Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:15 pm**

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'

Posted: **Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:06 am**

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.

the rickie lee jones version

Posted: **Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:25 pm**

As their wings go dark - up against the sun
and their
shadows pass - over everyone
and time unfolds - to a
beating drum

I throw my clothes on a burning chair
I paint my eyes with the cold night air
the dreamer
shouts - to an empty room

and the sun will shine
and the rain will pour
we radiate for evermore
and
the world will turn

falling rain
in the end
there's a silence

and the TV set doesn't
show the fall
the light is fast the world is small
and
in the end there's a silence

and the sun will
shine
and the rain will pour
we radiate for
evermore
and the world will turn

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:39 pm**

Beneath the freeway at the cloverleaf junction
A symbol of good luck eminates darkness
The shadow will grow to cover california
Somewhere on the road from san bernadino
Its future is steering the past ... will not pass

Speed is the game in the shadow of kings
Where the company of angels fly
They appear at the crossroads at once in the future
Clad in the darkness on the highways of night
With no love ... from the past

Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must pour the brains
In the shadow of california

Revolution by night grant me this future
Kings of the shadow on the highways of night
From san bernadino these angels are racing
This night to your city
The host of angels ... los angeles

Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must pour the brains
In the shadow of california

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:43 pm**

THE ONE I LOVE: David Gray

Gonna close my eyes
Girl and watch you go
Running through this life darling
Like a field of snow
As the tracer glides
In its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to ya
‘cross the falling dark

Tell the reaper man
And the stars above
That you’re the one I love
yeah

Perfect summers night
Not a wind that breathes
Just the bullets whispering gentle
‘mongst the new green leaves
There’s things I might have said
Only wish I could
Now I'm leaking life faster
Than I'm leaking blood

Tell the reaper man
And the stars above
That you’re the one I love
You’re the one I love
The one I love

Don’t see Elysium
Don’t see no fiery hell
Just the lights up bright baby
In the bay hotel
Next wave coming in
Like an ocean roar
Won’t you take my hand darling
On that old dancefloor

We can twist and shout
Do the turtle dove
And you’re the one I love
You’re the one I love
The one I love

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:51 pm**

Been turned around till I'm upside down
Been all at sea until I've drowned
And I've felt torture, I've felt pain
Just like that film with Michael Caine
I've been abused and I've been confused
And I've kissed Margaret Thatcher's shoes
And I been high and I been low
And I don't know where to go

Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death

And heroin was the love you gave
From the cradle to the grave
Boys and girls don't understand
The devil makes work for idle hands
I cut myself but I don't bleed
'Cause I don't get what I need
Doesn't matter what I say
Tomorrow's still another day

Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death

Yeah I been high and I been low
And I don't know where to go
I'm living on the never never never
This time it's gonna be forever
I'll live and die don't ask me why
I wanna go to paradise
And I don't need your sympathy
There's nothing in this world for me

Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death

Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death
Birth, school, work, death

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:56 pm**

Gee Cail...yer starting to worry me!

Two-Steppin' Monkey: pete droge

Doctor Grey was on the ferris wheel, missed the concert in the park
Left his children at the old folks home, paints self portraits in the dark
Plays his Mozart loud, cuts the coupons out, he thanks psychology for paying
But that pension plan's got less to give than he ever wanted
He's just a Two Steppin' Monkey, a two steppin monkey's all he'll ever be
And I'm just a two steppin' monkey too, so let's put him in the zoo with you and me.
Billy Cambell revved his engine up, hit the strip on a Friday night
Parked his truck outside the convenience store, walked inside and shot the clerk
Found some time to kill, thrills were hard to find, now it's hard time in the pen
But that jail cell's got less to give than he ever wanted
He's just a two steppin' monkey, a two steppin' monkey's all he'll ever be
And I'm just a two steppin' monkey too, so let's put him in the zoo with you and me.
The rent was paid again too late this week, and Mr. Maxwell's got his tie too tight
Thought it might change the way his girlfriend felt, to see him dressing up at night
He's got his cigarettes and his amphetamines, he's got his coffee in the morning
But that construction site's got less to give than he ever wanted
He's just a two steppin' monkey, a two steppin' monkey's all he'll ever be
And I'm just a two steppin' monkey too, so let's put him in the zoo with you and me

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:19 am**

here's one for Guns and Jenn...

