Poetry and Lyrics

[tungtied2u]

Joe Jackson

A Slow Song

Music has charms they say
But in some people's hands
It becomes a savage beast
Can't they control it
Why don't they hold it back

You see my friend and me
Don't have an easy day
And at night we dance not fight
And we need the energy
If not the sympathy

But I'm brutalized by bass
And terrorized by treble
I'm open to change my mood but
I always get caught in the middle

And I get tired of DJ's
Why's it always what he plays
I'm gonna push right through
I'm gonna tell him too
Tell him to
Play us
Play us a slow song

It's late - I'm winding down
Am I the only one
To want a strong and silent sound
To pick me up and undress me
Lay me down and caress me

I feel you touch my hand
And whisper in my ear
Ask me how I'm feeling now
And I want to get near you
But I can't even hear you

But this is a fine romance
If we have to be so demanding
We need just one more dance to
Leave here with an understanding

And I get tired of DJ's
Why's it always what he plays
I'm gonna push right through
I'm gonna tell him too
Tell him to
Play us
Play us a slow song

 

[Angeline]

Romance

These old songs are so beautiful and romantic--made for slow dancing. The writers are listed but they've been covered by Billie, Ella, Louis--you name it.

THE NEARNESS OF YOU
Hoagy Carmichael & Ned Washington

It's not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you

It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you

When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams come true

I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night the nearness of you

*****

And this is just such a great song--you can hear it a million times and it's still wonderful--

THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
George and Ira Gershwin

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can't take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can't take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me

Ok. You can stop sighing now.

 

[tungtied2u]

Bonnie Raitt

Nothing Seems To Matter
Bonnie Raitt
Kokomo Music -ASCAP


Seems like such a long time since I held you my arms,
and felt you close and warm beside me,
another night is getting late and I'm alone with just the ache
and the memory of you beside me.

Darling, I've never been so blue,
I've tried to see it through,
there's nothing I can do.
I won't make it on my own,
so won't you please hurry home,
'cause nothing seems to matter without you.

Last time I saw you,
there was nothing we could say,
We knew it was a time for a change,
a time to think you said that night,
and I lied and said all right,
I left you in the morning,
I watched you in the window,
and Mexico will never be the same.

It was time to be apart,
but somehow it seems this heart of mine,
will never find a way to live without you.
And now I'm out here on the road
and I'm feeling bought and sold,
and tonight I just can't but think about you.

Darling, I've never been so blue,
I've tried to see it through,
there's nothing I can do,
I won't make it on my own
so darling won't you hurry home,
because nothing seems to matter without you.
No, nothing seems to matter without you.

 

[tarablackwood22]

ONE OF US MUST KNOW

(sooner or later) Bob Dylan

I didn't mean to treat you so bad,
you shouldn't take it so personal.
I didn't mean to make you so sad,
you just happened to be there, that's all.
When I saw you say "goodbye" to your friend and smile
I thought that it was well understood
that you'd be comin' back in a little while,
I didn't know that you were saying "goodbye" for good.

But, sooner or later, one of us must know
you just did what you're supposed to do.
Sooner or later, one of us must know
that I really did try to get close to you.

I couldn't see what you could show me,
your scarf had kept your mouth well hid.
I couldn't see how you could know me
but you said you knew me and I believed you did.
When you whispered in my ear
and asked me if I was leaving with you or her,
I didn't realize just what I did hear,
I didn't realize how young you were.

But, sooner or later, one of us must know
you just did what you're supposed to do.
Sooner or later, one of us must know
that I really did try to get close to you.

I couldn't see when it started snowing,
your voice was all that I heard.
I couldn't see where we were going
but you said you knew and I took your word.
And then you told me later, as I apologized,
that you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm.
And I told you, as you clawed out my eyes,
that I never really meant to do you any harm.

But, sooner or later, one of us must know
you just did what you're supposed to do.
Sooner or later, one of us must know
that I really did try to get close to you.


one endless childhood summer -new poem.....please read.

 

[Angeline]

Love has no pride
Bonnie Raitt

I've had bad dreams too many times,
to think that they don't mean much any more.
Fine times have gone and left my sad home,
friends who once cared just walk out my door.

Love has no pride when I call out your name.
Love has no pride when there's no one left to blame.
I'd give anything to see you again.

I've been alone too many nights
to think that you could come back again.
But I've heard you talk: "She's crazy to stay."
But this love hurts me so, I don't care what you say.

Love has no pride when I call out your name.
Love has no pride when there's no one left to blame.
I'd give anything to see you again.

If I could buy your love, I'd truly try my friend.
And if I could pray, my prayer would never end.
But if you want me to beg, I'll fall down on my kneews;
asking for you to come back,
I'd be pleading for you to come back,
beggin for you to come back to me.

Love has no pride when I call out your name.
Love has no pride when there's no one left to blame.
I'd give anything to see you again.

Yes, I'd give anything to see you again.

 

[Angeline]

Angel from Montgomery
John Prine

I am an old woman
named after my mother
my old man is another
child who's grown old

If dreams were thunder
lightning was desire
this old house it would've burned down
a long time ago

Make me an angel
that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
that I can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl
I had me a cowboy
he wasn't much to look at
just a free ramblin' man
There was a long time
no matter how I tried
the years they just rolled by
like a broken down dam

Make me an angel
that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
that I can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
go to work in the morning
and come home in the evening
with nothing to say

Make me an angel
that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
that I can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go

 

[tarablackwood22]

jersey moonshine

Morning, Ang

I drank a diet Coke, but nothing happened!!

How many does it take?




one endless childhood summer -new poem.....please read.

 

[Angeline]

Re: jersey moonshine

Morning, Ang

I drank a diet Coke, but nothing happened!!

How many does it take?




one endless childhood summer -new poem.....please read.

Morning sweety.

Oh I forgot. You have to read Yeats or Neruda while you drink the diet Coke.

 

[tarablackwood22]

Re: Re: jersey moonshine

Morning sweety.

Oh I forgot. You have to read Yeats or Neruda while you drink the diet Coke.

Neruda...I can do that.

Running to the bookshelf and refrigerator now!!!




one endless childhood summer -new poem.....please read.

 

[Angeline]

words of wisdom...

Love me like a man
(Chris Smither, Lyrics adapted by Bonnie Raitt)

The men that I've been seeing
well they got their soul up on a shelf
you know they could never love me
cause they can't even love themselves

But I want someone to love me
baby I want one to understand
Won't put himself above me
Who can love me like a man

I never seen such losers
even though I tried
Find a mind to take me home instead of
taking me for a ride

Baby, I need someone to care
Believe it when I tell you darlin'
you can love me like a man

Oh they want me to rock them
like my back ain't got no bone
I want a man whose gonna rock me
like my backbone was his own

baby, I want to wait until you can
Believe it when I tell you darlin'
You can love me like a man

Come home sad and lonely
Feel like I wanna cry
Come over here and hold me baby
and don't ever ask the reason why
I said I, I want a lover
Won't have to work to understand

Don't put yourself above me baby
Love me like a man

 

[tungtied2u]

Speaking of oldies

Frank-Sinatra's Lyrics - My Funny Valentine Lyrics
Writer(s): rodgers/hart

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you’re my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don’t change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentine’s day

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don’t you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentine’s day

 

[Angeline]

Re: Speaking of oldies

Frank-Sinatra's Lyrics - My Funny Valentine Lyrics
Writer(s): rodgers/hart

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you’re my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don’t change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentine’s day

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don’t you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentine’s day

ok this is getting scary, lol. i wrote a story by that very name.

 

[doormouse]

This one's special to me

It's my fiance's and my song. He's in Alabama, I'm in Australia.

The words really strike a chord for me ;-)

Daniel Bedingfield's - If You're Not The One

If you're not the one
Then why does my soul feel glad today?
If you're not the one
Then why does my hand fit yours this way?
If you are not mine
Then why does your heart return my call?
If you were not mine
Would I have the strength to stand at all?

I'll never know what the future brings
But I know you're here with me now
we'll make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with

I don't want to run away
But I can't take it
I don't understand
If I'm not made for you
Then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I could stay in your arms?

If I don't need you
Then why am I crying on my bed?
If I don't need you
Then why does your name resound in my head?
If you're not for me
Then why does this distance maim my life?
If you're not for me
Then why do I dream of you as my wife?
I don't know why you're so far away
But I know that this much is true
We'll make it through
And I hope you are the one
I share my life with
And I wish that you could be the one I die with
And I pray that you're the one I build my home with
I hope I love you all my life




IT goes on... but I love that song. It says so much and means so much. It says what we're feeling until we get together in December.

