One Song

[Jesusetc84]

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling

Flowing into the night

People so busy, makes me feel dizzy

Taxi light shines so bright

But I dont need no friends

As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset

I am in paradise

 

Every day I look at the world from my window

But chilly, chilly is the evening time

Waterloo sunsets fine

 

Terry meets julie, waterloo station

Every friday night

But I am so lazy, dont want to wander

I stay at home at night

But I dont feel afraid

As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset

I am in paradise

 

Every day I look at the world from my window

But chilly, chilly is the evening time

Waterloo sunsets fine

 

Millions of people swarming like flies round waterloo underground

But terry and julie cross over the river

Where they feel safe and sound

And the dont need no friends

As long as they gaze on waterloo sunset

They are in paradise

 

Waterloo sunsets fine

[yermom]

She

[DAngerer09]

what I've kept with me

and what I've thrown away

and where the hell I've ended up

on this glary, random day

were the things I really cared about

just left along the way

for being too pent up and proud?

 

woke up way too late

feeling hungover and old

and the sun was shining bright

and I walked barefoot down the road

started thinking about my old man

it seems that all men

want to get into a car and go

anywhere

 

here I stand

sad and free

I can't cry

I can't see

what I've done

no, God,

what have I done?

 

don't you know I'm numb, man, no,

I can't feel a thing at all, 'cause it's

all smiles and business these days

and I'm indifferent to the loss

and I've faith that there's a soul somewhere

that's leading me around

I wonder if she knows which way is down

 

here I stand

sad and free

I can't cry

and I can't see

what I've done

no, God,

what have I done?

ooh

 

and I poured my heart out

and I poured my heart out

it evaporated...

see?

 

blind man on a canyon's edge

of a panoramic scene

maybe I'm a kite that's flying high

and random, dangling a string

or slumped over in a vacant room

head on a stranger's knee

I'm sure back home

they think I've lost my mind

 

here I stand

sad and free

I can't cry

and I can't see

what I've done

no, God,

what have I done?

[SarahC]

I don't know you

But I want you

All the more for that

Words fall through me

And always fool me

And I can't react

And games that never amount

To more than they're meant

Will play themselves out

 

Take this sinking boat and point it home

We've still got time

Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice

You've made it now

 

Falling slowly, eyes that know me

And I can't go back

Moods that take me and erase me

And I'm painted black

You have suffered enough

And warred with yourself

It's time that you won

 

Take this sinking boat and point it home

We've still got time

Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice

You've made it now

 

Take this sinking boat and point it home

We've still got time

Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice

You've made it now

Falling slowly sing your melody

I'll sing along

[a.miller]

I'll be damned if I don't leave

I've got no tricks left up my sleeve

I've got no jokes I haven't told.

My talk is coming cheap,

I think I'd better move my feet

I've got no stories I haven't told.

 

I got a line on a new job

I'll convince them I'm no slob

I can rake in the cash, hand over fist.

I'm the one they need

I'll work hard to buy my feed and

Smoke my weed to pass times I won't miss.

 

I'll find a place I can afford

In a town that I can explore

For trouble and a girl to call my own.

With a hole in the wall and

A drunk man in the hall

I'll lock the door and welcome myself home.

 

At times I find I laugh at life

at nine-to-five, a job, a wife:

A story, as a boy, I never read.

These thoughts and words and dreams it seems

Like costumes worn on Halloweens,

Pretending we're someone else instead.

 

Pretending we're someone else instead.

 

I'll be damned if I don't go

What I'll do, I don't know...

I've got no songs I haven't sung.

I'm running out of words to write and

Reasons to stay up at night

I worry I've become too tightly strung.

 

I see myself in old men's faces

I think about all the places those men

Have seen pass on by.

Like books on tape and magazines,

Newspapers on kings and queens,

Pretending they all know why.

 

Pretending they all know why.

 

I'll be damned here if I stay,

It gets worse here everyday.

Stick my neck out but can't see

'round the bend.

They say, easy comes as easy goes,

But easy never really knows,

Which way to turn when your path ends.

