B i o g r a p h y ( by official label )
My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, granddaughter of an Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist, fathered by a National Accordion Champion, and mothered by a classical organist. Having a family of wanderers who migrated across the US every few years, the landscape and the musical influences were constantly changing. Spanish tangos, Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life. Her first song was recorded at age three and by age eight she was studying piano and performing in community musical productions. As a teenager in Michigan, Shara honed her musical prowess singing along to Whitney Houston music videos and Mariah Carey albums. When pop music wasn't enough, she enrolled in the music program at the University of North Texas, immersing herself in the songs of Purcell and Debussy. After college, she moved to New York City and fell in love with its cold winters and busy streets. She continued to study opera on the Upper West Side during the day, but at night she frequented downtown clubs such as Tonic, Knitting Factory, and The Living Room, catching performances by Antony & the Johnsons, Nina Nastasia, and Rebecca Moore. She began to spend less time sight-reading Mozart and more time de-tuning her Gibson electric guitar to play her own newly-written songs. Coaxed out of recital halls and onto the small stages of bars and clubs, Shara assembled a coterie of musicians to accompany her with bass and drums, music boxes, wine glasses, and wind chimes. In performance she showed unusual versatility, channeling the vocal theatrics of Kate Bush, the soulful seductiveness of Nina Simone and the gothic pop of Portishead. Her infatuation with theater and costumes inspired her to wear superhero capes, ball gowns, or Tudor corsets on stage, depending on her mood. Her deeply personal songs transcended the histrionics of opera; Shara was at last singing about what was closest to her heart. She began to see her own music as the most precious gift she could give to the world - as reflected in her namesake, My Brightest Diamond. Of course, opera never really left her, and Shara's performance blurred the lines between rock show and recital, setting baroque love songs alongside French carols and Prince covers. Her vocal lines reached for Puccini, but her guitar was pure PJ Harvey. The center of gravity here was the workmanship of a woman whose imagination had no limits. To sharpen her skills, Shara studied composition with Australian composer Padma Newsome (of Clogs) and began to incorporate a string quartet in her live show. The influences of Nat King Cole and Henry Mancini rounded out the edges. A few years later, she met Sufjan Stevens at The Medicine Show, a variety show hosted by New York City's incendiary poet, Sage, at Arlene's Grocery. This, in turn, led to a yearlong sabbatical from her work, doing splits and round-offs (not to mention the human pyramid) as one of the notorious Illinoisemakers. Shara was quickly promoted as cheerleading captain. All of this led to an impressive resume, but My Brightest Diamond still had no album to show for it. So in 2004, she began work on two records: one featuring songs accompanied by a string quartet titled "A Thousand Shark's Teeth", and a more standard rock album featuring a full band (featuring Earl Harvin on drums, Chris Bruce on bass, and, on one song, her father Keith on accordion) titled "Bring Me The Workhorse", released to critical acclaim in August 2006 on Asthmatic Kitty Records. Her songs distil stories to their most distressing points of contact: a phone call, an injured horse, a dragonfly caught in a spider's web. She doesn't share all the information - just the stuff that matters. The effect is a sensational compression of time, in which an entire event is summarized in a single note. This, of course, is the essence of opera. But My Brightest Diamond is much more than that. There is also the humor one might find in an old TV episode of Wonder Woman or Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Shara's songs reconcile all the complex emotions found in each of us: she can grieve as comfortably as she can laugh, sometimes in the same breath.
Madwoman Brave Elephant Spellbound Be Quiet Drizella 8 Balls He Wants Leviathan Not For Me He Lifted Me
Bring Me The Workhorse - 2006-08-22 -
Something of an End Golden Star Gone Away Dragonfly Freak Out We Were Sparkling Disappear The Robin's Jar Magic Rabbit The Good & The Bad Guy Workhorse
A Friend Indeed Apparition (French Version) Are You A Dreamer Black Sheep By my husband Casimir Pulaski Day Cast In ice Ceci Est Ma Main Champagne (French Version) Come On! Feel The Illinoise! Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois Dorian Dreaming Awake Dreams Don't Look Like Everything But Sleep Feeling good Gentlest gentleman I Am Walking I Had A Pearl I Hear You I'll Find A Way (To Carry It All) I'm On Fire Je n'en connais pas la fin / Hymne à l'amour
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Lucky Mist Is Rising Pain Changes Postcards from downtown Prairie Fire That Wanders About Razorblade Salvation Seven Years Tainted love That Point When The Fiction Issue - Part I The Fiction Issue - Part II The Fiction Issue - Part III The Fiction Issue - Part IV The Fiction Issue - Part V The Fiction Issue - Part VI The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! The Sea The Seer's Tower The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders When All Light Dies Whoever You Are You Will Return
Quiet B Sides
*** Thanx a lot to Billy, Marcellus and James Worden for, finally, these official lyrics ! ***
Pull the Bars Pull the bars From your heart Find a safe spot I know that you're scared To be alone I know that you're afraid To be unloved Queen of Misery Leave your regret at your feet Oh my queen of Misery Leave your regret at your feet And run away Run away, away, away Pull the bars From your heart
Inconsistent
I thought a friend was Someone who you could sing to Even if you had a terrible voice I thought a friend was Someone who said you that you would make it When everybody was against you Oh, but I was so wrong Yes, I was wrong About you Consistent inconsistent love Consistent inconsistent love I thought a friend was Someone who told you You were beautiful Without lipstick, yeah I thought a friend was (Without lipstick) Someone who would cry with you (I thought a friend was) The day you lost your jelly diamond (The day you lost your bicycle) I thought a friend was Someone who would give you Their life's blood on their thumb But I was wrong I was wrong About you Consistent inconsistent love Consistent inconsistent love La la la la love La la la love love la la love Wave goodbye So so so sorry To be leaving But not so so sorry To go away
Sick Friend Sick friend Illness of birds Antibiotics can cure most ailments But I am no antibiotic, friend Friend Slitting elbows to drain poison blood Proves ineffective for once try feeling Feeling bumps on the bone It is science Feeling bumps on the soul It is life, life
Riding Horses ( Mews Too : An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation ) Hey here I am Out of hiding Would you like to be my friend I think I like you I think I like you Yes Maybe we could talk about music And Georgie's crumbs I think I like you I think I like you Yeah And not just for what you do Or for what you say Or for what you were to somebody Not for what you did Or for what you may Do, do, do, do, do, for me Yes And I know we've had some hard times With hard people Hey, let's try to make new friends And I know we've had some hard times With hard people Hey, let's try to make new friends Maybe we could pretend that We were riding in the woods Riding horses And mine would be black And yours would be white Mine would be black And yours would be white Mine would be black And yours would be white Let's ride Let's ride ‘Cause mine would be black And yours would be white Mine would be black And yours would be white Mine would be black And yours would be white Let's ride Let's ride Let's ride
C'est presque au bout du monde Ma barque vagabonde Errante au gré de l'onde M'y conduisit un jour L'île est toute petite Mais la fée qui l'habite Gentiment nous invite A en faire le tour Youkali C'est le pays de nos désirs Youkali C'est le bonheur, c'est le plaisir Youkali C'est la terre où l'on quitte tous les soucis C'est, dans notre nuit, comme une éclaircie L'étoile qu'on suit C'est Youkali Et la vie nous entraîne Lassante, quotidienne Mais la pauvre âme humaine Cherchant partout l'oubli A pour quitter la terre Su trouver le mystère Où nos rêves se terrent En quelques Youkali.... Youkali C'est le pays de nos désirs Youkali C'est le bonheur, c'est le plaisir Youkali C'est la terre où l'on quitte tous les soucis C'est, dans notre nuit, comme une éclaircie L'étoile qu'on suit C'est Youkali, c'est Youkali, c'est Youkali
Youkali Is the land of our desires Youkali It means happiness and pleasure; Youkali It is the land where we leave cares behind It is the beacon in our clouded night The star we follow It's Youkali, it's Youkali, it's Youkali
Earplugs I put my fingers in my ears Just to shut out the noise I close my eyes and I listen to the voice She says 'you know what you must do' She says 'you know what you must do' Stop taking advice Stop asking opinions And listen I tried pleasing Patty Just to make her happy Only to find that I'd lost pieces of me She says 'you know what you must do' She says 'you know what you must do'
Wishboy How do I like All of your window shades How you satisfy all my wishes All my wishes How you entrance with happiness Wishboy, my sweet wishboy Is kissing me, kissing me My wishboy, wishboy Wishboy Wishboy Wishboy
Mother Mother, good enough Sometimes busy on wednesdays Sometimes lonely for someone Mother Whould say accept me to the day In her heart there was room Okay, okay mother Okay, enough for me this love Mother The question for the day Am I enough without my green charades melting Am I enough without my everything you hoped and wished for me Okay, okay mother Okay, enough for me this love
Caged Bird Birds in cages can sing, sing But birds in cages cannot fly, fly Open up the door For danger and beauty, we fly side by side Danger and beauty, we fly side by side I had a rabbit who was so smart She got out of her cage And in her escape she was eaten by a neighbors' dog But that won't be me No, that can't be me For I would rather die and be free, free Than to be a caged bird singing Than to be a caged bird singing Yes, I would rather die and be free, free Than to be a caged bird singing Than to be a caged bird singing Open up the door please mister Open up the door please mister Yes Fly side by side Fly side by side Fly side by side by side by side by side
Awry - Orange LP
Madwoman
Dirty old clothes underneath her toes Fighting what she knows So she throws it all into a big black pot Stirs it all up til the pot gets hot With the hands of a beggar and the tongue of a thief Another crutch to bury her grief Madwoman in a straw house Madwoman in my house And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse Madwoman in a straw house And what she knows is the moon makes her mad What she knows links the good with bad But the faith she bought with a shiny dime Doesn't seem to draw the line so She made her own belief That the truth was found in trees and things But the x philosophy that she had grown Wasn't enough to save her soul Madwoman in a straw house Madwoman in my house And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse Madwoman in a straw house But there's one thing she did not try And this one thing she cannot deny It was a drowning notion that they gave That could not supply her need It was a haunting notion that she'd saved But her peace could not be freed Madwoman Madwoman in a straw house Madwoman in my house And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse Madwoman in a straw house Madwoman in my house And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse Madwoman in a straw house Madwoman in my house And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse Madwoman in a straw house
Brave Elephant
You are a little elephant Young and full of wonder Grow, grow You are my bright eyes Bold and yet scared of butterflies Grow, grow Though your dreams are fading Grow, grow You are a little elephant Staring at the scab on your knee Grow, grow Though you're scared and shaking Grow, grow Grow, grow Grow, grow And throw your fears in a garbage can Your fears in a garbage can And be brave, brave, brave Brave, brave elephant (you can be brave, you can be brave You can be brave, you can...) Be brave, be brave Brave elephant Brave elephant Brave elephant Brave elephant
Spellbound I cannot raise you from the grave Cannot be the one to save you I cannot bring you from the dead Cannot kill the demons in your head, from your bed But you seem to want a doll upon your arm Melt the wax down the back of your babyboo charm But I watch you add the candles to your shrine Didn't take long for you to make it mine But I cannot be God to you I said, I cannot be God to you I cannot be God to you I said I cannot be God to you I will not be the vein and fix Cannot be the one to fix the sickness Won't be the martyr gagged and bound Won't let you take me down Spellbound, spellbound ‘Cause I cannot be God to you I said I cannot be God to you I cannot be God to you I said I cannot be God to you I cannot be something I'm not I cannot be just what you want Can only be what I am Can only be who I am I cannot be something I'm not I can only be who I am Who I am, who I am I cannot be God to you Cannot be your God There is only one God
Be Quiet We two will climb Scaling the wall So hard to be where you are So hard to be where you are Rest Rest in this place Rest And be quiet We two will fly Scaling the wall So hard to be where you are So hard to be where you are Be quiet Be quiet Be quiet
Drizella What I do I do not want to do And yet I do it still Everybody else is turning around Yet I am standing still It's easier to own other people's sorrows Rather than your own Drizella I am ugly, I am a weed Turn away in disgust of me But who told you that And why did you believe But there are little secrets you've been trying to hide But you were told a lie And you believed the lie Don't believe, don't believe Fister Drizella Pressing the windows, again Do you want to die From this pain that you hold inside What have we done to deserve the dish we're eating from Nothing But we take what is on the table Said, I am hungry Aren''t you hungry too Drizella Fister Drizella Pressing the windows Fister Drizella Pressing the windows Again, again Wash your face in cinder Be a little cleaner You've got bubbles in your mouth, in your mouth Bubbles, bubbles...
