Lyrically Speaking....

[Phalon]

Man or Animal ~ Audioslave

You look like the summertime
You call me an artifact
But I'll save that for another time
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore

Keep your love inside the kitchen
You can feed me anything
Leave the feathers on the chicken
Peel the leather from your skin
I can be young or old
Sweet or sad, hot or cold

Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obedient-
out of control

I will love you more than money
I will breathe you in the smoke
I will drink you in my honey
Sweet and golden down my throat
When you're right, when you're wrong
Head is near, eyes are gone
You can drown my appetite
I will sip your tears at night
You can tie me to a chair
Skin and bones, I don't care
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore

Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obedient-
out of control
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal, obedient-
out of control
out of control

You give me a heart attack
I will give you more than that
You give me a heart attack
I will give you more than that

Next word: appetite

[mabd]

Restless Consumer
Neil Young

The people have heard the news
The people have spoken
You may not like what they said
But they weren't jokin'

Way out on the desert sands
Lies a desperate lover
They call her the "Queen of Oil"
So much to discover

Don't need no ad machine
Telling me what I need
Don't need no Madison Avenue War
Don't need no more boxes I can see

Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for taste and grace

People from around the world
Need someone to listen
We're starving and dying from our disease
We need your medicine
How do you pay for war
And leave us dyin' ?
When you could do so much more
You're not even tryin'


next word: listen

Maeve

[fallenangel]

Sarah Mclachlan : Possesion

listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide
voices trapped in yearning
memories trapped in time
the night is my companion
and solitude my guide
would i spend forever here
and not be satisfied

and i would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
i'll take your breath away
and after i'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

next word : WIND

[Siren]

The wind is the whisper of our mother the earth
The wind is the hand of our father the sky
The wind watches over our struggles and pleasures
The wind is the goddess who first learned to fly

The wind is the bearer of bad and good tidings
The weaver of darkness, the bringer of dawn
The wind gives the rain, then builds us a rainbow
The wind is the singer when sang the first song

The wind is a twister of anger and warning
The wind brings the fragrance of freshly mown hay
The wind is a racer, a wild stallion running
The sweet taste of love on a slow summer's day

The wind knows the songs of the cities and canyons
The thunder of mountains, the roar of the sea
The wind is the taker and giver of mornings
The wind is the symbol of all that is free

So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers
Follow her summons when she calls again
In your heart and your spirit let the breezes surround you
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind

John Denver - "Windsong"

I miss John Denver! I will always love his music.

Many beautiful words in this one. Let's seeee....

spirit

[lolapunk]

'Ghost' Indigo Girls

unknowing captor, you'll never know much you
pierce my spirit, but i can't touch you.
can you hear it, a cry to be free
i'm forever under lock and key
as you pass through me

new word: captor

[mabd]

For Phalon.....

The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Metallica

Never hunger
Never prosper
I have fallen prey to failure
Struggle within
Triggered again
Now the candle burns at both ends
Twisting under schizophrenia
Falling deep into dementia
Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me
Birth of terror
Death of much more
I'm the slave of fear, my captor
Never warning
Spreading its wings
As I wait for the horror she brings
Loss of interest, question, wonder
Waves of fear, they pull me under
Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity

sanity

Maeve

[fallenangel]

My Immortal ~Evanescence

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

next word : WOUNDS

[Phalon]

Comfortable Liar ~ Chevelle

Broad, is this sea
The salt, enters the wounds
My take on you is simple
So heal your fear
To heal your fear
Time spent wading off shore
The calm, before the storm
My take from you is simple
So heal your fear
To heal your fear
You're such a comfortable liar
You're such a comfortable liar
You're such a comfortable liar
You're such a comfortable liar
You're such a comfortable liar
So calm
Cause I said wrong
You comfortable liar
You comfortable liar
You comfortable liar
You comfortable liar
Liar

Next word: salt

[mabd]

Salt of the Earth
The Stones

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work

Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
And when I search a faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray and
Black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, they look so strange
Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter

Empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
And when I look in the faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and
Black and white
They don't look real to me
Or don't they look so strange
Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the two thousand million
Let's think of the humble of birth

next word: swirling

Maeve

[mabd]

Sorry all, didn't mean make this thread stall out.
Painter
Norah Jones

If I were a painter
I would paint my reverie
If that's the only way for you to be with me
We'd be there together
Just like we used to be
Underneath the swirling skies for all to see
And I'm dreaming of a place
Where I could see your face
And I think my brush would take me there
But only...
If I were a painter
And could paint a memory
I'd climb inside the swirling skies to be with you
I'd climb inside the skies to be with you

next word: face

Maeve

[Scrappy Amazon]

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless sky, my love,

And the first time ever I kissed your mouth,
I felt the earth move in my hand,
Like a trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love,

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy it would fill the earth
And would last til the end of time, my love,
It would last til the end of time

The first time ever I saw, saw your face
Your face, your face, your face, your face

endless

[mabd]

Endless Highway
Bob Dylan

Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket,
Never let it slip away.
Always be a man, not a boy gone astray.
When ya get half crazy from the August heat
Or on a frozen, rotted road
With no one to complain to about your achin' feet.

CHORUS:
You're gonna walk that endless highway,
Walk that high-way till you die.
All you children goin' my way,
Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye.

When I see a detour up ahead,
Well, I leave it far behind,
Who knows what you're apt to find there.
With the cost of livin, and the price of dyin',
Well it look like t'me this time I wont be buyin'

CHORUS

When they get a scapegoat by the throat,
it's hard labor and cold beans.
If ya get away real quick,
You'll be eatin from the poison peanut machine.
Well, I sing by night, wander by day.
I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

CHORUS

detour

Maeve

[Phalon]

Sorry all, didn't mean make this thread stall out.

I had one for "swirling", but just didn't get around to posting it. "Roundabout" by Yes, (I love that one): "Catching the swirling wind, the sailor sees the rim of the land."

Detour, though, has me completely stumped.

[Siren]

Love that Norah song, Maeve. And Scrap, what a beauty that Roberta Flack tune is. Quick trivia: that gorgeous song was featured in the Clint Eastwood crazy-girlfriend-from-hell movie, "Play Misty For Me". Remember Clint waking to find Jessica Walter standing over his bed with a butcher knife?? Eeeek!

Oh goody - the chance to re-post one of my favorite song lyrics...

"The Song Remembers When" - sung by Trisha Yearwood, written by Hugh Prestwood

I was standing at the counter
I was waiting for the change
When I heard that old familiar music start
It was like a lighted match
Had been tossed into my soul
It was like a dam had broken in my heart

After taking every DETOUR
Getting lost and losing track
So that even if I wanted
I could not find my way back
After driving out the memory
Of the way things might have been
After I'd forgotten all about us
The song remembers when

We were rolling through the Rockies
We were up above the clouds
When a station out of Jackson played that song
And it seemed to fit the moment
And the moment seemed to FREEZE
When we turned the music up and sang along

And there was a God in Heaven
And the world made perfect sense
We were young and were in love
And we were easy to convince
We were headed straight for Eden
It was just around the bend
And though I have forgotten all about it
The song remembers when

I guess something must have happened
And we must have said goodbye
And my heart must have been broken
Though I can't recall just why
The song remembers when

Well, for all the miles between us
And for all the time that's passed
You would think I haven't gotten very far
And I hope my hasty heart
Will forgive me just this once
If I stop to wonder how on Earth you are

But that's just a lot of water
Underneath a bridge I burned
And there's no use in backtracking
Around corners I have turned
Still I guess some things we bury
Are just bound to rise again
For even if the whole world has forgotten

The song remembers when
Yeah, and even if the whole world has forgotten
The song remembers when

next: freeze

[Scrappy Amazon]

siren said:

Love that Norah song, Maeve. And Scrap, what a beauty that Roberta Flack tune is. Quick trivia: that gorgeous song was featured in the Clint Eastwood crazy-girlfriend-from-hell movie, "Play Misty For Me". Remember Clint waking to find Jessica Walter standing over his bed with a butcher knife?? Eeeek!

I adore Roberta...however....can't stand Clint....sorry.

