Favorite lyrics?

[Ozment]

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

{Refrain}
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

{Refrain}

For they could not love you
But still, your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could've told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you

Starry, Starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

[lucimay]

and another one from



Poor little dreamer
Stand inside the door
You can't find the easy rhymes
Of time you had before

It hurts my heart so bad
Seeing you sigh and shake
Broken down so low - so sad
I can't let you break

Cry to me - Cry to me
You better not hide it
Let it come - let it bleed
I ain't laughing - reach in and get it
And set it free
Cry to me - Cry to me

The glass is empty and the wine
Is bitter on your tongue
People don't seen wild and fine
Like when you were young

You're wreckless over a stormy ocean
Lost in the rain and wind
But we can clear these clouds away
And feel the sun again

If you cry to me - come on cry to me
You better not hide it
Let it come - let it bleed
I ain't laughing - noooo reach in and get it
And set it free
Cry to me - Cry to me



(i love those Wilson girls)

[Lorelei]

can tell, by the way you're pushing crumbs around the table
You're not listening to me
And you say, that you have come as far as you are able
But you're not far from the tree

And you say, you're OK, but you live your life like it's over
And you say, you're OK, but you live your life like it's over

In your dreams, all your passion is like liquid fire
You trail your fingers find the spark
And you see your face reflected in the silver spirals,
But then it burns down in the dark.

And you say, you're OK, but you live your life like it's over
And you say, you're OK, but you live your life like it's over

And all the things you ever tried to tell me,
Somehow don't apply to you
You're the one evading hope, side-stepping every inkling
That the good guy, the early bird, the one who tries, the one who tries Again
WINS

And you say you're ok, but you live your life like it's over
And you say, you're ok but you live your life like it's over....

[The Laughing Man]

Spoiler

In Hiding

Pick me up
Put me down
Push me in
Turn me round
Switch me on
Let me go
I have a mind of my own

In hiding
Far from the city of night
And the factories of truth
I stand upon the mountain
A million miles from my home
And the faces of fear
I have freedom to think

In hiding
I may take off my clothes
That I wear on my face
I float upon a river
A million miles from the plains
That are piercing the clouds
I am lost in the beauty
In hiding

Pick me up
Put me down
Push me in
Turn me round
Switch me on
Let me go
I have a mind of my own

In hiding
I lie silent at last
I am free from my past
I walk among the tall trees
This is beauty I know
I am in love with it all
I have the freedom to love
In hiding

Pick me up
Put me down
Push me in
Turn me round
Switch me on
Let me go
I have a mind of my own

In hiding
I may take off my clothes
That I wear on my face
I float upon a river
A million miles from the plains
That are piercing the clouds
I am lost in the beauty
In hiding

[lucimay]

I've been watching how you dance
Watching how you smile
Watching how you carry yourself around in a crowd
And watching what you say
You've got something that's a secret to the average eye
You've been saving something nobody's seen until now
In a hideaway
I'm not trying to invade your privacy
There are things you have a right to hide
But it's oh so cold
Standing on the outside

Will you take me to your secret hideaway
I won't tell nobody where I'm going
Won't you tell me that we're leaving right away
For the heart of your hideaway

Everybody's looking for a heaven on earth
A slice of paradise where nobody gets hurt
Someone to put the pieces back together again
When your daydreams die
Are you trying to get a message through the air to me?

Get me on your wavelength and tell me which way to go
To your hideaway
I can't stand another second in this tinker-toy world
Give me your direction
Don't make me wait anymore
It seems so far away

You can trust me with your secret fantasy
You will never know until you've tried
But it's oh so cold
Standing on the outside

I've been trying to get a message
Through the air to you
Get on my wavelength
And I'll tell you which way to go
To my hideaway

I will show you to my secret hideaway
We will tell nobody where we're going


~todd~

[The Laughing Man]

• Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  
  So use it and prove it
  Remove this whirling sadness
  I'm losing, I'm bluesing
  But you can save me from madness
  
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  
  So save me, I'm waiting
  I'm needing, hear me pleading
  And soothe me, improve me
  I'm grieving, I'm barely believing now, now
  
  When you are flying around and around the world
  And I'm lying alonely
  I know there's something sacred and free reserved
  And received by me only
  
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  
  So use it and prove it
  Remove this whirling sadness
  I'm losing, I'm bluesing
  But you can save me from madness
  Now, now
  
  When you are flying around and around the world
  And I'm lying alonely
  I know there's something sacred and free reserved
  And received by me only
  
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  And you use it only for me
  Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
  
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  but you've got a secret...
  
