Foxy Music (Dance Away)
"She's dressed to kill and guess who's dying" |
From Rush's "Subdivisions":
"Where some will sell their dreams for small desires
and lose the race to rats,
get caught in ticking traps,
and stop to dream of someplace
to relax their restless flight -
somewhere out of the memory
of lighted streets on quiet nights."
Wow. How true in contemporary America. |
I believe in life, and I believe in love,
But the world in which I live is tryin' to prove me wrong. |
Beginning of Little Bird by Lisa Hannigan "Your heart sings like a kettle, your words boil away like steam" |
Little old lady got mutilated late last night |
From "Good Night Irene" written by Leadbelly and covered by many including my favorite by Ry Cooder:
"Sometime I live in the country, sometime I live in town.
Sometimes I have a great notion to jump in the river and drown." |
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. |
"No one came from miles around
And said "Man, who's he?"".
Deep Purple |
"You must be a millionaire's daughter
I can tell by the way you walk..."
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
"'My daddy was no jockey, but he taught me how to ride" Kansas City David Bromberg version |
The lyric for Golden Slumber is from a 17th cent. poem by Thomas Dekker
McCartney saw a song in his sister's songbook and made up his own version
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby. |
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.
Rolling Stones |
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise |
" I love you in a place where there is no space or time"
Leon Russell from "A Song for You" |
"Id love to change the world
But I dont know what to do"
ALvin Lee/TYA
|
Sycophancy, solipsistic, Spider plays the fool to lure the fly...Them Crooked Vultures |
Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer--
the future's uncertain and the end is always near.
the doors, Roadhouse Blues |
Lyrics from "Stardust", written by Mitchell Parish. Song composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Favorite rendition sung by Nat King Cole:
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song
Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain |
Enjoy the gig Roxy54, hope Morrissey is well enough now.
I had the good fortune of growing up in Manchester and being in my late teen during the eighties heard them at the beginning.
ok one more for the road:
'Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head.......... Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race.' |
Pcoombs,
Morrissey has so many great lyrics, it would be hard to know where to start. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" is another of many.
I'm going to see him for the second time in Phoenix on Feb 10th. Looking forward to it. |
just thought of a couple more:
'One Cup of Tea is Never Enough but two is One Too Many'
and
'I canÂ’t go back to savouryÂ… now'
both classics by John Shuttleworth |
'You're the One for Me, Fatty'
and
'Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know - it's serious'
both by Morrissey. |
"I always leave the bar room when is over. Not feelin any pain at closin time"
Merle Haggard. "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down" |
"I wanna do bad things with you"
Jace Everett |
A couple from the same song, Miriam - Norah Jones
Miriam
That's such a pretty name
I'm gonna say it when
I make you cry
Miriam
When you were having fun
In my big pretty house
Did you think twice
I know he said it's not your fault
But I don't believe that's true
I've punished him for being weak
Now I've saved the best for you
Oh Miriam
That's such a pretty name
And I'll keep sayin it
Until you die |
"Did you ever have to make up your mind? You pick up on one and leave the other one behind It's not often easy and not often kind Did you ever have to make up your mind?" |
Let righteousness cover the earth, like the water covers the sea, yeah.
-- Revolution |
Roxy54-
You are probabaly right. However, my version sounds pretty good when I sing it in the shower channeling Jim Morrison as much as possible! |
Maxnewid,
The Crystal Ship (singular) is a good song, but the lyric actually reads:
"Before you slip into unconciousness, I'd like to have another kiss."
"Before you fade away" isn't in there at all.
Good choice though. |
They put a sign up in our town,
If you live it up, you won't live it down,
So she left monte Rio son,
Just like a bullet leaves a gun.
Tom Waits, hold on. |
"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again"
Beginning of Astral Weeks. Van Morrison
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"Before you slip into unconciousness, let me steal one more kiss, before you fade away...." The Doors "Crystal Ships'
also:
"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...." |
This lyric from Rainy Day Man, sung by Bonnie Raitt on her Streetlights album, is a great turn of a phrase and the way she sings it makes it delightful.
"Now simple pleasures they all evade you
Store-bought treasures none can save you"
As I pursue this hobby on the equipment purchasing side sometimes it is easy to forget that the simple pleasure of listening to music is the goal, not just buying better stuff. |
I recently found this one, on the subject of (ruefully) growing older. Transcribed as best as I can decipher:
I'd say that time is on a rude crusade
taking all that I'm annually owed
my ration of days
grows painfully shy
the rain
cannot turn the other way
one day
turns a skip into a sway
Oh, and by the way, Happy Birthday
from "Happy Birthday, Baby" by Elbow Bones and The Racketeers (AKA Kid Creole)
Marty |
I got me a complication
and it's an only child
Talk Talk by Music machine |
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
The whole song is maybe the most psychedelic vision I've ever heard. Can you hear a vision? I guess you can if John Lennon wrote it! |
Cold iron shackles and ball and chain.
Listen to the whistle of the evening train.
ok one more...
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams.
Gone both, dream and lie.
ok that's it. I promise! |
I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train.
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.
I don't know what this means, but it's like religion every time I hear it! |
They say it costs a lot to win, even more to lose.
You and me got to spend some time, wonderin' what to choose. |
The highway is for gamblers, you better use your sense. |
I really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My word's but a whisper--your deafness a SHOUT!
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think....
--opening to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick
One of many wonderful moments penned by Ian Anderson. Probably my favorite all time lyric, but others are in the running. |
Come to think of it. Always lover this:
(Michael Franks, Antonio's Song)
Antonio lives life's frevo
Antonio prays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred-proof
The vulture that circles Rio
Hangs in this L.A. sky
The blankets they give the Indians
Only make them die
But sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the Music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
Antonio loves the desert
Antonio prays for rain
Antonio knows that Pleasure
Is the child of Pain
And lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
To the Amazon
We sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow. |
Wish I was a Kellog's cornflake, floating in my bowl taking movies,
Relaxing a while, living in style
Talking with a raisin who occasionaly plays LA, casualy glancing at his taupee
Wish I was an English muffin, bout to make the most out of a toaster
Ease myself down, coming up brown,
I prefer the boysenberry more than any other jam, I'm a citizen for boysenberry jam fan..."
Punkey's Dilemma, from Simon and Garfunkel Bookends |
"In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country were they turned back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain..."
Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat" |
I've recently grown fond of this one, "For The Love of Him" by Bobbi Martin, but I'm not sure that my wife is ready to "make me her reason for living":
When he opens the door
Says I'm home
Beware of the look in his eyes
They tell you the mood he's in
What kind of day it's been
For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can
There be times when he won't say a word
And you wonder if there's something you said
The gentle touch of your hand
Tells him you understand
For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can
Little things he forgets to do
Have you told him today I love you
When he reaches out be there
Show him that someone cares
He's a man and a man has to try
Let him run, let him fall, let him cry
His world won't fall apart
If you take him into your arms
For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can
For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can
For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can |
"And the blood of his music runs through the veins of our guitars"... But there's a banjo moon in a tie-dyed sky
Hippies dance and babies cry
Church bells ring as a silver-haired angel look down
And the blood of his music runs through the veins of our guitars
Bright Lights, Dark Star from Patchwork Quilt written by Warren Haynes about Jerry Garcia - the whole song is outstanding. |
"Your mind is on vacation, but your mouth is working overtime!"
The great Mose Allison |
Amelia Curran? I'm writing that down. Yes, I'm crazy about rhyme schemes and metrical language. Can't wait to check her out.
Don |
Don,
Good call. I've long been a Be-Bop DeLuxe fan, but never really thought much about the lyrics. I like Bill Nelson's songs and his guitar, but I've got to admit that that's a nice bit of wordsmithing you've identified.
If interesting rhyme schemes are your thing, check out Amelia Curran. The music's a very different bag, but she works the meter thing to within an inch of its life.
Marty |
And all the creatures
Born of ink and rage and lies
Run from my pen
And crawl across the page to die
Fascination is the germ of their disease
Degradation is the term of their release
By Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe
Note the the rhymes are internal as well as terminal.
genius |
