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[sgt.null]

Deep Red Bells

He led you to this hiding place
His lightening threats spun silver tongues
The red bells beckon you to ride
A handprint on the driver’s side
It looks a lot like engine oil and tastes like being poor and small
And Popsicles in the summer

Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done
Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done

It always has to come this
Red bells ring this tragic gun
Lost sight of the overpass
The daylight won’t remember her
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
Who shook the Valley of the Shadow

Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done
Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done

Where does this mean world cast its cold eye
Who’s left to suffer long about you
Does your soul cast about like an old paper bag
Past empty lots and early graves
Those like you who lost their way
Murdered on the interstate
While the red bells rang like thunder

Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done
Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done
Deep red bells, deep as i’ve been done

[Sorus]

Lake of Tears - Nathalie and the Fireflies


Comes the morning with scarlet and black for you maybe
Past the sun hides the one with fires anew
Soon to be gone, morning comes more for me lately
Comes the morning with scarlet and black for you to

Oh, do they come there anew

Comes the morning with sorrow
Smile with a heart full of tears
Nathalie comes the ones of tomorrow
With the fireflies there

Comes within, comes without, what's the scarlet about
And the one from the sun for his fires and few
Soon comes the sun, soon comes the morning here baby
Comes the morning with scarlet and black there for you

Oh, do they come there anew

Comes the morning with sorrow
Smile with a heart full of tears
Nathalie comes the ones of tomorrow
With the fireflies there

Ends the night for the pauper
Like a life full of years
Nathalie tell me then shall we bother
With the fireflies there

[dANdeLION]

Church of Women - XTC

A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth

Church of women is made out of milk
which their love turns to butter
Church of women will have you give praise
with a laugh, bark and stutter
Like us men like us men they are nothing like us men
Men have gargoyles 'round their hearts
I'm on my knees but dancing

Want to worship at the church of women
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women

Church of women is making donations of loving and giving
Church of women performing that miracle raising the living
Like us men like us men will they ever like us men?
Men have thorns around their minds
I'm on my mountain preaching

Want to worship at the church of women
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women

Lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth
Give 'em back their house: the walls, the doors, the floors and roof
And stop tryin' to diet on the wafers and wine and submit we're in control
Now let's put things right
Let's multiply the loves and kisses
'Til we have enough to love and eat forever

Want to worship at the church of women
I want to worship at the church of women now
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
I'll breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning 'round
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women
Want to worship at the church of women

[sgt.null]

Thanks A Lot
Neko Case

Thanks
Thanks a lot
I got a broken heart
That's all i've got
You made me cry
Now I cried a lot
I lost your love baby
Thanks a lot

You told our friend
As I was passin' by
That you're not sorry
That you made me cry
You said I deserve
Just what I got
Well if that's how you feel babe
Thanks a lot
Thanks
Thanks a lot
I got a broken heart
That's all i've got You made me cry
Now I cried a lot
I lost your love baby
Honey, thanks a lot

You wanted a fool
& I played the part
Now all i've got is a broken heart
We loved a little
& laughed a lot
Then you were gone
Honey thanks a lot
Thanks
Thanks a lot...

[Drundaar Rockheart]

(It's a bit cheesy I know)
Asia/Heat Of the Moment

I never meant to be so bad to you
One thing I said that I would never do
One look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe this smile right from my face

Do you remember when we used to dance
And incidence arose from circumstance
One thing lead to another we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung

{chorus}
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
Heat of the moment shone in your eyes

And now you find yourself in 82
The disco hotspots hold no charm for you
You cant concern yourself with bigger things
You catch the pearl and ride the dragons wings

{chorus}

And when your looks are gone and youre alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambition you remember well

{chorus x2}

[sgt.null]

So Much Song

So much to lose
Anyway so much to prove
Step away from the wreck
But leave a match for my last cigarette

Someone's got to pay
Someone's got to pay for this

I know my name has not been easy on your lips
And i know that smile is evidence of this
And i know my picture will not be carried with you
Now someone's got to stay and clean up this mess

So much to leave
Anyway so much for me
Have you held your breath
Through this tragic display of my last laugh

Someone's got to pay for this

I know my name...

So much to do
Anyway, i'm done with you

[Queeaqueg]

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted

Oh, god said to Abraham, "Kill me a son''
Abe said, "Man you must be puttin' me on!''
God said, "No'', Abe said "What?''
God said, "You can do what you want Abe but
The next time you see me comin' you better run''
Well, Abe said "Where do you want this killin' done''
God said, "Out on highway 61.''

Well, Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard, "Where can i go?''
Howard said, "There's only one place i know''
Sam said, "Tell me quick man, i got to run''
Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun
An' said, "That way down on highway 61.''

Well, Mack the finger said to Louie the king
"I got forty red white an' blue shoestrings
An' a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where i can get rid of this things''
An' Louie the king said, "Let me think for a minute son''
An' he said, "Yes, i think it can be very done
Just take everything down to highway 61.''

Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren't right
"My complexion'', she said, "is much too white''
He said, "Come here an' step into the light''
He said, "Hm you're right, let me tell the second mother this has been done''
But the second mother was with the seventh son
An' they were both out on highway 61.

Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored
Tryin to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said, "I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes, i think i can very easily done
We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
An' have it on highway 61.''

[sgt.null]

kristin hersh

Spain

Four days in Spain
Smoky Spain
And I take off again
Then I take off again, smiling back

The engine is idling
And the car seems to be expanding
Weird

Blindfolded kissing
Looking for the truth in your tiny moves
I hate to loose

Four days in Spain
Spooky Spain
And you're my missing thing:
Too sweet and pointless
Complete and somewhere else

I was sick of being asked
I didn't want to to anyways
Sucking down mother's milk
Singing my throat away

It's not an awful secret, you know
It's just a secret
Spitting out your blue gum
Kissing your breath away

I wanted you to sleep with her and
Hate yourself instead of me
I wanted you untrue,
Hating yourself like me

After all, what am I missing
I haven't missed before,
Sucking down the precious lies
I should have swallowed way before?

[Drundaar Rockheart]

Flogging Molly-Sevin Deadly Sins

Sail away where no ball and chain
Can keep us from the roarin' waves
Together undivided but forever we'll be free
So sail away aboard our rig
The moon is full and so are we
We're seven drunken pirates
We're the seven deadly sins

So the years rolled by and several died
And left us somewhat reelin'
Johnny strummed his Tommy gun
Left blastin' through the ceiling
So what became of rebels
Who sang for you and me?
Grapplin' with their demons
In the search for liberty

Suffers who suffer all
Can swim upon the desert
Where avarice have ravaged all
In spite of good intentions
Don't fill your mouth with gluttony
For pride will surely swell
But nothing's unforgiven in the four
Corners of hell

(Chorus)

Envy and its evil twin
It crept in bed with slander
Idiots they gave advice
But sloth it gave no answer
Anger kills the human soul
With butter tales of lust
While Pavlov's Dogs keep chewin'
On the legs they never trust

(Chorus)

But it's the only life we'll know
Blagards to the bone
So don't wreck yourself
Take an honest grip
For there's more tales beyond the shore

Ah the years rolled by and several died
And left us somewhat reelin'
In and out came crawlin' out
And spewed upon the ceiling
So what became of rebels?
That sang for you and me
Grapplin’ with their demons
In the search for liberty

(Chorus)

[sgt.null]

In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in gray far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade

In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade

I'm screaming, I met you this way
you're nice to me like ice
in the clock they sent through a washing machine
come around, make it soon, so alone...
please, please, Baby Lemonade

In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in gray far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade

In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade

[The Laughing Man]

"The Dogs Of War"

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone

Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war



You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

The dogs of war don't negotiate
The dogs of war won't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live

You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world ...

[lucimay]

Nothin' wrong with staying inside
Nothin' wrong staying home tonight
All week long was a world of restless
Whatever it takes for a little peace and quiet

Got a pump be right out back now
I got a well up on the hill
All summer long was rain and water
Sometime surrender to God's will


Whatever it takes you best now surrender
Whatever you know, you gotta tell them quick
Scratchin' the wall with some old barbed wire
Whatever it takes to make the dirt stick

I hear them coming with the crane and hammer
I hear them digging holes in the ground
Feel like there's something bound to take me over
Son do what you can in a mean old town now

Whatever it takes you best now surrender
Whatever you know, you gotta tell them quick
Scratchin' the wall with some old barbed wire
Whatever it takes to make the dirt stick.

~chris whitley~

[Cail]

From the coast of gold across the seven seas
I'm travellin on far and wide
But now it seems Im just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do
It isnt me but someone else

I close my eyes and think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Aint it funny how it is,
You never miss it til' it's gone away
And my heart is lying there
And will be til my dying day

So understand
Don't waste your time always
Searching for those wasted years
Face up... make your stand
And realise youre living in the golden years

Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind
Can't easy this pain so easily
When you cant find the words to say
Its hard to make it through another day
And it just makes me wanna cry
And throw my hands up to the sky

[lucimay]

Fair Warning ~todd~



You know, wishing won’t make it so
Hoping won’t do it, praying won’t do it
Religion won’t do it, philosophy won’t do it
The supreme court won’t do it,
The president and the congress won’t do it
The un won’t do it, the h-bomb won’t do it,
The sun and the moon won’t do it
And God won’t do it,
And I certainly won’t do it
That leaves you, you’ll have to do it

