I Will Sing You Songs

[bethofftherecord]

A blast from the past, but still so relevant.

Empty factories to the east and all our waste
The shape of things that came shows on the broken workers face
To the west you'll find our silicon promised lands where
Machines replace our minds for systematic profit plans
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk
Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt
I look for optimism but I just dont know
Its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows

It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming...

One nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
Plastic and fluorescent energy robbing us of sight
Set in our way content with our decay
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade
Ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell
But no ones there to tell you cuz they dont know that themselves
The well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
No longer offer solace we can see the self destruction

It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming...

Just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long


Static and division is increasing like a storm,
we are shelter, we are forewarned,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,

There's a freeze up coming... [/b]

[LizKing531]

A blast from the past, but still so relevant.

Empty factories to the east and all our waste
The shape of things that came shows on the broken workers face
To the west you'll find our silicon promised lands where
Machines replace our minds for systematic profit plans
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk
Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt
I look for optimism but I just dont know
Its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows

It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming...

One nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
Plastic and fluorescent energy robbing us of sight
Set in our way content with our decay
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade
Ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell
But no ones there to tell you cuz they dont know that themselves
The well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
No longer offer solace we can see the self destruction

It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming...

Just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long


Static and division is increasing like a storm,
we are shelter, we are forewarned,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,

There's a freeze up coming... [/b]

Nice - I haven't heard any Operation Ivy in quite a long time



"Sound system gonna bring me back up, right
the one thing that I can depend on"

[megisnotreal]

Well I got here at eight and I'll be here till two
I'll try my best to entertain you and
Please don't mind me if I get a bit crude
I'm your late night evening prostitute

So drink your martinis and stare at the moon
Don't mind me I'll continue to croon and
Don't mind me if I get a bit lewd
I'm your late night evening prostitute

And dance, have a good time
I'll continue to shine
Yes Dance, have a good time
Don't mind me if I slip upon a rhyme

Well I got here at eight and I'll be here till two
I'll try my best to entertain you and
Please don't mind me if I get a bit crude
I'm your late night evening prostitute
I'm your late night evening prostitute

[Chills]

 
Happy birthday, Elvis;
You're not really dead.
It's a lie, it's just a crock,
Something some people said.
I heard a cassette of you speaking
On a telephone;
From a bunker beneath Graceland,
The king sits on his throne.

Happy birthday, Elvis;
Fifty-eight years old today.
It isn't true, you didn't die,
No matter what they say.
The colonel just decided
You should drop out of sight
After the Bicentennial--
The timing was just right.

Happy birthday, Elvis;
You're alive in '93.
They took away the body,
But who the hell was he?
Who was that tall fat man
They buried in your place?
Just another imitator;
Plastic surgeons did his face.

Happy birthday, Elvis;
You still love to ball.
Somebody said she spotted you
In a Memphis mall.
Check out the checkout counters;
Read what the tabloids say:
Aliens abducted you,
But somehow you got away.

Happy birthday, Elvis;
I for one will not shed tears.
You'll be back for the millennium;
That's in seven measly years.
And if you're blue and lonely,
Pick up that telephone,
Down in that bunker beneath Graceland,
The king sits on his throne.

[red]

My favourite song at the moment:


ALL IN GOOD TIME by Ron Sexsmith

It all seems so obvious now
When I look back over my life
There were times that I really felt down
To think it passed me by

But in these hours of serious doubt
Through the coal black lonely night
Something told me, "it'll work out"
Something deep inside
Was comforting me

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time
The bad times will be gone

"Hold your horses", a willow tree cried
While the sun called to me, "where's the fire?"
"Run your course my feverish child,"
Came a voice from even higher
Inspiring me

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time

We rise and fall
We try and fail
And people may judge us
But angels know us darling
All in good time

It all seems so obvious now
When I look back over my life
There's a need for sorrow and doubt
For darkness and for light
It's how it must be

All in good time
All in good time
It said all in good time
All in good time
The bad time will be gone

[red]

One more incredible Ron Sexsmith tune for you all...