8 Balls Wedge of a sum inside our members Loading our guns to cock at each other Tongues will lash til you're cut in two Deadly the poison when the fire is loosed When the fire is loosed, when the fire is loosed Please baby breathe Please can you breathe Peace Please baby breathe Please can you breathe Peace Eight balls for some hearts for another Weapons of choice under the covers Two guns inside the head seeking the other Capture the hunter or he will shoot 'til he's dead Shoot 'til he's dead Shoot 'til he's dead Please baby breathe Please can you breathe Peace Please baby breathe Please can you breathe Peace Darling won't you stop arguing Stop arguing Darling won't you stop arguing Stop arguing Stop arguing, stop arguing, stop arguing
He Wants He wants More than a blind companion To live his life With reckless abandon And he wants A maiden less fair Autumn leaves in my hair Parallel to his own feeling To leave her flailing For his glance and by chance He wants only his dream And he wants you as you breathe And he wants you to magically be What he wants He wants The hush of new, fallen snow in June Frozen tulips, ripe to bloom He wants A lover beside him Who knows not to want for more Standing outside his door His poison in his wine So he cracks a pageless spine To forget and forgive all That he wants only his dream And he wants you as you breathe And he wants you to magically be What he wants The guilded Rockwell ad grandfather's pipe Or to drink the water of new life He wants only his dream And he wants you as you breathe And he wants you to magically be What he wants And he wants us to play his game And he wants us to be the game And he wants us to play his game And he wants us to be the same
Leviathan "Je ne t'aime pas" "tu n'es pas mon ami" "retire tes mains" I am the great Leviathan A creature of the deep I was the prey to conquer The means through which you seek release of desire So you chased me down with a rubber band To drink the wine from your hand And as I lay beneath your hold My tongue pinned by a stone I was witness of the power play To share the blame of quiet rape And if you fight, if you fight You get tired And if you fight, if you fight You lose something I lost something But who would have known That my lover was my hunter But I had been told So I should have known I should have known But for all the sins committed The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness For myself, for myself And I was swimming on the sand Searching for the fisher of men While you ripping the skin from my bones You think you have won And when you ride, when you ride You will slide less than easy Into my mind, into my mind Into my mind, into my mind Into my mind, into my mind But who would have known That my lover was my hunter But I had been told So I should have known I should have known But for all the sins committed The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness For myself, for myself, for myself How am I supposed to be How am I supposed to heal If I hate you, I hate you Can't hate you But I hate you Cause the replays won't go away The replays won't go away But who would have known That my lover was my hunter But I had been told So I should have known But for all the sins committed The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness For myself, for myself
Not for Me Take away your hand Your touch is a taking one I have had enough Kisses promising too much Turn away your glance Your eyes cannot truly find me I have had enough Gazing vainly, fading beauty What is lost is gone forever I have had enough Empty longing, fleeting pleasure Not for me, not for me Put away this trip with me I am more than fantasy I am blood, I have life Your excuses never suffice What is lost is gone forever I have had enough Empty longing, fleeting pleasure Not for me, not for me Not for me Ever longing endless pleasure Ever longing endless pleasure All for me All for me All for me
He Lifted Me Said I've been down a long, long road Seen more sorrow than I'd known before And of the pride my heart has held, I lay it down And of the fear that bound my steps, I lay it down And keep on straight And keep my head up straight For he lifted me, oh For he lifted me, oh And when these knees of clay are broken by falling Your hands reach down, smoothly broken, bleeding Making new knees with your grace and with your mercy Making new knees with your grace and with your love For little girls like me For little boys like you For he lifted me, oh He lifted me And so I walk And so I run And so I sing and I dance Unashamed Unashamed
Bring me the workhorse
Something of an End When you came jumping down the stairs Screaming bloody awful You woke up God and everyone Screaming bloody awful So we took you to the doctor He said yeah it's a bad one And there's such a shame about it 'Cause she's so pretty And then the earth started shaking And yeah it was crazy Heaven and hell came crashing down And then the earth started shaking Yeah it was crazy Heaven and hell came crashing They came crashing It was beautiful and terrible So beautiful and terrible The phone call You never expect That somebody get it yet It's a sound you never forget Because the earth starts shaking And yeah it's crazy Heaven and hell come crashing down And then the earth starts shaking Yeah it's so crazy Heaven and hell come crashing They come crashing They come cr-cr-crashing It's so beautiful and terrible So beautiful and terrible It was something of an end Of a lovely and a wild thing So beautiful in the morning You're beautiful So beautiful You're beautiful in the morning And I can't seem to get it through your head No matter what I do I can't seem to get it through your head That I always love you Golden Star I always felt so far from you Like something wasn't right But tonight I rest my head inside the crook of your arm And I feel like a golden star Exploding Tonight we are full Tonight we rejoice Exploding You are my golden star Exploding One, two Though everything has come undone The distance between us closes And everything is suddenly Exploding Tonight we are full Tonight we rejoice Exploding You are my golden star Explode Tonight we are full up Tonight we rejoice Tonight we are full up In spite we rejoice like stars Exploding… Gone Away Far away you've gone, and left me here So cold without you, so lonely dear May June July I count the time Every minute I go takes the smell of your clothes Further away 'Cause you've gone away Where there isn't a telephone wire Still I wait by the phone You don't even write to say goodbye Goodbye I have saved every piece of paper Like grocery lists and note cards To do lists and race scores So just in case you change your mind And come back, I've kept everything safe While you're gone away Where there isn't a telephone wire Still I wait by the phone You don't even write to say goodbye Get me out get me off Get me out get me off Oh this is a ride going nowhere But somewhere that I despise Going nowhere to end up with a tearful I don't wanna go on with these pieces of paper That you left behind This is a ride going nowhere But somewhere that I despise Going nowhere to end up with a tearful I don't wanna go on with these pieces of paper To keep me company in my old age While you're gone away Where there isn't a telephone wire Still I wait by the phone Why don't you write to say goodbye Goodbye
Dragonfly I once saw a dragonfly Caught in a spider's web As I looked at her once more I thought that she was dead So I left her alone and I went on my way And I was dreaming of Paris and Pierre Boulez But she called to me with a beat of her wing She called to me and said free me She said come and fly away With me tonight Come and fly away With me Come and fly away With me tonight She said ah ah ah… I've been up there before Riding the wind and Laughing and open But now I am afraid of flying I am afraid of finding the black again I am afraid of flying I am afraid of finding the black fade, black again She said come and fly away With me tonight Come and fly away With me Come and fly away With me tonight She said ah ah ah… Freak Out I think we should jump on the piano No one's looking we could tear his heart out Tear his heart out It's too late to save us now but no matter We still have time to dance So let's dance And freak out, freak out, freak out, freak out Freak out, freak out I think we should rip a hole Right through the center of this house It's time to tear it down Our chance to smoke him out It's too late to save us now but no matter We still have time to dance So let's dance And freak out, freak out, freak out, freak out Come on let's put off all our hesitation And get up on the floor 'Cause I am gonna laugh ha ha hey When you do that dance And freak out Come on freak out Freak out We Were Sparkling There was a silver tree Down by a river wide That's where we would go To hang our pretty things & watch the wind blow There used to be a tree Where we took our pretty things We'd hook them by a thread Golden egg lipstick and feathers Pieces of glass, chandelier baubles And empty bottles of wine And watch the light shine through I'm afraid to forget you I am remembering you You were sparkling Disappear One day I may disappear Don't be too surprised 'Cause I got tired of noisy alarms And phone bills And I don't think we're meant to stay here very long I don't dream of bringing heaven down not like this I'd rather move on One day I may go for the longest walk Don't be too shocked 'Cause I get tired of sneaky societies And combat boots And I don't think we're meant to stay here very long I don't dream of bringing heaven down not like this I'd rather move on The Robin's Jar Once we found a robin In our backyard It was already dead But we were so sure That things weren't gone too far So we prayed to God above That He'd bring it back to us And we put it in a jar And waited, and waited But mama made us bury it Mama made us bury it In the backyard I wished to be just like my best friend She was the brightest star in the room Yeah but we didn't know what we had With the world pressing in On her backyard She fell in backwards She fell in backwards With the world pressing in On her backyard She fell in backwards We prayed to God above That He'd bring her back to us So we put her in a box We put her in a box And waited For something to happen But nothing happened But mama made me bury her Mama made me bury her Mama made me bury her in the backyard Magic Rabbit I had a magic that could sing Maybe I took her from her mother too early She never came out of recovery Even on summer days she'd complain She couldn't take the chill out of her bones Maybe I took her from her mother too early I put her outside in the sunshine All the rabbits died for supper tonight All the rabbits died in the spotlight I had a magic that would sing And boy oh boy was she a pretty thing By some great mystery she looked to me Like she was wearing thin Are you fading away magic Are you fading away Are you fading away all the rabbits died Are you fading in the spotlight Are you fading away magic Are you fading away all the rabbits died Are you fading away in the spotlight Are you fading my magic rabbit Magic, oh Are you fading away magic Are you fading away, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit… The Good and The Bad Guy Sometimes when I tell the story of you I make you out to be the bad guy And though it's true Sometimes you're the bad guy You're still mine Sometimes when I paint the picture It's easier just to remember The awful things you said And what you chose to do with legitimate need You made like a fool You made like a fool but you're still mine And I want you I want you I do Why does it hurt more to recall Your good side, your good side I always went to you for advice You were a wise one, a wise one then When I think about you in that time It's harder to hate you then But sometimes I want to hate you as the bad guy But I want you I want you the good and the bad guy The good and the bad guy The good and the bad guy The good and the bad guy Workhorse Somewhere sunshine burns A dark but common horse When he fell by the wayside No one seemed to notice him 'Cause you're no good to us Lost all your youth And all of your usefulness And you know that No good to us Lost all that you could To a no, no, no, no No good to us Lost all your lost all your youthfulness And left with a precious little good Good to us lost all that you could To a no, no, no, no… Bring me the workhorse Bring me the no good workhorse 'Cause you're no good to us Lost all your youth and all of your usefulness And you know that No good to us Lost all that you could To a no, no, no, no… No good to us Lost all you youth all of your usefulness And who told you No good to us Lost all that you could as a workhorse You're no good to us Lost all your youth all of your usefulness And who told you No good as a workhorse
A Thousand Shark's Teeth
*** Thanx a lot to Robert for these lyrics ***
Inside a boy Inside a boy I found a universe And in his eyes Are a thousand stars On a dark sky We are clouds We are whispers Like fawns and shape-shifters Our edges can never be found out No, our edges keep moving further out We are stars colliding Now we crash Like lightening into love Love In his arms I'm unwinding Under his kiss I'm falling into love We are stars colliding Now we crash Like lightening into love We are stars colliding Now we crash Like lightening into love Love Love, love Love, love, love, love, love
*** Thanx a lot to brenda & Jeremy for this one ***
The Ice & The Storm
Open up your heart to me Darling you're resisting this bliss You've been dreaming only of it It's just like ice building up inside Darling we've accumulated Too much miscommunication In a beginning everything is soft Not defensive Perhaps we begin again shyly I want to love you loosely I want to love you loosely So nothing is stopping me from receiving From giving out I want a storm to blow it out I want to shake myself And turn my heart inside out I want a storm to blow it out I want to shake myself And turn my heart inside out Open up your heart to me now Open Darling you're resisting this bliss You've been dreaming only of it I want a storm to blow it out I want to shake myself And turn my heart inside out I want a storm to blow it out I want to shake myself And turn my heart inside out Don't you want to Let it go, let it go Let it go Let it let it let it go...
If I were queen If I were queen Then you and I'd be neighbours I'd pick you up each morning For doughnuts and tea Ah, close by... Ah, close by... If I were queen Then you and I'd be neighbours We'd collect things And we could argue where to put them Ah, close by... Ah, close by...
