Poetry and Lyrics

[cjh]

more like the moon - jeff tweedy

I see you in the morning
Wearing only one shoe

I say, I see you've lost something
What're you gonna do?

You say but no, I found one
There's another out there for you

I see us all as customers
Holding no purchase so far

Collapsing galaxies
Feathered with falling stars

I see us all as something
But nothing like we truly are

Why don't you come to me now
More like you are

I know we should be grateful
Everything is falling apart

Everything is breaking
And it lifts my heart

To see you as an angel
As some ghostly work of art

Why don't you come to me now
Know who you are

 

[Angeline]

Re: more like the moon - jeff tweedy

I see you in the morning
Wearing only one shoe

I say, I see you've lost something
What're you gonna do?

You say but no, I found one
There's another out there for you

I see us all as customers
Holding no purchase so far

Collapsing galaxies
Feathered with falling stars

I see us all as something
But nothing like we truly are

Why don't you come to me now
More like you are

I know we should be grateful
Everything is falling apart

Everything is breaking
And it lifts my heart

To see you as an angel
As some ghostly work of art

Why don't you come to me now
Know who you are

I bet you like Son Volt.

 

[cjh]

tear stained eye - jay farrar (son volt)

i do, in fact.

my apologies for not parsing the lyrics. and for the caps. this was lifted straight off of his site.
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WALKING DOWN MAIN STREET GETTING TO KNOW THE CONCRETE LOOKING FOR A PURPOSE FROM A NEON SIGN I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE THE WESTERN SUN MEETS THE AIR WE'LL HIT THE ROAD NEVER LOOKING BEHIND CAN YOU DENY THERE'S NOTHING GREATER NOTHING MORE THAN THE TRAVELING HANDS OF TIME SAINT GENEVIEVE CAN HOLD BACK THE WATER BUT SAINTS DON'T BOTHER WITH A TEAR STAINED EYE SEEING TRACES OF THE SCARS THAT CAME BEFORE HITTING THE PAVEMENT STILL ASKING FOR MORE WHEN THE HOURS DON'T MOVE ALONG WORN OUT WOOD AND FAMILIAR SONGS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE IS NOT ENOUGH IT'S MORE THAN A SHAME CAN YOU DENY THERE'S NOTHING GREATER NOTHING MORE THAN THE TRAVELING HANDS OF TIME ST. GENEVIEVE CAN HOLD BACK THE WATER BUT SAINTS DON'T BOTHER WITH A TEAR STAINED EYE LIKE THE MAN SAID "RODE HARD AND PUT AWAY WET" THROW AWAY THE BAD NEWSAND PUT IT TO REST IF LEARNING IS LIVING AND THE TRUTH IS A STATE OF MINDYOU'LL FIND IT'S BETTER AT THE END OF THE LINE CAN YOU DENY THERE'S NOTHING GREATER NOTHING MORE THAN THE TRAVELING HANDS OF TIME ST. GENEVIEVE CAN HOLD BACK THE WATER BUT SAINTS DON'T BOTHER WITH A TEAR STAINED EYE

 

[Angeline]

Out of the Picture
Son Volt (Jay Farrar)

You may be quite sure you know where you're going
But sooner or later you're out of the picture
Too many lost names, too many rules to the game
Better find a focus or you're out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out
Somewhere along the way it all stands still

Firemen save a millionaire's mansion
But when it's done, they sleep on the side of the road
You may be lost, you'll find
Just another paradigm
Just a stop frame in time
And then you're out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out
Somewhere along the way it all stands still

Take away this Columbus Day
No more bones on display
Blackhawk never had a say
Just taken out of the picture

Somewhere along the way the clock runs out
Somewhere along the way it all stands still

 

[Angeline]

Mystifies Me
Son Volt (Jay Farrar)

Stay a while and work it out with me,
we got time and we can talk, too.
Give me a sign, I'll take your word,
I'll learn anything you want me to.

That is all I'm lookin to you for,
all I'm askin' that you simply do.
Take it, leave it, make things matter,
let in all my breath away.

Take it all apart and put it back,
I am always left here lookin' at you.
You look so fine, true,
you look so fine, true.
And I would not lie to you

Let me see you,
let me know your dreams,
won't you please give out a sign
things you say make me look through you,
no one mystifies me like you do.

