one song

[Elixir Sue]

I want to go to Magnolia Mountain

And lay my weary head down

Down on the rocks

On the mountain my savior made

Steady my soul and ease my worry

Hold me when I rattle like a hummingbird hummin'

Tie me to the rocks on the mountain my savior made

 

Lie to me

Sing me a song

Sing me a song until the morning comes

If the morning comes, will you lie to me

Will you take me to your bed

Will you lay me down

Till I'm heavy like the rocks on the riverbed

That my savior made

 

I want to be the bluebird singing

Singing to the roses in her yard

The roses in her yard her father grew for her

It's been raining that Tennessee honey

So long I got too heavy to fly

Ain't no bluebird ever gets too heavy to sing

 

Lie to me

Sing me a song

Sing me a song until the morning comes

And if the morning don't come, will you lie to me

Will you take me to your bed

Will you lay me down

Till I'm heavy like the rocks in the riverbed

That my savior made

 

We burned the cotton fields down in the valley

And ended up with nothing but scars

The scars became the lessons that we gave to our children after the war

But there ain't nothing but the truth up on the Magnolia Mountain

Where nobody ever dies

Steady your soul and ease your worry

They got a room for you

 

Lie to me like I lie to you

Calm me down until the morning comes

And if the morning don't come

Lie to me

Will you take me to your bed

Will you lay me down

All heavy like the rocks in the riverbed

That my savior made

For us

[Sid Hartha]

You have two coffees

One of them is one coffee too many for you

On a health kick

Trying to lead a middle-aged life

Well, it's either that or drop dead

Wait til you get older than this

And then turn around and tell me I was young for my age

Yeah

 

And it feels like 1974

Waiting for the waves to come and crash on the shore

But you're far inland

You're in funky denim wonderland

You and David Crosby and a bloke with no hand

You've got hair in places

Most people haven't got brains

Ooh

 

But it feels like 1974

Syd Barrett's last session, he can't sing anymore

He's gonna have to be roger now for the rest of his life

Oh

 

Enough about me, let's talk about you

You were working at the earth exchange at half twenty-two

Rebel, Rebel was your favorite song

On the Archway Road Where it all belongs

All those molecules of time

That you thought you'd shed forever

All those inches of time

That you thought you could just say bye-bye

 

And as Nixon left the Whitehouse

You could hear people say,

"They'll never rehabilitate that mother

No way."

Yep

 

Whirry-whirry goes the helicopter out of my way

I've got president to dump in the void

Ooh

 

Python's last series and The Gaurdian said,

"The stench of rotting minds"

But what else could you smell back then?

You didn't have to inhale too hard

You could smell the heads festering in the backyard

There's a baby in a basket and it's taken your name

And one day it'll grow up and say,

"Who are you,

Eh?"

 

And you say that's where it ended

But I say no no no, it just faded away

August was grey

It feels like 1974

Ghastly mellow saxophones all over the floor

Feels like 1974

You could vote for labour, but you can't anymore

Feels like 1974

Digging Led Zeppelin in Grimsby

Oh Christ

[viatroy]

Come and talk of all the things we did today

Here and laugh about our funny little ways

While we have a few minutes to breathe

And I know that it's time you must leave

 

But, darling, be home soon

I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled

My darling, be home soon

It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled

For the great relief of having you to talk to

 

And now a quarter of my life is almost passed

I think I've come to see myself at last

And I see that the time spent confused

Was the time that I spent without you

And I feel myself in bloom

 

But, darling, be home soon

I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled

My darling, be home soon

It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled

For the great relief of having you to talk to

 

But, darling, be home soon

I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled

My darling, be home soon

It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled

For the great relief of having you to talk to

 

Go and beat your crazy head against the sky

Try and see beyond the houses and your eyes

It's ok to shoot the moon

 

But, darling, be home soon

I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled

My darling, be home soon

It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled

For the great relief of having you to talk to

[viatroy]

Oh i used to be disgusted

And now i try to be amused.

But since their wings have got rusted,

You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain,

That's when i knew that i could not refuse.

And i won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

 

I was watching while you're dancing away.

