B i o g r a p h y (by Donnabetts)
Rickie Lee Jones was born in Chicago in 1954, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved to Olympia, Washington as a teenager. She left high school early and went to college in California. She did not graduate, but worked at odd jobs until she began playing in clubs in Los Angeles around 1977. The legendary Lowell George brought her music to the attention of Warner Brothers, and Lenny Waronker signed her in 1978 after seeing her perform at the Troubadour. Her first self-titled album, a kind of Raymond Chandler tour of a single girl in Hollywood, won a Best New Artist Grammy, and was heralded as the arrival of a great new talent. Her second record Pirates was a critical favorite, but surprised critics with its literate tone and dark musical landscapes. The third was even more unusual, an eight-inch, mostly jazz, kind of live record. These three recordings established the pattern of her career. Unexpected turns, rich colors and colossal images, literate, intelligent, idiosyncratic, under the guise of an exceptional pop singer. Her singing style, completely unique, (sweet child-like high tones and dramatic painful cries, spoken lines, no vibrato) has been emulated so many times that the emulators probably don't even know who they are copying. While she has become more and more obscure her imitators have become very famous indeed. She has not been abandoned by the critics, though. Her music is always written about, and she is pictured in more than one book on the icons of rock n roll. She has also kept a devoted fan base around the world, in spite of little or no radio play, and is one of those rare artists whose status is unquestioned. She has released 11 albums, including Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates, Girl At Her Volcano, The Magazine, Flying Cowboys, Pop Pop, Traffic From Paradise, Naked Songs, Ghostyhead, It's Like This, and the newly released Live at Red Rocks. Naked Songs is Rickie in concert by herself, but Live at Red Rocks features a six-piece band, including bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, accordion, keyboards, and guitars. She has won two Grammys and been nominated for eight. Her last album, It's Like This, received a Grammy nod for Best Traditional Pop Vocal. She has been the subject of music classes at colleges such as the Berklee College of Music, and mentioned in more than one pop song. She has never made a movie, but is currently working on a book for Hyperion press and Rhino is releasing a three-cd set of her work this spring. Hippo is expecting to release a DVD of her last album of self -penned songs, Ghostyhead, one which she described in 1996 as an "album of prayers" an unapologetic merging of poetry, appealing to god and monsters. It is an understated and precise merging of songwriter sensibility and trip-hop noise. Her latest release is Live at Red Rocks . It is an amazing, and by far her best, live record to date. The band is awesome, the singing by is great, the songs are fun, and the audience is so joyful. It's a feel good record. Rickie is hard to capture on tape, she is truly radiant live, and it rarely translates. You can really feel her on this recording. She is currently living in Los Angeles on Sunset Blvd somewhere, studying boxing. She always was a pepper. Watch that left hook.
Show Biz Kids Trouble Man For No One Smile Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys On The Street Where You Live I Can't Get Started Up A Lazy River Someone To Watch Over Me Cycles One Hand, One Heart
Ugly Man A Second Chance Bitchenostrophy Little Mysteries Lap Dog Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now) Sailor Song A Tree On Allenford It Takes You There Mink Coat At The Bus Stop The Evening Of My Best Day A Face In The Crowd
Rickie Lee Jones
Chuck E's in love How come he don't come and P.I.P. with me Down at the meter no more? And how come he turn(ed) off the t.v. And hang(ed) that sign on the door? Well we call and we call "How come?" we say Hey what could make a boy behave this-a way, yeah? And he learn(ed) all of the lines, now, and every time He gonna s-stutter when he talks And it's true! It's true! He sure has acquired this kinda cool and inspired sorta jazz when he walk(s) Where's his jacket and his old blue jeans, If this ain't healthy it is some kinda clean That means Chuck E's in love I don't believe what you're saying to me This is something I got to see. Is he here? I look in the poolhall. Is he here? I look in the drugstore. Is he here? No, he don't come here no more Well I'll tell you what, I saw him He was sittin' behind us down at the Pantages And whatever is that he's got up his sleeve I hope it isn't contagious What's her name? Is that her there? Oh Christ, I think he's even combed his hair! And is that her? Well then what's her name? Oh, it's never gonna be same. That's not her I know what's wrong 'Cause Chuck E's in love with the little girl singing this song Don't you know Chuck E's in love, Chuck E's in love Chuck E's in love, Chuck E's in love ... Chuck E's in love with me
*** Thanx a lot to Jeff & Steve who corrected a mistake *** On saturday afternoons in 1963
The most as you'll ever go Is back where you used to know If grown-ups could laugh this slow Where as you watch the hour snow Years may go by So hold on to your special friend Here, you'll need something to keep her in : "Now you stay inside this foolish grin ... " Though any day your secrets end Then again Years may go by You saved your own special friend 'Cuz here you need something to hide her in And you stay inside that foolish grin When everyday now secrets end Oh and then again Years may go by Night train
Here I'm going Wlakin' with my baby in my arms 'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black And the devil, see, he's right behind us And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby My little angel back But they won't getcha, 'Cuz I'm right here witcha On the night train Swing low, Saint Cadillac Tearin' down the alley And I'm reachin' so high for ya Don't let 'em take me back Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain That cry and quiver When a blue horizon is sleeping in the station With a ticket for a train Surely mine will deliver me there Here she comes ... I'm safe here with you On the night train Oh mamma, mamma, Concrete is wheeling by Down at the end of a lullaby On the night train
Young blood Take a walk around midnight in the city Young Blood is hiding there somewhere If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe to day Here come Pepe and she's got a friend with a chevrolet But she ain't running She's walking a little slow And she ain't crying-- she's just singing a little low They say this city will make you dirty But you look alright You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight City will make you mean But that's just make-up on your face Love will wash you clean in the night's disgrace Find a block where your people can find you Keep a third eye watching behind you You never know when you're making a memory They will wish they were here together again, someday Kids looking for something to get into-- Take a look Two for the movie show Three for the back row Hold on tight! Remember, you might have looked like cool twelve But your fuse just felt like dynamite Take a walk around midnight in the city Young Blood will find you there, somewhere And if you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Easy money There was a Joe Leanin' on the back door A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills Their eyes was statin' They was waitin' To get their hands on some easy money They flipped a dime One said " well, I'll take heads this time" One stepped up One stepped back One loosened her shoulder strap She couldn't speak, Her knees got weak She could almost taste that easy money There was this old black cat Sittin' in a old black cadillac The Joe smelled sweet She curled up at her boyfriend's feet She said "I got a plan Listen, Sam, how'd ya like to make some easy money ? " He say, "yes! oh yes! Jus' tell me what you want me to do " She said, "Baby, you can trust me Baby, but you must be hidin' in my room At a quarter to two" Well, the cat told the boy "Come up to the room and play with my toy" But the Jill set the bait And she wasn't gonna sit around and wait But this guy was wise to all the lies And he flies out the door With the easy money Because there ain't no man Who got the money in his hand Who got any of that bread Bein' slow in the head The easier it looks The hotter it hooks There ain't no such thing as easy money We say, "yes! oh yes!" Saturday night There was a terrible, terrible fight Between two dames who was losin' the same game It wasn't clear, But I hear somebody was lookin' for some easy money The last chance texaco A long stretch of headlights Bends into I-9 Tiptoe into truck stops And sleepy diesel eyes Volcanoes rumble in the taxi And glow in the dark Camels in the driver's seat A slow, easy mark But you ran out of gas Down the road a piece Then the battery went dead And now the cable won't reach... It's your last chance To check under the hood Last chance She ain't soundin' too good, Your last chance To trust the man with the star You've found the last chance Texaco Well, he tried to be Standard He tries to be Mobil He tried living in a world And in a shell There was this block-busted blonde He loved her - free parts and labor But she broke down and died And threw all the rods he gave her But this one ain't fuel-injected Her plug's disconnected She gets scared and she stalls She just needs a man, that's all It's her last chance Her timing's all wrong Her last chance She can't idle this long Her last chance Turn her over and go Pullin' out of the last chance texaco The last chance Danny's all-star joint Downstairs at danny's all-star joint They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day But when the nighttime comes, hey-hey There's this cat down there that makes a bad kinda soup I come around struttin' my luck in my shoop coupe Cecil gives me coffee And he won't never take my coin I say, " I got thirty dollars in my pocket! Whatchoo doin' ? " I holler, " Come on, Cecil, take a dollar! Come on, Cecil, take a ten! I've finally geared up into a whole buncha big ones And you're actin' like I'm down-shiftin' " He knows all the under-riders on the boulevard They got to barefoot cruise when it's forty-weight hard They look particularly dead-beat Permanently pale Cecil picks up his butcher knife Waves it at the jail The kid say, " I ain't got no dough, Joe, I just want some o.j " I said, " Don't look at me " Cuz he was lookin' my way Cecil wink upon him some juice and some green And the kid walks over and puts the quarter in the pinball machine And he says, " Come on, Cecil, gimme a dollar Come on Cecil gimme five I'm in a half-way house on a one-way street And I'm a quarter past left alive " He can talk about your people in a wonderful way He can talk about your people 'til your hair turns grey Your sister's into mustard She loves to walk the pub She likes the pickles and the relish she never gets enough A Hershey milkshake steamin' on a stick For a Card Blanch' sandwich Oh, lettuce get thick It's not because I'm dirty It's not because I'm clean It's not because I kiss the boys behind the magazine Hey boys? How 'bout a fight? Cuz here comes Rickie with the girdle on tight And if she don't know your name She knows what you got From Your matzo balls To the chicken-in-the-pot Chicken-in-the-pot Chicken-in-the-pot Downstairs at Danny's All Star Joint They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt A finger-snappin' deluxe Make your be-bop bap And your R&B hep-scat You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game But if you just want to have a little fun You can mention my name Keep your feet in the street Your toes in the lawn But keep your business in your pocket This is it were it belongs Come on Cecil, take a dollar Come on Cecil, take a tip Do yourself a favor If she offers it - take it But honey, don't give it away if he don't appreciate it Coolsville I and Braggar, and Junior Lee, Well that's the way we always thought it would be In the wind-strewn leaves of September, how we met Decked out like aces, we'd beat anybody's bet Cuz we was Coolsville....cuz we was Coolsville Well you stick it here; you stick it over there; but it never fits And now a hungry night you want more and more and you chip in your little kiss. Well, I jumped all his jokers, but he trumped all my tricks And I swear to God I thought this one was smart enough to stick it into Coolsville.....yeah stick it into Coolsville... So now it's J and B, and me, and that sounds close, but it ain't the same (well, that's okay) Hot City don't hurt that much but everything feels the same Well the real thing come and the real thing go... Well the real thing is back in town... Ask me if you wanna know The way to Coolsville.... (Well I hear you wanna go back to Coolsville... Well come on honey, take you back...to Coolsville)
Weasel and the white boys cool Sal was working at Nyro's nook in downtown Selling articles of congress to these people downtown He was pretty sleezy when I met him A weasel in a poor boy's wool Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey Buys his meat from a whore next door Wants it rare but he gets it well A weasel on a short order floor So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad Sal, say good-bye to the barrio Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals Angela, Perry and Mario Kid Sinister with the Bus Stop Blues A quarter could take you home A dime could make a dream come true But a weasel ain't got a dime for the phone ( Does a weasel got a dime for the phone ? ) So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad Sal, say good-bye to the barrio Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals Angela, Perry and Mario You dancin' in the welfare lines, Sal Actin' like some jerk-off fool When we could lay out eatin' peaches on the beaches A weasel in a white boy's cool But we're all in a white boy's school ( Just like a weasel ) Company I'll remember you too clearly But I'll survive another day Conversations to share When there's no one there I'll imagine what you'd say I'll see you in another life now, baby I'll free you in my dreams But when I reach across the galaxy I will miss your company Company I'll be looking for company Look and listen Through the years Someday you may hear me Still crying for company So now you're going off to live your life You say we'll meet each other now and then But we'll never be the same And I know I'll never have this chance again No, not like you So, I'll see you in another life now baby, I'll free you in my dreams But when I reach across the galaxy I will miss your company Company I'll be looking for company Look and listen Through the years Someday you may hear me Still crying for company After hours All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone So you and me, streetlight We'll paint the town grey Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way Say goodnight, America Oh the world still loves a dreamer And all the gang has gone home And I'm standind on the corner All alone
Pirates
We belong together
I say this was no game of chicken You were aiming your best friend That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad Now its daddy on the booze And Brando on the ice Now it's Dean in the doorway With one more way he can't play this scene twice So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love And you told her to stand tall whet you kissed her But that's not where you were thinking... How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked? How now look who shows up In the same place In this case I think it's better To face it --- We belong together We belong together Once Johnny the King made a spit ring And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man And he entwine her in his finger And she lay there like a baby in his hand And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair To turn her into a tattoo That will whisper Into the back of Johnny's black hair And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain Lookin' for a leather jacket And a girl who wrote her name forever A promise that --- We belong together We belong together Shall we weigh along these streets Young lions on the lam? Are the signs you hid deep in your heart All left on neon for them? Who are foolish Who are victim Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would Move into your eyes and lips and Every tear That falls down on the neighborhood now I said "Bird, we just gotta tell them" And they turn and ignore us And the only heroes we got left Are written right before us And the only angel who sees us now Watches through each other's eyes And I can hear him In every footstep's passing sigh He goes crazy these nights Watching heartbeats go by... And they whisper --- We belong together We belong together
Living it up
Eddie's got one crazy eye that turns him into a cartoon wahen a pretty girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the stoop all day like there's something he's waiting for Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley he's got all those guys with him from that town where they all look like Frankie Valli they speak fluently blonde from her legs to her cigarette and Louie told Eddie that he'd fix him up but he ain't come back yet well, you know It's more trouble than it's worth it's more trouble than it's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are --- Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are Tell him where you are Zero quit school and she lost her job again and then her boyfriend beat her up and now he won't let her in so she's walking by his joint in a black and blue dress she looks at Louie who elbows Eddie who says "don't tell me, lemme guess." It's more trouble than it's worth he's more trouble than he's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are --- Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are Well at first when it was this way when they're the only ones and you've got all these ideas you never tell to anyone there are always magnets pulling each of you there living every story you'd dare to be the only ones the only ones... Oh, who are living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we'll be living it up oh yeah, we're living it up gotta be living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up Louie and Eddie found a reason then and there carried her over the bridges like fluttering pages they didn't care in the terminal where dreams let so many tickets through when strangers look in faces and see somebody there they knew you might meet me tomorrow as all the lights are blooming green and you're feeling a little lonely, a little sad, a little mean remember a place inside of that hotel where you could do anything you want to do you couldn't tell If it's more trouble than it's worth ah, this is more trouble than it's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones tell him where you are --- Oh Wild and the Only ones I'm waiting you could tell him where you are --- Oh Wild and the Only ones why don't you tell him where you are?
Skeletons
She was pregnant in May Now they're on their way Dashing thru the snow To St. John's, here we go Well, it could be a boy But it's okay if he's girl Oh, these things that grow out of The things that we give We should move to the west side They still believe in things That give a kid half a chance When he pulled off the road Step in a waltz of ted moon-beams Said he fit an APB, A robbery nearby And he go for his wallet And they thought he was going for a gun And the cops blew Bird away Some kids like watching Saturday cartoons Some girls listen to records all day in their rooms But what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with If a son's in a tree building model planes? Skeletons, Skeletons.
Woody and dutch on the slow train to Peking
Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue To find the Stax and Sun They were reaching to get to They was a rapping the flat scat Diamond dialectos of points and taps Between the chicken and the back They drew themselves a be-bop Midnight map They said "do you got a map the next joint?" "Do you got a map the next joint?" Pick it up on the night train Down on the corner of rhythm and blues Where I have met all of my boys since Back in '52 Bringing 'em Stax and Sun Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot And Memphis forgot Where they were coming from Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that? Do you like rapping the fat scat? Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen Like a pill they do it all night Spectators, White-walls, find and greased back Every Saturday night Leaning in the scenery Picking up the kids At the next door neighbors' "Yeah I know what you did Yeah I got a room you can stay in If you promise you won't make so much noise" "No I won't" "No I don't!"