This is why I always look at you,
and I hold you to it every day
You look so fine, true,
no one mystifies me like you do
You look so fine, true,
no one mystifies me like you do

 

[The Mutt]

My Name is Mud

by Primus

My name is mud,
Not to be confused with bill or jack or pete or dennis
My name is mud and it’s always been
’cause I’m the most boring sons-a-bitch you’ve ever seen
I dress in blue - yes navy blue
From head to toe
I’m rather drab except my patent shoes
I make ’em shine, well most the time
’cept today my feet are troddin’ on this friend of mine
Six foot two and rude as hell
I got to get him in the ground before he starts to smell
My name is mud

My name is mud,
but call me alowishus devadander abercrombie
That’s long for mud, so I’ve been told
Told that by this sons-a-bitch that lies before me
bloated blue and cold
I’ve got my pride, I drink my wine
I’d drink the finest except I haven’t earned a dime
in several months
Or were it years
The breath on that fat bastard could bring any man to tears
We had our words, a common spat
So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat
My name is mud


(Sorry folks. I'm in the middle of writing a mean, nasty story and my mind is full of mean, nasty thoughts.)

 

[cjh]

naked as we came - iron and wine

She says "wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard

She says "if I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard

 

[The Mutt]

Delia's Gone

by Johnny Cash



Delia, oh Delia, Delia all my life
If I hadn't-a shot poor Delia, I'd have had her for my wife
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

I went up to Memphis, and I met Delia there
Found her in her parlor, and I tied her to her chair
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

She was low-down and triflin', and she was cold and mean
Kind of evil make me want to grab my sub-machine
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

First time I shot her, I shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

But jailer, oh jailer, jailer I can't sleep
'Cuz all around my bed I hear the patter of Delia's feet
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

So if your woman's devilish, you can let her run
Or you can bring her down and do her like Delia got done
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

 

[cjh]

big river
- johnny cash

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die.

I met her accidentally in St. Paul (Minnesota).
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl.
Then I heard my dream was back Downstream cavortin' in Davenport,
And I followed you, Big River, when you called.

Then you took me to St. Louis later on (down the river).
A freighter said she's been here but she's gone, boy, she's gone.
I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the block.
She raised a few eyebrows and then she went on down alone.

Now, won't you batter down by Baton Rouge, River Queen, roll it on.
Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans.
Go on, I've had enough; dump my blues down in the gulf.
She loves you, Big River, more than me.

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die.

 

[PatCarrington]

Merle Travis

Dark as a Dungeon

Come all you young fellows so young and so fine
and seek not your fortune way down in the mine.
It will form like a habit and seep in your soul
till the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal.

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
the danger is doubled, the pleasures are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

There's many a man I have seen in my day
who lived just to labor his whole life away.
Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine,
a man can have lust for the lure of the mine.

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
the danger is doubled, the pleasures are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

When I am dead and the ages shall roll
my body will blacken and turn into coal.
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
and pity the miner digging my bones.

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
the danger is doubled, the pleasures are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

 

[Angeline]

All I Want
Joni Mitchell

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want - do you want - do you want
To dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on

All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause - life is our cause
When I think of your kisses
My mind see-saws
Do you see - do you see - do you see
How you hurt me baby
So I hurt you too
Then we both get so blue

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It’s the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be
I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun
I want to be the one that you want to see
I want to knit you a sweater
Want to write you a love letter
I want to make you feel better
I want to make you feel free
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,
Want to make you feel free
I want to make you feel free

 

[tungtied2u]

Sweet Joni by Neil Young

Sweet Joni from Saskatoon
There's a ring for your finger
It looks like the sun
But it feels like the moon

Sweet Joni from Saskatoon
Don't go, don't go too soon.

Who lives in an old hotel,
Near the ancient ruins.
Only time can tell,
Time can tell.

Go easy, the doorman said
The floor is slippery,
So watch your head.
This message read.

Sweet Joni from Saskatoon
There's a ring for your finger
It shines like the sun
But it feels like the moon.

Sweet Joni from Saskatoon
Don't go, don't go too soon.

 

[tungtied2u]

Look Out For My Love

by Neil Young


There's a lot to learn
For wastin' time
There's a heart that burns
There's an open mind.

Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love
You own it
You own it now
You own it.

There's a weight on you
But you can't feel it
Livin' like I do
It's hard for you to see it.

Was I hurt too bad
Can I show you daylight
How could I be sad
When I know that you might.

Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love.

Look out for my love
It's in your neighborhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can't say bad or good.

Silver wings of mornin'
Shinin' in the gray day
While the ice is formin'
On a lonely runway.

Hydraulic wipers pumpin'
'Til the window glistens
Somethin' sayin' somethin'
No one seems to listen.

Men with walkie-talkies
Men with flashlights wavin'
Up upon the tower
Time reads daylight savings.

