Favorite lyrics?

[lucimay]

oh who CARES!! let 'em talk!

Don’t throw bouquets at me,
don’t please my folks too much,
Don’t laugh at my jokes too much,
people will say we’re in love.
Don’t sigh and gaze at me,
your sighs are so like mine,
Your eyes mustn’t glow like mine,
people will say we’re in love.
Don’t start collecting things,
give me my rose and my glove,
Sweetheart, they’re suspecting things,
people will say we’re in love.
Don’t praise my charm to much,
don’t look so vain with me,
Don’t stand in the rain with me,
people will say we’re in love.
Don’t take my arm too much,
don’t keep your hand in mine,
You hand feels go grand in mine,
people will say we’re in love.
Don’t dance all night with me,
till the stars fade out of sight,
They’ll see it’s alright with me,
people will say we’re in love.

[danlo]

Step aside...

Just One Victory
We’ve been waiting so long,
We’ve been waiting for the sun to rise and shine
Shining still to give us the will
Can you hear me, the sound of my voice?
I am here to tell you I have made my choice
I’ve been listening to what’s been going down
There’s just too much talk and gossip going ’round
You may think that I’m a fool, but I know the answer
Words become a tool, anyone can use them
Take the golden rule, as the best example
Eyes that have seen will know what I mean

The time has come to take the bull by the horns
We’ve been so downhearted, we’ve been so forlorn
We get weak and we want to give in
But we still need each other if we want to win

Hold that line, baby hold that line
Get up boys and hit ’em one more time
We may be losing now but we can’t stop trying
So hold that line, baby hold that line

If you don’t know what to do about a world of trouble
You can pull it through if you need to and if
You believe it’s true, it will surely happen
Shining still, to give us the will
Bright as the day, to show us the way
Somehow, someday,
We need just one victory and we’re on our way
Prayin’ for it all day and fightin’ for it all night
Give us just one victory, it will be all right
We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting
You will hear the call if you only listen
Underneath it all we are here together shining still
Somehow, someday,
We need just one victory and we’re on our way
Prayin’ for it all day and fightin’ for it all night
Give us just one victory, it will be all right
We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting
You will hear the call if you only listen
Underneath it all we are here together shining still

[sgt.null]

Will the circle be unbroken

I was standing by my window
On a cold and cloudy day
When I saw that hearse come rolling
For to carry my mother away

* Will the circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Load, bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Load, in the sky

Load, I told that undertaker
Undertaker please drive slow
For this body that you're hauling
Load, I hate to see her go

* Refrain

I followed close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave

* Refrain

I went home, my home was lonely
Now my mother she has gone
All my brothers, sisters crying
What a home so sad and alone

* Refrain

[The Laughing Man]

• The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
  Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
  The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
  When the skies of November turn gloomy.
  
  With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
  Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
  That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
  When the gales of November came early
  
  The ship was the pride of the American side
  Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
  As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
  With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
  
  Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
  When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
  And later that night when the ships bell rang
  Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.
  
  The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
  And a wave broke over the railing
  And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
  T'was the witch of November come stealing.
  
  The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
  When the gales of November came slashing
  When afternoon came it was freezing rain
  In the face of a hurricane West Wind
  
  When supper time came the old cook came on deck
  Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
  At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
  He said fellas it's been good to know ya.
  
  The Captain wired in he had water coming in
  And the good ship and crew was in peril
  And later that night when his lights went out of sight
  Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
  
  
  
  Does anyone know where the love of God goes
  When the words turn the minutes to hours
  The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
  If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
  
  They might have split up or they might have capsized
  They may have broke deep and took water
  And all that remains is the faces and the names
  Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
  
  Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
  In the ruins of her ice water mansion
  Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
  The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
  
  And farther below Lake Ontario
  Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
  And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
  With the gales of November remembered.
  
  In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
  In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
  The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
  For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
  
  The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
  Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
  Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
  When the gales of November come early.

I don't know why this song makes me weep....and I don't care....

[lucimay]

i like it too...and gordon as well...think i'll go post him in the storytellers thread!!

[The Laughing Man]

I tried that but it got all smudged....

[lucimay]

aw...you KNOW i gotta post THIS now....

On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell
Then she lit up a candle
And she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year
Any time of year
You can find it here
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany twisted
She's got the Mercedes bends
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain
Please bring me my wine
He said
We haven't had that spirit here since 1969
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely face
They're livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
What a nice surprise
Bring your alibies

Mirrors on the ceiling
Pink champagne on ice
And she said
We are all just prisoners here
Of our own device
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman
We are programed to recieve
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave

[The Laughing Man]

ohhhh YEAHHH?

• Tell us what you’re gonna do tonight, mama.
  There must be someplace you can go
  In the middle of the tall drinks and the drama,
  There must be someone you know.
  