Pirates (So long lonely avenue)
Come on - Joey get out of school We got places to go A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts And the girls like to touch it Just to find out if it works But don't look at me It wasn't me Joey live on the edge of the corner Of living on the run I like to ride in the middle I'm just tryin to have some fun Until the Pirates come And take me And I won't need a pilot Got a pirate who might sail Somewhere I heard far away You answer me So i'm holding on To your rainbow sleeves Well, goodbye boys, Oh my buddy boys, Oh my sad-eyed Sinatras It'as a cold globe around the sea You keep the shirt that I bought ya And I know you'll get the chance to make it And nothin's gonna stop you You just reach right out and take it You say - So long, lonely Avenue So long lonely avenue I'll see you there Wait 'n see Be lookin' for me Just like you Just like me
A lucky guy
Oh, he's a lucky guy Oh, he's a lucky guy He doesn't worry about me When I'm gone He goes to sleep at night He don't turn off the light And wonder how to find me Or if I'm alone Oh, he's a lucky guy I wish I was like him Cuz when he talks about me He don't look this way He's a lucky goy He used to walk with me He used to talk to me See, we have these secrets That no one else could hear Well, he's not the only one No, no not the only one But what happens to them? Do they matter? Do they disappear Into a lonely girl? Now I'm a lonely girl Cuz I want somebody with me in the world Oh, he's a lucky guy Fontune walks right in the door And here I am Just like before Well, I'm not gonna turn around I'm not his pretty clown I'm not the one caught Like he thought He was the last one I had there Cuz I did a foolish thing A real, real stupid thing I told him I love him And I want him there When I knew he wouldn't come And I knew he didn't care And I'll cry awhile I'll cry awhile But when I wake up Tomorrow is a new day I'm a lucky guy Hey, I'm a lucky guy Real, real lucky guy Hey, I'm a lucky guy
Traces of the western slopes
We go down round The far side of the tracks Lolitas playing dominoes and poker Behind their daddy's shacks Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys On a pearl splashing glass If they give us any flack If they come up on our ass We'll just give 'em the go-by The Cadillac pass Take me now From the blue and pale room I'd follow Through the faces and the traces of Treasure I keep hearing inside me Madmen throw their voices From pretty boys And from the best ones You pick up connections As they hand you your directions To the Western Slope I lied to my angel so I could take you downtown I'd lie to anybody there was nobody else around And I know what people say about me But I lied to my angel and now he can't find me I'm sorry I saw him I saw him Laughing I could hear them Laughing Alive I could hear them E. A. Poe And Johnny Johnson If you dial in They're calling from the Western Slope Who's the thin thread of light That keeps you strangled in the scenery That follows my voice --- can you se me? Then follow my voice Who raised this banner? That no one hears --- The Jack Beneath the axis Digging under the current Someone's trying to get back But who's qualified to retrieve The soul's enduring song? From the grottos of her eyes And the clashing stars E. A. Poe And Johnny Johnson If you dial in They're calling from the Western Slope Who's the thin thread of light That keeps you strangled in the scenery That follows my voice --- can you se me? Then follow my voice --- see me?
The returns
But after all There are such things And these are the things Who'll turn your memories back into dreams again Oh, it's all flying and waving For you to keep trying You're so close. So close. All the returns One of these days, One of these days, One of these days, One of these days.
Girl at her volcano
(written by Billy Strahorn)
I used to visit all the very gay places Those come-what-may places I used to visit all the very gay places Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life To get the feel of life From jazz and cocktails. The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces With distingue traces That used to be there -- You could see where they'd been washed away By too many through the day Twelve o'clock tales Then you came along with your siren song To tempt me to madness... I thought for a while that your poignant smile Was tinged with the sadness... Of a great love for me. Ah yes, I was wrong. Again, I was wrong. Life is lonely again, And only last year, everything seemed so sure. Now life is awful again, A trough full of hearts could only be a bore. A week in Paris will ease the bite of it All I care is to smile in spite of it I'll forget you, I will While yet you are still Burning inside my brain Romance is mush Stifling those who strive I'll live a lush life in some small dive And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest Of those whose lives are lonely too.
*** Thanx a lot to Christopher I. Tirone for this one ***
Letters from the 9th Ward / Walk Away Renee
(Written by Rickie Lee Jones / Brown-Calilli-Sansone)
And when I see the sign that points one way The lot we used to pass by every day Just walk away Renee You won't see me follow you back home The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same You're not to blame From deep inside the tears that I'm forced to cry From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide Just walk away Renee You won't see me follow you back home Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes For me it cries Just walk away Renee You won't see me follow you back home Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes For me it cries Your name and mine inside a heart upon a wall Still finds a way to haunt me, though they're so small Just walk away Renee You won't see me follow you back home The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same You're not to blame
(Written by Rickie Lee Jones)
I would call him, Hey Bub He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - (poof) Boy, we were so in love He moved us to a home there A place where he'd take care of me And I'd always know where he'd be I don't know, it happened so fast And sometimes all I see is lonely Oh lonely He's gone and I don't like to hear anymore All the places that saw us meet The darkness, there's not much left of our old town I would call him, Hey Bub He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - (poof) I miss him...
My Funny Valentine
(Written by Rogers-Hart, some ad lib by RLJ)
My funny valentine, Sweet comic valentine, You make me smile with my heart. Your looks are laughable, they're un-photographable, But still, still you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek? Is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, baby, are you smart? Please, don't change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay my funny valentine, stay Each day is my Valentine's Day
Under The Boardwalk
(Written by Resnick-Young)
When the sun beats down, and melts the tar upon the roof And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fire-proof Under the boardwalk, down by the sea On a blanket with my baby, that`s where I`ll be From the park you`ll hear the happy sounds of a carousel You can almost taste those hot dogs and french fries they sell Under the boardwalk, down by the sea On a blanket with my baby, that`s where I'll be Under the boardwalk, out of the sun Under the boardwalk, we`ll be having some fun Under the boardwalk, people walking above Under the boardwalk, we`ll be falling in love Under the board-walk, board-walk Under the boardwalk, down by the sea On a blanket with my baby, that`s where I'll be Under the boardwalk, down by the sea On a blanket with my baby, that`s where I'll be Under the boardwalk, out of the sun Under the boardwalk, we`ll be having some fun Under the boardwalk, people walking above Under the boardwalk, we`ll be falling in love Under the board-walk, board-walk
The magazine
Gravity
There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity A cold that will wipe the hope from your eyes Young girl standing underneath the "L" train Standing there, watching the trains go by ... You think that nobody knows where you are, girl You think that nobody knows how this feels Alone, in a world of your own There you are girl The small things float To the top of gravity Gravity I'm telling you where it is Gravity We walk in easy snakes Through the roulette rattling of the ethyl And now the arson smell of moon Polishes a newsstand They empty the gas can The watch the fire If there are three girls running There are three girls running nowhere From remedies That you call random We call by name And ask them to explain why Oh, no I heard somebody Hush up Don't say nothing I thought I heard someone Well we walk when we want to go Nobody's gonna be there Seen somebody, somebody Be quiet Nobody's there ... Nobody I could not say no to the light of my desire I'm not asking so much But you roll-call the passion His lips ? No His back ? No His face? No, no, no I'm not asking so much! I try to imagine another planet, another sun Where I don't look like me And everything I do matters Where you are, girl In your green paint With a pin to pull At the fingertips of gravity Gravity I'm telling you where it is Gravity Juke box fury Polly and I went to the circus Polly got hit with a rolling pin We got even with the circus We bought tickets but we didn't go in... You won't like it here When I first take you, He's in the back doing his Father O'Riley for the cops. But you'll like Woody (He's hiding in the shed) And we're going with him I told my brother... When the Police come Don't say nothing Don't say nothing And the Police will go Cuz they don't like it When you beat them to the punch, They don't like it When you come in on a hunch. And I've seen more dreams Riding on his eyes, Than a sure thing like The Starry Skies, And you'll like it when you find out what he's got In the backyard, By the parking lot. Hey Baby, you're my favorite boy, I think about you all the time. And this garbage that you still employ, Do they really pay for every line? For the Juke Box Fury Pounding in your soul, Juke Box Fury tells them where to go, Juke Box Fury pounding in your head, Juke Box Fury every vvord we said when We were younger And they hurt us so, But you never know... You got a Juke Box. You can make it even. Look, I don't like it here. This is trouble. That guy keeps gettin'up. That girl keeps goin'over to the phone I'm going to talk to them (You just watch me) I'm going to tell them; "I think you two look like you're ready to go.." Put your foot right here. D'you get it down all right, dear? Well, put your foot right here... Here, baby, You're the one for me. This must be Paradise. She's never where you think she'll be, But don't worry about it Cuz the Juke Box Fury's Pounding in your soul Juke Box Fury knows where to go Juke Box Fury pounding in vour head Juke Box Fury every word we said When we vvere younger And they hurt us so But you never knovv... You don't knovv vvhat you've got, You can make it even! You got a Juke Box! You can make it even... Like this: Doodootin—doodootin—Doo. Hev Danny! Wait for me! Hey! Danny? It must be love It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love that we keep trying to hear Cuz I imagined this kind of vvonderful choice I imagine you hear the very same voice When I speak to you You say "That's just my imagination" Oh no, no, no It Must Be Love It Must Be Love Perhaps one girl who was moving in a fine line Finds one boy in back That she can always stand behind And it's you and me Cuz that's where we want to be Oh, It Must Be Love, It Must Be Love People look through everything they see Cuz there's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I wanted to know why you were crying I wanna fix what's wrong... It must be love the sailor sails for Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water I would have you there wherever I'll go Way from the seventh sea, He brings the bottle back to me Oh, It Must Be Love Oh, It Must Be Love People look through evervthing thev see There's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I want to know whv vou were crying Baby, let me fix what's wrong... It must be love that fathoms the moonlight Must be love that shallovvs The deepest part of the night So you can show them vvith vour eye The things that make them cry, Because that Must Be Love It Must Be Love... And the way you are Must Be Love And the things vou Feel Oh, It Must Be Love, Oh, It Must Be Love Must Be Love Magazine Homeboys Calling from the corners Station to station For the magazine But her pages are turning Out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading Is the braille night I can't come out And play Paddy with The Precinct boys no more But you and me baby We'll be lovers again But she's walking to the A Walking to the B Walking to the C now, Where are you going? I'm just going with him... He could be anywhere I don't know where he is I know he's coming I know he's coming to me It could be anyday I will know right away I'll know he's Coming I'll know he's Coming to me I'll know he's Coming I'll know he's Coming to me now... I don't think you know What you're doing I don't think you know That she'll make him cry Make my baby cry Cuz you'll break my heart, Carol, Carol, Carol There's a flagboy Calling danger Watch you're back now Hey you. Flagboy, Let'em come, let'em come Cuz I can see them there I can see them coming I can see it all now Hey you, Flagboy Let'em come They don't know where I am I could be anywhere I know they're coming I know they're coming to me It could be anyday I will know right away I know they're coming... I know they're coming to me I know they're coming, Everything's Coming Everything's Coming to me Everything's Coming Alive The real end Once I had a sweet love Always followed me around The way I treated my little lamb was like The Marquis D. Sade and Her new clown I guess I hurt him I guess I hung up I guess I should have called him back I guess I didn't care Maybe I left him there Maybe a woman just acts like that What's a matter? Hey baby, baby What's a matter? Don't you want me? What's a matter? Now Baby, baby What's a matter? Is this The Real End? Well, I had some dough, I had a big car, I turned around and all the money was spent I don't know wherever it goes but That's probably where my baby went So you got a New boy He's so fine He wants to be with you All the time Don't tell him he's the only one Or your New boy becomes a Hard to find What's a matter? Hey baby, baby What's a matter? Don't you want me? What's a matter? Now Baby, baby What's a matter? Is this The Real End? Can I tell you about it? Once you find yourself A Better man Treat him special all of the time Make him some catfish Fry it up in bed Don't leave him hangin' on the telephone line But keep him guessing Don't tell him where you are Keep your old linen to yourself Keep your bank account And what you don't worry about, If you can give, Well, it i`ust might work out What's a matter? Hey baby, baby What's a matter? You look so funny What's a matter? Now Baby, baby What's a matter? Is this the real Real End? Deep space These stars No one else can see Trapeze the height of thee Vanish as they call These blues No one else can hear No one else can sing This one for you Can they, dear? Things that you do are always with me When you're laughing You're always here What's the use in crying? It won't matter when we're old This tear will Finally fall Keep your eyes here When there's no net at all Where the Lord's face Is an all-night cafe There's a woman who will wait on What you have to say And your dreams are like marbles In the pocket of a little boy And they whisper when you hold them Like a beautiful girl Beautiful girl Runaround My baby's alvvays crying, My baby wants to see me cry, too. Chain on my heart is going to break Cuz every tear that falls in here Is a dime for the Juke Box Fury So punch it in Shake the chain And listen to the song you're playing Shake the chain, Shake the chain At everything I do Just enough Everything I wanted to Just enough Everything I put you through Just enough to know He don't want me Oh, I think he's polorized He don't know which way to go Where would vou be otherwise? Otherwise? Well, you know we could Runaround Because I can get this anyway Runaround I can get this anyway Runaround l can get this anyway Light goes down Somebody could break your heart Light goes on You could break somebody's heart Chain on mv heart is going to break Every time you try to make me cry Listen to it now Punch it in Shake the chain I can't take the tears I can't take the tears Shake the chain, shake the chain At everything I do Just enough And everything I wanted to Just enough And everything I put you through Just enough to know He don't want me Oh, you better wise up girl You better get smart You better hide your heart He's a Runaround And I could get this anyway Runaround I can get this anyway Runaround I can get it anyway Take a deep breath And break the chain The unsigned painting There must be a golden frame Coming to me Cuz where are you? Where are you? Where are you? The very day when you first heard Your heart beat Listens for you still So I think it's not so much the painting As what you give yourself By what you leave Your signature... On Sundays the ladies Took off their wiry, old hats and Made donuts in the back of The church. I can Smell them cooking in middle of mass Cakes are prizes at carnivals Holding hands—that's a gift Of our landscapes For the heart is always That one summer night you stretch it from face to face Like chewing gum. You can rig it up And hear each other thru a tin can Now it bakes and hardens like an old Dream under the front porch Where the air is talcum Mamma's eyes are blue And Father took the weird beast We're walking next to you That is the picture that I see The weird beast I brought the Weird Beast here From Van Nuys Blvd. So I would not be without a man When the Tartans reign Flooded the Empty streets of Paris... And on one of these Passing boats I thought I saw the Weird Beast Speaking in the Russian tongue Will he kill the Czar? Will he kill the Czar? Draw the Weird Beast Everywhere you go. Death speaks the foreign Language we don't know. Make sure they hear him Breathing Someday vou'll meet A stranger Locations everywhere You go All of the science You've kept in bottles Because Someday this dream is Going to end I have this Feeling A Weird Beast Is going to come our way
Flying Cowboys The horses We will fly Way up high Where the cold wind blows Or in the sun Laughing having fun With the people that she knows And if the situation Should keep us separated You know the world won't fall apart And you will free the beautiful bird That's caught inside your heart Can't you hear her ? Oh she cries so loud Casts her wild note Over water and cloud That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin' We'll be riding on the horses, yeah Way up in the sky, little darlin' And if you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up You will grow And until you go I'll be right there by your side And even then Whisper the wind And she will carry up your ride I hear all the people of the world In one bird's lonely cry See them trying every way they know how To make their spirit fly Can't you see him ? He's down on the ground He has a broken wing Looking all around That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin' You go riding on the horses, yeah Way up in the sky, little darlin' And if you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up Can't you hear her ? Oh she cries so loud Casts her wild note Over water and cloud I'll pick you up darlin' if you fall Don't worry 'bout a thing little girl Because I was young myself not so long ago And when I was young When I was young And when I was young, oh I was a wild, wild one. Just my baby It seems lately when I walk down the street There's something in my neighborhood It's getting stronger every day There's a rumor that lights up all of me And it whispers from the rooftops up above I must hold on or I'll fly away Oh, no, not the autumn leaves Lift you up like a flower in the cool night breeze My heart's just flying when he walks by Oh, but he's my inspiration Yes indeed my pride and joy Don't you say nothing bad about What's between me and my baby boy My mom has her point of view "You'll learn the hard way If that's what you're gonna do" My sister don't have much to say My girlfriend told me when I was young You'll know him the minute that he's there Oh can't you feel it coming in the air? Oh no, not a summer song Makes the night feel better When the day goes wrong My heart's just a singer when he walks by Oh no, not a summer night You forget about tomorrow Cause the world seems right There goes my baby walking by Oh, but he's my inspiration Yes indeed my pride and joy Don't say nothing bad about What's between me and my baby boy There goes my baby walking There goes my baby walking by ... Ghetto of my mind Saving all my money all week long So I can go out driving with you Down on Hollywood Boulevard On friday night, dressed right I don't take no trouble smoke at the wall But I still have that leopard-skin hat That you gave me way back Before it was cool And they took it to school Here in the ghetto The ghetto of my mind Y aqui, the ghetto The ghetto of my mind Hey we wild it up, wild it up I like to dance with my rooner Cuz when we dance I feel like We are who we've meant to be He puts his arms around me I put my arms around him And I feel satisfied and free One night I tried my bandanna around his wrists And we started to sway and it felt so good And he said " looky here mamma, looky here I think I better just see you Safely out of the neighborhood" That is to say The ghetto The ghetto of my mind Y aqui, the ghetto The ghetto of my mind Hey we wild it up, wild it up Outside my window the noise is all I've got There are no stars in the sky Just the sirens and queens Breaking glass down in the parking lot That's the world where I live Sometimes I wonder, oh how can I go on ? But I know that the world you make inside your head That's the one you see around, that's what I said And the one you see Is the one you make Inside of the ghetto The ghetto of your mind Y aqui, the ghetto The ghetto of my mind Hey we wild it up, wild it up Rodeo girl Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild S.S.I Whispers from these hills It's a petrified forest Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' back Rodeo girl Saddle up There's no more credit in this bank Try your luck Up in the East Down in the West Hold on tight To the pony that you love the best There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl Rodeo girl, rodeo girl Count all the boxcars The blue and white stars That fall for ya rodeo girl You're lost in the desert And it's too hot to think You gotta know about the milk truck If you want a drink And when the cowboy's sing Bobby sands and the bear You can wet your lips In the cool pools of despair Up in the East Down in the West Hold on tight Now you gotta be better than the best There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back This world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back This world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl Rodeo girl Satellites We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites We were born forever Tunneled into the fugitive night Friends must stay together Code the world with the fugitive light I just saw you walking Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight casting runes on the rooftops and alleys You'll never read it more than you will tonight So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites Ghost train Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive Under the bridges and over the street Now every shadow that I meet They all know my name And they whisper " What's a matter hon Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train" Jupiter Ray on the bus I remember when Jupiter came to town He was one of the best of us Oh, that stuff can really take you down Hey, Jupiter Ray is on the bus I remember when Jupiter was alive Come to think of it You all have a strange translucence in your eyes What's a matter son? Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train You just buy your ticket And get on board This train don't stop Cuz we like to ride, ride ride ride We just wanna ride, ride ride ride Ding goes the trolley Bang goes the bell Somebody call my second cousin I'm not feeling very well This is where little blondes check-in their furs This is where little blondes check-in their hat Don't worry about where you were at We took care of that Mr Driver is this my stop ? Mr Driver tell me how to get off Any way you can, any way Come back into the light You wanna get to heaven Take the devil by the hand And you slide right into the promised land Cuz this could be the night And this could be the gate Everybody's waitin' for you darlin' So don't be late What's a matter honey ? Didn't you pay your money for the ghost train ? Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive Flying cowboys Down there by the river is a man Whose born is twisted into shapes Unknown to the wicked and the wise And he bears the look of an animal Who's seen things no animal should ever see He has been driven beyond all towns And all the systems until now though it is Long past too far he keeps going Because it's a desert Because it's a desert We come to the river We'll walk away from all this now We come to the water We'll walk away from all this now She first saw him he was standing in the doorway Illuminated from behind by a light Though imaginary posses chased them To these distant adobes Standing on the cliffs today I thought I saw you below My shadow growing smaller It's a desert because Because it's a desert They'll be asking me about you forever I guess We come to the river We'll walk away from all this now We come to the water We'll walk away from all this now Long coats on the prairie Lying in the dust Who can I turn to ? Who can I trust ? Were you walking on the water ? Playing in the sun ? But the world is turning faster Than it did when I was young When I was young When I was young Oh, when I was young I was a wild, wild one Don't let the sun catch you crying Don't let the sun catch you cryin' The night's the time for all your tears Your heart may be broken tonight But tomorrow with the morning light Don't let the sun catch you cryin' The nighttime shadows disappear And with them go all your tears Cuz the morning will bring joy for every girl and boy So don't let the sun catch you cryin' We know that cryin's not a bad thing But stop your cryin' when the birds sing It may be hard to discover That you've been left for another But don't forget that love's the game That can always come again So don't let the sun catch you cryin' Don't let the sun catch you cryin' Don't let the sun catch you cryin' Don't let the sun catch you cryin' Oh, no. Love is gonna bring us back alive Love's gonna bring us back alive Love's gonna bring us back alive Over mountains where no one goes Oh yeah, yeah, yeah We've been runnin' Yeah, yeah, yeah Gotta keep runnin' Oh yeah, yeah, yeah 'Til love brings us back alive We've been outlaws on the run Sometimes outlaws on the run I was just a baby when I fired my gun Oh yeah, yeah, yeah That's why I keep a-runnin', runnin' Yeah, yeah, yeah Gotta keep a-runnin' Yeah, yeah, yeah 'Til love brings us back alive Well the river's only water And the mountain's only gold They'll get old Tell me, will you walk through this world alone? Over mountains We'll come home Through the desert We're gonna come home There's no water Where this wind has blown Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Well the rain come down Oh yeah, yeah , yeah But we can't stop now Oh baby, love bring us back alive Hey! hey ! Away from the sky For all that it cost him He never did complain The chicken-headed man Feathering the rain But the last bus is tired And everybody's gone The horses are waiting In the middle of the lawn Gone for the rodeo Gone from the tundra, gal It's after the fair Is it bleeding out of you? "Come into my trailer We'll toast a little bread Oh look, you've left a hole Where you laid on my bed" He said But you keep what you can keep When you dive into the deep There's year after frozen year That's where I saved you there Oh, away from the sky X4 But everybody's gone now It's after the fair And the horses are painted With the waiting of the lawn You turn the carousel on When th elights have closed down And watch your ponies run Through the middle of town So there ya go, little gal, there ya go Gone from the tundra now It's after the fair That's where I ... Over the fences again And the vacuums in the hall And the planes up in the air That's where I hear you best Oh, away from the sky X4 Atlas' marker Maybe you want another world One where heaven doesn't weigh so much Maybe you'll find another girl One you can feel when you do not touch Well I've got something Warm inside me It won't let you fall 'Til I see Somewhere better than this place Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away Somewhere better than the world I'm an aviator now Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly Over this tenement waterfall This wet buries all the tears we've cried I dream of you coming to me Swimming in a water Of many hearts I've known Beneath new stars they're calling Somewhere better than this place Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark Go find the arc Show them the atlas' marker You walk into school like you got nothin' to win They won't let you in without atlas' marker Oh, my sister's buried here so deep I hear her digging in her sleep Somewhere better than his place Sometimes she closes her eyes And she's out in space Somewhere better than the world where we live
Pop Pop
My one and only love The very thought of you makes My heart sing, Like an April breeze On the wings of spring. And you come to me all your splendor, My one and only love. The shadow's fall ans spread their Mystique charms in the hush of night, While you're in my arms. I feel your lips, so warm and tender, My one and only love. The touch of your hand is like heaven. A heaven that I've never known. The blush on your cheek, Whenever I speak, Tells me that you are my own. You fill my eager heart with Such desire, Every kiss you give Sets my soul on fire. I give myself in sweet surrender, My one and only love. The blush on your cheek, Whenever I speak, Tells me that you are my own. You fill my eager heart with Such desire. Every kiss you give Sets my soul on fire. I give myself in sweet surrender, My one and only love. My one and only love.
Spring can really hang you up the most
Spring this year has got me feeling Like a horse that never left the post I lie in my room Staring up at the ceiling Spring can really hang you up the most Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers And to them I'd like to drink a toast I walk in the park Just to kill the lonely hours Spring can really hang you up the most All ?? the birds twitter-twitt I know this tune This is love, this is it Heard it before And don't I know the score And I've decided that spring is a bore Love seems sure around the new year Now it's April Love is just a ghost Spring arrived on time Only what became of you, dear Spring can really hang you up the most Doctors once prescribed a tonic Sulfur and molasses was the dose That didn't help one bit My condition must be chronic Spring can really hang you up the most All alone, the party is over Old man winter was a gracious host But when you keep praying For snow to hide the clover Spring can really hang you up the most.
Hi-Lili-hi-lo
The song of love is a sad song Hi-lili hi-lili hi-lo The song of love is a sound of woe Don't ask me how I know The song of love is a sad song For i have loved and it's so I wake up this morning And watch the rain Hi-lili hi-lili hi-lo Tomorrow i will probably love again Hi-lili hi-lili hi-lo The song of love is a sad song For i have loved and it's so I wake up this morning And watch the rain Hi-lili hi-lili hi-lo Tomorrow i'll probably love again Hi-lili hi-lili hi-lo
*** Thanx a lot to Magne & Pedro who corrected some mistakes ***
Up from the skies
Tell me everything I just want to talk to you I won't do you no harm I just want to know about your different lives On this is here people farm I heard some of you got your families Living in cages tall and cold And some just sit there and dust away Past the age of old. Is this true ? Please let me talk to you. I just wanna know The rooms behind your minds Uh do I see a vacuum there Or am I going blind ? Or is it just remains of vibrations And they happen long ago ? Things like "Love the world" and "Let your fancy flow" Is this true ? Please let me talk to you Is this true ? I just wanna talk to you. I have lived here before The days of ice So of course this is why I'm so concerned about the earth 'Cause I come back to find The stars are misplaced And the smell of a world That's burned A smell of a world That's burned. So where do I purchase my ticket ? I'd just like to have a ringside seat I wanna hear about these new Mother Earth I want to hear and see everything I want to hear and see everything I want to hear and see everything I want you to show me I want you to say to me Show me everything Oh yeah is that true ? Is that true ? Please let me talk to you Oh my new Mother Earth I won't do you no harm Yes I have lived here before, Many times many times I know you.
The Second Time Around Love is wonderful, the second time around Just as wonderful, with both feet on the ground It's that second time you hear your love song sung Makes you think perhaps that love, like youth, is wasted, is wasted on the young Love's more comfortable the second time you fall Like a friendly home the second time you call Who can say, what rought us to this miracle we've found There are those who'd bet Love comes but once - and yet I'm oh so glad we met The second time around Love's more comfortable the second time you fall Like a friendly home the second time you call Who can say, what rought us to this miracle we've found There are those who'd bet Love comes but once - and yet I'm oh so glad we met The second time around Dat dere
Hey mama, what's that there? And what's that doing there? Hey mama, up here! Mama, hey look at that over there! And what's that doing there? And where're they going there? And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? Who's that in my chair? And what's he doing there? Mummy, up here! Mummy, can I go over there? Hey mummy, what is square? And where do we get air? And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? Quit talking! There's no more anything here! Forever to manage to know who and why and where! Quit that, child! Sometimes the questions get filed! And mummy can I have that big elehpant over there? Don't wanna comb my hair And where's my teddy bear? Mummy, up here! Look at the cowboy coming there! And can I have a pair Of boots like that to wear? And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? Time will march Days will go And little baby's going to grow I gotta tell her what she needs to know I'll help her along And she'll be strong And she'll know right from wrong As life's parade goes marching by She's gonna need to know some reasons why I don't have all the answers But I'll try the best as I can I'll make him a man, that's right 'Cause you give the kid your best And hope she passes the test And I find it so hard I taught him well *** Somewhere though she's going I betting I never will forget *** Mummy, can I have that big elephant over there? Hey why they do that there? And how you put that there? Hey mummy, up here! Hey mummy, what that say up there? Hey mummy, what is fair? How come I have to share? And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? (3x)
I'll be seeing you Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on, Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn? Who knows, if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes ring sweet again: I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces all day through: In that small cafe, The park across the way, The children's carousel, The chestnut trees, The wishing well. I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day, In everything that's light and gay, I'll always think of you that way I'll find you in the morning sun, And when the night is new, I'll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you. Bye bye blackbird
Pack up all your cares and woes Here I go singing low, bye bye blackbird. Where someone waits for me Sugars sweet and so is he, bye bye blackbird. No one here can love and understand me, Oh what hard luck stories thay all hand me. Make my bed and light the light I'll arrive late tonight, bye bye blackbird
The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men Sing a song of sad young man Glasses full of rye All the news is bad again so Kiss your dreams goodbye All the sad young men Sitting in the bars Knowing neon nights Missing all the stars All the sad young men Drifting through the town Drinking up the night Trying not to drown All the sad young men Singing in the cold Trying to forget That they're growing old All the sad young men Choking on their worth Trying to be brave Running from the truth Autumm turns the leaves to gold Slowly dies the heart Sad young men are growing old That's the cruelest part All the sad young men Seek a certain smile Someone they can hold for a little while Tired little girl does the best she can Trying to be gay for her sad young man While the grimy moon Watches from above All the sad young men Play of making love Misbegotten moon Shine for sad young men Let your gentle light Guide them home tonight All the sad young men
I Won't Grow Up I won't grow up I don't wanna go to school Just to learn to be a puppet And recite a silly rule If growing up means it would be Beneath my dignity to climb a tree I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up Not me. I won't grow up I don't wanna wear a tie Or a serious expression In the middle of July And if it means that I must prepare To shoulder burdens with a worried air I'll never grow up, won't grow up, never grow up So there Never gonna be a man I won't Like to see somebody try And make me Anyone who wants to try And make me turn into a man Catch me if you can I won't grow up I don't wanna wear a tie Or a serious expression To try to act just like a guy 'Cause growing up's awfuller than All of the awful things that's ever been I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up Again Growing up's awfuller than All of the awful thing that's ever been I won't grow up, never grow up, won't grow up Again. Not me. Not I.
*** Thanx a lot to Magne who corrected some mistakes ***
Love Junkyard
Dented bodies, broken souls Wilted roses, hearts grow cold Unhappy endings and shattered dreams There go all the nearly real things Where's the candlelight, where's the smiles Man this place goes on for miles There's heaps and heaps of wedding rings Equal space for tramps and kings There's no doberman dogs or security guards at the love junkyard Open twenty four hours, come as you are, yeah, to the love junkyard Tanks of teardrops shed in vain Mixin with the pouring rain Promises go up in smoke Freight cars full of abandoned (?) hurt and hope There's no doberman dogs or security guards at the love junkyard Open twenty four hours, come as you are, yeah, to the love junkyard Tiny trysts or grand affairs, there's no more need for teddy bears The time for pretty words has past, so fly the flag of love half mast At the love junkyard, yeah There's no dobermans though or security guards at the love junkyard Open twenty four hours, bring your broken heart, to the love junkyard To the love, to the love junkyard Is that you, is that you, is that you baby, is that you... Look what I've done for you ...
*** Thanx a lot to Blaine & Kevin for this one ***
Comin' back to me
( Jefferson Airplane )
The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long The winter looked the same as if it never had gone And through an open window where no curtain hung I saw you I saw you One begins to read between the pages of a book The shape of sleepy music and suddenly you're hooked Through the rain upon the trees that kisses on the run I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me You can't stay and live my way Scatter my love like leaves in the wind You always say that you won't go away But I know what it always has been It always has been A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh Most of the time I just let it go by Now I wish it hadn't begun I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me Strolling the hills overlooking the shore I realize I've been here before The shadow in the mist could have been anyone But I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me Small things like reasons are put in a jar Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star Was it just something that I made up for fun I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me
Traffic from paradise
Pink Flamingos Dan and I like Las Vegas, never seen the sea Where the river, where the river bed runs dry She closes his eyes, puts her ear to his shirt And listens to the whole wide earth Lila's ready, she look in the mirror He has stopped, he can't hear her She stops in a bar, apparently she is unhurt And with a little bit of change, oh feels good She washes her wings in the dirt And the bar is filled with angels cuz the world is turned upside down All of you've been walking on your heads Since the day your feet touched the ground Any day, any day we'll go home Any day, any day we'll go home, home Well he knocks on the door, someone show him how And I seen them before, I know him somehow Why does he stick to my fingers? Why does this look like his soul? They could just make him a heaven or hell What don't they? I don't know What do they want with these angels? Why don't they take them to Reno? Nobody ever comes for them They're all inside of the casinos Look at them poking like flightless birds falling from paper plates Oh home, heavenly earthbound But the spirit cannot wait to fly like the pink flamingos To fly like the pink flamingos, fly, fly ? Altar boy A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode As he follows a path filled with harried desire And mimics his footsteps and sets his prayers on fire Glad to have chosen that which left no choice To sing without loving in a solitary voice To observe with passion each careful denial The protrusions which give my life meaning for a while Sometimes I see you eating berries and weeds You're brushing your teeth with licorice seeds Standing too close, holding your clothes Smiling at God, the meaning of life grows No, no I'll never tell and I'll never know What candles you light after the show And I'll never tell and I'll never ask The meaning of life after mass
*** Thanx a lot to Christian who updated this one ! ***
Stewart's coat Hold me love, I can't sleep again Will I have to kiss your nose? I wanna lay here next to him, love I remember walking in the rain Rain was falling on my hands I don't wanna live through that again, no Outside the heart it gets dark now And I was walking in the park now Children singing songs that Will now make all our dreams come true I'm in love with you I know it takes is love Love is a healing thing When you give everything You're loving the world The world gives you love to hold onto Remembering, we seldom remember love (Somewhere) Just give me many chances (Far away) I'll see you through it all (Remember) Just give me time to learn to crawl In September, when the rain comes, and the wind blows, I will see you walking in that coat, oh And if you let me, I will keep you here inside the stars, I will love the sound of my sheets Oh, you have moved beneath them (Somewhere) Just give me many chances (Far away) I'll see you through it all (Remember) Just give me time to learn to crawl
*** Thanx to Stephen who corrected me for this one *** Beat angels Begging round the sun beaten streets I can't make me no connections Locals here no speak no English Where is my woman, well no one knows Ah well, some girls just have to leave in the night While you're fast asleep But I don't worry, I move in the dark There were lights, there were border lights I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing I saw the light, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there I woke in some hotel room I could hardly remember my name They were only sixteen years old I felt so lonely, I felt so ashamed I know sometimes I just have to leave In the night, while you're fast asleep But I don't worry, I move in the dark There were lights, there were border lights I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing I turned around, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there Don't you wonder where one goes wrong Is it somewhere in a foreign rain? We're sitting out the storm Every lamplight in town Man don't know when he's got it his grace Till beat angels come and take her away, beat angels, beat angels Well I crossed my heart and beat angels were there, beat angels?
