Poetry and Lyrics

[Angeline]

Poverty Train
Laura Nyro

Last call for the poverty train.
Last call for the poverty train.

Oh it looks good and dirty on the shiny light strip,
and if you don't get beat you got yourself a trip.
You can see the walls roar,
see your brains on the floor,
become God,
become crippled,
become funky and split.
Why was I born?

Well I just saw the devil and he's smiling at me.
I heard my bones cry
devil why's it got to be?
Devil played with my brother,
devil drove my mother.
Now the tears in the gutter
are floodin the sea.
Why was i born?

Oh baby it looks good and dirty, them shiny lights glow.
A million nights, tramps, tricks and tracks will come and go.
You're starvin today,
but who cares anyway?
Baby it feels like I'm dying now.

I swear there's something better than
gettin off on sweet cocaine.
It feels so good.
It feels so good.
gettin off the poverty train.

Morning.

 

[Angeline]

I Never Meant to Hurt You
Laura Nyro

I never meant to hurt you,
I'm not that way at all.
Please believe the words of a heart,
a heart that seems so small.

And I swear
I never meant to hurt you,
I guess I lost my place.
Please believe the words of a heart,
a heart that hides its face.

Why do I do the things
I never mean to do?
Why did I speak so carelessly
when all that I felt
was love for you?

And I swear
I never meant to hurt you.
I've got to make you know.
Please believe the words of a heart,
a heart that didn't show.

I never meant to hurt you,
I only meant to love you it's true.
And when I saw you crying,
I cried too.

 

[Tathagata]

Ahhhhhhhh I may have an equal...

Jealous Guy
Mister Lennon:




I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy

 

[Angeline]

Re: Ahhhhhhhh I may have an equal...

Jealous Guy
Mister Lennon:




I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy

LOL! Good thing they weren't together--they'd never speak to each other again for the guilt.

(and that is one of his best, I think)



careful with that absinth, pal

 

[Guest]

Breathing

Kate Bush


Outside gets inside
Through her skin
I've been out before
but this time it's much safer in
Last night
In the sky
Such a bright light
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to
Keep breathing

Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall
Out - in. out - in, out - in. out - in, out - in

We've lost our chance
We're the first and last
After the blast
Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung
I love my beloved
All and everywhere
Only the fools blew it
You and me knew life itself
Is breathing

Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall
Out - in. out - in, out - in. out - in, out - in, out

What are we going to do without
Ooh, please, let me breathe
Quick, breathe in deep
Leave us something to breathe
Ooh, life is
Breathing

 

[Guest]

One more cuz' I love it so.

A Change

Sheryl Crow

Ten years living in a paper bag
Feedback baby, he's a flipped out cat
He's a platinum canary, drinkin' falstaff beer
Mercedes rule, and a rented lear
Bottom feeder insincere
Prophet lo-fi pioneer
Sell the house and go to school
Get a young girlfriend, daddy's jewel

A change would do you good
A change would do you good

God's little gift is on the rag
Poster girl posing in a fashion mag
Canine, feline, Jekyll and Hyde
Wear your fake fur on the inside
Queen of south beach, aging blues
Dinner's at six, wear your cement shoes
I thought you were singing your heart out to me
Your lips were syncing and now I see

A change would do you good
A change would do you good

Chasing dragons with plastic swords
Jack off Jimmy, everybody wants more
Scully and angel on the kitchen floor
And I'm calling Buddy on the ouija board
I've been thinking 'bout catching a train
Leave my phone machine by the radar range
Hello it's me, I'm not at home
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone

A change would do you good
A change would do you good
Hello, it's me, I'm not at home
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone

A change would do you good
A change would do you good

 

[Tathagata]

I love Kate Bush

and yeah Ange
Lennon could write such simple lyrics and yet so powerful
and universal
Roxy Musoc's version of Jealous Guy Is awesome too

 

[JCSTREET]

I'm just so fuxxing lost

On many newsreaders you have two forward and two back buttons

one button jumps you from thread to thread--newerst msgs first

the second jumps you from msg to msg inside a thread--newest msgs first

everything works and is elegant

here I don't remember what thread i posted any msg to--there are so many and there is no apparent connection between them

the last thing poets want to do is be physicists and figure out some stanford uni algorithm as to how tyo navigate through all this

Im giving up
I am just gone

 

[Liar]

Re: I'm just so fuxxing lost

JC, I agree. The setup for this bulletin system is both frustrating and confusing lots of times. For some reason it has become almost a de facto standard on web based discussion groups, and I never seem to be able to keep track on what is being posted, replied to and so on.

However, this is where the good people meet. To me, that is more than enough reason to bear with the annoyance.

