Poetry and Lyrics

[Vampiric_Mirage]

"In the Sea" by America (from The Last Unicorn movie)

In the sea,
The fish have learned to fly
On a moonlit night
On wings of silver
As the enchanted stars
Sail serenely by.

Do they know
Where do unicorns go?
Where the winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea
And never seen again.

Go.
Go and ask the magpie
"Where do unicorns go?"

In the trees
The birds have learned to speak
Many colored
They keeps their secrets
In a parade of clouds
Playing hide and seek.

Do they know?
Where do unicorns go?
Where the winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea
And never seen again.

Does myth
And mystery lie
Where the unicorns go?

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

"In the Sea" by America (from The Last Unicorn movie)

In the sea,
The fish have learned to fly
On a moonlit night
On wings of silver
As the enchanted stars
Sail serenely by.

Do they know
Where do unicorns go?
Where the winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea
And never seen again.

Go.
Go and ask the magpie
"Where do unicorns go?"

In the trees
The birds have learned to speak
Many colored
They keeps their secrets
In a parade of clouds
Playing hide and seek.

Do they know?
Where do unicorns go?
Where the winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea
And never seen again.

Does myth
And mystery lie
Where the unicorns go?

how odd, my daughter has this movie, we just watched it yesterday.

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

how odd, my daughter has this movie, we just watched it yesterday.

Lol, i'm a better stalker than even I would have ever guessed. Psychic stalking?
I still have the movie from when i was a kid, but have watched it so often it is pretty much worn out.

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

Lol, i'm a better stalker than even I would have ever guessed. Psychic stalking?
I still have the movie from when i was a kid, but have watched it so often it is pretty much worn out.

oh geez, silly me, i thought i was the one doing the stalking

we had the video for years..it was a favorite of my daughters, then ours too wore down..we saw the dvd a few months ago..we just had to buy it!

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

oh geez, silly me, i thought i was the one doing the stalking

we had the video for years..it was a favorite of my daughters, then ours too wore down..we saw the dvd a few months ago..we just had to buy it!

Lol, i felt it was only nice to return the stalking. (sorry, i should have mentioned that earlier). Buy it on DVD you say?!? *runs off to store* (well, actually off to party, but i may stop by a store)
Bye!

 

[tungtied2u]

Boomtown Rats

I Don´T Like Mondays
Bob Geldof


The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

 

[tungtied2u]

Richard and Linda Thompson

Artist: Richard & Linda Thompson Lyrics
Song: Dimming Of The Day Lyrics

This old house is falling down around my ears
I'm drowning in a river of my tears
When all my will is gone you hold me sway
I need you at the dimming of the day

You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide
You know just where I keep my better side

What days have come to keep us far apart
A broken promise or a broken heart
Now all the bonnie birds have wheeled away
I need you at the dimming of the day

Come the night you're only what I want
Come the night you could be my confident

I see you on the street in company
Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
I'm living for the night we steal away
I need you at the dimming of the day
I need you at the dimming of the day


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[Angeline]

Where Are You Tonight
Cowboy Junkies

There's a young man in the corner playing 'Crazy' all night long
Quarters piled high upon the table
He orders Wild Turkey and with a quick wit and a smile
He says, 'My darling, you're the one I'll drape in sable'
But his baseball cap and this bar-room rap
Tell me a different story
That this is not my prince to grant all my wishes
Just another lonely country-boy grown weary of the night
Just another boy with a sink full of dirty dishes

Where are you tonight?
When I left you in my dreams last night
You promised me that we would be breaking free
Where are you tonight?

He tells me of the back roads
And how we'll drive them all night long
How the days will fade and the moon will hang forever
And how the cloud of dust we'll kick up will linger like a song
And the myth will grow about the two who refused to surrender

Then I catch us in the bar-room mirror
With his arm around my shoulder
This girl I see has grown so unfamiliar
And as she stands to leave with a stranger by her side
She can't help but laugh at a life grown so peculiar

Where are you tonight?
I don't think I can face tomorrow's light
Not knowing if you'll be there to guide me
Where are you tonight?

