one song

[Sid Hartha]

Goin' down to the corner

Gonna have myself a drink

Goin' down to the corner

Gonna have myself a drink

'Cause that shit that we been usin'

Sure confuse my thinking

 

Gonna send out to the drugstore

Buy myself a goat

Tie him up in my front yard

For all my so-called friends to see

Ain't nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me

I been up so long

That it looks like down to me

 

Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone

Baby, are you against me too?

 

Had a great idea the other night

Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie, baby

Look out

When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day

 

We love you

We love you

We love you

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Oh the time will come up

When the winds will stop

And the breeze will cease to be breathin'.

Like the stillness in the wind

'Fore the hurricane begins,

The hour when the ship comes in.

 

Oh the seas will split

And the ship will hit

And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.

Then the tide will sound

And the wind will pound

And the morning will be breaking.

 

Oh the fishes will laugh

As they swim out of the path

And the seagulls they'll be smiling.

And the rocks on the sand

Will proudly stand,

The hour that the ship comes in.

 

And the words that are used

For to get the ship confused

Will not be understood as they're spoken.

For the chains of the sea

Will have busted in the night

And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.

 

A song will lift

As the mainsail shifts

And the boat drifts on to the shoreline.

And the sun will respect

Every face on the deck,

The hour that the ship comes in.

 

Then the sands will roll

Out a carpet of gold

For your weary toes to be a-touchin'.

And the ship's wise men

Will remind you once again

That the whole wide world is watchin'.

 

Oh the foes will rise

With the sleep still in their eyes

And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'.

But they'll pinch themselves and squeal

And know that it's for real,

The hour when the ship comes in.

 

Then they'll raise their hands,

Sayin' we'll meet all your demands,

But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.

And like Pharaoh's tribe,

They'll be drownded in the tide,

And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

They ask me how I feel

And if my love is real

And how I know I'll make it through.

And they, they look at me and frown,

They'd like to drive me from this town,

They don't want me around

'Cause I believe in you.

 

They show me to the door,

They say don't come back no more

'Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,

And I walk out on my own

A thousand miles from home

But I don't feel alone

'Cause I believe in you.

 

I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter,

I believe in you even though we be apart.

I believe in you even on the morning after.

Oh, when the dawn is nearing

Oh, when the night is disappearing

Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.

 

Don't let me drift too far,

Keep me where you are

Where I will always be renewed.

And that which you've given me today

Is worth more than I could pay

And no matter what they say

I believe in you.

 

I believe in you when winter turn to summer,

I believe in you when white turn to black,

I believe in you even though I be outnumbered.

Oh, though the earth may shake me

Oh, though my friends forsake me

Oh, even that couldn't make me go back.

 

Don't let me change my heart,

Keep me set apart

From all the plans they do pursue.

And I, I don't mind the pain

Don't mind the driving rain

I know I will sustain

'Cause I believe in you.

[Sid Hartha]

This is how you disappear

out between midnight,

 

called up under valleys

of torches and stars.

 

Foot, knee, shaggy belly, face

famous hindlegs,

 

as one of their own

you graze with them.

 

Cro-magnon herders

will stand in the wind,

sweeping tails shining,

and scaled to begin,

 

SHUTTING DOWN HERE

SHUTTING DOWN HERE

 

-to where necks

leave the air

unpossesed

 

and giant heads lock

constellations.

 

A last grain of dust

lands in the darkness

on tongues laid bare,

 

and turning to chalk.

 

Shutting down here.

 

Freezing in red,

bent over his ice skin,

The insomniac gnaws

in the On-Offs;

 

he is glazed

in the hooves

all round.

 

It is losing its shape.

Losing its shape,

as the heat

in your hands

carve the muscle

away.

 

And he grins

from a break

in a backflash.

 

Delivers it up

on a break

in a backflash.

 

Motionless brands

burn into a hipframe

As a saviour

loads sightlines

backlit by fires,

 

on the ridges

of the highest

breeder

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Well, the pressure's down, the boss ain't here,

He gone North, he ain't around,

They say that vanity got the best of him

But he sure left here after sundown.