#L

 

[minsue]

Whistling in the Dark
- They Might Be Giants

A woman came up to me and said
"I'd like to poison your mind
with wrong ideas that appeal to you
though I am not unkind"
she looked at me, I looked at something
written across her scalp
and this is what it faintly said
as I tried to call for help:
"There's only one thing
that I know how to do well
and I've often been told that you only can do
what you know how to do well
and that's be you,
be what you're like,
be like yourself,
and so I'm having a wonderful time
but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
There's only one thing that I like
and that is whistling in the dark.
A man came up to me and said
"I'd like to change your mind
by hitting it with a rock," he said,
"though I am not unkind."
We laughed at his little joke
and then I merrily walked away
and hit my head on the wall of the jail
where the two of us live today.


Breaks & punctuation left the way it was written, though my fingers itch to alter it.

 

[tarablackwood22]

Tom Waits.....

I like my town
with a little drop of poison.
Nobody knows
they're lining up to go insane.
I'm all alone,
have smoked my friends down to the filter.
But I feel much cleaner
after it rains.

She left in the fall,
that's her picture on the wall.
She always had
that little drop of poison.

Did the devil make the world
while god was sleeping?
Someone said you'll never
get a wish from a bone.
Another wrong goobye
and a hundred sailors,
that deep blue sky
is my home.

She left in the fall,
that's her picture on the wall.
She always had
that little drop of poison.

A rat always knows
when he's in with weasels.
Here you lose a little
every day.
I remember when a million
was a million.
They all have ways
to make you pay.

 

[Angeline]

Political World
Bob Dylan

We live in a political world,
Love don't have any place.
We're living in times where men commit crimes
And crime don't have a face

We live in a political world,
Icicles hanging down,
Wedding bells ring and angels sing,
clouds cover up the ground.

We live in a political world,
Wisdom is thrown into jail,
It rots in a cell, is misguided as hell
Leaving no one to pick up a trail.

We live in a political world
Where mercy walks the plank,
Life is in mirrors, death disappears
Up the steps into the nearest bank.

We live in a political world
Where courage is a thing of the past
Houses are haunted, children are unwanted
The next day could be your last.

We live in a political world.
The one we can see and can feel
But there's no one to check, it's all a stacked deck,
We all know for sure that it's real.

We live in a political world
In the cities of lonesome fear,
Little by little you turn in the middle
But you're never why you're here.

We live in a political world
Under the microscope,
You can travel anywhere and hang yourself there
You always got more than enough rope.

We live in a political world
Turning and a'thrashing about,
As soon as you're awake, you're trained to take
What looks like the easy way out.

We live in a political world
Where peace is not welcome at all,
It's turned away from the door to wander some more
Or put up against the wall.

We live in a political world
Everything is hers or his,
Climb into the frame and shout God's name
But you're never sure what it is.

 

[Angeline]

What a love song...

sigh

Never Say Goodbye
Bob Dylan

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

[Guest]

Nirvana's Lithium

I'm so happy cause today I've found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, that's ok, cause so are you
Broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is every day for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles in a daze cause I've found God

Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Yeah, yeah, yeah...


I'm so happy cause today I shaved my head
And I'm not sad
And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard
But I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there
And I don't care
I'm so horny, that's ok my will is good


I like it, I'm not gonna crack
I miss you, I'm not gonna crack
I love you, I'm not gonna crack
I love you, I'm not gonna crack
I like it, I'm not gonna crack
I miss you, I'm not gonna crack
I love you, I'm not gonna crack
I kill you, I'm not gonna crack...

 

[Tathagata]

I aspire to this

Mother of Pearl _ Roxy Music:




Turn the lights down
Way down low
Turn up the music
Hi as fi can go
All the gang´s here
Everyone you know
It´s a crazy scene
Hey there just look over your shoulder
Get the picture?
No no no no .......(yes)
Walk a tightrope
Your life-sign-line
Such a bright hope
Right place, right time
What´s your number?
Never you mind
Take a powder
But hang on a minute what´s coming round the corner?
Have you a future?
No no no no .......(yes)


Well i´ve been up all night again
Party-time wasting is too much fun
Then I step back thinking
Of life´s inner meaning
And my latest fling
It´s the same old story
All love and glory
It´s a pantomime
If you’re looking for love
In a looking glass world
It’s pretty hard to find
Oh mother of pearl
I wouldn’t trade you
For another girl

Divine intervention
Always my intention
So I take my time
I´ve been looking for something
I’ve always wanted
But was never mine
But now I’ve seen that something
Just out of reach - glowing -
Very holy grail
Oh mother of pearl
Lustrous lady
Of a sacred world

