one song

[timbits]

it gets the worst at night

with nothing on my mind

but you

i'm thinking too damn much

i go ahead and get up

and put on my boots

so i can drive as far as i can get from you

 

on my way out of town

i drive by your house

two times

it don't do me no good

i didn't think that it would

'cause you're not mine

 

you might have seen me but i kept on driving by

gonna lose myself on some dark road tonight

 

'cause there's something 'bout just laying down and taking all that pain

i'd rather drive all night, if it's all the same

'cause half a tank of gas will get me far enough

to be completely lost by the time the sun comes up

 

and so it's four a.m.

i'm on the road again

to find some peace

some old gravel road

god only knows

there's nothing for me

 

and there ain't nothing left for me in tennessee

because i know you're not awake thinking of me

 

and there's something 'bout just laying down and taking all that pain

i'd rather drive all night if it's all the same

'cause half a tank of gas will get me far enough

to be completely lost by the time the sun comes up

 

and there ain't nothing left for me in tennessee

'cause i know you're not awake thinking of me

[tongue-tied]

tell me that you got everything that you want

and your bird can sing

but you don't get me

you don't get me

 

you say you've seen seven wonders

and your bird is green

but you can't see me

you can't see me

 

when your prized possessions start to wear you down

look in my direction, i'll be 'round

i'll be 'round

 

when your bird is broken, will it bring you down?

you may be awoken, i'll be 'round

i'll be 'round

 

you tell me that you've heard every sound there is

and your bird can swing

but you can't hear me

you can't hear me

[tkleist]

i fear that i am ordinary, just like everyone

to lie here and die among the sorrows

adrift among the days

for everything i ever said

and everything i've ever done is gone and dead

as all things must surely have to end

and great loves will one day have to part

i know that i am meant for this world

my life has been extraordinary

blessed and cursed and won

time heals but i'm forever broken

by and by the way...

have you ever heard the words

i'm singing in these song?

it's for the girl i've loved all along

can a taste of love be so wrong

as all things must surely have to end

and great loves will one day have to part

i know that i am meant for this world

and in my mind as i was floating

far above the clouds

some children laughed i'd fall for certain

for thinking that i'd last forever

but i knew exactly where i was

and i knew the meaning of it all

and i knew the the distance to the sun

and i knew the echo that is love

and i knew the secrets in your spires

and i knew the emptiness of youth

and i knew the solitude of heart

and i knew the murmurs of the soul

and the world is drawn into your hands

and the world is etched upon your heart

and the world so hard to understand

is world you can't live without

and i knew the silence of the world

[tapmyglass]

my dewy-eyed disney bride, what has tried

swapping your blood with formaldehyde?

monsters?

whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide!

jesus don't you know that you could've died

(you should've died)

with the monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth

 

and she's got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes

and she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise

she's got an old death kit she's been meaning to use

she's got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you

she's got blood in her eyes for you

 

certain fads, stripes and plaids, singles ads

they run you hot and cold like a rheostat, i mean a thermostat

so you bite on a towel

hope it won't hurt too bad

 

my dewy-eyed disney bride, what has tried

swapping your blood with formaldehyde?

what monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth

 

and she says i like long walks and sci-fi movies

if you're six foot tall and east coast bred

some lonely night we can get together

and i'm gonna tie your wrists with leather

and drill a tiny hole into your head

[Campaigner]

You feel sad 'cause I got mad

And I'm sorry, I'm sorry

Things I said made things seem bad

But don't worry

'Cause it's gonna be all right now, be okay

You know I just don't think before I speak

 

I've been looking for to find

Something to believe in my mind

And I thought it was you

 

All this time since you've been mine

I've been angry, so angry

Made it known I could make it alone

But I'm changing

And I'm gonna be all right now, be okay

You know I just woke up and I see the way

 

Don't give up on me so fast

I see it's me that's wrong at last

Give me another chance

 

It's so hard just to stay alive each day

I really can't go on this way, oh no, oh no

 

Don't give up on me so fast

I see it's me that's wrong at last

Give me another chance

[Oil Can Boyd]

This is one of those songs that I have heard a million times, to the point where I don't even think about the lyrics. But after seeing the documentary last week I checked them out again.

