one song

[Fritz]

Well, you're my friend

And can you see

Many times we've been out drinking

Many times we've shared our thoughts

But did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got

Well you know I have a love, a love for everyone I know

And you know I have a drive, to live I won't let go

But can you see this opposition, comes rising up sometimes

That dreadfull imposition, comes blacking in my mind

 

 

And then I see a darkness

And then I see a darkness

And then I see a darkness

And then I see a darkness

Did you know how much I love you

Is there hope that somehow you

Can save me from this darkness

 

 

Well I hope that someday buddy

We'll have peace in our lives

Together or apart

Alone or with our wives

And we can stop our whoring

And pull the smiles inside

And light it up forever

And never go to sleep

My best unbeaten brother

This isn't all I see

 

 

I know, I see a darkness

I know, I see a darkness

I know, I see a darkness

I know, I see a darkness

Did you know how much I love you

Is there hope that somehow you

Can save me from this darkness

[lizish]

lberto hits his brother on the

back of the head, looks to the north

as he starts to get up

his brothers still sleepy

grumbles

[Analogman]

It's knowing that your door is always open

And your path is free to walk

That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag

Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowing I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

That keeps you in the backroads

By the rivers of my mem'ry

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

 

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

Planted on their columns now that binds me

Or something that somebody said

Because they thought we fit together walking

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing

Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find

That you are moving on the backroads

By the rivers of my mem'ry

And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

 

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines

And the junkyards and the highways come between us

And some other woman crying to her mother

'Cause she turned and I was gone

I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face

And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

 

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin'

Cracklin' caldron in some train yard

My beard a roughning coal pile and

A dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can

I pretend I hold you to my breast and find

That you're waving from the backroads

By the rivers of my mem'ry

Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

[Guest Laminated Kat]

Chimney falls and lovers blaze

Thought that I was young

Now I've freezing hands

And bloodless veins

As numb as I've become

I'm so tired

I wish I was the moon tonight

 

Last night I dreamt I'd forgotten my name

'Cause I sold my soul

But I woke just the same

I'm so lonely

I wish I was the moon tonight

 

God blessed me I'm a free man

With no place free to go

Paralyzed and collared-tight

No pills for what I fear

This is crazy

I wish I was the moon tonight

 

Chimney falls as lovers blaze

I thought that I was young

Now I've freezing hands

And bloodless veins

As numb as I've become

I'm so tired

I wish I was the moon tonight

 

How will you know if you've found me at last?

'Cause I'll be the one be the one be the one

With my heart in my lap

I'm so tired

I'm so tired

And I wish I was the moon tonight

 

I'm so tired

I'm so tired

And I wish I was the moon

I'm so tired

I'm so tired

And I wish I was the moon tonight

[candyfloss1214]

Well, a person can work up a mean mean thirst

After a hard day of nothin' much at all

Summer's past, it's too late to cut the grass

There ain't much to rake anyway in the fall

 

Sometimes I just ain't in the mood

To take my place in back with the loudmouths

You're like a picture on a fridge that's never stocked with food,

I used to live at home, now I stay at the house

 

And everybody wants to be special here

They call your name out loud and clear

Here comes a regular, call out your name

Here comes a regular, Am I the only one here today

 

Well a drinking buddy that's bound to another town

Once the police made you go away

And even if you're in the arms of someone's baby now

I drink a great big whiskey to you anyway

And everybody wants to be someone's here

Someone's gonna show up never fear

 

Here comes a regular, call out your name

Here comes a regular, Am I the only one who feels ashamed

 

And even alongside old sad eyes, who says

"Opportunity knocks once then the door slams shut"

All I know is that I'm sick of everything that my money can buy

A fool who wastes his life god rests his guts

 

First the lights, and the collar goes up,and the wind begins to blow

You turn our back on a pay-you-back last call

First the plants, the leaves, the grass and here comes the snow

There ain't much to rake here anyway in the fall

[timbits]

Been beat up and battered 'round

Been sent up, and I've been shot down

You're the best thing that I've ever found

Handle me with care

 

Reputations changeable

Situations tolerable

Baby, you're adorable

Handle me with care

 

I'm so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won't you show me that you really care

 

Everybody's got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine, and dream on

 

I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled

I've been robbed and ridiculed

In day care centers and night schools

Handle me with care

 

Been stuck in airports, terrorized

Sent to meetings, hypnotized

Overexposed, commercialized

Hand me with care

 

I'm so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won't you show me that you really care

 

Everybody's got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine, and dream on

 

I've been uptight and made a mess

But I'll clean it up myself, I guess

Oh, the sweet smell of success

Handle me with care

 

the Lewis/Gibbard/Ward/Oberst version is absolutely stellar

[Elixir Sue]

the Lewis/Gibbard/Ward/Oberst version is absolutely stellar

Come again??