Thus: even zarathustra
Another-time-loser
Could believe in you
With every goddess a let down
Every idol a bring down
It gets you down
But the search for perfection
Your own predilection
Goes on and on and on and on
Canadian club love
A place in the country
Everyone’s ideal
But you are my favorita
And a place in your heart dear
Makes me feel more real
Oh mother of pearl
I wouldn’t change you
For the whole world

You’re highbrow, holy
With lots of soul
Melancholy shimmering
Serpentine sleekness
Was always my weakness
Like a simple tune
But no dilettante
Filigree fancy
Beats the plastic you
Career girl cover
Exposed and another
Slips right into-view
Oh looking for love
In a looking glass world
Is pretty hard for you

Few throwaway kisses
The boomerang misses
Spin round and round
Fall on featherbed quilted
Faced with silk
Softly stuffed eider down
Take refuge in pleasure
Just give me your future
We’ll forget your past
Oh mother of pearl
Submarine lover
In a shrinking world
Oh lonely dreamer
Your choker provokes
A picture cameo
Oh mother of pearl
So so semi-precious
In your detached world

Oh mother of pearl
I wouldn´t trade you
For another girl

 

[JCSTREET]

And just think, we haven't even touched Cohen or Dylan yet.

or Seamus Heaney

 

[annaswirls]

I don't want to get over you

I guess I could take a sleeping pill

and sleep at will

and not have to go through

what I go through

I guess I should take Prozac, right,

and just smile all night

at somebody new

somebody not too bright

but sweet and kind

who would try to get you off my mind

I could leave this agony behind

which is just what's I'd do

if I wanted to

but I dont want to get over you

cause I dont want to get over love

I could listen to my therapist

pretend you don't exist

and not have to dream of

what I dream of

I could listen to all my friends

and go out again

and pretend its enough

or I could make a career of being blue

I could dress in black and read Camus

smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth

like I was 17

that would be a scream

but I dont want to get over you.

[Magnetic Fields

- i dont want to get over you]

 

[Ms_Kat]

Steve Earle

Valentine's Day


I come to you with empty hands
I guess I just forgot again
I only got my love to send
On Valentine's Day
I ain't got a card to sign
Roses have been hard to find
I only hope that you'll be mine
On Valentine's Day
I know that I swore that I wouldn't forget
I wrote it all down: I lost it I guess
There's so much I want to say
But all the words just slip away
The way you love me every day
Is Valentine's Day
If I could I would deliver to you
Diamonds and gold; it's the least I can do
So if you'll take my IOU
I could make it up to you
Until then I hope my heart will do
For Valentine's Day

When I Fall (duet with Stacy Earle - his sister)

Late at night on some dark deserted highway
On my way to another lonesome town
I thought I might see the first light of a new day
As it lay like fool's gold on the ground

chorus
But whenever I'm feelin' low
I won't have to cry alone I know
'Cause you will answer when I call
If I soar above the clouds and then
I come crashin' back to earth again
You will catch me when I fall

All these years I've watched you trip and stumble
There were times that I feared that you were lost
But every tear that I dried after you tumbled
Comes to mind when I'm considerin' the cost
chorus

In my heart there's a place for you to run to
Anytime you're tired and hurt and blue
For my part I have only to remind you
You will find me waiting when you do

Hopeless Romantic

You can love most of the people
Most of the time
Now and again if you're lookin' I'm sure
You will find
Someone who's helplessly hoping
That someday
They'll finally find the one
Hopeless romantics keep hoping that
Someday will come
Used to be you could be sure that a
Warrior was true
Nowadays everyone knows that it's cool to be blue
Constantly circling close to the flame And then stopping on a dime
Hopeless romantics will go down in flames every time
Hopeless romantics drop everything and run
When they find a broken heart
Always afraid that they're missing someone
With time on their hands and a missing part
So one of these nights when you're
Sitting at home all alone
And you've finally admitted you're lonely
Right down to the bone
You might as well get on out in it
'Cause you've got everything to lose
And hopeless romantics are always
At home with the blues
And a broken heart
Find the missing part
Hopeless romantics are usually
Hopelessly true



Hugs,



Kat

 

[Ms_Kat]

Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett

Mariano (REK)