Tigers
The tigers come at four Shaped like the curtain and the floor Like the stars they once were wild and cold Your turn to see me I can't believe its really you Sharpening your teeth on my low womb Playing with tigers Chasing the lampshade with my toes Playing with tigers 'Til i find out where it goes You check your clothes You come and lay with me a while In the theater of dream We are sleeping in the aisle Wind climbs up the brick Carrying brightly colored ghosts They play on you with The light from the street below Playing with tigers Chasing the lamp with my toes Playing with tigers Until I find out where it goes Where it goes, where it goes I tried to leave you But you sent all the cars to bring me back Tigers are falling like paper on our parade Tigers, tigers. And the mail blowing out of the mailbox Down the street, yeah yeah Tigers. I can't tell you anymore than that. I'll tell you tomorrow when the train comes. Tomorrow when the train comes Rebel Rebel
Got your mother in a whirl 'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey, babe, your hairs alright Hey, babe, let's stay out tonight You like me, and I like it all We like dancing, and we look divine You know fans when they play it hard They want more, and you want it fast Put you down, say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo Got your mother in a whirl 'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey, babe, your hairs alright Hey, babe, let's stay out tonight You like me, and I like it all We like dancing, and we look divine You know fans when they play it hard They want more, and you want it first Put you down, say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo You've torn your dress, your face is a mess You can't get enough, but enough ain't the test You've got transmission and a live wire Got your cue lines and a handful of ludes You could be there when they count up the dues And I love your dress I love your dress You're a juvenile success Because your face is a mess How could they know? How could they know? What you wanna know Where'd you wanna go? 'Cause you've torn your dress And your face is a mess Ooo, ooo, your face is a mess Ooo, ooo, so how could they know? How could they know? Etc...
Jolie Jolie Jolie, jolie, pretty little thing Berce moi toute la nuit All I want you to do is just be happy And we went on a walk and we went on a hill And come back up again, you know I will Just to bring you the mail, to me it's just another hill Jolie, jolie, Berce moi, prend sur toi toute la nuit dancing love All I want you to do is just be happy, be happy Do you want me to fly to heaven's gate? I won't wait I'll go right away cuz to me it's just another day Jolie, jolie, Berce moi, prend sur toi toute la nuit dancing All I want you to do is just be happy, even happier than that Do you want me to stop every time I start? When I kiss your lips and you break my heart But I do this to me it's just a little kiss It's just a little kiss Uh, huh, stay right there on the "A" Yeah baby stay there Oh daddy, you can only do the best you can I just want you to be happy, eh
*** Thanx a lot to Samira for this one *** Running from mercy Oh sacred place that sets my soul alive There's a rainbow above me that the storm clouds hide And kind works will never die Cuz the magic in kindness springs from the love, love, love Little acts of kindness and little words of love Make our earthly home heaven above And there is no sorrow heaven cannot heal A fire within, no cross, no crown Running from mercy, hidden and coy Swimming upstream down oceans of joy Die in the arms of a natural life Waking our happiness drowning in light Waking our happiness drowning in light Little acts of kindness, little words of love Make our earthly home like heaven above And there is no sorrow heaven cannot heal A fire within, no cross, no crown This thing would end up on the wind Slow to stop our ways sing (chorus) You, you wake up!, come on boy, come on little boy Don't you stop her, don't you stop her There's that door I've got that door I know where that door is Just follow me and you wake up Come on with me girl Tomorrow A stranger's car Take the train Oh you have run as far as you can go They've tied your fingers to rails of stars Can you hear the whistle blow? There's is no one here to beat out your brains There's no one who'll make you cry If your parents kill you year by year Well here's the time to say goodbye And it's oh so bad from far away And it's always warm inside There's children there There's children there Who will touch your face? Who will fill your pockets? Avoid that tangled street And who will count the marbles there? And who will save your penny ring? Come and meet the angels born this day Sleep now the night is late Be still until this wayward bird lets go of heaven's gate The albatross There, there is my ship Finally come in I see the mast rolling on the steps Over the garden wall I hear the sailor's call I see the albatross Over and down now I'll go home Home to my children I left behind Long ago with my mother the moon That's where my father is This broken heart is his Archipelago is turning, turning to strangers Here in the world, turning to strangers Oh, they hold on Here, here's where we live Here is a sea, my family We'll always be young as we've ever been Death will not part us again nearer to heaven than 10,000 ancestors who dream of me Well I hear you dreaming of me Yeah sometimes, dream of me!
Ghostyhead
Little yellow town
Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town Green life teems up from the underground Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage Reach hard in for the ragged star fish And only her lipstick bleeds, And the color seeds into all your paint by number schemes What was yellow, what was white, what was day, what was night And now in soft detective voices the past rises And follows you in shapes of rain and dew And you walk through the fun house, Those sonic faces hit you like a bus 'Till you're knocked down by the doppler waves of trust And over here I scare myself day after day, Cube after cube, dot after dot laying down on the kitchen floor, Tapped into the secret code she's a down girl, The acid's eating out her mind The altered universe, step right up Door swings both ways and now tattooed children, two-legged potions Follow us while lightening bugs circle overhead, While lightening bugs circle overhead... We tear their wings off and memorize what they said Chasing us across summer and into sleep It's down rain, down time, she's a real down girl, the acid's eating out her mind... 'Till all is new and all is changed, the altered world Spells out your name, see if it works
Road kill
What's the matter with it? why's it look that way? What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say? What's that on its back? where's it trying to go? A mystical vision got dressed up one night Locked the door, walked through the misty porch light Headed over to somebody's house For an occasion long awaited As it crossed the road, vista del mar A big red car Big black tires, nice corvette And the future has not arrived yet Moonlight on the hill, lights up the road kill Moonlight on the hill, and the future is a road kill What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say? What's the matter with it? I just saw it yesterday The police came, the neighbors too They tried to pick it up, what else can you do? Meanwhile, somebody's waiting back at the house For the future to dawn bright across the sky Moonlight on the hill, lights up the road kill Moonlight on the hill, lights up the future What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say? What's the matter with it? why won't it go away? What's the matter with it? why won't it close its eyes? What's the matter with it? who are those guys? what's the matter with it...
Matters
What you wish for, what you think The photographs you carry around What whispers to yourself when you're finally gone What you take when you go Adds up to the big number What you leave with Who you know Makes the big picture matter It doesn't matter if you're fat Wear a helmet or wear a hat If you're sorry or if you're sure Who you are is who you were, who you were matters So deep inside yourself Looking out at everyone else Think a thing, in a while you meet it on the street Because it matters... Ah...house across the sand
Firewalker
Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel Love comes to the first thing love sees Love comes to the first thing that makes it real, makes it real Everybody's been hit, everybody's been hurt Everybody's been kicked, everybody's been dirt Everybody had to drive all night to reach L.A. in the morning light Try to lighten up, want to back you up But you just back down Julie got some brown girlfriend, got it for a coin Landlord threw her clothes out on the street in the tenderloin Everybody's been a dog, everybody's had to beg everybody's been a moth, Been a moth, when she woke up on her knees, everybody made her say please I was in a wild place where I go, I couldn't hear you Julie found gOd in a bus station and she liked it a lot You put your money in the basket that comes, you remember the first one that you bought Everybody starts out pure, starts out ridiculous, starts out beautiful nobody wants to be alone Out here I'm all on my own I try to lighten up, I always bear down, I want to back you up Julie found a sailor boy, sailed off to the deep blue sea So Firewalker you can walk on me, walk on me...
Howard
The spirits of her abortion had manifested... The spirits of all her abortions manifested themselves into the furniture in the room There would be a chair waiting, smiling, the pictures on the wall watched her in disbelief She'd go carry the garbage out to the sidewalk and come back in and sit with all her children inanimate, petrified forever A little boy named Howard, everybody knows one of those guys in school who kills everything he finds, Every little cat, every mouse, every dog, likes to burn his sister with cigarettes Diabolical schemes, everything has been conspired, the doors wired That's 'cause those south Americans tied him up in a chair, He was doing that dope deal, he never got over that You're just made of words, you're just made of sounds
Ghostyhead, ghostyhead, standing in the door You think if you don't answer I can't hear you anymore Chains you hung from ear to ear Finally drug your head But I can see through anything I know what you bled Ghostyhead, ghostyhead, you think that I can't see The shadow of another girl Each time you look at me People came from far away to watch us drop you in But ghostyhead the crowd is gone Come back up again Ghostyhead, ghostyhead Come out on the porch There's a serpent caught in a fisher's net Virgins light the torch 'Cause who this night would not stay warm By any light they could? You just eat your bread and cake And tell them it was good
Sunny Afternoon
Walking down my street Here's the room where I live Here's the neighbor children, sometimes they bother me Here's the window where you left How can I forget to look, How can I forget A sunny afternoon A plane goes by Walking with my cat around It's a sunny afternoon Here's the window where you left How can I forget to look No matter where you move the light Somebody's always got a needle in her eye You can pet her, she won't bite She's been lying very still all night
Scary chinese movie
And my hands are flickering and the water turns to tracing paper and I watch you dry I'm an army of stills like you flick between your fingers You will always make me be faster than I am There's a banner rising I know sorry when I see its bones We will always end up washed up on the shore and my hands are flickering, Some one's reading the book over us, White letters cross your trousers, we were always being dubbed
Cloud of unknowing
So he dropped the webs of the spider of heaven down through the clouds, All the way into the pool of blood at the bottom of hell Far above in heaven a bird flys through the terrible cloud of unknowing Trust can make a man into a wood, trust can make a man green An everything that longs to Be Broken and small enough to see To be held in his hands To be a part and yet alone Here he is, reaching for...the speed of light Here he is, reaching for...the sound of forgiveness Now wounding 'round the waterfront she listens for a voice A sign of Mother God, a sign of God the lad I long to enter you with gentleness and compassion But sorrow is always an open door I know many days go by and I forget to look up at the stars I forget there are stars, I forget there is the rest Thin threads of light follow you around Through the pale blue, down your skin Down your skin
Vessel of light
A distant light finds me when I'm with you A distant light knows me when I'm through Once I mistake you For somebody else Mistook you for somewhere, mistook you A distant light that binds me A distant sound that finds me When I'm through True Vessels of Light
It's like this
Show biz kids ( W.Becker, D.Fagen )
After closing time At the country Fair I detect the El Supremo In the room at the top of the stairs Well I've been around the world And I've been in the Washington Zoo And in all my travels As the facts unravel I've found this to be true While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night They got the house on the corner With the rug inside They got the booze they need All that money can buy They got the shapely bods They got the Steely Dan T-shirt And for the coup-de-gras They're outrageous So honey let me tell you how While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night Show biz kids making movies of themselves They don't give a fuck about anybody else While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night Trouble Man
(Marvin Gaye)
I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm cool I didn't make it surely, playin' by the rules I've come of heart, but now I'm fine I'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the line I've come of heart, but that's OK 'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way I've come of heart, baby I've been for real With a trouble man I'm gonna keep movin', i'm gonna roll to town I've come of heart, come on, get down There's only three things that's for sure Taxes, death and trouble Well this I know, baby This I know babe Let the sweat through you Should you think about me (?) Get me singin', yeah, yeah, ooo I've come of heart, I had to fight Take care of my business (?) with all my might I've come of heart, I had to win Then start all over and then again I've come of heart, but that's OK 'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way I've heard some places and I've seen some places I've never had tensions, I give my directions When people say; that's OK, they don't bother me I'm ready to make it, don't care 'bout the weather Don't care 'bout no trouble, got myself together I've seen the kind of protection's all around me I've come of heart, baby I've been for real With the Trouble Man I'm gonna keep movin', goin' goin' tight I've come of heart, come on, get down There's only three things for sure Taxes, death and trouble This I know, baby This I know, baby Hey now, let it sweat, baby, oh I've come of heart, but now I'm cool I didn't make it, baby, playin' by the rules I've come of heart, but now I'm fine I'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the line I've come of heart, but that's OK 'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way Don't get in my way Movin' down the line For No One
( Lennon/McCartney ) Your day breaks, your mind aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you She wakes up, she makes up She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry She no longer needs you And in her eyes you see nothing No sign of love behind the tears Cried for no one A love that should have lasted years You want her, you need her And yet you don't believe her when she says her love is dead You think she needs you And in her eyes you see nothing No sign of love behind the tears Cried for no one A love that should have lasted years You stay home, she goes out She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone She doesn't need him Your day breaks, your mind aches There will be time when all the things she said will fill your head You won't forget her And in her eyes you see nothing No sign of love behind the tears Cried for no one A love that should have lasted years
Smile
(Charlie Chaplin)
Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you And light up your face with gladness Hide every trace of sadness Although a tear may be ever so near That's the time you must keep on trying Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just smile The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
(Winwood/Capaldi) If you see something that looks like a star Shooting up out of the ground And your head is spinning from a loud guitar And you can't escape from the sound Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you We were children once, playing with toys And the thing that you're hearing is only the sound Of the low spark of high-heeled boys High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys If you had just a minute to breathe And they granted you one final wish Would you ask for something like another chance? Or something similar as this? Don't worry too much It'll happen to you As sure as your sorrows are joys And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound of The low spark of high-heeled boys The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams But today you just read that the man was shot dead By a gun that didn't make any noise And it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was The low spark of high-heeled boys High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys If I gave you everything that I owned And asked for nothing in return Would you do the same for me as I do for you? Or take me for a ride Strip me of everything including my pride But spirit is something no one destroys And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound The low spark of high-heeled boys High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys On the street where you live ( A.J.Lerner, F.Loewe )
I have often walked Down this street before But the pavement always stayed Beneath my feet before All at once am I Several stories high Knowing I'm On the street Where you live. Are there lilac trees In the heart of town? Can you hear a lark In any other part of town? Does enchantment pour Out of every door? No, it's just On the street Where you live. And oh, the tow'ring feeling Just to know Somehow you are near The overpow'ring feeling That any second You may suddenly appear. You know, People stop and stare, They don't bother me For there's nowhere else on earth That I would rather be Let the time go by, I don't care if I Can be here On the street Where you live. And oh, the tow'ring feeling Just to know Somehow you are near The overpow'ring feeling That any second You may suddenly appear. You know, People stop and stare, They don't bother me For there's nowhere else on earth That I would rather be Let the time go by, I don't care if I Can be here On the street Where you live Can be here On the street Where you live. I can't get started
( Ira Gershwin / Vernon Duke ) Iv'e been around the world in a plane I've settled revolutions in Spain The North Pole I have charted But man I can't get started with you And at the golf course I'm under par Metro-Goldwyn wants me to star I've got a house and a show place But can't get no place with you You're so supreme The lyrics I write of you Dream, dream, day and night of you Scheme just for the sight of you Baby but what good dose it do I've been consulted by Franklin D. Even Gabel had me to tea But now I'm broken hearted Can't get started with you You're so supreme The lyrics I write of you Dream, dream, day and night of you Scheme just for the sight of you But what good does it do I've been consulted by Franklin D. Even Basic had me to tea But now I'm broken hearted Can't get started with you Up a lazy river
(H.Carmichael, S.Arodin)
Up a lazy river by the old mill run Lazy river in the noon day sun Linger awhile in the shade of a tree Throw away your troubles, Dream with me. Up a lazy river where the robin's song Wakes the mornin' We'll roll along May be blue skies 'bove Everyone's in love Up a lazy river How happy we'll be Up a lazy river with me Up a lazy river by the old mill run That lazy, lazy river in the noon day sun You can linger for awhile in the shade of a tree Throw away your troubles, baby Dream a dream of me. Up a lazy river where the robin's song Wakes a brand new mornin' Where we can roll along There may be blue skies up above But as long as we're in love Yeah, we'll be up a lazy river How happy we could be Up a lazy river with me. Oh, that half way mark, yeah. Up a lazy river where that robin's song Awakes a brand new mornin' We can roll along There are blue skies up above And as long as we're in love We'll be up a lazy river Up a crazy, lazy, river Up a lazy river I ain't goin' your way, get out of my way Up a lazy river with me.
