one song

[MrRain422]

All alone, not by myself

Another girl bad for my health

I

[Elixir Sue]

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block

And I sit at home looking out the window

Imagining the world has stopped

Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack

And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

 

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd

On my cloud, baby

 

The telephone is ringing

I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?"

A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you?"

Well, I guess I'm doin' fine

He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise

Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?

Just 'cause you feel so good, do you have

To drive me out of my head?"

 

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd

On my cloud baby

 

I was sick and tired, fed up with this

And decided to take a drive downtown

It was so very quiet and peaceful

There was nobody, not a soul around

I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream

In the morning the parking tickets were just like

A flag stuck on my window screen

 

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd

On my cloud

 

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Don't hang around, baby, two's a crowd

[embiggen]

Watchin' a stretch of road, miles of light explode.

Driftin' off a thing i'd never done before

Watchin' a crowd roll in. out go the lights it begins.

A feelin' in my bones i never felt before...

Mmm... people always told me. that bars are dark and lonely

And talk is often cheap and filled with air.

Sure sometimes they thrill me

But nothin' could ever chill me.

Like the way they make the time just disappear

Feelin' you are here again. hot on my skin again.

Feelin good a thing i'd never known before

What does it mean to feel?

Millions of dreams come real

A feelin' in my soul i'd never felt before... mmm...

And you always told me.

No matter how long it holds me if it falls apart

Or makes us millonaires. you'll be right here forever.

We'll go thru this thing together

And on heaven's golden shore we'll lay our heads

[Dude]

Ev'ry time I'm walking all down the street

Some pretty mama start breaking down on me.

Stop breaking down, baby, please, stop breaking down.

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby,

Gonna make you lose your mind.

 

You Saturday night women, now, you just ape and clown,

You don't do nothing but tear my reputation down.

Stop breaking down, mama, please, stop breaking down.

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby,

Yeah, it's gonna make you lose your mind.

 

I love my baby ninety nine degrees,

But that mama got a pistol, laid it down on me.

Stop breaking down, baby, please, stop breaking down.

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby,

Yeah, gonna make you lose your mind.

 

Ev'ry time I'm walking all down the street

Some pretty woman start breaking down on me.

Stop breaking down, mama, please, stop breaking down.

Stuff is gonna bust your brains out, baby,

Gonna make you lose your mind.

[Willkoman]

Remember the Alamo

When help was on the way

It's better here and now,

I feel that good today.

 

I'd like to take a walk

But not around the block

I really got some news

I met a man from Mars.

He picked up all my guitars

And played me traveling songs.

 

And when we got on ship

He brought out

something for the trip

And said, It's old but it's good

Like any other primitive would.

 

I'm gonna ride my llama

From Peru to Texarkana

I wanna ride him good

In my old neighborhood

I'm gonna ride him good

In my old neighborhood.

 

And when we got on ship

He brought out

something for the trip

And said, It's old but it's good

Like any other primitive would.

[mountain bed]

Everybody has been burned before

Everybody knows the pain

Anyone in this place

Can tell you to your face

Why you shouldn't

Try to love someone

 

Everybody knows it never works

Everybody knows,and me

I know that door

That shuts just before

You get to the dream

You'll see

 

I know all too well

How to turn,how to run

How to hide behind

A bitter wall of blue

But you die inside

If you choose to hide

So I guess instead

I'll love you...

[Analogman]

How can you stand there smilin'

After all you've done

You know it seems to make you happy

When you've hurt someone

Twice before you fooled me

With your deceivin' and lyin'

Come in and close the door

One more time, one more time

Yeah you've been gone so long

No one knows where

And you say that you still love me

Then show me you care

'Cause you got what it takes sweet mama

To make a man feel fine

So I'll take the word of a liar

One more time, one more time

Girl you've got me hungry

Losin' my mind

I know I'm playin' with fire

Get burned everytime

Yes I'm a fool for you baby I can't deny

But I got to have your sweet love

One more time, one more time

Girl you've got me hungry

Losin' my mind

I know I'm playin' with fire

I get burned everytime

Yes I'm a fool for you mama I can't deny

But I got to have your sweet love

One more time, one more time

Yes I'm her fool once more

I can read her brown eyes

But when the rooster crows tomorrow

Well its her turn to cry

I'm headed down that old road

She lost her free ride

So tonight I'll take what I paid for

One more time, one more time

One more time

[j4lackey]

It's hard being a man

living in a garbage pail

My landlady called me up, ooohhh

she tried to hit me with a mop

 

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it anymore more, oh

I can't stand it anymore more

 

But if Candy would just come back

it'd be all right

Yeah, if Candy would just come back

it'd be all right, come on baby

 

