna set you free Well well My world my world... my love I wanna be your harem man Oh baby save you do anything I can I'll keep you waiting in a room of my own A man can't be free until he's older My my my ... woman, man I wanna be your harem man I wish I was your 45 dollar bill Spend all your money pay all your thrills I wish I could be your walking shoes, step all over me And take away my blues My world my love I wish I was you
Malign Fiesta (No soul)
You got your 24 Swastika tattoo yesterday You got ????? away You got your 24 karat gold pierced earning in your nose Twenty four years and you still don't know which way the wind blows You got no, you got no You know when ??? disease ??? violence ??? wish away your parents You got yourself a girl wth the face and the voice of a whore You don't want a phone But you don't know what you kill yourself for anymore You got no, you got no You got no, you got no You're no soul rebel if you rip on your skin You're no soul rebel with your boot in your skin You're no soul rebel it's your own chance to fight You're just the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no soul You call yourself a rebel but you call that man a nigger like they do You call yourself a rebel but a woman ??? like they do You call yourself a rebel but you don't talk, act, walk, and piss like they do You got no room, no soul, no out, no phone So whadya got? a God to pray you You got no, you got no You got no You're no soul rebel if you spit on your sister You're no soul rebel with your boot on yourskin You're no soul rebel it's your last chance to fight You're the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no You call yourself a rebel but you call that man a nigger like they do You call yourself a rebel but your woman down like they do You call yourself a rebel but you rape, scheme and lie like they do You got no woman, no song, no drome So what have you got, a God to pray you You got no, you got no You got no You're no soul rebel if you rip on your skin You're no soul rebel with your boot in your skin You're no soul rebel it's your own chance to fight You're just the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no You got no, you got no You got no
Live at Sine 1993
Be my husband ( Written by A. Stroud / Nina Simone Cover )
Be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Loving all of you the rest of your life Be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Loving all of you the rest of your life If you promise me I’ll be your man If you promise me I’ll be your man If you promise me I’ll be your man I will love you the best I can Stick to the promise that you made me Stick to the promise that you made me Stick to the promise that you made me And stay away from Johnny Lee Oh mama love me good Oh mama love me good Oh mama love me good Oh mama mama love me good If you want me to I’ll cook and sew If you want me to I’ll cook and sew If you want me to I’ll cook and sew Outside of you there is no place to go Don't you treat me so doggone mean Don't you treat me so doggone mean Don't you treat me so doggone mean You're the meanest man I’ve ever seen Oh mama love me good Oh mama-ma love me good Oh mama love me good Oh mama mama mama love me good Oh mama (And i'll) be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Be your husband if you'll be my wife Loving all of you the rest of your life
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over Looking out the door, I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners. Parading in a wake of sad relations , As their shoes fill up with water. Maybe I'm too young, To keep good love from going wrong. But tonight, you are on my mind so. You’ll never know… you never know Every inch of me is full of pain. Oh, you should’ve come over. My broken bones can smell the rain, And they’re aching to recover. And the rain, I wanna come down fast, Like kisses on my skin. But it passed me by, And it left me dry. Oh lover, you should’ve come over. Broken down and hungry for your love, With no way to feed it. Where are you tonight? Child, you know how much I need you. Too young to hold on, And too old to break free and run. Oh, too old to run. Oh, oh, lover, you should’ve come over. Well, I wait, And I burn. Will I ever see your return? Oh lover, you should’ve come over. Lonely is the room the bed is made, Open window lets the rain in. Burning in the corner is the only one , Who wants you with him. My body turns and yearns for sleep, That will never come. It's never over, My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder. It's never over, All my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her. It's never over, All my blood for the memories and the sweetness of her laughter. It's never over, She's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever. Oh, maybe I'm too young, To keep good love from going wrong. Oh, lover you should've come over. Will I wait? Will I burn? Will I see your return? Oh lover, you should’ve come over, over, over.
*** Thanx a lot to John for this one ***
( Written by Lewis Allen, Performed by Billie Holiday ) Southern trees Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the root Oh black bodies swinging In the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Oh the bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias Sweet and fresh And then the sudden smell Of burning flesh Now here is fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the trees to drop Now here is your strange And bitter crop Strange fruit
If You Knew ( Nina Simone ) If you knew how I miss you, You would not stay away today. Don’t you know how I need you? Stay here, my dear, with me. I need you here beside me, Forever and a day, a day. Together, never parted, Just you, just me, my love. I can’t go on without you. Your love is all I’m living for. I love all things about you. Your heart, your soul, my love. I can’t go on without you, Forever and a day, a day. I need you here beside me, Forever and a day, a day. And no one else betides me. I love you, I love you, I do. I do.
*** Thanx a lot to Carrie & John for this one ***
This is a song about... It's an angry song Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks And people behind masks to be ruining other peoples lives Initiating force against other peoples lives On the basis of their income, their colour, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever...
Eternal Life is now on my trail Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road Would pave the way for you You better turn around And blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel Racist everyman, what have you done Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son... Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun All I want to do is love everyone... And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road Wwould pave the way for you You better turn around Aand blow your kiss hello to life eternal Oh... There's no time for hatred, only questions Where is love, where is happiness What is Life, where is peace When will I find the strength to bring me release And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye To life eternal angel... Angel...
Just Like A Woman ( Originally performed by Bob Dylan ) No, no, no, no, no... Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows That Baby's got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls Oh, she takes just like a woman Oh, and she makes love just like a woman Oh, then she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl Oh, Queen Mary, she's my friend But I believe i'll go see her again Nobody has to guess That the Baby can't be blessed ’Till she finally sees that she's like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamines, and her pearls Oh, she takes just like a woman, yes, and She makes love just like a woman Oh, then she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl Well, it was raining from the first And I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long-time curse hurts But what's worse Is all this pain in here Well, I can't stay in here, oh baby Ain't it clear that I just can't fit I believe it's time for us to quit If we meet again Introduced as friends Please don't you let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world Oh, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do And you make love just like a woman And you, you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl But you break just like a little girl
Yeh jo halka halk saroor hai ( written by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan )
At a glance from the cup-bearer I gulped the whole cup of wine in one draught And thus got intoxicated. O'divine mercy pardon my slip from grace As my eagerness for wine drinking pushed me in committing this error I could i dare to drink without permission! It was only a wink from my sweetheart which prompted me to do so. O'holy man don't scoff at my apparent irreligiosity I am the one with his knack of chit-chat coaxed the divinity In granting me permission to drink Dark clouds are hovering near and bring along the musicians' captivating notes. Who has spread her hair in the rainy season Because the breeze is pregnant with sweet fragrance? Larks dance in the open tunes played by the clouds As they are bringing along their own playing instruments. The eyes of my sweetheart are so bewitchingly red That even the best wine of the tavern pales in comparison. Being coquettish my sweetheart sometimes comes very near to me And at other time goes far away But all the time she is close to my heart. Since the day my eyes met her lovely ones I am in perpetual state of slight intoxication. Her residence in my heart is comparable to a ray of light Penetrating the pitch of darkness, this state of slight intoxication. Your love and your bewitching eyes have induced me to become a drunkard. The whole universe is in a state of drunkenness; the day The night, the dawn, the dusk, everything is perpetually intoxicated. Even the wine cup and wine bottle are drunk And this is all a result of your bashful eyes. O'lovely cup-bearer although your repository contains all sorts of wines, But i am only fond of the wine that drips from your drowsy eyes. This state of slight intoxication. I don't know how to say prayers nor do i know the rites of ablution. I just prostrate myself before you whenever i see you Because your worship and your love is my life. Right from creation i am the slave of love And i don't care for belief or disbelief. My sweetheart, since i have found you And have become the worshipper at the alter of your love I don't require a mosque to prostrate myself and say my prayers This slight state of intoxication. Even on the day of judgement when i am resurrected the scars of your love Will be manifest on my body and your picture clinging to my heart. My extreme love of you has so elevated me spiritually That who ever i bow my heat it appears as if holy kaaba is in front of me. It does not behove you to jeer and mock your disappointed lover. For god sake o'lovely one turn away your alluring eyes Otherwise i will totally lose control of my heart. I pray to god that like me you also fall in love with someone And then having been rebuffed in dejection you also roam about And lament the loss of your heart. To fall in love was a joke for me, but it has turned into a serious affair And now i am getting the punishment. While i am bewailing the loss of my heart why are you laughing And making merry? What have you gained out of it? Raise your hands in prayer for me and be thankful of my friendship Because it is i who has sharpened your charms Thus turning you lovely being into a killer. O'darling of my heart bestow a glance of your lovely eyes at me I am the same halfdead anwar who as mentor And guide taught you to display captivating manners And charm the people with your conversation.
Hallah hallah hallah ouh ! I am a ridiculous person And you're lucky you've paid no money to see me
If you see her, say hello ( Bob Dylan )
If you see her, say hello She might be in Tangier She left here last early spring Is livin' there, I hear Say for me that I'm all right Though new things come and go She might think that I've forgotten her Don't tell her it isn't so We had a falling-out, like lovers often will But to think of how she left that night It still brings me a chill And though our separation Well it chilled me to the heart She still lives inside of me We've never been apart If you're making love to her Kiss her for the kid Who always has respected her For doin' what she did Oh, I know it had to be that way It was written in the cards But the bitter taste still lingers on It all came down so hard Well I meet a lot of people As I make the rounds And I hear her name here and there As I go from town to town And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it off Well either I'm too sensitive Or else I'm just gettin' soft If you see her Sundown, yellow moon I replay the past I know every scene by heart Cause they all went by so fast If she's passin' back this way I'm not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up If she's got the time Tell her she can look me up If she's got the time
Drown in my own tears (written by Henry Glover) It brings a tear into my eyes When I begin to realize I've cried so much Since you've been gone I guess I'm drowning In my own tears I sit and cry Just like a child My pouring tears Are running wild If you don't think That you'll be home soon I guess I'll drown Oh yes, in my own tears I know it's true Into each life Oh little rain, rain must pour And I'm so blue Here without you It keeps raining More and more Why can't you please come home So I won't be all alone If you don't think that you'll be home soon I guess I'll drown in my own tears Drown in my own tears Drown in my own tears Come on people Drown in my own tears Oh don't let me Drown in my own tears Well I get in trouble baby Drown in my own tears I guess I'll drown, oh yes, in my own tears, oh...