 

Which way to turn when your path ends.

[rsjbraz]

Take the rings off your fingers

as if they were tears

and find a new kind of beauty

to put a silver lining on your golden years

All your clever talk and your glamour

bright lies you don't hear anymore

You've gone so far out

all you want is the tide to take you back to the shore

 

Take courage

Take courage said the sign

 

You used to wait for it every morning

Now you are looking so dumb

and they don't see you standing there

Trying to figure out why all your promises

left you hanging in mid-air

And you lost your war of words,

Oh but your heart was strong.

You said, "the dirt can have my pretty things,

but to the earth my heart does not belong

 

If we can walk without our crutches

would we have anything to offer them

If we can walk without our crutches

would they have anything to see

 

Take the rings off your fingers

as if they were tears

All the diamonds are hollow

and ring painfully in our ears

They'd love to tell you

but don't let them get carried away

As if you need another lesson in humility

 

Take courage

Take courage said the sign

 

You used to wait for it every morning

Every morning

Every morning

But now you know that it was just a warning.

[lizish]

 

(never thought that there would be a pop song about curling.. but there you have it...)

 

Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts

 

Now the lounge is full of farmers

For the 7:30 draw

Teammates all left before they had to buy a round

 

When they pull the 50-50

And I

[PigSooie]

Louise only got from me innocent poetry

Although she played to not listen

But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else

Ever could offer the same

 

Some say she knowingly tastes like a recipe

Although so foolish and willing

I said Babe I can picture you bend as if wanting to

Bow as the curtain rolls down

 

Coddle some men, they'll remember you bitterly

Fuck 'em, they'll come back for more

I asked my Louise would she leave and so cripple me

Then came a knock at the door

 

 

[renic]

I was

Waiting for you

I was

Standing around

I was

Getting Older

I was

Going Down

 

If you always get up late

You'll never be on time

If you always make it after work

ba ba dada

 

Oh the day never comes

and I stand up

Waiting on

 

I saw you down there

I know you were tired

I saw you

You looked like a SWIMMER

I wanna be with you

All of the time

Why can't you satisfy

 

You look good

but you sound better

you were the best I had

 

If you always get up late

You'll never be on time

If you always get up late

You're never gonna be on time

And that's a shame

 

Cause I like you

I never see you.

[LouieB]

Baby, baby, please believe me

I would never never do anything to hurt you

Baby, baby, please believe me

I would never never do anything to you to make you blue

But yesterday I got this letter

From the boy I loved before I ever knew you

Before I even knew you

 

And the train from Kansas city is coming into town.

The train from Kansas city is a-coming

And there's nothing I can do can make it turn around.

 

Baby, baby, please believe me

Nothing in this world would tear us apart

We'll never, never part

So wait right here and I will hurry

I'll be back in the time it takes to break a heart

I gotta break his heart

 

'Cause the train from Kansas city is coming into town

The train from Kansas city is a-coming

And there's nothing I can do can make it turn around

 

No, I never answered his letter

I just couldn't tell him that way

No, I never answered his letter

I just didn't know what to say

Now I'm going down to the station

I'll be there at ten after two

I'll show him the ring on my finger

I don't what else I can do

 

The train from Kansas city is coming into town

The train from Kansas city is a-coming

And there's nothing I can do can make it turn around

 

Here comes the train

 

(heard this last night..always freaks me out...)

 

LouieB

[mountain bed]

MONSTER

 

Once the religious, the hunted and weary

Chasing a promise of freedom and hope

Came to this country to build a new vision

Far from the reaches of Kingdom and Pope

 

Like good Christians some would burn the witches

Later some got slaves to gather riches

 

But still from near and far to seek America

They came by thousands, to court the wild

But she just patiently smiled and bore a child

To be their spirit and guiding light

 

And once the ties with the Crown had been broken

Westward in saddle in wagon it went

Until the railroad linked ocean to ocean

Many the lives which had come to an end

 

While we bullied, stole and bought a homeland

We began the slaughter of the red man

 