*** Thanx a lot to Jeff for this one ***
Someone To Watch Over Me
( George & Ira Gershwin ) There's a somebody I'm longing to see I hope that he turns out to be Someone who'll watch over me Oh I'm a little lamb who's lost in the woods And I know I could always be good To one who'll watch over me. Oh you may not be a guy Some girls think of as handsome and lovely But to my heart you carry the key! Won't you tell him please To put on some speed Follow my lead Cause all I need Someone to watch over me
*** Thanx a lot to Margaret for this one *** Cycles ( Gayle Caldwell ) So I'm down and so I'm out So are many others So I feel like tryin' To hide my head 'Neath these covers Life is like the seasons After winter comes the spring So I'll ?? and stay awhile And see what tomorrow brings I've been told and I believe That life is meant for livin' Even when my chips are low There's still some left for givin' I've been many places Maybe not as far as you So I think I'll stay awhile And see if some dreams come true There isn't much that I have learned Through all my foolish years Except that life just run in cycles First there's laughter, then those tears But I'll keep my head up high Although I'm kind of tired Oh I just up and left last week Friday I got fired You know it's almost funny Things can't get worse than now But I'll keep on tryin' to sing But please, just don't ask me how One Hand One Heart
(Bernstein & Sondheim) Make of our hands One hand, Make of our hearts One heart. Make of our vows One last vow, Only death will part Us now. Make of our lives One life, Day after day One life. Now it begins, Now we start, One hand, one heart. Even death won't part Us now.
The Evening Of My Best Day
Ugly Man He's an ugly man He always was an ugly man He grew up to be like his father An ugly man And he'll tell you lies He'll look at you and tell you lies He grew up to be like his father Ugly inside Hey - ugly man What's the plan? If people knew What would they do To the ugly man? Having fun? But will we be here When you're done With me....? Revolution Now it's finally going to come Everywhere that you're not looking Revolution And we'll take it back Now we take the country back Everywhere that you're not looking Ugly man Ugly man Ugly man
A Second Chance Summertime and everything is sweet Walking barefoot to the circle k On the burning street Summertime and everything's on fire This town is a drive-by for the Whole inland empire But down on the boulevard They take it very hard But it's alright, it's OK I was going to move out of here anyway Don't look at me, I've got nothing to say Countdown to ecstasy They are very rich, those boys uptown They got so much now they wanna Let it trickle down La la la la la la Summertime and everything is chill Cops and gangsters cruising Everybody's dressed to kill Summertime and everything is cool In the halfway house for sex offenders By the school They're laughing, they're dancing They're calling everyone Step right up, don't be shy Buy a second chance You need a favor? I got a guy Who can buy you a second chance... But it's alright with me If they lock you up Then I can be free Six of you Half a dozen of me So count down... Alright, OK, I was gonna move out of there anyway Don't look at me I've got nothing to say As you countdown to ecstasy Countdown to ecstasy Bitchenostrophy Close your eyes and dream of me You've found the one you love Life is long and then it's through But you go on and on Nous serons une nuit brillante Comme tous les papillons Longue (est) la vie La mort...ce n'est pas finI Toujours je suis...un papillon La nuit ....les papillons Je suis les papillons Little Mysteries A gypsy boy came up to you With a newspaper spread across his arm To hid his fingers in your pocket... Meanwhile, in another part of town I buy a ticket for a game And la petite femme, smoking les gitanes Is writing down my name Oh, little mysteries, little mysteries Yeah, little mysteries, little mysteries A plane goes down in kc, mo In a simple twist of fate A trail of lies leads us to orlando But we are days too late For a certain brother down in florida Famous for his cake And when the boys came over from texas They said "we'll take everything we can take..." Oh, little mysteries, little mysteries Yeah, little mystereis, little mysteries Nobody wants to know Nobody wants to see Now four years later Another senator hits the ground This time the boys make sure That his wife is with him when he goes down And while everybody's looking up In a race too close to call T he election quietly slips into The third door down the hall. Oh, little mysteries, little mysteries. Yeah, little mysteries, little mystereies Could be next to you. Someone you've known for years A car parked down by the airport At the edge of town..... Lap Dog Lap dog lap dog where you gonna go? If I put you out in the rain and snow If I put you out in the rain and snow Where the sun dont shine and the cold wind blow Lap dog lap dog who you gonna see? When you look in the mirror and you dont' see me When the face in the mirror just makes you cry On the corner as the cars go by... Someone you can rely on Someone you can rely on Someone you could be there with Someone you could do that with Someone like me Lap dog lap dog you should come home A little lap dog wasn't meant to roam A little lap dog was meant to lay By the fire and sleep all day Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now)
Not long ago it was alright There were no bad dreams that kept me up at night It was not brother against brother Mother against mother So tell somebody, You've got to tell somebody Tell somebody what happened in the usa Now they want us to just get in line Behind a president When you know they spent milions of dollars Condemning and accusing The last one from the other side Tell somebody, tell somebody Tell somebody What's happening in the usa? Tell somebody, tell somebody Tell somebody What happened in the usa Tell somebody, tell somebody, tell somebody... I want to know how far you will go To protect our right of free speech? Because it only took a moment Before it faded out of reach... Oh, tell somebody, tell sombody right now Tell somebody What happened in the usa? I wanna read about it in the news I wanna hear about it on tv, yeah What happened in the usa? When they ask you What happened in the usa? Tell sombody. They'll wanna know, oh people The depth of our democracy Is only as good as the voices of protest she protects Voices of protest - rise! Sailor Song Oh the ship I'm on Time is what I ride Forty winds, the captain and the tide Oh a sailor boy Stole me from my home And this sea of joy Is the only life I've known I could fly away I could fly away But I take the sea For stranger days than these A salty dog Is caught up on the reef And the bottom of the sea She kisses in relief She could fly away She could fly away But she takes the sea For stranger days than these You trade your life When something comes for you And you bury the knife Between the lies and truth You could fly away You could fly away But you take the sea For stranger days than these And I take the sea For stranger days than these Stranger days...... A Tree On Allenford There is a tree on allenford I drive by it each day on my way to and from work And there are always flowers left there each day Left for a child who died there Or so that is what people say... But all I see Looks back at me Loved by someone, loved by someone Loved by someone, loved by someone And the golden thread of nature of this is Simply that we are a part of everything That will ever exist. To be loved is why we've come. Every drop of rain that fell or falls Is always falling On and on and on and on. Come into me And we'll always be Loved by someone, loved by someone Loved by someone, loved by someone There's nothing that has ever been That isn't loved By someone who waits To be loved again Loved by someone, loved by someone Loved by someone, loved by someone It Takes You There What you are you can never erase It's here til the end of time What you lost you will never replace Still you're trying to find... You dont do it for god You dont do it for love You're back on the street because It takes you there [x3] What you have will never be enough You will always want more But lift me out, over one more night All I want is what I was before I dont do it for god I dont do it for jesus I'm back on the street because It takes you there Takes you there It takes you there Takes you there, Oh I had a dream I know it seems so absurd We all live in a house on a hill Nobody has to say a word I wake up It's the middle of the night The room is opening with love I try to hold on to this golden light But I fall hard from above I don't do it for money I don't do it for god I'm back on the street because It takes you there Takes you there It takes you there Takes you there... Takes you there Takes you there Takes you there Takes you there Mink Coat At The Bus Stop She's out in the morning before nine Wearing her new mink coat And it's already 85 degrees She looks like she's about to Give up hope I look at the people Sitting at the bus stop People need dignity and love Love and understanding I was a fish all night Left out of the sea There was nobody That wasn't after me I was a bird, yeah And it started to rain You know I wondered If everybody could feel my pain I look at the people Everyone's the same People need dignity and love Love and understanding Hour by hour, The whole wide world One soul at a time And I say she whoa whoa Sitting on her woo woo She's at the whoa whoa She's got nowhere to go And though she whow whoa Here everyday there's nobody Even asks her name I look at the people Sitting at the bus stop Everyone needs dignity And love Love and understanding Hour by hour The whole wide world One soul at a time Whoa whoa The Evening Of My Best Day They all smile They shake your hand They want to know your name Y ou sit in your mothers room Look through the window pane When they know you're not watching They talk behind your back They laugh about the lonliness Of your awkward attack Attack them in the fences Attack them in the schoolyard Wipe your sleeve across your head When the canons fire Someday, many years from here Where no one else can see You'll dig up the things they buried And finally set them free Finally, set them free Now free them from the schoolyard Free them from the lunch tray edge Free them from the canons inside your head I don't know why, But for some people An ordinary day Just rises up before them And it sweeps the past away And it's a good Life From now on When I look back at you A good life, Look ahead The sky is almost blue A Face In The Crowd I know what it takes to be loved by you Talk like you talk Think like you do You never were human so How could you know? We fall so hard, we can't let go I am the last of my kind in this town Everyone else has gone underground I know what to say when I'm in your head I know where to lay when I'm in your bed In fact, there's no part of me I can't kill No hole I won't dig For baby to fill I am the last of my kind in the town I want to be the one you love I want to be the one you love I want to be the one you love I want to be the one
Sermon on Exposition Boulevard
Nobody Knows My Name For a thousand years I've lay upon the Lake Victoria I was winged and many-colored And nobody knew my name For a thousand years I fell out of the sand into the Guadeloupe And I made many songs into the air And nobody knew my name I fell like water In sweet gasps of hydrogen up Into the sea over the Bikini Islands And I dove into the liquid concrete of sweet silver lake The liquid concrete of down by the river And nobody knew my name Now I walk among them and I sing to them And I open up my wrists And nobody knows my name And I translate into many hours of history But nobody knows my name I stood in the four winds I stood in the four winds I stood in the four winds And nobody knows my name So I walk again Yeah, I walk every night So I walk again I look at you Sweet every face Do you know my name Do you, do you know my name Do you know my name Do you know my name Say it Do you know my name Say it Do you know my name Do you know my name Do you know my Do you know my name Do you know my My...
Gethsemane Now we went up to the garden Beneath the olive tree The bells were ringing The rooster crows The men were standing all around Other men are laying on the ground And I am standing by myself I just let them sleep awhile I just let them sleep awhile You know you wake up one morning And you're someone else You're on your own There is no miracle to take you home And you cry to the God who leaves you there To the branch and the bird and the empty air To the God of why can't we turn back around You say I've been true to you / Let me sing awhile Let me sleep here Don't make me beg Let me sleep When I call your name Here You turn, your turn, your turn away Let me sleep here All I want is your hand Let me sleep I've been true, I've been true All I want is your hand Why are you sleeping, oh my friends
Falling up Honey-skinned girl She's light on her feet Twirling on Apollo But she's going down there for something to eat On the corner We see him coming Followed by the rabbis With their soft shoes humming We're falling up, yeah yeah We're falling up Come on Try to remember Honey girl We could be like him Transfiguration Try to remember We're falling up, yeah, yeah, yeah We're falling up, oh, oh, oh, oh We're falling up, oh, waouh We're falling up Honey baby We're living with the Romans now I want you to remember this Come on Try to remember We're falling up, yeah, yeah, yeah We're falling up, oh, oh, oh, oh We're falling up, hey We're falling up, oh waouh Try to remember Try to remember Try to remember
Lamp of the body Once your journeyed into the wilderness To listen to John the Prophet You called "The baptiser" He spoke to you of truth He was a burning, shining light And you were willing for a while To follow him Now one has come... The lamp of the body is the eye The lamp of the body is the eye See the darkness shine How great is the dark See the dark And are there not twelve hours of daylight But if you walk by night You will fall
It hurts It makes me laugh When I think about us The way we light up the way home It's you for us And one for all It caught me in its ray But it hurts to be here It hurts to be here It hurts to be here When you're gone Now we've got a sunny day We earned this, every twinkle, every eye But Monday I forget Wednesday I just don't get Thursday I remember and Sunday I cry Cause it hurts to be here It hurts to be here It hurts to be here When you're gone And it hurts to be here It hurts to be here It hurts to be here When you're gone Oh, oh Caught me in its' ray And I know I'd never go back It's broken-hearted street And a paranoid street lamp My only precious thing I had has been broken But I'm soulful and grateful and gleeful Hey, hey yeah Caught me in its' ray
Where I like it best I wanted to pray I wanted to let you go on your way I wanted to know why they laid there Dying in the streets next to the restaurant Where people were eating and yes I wanted to pray How do you pray in a world like this You know, I see the people on TV And they close their eyes and they bow their heads And they say "Let us pray" And it feels so cold and meaningless And I wanted to pray And I said Tell me father Tell me mother Heavenly mother And they said When you pray Pray alone by yourself In the secret room of your heart Don't go out into the church filled with people and pray God hears every secret that you say See all those people praying on TV and the churches They like to make a big parade out of what they're doing They think God hears them louder if they say it Over and over and over and over and over again But I say, God, but I say this You are the prayer Your eyes are the prayer Your hand on your cheek You are the prayer Those words you want to speak They are the prayer That dance you make When you're by yourself Just before your mother calls you on the phone You are the prayer I tell you what You gotta take it back from them Because the prayers belong to you All you gotta do is say hey hey I'm down here too, I'm down here too I'm down here too And I hear you in the trees And I hear you And I'm near you I wonder why there's so much suffering I want to say thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you I wanted to say thank you, thank you I wanted to say I wanted to say You are where I like it best You are where I like it best You are where I like it best That's the Lords' prayer "You are where I want to be" So, amen, just amen Amen, all by myself, amen, amen I'm so lonely, just amen And I'm rising, rising, just amen You can look through my eyes Hear through my hear Look through my eyes
Tried to be a man 'Round here we don't need no one trying to set us straight Heck, I got a red neck in plaid suit And he's on TV real late balalaikas tolling Sheba plays the flute There's a communist and capitalists They all think I'm cute You know, I'm out of rehab You know, I'm with the band Anyway I think it's time to say Exactly what I am Cause I tried to be a man But that's just not meant to be You know I tried to be a man That's not what I came to be Well, there's seven years of famine And seven years of drought Seven years of Sam And you know what I'm talking about And it won't take very long before its hard to tell If they're trying to take you back with him To heaven or to hell They make her so pretty She won't be pretty long She'll be rising out of the sea of planet Babylon Cause she tried to be a man That's not what she came to be She tried to be a man That's not what she came to be She's living down on Bronson She never blinks her eyes The family in Wisconsin Look like they're hypnotized I get a strange sensation When I lay down in my bed In fact, if you could drop me on the corner Here instead on planet Babylon That's where they wrote the book Hey there's something here about you Come on and take a look It says you tried to be a man But that's not what you came to be It says, it says, it says, it says You tried to be a man But that's not what you came to be Came to be What you came to be That's not what you came to be Circle in the sand Sun's going down I'm going back to my cave I've got noone to lead No one to save And I like the music In my head I think I'll work, yeah For her instead Well I I draw a circle in the sand Can draw a circle in the sand Can draw a circle Yeah yeah Soft sweet devil light my way Sure do, sure do Time to move on Rise like an animal balloon Pigs over Jerusalem I can't fall too soon But when the angel picks me up She calls my name There is charity but she says Power money and fame Well I draw circle in the sand Can draw a circle in the sand Can draw a circle Yeah yeah Soft sweet devil light my way Oh come on Soft sweet devil light my way Yeah, yeah Time to go home Dream the dream of the homeless Cast the spell of the innocent Hungry and poor 'Cause you're raising up the dead Like you're everybody's friend But you raise your devils now And every body wants in Light my way, light my way...