Oh... We strolled through fields all wet with rain And back along the lane again There in the sunshine In the sweet summertime Oh the way that young lovers do I kissed you on the lips once more We said goodbye at your front door There in the nighttime Love, that's the right time Oh to feel the way that young lovers do And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were And the way that we wanted to be And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you and that you were for me And then we long to dance the night away Turned to each other, saying 'I love you, baby I love you' Oh the way that young lovers do Lovers do... Do, do, do, do... The way young lovers do Do, do, do, do... The way young lovers do... And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way that we wanted to be And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you and you were for me Oh baby, baby. And then we long to dance the night away And turned to each other, saying 'I love you, baby I love you' Oh the way... I held her with her looking down And I kissed her, with the snow falling down In the street light It was a sweet light And the way that young... Oh, the way that young lovers... Oh the way that young... that young lovers... That young lovers do. Good night
Je n'en connais pas la fin
(R. Asso/M. Monnot / Jeff sings an English translation)
I used to know a little square So long ago, when I was small All summer long it had a fair Wonderful fair with swings and all I used to love my little fair And at the close of everyday I could be found, dancing around A merry-go-round that used to play... "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux Rien que nous deux" All summer long my little fair Made everyday like a holiday Night after night it used to play And people came there from so far away And everyone sang that little tune All around town you heard it played Even Pepi from Napoli He sang to Marie This serenade... "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux Rien que nous deux" All summer long my little fair Made everyday like a holiday Night after night it used to play And people came there from so far away And everyone sang that little tune All around town you heard it played Even Pepi from Napoli He sang to Marie This serenade... "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux Rien que nous deux" I can't forget my little square Even though I'm so far away I can't forget my little fair Maybe it's still there, still there today I sometimes hear that little tune playing in a dream of long ago And in my brain runs the refrain That old French refrain I used to know... "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux Rien que nous deux"
( Originally performed by Bob Dylan ) They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face, Of every man that put me here. I see my light come shining, From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. They say every man needs protection, They say that every man must fall. Yet I swear I see my reflection, Somewhere so high above this wall. Sing, I see my light come shining, From the west unto the east. Any day now, any way now, I shall be released. There standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he's not to blame. All day long I hear his voice shouting so loud, Crying out he has been framed. I see my light come shining, From the west unto the east. Any day now, any way now, I shall be released. Everybody sing with me. I see my light come shining, From b’da west to east, From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
Sweet Thing ( Van Morrison / Live 92 & 96 ) And I will stroll the merry way And jump the hedges first And I will drink the clear Clean water for to quench my thirst And I shall watch the ferry-boats And they'll get high On a bluer ocean Against tomorrow's sky And I will never ever grow so old again And I will walk and talk In gardens all misty and wet with rain Oh sweet thing, sweet thing My, my, my, my, my sweet thing And I would drive my chariot Down your streets and cry Well, it's me, I'm dynamite And I don't know why And you hold me so strong in your arms again Pretty babe I will not remember that I ever felt the pain And I will walk and talk In gardens all misty and wet with rain And I will never ever grow so old again Oh sweet thing, oh oh Oh my my sweet thing Sweet thing... And I will raise my hand up Into the night time sky And count the stars That's shining in your eye Just to dig it all and not to question well that's just fine Just to dig it all and never wonder well that’s just fine And I will be satisfied not to read in between the lines And we will walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain You know we will, someday And we, you and me, walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain Oh you and me, we will walk And talk in gardens all misty wet with rain And we will walk in gardens all misty wet with rain And we shall walk in gardens all misty wet with rain Oh we shall walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain And we will never, ever grow so old again Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing Sweet thing, and you know we will Oh you know we will Remember the day when I held you hand The look in my eyes only you can understand Remember when we held each other soft and low How nothing could ever be that strong Sleep tonight with dreams as sweet as angel's wings And all your dreams will bring you sweeter things Sweet sweet sweet thing, oh sweet thing Don’t, don’t, don’t you cry, oh no no no Come here and let me tell you Let me tell you how much I love you Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing You know we will walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain And will never grow so old again Oh sweet thing, sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet Sweet sweet thing, sweet thing, sweet thing Oh my sweet thing
You & I
Just like a woman
( Bob Dylan )
No No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no... Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows That Baby's got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman, yes She makes love just like a woman Oh, and she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl Copy paste is for losers Queen Mary, she's my friend Yes, I believe I'll go see her again Nobody has to guess That Baby can't be blessed Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls She takes just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman Yes she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl It was raining from the first And I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long-time curse hurts But what's worse Is that this pain in here I can't stay in here Ain't it clear that I just can't fit Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit When we meet again Introduced as friends Please don't you let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do And you make love just like a woman And then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl She breaks just like a little girl
Everyday people
( Sly and the Family Stone )
Sometimes I'm right, othersI'm wrong My own beliefs are in my song The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then Makes no difference what the group I'm in But I am everyday people, yeah yeah There is a blue one that won't accept the green one For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one And different strokes for different folks And so on, and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee Oh sha sha, we got to live together I am no better and neither are you We are the same whatever we do You love me, you hate me, you know me and then You can't figure out the bag l'm in Copy paste is for losers I am everyday people, yeah yeah There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair For being such a rich one that will not help the poor one And different strokes for different folks And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee Oh sha sha, we got to live together There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one And different strokes for different folks And so on, and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee Oh sha sha, I am everyday people, yeah yeah We got to live together, yeah yeah
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
(Louis Jordan)
When the moon goes down in the dawn And the sun comes up in the morning Don't let the sun catch you crying 'Cause daddy don't want you no more Copy paste is for loser Don't let the sun catch you crying Crying at my front door Hey, you done your daddy dirty He sure don't want you no more Don't let the sun catch you lying Lying at my front door Your daddy's done turned salty Baby, you made him sore You can cry, cry, cry Yes, baby, you can wail Beat your head on the pavement Till the man comes and throws you in jail But don't let the sun catch you crying Crying at my front door You done your daddy dirty He sure don't want you no more You can cry, cry, cry Yes, baby, you can wail Beat your head on the pavement Till the man comes and throws you in jail But don't let the sun catch you crying Crying at my front door You done daddy dirty He sure don't want you no more When the moon goes down in the dawn And the sun comes up in the morning Don't let the sun catch you crying 'Cause daddy don't want you no more I just like that song I don't know who wrote that But you know It's uh, "Don't let the sun cacth you crying" Everybody sings it Louis Jordan, Ray Charles All those people
Grace There's the moon asking to stay Long enough for the clouds to fly me away Oh it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die My fading voice sings of love But she cries to the clicking of time, oh Wait in the fire, wait in the fire Wait in the fire, wait in the fire, fire And she weeps on my arm Walking to the bright lights in sorrow Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow Oh, my love And the rain is falling and I believe My time has come It reminds me of the pain I might leave Leave behind Copy paste is for losers Wait in the fire, wait in the fire Wait in the fire, wait in the fire, fire And I feel them drown my name So easy to know and forget with this kiss I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow Wait in the fire, wait in the fire Wait in the fire, oh Wait in the fire, wait Wait in the fire, wait in the fire, oh
Calling You
( Bob Telson/Jevetta Steele ) A desert road from Vegas to nowhere Some place better than where you've been A coffee machine that needs some fixing In a little café just around the bend I'm calling you Can't you hear me I'm calling you A hot dry wind blows right through me The baby's crying and I can't sleep But we all know a change is coming Oh, coming closer sweet release I'm calling you I know you hear me I'm calling you, oh I'm calling you I'm calling you A desert road from Vegas to nowhere Some place better than where you've been A coffee machine that needs some fixing In a little café just around the bend Copy paste is for losers A hot dry wind blows right through me Your baby's crying, I can't sleep Oh, but we all, we all, we all know a change is coming Coming closer sweet release, sweet release, sweet I'm calling you I know, I know you hear me I'm calling you
Dream of You and I