By the way, that's a cute hat,

And that smile's so hard to resist

But what's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

 

You know, I once knew a woman who looked like you,

She wanted a whole man, not just a half,

She used to call me sweet daddy when I was only a child,

You kind of remind me of her when you laugh.

In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear,

It's done with a flick of the wrist.

What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

 

You know, a woman like you should be at home,

That's where you belong,

Watching out for someone who loves you true

Who would never do you wrong.

Just how much abuse will you be able to take?

Well, there's no way to tell by that first kiss.

What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

 

You know you can make a name for yourself,

You can hear them tires squeal,

You can be known as the most beautiful woman

Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal.

 

You know, news of you has come down the line

Even before ya came in the door.

They say in your father's house, there's many mansions

Each one of them got a fireproof floor.

Snap out of it, baby, people are jealous of you,

They smile to your face, but behind your back they hiss.

What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

 

Got to be an important person to be in here, honey,

Got to have done some evil deed,

Got to have your own harem when you come in the door,

Got to play your harp until your lips bleed.

 

They say that patriotism is the last refuge

To which a scoundrel clings.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail,

Steal a lot and they make you king.

There's only one step down from here, baby,

It's called the land of permanent bliss.

What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?

[watch me fall]

There's a guitar leaning on a Marshall stack

Used to sound like the sun on the horizon

Now I think we've been had

There's a young girl screaming all the way in the back

Poor kid, she never saw it coming

Now she knows she's been had

Watching the label spinning on my turntable

There's no call waiting in my headphones

And every star that shines in the back of my mind

Is just waiting for its cover to be blown

There's an eardrum bleeding, yeah it's in my head

How could I still be so in love when I know

We've been had?

Republicans and Democrats can't give you the facts

Your parents won't tell you 'til you're grown

That every star that shines in the back of your mind

Is just waiting for its cover to be blown

Flashing the badges, just like the law of averages

Nobody likes 'em where they're from

And every star that hides on the back of the bus

Is just waiting for its cover to be blown

[embiggen]

There's a tear in my beer

cause I'm cryin for you,

Dear you are on my lonely mind.

Into these last nine beers

I have shed a million tears.

You are on my lonely mind

I'm gonna keep on sittin here

Until Im petriified.

And then maybe these tears

Will leave my eyes.

There's a tear in my beer

cause I'm crying for you, dear

You are on my lonely mind.

 

Last night I walked the floor

And the night before

You are on my lonely mind.

It seems my life is through

And I'm so doggone blue

You are on my lonely mind.

I'm gonna keep on sittin here

Till I can't move a toe

And then maybe my heart

Won't hurt me so.

There's a tear in my beer

cause I'm cryin for you, dear.

You are on my lonely mind.

 

Lord, I've tried and Ive tried

But my tears I can't hide

You are on my lonely mind.

All these blues that I've found

Have really got me down

You are on my lonely mind

I'm gonna keep on drinkin till I cant even think

Cause in the last week I ain't slept a wink

There's a tear in my beer

Cause I'm crying for you dear

You are on my lonely mind.

[dontknownuthin]

What have you done to the mirror?

What have you done to the floor?

Can't I go nowhere without you?

Can't I leave you alone any more?

 

I know you don't think much of me

But someday you'll understand

Wait'll you learn how to talk baby

I'll show you how smart I am

 

A quitter never wins

A winner never quits

When the going gets tough

The tough get going

 

Maybe you don't know how to walk baby

Maybe you can't talk none either

Maybe you never will, baby

But I'll always love you

I'll always love you

[awatt]

some folks find that their role in life is to fail at everything they try

while other folks see but not like me

there's one thing that they're damn good at

 

gather around you all

come around and see

those who stand tall

why don't you please watch me fall

 

the hole it is wide and it's there to divide

it's no one's fault,

it's put there by design

and there's a bridge yet to build as many men have willed

that can stand the weight of all those who wish to pass

 

gather around you all

come around and see

those who stand tall

why don't you please watch me fall

[embiggen]

Let's go to Pluto, the atmosphere's clear

We'll be really cool there with nothing to fear

Let's go to Pluto, it's cold and it's damp

Where children are heroes, death is high camp

I want to see Pluto... I want to have fun

I want to turn blue under an alien sun

Oh let me see Pluto, it seems such a gas

With oceans of methane and petrified grass

Let's go to Pluto

Let's live on the dot

See the bad moon rising in a lunacy knot

Come one let's do Pluto

It's really not far

An unleaded dream drive to the prettiest star

I want to see Pluto, but maybe I'll wait

'Til the world turns to meet its plutonium fate

The days will be long here, the years will be more

Let's go to Pluto like we did before

Let's go to Pluto

Let's live on the dot

See the bad moon rising in a lunacy knot.