Our love got fractured in the echo and sway.

How come everybody wants to be your friend?

You know that it still hurts me just to say it.

 

Oh, i know that she's disgusted (oh why's that)

Cause she's feeling so abused. (oh that's too bad)

She gets tired of the lust, (oh i'm so sad)

But it's so hard to refuse.

How can you say that i'm too old,

When the angels have stolen my red shoes.

 

Oh, i said "i'm so happy, i could die."

She said "drop dead," then left with another guy.

That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.

Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence.

Oh i used to be disgusted

And now i try to be amused.

But since their wings have got rusted,

You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

[Guest Laminated Kat]

To Dad:

 

Just like a bird that sings up the sun

In a dawn so very dark

Such is my faith for you

Such is my faith

And all the world's darkness can't swallow up

A single spark

Such is my love for you

Such is my love

 

There is a kingdom

There is a king

And he lives without

And he lives within

 

The starry heavens above me

The moral law within

So the world appears

So the world appears

This day so sweet

It will never come again

So the world appears

Through this mist of tears

 

There is a kingdom

There is a king

And he lives without

And he lives within

[awatt]

To the rich man's bright lodges

I ride in this wind

On my good horse, I call you

My shiny black Bess

 

To the playhouse of fortune

To take the bright silver

And gold you have taken

From somebody else

 

And as we go riding

In the damp foggy midnight

You snort, my good pony

And you give me your best

 

For you know and I know

Good horse 'mongst the rich ones

How oftimes we go there

An unwelcome guest

 

I never took food

From the widows and orphans

And never a hardworking man I oppressed

 

So take your pace easy

For home soon like lightning

We soon will be riding

My shiny black Bess

 

No fat rich man's pony

Can ever overtake you

And there's not a rider

From the east to the west

 

Could hold you a light

In this dark mist and midnight

When the potbellied thieves

Chase the unwelcome guest

 

I don't know, good horse

As we trot in this dark here

That robbing the rich

Is for worse or for best

 

They take it by stealing

And lying and gambling

And I take it my way

My shiny black Bess

 

I treat horses good

And I'm friendly to strangers

I ride and your running

Makes my guns talk the best

 

And the rangers and deputies

Are hired by the rich man

To catch me and hang me

My shining Black Bess

 

Yes, they'll catch me napping one day

And they'll kill me

And then I'll be gone

But that won't be my end

 

For my guns and my saddle

Will always be filled

By unwelcome travelers

And other brave men

 

And they'll take the money

And spread it out equal

Just like the Bible

And the prophets suggest

 

But men that go riding

To help these poor workers

The rich will cut down

Like an unwelcome guest

[Nobody Girl]

She plays Wipeout on the drums

The squirrels and the birds come

Gather 'round to sing the guitar

Oh, I...

Have you got nothing to say?

When all words fail, she speaks

Her mix tape's a masterpiece

Walks through the garden

So the roses can see

Oh, I...

Have you got nothing to say?

 

And you can see

The daisies in her footsteps

Dandelions,

Butterflies,

I wanna be Kate

Kate

Kate

Kate

 

Every day she wears the same thing

I think she smokes pot

She's everything I want

She's everything I'm not

Oh, I...

Have you got nothing to say?

 

She never gets wet

She smiles and it's a rainbow (oh, oh)

And she speaks,

And she breathes

I wanna be Kate

Kate

Kate

Kate

 

Down by

The Rosemary and Cameron

She hands out the Bhagavad Gita

I see her around every couple days

I wanna see her so that

I can say, "hey...

Kate"

 

She never gets wet

She smiles and it's a rainbow (oh, oh)

You can see

I wanna wanna wanna wanna be...

Kate

Kate

Kate

[Sid Hartha]

My lonely mile

Is charming from above

Do not run my love

No one is harming you

 

Why do you dream

Of strange men in aeroplanes

And parachutes torn

By wings of thorn

 

Your lovely smile

Should not be touched

Do not sip this poison

No one is hunting

No fox and no horn

 

Why do you fear

What takes to the air

Before it is born

On wings of thorn

[viatroy]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and

snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world

serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed

it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, the Ladder

start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire

in a fire, representing seven games, and a government

for hire at a combat site. Left of west and coming in

a hurry with the furys breathing down your neck. Team

by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.

Look at that low playing. Fine, then. Uh oh,

overflow, population, common food, but it'll do to Save

yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,

listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and

the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,

patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty

psyched.

 

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

 

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign

towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself

churn. Lock it in, uniforming, book burning, blood

letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.

Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down.

Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no

fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,

tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,

offer me alternatives and I decline.

 

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

 

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental

drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard

Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester

Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You

symbiotic, patriotic, slam bug net, right? Right.

 

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel

fine...fine...

 

 

 

I think God wanted me to post this.

[awatt]

Definitely troubled times, with death, destruction, wars, environmental breakdown....

 

Thank God for music!

 

 

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Lord, there goes Johnny Appleseed

He might pass by in the hour of need

There's a lot of souls

Ain't drinking from no well locked in a factory

 

Hey - look there goes

Hey - look there goes

If you're after getting the honey - hey

Then you don't go killing all the bees

 

Lord, there goes Martin Luther King

Notice how the door closes when the chimes of freedom ring

I hear what you're saying, I hear what he's saying

*Is what was true now no longer so

 

Hey - I hear what you're saying

Hey - I hear what he's saying

If you're after getting the honey - hey

Then you don't go killing all the bees

 

What the people are saying

And we know every road - go, go

What the people are saying

There ain't no berries on the trees

 

Let the summertime sun

Fall on the apple - fall on the apple

 

Lord, there goes a Buick forty-nine

Black sheep of the angels riding, riding down the line

We think there is a soul, we don't know

That soul is hard to find

 

Hey - down along the road

Hey - down along the road

If you're after getting the honey

Then you don't go killing all the bees

 

Hey - it's what the people are saying

It's what the people are saying

Hey - there ain't no berries on the trees

Hey - that's what the people are saying, no berries on the trees

You're checking out the honey, baby

You had to go killin' all the bees

[jdlee23]

Love in our life is just too valuable

Oh, to feel for even a second without it

But life without death is just impossible

Oh, to realize something is ending within us

Feeling yourself disintegrate

 

 

 

Short and Sweet.

[Dude]

Baby mellow my mind,

Make me feel like a

schoolboy on good time,

Jugglin' nickels and dimes,

Satisfied with the

fish on the line.

 

I've been down the road

and I've come back

Lonesome whistle

on the railroad track

Ain't got nothing on those

feelings that I had.

 

Something so hard to find,

A situation that can

casualize your mind.

 

I've been down the road

and I've come back

Lonesome whistle

on the railroad track

Ain't got nothing on those

feelings that I had.

 

Baby mellow my mind,

Make me feel like a

schoolboy on good time,

Jugglin' nickels and dimes,

Satisfied with the

fish on the line.

[Guest Laminated Kat]

Driving home I see those flooded fields

How can people not know what beauty this is

I've taken it for granted my whole life

Since the day I was born

 

Clouds hang on these curves like me

And I kneel to the wheel

Of the fox confessor on splendid heels

And he shames me from my seat

And on my guilty feet

I follow him in retreat

 

What purpose in these deeds

Oh fox confessor please

Who married me to these orphaned blues

"It's not for you to know, but for you to weep and wonder

When the death of your civilization precedes you."

 

Will I ever see you again

Will there be no one above me to put my faith in

I flooded my sleeves as I drove home again

[Gobias Industries]

Well I miss my mother

And I miss being her son

As crazy as I was I

Guess I wasn't much of one

Sometimes I miss her so much,

I want to hop on the next jet

And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

And I love my sister

Lord knows how I've missed her

She loves me

And she knows I won't forget

And sometimes I get jealous

Of all her little pets

And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

 

I roll over in bed

Looking for someone to touch

There's a girl that I know of

But don't ask for much

She's homely, and she's cranky

And her hair's in a net

And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

 

Are you my friend when I need one

I need someone to be one

I take anybody I can get

And sometimes I wanna call you

And I feel like a pet

And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

 

I go down to the river

Filled with regret

I go down and I wonder

If there was any reason left

I left just before my lungs could get wet

I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

 

And I love my sister

Lord knows how I've missed her

She loves me

And she knows I won't forget

And sometimes I get jealous

Of all her little pets

And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

Yeah I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

[j4lackey]

Well I miss my mother

And I miss being her son

As crazy as I was I

Guess I wasn't much of one

Sometimes .....

