Favorite lyrics?

[Endymion9]

Reign of love
I can’t let go
To the sea I offer
This heavy load

Locusts will
Lift me up
I’m just a prisoner
In a reign of love

Locusts will
Let us stop
I wish I’d spoken
To the reign of love

Reign of love
By the church, we’re waiting
Reign of love
My knees go praying

How I wish
I’d spoken up
Or we’d be carried
In the reign of love

Sea,
You made me look <grin>. I had missed this song as I wasn't that impressed with Lovers In Japan and didn't realize there was a second song later on the track. I've split them now so I can hear this one without wading thru the other one.

[The Laughing Man]

• Rainbow in the Dark
  
  When there's lightning
  you know it always brings me down
  
  Cause it's free and I see that it's me
  who's lost and never found
  
  I cry out for magic, I feel it dancing in the light
  
  But it was cold, I lost my hold
  to the shadows of the night
  
  No sign of the morning coming
  You've been left on your own
  
  Like a Rainbow in the Dark
  
  Do your demons, do they ever let you go
  When you've tried, do they hide deep inside
  Is it someone that you know
  
  You're just a picture, you´re an image caught in time,
  We're a lie, you and I
  We're words without a rhyme
  
  There's no sign of the morning coming
  You've been left on your own
  Like a Rainbow in the Dark
  
  Just a Rainbow in the Dark
  
  When I see lightning, you know it always brings me down
  Cause it's free and I see that it's me,
  who's lost and never found
  
  Feel the magic, I feel it dancing in the air
  But it's fear, and you'll hear
  It calling you beware
  
  There's no sign of the morning coming
  There's no sight of the day
  
  You've been left on your own
  Like a Rainbow in the Dark
  
  • • DIO

[Seareach]

Sea,
You made me look <grin>. I had missed this song as I wasn't that impressed with Lovers In Japan and didn't realize there was a second song later on the track. I've split them now so I can hear this one without wading thru the other one.

It's a little jewel. He actually sounds very Peter Gabriel-ish in that song.

...now if only I wasn't technologically challenged: then I could work out how to split the songs so I don't have to wade through Lovers In Japan!!

[Endymion9]

Sea,
You made me look <grin>. I had missed this song as I wasn't that impressed with Lovers In Japan and didn't realize there was a second song later on the track. I've split them now so I can hear this one without wading thru the other one.

It's a little jewel. He actually sounds very Peter Gabriel-ish in that song.

...now if only I wasn't technologically challenged: then I could work out how to split the songs so I don't have to wade through Lovers In Japan!!

I do it using iTunes. I go in using Windows Explorer first and make a copy of the song. Then I import the second song into iTunes. I use options to make the first copy of the song stop at the end of the first song and the second copy of the song start at the time of the beginning of the second song.

[Seareach]

Sea,
You made me look <grin>. I had missed this song as I wasn't that impressed with Lovers In Japan and didn't realize there was a second song later on the track. I've split them now so I can hear this one without wading thru the other one.

It's a little jewel. He actually sounds very Peter Gabriel-ish in that song.

...now if only I wasn't technologically challenged: then I could work out how to split the songs so I don't have to wade through Lovers In Japan!!

I do it using iTunes. I go in using Windows Explorer first and make a copy of the song. Then I import the second song into iTunes. I use options to make the first copy of the song stop at the end of the first song and the second copy of the song start at the time of the beginning of the second song.

Ok...so I made a copy, imported it to iTunes but...um...I can't find the options option. Told you I was technologically challenged!

[Endymion9]

Right click on the song and select Get Info (the first option in the menu). Then find the Options tab. There is a box for start time and for end time. By default start time is set to 0:00 and end time to the full length of the song. Make your change and click ok.

[Seareach]

Right click on the song and select Get Info (the first option in the menu). Then find the Options tab. There is a box for start time and for end time. By default start time is set to 0:00 and end time to the full length of the song. Make your change and click ok.

Thanks heaps Endy! That was easy! Now I can play this to death without having to scroll through Lovers in Japan. Happy me!

[Endymion9]

Right click on the song and select Get Info (the first option in the menu). Then find the Options tab. There is a box for start time and for end time. By default start time is set to 0:00 and end time to the full length of the song. Make your change and click ok.

Thanks heaps Endy! That was easy! Now I can play this to death without having to scroll through Lovers in Japan. Happy me!

Or you can do what I do when I get really hooked on a song...play it on repeat for days on end <grin>.

Glad to help, m'lady.

[sgt.null]

True love will find you in the end - daniel johnston

True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will,
But dont give up until
True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
Unless you step out into the light?
Don't be sad i know you will
But don't give up until
True love finds you in the end.

[Seareach]

Or you can do what I do when I get really hooked on a song...play it on repeat for days on end <grin>.

Guilty, your honor!

211 and counting. I'll be hearing this song in my sleep!

[matrixman]

I hadn't listened to Kate Bush's album The Dreaming in years, but Cag's posting of the lyrics for "Suspended In Gaffa" (a couple of pages back) sent me scrambling for the CD. I was hit once again by this music's uniqueness. The Dreaming is an astounding, gleeful, haunting cacophony of sound, the like of which I had never heard before or since. I recall having had a nightmare inspired by "Pull Out The Pin." The whole album is a strangely beautiful, seductive nightmare. Its gasps, yells, distorted voices, muffled chants and whatnot tell me something nasty is going on, but I'm never quite sure what. The grotesquery in this music is just a marvel to behold.

(That's some verbiage, huh?)

The last song, "Get Out Of My House," is the nuttiest, in an album filled with inspired nuttiness:

("Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!")

When you left, the door was
(slamming!)
You paused in the doorway
(slamming!)
As though a thought stole you away.
(slamming!)
I watched the world pull you away.
(Lock it!)

So I run into the hall,
(Lock it!)
Into the corridor.
(Lock it!)
There's a door in the house
(slamming).
I hear the lift descending.
(slamming!)
I hear it hit the landing,
(slamming!)
See the hackles on the cat
(standing).

With my key I
(lock it).
With my key I
(lock it up).
With my key I
(lock it).
With my key I
(lock it up).

I am the concierge chez-moi, honey.
Won't letcha in for love, nor money.
("Let me in!")
My home, my joy.
I'm barred and bolted and I
(Won't let you in).
(Get out of my house!)

No stranger's feet
Will enter me.
(Get out of my house!)
I wash the panes,
(Get out of my house!)
I clean the stains away.
(Get out of my house!)

This house is as old as I am.
(Slamming.)
This house knows all I have done.
(Slamming.)
They come with their weather hanging 'round them,
(Slamming.)
But can't knock my door down!
(Slamming.)

With my key I
(lock it).
With my key I
(lock it).

This house is full of m-m-my mess.
(Slamming.)
This house is full of m-m-mistakes.
(Slamming.)
This house is full of m-m-madness.
(Slamming.)
This house is full of, full of, full of fight!
(Slam it.)

With my keeper I
(clean up).
With my keeper I
(clean it all up).
With my keeper I
(clean up).
With my keeper I
(clean it all up).

I am the concierge chez-moi, honey.
Won't letcha in for love, nor money.
("It's cold out here!")
My home, my joy.
I'm barred and bolted and I
(Get out of my house!)
(Won't let you in).

(Get out of my house!)
No stranger's feet
(Get out of my house!)
Will enter me.
(Get out of my house!)
I wash the panes.
(Get out of my house!)
I clean the stains.
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
Won't enter me.
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
Yeah! Won't let you in!
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
"Let me in!

"Woman let me in!
Let me bring in the memories!
Woman let me in!
Let me bring in the Devil Dreams!"

I will not let you in!
Don't you bring back the reveries.
I turn into a bird,
Carry further than the word is heard.

"Woman let me in!
I turn into the wind.
I blow you a cold kiss,
Stronger than the song's hit."

I will not let you in.
I face towards the wind.
I change into the Mule.
"I change into the Mule."

Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw...

"Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!"

You listen to this song, and you go: "What...the...hell...was that...??"
But I love it! Sheer lunacy. I think it has some pretty disturbing imagery. The Devil? A woman changing into a Mule? Maybe this is some literary reference, but I have no clue. I'm just a simple mind, overwhelmed by the brilliance of Kate.

And I thank Cag for spurring me to re-discover a classic album after a long absence from my playlist.

[Seareach]

I will come for you at nighttime
I will raise you from your sleep
I will kiss you in four places
As I go running along your street
I will squeeze the life out of you
You will make me laugh and make me cry
And we will never forget it
You will make me call your name
And I'll shout it to the blue summer sky

And we may never meet again
So shed your skin and let's get started
And you will throw your arms around me
Yeah, you will throw your arms around me

I dreamed of you at nighttime
And I watched you in your sleep
I met you in high places
I touched your head and touched your feet
So if you disappear out of view
You know I will never say goodbye
And though I try to forget it
You will make me call your name
And I'll shout it to the blue summer sky...

And we may never meet again...
So shed your skin and let's get started
And you will throw your arms around me
Yeah, you will throw your arms around me
Oh...yeah...
Ohhh yeah...
You will throw your arms around me...
Yeah, you will throw your arms around me....

[Cagliostro]

Y'know Matrixman, I still think the Dreaming is one of her peak albums. It seems a lot of artists have those two albums that are just the top of their game, which isn't saying the rest of her catalog is crap - far from it. It seems like certain fantastic artists have 2 released back to back - the first a bit more experimental but have just about found their sound, and then the next (in the case of Kate, Hounds of Love), just nails her sound, not as much experimentation, but one of the most solid albums through and through. You can compare this with the Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (the Dreaming) and If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Hounds of Love).
Well, more Kate Bush. The first computer geek love song, as far as I came across.

Deeper Understanding

As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.

I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine:

Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must.
I press execute.

Hello, I know that youve been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.

Well I've never felt such pleasure.
Nothing else seemed to matter.
I neglected my bodily needs.

I did not eat, I did not sleep,
The intensity increasing,
til my family found me and intervened.

But I was lonely, I was lost,
Without my little black box.
I pick up the phone and go, execute.

Hello, I know that youve been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.

I turn to my computer like a friend.
I need deeper understanding.
Give me deeper understanding.

[matrixman]

Y'know Matrixman, I still think the Dreaming is one of her peak albums. It seems a lot of artists have those two albums that are just the top of their game, which isn't saying the rest of her catalog is crap - far from it. It seems like certain fantastic artists have 2 released back to back - the first a bit more experimental but have just about found their sound, and then the next (in the case of Kate, Hounds of Love), just nails her sound, not as much experimentation, but one of the most solid albums through and through. You can compare this with the Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (the Dreaming) and If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Hounds of Love).

Yes! I see that pattern, too, among my favorite artists. It's a curious thing.

I love the sound on Hounds of Love, too, packed as it is with Kate's most gorgeous, most propulsive individual songs ever: Running Up That Hill, Cloudbusting, The Big Sky, and the title track. That album I can luxuriate in, while The Dreaming stands out as the most jaw-droppingly bizarre one.

The Sensual World didn't make a deep impression on me (but I might not have given it a fair shake). The follow-up, The Red Shoes, was more to my liking. And Kate's most recent release, Aerial, was fantastic!

I might check out the Pogues some day. I only heard of them because of their association with the late Kirstie MacColl, whom I adored.

[Endymion9]

Matrix,
Just another example of YMMV I guess. I loved Senual World but was nonplused by Aerial.

Sea,
Went to find the song you posted to hear what it sounded like and ended up finding about 38 free Allison Crowe songs available for download off of Last.fm's site, by listing her top songs, if anyone else is interested in grabbing them.
FYI,

[sgt.null]

antony and the johnsons

Oh aeon
My baby boy
Oh aeon will take care of me

All the stars, your eyes
Raining just for me
Oh aeon will set me free

Oh aeon
My baby boy
Oh aeon will repair me

Oh his heart enjoyed
Restores eyes alloyed
Carry me through the olden void

Oh aeon
His arms are warm
Oh aeon was never born

Aeon?s eyes forlorn
He contains the storm
he's the pasture of my dawn

Oh aeon
My baby boy
Oh aeon will take care of me

Hold my father
For it is myself
Without him I wouldn?t exist

Oh aeon
Love my father
For my father is myself

Hold that man
In your tender clutch
Hold that man I love so much

[Seareach]

It really is time for some Gilbert and Sullivan!



On a tree by a river a little tom-tit
Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow"
And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit
Singing 'Willow, titwillow, titwillow'"
"Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried
"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside"
With a shake of his poor little head, he replied
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"

He slapped at his chest, as he sat on that bough
Singing "Willow, titwillow, titwillow"
And a cold perspiration bespangled his brow
Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow
He sobbed and he sighed, and a gurgle he gave
Then he plunged himself into the billowy wave
And an echo arose from the suicide's grave
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow"

Now I feel just as sure as I'm sure that my name
Isn't Willow, titwillow, titwillow
That 'twas blighted affection that made him exclaim
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow"
And if you remain callous and obdurate, I
Shall perish as he did, and you will know why
Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow"

[Marv]

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in



(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

Yeah yeah oh-yeah

[Seareach]

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on

Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last

So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last

[lucimay]

save me
aimee mann



You look like
A perfect fit
For a girl in need
Of a tourniquet

But can you, save me
Come on and, save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike

But can you, save me
Come on and, save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

You struck me down
Like Radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman

You will come to save me
C'mon and save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

C'mon and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone