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Studio B-Sides & Live tracks

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

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

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.

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

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



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 and the 1996 Brenda Kahn album 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....

Everyday people

( Sly and the Family Stone / Live at Beilefeld, Germany, July 12 1995 )

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong 
My own beliefs are in my song 
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then 
Makes no difference what group I'm in 

I am everyday people, yeah yeah 

There is a blue one who can'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 

I am everyday people, yeah yeah 

There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair 
For bein' 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
Oh sha sha-

I am everyday people.

Farewell Angelina

( Bob Dylan )

 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

Hymne à l'amour

(M. Monnot/E. Piaf with English lyrics by G. Parsons)

 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 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 and over...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See the sea 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.....
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, then why are you on your own tonight?"
"And if you're so clever then why are you on your own tonight?"
"And if you're so very entertaining then why are you on your own tonight?"
"And if you're so very good looking, then why do you sleep alone tonight?"
I know - 'cos 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
It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate it takes strength to be gentle
and kind - over and over....
It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate it takes guts to be gentle
and kind - over and 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 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 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 **

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.

Jolly street

 ( Music by Curtis Fowlkes, Lyrics by Ray Dobbins and Roy Nathanson)
From the 1994 Jazz Passengers album 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

Just like a woman

( Bob Dylan / Live at Palais Theatre, Melbourne, February 27 1996 )

 Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody 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 does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
Buy she breaks just like a little girl.
 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 does
And 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 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 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
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.

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

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

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



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.

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 Soundtrack )

( 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.

Parchman Farm

( M.Allison )

I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm

Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
A twelve-gauge shotgun at my back

I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm

Parlez-moi d'amour,
Redites-moi des choses tendres.
Votre beau discours,
Mon coeur n'est pas las de l'entendre.
Pourvu que toujours
Vous ripitiez ces mots suprjmes:
Je vous aime.

Vous savez bien
Que dans le fond je n'en crois rien
Mais cependant je veux encore
Icouter ce mot que j'adore.
Votre voix aux sons caressants
Qui le murmure en frimissant
Me berce de sa belle histoire
Et malgri moi je veux y croire.

Il est si doux,
Mon cher trisor, d'jtre un peu fou.
La vie est parfois trop amhre
Si l'on ne croit pas aux chimhres.
Le chagrin est vite apaisi
Et se console d'un baiser.
Du coeur on guirit la blessure
Par un serment qui le rassure.

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 !

*** Thanx a lot to Elise for this one ***

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

The boy with the thorn in his side

( Words by Morrisey, Music by Johnny Marr / Live at Meltdown Festival, London, July 1 1995 )

The boy with the thorn in his side
Behind the hatred there lies
A murderous desire for love
How can they look into my eyes
And still they dont believe me
How can they hear me say those words
And still they dont believe me
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
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 know?

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 )
(Words & music by Livingstone - Webster)

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...

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.

*** Thanx a lot to Jupiterssis for this one ***

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

*** Thanx a lot to Jupiterssis for this one ***

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  ***

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…

*** Thanx a lot to Jupiterssis 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?"

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 ( Guitar version )

( Sketches 4-Tracks Outakes )

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

*** Thanx a lot to Jupiterssis for this one ***