Apple
Sometimes in the spring time I like to see the apple blossoms with you Sometimes in the winter I like to see snow falling with you Once we took apples from my grandfather's tree But I had no where to plant the seed So we baked them with sugar And we ate them Sometimes on saturdays When it's raining we do laundry Especially when I like to watch you Fold so carefully the clothes Especially when I like to watch you Move your fingers slow
From the top of the world
At the end of the sea There waits my wind To carry me Through storms we wil sail Just to gaze at the top of the world From the bottom of the world We looked up and saw the moon And gazing at it then we fell In love, in love So we made up our minds To arrive smiling Yet we made up our minds To touch the height of life And find out what we felt for it How we felt for it How we felt for it From the top of the world We looked up and saw the sun And gazing at it then we fell In love, in love
Black & Costaud Avec une menace doucereuse Et des manières de champion de boxe Black and costaud Black and chic Black, black, black Jolly fellow, jolly fellow, black I punch sir I boxe you I punch sir I boxe you Avec une menace doucereuse Et des manières de champion de boxe Black and costaud Black and chic Black, black, black Black and thick and vrai beau gosse Vrai beau gosse I punch your nose I knock you out You, stupid chose I punch your nose I marm'lad you You, stupid chose Stupid chose Avec ma voix je marm'lad' toi Je marm'lad' toi Costaud Punch your nose Black and costaud Stupid chose To Pluto's moon
How I tried to catch you while You ran ahead of me I lassoed Mars To see if you were hiding there But you'd already ran past Jupiter To Pluto's moon And my rope won't reach that moon This a state of electrical shock You were so beautiful I thought you'd last forever But you came and you went When the lights went out You went like you came In a lightning Why did you go like this I slam against the wall It's crushing my skull Why did you go like this I slam against the wall Of permanence Why did you go like this I slam against the wall It's crushing my skull Why did you go like this I slam against the wall Of permanence And like a ghost I'm spinning with you In circles The dance of Pluto's moon
Bass player
Bass player All alone Makes a sound Most wouldn't call a symphony As he plays Thinks of a maid Sad and shuffling She sings Blow me a kiss Before I drown In sorrow me a kiss Before I drown He saw her By the moon Dress in hand Her hips were swaying Melancholy tune Broken buckles Tired lips She was singing Blow me a kiss Before I drown In sorrow me a kiss Before I drown She said I wanna be with the stars tonight So I can fly above the earth I wanna be with the stars tonight So I can fly above I wanna be with the stars tonight So I can fly above in laundry Goodbye Forever
Oh to love By fire, by flame This old feeling Insignificance Insignificance Then I can hear you Brighter than the stars Your voice is a razor blade I can see you shining through the sun You're so mysterious Love the hold As I throw this With a goodbye forever Fear of exposure Fear of exposure Then I can hear you Brighter than the stars Your touch is lightening I can feel you Prickling like a thousand shark teeth Prickling like a thousand shark teeth Closer to me Come closer to me Come closer to me Come closer to me Come closer to me Still
Like a sieve
I rest my head on water I slip under I descend into the deep Past the rushes Past the shipwrecks Into my tears I float And like a sieve I'm catching leaves and sticks I'm catching planks and fishes So it washes through me clean I'm run clean through The brightest diamond
You are the brightest diamond I can see you shining For miles, and miles, and miles, and miles Everybody here's wearing long faces But you And Mary wants to hold your face And kiss you for her birthday Are you coming I can see you shining I can see you shining You are the brightest diamond Hidden in my pocket Oh how glorious you must feel, splendid You must feel, splendid But you have spit out beauty Like an idiot Why did you chew up shinies With a paper shredder You are the brightest diamond Hidden on my wrist You are now untouchable Now untouchable Now untouchable Reaching through the space between Your universe and mine A warm light shines And will until all breath and sigh Expend, expend
Penelope
The Stranger with the Face of a Man I Loved I have a house Looks out to sea And this is where he came The stranger with the face of a man I loved To the house by the sea Long time, long time gone A sort of home It's this house That what's left of his mind Seems to have remembered So what's left of his mind Claims the house as his Though it's been mine and mine alone since he left me here He left me here Half a life ago But this is where he came The stranger with the face of a man I loved In this house Where the best of our times I try to remember And the rest of the time I try to forget The times he lied and lied Before he just left me here The stranger with the face of a man I loved In the house by the sea Long time, long time gone A sort of home This Is What You're Like I'd give a lot I'd give a lot to hear him Tell me lies like that again Tell me much of anything It's true, he talks It's true, he talks, but it's not Anything like it was then Anything like it was When he talked the way a bird sings Just to sing This is what you're like Do you remember This is what you once were like You are a man who when the music dies away You keep on dancing And when there's nothing left to say You tell me lies You wrote a poem You wrote a poem about me Swimming in the open sea You loved my eyebrows and my stomach and my knobby knees I loved your mouth I loved your mouth and every story that you told to me Where is it you've gone How can I find you I heard you weeping in the dawn But you won't say if I can bring you back alive I'll come and find you I can't help thinking you survived Just went astray This is what you're like Try to remember This is what you once were like Where is it you've gone? How can I find you Where is it you've gone Do you remember, you are a man who Told me you loved me You are a man who told me you loved me Do you remember This is what you're like Try to remember The Lotus Eaters Down the ward, the men are dreaming drooling in their cots Pricks of blood in every elbow I am no better It's just that I'm awake It's just that I'm awake and walking Walking Hear my footsteps down the hall Now I'm smelling the night air crunching gravel as I walk, walk, walk Never, never, never, never will I never will I sleep like that again Never, never, never, never, never Never will I sleep like that, sleep like that… And I'm lost in this night I'm lost in this night I'm already lost, but not as lost as them And I'm lost in this night I'm lost in this night I'm already lost, but not as lost as them my sleeping, drooling, smiling men I'm not as lost I'm not as lost I'm not as lost as them Nausicaa Don't be afraid, Stranger I'm not afraid I'm not afraid of you You look so lost, Stranger But you're not lost, ‘Cause I've just found you Just take my hand, Stranger Just take my hand And I will lead you home Circe and the Hanged Man "Is he dead?" the Stranger said No, she tells him Say you bounce a ball Have you ever noticed that Between the business of its going up and the business of its fall it hesitates It just waits There's a fraction of a second there when it's luxuriating in the air Before its fate rushes it on "But he's hanging there" Yes, he's hanging, yes, but from the tree of life "Is he some sort of sacrifice?" Yes, he's a sacrifice… He gave himself to himself so he could see He gave himself to himself so he could see He gave himself to himself so he could see He gave himself "So he could see?" As only you can see When the world is upside down And you hang From the branch of a tree "So that's me?" Yes, it's where you seem to be And you hang from the branch of a tree "So that's me?" Yes, it's where you seem to be "So that's me" Home Home is where I'm going, but never coming Home is someplace I can't recall, but head for still Across the waste of water I search for her Dear blue land show your blessed curve So tiny and only mine No, no, you can't go home, she says, the world where do you think you're going We're not done with you No, no, you can't go home, she says, the world where do you think you're going We're not done with you The world is never done with you The world wants her travelers to stay lost The world swats their eyes as they run through it She grasps at them, pulling and tugging She grasps at them No, no, you can't go home, she says, the world where do you think you're going We're not done with you No, no, you can't go home, she says, the world where do you think you're going We're not done with you The world is never done with you Not you Dead Friend Dead friend Turn your back on me I beg you Do not look at me With those eyes Dead friend I must leave you here I can't stay You can't follow me Where I go Dead friend Turn your back on me Let me go I've forgotten you Forget me I've forgotten you Forget me Calypso But I do think of her Standing in that parking lot The stars are out, night drops down on her She is alone again She's alone again She holds his cooling dinner in her lifted hand Something he just might like Sweet or salty, no one will eat it now She looks for him in darkness Stands alone now once again Tries to see where he might have gone Where could he go She looks for him in darkness, Stands alone now once again Tries to see where he might have gone, Where could he go, without her. Open Hands Here's an ugly little something Broken bit of who knows what Here's a bloody little secret What I did and what I thought Here is what I lost forever Open hands, a certain laugh Here is what I thought I wanted Some lost smile in a photograph Baby Teeth, Bones, and Bullets Let a wind come Let a wind come blow it all away Let a rainstorm Let a rainstorm swallow me Can't you do that Can't you hide me, God Can't you… Save me from you (save me from you) Sweep me someplace you can't see (Hide me some place) I am known here (God help me I'm known) Open eye, open eye staring down on me. Yellow sky, yellow sky staring down on me I am known for what I am I am known by you (Let a wind come and blow it all away) I am known by you (Let a rain storm, let a wind come, and blow it all away) I am known by you (Let a rain storm, let a wind come, and blow it all away) Can't you… Save me from you (save me from you) Sweep me someplace you can't see (Hide me some place) I am known here (I am known by you) Let a wind come Let a wind come, blow it all away Blow it all, all away As He Looks Out to Sea It moves like a live thing in his hands The story, his story Bloody and sacred, truth and lie The story, his story And it tells itself the pages turn and tell themselves Backwards and forwards Backwards and forwards Backwards and forwards like the tide It moves like a live thing in his hands The story, his story Bloody and sacred, truth and lie The story, his story And it tells itself the pages turn and tell themselves Backwards and forwards Backwards and forwards Backwards and forwards like the tide
All Things Will Unwind
We Added It Up There was you, there was me We never could agree If I was up You were down You were there I was here A Grand Puppeteer Stuck it all Together If I was cat You were a dog If I was tied up You were a hog If I was flat You were a ball If I was charge Then you were cash If I was tots You were the mash If I was loud Then you were shhh We added up We added up To zero Zero Flying neutrinos Fly through my skin My hair, my feet What a pair of disagreeable Agreeables Your hands My hips Your grip What a fit of exhausting Inexhaustibles Fusion makes the world go around Confusion with the making of all that sound Oh I hear a quieter voice Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin It says "Love binds the world" "Love binds the world" "Love binds the world"… Forever and ever and ever And ever and ever Forever and ever Forever and ever And ever and ever Forever and ever And ever and ever Forever and ever We added up We added up to zero Zero Flying neutrinos Fly through my skin My hair, my feet What a pair of disagreeable Agreeables Your hands My hips Your grip What a fit of exhausting Inexhaustibles Exhausting Inexhaustibles Exhausting Inexhaustibles
Reaching Through to the Other Side Though there is stillness I can hear a heartbeat Though I can't see you, I can hear a sound Through a veil I feel a hand, near me Reaching through to the other side Reaching through to the other side I receive this body mine From womb to grave I now walk an ancient line One foot follows the other Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin This stone This finite place Is it limitless To touch the boundless I hear A measureless rise It seems so wondrous Just to be alive Hindrances Distresses Of substance I turn them over Those forgotten I remember And gather them up in my arms Like some magic thing Twisted and winding It carries me on Oh how gorgeous Oh how gorgeous To struggle now To struggle now In time Reaching through to the other side
In the Beginning In the beginning there was a spark Like two great cymbals clanging We met head on There was no time All of life suspended And when you spoke one heart jumped into action This the oldest story This the finest tale Our time, our question awaits Will we seize it Can we catch it, our reel to reel Our reel to reel My only chance at this I will take hold of it Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin This glorious day the earth is shaking Hallelujah, hallelujah And I will join the unending hymn Hallelujah, hallelujah No matter no matter no matter what This glorious day the earth is shaking Hallelujah, hallelujah And I will join the unending hymn Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah
Escape Routes It takes a lifetime to learn how to love It starts with a flicker that bursts into flame Then it fades to an ember with fights And with fingers pointing out blame Oh to exercise the act Of falling in love with you over and over and over Let's close off all our escape routes Let's not put it off tonight Let's close off all our escape routes We can have it all tonight It takes a lifetime to learn how to love Most the time I'm taking too much in my turn But I yearn for your closeness and a gentle return Oh to exercise the act Of falling in love with you over and over and over Over and over and over Over and over and over Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin My arms snake around yours Your lips open explore These promises we have saved They hold us They hold and maintain Let's close off all our escape routes Let's not put it off tonight Let's close off all our escape routes We can have it all tonight Let's close off all our escape routes Let's not put it off tonight Let's close off all our escape routes We can have it all tonight We can have it all We can have it all tonight
Be Brave I am a bird in water, a whale on sand I am the flood, the fire, the oil spill I'm feeling scared and I am overwhelmed And so I don my mask and finger bells Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone, undone I am a slave, I'm under house arrest I am the beater, I am beaten for less Than being punk and feeling anger swell And so I don my beaded dress and finger bells Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone, undone It's so hard, it's so heavy To be hungry, to be happy It's so light, it's so easy just to be It's so hard, it's so heavy To be hungry, to be happy It's so light, it's so easy just to be Oh God, what would you do with me Oh God, what's my responsibility God, what would you do with me Oh God, what's my responsibility Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone Be brave dear one Be ye changed or be ye undone Be brave dear one Be changed or be undone Be brave dear one Be ye changed, be changed, be changed Changed She Does Not Brave the War She does not know the fruit of her labor She does not rest ‘til late each evening She does not know her beauty grows with age She does not brave the war, but she saves the day She does not hear words to flatter She does not take much ease or pleasure She does not wait to love She does not bend or break or run away She does not brave the war, but she saves the day Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin She does not build the fortresses or touch the farthest moon She does not climb the ladder, nor hold the silver spoon She does not make the history lists, nor do monuments portray She does not brave the war, but she saves the day Ding Dang You were workin for a man behind a velvet curtain You were good and you were certain Of what you were headed for But then snap kerplam kalamazoo Low and behold he was lying to you And with revelation come repercussions That have you at your end In a great SNAFU your arrow bends Did you set your sights upon a target moving Did you hope in some fickle false fable A glass is at the top, but the diamond‘s on the bottom What is a rightful dream, or a better expectation Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin All things are not as they appear That which was far has become near In a great SNAFU it comes, but disappears All things are not as they appear That which was far has become near In a twist or two you're grinning ear to ear There's a Rat There's a rat in the kitchen and he's eating my cheese Eating my cheese, eating my cheese A rat in the kitchen and he's eating my cheese Eating my cheese alright There's a snake in the cellar and he's drinking my wine Drinking my wine, drinking my wine A snake in the cellar and he's drinking my wine Drinking my wine alright Well I ain't gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating Ain't gonna let you keep on takin and taking and taking I'm gonna treat you like the mouse that you are Creeping in and eating up my house you are I ain't gonna stand it I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap This is my home step back! There's a moth in the closet and he's eating my clothes A mole in my garden and he's chewing my hose A bird in the attic and he's stealing my song A man at the door and his motive is wrong Oh bankers lawyers thieves! Gov'ners mayors police! No I ain't gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating Ain't gonna let you keep on taking and taking and taking I'm gonna treat you like the mouse that you are Creeping in and eating up my house you are I ain't gonna stand it I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap This is my home step back! Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh bankers lawyers thieves! Cheaters dealers disease! No I ain't gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating Ain't gonna let you keep on taking and taking and taking I'm gonna treat you like the mouse that you are Creeping in and eating up my house you are I ain't gonna stand it I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap This is my home, this is my home Crack snap trap This is my home step back! High Low Middle When you're privileged you don't even know you're privileged When you're not, you know When you're happy you don't even know you're happy When you're not, you know Righteous heathen Blinded and seeing You're next you're before You're pompous you are poor You're hungry yet strangely You're working like crazy Selling buying Laughing and crying High low middle High low middle High low middle Keep yourself low, but not too low Saving wasting Dying for a tasting Banging for a buck And you're shit and out of luck Are you fat or are you eating up your hat Are you fat Are you High low middle High low middle High low middle Keep yourself low, but not too low Lord help you when you're growing old Lord help you when you're tired and cold Lord help you when the dealing's done Lord help you when the gettin's gone Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Lord help you when you're growing old Lord help you when you're tired and cold Lord help you when the dealing's done Lord help you when the gettin's gone High low middle High low middle High low middle Keep yourself low, but not too low Everything is in Line Come sit next to me and tell me what you saw Six blackbirds flying north Icicles dropping from the rooftops Come sit next to me and tell me where you've been You seem a little out of breath I ran down to Mr. Kimball's house and then I turned right back around Everything is in line all things will unwind Everything is in line all things will unwind Come sit next to me and tell me what you dream One day I'm gonna sail across the mountains in a hot air balloon I don't doubt you, no I don't I don't doubt you, no I don't... I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday A wish upon a card of peacock blue I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday I'm so sorry How are you Everything is in line all things will unwind Everything is in line all things will unwind Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin How can you say that How can you Upside is downside Downside is up The tide is not subsiding I don't doubt you, no I don't doubt you, no I won't... Everything is in line all things will unwind... I Have Never Loved Someone I have never loved someone the way I love you I have never seen a smile like yours And if you grow up to be king or clown or pauper I will say you are my favorite one in town Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin I have never held a hand so soft and sacred When I hear your laugh I know heaven's key And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard I will send you all my love upon the breeze And if the breeze won't blow your way, I will be the sun And if the sun won't shine your way, I will be the rain And if the rain won't wash away all your aches and pains I will find some other way to tell you you're okay...
