"hard words fly like punches in a barroom brawl"
Robert Earl Keen |
I'm a man of means by no means,
King of the Road.
-Roger Miller |
"To seek the breast of darkness
And be suckled by the night"
"The Poem on the Underground Wall" by Simon and Garfunkel |
Almost forgot my wife's fave...
"Who put the Ram, in the Ram-a-Lama Ding Dong?" |
Oh and...
"EEK-ORK-OOK-AWK-AWK". |
"Whoa, whoa, whoa... whoa". |
Jackson Browne: "I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled." |
Notorioous B.I.G. "..
..got the rotweilers by the door,
I feed 'em gunpowder,
so they can devour,
the criminals,
tryin to drop my decimals..
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WOW - an audiophile quoting the Notorious BIG - that's worth taking note of! |
...and I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway - Fly on a Windshield, Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. |
"But I could have told you, Vincent - This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." -Don McLean, "Starry Starry Night" |
"Dance me to the children who are waiting to be born"
Dance Me to the End of Love, by Leonard Cohen (whole song, really)
"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
Dylan's My Back Pages (whole song, really)(Actually, whole corpus!)
"Michael from mountains
Go where you will go to
Know that I will know you
Someday, I may know you
Very well"
Joni Mitchell, Michael from Mountains |
More Bob Dylan:
"For those who defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the mind most bitterly
For those that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally,
Life sometimes must get lonely." |
Notorioous B.I.G. "..
..got the rotweilers by the door,
I feed 'em gunpowder,
so they can devour,
the criminals,
tryin to drop my decimals.... |
Although not a big bowie fan -
"Don't lean on me man cause you can't afford the ticket"
and King Crimson's Epitaph:
"When everyman is torn apart,
with nightmares and with dreams,
will no one lay the laurel wreath
as silence drowns the screams..
Confusion will be my epitaph,
as I crawl a cracked and broken path,
if we make it, we can all sit back and laugh,
but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying" |
RUSH: Closer to the Heart ~
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones to start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the heart |
"The ones who love us best, are the ones we lay to rest, we visit their graves on holidays at best".
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'd die to please, if its any consolation, I don't begin to understand".
Paul Westerberg |
Paradise by the Dashboard Light: ALL of it. What male hasn't experienced that in real life? |
"The love you take is equal to the love you make"
Abbey Road |
"Waiting 'round the bend, my Huckleberry friend."
--Moon River
Makes me smile every time. |
The sign said 'no long hairs need apply'. So I tucked my hair up under my hat and went in to ask him why.
He said 'you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think
you'll do. So I took off my hat and said' imagine that...me working for you!' |
on the lighter side . . .
"See the little faggot with the earing and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire"
from Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
and more serious . . .
"I saw a pearl of wisdom
in the spirit of a man,
as he saved the day he lost.
Time will say I told you so
if we look back in regret.
Never give a day away.
It won't return the same again.
Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today."
- "For Today" by Camel. off of "A Nod and a Wink" |
"When I grow up
I wanna be stable" by Garbage, first album, forgot which song. |
I am slow to move these feet of clay
you passed me by
now you are in my way
I take my change at my own damn pace
I will move along one day |
Man, I second that Hendrix response - "Castles Made of Sand". Been listening to it for over 35 years and still gives me chills.