This is uh, based on some music that I heard in a dream I saw in a dream. Called, uh.. It's going to be called 'You and I' (ouch) 'Cause that's what the people in the dream were singing You and I, you and I, you and I All for you It's like that..I heard that, the people singing that in a dream. Yeah and it was a, it was a dream where I was in an, in an auditorium at a college. And everybody was congregated and singing the same words. And there was like this you know a bunch of... This band on stage and they were like sort a spacey deadhead band With you know like guys in their twenties..like a bunch of grunge guys but kind of playing This other thing, not like what I'm playing on here on guitar And the people kept on beating out rhythms on drum sticks Like this really great rhythm, it wasn't like 7/4 it was really cool space jam And what it was, it was a song, I dreamed that the song was about, uh About this guy, uh, or you know the person in this song is singing to his lover supposedly That uh, that you know, he's completely there's. The lover has forbidden anybody to have contact with hime The lover has taken away his freedom, taken away his days and nights, taken away, you know, his dreams Sent away his friends, forbidden him to get close to his parents, all that stuff And what it was, it was a, it was an AIDS rally and the song was about AIDS Or about something like that. So every time they, every time that the refrain came around People would say You and I, you and I, you and I Copy paste is for losers And they'd point to this sign and it says, you know like It said 'AIDS' with a circle with a slash through it, and they'd go All for you And point to the sign. So, that was the dream. I woke up with it OK, anyway, as long as you got that on the tape I'll remember that The boy with the thorn in his side (Words by Morrisey, Music by Johnny Marr / The Smiths) The boy with the thorn in his side Behind the hatred there lies A murderous desire for love, love How can they look into my eyes And still they don't believe me How can they hear me say those words And still they don't believe me Copy paste is for losers And if they don't believe me now Will they ever believe me And if they don't believe me now Will they ever believe me The boy with the thorn in his side Behind the hatred there lies A plundering desire for love, love, love How can they see the love in our eyes And still they don't believe us And after all this time They don't want to believe us And if they dont believe us now Will they ever believe us And when you want to live How do you start Where do you go Who do you need to know Oh, the boy, the boy A plundering desire for love, love, love Oh yeah
Poor Boy Long Way From Home (Traditional blues song, Bukka White cover)
Me and poor boy we were travellin' Travellin' a long way from home Me and poor we got forlorn We got pulled off and fell a'bound My dear mother she got worried When we were down on that lil farm My mother she called that farm And they told her they hadn't seen felled abound My dear mother got on the phone And she called down on that little farm When my mother talked to the sargeant He wasn't no have mercy on that bill Copy paste is for losers Well the sargeant told my mother It would take two hundred dollar bills We didn't have no one To come-and-go dollar bill Poor boy he got all worried Come walking til he was breakin' down (?) I said "poor boy don't worry Our ma gonna get us out of prison bound" Well this sargeant told my mother He would take two hundred dollar bills We didn't have no one To come-and-go dollar bill Oh my mother she got worried She couldn't get these two hundred dollar bills So one sunday morning My mother she drove to the farm Well the sargeant met my mother He met her at the gate My mother she told the sargeant She didn't even have no two hundred dollar bills Well my mother she kneeled down Mother kneeled down on her knees Oh my mother pleased the sargeant Would he please, sir, have some mercy on me My dear mother she's really cryin' Told the sargeant that she broke down He said "please boy promise You will not hobo on my train" I said listen my poor boy Don't be worried and cryin' Somebody, somebody somewhere Gonna get us out of prison-bound
Night Flight
(Led Zeppelin cover)
I received a message from my brother across the water He sat laughing as he wrote the end's in sight So I said goodbye to all my friends And packed my hopes inside a matchbox 'Cause I know it's time to fly Copy paste is for losers Come on, meet me in the morning Meet me in the middle of the night Oh, the morning light is coming Don't it make you wanna go and feel alright Oh I just jumped a train that never stops So now somehow I'll know I never finished paying for my ride And someone pushed a gun into my hand Tell me I'm the type of man to fight the fight that I'll require Oh yeah, oh come on, come on now won't you meet me in the morning Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night, night yeah Oh everybody said the morning light is comin' Don't it make you wanna go and feel alright, alright, alright Oh, mama, well I think it's time I'm leaving Nothing here to make me stay Well, mama, well it must be time I'm going They're knockin' down them doors, they're tryin' to take me away Please Mr. Brakeman, won't you ring your bell Won't you make it loud and clear Please Mr. Fireman, won't you ring your bell Tell the people they got to try to fly away from here I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby Southern lady, had a very, very special smile We are in the middle of a change in destination When the train stops, all together we will smile Oh yeah, oh come on, come on now won't you meet me in the morning Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night, night yeah Oh everybody said the morning light is comin' Don't it make, don't it make you wanna fee-feel alright Ah, yeah yeah yeah Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-make it feel alright Alright, alright Oh, ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-make it feel alright Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah... Fuck, that pissed me off
I know it's over
(Words by Morrissey, Music by Johnny Marr - Originally performed by The Smiths)
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head And as I climb into an empty bed Oh well, enough said I know it's over still I cling I don't know where else I can go Over, over Copy paste is for losers Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head You see the sea wants to take me The knife wants to slit me Do you think you can help me Sad veiled bride please be happy Handsome groom give her room Loud loutish lover treat her kindly though she needs you More than she loves you I know it's over, still I cling I don't know where else I can go Over, over I know it's over And it never really began But in my heart it was so real And she even spoke to me and said "If you're so funny, why are you on your own tonight?" "And if you are so clever, why are you on your own tonight?" "And if you're so very entertaining, why are you on your own tonight?" "And if you're so very good looking, why do you sleep alone tonight?" I know Because tonight is just like any other night That's why you're on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms While they're in each other's arms That's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate It takes strength to be gentle and kind Over, over, it's over, it's over It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind Over, over Love is natural and real But not for you my love, not tonight my love Love is natural and real But not for such as you and I my love Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh yes Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel That's about it, let's go home That was nice
Alive ( Drugstore / Live at the Mercury Lounge, New York, on December 31 1995 )
I I feel the time is coming I I walk into your eyes Oh I don't care if the clock is turning 'Caus i'm going to the other side You either die Or you keep on burning alive And I am burning I I walked a long long distance I I'm feeling sore inside Oh I don't care if the sky is falling 'Cause i'll never get to see the light You either die Or you keep on burning alive And I am burning And I am burning All flowers in time bend towards the sun
( Live at Selina's, Sydney, on March 1st 1996 )
My eyes are A baptism Oh i am fused And sing her Into my thoughts Oh phantom elusive thing Oh all flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one All flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one, here is one, here is one Aah, ooh... One that can never be more, Either, or drunk, with the world at her feet A sober with no place to go. Oh all flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one All flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one, here is one, here is one Ah we did go and then we We can travel on Fading farther from me With your face in my window glow When will you weep for me Sweet willow It's ok to be angry But not to hurt me Your happiness, yes, yes, yes Darling, darling, Oooh... Oh all flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one All flowers in time bend towards the sun I know you say that there's no-one for you But here is one, here is one, here is one
*** Thanx a lot to Elise & Jamil for this one ***
Alligator wine
( Screamin' Jay Hawkins / Live WFMU "Music Faucet" , Oct 11th 1992 )
Ah ah ah aaaaaaaah! Take the blood out of an alligator Take the left eye of a fish, yeah Take the skin off of a frog, yeah And mix it up in a dish Add a cup of grease swamp water And then countin' one to nine Spit over your left shoulder And you got alligator wine Alligator wine Your porcupine Is gonna make you mine Is gonna make you mine It'll make your head bald, babe I say it make your toes freeze It'll turn your blood into steam - SHHH! It'll make you cough and sneeze You gotta scream like an eagle You gonna roar like a mountain lion When you finished drinking Good old alligator wine Alligator wine Your porcupine Is gonna make you mine Is gonna make you mine Ah yeah ! Wouh ! Meet me at the stroke of midnight By the swamp down in the wood I'm gonna make you love me babe Like you never thought you could You gonna drink my magic potion And your blood shut eye is gonna shine You'd be scared forever Oh my alligator wine Alligator wine Gonna make you mine Your porcupine Is gonna make you mine Is gonna make you mine Waouh! uh uh uh !
*** Thanx a lot to Sammy who corrected some mistakes ***
All Tomorrows Parties
( Velvet Underground Cover / live 92 ) And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go and what shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns To all tomorrow's parties And what will she do with Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown For whom none will go mourning A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown Of rags and silks, a costume Fit for one who sits and cries For all tomorrow's parties
Angel mine (J. Kerouac) Angel mine be you fine Angel divine Angel milk what's your ilk Angel bilk Angel cash Angel Smash Angel hash Auld Lang Syne
( Traditional/R. Burns / live at Mercury Lounge, New York, on December 31 1995 ) Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint stowp! And surely I'll be mine! And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pou'd the gowans fine; But we've wander'd mony a weary fit Sin' auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae paidl'd in the burn, Frae morning sun till dine; But seas between us briad hae roar'd Sin' auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. And there's a hand, my trusty fere! And gie's a hand o' thine! And we'll tak' a right gude-willie waught, For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. Bluebird Blues ( Traditional / Gods and monsters )
The stone cold loner And his eye’s amazing I’m a stone cold loner As cool as a man could be I was gigin’ myself When the love comes down on me I let my bluebird Fly on a cage I sing a song for they’ve never gonna change the world, no Let her fly away Oh, let her fly away I guess some lonesome chap Who's waiting for you night and day Bluebird is a liar She‘ll never love you not for long Bluebird’s liar ! She never gonna love you long She don’t love you But you know your best friend done before I have an angel With eyes like the ocean blue I have an angel With eyes like the ocean blue Someday that bluebird Is gonna fly away back to you Angel, she’s got a ?? Angel, angel sing a song The rain is falling And I believe my time has come I let my bluebird Fly on a cage She‘ll pull , for the night to change or save the world No, she‘s on bruising storm, angel She’s on a bruising storm The rain is falling and I believe my time has come My bluebird told me I was a lover babe Falling a mountain in another black bird cage I said why What was wrong with me Why why why , what’s wrong with me What’s you gonna do Cos’ there’s a black bird picking out you see Oh oh oh oh
*** Thanx a lot to Elise for this one ***
Catnip Dream ( Shonen Knife / live at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, May 4 1995 ) He is a cat but he's very very fat He's not just a standard cat He is a cat but he's still very fat American calico cat Catnip is a kitty cat drug One puff two puffs - high in a dream Funny kitty's got very sleepy eyes I wonder what he's dreaming of Catnip Dream Catnip Dream Catnip Dream meow meow meow Catnip dream He gets his kicks from a tiny toy A green frog filled with catnip And pretty soon he's going to be seventeen Kitty cat birthday party Catnip is a kitty cat drug We plant catnip seeds together All summer long he watches it growing Dreaming of the harvest moon Catnip Dream Catnip Dream Catnip Dream meow meow meow Catnip Dream He is a cat and he's very very smart He knows the coolest place in the yard He is the king of the neighborhood American calico cat Catnip is a kitty cat drug One puff two puffs - high in a dream Funny kitty's got very sleepy eyes I wonder what he's dreaming of Catnip Dream Catnip Dream Catnip Dream meow meow meow Catnip dream
Chocolate / Kangaroo Garage 94 Version
Don't don't, don't, don't don't try to blow out the sun for me baby I'm not hoping for what I know and can't be All That I ask is for a smile each day And i'll give you love that will never go away Yes i will X2 Little babe i wouldn't ask you to lift up this great big world Litle baby X2 I know you're not that kind of girl All that I ask is for a kiss or two And nothing in this world would be too good for you Coz nobody, nobody,nobody,nobody,nobody knows, nobody knows How deep for you my love really goes But girl I want you to know I wouldn't ask you to hold back the door, babe the door baby Thats just a little too much to ask of anyone All that I ask Is for your love, love,loving ways And i'm gonna stand by you for the rest of your natural born days days Do you hear me talking to you I'll keep you happy I'll keep you happy for the rest of your days momma Coz nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody knows How deep my love for you really goes (moves to Kangaroo music) I first saw you you had on blue jeans Your eyes couldn't hide anything I saw you breathing oh I saw you staring out in space I next saw you You were at his party Thought you was a queen oh so flirty I oh came against Didn't say excuse Knew what I was doing We looked very fine As we were leaving As we were leaving as we were making love, As we were making love, we we making love, babe Like St Joan Doing a cool jerk Oh I want you, yes I want you, yes I want you Lord , oh lord, oh I want you Like a Kangaroo, oh yes yes,oh,oh,ohah Love,love,love,turn me love,love,love,love,love,yeah love turn me on turn you all over with my thumb on your tongue Rest your pretty heels on my shoulder You got me shaking like a bed On a a hardwood floor In a lovers room Your love is like sweet dark chocolate yeah melting in my pocket You got me shaking like a lovers bed on a hardwood floor oh There you stare, the finger twisting your red hair,oh Your accusations flying from you oh You call me a liar,a cheater, you call me a whore,oh well you call me a liar, call me a liar, call me a liar, cheater, cheater, and a whore You call me a liar, call me a cheater and a motherfucking whore call oh oh baby you call me a liar, a cheater, thief, beggar and a whore oh Baby I'm all of what you say and so much more Ah yeah Why do you Why do you come back to me time after time after time after time why do you come back to me Why do you come back to me I'll tell you why do you come back to this poor little cheap ?? Bullshit You said i was bullshit woman You said my love was fucking bullshit You said I was bullshit but then you you call me a liar, a cheater and a whore And you shut your mouth if I showed you what your hole was for yeah I tell you why, its all because all because all because, all bacause your love all because your love all because your love sweet love, secret love, flowing love hot love secret love flowing love is just like chocolate coz your love oh yeah all because your love is sweet chocolate melting on my back pocket melting on the tongue of God Everybodys got to fuck Every man has to be the devil Every womans has to feel like she's been slapped around Everybodys got to live with their own demons in the same house Everybodys got to feel like they're the only one Everybody wants to be loved X3 Dont you want my love X5 dont you Dont you want my love X2 Dont you like what you see Dont you love all I could be for you I could be your I could be your brother I could be your brother I could be your sister I could be your slave I could be your fucking dog oh babe I love you Some day I wish I could know what its like to be you and have me inside Some day I'd like to become you and to know what its like to feel with me in yeah X9 oh you oh you treat me like a devil But your kisses are just like heaven Oh you look so beautiful when you're walking out on me love oh with nothing as tender as when I wake up in your hair when I wake up in your arms I swear upon my blood I understand you I swear on my ??? grave I understand you Sometimes a man must be all his woman feels he could be thats me X3 And I'm not afraid to know you You gave me your all you gave me your best Your cigarettes smell like the fear inside my chest Oh shit and your love feels like sweet black chocolate melting in the part of her melting in around my skin oh your so baby your love is like sweet chocolate melting on the tonge of god oh yes yes yes go on do it X4 go on do it, go on say it, go on say it, go on be it only be it Come on let me take it, come on let me do it, come on let me be it I swear I'm the only one yeah You're the only one You're the, thats why I want you Like a Thats why I want you Like a kangaroo Thats why I want you like a Thats why I want you like a kangaroo yeah Thats why I want you for ever and ever and everyman I cross my heart and anything you want You can call me a liar, you can call me a cheater you can call me a thief and a motherfucking whore I'm all you say I am and so much more Go
Curtains (Music: E. John/Lyrics: B. Taupin / Live at Mercury Lounge in New York on New Year's Eve December 31 1995 ) I used to know this old scarecrow He was my song My joy and sorrow Cast alone between the furrows Of a field no longer sown by anyone I held a dandelion That said the time had come To leave upon the wind Not to return When summer burned the earth again Oh oh oh, oh oh oh.... Cultivate the freshest flower This garden ever grew Beneath these branches I once wrote such childish words for you But that's okay There's treasure children always seek to find And just like us You must have had A once upon a time Oh oh oh, oh oh oh.... Despite the tears ( Written by Chris Dowd and Jeff Buckley, on The Seedy Arkhestra's CD, Puzzle ) He found a letter from his lover She said she's never coming home His things were lying on her doorstep And his tears, they fell like rain And in his mind, he knew He'd love her always Despite the tears And in this town where few knew love He'd spend his nights all alone, crying And all the love he'd once shared with her Was gone, long, long, long gone And he knew a part of him was dying And in his mind He knew he'd love her always Despite the tears Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry Lover we tried, we tried, we tried And in his mind he knew he'd love her always Despite the tears
Dream Brother
There is a child sleeping near his twin The pictures go wild in a rush of wind That dark angel he is shuffling in Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled The love you lost with her skin so fair Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair Her green eyes blew goodbyes With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips of another Dream Brother with your tears scattered round the world. Don't be like the one who made me so old Don't be like the one who left behind his name 'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine And nobody ever came... Don't be like the one who made me so old Don't be like the one who left behind his name 'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine And nobody ever came... Don't be like the one who made me so old Don't be like the one who left behind his name 'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine Nobody ever came Nobody ever... I feel afraid and I call your name I love your voice and your dance insane I hear your words and I know your pain With your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another Your eyes to the ground and the world spinning round forever Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over Ah do you meet the one I love And smell the one who loves you Dream brother, dream brother, dream, dream Dream asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
Dido's Lament ( H. Purcell / live at Meltdown Festival, London, July 1 1995) Thy hand, belinda; darkness shades me: On thy bosom let me rest: More I would, but death invades me: Death is now a welcome guest. When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble in thy breast; Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Edna frau (J.Buckley/M.Grondahl / Live 96' Tour )
To cross the ocean and to look down This pipe love is rushing to a city bed Then wires (?) stream into an open (....) Take hold of Jude, she's coming down I made like i didn't tell you Don't tell it When will you wash the bodies Two seven numbers (?) with the happy (....) Take a leave and join me on the water's (?) edge I let you (......) i could assist your death I made like i didn't tell you When they call me I made like i didn't tell you When they call me But cry, oh, your life Don't go blind (?) Cry... go blind (?) To get out Now my sister, you didn't know how Everyone needs (..............) All my children are acting out Crawling to bed with Edna Frau
Faith Salons (Brenda Kahn/Jeff Buckley - From the 1994 Brenda Kahn promotional EP King of Cairo & 1996 Brenda Kahn LP Destination Anywhere) In the faith salons they do your nails for fifteen dimes a bottle, where someone in the darkness waits for your arrival. In the Faith Salons the deals are struck, making heroes out of dust and clay. The man gives you sixty seconds on the dollar, and walks away. In the middle of your book of ages you write your dreams down to the letter. Tired of second chances and singles dances. Her robes were purple velvet feeling like the king of Cairo. Prisoners to fools and slaves to paper gods. In the faith salons.... The books of massacres and natural disasters, beguiled by belligerence learned from the dancing masters. The child on the train was a mimic mime of babble. The mother knitted sweaters that the child would unravel. In the faith salons.... They have medicines for madness, madness caused by drugs, something for your headache and a spray to kill the bugs. You walk the catwalk of polyphony, And your charades of destiny. To whose myth of creation will you finally fall upon your knees and cry for forgiveness denied. In the faith salons.... She'd appear like a belligerrent ghost in my dreams, In my living room, all torn apart and blue, Where the ribbons flew and the sky tore like a sheet of rain, of dust. Peace is a distant mirage where the only truth is the path and chance the only landmark in the desert. Sleeping in doorways. Underneath the falling frescoes, She'd say, It's your pain. In the faith salons....
Farewell Angelina
Farewell Angelina, The bells of the crown Are being stolen by bandits, I must follow the sound The triangle tingles, And the trumpets play slow Farewell Angelina, The sky is on fire And I must go. There's no need for anger There's no need for blame There's nothing to prove Ev'rything's still the same Just a table standing empty By the edge of the sea Farewell Angelina The sky is trembling And I must leave. The jacks and the queens Have forsaked the courtyard Fifty-two gypsies Now file past the gaurds In the space where the deuce And the ace once ran wild Farewell Angelina The sky is folding I'll see you in a while. See the cross-eyed pirates sitting Perched in the sun Shooting tin cans With a sawed-off shotgun And the neighbors they clap And they cheer with each blast Farewell Angelina The sky's changing color And I must leave fast. King Kong, little elves On the rooftops they dance Valentino-type tangos While the make-up man's hands Shut the eyes of the dead Not to embarrass anyone Farewell Angelina The sky is embarassed And I must be gone. The machine guns are roaring The puppets heave rocks The fiends nail time bombs To the hands of the clocks Call me any name you like I will never deny it Farewell Angelina, I must go where it's quiet.