[tkleist]

Come again??

 

 

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2005/11/...enny-lewis.html

[Elixir Sue]

When you try your best but you don't succeed,

When you get what you want but not what you need,

When you feel so tired but you can't sleep,

Stuck in reverse.

 

And the tears come streaming down your face,

When you lose something you can't replace,

When you love someone but it goes to waste,

Could it be worse?

 

Lights will guide you home,

And ignite your bones.

And I will try,

to Fix you.

 

And high up above or down below,

When you're too in love to let it go.

If you never try you'll never know,

Just what you're worth.

 

Lights will guide you home,

And ignite your bones.

And I will try,

to Fix you.

 

The tears stream, down on your face,

When you lose something you cannot replace.

The tears stream, down on your face tonight.

 

The tears stream, down on your face,

I promise you I will learn from mistakes.

The tears stream, down on your face tonight.

 

Lights will guide you home,

And ignite your bones.

And I will try,

To Fix you

[Guest sean]

We stood in your room and laughed out loud.

Suddenly the laughter died and we were caught in an eye to eye.

We sat on the floor and did we sit close.

I could smell your thoughts and thought.

Do you want to touch a lot like me?

Too scared to say a thing.

I left your house and kicked myself.

I put those feelings on a shelf to die.

I guess I'm not a gambling type,

but think of what the two of us had lost.

 

I needed some time to think it out.

7-Eleven parking lot. A toothless woman turned and stopped.

I gave her a dime and a Chesterfield.

She leaned down and kissed my cheek.

I was scared but it felt sweet.

Felt so sweet.

She asked me if I had a name.

I told her I was glued up on some chick.

We sat and smoked against the wall.

Drank a beer, felt the chill of fall.

 

I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house.

I drove so fast.

The wind it couldn't cool me down,

so I turned it around and came back up.

You were waiting on your step,

steam showing off your breath and water in your eyes.

We pulled each other into one,

parkas clinging on the lawn and kissed right there.

 

Said all my chicks they smoke these things,

and handed you a Chesterfield King.

Held your hand and watched TV,

and traced the little lines along your palm.

 

I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house.

I drove so fast.

The wind it couldn't cool me down,

so I turned it around and came back up.

You were waiting on your step,

steam showing off your breath and water in your eyes.

We pulled each other into one,

parkas clinging on the lawn and kissed right there.

[Elixir Sue]

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2005/11/...enny-lewis.html

Thanks, I got it.

[fickerson]

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2005/11/...enny-lewis.html

 

damn, this song is amazing. i can't wait for this album.

[Elixir Sue]

I've thought about it for a while

and I've thought about the many miles

but I think its time that Ive gone away

the feelings that you have for me

have gone away its plain to see

and it looks to me that your pulling away

 

I'm gonna pick it up

I'm gonna pick it up today

I'm bound pack it up

I'm bound pack it up and go away

 

I've found it hard to say to you

that this is what I have to do

but there is no way that Im gonna stay

there are so many things you need to know

and I wanna tell you before I go

but its hard to think of just what to say

 

I'm gonna pick it up

I'm gonna pick it up today

I'm bound pack it up

I'm bound pack it up and go away

 

I'm sorry to leave you all alone

youre sitting silent by the phone

but we'd always known there would come a day

the bus is warm and softly lit

and a hundred people ride in it

I guess I'm just another running away

 

I'm gonna pick it up

I'm gonna pick it up today

I'm bound pack it up

I'm bound pack it up and go away

[timbits]

what are you changin'?

who do you think you're changin'?

you can't change things

we're all stuck in our ways

 

it's like tryin' to clean the ocean

what do you think, you can drain it?

well it was poisoned and dry

long before you came

 

but you can wake up younger under the knife

and you can wake up sounder if you get analyzed

and i better wake up

there but for the grace of god go i

 

it's hard to believe your prophets

when they're askin' you to change things

but with their suspect lives

we look the other way

 

are you really that pure, sir?

thought i saw you in vegas

it was not pretty

but she was (not your wife)

 

but she will wake up wealthy

and you will wake up 45

and she will wake up with baby

there but for the grace of god go i

 

what am i fightin' for?

the cops are at my front door

i can't escape that way

the windows are in flames

 

and what's that on your ankle?