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  but you've got a secret...
  
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  Nobody knows it
  but you've got a secret…...

[lucimay]

Sitting in a park in paris, france
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They wont give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see
But I wouldnt want to stay here
Its too old and cold and settled in its ways here
Oh, but california
California Im coming home
Im going to see the folks I dig
Ill even kiss a sunset pig
California Im coming home

I met a redneck on a grecian isle
Who did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile
But he kept my camera to sell
Oh the rogue, the red red rogue
He cooked good omelettes and stews
And I might have stayed on with him there
But my heart cried out for you, california
Oh california Im coming home
Oh make me feel good rockn roll band
Im your biggest fan
California, Im coming home

Oh it gets so lonely
When youre walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
Just gives you the blues
Just gives you the blues

So I bought me a ticket
I caught a plane to spain
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there
Reading rolling stone, reading vogue
They said, how long can you hang around?
I said a week, maybe two,
Just until my skin turns brown
Then Im going home to california
California Im coming home
Oh will you take me as I am
Strung out on another man
California Im coming home

Oh it gets so lonely
When youre walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
More about the war
And the bloody changes
Oh will you take me as l am?
Will you take me as l am?
Will you?

[A Gunslinger]

Tom Ames' Prayer: Steve Earle

Everyone in Nacadoches knew Tom Ames would come to some bad end
Well the sheriff had cought him stealin' chickens and such
by the time that he was ten
And one day his daddy took a ten dollar bill
and he tucked it in his hand
He said I can tell you're headed for trouble son
and your momma wouldn't understand

So he took that money and his brothers old bay
and he left without a word of thanks
Fell in with a crowd in some border town
and took to robbin' banks

Outside the law your luck will run out fast
and a few years came and went
'Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene
with all but four shells spent

And he realized prayin' was the only thing
that he hadn't ever tried
Well he wasn't sure he knew quite how
but he looked up to the sky

Said you don't owe me nothin' and as far as I know
Lord don't owe nothin' to you
And I ain't askin' for a miracle Lord
just a little bit of luck will do

And you know I ain't never prayed before
but it always seemed to me
If prayin' is the same as beggin' Lord
I don't take no charity

Yeah but right now Lord with my back to the wall
Can't help but recall
How they nearly hung me for stealin' a horse
in Fort Smith Arkansas

Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down
just like a cannon shot
And I went away quietly
and I began to file and plot

Well they sent the preacher down to my cell
He said the Lord is your only hope
He's the only friend that you gonna have
When you hit the end of Parker's rope

Well I guess he coulda' kept on preachin' 'till Christmas
but he turned his back on me
I put a home made blade to that golden throat
and asked the deputy for the key

Well it ain't the first close call I ever had
I'm sure you already know
I had some help from you Lord and the devil himself
It's been strictly touch and go

Yeah but who in the hell am I talkin' to
there ain't no one here but me
Then he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the dirt
and he walked out in the street

[lucimay]

god that's a brilliant lyric. Steve Earle.

[A Gunslinger]

god that's a brilliant lyric. Steve Earle.

Yes, it reads and feels like a Peckinpah movie. Tom Ames' is a baaad guy!

[lucimay]

god that's a brilliant lyric. Steve Earle.

Yes, it reads and feels like a Peckinpah movie. Tom Ames' is a baaad guy!

YES! Peckinpah. exactly!!!

and here's a companion piece to it. written by a friend of mine who has now passed from this plane of existance save for the music he left...