 

And these are some pretty damn fine lyrics.

 

 

 

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

 

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,

Vanished from my hand,

Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.

My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,

I have no one to meet

And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

 

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

 

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,

My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels

To be wanderin'.

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade

Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,

I promise to go under it.

 

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

 

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,

It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run

And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.

And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme

To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,

I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're

Seein' that he's chasing.

 

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

 

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,

Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,

The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,

Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,

With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,

Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

 

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

[essox500]

An effervescing elephant

with tiny eyes, and great big trunk

once whispered to the tiny ears

the ears of one inferior

that by next june he'd die, oh yeah!

because the tiger would roam

and the little one said oh my goodness I must stay at home

and everytime I hear a growl

I'll know the tiger's on the prowl

and I'll be really safe you know

The elephant he told me so

And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah!

and the message was spread

to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus

who wollowed in the mud and chewed

his spicy hippoplancton food

and tended to ignore the word

prefering to survey a herd

of stupid water bison, oh yeah!

and the jungle took fright

and ran around for all the day and the night

but all in vain because you see

the tiger came and said to me,

"You know I wouldn't hurt not one of you

I much prefer something to chew

you're all too scant, oh yeah!"

He ate the elephant...

[timbits]

This is one of those songs that I have heard a million times, to the point where I don't even think about the lyrics. But after seeing the documentary last week I checked them out again.

 

i know exactly what you mean, sir.

[timbits]

Blue Chicago Moon

 

out of the ruins

blood grown heavy from his past

his wings stripped by thunder

but those storms keep coming back

singing birds in sickness

sing the same blues song

when they fell out of the emptiness

they must have brought along

space's loneliness

he's gotten so good at hiding it

even he does not admit it

that glittering flash in his eyes

makes it look like he might be alright

and if the blues are your hunter

then you will come face to face

with that darkness and desolation

and the endless depression

but you are not helpless

and you are not helpless

try to beat it

and live through space's loneliness

you are not helpless

i'll help you to try to beat it

[M. (hristine]

You may be quite sure you know where you're going

But sooner or later you're out of the picture

Too many lost names, too many rules to the game

Better find a focus or you're out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out

Somewhere along the way it all stands still

Firemen save a millionaire's mansion

But when it's done, they sleep on the side of the road

You may be lost, you'll find

Just another paradigm

Just a stop frame in time

And then you're out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out

Somewhere along the way it all stands still

Take away this Columbus Day

No more bones on display

Blackhawk never had a say

Just taken out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out

Somewhere along the way it all stands still

[timbits]

Last night I dreamt

That somebody loved me

No hope, no harm

Just another false alarm

 

Last night I felt

Real arms around me

No hope, no harm

Just another false alarm

 

So, tell me how long

Before the last one?

And tell me how long

Before the right one?

 

The story is old - I KNOW

But it goes on

The story is old - I KNOW

But it goes on

 

Oh, GOES ON

And on

Oh, goes on

And on

[MrRain422]

Who's to say that I'm unhappy

'Cause I rarely smile

Sittin', thinkin', dreamin', waitin'

For my ship to sail

Who's to say this time I've wasted

Someday won't get used

Maybe if you come around

I'll start to get enthused

 

Who's to say?

Oh, who's to say?

 

Who's to say that I'm obsessed

With everything you do

Just because it seems my schedule

Seems to shadow you

Who's to say that tired cliche

There's more fish in the sea

I don't mind treading water

You're the one for me

 

You say that by now

I should know you'll never love me

But who's to say that what has never been will never be?