Donkey ride You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town on your donkey You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town, coming into, yeah yeah It will permeate across the ages Coming into town on your donkey tonight And you're wearing your garland You're coming into town on your donkey tonight And you're wearing your garland Shake, shake, shake, shake... Lies, lies, lies, lies Will lead them up, lead them up to the dominion Lies will lead them up Lead them up to the minion Lies will lead them up, lead them up You'll be going out in the spirit You're coming into town on your donkey tonight But you'll be going out on a cross But you'll be going out on a cross But you'll be going out on a cross
Seventh day If you believe You are light as air If you believe You will fly There is no tear that is stronger than The faith that's in your eye Look now at my body Broken there by the sin And all my friends who drink my wine They're all drunk again We can make another world Another life We can make it out of you Another world Your eye is the brightest star Your heart is the sea Nothing in the universe Means more than what you mean to me And another day We can have another life Another world Make it out of clay We can make a sweeter night A sweeter night Listen child We can have a softer day Listen, listen child Listen listen A softer day One where you'll be safe Why won't you listen child Come one listen child We can make it outta here We can make it out of this Another night And on the seventh day To the seventh day Listen child The seventh day Child The seventh day Child, child, child The seventh day Child... The seventh day Elvis cadillac Wrote a letter to my father I thought I'd tell him where I am I knew that he was hoping I'd come home again I'm standing in the doorway But I'm happy living here Everybody always tries so hard To sing a song no one can hear And yes, my heart was broken Yeah but I made it through the night Little Janis Joplin she's got a job on the corner bar So I guess where doing alright I got used to all that swimming I said come on in the water's fine And I know you don't remember me But I've seen you, seen you many times Yes my heart was opened No, no I don't look back Because I'm riding around heaven In Elvis Cadillac Riding around in heaven In Elvis Cadillac Yes my heart was opened And no, I never look back Hey, I'm riding around heaven In my Elvis cadillac Riding around in heaven In Elvis Cadillac In Elvis Cadillac In Elvis Cadillac
I was there Take my advice It doesn't get easier watching the golden orbs floating out of the bars And into space there's Frank Sinatra on the Juke box Pause in the ketchup your face in the reflection in the mirror He walked through the rocks, you know He walked through the scorpion dust He walks on the beach and now he walks And he keeps walking 'til he's out of reach Every generation watches the princes of their nation File away until the Son of Man every, every Madonna means so little to the next one We ran together down the Santa Monica Boulevard oh baby You look so hard, so fine And my second-hand capella all that night I said Oo hoo...I said Oo hoo oo hoo There you are in your write dress shirt most of all I think I loved your hands I loved them so much that it hurt and all the bartenders knew your name And all the pimps knew your car and we lay by the Nazz And we were blessed yes, we are You tell them I was there hey I was there man I was there When Jesus walked I was there when Jesus walked Now I don't know what happened, what happened was Babylon and that little Sheba With her siren song and the planets swirling Where no one's ugly and everyone's square no one's ugly and everyone's square There's no such place I heard such peach when he played those traps I heard such peace when He looked out at the map And it ran through me and echoed into another time and space and place And it ran through me way on back in time way on up is fine Way one back in time was on up is fine way on back in time Take my advice and go throw it away it's gonna do you no good until you blow for good Cause you are there man you are there don't you know You are there where Jesus walked, every generation, yeah the princes of their nation Well, I'm ugly, too. No, no you're not beautiful, no, you're ugly too Cause you've been travelling in so many universes and you manifest here It's difficult to see who you are Brother I didn't realize that you were talking to me until you broke that bread and I saw that you were Where have you been that you don't know what's been going on here in Jerusalem Haven't you heard, haven't you heard about the Nazarene, you know We thought we were gonna set Israel free
Balm in Gilead
Wild Girl Wild girl, you must have been a terror When you were young Your mamma must have let you run Let you run free But it wasn't very nice Eating all that sugar and spice What they want a girl to be And all the things a child learns On their way from hope to here The innocence, the fury, the racism Rage and fear I don't remember, tell me again The part no one wants to hear Well, that's so many peoples story A lot of heartache but not much glory But glory, the truth be told Tomorrow you are twenty'one years old I say Happy Birthday tomorrow to you Go out and get some glory The only game in town You can live your life with regret About the things you think you did wrong (A lot of people do) Or over what some one would not give Or you can be grateful When you open your eyes The story you write, you live Well it's hard to be older and poor I don't dig it that much anymore But every day of my life I'm so proud I became his wife Because I got to raise Charlotte And Charlotte's learning The only game in town Wild girl in a red dress Come on, speak up, say yes This thing that makes you beautiful Never comes out of a jar You are a beautiful girl Because you reach out From your beautiful world That is the daughter you are Walk right and the real world knows it 'Cause you bring it back down into the real world Walk right up the real world knows it You'll bring it back down into the real world Say take me back baby I just wanna make a dream come true I came here to love somebody I just want to make my dreams come true And I'm trying Because trying is The only game Live to tell the tale The only game in town Old Enough Something's changed It's not that I fear but Maybe it's that I took care of you Too many times And you grew weaker for a kindness Sometimes kindness from a friend Can break a man I can understand You sit there like a child-man I never meant to make you cry I'd turn the clock but how can I You're Old Enough to know You're Old Enough to know Why do you shun me When I treat you with respect You've been my best friend Joy and happiness But without a tender kiss sometimes We may as well say goodbye 'Cause late at night, as the cars go by I lay here and watch you try To pretend you're not breaking inside For someone to sing in your ear I can understand You sit there like a child and beg But if you want me to stay Baby has to cry sometime Don't be kind to me I wanna walk away You're old enough to know You're old enough to know You're old enough to know Ah, you're old enough to know Remember Me With my face against the glass I call your name as you walk past You look, but you see yourself I'll give you all the things I've got I know it's late, I know it's hot But don't you hang up And don't you tell lies Don't you know you're blowing away Don't you go before you remember me In a border town near Mexico I took your ring long ago Now the storm clouds have filled your sweet eyes And there's a storm that won't abide It's torn everything inside Of the sweet heart that once was my home Don't you know you're blowing away Don't you go before you remember me Don't you know you're blowing away Don't you go before you remember me Darling, this storm will pass away I pray for you every day The Moon Is Made Of Gold Don't feel bad because the sun went down The night has wealth untold Just keep watching and you soon will see The Moon is Made of Gold Now the stars appear And as they do Heaven they unfold Don't feel bad because the sun went down The Moon is Made of Gold See how the shadows Enhanced by the light above Dance in the night As the breezes sigh Soon you will be asleep Into your dreams will creep Visions of fairies flying through the sky And one by one Your dreams will all come true Magic you'll behold Don't feel bad because the sun went down The Moon is Made of Gold See how the shadows Enhanced by the light above Dance in the night As the breezes sigh Soon you will be asleep Into your dreams will creep Visions of fairies flying through the sky One by one Your dreams will all come true The night has a treasure in store for you The night is magic And The Moon is Made of Gold His Jeweled Floor And when you arrive Shining and new Forgotten by the fear and pain You put your body through On his jeweled floor We are every one Laying in his starry arms On his jeweled floor we are standing now See me as I am You'll come in the afternoon Of a hard travelin' day Blown by a stromy sky That finally passes away On his jeweled floor We will meet again He holds us all in his starry arms On his jeweled floor I am standing now Can you see me as I am There are no demons, only angels Life will surely fade Spend it loving tenderly Or Shiva at your grave Sit Shiva at your grave On his jeweled floor We will all be there He holds us all in His starry arms On his jeweled floor no one ever falls Can you see me as I am As we dance a thousand suns Eucalyptus Trail All my old friends Have gone underground They fall so hard I am the last of my kind in this town Out in the yard... My feet hardly touch the ground. My feet hardly touch the ground. Life moves on the Eucalyptus Trail Vishnu's Ocean, Wagon-wheel motel Cowboy fairies floating all around Make-believe that held us To the ground Finally let's go Turn the wheel, I'll be on my way Turn the wheel, I'll be on my way I want to be the one you love I can be the one I want to be the one you love I can be the one I want to be the one you love Let me be the one I want to be the one you love I can be the one Stop at any beach Wagon-wheel motel Vishnu's Ocean And the Eucalyptus Trail The Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith Didn't you hear Black is a criminal White is a crime Poison is the pen Writing down this children's nursery rhyme Didn't you see him standing next to me The seeds of change have grown We don't have to hide anymore Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo That means trouble from the other side Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo Maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart It doesn't take much to see If you're looking for an enemy Greed and apathy Spell the letters of our name You sit and laugh at other people Making money off their shame and sorrow Waiting for tomorrow to fix itself Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo That means trouble from the other side Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo Maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart It's a dark night to feed a stranger I don't have enough to feed myself I keep trying to believe in believing In something I can't see From where I stand I pull it with my faith With the smile on my face It's gonna take a lot more Than you might be used to Who's to blame for not standing up for them When it was not in style When hope is the color of a man The color of love is the color that can Stand for something Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo That means trouble from the other side Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo May be trouble of a hopeful heart Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo The trouble of a hopeful heart A hopeful heart, it could be a hopeful heart Bonfires There's just one thing before I go You are the sweetest boy I know I've lived my whole life in the past But I awoke last night at last I thought I'd finally won your heart And that forever never part And in sweet love we would grow old Now I'm just a scavenger in the cold I'm just a scavenger All I can do is wish you well And light the Bonfires of hell Honey, you hurt me bad this time I'm burning everything I find You hurt me bad this time You nearly tore me from my mind Before I knew I had been hurt She laid her hair across your shirt All I can do is wish you well And light the Bonfires of hell There's just one thing before I go You are the sweetest boy I know If there's a sun, I'll watch it rise To dry the tears out of my eyes If there's a river, you can bet There'll be a sea for my heart yet Bayless St. There's a house at Bayless Street I left when I was tired There's a dog in a backyard He watches the moon for me Lay down All these easy times And we'll Meet me there With the book you brought from Bayless Street A child on Bayless Street Left there by myself And she's waiting there to meet All the people we've become Meet me now I will bring my friend Lay down All these easy times And we'll Meet me now I will bring my friend There's a house on Bayless Street Where restless children sleep
The Devil You Know
Sympathy For The Devil ( The Rolling Stones ) Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long time Stole many a man's soul and faith And I was 'round when Jesus Christ Had his moment of doubt and pain I made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name What's puzzling you Is the nature of my game I stuck around at St. Petersburg When I saw it was a time for a change I killed the czar and his ministers Anastasia screamed in vain Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I rode a tank Held a general's rank When the blitzkrieg raged And the bodies stank Pleased to meet you Maybe you guess my name What's puzzling you Is the nature of my game I watched with glee While your kings and queens Fought for ten decades For the gods they made I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?' When after all It was you and me Let me please introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste And I laid traps for troubadours Who get killed before they reached Bombay Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name What's puzzling you Is the nature of my game Just as every cop is a criminal And all the criminals are saints As heads is tails Just call me Lucifer 'Cause I'm in need of some restraint So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy and some taste You give me all your well-learned politesse Or I'll lay your soul to waste Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name What's puzzling you Is the nature of my game Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name What's puzzling you Is the nature of my game What's my name Tell me, sweetie Tell me honey What's my name I'm a man of wealth Tell me honey What's my name Only Love Can Break Your Heart ( Neil Young ) When you were young And on your own How did it feel To be alone I was always thinking Of games that I was playing And try to make the best of my time But only love Can break your heart Try to be sure Right from the start Only love Can break your heart What if your world Should fall apart I have a friend I've never seen She hides herself Inside a dream Someone could call her And see if she would come out Try to lose The down that she's found Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin But only love Can break your heart So try to be sure Right from the start Only love Can break your heart What if your world Should fall apart When you were young And on your own How did it feel To be alone Only love Can break your heart Only love Can break your heart Yes only Love Can break your heart Masterpiece ( Ben Harper ) I could paint the sun and the moon and the stars Right down from the sky Carve your likeness in stone Down to the very light that shines in your eyes I could build a church in your honor Stained glass windows facing east Ah, but loving you is my masterpiece 'Cause I love you for who you are I love you for who you may never be I love you from downtown All the way up to 142nd street, yeah And all of my possessions mean less than the very least I said loving you is my masterpiece Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin There's no time like now There is no place like here So throw your loving arms around me dear And i'll lean on you like a beggar Leans upon the moonlit streets Loving you is my masterpiece The Weight ( The Band ) I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead And I needed a place to go where I could just lay my head 'Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?' He just grinned and shook my hand, 'No!', was all he said So take a load off Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off Fanny You put the load right on me I picked up my bag, I went looking for a place to hide When I saw Carmen and the Devil walking side by side And I said, 'Hey, Carmen, come on girl, let's just go downtown' She said, 'No I have to run, but my friend can stick around' So take a load off Fanny Take a load for free, yeah Take a load off Fanny And you put the load right on me Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me there in the fog And he said, 'I will fix your rack, if you'll take Jack, my dog' And I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, I love a peaceful man' He said, 'That's okay, my daughter, you just feed him when you can' Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I take a load off Fanny I take a load for free Take a load off Fanny And just put the load right on me So go down, Miss Moses, there is nothing you can say There's just old Luke and luke just a waiting on the Judgement Day 'Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee' He says, 'Do me a favor, could you stay and keep Anna Lee company' Take a load off Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off Fanny And put the load right on me You now catch a cannon ball, to take me down the line 'Cause my bag is sinking low, well I believe it's time To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she was the only one Who sent me back here with her regards for everyone Take a load off Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off Fanny And put the load right on me Right on me Just right on me St. James Infirmary ( Louis Armstrong ) As I passed St. James Infirmary I saw my sweetheart there Stretched down on a long white table So cold, so great, so fair Sixteen coal-black horses Hitched to a rubber-tired hack And taking seven girls to the graveyard Only six are coming back Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Let her go, let her go, God bless her Oh wherever she may be She gonna left this wide world over And she never find a sweet loving man like me Never find a sweet loving man like me Like me Comfort You ( Van Morrison ) I wanna comfort you I wanna comfort you I wanna comfort you Just let your tears run wild Like when you were a child I'll do what I can do I wanna comfort you Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin When it gets too much for me When it gets too much for me Oh I'll do just like you do I'll put the weight on you I'll do just like you do I'll put the weight I'll put the weight on you I want to comfort you I want to comfort you I want to comfort you Reason To Believe ( Tim Hardin ) If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried Still I'd look to find a reason to believe If I gave you time to change my mind I'd find a way to leave the past behind Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried Still I'd look to find a reason to believe Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Someone like you Makes it hard to live without somebody else Someone like you Makes it easy to give and never think of myself If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried Still I'd look to find a reason to believe Someone like you Makes it hard to live without somebody else Someone like you Makes it easy to give and never think of myself Someone like you Makes it hard to live without somebody else Someone like you Makes it easy to give and never think about myself Play With Fire ( The Rolling Stones ) Well, you've got your diamonds You've got your pretty clothes And the chauffeur drives your car You let everybody know Don't play with me 'Cause you're playing with fire Your mother is an heiress She owns a block in Saint John's Wood And daddy be there with her If he only could But don't play with me You're playing with fire Your old man took her diamond's and tiaras by the score So she gets her kicks in ?? Not in Knightsbridge Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Play with me You're playing with fire Now you've got your diamonds You may have some others You'd better watch your step, girl Or come home here to your mother Don't play with me 'Cause you're playing with fire Oh don't play with me 'Cause you're playing with fire Seems Like A Long Time ( Ted Anderson ) Nighttime is only the other side of daytime But if you've ever waited for the sun You know what it's like to wish daytime would come And don't it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time Hard times are only the other side of good times If you ever wished hard times were gone You know what it's like to wish good times would come And don't it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Seem like a long time Seem like a long time Seem like a long, long time War time is only the other side of peace time But if you've ever seen how wars are won You know what it's like to wish peace time would come Don't it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time Seem like a long time Seem like a long time Seem like a long, long time Seem like Seem like Seem like a long, long time Catch The Wind ( Donovan ) In the chilly hours and minutes Of uncertainty, I want to be In the warm hold of your loving mind To feel you all around me And to take your hand along the sand I may as well try and catch the wind When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears Help me to leave all my blues behind Standing in your heart Where I want to be and long to be Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin When sundown pales the sky I wanna hide a while behind your smile Everywhere I'd look your eyes I'd find For me to love you now Would be the sweetest thing it would make me sing Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind
The Other Side Of Desire