I live with thirteen dead cats

a purple dog that wears spats

They're all out livin' in the hall

and I can't stand it anymore

 

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it anymore more

 

But if Candy would just come back

it'd be all right

Ooohhh, if Candy would just come back

it'd be all right, be all right now

 

Ah, come on baby

 

I'm tired of living all alone

yeah, nobody ever calls me on the phone

But when, ah, things start getting bad, ah

I just play my music louder

 

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it anymore more

I can't stand it, I can't stand it, oh

I can't stand it, I can't stand it

I can't stand it, I can't stand it, no

I can't stand it, I can't stand it, oh

I can't stand it, I can't stand it

I can't stand it, I can't stand it

I can't stand it, I can't stand it

I can't stand it, I can't stand it

[Fritz]

The pawnbroker roared

Also, so, so did the landlord

The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?

Both were so glad

To watch me destroy what I had

Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?

Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay?

Why'd you have to treat me so bad?

Did it have to be that way?

Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say

Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well

That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell?

Somebody had better explain

She's got her iron chain

I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how

You talk to her

She's your lover now.

 

I already assumed

That we're in the felony room

But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me

But please tell that

To your friend in the cowboy hat

You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me

You know I was straight with you

You know I've never tried to change you in any way

You know if you didn't want to be with me

That you could . . . didn't have to stay.

Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?

Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?

I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech

With her picture books of the pyramid

And her postcards of Billy the Kid

(Why must everybody bow?)

You better talk to her 'bout it

You're her lover now.

 

Oh, ev'rybody that cares

Is goin' up the castle stairs

But I'm not up in your castle, honey

It's true, I just can't recall

San Francisco at all

I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey

You never had to be faithful

I didn't want you to grieve

Oh, why was it so hard for you

If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave?

Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve

An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say?

She'll be standin' on the bar soon

With a fish head an' a harpoon

An' a fake beard plastered on her brow

You'd better do somethin' quick

She's your lover now.

[Fritz]

Well, she's got Jet Pilot eyes from her hips on down.

All the bombardiers are trying to force her out of town.

She's five feet nine and she carries a monkey wrench.

She weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch.

She got all the downtown boys, all at her command

But you've got to watch her closely 'cause she ain't no woman

She's a man.

[Fritz]

In this town television shuts off at two

What can a lonely rock & roller do?

Oh the bed's so big and the sheets are clean

and your girlfriend said that you were 19

The styrofoam icebucket is full of ice

Come up to my motel room and treat me nice

 

I don't wanna make no late night New York calls

and I don't wanna stare at them ugly grassmatt walls

chronologically I know you're young

but when you kissed me in the club you bit my tongue

I'll write a song for you, I'll put it on my next L.P

Come up to my motelroom and sleep with me

 

There's a Bible in the drawer don't be afraid

I'll put up the sign to warn the cleanup maid

Yeah there's lots of soap end there's lots of towels

never mind them deskclerk's scowls

I'll buy you breakfast, they'll think you're my wife

Oh come up to my motelroom, save my life

Come up to my motelroom, save my life

[Fritz]

Baby let's get dressed up

I got two pairs of shoes

Darling you look so beautiful

when your hair's all hung in jewels

and sometimes I find it really hard to choose

between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes

 

When I'm high on batwings

up by the silvery moon

I think of a certain sad eyed king

trapped in his golden room

and I dream of a cold river on the way

to come and sweep that king into this black and brown bay

 

Well the water looks like jewelry

when it's coming out the spout

and nothing could make me feel better

than a wet kiss on the mouth

Fake I.D.'s and honeybees

the jagged skyline of car keys

I never knew the bird could fly so low

 

Rub out the catlight,

rub out the village

red and white exit light

that's exodus damage

Why don't people think of who they use?

Why don't you try and come and get me: Black and Brown Blues

 

It's raining triple sec in Tchula

and the radio plays "Crazy Train"

there's a quadroon ball in the beehive

hanging out in the rain

and when there's trouble I dont like running

but I'm afraid I got more in common

with who I was than who I am becoming

 

When I go downtown

I always wear a corduroy suit

cause it's made of a hundred gutters

that the rain can run right through

but a lonely man can't make a move

if he can't even bring himself to choose

between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes

[Fritz]

Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat

An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,

Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,

But mama, you been on my mind.

 

I don't mean trouble, please don't put me down or get upset,

I am not pleadin' or sayin', "I can't forget."

I do not walk the floor bowed down an' bent, but yet,

Mama, you been on my mind.

 

Even though my mind is hazy an' my thoughts they might be narrow,

Where you been don't bother me nor bring me down in sorrow.

It don't even matter to me where you're wakin' up tomorrow,

But mama, you're just on my mind.

 

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"

Please understand me, I got no place for you t' go.