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks
And tonight can you get us a ride
Gotta make it through the tunnel
Got a meeting with a man on the other side

Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing
So if you want to come along
You gotta promise you won't say anything
`cause this guy don't dance
And the words been passed this is our last chance

We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie
`cause man, we got ourselves out on that line
And if we blow this one
They ain't gonna be looking for just me this time

And all we gotta do is hold up our end
Here stuff this in your pocket
It'll look like you're carrying a friend
And remember, just don't smile
Change your shirt, `cause tonight we got style

Well Cherry says she's gonna walk
`cause she found out I took her radio and hocked it
But Eddie, man, she don't understand
That two grand's practically sitting here in my pocket

And tonight's gonna be everything that I said
And when I walk through that door
I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed
She'll see this time I wasn't just talking
Then I'm gonna go out walking

Hey Eddie, can you catch us a ride?

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:48 am**

Heard this today for the first time in prolly 25 years....Great song, silly lyrics, but man I love Montrose!

If you get lonely on your daddy's farm
Just remember I don't live too far.
And there's a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah
You'll be at my place in less that a day.
So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
Up over to my place and stay all night.
First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right
So get on your bad motor scooter and ride.
Ooh, the last I seen your face
I swore that no one would take your place.
Now since you've been gone I've been feelin' bad, yeah
I'd come out to your place (but)
I'm afraid of your dad. So you...
Ride, ride, ride.
Come on baby, ooh yeah.
Crank it on up!

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:49 am**

hah! i know the bridge he speaks of!

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:14 pm**

Yep, you sure do.

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:29 pm**

Lucimay wrote:here's one for Guns and Jenn...

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks
And tonight can you get us a ride
Gotta make it through the tunnel
Got a meeting with a man on the other side

Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing
So if you want to come along
You gotta promise you won't say anything
`cause this guy don't dance
And the words been passed this is our last chance

We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie
`cause man, we got ourselves out on that line
And if we blow this one
They ain't gonna be looking for just me this time

And all we gotta do is hold up our end
Here stuff this in your pocket
It'll look like you're carrying a friend
And remember, just don't smile
Change your shirt, `cause tonight we got style

Well Cherry says she's gonna walk
`cause she found out I took her radio and hocked it
But Eddie, man, she don't understand
That two grand's practically sitting here in my pocket

And tonight's gonna be everything that I said
And when I walk through that door
I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed
She'll see this time I wasn't just talking
Then I'm gonna go out walking

Hey Eddie, can you catch us a ride?

Thanks Luci!

Here's one from John Hiatt: Tennessee Plates

I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
I turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
Said they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride
Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire

If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
When we landed in Memphis like original sin
Up Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
And there wasn't one Japanese model or make
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates

She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
And ever since that day she's been living in between
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends

Well this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:37 pm**

I got something to say little girl
You might not like my style
But we've been hanging around this town
Just a little too long a while

You say youre gonna get your act together
Gonna take it out on the road
But if I dont get outta here pretty soon
My heads going to explode

Sure I like country music
I like mandolins
But right now I need a telecaster
Through a vibro-lux turned up to ten

Lets go to memphis in the meantime baby
Memphis in the meantime girl

I need a little shot of that rhythm baby
Mixed up with these country blues
I wanna trade in these old country boots
For some fine Italian shoes

Forget the mousse and the hairspray sugar
We dont need none of that
Just a little dab'll do ya girl
Underneath a pork pie hat

Until hell freezes over
Maybe you can wait that long
But I don't think Ronnie Milsap's gonna ever
Record this song

Lets go to memphis in the meantime baby
Memphis in the meantime girl
Lets go to memphis in the meantime baby
Memphis in the meantime girl

Maybe theres nothin happenin there
Maybe theres somethin in the air
Before our upper lips get stiff
Maybe we need us a big old whiff

If we could just get off-a that beat little girl
Maybe we could find the groove
At least we can get a decent meal
Down at the rendez-vous

cause one more heartfelt steel guitar chord
Girl, its gonna do me in
I need to hear some trumpet and saxophone
You know sound as sweet as sin

And after we get good and greasy
Baby we can come back home
Put the cowhorns back on the cadillac
And change the message on the cord-a-phone

But...

Lets go to memphis in the meantime baby
Memphis in the meantime girl

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:43 pm**

Did I post this before? I don't remember, and don't care, cause I like it enough to post twice!

out there where the air is clean
the red woods high, and the grass is green
people tell me they have seen
a giant footprint
is he fishing and skiing and hunting duck
with a guitar, shotgun, and a pick-up truck?
well, with any kind of luck
we'll photograph him

oh, oh, come again outdoor elvis
be our friend, save us outdoor elvis

the world has hope 'cause he's feelin' good
escaped the city, lives in the woods
this is the spot i think he stood
here's a giant footprint
a plaster cast where the pilgrims flock
and a ticket lines around the block
if we don't have the king what have we got?
life don't make no sense

oh, oh, come again outdoor elvis
be our friend, save us outdoor elvis
we have sinned, forgive us outdoor elvis

we'll build a shrine among the pines to you
we might have to set a trap to bring him back
dead or alive, if we want to survive
we gotta' bring him back (bring him back)
oh, oh, oh, oh

in his fishin' vest and his silver cape
i'll bet he's really looking great
you can pretty much tell that he's lost weight
from the depth of his footprint
it's said he croons when the moon's above
singing tenderly, "hunk a burnin' love"
it's nice to know he's still got his stuff hasn't
lost the accent

oh, oh, come again outdoor elvis
be our friend, save us outdoor elvis
we have sinned, forgive us outdoor elvis

we'll build a shrine among the pines to you
('till the end of time we'll stand in this line for you)
o.e. o.e. we look for a sign from you

we might have to set a trap
dead or alive, we'll bring him back

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:20 pm**

Great Find Luci! John Hiatt is a great one. I saw him when he was touring with Sonny Landreth as his guitar player.. wow!

Down South
Tom Petty

Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgivness
Pay off every witness

One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Live off yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down south
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm samuel clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Spanish moss down south
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All document remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Posted: **Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:05 am**

Walking round the room singing
Stormy weather
At 57 mt. pleasant st.
Now its the same room but everythings different
You can fight the sleep but not the dream
Things aint cooking in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius caesar and the roman empire
Couldnt conquer the blue sky
Theres a small boat made of china
Going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released

Chorus
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you

Posted: **Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:26 am**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:34 am**

FELL ON BLACK DAYS

Whatsoever I've feared has come to life
Whatsoever I've fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded
And now I'm doing time
Cause I fell on black days

- Whomsoever I've cured I've sickened now
  Whomsoever I've cradled I've put you down
  I'm a search light soul they say
  But I can't see it in the night
  I'm only faking when I get it right
  Cause I fell on black days
  How would I know
  That this could be my fate

- - - So what you wanted to see good has made you blind
      And what you wanted to be yours has made it mine
      So don't you lock up something that you wanted to see fly
      Hands are for shaking
      No, not tying
      No, not tying

- - - - I sure don't mind a change
        But I fell on black days
        How would I know
        That this could be my fate

Posted: **Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:21 pm**

One of my faves... this is one I have even Kareoke'd!

Guitar Town
(Steve Earle)

Hey pretty baby are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee
I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town
But no local yokel gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town
Nothin' ever happened 'round my hometown
And I ain't the kind to just hang around
But I heard someone callin' my name one day
And I followed that voice down the lost highway
Everybody told me you can't get far
On thirty-seven dollars and a jap guitar
Now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer down
And a rockin' little combo from the Guitar Town

Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault
I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
Stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop

Gotta keep rockin' why I still can
I gotta two pack habit and a motel tan
But when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man
With my back to the riser I make my stand
And hey pretty baby won't you hold me tight
We're loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight
One of these days I'm gonna settle down
And take you back with me to the Guitar Town

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:18 am**

Señor Peligro

Señor Peligro
Bush’s alter ego
A family of danger
And that’s his middle name
Invasion is imminent
Keeping down the dissidents
Killing is his business
And business is his game

Justification
To Cross the Border
Justification
For Law and Order
Justification
To Cross the Rio
Señor Peligro

Señor Peligro
Lost all his amigos
From Chile to Panama
And all points in between
Exploitation
To feed the Corporations
The driving force of any war
Is always based in Greed

Venezuela
Watch your Back
Señor Peligro is on the attack

Voice Over (Isa Martinez – signed release)
El Presidente el es un Asesino
The President is an assassin
No cambieremos sarge por asete
Tente moriendo por el amor del dinero
We will not exchange blood for oil
People dying for the love of money
Seporladolo es mas gas para el fugeo
Supporting him is fuel to the fire
Prepuese por el Señor Peligro
Prepare for Mr. Danger

Justification
To Cross the Border
Justification
For Law and Order
Justification
To Cross the Rio
Señor Peligro

Ministry

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