But still from near and far to seek America

They came by thousands, to court the wild

But she just patiently smiled and bore a child

To be their spirit and guiding light

 

The Blue and Grey they stomped it

They kicked it just like a dog

And when the war was over

They stuffed it just like a hog

 

And though the past has its share of injustice

Kind was the spirit in many a way

But its protectors and friends have been sleeping

Now it's a monster and will not obey

 

The spirit was freedom and justice

And its keepers seemed generous and kind

Its leaders were supposed to serve the country

But now they won't pay it no mind

Cause the people got fat and grew lazy

Now their vote is like a meaningless joke

They babble about law and order

But it's all just an echo of what they've been told

 

Yeah, there's a monster on the loose

It's got our heads into the noose

And it just sits there watchin'

 

The cities have turned into jungles

And corruption is strangling the land

The police force is watching the people

And the people just can't understand

We don't know how to mind our own business

Cause the whole world's got to be just like us

Now we are fighting a war over there

No matter who's the winner we can't pay the cost

 

Cause there's a monster on the loose

It's got our heads into the noose

And it just sits there....watchin'

 

AMERICA, where are you now?

Don't you care about your sons and daughters?

Don't you know we need you now?

We can't fight alone against the monster

 

AMERICA, where are you now?

Don't you care about your sons and daughters?

Don't you know we need you now?

We can't fight alone against the monster

 

AMERICA...

[lizish]

 

Basia Bulat

[Clouds of Fluff]

Escape is on your mind again

Escape to a far away land

At times it seems there is no end

To long hard nights of drinking

 

How will you go, how will you go

Drive through the wind and the rain

Cover it up, cover it up

I'll find you a shelter to sleep in

 

I fell over on the couch again

But you know not all sleep is wasted

Your dreams are alcohol inspired

I can't find a better way to face it

 

How will you go, how will you go

Drive through the wind and the rain

Cover it up, cover it up

I'll find you a shelter to sleep in

 

And you know, I'll be fine

Just don't ask me how it's going

Gimme time, gimme time

'Cos I want you to see

'Round the world, 'round the world

Is a tangled up necklace of pearls

 

 

How will you go, how will you go

Drive through the wind and the rain

Cover it up, cover it up

I'll find you a shelter to sleep in

 

 

How Will You Go ~ Crowded House

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

With the money from her accident

She bought herself a mobile home

So at least she could get some enjoyment

Out of being alone

No one could say that she was left up on the shelf

Its you and me against the world kid she mumbled to herself

 

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi stubbs tears run down his face

 

She ran away from home with her mothers best coat

She was married before she was even entitled to vote

And her husband was one of those blokes

The sort that only laughs at his own jokes

The sort that war takes away

And when there wasn't a war he left her anyway

 

Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

Are here to make everything right thats wrong

Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too

Are here to make it all okay with you

 

One dark night he came home from the sea

And put a hole in her body where no hole should be

It hurt her more to see him walking out the door

And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the

Floor

 

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

She takes off the four tops tape and puts it back in its case

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi stubbs tears...

[H.Stone]

Walk me to the bus

Tell me it

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

We met out on open streets when we had no place to go

I remember how my heart beat when you said I love you so

Then little by little we choked out all the life that our love could hold

Oh no

 

It's like we had a noose and baby without check

We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks

Each one waiting for the other, darlin', to say when

Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end

 

We didn't count tomorrows, we took what we could and baby we ran

There was no time for sorrow, every place we went I held your hand

And when the night closed in I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know

But oh no

 

It's like we had a noose and baby without check

We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks

Each one waiting for the other, darlin', to say when

Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end

 

Our love has fallen around us like we said it never could

We saw it happen to all the others but to us it never would

Well how could something so bad, darling, come from something that was so good

I don't know

 

It's like we had a noose and baby without check

We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks

Each one waiting for the other, darlin', to say when

Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Guess I got what I deserve

kept you waiting there too long my love

All that time without a word

did you really think that I'd forget

Or I

[Guest Alan]

I never saw the morning til I stayed up all night

I never saw the sunshine til you turned out the light

I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long

I never heard the melody, until I needed a song.