I'm just breathin' to myself, pretendin' not that I don't know,

Mama, you been on my mind.

 

When you wake up in the mornin', baby, look inside your mirror.

You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.

I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear

As someone who has had you on his mind.

[Analogman]

I tried to talk to my baby

I said no no no no baby

Please don

[mountain bed]

Who---do you think you are?

What do you mean

When you put us all down

Walkin' round in circles

With your nose to the ground

You think you're sayin' something

Because you're makin' a sound

 

You say you've seen it all

You don't want to see no more

But you don't get up & go

Until they throw you out the door

 

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

I'ts a long,long,long,long way to go home

Any which way you are tempted to roam

It's a long,long,long,long,long,long way

Way to go home

 

Who----'s it remind you of

What do you do

When you do your own time?

Did you run away

From the scene of the crime?

I feel as though I know you

Could you spare me a dime

 

It's a lot less than prison

But it's more than a jail

I'd tell you all about it

But that's another tale

 

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

Any which way you are tempted to roam

It's a long,long,long,long,long,long way..

 

You say you've seen it all

You don't care to see no more

Of the hungry,the homeless

The sick and the poor

You say you've seen enough

To last you all your days

Like the moon in high Heaven

You're just going through a phase

 

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

Any which way you are tempted to roam

It's a long,long,long,long,long,long way

Way to go home

 

Who----do you want to be?

What do you need

To set your body free?

I don't mean to pry

This ain't no third degree

But looking at you baby

You remind myself of me

There's any way to tell you

Any way,any way to persuade

I'd really love to spare you

The mistakes I've made

 

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

It's a long,long,long,long way to go home

Any which way you are tempted to roam

It's a long,long,long,long,long,long way

Way to go home

 

 

RIP Vinnie!

[Analogman]

Sorcerers of madness

Selling me their time

Child of God sitting in the sun

Giving peace of mind

Fictional seduction

On a black snow sky

Sadness kills the superman

Even fathers cry

 

Of all the things I value most of all

I look inside myself and see

My world and know that it is good

You know that I should

 

Superstitious century

Didnt time go slow

Separating sanity

Watching children grow

Synchronated undertaker

Spiral skies

Silver ships on plasmic oceans

In disquise

 

Of all the things I value most in life

I see my memories and feel their warmth

And know that they are good

You know that I should

 

Watching eyes of celluloid

Tell you how to live

Metaphoric motor-replay

Give, give, give!

Laughter kissing love

Is showing me the way

Spiral city architect

I build, you pay

 

Of all the things I value most of all

I look upon my earth and feel the warmth

And know that it is good

[BolivarBaLues]

On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,

I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.

So we took turns a starin out the window at the darkness

til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

 

He said, son, Ive made a life out of readin peoples faces,

And knowin what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

So if you dont mind my sayin, I can see youre out of aces.

For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.

 

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.

Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.

And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.

Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

 

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,

Know when to walk away and know when to run.

You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.

Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

 

Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin

Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.

cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,

And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

 

So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,

Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.

And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.

But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

 

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,

Know when to walk away and know when to run.

You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.

Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

 

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,

Know when to walk away and know when to run.

You never count you r money when youre sittin at the table.

Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

[timbits]

While this town is busy sleeping

All the noises died away

I walk the streets to stop my weeping

But she'll never change her ways

 

Don't fool yourself

She was heartache from the moment that you met her

My heart feels so still

As I try to find the will to forget her somehow

Oh I think I've forgotten her now

 

Her love is a rose pale and dying

Dropping her petals and man I know

All full of wine the world before her

But sober with no place to go

 

Don't fool yourself

She was heartache from the moment that you met her

My heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget her somehow

She's somewhere out there now

 

Oh my tears folded down as I tried to forget

Her love was a joke from the day that we met

All of the words all of her men

All of my pain when I think back to when

Remember her hair as it shone in the sun

It was there on the bed when I knew what she'd done

Tell yourself over and over you wont ever need her again

 

But don't fool yourself

She was heartache from the moment that you met her

Oh my heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget her somehow

She's out there somewhere now

 

She was heartache from the day that i first met her

My heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget you somehow

'Cause I know you're somewhere out there right now

[Elixir Sue]

To the bottom dear I had to fall

But you really caught me

You really caught me, dear

At the bottom where I fall

 

Slowly dear I asked

Would you dance with me?

Here's the shades down, the lights off

 

When I didn't know you

And everything I do

Done badly

 

Now I'll love you always

Even when I say

You distract me

 

And sit out tonight at some strange place

If we have no friends here,

I had few to begin with

 

To wake next to you in the morning

Good morning to you, how do you do?