you say they're not comin' for you

but house arrest

is really just the same

 

like when you wake up behind the bar

tryin' to remember where you are

havin' crushed all the pretty things

there but for the grace of god go i

 

but i still believe

and i will rise up with fists

and i will take what's mine

there but for the grace of god go i

[skyflynn]

I'm Lester the Nightfly

Hello Baton Rouge

Won't you turn your radio down

Respect the seven second delay we use

 

So you say there's a race

Of men in the trees

You're for tough legislation

Thanks for calling

I wait all night

For calls like these

 

An independent station

WJAZ

With jazz and conversation

From the foot of Mt. Belzoni

Sweet music

Tonight the night is mine

Late line 'til the sun

Comes through the skylight

 

I've got plenty of java

And Chesterfield Kings

But I feel like crying

I wish I had a heart like ice

Heart like ice

 

If you want your honey

To look super swell

You must spring

For that little blue jar

Patton's Kiss And Tell

Kiss And Tell

 

An independent station

WJAZ

With jazz and conversation

From the foot of Mt. Belzoni

Sweet music

Tonight the night is mine

Late line 'til the sun

Comes through the skylight

 

You'd never believe it

But once there was a time

When love was in my life

I sometimes wonder

What happened to that flame

The answer's still the same

It was you, it was you

Tonight you're still on my mind

 

An independent station

WJAZ

With jazz and conversation

From the foot of Mt. Belzoni

Sweet music

Tonight the night is mine

Late line 'til the sun

Comes through the skylight

[Elixir Sue]

I never wanted to love you, but that's okay

I always knew that you'd leave me anyway

But darling when I see you, you see me

 

I asked the boys if they'd let me go out and play

They always said that you'd hurt me anyway

But darling when I see you, I see me

 

And it's alright

I never thought I'd fall in love again

It's alright

I look to you as my only friend

It's alright

 

I never thought that I could feel there's something

Rising,rising in my veins

Looks like it's happened again

 

I never thought that you wanted for me to stay

So I left you with the girls that came your way

And darling when I see you I see me

 

I often thought that you'd be better off left alone

Why throw a circle round a man with broken bones

But darling when I see you, I see me

 

It's alright

I never thought I'd fall in love again

It's alright

I look to you as my only friend

It's alright

I never thought that I could feel there's something

Rising, rising in my veins

Looks like it's happened again

 

You always looked like you had something else on your mind

When I try to tell you, you tell me "nevermind"

But darling when I see you, you see me

 

I wanna tell you that I never loved anyone else

You wanna tell me that you're better off by yourself

But darling when I see you, you see me

 

This is not what I'm like, this is not what I do

This is not what I'm like, I think I'm falling for you

This is not what I'm like, this is not what I do

This is not what I'm like, I think I'm falling for you

 

I never thought

This is not what I'm like, this is not what I do

I never thought

This is not what I'm like, I think I'm falling for you

 

I never thought that I could feel there's something

Rising, rising in my veins

And it looks like I feel there's something

Rising, rising in my veins

[timbits]

[Elixir Sue]

[Fritz]

After the glow, the scene, the stage, the set

talk becomes slow but there's one thing I

[Dude]

Round and round and round we spin

To weave a wall to hem us in

It won't be long, it won't be long

How slow and slow and slow it goes

To mend the tear that always shows

It won't be long, it won't be long

 

It's hard enough losin'

the paper illusion

you've hidden inside

Without the confusion

of findin' you're usin'

the crutch of the lie

To shelter your pride when you cry

 

Round and round and round we spin

To weave a wall to hem us in

It won't be long, it won't be long

How slow and slow and slow it goes

To mend the tear that always shows

It won't be long, it won't be long

 

Now you're movin' too slow

and wherever you go

there's another beside

It's so hard to say no

to yourself and it shows

that you're losing inside

When you step on your pride and you cry

 

Round and round and round we spin

To weave a wall to hem us in

It won't be long, it won't be long

How slow and slow and slow it goes

To mend the tear that always shows

It won't be long, it won't be long

 

How the hours will bend

through the time that you spend

till you turn to your eyes

And you see your best friend

looking over the end

and you turn to see why

And he looks in your eyes and he cries

 

Round and round and round we spin

To weave a wall to hem us in

It won't be long, it won't be long

How slow and slow and slow it goes

To mend the tear that always shows

It won't be long, it won't be long

[MrRain422]

On a Monday I was arrested (uh huh)

On a Tuesday they locked me in the jail (po' boy)

On a Wednesday my trial was attested

On a Thursday they said guilty and the judge's gavel fell

 

