One Song

[PopTodd]

"Acoustic Guitar" by The Magnetic Fields

 

Acoustic Guitar,

I'm gonna make you a star,

Get your picture all over the world

 

Acoustic Guitar,

You can have your own car,

Just bring me back my girl

 

She always loved the sound of your strum

You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb

She tends to faint at the sound of a drum

Cuz she's folk so play and maybe she'll come

 

Acoustic Gutiar, how lovely you are

With your inlays of mother of pearl

Be a good guitar and you could go far

Just bring me back my girl

 

She always said that you were the one

That could make her move her cute little bum

You understand where she's coming from

Which I obviously don't, or she wouldn't be gone

 

Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard

Well you could have belonged to Steve Earle

Or Charo OR GWAR, I could sell you tomorrow

 

So bring me back my girl

You'd better bring me back my girl

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Here's to the babies in a brand new world

Here's to the beauty of the stars

Here's to the travellers on the open road

Here's to the dreamers in the bars

Here's to the teachers in the crowded rooms

Here's to the workers in the fields

Here's to the preachers of the sacred words

Here's to the drivers at the wheel

 

 

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin,let the day begin

 

 

Here's to the winners of the human race

Here's to the losers inthe game

Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war

Here's to the wall that bears their name

 

 

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin,Let the day begin,Let the day start.

 

 

Here's to the doctors and their healing work

Here's to the loved ones in their care

Here's to the strangers on the street tonight

Here's to the lonely everywhere

Here's to the widom from the mouths of babes

Here's to the lions in the cage

Here's to the struggles of the silent poor

Here's to the closing of the age

 

 

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves

With blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Let the day begin

Let the day start

[embiggen]

was thinking of a series of dreams

Where nothing comes up to the top.

Everything stays down where it's wounded

And comes to a permanent stop.

Wasn't thinking of anything specific,

Like in a dream, when someone wakes up and screams.

Nothing truly very scientific,

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

 

Thinking of a series of dreams

Where the time and the tempo drag,

And there's no exit in any direction

'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes.

Wasn't making any great connections,

Wasn't falling for any intricate schemes.

Nothing that would pass inspection,

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

 

Dreams where the umbrella is folded,

And into the path you are hurled,

And the cards are no good that you're holding

Unless they're from another world.

 

In one, the surface was frozen.

In another, I witnessed a crime.

In one, I was running, and in another

All I seemed to be doing was climb

Wasn't looking for any special assistance,

Not going to any great extremes.

I'd already gone the distance,

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

 

Dreams where the umbrella is folded,

And into the path you are hurled,

And the cards are no good that you're holding

Unless they're from another world.

 

I'd already gone the distance,

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

Just thinking of a series of dreams.

[lizish]

 

John Samson from the Weakerthans

[froggie]

denis leary's traditional irish folk song! (sing in your best irish accent)

 

 

They come over here and they take all our land

They chop of our heads and they boil them in oil

Our children are leaving and we have no heads

We drink and we sing and we drink and we die

 

We have no heads, we have no heads

 

They come over here and they chop off our legs

They cut off our hands and put nails in our eyes

O'Grady is dead and O'Hanrahan's gone

We drink and we die and continue to drink

 

O'Hanrahan, no O'Hanrahan

 

They buried O'Neill down in Country Shillhame

The poor children crying a fe dee din de

Hin fle di din fle di din fle de din de

In hey bibble bibble hey bibble bibble hey fle bibble de

 

O'Hanrahan, no O'Hanrahan

 

We drink and we sing and we drink and we sing, hey!

We drink and we drive and we puke and we drink, hey!

We drink and we fight and we bleed and we cry, hey!

We puke and we smoke and we drink and we die, hey!

