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    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    from todays chicago tribune:

     

    We pick 'em (Brian Griese facts edition)

     

    Adam Caldarelli, 2:30 p.m.

     

    As The Cult of Brian Griese grows wilder than a Kyle Orton neck beard, the people behind the curtain at Halas Hall try to muzzle our man. But we all know you can't keep a legend down.

     

    Griese Did you hear Brian Griese once led a 97-yard touchdown drive with no timeouts and without the aid of his helmet headset?

     

    Please. I heard Brian Griese once led a 970-yard touchdown drive, from Philadelphia to Chicago, in bare feet, without a helmet or a timeout and with Ron Turner and John Shoop calling the plays. Peace in Darfur ensued.

     

    Whatever it was, these facts are indisputable:

     

     

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    She said to me, over the phone

    She wanted to see other people

    I thought, "well then, look around, they're everywhere"

    Said that she was confused...

    I thought, "darling, join the club"

    24 years old, mid-life crisis

    Nowadays hits you when you're young

    I hung up, she called back, i hung up again

    The process had already started

    At least it happened quick

    I swear, i died inside that night

    My friend, he called

    I didn't mention a thing

    The last thing he said was, "be sound"

    Sound...

     

    I contemplated an awful thing, i hate to admit

    I just thought those would be such appropriate last words

    But i'm still here

    And small

    So small.. how could this struggle seem so big?

    So big...

     

    While the palms in the breeze still blow green

    And the waves in the sea still absolute blue

    But the horror

    Every single thing i see is a reminder of her

    Never thought i'd curse the day i met her

    And since she's gone and wouldn't hear

    Who would care? what good would that do?

    But i'm still here

     

    So i imagine in a month...or 12

    I'l be somewhere having a drink

    Laughing at a stupid joke

    Or just another stupid thing

    And i can see myself stopping short

    Drifting out of the present

    Sucked by the undertow and pulled out deep

    And there i am, standing

    Wet grass and white headstones all in rows

    And in the distance there's one, off on its own

    So i stop, kneel

    My new home...

     

    And i picture a sober awakening, a re-entry into this little bar scene

    Sip my drink till the ice hits my lip

    Order another round

    And that's it for now

    Sorry

    Never been too good at happy endings...

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    as the sun comes up, as the moon

    goes down

    these heavy notions creep around

    it makes me think

    long ago I was brought into

    this life a little lamb

    a little lamb

    courageous, stumbling

    fearless was my middle name.

    but somewhere there I

    lost my way

    everyone walks the same

    expecting me to step

    the narrow path they've laid

    they claim to

    walk unafraid

    I'll be clumsy instead

    hold my love me or leave me

    high.

     

    say "keep within the boundaries if you want

    to play."

    say "contradiction only makes it harder."

    how can I be

    what I want to be?

    when all I want to do is strip away

    these stilled constraints

    and crush this charade

    shred this sad masquerade

    I don't need no persuading

    I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and

    walk unafraid

    I'll be clumsy instead

    hold my love me or leave me

    high.

     

    if I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go

    I just want to hold my head up high

    I don't care what I have to step over

    I'm prepared to look you in the eye

    look me in the eye

    and if you see familiarity

    then celebrate the contradiction

    help me when I fall to

    walk unafraid

    I'll be clumsy instead

    hold my love me or leave me

    high.

    walk unafraid

    I'll be clumsy instead

    hold my love me or leave me

    high.

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Bleed in your own light

    Dream of your own life

    I miss me

    I miss everything I'll never be

    And on, and on

     

    I torch my soul to show

    The world that I am pure

    Deep inside my heart

    No more lies

     

    A crown of horns

    An image formed deformed

    The mark I've borne

    A mark of scorn to you

     

    Consume my love, devour my hate

    Only powers my escape

    The moon is out, the stars invite

    I think I'll leave tonight

     

    So soon I'll find myself alone

    To relax and fade away

    Do you know what's coming down

    Do you know I couldn't stay free?