NEVER GIVE UP

Of foolish dreams
I'm done with these
Of childish things
I've set them free

Filed them away in the past
Gave up on all that don't last
Save for just one thing
There's something that I'd never do

I'd never give up on you
Though they try to break us in two
Never give up on you
Whatever I do

Come early spring
I bailed on that
From apron strings
I freed my hands

And woke from the spell that cast
I kicked that habit at last
Oh, but I would stick by you
Wherever you lead me to

Never give up on you
The world may try to break us I two
I'd never give up on you, darlin'
Whatever they do

I'd never give up on you
Because I know you'd do the same for me
Never give up on you
Because you take me as I am
How I'll always be

When times are bad
When things go wrong
What makes you sad
Will make me strong

I'm keeping an eye on your tears
Sweeping up all this broken mirror
Our luck may not come through
But that's something that I'd never do

I'd never give up on you
Though they try to break us in two
Never give up on you, darlin'
Whatever I do
Never give up on you

[Chills]

Woke up this morning, didn't feel that bad
Last night was definitely not one of the worst I ever had
Ate a nice dinner, drank a few drinks
Didn't think about you baby no matter what you think
Went back to my hotelroom I went straight to bed
Didn't moan, didn't cry and I did not wish I was dead
I'm alright
I'm alright
Yeah I'm alright baby
I'm alright without you
Woke up this morning, didn't have the blues
So I put on my tubesocks, laced up my running shoes
Went down to the reservoir to jog a mile or two
Didn't think about our love and I wasn't missing you
Went back to my hotelroom took a few phonecalls
Clean sheets on a made up bed and artwork on the wall
I'm allright
I'm allright
Yeah I'm alright baby
I'm alright without you
Woke up this afternoon and I sat up in the bed
There was a gnawing in my gut and a poundin' in my head
So I went to the bathroom, to the medicinechest
There was sleepin'pills and razorblades and all the rest
But I was in control baby I was so relaxed
I found myself my dental floss, my favourite kind - unwaxed
I'm alright
I'm alright
Yeah I'm alright baby
I'm alright without you

[dragonboy]

Happy birthday, Elvis;
You're not really dead...

Who's this by Chills?

Drunk men stagger, drunk men fall
Drunk men swear & that's not all
Quite often drunks will urinate outdoors
Like widowed women drunk men weep
Like children curled up drunk men sleep
Like a dog a drunk will crawl about on all fours
Be it broke bum or rich rake
His dinner be it bread or cake
His beverage be the worst of whiskey, finest wine
Puke it stinks & so it seems
A drunkard goes to great extremes
But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line
                                                                             
Drunks are strong & drunks are weak
It's easy for a drunk to speak
Straight from the heart
Drunks will fight, they're not afraid
They'll kiss the mistress & make the maid
Oh, but it's a manly art
But it takes it toll on blood vessels & from there it will raise
Bags beneath the eyes & other signs
Drunks get ugly so it seems & drunks will go to great extremes
But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line.

Drunks are friendly when they're drunk
And drunks are hostile when they're drunk
Which drunk it is it all depends upon
When drunk men drink they thirst they thirst for drink
Their elephants are grey not pink
When the drink evaporates the man is gone, gone, gone
Back to the flats & the subway cars
To the hipflasks & the fruit jars
Flat on thier face & flat on their backs
Drunks get drunk & so it seems
That drunks will go to great extremes
But there has yet to be a perfectly straight line

[dragonboy]

Woke up this morning, didn't feel that bad
Last night was definitely not one of the worst I ever had...

...and this one?