What has been will never be

 

 

Who's to say in time I wouldn't learn how to relax

You'd forget about my clammy hands and nervous laugh

Who's to say the way you look at him is truely love

Maybe you should realize I fit you like a glove

 

You say that by now

I should know you'll never love me

But who's to say that what has never been will never be?

What has been will never be

[tongue-tied]

i listen to the wind

to the wind of my soul

where i'll i end up well i think

only god really knows

 

i've sat upon the setting sun

but never never never never

i've never wanted water once

no never never never

 

i listen to my words

but they fall far below

i let my music take me

where my heart wants to go

 

i swam upon the devil's lake

but never never never never

i'll never make the same mistake

no never never never

[timbits]

this one gets posted more than just about any other, but with good reason:

 

Looking out the door

I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners

Parading in a wake of sad relations

As their shoes fill up with water

 

And maybe I'm too young

To keep good love from going wrong

But tonight, you're on my mind so

you never know

 

Broken down and hungry for your love

With no way to feed it

Where are you tonight?

Child, you know how much I need it.

Too young to hold on

And too old to just break free and run

 

Sometimes a man gets carried away,

When he feels like he should be having his fun

Much too blind to see the damage he's done

Sometimes a man must awake to find that, really,

He has no-one...

 

So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn

Will I ever see your sweet return,

Oh, will I ever learn?

Oh, Lover, you should've come over

Cause it's not too late.

 

Lonely is the room the bed is made

The open window lets the rain in

Burning in the corner is the only one

Who dreams he had you with him

My body turns and yearns for a sleep

That won't ever come

It's never over,

My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder

It's never over, all my riches for her smiles

when I slept so soft against her...

It's never over,

All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter

It's never over, she's the tear

That hangs inside my soul forever

 

Oh, but maybe I'm just too young to keep good love

From going wrong

Oh... lover you should've come over...

 

Yes, (I) feel too young to hold on

I'm much too old to break free and run

Too deaf, dumb, and blind

To see the damage I've done

Sweet lover, you should've come over

Oh, love I'm waiting for you

Lover, you should've come over

'Cause it's not too late.

[fickerson]

it's true

you're lazy

you're tired

and crazy

and you know there's something more

but you can't give it a name

someone's selling all your heroes

and they seem so tame

 

you heard it all before

and said your case was tragic

you heard it all before

and now they say it's magic

 

you need

time off

for good

behavior

and you know there's something else

but you can't give a name

someone's selling all your heroes

and it seems such a shame

 

you heard it all before

you said your case was tragic

you heard it all before

and now they say it's magic

 

you heard it all before

they said your case was tragic

you heard it all before

and now they say it's magic

[M. (hristine]

Lonely is the room the bed is made

The open window lets the rain in

Burning in the corner is the only one

Who dreams he had you with him

My body turns and yearns for a sleep

That won't ever come

It's never over,

My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder

It's never over, all my riches for her smiles

when I slept so soft against her...

It's never over,

All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter

It's never over, she's the tear

That hangs inside my soul forever

This is one of the most beautiful verses in the history of verses. It fucks me up every time...

[lizish]

hollee shit - I have no idea how this guy keeps doing this. Epic just cannot describe it.

 

Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame

 

I became a thin blue flame

polished on a mountain range

and over hills and fields I flew

wrapped up in a royal blue

 

I flew over Royal City last night

bullfighting the horns of a new moonlight

Caesar's ghost I saw the wartime tides

The prince of Denmark's father still unquiet

The whole world was looking to get drowned

Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds

I looked over curtains always thin, then I knew

that only a full house gonna make it through

 

I became a thin blue wire

and held the world above the fire

and so it was I saw behind

heaven's just a thin blue line

 

If God's up there, he's in a cold dark room

The heavenly hosts are just the cold dark moons

He bent down and made the world in seven days

and ever since he's been walking away

Mixed in with nitrogen and lonely hopes

where neither seraphim nor raindrops go

I see an old man wandering the halls alone

but only a full house gonna make a home

 