The man outside he works for me, his name is Mariano
He cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom
He says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato
Thats two days on a bus from here, a lifetime from this room.
I fix his meals and talk to him in my old broken spanish
He points at things and tells me names of things I can't recall
Sometimes I just can't but help but wonder who this man is
And if when he is gone will he'll remember me at all
I watch him close he works just like a piston in an engine
He only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette
When the day is ended, I look outside my window
There on the horizon, Mariano's silhouette
He sits upon a stone in a south-easterly direction
I know my charts I know that he is thinking of his home
I've never been the sort to say I'm in to intuition
But I swear I see the faces of the ones he calls his own
Their skin is brown as potters clay, their eyes void of expression
Their hair is black as widow's dreams, their dreams are all but gone
They're ancient as a vision of a sacrificial virgin
Innocent as crying from a baby being born
They hover around a dying flame and pray for his protection
Their prayers are all but answered by his letters in the mail
He sends them colored figures that he cuts from strips of paper
And all his weekly wages, saving nothing for himself
It's been a while since I have seen the face of Mariano
The border guards they came one day and took him far away
I hope that he is safe down there at home in Guanajuato
I worry though I read there's revolution every day...

Simple Song (LL)


It's a simple song for simple feelings
You see the moon and you watch it rise
Across the continent a night bird sings
And someone somewhere hears its cry
Disillusioned, keep your head down
'Cause if you do they'll never know
You'll have no answers to their questions
And they will have to let you go
Disenfranchised revolution
Take away by right what's yours
They make you martyrs of your own cause
But they don't know what cause its for
All deserted stand alerted
They'll love you when you're all alone
You find a red rose in the morning light
But wait the night and find it gone
So hear my words with faith and passion
For what I say to you is true
When you find the one you might become
Remember part of me is you



Hugs,



Kat

 

[minsue]

In a Depeche Mode kind of mood tonight...

[color=669966]It Doesn't Matter
- Depeche Mode

I am happy
That I have you
Even though you're not here now
I know somewhere
You are dreaming
Though it's definitely not of me

It doesn't matter
If this all shatters
Nothing lasts forever
But I'm praying
That we're staying
Together

I am warmed by
Your friendship
Even when you're far away
And I'm happy
In the knowledge
We may never see the day

When I kiss you
And you kiss me
Don't pretend you miss me
The worst kind
Of diseased mind
Is one filled with jealousy

If we should meet again
Don't try to solve the puzzle
Just lay down next to me
And please don't move a muscle

I will thank you
Most of all for
The respect you have for me
I'm embarrassed
It overwhelms me
Because I don't deserve any

It doesn't matter
If this all shatters
Nothing lasts forever
But I'm praying
That we're staying
Together[/color]

 

[minsue]

I really must go dig out the CD before I go mad

[color=996699]Somebody
- Depeche Mode


I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She'll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She'll hear me out
And won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she'll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone who'll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
To anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when I'm asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I'll get away with it[/color]

 

[Liar]

Re: In a Depeche Mode kind of mood tonight...

You just got me into one too...


The Love Thieves - depeche mode

Oh the tears that you weep
For the poor tortured souls
Who fall at your feet
With their love begging bowls
All the clerks and the tailors
The sharks and the sailors
All good at their trades
They'll always be failures

Alms for the poor
For the wretched desciples
And the love that they swore
With their hearts on the bible
Beseeching the honor
To sit at your table
And feast on your holiness
As long as they're able

Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirit shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

Your holding court
With your lips and your smile
Your body's a halo
Their minds are on trial
Sure as adam is eve
Sure as jonah turned whaler
They're crooked love theives
And you are their jailor

Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirit shall live on in
The hearts of all others
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirit shall live on in
The hearts of all others

 

[minsue]

I didn't realize it was contagious!

[color=990000]I Feel You
- Depeche Mode

I feel you
Your sun it shines
I feel you
Within my mind
You take me there
You take me where
The kingdom comes
You take me to
And lead me through Babylon

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love

I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through oblivion

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love

I feel you
Your precious soul
And I am whole
I feel you
Your rising sun
My kingdom comes

I feel you
Each move you make
I feel you
Each breath you take
Where angels sing
And spread their wings
My love's on high
You take me home
To glory's throne
By and by

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love[/color]

 

[Liar]

To Have And To Hold - depeche mode
(have no info on who is actually writing the lyrics...)

I need to be cleansed
It's time to make amends
For all of the fun
The damage is done
And I feel diseased
I'm down on my knees
And I need forgiveness
Someone to bear witness
To the goodness within
Beneath the sin
Although I may flirt
With all kinds of dirt
To the point of disease
Now I want release
From all this decay
Take it away
And somewhere
There's someone who cares
With a heart of gold
To have and to hold

 

[annaswirls]

Re: I really must go dig out the CD before I go mad

[color=996699]Somebody
- Depeche Mode


I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She'll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She'll hear me out
And won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she'll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone who'll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
To anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when I'm asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I'll get away with it[/color]

oh my god, I used to listen to this one in college almost as a prayer!