Hey, good morning to you

 

And more covers for you

Sleep soundly dear

As i have to go

 

Yeah, I'll love you always

When we leave this place

And drive back to Carolina

And down to Savannah and stay

[Guest Speed Racer]

the king

[tkleist]

To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift

You've been trying to reach me, you bought me a book

To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift

I've been paid, I've been paid

 

To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift

You've been trying to reach me, you bought me a book

To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift

I've been paid, I've been wait, I've been...

 

Don't get offended, if I seem absent minded

Just keep telling me facts, and keep making me smarter

And don't get offended, if I seem absent minded

I get tongue-tied

 

Baby, you've got to, be more discerning

I've never known, what's good for me

Baby, you've got, to be more demanding

I will be yours

 

I'll pay for you, anytime

I'll pay for you, anytime

 

And you told me you wanted, to eat up my sadness

Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away

You told me you wanted, to eat up my sadness

Jump right

 

Baby, you've got to be more discerning

I've known never known what's good for me

And baby, you've got to be more demanding

Jump left

 

What are you holding out for?

What's always (in the way)?

Why so damn absent-minded?

Why so scared (of romance)?

 

This modern love, breaks me

This modern love, wastes me

This modern love, breaks me

This modern love, wastes me

 

Do you wanna come over, and kill some time?

Do you wanna come over, and kill some time?

Do you wanna come over, and kill some time?

Throw your arms around me

[Dude]

I dig a pony

Well you can celebrate anything you want

Yes, you can celebrate anything you want

 

Ooh

I do a roadhog

Well you can penetrate any place you go

Yes, you can penetrate any place you go

I told you so

 

All I want is you

Everything has got to be just like you want it to

Because

 

I pick a moondog

Well you can radiate everything you are

Yes, you can radiate everything you are

 

Ooh

I roll a stoney

Well you can imitate everyone you know

Yes, you can imitate everyone you know

I told you so

 

All I want is you

Everything has got to be just like you want it to

Because

 

I feel the wind blow

Well you can indicate everything you see

Yes, you can indicate everything you see

Ooh

 

I cold and lonely

Well you can syndicate any boat you row

Yes, you can syndicate any boat you row

I told you so

 

All I want is you

Everything has got to be just like you want it to

Because

[timbits]

And I will stroll the merry way

And jump the hedges first

And I will drink the clear

Clean water for to quench my thirst

And I shall watch the ferry-boats

And they'll get high

On a bluer ocean

Against tomorrow's sky

And I will never grow so old again

And I will walk and talk

In gardens all wet with rain

 

Oh sweet thing, sweet thing

My, my, my, my, my sweet thing

And I shall drive my chariot

Down your streets and cry

'Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite

And I don't know why'

And you shall take me strongly

In your arms again

And I will not remember

That I even felt the pain

We shall walk and talk

In gardens all misty wet with rain

And I will never, never, never

Grow so old again

 

Oh sweet thing, sweet thing

My, my, my, my, my sweet thing

And I will raise my hand up

Into the night time sky

And count the stars

That's shining in your eye

Just to dig it all an' not to wonder

That's just fine

And I'll be satisfied

Not to read in between the lines

And I will walk and talk

In gardens all wet with rain

And I will never, ever, ever, ever

Grow so old again.

Oh sweet thing, sweet thing

Sugar-baby with your champagne eyes

[timbits]

I still remember that time when we were dancing

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

I was singing without knowing the words

But I started listening to the wolves in the timber

Wolves in the timber at night

I heard their songs when I looked in the mirror

In the howls and the moons round my eyes

 

So long, so high

 

Then winter came and there was little left between us

Skin and bones of love won't make a meal

I felt my eyes drifting over your shoulder

There were wolves at the edge of the field

But I still remember that time when we were dancing

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

I was singing without knowing the words

 

So long, so high

 

Then one day I just woke up

And the wolves were all there

Wolves in the piano

Wolves underneath the stairs

Wolves inside the hinges

Circling round my door

At night inside the bedsprings

Clicking cross the floor

I don't know how they found me

I'll never know quite how

I still can't believe they heard me

That I was howling out that loud

 

So long, so high

 

At times in the frozen nights I go roaming

In the bed she used to share with me

I wake in the fields with the cold and the lonesome

The moon's the only face that I see

But I still remember that time when we were dancing

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

I was singing without knowing the words

 

So long so high

[WildMercurySound]

^nice choice.

 

As it's 6/6/06, how about this one:

 

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse.

There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around.

 

The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around.

 

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.

 

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

 

Till Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom. Then the father hen will call his chickens home. The wise men will bow down before the throne. And at his feet they'll cast their golden crown. When the man comes around.

 

Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still. Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still. Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes around.

 

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.

 

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

 

In measured hundredweight and penny pound. When the man comes around.

 

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.