Poetry and Lyrics

[Merrymaker]

O Evangeline
(Emmylou Harris)

O Evangeline you been gone so long
And for a time it seemed
Every road you took turned wrong
But a second chance would come
With each new bridge you burned
I know you squandered some
But then from some you learned
And the point of rescue well
You passed that long ago
O but to hear you tell it was
Just another part of the show
O Evangeline your faith shone blind and true
We raise our glass and sing
Of you Evangeline

O Evangeline you with no kith or kin
The nights so hard and mean
You shed them like a skin
For you were always strong
When the bad slid down to worse
You still had that song
It was your blessing and your curse
But in your tongue
There is no word for home
There'll be no one
To roll away the stone
O Evangeline you have been a prisoner here
Bread and roses we shall bring
To you Evangeline

O Evangeline what are you fighting for
You stayed out in that ring
When nobody's even keepin' score
But round by round you earned
Your stumble into grace
Still with every turn the world
Becomes a sadder place
It swallows up the ones
You have loved the most
So you sleep with none
You wake with ghosts
O Evangeline
You have salted with your tears
Every lonely mile you've seen
Thru the years Evangeline

It's a fatal shore
You now wash upon
So weary of the war
And no longer young
O Evangeline your voice
Risin' sweet and clear
We close our eyes and dream
Of you Evangeline

 

[minsue]

Feelin a bit country again

There Is No Arizona
- Jamie O'Neal/Lisa Drew/Shaye Smith

He promised her a new and better life
out in Arizona
Underneath the blue never ending sky
swore that he was gonna
Get things in order
he'd send for her
When he left her behind
it never crossed her mind

There is no Arizona
No painted desert,
no Sedona
If there was a Grand Canyon,
she could fill it up
with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
there is no Arizona

She got a postcard with no return address
postmarked Tombstone
It said "I don't know where I'm goin' next
but when I do I'll let you know"
May, June, July
she wonders why
she's still waiting
She'll keep waiting 'cause

There is no Arizona
No painted desert,
no Sedona
If there was a Grand Canyon,
she could fill it up
with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
there is no Arizona

Each day the sun sets into the west
Her heart sinks lower in her chest
and friends keep asking
when she's going
Finally she tells them don't you know

There is no Arizona
No painted desert,
no Sedona
If there was a Grand Canyon,
she could fill it up
with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
there is no Arizona

He promised her a new and better life
out in Arizona...

 

[Opal pearl]

(deleted poem - posted in the wrong thread)

 

[tarablackwood22]

DAD

You are reflected
in my eyes,
now
and forever.

I am the mirror
of your spirit,
never
I'll forget.

You gave me life
and a world,
today
i know it.

Opal....wrong thread....put this over on the "passion suddenly board"

Silent Midnight ....something to think about.

 

[tungtied2u]

Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) 6:49

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

 

[Tathagata]

That's a great song
Gives me shivers every time


I may have posted this already but i'm too laxzy to look so.....






Carmelita
Written By Warren Zevon

I hear Mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes they glow in the dark
And I'm there with her in Ensenada
And I'm here in Echo Park

Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town

Well, I'm sittin' here playing solitaire
With my pearl-handled deck
The county won't give me no more methadone
And they cut off your welfare check

Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town

Well, I pawned my Smith Corona
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street
By the Pioneer chicken stand

Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town

Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town

 

[tarablackwood22]

Tom Waits............

Paradise Alley


When the hawk’s in the kitchen
and the sirens in bloom
and the losers
have been swept
from the gin mills.
Hello sucker,
Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year,
34th Street, good tidings to you.

Will you meet me
in Paradise Alley tonight?
We’ll leave town
in a bottle of whiskey.
Come on you old scarecrow,
be a wheel
not a lamppost,
put a saddle on a wishbone
and you’re halfway there.

You know the heroes
will wait
where their dreams used to be,
go ask the hooligans
as they sweep down
the midway.
I’m going waltzing tonight
with the Statue of Liberty,
come on you old lazy-bones
let’s get out of this place.

Will you meet me
in Paradise Alley tonight?
We’ll leave town
in a bottle of whiskey.
Come on you old scarecrow,
be a wheel
not a lamppost,
put a saddle on a wishbone
and you’re halfway there.

There’s a counterfeit moon
and I’m seeing right through it,
cause the dawn
spent it all in one place.
And we’ll rise to the top
of the morning tonight,
you can ride on my shoulders
and I’ll show you the way.

If you meet me
in Paradise Alley tonight
we’ll leave town
in a bottle of whiskey.
Come on you old scarecrow
be a wheel
not a lamppost,
put a saddle on a wishbone
and you’re halfway there.

 

[Tathagata]

well now you've done it

Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

Well I got a bad liver and a broken heart,
Yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart
And I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink
And I wish you'd a-known her, we were quite a pair,
She was sharp as a razor and soft as a prayer
So welcome to the continuing saga,
She was my better half, and I was just a dog
And so here am I slumped, I've been chipped and I've been chumped on my stool
So buy this fool some spirits and libations, it's these railroad station bars
And all these conductors and the porters, and I'm all out of quarters
And this epitaph is the aftermath, yeah I choose my path, hey, come on, Kath,
He's a lawyer, he ain't the one for ya
No, the moon ain't romantic, it's intimidating as hell,
And some guy's trying to sell me a watch
And so I'll meet you at the bottom of a bottle of bargain Scotch
I got me a bottle and a dream, it's so maudlin it seems,
You can name your poison, go on ahead and make some noise
I ain't sentimental, this ain't a purchase, it's a rental, and it's purgatory,
And hey, what's your story, well I don't even care
'Cause I got my own double-cross to bear

And I'll see your Red Label, and I'll raise you one more,
And you can pour me a cab, I just can't drink no more,
'Cause it don't douse the flames that are started by dames,
It ain't like asbestos
It don't do nothing but rest us assured,
And substantiate the rumors that you've heard.

 

[tungtied2u]

Velvet Underground

That's a great song
Gives me shivers every time


I may have posted this already but i'm too laxzy to look so.....






Carmelita
Written By Warren Zevon

___________________________________

Tath- In the same vein

Heroin

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

 

[Tathagata]

Re: Velvet Underground

___________________________________

Tath- In the same vein

Heroin

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

A Lou Reed man?

Welcome brother


( and yes i got the vein reference)

 

[tungtied2u]

Re: Re: Velvet Underground

A Lou Reed man?

Welcome brother


( and yes i got the vein reference)

_______________________________________

Guess we share a commom venacular

 

[Tathagata]

Re: Re: Re: Velvet Underground

_______________________________________

Guess we share a commom venacular

" Drop the venacular"



" That's not a venacular...it's a doiby"
nyuk nyuk nyuk

 

[tungtied2u]

Not Dolby, Dury!Sex And Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll

Sex And Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll
by Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Album :


Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Is all my brain and body need
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Are very good indeed

Keep your silly ways or throw them out the window
The wisdom of your ways, I've been there and I know
Lots of other ways, what a jolly bad show
If all you ever do is business you don't like

Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Is very good indeed

Every bit of clothing ought to make you pretty
You can cut the clothing, grey is such a pity
I should wear the clothing of Mr. Walter Mitty
See my tailor, he's called Simon, I know it's going to fit

Here's a little piece of advice
You're quite welcome it is free
Don't do nothing that is cut price
You know what that'll make you be
They will try their tricky device
Trap you with the ordinary
Get your teeth into a small slice
The cake of liberty

Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Sex, drugs, rock, roll
Sex, drugs, rock, roll

 

[Tathagata]

Re: Not Dolby, Dury!Sex And Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll

Sex And Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll
by Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Ian Dury one of my favorites





Peter Tosh
Legalize It:


Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Some call it tampee
Some call it the weed
Some call it Marijuana
Some of them call it Ganja

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Singer smoke it
And players of instruments too
Legalize it, yeah, yeah
That's the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even the lawyers too

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

It's good for the flu
It's good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Bird eat it
And they leave it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

 

[tungtied2u]

OK- my first drug tune

Ian Dury one of my favorites

This is the first song I heard with drug references ( other than Norwegian wood)...at least that's the way I remember it.

DON'T LAUGH!