"Cops in cars, the topless bars...never saw a woman so alone." 'LA Woman' - The Doors
"And the sun came in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses,
oh won't you stay and we'll put on the day and we'll talk in present tenses." 'Chelsea Morning' - Joni Mitchell
The entire 'Maggie's Farm' - Dylan |
Maybe life is just put on for show
Oh but it's the only show in town
And it don't cost a nickel to get in
Oh but you'll pay dear to hang around
"The Only Show In Town" by Jesse Winchester
Let The Rough Side Drag (1976) |
The White City - I finally grew up
To resist the temptation the gutters all threw up
But I have to go back - I guess I'm violence prone
To remember the White City fighting (yeah) |
I am not much of rocker these days; but my favorite always has been:
Show me, show me, show me
How you do that trick
The one that makes me scream, she said
The one that makes me laugh, she said
And threw her arms around my head
Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
The Cure, Just Like Heaven |
Now that I have found you
would you object to
never seeing each other again
cause I cant afford to
climb aboard you
no-one has that much ego to spare |
U2 "One" Did I disappoint you, Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? |
See that lover standing
staring at the ground
he is looking for the real thing
lies were all he found
you can get the real thing
it will only cost a pound
Down where the drunkards roll
down where the drunkards roll |
The Sidewalk crouches at her feet, like a dog that begs for something sweet... Doors |
"when we get older, and stop making sense" talking heads |
Tell everybody waiting for a superman,
That they should try to hold on the best they can,
He hasn't dropped them, forgot them, or anything,
It's just to heavy for a superman to lift
from Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin (1999) |
One more the stones,I ll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon,you just cant beat it. |
Here we go,from the notorious cherry bombs,Its hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long,It not get any better than that no way no how Al |
Baretta's Theme song "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" was sung by the late great Sammy Davis Jr. |
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Theme song from "Baretta" T. V. show |
"One man's riteousness is another man's long, hard sentance carried out." From Calexico's "Black Heart" |
For lunch my menu is kinda large
5 hamburgers, 3 shish-kabobs
2 large fries, one slice a cake
And I eat it all down in just one take.
The Fat Boys |
I like your blue-eyed horseshoe, I like your afro horny toad, I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road...
Blue Oyster Cult, Career of Evil from Secret Treaties |
"Feed your babies onions, so you can find them in the dark." |
I dug out an old Jerry Jeff Walker LP the other day and was reminded of these lyrics...
"Now, I'm not sayin' she was a big chick or anything,
but one time I did ask her what size bra she wore,
and she said 6 and 7/8,
I said, 6 and 7/8, my God what'd ya use to measure it,
and she said,
a Stetson...." |
I'm too tired to rest.
Lazy Lester on Lightin Slims' Trip to Chicago Flyright pressing, The legendary Jay Miller sessions Vol 12. |
LOL at "I buried Paul."
"She blew my nose and then she blew my mind" is a pretty good line. |
If i should die in a car wreck...(pause)... may I have Van Morrison on myyyyyyyy tape deck.
Can't remember the name of the song but it's by POI DOG PONDERING on their album Wishing Like a Mountain and thinking like the Sea.
GREAT MUSIC!! |
I know you don't know me
But I'd dig your company
Don't want to be alone tonight
You can trust me girl -you'll be alright
Looked at me with big brown eyes
She said "yes" to my surprise
And now I call her in the morning
And I see her every night
I see her in the evening
And when I'm with her I'm all right
Steppenwolf/The Second
Humanity grew weary
Of its doubtful state of mind
So it summond from far
And called from near
Every wise man thought to be sincere
To heal its wounds and make it whole
To lead the way back
To the soul
But the wise men came together
With the hope to free mankind
From rubbish that had gathered
In God's name
To embrace and trust each other
In the search for the supreme
And they found that all their teaching
Was the same
Steppenwolf/The Second |
Castles Made Of Sand
Jimi Hendrix
There was a young girl whose heart was a frown
Because she was crippled for life and couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she would stop living
So she decided to die
She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled
"you won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"look a golden winged ship is passing my way"
And it really didn't have to stop
It just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea eventually
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Crystal Ship
Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison- The Doors
Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, Another kiss
The Days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle reign
The time we ran was too insane
we'll meet again, we'll meet again
Tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather die, I'd rather fly
The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls
A thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes,
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes,
He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes.
Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.
Stepping out...
To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes,
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes,
And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words--just one kiss, then another.
Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.
And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes,
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes,
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes,
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes,
I said, mmh, yes,
But not yet. |
"I'll love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow"....sung by the Spiral Starecase, a one-hit-wonder group. Killer lyric, I tell it to my wife all the time. I knew the song was a classic the first time I heard it 35 years ago as a teenager.
And yes they spelled it that way. |
'I love the dead, before they're cold,
Their blueing flesh for me to hold.
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave,
I have other uses for you darling...
ALICE COOPER circa 1973 |
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was... |