[embiggen]

Well, I walked out of work

And I was tired as hell

Another day's come and gone and oh well

Somewhere there's a drink with my name on it

 

Well, I ordered a Scotch as I bust through them doors

Spilled half on my jeans

The other half on the floor

When I saw you standing by that video game

 

Well, I ain't very good

But I get practice by myself

Forgot my one line

So I just said what I felt

 

If only you were lonely,

If only you was lonely too,

If only you was lonely

I'd go home with you

 

Twenty push-ups this morning, that was half my goal

Tonight I'll be doin' pull-ups

On the toliet bowl

And somewhere somebody's throwin up

 

Well, I broke the seal on my door

And I poured myself to bed

The whirlpool spinning around in my head

Around in my head

There was liquor on my breath

And you were on my mind

 

And I'll be dreamin of that smile

Without a care in the world

If only you were lonely,

If only you was lonely too,

If only you was lonely

 

I walked out of the kitchen

I was tired as hell

Another day's here and oh well

Somewhere there's a smile with my name on it.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Time to again remind you all of the glory of Dave Alvin

 

She's waitin' for me

when I get home from work

oh, but things just ain't the same

She turns out the light

and cries in the dark

won't answer when I call her name

 

On the stairs I smoke a

cigarette alone

Mexican kids are shootin'

fireworks below

Hey baby, it's the Fourth of July

Hey baby, it's the Fourth of July

 

She gives me her cheek

when I want her lips

but I don't have the strength to go

On the lost side of town

in a dark apartment

we gave up trying so long ago

 

On the stairs I smoke a

cigarette alone

Mexican kids are shootin'

fireworks below

Hey baby, it's the Fourth of July

Hey baby, it's the Fourth of July

 

What ever happened

I apologize

so dry your tears baby

and walk outside, it's the Fourth of July

 

On the stairs I smoke a

cigarette alone

Mexican kids are shootin'

fireworks below

Hey baby, it's the Fourth of July

Hey baby, Baby take a walk outside

[lizish]

 

The Deadly Snakes - By Morning It's Gone

 

There's no danger in your stable

and I know that some good's come to pass.

If you should want for something better, when you know,

when you know there's nothing you could ask.

 

That I would not give over gladly.

I would share with you everything I own

You take me over and by morning,

I wake to find it's gone.

 

Now if I fall beneath your virtue

as you may live now far above your needs.

It's for you to stay in on my foundation,

all of my plan is on my self-receipt.

 

Into the pits of my own longing

and in them everything is wrong.

You take me over and by morning,

I wake to find it's gone.

[froggie]

One by one the teardrops fall as I write you

One by one my words come falling on the page

One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight

One by one my schemes are fading fast away

 

One by one the flowers fading in my garden

One by one the leaves are falling from the trees

One by one my hopes are vanished in the clouds clear

One by one like snowflakes melting in the breeze

 

One by one my hair is turning gray

One by one my dreams are fading fast away

One by one I read your letters over

One by one I lay them all away

 

One by one the days are slipping up behind you

One by one the sweetest days of life go by

One by one the moments stealing out behind you

One by one she'll come and find not you or I

 

One by one I hear the soft words that you whispered

One by one I feel your kisses soft and sweet

One by one I hope you'll say the words to marry

One by one to one by one forever be

[lost highway]

Hardly Accounted For

 

There was a fire on Sixteenth Street, in the house where the bastard had lied through his teeth. And had left her to a basement full of ashtrays and cats, so she had an abortion or something simple like that. She smelled smoke as she walked from the liquor store, that had learned her name in three days or four. The house was just like wicker as the smoke got thick, with her boxes full of his things where the kittens hid. A quick count of heads showed no one to risk for; they turned the hoses on the roofs of the houses next door. Running up the street with a bag in her hands, she said, "I'm hardly accounted for...."

[PigSooie]

I sailed a wild, wild sea

climbed up a tall, tall mountain

I met a old, old man

beneath a weeping willow tree

He said now if you got some questions

go and lay them at my feet

but my time here is brief

so you'll have to pick just three

 

And I said

What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart

and how can a man like me remain in the light

and if life is really as short as they say

then why is the night so long

and then the sun went down

and he sang for me this song

 

See I once was a young fool like you

afraid to do the things

that I knew I had to do

So I played an escapade just like you

I played an escapade just like you

 

I sailed a wild, wild sea

climbed up a tall, tall mountain

I met an old, old man

he sat beneath a sapling tree

He said now if you got some questions

go and lay them at my feet

but my time here is brief

so you'll have to pick just three

 

And I said

What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart

and how can a man like me remain in the light

and if life is really as short as they say

then why is the night so long

and then the sun went down

and he played for me this song

[Doug]

It's hard to top M. Ward's "Chinese Translation," but here's Okkervil River's "Yellow"

 

You can only talk so much about things

that are never, ever going to happen.

My brother's at home with his dog and his cat

and his wife is at a friend's.

 

You can only go on so long about feelings

that never, ever actually touch you.

No matter how much she told him "I love you,"

he found it would depend

 

on the gifts that he bought her,

or how badly she was hurt

when the boss was cruel at work.

But he'd just say

"I love you,"

and he'd reach out to her.

 

He was feeling like shit when I came to visit

and walked through the door of his tiny apartment.

We went for a walk through the park by the market

so we could get some air.

 

And I told to him all things intended to help him,

especially that, simply because it was ending,

that that didn't mean she was always pretending.

Real happiness was there.

 

I could see and I could tell:

it was real love that they felt.

And I'm sorry it didn't end well,

but some things

they just don't - that's life,

and you shouldn't blame yourself.

 

And all of these things, well, I truly believe them.

Our paths and our futures are hidden in mists

that are stretching out over impossible distances,

totally obscured.

 

And I really do think that there's probably more good

than anger or selfishness, sickness, or sadness

would ever completely allow us to have in this life,

I think I'm sure.

 

But that doesn't mean it's bad.

We were walking towards our dad,

while getting out of that school bus,

and he just said

"I love you,"

and he reached out to us.

[mountain bed]

Dig a Little Deeper

 

Out of the mouths of babes it's said

Well babe, your message has certainly reached my head

I'm watchin you, and learnin too

So here I am now

Cut on through, right on through

 

Dig it! Dig a little deeper mama

I can see it coming

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Go have your fun and I'll be gone

 

I ain't no witness on no witness stand

But I can tell you when I've been dealt a bad hand

I'm watchin you, and learnin too

So here I am now

Cut on through, right on through

 

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Dig a little deeper

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Go have your fun and I'll be gone

 

And everyday I come straight home

Ain't had no need to roam

Come home to find my good, good love

I must be crazy what am I thinking of?

And now that I caught you at what you gone and done

It's my turn to have some fun

Notice notice, I'll try indeed

To give you all the space you need

 

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Dig a little deeper

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Go have your fun and I'll be gone

 

Out of the mouths of babes it's said

Well babe your message has got right to my head

I'm tellin you just how I feel

The way you're acting it's a bit unreal, a bit unreal

 

But with each day it matters less

Keep on doing what you think is best

And now that I caught you with your little foolin

You might as well finish what doin

 

Dig it! Dig a little deeper mama

Dig a little

Dig it! Dig a little deeper

Go have your fun and I'll be gone

I'll be gone...

[tkleist]

I dreamt of a fever,

one that would cure me of this cold, winter-set heart

With heat to melt these frozen tears burned with reasons as to carry on

 

Into these twisted months I plunge without a light to follow

But I swear that I would follow anything

just get me out of here

 

But you get six months to adapt

and you get two more to leave town

And in the event that you do adapt

we still might not want you around

 

But I fell for the promise of a life with a purpose

but I know that that's impossible now

And so I drink to stay warm and to kill selected memories

cause I just can't think anymore about that

or about her tonight

 

And I give myself three days to feel better or else I

swear I'll drive right off a fucking cliff

because if I can't learn to make myself feel better

how can I expect anyone else to give a shit?

 

and I scream for the sunlight

or a car to take me anywhere.

just get me passed this dead and eternal snow

 

cause I swear that I'm dying

Slowly, but it's happening

and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere

just take me there

just take me there

just take me there

and say and lie to me and say and lie to me and say

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright

it's gonna be alright..

[froggie]

listened to this 4 time in a row already:

 

 

 

Bron Yr Aur Stomp - Led Zep

 

 

I caught you smiling at me

That's the way it should be

Like a leaf is to a tree - so fine

 

Ah, all the good times we had

I sang love songs so glad

Always smiling, never sad - so fine

 

As we walk down the country lanes

I'll be singing a song - hear me calling your name

Hear the wind whisper in the trees

Telling Mother Nature about you and me

 

Well, if the sun shines so bright

Or the way is dark as night

The road we choose is always right - so fine

 

Ah, could any love be so strong

When so many loves go wrong?

Will our love go on and on and on and on and on and on?