  God knows, you’re lookin’ good enough,
  But you’re so smooth and the world’s so rough.
  You might have somethin’ to loose.
  Oh, no, pretty mama, what you gonna
  Do in those shoes?
  
  Got those pretty little straps around your ankles
  Got those shiny little chains around your heart.
  You go to have your independence
  But you don’t know just where to start.
  
  Desperation in the singles bars
  An’ all those jerkoffs in their fancy cars.
  You can’t believe your reviews.
  
  
  
  Oh, no, you can’t do that,
  Once you started wearin’ those shoes
  
  They’re lookin’ at you, leanin’ on you
  Tell you anything you want to hear
  They give you tablets of love
  They’re waiting for you
  Got to score you
  Handy with a shovel and so sincere
  Ooh, they got the kid glove
  
  You just want someone to talk to
  They just wanna get their hands on you
  You get whatever you choose
  Oh, no, you can’t do that,
  Once you started wearin’ those shoes.

I don't know why I rock my face off when I hear this....and I don't care...

[lucimay]

and then there's don all by himself...

come on, let's go...

Let’s go down to the sunset grill
We can watch the working girls go by
Watch the basket people walk around and
Mumble
And stare out at the auburn sky
There’s an old man there from the old world
To him, it’s all the same
Calls all his customers by name
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
You see a lot more meanness in the city
It’s the kind that tears you up inside
Hard to come away with anything that feels
Like dignity
Hard to get home with any pride
These days a man makes you somethin’
And you never see his face
But there is no hiding place
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Respectable little murders pay
They get more respectable every day
Don’t worry girl, I’m gonna stick by you
And someday soon we’re gonna get in that
Car and get outta here
Let’s go down to the sunset grill
Watch the working girls go by
Watch the basket people walk around and
Mumble
And gaze out at the auburn sky
Maybe we’ll leave come springtime
Meanwhile, have another beer
What would we do without these jerks
Anyway?
Besides, all our friends are here
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill
Down at the sunset grill

[sgt.null]

Three Little Birds
Bob Marley
(Exodus)

"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

[The Laughing Man]

Santa Monica


I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don’t want to be your downtime
I don’t want to be your stupid game

*With my big black boots and an old suitcase*
I do believe I’ll find myself a new place
I don’t want to be the bad guy
I don’t want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
Go and try and shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die



I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away

I don’t want to be your good time
I don’t want to be your fall-back crutch anymore

I’ll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don’t want to be the bad guy

I don’t want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

[lucimay]

The day is done, the blinds are drawn
The sound of afternoon is gone
The corner store has locked it’s door
And everyone has left for home
When their sleepy little heads
Settle snug inside their beds
You and I will stay and watch the sun fade away

The balladeer, the buccaneer
The liar, the man who would be king
The cavalier, the profiteer
The one who knows only suffering
As the cannons gather rust,
All their castles turn to dust
You and I will stay and see them fade away

We are on an endless flight my friend
With no beginning and no end
I’ve forgotten more than I remember
Sometimes I want to hide myself away
But I know there’s no escape
We must go on, go on forever
The sea will rise, mountains fall
The earth will turn itself upside down
But we have seen it all before,
We will always be around
In a hundred million years
When the planet disappears
You and I will stay
And watch the world fade away
And in a million trillion years
When the stars all disappear
You and I will stay
And watch it all fade away

[The Laughing Man]

(ps - have you (or anyone here) ever seen the Northern Lights? I have here in NY.....twice! it was....INCREDIBLE!...no words...no words...)

[lucimay]

Thunder and Lightning
chi coltrane

Ooh! What a good thing I've got
Oh it's such a good thing I've got
I don't think I can stand it
Thunder and Lightning
I tell you it's frightening
It's thunder and lightning
And you're in control
I thought my life was complete
But look what you've doin' to me
Oh! You're makin' me crazy
Thunder and Lightning
I tell you it's frightening
It's thunder and lightning
And you're in control
I don't know how to handle it
It's more than I would dare
I wouldn't try to run from it
It reaches me everywhere
I'm feelin' dizzy and weak
You make me forget how to speak
I can feel it happening
Thunder and Lightning
I tell you it's frightening
It's thunder and lightning
And you're in control
I don't know how to handle it
It's more than I would dare
I wouldn't try to run from it
It reaches me everywhere
Ooh! What a good thing I've got
Oh it's such a good thing I've got
I don't think I can stand it.

[The Laughing Man]

Code: Select all

"Shock The Monkey"

Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life

Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out' the trees
Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know when you're going to shock the monkey

Fox the fox
Rat the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey

Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning

Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey

Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking

Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life

[sgt.null]

Bob Marley: Buffalo Soldier

Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta:
There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

I mean it, when I analyze the stench -
To me it makes a lot of sense:
How the Dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier,
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta -
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.