Whodat?

[Elixir Sue]

Whodat?

The talented Mr. Jack White.

[Elixir Sue]

I want to live where soul meets body

And let the sun wrap its arms around me

And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing

And feel, feel what its like to be new

 

Cause in my head there's a greyhound station

Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations

So they may have a chance of finding a place

where they're far more suited than here

 

I cannot guess what we'll discover

Between the dirt with our palms cut like shovels

But I know our filthy hand can wash one another's

And not one speck will remain

 

I do believe it's true

That there are roads left in both of our shoes

If the silence takes you

Then I hope it takes me too

So brown eyes I hold you near

Cause you're the only song I want to hear

A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

[Dude]

When you're weary, feeling small,

When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all

Im on your side when times get rough

And friends just cant be found,

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

 

When you're down and out,

When you're on the street,

When evening falls so hard

I will comfort you.

I'll take your part.

When darkness comes

And pain is all around,

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

 

Sail on silvergirl,

Sail on by

Your time has come to shine.

All your dreams are on their way

See how they shine

If you need a friend

I'm sailing right behind

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will ease your mind

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will ease your mind

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

How can it be that you people keep posting songs I love (Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits?? A blast from the past, and one of my favorites). One day I'll grow out of this AWATT stage and get back to some of this fine, fine music, like ....

 

Sometimes Most of the time means...

 

Most of the time

I'm clear focused all around,

Most of the time

I can keep both feet on the ground,

I can follow the path, I can read the signs,

Stay right with it, when the road unwinds,

I can handle whatever I stumble upon,

I don't even notice she's gone,

Most of the time.

 

Most of the time

It's well understood,

Most of the time

I wouldn't change it if I could,

I can't make it all match up, I can hold my own,

I can deal with the situation right down to the bone,

I can survive, I can endure

And I don't even think about her

Most of the time.

 

Most of the time

My head is on straight,

Most of the time

I'm strong enough not to hate.

I don't build up illusion 'till it makes me sick,

I ain't afraid of confusion no matter how thick

I can smile in the face of mankind.

Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine

Most of the time.

 

Most of the time

She ain't even in my mind,

I wouldn't know her if I saw her

She's that far behind.

Most of the time

I can't even be sure

If she was ever with me

Or if I was with her.

 

Most of the time

I'm halfway content,

Most of the time

I know exactly where I went,

I don't cheat on myself, I don't run and hide,

Hide from the feelings, that are buried inside,

I don't compromised and I don't pretend,

I don't even care if I ever see her again

Most of the time.

[Sid Hartha]

Still drinking on the corner

Just don't say I didn't warn you

Always nagging big brother

He's only looking out for you

 

Tony The Pony

Tony The Pony

 

You're still standing on the corner

Just don't say I didn't warn you

Old and jealous big brother

You had your time and you spent it

Crying

 

Now, Tony The Pony

Tony The Pony

So, that's what they call you now ?

When you're free outside

So cold and hard and in control

And ...

There's a free ride on

Tony The Pony

 

Oh, why do you always wanna stop me

From doing the things in life that make me happy ?

And when I'm outside with friends, laughing loudly

Why do you always wanna stop me ?

 

Oh, I would never

I would never

 

But you will carry the can for anyone

The free ride on

Gullible Tony

 

You're drunker quicker

And you're sicker even quicker

For something heavy is gonna fall on you

Oh ...

 

And what do they call you now ?

When you're free outside

So cold and hard and in control

And, oh ... been a lark

There's a free ride on

Fucked-up Tony

 

I will never say I told you so

Or how I knew that something bad

Would happen to you

I don't wanna say I told you so

Oh, but Tony, I told you so !!!