And I became a thin blue stream

The smoke between asleep and dreams

And in that clear blue undertow

there's a royal city far below

 

Borders soft with refugees

Streets are swimming with amputees

It's a bible or a bullet they put over your heart

It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart

The days are nights, and the nights are long

Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs

And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign

get messages from so high they might as well be divine

And now the dogs are howling at your door

singing about vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord

bringing justice to the enemies, not the other way 'round

The guilty were killed, and they're killed where they're found

If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high

it's a hell of a heaven we must go to when we die

Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance, please

The fat man's crying on his hands and his knees

Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage

Now he twists in indecision, takes bourbon for rage

Like pellets, pepper, and aluminum

halcion, laudanum, and opium

Sings, "Kiss thee, Hardy, this poisoned cup"

His winding sheet is busy winding up

In darkness he looks for the lights that have died

You need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find

And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck

and like a tragedy, that's what we expect

 

And then I made plans for a city laid down

The hips of a girl on the spring-covered ground

Spirals and capitals and the twists of a script

Streets named for heroes that could almost exist

Fruit trees from Eden in the gardens that seem

to flow like the smoke from a lithium dream

Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares

Young women walking in the portals of prayer

The future glass buildings and the past in a dress

The weddings and pollen and the wine bottomless

And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right

The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night

The future descending like a bright chandelier

The world's beginning and the guests have good cheer

In Royal City I fell into a trance

'cause it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance

 

I woke beneath the clear blue sky

The sun had shoved the breeze aside

The old hometown and the streets I knew

wrapped up in a royal blue

 

I heard my friends laughing out across the fields

Gulls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel

The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay

Cicadas electric in the heat of the day

A run of three sisters and the flush of the land

The lake was a diamond in the valley's hand

The straight of the highway and the scattered-out hearts

They were coming together, they were pulling apart

And angels everywhere were in that midst

The ones that I loved and the ones that I kissed

I wondered what it was I'd been looking for above

Heaven's so big there ain't no need to look up

So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air

Only a full house gonna have a prayer

 

Only a full house

Only a full house

[timbits]

I lost all of my vanity

when I peered into the pool

I lost all of my innocence

When I fell in love with you

I never knew a man fall so far until I landed here

Where all of my wounds turn into gold when I kissed your hair

Come to me Hannah

Hannah won't you to come on to me

I'll lay down this bottle of wine

If you'll just be kind to me

Ask her why she cries so loud

She Will not say a word

Eyes like ice and hands that shake

She takes what she deserves

To celebrate her emptiness

In a Cold and lonely room

Sweep the floor with your long flowered dress

If you cannot find a broom

Come to me Hannah

Hannah won't you come on to me

I'll lay down this bottle of wine

If you'll just be kind to me

She's got hair that flows right down

Right down to the backs of her knees

Her Papa he was a preaching man

And the lord is hard to please

So she comes down from the ozark hills to these very streets to roam

With a banjo and a bible and a fine tooth comb

Come to me Hannah

Hannah won't you come on to me

I'll lay down this bottle of wine if you just be kind to me

I'd walk one mile on this broken glass

to fall down at your feet

oh Hannah you're the queen of the street

I climb the tree withy my Hannahlee

My intentions they were pure

Oh the breeze did whip and I lost my grip

I tumbled towards the earth

Where You never would guess who it was that stood below

And his name I would never tell

But His eyes were clear

And His arms were strong

And caught me as I fell

Now come to me Hannah

Hannah won't you come on to me

I'll lay down this bottle of wine

If you'd just be kind to me

I'd walk one mile on broken glass

to fall down at your feet

Hannah you're the queen of the street

Hannah you're the queen of the street

 

shared a bottle of wine with a Hannah tonight

[Dude]

I hear some people

been talkin' me down,

Bring up my name,

pass it 'round.

They don't mention

happy times

They do their thing,

I'll do mine.

 

Ooh baby,

that's hard to change

I can't tell them

how to feel.