I know that you’ve been wondering
If I’m the same man inside
Never tried to fool you
’cause I’ve got nothing to hide
I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down
’til I’ve seen paradise with my very own eyes
Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all
But the world doesn’t own me
Dontcha follow me now
I ain’t afraid to say I may have been wrong
I have to go now
I’d rather live by a dream than live by a lie
And that’s why
There ain’t no cure for what I’ve got baby
We just have to suffer
I feel no pain, I can’t complain,
Things could always be rougher
But I picked up this banner
And I just can’t put it down (no)
I can’t let the world die just ’cause no one would try
Dontcha follow me now
Everybody’s got to find his own place in the sun,
Everyone
So shine on me now
I’d rather live by a dream then live by a lie
You can say what you will about me
Talk is cheap and I don’t mind
When you lay your life down in them grooves
You know you’re bound to get scratched up sometime
It’s only just a song, pay me no mind
I have to go now
You’ve got to walk that road alone
If you walk it at all
Don’t follow me now
I gave you all fair warning
Now it’s goodbye
And every once in a while why don’t you think of me
’cause it’s a long, long time and a long way to go
Can’t you see the light shining in my eyes
’cause it’s just one victory
’cause your dream goes on forever
Don’t you know that I’ve been trying
To get my trip together
Be a real man
I got to be a real man
1, 2, 3, do it one more time
Be a real man
Everybody be a real man
Go then, don’t believe, and I don’t know
’cause I got to be a real man
You can be a man, a real man
I’ll swim that river, climb that mountain
You and me, we all gotta be, real men

[The Laughing Man]

Mean Street

At night I walk this stinkin' street past the crazies on my block
And I see the same old faces and I hear that same old talk
And I'm searching for the latest thing, a break in this routine
I'm talkin' some new kicks, ones like you ain't never seen

This is home, this is Mean Street
This is home, the only one I know

An' we don't worry 'bout tomorrow 'cause we're sick of these four walls
Now what you think is nothin' might be somethin' after all
Now you know this ain't no through street, the end is dead ahead
The poor folks play for keeps down here, they're the living dead

Come on down, to Mean Street
They're dancin' now, out on Mean Street
Dance baby!



It's always here and now my friend, it ain't once upon a time
It's all over but the shouting, I come to take what's mine
We're searchin' for the latest thing, a break in this routine
Talkin' some new kicks, ones like you ain't never seen

This is home, this is Mean Street
(This is) home, only one I know

(This is home) See, a gun is real easy
(This is Mean Street) in this desperate part of town
(This is home) Turns you from hunted into hunter
(This is Mean Street) You go an' hunt somebody down

Somebody said "Fair warning",
Lord strike that poor boy down!

[Drundaar Rockheart]

Frank Sanatra- Thats Life


That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say
You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June

I said that's life (that's life), and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down
'cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin' around

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself layin' flat on my face
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life (that's life), that's life and I can't deny it
Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it
But if there's nothin' shakin' come this here July
I'm gonna roll myself up in a big ball a-and die

My life! ~

[sgt.null]

kristen hersh...

Clara Bow

I didn't use you but I wish I had
I never liked you but I wish I did

Whether it was soaking in your poppy tea
Or your southern hospitality
Your voice has a singsong quality
And bones were made to be broken

Yes, all right, I can
With sunburned lips I can bitch
About another stupid summer

Paste eaters like this sad season
Strong women gripe and bite your heavy tongues

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Long Painting

Long painting
The air plays along with my chemicals
Drained again

But I don't feel so sorry
And I don't feel so bad

Paralyzed by inaction
In a floodlit parking garage
When my mind's as fluid as my body
I finally shut up

I'm sorry to say I was in love
Static played through my middle
Seared my gut

News is bad news
I look to my beer for solace
Drained again

[Esmer]

Shambala

Three Dog Night

(D. Moore)

Wash away my trouble, wash away my pain
With the rain of Shambala
Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame
With the rain of Shambala

Everyone is helpful, everyone is kind
On the road to Shambala
Everyone is lucky, everyone is kind
On the road to Shambala

How does your light shine,
in the halls of Shambala

I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes
On the road to Shambala
I can tell my brother by the flowers in his eyes
On the road to Shambala

How does your light shine,
on the road to Shambala

[sgt.null]

from Hair...

Doors locked (doors locked)
Blinds pulled (blinds pulled)
Lights low (lights low)
Flames high (flames high)

My body (my body)
My body

My body (my body)
My body

My body
Is walking in space
My soul is in orbit
With God face to face

Floating, flipping
Flying, tripping

Tripping from Pottsville to Mainline
Tripping from Mainline to Moonville

(Tripping from "Pot"sville to Starlight
Tripping from Starlight to Moonville)

On a rocket to
The Fourth Dimension
Total self awareness
The intention

My mind is as clear as country air
I feel my flesh, all colors mesh

Red black
Blue brown
Yellow crimson
Green orange
Purple pink
Violet white
White white
White white
White white

All the clouds are cumuloft
Walking in space
Oh my God your skin is soft
I love your face

How dare they try to end this beauty?
How dare they try to end this beauty?

To keep us under foot
They bury us in soot
Pretending it's a chore
To ship us off to war

In this dive
We rediscover sensation
In this dive
We rediscover sensation

Walking in space
We find the purpose of peace
The beauty of life
You can no longer hide

Our eyes are open
Our eyes are open
Our eyes are open
Our eyes are open
Wide wide wide!

[Worm of Despite]

Wrapped in Grey, by XTC

Some folks see the world as a stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
How coloured the flowers all smelled
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
They told me this, as I knelt there

Awaken you dreamers
Adrift in your beds
Balloons and streamers
Decorate the inside of your heads

Please let some out
Do it today
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey

Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...

Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesque

Please let some out
Do it today
Don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey

And in the very least you can
Stand up naked and
Grin