one song

[MeDave]

Our conversation was short and sweet

It nearly swept me off-a my feet.

And I'm back in the rain, oh, oh,

And you are on dry land.

You made it there somehow

You're a big girl now.

 

Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence,

He's singin' his song for me at his own expense.

And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh,

Singin' just for you.

I hope that you can hear,

Hear me singin' through these tears.

 

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast

Oh, but what a shame if all we've shared can't last.

I can change, I swear, oh, oh,

See what you can do.

I can make it through,

You can make it too.

 

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,

You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.

Oh, I know where I can find you, oh, oh,

In somebody's room.

It's a price I have to pay

You're a big girl all the way.

 

A change in the weather is known to be extreme

But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?

I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh,

With a pain that stops and starts

Like a corkscrew to my heart

Ever since we've been apart.

Edited February 25, 2006 by MeDave

[GPARSUNDA]

I see you shining in the mirror

It could suck me right in

I'm so nervous

I can't even swallow

I'm being chased by a yellow light

I'm inviting you in, I'm inviting you out

What I'm giving you here

Is the time of your life

It's so cool being with you, so cool being with you

It's where I wanna go when I don't wanna stop

Sometimes I don't want to eat my dinner

With these films in front of me

Upstairs everyone's asleep

Just a helicopter in the air

It's where I wanna go

When i don't wanna stop

[Analogman]

The rooms were so much colder then

My father was a soldier then

And times were very hard

When I was young

 

I smoked my first cigarette at ten

And for girls, I had a bad yen

And I had quite a ball

When I was young

 

When I was young, it was more important

Pain more painful

Laughter much louder

Yeah, when I was young

When I was young

 

I met my first love at thirteen

She was brown and I was pretty green

And I learned quite a lot when I was young

When I was young

 

When I was young

Pain more painful

Laughter much louder

Yeah, when I was young

When I was young

 

My faith was so much stronger then

I believed in fellow men

And I was so much older then

When I was young

When I was young

When I was young

[ronbonne]

"Get into the groove boy you've got to prove your love to me."

Played on the radio as we drove down south to see our families.

You were lying there in the passenger chair sound asleep.

I could recall a time when the evenings were bright and thick with love,

And all the city streets and their lights, they were so mysterious.

Oh life it was so wonderful it would shine oh like fire.

How we sat on the backs of our cars and laughed into the morning.

 

Oh, I thought you'd come and go.

I never thought you would stay,

And I'm sorry if I tried to push you away.

 

Oh, the edges they fold and you suddenly find you are buried beneath

A blanket of snow you had no idea was even falling.

You're sitting on a couch inside your home feeling cold.

Oh and nothing's clear at all, your thoughts they have become so hard to find.

With a question mark always slumped at the end of these awkward lines.

All the simple words we loved to speak are no longer audible.

And I never thought with you and I this would be possible.

I can feel the world coming apart,

And I need you by my side with your delicate heart.

So please don't leave no don't you run.

Don't be frightened by the storm oh so bold and brave.

Just let it rain.

 

Oh I thought you'd come and go

I never thought you would stay

And I'm sorry if I tried to push you away

Yeah I thought you'd come and go

I never thought you would stay

And I'm sorry if I tried to push you away

[GPARSUNDA]

There's ole Gray with 'er dovewinged hat

There's ole Green with her sewing machine

Where's the bobbin at?

Tote'n old grain in uh printed sack

The dust blows forward 'n dust blows back

And the wind blows black thru the sky

And the smokestack blows up in suns eye

What am I gonna die?

Uh white flake riverboat just flew by

Bubbles popped big

'n uh lipstick Kleenex hug on uh pointed forked twig

Reminds me of the bobby girls

Never was my hobby girls

Hand full uh worms and uh pole fishin'

Cork bobbin' like uh hot red bulb

'n uh bluejay squeaks

His beak open an inch above uh creek

Gone fishin' for uh week

Well I put down my bush

'n I took off my pants 'n felt free

The breeze blowin' up me 'n up the canyon

Far as I could see

It's night now and the moon looks like uh dandelion

It's black now 'n the blackbirds feedin' on rice

'n his red wings look like diamonds 'n lice

I could hear the mice toes scamperin'

Gophers rumblin' in pile crater rock hole

One red bean stuck in the bottom of uh tin bowl

Hot coffee from uh krimpt up can

Me 'n my girl named Bimbo Limbo Spam

[tkleist]

I'll be your mirror

Reflect what you are, in case you don't know

I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset

The light on your door to show that you're home

 

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

 

I find it hard to believe you don't know

The beauty you are

But if you don't let me be your eyes

A hand to your darkness, so you won't be afraid

 

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

 

I'll be your mirror

[Dude]

Come a little bit closer

Hear what I have to say

Just like children sleeping

We could dream this night away.