 

[Angeline]

Mean to Me

I'm listening to what I think is the quintessential version of this--Billie Holiday backed by Lester Young and some other swinging sidemen. The interplay between Lady's voice and Lester's tenor is so smooth it's syrup.

MEAN TO ME
Roy Turk / Fred E. Ahlert

You're mean to me
Why must you be mean to me?
Gee, honey, it seems to me
You love to see me cryin'

I don't know why
I stay home each night
When you say you phone
You don't and I'm left alone.
Sing the blues and sighin'

You treat me coldly each day in the year
You always scold me
Whenever somebody is near, dear

It must be great fun to be mean to me
You shouldn't, for can't you see
What you mean to me

 

[Angeline]

Oh do I love Billie Holiday

There is no one else like her. I love lots of music, but she just gets to me with that plaintive knowing voice. If you haven't heard her, you should. lol. That's all I'm sayin.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
D. Roberts / E. Gold (sung by Billie)

If practice makes perfect
Let's try that old embrace
In some romantic place
Where we can take out time

If practice makes perfect
Just close you eyes again
We'll try those sighs again
And make them more sublime

We're in love's kindergarden
Learning from A to Z
And if it's fun just starting
Think what it's going to be

If practice makes perfect
Let's have that kiss again
We mustn't miss again
We're not doing bad right now

We're not doing bad
Let's practice some more
We're not doing bad right now

 

[Angeline]

Some songs seem sappy

until you hear the right person sing them. This song, when sung by the smooth blues master Joe Williams, is a revelation. The lyric is lovely.

WHEN SUNNY GETS BLUE
(Written by Jack Segal / Marvin Fisher, 1956)

when sunny gets blue
skies get grey and cloudy
and the rain begins to fall
pitter patter, pitter patter
love is gone
so what can she do
no sweet lover man comes to call

oh when sunny gets blue
she breathes a sigh of sadness
like the winds that sway the trees
winds that set the leaves to sway
like some violins play
strange and haunting melodies

people used to love to hear her laugh
and see her smile
that's how she got her name
since that sad affair
she's lost her smile and changed her style
somehow she's not the same

the memories come back
but pretty dreams will rise up
where the other dreams fell through
hurry new love, hurry here
kiss away each lonely tear
hold her near when
sunny gets blue

 

[eagleyez]

just as morning shant shake the dew
nor can i lose the thought of you
now it is more of a melody
than something i can see.

short rock walls fit together
like rhymes
knee high and crevaced
over time.
over times.


now a foreign tongue and the sun-
sad harpsichords ancestral again
begun

and it is more of a meldoy
than something i can see.





~unknown folk song~

 

[jessy19]

Baker, Baker By; Tori Amos

Baker Baker baking a cake
make me a day
make me whole again
and I wonder what's in a day
what's in your cake this time

I guess you heard he's gone to L.A.
he says that behind my eyes I'm hiding
and he tells me I pushed him away
that my heart's been hard to find

here
there must be something here
there must be something here
here

Baker Baker can you explain
if truly his heart was made of icing
and I wonder how mine would taste
maybe we could change his mind

I know you're late for your next parade
you came to make sure that I'm not running
well I ran from him in all kinds of ways
guess it was his turn this time

time
thought I'd make friends with time
thought we'd be flying
maybe not this time

Baker Baker baking a cake
make me a day
make me whole again
and I wonder if he's ok
if you see him say hi

 

[jessy19]

The waitress: By Tori Amos

So I want to kill this waitress
she's worked her a year longer than I
If I did it fast you know that's an act of kindness

But I believe in peace
I believe in peace, Bitch
I believe in peace

I want to kill this waitress
I can't believe this violence in mind
and is her power all in her club sandwich

I want to kill this killing wish
they're too many stars and not enough sky
Boys all think she's living kindness
ask a fellow waitress
ask a fellow waitress

 

[Angeline]

I've decided this is my theme song

She Likes Big Words
Deadsy

Well she comes from the land
Of Valencian winds
Deciduous daydream
Dressage round the bend
See sometimes just maybe
The mistress of when
A triptych of new touch
From heaven to men