Where are you tonight?
I think that I'll make it through all right,
But I'd love to have you just one more time beside me

 

[Angeline]

Early Mornin Rain
Gordon Lightfoot (but I like Judy Collins' version best)

In the early morning rain
With a dollar in my hand
With an achin' in my heart
And my pockets full of sand
I'm a long way from home
And I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain
With no place to go

Out on runway number nine
Big seven-o-seven set to go
But I'm stuck here in the grass
Where the cold wind blows
Now the liquor tasted good
And the women all were fast
Well there she goes my friend
Well she's rollin' down at last

Hear the mighty engines roar
See the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound
Far above the clouds she'll fly
Where the mornin' rain don't fall
And the sun always shines
She'll be flyin' o'er my home
In about three hours time

This old airport's got me down
It's no earthly good to me
'Cause I'm stuck here on the ground
As cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'd best be on my way
In the early morning rain

You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'd best be on my way
In the early morning rain

 

[Angeline]

Once I Was
Tim Buckley

Once I was a soldier
And I fought on foreign sands for you
Once I was a hunter
And I brought home fresh meat for you
Once I was a lover
And I searched behind your eyes for you
And soon there'll be another
To tell you I was just a lie

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you ever remember me

And though you have forgotten
All of our rubbish dreams
I find myself searching
Through the ashes of our ruins
For the days when we smiled
And the hours that ran wild
With the magic of our eyes
And the silence of our words

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you ever remember me
Ever remember me

 

[Angeline]

know this one tungtied?

I first discovered it on an old folk music compilation. David Blue was a contemporary (and sometime friend) of Dylan and Phil Ochs. I loved the song the first time I heard it. Blue died in 1982. Supposedly, Joni Mitchell and David Blue were lovers at one time, and she wrote "Blue" about him.


Midnight Through Morning
David Blue

The room it was lit up me too I couldn't sit up
Engaged was my time in studying the wall
And all the poets kept getting louder
Even though they weren't needed any longer
The strapless high heeled street walker
Believes every day that she grows younger

Ah I wish I could be her lover
And go with her as she makes her rounds
And fall with her hair as it comes down

The poets would keep on all night with their come ons
One would say something another'd say more
Looking for contracts but finding the soap
Well I know she'd take them all for a joke
Ah but she'd take them all no doubt
And they never knowing what it was about

Ah I wish I could be her lover
And go with her as she makes her rounds
And fall with her hair as it comes down

With burning candle and the store window
Hard to believe there could be more
And all the poets complained of the cold
But they only did what they were told
Searching so hard for a satisfied mind
While she walked by with a satisfied soul

Ah I wish I could be her lover
And go with her as she makes her rounds
And fall with her hair as it comes down

A radio played on to almost no one
Attention was paid only to the dawn
As she stopped and bent to touch her nylons
And felt in the air for a post to lean on
No one could ever know her outside
In the take of an instant she had passed by

Well I wish I could be her lover
Go with her as she makes her rounds
And fall with her hair as it comes down

Symbols and motives were again promoted
Hard to believe there could be more
As she moved on and then faded out
To the songs of the poet still keeping it up
The sidewalks cleared themselves for a new touch
And it all disappeared into the face of the clock.

 

[tungtied2u]

Lou Reed- Vicious

Vicious
you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
oh, baby, you're so vicious

Vicious
you want me to hit you with a stick
But all I've got is a guitar pick
huh, baby, you're so vicious

When I watch you come
baby, I just want to run far away
You're not the kind of person around I
want to stay

When I see you walking down the street
I step on your hands and I mangle your feet
You're not the kind of person that I want to meet

Oh, baby, you're so vicious
you're just so vicious

Vicious
hey, you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
oh, baby you're so vicious

Vicious
hey, why don't you swallow razor blades
You must think that I'm some kind of gay blade
but baby, you're so vicious

When I see you coming
I just have to run
You're not good and you certainly aren't
very much fun

When I see you walking down the street
I step on your hand and I mangle your feet
You're not the kind of person that I'd even want to meet

'Cause you're so vicious
baby, you're so vicious
Vicious, vicious
vicious, vicious
Vicious, vicious
vicious, vicious
...

 

[tungtied2u]

Sally Can't Dance

Lou Reed

Sally dances on the floor
she says that she can't do it anymore
She walks down St. Marks Place
and eats natural food at my place

Now Sally can't dance no more
she can't get off of the floor
Sally can't dance no more
they found her in the trunk of a Ford
ooohhh, she can't dance no more

Sally is loosing her face
she lives on St. Marks Place
In a rent-controlled apartment, eighty dollars a month
she has lots of fun, she has lots of fun, but

Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh
Sally can't dance no more
She took too much meth and can't get off the floor
now Sally, she can't dance no more

She was the first girl in the neighborhood
to wear tied-dyed pants, ah, like she should
She was the first girl that I ever seen
that had flowers painted on her jeans
She was the first girl in her neighborhood
who got raped on Tompkins Square, real good
Now she wears a sword, like Napoleon
and she kills the boys and acts like a son

Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh, now
Sally can't dance no more
She can't get herself off the floor, ah, huh
Sally, ooohhh, she can't dance no more

Watch this, now

Sally became a big model
she moved up to eighties and park
She had a studio apartment
and that's where she used to ball, folk singers
and that's where she used to ball, folk singers, but

Sally, she can't dance no more
Sally, she can't dance no more
Sally can't get herself off of the floor
now, Sally, she can't dance no more
(Sally can't dance)
(Sally can't dance)

She knew all the really right people
she went to Le Jardin
She danced with Picasso's illegitimate mistress
and wore Kenneth Lane jewels, really it's trash, but

Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh
Sally can't dance no more
She can't get herself off of the floor
now, Sally, ooohhh, she can't dance no more, no more
Dance, no more can't ...
(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)
(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)
(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)
(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)
... repeat and fade out

 

[tungtied2u]

The Cream

Sunshine Of Your Love
by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Pete Brown

It's getting near dawn,
When lights close their tired eyes.
I'll soon be with you my love,
To give you my dawn surprise.
I'll be with you darling soon,
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.


I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.


I'm with you my love,
The light's shining through on you.
Yes, I'm with you my love,
It's the morning and just we two.
I'll stay with you darling now,
I'll stay with you till my seas are dried up.


Chorus

Repeat Second Verse


I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

 

[tungtied2u]

Tales of Brave Ulysses- The Cream

Tales Of Brave Ulysses
by Eric Clapton and Martin Sharp

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.


And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses:
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.


And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.


The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.


Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.


The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

 

[Guest]

Tiger In The Night

written by Mike Batt ~ sung by Katie Melua


You are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
You are the one who keeps me strong
In the world

You sleep by silent cooling streams
Down in the darkness of my dreams
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright

I was the one who looked so hard
I could not see
And now I could never live
Without the love you give to me

I lived like a wild and lonely soul
Lost in a dream beyond control
You are the one who brought me home
Down to earth

For you are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright.

(for fawnie - safe travels.)

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

Re: Tiger In The Night

written by Mike Batt ~ sung by Katie Melua


You are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
You are the one who keeps me strong
In the world

You sleep by silent cooling streams
Down in the darkness of my dreams
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright

I was the one who looked so hard
I could not see
And now I could never live
Without the love you give to me

I lived like a wild and lonely soul
Lost in a dream beyond control
You are the one who brought me home
Down to earth

For you are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright.

(for fawnie - safe travels.)

ok so i'm reading through the lyrics going..damn, that's one lucky tiger!

if you were just a tad closer i'd wrap my arms around you with the sweetest hug tess! ty hun! ..at the risk of getting slapped i'd try to sneak a kiss in there too!

you're such a darling!

 

[DeepAsleep]

"Nowhere Fast" lyrics by Jim Steinman

lying in your bed on a Saturday night
you're sweatin' buckets and it's not even hot
but your brain has got the message
and it's sending it out
to every nerve and every muscle you've got

you've got so many dreams
that you don't know where to put 'em
so you'd better turn a few of 'em loose
your body's got a feeling that it's starting to rust
you'd better rev it up and put it to use

and I don't know how I ever thought that I could make it all alone
when you only make it better
and it better be tonight
and we'll fly away on those angel wings of chrome in your daddy's car
waiting there for you tonight
I'll be there for you tonight

even if you don't have anywhere to go
you go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll
and even if you don't have anywhere to go
you go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll
and your speed is all you'll ever need
all you'll ever need to know
darlin', darlin'

you and me we're goin' nowhere slowly
and we've gotta get away from the past
there's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby
but we should be goin' nowhere fast

everybody's goin' nowhere slowly
they're only fighting for the chance to be last
there's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby
but we should be goin' nowhere fast
it's so much better goin' nowhere fast