Flutter Girl
(Chris Cornell) And drinking dust With eyes of rust Tonight my tears might stain your wings So flutter home 'Cause you're better off alone than with me So hide your face And tie your lace And butterflies across your cheek Forget how soon You'll become a fool for words when i speak Flutter girl You don't want to know what i've lived You don't want to take what i give And I give nothing for free You don't want to know what i've lived You don't want to take what i give And i give nothing for free My hands are rough My fingers cold Your heart's so young and so naive To ever feel For a moment that i might let you believe... I'll melt your smile I'll tear your wings I'll color everything you see So flutter home 'Cause you're better off alone than with me Flutter girl You don't want to know what i've lived You don't want to take what i give 'Cause i give nothing for free And you don't want to know what i've lived You don't want to take what i give 'Cause i give nothing for free Flutter girl You don't want to know what i've lived You don't want to take what i give And i give nothing for free You don't want to know what i've lived Flutter girl Flutter girl Forget Her While this town is busy sleeping All the noise has died away I walk the streets to stop my weeping 'Cause she'll never change her ways Don't fool yourself She was heartache from the moment that you met her My heart feels so still As i try to find the will to forget her somehow Oh i think i've forgotten her now Her love is a rose pale and dying Dropping her petals and man I know All full of wine, the world before her Was sober with no place to go Don't fool yourself She was heartache from the moment that you met her My heart is frozen still As i try to find the will to forget her somehow She's somewhere out there now Oh my tears falling down as i tried to forget Her love was a joke from the day that we met All of the words all of her men All of my pain when i think back to when Remember her hair as it shone in the sun It was there on the bed when i knew what she'd done Tell yourself over and over you won't ever need her again But don't fool yourself She was heartache from the moment that you met her Oh my heart is frozen still As i try to find the will to forget her somehow She's out there somewhere now Oh She was heartache from the day that i first met her My heart is frozen still As I tried to find the will to forget you somehow 'Cause i know you're somewhere out there right now Sooner or later
*** Thanx a lot to Charley & Jonathan who corrected this one ***
Good Morning Little School Girl (Lightnin' Hopkins / Live at Mountain Stage Radio, West Virginia, with others artists, April 2 1994)
Good mornin' 'lil school girl, Can I go home, can I go home with you? Tell your mother and your father, I'm a little school boy too Woke up this mornin', Woke up this mornin', I didn't know what to, I didn't know what to do I didn't have no blues, Baby, bit I couldn't be satisfied I'm gettin' me an airplane, I'm gettin' me an airplane, Get in my airplane Gon' fly all oh-oh, gon' fly all over this land I'm gonna find my little school girl, Find her in the world somewhere Good mornin' 'lil school girl, Good mornin' 'lil school girl Can I go home with, can I go home with, Can I go home with you? Tell your mother and your father, Johnny little school boy too Come be my baby, come be my baby, I buy you a diamond, I buy you a diamond ring You don't be my little baby, I ain't gonna buy you a doggone ring
There's the moon asking to stay Long enough for the clouds to fly me away Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die My fading voice sings of love But she cries to the clicking of time, Wait in the fire... And she weeps on my arm Walking to the bright lights in sorrow Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow Oh my love... And the rain is falling and I believe my time has come And it reminds me of the pain I might leave behind Wait in the fire... And I feel them drown my name So easy to know and forget with this kiss But I'm not afraid to go, baby it's all because of you But I'm not afraid to go, but it goes so slow, slow Wait in the fire, wait in the fire Wait in the fire... Don't you take it away from me
(Live From The Bataclan EP)
I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrough ya She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Well, maybe I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor I used to live with Leonard before I knew ya I've seen your flag on the marble arch But love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah There was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do ya But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath you drew was Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah And maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya Well it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Halle... It's not what you're told It's not her face It's not his touch In the room you both share Where he's gone when he loved When your time and your memory fills your dreams When you're honest and together Together no more No more Hallelujah, until you're nothing Hallelujah, baby, until she's everywhere Hallelujah, until together you are somewhere I'd lost Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Bonne nuit, bonne nuit, I love you, I love you, We love you, Thank you
(Live at Palais Theatre, Melbourne / Grace EP)
I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this : The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrough ya She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Baby I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew ya I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not some victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah There was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do ya But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah Well, maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew ya And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah... [Last Month Of The Year Part] Tell me what month was Jesus born in Last month of the year Tell me what month was Jesus born in Last month of the year Got January, January, March oh Lord Got April, May and June Lord You got July oh yeah September, October and November Got the twenty fifty December is the last month of the year What month was Jesus born in Last month of the year What month was Jesus born in Last month of the year Got January, February, March oh Lord Got April, May and June Lord You got July oh but September, October and November Got the twenty fifty December is the last month of the year Thank you Melbourne
If the sun should tumble from the sky If the sea should suddenly run dry If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I don't care Shall I catch a shooting star Shall I bring it where you are If you want me to, I will. You can set me any task I'll do anything you ask If you'll only love me still When at last, our life on earth is through I will spend eternity with you If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I won't care (Jeff sings parts from two well-known French versions of this song, sometimes in French and sometimes in an English translation.)
Le ciel bleu sur nous peut s'effondrer Et la terre peut bien s'ecrouler Peu m'importe, si tu m'aimes, Je me moque du monde entier Tant que l'amour inondra mes matins Que mon corps fremira sous tes mains Peu m'importent les grands problemes, Mon amour puisque tu m'aimes J'irais jusque au bout du monde, Je me ferais teindre en blonde Si tu me le demandais On peut bien rire de moi Je ferais n'importe quoi Si tu le me demandais Nous aurons pour nous l'eternite dans le bleu de toute l'immensite Dans le ciel plus de problemes Dieu reunit ceux qui s'aiment
I against I ( Bad brains / live at KCRW, Man In The Moon, January 1994) In The quest for the test to fulfill an achievement, everybody's only in it for themselves. But the fact of the matter is they don''t care to extend a helping hand to anyone else. So tell me why you had to lie and trie to make me all confused aout the U.S.A., When the fact of the matter is you just don't care to comprehend or understand a single word I say. I don't want to have I go against I.... Oh let me tell you. And it's the same old story no factual glory. I against I against I against I. And I say I don't like it and I know I dont want it.. I against Iagainst I against I. Almighty watching Almighty watching. I against I against I against I against I. And I say I dont like it. And I know I don't want it. I against I against I against I. I said who is gonna tell the youh the truth about eh drugs, mugs bugs, and the police thugs. About the rotten stinkin rackets and the fantasies around the nation, around the nations. Oh baby what gonna do I tell you the truth is looking straight at you... I got a brass continental a 300-Z, two color T.V.S. now video too. I got a rest home in Jamaica for my fantasy for my family. Around the nation. Around the nation. What you gonna do?
I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby
( Full Band Version ) It's been a long time since I ever was your star Convinced that I am gone because of what you are But you know it was me You know it was me I had a way to tell you that you're in me now I imagine we're in the pattern of our mind I pretend that you trust me I pretend that you trust me Go on without you Out of the past we once knew Some other love becomes you Whatever else it comes to I know we could be so happy baby If we wanted to be I don't want to lose you But I can't ask that you stay We all know that it means a torture anyway But I think in time you can trust me All of the dislocation that possessed me and you Has always had a hold The war I fight because I love you Because I loved you So go on without you Out of the past we once knew Some other love becomes you Whatever else it comes to I know we could be so happy baby If we wanted to be If we wanted If we wanted If we wanted You can be happy You could grow and learn to forgive The mistakes of tender souls and everything They're only living life with one home, one face Will I have another fairy tale That I'm crushed in for me and you Not with you but of you Not with you but of you Go on without you Out of the past we once knew Some other love becomes you Whatever else it comes to I know we could be so happy baby If we wanted to be If we wanted I know we could be so happy baby
I Loves You Porgy (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin / D. Heyward - Sing by Nina Simone) I loves you Porgy Don't let him take me Don't let him handle me And drive me mad If you can keep me I like to stay here With you forever And I'll be so glad Someday, he's coming back to call me He's gonna handle me and hold me so It's gonna feel like dying, Porgy Dying dying deep inside me But when he calls I know I have to go I loves you Porgy Don't let him take me Don't let him handle me With his hard hand If you can keep me I like to stay here With you forever Cause I got my man With you forever Cause I got my man
*** Thanx a lot to Thomas for this one and me to adapt the lyrics to the jeff cover ! ***
In The Cantina It's so dark in my home With this world I live alone Whiskey sour in my sunrise (...) like a silvereyes In the cantina Sun drenched (...) I'm here sleeping In my sparkle silver And now my home is cantina In her wound/womb sea foam washes All I love is now ashes Window show by the shore Oh my love I'll find it crying this eve at night Oh my love His mother dead Her brother dead Daughters and lovers dead to this world So their home is a cantina In her wound/womb sea foam washes When all your love will be ashes Your crooked door stormy window Whiskey sour at my nightfall Oh my love I'll find it crying this eve at night Oh my love Oh to be young and sane Safe back home Don't set up around for me My friends a cantina
*** Thanx a lot to Elise & Dicle for this one *** I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
( Tim Buckley / Live at 'Greetings From Tim Buckley', tribute concert at St.Ann's Church, New York, April 26 1991 )
I never asked to be your mountain I never asked to fly Remember when you came to me And told me of his lies You didn't understand my love You don't know why I try And the rain was falling on that day And damn the reason why The flying pisces sails for time Tells me of my child Wrapped in bitter tales and heartache He begs for just a smile O he never asked to be her mountain He never asked to fly Through his eye he comes his love And tells her not to cry She says, "your scoundrel father flies With a dancer called a queen With her stolen cards he plays And laughs, but never wins" O the child dreams to be his hands In the counting of the rain But only barren breasts he feels For her milk will never drain As i die i can't remember Where i saw the rain Could it be that her laughter Drove me down again? Charming dancer will you stop Stop and talk to me? Is there someone else you feel In your dreams ? you will, you see In midnight gazes I've found you far from me If you lead me on Please leave me down O flying flying fish Please flutter by my door: Yes you can drink my lies If first you read my eyes: Each one is titled "I'm drowning back to you": I can't swim your waters And you can't walk my lands: I'm sailing all my sins And i'm climbing all my fears And soon now i'll fly O i never asked to be your mountain I never asked to fly Remember when you came to me And told me of his lies You didn't understand my love You don't know why i try And the rain was falling on that day And that's the reason why Sweet lover, will you come back And love me for a while? Please take my hand Leave all your fears behind I've been gone too long Now i'm home to stay Please don't leave me Again this way Please come home
I Shall Be Released ( Bob Dylan / Live at WFMU, September 6 1992 ) They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So i remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. They say every man needs protection, They say every man must fall. Yet i swear i see my reflection Some place so high above this wall. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he's not to blame. All day long I hear him shout so loud, Crying out that he was framed. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
I want someone badly Now I want someone badly Got a girl here tonight Want someone new Someone new A little cry wants someone badly I wanna know if this is a bad lease on me (I want to know) I want to know Am I sure that I heard you right I want to know If you're leaving just do it tonight Now I want someone badly To burn in here with me But listen baby 'Cause I cry all over madly Don't do anything do it for/with me Ooh I wanna know Am I sure that I have your love I want know If you're leaving just make sure it's right Now I want someone badly Could it be true That someone is you
*** Thanx to Luli who help me with this one ***
(Medley Piaf / Live From The Bataclan EP)
I used to know a little square So long ago, when I was small All summer long it had a fair Wonderful fair with swings and all I used to love my little fair And at the close of everyday I could be found, dancing around A merry-go-round that used to play: "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux Rien que nous deux" All summer long my little fair Made everyday like a holiday Night after night it used to play People came there from so far away And everyone sang that little tune All around the town you heard it played Even Pepi from Napoli He sang to Marie this serenade If the sun should tumble from the sky If the sea should suddenly run dry If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I won't care Shall I catch a shooting star Shall I bring it where you are If you want me to, I will. (I hope I get this right) You can set me any task I'll do anything you ask If you'll only love me still When at last, our life on earth is through I will spend eternity with you If you love me, really love me Let it happen darling, I won't care
Jolly street
(Music by Curtis Fowlkes, Lyrics by Ray Dobbins and Roy Nathanson - From the 1994 Jazz Passengers LP In Love)
Slow birds No breeze Iron hearts Rust in streams Long march Small crimes Soft words Whisper It's time to come home - your eyes To bring back - your charms To sit real still In my arms Clocks tick Trees pound Lions roar On empty streets Long lists In black and white (S h h) Red words That read like the Fourth of July You're home Uhuh, You're home, In my arms Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face Stars to fill my dream. I am a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been. To sit with Elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen. They talk of days for which they sit and wait And all will be revealed...