Fate Stay With Me


What did you think I’d be doing now
While you left me, I was thinking aloud
Would there be no end to my sorrow
Will I make it through tomorrow

Chorus:
Let the autumn leaves fall
The chilly raindrops freeze
The white snow melts
I’ll just sail on those seas
Fate, fate, fate stay with me
I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be free
Fate, fate, fate stay with me
I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be free

That wouldn’t be any fun
I’d rather be lying on the sun
Together alone with you
Beneath the sky of blue

Repeat chorus

Tell me! tell me!
Will my light be blown out crying
Baby! baby!
I feel as though I’m dying


Fate

[fallenangel]

Natalie Merchant - Wonder


doctors have come from distant cities
just to see me
stand over my bed
disbelieving what they're seeing

they say I must be one of the wonders
of god's own creation
and as far as they can see they can offer
no explanation

newspapers ask intimate questions
want confessions
they reach into my head
to steal the glory of my story

they say I must be one of the wonders
of god's own creation
and as far as they can see they can offer
no explanation

o,I believe
fate smiled and destiny
laughed as she came to my cradle
know this child will be able
laughed as my body she lifted
know this child will be gifted
with love, with patience and with faith
she'll make her way

NEXT WORD : FAITH

[Scrappy Amazon]

Have a Little Faith in Me


When the road gets dark
And you can no longer see
Just let my love throw a spark
And have a little faith in me

And when the tears you cry
Are all you can believe
Just give these loving arms a try
And have a little faith in me
And

Chorus:
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me

When your secret heart
Cannot speak so easily
Come here darlin’
From a whisper start
To have a little faith in me

And when your back’s against the wall
Just turn around and you will see
I will catch, I will catch your fall baby
Just have a little faith in me

Chorus

Sung over fade:
Well, I’ve been loving you for such a long time girl
Expecting nothing in return
Just for you to have a little faith in me
You see time, time is our friend
’cause for us there is no end
And all you gotta do is have a little faith in me
I said I will hold you up, I will hold you up
Your love gives me strength enough
So have a little faith in me


strength

[fallenangel]

Sarah McLachlan~ Ice

The ice is thin come on dive in
underneath my lucid skin
the cold is lost forgotten
Hours pass days pass time stands still
light gets dark and darkness fills
my secret heart forbidden...
I think you worried for me then
the subtle ways that I'd give in but I know
you liked the show
tied down to this bed of shame
you tried to move around the pain but oh
your soul is anchored
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here...
I don't like your tragic sighs
as if your god has passed you by well hey fool
that's your deception
your angels speak with jilted tongues
the serpent's tale has come undone you have no
strength to squander
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here to stay
only a fool's here to stay
only a fool's here...

next word : FOOL

[mabd]

Rope Around A Fool
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Released as a UK B-side in 1988

I don't make the rules around here
A tear starts at the edge
It takes two hands to rip it
It takes a lot more than either one of us has said

But I come from indecision
A place you ain't never been
Living in the state of confusion
On a map that runs like the veins under your skin

We got Miss Communication kicking out the stool
We got mass determination making up the rules
But saving us is something that we can't do
And it's easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool

And love is just another means
by which we hang ourselves
It takes two to execute
One to leave with innocence and one to leave with guilt

But I just see no reality
Just shades drawn on remorse
We've whipped this beast beyond the limit
Staggered out of breath along this course

It's easier to lose a rope around a fool
Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool
A ring of your indifference thrown anywhere you choose
Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool
Rope around a fool

next word: map

(Some nice songs, especially Roberta Flack.)

Maeve

[lolapunk]

Hey, did you know that Roberta's real first name is Joni? ...ok, maybe not.

Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls

Get out the map
Get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down
Well leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town
Dont drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone
Im gonna clear my head
(Im gonna clear my head)
Im gonna drink that sun
(Im gonna drink that sun)
Im gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young

new word: ailing

[mabd]

Hey Ms. LL Punkmitchell, how are ya doing?

Good Loving
The Dead

Well, I was feelin’ so bad, asked my family doctor ’bout what I had,
I said, doctor, doctor, mister m.d., can you tell me, what’s ailing me?

He said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All you need, all you really need: good lovin’
Because you got to have lovin’ (good lovin’)
Everybody got to have lovin’ (good lovin’)
A little good lovin’ now baby, good lovin’.

So come on baby, squeeze me tight
Don’t you want your daddy to be all right?
I said baby, now it’s for sure,
I’ve got the fever, you got the cure.

Maeve

[Siren]

Is there a cure for the common heartache
An unknown prescription any loser can take
I'd be the first to become addicted
If there's a cure for the common heartache

"Cure For The Common Heartache" by Terri Clark

next: loser

[fallenangel]

Sheryl Crow~ Leaving Las Vegas

I'm standing in the middle of the desert
waiting for my ship to come in
but now no joker, no jack, no king
can take this loser hand
and make it win

NEXT WORD :KING

[marjancin]

Not sure if this counts as a "song", because, in some people's opinions, the following is merely a list. But since it did get up to number two on the music charts (a much more meaningful song ("Another Day In Paradise" by Phil Collins) held it out of #1), it is classified as a song, so....