stalkin' in the shadows by the light of the moon
it's like a prison and the night is a cell
goin' anywhere has gotta be heaven tonight
'cause stayin' here has gotta be hell
dyin' in the city like a fire on the water
let's go runnin' on the back of the wind
there's gotta' be some action on the face of the earth
and I've gotta see your face once again

and I don't know where I ever got the bright idea that I was cool
so alone and independent
but I'm depending on you now
and you'll always be the only thing that I just can't be without
and I'm out for you tonight
I'm comin' out for you tonight

even if you don't have anywhere to go
you go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll (ready to roll)
even if you don't have anywhere to go
you go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll
and your speed is all you'll ever need
all you'll ever need to know
darlin', darlin'

you and me we're goin' nowhere slowly
and we've gotta get away from the past
there's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby
but we should be goin' nowhere fast

everybody's goin' nowhere slowly
they're only fighting for the chance to be last
there's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby
but we should be goin' nowhere fast

godspeed
godspeed
godspeed
speed us away
~~~~
~D.A.

 

[Angeline]

Under African Skies
Paul Simon

Joseph's face was black as night
The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked his days
Under African skies
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain

In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing 'round my nursery door
I said take this child, Lord
From Tucson Arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she won't bother you no more

This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain

Joseph's face was as black as the night
And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked the length of his days
Under African skies

 

[tungtied2u]

The Inhumanity Thread...

as I wallowed in depression after reading the Inhumanity thread submissions, I was saved by this.....

Always Look on the Bright Side

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

___________________________

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

more sappy stuff!

Britney Spears
Everytime

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Notice me
Take my hand
Why are we
Strangers when
Our love is strong
Why carry on without me?

Everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

I make believe
That you are here
It's the only way
I see clear
What have I done
You seem to move on easy

Everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
Everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song is my sorry

At night I pray
That soon your face
Will fade away

Everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

 

[Angeline]

Romeo Had Juliette
Lou Reed

Caught between the twisted stars
The plotted lines the faulty map
That brought columbus to new york
Betwixt between the east and west
He calls on her wearing a leather vest
The earth squeals and shudders to a halt
A diamond crucifix in his ear
Is used to help ward off the fear
That he has left his soul in someone’s rented car
Inside his pants he hides a mop
To clean the mess that he has dropped
Into the life of lithesome juliette bell

And romeo wanted juliette
And juliette wanted romeo
And romeo wanted juliette
And juliette wanted romeo

Romeo rodriguez squares
His shoulders and curses jesus
Runs a comb through his black pony-tail
He’s thinking of his lonely room
The sink that by his bed gives off a stink
Then smells her perfume in his eyes
And her voice was like a bell

Outside the street were steaming the crack
Dealers were dreaming
Of an uzi someone had just scored
I betcha I could hit that light
With my one good arm behind my back
Says little joey diaz
Brother give me another tote
Those downtown hoods are no damn good
Those italians need a lesson to be taught
This cop who died in harlem
You think they’d get the warnin’
I was dancing when his brains run out on the street

And romeo had juliette
And juliette had her romeo
And romeo had juliette
And juliette had her romeo

I’ll take manhattan in a garbage bag
With latin written on it that says
It’s hard to give a shit these days
Manhattan’s sinking like a rock
Into the filthy hudson what a shock
They wrote a book about it
They said it was like ancient rome

The perfume burned his eyes
Holding tightly to her thighs
And something flickered for a minute
And then it vanished and was gone

 

[Guest]

Re: The Inhumanity Thread...

as I wallowed in depression after reading the Inhumanity thread submissions, I was saved by this.....

Always Look on the Bright Side

words and music by Eric Idle

[Clip]

I've only managed six so far and I'm exhausted. Thanks tungT, I needed that smile.

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

wanna dance?

Sonique
It Feels So Good

You always make me smile when I'm feeling down
You give me such a vibe, I is totally bonafide, mmm
It's not the way you walk, and it ain't the way you talk
It ain't the job you got, that keeps me satisfied

[chorus]Your love it feels so good, and that waht takes me high
Higher than I've been before and your love, it keeps me alive
Thought I should let you know, that your touch it means so much
When I'm alone at night, it's you I'm always thinkin' of Ooh ooh baby

Oh won't you understand how I feel yeah deep inside
Uh huh, you made feel all I need to feel
Yes in my heart
[repeat chorus]

 

[Guest]

Re: wanna dance?

I'm so wiped, you dance - I'll watch.