This Is My Hand
Pressure Mountain on top a fire below The pressure grows pressure I feel the weight of a billion years Come down on me, come down I tried to do it all right I went down, down, down Workin' hard little delight I forgot the sound of diamonds So bright I cannot hide 'em So heavy I cannot mine 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds So wild I cannot tame 'em So shiny I cannot name 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds Disperse the white light I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Dancing on top the glitter glow The pressure slows pressure I feel the blade the cutting edge move out, out, out I tried to do it all right I went down, down, down Workin' hard little delight I forgot the sound of diamonds So bright I cannot hide 'em So heavy I cannot mine 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds So wild I cannot tame 'em So shiny I cannot name 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds Disperse the white light Pink, purple, green, red, yellow, blue I am in that mood indigo Pink, purple, green, red, yellow, blue I am in that mood for diamonds So bright I cannot hide 'em So heavy I cannot mine 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds So wild I cannot tame 'em So shiny I cannot name 'em All of this pressure's making diamonds Disperse the white light Disperse the white light
Before The Words Before the words there was the voice Before the verse there was the sound Before the form there was the music Before the pen and paper There was the Before we sing we take in breath Imagine fire inside our chests Then give it out together with one When we were young When we were young We heard our mothers When we were young When we were young We heard that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep Beep, beep, beep I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake When we were young When we were young We heard our mothers When we were young When we were young We heard that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep Beep, beep, beep Before the words there was the voice Before the verse there was the sound Before the form there was the music Before the pen and paper There was the sound There was the sound The sound When we were young When we were young We heard our mothers When we were young When we were young We heard that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep Beep, beep, beep When we were young When we were young We heard our mothers When we were young When we were young We heard that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep Beep, beep, beep
This Is My Hand This is my hand, this is my wrist This is my arm, this is my fist Like a twisted vine wraps around entwining This is my face, this is my mouth This is my eye, this is my brow Like lilac wine pouring out to thee for thee I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This is my shape, this is my form This is my age, this is my frame This is my mind, this is my voice This is my heart, this is my choice This is my thigh, this is my sex This is my hip, this is my breast This is my shadow, this is my hate This is my line, this is my doubt This is my gloom, my flame, my joy, my aim to love To love To love This is my shape, this is my form This is my age, this is my frame This is my mind, this is my voice This is my heart, this is my choice This is my time, this is my breath This is my right, this is my left This is my shadow, this is my hate This is my line, this is my doubt This is my gloom, my flame, my joy, my aim to love To love
Lover Killer Billet spied Bolt sped Across the field Crows fled Aloft and wounded Left one dead Left one Billet spied Bolt sped Across the field Crows fled Aloft and wounded Left one dead Left one Lover killer At the wall in the mirror Billet spied Bolt sped Across the field Crows fled Aloft and wounded Left one dead Left one Billet spied Bolt sped Across the field Crows fled Aloft and wounded Left one dead Left one Lover killer At the wall in the mirror On the one side I can dream my future, dream my future On the other I can feel my nature, feel my nature Inside myself I have a moment to choose To hold or to refuse To shoot or to let loose The cawing crow, the pulsing throat Lover killer (killer) At the wall in the mirror I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake On the one side I can dream my future, dream my future On the other I can feel my nature, feel my nature On the one side I can dream my future, dream my future On the other I can feel my nature, feel my nature I am a lover and a killer Lover, killer Lover, killer I am a lover and a killer Killer
I Am Not The Bad Guy Mister mister, won't you please Spare me from your third degree I could burn, I could scream I could show you what I mean I'm so thirsty I divest All unbuttoned and undressed I've become the bad guy Taken hits and blackened eyes Hey, I love you but you've hurt me so I love you, won't you please let me go I love you and I want you to know, oh oh oh This is what love feels like, like, oh I'm so desperate for relief Thoughts I do not dare to speak I am hungry, I won't lie The cage, the bird, the open sky Hey, I love you and I hurt you so I love you, I don't want to go I love you and I want you to know, oh oh oh This is what love feels like, like Hey, I love you and I feel like a stone I love you and I want to go I love you and I want you to know, oh oh oh This is what love feels like, like I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Oh my love, my love, my sweet love My sweet love, my sweet love Satisfy this longing Indite me or let me fly Though I still claim I am not, I am not, I am not the bad guy I still claim I am not, I am not, I am not the bad guy
Looking At The Sun When you close your eyes you imagine Where you think the limit is And you make the limit move When you close your eyes you can imagine Where you find the emptiness And you see an endless supply Wrestling with a double mind Like two horses pulling both sides If I could put one down maybe straight I'd run 'Cause I always see the shadows When I'm looking at the sun Wrestling with a double mind Like two horses pulling both sides If I could put one down maybe straight I'd run Cause I always see the shadows When I'm looking at I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Where you think the limit is And you make the limit move When you close your eyes you can imagine Where you find the emptiness And you see an endless supply
Shape You'll never know how I may appear First time I'm like the wind Next time I'm like a stone You'll never know what shape I might take I might be the ghost or I might be Hiding in smoke I am always beside you Though you cannot see me (I am always beside you) Nameless take a different shape (Though you cannot see me) Shape makes a new prismatic I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You'll never know how I may appear First time I'm like a kiss Next time I come in force You never know from minute to minute where I'm going You never know minute to minute where I've come from You never know minute to minute if you'll find me I always know minute to minute I am near you I am always beside you Though you cannot see me (I am always beside you) Nameless take a different shape (Though you cannot see me) Shape makes a new prismatic Nameless take a different shape Everybody take a shape Shape makes a new prismatic Everybody take a shape Take a different shape Take a different shape Everybody take a shape A different Everybody make a shape Take a different shape
So Easy Down to the water's edge we go There we drink in clean and cold I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not Grasping your hand we run in And I forget how afraid, how afraid, how afraid I am Oh, you said it was easy, so easy I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Down to the fire's edge we go There we touch and take it slow I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not Grasping my hand you come in And I forget how afraid, how afraid, how afraid I am Oh, you said it was easy, so easy Oh, you said it was easy, so easy Oh, you said it was easy, so easy Oh, you said it was easy, so easy
Resonance Can I stare without blinking At you seeing me Can I come without protecting Or running away from You, me, nothing in between All alone we come and go I long to be known All alone we come and go I long to be known by you A resonance coming through Can I dance without pulling back I can't control you I don't even want to I can't control you I don't even want to I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake All alone we come and go I long to be known All alone we come and go I long to be known by you A resonance between me and you A resonance, resonance coming through Resonance coming, coming through
Apparition ( Adapted from the poem "Apparition" by Stéphane Mallarmé ) Sad moon, seraphim in tears dreaming In the calm bows at their fingers It was the blessed day of your first kiss My reverie loving to torture me The blessed day of your first kiss My reverie This perfume of sadness Even without regret This perfume of sadness Even without setback I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake My eye riveted by the evening light in your hair Then you appeared ghostly And I thought I'd seen a hat of light to pass by You were a spoiled child Your careless hand is dropping These bouquets of white snow Of perfumed stars These bouquets of white snow Of perfumed stars Bouquets of white snow These bouquets of white snow Of perfumed stars Song details
Unremembered
Prelude Someone breathed into my ear The vapor of the dead It woke me up, I was asleep It circled round my head It all comes back inchoate The meaning has no base I never learned to love someone The way I did that place The Estate Down past the River Road In the lowest hollow I took the path along the row No stranger dared to follow The wide lawn was overgrown The eaves were bowed and brown The window showed that every room Was bare and white as bone Above the pool, a mirrored gaze I saw her ivied face Her empty eyes, cold, recessed Have watched this wasted place Where dying bloom and creeping vine Strangle and adorn The place that built inside of me A soul, a ghost, a home The field has breath, the pond a voice I've known since I was small. They told me then to leave this place Or stay and lose it all The Barn "You who live outside of life, you're not alone, not yet" In the barn, the ghost, the girl When I came home from school She sat upon the hayloft stairs In a dress of layered tulle Half-hidden from the shadows Her body turned away Her little gloves, pale and clenched Over her little face It was as if she took my hand It was as if she knew The earth held only part of her And I should know it too I'd seen the man out in the field Immersed in dancing flames A barn had once burned down out there Long before we came The land stretched wide beyond the house Who knows what lay beneath What other men were lying there And would show themselves to me It was as if he took my hand It was as if he knew The earth held only part of him And I should know it too It was as if they caught my ear It was as if their breath Would say, would sing The dance of life continues after death The Guest She left our house in the dead of night My sister went to find her We didn't know why she left She'd fled as fast as fire All this time I was asleep While my sister chased her down I picture them out in the woods On the other side of town It turns out she was lost and caught Deep within her dreams Which guided her out of our house Like Joan called from her wheel But no glory there awaited her No god where she was found On a patch of snow in a lonely copse On the frozen moonlit ground The Slaughterhouse The house of stone With a concrete floor A ring stuck at its center Stood up the hill From the spring-fed pond We'd skate on every winter In the past these family farms Slaughtered all their stock I'd seen it once at another farm And I never will forget The ring was used To hold them still The nose ring in the ring The pond was there To drag them down Dead but still bleeding Why hadn't they torn it down When the farms no longer thrived Beneath our blades a reef of beasts Lay lowing under ice The Girl The woods behind that sprawling farm Above that ranging home Was somewhere no one ever went Unless to be alone The wrens would sing, the grouse would fly A fox a flash of red A peaceful place of moss and flowers In an untouched woven bed Who was that girl that entered there Who crossed that thorny turf She brought with her just rope and will To end her time on earth We didn't know her face or name Just rendered in our minds But the birds would sing the strangest song As we rode by on our bikes The Swan Do you know The swan in the swamp Do you remember How she screamed? A truck backed up Beyond the road Where she lay alone Asleep The twilight had just Descended That hour that fools The eye The night before I'd seen her there A girl of snow And ice The whitened wings Unfurled As the wheels Destroyed her bed The ivory neck Extended Like a finger For its band She lay there quiet Against the grass A splayed and shattered Thing Of red and white Green and gold, Undone Embroidery The Witch I saw the witch out in the woods As we sang around the fire Stooped and white, curled and dry A bone enrobed in briar No one else had seen her there No one saw her face Which stared at me, fixedly Grim and unafraid I left them all to sing their songs By the fire's dying glow The woods and field enclosing camp Like hands around a throat Back at home I lay awake Safe behind my door Listening for her muted steps In the shadowed yard below And though the time has passed I still see her in those trees The world is now those darkened woods The days her eyes on me I was so young, had barely lived But I recognized the fear Was what lay waiting, out of view In all our older years The River On the banks The wash so brown The shadows blue They're black I saw the form Astride the loam Splayed out upon Its back A bear, a dog A bed, a log A child's eyes Are pure Until the hands Of the missing man Were clear against The dew The river's flow A blackened bow That tied around Our town Had sapped his life Like a lantern's light Buried Underground The Speakers "I'm sorry," said the blade, Poised above the hare, "The life you have inside of you is only yours to share." "In some ways," said the night, as it blotted out the day, "The fact that you will soon return Makes your death a sadder thing." "I hear you," said the hay, the soured, dusty straw, "You are the holy, crying child The world believes is gone." "Leave it," said the leaf, "The edge of me turns brown, I die and rise invisibly Like the ghosts you won't allow." The Orchard The trees held bells The chimes the blooms Each fruit a tongue To taste the bruise The bending bough Upended how We'd try to steal What it allowed This was our greed And was its gift We raised the thing That died to give The Song No Go No The throat of the bird would sing Don't you hear it too? The field was echoing No So Low The flying, slicing wing. It says that there is beauty Inside your suffering Go Go Go The feathered head will turn And look away, though now the song Will live inside your room The Past The meadow lost its golden hue The trees let go their leaves The air grew colder, cleaner, blue Pale as centuries Someone breathed into my ear The vapor of the dead It woke me up, I was asleep It circled round my head It all comes back inchoate The meaning has no base I never learned to love someone The way I did that place
A Million and One
