Woke up this morning........got myself a Gun....
A3 - Sopranos theme |
When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose
Bob Dylan
or, as Kristofferson put it (and Janis sang it best):
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose |
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Al Stewart-Year of the Cat |
"and if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully" -modest mouse |
I guess every port of refuge has its price. Lyin Eyes. The Eagles. |
"Won't you scratch my itch, sweet Annie Rich and welcome me back to town?" Graham Parsons. |
Queensryche, f/ Anybody listening . . . "Think for yourself and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet."
Queensryche, f/ Jet City Woman . . . "Fortunes are lost on the women Ive seen, but without you I cant breathe!"
and the piece de la resistance . . drum roll please :)) . .
Keb Mo, f/ Give me what you got . . . "I thought I found love a year ago with a check-out girl at the grocery store
She was just lookin' for a millionaire And I was loookin' at her derierre" |
The mention of B.B. King made me remember these lines by the late Steve Goodman:
My baby came to me this morning
And said I'm kinda confused
She said, "If me and B.B. King was both drownin',
Which one would you choose?"
I said, "Oh, baby,"
I said, "Oh, baby,"
I said, "Oh, baby,
Baby, I ain't never heard you play no blues!"
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I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
Public Enemy
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
What God wants
God gets, God help us all.
And pretty much all of the other lyrics to Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' album. |
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need
Another way of describing this crazy hobby...
JC |
I pity all you working stiffs, living wondering what if, what if someday I were free?
Barenaked Ladies |
"You got a lota nerve, to say you are my friend. When i was down you just sat there grining."
...that Dylan guy.... |
They don't make Jews no more like they did when they made Jesus-
Kinky Freedman and the Texas Jewboys |
The ashtray says
You were up all night
When you went to bed
With your darkest mind
Your pillow wept
And covered your eyes
And you finally slept
Wilco - A Shot in the Arm from Summerteeth |
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.
Dylan |
Richard Buckner:
"I shot my insides out, with grief and Mr. Kessler, all holed up in my room."
From the indispensable "Bloomed."
jmd |
"...and the poets 'round here don't write noth'in at all, they just stand back and let it all be."
Jungleland, Springsteen |
"you dont get something for nothing you cant have freedom for free, you wont get wise with the sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be" 2112 RUSH |
"A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust" (Lennon)
"And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
Cause after all he's just a man"
One of the most unappreciated indictments of an entire gender in popular music |
'don't sing this song'-Jimmy Webb...the song is p.f. sloan |
So welcome to the free for all, the smash and grab, the freeloaders ball
Where everything is here for us if we scream, shout, make a fuss
There's nothing that we can't afford with a poisoned tongue and a sharpened sword
Spoilt children in a row - no one dares to tell them no
New Model Army- Great Expections. The whole song has great lyrics. |
Fishboat, that's B.B. King. |
All lies in jest until a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon |
"no one loves me but my momma & she could be jiving me too"
Buddy Guy..can't remember if it's someone else's tune. |
'smoking guns, hot to the touch
would cool down if we didn't use them so much'
hall and oates.. |
"Come Together, right now, over me!" Lennon
Presidential contender group asked Lennon to write a slogan/song for their presidential campaign. For some reason, it was never used??? |
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"Her name was McGill and she called herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy"
Great stuff. |
Just found this thread and I can't believe no one has posted this one yet.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Bob Dylan
"My Back Pages" |
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might get what you need"
Rolling Stones - Let it bleed album |
...dropping a barbell he points to the sky, the sun's not yellow it's chicken. Dylan |
"Please ignore, that you found me on the floor, trying on your camisole"
Barenaked Ladies
"I pity all you working stiffs, living wondering what if, what if someday I were free"
Barenaked Ladies
"I'm only hanging on, to watch you go down...my love"
U2
"You can swallow or you can spit, you can throw it up or choke on it"
U2 |
She had the face of an angel,
smiling with sin,
the body of Venus, with arms
AC/DC - Touch too Much |
"This is what you want...This is what you get"
Songs : Bad Life / The Order of Death
Album/CD : This is what you want...This is what you get
Artist : P.I.L.
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"Disappointed
Promises
Promises
Old tired
Worn out second hand sentences
One thing
With you is certain
Youre a really sad person
So sad
Disappointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Disappointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for"
Song : Disappointed
Album/CD : 9
Artist : P.I.L.