[red]

the call came in on a princess phone on the patio. she said: hey if that's jeppetto tell him i'm not here yet. tell him that i ain't done with my beers yet. tell him that i'm up in massachussetts. if he wants to buy me some i'll be in the kitchenette. making meals out of marzipan. making love with the black and tans. crushing butts in a coffee can. when the crowd went wild. we were under the stands. mouths and hands. hands and mouths. so many shows where nobody comes out.

where were you when the call came in? i was on a rocky mountain freedom binge. with all the living members of the cityscape skins. you and me and gideon. holly went to hollywood. it looked nothing like she thought it would. she didn't get to the part with the studios. she went straight to video. she did a movie called "north dallas foursome". there was agony and ecstacy and the cheerleaders got gruesome. she did a movie called "revenge of the pervs." there were screams and jeans and curves and nerves.

charlemagne in a shallow grave. with a nazareth tape. and a vodka ice and gatorade. he didn't fit the plans she made. these hoodrat chicks are like razor blades. they're pretty cheap but they'll cut you deep.

[vespachick]

You were under the impression
That when you were walking forward
You'd end up further onward
But things ain't quite that simple.

You got altered information
You were told to not take chances
You missed out on new dances
Now you're losing all your dimples.

My jacket's gonna be cut and slim and checked,
Maybe a touch of seersucker, with an open neck.
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat,
Wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet.

Love Reign O'er Me.
Love Reign O'er Me.
Love.

I've had enough of living
I've had enough of dying
I've had enough of smiling
I've had enough of crying
I've taken all the high roads
I've squandered and I've saved
I've had enough of childhood
I've had enough of graves...

Get a job and fight to keep it,
Strike out to reach a mountain.
Be so nice on the outside
But inside keep ambition

Don't cry because you hunt them
Hurt them first they'll love you
There's a millionaire above you
And you're under his suspicion.

I've had enough of dancehalls
I've had enough of pills
I've had enough of streetfights
I've seen my share of kills
I'm finished with the fashions
And acting like I'm tough
I'm bored with hate and passion
I've had enough of trying to love.

[red]

A quick Lifter Puller line for your Friday afternoon:

she came on wanting a kiss, now she's kissing like she already came

;D :o

[megisnotreal]

i am on a kate bush kick

If I only could, Id be running up that hill.
If I only could, Id be running up that hill.

It doesnt hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know that it doesnt hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal that Im making?
You, its you and me.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And Id get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could, oh...

You dont want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware Im tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, dont we?
You, its you and me.
Its you and me wont be unhappy.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And Id get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
Say, if I only could, oh...

You,
Its you and me,
Its you and me wont be unhappy.

Cmon, baby, cmon darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
Cmon, angel, cmon, cmon, darling,
Lets exchange the experience, oh...

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And Id get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And Id get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And Id get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

If I only could
Be running up that hill
With no problems...

If I only could, Id be running up that hill.
If I only could, Id be running up that hill.

[red]

All is quiet, except for this song.  So maybe while I'm not together I can feel like I'm not alone.  Somewhere off in the distance rapidly advancing, is an onslaught of sorts. Young sirens wail in a skewed sense of glory and the lions in their cages roar in a memory of flight. There is a joy, a joy in all I can see. There is a joy, in every possibility. All around us is a great great failing. American rockets red glare in a most disgusting triumph. In passing I am asked do you believe in a god? I shrug off the answer, continue to get high. In this terror of no explanation I am looking for a faith, my panic is an only reason. There is a joy, a joy in all I can see. There is a joy, in every possibility.

[aMD]

Jeanie:
Ahh yeah, that's right baby
Girl, tonight we're gonna make love
You know how I know baby?
Cuz its Wednesday, and Wednesday night is the night that we make love. Tuesday night is the night that we go and visit your mother, but
Wednesday night is the night that we make love.
Cuz everything is just right, conditions are perfect.
There's nothing good on TV, conditions are perfect.
You lean in close and say something sexy like " I might go to bed I've
got work in the morning." I know what you're trying to say baby.
You're tryin to say "Ooh yeah, it's business time, it's business time."

Chorus (Both)

It's business, it's business time!
J:That's what your trying to say, your trying to say lets get down to business its business time.
Its business its business time

Jemaine:
Thats what you're tryin to say, you're tryin to say lets get down to
business it's business time!  