 

But there

[viatroy]

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build the big bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

 

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

 

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

 

You fasten the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

As young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

 

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

 

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

Even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

 

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

 

And I hope that you die

And your death'll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand o'er your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[lizish]

 

Well old Jackson is dead

He

Edited February 27, 2006 by lizish

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth

Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat

And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

With a love so hard and filled with defeat

Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

 

Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing

Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings

Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring

In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything

to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets

We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together

 

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears

Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness

Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed

You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us

Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry

It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight

There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

 

Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest

Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see

Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be

And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest

Stranded in the park and forced to confess

To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end

Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Well I woke up sunday morning

With no way to hold my head, that didn

[Elixir Sue]

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older

Then we wouldn't have to wait so long

And wouldn't it be nice to live together

In the kind of world where we belong

 

You know it's gonna make it that much better

When we can say goodnight and stay together

 

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up

In the morning when the day is new

And after having spent the day together

Hold each other close the whole night through

 

Happy times together we've been spending

I wish that every kiss was neverending

Wouldn't it be nice

 

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true

Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do

We could be married

And then we'd be happy

 

Wouldn't it be nice

 

You know it seems the more we talk about it

It only makes it worse to live without it

But let's talk about it

Wouldn't it be nice

[Analogman]

God ain't jive

For I can see his love

As it runs alive

'N one by one

Through fields of rusted wire

The war has just begun

Oh, cross over shame like the wise dove

Who cares not for fame just for shy love

'N rejoice for the king ain't lost his throne, oh no

He's still here, you are not alone

Correct your heads

For there's a new song rising

High above the waves

Go write your time

Go sing it on the streets

Go tell the world, but you go brave

Oh my sweet instant Christian you are such a sly clown

Too many questions, no replies now

'N rejoice for the king ain't lost his throne, oh no

He's still here, you are not alone

I got an idea

Go tell the superstar

All his hairs are turning grey

Star-spangled fear

As all the people disappear

The limelight fades away

Cos if you think you are a star

For so long they'll come from near and far

But you'll forget just who you are (yes you will)

You ain't the nazz

You're just a buzz

Some kinda temporary

Cross over shame like the wise dove

Who cares not for fame just for shy love

Oh-oh, my sweet instant Christian you are such a sly clown

Too many questions, no replies now

'N rejoice for the king ain't lost his throne. Oh no.

He's still here, you are not alone, you are not alone

[Guest Laminated Kat]

When I'm walkin' under stars

I covet all the waning hours

All the lonely houses stand like monuments

To thieves

 

When I'm walkin' in the dark

I'm free to covet all I want

You've made it all so very dangerous

I can't stay away

 

When I'm walkin' under trees

I'm free to covet all I please

New moons in the alley

And it's madness calls to me

 

Tonight, tonight, tonight...

 

If I meet you in the night

You're free to covet all you like

Don't you try and stop me

I cling tightly...to this life

[Analogman]

When I'm walkin' under stars

I covet all the waning hours

All the lonely houses stand like monuments

To thieves

 

When I'm walkin' in the dark

I'm free to covet all I want

You've made it all so very dangerous

I can't stay away

 

When I'm walkin' under trees

I'm free to covet all I please

New moons in the alley

And it's madness calls to me

 

Tonight, tonight, tonight...

 

If I meet you in the night

You're free to covet all you like

Don't you try and stop me

I cling tightly...to this life

 

I played that song eight times in a row once.

[GPARSUNDA]

I've been out walking

I don't do too much talking

These days, these days.

These days I seem to think a lot

About the things that I forgot to do

And all the times I had the chance to.

 

I've stopped my rambling,

I don't do too much gambling

These days, these days.

These days I seem to think about

How all the changes came about my ways

And I wonder if I'll see another highway.

 

I had a lover,

I don't think I'll risk another

These days, these days.

And if I seem to be afraid

To live the life that I have made in song

It's just that I've been losing so long.

La la la la la, la la.

 

I've stopped my dreaming,

I won't do too much scheming

These days, these days.

These days I sit on corner stones

And count the time in quarter tones to ten.

Please don't confront me with my failures,

I had not forgotten them.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Well, he's trying to survive up on Mulholland Drive

He's got the phone in the car in his hand

Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine

Even a dog can shake hands

 

He wants twenty per cent 'cause he knew you back when

Now they all want a piece of the band

Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine

Even a dog can shake hands

 

All the worms and the gnomes are having lunch at Le Dome

They're all living off the fat of the land

Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine

Even a dog can shake hands

 

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We'll do the rest for you

Find a way to make it pay

Don't lose your head

You'll end up dead

Or you'll be living in the Valley someday

 

Abandon all hope and don't rock the boat

And we'll all make a few hundred grand

Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine

Even a dog can shake hands

 

You'll be making the scene 'til they pick your bones clean

No, they don't leave much for the fans

Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine

Even a dog can shake hands

 

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We'll do the rest for you

Find a way to make it pay

Don't lose your head

You'll end up dead

Or you'll be living in the Valley someday

[ajarwithaheavylid]

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

I can read the writing on the wall

 

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I know they'd never match my sweet imagination

Everything looks worse in black and white

 

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Leave your boy so far from home

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Uhm uhm!