"We Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Next word: Santayana
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Just kidding! The next word is actually "Sugar".

(Remember, "Suga Suga" by Baby Bash is NOT acceptable.)

[mabd]

Old Sea Shanty

Santayana fought for Spain
Heave away Santayana
He fought for Spain and he gained his name
All on the plains of Mexico
And it's heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away Santayana
Heave her up and away we'll go
All on the plains of Mexico
Oh Santayana gained the day
And General Taylor he ran away
Oh General Taylor ran away
At Molly del Rey he gained his fame
When I was a young man in my prime
I'd kiss them pretty girls two at a time


Brown Sugar
Stones

......
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he's doin alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should
A-huh.

next word: midnight

Maeve

[marjancin]

"Freedom Overspill" - Steve Winwood

This song, which only made the Top 20 on the charts, was sandwiched between two Top Ten hits by Steve Winwood ("Higher Love" which was his second #1 and "The Finer Things", which hit the Top Five). It reminded me of something Stevie Wonder would do. Anyway, here are the lyrics:

Keep on talking all you want
Well you don't waste a minute of time
Who cares, who knows what's true
Coffee and tears the whole night through
Burning up on midnight oil
And it's come right back on you

Next word: COFFEE

[mabd]

The last time I saw Richard
Joni Mitchell (AKA Punkmitchell)

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68,
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe
You laugh, he said you think you're immune, go look at your eyes
They're full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies
When you gonna realise they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies, just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whirr
And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said "Drink up now it's gettin' on time to close."
"Richard, you haven't really changed," I said
It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head
You got tombs in your eyes, but the songs
You punched are dreaming
Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?
Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dishwasher and a Coffee percolator
And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days

next word: cafe

Maeve

[Siren]

At the cafe down on the corner
With a lost look on his face
There ain't no fields to plow
No reason to now
He's just a little out of place

They say crime don't pay
But neither does farmin' these days
And the coffee is cold
And he's fifty years old
And he's got to learn to live some other way

At the CAFE down on the corner
With a lost look on his face
There ain't no fields to plow
He's busin' tables now
He's just a little out of place

And the meek shall inherit the earth
And the BANK shall repossess it
This job don't pay half what it's worth
But it's a thankful man that gets it

At the cafe down on the corner
With a lost look on his face
There ain't no fields to plow
He's wishin' for one now
He's just a little out of place

All these soldiers without wars
And hometown boys without a home
Farmers without fields
Dealers without deals
And they sit here drinking coffee all alone

At the cafe down on the corner
With a lost look on their face
There ain't no fields to plow
They're wishin' for one now
They're just a little out of place

"Cafe On The Corner" by Sawyer Brown

next: bank

BTW, hello, Marjancin! Welcome!

[Scrappy Amazon]

Love Puts on a New Face - Joni Mitchell


He said you think you’re a lady
But I know you’re a woman
We are as young as the night
I said no telephones ringing
No company coming
Just the lap of the lake and the firelight
And the lonely loon and the crescent moon
What a pocket of heavenly grace
But in france they say
Everyday
Love puts on a new face
Love has many faces

About a month or so later he said
Why can’t you be happy
You make me feel helpless when you get this way
I said I’m up to my neck in alligators
Jaws gnashing at me
Each one trying to pull a piece away
Darling, you can’t slay these beasts of prey
Some bad dreams even love can’t erase
But in france they say
Everyday
Love puts on a new face
Love has many faces

He said I wish you were with me here
The leaves are electric
They burn on the river bank
Countless heatless flames
I said send me some pictures then
And I’ll paint pyrotechnic
Explosions of your autumn till we meet again
I miss your touch and your lips so much
I long for our next embrace
But in france they say
Everyday
Love puts on a new face
Love puts on a new face
Love has many faces
Many many faces


helpless

[Phalon]

from "Helpless" ~ Metallica

...See the flashing lights, hear the thunder roar,
I am gonna set you all alight.
Gotta make it man, I ain't got a choice,
Gotta fill this hall tonight.


Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless.


I can see the stars, I can see what's going on.
Every night alone I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell if I'll make it myself someday.
This stage is mine, music is my destiny.


Cannot squeeze the life from me....


Next word: flashing