Jimmy choos O cherie Come and take a ride with me You just need to clear out your mind O mon cher Cuz i'll go with you anywhere Can't we leave that demon behind? Yeah I know about the motel 6 I know about the truckstop stations I know about giving up on yourself You don't have to tell me about giving up But don't tarry in the street pauline Because the cops down here They're cold and mean If they see you up there on your hot tin roof Throwing pop bottles at them With your gold cap tooth You chipped it for your vampire smile Can we leave all this beauty for a while Just show them the halston They're gonna love that Show us the halston And those jimmy choos The jimmy choo shoes The jimmy choos hey The jimmy choo shoes yeah I know about the motel 6 I know about the truck stop stations I know about giving up on it all Tell me about giving up I like those jimmy choos The jimmy choo shoes The jimmy choos Choo choo choos The jimmy choo shoes Choo shoes the choo shoes choo shoes The jimmy choos Choo shoes choo shoes The choo choo choo shoes Someone loves you tonight Someone loves you tonight Someone loves you tonight Yeah Valtz de mon père (lovers' oath) How can i tell you The way i feel when you're inside? You made this girl As young as the moon And old as the lips The wave that rests In the pool, guarding We come unknowing The where or the why Throwing back our weight Growing by and by Staring at what we've made As if we're not afraid As helpless as the wind As perfect as the sun At days end We'll watch each other Til we're sure we are safe Counting all the sheep That still pass this way And darling, as you dream You seem to glow With the faces that you know And i'm jealous that i can't be there We'll stay together We'll never part Our grandchildren will know us Cuz they're made of our heart And even though we're parted From the physical world I'll always be your girl And i'll watch the world For signs of love. J'ai connais pas I know you come here to this bar Cuz no one here knows who you are You watch the band sing tra-la-la You wear your eau j'ai connais pas My sister knew you back in school Said you were nobody's fool But you let it slip away Sittin' there surfin' usa I'm not talking about a song The things you did were wrong Just trying to have some fun Didn't hurt anyone But you wasted time It's a long sad tale We're glad to see you're finally out of jail There's not much left to say Let that guitar player play J'ai connais pas anyway I'm not talking about a song Oh i'm not I think the thing you did was wrong Trying to have some fun Didn't hurt no one but yourself And wasted It's a long sad tale I know you spent some time in a jail Happiness is what you choose When there's nothing left to loose From biloxi to the blues It's a long sad tale And i'm so glad you're out of jail I see you don't have much to say Let that guitar player play J'ai connais pas anyway Blinded by the hunt I know where i'm going Because i been there before Floating in the sun Laying on the shore I caught a beautiful wave I came in all the way Please help me climb on Again, yeah Sometimes i tell myself It doesn't matter to me If i live in chains Or if i fight to be free I been out here so long That i don't know anymore I get lost just Walking out the door, yeah Cuz i'm blinded by the hunt Cuz i'm blinded by the hunt Cuz blinded by the hunt I am blinded by the hunt Well i can't go back And i'll never stop There's just one way left for me To find a little peace And i know what i want At least i tell myself To set my heart on fire With the love of someone else Then why do ya run? You want to take good care of each other Reaching out your hand So touch me if you can, yeah yeah Cuz i'm blinded by the hunt Cuz i'm blinded by the hunt Blinded by the hunt Blinded by the hunt I'm blinded by the hunt Infinity Traveling on a train Sitting with the band Looking out the window Everything is made of Shape and form Now we're in a bar An empty bar And there's no where for me Why do people come here? I don't know But look a little deeper Expanding to my left Are people everywhere ... Cuz this is where we've always been It will always come again It hasn't even happened yet We're here and in Infinity infinity And now i go wrong I always do go wrong And someone has to help me now Marsha pulling off my shirt It's caught around my neck It hurts and I can't breathe You're killing me with kindness Why don't you let me go? Then i say ‘this isn't really happening' But the dream goes on This is an illusion Every corner of the galaxy They're watching “infinity” Time is a wave Moving through space. There are your hands, Here is my face Ah We're the movie of the week Every corner of the galaxy They're watching This is where we've always been It will always come again It hasn't even happened yet We're here and in Infinity I wasn't here Taking my time Hurrying along I do what i like to go Where i know i will Never go wrong The world is my home The world is my cone And it's delicious To wish this- That you never feel alone I like how you walk Into a room You can bring oceans of potions And suddenly we're on the moon I'm a galaxy jet! So i never fret That's never gotten me anywhere I want to hang around yet Believe me It's easy to be where you want to go Out in the nether together And we'll just let go And fly Fall through the air Don't have a care These precious moments We're in this together We're lighter than air Someone like you Makes me feel see-through Cuz i was a weight And the stakes got so high That i finally fell through Believe and it's easy to see Where you're going Out in the weather together With wind, sky and snow So where shall we go? I don't really know But when we get there I'm sure we'll ask someone And someone will know Well that's how i am Happy again Just to be part of the show When you go tell ‘em i say hello!!! I wasn't here When you saw me, it's clear (i hope you don't go) Christmas in new orleans It's christmas time Here in new orleans The streets are all empty But for we three queens Who follow the fire Of an old guitar That burns so bright Over the local bar I know you told me girl Why do you let them see you cry? Look away, look away like me And your crowd went wild Who can say what breaks inside? Me i woke up in the wings And i still can't recognize This sound my scars make When i sing How could you explain A life as crazy as ours? How would i explain a love That fell down from the stars And burned a light into the dark That was my life for a while... And now you wake up again In that old black hat Another dream of me Bet you don't tell her that Now you roll over Turn and smell her hair You know, it's warm down here For christmas We all hope you're cold up there How do we explain a time As crazy as ours? How do you explain a love That fell down from the stars And burned a light Into the dark? That was my life For a while... So when you're lost out here On the other side of desire Come on in and warm your hands On our eternal fire We're all drinking and singing songs Full of christmas cheer And every ghost there at the bar Wishes that you were here Haunted When love comes along It seems like He was always by your side Makes you feel like You've never been alone, never been alone Never never been lied to Always felt this way You're happy You're so happy You can forget you ever cried But you better hold on To your tears Cuz they hold you down Sometimes Dodo dodo, lalalalala Dodo dodo, lalalalala Yeah You better be careful Or all the bluebirds will stop flying You better be careful Or all the stars will stop flying You better be careful Or all your dreams just stop dying You better be careful Or all your heart will stop stinging You better be careful Hold on to something Hold on to your heartache Yeah, yeah Feet on the ground She was a happy child Funny and bright and wild And all of the grown-ups agreed She was ‘most likely to succeed In ruling the world!' Now she calls you on the phone She's never there alone Who is he, why is he there, that man? She steals everything she can Easily buy it . ‘mother, Can you send some cash?' Here, world domination rules Get in line with these fools We'll show you how much it costs Twice as much as we've lost This is no way to live And i have no more to give Til she's got her Feet on the ground Life is a merry-go-round Taking her up so high The angels cry She's got her Feet on the ground Life is a merry-go-round Taking her up so high The angels cry The story goes on and on Nobody's right or wrong There somebody's aunt Somebody's dad, They spent the last dollar they had Trying to bring someone home You, you call her on the phone You're always here alone. A daily reminder of what it's cost How much you've given, How much you've lost Trying to save her- -i'll just send you the cash. Now world domination's lost. And this is what it costs. Twice as much as we've had But daddy, it's not that bad How does she survive Why is she left alive? Til she's got her Feet on the ground Life is a merry-go-round Taking her up so high The angels cry But she's gonna get her Feet on the ground Life is a merry-go-round Taking her up so high That you hear the angels cry Juliette Juliette mon coeur Ma sur, trésor... Les mistral, encore Come to freeze the leaf from the tree Come to blow the roof from the eave Look into the window Set the skylark free to fly Away… Juliette my friend Mon chien It's here again Les season aux froid Sejour avec moi Finale (a spider in the circus of the falling star) Don't be afraid little one We can't always walk in the sun I've come to show you another way Around Weaving a home From patterns of sound We catch marvelous moments Put them down, put them down Ah don't i recall All of us flying On parachutes in fall Into the wind To all stars again Somewhere The first of us is always There The last of us Is not afraid To leave All life is circling And all circles leading The circus is gone Our kind too... Eat me and Live, child
Kicks
Bad company (Bad company) Company, always on the run Destiny is a rising sun I was born six-gun in my hand Behind a gun, I make my final stand, yeah It's why they call me Bad company and I can't deny Bad company 'til the day I die 'Til the day I die 'Til the day I die Now these towns, they all know our name Six-gun sound is our claim to fame Rebel souls, deserters we are called Chose a gun and threw away the song, yeah I know I'm Bad company and I can't deny Bad company 'til the day I die Bad company, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Bad company 'til the day I die 'Til the day I die Until the day I die, yeah, yeah I know they know me Bad, bad company Watch it Don't turn your back on me, no, no Bad, bad, bad company My destiny My Father's Gun (Elton John) From this day on I own my father's gun We dug his shallow grave beneath the sun We laid his broken body down below the Southern land Never do to bury him where any Yankee stands I'll take my horse and I'll ride the northern plain And wear the color of the greys and join the fight again I'll not rest until I know the cause is fought and won From this day on until I die I'll wear my father's gun I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight, yeah, yeah To New Orleans well that's just fine alright I hear there's fighting there and the company needs men And oh I can slip us a rope and sail on round the bend As soon as this is over we'll go home To plant the seeds of justice in our bones And let the children growing and playing and oh the women ??? Laughting when the bells of freedom ring And they're gonna ring I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans and that's just fine alright I hear there's fighting there and the company needs men Oh slip us a rope and sail on round the bend I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight, yeah To New Orleans that's just fine alright You know we'll fighting there and the company needs everybody All I said, all I said, slip us a rope and sail on round the bend Sail on round the bend I won't stop until I know Lonely People (America) This is for all the lonely people Thinking that life has passed them by Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup And ride that highway in the sky This is for all the single people Thinking that love just left them dry Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup You never know until you try So, I'm on my way Yeah, I'm back to stay On my way back home This is for all the lonely people Thinking that life has passed them by Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup She'll never take you down or never give you up You'll never know until you try Houston (Dean Martin) Well it's lonesome in this old town Everybody puts me down I'm a face without a name Walking in the rain Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston I got holes in both of my shoes I'm a walking case of the blues I saw a dollar yesterday The wind blew it away Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston I haven't eaten in about a week I'm so hungry when I walk I squeak Nobody calls me friend It's just sad the shape I'm in Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston I got a girl waiting for me At least she said she'd be I got a house and a bed And a feather pillow for my head Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston Well it's lonesome in this old town Everybody puts me down I'm a face without a name Just walking in the rain Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston Goin' back to Houston, Houston, Houston Hey Cowboy You're nobody 'til somebody loves you (Russ Morgan) You're nobody 'til somebody loves you You're nobody 'til somebody cares Hey, you may be king You may possess the world and all its gold But that gold won't bring you happiness When you're growing old The world is just the same, you never change it As sure as the stars shine above You're nobody 'til somebody loves you Find yourself somebody to love The world is just the same, you never change it, yeah As sure as the stars shine above, yeah You’re nobody til somebody loves you Find yourself somebody, come on Find yourself somebody Find yourself somebody to love Nagasaki (Harry Warren & Mort Dixon) Hot ginger and dynamite There's nothing but that at night Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky Woo The way they can entertain Would hurry a hurricane Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky wacky woo In Fujiama Oh Mama Then your troubles increase, boy In a pagoda With a soda and a coda Earth shake, milk shakes, ten cents a piece They hug and kiss all night By ??? it's worth the price Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky woo Hot ginger and dynamite There's nothing but that at night Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky Woo The way they can entertain They would hurry a hurricane Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky wacky woo Oh Mama, oh Mama Then your troubles increase, boy In a pagoda With a soda and a coda Earth shake, milk shakes, ten cents a piece They hug and kiss all night By ??? it's worth the price Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky woo Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky woo Back in Nagasaki Where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky-wacky woo Mack the Knife (Bertolt Brecht & Marc Blitzstein) Oh, the shark has perfect teeth, dear He likes to show them pearly white A jackknife has old MacHeath And he keeps it out of sight The shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves wears old MacHeath So there's never a trace of red Now on the sidewalk of sunny morning I buy oozin' life Creaping 'round the corner I wonder If that someone be Mack the Knife There's a tugboat down by the river Where a cement bag's drooppin' on down Oh, that cement is there for the weight, dear Five'll get ya ten old Macky's back in town Did you hear about Louie Miller, he disappeared After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash Jenny Diver, ho, Sukey Tawdry Oh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown Come on, that line forms on the right Now that Macky's back in town Jenny Diver, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darrin and ??? They got ??? ??? Macky is back Quicksilver girl (Steve Miller) She's a quicksilver girl A lover of the world She spreads her wings And she's free She's a quicksilver girl A lover of the world She's seen every branch On the tree Ah, ah, quicksilver girl Ah, ah, quicksilver girl Ah, ah, quicksilver girl Ah, ah, quicksilver girl If you need a little loving She'll turn on the heat If you take a fall She'll put you back on your feet If you're all alone She's someone to meet If you need someone She's a quicksilver girl A lover of the world She spreads her wings And she's free Quicksilver girl A lover of the world She's seen every branch On the tree The End Of The World (Skeeter Davis) Why does the sun go on shining Why does the sea rush to shore Don't they know it's the end of the world 'Cause you don't love me anymore Why do the birds go on singing Why do the stars glow above And don't they know it's the end of the world It ended when I lost your love I wake up in the morning and I wonder Why everything is the same as it was No, I can't understand, I can't understand How life goes on the way it does Why does my heart go on beating Why do these eyes of mine cry Don't they know it's the end of the world It ended when you said goodbye Darling, I just can't get on my feet Anymore Getting on my feet Now I wake up in the morning and I wonder Why everything is the same as it was I can't understand, I can't understand How life goes on the way it does Why does my heart go on beating Why do these eyes of mine cry Don't they know it's the end of the world It ended when you said goodbye Goodbye Cry (Angie Aparo) When your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye It's no secret you'll feel better if you cry When waking from a bad dream don't you sometimes think it's real This is only false emotions that you feel Oh when your heartaches seem to hang around too long And your blues keep getting bluer with each song Well remember sunshine can be found behind a cloudy sky So let your hair down, you go on and cry If your heartaches just hang around too long, too long And your blues getting bluer with each song Well just remember sunshine can be found behind a cloudy sky So let your hair down dear, you go on and cry Let your hair down darling, go on and cry
Pieces Of Treasure Just In Time (Adolph Green/Betty Comden/Jule Styne) Just in time, you found me just in time Before you came, things were runnin' low I was lost, the losing dice were tossed My bridges all were crossed, then I met you Now you're here and now I know just where I'm goin' No more doubt or fear, I found my way Love came just in time You found me just in time You changed my lonely life that happy day Now you're here and now I know just where I'm goin' No more doubt or fear, I found my way Cause love came just in time You found me just in time You changed my lonely life that happy day Changed my lonely life that happy day There Will Never Be Another You (Mack Gordon / Harry Warren) There will be many other nights like this And I'll be standing here with someone new There will be other songs to sing Another fall, another spring But there will never be another you There will be other lips that I may kiss How could they thrill me like yours used to do Oh I may dream a million dreams How will they come true If there will never ever be another you There will be other lips that I may kiss But they wouldl never ever thrill me like yours used to do I may dream a million dreams But how will they come true If there will never ever be If there will never ever be There will never ever be another you Nature Boy (Ahbez Eden) There was a boy A very strange, enchanted boy They say he wandered very far Very far, over land and sea A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he And then one day One magic day he came my way And as we spoke of many things Fools and kings This he said to me: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return" One for My Baby (Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer) It's quarter to three Nobody's in the place Just you and me Set 'em up, Joe I got a story You oughta know We're drinkin', my friend To the end of a brief episode Make it one for my baby One more for the road I got a little grey (?) Drop another nickel in the machine Joe I'm feelin' so bad I wish you'd make the music Dreamy and sad I could tell you a lot Joe you've got to be true to your code Just make it One for my baby One more for the road Buddy, you'd never know it But, huh, I'm a kind of poet I got a lot of things to say When I get gloomy Just listen to me 'Til it's all talked away, yes I guess that's how it goes Joe I know you're anxious to close Thanks for the cheer I hope you didn't mind my bendin' your ear This torch that I found Must be drowned Or it soon might explode Make it one for my baby One more for the road One more for the road One more for the road One more for the road They Can't Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that No, no, they can't take that away from me The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams They can't take that away from me We may never, never meet again On the bumpy road of love But I'll always, always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The way we danced 'til three The way you've changed my life Oh, no, they can't take that away from me No, they can't take that away from me No, no, they can't take that away from me Well, we may never, never meet again On the bumpy road of love But I'm glad I always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The night we danced 'til three The way you've changed my life No, they can't take that away from me No, they can't take that away from Can't take that away from They can't take that away from me All The Way (Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn) When somebody loves you It's no good unless she loves you All the way Happy to be near you When you need someone to cheer you All the way Taller than the tallest tree is That's how it's got to feel Deeper than the deep blue sea is That's how deep it goes if it's real When somebody needs you It's no good unless she needs you All the way Through the good or lean years And through all the in-between years Come what may Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say But if you'll let me love you It's for sure I'm gonna love you All the way, all the way Here's That Rainy Day (Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke) Maybe I should have saved those leftover dreams Funny but here's that rainy day Here's that rainy day they told me about I laughed at the thought That it might turn out this way Where is that worn out wish that I threw aside After it brought my love so near Funny how love becomes a cold rainy day Funny that rainy day is here Here's that rainy day they told me about I laughed at the thought That it might turn out this way It's funny how love becomes a cold rainy day Funny that rainy day is here, is here That rainy day is here That rainy day September Song (Maxwell Anderson / Weill Kurt) When you meet with the young boys in early Spring They court you in song and rhyme And they give you a poem and a clover ring But if you could examine the goods that they bring They have little to offer but the songs they sing And the plentiful waste of time of day A plentiful waste of time Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December Oh the days grow short when you reach September And when the autumn chill sets the leaves to flame Then you hasn't got time to play the waiting game When I was a young girl courting the boys I played the waiting game And if he refused me with tossing curls I'd let the old Earth take a couple of whirls As he plied me with tears in lieu of pearls And as time came around he came my way As time came around, love came But it's a long, long time from May to December And the days grow short when you reach September When the autumn wind sets the leaves to flame Then you hasn't got time to play the waiting game Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few September, November And these few precious days I'll spend with you These precious days I'll spend with you On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh) Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worries by the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street Can't you hear that pitter-pat That happy tune is your step Life's so sweet On the sunny side of the street I used to walk in the shade With my blues on parade But I'm not afraid This Rover's crossed over Maybe I never have a cent I'd be rich as Rock-e-fellow Gold dust at my feet On the sunny side of the street Maybe we'll never have a cent We'd be rich as Rock-e-fellow Gold dust at our feet On the sunny, on the sunny On that sunny side of the street Yes It’s All In the Game (Carl Sigman / Charles Dawes) Many a tear has to fall But it's all in the game All in the wonderful game We know as love You had words with him And your future's looking dim But these things your heart can rise above Once in a while he won't call But it's all in the game Soon he'll be there at your side With a sweet bouquet And he'll kiss your lips And caress your waiting fingertips And your heart will fly away