Jemaine:
Ooh, Next thing you know were in the bathroom brushing our teeth.
That's all part of it. That's foreplay.
Then you go sort out the recycling, that's not part of it but it's still
very important.
Then we're in the bedroom. You're wearing that ugly old baggy
t-shirt from that team building exercise you did for your old work,
and it's never looked better on you.
Mmmhh, team building exercise not tonight. Oh you don't know
what you're doing to me. I remove my jeans but trip over them
cuz i've still got my shoes on, but then I turn it into a sexy dance.
Next thing you know I'm down to just my socks and you know
when I'm down to just my socks what time it is. It's time for
business. It's business time.

Chorus (Both)
Its buisness, its business time
J:You know when I'm down to just my socks its time for business,
that's why they call them business socks

Jemaine:
You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business
that's why they call it business socks

Chorus

Jemaine:
Ooh, makin love, makin love for two, makin love for two minutes.
When its with me you only need two minutes, cuz I'm so intense
Two minutes in heaven is better then one minute in heaven
You say sumthing like "Is that it?"
I know what your trying to say, your trying to say "Ahh ya that's it"
Then you tell me you want some more
Well im not surprised, But im quite sleepy.

Chorus (Both)
Its business, its business time
J: Business hours are over, baby
Its business, its business time.

[The Big Come Up]

Jeanie:
Ahh yeah, that's right baby
Girl, tonight we're gonna make love
You know how I know baby?
Cuz its Wednesday, and Wednesday night is the night that we make love. Tuesday night is the night that we go and visit your mother, but
Wednesday night is the night that we make love.
Cuz everything is just right, conditions are perfect.
There's nothing good on TV, conditions are perfect.
You lean in close and say something sexy like " I might go to bed I've
got work in the morning." I know what you're trying to say baby.
You're tryin to say "Ooh yeah, it's business time, it's business time."

Chorus (Both)

It's business, it's business time!
J:That's what your trying to say, your trying to say lets get down to business its business time.
Its business its business time

Jemaine:
Thats what you're tryin to say, you're tryin to say lets get down to
business it's business time!  

Jemaine:
Ooh, Next thing you know were in the bathroom brushing our teeth.
That's all part of it. That's foreplay.
Then you go sort out the recycling, that's not part of it but it's still
very important.
Then we're in the bedroom. You're wearing that ugly old baggy
t-shirt from that team building exercise you did for your old work,
and it's never looked better on you.
Mmmhh, team building exercise not tonight. Oh you don't know
what you're doing to me. I remove my jeans but trip over them
cuz i've still got my shoes on, but then I turn it into a sexy dance.
Next thing you know I'm down to just my socks and you know
when I'm down to just my socks what time it is. It's time for
business. It's business time.

Chorus (Both)
Its buisness, its business time
J:You know when I'm down to just my socks its time for business,
that's why they call them business socks

Jemaine:
You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business
that's why they call it business socks

Chorus

Jemaine:
Ooh, makin love, makin love for two, makin love for two minutes.
When its with me you only need two minutes, cuz I'm so intense
Two minutes in heaven is better then one minute in heaven
You say sumthing like "Is that it?"
I know what your trying to say, your trying to say "Ahh ya that's it"
Then you tell me you want some more
Well im not surprised, But im quite sleepy.

Chorus (Both)
Its business, its business time
J: Business hours are over, baby
Its business, its business time.

aMD, you are truly the boom king.

[Chills]

There was glass and blood everywhere
And I held him in my arms
And theres no one around for miles.
No one around for miles.

And the sky was cloudy,
it was near dark,
you said "I cant see, can you tell me, where are we?"