It's Me On The Dance Floor (This way) I'm all alone I'm all alone, turn the lights low (Go, go on and turn all these numbers out) (Tap out) I'm looking out (I've been trying to figure it out) I'm looking out, for someone to see (Transmutable, pleasure) And someone to be seeing me But maybe It's me It's me I'm looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor It's me It's me I've been looking for (Transmutable) It's me It's me on the dance floor (This way) I've been going out (This way) I've been going out on a limb (Go, go, into the shadow I see my face) I begin to see who I might really be Who I might really be Who I might really be (Transmutable) Who I might really be (Pleasure) It's me It's me I'm looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor (Yeah, yeah) It's me It's me I've been looking for (Transmutable) It's me It's me on the dance floor (Transmutable) I was looking for someone who might see me And I might see too Maybe that is you Maybe It's me It's me I'm looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor It's me It's me I've been looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor It's me It's me I'm looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor It's me It's me I've been looking for It's me It's me on the dance floor Rising Star Alright, is everybody read Thought I was down for the count Made some mistakes I won't talk about But I'mma skate or die I can fly, I'mma rough it out All right, starchild All right, starchild Thought I was down for the count Diamonds fell out of my crown Pressure was building on me Trouble I made up Beacon of light you see in the night That's me, I'm rising up from despair You think it you, you make it You dreamin' awake yet Think it, you make it 'Til fail Think it, you make it You dreamin' awake yet Think it, you make it Now you gon' prevail And in the fading light I hear a voice so clear And in the closing hour I feel a change coming Thought I was down for the count Silence, hide or come out All right, starchild Oh, beacon of light you see in the night That's me, I'm rising up from nowhere (All right now, here we go) You think it you, you make it You dreamin' awake yet Think it, you make it 'Til fail Think it, you make it You dreamin' awake yet Think it, you make it Now you gonna prevail And in the fading light I hear a voice so clear And in the closing hour I feel a change coming And in the fading light I hear a voice so clear And in the closing hour I feel a change coming Rising star Rise! Another Chance If I get another chance at love If I get another chance I will call you my sweet thing If I get another chance at love If I get another chance I'll hold you like I'm never leaving you Everywhere I've been has got me right here now I have no regrets (Have no regrets) Every love I had, I bless you, thanks I don't take it back (Don't take it back) My love (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) My love (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) If I get another chance at love If I get another chance I will call you my sweet things If I get another chance at love If I get another chance My kisses will be never-ending If I get another chance at love If I get another chance Everywhere I've been has got me right here now I have no regrets (Have no regrets) If I have a chance to give I'm not holding back (Not holding back) My love (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) My love (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) (My love, my love, my love) Champagne Like bubbles in champagne No one can stop what's coming up I cannot go halfway No, I will not stop going up Going up Going up Held my jealousy tight I never spoke it outright I've been blaming you for putting me down Pulling me down But I know how to float in gravity In the end that blame's on me I'll be lighter than air If I let it be Like bubbles in champagne No one can stop what's coming up I cannot go halfway No, I will not stop going up Going up Going up You said I said You said I said You said "all right" Did you want to see me cry Hey, nice try Yeah, I shook inside like a kid afraid But I won't, I won't I will not, I won't I will not, I won't I will not, I won't, I will not cry You can say what you want But like the air I will rise Like bubbles in champagne No one can stop what's coming up I cannot go halfway No, I will not stop going up Going up Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ooh Ohh, ohh, ohh Going up Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ooh Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh oh Like bubbles in champagne (Like bubbles in champagne) No one can stop what's coming up No one can stop what's coming up I cannot go halfway (Like bubbles in champagne) No, I will not stop going up (Like bubbles in champagne) Going up Going You Wanna See My Teeth This night has a chill My hood is up Headphones blaring my sounds My sounds Hey, kid Where you goin' Hey, kid Where you goin', goin' Hey, kid Where you goin' Hey, kid Where you goin' This night has a chill My hood is up Headphones blaring my sound My sound You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show ya, show you You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show ya, show you You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show you I'm gonna show you I'm gonna You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show ya, show you You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show ya, show you You want to see my teeth I'm gonna show you I'm gonna show you I'm gonna Big guns I've got big guns See these arms Big guns I've got big guns See these arms And nothing can harm Nothing can hurt Nothing can touch No man can bind me Nothing can harm Nothing can hurt Nothing can touch No man can bind me No man can find me A Million Pearls I tried to tell you what I can do But you won't believe what you cannot see Oh well, oh well, oh well Oh well, oh well, oh well Thanks to all the times it was said You can't, you can't, you can't Well, I did, I do, I do Well, I did, I did, I do And cheers to all of them who said "There's a million pearls just like you" Now where'd they disappear to Now where'd they disappear to I wanted to go high I wanted you to recognize Something you saw worth keeping Oh well, oh well, oh well If I show you my disgrace Will you still display distaste If I bare to you my Will it mean anything to you at all When I offer up my mouth How you spit me out 'til I learn to be proud On an ocean floor I'm found As just one of the million other A million A million A million pearls A million A million A million pearls A million A million A million pearls Sway I'm trembling like a flower after a storm But I get on board, we press in tight The engine blowing, we release the cord The water takes us high We sway We sway In the moonlight On the shifting center line I could not stay Sway I could not stay Sway I feel a hand holding me upright Let's take the comfort we can get tonight We become a chorus of cussers and lovers I just know I'm holding on to you For dear life We sway Sway In the moonlight On the shifting center line Sway Sway In the moonlight On the shifting center line Sway Moonlight On the shifting center line All eyes out For the rainbow In the meantime Everybody heave-ho Everybody row Heave-ho Everybody, everybody row Heave-ho Dance Dancing through these changes Dance Dancing through these changes We sway Sway In the moonlight On the shifting center line Sway Sway In the moonlight On the shifting center line Sway Moonlight On the shifting center line All eyes out For the rainbow In the meantime Everybody heave-ho Everybody row, heave-ho Everybody, everybody row, heave-ho Everybody row, heave-ho Everybody, everybody row, heave-ho Heave-ho Dance, dancing through these changes Dance, dancing through these changes We sway, sway, in the moonlight on the shifting center line Sway, sway, in the moonlight on the shifting center line Sway, in the moonlight on the shifting center line All eyes out For the rainbow In the meantime, everybody heave-ho
Supernova I love you though you're different than me You don't look like me You don't talk like me You don't I love you though you're foreign to me And unknown to me And there is no, no, no assuming I love you 'cause you wanted to be More of you and nobody Can ever, ever try to be A copy, a copy, a copy, a copy... Let them (let them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (super, super) Let them (let them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (ooh a super, supernova) And if I'm gonna say to you Can I say it to me too Dying and dying Now we are imagining You being you and me being me No, no, no diffusing An echo keeps repeating to me More of you and nobody Can ever, ever try to be A copy, a copy, a copy, a copy... Now we are imagining Let them (let them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (super, super) Let them (let them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (ooh a super, supernova) Let them (tet them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (super, super) Let them (let them) Take us (take us) To the supernova (ooh a super, supernova) Ooh a super, super Ooh a supernova We make a supernova Super, super We make a supernova Ooh a super, supernova We make a supernova Super, super We make a supernova Ooh a super, supernova Ooh a super, super Ooh a super, super Super, super Super, super
Mother She's my wishing well She's the earth below She's oh so dangerous Feminine smile A windspun wild, wild She did what she wanted She said what she thought Got me in trouble for questioning God Silenced emotion, thought I'd be fine Leaving off my woman and leading with my mind I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her She's a midnight sun (she's a midnight sun) She's a pistol blue (she's a pistol blue) She's a valley cracked open wide and the windspun wild, wild She did what she wanted She said what she thought Got me in trouble for questioning God She did what she want Said what she thought I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her I came from my mother then forgot my mother So I'll go back to mother and I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her And I'll learn to love her
White Noise White, white White, white, white, white White, white, white, white White, white noise When you wanna dance (white noise) You dance to the white noise White, white, white, white White noise If you wanna get rich (white noise) Get hip to the white noise And if you get rich quick and hip, hip You can be rich, rich Are you mad, mad, mad, mad You ain't mad enough Are you mad, mad, mad, mad You ain't mad enough, ain't mad enough Are you sad, sad, sad, sad You ain't sad enough Are you sad, sad, sad, sad You ain't sad enough, ain't sad enough Now shake the format Now push the beat back I wanna make a parade (white noise) Parade up to white noise Parade white (white, white, white, white) up to the mirror Come face to face (white, white noise) I feel so sensitive and (white, white) My position might have to be shifted by a break And I'm counting up all of these benefits It's nothing but white noise Are you mad, mad, mad, mad You ain't mad enough Are you mad, mad, mad, mad You ain't mad enough, ain't mad enough Are you sad, sad, sad, sad You ain't sad enough Are you sad, sad, sad, sad You ain't sad enough, ain't sad enough Now shake the format Now push the beat back Now push, push White, white, white, white White, white noise We keep breaking up the white noise (white, white noise) Breaking the white noise (white, white noise) Breaking, breaking up the white noise (white noise) Breaking the white noise
FIGHT THE REAL TERROR
Fight The Terror On the day she died a storm came in It cut down the trees with a force The lights went out and that seemed about right For the whole world to stop for Sinéad Fight the real terror Fight the real terror Oh it's easier to saint too late For such a catalytic act Than to respect a living and furious woman Fight the real terror Come on, come on Come on and fight So what am I gonna make of her sacrifice Whose picture am I gonna tear up tonight And who's gonna stand with me shoulder to shoulder To take down another untouchable power Who's gonna stand with me shoulder to shoulder To take down another untouchable We have confidence We have confidence We have confidence We have confidence Rocket In My Pocket I got a pocket full of rockets And it ain't for show I give you all my loving But now I'm telling you no Never sleep on the quiet ones They know where you hide the keys You think you would get away with this But I got all the quiet ones coming with me Rocket in my pocket Big man coming down but he won't see Rocket in my pocket Take down the big man quietly I got a pocket full of rockets To take a giant out Could I have your attention You stay caught up in your same old talk But how can you stop any river But you can't stop for me Do I go against father Never sleep, never sleep, never sleep, never sleep, never sleep Never sleep on the quiet ones They know where you hide the keys Just when you think you got away with it They come creeping, and creeping, and creeping Rocket in my pocket Big man coming down but he won't see Rocket in my pocket Take down the big man quietly Even Warriors Even warriors want someone to hold I'd rather face a thousand bayonets Than to stand alone with one who could see me And talk about feelings Why's that so scary Even warriors want a place called home When the fight is through to whom will I return? And on whose shoulder will I place a waiting kiss? Tell me who you'd miss Despite my great effort to protect the masses I fold in capacity Despite my great effort to shield my belly It shows openly So pierce me, pierce me Pierce me to ecstatic Saint me after slaughter My absent faculty, embrace and awaken me While injustice carries on The battle is won in the soft spots In the soft spots Imaginary Lover Imaginary lover We won't rush each other Imaginary lover We move apart then come back together Together Imaginary lover I've been better off alone Than breaking my heart on someone Who I could never love much as I love you If we go sideways by some crazy chance If we go sideways, you and I will figure it out If we go sideways by some crazy chance If we go sideways, you and I Will figure it out Figure it out Imaginary lover Taking your hand I feel better Imaginary lover We trust one another We trust Imaginary lover You don't need to change a thread There's no one I'd rather want for in all of heaven's view As much as I'd want you I want you If we go sideways by some crazy chance If we go sideways, you and I will figure it out If we go sideways by some crazy chance If we go sideways, you and I Will figure it out Figure it out Rule Breaker Rule number one, don't date the band When you find out they cheated and the band is done Rule number two, don't date a fan They only want illusions in front of the cam Rule number three, don't kiss an engineer You may like their attention but they wanna keep on catching you, controlling you Rule number four, don't date a civilian They'll never understand your singular obsession Rule number five, don't marry the manager When you go left, they wanna make you stay right That's the surest time that there's gonna be a fight Rule number six, don't date another artist Too much ego in the room with artists Rule number seven, don't chase a poet You want their freedom but you'll be paying, I know it Rule number eight, don't date a young one You think for one minute "This might be fun?" Rule number nine, don't try international That plane ticket gonna make you irrational Rule number ten, never again make a part time fling a full time girlfriend Part time fling a full time girlfriend Part time fling a full time girlfriend You're a rule breaker Rule breaker You're a rule breaker A rule breaker How'd you do it How'd you do it How'd you make me fall in love How'd you do it How'd you do it How'd you make me fall in love with a rule breaker A rule breaker You're a rule breaker A rule breaker Safe House I never felt so safe I had to have a sword and shield I wanted to be strong in the world For me and all the little pearls Who never felt so safe So we cussed and drank and huffed And cloaked our ache to toughen up And hope to fortify the right To sleep in peace at night We are gonna write new rules We are gonna talk our troubles through Play for keeps and find out how Nobody will be shut out from the safe house Safe house And even I'm afraid To try so hard and fail I know that I am strong But even I need someone to depend on And show me what is safe Name mistakes Run not from effects Listen up, restore respect Please, don't go away if you stay We are gonna write new rules We are gonna talk our troubles through Play for keeps and find out how Nobody will be shut out from the safe house Safe house We are gonna write We are gonna talk We are gonna play For keeps, for keeps, for keeps, for keeps, for keeps We are gonna write We are gonna talk And we are gonna play For keeps, for keeps, for keeps, for keeps, for keeps At the safe house Safe house Have You Ever Seen An Angel Have you ever seen an angel On a December night when the light of hope is all burned out Have you ever seen an angel In January, May or June Did your horizon go tilted forever to stay askew Oh angel, hold my hand Angel, sit with me while I weep and sigh Oh my, what a life Oh my, what a life Have you ever seen an angel In a desperate hour when nobody's picking up the line Have you ever seen an angel After the house is clean And your spirit's quiet and listening for angels Oh my, what a life Oh my, what a life Oh Gloria Gloria Gloria Oh glory Gloria Sublime There was a sail on oceans blue And on it a prayer I'd blush in truth And in the thought, light was born And on the sail, it grew and grew Sublime Sublime Sublime Do you have the time Is it coincidence or more When a thought comes back in different form What does it mean, I dare not guess But the moment it comes, I wonder no less Sublime Sublime Sublime Do you have the time Initiate, initiate, initiate the sail Initiate, initiate, initiate the sail When I've forgotten how to pray When I've forgotten how to pray I sail Sublime Sublime Sublime Do you have the time Do you have the time There's No Place I'd Rather Be There's no place I'd rather be than right here with you There's no talk I'd rather talk than our kind of talking There's no place I'd rather be now you're tattooed to me Here, slowly the pain appears Radiant, here The edges of love are here It is radiant, radiant There's no place I'd rather be than right here with you Here, touching you, hearing you I'm coming closer, ooh I was so alone I was so alone Here The edges of love are near It is radiant, here The centre on pain is here, it is radiant Radiant Let me stay as the light fades Watch as pain evaporates Let me stay as the light fades Here, with you Here I Saw A Glimpse I saw a glimpse of heaven or at least I think I did All my loved ones came 'round to hear me play a tune for them Oh my darling, my darling Oh my darling, witness cloud Will you stay with me forever if your name is in my mouth I saw a glimpse of heaven, or at least I think I did All the martyrs circled 'round to bless with holy water's power Oh my darling, my darling Be not afraid to speak For the final hour's coming You may weep but still must speak I saw a glimpse of the future, or at least I think I did My child was in a firetruck, running after every flame Then his future looked inside me and asked plain as day "Oh dear Mama, dear Mama, had you done all that you could Oh Mama, dear Mama, I love and wish you would" I saw a glimpse of the future, or at least I think I did A crowd was in a gathering place, such focus on their face They sang a song of triumph and the tone traveled for miles Oh my darling, my darling There will be no more regret Let me hold you in my arms, so close For you I won't hold back I will love you to the end of time And I'll die over that fact Oh my darling, my darling Let us make love through the night For tomorrow's dawn comes early At tomorrow's dawn we fight