 

I never saw the white line, til I was leaving you behind

I never knew I needed you til I was caught up in a bind

I never spoke i love you til I cursed you in vain,

I never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane.

 

I never saw the east coast til I move to the west

I never saw the moonlight until it shone off your breast

I never saw your heart til someone tried to steal,

Tried to steal it away

I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face.

[Analogman]

With his fool's gold stacked up all around him

From a killing in the market on the war

The children left King Midas there, as they found him

In his counting house where nothing counts but more

 

With his travel logs of 'maybe next year' places

As a trade-in for a name upon the door

And he pays for every year he cannot buy back with his tears

As he finds out there's been no one keeping score

 

And he thought he heard the echo of a penny whistle band

And the laughter from a distant caravan

And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand

Fading through the door into summer

[Lammycat]

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,

Away, you rolling river

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you

Away, I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

 

Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter,

Away, you rolling river

Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter

Away, I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

 

Oh, Shenandoah, I'm bound to leave you,

Away, you rolling river

Oh, Shenandoah, I'm bound to leave you

Away, I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

 

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you,

Away, you rolling river

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you

Away, I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

It wasn't heaven...

but we laughed

 

Halted at the gates out of luck...

but we laughed

 

Sun on our left and the sea at our back...

but we laughed

 

We laughed

Jesus wept

Shit happens

[Hi my name is Lee]

The mighty continents divided

For a second time in all history

They found themselves just floating

Free from all responsibility

Without the weight of being whole

Some fruits evolved all on their own

But if you want something back

All the things that got cracked

When I felt like you lied to me

And all the million mistakes

And the kicks in the face

But i don't want you to die in me

So when you say what you want

That you need what you got

Don't forget to be kind to me

 

Now here's an apple with a tougher skin

While you've got your pretty scales and fins you say

See all the things that i can do

So perfectly my body moves but in

All the time you felt so free

Did you forget how much you once loved me

And if you want something back

All the things that got cracked

When I felt like you lied to me

And all the million mistakes

And the kicks in the face

But i don't want you to die in me

So when you say what you want

That you need what you got

Don't forget to be kind to me

I don't want you to die in me

[Ludwig Von Drake]

Sometimes I feel like being wispy

And once in a while I feel like being dry

But we're doomed and we're drowned by this feeling we surround

So I hope that I get old before I die

 

Ohhhhh

It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope

And I wonder why this hasn't happened

Why why why

And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt

And I hope that I get old before I die

 

Clear off the kitchen table darling

For on the kitchen table I must lie

I'm just tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life

And I hope that I get old before I die

 

Ohhhhh

It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope

And I wonder why this hasn't happened

Why why why

And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt

And I hope that I get old before I die

 

Ohhhhh

It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope

And I wonder why this hasn't happened

Why why why

And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt

And I hope that I get old before I die

[froggie]

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Clubs and bells, your servant, dont forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

 

Downy sins of streetlight fancies

Chase the costumes she shall wear

Ermine furs adorn the imperious

Severin, severin awaits you there

 

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

 

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather

Shiny leather in the dark

Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

 

Severin, severin, speak so slightly

Severin, down on your bended knee

Taste the whip, in love not given lightly

Taste the whip, now plead for me

 

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

 

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Severin, your servant comes in bells, please dont forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

[Gobias Industries]

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here

Then nothing sister Mary can do

Will keep me here with you

As nothing in this life that I've been trying

Could equal or surpass the art of dying

Do you believe me?

 

There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading

When things that seemed so very plain

Become an awful pain

Searching for the truth among the lying

And answered when you've learned the art of dying

 

But you're still with me

But if you want it

Then you must find it

But when you have it

There'll be no need for it

 

There'll come a time when most of us return here

Brought back by our desire to be

A perfect entity

Living through a million years of crying

Until you've realized the Art of Dying

Do you believe me?