I'm home again to you babe
You know it makes me wonder
Sittin' in the quiet slipstream
In the thunder.

Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love.

 

[Tathagata]

Love Spit Love - Half A Life

cars move slowly down
where you walk
and the cool blue cars
where the world gets old
and i hear their lies
blowing through my teeth
and at my back
i can feel you breathe

talk is cheap like
when money talks
and you sound too much
like you've seen it all
and i fall down drunk
with my eyes so tired
on my clean white sheets
and my eyes go blind

and i hurt to be you
and i hurt to be you
there for no one
there for change
no good reason
no one came
half a life

cars move slowly down
where you walk
and the cool blue cars
where the world gets old
and i hear their lies
blowing through my teeth
and at my back
i can feel you breathe

and i hurt to be you
and i hurt to be you
there for no one
there for change
no good reason
no one came
half a life

 

[tungtied2u]

Nothing is Lost by Noel Coward

Nothing is Lost

Deep in our sub-conscious, we are told
Lie all our memories, lie all the notes
Of all the music we have ever heard
And all the phrases those we loved have spoken,
Sorrows and losses time has since consoled,
Family jokes, out-moded anecdotes
Each sentimental souvenir and token
Everything seen, experienced, each word
Addressed to us in infancy, before
Before we could even know or understand
The implications of our wonderland.
There they all are, the legendary lies
The birthday treats, the sights, the sounds, the tears
Forgotten debris of forgotten years
Waiting to be recalled, waiting to rise
Before our world dissolves before our eyes
Waiting for some small, intimate reminder,
A word, a tune, a known familiar scent
An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night.

 

[Guest]

BREATHE - Pink Floyd

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

 

[Tathagata]

Teenage Wildlife - David Bowie

Seeing these lyrics for the first time in about 5 years..
Yeah ,I listened to too much Jim Morrison and David Bowie


Teenage Wildlife

Well, how come you only want tomorrow
With its promise
of something hard to do
A real life adventure
worth more than pieces of gold
Blue skies above
and sun on your arms
strength in your stride
And hope in those squeaky clean eyes
You'll get chilly receptions
everywhere you go
Blinded with desire
- guess the season is on

So you train by shadow boxing,
search for the truth
But it's all, but it's all used up
Break open
your million dollar weapon
And you push , still you push,
still you push your luck

A broken nosed mogul are you
One of the new wave boys9

Same old thing in brand new drag
Comes sweeping into view, oh-ooh
As ugly as a teenage millionaire
Pretending
it's a whizz kid world
You'll take me aside, and say

"Well, David, what shall I do?
They wait for me in the hallway"
I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"
But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner
I feel like a group of one, no-no
They can't do this to me
I'm not some piece
of teenage wildlife

Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes

The word is that the hunted one is out there on his own
You're alone for maybe the last time
And you breathe for a long time
Then you howl like a wolf in a trap
And you daren't look behind

You fall to the ground
like a leaf from the tree
And look up one time
at that vast blue sky
Scream out aloud as they shoot you down
No no, I'm not a piece
of teenage wildlife
I'm not a piece
of teenage wildlife

And no one will have seen
and no one will confess
The fingerprints will prove
that you coudn't pass the test
There'll be others
on the line filing past,
who'll whisper low
I miss you he really had to go
Well each to his own, he was
Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-ohh
Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-ohh
Another piece of teenage wild...
Wild
Wild
Wild

 

[tungtied2u]

Early Steve Earle

Steve Earle -Fearless Heart Lyrics

Don't you worry bout what you've been told
Cause honey I ain't even close to cold
It's kinda soon to fall in love again
But sometimes the best that you can do is just jump back in
I got me a fearless heart
Strong enough to get you through the scary part
It's been broken many times before
A fearless heart just comes back for more

Folks'll tell you that I'm just no good
But I wouldn't hurt you honey if I could
I can't promise this'll work out right
But it would kill me darlin' if we didn't even try

I admit I fall in love a lot
But I nearly always give it my best shot
I know you must think I'm the reckless kind
But I want a lady with a fearless heart just like mine

 

[Angeline]

Re: Early Steve Earle

Steve Earle -Fearless Heart Lyrics

Don't you worry bout what you've been told
Cause honey I ain't even close to cold
It's kinda soon to fall in love again
But sometimes the best that you can do is just jump back in
I got me a fearless heart
Strong enough to get you through the scary part
It's been broken many times before
A fearless heart just comes back for more

Folks'll tell you that I'm just no good
But I wouldn't hurt you honey if I could
I can't promise this'll work out right
But it would kill me darlin' if we didn't even try

I admit I fall in love a lot
But I nearly always give it my best shot
I know you must think I'm the reckless kind
But I want a lady with a fearless heart just like mine

Good one my friend.