Non Albums Tracks
*** Thanx a lot to Jose for most of these lyrics ***
A Friend Indeed (Marla Hansen feat. Shara Worden / Wedding Day EP) Coming home again Leave the van Come have a cup of tea We'll talk about the big and bigger things My oh my, you are a friend indeed And oh it's been a long time But you are a friend in need You want them to know without being told And why shouldn't you All our puzzle pieces Have fallen behind chairs, under beds It'll take the night to sit and sort them out Well, that's okay, you can sleep here instead And oh it's been a long time But I am a friend in need I want him to know without being told And why shouldn't I
Apparition (French Version) (Stéphane Mallarmé Poem / I Had Grow Wild EP)
Are You A Dreamer
(Denisom Witmer feat. Shara Worden / Are You A Dreamer? LP) Denisom : Dream, are you a dreamer Are you a dreamer Do you dream Sleep, are you a sleeper Are you a sleeper Do you sleep Denisom & Shara : When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free Will you sleep and dream with me Denisom : Love, are you my lover Are you my lover Do you love me Save, are you a savior Are you a savior Are you a savior Will you save Denisom & Shara : When my blue eyes close Will white clouds lift me up When my body slows My mind run fast and free Do you hold me when I sleep Do you hold me when I sleep When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free Will you sleep and dream with me Will you sleep and dream with me Water, I'm walking on water Walking on water for you
Black Sheep The black sheep Black sheep Black sheep saw the moon Then the black sheep Black sheep Knew what to do They read the sky Saw a shooting star fall down Then the black sheep Knew it was time to come to town If you ever meet a black sheep Don’t give 'em any rules If you think you can tame 'em Then you'd become the fool If you tell 'em to go right They'll go left instead When you tell 'em to follow They refuse to be led The black sheep Black sheep Black sheep doing wrong The black sheep Black sheep Sing this little song Ain't got no family Ain't got no home Ain't got much money Or shelter from the storm But I know the names of the planets and the spheres And I know what the falling star meant to me this year The black sheep (black sheep) Black sheep (black sheep) Black sheep saw the sign Then the black sheep (black sheep) Black sheep Circled up side by side Then looking each other in the eye, they said I'm bad I'm bad, alright I'd rather be bad and unruly I'd rather be bad next to you truly I'm bad I'm bad, alright So bad (so bad) So bad So bad and I can't go back So bad and I can't go back So bad and I can't go back To being white
Be my husband ( Written by A. Stroud / Nina Simone Cover )
Be my husband man I be your wife Be my husband man I be your wife Be my husband man I be your wife I said I will love you the rest of my life Stick the promise man you gave me Stick the promise man that you gave me Stick the promise man you gave me That you stay away from rosalie Oh daddy love me good Oh daddy now love me good Oh daddy now love me good Oh oh oh the way that you should Be my husband man I be your wife Be my husband man I be your wife Be my husband man I be your wife I said I will love you I said I will love you I said I will love you the rest of my life
Casimir Pulaski Day
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Two, three, four Sufjan : Golden rod and the 4-H stone The things I brought you When I found out you had cancer of the bone Your father cried on the telephone And he drove his car to the Navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry Sufjan & Shara : In the morning through the window shade When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade I could see what you were reading Oh the glory that the Lord has made And the complications you could do without When I kissed you on the mouth Sufjan : Tuesday night at the bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens I remember at Michael's house In the living room when you kissed my neck And I almost touched your blouse Sufjan & Shara : In the morning at the top of the stairs When your father found out what we did that night And you told me you were scared Oh the glory when you ran outside With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied And you told me not to follow you Sufjan : Sunday night when I cleaned the house I find the card where you wrote it out With the pictures of your mother On the floor at the great divide With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied I am crying in the bathroom Sufjan & Shara : In the morning when you finally go And the nurse runs in with her head hung low And the cardinal hits the window In the morning in the winter shade On the first of March on the holiday I thought I saw you breathing Oh the glory that the Lord has made And the complications when I see his face In the morning in the window Oh the glory when he took our place But he took my shoulders and he shook my face And he takes and he takes and he takes
Cast In Ice (Stateless feat. Shara Worden / Sixfold Symmetry EP) She cried for him She cried forever What good is it What good is to love It'll make you suffer Well, the soul walks The soul walks still Every night since the falling star Just as the snow falls and as the rain falls The wound in her side goes 'round the sun Cast in ice, cast in ice Cast in light, cast in light Cast in ice, cast in ice Cast in light And the silent house and the silent room There is a face in the window The only face left in the world You are the last and you were the first Before you, there was nothing at all Cast in ice, cast in ice Cast in light, cast in light Cast in ice, cast in ice Cast in light The soul walks The soul walks still Every night since the falling star Just as the snow falls and as the rain falls Just a wave of diamonds spralling to ruins In your eyes, in your eyes In your arms, in your arms In your eyes, in your eyes In your arms
Ceci Est Ma Main
(This is my hand French Version / I Had Grown Wild EP) Ceci est ma main, ceci est mon poignet Ceci est mon bras, ceci est mon poing Comme une vigne entortillée, s'enveloppe et s'entrelace Ceci est mon visage, ceci est ma bouche Ceci est mon œil, ceci est mon sourcil Comme le vin de lilas, se déversant de toi, pour toi Ceci est ma forme, ceci est mon moule Ceci est mon âge, ceci est ma charpente Ceci est mon esprit, ceci est ma voix Ceci est mon coeur, ceci est mon choix Ceci est ma cuisse, ceci est mon sexe Ceci est ma hanche, ceci est mon sein Ceci est mon ombre, ceci est ma haine Ceci est ma ligne, ceci est mon doute Ma mélancolie, ma flamme, ma joie, mon but d'aimer, aimer, aimer… Ceci est ma forme, ceci est mon moule Ceci est mon âge, ceci est ma charpente Ceci est mon esprit, ceci est ma voix Ceci est mon coeur, ceci est mon choix Ceci est mon temps, ceci est mon souffle Ceci est ma droite, ceci est ma gauche Ceci est mon ombre, ceci est ma haine Ceci est ma ligne, ceci est mon doute Ma mélancolie, ma flamme, ma joie, mon but d'aimer, aimer, aimer…
Champagne (French Version)
(Champagne EP) Comme les bulles de champagne Personne ne peut arrêter ce qui arrive Je ne peux pas aller à mi-chemin Je ne vais pas m'arrêter Oui j'y vais Oui j'y vais J'ai gardé ma jalousie Je ne l'ai jamais révélée Je t'en ai voulu De me rabaisser De m'abaisser Mais je sais flotter Dans la gravité A la fin, les reproches sont pour moi Je suis légère Comme l'air et je laisse faire Comme les bulles de champagne Personne ne peut arrêter ce qui arrive Je ne peux pas aller à mi-chemin Je ne vais pas m'arrêter Oui j'y vais Oui j'y vais Tu dis que j'ai dit Tu dis que j'ai dit Tu dis Assez Tu voudrais me voir pleurer Bien essayé Je tremblais comme un gamin effrayé Mais je ne vais pas Je ne vais pas Je ne vais pas Non je ne vais pas Je ne vais pas pleurer Dis ce que tu veux Mais comme l'air, je monterai Comme les bulles de champagne Personne ne peut arrêter ce qui arrive Je ne peux pas aller à mi-chemin Je ne vais pas m'arrêter Oui j'y vais Oui j'y vais Comme les bulles de champagne Personne ne peut arrêter ce qui arrive Je ne peux pas aller à mi-chemin Je ne vais pas m'arrêter Oui j'y vais Oui j'y
Come On! Feel The Illinoise!
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)
Sufjan : Oh great intentions I've got the best of interventions But when the ads come I think about it now In my infliction Entrepreneurial conditions Take us to glory I think about it now Shara: Cannot conversations cull united nations If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients Cannot all creation call it celebration Or united nation, put it to your head Sufjan : Oh great white city I've got the adequate committee Where have your walls gone I think about it now Shara: Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion Oh Columbia From Paris, incentive, like cream of wheat invented The Ferris Wheel Sufjan : Oh great intentions Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience I think about it now Oh God of progress Have you degraded or forgot us Where have your laws gone I think about it now Shara: Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific Typically terrific, busy and prolific Classical devotion, architect promotion Lacking in emotion. Think about it now Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say Oh Columbia Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures Like the Ferris Wheel Cannot conversations cull united nations If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients Columbia Sufjan : I cried myself to sleep last night And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window I was hypnotized, I was asked To improvise On the attitude, the regret Of a thousand centuries of death Shara: Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer I am riding all alone I am writing all alone Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition I am riding all alone I am running all alone Sufjan : And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines We were asked at the attitudes They reminded us of death Shara: Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart Are you writing from the heart Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart Are you writing from the heart Sufjan : And I cried myself to sleep last night For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me Shara: Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart Are you writing from the heart Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart Are you writing from the heart
Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
When the revenant came down We couldn't imagine what it was In the spirit of three stars The alien thing that took its form Then to Lebanon, oh God The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow Oh, history involved itself Mysterious shade that took its form Or what it was Incarnation Three stars Delivering signs and dusting from their eyes
Dorian If you're in the room, there's no one else in the room If you're outside, I'm outside If you run away, that's okay I'll hold you here in my mind Quiet, strong Stable, easy I see you, you see me Rebel to rebel The knowing between us Was right there from the beginning You were a wild thing I knew to never posses you I could not contain you Never blame you Even if I never kiss you Never want to lose you Even if I cannot keep you I confess I need you Dorian Never my lover You became the light Dorian We are other We make a line Dorian Never another Could be Dorian Curious creature, unprecedented in nature The form won't apply to you and I Hold me close, then let me roam Don't know where I'm going I'll be back in a blue moon To see you, you see me Rebel to rebel The knowing between us Was right there from the beginning You were a wild thing I knew to never posses you I could not contain you Never blame you Even if I never kiss you Never want to lose you Even if I cannot keep you I confess I need you Dorian Never my lover You became the light Dorian We are other We make a line Dorian Never another Could be Dorian Dorian Never my lover You (Dorian) What a way to say goodbye Dorian We are other We make a line Dorian Never another Dorian Never another
(None More Than You EP) Slow Slow Slowing down Slowing down So slo This could be my favorite time of day When everything is nestling down Feathers ruffled and wings touch ground And every floor closes up So slow Every voice acquires a hush And limbs grow numb Fingers finding hard start to roam And whispering I say to you I could stay here always Just watching you breathe Making up some great adventure story Where you win all the fame and glory I could stay here always Dreaming awake Dreaming awake Dreaming, dreaming awake What is all this rushing about What have I done to prove What is all this rushing about I've got to slow it down So slow I could stay here always Just watching you breathe Making up some great adventure story Where you win all the flame and the glory I could stay here always Dreaming awake Dreaming awake Dreaming, dreaming awake I'm dreaming Dreaming awake Slow Slow
Dreams Don't Look Like (None More Than You EP) Dreams don't look like The way they look in sleep Dreams don't feel like Anything you can keep But I still dream I still One day I might slow down And give up chasing something That can't be named or found Up here so high Held by a shoe string It seems like I have nothing But I've got all I need If I win or if I lose If I hold or if I shoot If I run or hit the road If I climb or if I fall
Everything But Sleep (Denisom Witmer feat. Shara Worden / Are You A Dreamer? LP) My room has a big white bed Pictures on the mirror Books that last a year Everything but sleep Don't you know Nothing won't fit under there (nothing won't fit under there) The Dowmaker's ghost A heavenly host Everything but sleep Don't you know Everything but sleep Where does it go Everything but sleep On it goes (on it goes and on it goes and on it goes) If it weren't for you I could be anywhere I'd rather be here Don't you know Now that I know I'll never feel the same way Everything but sleep Don't you know Everything but sleep On it goes (on it goes and on it goes and on it goes) On it goes (on it goes, on it goes, on it goes)