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

I got chains, chains around my feet

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

And them chains, them chains they're about to drag me down

 

On a Monday my mama come to see me

On a Tuesday they caught me with a file

On a Wednesday I'm down on solitary

On a Thursday I start on a bread and water for awhile

 

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

I got chains, chains around my feet

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

And them chains, them chains they're about to drag me down

 

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

I got chains, chains around my feet

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

And them chains, them chains they're about to drag me down

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

In the summer that I was baptized

my father held me to his side

As they put me to the water

he said how on that day I cried

We were prisoners of love, a love in chains

He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain

With the same hot blood burning in our veins

Adam raised a Cain

 

All of the old faces

ask you why you're back

They fit you with position

and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac

In the darkness of your room

your mother calls you by your true name

You remember the faces, the places, the names

You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain

Adam raised a Cain

 

In the Bible Cain slew Abel

and East of Eden he was cast

You're born into this life paying

for the sins of somebody else's past

Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain

Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame

You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames

Adam raised a Cain

 

Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream

Adam raised a Cain

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

In the fields of the lord

Stood Abel and Cain

Cain slew Abel 'neath the black rain

At night he couldn't stand the guilt or the blame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

 

Billy got drunk, angry at his wife

He hit her once, he hit her twice

At night he'd lie in bed, he couldn't stand the shame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

 

Pa told me "Son, one thing I know is true

Poison snake bites you, you're poison too"*

At night I can feel that poison runnin' 'round my veins

[timbits]

He had 3 whole dollars

A worn out car

And a wife who was

Leaving for good

Life's made of trouble

Worry pain and struggle

She wrote good bye in

The dust on the hood

They found a map of Missouri

Lipstick on the glass

They must of left

In the middle of the nite

 

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

 

Behind a smoke colored

Curtain, the girl

Disappeared, they found out

The ring was a fake

A tree born crooked

Will never grow straight

She sunk like a hammer into the lake

A long lost letter and

And old leaky boat

Promises are never meant

To keep

 

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

 

The barn leaned over

The vultures dried their wings

The moon climbed up an empty sky

The sun sank down behind the tree

On the hill

There's a killer and he's coming

Thru the rye

But maybe he's the Father

Of that lost little girl

It's hard to tell in this light

 

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

 

Drag your wagon and your plow

Over the bones of the dead

Out among the roses and the weeds

You can never go back

And the answer is no

And wishing for it only

Makes it bleed

 

Joel Tornabene was broken

On the wheel

Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb

The grain was as gold

As Sheila's hair

All the way from Liverpool

With all we could steal

He was robbed of twenty dollars

His body found stripped

Cast into the harbour

There and drowned

 

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

 

The sirens are snaking their

Way up the hill

It's last call somewhere in

The world

The reptiles blend in with the

Color of the street

Life is sweet at the edge

Of a razor

And down in the front row of

An old picture show

The old man is asleep

As the credits start to roll

 

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

[pnêyu]

A simple tale of rich to rags

But one that often comes to mind

The seer that looked into the mirror

And left his sleeping wife behind

I said goodnight Sir John Dee

 

Well light is a medicine to all of us

With which we feed the silver lamb

That walks beside the wolf of the trinity

They say her teeth are made of sand

I said goodnight John Dee

Goodnight

 

A lantern swinging like a pendulum

The shape of your smile's shadow appears

To invoke the worst I reached into my purse

And I took out the shew-stone gently

And I said goodnight well goodnight John Dee

 

Goodnight well goodnight John Dee

Goodnight goodnight John Dee

Goodnight

[embiggen]

Well The Night Was Beautiful And Mellow, Mellow

And The Light Of The Night Fell On Me, Fell On Me

You Said Right

Made Me A Happy Fellow, Fellow

And The Light Of The Night Fell On Me

I Never Will Forget The Night

I Held You Close, I Held You Tight

Oh Darling, Don't You Know

The Way You Made My Senses Reel?

I Fell In Love And Now I Feel

Like I Will Never Go

Oh Little Darling Don't You Know

That The Night Was Marvelous And Yellow, Yellow

And The Light Of The Night Fell On Me

 

And The Light Of The Night Fell On Me

 

I Never Will Forget The Way

You Taught Me How To Swing And Sway

Oh Darling Don't You Know

That Ever Since That Special Day

My Mind Can Only Contemplate

The Magic That You Show

Oh Little Darling Don't You Know

That The Night Is Beautiful And Yellow, Yellow

And The Light Of The Night Fell On Me