I Will Sing You Songs

[SMc55]

For Susan, one of the nicest people I've never met  ;)

I'm hearing the light from the window,
I'm seeing the sound of the sea,
My feet have come loose from their moorings,
I'm feeling quite wonderfully free.

And I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight,
There's nothing I know of in Rio,
But it's something to do with the night.
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight,
And I probably won't fly down to Rio,
But then again, I just might.

There's wings to the thought behind fancy,
There's wings to the thought behind play
And dancing to rhythms of laughter
Makes laughter the rhythm of rain.

So I think I will travel...

I feel such a sense of well-being,
The problems have come to be solved,
And what I thought was proper for battle
I see now is proper for love.

So I think I will travel...

Reno? Why Reno?
Not Reno, dummy.
Rio, Rio de Janeiro.

Thank you Andrew - that's beautiful  :)
"Using the music for flight" - magical  [smiley=dankk2.gif]

[SMc55]

What a handsome devil  :D

After some research, I also did manage to find that passage from the Simpsons:

Marge: [voice over] The kids at school were even worse.
       [young Marge gets on the bus, sits next to a girl]
Girl: [seeing her lunch pail] Ew!  You like the Monkees?  You _know_
      they don't write their own songs.
Marge: They do so!
Girl: They don't even play their own instruments.
Marge: No...no!
Girl: That's not even Michael Nesmith's real hat.
Marge: Aah!
       [back in the present]
Zweig: Kids can be so cruel.
Marge: But it's true.  They didn't write their own songs _or_ play their
      own instruments.
Zweig: The Monkees weren't about music, Marge.  They were about
      rebellion, about political and social upheaval!


:)

Outstanding!!!  ;D

[Chills]

Yeah, that was a fantastic scene.

"That's not even Michael Nesmith's real hat."

;D

[red]

Rolling cable slick with beer to hang up on the broken stands, the house lights lit our injuries for crowds of plastic cups that clapped beneath bartender's sleepy brooms, and boom, boom boom, boom, went amps and cases down the stairs into the parking lot out back, a burst of moon, a blast of air, an understanding somewhere between the turning signal clicks, the shiny food we found with gasoline, the daily prayers of set-lists, tender jokes about retards and crashes and queers, I lost the chiming ring of keys to everything safe, and safely locked away back home.

[aMD]

Something's beating on the wall on the other side
Strange lovers moan each others names on by-hour sheets for the very first time
One of them's james
The other's some name she changes every time she lies across his bed
But the light of the moon leads the way
Towards the morning and the sun
The sun's well on the way too soon to know and
Oh my god, whatever, etc.
If i could i'd fold myself away like a card table
A concertina or a murphy bed, i would
But i wasn't made that way so you know instead
I'm open all night and the customers come to stay
And everyone tips but not enough to knock me over
And "i'm so tired" i just worked two shifts
But the light of the moon leads the way towards the morning and the sun
The sun's well on it's way too soon to know and
Oh, oh my god, oh my god, whatever, etc.

[red]

So all you critics sit alone
You're no better than me
   for what you've shown.
With your stomach pump and
   your hook and ladder dreams
We could get together
   for some scenes.

[dragonboy]

Shirley,
It's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room
Shirley,
You're my reason to get out of bed before noon
Shirley,
You know when we sat out on the fire escape talking
Shirley,
What did you say about running before we were walking

Sometimes when we're as close as this
It's like we're in a dream
How can you lie there and think of england
When you don't even know who's in the team

Shirley,
Your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle
Shirley,
We are joined in the ideological cuddle

I'm celebrating my love for you
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo
And if you haven't noticed yet
I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet

Politics and pregnancy
Are debated as we empty our glasses
And how I love those evening classes

Shirley,
You really know how to make a young man angry
Shirley,
Can we get through the night without mentioning family

The people from your church agree
It's not much of a career
Trying the handles of parked cars
Whoops, there goes another year
Whoops, there goes another pint of beer

Here we are in our summer years
Living on ice-cream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you were my missus

Shirley,
Give my greetings to the new brunette

[megisnotreal]

