Poetry and Lyrics

[postobitum]

say it simply...

This is a favorite not because it is terribly unique or involved but because it is so simple and direct. Makes me melt every time I listen to it.

I'm on Fire

Bruce Springsteen

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby
edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running through the
middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

 

[The Mutt]

Very nice, but I like Bruce in his more operatic mode.

JungleLand
by Bruce Springsteen

The rangers had a homecoming in harlem late last night
And the magic rat drove his sleek machine over the jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The rat pulls into town and rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down flamingo lane

Well the maximum lawman run down flamingo chasing the rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand down in jungleland

The midnight gang’s assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
They’ll meet `neath that giant exxon sign that brings this fair city light
Man there’s an opera out on the turnpike
There’s a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, cherry tops, rip this holy night
The street’s alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock’n’roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street down in jungleland

In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the d.j. plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they’re gone

Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
in a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender
in the tunnels uptown
The rat’s own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light

Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what’s fantasy
and the poets down here
Don’t write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in jungleland

 

[postobitum]

Thank you, I had not heard that one before. I guess that's what I get for being blindly addicted to Born in the USA only. I'm gonna download that one and listen to it.

 

[The Mutt]

Thank you, I had not heard that one before. I guess that's what I get for being blindly addicted to Born in the USA only. I'm gonna download that one and listen to it.

His first four albums are his best, I think.

 

[The Mutt]

Thunder Road

by Bruce Springsteen

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide `neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
>From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win.

 

[cjh]

If You Were A Bluebird - Butch Hancock

I'm shifting gears on you Mutt.

One of Texas' best and most overlooked songwriters.
- - - - - -


If you were a bluebird you'd be a sad one
I'd give you a true word
But you've already had one
If you were a bluebird,
you'd be crying
You'd be flying home
If you were a raindrop,
You'd shine like a rainbow
And if you were a train stop,
The conductor would sing low
If you were a raindrop,
You'd be falling
You'd be calling home

If you were a hotel
Honey, you'd be a grand one
But, if you hit a slow spell,
Do you think you could stand one
If you were a hotel,
Well I'd lean on your doorbell
I'd call you my home
If I was a highway,
I'd stretch alongside you
I'd help you pass by ways
That had dissatisfied you
If I was a highway,
Well I'd be stretchin'
I'd be fetchin' you home

 

[tungtied2u]

Re: If You Were A Bluebird - Butch Hancock

I'm shifting gears on you Mutt.

One of Texas' best and most overlooked songwriters.
- - - - - -


If you were a bluebird you'd be a sad one
I'd give you a true word
But you've already had one
If you were a bluebird,
you'd be crying
You'd be flying home
If you were a raindrop,
You'd shine like a rainbow
And if you were a train stop,
The conductor would sing low
If you were a raindrop,
You'd be falling
You'd be calling home

If you were a hotel
Honey, you'd be a grand one
But, if you hit a slow spell,
Do you think you could stand one
If you were a hotel,
Well I'd lean on your doorbell
I'd call you my home
If I was a highway,
I'd stretch alongside you
I'd help you pass by ways
That had dissatisfied you
If I was a highway,
Well I'd be stretchin'
I'd be fetchin' you home

Never heard of him crackerjack...but a great song..thanks.

 

[tungtied2u]

Howlin Wind- Graham Parker

The waterfalls trinkling
like bells to my ear
The earth rolls out before me through smiles and tears.
A country lost, a soul discovered
The ruin that I once was will soon recover.

And I know a howlin' wind runs through here Blowin' every day.
Yeah a howlin' wind runs through here Takes my breath away.

Swing time is here children, for large and small
Let's dance before the fever is upon us all.
Yeah it's a strange religion, without any god.
The preacher walks with innocence spares the rod.

hey ey hey ey

Swing time is here children for large and small
Let's rock before the fever is upon us all.

Howl, I'm gonna howl, I'm gonna howl, I'm gonna howl
I'm gonna howl, I'm gonna howl howl howl howl

 

[The Mutt]

You Don't Have to Cry

by CSN

In the Morning when you rise
Do you think of me and how you left me crying
Are you thinking of telephones and managers
And where you got to be at noon
You are living a reality I left years ago
It quite nearly killed me
In the long run it will make you cry
Make you crazy and old before your time
And the difference between me and you
I won't argue right or wrong
But I have time to cry my baby
You don't have to cry
I said cry my baby you don't have to cry
I said cry my baby you don't have to cry...

 

[postobitum]

CSN - Southern Cross

Got out of town on a boat, going to Southern Islands
Sailing a reach before a following sea.
She was making for the trades on the outside, and the downhill run to Papeete.

Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas,
We got eight feet of waterline, nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon, I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized, why twice you ran away!

(Chorus)
Think about..Think about how many times I have fallen. Spirits are using me, larger voices calling.
What heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world, looking for that woman-girl, who knows love can endure.
And you know it will. And, you know it will.

When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
You understand why now you came this way.
'Cause the truth you might be running from is so small.
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a dying.
And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship and all her flags are a flying.
She's all that I have left and music is her name.

(Repeat Chorus)

So we cheated and we lied and we tested.
And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine will come along, make me forget about loving you....at the Southern Cross.

 

[tungtied2u]

Bury me deep- Poi Dog Pondering

A lifetime of accomplishments of which the dirt knows none,
only in death can one truly return
Return the carrots, the apples and potatoes,
The chickens, the cows, the fish and tomatoes.
In one glorious swoop, let the deed be done
and bury me deep so that I can be one...
And all around my muscle and all around my bone,
don't incinerate me or seal me from
the dirt which bore me, the bed that which from
the rain falls upon and the fruit comes from
For the dirt is a blanket, no fiery tomb,
No punishment, reward, or pearly white room
And you who say that in death we will pay,
The dead they can't hear a word that you say
Your words are not kind, sober or giving,
they only put fear in the hearts of the living
So put away your tongues and roll up your sleeves,
and pick up your shovel and bury me deep.

 

[cjh]

The Slow Drug - PJ Harvey

Blue now is the colour
Love the drug I'm needing
Got to keep this feeling

With the headlights burning
We're looking up for something
Answers on the ceiling

Watching out the windows
Watch the way the wind blows
Soon it will be morning

Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?

See this winged boy falling
Falling out of something
Hits the drug I'm needing

Arrows that he's turning
Need to keep this feeling
Slow drug in the morning

With the headlights burning
Looking up for something
Something that we're needing

Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?

 

[postobitum]

another favorite

Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday- Angel Eyes

Try to think, that love's not around,
But it's uncomfortably near.
My ol' heart ain't gainin' no ground
Because my angel eyes, ain't here.
Angel eyes, that old devil sent
They go unbearably bright.
Need I say that my love's misspent,
Misspent with angel eyes tonight.
So drink up all you people,
Order anything you see,
Have fun you happy people
The laughs and joke's on me
Pardon me, but I gotta run
The fact's uncommonly clear
Gottta find who's now number one
And why my angel eyes,
Oh where is my angel eyes.
'scuse me, while I disappear.....
Angel eyes.....Angel eyes.....

 

[tungtied2u]

World on Fire- Sarah McLachlan

Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in

[Chorus]
The world's on fire and
It's more than I can handle
I dive into the water
(I try to pull my ship)
I try to bring more
More than I can handle
(Bring it to the table)
Bring what I am able

I watch the heavens and I find a calling
Something I can do to change this moment
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone, don't wanna be alone

[Chorus]

Hearts break, hearts mend
Love still hurts
Visions clash, planes crash
Still there's talk of
Saving souls, still the cold
Is closing in on us

We part the veil on Archille's sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take, the less we become
A fortune of one that means less for some

[Chorus X2]

 

[tungtied2u]

Stupid - Sarah McLachlan

Night lift up the shades
let in the brilliant light of morning
but steady there now
for I am weak and starving for mercy
sleep has left me alone
to carry the weight of unravelling where we went wrong
it's all I can do to hang on
to keep me from falling
into old familiar shoes

[Chorus:]

how stupid could I be
a simpleton could see
that you're no good for me
but you're the only one I see

love has made me a fool
it set me on fire and watched as I floundered
unable to speak
except to cry out and wait for your answer
but you come around in your time
speaking of fabulous places
create an oasis
dries up as soon as you're gone
you leave me here burning
in this desert without you

[Chorus]

everything changes
everything falls apart
can't stop to feel myself losing control
but deep in my senses I know

[Chorus]

 

[tungtied2u]

Impossible Dreamer

by Joni Mitchell

The street was loud
From an angry crowd and
I thought of you, I thought of you
Dreamer
Land of the free
No hungry bellies
Impossible
Impossible dreamer

In the darkest part of the night
Blue shadows conjure you
And in the brightest height of the daylight
Sometimes I blink 'cause I think I see you
Dreaming like you do

The moon was bright
Like day for night
And I thought of you
I thought of you
Dreamer
No acid rain
Love without pain
Impossible
Impossible Dreamer

In the darkest part of the night
Blue shadows conjure you
And at the brightest height of the daylight
Sometimes I blink 'cause I think I see you
Dreaming like you do

The room was dark
And full of sharks
and I thought of you
I thought of you
Dreamer
Give peace a chance
Don't think just dance
Impossible
Impossible dreamer

In the darkest part of the night
Blue shadows conjure you
And at the brightest height of the daylight
Sometimes I blink 'cause I think I see you
Dreaming like you do

 

[cjh]

miss ferguson - cory branan

in a town where you can sum up every girl with just one sentence
give or take the subject or the verb
she shows up like the devil said penance
won't nothin ever be clear no more

she got hired on down at the Last Chance Diner
she works all the same shifts as me
i've never been one for too much conversation
but now i choose my words so carefully

because the angle of her cheek is the math of persuasion
first time you saw the ocean she's got tucked behind her knee
she is swallowing lightning she is spittin thunder
waftin' California reekin' Tennessee
she is waftin' California and reekin' Tennessee

. . .

