Peter Gabriel -- Biko---
You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher |
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
That I've put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
-- "Your Song," Elton John, 1970
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"Oh my God...."
Sufjan Stevens
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Come on Feel the Illinoise
It's as much how he sings it...
There are about 50 other lines from his songs I could list but this certainly warrants first mention. |
The Magnetic Fields...from "You must Be Out Of Your Mind"
"I want you crawling back to me, down on your knees yeah,
like an appendectomy, sans anaesthesia."
Ouch. |
Bye buckaroos it's the end of another go round......
I'm headed for the O.D. Corral
Just a little further down the trail
I'm headed for the O.D. Corral
If you see the bear tell him to wait there.
Jerry Jeff Walker and The Lost Gonzo Band - O.D Corral |
I know everything, just not always in time.
- Roger Manning |
"Forever's a promise no love can survive."
She said, "You once cried my name," I said, "Well, baby, things change,"
Dwight Yoakam, "Things change"
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"I've proven who I am so many times/the magnetic strip's worn thin/and each time I was someone else/and everyone was taken in."
Bruce Cockburn "Pacing the Cage" |
"Don't worry 'bout a thing, cause nothin's gonna be alright" - Mose Allison |
Hammer my bones on the anvil of daylight.
- beck |
05-27-08: Rsbeck
I was drunk
the day my Mom
got outta prison.
And I went
to pick her up
in the rain.
But, before I
could get to the station
in my pickup truck
She got runned over
by a damned old train.
-- David Allen Coe
Rsbeck
Just to keep the record straight, it was written by the late, great, Steve Goodman... |
'cheerleader smile...tijuana style'-moon martin |
Here goes for all of us audio junkies.You can't always get what you want,but if you try sometimes you get what you need.Rolling stones. |
'Cos if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box
Run Like Hell, Pink Floyd, The Wall 1979
Fav of a father of two girls |
"The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing"
Hey Nineteen, Steely Dan |
I asked for water,
She brought me gasoline
Howlin' Wolf |
"IÂ’ll learn to work the saxophone
IÂ’ll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues " |
this sort of summarizes a great day:
....looked for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt...had a beer for breakfast and then another for desert...then stumbled out the door way to greet the day..
kris kristofferson......"sunday morning coming down" |
I wish that I knew what I know now, when I younger. |
"They paved paradise. And put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell |
Always a very current statement-
"and the people bowed and prayed to the neon gods they made"
S&G |
Smeyers,
One of my favorites! Thanks for covering it! |
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon |
"Sitting in the back of a car,
music so loud, can't hear a thing,
thinking 'bout what to say"
Alex Chilton |
"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime" Lou Reed
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" Pete Townsend |
"She's a great dancer, but not really that great of a girlfriend". - The Hold Steady |
Two: Nowhere to run nowhere to hide baby. Martha reeves and theVandellas. The sun shines on a funeral the same as on a birth the way it shines on everything that happens here on earth. James Taylor
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She's got eyes like crystal waters, lips like sherry wine, a body like fine brandy and a soul like turpintine. Oh mama you treat your daddy so damn mean. When I ask for water she brings me gasoline. She brings me gasoline. David Bromberg |
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
Nine Inche Nails
Hurt |
"Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free" from "My Home Town" by Tom Lehrer.
Another by Lehrer:
"When the world becomes uranius, we will all go simultaneous" from "We Will All Go Together When We Go" |
Judith by A Perfect Circle.
"You're such an inspiration for the ways in which I'll never ever choose to be." |
"The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping
in the quiet of his room,
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
Yes the killer lives.
Angels live inside me: I can feel them smile...
Their presence strokes
and soothes the tempest in my mind
and their love can heal the wounds
that I have wrought.
They watch me as I go to fall
- well, I know I shall be caught,
while the angels live.
How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?"
Man Erg - Van Der Graaf Generator |
who needs to see what weÂ’ve done
who needs please, when weÂ’ve got guns
who needs keys, when weÂ’ve got clubs
who needs peace, when weÂ’ve gone above
but beyond, where we should have gone
we went beyond where we should have gone
Jack Johnson
Sleep Thru The Static |
"When that lovely flame dies,"
Smoke gets in your eyes."
From song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; lyrics Otto Harbach, music Jerome Kern, 1933. |
There shes goes doin it again, pass up the rooster and settle for a hen. [Mentors] |
Hello Sfar,
What a great song! ... the whole album!!!! Even though the album credits her I wouldn't be at all surprised if Tom Waits did write, or help write some of the lyrics throughout the entire album. I'm aware that he was a mentor to RLJ. For me the whole album is a masterpiece on so many levels and I know a lot of great musical minds worked on this recording date. Thank God we all can enjoy it.
Best,
Tom
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Trcnetmsncom, yep, those are great lines and we should credit the songwriter (and former bunkie of Rickie Lee Jones) Tom Waits. |
Darosenb,
That was the "woolly bully" , I think.
At least that's what Ally told Sally. |
Hans plays with lotte, lotte plays with jane
Jane plays with willi, willi is happy again
Suki plays with leo, sacha plays with britt
Adolf builds a bonfire, enrico plays with it
-whistling tunes we hid in the dunes by the seaside
-whistling tunes were kissing baboons in the jungle
Its a knockout
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers-war without tears
Games without frontiers-war without tears |
My Favorite ....
"Well, he tried to be Standard
He tried to be Mobil
He tried living in a World
and in a Shell"
Artist: Ricky Lee Jones
Song Title: The Last Chance Texaco
Album - self entitled: Ricky Lee Jones
Enjoy,
Tom |
two that come to mind:
"i dont own the clothes i'm wearing" --ABB from midnight rider.
"goodbye all you punks, stay young & stay high. hand me my checkbook and i'll crawl off to die"---the who from 'they are all in love'---really sums up pete's farewell from us (when he was no longer his audience) |
Apologies to The Boss..
"God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of." |
"God have pity on the man who doubts what he's sure of."
Bruce Springsteen
Tunnel of Love |
"Jam up and jelly tight
My, my, my baby
Now you're outta sight
Jam up and jelly tight
You look a little naughty
But you're so polite
Jam up and jelly tight
You won't say you will but
There's a chance that you might"
Tommy Roe
Why don't they write'em like this anymore??? |
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys.
Give them thumbs, they forge a blade,
And where there's one they're bound to divide it right in two.
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys.
Give them thumbs, they make a club to beat their brother down.
How they've survived so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.
-Tool |
Some girls are bigger than others
Some girls are bigger than others
Some girls mothers are bigger than
Other girls mothers
The Smiths |
the only people I fear, are those who never have doubts
Billy Joel
Shades of Gray |
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel
Jim Morrison |
Graham Parker. "Don't make us out to be peons or fools/we are into Zeppelin and Paula Abdul!" From "Over the Border to America." |
"And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue
The guitar's comin' through
To soothe me"
--Dobie Gray |