You plant a rose
And if the rose comes up
You're thankful to God
And when it doesn't you cuss him
You raise a child
And when the child grows up
You got to learn to let go
If you can't learn to love him
But, oh, what a beautiful thing when you sing
Hear all them bells ringing out in the street
Hammer strikes the metal and it makes me believe
'Cause if I don't believe in love
Then I don't believe in you
And I do

Now I'm not saying only bad news comes
For the people who want it
But you gotta play that music for who's listening
You got to have someone you wanna sing it to
Oh, what a beautiful thing when you sing
Hear all them bells ringing out in the street
Blue sky cracking and it makes me believe
Oh, hear all them bells ringing out in the street
Hammer strikes the metal and it makes me believe
'Cause if I don't believe in love
Then I don't believe in you
And I do

Close my eyes, see the glorious sunset
Through the windows of a store and I want it
Anyway, if I ever felt haunted
You were there for me
These angry people who are waiting to judge you
Have their own judgment that they'll have live up to
Open your mouth
And if nothing come through
Remember
You're the one that sings
And it's a gift
And life's a beautiful thing
Oh, don't waste it doll
You build a house and if the house comes up
You gotta work on that house
If you want to make it your home
'Cause everything inside that's not something you own
Is what you're taking with you
On the day that you go
And oh, what a beautiful world when we sing
Hear all them bells ringing out in the street
Hammer strikes the metal and it makes me believe
Hear all them bells ringing out in the street
Oh, hammer strikes the metal and it makes me believe
'Cause if I don't believe in love
Then I don't believe in you
And I do

[Chills]

Pardon me if I'm sentimental
When we say goodbye
Don't be angry with me should I cry
When you're gone, yet I'll dream
A little dream as years go by

Now and then there's a fool such as I

Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you
You taught me how to love
And now you say that we are through
I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I

[The DARK]

A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream.
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
A movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of need,
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Ohhhh

Coins and crosses
Never know their fruitless worth;
Cords are broken,
Locked inside the mother earth.
They won't hide, hold, they won't tell you,
Watching the world, watching all of the world,
Watching us go by.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.

Ooh ooh

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize
That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.

[LEATHER KID]

Something's beating on the wall on the other side
Strange lovers moan each others names on by-hour sheets for the very first time
One of them's james
The other's some name she changes every time she lies across his bed
But the light of the moon leads the way
Towards the morning and the sun
The sun's well on the way too soon to know and
Oh my god, whatever, etc.
If i could i'd fold myself away like a card table
A concertina or a murphy bed, i would
But i wasn't made that way so you know instead
I'm open all night and the customers come to stay
And everyone tips but not enough to knock me over
And "i'm so tired" i just worked two shifts
But the light of the moon leads the way towards the morning and the sun
The sun's well on it's way too soon to know and
Oh, oh my god, oh my god, whatever, etc.

I never thought a murphy bed could sound so good.
Adams is a genius

[LizKing531]

People come, people go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears

It's like, now you see her, now you don't
You think you're gonna get to know her now, well you won't

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... Ooh... She disappears
Aah-Aah...
Aah-Aah...

It's like, easy come, easy go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears
Ooh... And that's it

[BH]

People come, people go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears

It's like, now you see her, now you don't
You think you're gonna get to know her now, well you won't

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... Ooh... She disappears
Aah-Aah...
Aah-Aah...

It's like, easy come, easy go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears
Ooh... And that's it

Oh hell, that's going to be in my head all day now.  

I love singing the "high" backup vocal part that Jim does when I'm in my car.   Which means I have to turn it up really loud so I don't have to hear my awful voice.  

Sometimes with out goodbye, sometimes without hello, she's got one magic trick..........

[LizKing531]

People come, people go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears

It's like, now you see her, now you don't
You think you're gonna get to know her now, well you won't

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... Ooh... She disappears
Aah-Aah...
Aah-Aah...

It's like, easy come, easy go
Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello

She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Ooh... She disappears
Ooh... And that's it

Oh hell, that's going to be in my head all day now.  

I love singing the "high" backup vocal part that Jim does when I'm in my car.   Which means I have to turn it up really loud so I don't have to hear my awful voice.  

Sometimes with out goodbye, sometimes without hello, she's got one magic trick..........

Excellent!!!  I haven't been able to stop singing/humming/whatever-bodily-noise-making to this song for 2 days.  Now we just need a rhythm section & we can go on tour!!

[Bam_Bam]

'me and bobby went to the beach this summer
we built castles in the sand and smoked dope by the water
then i got a tattoo of a dolphin on my bellybutton
and bobby got a tattoo that said panama city 3003

[dragonboy]

I love this song so much  :'(

I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas
I got a house in a neighborhood that's fading fast
I got a dog and a cat that don't fight too much
I got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch
I got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids
I got a couple of big secrets I'd kill to keep hid
I don't know God but I fear his wrath
I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

I got a couple of opinions that I hold dear
A whole lot of debt and a whole lot of fear
I got an itch that needs scratching but it feels alright
I got the need to blow it out on Saturday night
I got a grill in the backyard and a case of beers
I got a boat that ain't seen the water in years
More bills than money, I can do the math
I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

I'm trying to keep focused as I drive down the road
On the ditches and the curves and the heavy load
Ain't bitching bout things that aren't in my grasp
Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path

There's this friend of mine I've known all my life
Who can't get it right no matter how hard he tries
He's got kids he don't see and several ex-wives
And a list of bad decisions bout eight miles wide
Trouble with the law and the IRS
And where he'll get the money's anybody's guess
He's a long way off but if you was to ask
He'd say he's trying to stay focused on the righteous path

Trying to keep focused as we drive down the road
Like we did back in High School before the world turned cold
Now the brakes are thin and the curves are fast
We're trying to hold steady on the righteous path

We're hanging out and we're hanging on
We're trying the best we can to keep keeping on
We got messed up minds for these messed up times
And it's a thin thin line separating his from mine

Trying to hold steady on the righteous path
80 miles and hour with a worn out map
No time for self-pity or self-righteous crap
Trying to stay focused on the righteous path

[easy jim]

"don't let your silly dreams
fall in between
the crack of the bed and the wall"

or...

Brian Eno "put a straw under baby"
Put a straw under baby
Your good deed for the day
Put a straw under baby
Keep the splinters away.


Let the corridors echo
As the dark places grow
Hear Superior's footsteps
On the landing below.


There's a place in the orchard
Where no one dare go
The last nun who went there
Turned into a crow.


Turned into a crow-crow
Turned into a crow
The last nun who went there
Turned into a crow.


There's a brain in the table
There's a heart in the chair
And they all live in Jesus
It's a family affair.

[LEATHER KID]

ARIZONA

Now taste
All I ever needed
All I ever wanted
So hold on to surrender

She shakes
Like I'm on a railway
Ch-ch-checking me out
Someone on a shoulder

Her lamp
Slippers in her bedroom
She must feel it's awkward
Oh I said it's Arizona

Now go
Stand up to a giant
Said that I'm a fighter
Too drunk to remember
Too drunk to...

Shake hands
My face
Standin on a treadmill
Tastin something awful
I hate when that happens

She waits
In and out of Texas
She must be plum crazy
I kinda think I like her
I kinda think I do

[aMD]

Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
   Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone


I've got a freaky old lady name o' Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed to blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
   Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone


We got a lot of little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
He's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
   Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
   Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone

[aMD]

It ain't fair, ----- ----------
In the stir for breathing air
Won't you care for ----- ----------?
In the stir for breathing air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me

They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta set him free


If he'd been a soldier man
Shooting gooks in Vietnam
If he was the CIA
Selling dope and making hay
He'd be free, they'd let him be
Breathing air, like you and me


They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta set him free


They gave him ten for two
They got Ali Otis too.
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta set him free


Was he jailed for what he done?
Or representing everyone
Free ---- now, if we can
From the clutches of the man
Let him be, lift the lid
Bring him to his wife and kids


They gave him ten for two
What else can the bastards do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta set him free