Along Comes Mary -The Associiation
Song Lyrics
Tandyn Almer)

Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
Someone calls on me
And every now and then I spend my time at rhyme and verse
And curse those faults in me

And then along comes Mary
And does she want to give me kicks, and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales from all the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
Whose sickness is the games they play
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes
At who is most to blame today

And then along comes Mary
And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality
>From where she got her name
And will they struggle much, when told that such a tender touch of hers
Will make them not the same

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

And when the morning of the warning's passed, the gassed and flaccid kids
Are flung across the staras
The psychodramas and the traumas gone
The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars

And then along comes Mary
And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains
She left the night before
Or will their waking eyes, reflect the lies, and make them realize
Their urgent cry for sight no more

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
----------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[tungtied2u]

One for the Road

Have to run- Going to see blues belter Beth Orton- but here's one for the road. Catch you later if you're up. TT2U

Gypsy:

If your child ain't all he should be now
This girl will put him right.
I'll show him what he could be now
Just give me one night.
I'm the Gypsy - the acid Queen.
Pay before we start.
I'm the Gypsy - The acid queen.
I'll tear your soul apart.

Give us a room and close the door
Leave us for a while.
Your boy won't be a boy no more
Young, but not a child.
I'm the Gypsy - the acid queen.
Pay before we start.
I'm the Gypsy the acid queen.
I'll tear your soul apart.

Gather your wits and hold on fast,
Your mind must learn to roam.
Just as the Gypsy Queen must do
You're gonna hit the road.

My work is done now look at him
He's never been more alive.
His head it shakes his fingers clutch.
Watch his body writhe
I'm the Gypsy - the acid queen.
Pay before we start.
I'm the Gypsy - I'm guaranteed.
To break your little heart.

 

[minsue]

Inspired by the all the sex, drugs, & rock n roll going on here...

Rock & Roll Lifestyle
- Cake

Well, your CD collection
Looks shiny and costly,
How much did you pay for your
Bad Moto Guzzi?
And how much did you spend
On your black leather jacket?
Is it you, or your parents
In this income-tax bracket?

Now tickets to concerts,
And drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music
That you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for
Your rock'n'roll t-shirt,
That proves you were there
That you heard of them first?

Now how do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?

How much did you pay
For the chunk of his guitar,
The one he ruthlessly smashed
At the end of the show?
And how much will he pay
For a brand-new guitar,
One which he'll ruthlessly smash,
At the end of another show?
And how long will the workers
Keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are
Red, white, and blue ones.
And how long will the workers
Keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are
Red, white, and blue ones.

Aging black leather,
And hospital bills,
And tattoo removal,
And dozens of pills.
Your liver pays dearly, now,
For youthful magic moments,
But rock on completely, with
Some brand-new components.

Now how do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?

Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin' what they're selling.
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them.
Your chaos won't convert them.
They're so happy to rebuild it.
You'll never really kill it.
Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin' what they're selling.
Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin', you're drinkin'
Aw, yeah, you're drinkin' what they selling.

Naked photos for whoever can tell me what the hell a Moto Guzzi (or moto-guzi or Moto Guzi since multiple lyric sites all had different spellings ) is. Please. It's driven me nuts for years now.

 

[tungtied2u]

Re: Inspired by the all the sex, drugs, & rock n roll going on here...

[Naked photos for whoever can tell me what the hell a Moto Guzzi (or moto-guzi or Moto Guzi since multiple lyric sites all had different spellings ) is. Please. It's driven me nuts for years now. [/B]

A moto-guzzi is a flash Italian motorcycle. You know my e-mail; I'm waiting

 

[tungtied2u]

Still waiting

Fraught with anticipation

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: Inspired by the all the sex, drugs, & rock n roll going on here...

A moto-guzzi is a flash Italian motorcycle. You know my e-mail; I'm waiting

So it is! Learn something new every day...

 

[minsue]

Still waiting

Fraught with anticipation

Patience!!!

I suppose it would be considered cheating since various versions of this are often my AV, but techically I'm keeping my promise.

Just ignore the goose...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Patience!!!

I suppose it would be considered cheating since various versions of this are often my AV, but techically I'm keeping my promise.

Just ignore the goose...

Chicken.

 

[minsue]

Chicken.

GOOSE!

 

[tungtied2u]

More about motorcycles

Something else you may not have heard.

The Motorcycle song/ words and music by Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
So l went up and I saw Ray
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:

CHORUS

This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ..

Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff.
I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.

I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.

Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.

I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.

I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eye and said "Nothin'".

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...

CHORUS

 

[minsue]

Chicken.

Besides, I don't see your naked ass on here...