Non Albums Tracks
Carried into redemption
(Poems)
i know that lizards like jelly, because i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands. she was called the morning lizard, and i would drop clear ponds from the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the counter for her to lick. i know that it is possible to become intimate with a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have knelt before a young master in a very private tea ceremony. i watched him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit, well this one wasn't so good. i have debuted at carnegie hall. i have been homeless, panhandled on the streets. i have witnessed death, and birth, and graduation. i have been told to leave, and invited to stay. i went to a big new years eve party in new york city, with many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the film which one best film that year. i was kicked out of high school i was given the key to the city of baltimore. what a kick. i'd like more of those. i was arrested i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them themes about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. there is a canopy above them, being woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call them but they do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them. i have swum with turtles in the open sea. i found ancient, rusty nails on the shore. and written about the boat, the sailors, and their homes , from one piece of survival. i grew up in a hospital, watching my brother die. i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother bring home left over food.for our dinner. i have cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime for the phone, and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his great purring and measured love by these things, and so love became a fearful calm, and i have always run back to the storm the lion completed, weakened by love, send me back to the hunt my lord i have turned my back to the sunrise from hotel rooms and called out the name of the setting sun from the desert floor i've been where it was happening i have made it happen i have walked down tiny lanes alone, for miles i have planned revolutions i have carved myself into moderation i abandon my own shadow i have been attacked by droves of red ants. by crazy horses by crazy people i have been carried all the way, by someone, now and then but he is always too tired to stay then and i hate him for loving my weakness i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have been in the concord, faster than sound. as much as i have learned camouflage, i have left my broken body on the plains at dusk i been in a jet when the oxygen masks dropped i came out to the car and my daughter was gone from her car seat. she had followed me in. all of it is written over and over again. i have skiied, water skiied, raced in the water, i have played baseball and cards. i learned chess at 8, when i learned my funny valentine. i met bob dylan. He called me a poet. i rode with maximilian shell, and leonard cohen in the same elevator.on different occasio
Driving away
The man in the starry tie Led me talking backwards Across the waving chips I spoke fantastic, like a prophet Like a piece of blood Where no doors are And weary now i set upon the good year And the wrench Wrenching out of me every Ready of light That i might get it right And walk away Into the metro sunset The golden metro may And now across the plains Take your child The highway sign, banana trees, Windows parted and hoping See the flat faced delicatessen Sweeping up the afternoon Pick up little pieces of meetings And on your way Here is the donut shop Here is the early morning light Where i would drool in chlorine Yes here is the early early mornings i spent training And here is the highway Chasing 'j's' out on his empty skin Looking for license plates And liquor stores Over there is new mexico And down there is corpus You can find my mother and me wrapped up in a warm Scotch on the rocks The numbing ice of each others eyes Looking just like now For relief There is no direction but past Every thing else is passive But if you would seek me Seek me there In a field Or a gas station In my american mothers arms Before she is too medicated To remember How to say my name Say it gently, just once more For me mother With the sounds of trucks and distant trains With the gold sticks And the burnt skin of prayer Bathe me once again In hot oil Silence and long, long days Car keys and dash board lights Bears in the garbage That sweet honeycomb Of memory Don't weave the web too tight Don't catch me tonight Speak to me in cool lines The steering wheels turning Where ever we go Dinner approaches The fire light Of high beam and lipstick Laughing the red midwest Her curled curtains Wild and a strand of me stuck in her mouth Wet always an outsider To the cities i create The entire east comes upon me and i Reeling in stars Grip the wheel A good girl, really Just don't know how to stop This thing
Drunk on the striped table
In my featherless, sagging, saffron wings, i dance My Phoenician, waterlogged, orchestrated and forty foot wings wave in the air I am drunk laying against the striped table Pushing these banners into the airless beach Waving these flags as i murmur the recipes of prayers to the vendors And the pharisees in bikinis pumping iron against the sun The recipes of semitic vendors, egyptian vendors Shaking their backs against the sun Laughing with the sounds of sheets of metal Splashing the naked Pharisees With wild bikinis and the soft fragrance of dreams and morning I walk on the beach looking for a place to sleep My arms are hidden beneath my sailing skin I am broke and fucked up and i fall in the sand And sleeping in the warm cradle of a billion rocks I dreamed of cher She came to us in babylon And she was rattling fluently her true language And she was dressed in high syrian rags Her face had white powder on it and there were Little brown moons beneath her eyes and i saw into her An arabic women parading around naked Powerful, irreverent but still after all Doing it the old egyptian way With sparkling clothes and force Now i awake in the afternoon The arcade is filled with children Families are walking by staring at me Pre-pubescent faces are coming a little too close I don't even remember if i have on any underwear I get up and walk away I never even knew this stuff was here The twirling music, the games, the money This commune living sucks These black panthers suck These harmonica players Should all go back to the north Canada, new jersey, where ever they do that blowing II. I abandon the old way when i first got to san diego. I fucked anybody i wanted to. I was, however, gang raped by a blues band in an old school bus. That was pretty horrible. There were only three of them. I can't remember if i got the third on e off me. I think i did. I was so ashamed. Perhaps people think if you don't scream you're not being raped. Perhaps they think if you say to yourself, just let him do it and he won't hurt you. Or even more provocative, just let him do it and maybe he'll like you. And of course you've been saying no, no, don't . Or pushing but not pushing too much. Because you're just a little girl really, and you're afraid, and you're so tired, and you just want someplace to sleep. That's what it's like when you run away from home. Lots of people will rape you. And you'll let them. Just to have a place to sleep. The thing was, after they fucked me, and all this juice all over my thighs, they didn't even let me sleep there. You think this only happens to me? You're crazy. You think this only happens to girls who are rough? You're wrong. You think this only happens in stories? Look behind you. Still i liked the idea of being assertive. I liked the idea of free love in san diego. I liked the idea of saying i want you instead of waiting around so some guy can get his rocks off thinking you didn't really want him that he won something from you that you didn't want to give him. This strategy, this tradition, is a kind of rape. This idea that men are suppose to win you, that you are suppose to be aloof, is a small but significant dramatization of rape. I do not like it. not one bit. that sam i am that sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. now i could no more say get down here and eat this sweet me than i could swallow a bull fighter or write names on the walls in blood or wear the victims horns on my head or row a boat across the atlantic ocean again and though sometimes i am sitting at the desk, or at a table eating dinner and there is some one, some slave, or some anything underneath eating mine alone and no one knows or eating every ones and everyone is coming i could never bring anything to reality now reality is cracked by the blows of terrible men And nights with pointed teeth snapping poison at the air i breath and all good things now take place inside my many layered silence my eyes my lips are sealed where did you go when things went bad, anyway? i sat beside you in that bathroom all night. you were crying you were talking to me like a baby you were gone, man, gone you just kept getting in the bath and getting out and letting the water run out and then getting in again and all that food i made it was all over the walls in the kitchen and there was a heat wave and the waves were very, very high and the dogs were turning into carrots and the valentines were melting beneath burrito and neon where shattered places pave the road the winding road through echo park that echoes still your naked body the bed you brought those stupid lamps your body echoes the last shadows of me against you you loved me. you loved me madly where did you go?i knew you like that scene of girls chasing you down the street. That's why you always liked to have a very hip car, because it was important that they chase you in the right car, and i was not about to chase you. i knew that story of that italian girl in philadelphia chasing you down the night street you were in a taxi cab, that's a nice image. then the japanese girl. but then my feet were starting toward you and you were turning the corner onto sunset and you left me there in a second day cold turkey. and all i can think of i philadelphia cheese steak sandwich philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich. philadelphia cheese steak and every time i think cheese steak i see all this wet cheese and steak. Here comes the parade! Look! Here it comes! I let you go. I let you go. You like to rip girls. I had to let you go.
Leaving through the forest path
In the dominion of pillars of faith Her nest toppled by the march winds She set out through the forest on a cloudy day The dower sky whining over tea, the weakened Country side rolling over onto his side to watch for coming night. Sick with fever now the cottages glowed from within, And all the plump women fanned the fires and cooked The soups and warmed the water for the baths of small children. This one bathes with a sail boat. That one uses kitchen spoons and bottles. Meanwhile the grass shivers The cars in the driveway Pull restlessly at horizontal lines Thrown carelessly across the yard.
Liner notes
(From Naked Songs LP)
Now the birds speak in secret rhythms And the trees bark in secret sounds And the people speak in secret thought And they push the thoughts into the shape of words And sometimes someone among us Sticks her head into the Shiny phosphorus blue vat Of language And listens, like a skeleton To the pulsing of life within, And she tells us Of secret rattling angles To watch for and to reach into With strange oceans And deafening skies That can be mapped and measured Only by sounds And never by meanings And once we can tell where we are Using the nearest star As it relates to the ragged water Then we can plant our feet into the good ground And go to the rodeo And answer the plum-colored hawk And sing to the river In good faith God presses his mouth Around our head He breathes out He breathes in And we are resuscitated in the goofy Atmosphere of god Where there are highways and bowling And tattooed by the sun A circus Made by the prayer of breathing And living hope And barbed eyes Where coyotes hang And cowboys hammer Posts and branches To keep us inside As much as keep someone out And the prayer that is And it is answered with a breath Gods lips against our own We breathe in We breathe out He breathes out And sigh Alive again The unexpected Discovery Of a b-side Of life A map of voices A warning to others who would come this way An animal who has seen things A horn twisted into shapes Understood by strangers Recognized by demons An invitation in The secret language of trees Sung in wild shapes By a child More at the striped table
downtown i walk for about a mile in squares. there were short and thick men behind bars. They are never clean, these men. And their dirtiness makes them objects of lust. I think its religion that makes that possible. Or sex is simply dog eat dog, and when we set our teeth into the submissive we are aroused. And when we have the opportunity to role on our backs, with consciousness, willing, out of costume, well, who would throw that ticket away. I would not. I sat in the cool shadows of these men, and my brain is a pimple train, of secret running out of the left side of my eye the more comes out the better i feel but where does this stuff go? i watch the governmentworkers eating. i watch all the mexican people in their pretty dresses with their children. i think they think this is downtown in mexico. they think this is just a city. don't they know what this is down here? so i run threads through the secret community of them, and i am one of them now and no longer on my knees. there's somebody named ivan and i saw him at a party he's the guy people said to stay away from. he put an armful of crank into me and before the needle was out i was on the floor. it wasn't his fault really, he was just trying to be a nice guy. everybody likes a big shot. I had no clothes at all, no shoes. I like parading , i liked walking around the empty city after everyone was in their drugless beds. Every inch of concrete was mine. I could sit on any step. and all angry clouds were made by me. i had been kicked out of hippy houses all over seattle. the house on john street. 6th and john. they had me sleeping on the roof out there. Those guys in their thirties who listened to jazz all the time. The one was really nice. He argued with his room mate to let me stay. I had no where to go. The other guy said he didn't care. I'd find somewhere. Jesus, she'll end up back at ivans. So the other room mate, he got in a hippy van with all kinds of nicely dressed hippies. Flowers painted on the v.w., velvet, boots, the whole thing. I wished i could be a girl like that. I was only fourteen, and no matter how many people i fucked or shots i took or cars i got into i just could not seem to have that power of older. All i got was more used. not more big. I wished they'd invite me with them. I wished i had friends, and nice clothes, and a place to go. care free, but rooted. When i ran away my family left the motel where we had lived in seal beach. I could not find them now if i wanted to. there had been ballet lessons, drama lessons. a.a.u. swim team. i had taken modeling and i had a guitar. i had percussion instruments. I never had to do housework. i had to babysit every night but my mom worked and my dad was hardly around. i could go walking around and go to peoples houses as i liked. but i was not liked at home. no one liked any one there. under the freeway. there are no signs of life. the factories loom about her and in every shadow are eyes. and i n every eye is a strangers car. now she cowers beneath the freeway , a dragon, and she counts the seconds in long hand, on her fingers, until there are so many of them that she cannot move them any more. time is about to stand still, as still as living can stand, and it is stopping here beneath the belly of the dragon. But the dragon is not stopping. He breathes furiously traffic above, steel and dangerous fire, murderous, demeaning, a traffic to aspire to. poncho comes in with a black eye and a hair cut. He's ready to dig up the floor.
Outside the great divide
Outside the great divide The dogs racked up about wild hangers The fleshy neighborhood is still the city The wire bled into chairs The chairs eaten by dogs waiting for a ride The cars humming and strumming the air With coarse teeth and hair I have learned what comes with you Dog man fleshy dog man And i l did not awaken this endless pain, this galactic hook up with the crucifixion, My single cell crusted in this prophet, i am the prophet, for the night And for the filthy warm pine and the dusty glance Of the day We meet Tangling our feet In the noisy closets Barking collars That miss Her when she's gone And button up when she comes near Every morning the dog Moaning and barking and humping a tree And last week i saw two black birds Out on the side walk Heaving Belly's up Claws locked Now the fire escapes wind up the brick Long notes From a dieing Leaving last words Every mattress, every napkin holder a cry That has crystallized Because there is a sun I know god through sands Torn into long strands And i can sing My legs around you My tongue into you Surrender too Our shame, our despair, our reason and patience You, father, lover, wordless musics, inside boy Traffic addicts, sound bound, trying to be careless With ecstasy The time that binds our Fleshy lives Our aces in the tree Swinging With the muscle of the sea Climbing Rubbing pussy on the bark Climbing Up up up Slipping down climbing up Slipping down For gods pleasure The whole thing, man, the whole thing Writing it Going back and rewriting it From here The fleshy here to there I throw up all day from the deep It pulls on my deep and i swoon I cannot drive I cannot remember I place the wrong words in the places i spoon I will be airborne soon Pregnant Inhuman, fleshy home, inhuman In this pleasure of fleshy unity I seek god i chew the leaves around the picnic table I come in close to british guests I lick my husband as he walks by I am the monitor, the mantis, the anchor Celebrating This fleshy life
Secret language of trees
Now the birds speak in secret rhythms And the trees bark in secret sounds And the people rush in secret thought And they push the thoughts into the shape of words And sometimes someone among us Sticks her head into the Shiny phosphorus blue vat Of language And listens, like a skeleton To the pulsing of life within, And she tells us Of secret rattling angles To watch for and to reach into With strange oceans And deafening skies That can be mapped and measured Only by sounds And never by meanings And once we can tell where we are Using the nearest star As it relates to the ragged water (a map of voices) Then we can plant our feet into the good ground And go to the rodeo And answer the plum colored hawk And sing to the river In good faith God presses his mouth around our head He breaths out He breathes in And we are resuscitated in the goofy atmosphere of god Where there are highways and bowling And tattooed by the sun A circus Made by the prayer of breathing and living hope And barbed eyes Where coyotes hang Page 2 And cowboys hammer Posts and branches To keep us inside As much as keep someone out And the prayer that is And it is answered with a breathe Gods lips against our own We breath in We breath out He breaths out And sigh Alive again The unexpected Discovery Of a b-side Of life (a map of voices) A warning to others who would come this way An animal who has seen things A horn twisted into shapes Understood by strangers Recognized by demons An invitation in the secret language of trees Sung in wild shapes By a child
Subterranean Homesick Blues
( Bob Dylan Cover / A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village LP) Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking about the government A man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off He says he's got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when But you're doin' it again You better duck down the alley way Lookin' for a new friend The man in the coon-skin cap In the big pen Wants eleven dollar bills You only got ten Maggie comes fleet foot Face full of black soot Talkin' that the heat put Plants in the bed but The phone's tapped anyway Maggie says that many say They must bust in early May Orders from the D. A. Look out kid Don't matter what you did Walk on your tip toes Don't try "No Doz" Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows Get sick, get well Hang around a ink well Ring bell, hard to tell If anything is goin' to sell Try hard, get barred Get back, write braille Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail Look out kid You're gonna get hit But users, cheaters Six-time losers Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool Lookin' for a new fool Don't follow leaders Watch the parkin' meters Ah get born, keep warm Short pants, romance, learn to dance Get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don't steal, don't lift Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don't wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don't wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles