Poetry and Lyrics

[tungtied2u]

Tim Hardin

Rod Stewart did a great job with this song by Tim Hardin

Reason To Believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way just to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself

 

[Angeline]

Re: Tim Hardin

Rod Stewart did a great job with this song by Tim Hardin

Reason To Believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way just to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without
somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
never think about myself

Ok. Now you're scaring me! I was going to post that with the Youngbloods stuff, because I love Jesse's cover of it. Really. lol.

 

[Angeline]

And back to Van...

Tupelo Honey

You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You know she's alright
You know she's alright with me
She's alright, she's alright (she's an angel)

You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail it right around the seven oceans
Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea
Because she's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like the honey, baby, from the bee
She's my baby, you know she's alright.....

 

[Angeline]

I love this song and identify with it. It feels like me to me.

Amoreena
Elton John/Bernie Taupin

Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child

And when it rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams of crystal streams
Of days gone by when we would lean
Laughing fit to burst upon each other

I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening
The fruit juice flowing slowly, slowly, slowly
Down the bronze of your body
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child

Oh if only I could nestle in the cradle of your cabin
My arms around your shoulders the windows wide and open
While the swallow and the sycamore are playing in the valley
Oh I miss you Amoreena like a king bee misses honey

And when it rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams of crystal streams
Of days gone by when we would lean
Laughing fit to burst upon each other

Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child

 

[Guest]

The kiss ~ by Jake Thackray

She kissed me like a child
Fresh and peckish like a child
She was wild as little strawberries but,
Though she kissed me as a child would do
She'd gone on a little longer than she needed to ...

I did it for a dare,
"Go and kiss her for a dare!"
In the middle of the village square
She was as seventeenish as the month of May
And her daddy was a butcher in a pie and puddings way.

But then this kiss, this kiss, this little skirmish of a kiss
Was importunately witnessed by the
Twitching whiskers and the bulging eyes
Of a couple of the local ladies who were passing by

Passing by, passing by ...
Couple of the local ladies who were passing by.

It was misunderstood, this pretty kiss misunderstood
By the squinting sisterhood
And thus the whisper-whisper went from pinafore to pinafore
Every "Tut-tut!" more grievous than the "Well I never!" before.

Until her daddy heard, her demented daddy heard
Every grisly whispered word
And stepping fresh from the slaughterhouse the crimson butcher ran,
The steam around his shoulders still, a cleaver still in his hand.

"Well you may buy my pies," he cries, "My puddings, buy my pies
"Keep your whippersnapping eyes from off the
"Juicy beauty of my daughter who
"Is a tit-bit far too tasty for the lips of the likes of you

"Likes of you, likes of you ...
"Far too tasty for the lips of the layabout likes of you!"

He swung his cleaver high, swung his whistling cleaver high
And his cry was agonising
"I shall follow King Solomon's decision inasmuch as
"I'm off to split you down the middle, easy, collarbone to crutch!"

But with a single bound, his daughter, with a springy bound
Flung her arms and legs around me, singing,
"Split all you wish, but daddy, let the cleaver fall,
"And you shall split me likewise, precious tit-bits and all!"

"I am my own to give, nobody else but mine to give.
"Perhaps I'll give it to this whippersnapper
"Backbone to belly button, tongue-tip to toe,
"From nipples up above to bushy triangle below

"Down below, down below ...
"My tangled diamond down below!"

Which came as news to me, both to the butcher man and me,
But who was I to disagree,
What with my nose in her breastbone, her haunches in my hands
And the chopper in the offing, there was a lot to understand.

The cleaver never, never, fell, the jealous cleaver never fell
And although my eyes were elsewhere
By a pressing little message of her elbows and thighs
She'd let me know her daddy'd gone, tears in his eyes.

She kissed me like a child
Fresh and peckish like a child
She was wild as little strawberries but,
Though she kissed me as a child would do,
She'd gone on a little longer than she needed to

Needed to, needed to ...
On a little longer than she needed to do.

 

[tungtied2u]

Discovering Japan

by Graham Parker



Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking
The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt
And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you
And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

She knows how hard her heart grows under the nuclear shadows
She can't escape the feeling repeating in her head
When after all the urges some kind of truth emerges
We felt the deadly surges

Discovering Japan--an --an

Discovering Japan--an --an

The GIs only use her, they only ram right through her
Giving an eastern promise, that they could never keep
Seeing a million miles, between their joke and smiles
She heard their hard denials [don't pause]

As the tears dropped sideways down her face, face
I woke up talking in the tongue of a different race, race
And as the flight touches down my watch says 8:02
But that's midnight to you,
Midnight to you Midight to you

I dreamed headlong collisions in jet lag panavisions
I shouted sayonara it didn't mean goodbye
But lovers turn to posers show up in film exposures
Just like in travel brochures
Discovering Japan Discovering Japan

 

[tungtied2u]

More Graham Parker

Passion is No Ordinary Word

It worked much better in a fantasy
Imagination's one thing that comes easy to me
Cause this is nothing else if not unreal
When I pretend to touch you, you pretend to feel

CHORUS
Passion is no ordinary word, Passion is no ordinary word
Passion is no ordinary word, Ain't manufactured or just another sound
That you hear at night at night

Ain't got no idols for the screen today
Although they make a lot of noises they got nothing to say
I try to look amazed but it's an act
The movie might be new but it's the same soundtrack (REPEAT CHORUS)

Say how it feels real useless ain't it
Wait until it bites right down inside you
The world is easy when you're just playing around with it
Everything's a thrill and every girl's a kill
And then it gets unreal and then you don't feel anything
You don't feel anything You don't feel anything

An object of desire you don't desire to be
I bet the shop window dummies give in just as easily
I try to stop but have to make you drop down to the floor
Moaning in the darkness as we fake some more

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE

Just another sound that you hear at night
Ain't just another sound
_____________________________

Squeezing Out Sparks--- Graham Parker and The Rumour
This album rocks! Sharp acid lyrics. For when I feeling like kicking out the jams.

 

[tungtied2u]

It's raining again

so I thought I'd trot this one out.

Rain on the Roof
The Lovin Spoonful

You and me and rain on the roof,
Caught up in a summer shower,
Drying while it soaks the flowers.
Maybe we'll be caught for hours,
Waiting out the sun.
You and me, we're gathered away
Deep in conversation, sitting in the hay.
Honey, how long was I laughing in the rain with you?
Cause I didn't feel a drop til the thunder brought us to.
You and me underneath a roof of tin.
Pretty comfy feeling, how the rain ain't leaking in.
We can sit and dry just as long as it can pour.
Cause the way it makes you look makes me hope it rains some more.
You and me and rain on the roof,
Caught up in a summer shower.
Drying while it soaks the flowers
Maybe we'll be caught for hours,
Waiting out the sun.

 

[tungtied2u]

CSN&Y

Helplessly Hoping
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Lyrics
by Stephen Stills

Helplessly hoping
Her harlequin hovers nearby
Awaiting a word
Gasping at glimpses
Of gentle true spirit
He runs, wishing he could fly
Only to trip at the sound of good-bye
Wordlessly watching
He waits by the window
And wonders
At the empty place inside
Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams
He worries
Did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other
Stand by the stairway
You'll see something
Certain to tell you confusion has its cost
Love isn't lying
It's loose in a lady who lingers
Saying she is lost
And choking on hello
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other

 

[Angeline]

Dark Star
CSNY

Forgive me if my fantasies might seem a little shopworn
I'm sure you've heard it all before. I wonder what's the right form
Love songs written for you, it's been going down for years
But to sing what's in my heart seems more honest than the tears.

I am curious, don't want to hurry us.
I'm intrigued with us.
Ain't this song a bust.
I don't care, dark star.

I met you several years ago,
The times they were so strange, but I had a feeling.
You looked into my eyes just once,
An instant flashing by that we were stealing.
Another time you felt so bad,
And I wasn't any help at all as I recall.
We didn't quite know what to do so we left the wanting be
Still there for me and you.

Dark star, I see you in the morning,
Dark star, a' sleeping next to me.
Dark star, let the memory of the evening
Be the first thing that you think of
When you open up your smile and see me, dark star.

It's easy to be with you
Even with the storms that rage beneath your search for peace.
We must make some time together
Take the kids and find a world that's ours to keep.
Now you've got me dreaming girl.
It's been so long that I thought that I'd forgotten how.
My heart is once again my soul.
We touched, we did, you know we did, no more teasing now.

Dark star, I see you in the morning,
Dark star, a' sleeping next to me.
Dark star, let the memory of the evening
Be the first thing that you think of
When you open up your smile and see me, dark star.

 

[Angeline]

Changes
Phil Ochs

Sit by my side, come as close as the air,
Share in a memory of gray;
And wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes.

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow they fade.
And then they have to die, trapped within
the circle time parade of changes.

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind,
Visions of shadows that shine.
'Til one day I returned and found they were the
Victims of the vines of changes.

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze,
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes.

Moments of magic will glow in the night
All fears of the forest are gone
But when the morning breaks they're swept away by
Golden drops of dawn, of changes.

Passions will part to a strange melody.
As fires will sometimes burn cold.
Like petals in the wind, we're puppets to the silver
strings of souls, of changes.

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else,
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on
the rolling river shores of changes.

 

[Tathagata]

Mr Bad Example

And here is why I miss Warren Zevon:


I started as an alter boy, working at the church
Learning all my holy moves, doing some research
Which led me to a cash box, labeled "Children's Fund"
I'd leave the change, and tuck the bills inside my cummerbund

I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping, and housewives by the score
I loaded up their furniture, and took it to Spokane
And auctioned off every last naugahyde divan

I'm very well aquainted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth
I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross

I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy

Of course I went to law school and took a law degree
And counseled all my clients to plead insanity
Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
Where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called

Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de fer
I threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair
I put my last few francs down on a prostitute
Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute

Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig
And headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?
And fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide
Looking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade

I opened up an agency somewhere down the line
To hire aboriginals to work the opal mines
But I attached their wages and took a whopping cut
And whisked away their workman's comp and pauperized the lot

I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy

I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air
And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals
I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals

 

[Angeline]

I'm listening to a great cd--Van Morrison The Philosopher's Stone, and it occurred to me how much I love this song. The whole cd is very bluesy as only he can do it.

Madame Joy

All the men would turn their head
When she walked down the street
Clothes so fine and hair that shine
Smiling oh so sweet, smiling oh so sweet

Got a taste of all religion
Comes on with all the new
In her hair a yellow ribbon
And she's decked out all in blue
Oh yes, decked out all in blue

Steppin' lightly, steppin' brightly
With her books in hand
Going to the university to teach them
Help them understand
Just to help them understand

And all the kids would love to see her
Follow in her steps
And tell her stories and adore her
Climb in through the fence
Climb in through the fence

Here she comes walking
Here she comes talking
I do believe it's Madame Joy
Walking past that old street corner
And she's looking for her boy
Oh yes she is, looking for her boy

Steppin' lightly, steppin' brightly
With her books in hand
Going to the university to teach them
Help them understand
Yeah, help them understand

I was looking at the way she moved me
And I was seeing every side
Tell me, can I learn the language
Have you got the mind, have you got the mind

Here she comes walking
Here she comes talking
I do believe it's Madame Joy
She's walking by that old street corner
And she's looking for her boy
Oh yes looking for her boy

And all the men would turn their head
When she walked down the street
Clothes refined and hair that shine
And smiling oh so sweet, oh yes, she's smiling oh so sweet
Smiling, smiling oh so sweet, yeah, yeah, yeah
Smiling, smiling oh so sweet

And all the men would
And all the men would turn their head around
When that woman walked down the street
When that woman walked down the street
She just walked
Just kept on walking down the street
When she walked, when she walked down
When she walked on down

 

[tarablackwood22]

Ralph McTell

Streets of London

Have you seen the old man
in the closed-down market
kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
and held loosely at his side
yesterday's paper
telling yesterday's news.

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
and say for you that the sun doesn't shine?
Let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of London ,
I'll show you something
to make you change your mind.

Have you seen the old girl
who walks the streets of London ,
dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She has no time for talking,
she just keeps right on walking
carrying her home in two carrier bags.

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
and say for you that the sun doesn't shine?
Let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of London ,
I'll show you something
to make you change your mind.

In the all night cafe
at a quarter past eleven,
same old man is sitting there on his own
looking at the world
Over the rim of his tea-cup,
each tea lasts an hour
then he wanders home alone.

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
and say for you that the sun doesn't shine?
Let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of London ,
I'll show you something
to make you change your mind.

And have you seen the old man
outside the seaman's mission ,
memory fading
with the medal ribbons that he wears.
In our winter city,
the rain cries a little pity,
for one more forgotten hero
and a world that doesn't care .

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
and say for you that the sun doesn't shine?
Let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of London ,
I'll show you something
to make you change your mind.

 

[minsue]

This has been stuck in my head for ages and I've yet to find a recording of it...

Any suggestions? I'm desperate

[color=663366]What'll I Do?
Irving Berlin

Gone is the romance that was so divine.
’tis broken and cannot be mended.
You must go your way,
And I must go mine.
But now that our love dreams have ended...

What’ll I do
When you are far away
And I am blue
What’ll I do?

What’ll I do?
When I am wond’ring who
Is kissing you
What’ll I do?

What’ll I do with just a photograph
To tell my troubles to?

When I’m alone
With only dreams of you
That won’t come true
What’ll I do?

What’ll I do with just a photograph
To tell my troubles to?

When I’m alone
With only dreams of you
That won’t come true
What'll I do?

What will I do?[/color]

 

[tungtied2u]

For youm lovely ladies of words

LAY,LADY,LAY

Words and Music by Bob Dylan
1969,1985 Big Sky Music



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Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

 

[Angeline]

I Believe in You
Bob Dylan

They ask me how I feel
And if my love is real
And how I know I'll make it through.
And they, they look at me and frown,
They'd like to drive me from this town,
They don't want me around
'Cause I believe in you.

They show me to the door,
They say don't come back no more
'Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,
And I walk out on my own
A thousand miles from home
But I don't feel alone
'Cause I believe in you.

I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter,
I believe in you even though we be apart.
I believe in you even on the morning after.
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
Oh, when the night is disappearing
Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.

Don't let me drift too far,
Keep me where you are
Where I will always be renewed.
And that which you've given me today
Is worth more than I could pay
And no matter what they say
I believe in you.

I believe in you when winter turn to summer,
I believe in you when white turn to black,
I believe in you even though I be outnumbered.
Oh, though the earth may shake me
Oh, though my friends forsake me
Oh, even that couldn't make me go back.

Don't let me change my heart,
Keep me set apart
From all the plans they do pursue.
And I, I don't mind the pain
Don't mind the driving rain
I know I will sustain
'Cause I believe in you.

 

[Angeline]

Never Say Goodbye
Bob Dylan

Twilight on the frozen lake
North wind about to break
On footprints in the snow
Silence down below.

You're beautiful beyond words
You're beautiful to me
You can make me cry
Never say goodbye.

Time is all I have to give
You can have it if you choose
With me you can live
Never say goodbye.

My dreams are made of iron and steel
With a big bouquet
Of roses hanging down
From the heavens to the ground.

The crashing waves roll over me
As I stand upon the sand
Wait for you to come
And grab hold of my hand.

Oh, baby, baby, baby blue
You'll change your last name, too
You've turned your hair to brown
Love to see it hangin' down.

 

[Angeline]

Helen Baylor's gospel version of this is killer. It's on this cd, which is wonderful, moving music.

What Can I Do for You
Bob Dylan

You have given everything to me.
What can I do for you?
You have given me eyes to see.
What can I do for you?

Pulled me out of bondage and you made me renewed inside,
Filled up a hunger that had always been denied,
Opened up a door no man can shut and you opened it up so wide
And you've chosen me to be among the few.
What can I do for you?

You have laid down Your life for me.
What can I do for you?
You have explained every mystery.
What can I do for you?

Soon as a man is born, you know the sparks begin to fly,
He gets wise in his own eyes and he's made to believe a lie.
Who would deliver him from the death he's bound to die?
Well, you've done it all and there's no more anyone can pretend to do.
What can I do for you?

You have given all there is to give.
What can I do for you?
You have given me life to live.
How can I live for you?

I know all about poison, I know all about fiery darts,
I don't care how rough the road is, show me where it starts,
Whatever pleases you, tell it to my heart.
Well, I don't deserve it but I sure did make it through.
What can I do for you?

 

[Guest]

If you've never heard this man sing his songs you should try to find some - he's a "chansonier" in the French style and nobody can sing his stuff - it's his alone.

Lyrics: Sophie (Jake Thackray)


I should like to know
I'd like to find out
What my Sophie thinks about.
Lying here in bed
I may not decide
What goes on inside
her head.

I know that she likes me 'cause she says so often
And besides, if she didn't, well she wouldn't be here.
And every now and then she goes all inscrutable
And I don't like it when she doesn't seem so near.

Yes, I should like to know
I'd like to find out
What old Sophie thinks about.
Does she tell me lies?
Is she on the make?
What's behind those vacant eyes?

I know that she doesn't like going to parties
And I know that she likes drinking Whiskey Mac.
I know that she's daft about Liquorice Allsorts.
I know that she likes it when I stroke her back.

But I should like to know
I'd like to find out
What my Sophie thinks about.
Breathing in my hair,
Never says a word.
Is my little bird
All there?

She's got a lovely bottom and I prize it highly.
I've studied its proportions time and again.
I know her snowy breasts and her deep, dark navel,
And I'm no stranger to her abdomen.

Oh, I should like to know
I'd like to find out
What old Sophie thinks about.
There's a question mark,
There's a mystery,
Lying in the dark
With me.

 

[tungtied2u]

Mr. Leitch

Catch The Wind (Version II)
Donovan

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your lovin' mind.

To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

When sundown pales the sky
I want to hide a while
Behind your smile,
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find.

For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing,
'T would make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Diddy di dee dee diddy diddy,
Diddy diddy diddy dee dee dee.

When rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near to kill my fears,
To help me to leave all my blues behind.

For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be
And long to be,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

 

[tungtied2u]

Universal Soldier

by Donovan Leitch

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
He's been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put an end to war.

 

[lipsticksunset1984]

Rickie Lee Jones

Stewart's Coat by Rickie Lee Jones


Hold me love,
I can't sleep again.

Will I have to kiss your nose?

I wanna lay here next to him.

I remember walking in the rain,
rain falling on my hands.
I don't wanna live through that again.

Outside the heart it gets dark now,
and I was walking in the park,
children singing songs
that made all our dreams come true.
I'm in love with you.

I know it takes love,
love is a healing thing
when you give everything.

When you're loving the world,
the world gives you love to hold onto,
remembering,
we seldom remember love.

Just give me many chances,
I'll see you through it all.
Just give me time to learn to crawl.

In September,
when the rain comes and the wind blows,
I will see you walking in that coat.

And if you let me
I will keep you here
inside the stars,
I will love the sound
of your sheets.

You have moved beneath them.

 

[tungtied2u]

In My Life

In My Life
Lennon/McCartney
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

 

[lipsticksunset1984]

Woody

Woody the Cat by Hayden Desser


I'm just sitting here
wasting my time
until you get home
from your escapades
in the back yards
with your friends of late.

I'd really be worried
if you didn't do this
every spring,
when the grass grows
and there's birds and trees
and the sun shines
and you don't need me.