Kick out the jams ( Cover from The Motor City Five / MC5 )
I'm gonna kick 'em out Well I feel pretty good And I guess that I could get crazy now, baby 'Cause we all got in tune When the dressing room got hazy now, baby I know how you want it, child, Hot, sweet, and tight The girls can't stand it When you're doing it right When they're up on the stand And then they kick out the jams, yes Kick out the jams, I like to kick 'em out Yes I'm startin' to sweat You know my shirt's all wet What a feelin' And the sound that abounds and Resounds and rebounds off the ceiling You gotta have it, baby You can't do without When you get the feelin' You've got the sounds above Put that mic in my hand And let me kick out the jams Yes, kick out the jams, got to kick 'em out So you got to get it up And then can't get enough That's what .... 'Cause it gets in your brain It drives you insane, makes you crazy The ...... the faster you funk If you wanna feed my rocket Till the morning comes Let me be who I am And let me kick out the jams Yes kick out the jams I done kick 'em out
Killing Time ( The Creatures / Live at Astoria, London, January 18 1995 )
I wait and wait Sleepwalk the hourglass This way and that The pendulum swings Yes there's plenty of time Always time left to kill Does time stand still Or hurtle on by? Let time unwind Let all the cogs fall out Let mans machines Collapse and rust Face down in the dust I'll kiss no other lips A life time of nothing Condemned without you Been so long here I could die here Lying by your side But time won't claim me Time and me only I'm just killing time If the sun went out I wouldn't mind too much Who needs the days To trouble to fill? If the moon didn't rise I wouldn't be upset Who needs moonshine To cause tears to spill? I've been so long here I could lie here Under dying sky This thirst and hunger Holds no wonder I'm just killing time I await your return There's no other one
Let's bomb the moonlight So well The world is diagnosed with terminal cancer Flesh is not human this culture is not freedom And the world has terminal cancer I want to live with you Let's bomb the moonlight and dance This far awake is a joke our love is real And the world is diagnosed with terminal cancer I love your lips ?? Armageddon's just another job, it's all on the inside Don't let them tell you love is a lie Love is so real The best bet's to stay alive Let's go bomb the moonlight Let's take it back What was ours by right Frame of a picture, the subject's not right Oh people of the world You have a new boy in town To share the light with a guillotine That's realer than all of you That's love human. We'll bomb the moonlight and dance Dance Sweet black mother of death Why did you have to take her away from me? It's stupid all the words fit together Where now is nothing Why did you have to bring us together, Under such dirty circumstance? I have a molotov Let's bomb the moonlight and dance Dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance
Lost Highway ( Hank Williams ) I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost For a life of sin I have paid the cost When I walk by all the people say Just another guy on the lost highway Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine And a woman's lies makes a life like mine On the day we met, I went astray I started rolling down this lost highway I was just a lad, nearly twenty two Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you And now I'm lost, too late to pray Lord I paid a cost, on the lost highway Now boy's don't start to ramblin' round On this road of sin are you sorrow bound Take my advice or you'll curse the day You started rollin' down that lost highway Lost highway
Madam George
(Van Morrison) Down on cyprus avenue With a child-like vision leaping into view. The clicking clacking of the high-heeled shoes, Ford and fitzroy; madam george. Marching with the soldierboy behind He's much older now with hat on, drinking wine And the smell of sweet perfume comes drifting thru In the cool night breeze like shalimar And then your self control lets go And suddenly you're up against the bathroom door. The hallway lights are finely getting dim You're in the front row touching him And outside they're making all the stops The kinds out in the streets collecting bottle tops, Going for cigarettes and matches to the shops, Happy talking, madam george And that's when you fall, oh, Oh, that's when you fall And you fall into a trance Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance With your folded arms in history books you glance Into the eyes of madam george And you think you've found your bag, You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag And in the corner playing dominoes in drag, The one and only madam george And outside the frosty window raps She says "be cool, i think that it's the cops" Stands up, drops everything she gots, It's not easy now you know Now you know you gotta go Catch a train from dublin up to sandy row, In the wind, rain & fog & slush & snow Keep on going on Say good-bye we know you're pretty far out And all the little boys comin' round They got gold cigarette lighters in their pockets Walking away from it all, so cool. That's when you fall.
Mama, you been on my mind
( Bob Dylan / Live at WFMU, October 11 1992 )
Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at, Or maybe it's the weather or something like that, But mama, you been on my mind. I don't mean trouble, please don't put me down or get upset, I am not pleadin' or sayin', "I can't forget." I do not walk the floor bowed down an'bent, but yet, Mama, you been on my mind. Even though my mind is hazy an'my thoughts they might be narrow, Where you been don't bother me nor bring me down in sorrow. It don't even matter to me where you're wakin' up tomorrow, But mama, you're just on my mind. I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no," Please understand me, I got no place for you t'go. I'm just breathin' to myself, pretendin' not that I don't know, Mama, you been on my mind. When you wake up in the mornin', baby, look inside your mirror. You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near. I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear As someone who has had you on his mind.
[Chocolate Part] You got me shaking like a lovers bed on a hardwood floor In the New York summertime, melting on a tongue of gold I'm lying in my bed The blanket is warm This body will never be safe from harm I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal Touch my skin to keep me whole Well if only you'd come back to me If you laid at my side Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow Black beauty I love you so Yeah precious, precious silver and gold and pearls in oyster's flesh Drop down we two to serve and pray to love Yes born again from the rhythm, screaming down from heaven Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your... Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow Black beauty I love you so... The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more Well it's you I've waited my life to see It's you I've waited my life to see It's you... If you hurt me I'll kill you...
New Year's Eve Prayer You, my love, are allowed to forget about the Christmas you just spent stressed out in your parents’ house. You, my love, are allowed to shed the weight of all the years before like bad disco clothes, save them for a night of dancing stoned with your lover. You, my love, are allowed to let yourself drown every night in bottomless wild and naked symbolic dreams. You, my love, in sleep can unlock your youth and your most terrifying magic, and dreaming is for the courageous. You, my love, are allowed to grab my guitar and sing me idiot love songs if You’ve lost your ability to speak, keep it down to two minutes. You, my love, are allowed to rot and to die and to live again more alive and incandescent than before. You, my love, are allowed to beat the shit out of your television, choke its thoughts And corrupt its mind kill, kill, kill, kill the motherfucker before the song of zombiefied pain and panic and malaise and its narrow, right-winged vision And its cheap commercial gang rape becomes the white noise of the world (turnabout is fair play). You, my love, are allowed to forgive and love your television. You, my love, are allowed to speak in kisses to those around you and those up in heaven. You, my love, are allowed to show your babies how to dance full bodied, starry eyed, audacious, supernatural, and glorified. You, my love, are allowed to suck in every single endeavor. You, my love, are allowed to be soaked like a lovers’ blanket in the New York summertime with the wonder of your own special gift. You, my love, are allowed to receive praise. You, my love, are allowed to have time. You, my love, are allowed to understand. You, my love, are allowed to love. Woman disobey, Little man believe. You, my love, are rebellion.
*** Thanx a lot to Jupiterssis for this one ***
No One Must Find You here (As feat. On "The Rain Was Falling On That Day"compilation) "Come on man, there you go" Take my shoes and bury them With sand and paper and broken bowels In memory of the lover I'll never be Whose fortune dancers dropped in his arms Ooh Come Every man and woman take a beam around yours Missing in the mess-up of all your dreams and prayers Miss the eyes of somebody too sacred Hoping for an innocent heart that could not please the man Who'd waited on you for all your days pay-checks Take my eyes and bury them I'll never need them to see your God I apologise to my woman for all those tricks and games For the damage I've done For the mess I've made I spread love Take him, Take it away Don't make a sea-trip Never to see true light again The Church is going to drag you down To the bottom of its birth will it speed I'm the one who brought the axe down I refuse to be set free Bring me down Ah bring it down There ain't no way to stop this now So close to home Alone beside you here So every man must become the enemy of his own soul For the ones he loves And I want you I want yours so badly I wanna be strong like the man that I am, boy oh Break it, Take it away Loathe his reason Never to see the light of day Missing in the mess-up of all your dreams and plans Miss the eyes of somebody too sacred Hoping for an innocent heart, run-off descent man The way you live for all your days pay-checks Bring me down Bring me There ain't no way to stop this now So close to home No one must find you here (repeated x 1) There's no way to stop this now There's no way to stop this now
*** Thanx a lot to Tim for this one ***
Once I was ( Tim Buckley / Live at 'Greetings From Tim Buckley', tribute concert at St.Ann's Church, New York, April 26 1991 )
Once I was a soldier And I fought on foreign sands for you Once I was a hunter And I brought home fresh meat for you Once I was a lover And I searched behind your eyes for you And soon there'll be another To tell you I was just a lie And sometimes I wonder Just for a while Will you remember me And though you have forgotten All of our rubbish dreams I find myself searching Through the ashes of our ruins For the days when we smiled And the hours that ran wild With the magic of our eyes And the silence of our words And sometimes I wonder Just for a while Will you remember me
Ozark melody (Alien Abductees OST / Music by Frederick Reed and Jeff Buckley, Lyrics by Joe Tripician) Well the aliens are coming They're coming while i'm strummin' They fill me up with such a sense of pride When the aliens do take me I hope that they will let me Bring my little sister for my bride. The space men with skin of gray Took my baby child away Now they say they want a second date I'm really kind of flattered Though I know it doesn't matter Just think of it as interstellar rape. The aliens will help me I know that they can lift me Lift me out of earth's velocity The aliens have shown me In their space craft as they hold me Their space-age Ozark moonshine recipe. In the kitchen I've gone wild With spices hot and mild Yes, I'm the planet's new age Julia child. I'm cookin' up a present A ten-pound frisky pheasant They'll stuff it like they stuffed me - with a smile The aliens are recruiting Over hill and dale they're lootin' For kins and cows and even chickens, too. They took my cousin Billy Now he's more than silly I wish they'd take my auntie Mary lou. Now the aliens don't like me 'Cause I guess I tried to bite 'em It's just my way of being kind of close They threw me in a pasture Now i'm aging faster Faster than a free-range country roast. Well the aliens are coming They're coming while i'm strummin' They fill me up with such a sense of pride When the aliens do take me I hope that they will let me Bring my little sister for my bride.
( M.Allison )
People's Parties
( Joni Mitchell Cover / Live at Sin-é, New York, December 31 1995 )
All the people at this party They've got a lot of style They've got stamps of many countries They've got passport smiles Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are standing in the centre Giving to get something Photo beauty gets attention Then her eye paint's running down She's got a rose in her teeth And a lampshade crown One minute she's so happy Then she's crying on someone's knee Saying laughing and crying You know it's the same release I told you when i met you I was crazy Cry for us all beauty Cry for eddie in the corner Thinking he's nobody And jack behind his joker And stone-cold grace behind her fan And me in my frightened silence Thinking i don't understand I feel like i'm sleeping Can you wake me You seem to have a broader sensibility I'm just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and a lazy mind And coming to peoples parties Fumbling deaf dumb and blind I wish i had more sense of humor Keeping the sadness at bay Throwing the lightness on these things Laughing it all away Laughing it alI away Laughing it all away
Phantasmagoria In Two ( Tim Buckley / Live at 'Greetings From Tim Buckley', tribute concert at St.Ann's Church, New York, April 26 1991 )
If a fiddler played you a song, my love And if I gave you a wheel Would you spin for my heart and loneliness Would you spin for my love If I gave up all of my pride for you And only loved you for now Would you hide my fears and never say "Tomorrow I must go" Everywhere there's rain my love Everywhere there's fear If you tell me a lie I'll cry for you Tell me of sin and I'll laugh If you tell me of all the pain you've had I'll never smile again Everywhere there's rain my love Everywhere there's fear I can plainly see that our parts have changed Our sands are shifting around Need I beg to you for one more day To find our lonely love Everywhere there's rain my love Everywhere there's fear
Please Send Me Someone To Love ( Percy Mayfield / Live WFMU "Music Faucet" , Oct 11th 1992 ) Heaven please send to all mankind Understanding and peace and mind But if it's not asking too much Please send me someone to love Send me someone to love Show the world how to get along Peace we'll enter when hate is gone But if it is not asking too much Please send me someone to love Please send me someone to love And I wake up and ponder the world's trouble And my answer is always the same Now let's put an end to this damn all of sin Hate will put the world in a flame, what a shame Just because I am in misery I don't beg for no sympathy But if it is not asking too much Please send me someone to love Please send me someone to love Oh just because I am Just because I am in misery Oh and I don't beg for no sympathy Oh but if it is not asking too much Please send me someone to love Please send me someone to love if it is not asking too much Please, please send me someone to love
Radio You mind us of beeing crippled Mass appear to watch devil Radio why you’re so late You turn to make your brain It’s a shame There’s no blood to bleed , no sex to seeing with I wish that you will never (…)to begin with Ra, radio , ra ra ra hey Oh no my radio ! You big brother radio You suck the jam of the big fat toe Cos you know you’re killing me You don’t even know the sounds Tell me , you bitch Hopefully know the way that the fucking smashed ass They’re really great , I really think they are If you want to steal the (…)of my car is a radio Ra ra ra , oh Ra-di-o ! Radio ! Me and all each Radio ! Watch do the bitch Radio ! You my truck feel like you (……) feel good ! Radio ! Radio ! Radio ! The children (…) medicine , you …fuck you want to …us Radio , radio , oh Yo ! One ( …) day You’ll be my wife Radio ! ! You put me in a edge (…) (…) For one thousand tapes Make sure that a song (…) Fuck off ! Ra ra ra - Oh radio ! Ra ra ra ra (…) Fuck you try to (.....) us !
River of Dope ( Unreleased Rare Track )
You could have been New Orleans. You could have been New Orleans. But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life You could have been New Orleans But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life I saw us drowning with our neck in a rope She was covered handy by the river of dope I guess it caught her fancy just to be by his side She had no answer when she tried to get high Turn to the prison of the camera’s strobe Fame is religion by the river of dope My brain is tired of how the woman can cope It just don’t matter to the river of dope The door’s no longer open for my name on their breath So long I’ve waited for the coming of death Will I be united with my innocence gone Will I burn to cinders as the river rolls on Hmmm…river, we sleep in your mud. You give us poison, will we drink your blood I saw your woman with a seven-foot rope Hang your dirty laundry by the river of dope. I watched your mother abandon her hope And she watched you drowning by the river of dope It felt so damn special to be damaged and free To have her hairs not feel you. Look in my eyes and you’ll see That I flow with the river, and I’m a slave to his song and I will drown forever where so many have gone Goodbye you people who have abandoned your hope Parade in early morning to the river of dope Hmm, yeah the river of dope.
Rock me baby
( BB King - Joe Josea / Live )
Rock me baby Rock me all night long Rock me baby Rock me all night long Rock me baby Like my back ain't got no bone Roll me baby Like you roll a wagon wheel I want you to roll me baby, like you roll a wagon wheel Want you to roll me baby, you don't know how it makes me feel Rock me baby, honey, rock me slow Yeah, rock me pretty baby, baby rock me slow Want you to rock me baby, till I want no more
Sefronia - The King's Chain ( Tim Buckley / Live at 'Greetings From Tim Buckley', tribute concert at St.Ann's Church, New York, April 26 1991 )
I couldn't buy you with a hundred cattle But you hike in shells and feathers Up the African beach, I am king here Tied to this hut by the King's chain My power's like a tree and green taboo to me The chameleon lies in your dusty fingers, And blue flies circle your head like stars; Jump into me now, I must not see the water, Let me suck my weakness from your dark nipples
Sky Blue Skin (Demo) Take the pain until it all rings hollow We learn to loathe the truth as it shines I already see the ghosts on the sidewalk Kissing in the hereafter And your hands are in your pockets as you face 'em And your bodies both frozen by the dawn Only one knows they're watching it down They're there from hereafter Young life crosses young love You've learned to think life is for somebody else You make it hard to live it for yourself And the man you love just doesn't know just what he's after Chances are you wouldn't even recognize the man I am now Chances are you wouldn't even recognize the man I am now Chances are you wouldn't even recognize the man I am now Yeah make up any excuse To remedy you can't control And life wanders through me so slow It cuts between us as we grow That's all That's all it is
Strawberry Street
( Grace Legacy Edition CD ) Streetlights flicker on As they take on the sun Like counterfeit stars Watch them come Watch them come Pacified haze full speed away Comfort in the arms of a decadent gray No tears, no fears You’ll always remain here The power out there seems to keep you when You lost your blood to adrenaline The flesh is weak and the dream is within In a casting room Seven little honey girls sitting in a row Practice for the imperial pillow Like sweet little strawberries Eaten from a bowl Hot lipstick red And a candy store soul And in a bed upstairs Do you hear destiny Girl, I’m a mystery Nightmarish shade Strawberries tall [?] Drinking [?] your eyes below Kill the memory Watch it die Pornographic death Fucking ripped bloody shredded steaming mess Kill the memories Watch them die, lullaby Your mother once sung Yours was the kind Who’s born to die young And on the boulevard Seven little honey girls sitting in a row Manacled to the imperial pillow And if I came up there to Strawberry Street And said that I had a key Would you do as I told you Would you give it up to me Automatically Strawberry Whatcha gonna do for me Strawberry, strawberry Whatcha gonna do for me Strawberry, strawberry Whatcha gonna do for me Strawberry, strawberry Whatcha gonna do for me
The Other Woman ( By Jesse Mae Robinson & performed by Nina Simone ) The other woman finds time to manicure her nails The other woman is perfect where her rival fails And she's never seen with pin curls in her hair The other woman enchantes her clothes with French perfume The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room There are never toys that's scattered everywhere And when her baby comes to call He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen Cos when she's by his side It's such a change from old routine But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep The other woman will never have his love to keep And as the years go by the other woman Will spend her life alone
Twelfth Of Never
( Elvis Presley Cover / From NYC Tribute 11.17.99 )
You ask how long I'll love you I'll tell you true Until the twelfth of never I'll still be loving you Hold me close Never let me go Hold, hold, hold me close Melt my heart like April snow I'll love you 'Till the blue bells Forget to bloom And I'm gonna love you 'Till the roses run out of perfume And I'll love you 'Till the poets run out of things to rhyme Until the twelfth of never And that's a long long time Until the twelfth of never And that's a long long time
The way young lovers do
( Van Morrison )
We strolled through fields all wet with rain And back along the lane again They were the sun shine In the sweet summertime The way that young lovers do I kissed you on the left once more And we said goodbye by the door in the nighttime Yeah, that's the right time To feel the way that young lovers do Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were And the way that we were meant to be Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you And you were for me And then we danced the night away And turned to each other, say, 'I love you, I love you' The way that young lovers do Do, do, do, do... Repeat ( many time / depend on which live version it is ) [ Some versions of the song ] : Won't you love me the way that young lovers do - ( repeat ) I can feel, take your tongue on my body, until we're gone crazy, crazy crazyyyyy do, do, do, do, do, do. Then we sat on our star and dreamed of the way that we were And the way that we wanted to be Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you And you were for me Oh baby baby I went on to dance the night away And turned to each other, say, 'I love you, baby, I love you' [ Some versions of the song ] : Jeff sings the beginning of a a cocteau twins song, Ivo, like Elizabeth Fraser Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, Near our rito(ivo??) I held her with her looking down And i kissed her with the snow falling down There in the streetlight Oh there was a sweet light And the way... The way that young lovers do, lovers do, lovers do Do, do, do, do...