Thieves
scott robinson



one boy from minnisota
one from tennessee
two brothers from ohio
the four of them and me
we robbed a bank in georgia
a train on the missouri line
hit another bank in kansas city
and that's where those brothers died

they say no rest for the wicked
no honor among thieves
no redemption for this judas
no earthly home for this bad seed
no peace for the wicked
no kind memories in the black
once i stepped across that line
there weren't no turnin back

now minnisota, he got busted
tennessee, he went on the lam
and i'm the guy they trusted
but they didn't know the kind of man i am
minnisota, he got shanked in the joint
tennessee, shot down in the street
all i had to do was point
and then they set me free

they say no rest for the wicked
no honor among thieves
no redemption for this judas
no earthly home for this bad seed
no peace for the wicked
no kind memories in the black
once i stepped across that line
there weren't no turnin back

a hundred thousand dollars
when all was said and done
but it couldn't fix my cold black heart
or the damage that it done
high class whores and high priced whiskey
couldn't keep me from myself
i burned up every dollar bill
till there wasn't nuthin left

now i'm sittin in this flophouse
i'm thinkin bout what i done
ratted out the only friends i had
i took their share and run
like a ghost, the past it haunts me
i get no sleep, i make no plans
i just keep staring at this cold blue piece
quivering like a small bird in my hand

see it was one boy from minnisota
one from tennessee
two brothers from ohio
the four of them
and me.

[A Gunslinger]

Good stuff as well. It, too has a movie-esque feel to it.

[Worm of Despite]

"Feeling Yourself Disintegrate", by The Flaming Lips

Love in our life is just too valuable
Oh, to feel for even a second without it
But life without death is just impossible
Oh, to realize something is ending within us
Feeling yourself disintegrate

[The Laughing Man]

"Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres"

[I. Prelude]

When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of love and reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages
But still neither force would yield
The people were divided
Every soul a battlefield

[II. Apollo / Dionysus]

[Apollo: Bringer Of Wisdom]
'I bring truth and understanding
I bring wit and wisdom fair
Precious gifts beyond compare
We can build a world of wonder
I can make you all aware
I will find you food and shelter
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform'

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise
But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong
The wise men were consulted
And the Bridge of Death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus
To find out what they had lost

[Dionysus: Bringer Of Love]
'I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the Heart's eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only love can steer you right
I bring laughter, I bring music
I bring joy and I bring tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears'

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew love could not be wrong
Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the gods watched from afar
But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired

[III. Armageddon: The Battle Of Heart and Mind]

The universe divided
As the heart and mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder into hollow
Hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other
Most just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their brothers
For their hearts were so unclear
And the truth could not appear
Their spirits were divided into blinded
Hemispheres

Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
'My Rocinante sailed by night
On her final flight'
To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force
We set our course
Spiralled through that timeless space
To this immortal place

[IV. Cygnus: Bringer Of Balance]

I have memory and awareness
But I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit
I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old
To the city of Immortals
Marble white and purest gold...

I see the gods in battle rage on high...
Thunderbolts across the sky...
I cannot move, I cannot hide...
I feel a silent scream begin inside...

Then all at once the chaos ceased
A stillness fell, a sudden peace
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was atonished
Dionysus thought me mad
But they heard my story further
And they wondered, and were sad

Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear
Its surface splintered
Into sorry Hemispheres

They sat a while in silence
Then they turned at last to me
'We will call you Cygnus
The god of Balance you shall be'

[V. The Sphere: A Kind Of Dream]

We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim
Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united in a single

Perfect

Sphere

[lucimay]

Walk along the river, sweet lullaby, it just keeps on flowing,
It dont worry bout where its going, no, no.
Dont fly, mister blue bird, Im just walking down the road,
Early morning sunshine tell me all I need to know

Youre my blue sky, youre my sunny day.
Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,
Turn your love my way, yeah.

Good old sunday morning, bells are ringing everywhere.
Goin to carolina, it wont be long and Ill be there

Youre my blue sky, youre my sunny day.
Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,
Turn your love my way, yeah.

[Hound Of Chulainn]

I always thought that this would be the perfect opening song to a movie (maybe about Northern Ireland), and then it turned out that someone already thought of that, because it was in some movie with Billy Connolly. Don't ask me what it was about. They retro-stole my idea.