     

    I shall be free

    I shall be free

    I shall be free

    I shall be free

    I shall be free free

    Free of those voices inside me

    I shall be free

    I shall be free

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    goodnight, to every little hour that you sleep tite

    may it hold you through the winter of a long night

    and keep you from the loneliness of yourself

    heart strung is your heart frayed and empty

    cause it's hard luck, when no one understands your love

    it's unsung, and i say

     

    goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day

    goodnight, always, to all that's in your heart

     

    goodnight, may your dreams be so happy and your

    head lite with the wishes of a sandman and a

    night light, be careful not to let the bedbugs

    sleep tight nestled in your covers

     

    the sun shines but i don't

    a silver rain will wash away

     

    and you can tell, it's just as well

    and you can tell, it's just as well

     

    goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day

    goodnight, always to all that's pure that's in your heart

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    You bite through the big wall

    The big wall bites back

    You sit there and sulk

    Sit there and bawl

    You're so pretty

    When you're on your knees

    Disaffected and eager to please

     

    Sometimes you sulk

    Sometimes you burn

    God rest your soul

    When the loving comes and we've already gone

    Just like your dad

    You'll never change

     

    Each time it comes it eats me alive

    I try to behave but it eats me alive

    So I declare a holiday

    Fall asleep drift away

    Sometimes you sulk

    Sometimes you burn

    God rest your soul when the loving comes and we've already gone

    Just like your dad

    You'll never change

    New Ten Club Email

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    for those of you who care, here are the setlists:

     

    September 1, 2005 - The Gorge Amphitheatre; George, WA

     

    Acoustic Set List: I Believe In Miracles (Ramones), Small Town, Off He Goes, Low Light, Man Of The Hour, I Am Mine, Crazy Mary, Black, Hard To Imagine,

     

    Set list: Given To Fly, Last Exit, Save You, Do The Evolution, Alone, Sad, Even Flow, Not For You, Corduroy, Dissident, MFC, Undone, Daughter, In My Tree, State Of Love And Trust, Alive, Porch,

     

    1st encore: Love Boat Captain, Insignificance, Better Man, Rearviewmirror,

    2nd encore: I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty), Last Kiss, Crown of Thorns, Blood,

    3rd encore: Yellow Ledbetter, Baba O'Riley (The Who)

     

    July 22, 2006 - George, WA; Gorge Amphitheater

     

    Set List: Wash, Corduroy, Hail Hail, World Wide Suicide, Severed Hand, Given To Fly, Small Town, Even Flow, Down, I Am Mine, Unemployable, Daughter/(It's OK by Dead Moon), Gone, Black, Insignificance, Life Wasted, Blood

     

    1st encore: Footsteps, Once, Alive, State of Love and Trust, Crown Of Thorns (by Mother Love Bone), Leash, Porch

     

    2nd encore: Last Kiss (composer Wayne Cochran/Performer J. Frank Wilson), Inside Job, Go, Baba O'Riley (by The Who), Dirty Frank, Rockin' in the Free World (by Neil Young), Yellow Ledbetter/(Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix/Star Spangled Banner)

     

     

    July 23, 2006 - George, WA; Gorge Amphitheater

     

    Set List: Severed Hand, Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, God's Dice, Animal, Do The Evolution, In Hiding, Green Disease, Even Flow, Marker In The Sand, Wasted Reprise, Better Man/(Save It For Later by English Beat), Army Reserve, Garden, Rats, Whipping, Jeremy, Why Go

     

    1st encore: I Won't Back Down (by Tom Petty), Life Wasted, Big Wave, Satan's Bed, Spin The Black Circle, Alive

     

    2nd encore: Given To Fly, Little Wing (by Jimi Hendrix), Crazy Mary (by Victoria Williams), Comatose, Fuckin' Up (by Neil Young), Yellow Ledbetter/(Star Spangled Banner)

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    If I get old, I will not give in

    And if I do, remind me of this

    Remind me that once I was free

    Once I was cool, once I was me

    And if I sit down and cross my arms

    Hold me to this song

     

    Knock me out smash out my brains

    If I take the chair and talk the shit

     

    If I get old, remind me of this

    One night we kissed, and I really meant it

    Whatever happens, if we're still speaking

    Pick up the phone

    Play me this song

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Ice-age

    Heat wave

    Can't complain

    If the world's at large, why should I remain?

    Walked away to another plan.