 

[Guest]

down poison : 3 doors down

I’ve dreamed about this,
sixteen days away
now you’re here and my
head lays
besides your body,
pillowed under mine

You were poison, spinning
round my mind

Welcome to my world she said
do you feel
alive she said

It’s all a bad dream spinning
in your lonely head

Welcome to my world she said,
separated world,

Down poison
Down down

Body withered, body
dead, time to take
away this life
bad enough to die from
one, out to mention
four or five

Welcome to my world she said,
do you feel alive she said

It’s all a bad dream spinning
in your lonely head

Welcome to my world she said,
separated world,
she stayed separated

Down poison, down poison
Down poison, down

You weren’t there for me,
I was there for you
You weren’t there for me,
I was there for you

 

[Tathagata]

Kiss Them For Me - SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES

It glittered and it gleamed
For the arriving beauty queen
A ring and a car
Now you’re the prettiest by far
No party she’d not attend
No invitation she wouldn’t send
Transfixed by the inner sound
Of your promise to be found

"nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down"

Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- if I am delayed

It’s divoon, oh it’s serene
In the fountains pink champagne
Someone carving their devotion
In the heart shaped pool of fame

"nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down"

Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed

On the road to new orleans
A spray of stars hit the screen
As the 10th impact shimmered
The forbidden candles beamed

Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed

Kiss them for me -- kiss them for me

Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed

 

[postobitum]

I have a mix cd that I pop in to listen to while I work around the house, this one makes me feel like doing the dishes naked

"Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" - Chris Issak

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.

You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two?
I didn't think so.
You ever tried with all your heart and soul to get you lover back to you?
I wanna hope so.
You ever pray with all your heart and soul just to watch her walk away?

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.

You ever toss and turn your lying awake and thinking about the one you love?
I don't think so.
You ever close your eyes your making believe your holding the one your dreaming of?
Well if you say so.
I hurts so bad when you finally know just how low, low, low, low, low, she'll go.

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.

Ohh. Feel like crying, feel like crying.
Ohh, feel like crying, feel like crying.

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.

 

[The Mutt]

Little Baby

by
Willie Dixon
Mutt version

You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you,
Bet your life that I won't quit you
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby

You go to court
And I'll come along
You go to jail
And I'll throw your bond
You get time
Tell you what I'll do
I'll stay outside and wait for you

You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you
Bet your life that I won't quit you
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby

You go to church
And I'll go there too
You go to work
I'll tell you what I do
You get paid
I'll hold the money
I'll be right there to protect you honey

You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you
Bet your life that I won't quit you
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby

You get the fare
And I'll go to the show
You bet the horses
And I'll pick up the dough
You work hard
Hurt my pride
I'll be right there, by your side

You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby
You'll go and I'll come with you
Bet your life that I won't quit you
You'll go and I'll come with you, little baby

 

[tungtied2u]

Your Love Is King- Sade

your love is king

your love is king,
crown you in my heart.
your love is king,
never need to part.
your kisses ring,
round and round and round my head.
touching the very part of me.
it's making my soul sing.
tearing the very heart of me.
i'm crying out for more.

your love is king,
crown you in my heart.
your love is king.
you're the ruler of my heart.
your kisses ring,
round and round and round my head.
touching the very part of me.
it's making my soul sing.
i'm crying out for more.
your love is king.

i'm coming up, i'm coming.
you're making me dance, inside.

your love is king,
crown you in my heart.
your love is king,
never need to part.
your kisses ring,
round and round and round my head.
touching the very part of me.
it's making my soul sing.
tearing the very heart of me.
i'm crying out for more.

touching the very part of me.
it's making my soul sing.
i'm crying out for more.
your love is king.

this is no blind faith
this is no sad and sorry dream.
this is no blind faith
your love...
your love is real... gotta crown me with your heart,
never, never need to part,
touch me.
never letting go,
never letting go,
never going to give it up.
i'm coming,
you're making me dance...

 

[postobitum]

Oh Tungtied, melt my heart, that one is a true smooth classic, thank you for the reminder!

 

[tungtied2u]

I Don't Like Mondays-Boomtown Rats

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.
Cos there are no reasons.
What reason do you need to be shown.


Tell me why.
I Dont'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 that peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons.
Cos there are no reasons.
What reason do you need to be shown,Br.

Tell me why.
I Dont'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
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die


The silicon chip ...

Tell me why...

 

[Merrymaker]

I heard this one the other day, it is not my usual taste...but the lyrics drew me in.


Holy Water
by Big and Rich

Somewhere there's a stolen halo
I used to watch her wear it well
Everything would shine wherever she would go
But looking at her now you'd never tell

Someone ran away with her innocence
A memory she can't get out of her head
I can only imagine what she's feeling
When she's praying
Kneeling at the edge of her bed

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water

She wants someone to call her angel
Someone to put the light back in her eyes
She's looking through the faces
The unfamiliar places
She needs someone to hear her when she cries

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water

She just needs a little help
To wash away the pain she's felt
She wants to feel the healing hands
Of someone who understands

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me
And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water