Feeling good ( Nina Simone Cover on "Dark Was The Night" LP ) Birds flying high You know how I feel Sun in the sky You know how I feel Reeds drifting on by You know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me Yes it's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me And I'm feeling good Fish in the sea You know how I feel River running free You know how I feel Blossom in the tree You know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me And I'm feeling good Dragonfly out in the sun You know what I mean Butterflies all having fun You know what I mean Sleep in peace when day is done That's what I mean And this old world is a new world And a bold world And I'm feeling good Stars when you shine You know how I feel Scent of the pine You know how I feel Oh freedom is mine And I know what I mean It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me It's a new dawn It's a new day I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
Gentlest gentleman
( I-Tunes bonus track ) Maybe next time when I see your face again I will tell you that I loved you And if this is to be the end, well hey That's it, that's it We have tasted life we have taken all With a big breath out And a big breath in We sang la la la la la la la And if it seems that I've been a little down I will blame it on the fact that you ain't been coming 'round I heard nothing gold will stay Well hey That's it, that's it We have tasted life We have taken all With a big breath out And a big breath in We sing la la la la la la la La la la la la la la You were the gentlest You were the gentlest You were the gentlest gentlemen La la la la la la la La la la la la la la
I Am Walking (David Lang Feat. Shara Worden / Death Speaks EP) I am walking in the sunlight I see the moon, at my feet I see the sun, at my feet I walk in joy I am kissed by angels Your heart Child of man Your heart canʼt know What joy I feel Sister soul, come to rest Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Pure notes of love Echo around you A lily, a rose They wait for you While you sleep Only you can hear me Only you can see me Only you can hear the music It never stops
I Had A Pearl ( Inside a boy EP )
Many strange things did I behold I had the favor a queen and watched it turn to stone I've kissed the lips of princes, fools and dreams I walked a tightrope through the moonlight to the seven seas I've seen silver headed Valentine I carried up the swan kings gold and gave them thimble wine I saw the old man time glisten before the end I went down disappearing hole was never seen again I had a pearl and I lost it I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded I saw her face turn away And now I know that there is nothing so hard I can't get over it On eleven o two I sailed a red hot balloon To the snow capped mountains of Timorataloo And when the owl stole my air for his last tune I floated up to Pluto on a beam of the moon I had a pearl and I lost it I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded I saw her face turn away And now I know that there is nothing so high I can't get over it
I Hear You (David Lang Feat. Shara Worden / Death Speaks EP) I hear you I hear you call I pity you I am your friend I am not cruel Give me your hand You will sleep so softly in my arms When love breaks free from sorrow A new star shines A new star shines Three roses, half red, half white They will never wither The angels They shed their wings And fall Rest well rest well Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Close your eyes You will rest with me Until the river drains into the sea Iʼll make a bed for you The softest pillow Come, rest Everyone will sing for you For you I will protect you From the hunter, from the forest From the flowers, from your dreams From the wicked girl, from her shadow I will keep your eyes covered I will protect you Good night Good night
I'll Find A Way (To Carry It All) (The Blind Boys Of Alabama feat. Shara Worden / I'll Find A Way LP) Night seems to fall I'll find a way I'll find a way To carry it all You took me for a ride What can I say I'll find a way To carry it all Many stood tall When love seems so fine And many stepped upward It is so sweet How did we get so sad I'll play the fool (I'll play the fool) Just for a day I'll find a way (I'll find, I'll find a way) To carry it all To carry it all Many stood tall When love seems so fine And many stepped upward It is so sweet (So sweet, so sweet) How did we get so sad I'll play the fool (I'll play the fool) Just for a day (I am gonna find it) I'll find a way (I'll find a way) To carry it all (To carry it all) To carry it all
I'm On Fire (Stateless feat. Shara Worden / Matilda LP) Shara Worden: Whatever you've done, just bury it And swim back down to the ocean bed And find the secret place where we buried those bones While we explore our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones Shara Worden & Chris James: I don't care where we've been tonight It is of no consequence, my dear Just stay here, my arms are wide, my lover And the rest of the world could disappear and I wouldn't care Shara Worden: 'Cause I'm on fire Chris James: I guess I should open another bottle of wine Light another cigarette and turn the record over And play the songs we sang when we buried those bones While we explored our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones Shara Worden & Chris James: I don't care where we've been tonight It is of no consequence, my dear Just stay here, my arms are wide, my lover And the rest of the world could disappear and I wouldn't care Shara Worden: 'Cause I'm on fire I'm on, I'm on fire Chris James & Shara Worden: I'm on fire (I'm) I'm on fire (I'm) I'm on fire (on fire) I'm on fire I'm on fire I'm on fire, fire, fire
*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***
Je n'en connais pas la fin / Hymne à l'amour ( Live Cover / M. Monnot/E. Piaf with English lyrics by G. Parsons ) 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 that 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 Rien que nous deux Rien, rien, rien, que nous deux" All summer long that little fair Made everyday like a holiday And night after night it used to play People came there from so far away And everyone sang that little tune And all around town you heard it played Even Pepi from Napoli He sang to Marie This serenade "Ah, mon amour A toi toujours" 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, let it happen 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 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 Do you love me Let it happen Let it happen darling For I won't care
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Sufjan : His father was a drinker And his mother cried in bed Folding John Wayne's T-shirts When the swingset hit his head The neighbors, they adored him For his humor and his conversation Look underneath the house there Find the few living things Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead Twenty-seven people, even more They were boys with their cars, summer jobs Oh my God Are you one of them He dressed up like a clown for them With his face paint white and red And on his best behavior In a dark room on the bed he kissed them all He'd kill ten thousand people With a sleight of his hand Running far, running fast to the dead He took off all their clothes for them He put a cloth on their lips Quiet hands, quiet kiss On the mouth And in my best behavior I am really just like him Look beneath the floorboards For the secrets I have hid
Lucky ( Stereogum Presents OKX, A Tribute To OK Computer ) I'm on a roll I'm on a roll This time I feel my luck could change Kill me Sarah Kill me again With love It's gonna be a glorious day Pull me out of the aircrash Pull me out of the wreck 'Cause I'm your superhero We are standing on the edge It's gonna be a glorious day It's gonna be a glorious day Pull me out of the aircrash Pull me out of the wreck 'Cause I'm your superhero We are standing on the edge Standing on the edge
Mist Is Rising (David Lang Feat. Shara Worden / Death Speaks EP) Mist is rising Moon is full and rising Sky above us It is so full I greet you, sister soul Rise up, like an eagle Rise up, to where the light is Rise up, to where the light is from I am your rest, I am your peace I am what you long for, and What makes the longing go away I am full of joy for you, and I am full of grief Come in and close the door behind you I will drive your sadnesses away My eyes fill with your light Fill them Fill them Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Sweetest child Come with me I will play with you I will show you The flowers and the shore My motherʼs golden robe My daughters and their evening dance They know a song to sing while you are sleeping I love you I love all of you I love your face I love your form Please donʼt make me make you follow me Come and see Tears of love become strands of pearls When the angel comes
Pain Changes (David Lang feat. Shara Worden / Death Speaks LP) Pain changes every shape Once you are truly lonely You will never be alone Feel my hand I feel you Touch my cold hand I will take you from her To your new cold land I have chosen you My only love Those others They search for you But where they search They will never find you After the leaves fall, spring returns After love is parted, it returns All you have to do is come with me And wait One day she will be lowered in the earth Beside you My hand will guide her home To the place where love is And no pain When that door opens You will be healed Dearest man, dearest woman Dearest boy, dearest girl Dearest mother, dearest father Dearest son, dearest daughter You will never leave me You listen You are silent You feel me leaning towards you Nothing escapes me Not the warrior Not the hunter Everything awaits the way it changes When life falls away That is the meaning of the swan And its song The night can't last forever Nor will this sleep Beyond this sleep is light Forever light Until that light can shine Until you see it shining Sleep sweetly here In the cool, dark night
Postcards from downtown ( Live / Dayna Kurtz Cover )
I lost all my faith in love On those stairs that November I know it meant a lot at the time Now I can barely remember It's been a long time It's been a long time You said I've been alone so long That I've got big theories of lonely And that I drag them all over town Just to look occupied But I'm learning something I'm doing time Red light, green light, one, two, three Have you come to conquer me It's been a long time Hey I know how to take in all kinds Of heartless offers And I've learned how to hand back a few And I've come as close to love As to walking on water So what could I do with you What will I do with you I'm going out now I'll send you some Postcards from downtown I'll show you all the apartments Where I got my degrees Where I'd fall like small dreams Where I'd fade like bright leaves
Prairie Fire That Wanders About
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Peoria, destroyia Infinity, divinity For Lydia, Octavia And Jack-of-Trades The Cubs, hooray The Opera House Where Emma sang America, Oh will it play And Santa Clause The Great Parade Peoria You have it made Into the crossfire Faithfully run Middle America One on one Peoria We saddle the fun times
Razorblade Salvation
( Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Shara Worden – Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, 2006 ) Shara Worden : I know that times were hard I know that you've been feelin' down If you only knew how I'm feelin' for you If I could take your pain I wish that I could wash it all away If you only knew how I'm feelin' Vinnie Paz : Mommy I'm sorry if my first letter made you cry To be honest with you I don't think that I wanna die Sometimes I feel like that I'm cancerous in others lives That's probably why I drink at night and sleep till 4 or 5 It's kinda hard walking through life with my distorted eyes When I was younger I was stupid and I thought I thrived I thought a lot about everything I said in the letter And questioned whether or not if I was dead you'd be better You think my shorty would be happy if I never met her It's too late now mommy I could never forget her Could never forget how she told me to love 'Cause my father and my grandmother is always above It's glory above you know that daddy taught me to thug And everytime we was with nanny she'd bombard me with hugs, damn I miss 'em mommy and it's hard to believe That I'm grown and I don't understand it - why did they leave Better to die and sleep then never wake and sleep Then linger on and dare to live when your souls life is gone Shara Worden : You've been runnin' around for so long You've been hurting yourself too much You keep messin' around with darkness You're the one who's losin' You've been runnin' around for so long You've been hurting yourself too much You keep messin' around with darkness You're the one who's losin' Vinnie Paz : Mommy I think I'm to try to stick around a while I got a niece and my nephews they need me around a while I think they need me 'cause they hittin' that age And they ain't tryin' to speak to Lenny 'cause they spittin' they rage, yeah And mommy speakin' of Lenny I think my brother need me And we Italian so you know my mother loved to feed me And it's the little things you do for me that make it worth it Like when I play a joint that we did and you say it's perfect And when Jay got knocked you knew that I was hurt You told me put all of my heart in a song and it worked I promised him I'd be there when he got out the bing You ain't raised me to be a liar ma' that's not my thing I told him that I'd hold him down the whole time that he gone They kept him locked in a cage but that's cool 'cause he's strong So Mommy keep that first letter I wrote you on the low I think I wanna stay alive and see if I can grow Shara Worden : You've been runnin' around for so long You've been hurting yourself too much You keep messin' around with darkness You're the one who's losing You've been runnin' around for so long You've been hurting yourself too much You keep messin' around with darkness You're the one who's losing Alejandro Jodorowsky: You have power and money, but you are mortal You know you can not escape death But immortality can be obtained. The legend is always the same If others have succeeded conquering death Why must we accept it? I know where (the) immortals live And how to obtain their secret We too could become wisemen The elements of chemistry are many But FINITE. So are the techniques of enlightenment. (sampled from The Holy Mountain) Shara Worden : I know that times were hard I know that you've been feelin' down If you only knew how I'm feelin' for you If I could take your pain I wish that I could wash it all away If you only knew how I'm feelin'
*** Thanx a lot to Billy for this one ***
Seven Years (David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Shara Worden / Here Lies Love LP) David Byrne: For seven years I've been in here Seven years down in the hole - they said "Your watch, your glasses and your wedding ring You won't need them anymore" I felt abandoned - I felt cast aside So where is God who never sleeps? I heard a voice say, "Why do you cry?" Then I found my inner peace Shara Worden: Ninoy, you were my first love But you said I was too tall The heart gets stronger and grows colder For the Rose of Tacloban David Byrne: I begged to God could he forgive me now? And take back all those things I said This moment was a gift from above Maybe it's some kind of test Shara Worden: Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him Ninoy, remember a long time ago You used to walk me to my home? Who set you free? Who built this hospital? You think I hate you but you're wrong David Byrne: For seven years I wore this crucifix A necklace that watched over me Face to face with mortality I let go of all my fears Shara Worden: Now my husband he might hate you But you know I saved your life Ninoy, don't be a hero I beg you, don't get on that flight Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him Santo Niño, Santo Niño Take good care of him
Tainted Love ( Gloria Jones Cover / the Guilt by Association Vol. 2 ) Now I feel I've got to Run away I've got to Get away From the pain that you drive into the heart of me The love we share Seems to go nowhere And I've lost my light For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night Once I ran to you Now I'll run from you This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you Take my tears and that's not nearly all Oh tainted love Tainted love Now I feel I've got to Run away I've got to Get away You don't really want any more from me To make things right You need someone to hold you tight And you'll think love is to pray Well I'm sorry I don't pray that way Once I ran to you Now I'll run from you This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you Take my tears and that's not nearly all Oh tainted love Tainted love Don't touch me please I cannot stand the way you tease I love you though you hurt me so Now I'm go to pack my things and go Tainted love, tainted love Tainted love, tainted love Tainted, tainted Tainted love...