"well, there's western skylines
And i swear that i can see
a golden light that shine down upon everything
We would walk down the street
under coloured lights.
We would walk down the street,
and beautiful women would walk on by. Beautiful women:
just so beautiful and kind.
And there are western skylines
I swear you will be
a golden light,
that shines down upon everything
We will walk down the street under colored lights.
We will walk on and on.
Beautiful women, would walk on by.
beautiful women:
just so gentle and kind.
There are western skylines
Oh, I swear you will be, and you will
you'll be set free."

[red]

[size=20]Tom Waits - "Come On Up To The House" [/size]

Well the moon is broken
And the sky is cracked
Come on up to the house
The only things that you can see
Is all that you lack
Come on up to the house

All your cryin don't do no good
Come on up to the house
Come down off the cross
We can use the wood
Come on up to the house

Come on up to the house
Come on up to the house
The world is not my home
I'm just a passin thru
Come on up to the house

There's no light in the tunnel
No irons in the fire
Come on up to the house
And your singin lead soprano
In a junkman's choir
You gotta come on up to the house

Does life seem nasty, brutish and short
Come on up to the house
The seas are stormy
And you can't find no port
Come on up to the house
There's nothin in the world

(Chorus)
there's nothin in the world
that you can do
you gotta come on up to the house
and you been whipped by the forces
that are inside you
come on up to the house
well you're high on top
of your mountain of woe
come on up to the house
well you know you should surrender
but you can't let go
you gotta come on up to the house
(Chorus)


++ editors note - I've been fist pumping to this for the past 15 or so minutes ++

[megisnotreal]

Baby Britain feels the best
Floating over a sea of vodka
Separated from the rest
Fights problems with bigger problems
Sees the ocean fall and rise
Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
Water pourning from her eyes
Alcohol again, very bitter

For someone half as smart, you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help until you start

We knocked another couple back
The dead soldiers lined up on the table
Still prepared for an attack
They didn't know they'd been disabled
Felt a wave, a rush of blood,
You won't be happy 'til the bottle's broken
You're out swimming in the flood
You kept back, you kept unspoken

For someone half as smart, you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help you until you start

You've got a look in your eye when you're saying goodbye
Like you want to say hi

The light was on but it was dim
Revolver's been turned over
And now it's ready once again
The radio is playing Crimson and Clover
London Bridge is safe and sound
No matter what you keep repeating
Nothing's gonna drag me down
To a death that's not worth cheating

For someone half as smart, you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help until you start
For someone half as smart, you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart

[Sleazy Rider]

Jerusalem
Artist:Sleep

Drop out of Life with Bong in Hand
Follow the Smoke toward the Riff filled Land
Drop out of Life with Bong in Hand
Follow the Smoke toward the Riff filled Land
Proceeds the Weedian, Nazareth
Proceeds the Weedian, Nazareth
Creedsmen roll out Across The Dying Down
Sacred Israel Holy Mount Zion
Sun Beams Down onto the SAndcean Reigns
Caravan Migrates Through deep SandScape
Lungsmen Unearth the creed of Hasheeshian
LeBaNon
Desert Legion Smoke Covenant is Complete
HerB Bails Retied onto Backs of Beasts
Stoner Caravan Emerge from Sandsea
Earthling Inserts to Chalice the Green Cutchie
GRoundation Soul Finds Trust Upon Smoking Hose
Assemble Creedsmen Rises Prayerfilled Smoke
GolGoTha
Judgement Soon Come To Mankind
Green Herbsmen SErve Rightful King
HEMp SeeD Caravan CArries
Rides out Believer with the spliff Aflame
MAriJuanAut Escapes earth To Cultivate
Grow Room Is Church TEmple of the new Stoner Breed
Chants Loud RObeD Priest Down onto the Freedomseed
Burnt Offering rEdeeMs Completes Smoked Deliverance
Caravan StoneD Deliverants
The CARAvan Holds to Eastern Creed
NOw sMokEs Believer
The Chronicle of the Sinsemillian
Drop out of Life with Bong in Hand
Follow the Smoke toward the Riff filled Land
Drop out of Life with Bong in Hand
Follow the Smoke JERUSALEM....