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

O.K.!

[Elixir Sue]

Week one was lots of fun

We built a fort inside your room

We walked around this town

Made out like bandits in the moon

 

Where have you been so long so long

I've waited oh so long for you

I've got to figure out

Just what this means and what to do

 

Oh love is oh so sweet

I can't believe I called you mine

My heart was incomplete

Until you came into my life

 

Where have you been so long so long

I've waited oh so long for you

I've got to figure out

Just what this means and what to do

[GPARSUNDA]

I could have done better things

If someone shut my mouth

Or somebody clipped my wings

So many wasted evenings

Talking the same sweet talk

Always the last ones leaving

Waking up when fortunes knock

 

I

[SarahC]

I'll be your mirror

Reflect what you are, in case you don't know

I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset

The light on your door to show that you're home

 

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

 

I find it hard to believe you don't know

The beauty you are

But if you don't let me be your eyes

A hand to your darkness, so you won't be afraid

 

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

 

I'll be your mirror

this song means a lot to me...

[Dude]

If I ventured in the slipstream

Between the viaducts of your dream

Where immobile steel rims crack

And the ditch in the back roads stop

Could you find me?

Would you kiss-a my eyes?

To lay me down

In silence easy

To be born again

To be born again

From the far side of the ocean

If I put the wheels in motion

And I stand with my arms behind me

And I

[embiggen]

If you want money in your pocket

and a top hat on your head

a hot meal on your table

and a blanket on your bed

well today is grey skies

tomorrow is tears

you'll have to wait til yesterday is here

Well I'm going to New York City

and I'm leaving on a train

and if you want to stay behind and

wait til I come back again

well today is grey skies

tomorrow is tears

you'll have to wait til yesterday is here

If you want to go

where the rainbows end

you'll have to say goodbye

all our dreams come true

baby up ahead

and it's out where your memories lie

well the road's out before me

and the moon is shining bright

what I want you to remember

as I disappear tonight

today is grey skies

tomorrow's tears

you'll have to wait til yesterday is here

[Analogman]

I think I lost it

Let me know if you come across it

Let me know if I let it fall

Along a back road somewhere

Money can't replace it

No memory can erase it

And I know I'm never gonna find

Another one to compare

Give me some love to fill me up

 

Give me some time give me some stuff

Give me a sign give me some kind of reason

Are you heavy enough to make me stay

I feel like I might blow away

I thought I was in heaven

But I was only dreamin

I think I lost it

Let me know if you come across it

Let me know if I let it fall

Along a back road somewhere

Money can't replace it

No memory can erase it

And I know I'm never gonna find

Another one to compare

 

I just wanna live the life I please

I don't want no enemies

I don't want nothin if I have to fake it

Never take nothin don't belong to me

 

Everything's paid for nothing free

If I give my heart

Will you promise not to break it

I think I lost it

Let me know if you come across it

Let me know if I let it fall

Along a back road somewhere

Money can't replace it

No memory can erase it

And I know I'm never gonna find

Another one to compare

Money can't replace it

No memory can erase it

And I know I'm never gonna find

Another one to compare

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

There she goes

There she goes again

Racing through my brain

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she blows

There she blows again

Pulsing through my veins

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes again

(There she goes again)

Racing through my brain

(There she goes)

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

There she goes again

She calls my name

she pulls my train

No one else could heal my pain

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(She calls my name)

There she goes again

(She calls my name)

Chasing down my lane

(She calls my name)

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes

There she goes

There she goes again

Racing through my brain

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

There she goes again

Pulsing through my veins

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes again

(There she goes again)

Racing through my brain

(There she goes)

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

There she goes again

She calls my name

she pulls my train

No one else could heal my pain

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(She calls my name)

There she goes again

(She calls my name)

Chasing down my lane

(She calls my name)

And I just can't contain

This feeling that remains

 

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes

(There she goes again)

There she goes

 

 

Now

how can it be that a love

carved out of caring

Fashioned by fate

could suffer s hard

From the games played once too often?

But making mistakes is a part of lifes imperfection

born of the years.

Is it so wrong to be human after all?

Drawn into the stream of undefined illusion.

Those diamond dreams they can't disguise the truth.

That there is something about you

baby

so right.

I wouldn't be without you

baby

tonight.

If ever our love was concealed no-one can say that

We didn't feel a million things and a perfect dream of life.

Gone fragile but free

we remain tender together

if not so in love

It's not so wrong

we're only human after all.

These changing years they add to your confusion

Oh

and you need to hear the time that told the truth.

Because there's something about you

baby

so right.

I couldn't live without you

baby

tonight.

And now there's something about you

And I couldn't be without you tonight.

Edited March 3, 2006 by Crowjack