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Stop Making Sense live version)

Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons
packed up and ready to go
Heard of some gravesites out by the highway
a place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brown-stone, live in a ghetto
I've lived all over this town

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey-dovey
I ain't got time for that now

Transmit the message, to the receiver
hope for an answer someday
I got three passports, a couple of Visas
don't even know my real name
High on a hillside, trucks are loading
everything's ready to roll
I sleep in the daytime, work in the night-time
I might not ever get home

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
This ain't no Mudd Club, or CBGBs
I ain't got time for that now

Heard about Houston, heard about Detroit
heard about Pittsburgh PA
You oughta know not to stand by the window
sombody'll see you up there
I got some groceries, some peanut butter
to last a couple of days
But I ain't got no speakers, ain't got no headphones
ain't got no records to play

Why stay in college? Why go to night-school?
Gonna be different this time
Can't write a letter, or send a postcard
I can't write nothing at all

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
I'd love to hold you, I want to kiss you but
I ain't got time for that now

Trouble in transit, got through the road-block
we blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we're tapping phone-lines
I know that ain't allowed
We dress like students, we dress like houewives
or in a suit an a tie
Changed my hairstyle, so many times now
don't know what I look like

You make me shiver, I feel so tender
we make a pretty good team
Don't get exhausted, I'll do some driving
you ought to get you some sleep
Burned all our notebooks, what good are notebooks?
They won't help me survive
My chest is aching and it burns like a furnace
the burning keeps me alive

[lucimay]

Life springs eternal
On a gaudy neon street
Not that I care at all
I spent the best part of my losing streak
In an army jeep
For what I cant recall
Oh Im banging on my tv set
And I check the odds
And I place my bet
I pour a drink
And I pull the blind
And I wonder what Ill find

Im leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
Im leaving for good
Im leaving for good

Used to be I could drive up to
Barstow for the night
Find some crossroad trucker
To demonstrate his might
But these days it seems
Nowhere is far enough away
So Im leaving las vegas today

Im leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
Im leaving for good
Im leaving for good

Im standing in the middle of the desert
Waiting for my ship to come in
But now no joker, no jack, no king
Can take this loser hand
And make it win

Im leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
Im leaving for good
Im leaving for good

I quit my job as a dancer
At the lido des girls
Dealing blackjack until one or two
Such a muddly line between
The things you want
And the things you have to do

Im leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
Im leaving for good
Im leaving for good

Im leaving las vegas
And I wont be back
No I wont be back
Not this time

[lucimay]

Its coming from so far away
Its hard to say for sure
Whether what I hear is music or the wind
Through an open door
Theres a fire high in the empty sky
Where the sound meets the shore
Theres a long distance loneliness
Rolling out over the desert floor

And the years that I spent lost in the mystery
Fall away leaving only the sound of the drum
Like a part of me
It speaks to the heart of me
Forget what life used to be
You are what you choose to be
Its whatever it is you see
That life will become

Whatever it is you might think you have
You have nothing to lose
Through every dead and living thing
Time runs like a fuse
And the fuse is burning
And the earth is turning

Though the years give way to uncertainty
And the fear of living for nothing strangles the will
Theres a part of me
That speaks to the heart of me
Though sometimes its hard to see
Its never far from me
Alive in eternity
That nothing can kill

Oh lord
Are there really people starving still?
Look out beyond the walls of babylon
How long will their needs go unfilled
I want to say right now Im going to be around
Im going to be around
When the walls and towers are crumbling
When the towers are tumbling down
And I will tune my spirit to the gentle sound
I want to hear the sound
Of the waters lapping on a higher ground
Of the children laughing

[Cail]

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.

[Hound Of Chulainn]

I couldn't do it any justice by typing out the lyrics, (they're not even lyrics, exactly), but it's a magnificent song that you have to hear to appreciate:

Midfield General - Midfielding

Buffering could take a while, (although YouTube isn't too bad usually), so apologies to those on dial-up.