[Guest Laminated Kat]

The echo to your yell

the ripple to your dive

the currents under your wave

 

electricity

flows through me

i send it out to you

we were charged

with the founding poles

of a million years

a million years

before us

have trembled in their fears

 

never saw you never heard you

but i knew that you where there

everywhere

i could feel you all around me

 

i know that i am just a grain of sand

meeting water at the land

we could make our castles here

and sweep them all away

 

i know that i am just a drop of water

frozen into ice on the stormy earth

who gave us birth

over and over in cycles

lovely cycles

 

never saw you never heard you

but i knew that you were there

everywhere

i could feel you all around me

 

never saw you never heard you

but i knew that you were there

everywhere

i could feel you all around me

[awatt]

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown

On the silver paper of the wrapper

There's a dapper little man

And he wears a wax moustache

That he twists with nicotine fingers

As he drops his cigarette ash

And someone comes and sweeps it up

And then he doffs his cap

And there's a rat in someone's bedroom

And they're shutting someone's trap

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces

 

And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present

And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.

And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,

Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce,

And you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.

 

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,

Like a picture of Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.

There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,

The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.

 

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

 

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,

You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.

To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.

 

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

[GPARSUNDA]

"Crash and burn

All the stars explode tonight

How'd you get so desperate?

How'd you stay alive?

Help me please

Burn the sorrow from your eyes

Oh come on, be alive again

Don't lay down and die

 

Hey hey, you know what to do

Oh baby, drive away to Malibu

 

Get well soon

Please don't go any higher

How are you so burned when you're barely on fire?

Cry to the angels

I'm gonna rescue you

I'm gonna set you free tonight, baby

Pour over me

 

Hey hey, we're all watching you

Oh baby, fly away to Malibu

Cry to the angels

That swallow you

Go and part the sea, yeah, in Malibu

 

And the sun goes down

I watch you slip away

And the sun goes down

I walk into the waves

And the sun goes down

I watch you slip away

And I walk

And I knew love would tear you apart

Oh, and I knew the darkest secret of your heart

 

Hey hey, I'm gonna follow you

Oh baby, fly away, yeah, to Malibu

Oceans of angels

Oceans of stars

Down by the sea is where you drown your scars

 

I can't be near you

The light just radiates"

 

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[awatt]

Sometimes Most of the time means...

 

Most of the time

 

 

Oh yes, one of my favorites from Dylan.

 

 

Does anyone listen to Roxy Music anymore?

 

Now the party's over

I'm so tired

Then I see you coming

Out of nowhere

Much communication in a motion

Without conversation or a notion

Avalon

When the samba takes you

Out of nowhere

And the background's fading

Out of focus

Yes the picture's changing

Every moment

And your destination

You don't know it

Avalon

When you bossanova

There's no holding

Would you have me dancing

Out of nowhere

Avalon ...

[Sid Hartha]

Once upon a time the AK-47 provided

some solace to anyone

who defied the empire and who dared

to march and hold a gun

I remember walking through the jungle looking up

through my new defoliated roof;

Everybody said : "Ooh, run for cover"

but I stood my ground cos I knew:

There was nothing that could catch us

there was nothing that could hurt us

yeh, we'd inherit the earth

As long as we kept

that hatred in our heart

as long as we could

strike first

With our

AK-47

With the power of

AK-47

 

Yeh, now things have changed

it seems so far away

that the war was something we could win.

They shoot us from Tampa

out by the pool

as they drink gin and have a swim.

Well there's satellites that see us

no matter where we are

And weapons that we can't understand

Microwaves to burn us

and sound waves to hurt us

from a robot plane-

'Made in Japan'

But I still believe in

AK-47

I'll never leave my

AK-47

 

Yeh, I've still got the hatred in my heart

it's the only thing that keeps me alive

Most of my friends deserted,

some of them betrayed us,

lots of them I watched die.

But there's one friend I've kept

through all the wars you slept through

he's been faithful,

he's never cried.

Always up for fighting;

killing that invader-

The AK-47 by my side.

AK-47

Kalishnikov

AK-47