Favorite lyrics?

[Seareach]

This is one of my all time favourite songs...and kinda seems apt today. Thanks Tori.


These tears Ive cried
Ive cried 1000 oceans
And if it seems I'm floating
In the darkness
Well I cant believe that I would keep
Keep you from flying
And I would cry 1000 more if thats
What it takes to sail you home
Sail you home sail you home

Im aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you
Over silbury hill through the solar field
You know that I will follow you

And if I find you will you still remember
Playing at trains
Or does this little blue ball
Just fade away
Over silbury hill through the solar field
You know that I will follow you
I'm aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you

These tears Ive cried
Ive cried 1000 oceans
And if I'm floating
In the darkness
Well I cant believe that I would kep
Keep you from flying
And I will cry 1000 more if thats
What it takes to sail you home
Sail you home sail you home

[lucimay]

ahhh! her's my favorite of tori's.

Excuse me but can I be you for a while
My dog wont bite if you sit real still
I got the anti-christ in the kitchen yellin at me again
Yeah I can hear that

Been saved again by the garbage truck
I got something to say you know but nothing comes
Yes I know what you think of me- you never shut up
Yeah I can hear that

But what if Im a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I dont care cause sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice and its been here
Silent all these years

So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
Whats so amazing about really deep thoughts
Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon
Hows that thought for ya

My scream got lost in a paper cup
You think theres a heaven where some screams have gone
I got 25 bucks and a cracker, go you think its enough
To get us there

Cause what if Im a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I dont care cause sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice and its been here
Silent all these years

Years go by will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by if Im stripped of my beauty
And the orange cloud raining in my head
Years go by will I choke on my tears
Till finally there is nothing left
One more casualty
You know were too easy easy easy

Well I love the way we communicate
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shade
Lets hear what you think of me now but baby dont look up
The sky is falling

Your mother shows up in a nasty dress
Its your turn now to stand where I stand
Everybody lookin at you, here take a hold of my hand
Yeah I can hear them

But what if Im a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I dont care cause sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice
I hear my voice
I hear my voice
And its been here
Silent all these years
Ive been here
Silent all these years

[Seareach]

I love that one as well! Little Earthquakes is one of my favourite albums of all time! I love "precious things"--two lines in particular

So I ran faster
But it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after billy
Running after the rain

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me

He said you're really an ugly girl
But I like the way you play
And I died
But I thanked him
Can you believe that
Sick sick
Holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces
Of those beautiful boys
Those christian boys
So you can make me cum
That doesn't make you Jesus

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me

I remember
Yes in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me where the pretty girls are
Those demigods
With their nine-inch nails and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them bleed now
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them break their hold over me

Precious ...
Precious ...

[stonemaybe]

Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned

I come old friend from Hell tonight
Across the rotting sea
Nor the nails of the cross
Nor the blood of Christ
Can bring you help this eve
The dead have come to claim a debt from thee
They stand outside your door
Four score and three
Did you keep a watch for the dead man's wind
Did you see the woman with the comb in her hand
Wailing away on the wall on the strand
As you danced to the Turkish song of the damned
You remember when the ship went down
You left me on the deck
The captain's corpse jumped up
And threw his arms around my neck
For all these years I've had him on my back
This debt cannot be paid with all your jack
And as I sit and talk to you I see your face go white
This shadow hanging over me
Is no trick of the light
The spectre on my back will soon be free
The dead have come to claim a debt from thee


What's that all about then?

[Creator]

Hall & Oats - One on One

I’m tired of playing on the team
It seems I don’t get time out anymore
What a change if we set the pace face to face
No one even trying to score
Oh oh I can feel the magic of your touch
And when you move in close a little bit means so much
Ooh yeah, you’ve got to understand baby
Time out is what I’m here for

One on one I wanna play that game tonight
One on one I know I wanna play that
One on one I wanna play that game tonight
One on one so slow

You can’t tell me you don’t miss me girl
I think I might know you too well
Wonder what you’d say if you knew that I was coming tonight
Want to? i want you can’t you tell

One on one I wanna play that game tonight
One on one I know I wanna play that
One on one I wanna play that game tonight
One on one so slow
That’s all you need to know now

’cause if it’s really right there’s nothing else
One on one I want to play that game tonight...

[balon!]

Blues Brothers - 634-5789

If you need a little lovin'
call on me, o yeah
If you want some kissin'
call me baby, all you gotta do
O I'll be right here at home
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial now

634-5789 That's my number
634-5789

And if you need a little huggin'
call on me, lord have mercy
And if you want some kissing
call on me baby, all you gotta do now
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial, babe

634-5789 That's my number
634-5789

O I'll be right there
Just as soon as I can
And if I'd be a little late now
I hope that you'll understand
O yeah

(guitar solo)

634-5789
634-5789
634-5789 O yeah
634-5789

And if you need a little lovin'
you can count on me, o yeah
And if you want some of that kissin'
call on me, you better believe you can
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is call me on the telephone
and dial

634-5789 That's my number baby
634-5789
634-5789 That's our number
634-5789 That's our number
634-5789 That's our number baby
If you need to make change, call Ed's love exchange
634-5789

[Cail]

You gave me this
Made me give
Your silver grin
still sticking it in
You have some machine soul machine
Soul of a Machine


The longest kiss
Peeling furniture days
Drift madly to you
Pollute my heart; Drain


You have stolen me
broken me
stolen me
broken me


All your mental armor drags me down
nothing hurts like your mouth


Your loaded smiles and pretty just deserts
Wish it all for you
So much it never hurts


You have soul machine
Stolen me


all your mental armor drags me down
We can't breathe when we come around
All your mental armor drags me down
nothing hurts like your mouth


We'd been missing long before
never found our way home
We'd been missing long before
we will find our way


You gave me this
made give


you have soul machine
broken free


all your mental armor drags me down
we can't breathe when we come around
all your mental armor drags me down
nothing hurts like your mouth


all your mental armor
all your mental armor
and your mouth...

[lucimay]

Wayfaring warrior soul - still wild
The archer stands
Arrow measured to the goal - sing of
Strong and living man
In his mind there is a vision wandring
Through the forest town
Telling of riches only given if through
The woods the way is found

Crying ah! beautiful dancers ...wake up
From your sleep!
Ahhh gentle romancers...drink of love
So sweet!

Treasure glowing in their eyes - forest
Deepens dark their dream
Keep to the pathway, he advised, for the woods
Are more than they might seem
Heed you now the apparition bending never
Ending sounds
Call you into her mystery - are your eyes
Not sparkling now?

Sighing ahh! take you no warning -
Make no foolish fight
Ahh, think not of morning - lie here
Through the night!

Beauty take us! they call in my arms!
They hear her say
Silken web falls - mist illusion rips away
Helpless! helpless! now they scream
Helpless on the path he stands
And awakens from his dream singing string
Beneath his hand

Gentle archer ages old - release the aim
Free the goal
Roll your arrow to my soul - release the aim
Free the goal

[Cail]

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tom Jones......



(Turn me on, turn me on, turn me on, turn me on,
turn me on, turn me on, turn me on, turn me on)

(Ah, ah, baby, yeah, ooh, yeah, huh)
(Huh, listen to this)

Spy on me, baby, use satellite
Infrared to see me move through the night
Aim, gonna fire, shoot me right
I'm gonna like the way you fight
(And I love the way you fight)

Now you've found the secret code
I use to wash away my lonely blues (well)
So I can't deny or lie
'Cos you're the only one to make me fly

(You know what you are, you are a)

Sex bomb, sex bomb, (yeah) you're a sex bomb (uh-huh)
You can give it to me when I need to come along (give it to me)
Sex bomb, sex bomb, (uh) you're my sex bomb (uh-huh)
And baby, you can turn me on (baby you can turn me on)
(You know what you're doing to me don't you, haha, I know you do)

Now don't get me wrong, ain't gonna do you no harm (no)
This bomb's for lovin' and you can shoot it far
I'm your main target, come and help me ignite (ow)
Lovestruck, holding you tight (hold me tight, darlin')

Make me explode although you know the route to go
Is to sex me slow (slow, baby)
And yes, I must react to claims of those
Who say you are not all that (hahaha)

Sex bomb, sex bomb, (yeah) you're a sex bomb (uh-huh)
You can give it to me when I need to come along (give it to me)
Sex bomb, sex bomb, (uh) you're my sex bomb (uh-huh)
And baby, you can turn me on (baby you can turn me on)
(You know what you're doing to me don't you, haha, I know you do)

Sex bomb, sex bomb, (yeah) you're a sex bomb (uh-huh)
You can give it to me when I need to come along (give it to me)
Sex bomb, sex bomb, (uh) you're my sex bomb (uh-huh)
And baby, you can turn me on (baby you can turn me on)
(You know what you're doing to me don't you, haha, I know you do)

You can give me more and more, counting up the score (yeah)
You can turn me upside down and inside out
You can make me feel the real deal (uh-huh)
I can give it to you anytime because you're mine
(ow, ouch, uh, sex bomb, yes you are,
who say that you are not all that, oh, baby)

Sex bomb, sex bomb, (huh) you're my sex bomb
And you can give it to me when I need to come along (no, no)
Sex bomb, sex bomb, (well) you're my sex bomb
And baby, you can turn me on
Sex bomb, sex bomb, you're my sex bomb
And you can give it to me when I need to come along
Sex bomb, sex bomb, you're my sex bomb (ow)
And baby, you can turn me on (turn me on, turn me on)

[ramona el dorado]

*gasp* uh...yeah!

i still go for that!





Baby, take off your coat, real slow.
Baby, take off your shoes. I'll help you take off your shoes.
Baby, take off your dress. Yes, yes, yes.

You can leave your hat on.
You can leave your hat on.
You can leave your hat on.

Go over there, turn on the light. No, all the lights.
Come back here, stand on the chair. Ooh, baby, that's right!
Raise your arms in the air, now shake 'em.

You give me reason to live.
You give me reason to live.
You give me reason to live.
You can leave your hat on!

Suspicious minds are talking. That's right, they'll tear us apart.
They don't believe in this love of ours.
They don't know what love is.
They don't know what love is.
I know what love is.
You can leave your hat on.

[A Gunslinger]

In the Garden: Van the Man

The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
In the garden in the garden wet with rain

You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
As we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And as I sat beside you I felt the
Great sadness that day in the garden

And then one day you came back home
You were a creature all in rapture
You had the key to your soul
And you did open that day you came back to the garden

The olden summer breeze was blowin' on your face
The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine
And you were a violet colour as you
Sat beside your father and your mother in the garden

The summer breeze was blowin' on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

And you went into a trance
Your childlike vision became so fine
And we heard the bells inside the church
We loved so much
And felt the presence of the youth of
Eternal summers in the garden

And as it touched your cheeks so lightly
Born again you were and blushed and we touched each other lightly
And we felt the presence of the Christ

And I turned to you and I said
No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the father in the garden

No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the
Son and the Holy Ghost
In the garden wet with rain
No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature and the holy ghost
In the garden, in the garden, wet with rain
No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature

[lucimay]

The Last Chance Texaco
(Rickie Lee Jones)

A long stretch of headlights
Bends into I-9
Tiptoe into truck stops
And sleepy diesel dives
Volcanoes rumble in the taxi
And glow in the dark
Camels in the driver's seat
A slow, easy mark

But you ran out of gas
Down the road a piece
Then the battery went dead
And now the cable won't reach...

It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good,
Your last chance
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco

Well, he tried to be Standard
He tried to be Mobil
He tried living in a world
down in a shell
There was this block-busted blonde
and he loved her free parts and labor
But she broke down and died
she threw all the rods he gave her

But this one ain't fuel-injected
Her plug's disconnected
She gets scared and she stalls
She just needs a man, that's all

It's her last chance
Her timing's all wrong
Her last chance
She can't idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin' out of the last chance
Texaco
The last
chance

[Vain]

I'm into this right now

The Cowboy Junkies

HOLD ON TO ME

If you offered me a shade of blue
would I return it saying that it was too
dark or light?
Or would I see it for the precious thing
that it might one day be?
Hold on to me

If you offered me a point of view
would I dismiss it saying that it was too
black and white?
Or would I see it as the special thing
That it would no doubt be?
Hold on to me

I'll hold on to this gift we share
it is as slippery as it is rare
I'll hold on to that feeling
of waking and finding you there
I'll hold on to you and you hold on to me

If I asked you for a simple thing

Would you do it without too much thinking or fuss?
Would you see it for the precious thing
that it would surely be?
Hold on to me

Hold on to me
Hold on to me


and....

DREAMING MY DREAMS WITH YOU

I hope that I find what I'm reaching for
The way that it is in my mind
I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore
and maybe to have learned this time

Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you

But I won't let it change me, not if I can
I'd rather believe in love
and give it away as much as I can
To those that I am fondest of

Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you

Someday I'll get over you
I'll miss dreaming with you
Someday I'll get over you
I'll miss dreaming with you
Someday

[Seareach]

Thanks to Seasis who said I'd like this song: Mika's "Grace Kelly"

Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?

I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?

I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
Ive gone identity mad!

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!

How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on your shelf?

I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
Ive gone identity mad!

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!

Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!

[lucimay]

The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long.
The winter looked the same,
As if it had never gone,
And through an open window,
Where no curtain hung,
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

One begins to read between
The pages of a look.
The sound of sleepy music,
And suddenly, you're hooked.
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

You came to stay and live my way,
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind.
You always say that you won't go away,
But I know what it always has been,
It always has been.

A transparent dream
Beneath an occasional sigh...
Most of the time,
I just let it go by.
Now I wish it hadn't begun.
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

Strolling the hill,
Overlooking the shore,
I realize I've been here before.
The shadow in the mist
Could have been anyone -
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

Small things like reasons
Are put in a jar.
Whatever happened to wishes,
Wished on a star?
Was it just something
That I made up for fun?
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

[Seareach]

...love those lyrics, Luci!

[lucimay]

yeah...you should hear the rickie lee jones version!! in fact, you WILL hear it, as soon as i figure out how to burn a friggin cd without skippings all over it!! ARG!!!!

and speaking of that... the first 3 or 4 missy higgins tunes are great but the rest of the cd skips!!! DAMMAT. same with eskimo joe, which i loved!!!

here's what Esmer and Ger and others have told me, when you're burning cd's you can't be doing anything else, and especially not surfing and posting or im'ing. thats what makes it skip they tell me.
so tell me how i'm supposed to be on the computer, sitting here waiting for a dang cd to burn and NOT occupy myself surfing or posting or im'ing??


anyway, believe it or not, Marty Balin, of Jefferson Airplane/Starship wrote this tune!! and it's on their arguably best album, Surrealistic Pillow!! which, in fact, i've never heard! i've only ever heard the Rickie Lee Jones version. (which is on her album Pop Pop)

and speaking of Rickie Lee, here's another one of her's i dearly love, from her first album...


Company

I'll remember you too clearly
But I'll survive another day
Conversations to share
When there's no one there
I'll imagine what you'd say

I'll see you in another life now, baby
I'll free you in my dreams
But when I reach across the galaxy
I will miss your company

Company
I'll be looking for company
Look and listen
Through the years
Someday you may hear me
Still crying for company

So now you're going off to live your life
You say we'll meet each other now and then
But we'll never never be the same
And I know I'll never have this chance again
Oh no no, not like you, not like you

I'll see you in another life now baby,
I'll free you in my dreams
But when I reach across the galaxy
I will miss your company

Company
I'll be looking for company
Look and listen
Through the years
Someday you may hear me
Still crying
I'm still crying
crying for company
listen to me
I'm still crying
for
company
company
oh i'm looking
for company

[A Gunslinger]

John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar

Well he threw one down form the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing

Chorus:
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I dont know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar

It started back in 1963
His momma wouldnt buy him
That new red harmony
He settled for a sunburst with a crack
But hes stIll trying to break his mommas back

Chorus

He loved that guitar just like a girlfriend
But ever good thing comes to an end
Now he just sits in his room all day
Whistling every note he used to play

There out to be a law with no bail
Smash a guitar and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You dont get out until you get some soul

Chorus

Late at night the end of the road
He wished he stIll had the old guitar to hold
Hed rock it like a baby in his arms
Never let it come ot any harm

Chorus

[Seareach]

and speaking of that... the first 3 or 4 missy higgins tunes are great but the rest of the cd skips!!! DAMMAT. same with eskimo joe, which i loved!!!

How annoying!!!!!! I checked those before I sent them and they were working. Weird.

[Seareach]

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"