 

[tungtied2u]

New Steve Earle

I Thought You Should Know

I been watchin’ you watchin’ me
I could feel your eyes from way across the room
But now that I’m holdin’ you close I can see
Ain’t no way I’m gonna get around you
I won’t tell you I don’t need you tonight
I won’t pretend I ain’t burnin’ inside
Your skin glowin’ soft in the silver moonlight
The shadows where the promises hide
The bittersweet taste of your kiss
It’s all more than I can resist

If you’re thinkin’ ‘bout breakin’ my heart
You might as well just pick up your little black dress and go
Somebody else already tore it apart
And I thought you should know

Maybe this is all that you want
Maybe you’re just as lonesome as me
A shoulder that you can cry on
A warm safe place you can be
Someone to call in the middle of the night
When the ghosts in your bedroom won’t rest
Two arms to hold you tight
I promise that I’ll do my best
To give you everything I got to give
And keep your secrets for as long as I live

 

[tungtied2u]

I wish I'd written this

Steve Earle-
Warrior

This is the best time of the day—the dawn
The final cleansing breath unsullied yet
By acrid fume or death’s cacophony
The rank refuse of unchained ambition
And pray, deny me not but know me now,
Your faithful retainer stands resolute
To serve his liege lord without recompense
Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
No flag-draped bier or muffled drum to set
The cadence for a final dress parade
But it was not always thus—remember?
Once you worshipped me and named me a god
In many tongues and made offering lest
I exact too terrible a tribute

Take heed for I am weary, ancient
And decrepit now and my time grows short
There are no honorable frays to join

Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs
Or horror unleashed from across oceans
Assail me not with noble policy
For I care not at all for platitude
And surrender such tedious detail
To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues
Singular in their purpose and resolve
And presuming to speak for everyman

Oh, for another time, a distant field
And there a mortal warrior’s lonely grave
But duty charges me remain until
The end the last battle of the last war
Until that ‘morrow render unto me
That which is mine my stipend well deserved
The fairest flower of your progeny
Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams
The cruel consequence of your conceit

 

[Angeline]

Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
(W. Wilson, performed by various like Bessie Smith,
Empress of the Blues)

Up in Harlem every Saturday night
Where the highbrows get together just to write
They all congregate at an all-nite hack
What they do is ooh papa dah

Ol' Hannah Brown, way cross town
Gets full of corn and starts bringing 'em down
And at the break of day
You can hear ol' Hannah say

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me daddy, move right down
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's bringing me down

He's got rhythm, when he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna be arrested when the wagon comes

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me 'cause I don't care

I want a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Send me daddy, move right in
Feel just like I wanna shout
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's knocking me out

He's got rhythm when he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna do the huckabuck until the rising sun

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Move me 'cause I don't care
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of beer

 

[tungtied2u]

Jesse Colin Young

Sunlight
Jesse Colin Young

Can you see the sunlight
Pouring through her hair
Felt her warm mouth on me
In the summer’s air
Loving in a field of brown
Laughing, rolling on the ground
Smiling as she pulls you down
That’s the way she feels about you
That’s the way she feels about you

If your dreams can wake you
Screaming in the night
She can touch your face and
Take away your fright
Like a tree in the meadow wind
She will bend to take you in

Makes no difference where you’ve been
That’s the way she feels about you
That’s the way she feels about you

If you wake up screaming
Scared of what you’re dreaming
You know she is there she can share
You’re aware she cares about you

In the morning
Wake up laughing the winter day
She will smile and ask you
With her eyes to stay
Like the sunshine warms the sand
She will touch you with her hands
Touching makes you understand
That’s the way she feels about you
That’s the way she feels about you

Like the sunshine warms the sand
She will touch you with her hands
Touching makes you understand
That’s the way she feels about you
That’s the way she feels about you
That’s the way she feels about you

 

[Angeline]

Re: Jesse Colin Young

tungtied! I was listening to the Youngbloods as you posted that, lol. I was just about to post this, which Jesse Colin Young does so beautifully. we've posted like this before yknow.

Reason to Believe
Tim Hardin

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

 

[tungtied2u]

Re: Re: Jesse Colin Young

tungtied! I was listening to the Youngbloods as you posted that, lol. I was just about to post this, which Jesse Colin Young does so beautifully. we've posted like this before yknow.

Reason to Believe
Tim Hardin

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

This is one of my favorite songs ever......but with Rod Stewart singing it.