 

As we walk down the country lanes [etc repeated]

 

My, my - la de la - come on now it ain't too far

Tell your friends all around the world

Ain't no companion like a blue-eyed merle

 

Come on now - well, let me tell you

What you're missing, messing 'round them brick walls

 

So, of one thing I am sure

It's a friendship so pure

Angels singing all round my door - so fine

 

Yeah, ain't but one thing to do

Spend my natural life with you

You're the finest dog I knew - so fine

 

When you're old and your eyes are dim

There ain't no Old Shep gonna happen again

We'll still go walking down country lanes

I'll sing the same old song

Hear me call your name

[lizish]

 

Clouds so swift

Rain won't lift

Gate won't close

Railings froze

Get your mind off wintertime

You ain't goin' nowhere

Whoo-ee! Ride me high

Tomorrow's the day

My bride's gonna come

Oh, oh, are we gonna fly

Down in the easy chair!

 

I don't care

How many letters they sent

Morning came and morning went

Pick up your money

And pack up your tent

You ain't goin' nowhere

Whoo-ee! Ride me high

Tomorrow's the day

My bride's gonna come

Oh, oh, are we gonna fly

Down in the easy chair!

 

Buy me a flute

And a gun that shoots

Tailgates and substitutes

Strap yourself

To the tree with roots

You ain't goin' nowhere

Whoo-ee! Ride me high

Tomorrow's the day

My bride's gonna come

Oh, oh, are we gonna fly

Down in the easy chair!

 

Genghis Khan

He could not keep

All his kings

Supplied with sleep

We'll climb that hill no matter how steep

When we get up to it

Whoo-ee! Ride me high

Tomorrow's the day

My bride's gonna come

Oh, oh, are we gonna fly

Down in the easy chair!

 

[lizish]

 

Romi Mayes - Sweet Something Steady

 

Don't want no fancy diamonds

Don't want your mother's pearls

Don't want you to tell me I'm your only girl

Just want a man

Come pick me up and take me for a ride

Why can't you be my sweet something steady on the side?

 

Don't need your folks for dinner

I don't need to impress

Don't need to walk the aisle

I don't need the fancy dress

I don't need to hear you love me

While you look deeply in my eyes

Why can't you be my sweet something steady on the side?

 

Please don't tell me your middle name

Don't tell me where you went to school

Don't come running to me in the rain

You're gonna wind up somebody's fool

Don't call me in the day time and ask about my day

Don't be sitting on my doorstep when you know that I'm away

Just hear my body calling and you won't be denied

Why can't you be my sweet something steady on the side?

 

Don't want no fancy diamonds

Don't want your mother's pearls

Don't want you to tell me I'm your only girl

Just want a man

Come pick me up and take me for a ride

Why can't you be my sweet something steady on the side

Now why can't you be my sweet something steady on the side?

[Clouds of Fluff]

If you're looking for some answers

Well you've come to the wrong place

You might find lines, but no valentines

Written all over my face

I bear no grudge, I wear no frown

I just come with calloused hands

And I don't mean to bring you down but

There is no romance.

 

I've spent too much of my life waiting

Hoping, dreaming, wishing, believing,

And way too little of it living

Smashing it up and taking and giving

I wish someone had warned me

While I was still a young man

And saved me lots of time and money

There is no romance.

 

No romance, no romance, no romance, no romance

No romance, no romance, no romance, no romance

 

Save your stories for the bartender

And your crying for the theater

And your poems and your diary pages

To kill some time in your old age.

 

Uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh

Uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh

 

There may be gods who hear your prayers

And honest men who, men who care

And young lovers who say they will wait forever

Lives that look like movies and books

But the sooner that you learn this

The sooner you free your hands

To get on with things that really matter

There is no romance.

 

Uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh

Uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh

[redheadedstepchild]

Colours In Waves-South

 

Each and every day

Colours in waves

Love and nights cause sparks

Tearing us apart

 

Street lights fading

Cuts my heart

Knowing that the time is past

Comes in waves that don't belong

To me they're silent

 

Fall back on what you've done

I'll be the only one

These colours before my eyes

I'll be forever colourblind

 

Each and every day

Colours in waves

Love and nights cause sparks

Tearing us apart

 

Street lights fading

Cuts my heart

Knowing that the time is past

Comes in waves that don't belong

To me they're silent

 

Fall back on what you've done

I'll be the only one

These colours before my eyes

I'll be forever colourblind

 

These colours in waves

[PigSooie]

Maybe sparrow you should wait

The hawks alight till morning

You'll never pass beyond the gate

If you don't hear my warning

 

Notes are hung so effortless

With the rise and fall of sparrow's breast

It's a drowning dive and back to the chorus

 