We... We strolled through fields all wet with rain And back along the lane again There in the sunshine In the sweet summertime Oh the way that young lovers do I kissed you on the lips once more We said goodbye at your front door There in the nighttime Love, that's the right time Oh to feel the way that young lovers do Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way that we wanted to be Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you and that you were for me And then we long to dance the night away And turned to each other saying 'I love you, baby I love you' Oh the way that young lovers do Oh the way... Oh the way that young lovers do The way young lovers do The way young lovers do The way young lovers do The way young lovers do The way young lovers... Now won't you love me the way young lovers do Oh won't you love me the way that young lovers do Oh the way... Won't you love me the way that young lovers do It's so close I can't feel you Take your time on my body Until we both go crazy Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy... And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way that we wanted to be And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you and that you were for me Oh, baby, babe Then we long to dance the night away And turned to each other saying 'I love you, baby, I love you' Oh, yes... [Cocteau Twins part] Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone I held her with her looking down And I kissed her, with the snow falling down There in the street light Oh, it was a sweet night And the way that young lovers do Oh, the way that young lovers do Oh the way that young... Oh Oh the ways you do, yes it's you... Yes [That's all I ask Part] Oh, don't try to blow out the sun from me, baby Oh, and I'm hopin' for what I know can't be All that I ask is for your kiss each day And I'll give you love that will never go away I'll give you love that will never go away Oh the way that young lovers do
*** Thanx a lot to Kieran who corrected some mistakes ***
Thief Without The Take
( I.Lorre/J.Buckley / Jeff duets with Inger Lorre ) Oh baby didn't you hear? I'm goin' solo dear, So low dear I am the thief without the take I'm swallowing the bitterest pill Totally ever so against my will I am the thief without the take, I am the thief without the take, Everytime I try to do my art Always fallin' apart, Fallin' apart I am the thief without the take, I am the thief without the take, I'm the desert without sun Five minus one diamond without shine I'm the poem that doesn't rhyme I'm the king on the hill Sick and ill Nothing I wouldn't trade to be the serving knave I'm the sun without heat the drum without the beat I'm the winter without snow Flame without a glow I am the thief without the take, I am the thief without the take Everytime I try to do my art Always fallin' apart, Fallin' apart I am the thief without the take, I am the thief without the take I've stolen from myself too too long It's just the music makes me want to go on I am the thief without the take Thousand fold I have no desire to make Contact with all the thought of "no, no" I shiver now to think of How this answer asked her, no Long time gone I run to my hide out There ain't a star born that brightens More than you You always should have known, Joan I'll illuminate your question Long time ago I'd died and gone What has brought the question Time has brought the question Come and call the question Oh, oh, oh... Here are the stars, same thing again Over, over, over, over, over, over Over, over, over, over, over, over
*** Thanx to the amazing Luli for this one ***
Three is a Magic Number
( Schoolhouse Rock Cartoon / live at the Mercury Lounge, New York, on December 31 1995 ) Three is a magic number, yes it is, it's a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity, you get three as a magic number. The past and the present and the future, Faith hope and charity, The heart and the brain and the body, Give you three as a magic number. It takes three legs to make a tripod, or to make a table stand. It takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle. Ev'ry triangle has three corners; ev'ry triangle has three sides. No more , no less; you don't have to guess. When it's three, you can see it's a magic number. A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes they did. They had three in the family. And that's a magic number. Three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, Twenty-one twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty. Three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, Twenty-one twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty. Three times ten is thirty. three times nine is twenty-seven. Three times eight is twenty-four. three times seven is twenty-one. Three times six is eighteen. three times five is fifteen. Three times four is twelve, and three times three is nine, And three times two is six, and three times one is three, of course. Three times one: what is it? three! That's a magic number. A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes they did. They had three in the family. And that's a magic number.
Ulalume ( Edgar Allan Poe ) The skies were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir, It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Here once, through an alley, Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul, Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul. These were days when my heart was volcanic As the scoriac rivers that roll, As the lavas that restlessly roll Their sulphurous currents down Yaaneck In the ultimate climes of the pole, That groan as they roll down Mount Yaaneck In the realms of the boreal pole. Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere, Our memories were treacherous and sere, For we knew not the month was October, And we marked not the night of the year (Ah, night of all nights in the year!); We noted not the dim lake of Auber (Though once we had journeyed down here), Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. And now, as the night was senescent And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn. And I said: "She is warmer than Dian; She rolls through an ether of sighs, She reveals in a region of sighs: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion, To point us the path to the skies, To the Lethean peace of the skies; Come up, in despite of the Lion, To shine on us with her bright eyes, Come up through the lair of the Lion, With love in her luminous eyes." But Psyche, uplifting her finger, Said: "Sadly this star I mistrust, Her pallor I strangely mistrust; Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must." In terror she spoke, letting sink her Wings until they trailed in the dust; In agony sobbed, letting sink her Plumes till they trailed in the dust, Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust. I replied: "This is nothing but dreaming: Let us on by this tremulous light! Let us bathe in this crystalline light! Its sibyllic splendor is beaming With hope and in beauty to-night! Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming, And be sure it will lead us aright; We safely may trust to a gleaming That cannot but guide us aright, Since it flickers up to heaven through the night." Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and gloom; And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, By the door of a legended tomb, And I said:"What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?" She replied: "Ulalume! Ulalume! 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!" Then my heart it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were crisped and sere, As the leaves that were withering and sere, And I cried: "It was surely October On this very night of last year That I journeyed, I journeyed down here, That I brought a dread burden down here, Of this night of all nights in the year, Ah, what demon has tempted me here? Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber, This misty mid region of Weir, Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." Said we, then--the two, then--"Ah, can it Have been that the woodlandish ghouls The pitiful, the merciful ghouls To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that lies in these wolds From the thing that lies hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the spectre of a planet From the limbo of lunary souls This sinfully scintillant planet From the Hell of the planetary souls?"
Untitled Acoustic Rarities from NYC Take the pain in ‘til it all rings hollow We’ll learn to loathe the truth as it shines I already see the ghosts on the sidewalk Kissing in the hereafter Your hands are in your pockets as you face her And your bodies both frozen by the door Only one knows they’re watching it die The other from hereafter Young life crushes young love You’ve learned to think love is for somebody else Make your heart deliver for yourself And the man you loved just doesn’t know who just what he’s after Chances are you wouldn’t even recognize the man I am now Chances are you wouldn’t even recognize the man I am now Chances are you wouldn’t even recognize the man I am now And make up any excuse to enemies you can’t control The knife wanders through me so slow It cuts between us as we grow That’s all That’s all it is…
We all fall in love sometimes
( Elton John / Live WFMU "Music Faucet" , Oct 11th 1992 )
Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For heavy eyes could hardly hold us Aching legs that often told us It's all worth it We all fall in love sometimes The full moon's bright And starlight filled the evening We wrote it and I played it Something happened It's so strange this feeling Naive notions that were childish Simple tunes that tried to hide it But when it comes We all fall in love sometimes Did we, didn't we, should we couldn't we I'm not sure but sometimes we're so blind Struggling through the day When even your best friend says Don't you find We all fall in love sometimes Oh yeah And only passing time Could kill the boredom we acquired Running with the losers for a while And our empty sky was filled with laughter Just before the flood Painting worried faces with a smile Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For heavy eyes could hardly hold us Aching legs that often told us It's all worth it We all fall in love sometimes Oh oh oh oh ... Oh oh oh oh ... We all fall in love sometimes
When the Levee Breaks ( Led Zeppelin Cover / Demo )
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home Don't it make you feel bad When you're trying to find your way home You don't know which way to go If you're goin' down South They go no work to do If you don't know about Chicago Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good Now, crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good When the levee breaks, mama you got to move All last night sat on the levee and moaned All last night sat on the levee and moaned Thinking about my baby and my happy home Oh yeah yeah Going, going, going to Chicago Going to Chicago Sorry but I can't take you Going down, going down now, going down...
White Man Trouble
( Traditional ) Come on you white people clap !
Oh, the white man trouble Oh god I love you, child I'm gonna give you some of my special sauce girl Aaahhh... Well, my maid up and left me My butler up and left me too And my poolcleaner ain't been here For a week or two I got the white man trouble Whitee, whitee, white white man trouble bring me down I had me all white man trouble Since my stocks went down White, whitey, white man trouble “Goodbye , everything’s ok”
*** Thanx a lot to Jelle who helped me with this one *** Wild Is the Wind ( Nina Simone / Live at the Spot Coffee, Buffalo, December 9 1996 ) Love me love me love me Say you do Let me fly away With you For my love is like The wind And wild is the wind Give me more Than one caress Satisfy this Hungriness Let the wind Blow through your heart For wild is the wind You... Touch me... I hear the sound Of mandolins You... Kiss me... With your kiss My life begins You're spring to me All things To me Don't you know you're Life itself Like a leaf clings To a tree Oh my darling, Cling to me For we're creatures Of the wind And wild is the wind So wild is the wind Wild is the wind Wild is the wind
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
( Traditional / Live at the Club Logo, Hamburg, February 22, 1995 )
I was standing by my window On a cold and cloudy day When i saw the hearse come rollin' For to take my mother away. Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky Lord, in the sky. I told the undertaker: "undertaker, please drive slow, for this body you are haulin' Lord, i hate to see her go". Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky Lord, in the sky. Well i followed close behind her, Tried to hold up and be brave, But i could not hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky Lord, in the sky. I went back home, my home was lonesome, Missed my mother she was gone. All my brothers and sisters crying In our home so sad and alone. Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky Lord, in the sky. We sang the songs of childhood, Hymns of faith that made us strong, Ones that our mother had taught us, Hear the angels sing along Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky Lord, in the sky.
You and I
(Sketches 4-Tracks Outakes / Guitar Version)
Ah this and that said I come down the stairs And I was by your eyes, and you were there. Found you in the morning capsized Alone, oh wonderful midnight A blonde angel for my heart to belong to Oh You and I. You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I All for you and I Especially in the magnesium I asked her for a cure from stress with a stranger She asked me, “Did I hurt you just then?” I said, “No but you're hurting me now.” And the light turned on And the rains turned her on Oh you and I All for you and I, you and I, you and I All for you and I, you and I, you and I All for you The light turned off my baby's tears The door snapped slammed Spend the day by the water remembering How you left her With your hands in your pockets as you faced me Dark communication so light This garden of lights As you and I Are mistaken from the starlight I need you, reach you Will you reach inside of me There's a power moving me to stay I won't spend another day Without you and I You and I, you and I Oh you and I All for you