*** Thanx a lot to Basia for this one ***
That Point When (None More Than You EP) That point when something impossible Comes to be coincidently That's when I stop believing That gravity is holding me "Do you feel it's too late?", she asked "No, never", I said (yes, it's too late) No, never (too late, too late) "Do you believe it's too late?", she asked Yes, no and never Yes, no and never That point when
The Fiction Issue: Part I
(Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden) In the early days after the accident I lived in a small apartment, Closet-like, in East Harlem Every morning, I'd visit the bakery The Portuguese bakery For coffee and donut Before the daily descent Into the maw of the Lexington line I'd wear my shades underground For a number of reasons One: to be dashing Two: to be atomized Three: to be a spy In the early days after the catastrophe I was prone to stare at men with starched collars Suits and briefcases Hairy wrists and gold watches I invented their lives All the strains of their marriages, A rendezvous at the Bronx Zoo Where he'd loosen his tie and he'd hand me a balloon Which we'd watch ascend in the unbroken blue There were mornings in that bungalow I’d wake up drunk on light, and touch the floor California’s is thin And white and pure It hovers above the murk That lurks below Window gathered up the dust and grime Kicked up on the seedy street that bakes outside But can’t keep out that singular light Drink it in Drink it in Drink it in Drink it in Drink it in Drink it in The Fiction Issue: Part II
(Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden) The reverie is broken by a subway evangelist Who insists that the mayor knew the accident would happen And offers us copies of handwritten literature Defending her argument And gives us coupons for discounted storage On Staten Island Ascending the steps, the grime of the subway, I acquire the next cup of coffee En route to the flower shop Off of Union Square Settled behind the register In my crossword stance, I think to myself What’s the Latin word for "dying of boredom"? For I feel I ought to be elsewhere A woman walks in, I’m thinking she’s Russian Redolent of beet soup and of cabbage She points to a puffy red vellum heart-shaped balloon Her eyes are red-rimmed We speak in gestures The balloon reads our prayers are with you I wonder if she knows someone A victim in the accident I can’t think of these things right now I know I ought to be doing something more. Rather than merely transacting aestheticized flora, Arranging these roses and lilies Lilacs and daffodils Sawgrass and mugwort So many flowers Only later would I work to worry my body Out of its nighttime contortions Borne of strange sleep on a stranger’s sofa Dressed, shaved, flip-flopped I walk down the main drag Pursuing coffee and donuts For what’s a day without a donut Light skitters on the sidewalk My neck feels like an instrument of sunshine The line for the coffee is a whorl around the block We try to be carefree though the world is turning black 'Cause what’s a day without a donut For what’s a day without a At last I am no longer Counting the times she will inhabit a day I no longer scan the paper for her name And there’s a grey green drive that I won’t replay Under canopied corridors, overcast sky Speaking of our fathers so self-conscious and alive Grateful to have found each other And now to have lost each other I am focused on my coffee The Fiction Issue: Part III
(Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden) In the early days after those planes crashed And everyone was long limbs akimbo Stone-faced and somber and still I’d walk five blocks East And set myself in a seat At the twilit dive with the bearded bartender Gentle and sober and still I’d drink real slow And I’d think about The Poet In his dive on 52nd His public and private tragedies Coming of age was an exchange Or so he reckoned, From loving or dying To loving and dying The Fiction Issue Part IV (Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden)
I have to write badly for a long time I have to write badly for a long time Before I can write well, before I can write well Said to me the aging poet as we stood in line for our coffee and donut The sun beginning its climb over the Pacific I loved the bearded bartender And couldn’t fathom death Even though it was all around me He, the poet, had the look of an effete beach bum Bronzed skin and wire rimmed glasses Conspicuous gold rings on meaty knuckles While we waited for our luxury beverages He regaled me with tales of the trailblazing transgender rabbi Associate of his congregation in the Valley Which attracted the veterans of the adult video scene Many of whom were nonetheless observant. Last week’s sermon, he said Was about the dangers of dangerous love The temptation to covet the tempest Instead of the quiet constant Quiet constant edition of same The Fiction Issue Part V
(Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden) I left New York for a Midwestern town With expanses of sunbleached corn-fed plain Almost two full years ago, O falling body The city where I live now is known For its art museum and its beer Sometimes out with my husband At a polka bar, drinking from a frosted glass I am lost in recollection of the bearded bartender Who was such a source of consolation in the early days, O falling body Some nights I would linger over one sweet bottle of beer and fish tacos Drinking in his stories of a young life spent in Minnesota Mostly lacking in cheer His glassy-eyed parents living under corrugated tin the tv blares the bad news Oh God, on an endless loop, the fearless troop they sift the clod Don’t ask me why I can’t stop can’t stop staring O falling body At fifteen he ran away from trailerpark decline and ashburnt carpets No more burnished blows in the backyard Greyhound scene, after failing with his thumb Caught a bus against the sun and crossed the country to become somebody new Watch now Screens are flashing, buildings crashing, lift the clod But don’t ask me why I can’t stop can’t stop staring, O falling body Late one night with some silent movie bathing the bar in the glow Of nineteen-thirty, he leans in and I pull back, This pleasure somehow incorrect and low O falling body The Fiction Issue Part VI
(Gabriel Kahane Feat. Shara Worden) Later, driving East along Santa Monica Boulevard Leaving Los Angeles, listening to recordings Of some relevant, well-dressed popular icon I will remember the poet’s admonition Well, not the poet’s the rabbi’s And think about what it is to be loved And whether that could ever be enough In my room beside the bed, with the books on the floor Nights I’d hear inverted chords from traffic through the door Go fast, go fast to dream of a cloudless blue sky Sleep, and you will find a sweeter city there Tower trembling to repair In my dream, I drive alone, I drive in predawn delight Black, before the airport wakes, the taillights make to improvise some red Some red reminds of the songs in my head Of the distance, the dead, of the innocence you shed Don’t cry for now our injured island wakes As the trucks groan their song How the buildings and the flags are yawning Taxis turning, steel and silver glint this morning Will it all bring peace I believe the city will be fine I divine We’ll be fine
The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Sufjan : Thinking outrageously I write in cursive I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the face of the door Oh I am not quite sleeping Oh I am fast in bed There on the wall in the bedroom creeping I see a wasp with her wings outstretched North of Savanna we swim in the palisades I come out wearing my brother's red hat There on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times He runs washing his face in his hands Oh how I meant to tease him Oh how I meant no harm Touching his back with my hand I kiss him I see the wasp on the length of my arm Shara : Oh great sights upon this state - Hallelujah Wonders bright and rivers lake - Hallelujah Trail of tears and horseshoes lake - Hallelujah Trusting things beyond mistake - Hallelujah Sufjan : We were in love, we were in love Palisades, palisades I can wait, I can wait Shara : Lamb of God, we sound the horn - Hallelujah To us your ghost is born - Hallelujah Sufjan : I can't explain the state that I'm in The state of my heart, he was my best friend Into the car, from the back seat Oh admiration in falling asleep All of my powers, day after day I can tell you, we swaggered and swayed Deep in the tower, the prairies below I can tell you, the telling gets old Shara on the background : Oh great sights upon this state - Hallelujah Wonders bright and rivers lake - Hallelujah Trail of tears and horseshoes lake - Hallelujah Trusting things beyond mistake - Hallelujah Sufjan : Terrible sting and terrible storm I can tell you the day we were born My friend is gone, he ran away I can tell you, I love him each day Though we have sparred, wrestled and raged I can tell you I love him each day Terrible sting, terrible storm I can tell you
The Sea (Letters to Distant Cities LP) The sea floated The sea floated Up the river Up the river Into the sky Into the sky Into the sky Into the sky I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Something she thought Eternal Something like childhood Something she thought Eternal Something like childhood Is gone
The Seer's Tower
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Sufjan : In the tower above the earth There is a view that reaches far Where we see the universe I see the fire, I see the end Seven miles above the earth There is Emmanuel of mothers With his sword, with his robe He comes dividing man from brothers Sufjan & Shara : In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel In the powers of the earth, we wait until it rips and rips In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel Oh my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us Sufjan : Still I go to the deepest grave Where I go to sleep alone
The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders
(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP) Sufjan : I count the days the Great Frontier Forgiving, faced the seventh year I stand in awe of gratefulness I can and call forgetfulness Sufjan & Shara : And when I, and when I call The Patient, the Patient fall The Spirit, the Carpenter Invites us to be with her What have we become America Soldiers on the Great Frontier Carpenter and Soldier, one on one It's the battle, volunteer Run from yourself, from your friends, from your Run for your life, for your friends, for your America, America, America Illinois, Illinois, Illinois Sufjan : I count the days the Great Frontier Forgiving, faced the seventh year I stand and strain to make ends meet Five Spirits on the Grand Marquee Sufjan & Shara : And when I, and when I call The Patient, the Patient fall The Spirit, the Carpenter Invites us to be with her There was a man at the wall He was grateful for us all I saw the Wise Woman sing She wasn't asking anything She wasn't asking anything How she made the nations sing What have we become America Soldiers on the Great Frontier Run from yourself, from your friends, from your Run for your life, for your friends, for your America, America, America Illinois, Illinois, Illinois Oh Great Fire of Great Disaster Oh Great Heaven, oh Great Master Oh Great Goat, the curse you gave us Oh Great Ghost, protect and save us Oh Great River, green with envy Oh Jane Addams, spirit send thee Oh Great Trumpet and the singers (Given what you lost, are you better off) Oh Great Goodman, King of Swingers (Given what you had, has it made you mad) Oh Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson (Celebrate the few, celebrate the new) Oh Great Illinois (It can only start with you)
When All Light Dies
( Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Shara Worden – Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, 2006 ) Vinnie Paz : Yeah, Jedi Mind Vinnie Pazienza, the Enemy of Mankind Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell Horrorcore, yeah, walk with me Vinnie Paz : I pop a pill and zone, my voice alone 'll fuckin' kill your bones The AR-15 beam leave you still as stone I'm workin' twenty-four-seven while you chill at home I'm on the block with my people where the killers roam I'm in a killer zone, where police can trap me I'm ready to go to war with them like we Iraqi We in the last days, only darkness passes No more pure air, only bloody money ashes Yeah, you need to recognize the God is sick 'Cause I was born inside of Egypt near the Gaza Strip Don't make me cock the fifth, and put the flame to him And thug it out like the Israeli's and Iranian's Remember when I put the pen to pad When I heard "Style Wars" by Lakim Shabazz Then in the lab, everything was constructed with Stoupe And y'all know that no one fuckin' with us as a group Shara Worden: When all the light goes out where will you be? When the darkness comes what will you see? (When the lights go out) When all the light goes out where will you be? (When the lights go out) When the darkness comes what will you see? Vinnie Paz : I'm a cannibal corpse, .38 snub splatter your thoughts Peel your skin off of your body like animal cloth I'm the reason for the Carthage in Hannibal's force I'm the reason for the carnage in parable's lost And I'll put the heater right where your lungs at And none of y'all would be around if I could bring Pun back You want the horrorcore Vinnie? He bring that Along with the 44 militant gun rap I break bread with the brothers I trust 'Cause I know that if I'm ever in some trouble, they bust Could never be us, we too raw for the rap now Anybody with a tape recorder can rap now I pull a twelve gauge shotty, you back down And then the last thing you hear is the gat sound From the city where they framed Mumia We gonna break him out, run up with them flames and heaters Shara Worden: When all the light goes out where will you be? When the darkness comes what will you see? (When the lights go out) When all the light goes out where will you be? (When the lights go out) When the darkness comes what will you see? Vinnie Paz : Yeah, yeah, I carry heavy fifths, I'm a biological terrorist If you ain't been in war, then you don't know what terror is You try to help people but do nothin' like therapists It's basic rules to the game, cousin, you never snitch Or you can see the type of lead that my beretta spits Or send you through the torture chamber and behead the bitch Yeah, I'll put your body to the blades and choppers And teach you about the disruptive symbol of chakra's If you believe what they tellin' you, the beast and them won That's why I speak about survival and need for a gun I stand for what them thugs is reppin' But they don't know the government is usin' drugs as weapons And drug injections, was taught by the prophets before About the cavalry of shadowy profits of war It's hard of grip, so I spit it at different degrees But the inner earth holds more water then seas Shara Worden: Who's gonna save you when all the lights go out It's time to reconcile (?), how you gonna go, how you gonna go? Vinnie Paz : Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell Shara Worden: When the lights go out, when the lights go out When the lights go out, how you gonna go?
Whoever You Are (None More Than You EP) Whoever you are Whoever you are Notion and reflection are Especially for you Whoever you are Whoever you are Notion and reflection are Especially for you The divine ship sails The divine sea for you For you, for you The divine ship sails The divine sea for you For you, for you Whoever you are Whoever you are You are he or she for whom The earth is solid You are he or she for whom The earth is liquid You are he or she for whom The sun and moon hang in the sky You are he or she for whom The sun and moon hang in the sky For none more than you is immortality For none more than you is immortality Whoever you are Whoever you are Notion and reflection are Especially for you Whoever you are Whoever you are Notion and reflection are Especially for you Notion and reflection are Especially for you
You Will Return (David Lang Feat. Shara Worden / Death Speaks EP) You will return Return to dust You will turn, return to dust Turn to the sun Like me, turn to the sun Turn to the light Turn to the light If there's an eye still open, grieving Sweet sleep, close it for me Turn your heart, your poor heart It will only find rest When it has stopped beating Turn to peace Turn to peace This is the only road that leads you home Enter I am your pale companion I mirror your pain I was your shadow All those long nights All those days long passed Listen to me, listen to me This message is for you Where I am now all sorrow is gone Where I am now all lovers are together Where I am now In my arms only will you find rest Gentle rest