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"Is there a flame in the dark?
is there a bright heart star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep whenever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all"
Song : This Big Hush
Album/CD : Oil and Gold
Artist : Shriekback
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"Welcome to a new generation, all across this alien nation". Green Day.
"All the love you've been giving has all been meant for you". Moody Blues. |
"You're breakin' my heart,
You're tearin' it apart,
So f**k you."
Harry Nilsson, "Son of Schmilsson" |
Waits at the window, wearing the face
that she keeps in a jar by the door
(Paul and John)
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I'm bad. I'm bad. You know it.
(Michael Jackson, and we didn't know it then but we do now)
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And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the Heart
(Rush, Neil Peart)
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You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
(yeah we guessed as much, Madonna)
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I wana..I wana..ziga zig ahhh...
(yeah don't we all wish we could bend it like Beckham)
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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control...
(Pink Floyd)
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Her mind is Tiffany twisted
She's got the Mercedes bends
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends
(Eagles) |
But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebodys gonna get it Elvis Costello, "Green Shirt. |
"Bulletholes in the mailbox, keyholes in my mind." James Mcmurtry |
"But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed"
Elvis Costello - "Radio Radio" |
Newwwlllleee we-ed-ed-eds, 2 years ago, and they're still checking each other out...Family Affair, by Sly.
"Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime", Mose Allison
"Nobody loves me but my momma, and she might be jiving too" B.B. King
"My father sold chicken medicine that farmers would buy" Nashville soundtrack |
I suppose there's a bunch out of John Hiatt to share, including:
"I've seen my own ass in a double whiskey glass"
"Still you argue for your options and you angle for your case,
You wouldn't know a burning bush if it blew up in your face"
"One thing's true, you're gonna die for sure,
You can learn to live with love or without it,
But there ain't no cure,
There's just a slow turning - from the inside out". |
In these intolerant times, Dar Williams "The Christians and the Pagans" has special resonance for me. While I find the entire lyric quite moving, there is one line I particularly like. About mid-song, Williams describes a kitchen crisis during the holiday time reunion dinner between the Christian and Pagan branches of the same family.
"The magic's in the learning,
'cause now when Christians dine with Pagans,
only pumpkin pies are burning."
Would that it were. |
Tori Amos - Precious Things.
"So you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus" |
"My second cousin, his name was Calloway,
He died when he'd barely turned two.
And it was peanut butter and jelly that did it,
The help, she didn't know what to do,
She just stood there and watched him turn blue."
Lyle Lovett - 'Family Reserve' |
"It was a hot summer night and the beach was burnng
There was fog crawling over the sand
When I listen to your heart I hear the whole world turning
I see the shooting stars falling thru your trembling hands"
Artist: Meat Loaf
CD: "Bat out of hell"
From the same cd, try this one next time your in deep with your sweety:
"I could laugh Oh, but you could cry,
And I never knew just how high I was flying
Oh, with you right above me" |
Each man has his price Bob And yours was pretty low
AND
You've got to be trusted by people that you lie to
so when they turn their backs on you,
you'll get the chance to put the knife in.
Roger Waters |
"Seen a shootin star tonight, and I thought of you." (by the greatest songwriter ever) |
"I Shot my mouth off and he showed me waht that hole was for"
The Prenders "Tattooed Love Boys":
I ran twenty doors
Around the house, black and blue
Between love boys
Tore my knees up getting tattooed
Cause I needed, to find out what the thing was for
Been reading, a man time came to explore.
I went apewire
Cause I thought, like I like it
Little tease, but I didn't mean it
But you mess with the goods doll, you gotta pay.
A good time was guaranteed for one and all
With tattoos, target practice in the hall
While waiting for their number to get called
While I, I, I found what the wait was about.
I was a good time
Yeah, I got pretty good
Changing tires, upstairs bro.
I shot my mouth off and he showed me what that hole was for.
Now I see you, all impressed and half-undressed,
You got paint stick, all over the scars, lumps and bumps
Tattooed love boys got you where I used to lay
But ha ha, too bad
You know what they say.
Stop sniffling
You're gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man
Oh, but the prestige and the glory
Another human interest story
You are that. |