She likes nice cars
Invisible trends
She bites the heads off
Her mutual friends
We dine at the table
She sits at the end
She likes big words
And playing pretend

Come now dear boys
How, where to begin?
She's Ursula, major
Of the prison within
She's always in parties
She's struggling to win
Your sashes of New-Ro
From psychic to sin

Let down your void
Your need to defend
So pseudo-mindacious
She's cruel in bed
You'd think she was precious
Something like you said
Cause she's got the secret
On which fate depends

She likes nice cars
Impossible trends
She bites the heads off
Her beautiful friends
We dine at the table
She sits at the end
She likes big words
Although we'll never comprehend

She likes nice cars
Invisible trends
She bites the heads off
Her musical friends
We dine at the table
She sits at the end
She likes big words

She likes nice cars
Impossible trends
She bites the heads off
Her beautiful friends
She lights all the candles
They burn at both ends
She likes the ones
That you'll never understand

She likes big words

 

[tarablackwood22]

Hayden

stem - Hayden Desser


I bought a rose
to give to you,
a windy day,
the petals flew

from the stem
into the street.
I tried to catch them
with my feet.

at your door,
you looked to see
through the peep-hole
right at me.

you let me in
and I just froze.
I gave you a stem
that was a rose.

it was a rose.


one day in December -new poem....please read.

 

[Tathagata]

Show Me A Rose

Written By Harry Ruby
Preformed most often by Groucho Marx:



Ever since songwriters started writing songs,
They have written songs about the rose.
Red roses, blue roses, old roses, new roses,
Roses from the north and south and west,
But here is the rose song that I love the best.

Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a girl who cares.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.

Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a storm at sea.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.

She taught me how to do the tango,
Down where the palm trees sway.
I called her Rose-a-mir,
And she called a spade a spade.

Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a stag at bay.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.

One night in Bixby, Mississippi,
We watched the clouds roll by.
I said "My dear, how are you?"
And she wispered "So am I"

Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a girl named Sam.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.

Show me a rose,
A fragrant rose.
Make believe that you don't know me,
Until you show me
A rose.

 

[fawnie]

sonique-are you ready

ARE YOU READY?

It is time for a love sensation,
to feed the minds of the younger generation
What we never had, what we missed out on
Don't be afraid to admit it has gone, slightly wrong
Give them hope to release the tension, for the lack of communication
Time to get it right, it shouldn't take too long
Make them feel, like they belong
Are you ready, to be part of the solution?
Are you ready, step forward into time
Are you read to make your contribution?
Are you read, if you ain't it is a crime, yeah
Shattered dreams are a regular occurrence
Killing a man doesn't even disturb us
Insecurity, spreads across the land
I can't help but wonder, how long can this go on?
Time has come for us to get it straight now
Understand what it is that just can't wait no more no
Time to get real, yeah!
Tell me how you feel

Ready or not
Ready or not
Ready or not we're coming . . .
Changing your perception, yeah
Ready or not
We're losing our direction
Ready or not
To see with what we're dealing
Ready or not
To see what we believe in

TAke a look around, I know that I'm not dreaming
Hopefully you'll see, it's yourself you are deceiving
Think of the price that we are forced to pay
For our ignorance, now there is no time for delay

 

[Angeline]

Free Girl Now
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

I remember when you were his dog
I remember you under his thumb
Yeah baby, when he would call
Every time, you had to come

Hey, baby, you're a free girl now
Hey, baby, you're a free girl now

I remember when he was your boss
I remember him touching your butt
I remember you counting your blessings
Yeah honey, you had to keep your mouth shut

Hey baby, you're a free girl now
Yeah baby, you're a free girl now

Yeah, well all right
Honey, put your sugar down
Dazzle, dazzle the moon above
Lay your victim down

No longer will you be a slave
No longer will you have to crawl
No longer will you suffer
No longer will you stall
One day you'll live for a reason
One day you'll be gone, no more
When you walk from the table
No longer, will you bow down

Hey baby, you're a free girl now
Hey baby, you're a free girl now

 

[Guest]

Santa Monica - Everclear

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your downtime
I don't want to be your stupid game

With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
Go and try to shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away

I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fall-back crush anymore

I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don't want to be the bad guy

I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
And watch the world die