Some get stoned,

some get strange,

But sooner or later

it all gets real.

 

Walk on, walk on,

Walk on, walk on.

 

I remember

the good old days,

Stayed up all night

gettin' crazed.

Then the money

was not so good,

But we still did

the best we could.

 

Ooh baby,

that's hard to change

I can't tell them

how to feel.

Some get stoned,

some get strange,

But sooner or later

it all gets real.

 

Walk on, walk on,

Walk on, walk on.

[M. (hristine]

I realize it was to make a point...however publicly...but that is one of my favorite Neil Young songs.

 

 

 

Only love

Can make it rain

The way the beach is kissed by the sea

Only love

Can make it rain

Like the sweat of lovers

Laying in the fields.

 

Love, reign o'er me

Love, reign o'er me, rain on me

 

Only love

Can bring the rain

That makes you yearn to the sky

Only love

Can bring the rain

That falls like tears from on high

 

Love reign O'er me

 

On the dry and dusty road

The nights we spend apart alone

I need to get back home to cool cool rain

I can't sleep and I lay and I think

The night is hot and black as ink

Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain

[dontknownuthin]

I was in love with you, well-before I knew,

it meant more than just wanting to be with you

I used to look for other girls that looked like you

 

But the laws of nature said,

[Synthesizer Patel]

Louie B would be proud of you for that choice. He was saying only the other week how nobody knew or cared (or something like that) about John Hartford anymore.

[Dreamin']

make me a bed of fond memories

make me to lie down with a smile

everything that rises afterward falls

but all that dies has first to live.

 

as longing becomes love

as night turns to day

everything changes

joy will find a way

[greg]

I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old

And oh my God I feel so damn old

I don't really feel anything

On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below

And oh my God, they look so alone

Do they really feel anything?

Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on

Where do you move when what you're moving from

Is yourself?

The universe works on a math equation

that never even ever really even is any end

Infinity spirals out creation

We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying

We aint sure where you stand

You aint machines and you aint land

And the plants and the animals, they are linked

And the plants and the animals eat each other

 

I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old

And oh my God I feel so damn old

I don't really feel anything

On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below

And oh my God, they look so alone

Do they really feel anything?

Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on

Where do you move when what you're moving from

Is yourself?

The universe works on a math equation

that never even ever really even is any end

Infinity spirals out creation

We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying

We aint sure where you stand

You aint machines and you aint land

And the plants and the animals, they are linked

And the plants and the animals eat each other

 

Oh my God and oh my cat

I told my Dad what I need

Well I don't want to have and want

But I don't know what I need

Well, he said he said he said he said

"Where we're going I'm dead."

[M. (hristine]

Didn't you ever feel like the largest Elizabeth in the World?

Usually at a time when the boy is oblivious to the girl

Ireadinthepapertheotherdaythishasbeenhappeningtoeverbodymoreandmore

Thescientistsareonthecasebuttheystilhaven'tfiguredoutwhatitisthatitis

happening for

 

Slow down, slow down, slow down

 

Wouldn't you like to feel like yourself after suffering so many years?

If you were asked to the party by somebody else you wouldn't be sitting home

in tears

Ormaybeyou'reoneofthoseinterestingpeoplewhodon'tgooutbuttheygettheirbest

work done

Bykeepingthemselvesinthehouseoffthestreetandawayfromthescenewhenit'stimeforthe

resttohave fun

 

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Come on, slow down, slow down

 

They say the world's over

Goodbye see you next time

You don't have to go

 

Whatiftheaftereffectoftheterriblebombisunusualbeyondbelief?

Wouldn'tyouratherthewholepopulationhadlistenedtosomebodyliketheoldIndian

Chief?

Turnitaroundandgobacktothatsimpletruckstoponthewaytotheunfortunate world

YoumightbethelargestElizabethbutElizabethisstillagoodnametohaveifyou'rea

girl

 

Slow down, come on, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down, slow down