    Gonna find another place, maybe one I can stand

     

    I move on to another day, to a whole new town with a whole new way

    Went to the porch to have a thought

    Got to the door again, I couldn't stop

     

    You don't know where and you don't know when

    But you still got your words and you got your friends

    Walk along to another day

    Work a little harder, work another way

     

    Well uh-uh baby I ain't got no plan

    We'll float on maybe would you understand?

    Gonna float on maybe would you understand?

    We'll float on baby would you understand?

     

    The days get shorter and the nights get cold

    I like the autumn but this place is getting old

    I pack up my belongings and head for the coast

    It might not be a lot but I feel like I'm making the most

     

    The days get longer and the nights smell green

    I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave

     

    I like songs about drifters-books about the same

    They both seem to make me feel a little less insane

    Walked off onto another spot

    I still haven't gotten anywhere that I want

     

    Did I want love? Did I need to know?

    Why does it always feel like I'm caught in an undertow?

     

    The moths beat themselves to death against the lights

    Adding their breeze to the summer nights

    Outside, water like air was great

    I didn't know what I had that day

     

    Walk a little farther to another plan

    You said that you did, but you didn't understand

     

    I know that starting over is not what life's about

    But my thoughts were so loud I couldn't hear my mouth

    My thoughts were so loud I couldn't hear my mouth

    My thoughts were so loud

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Born to please, every simple need

    I stand alone in my thoughts indeed

    Hate you

    For ever making me

    I'm in you, I'm your anything

     

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

     

    Come to me, let me hold you still

    I'm so tired, just as tired as you

    Take me for anyone but me

    All that you feel is never true

     

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

     

    When you say that you are

    Forever my star

    Could never let you go, no, no

    And never let you know

     

    Let roar these fears

    To the whore of my tears

    Pure as a lie, I pour to your eyes

    Suck you like the sap from a tree

    Honey from the dew, from the bumblebees, yeah yeah

     

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

     

    When you say that you are

    Forever my star

    Could never let you go, no, no

    Never let you know

     

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I know the world is a mess

    I like the patterns on your dress

    Would you have a drink with me please

    Have a couple or three

    I see you walk by

    I don't speak but try

    Have a drink with me please

    Don't say anything

    I look like a mess

    The patterns of your dress...

    They blind me

     

    Here's to the rest of the world

    I guess that you deserve something

    You work so hard at

    Trying to be just like everyone else

    Except people like me

     

    Well, the lights shining down onto the street

    The city lingers as it overheats

    I'm on idle right now

    Don't feel so proud

    Wait for the others to join the crowd

     

    And they come

    Ones

    Threes

    Here's to the rest of the world

    Oh, I don't know

    Here's something that you deserve...

    A drink or two

    Come on and sit down with me

    And we'll pretend everything

    We'll pretend everything

    It's easy.

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    she said to me, over the phone

    she wanted to see other people

    i thought, "well then, look around, they're everywhere"

    said that she was confused...

    i thought, "darling, join the club"

    24 years old, mid-life crisis

    nowadays hits you when you're young

    i hung up, she called back, i hung up again

    the process had already started

    at least it happened quick

    i swear, i died inside that night

    my friend, he called

    i didn't mention a thing

    the last thing he said was, "be sound"

    sound...

    i contemplated an awful thing, i hate to admit

    i just thought those would be such appropriate last words

    but i'm still here

    and small

    so small.. how could this struggle seem so big?

    so big...

    while the palms in the breeze still blow green

    and the waves in the sea still absolute blue

    but the horror

    every single thing i see is a reminder of her

    never thought i'd curse the day i met her

    and since she's gone and wouldn't hear

    who would care? what good would that do?

    but i'm still here

    so i imagine in a month...or 12

    i'l be somewhere having a drink

    laughing at a stupid joke

    or just another stupid thing

    and i can see myself stopping short

    drifting out of the present

    sucked by the undertow and pulled out deep

    and there i am, standing

    wet grass and white headstones all in rows

    and in the distance there's one, off on its own

    so i stop, kneel

    my new home...

    and i picture a sober awakening, a re-entry into this little bar scene

    sip my drink til the ice hits my lip

    order another round

    and that's it for now

    sorry

    never been too good at happy endings...

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