If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
Who the 'eck do I think I am.

I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America.

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,

Buffalo Soldier troddin' through the land, wo-ho-ooh!
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand,
Troddin' through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America;
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean.

Singing, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,

Troddin' through San Juan in the arms of America;
Troddin' through Jamaica, a Buffalo Soldier -
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival:
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta.

Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,

[lucimay]

I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now I'm returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed
I see something of myself in everyone
Just at this moment of the world
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

You know it never has been easy
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen...
Strains of Benny Goodman
Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees

I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
I know - no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

Well I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality - to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
There's the hope and the hopelessness
I've witnessed thirty years

We're only particles of change I know, I know
Orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view
When I'm always bound and tied to someone
White flags of winter chimneys
Waving truce against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank
From the window of a hotel room

I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way

[The Laughing Man]

• Both Sides, Now
  
  Rows and floes of angel hair
  And ice cream castles in the air
  And feather canyons ev’rywhere
  I’ve looked at clouds that way
  
  But now they only block the sun
  They rain and snow on ev’ryone
  So many things I would have done
  But clouds got in my way
  
  I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
  From up and down, and still somehow
  It’s cloud illusions I recall
  I really don’t know clouds at all
  
  Moons and junes and ferris wheels
  The dizzy dancing way you feel
  As ev’ry fairy tale comes real
  I’ve looked at love that way
  
  But now it’s just another show
  You leave ’em laughing when you go
  And if you care, don’t let them know
  Don’t give yourself away
  
  I’ve looked at love from both sides now
  From give and take, and still somehow
  It’s love’s illusions I recall
  I really don’t know love at all
  
  Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I’ve looked at life that way
  
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed
  Well something’s lost, but something’s gained
  In living ev’ry day
  
  I’ve looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose and still somehow
  It’s life’s illusions I recall
  I really don’t know life at all
  
  I’ve looked at life from both sides now
  From up and down, and still somehow
  It’s life’s illusions I recall
  I really don’t know life at all

[sgt.null]

Fun All Wrong
by Roger Creager

Well I guess you were right.
The bluebonnets are worth the drive,
and now I’m here Canyon Lake alone.
Yeah well I know you came here
when you were down and feeling blue and it
helps to sort out the pieces on your own.
And I’m seeing what you saw,
the spring time is beautiful
I’m proud to call this country home.
Hey but I am missing you
as the sun is setting on me.
I think I’ll crank up my pickup for San Anton’.

(Chorus)
And there ain’t enough dance halls in Texas
to keep my heart and mind occupied.
I’m trying it all the time.
Yeah I’m out there every night.
And my truck has seen some miles
to find the words to write this song;
to get me back on top where I belong,
well I’m not over you yet I must be
having fun all wrong.

Well that river run was a whole lot of fun
especially when you’re with the ones
that bring you so much laughter and good times.
But that water ran so low;
that only means that you go real slow
and you take the time to enjoy the finer things in life.
So we showered and shaved in a bathroom stall
in a Texaco on the way to Gruene Hall.
It was a sold out concert
for one of my heroes that night.
And baby I guess I’m alright,
I’m just a little bit tired tonight
getting over you has made a busy man of me.

(Chorus)
And there ain’t enough dance halls in Texas
to keep my heart and my occupied.
I’m trying it all the time.
Yeah I’m out there every night.
And my truck has seen some miles
to find the words to write this song;
to get me back on top where I belong,
but I’m not over you yet. I must be
having fun all wrong.

Hey well I’ve seen Jerry Jeff
umpteen times this year.
He just keeps getting better every day.
Oh I followed Robert Earl Keen
from Dallas to sparkling city by the sea,
jumped up on the sea wall and sang
Corpus Christie Bay.

(Chorus)
And there ain’t enough dance halls in Texas
to keep my heart and my occupied.
I’m trying it all the time.
Yeah I’m out there every night.
And my truck has seen some miles
chasin’ down the words to live this song;
to get me back on top where I belong,
well I’m not over you yet. I must be
having fun all wrong.

Well I guess you were right.
The bluebonnets are worth the drive,
And now I’m here in Canyon Lake alone.

[lucimay]

Close your eyes,
close the door,
You don't have to worry
any more.
I'll
I'll be your
baby tonight.

Shut the light,
shut the shade,
You don't have to
be afraid.
cause I'll
I'll be your
baby tonight.

Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away,
We're gonna forget it.
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon,
But we're gonna let it,
You won't regret it.

Kick your shoes off,
do not fear,
Bring that bottle
over here.
and I'll
I'll be your
baby tonight.

-bob