[Fritz]

if you wanna come on down

down with your bones so white

and watch the freight trains pound

into the wild wild night

 

how I would love to gnaw

gnaw on your bones so white

and watch as the freight trains paw

paw at the wild wild night

 

all these ghost towns

wreathed in old loam

Assateague knee-

deep in seafoam

ho, Swansea!

Buttonwillow!

Lagunitas!

ho, Calico!

 

and all these beastly bungalows

stare distend like endless toads

endlessly hop down the road

borne by wind we southward blow

 

and yonder, wild and blue

the wild blue yonder looms

'til we are wracked with rheum

by roads, by songs entombed

 

and all we wanna do

is chew and chew and chew

 

dear one

drive on

 

when all we wanna do

is chew and chew and chew

 

and if you wanna come on down

down with your bones so white

and watch the freight trains pound

into the wild wild night

 

how I would love to gnaw

to gnaw on your bones so-o white

and watch while the freight trains paw

paw at the wild wild night

 

paw at the wild wild night

paw at the wild wild night

 

[lizish]

 

Migrations

[ction]

I listen to you for hours, I'll listen all day

Just keep hitting me the right way

Sing your song in the shower

Cause you got a way

To say what I can never say right - right on

When I feel weak you make me feel strong

Make me feel strong

 

I won't say your name

But you know who you are

I'll never be the same again now--no way

I just want to say

Thank you for playing the way you play

 

You don't get played on the radio

That's not the game you play

Well I don't care anyway

I glued your tape in the stereo

So I know every word every note

And every chord is right - right on

When I feel weak you make me feel strong

Make me feel strong feel like nothings wrong

 

I won't say your name

You know who you are

I'll never be the same again now--no way

I just want to say thank you for playing the way you play

 

Did you know you're why I go

And waste my time

At a rock and roll show

You let me know I'm not alone

You make me feel strong, make me feel strong,

Feel like nothing's wrong

 

I won't say your name you know who you are

I'll never be the same again now no way

I just want to say

Thank you for playing the way you play

Thank you for playing the way you play

Thank you for playing the way you play

[SarahC]

Let's get together and talk about the modern age

All of our friends were gathered there with their pets just talking shit

about how we're all so upset about the dissapearing ground

As we watch it melt

 

It's all of the good that won't come out of us

and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust

if we keep shaking them, standing here on this frozen lake

 

I do this thing where I think I'm real sick

but I won't go to the doctor to find out about it

'Cause they make you stand real still in a real small place

as they chartup your insides and put them on display

They'd see all of it, all of me, all of it

 

All of the good that won't come out of me

and all the stupid lies I hide behind

It's such a big mistake, lying here in your warm embrace

 

Oh, you're almost home

I've been waiting for you to come in

Dancing around in your old suits going crazy in your room again

I think I'll go out and embarrass myself by getting drunk and falling down in the street

You say I choose sadness, that it never once has chosen me

Maybe you're right

 

Let's talk about all of our friends who lost the war

and all of the novels that had yet to be written about them

 

It's all of the good that won't come out of them

and all the stupid lies they hide behind

It's such a big mistake, standing here on this frozen lake

It's all the good that won't come out of me

and how eventually my mouth will just turn to dust

if I don't tell you quick

Standing here on this frozen lake

[la*]

My city's still breathing

(but barely it's true)

through buildings gone missing like teeth.

The sidewalks are watching me think about you,

sparkled with broken glass.

I'm back with scars to show.

Back with the streets I know.

Will never take me anywhere but here.

 

The stain in the carpet,

this drink in my hand,

the strangers whose faces I know.

We meet here for our dress rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way"

Wait for the year to drown.

Spring forward, fall back down.

I'm trying not to wonder where you are.

 

All this time lingers, undefined.

Someone choose who's left and who's leaving.

 

Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me:

a blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest,

the best parts of Lonely,

duct-tape and soldered wires,

new words for old desires,

and every birthday card I threw away.

 

I wait in 4/4 time.

Count yellow highway lines

that you're relying on to lead you home

[embiggen]

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all

the skies were never blue

the stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall

and I never cared for you

I know you won't believe these thing I tell you

I know you won't believe

your heart has been forewarned all men will lie to you

and your mind cannot conceive

now all depends on what I say to you

and on your doubting me

so I've prepared these statements far from true

to fuel your disbelief

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all

the sky was never blue

the stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall

and I never cared for you

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all

the sky was never blue

the stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall

and I never cared for you

I never cared for you

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

This mornin' is Monday

Where are you now?

Teasin my memory

Teachin' me how

to lay low

when I don't want to

Your love is elusive

This I know now

It's makin me crazy

Leavin me out....in the open

When I don't want to

 

Baby, I can't go through this again

I don't need to go down more than I've already been

Just like a wildfire, you're runnin all over town

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

 

The moments of pleasure

Just Never do last

They're gone like a suitcase

Full of your past

Long gone

And in a hurry

 

Baby, I can't go through this again

I don't need to go down more than I've already been

Just like a wildfire, you're runnin all over town

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

 

you're runnin all over town

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

 

Just like a wildfire, you're runnin all over town

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now

 

Ooh, ooh, ooh, Ashes by now

 

By the way...how many of you can identify where my quotes come from?

 

Answers will be provided if anybody gives a shit.

Edited September 1, 2006 by Crowjack

[Analogman]

Where you going now flower?

Scarf around your head

Walking in the morning mist

While I lay still in bed

When I woke up this morning

The sky was old and grey

I

[deluxe]

I've searched the holy books

I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour

I've read the poets and the analysts

Searched through the books on human behaviour

I travelled this world around

For an answer that refused to be found

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

 

I loved her then and I guess I love her still

Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in

She lives in my blood and skin

Her wild feral stare, her dark hair

Her winter lips as cold as stone

Yeah, I was her man

But there are some things love won't allow

I held her hand but I don't hold it now

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

 

This is her dress that I loved best

With the blue quilted violets across the breast

And these are my many letters

Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand

I was her cruel-hearted man

And though I've tried to lay her ghost down

She's moving through me, even now

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

She's nobody's baby now

Nobody's baby now

She's nobody's baby now

[mountain bed]

This is no time for Celebration

This is no time for Shaking Hands

This is no time for Backslapping

This is no time for Marching Bands

This is no time for Optimism

This is no time for Endless Thought

This is no time for my country Right or Wrong

Remember what that brought

 

There is no time

 

This is no time for Congratulations

This is no time to Turn Your Back

This is no time for Circumlocution

This is no time for Learned Speech

This is no time to Count Your Blessings

This is no time for Private Gain

This is a time to Put Up or Shut Up

It won't come back this way again

 

There is no time

 

This is no time to Swallow Anger

This is no time to Ignore Hate

This is no time to be Acting Frivolous

Because the time is getting late

This is no time for Private Vendettas

This is no time to not know who you are

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing

The freeedom of who you are

 

There is no time

 

This is no time to Ignore Warnings

This is no time to Clear the Plate

Let's not be sorry after the fact

And let the past become our fate

This is no time to turn away & drink

Or smoke some vials of crack

This is a time to gather force

And take dead aim & attack

 

There is no time

 

This is no time for Celebration

This is no time for Saluting Flags

This is no time for Inner Searchings

The future is at hand

This is no time for Phony Rhetoric

This is no time for Political Speech

This is a time for Action

Because the future's Within Reach

 

THIS IS THE TIME

 

[embiggen]

Oh, Oh Deep water

Black, and cold like the night

I stand with arms wide open

I've run a twisted mile

I'm a stranger

in the eyes of the maker

 

I could not see

for fog in my eyes

I could not feel

for the fear in my life

From across the great divide

In the distance i saw a light

Jean baptiste

walking to me with the maker

 

My body is bent and broken

by long and dangerous leaps

I can't work the fields of abraham

and turn my head away

I'm not a stranger

in the eyes of the maker

 

Brother john

Have you seen the homeless daughters

standing there

with broken wings

I have seen the flaming swords

there over east of eden

burning in the eyes of the maker

burning in the eyes of the maker

burning in the eyes of the maker

burning in the eyes of the maker

 

oh river rise from your sleep

[awatt]

Slipping and sliding and playing domino

Lefting and then righting, its not a crime you know.

You gotta tell your story boy, before it's time to go.

 

Are you ready for the country because it's time to go?

Are you ready for the country because it's time to go?

 

I was talkin to the preacher, said God was on my side

Then I ran into the hangman, he said it's time to die

You gotta tell your story boy, you know the reason why.

 

Are you ready for the country because its time to go?

Are you ready for the country because its time to go?

[Sid Hartha]

I ran out on my children

And I ran out on my wife

Gonna run out on you too baby

I done it all my life

Everybody cried the night I left

Well almost everybody did

My little boy just hung his head

And I put my arm put my arm around his little shoulder

And this is what I said:

"Sonny I just want you to hurt like I do

I just want you to hurt like I do

I just want you to hurt like I do

Honest I do honest I do, honest I do"

 

If I had one wish

One dream I knew would come true

I'd want to speak to all the people of the world

I'd get up there, I'd get up there on that platform

First I'd sing a song or two you know I would

Then I'll tell you what I'd do

I'd talk to the people and I'd say

"It's a rough rough world, it's a tough tough world

Well, you know

And things don't always, things don't always go the way we plan

But there's one thing, one thing we all have in common

And it's something everyone can understand

All over the world sing along

 

I just want you to hurt like I do

I just want you to hurt like I do

I just want you to hurt like I do

Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do"

[Dude]

My love she speaks like silence,

Without ideals or violence,

She doesn't have to say she's faithful,

Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.

People carry roses,

Make promises by the hours,

My love she laughs like the flowers,

Valentines can't buy her.

 

In the dime stores and bus stations,

People talk of situations,

Read books, repeat quotations,

Draw conclusions on the wall.

Some speak of the future,

My love she speaks softly,

She knows there's no success like failure

And that failure's no success at all.

 

The cloak and dagger dangles,

Madams light the candles.

In ceremonies of the horsemen,

Even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Statues made of match sticks,

Crumble into one another,

My love winks, she does not bother,

She knows too much to argue or to judge.

 

The bridge at midnight trembles,

The country doctor rambles,

Bankers' nieces seek perfection,

Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.

The wind howls like a hammer,

The night blows cold and rainy,

My love she's like some raven

At my window with a broken wing.

[embiggen]

I got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense

I can see what everybody in the world is up against

You can't turn back - you can't come back, sometimes we push too far

One day you'll open up your eyes and you'll see where we are

 

Sugar Baby get on down the road

You ain't got no brains, no how

You went years without me

Might as well keep going now

 

Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff

Plenty of places to hide things here if you wanna hide 'em bad enough

I'm staying with Aunt Sally, but you know, she's not really my aunt

Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can't

 

Sugar Baby get on down the line

You ain't got no brains, no how

You went years without me

You might as well keep going now

 

The ladies down in Darktown, they're doing the Darktown Strut

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what

There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring

Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love's not an evil thing

 

Sugar Baby, get on down the road

You ain't got no brains, no how

You went years without me

You might as well keep going now

 

Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick

Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick

Any minute of the day the bubble could burst

Try to make things better for someone, sometimes,

you just end up making it a thousand times worse

 

Sugar Baby, get on down the road

You ain't got no brains no how

You went years without me

Might as well keep going now

 

Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one

You got a way of tearing a world apart, love, see what you done

Just as sure as we're living, just as sure as you're born

Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn

 

Sugar Baby, get on down the line

You ain't got no sense, no how

You went years without me

Might as well keep going now