La di da di da di da

La di da di da di da

 

Oh my sparrow it's too late

Your body limp beneath my feet

Your dusty eyes cold as clay

You didn't hear my warning

 

Maybe sparrow it's too late

Moonlight glanced off metal wings

In a thunderstorm above the clouds

The engine hums a sparrow's phrase

For those who cannot hear the words

For those who will not hear the words

For those who will not hear the words

 

La di da di da di da

La di da di da di da

 

Maybe sparrow

[mountain bed]

The dream is lost

Don't let it slip away

Or bloody days won't be far away

Cause when there's no more sun

There's nowhere you can run

 

Does anybody know how many lives we've lost?

Can anybody ever pay the cost?

What will it take for us to join in peace my friends?

Does anybody out there even care?

 

WAKE UP WORLD - before it's too late

It's time for love to conquer hate

And when that battle's won

We all can live as one

 

Does anybody know how many lives we've lost?

Can anybody ever pay the cost?

What will it take for us to join in peace my friends?

Does anybody out there even care?

 

Riots in the streets

Men dressed in white sheets

Is that what we want?

A little boy hanging from a tree

And a burning cross

If we learn that we're one we can overcome

Before this takes us all

We'd better catch ourselves before we fall

 

Does anybody know how many lives we've lost?

Can anybody ever pay the cost?

What will it take for us to join in peace my friends?

Does anybody out there even care?

 

Does anybody out there even care?

[H.Stone]

God, what a mess, on the ladder of success

Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled

It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten

 

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

The daughters and the sons

 

Clean your baby womb, trash that baby boom

Elvis in the ground, there'll ain't no beer tonight

Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function

It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten

 

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

The daughters and the sons

 

Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no word (war?) to name us

 

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest

And visit their graves on holidays at best

The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please

If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young

The daughters and the sons

 

Young...take it, it's yours...

[hollow]

They come here alone and they leave in twos

Except for you and me, who just came to use

 

If you

[froggie]

i listened to this today... brings back good old memories of 1994

 

Folks, Id like to sing a song about the American Dream

About me, about you

About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests

About that special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts

Maybe below the cockles,

Maybe in the sub cockle area,

Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys,

Maybe even in the colon, we dont know

 

Im just a regular Joe, with a regular job

Im your average white, suburbanized slob

I like football and porno and books about war

I got an average house, with a nice hardwood floor

My wife and my job, my kids and my car

My feet on my table, and a Cuban cigar

 

But sometimes that just aint enough to keep a man like me interested

(oh no, no way, uh uh)

No I gotta go out and have fun at someone elses expense

(woah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)

I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane

While people behind me are going insane

 

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)

Im an asshole (hes an asshole, such an asshole)

 

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat

I walk around in the summer time saying "how about this heat?"

 

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)

Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

 

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces

While handicapped people make handicapped faces

 

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)

Im an asshole (hes a real fucking asshole)

 

Maybe I shouldnt be singing this song

Ranting and raving and carrying on

Maybe theyre right when they tell me Im wrong...

Nah

 

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)

Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

 

You know what Im gonna do

Im gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible

Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps

And all leather cow interior

And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah)

And Im gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour

Gettin' 1 mile per gallon,

Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds

In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers

And when Im done sucking down those greeseball burgers

Im gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag

And then Im gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side

And there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it

You know why, because weve got the bombs, thats why

2 words, nuclear fucking weapons, OK?

Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want

They can have a big democracy cakewalk

Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square

and it wont make a lick of difference

Because weve got the bombs, OK?

John Wayne's not dead, hes frozen, and as soon as we find a cure for cancer

Were gonna thaw out the duke and hes gonna be pretty pissed off

You know why,

Have you ever taken a cold shower, well multiply that by 15 million times

Thats how pissed off the dukes gonna be!

I'm gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes,

and Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey,

and drive down to Texas and say.....

 

(Hey! You know, you really are an asshole!)

Why don't you just shut up and sing the song, pal?

Im an asshole (hes an asshole.what an asshole)

Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

 

A-S-S-H-O-L-E

Everybody

A-S-S-H-O-L-E

 

Im an asshole and Im proud of it

[H.Stone]

Froggie, thanks for that blast from the past.... brings me back to college housing and listening to that cassette while screwed up on a variety of levels...