Lyrically Speaking # 3

[stepper]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Next: Blow[ s ]

[Phalon]

from "Inside the Fire" by Disturbed

Fire
All you desire
As she begins to turn cold and run out of time
You will shiver
Till you deliver
You will remember it all
Let it blow your mind again

next word: deliver

[stepper]

Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes

Wait a minute
(Mister Postman)
Mister Postman, look and see
(C'mon deliver the letter, the sooner the better)

Next: letter

[Phalon]

from "Feed" by Sevendust

Pity is a four letter word
And so is quit

next word: quit

[stepper]

You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Temptations

I wanna leave you, don't wanna stay here
Don't want to spend another day here
Though I wanna split now, I cant quit now
You really got a hold on me
You really got a hold on me, baby

Next: Hold

[Phalon]

from "Ladies and Gentlemen" by Saliva

Hold tight cause the show is not over
If you will, please move in closer
You're about to be bowled over
By the wonders you're about to behold here

next word: tight

[stepper]

These Arms Of Mine - Otis Redding

Just be my little woman
Just be my lover I need somebody,
(Somebody) To treat me right
I need your warm loving arms to hold me tight

Next: Treat

[Phalon]

from "Flower" by Soundgarden

All of seventeen
Eyes a purple-green
Treated like a queen
She was on borrowed self-esteem

next word: queen

[stepper]

Dancing Queen - Abba

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen

Next: Dance

[Phalon]

from "Forfeit" by Chevelle

Learn from this
Prehistoric dance and
Refrain from talking,
Solves our problems

next word: learn

[stepper]

Lydia the Tattooed Lady - Grocho Marx

Lydia oh Lydia, that encyclopedia,
Oh Lydia the Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it The Wreck of the Hesperus, too.
And proudly above waves the Red, White, and Blue,
You can learn a lot from Lydia.

Next: Queen

[Phalon]

from "Roll Um Easy" by Little Feat

Oh, I am just a vagabond, a drifter on the run
The eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue
And I have dined in palaces, drunk wine with kings and queens
But darlin', oh darlin', you're the best thing I ever seen

next word: king(s)

[stepper]

I hope you appreciate that I did not go straight to Christmas songs with the word Kings.


King Of The Road - Roger Miller

Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

Next: Sale

[Phalon]

I hope you appreciate that I did not go straight to Christmas songs with the word Kings.

It's August. I do.

Going with Little Feat again for this one...from "Cadillac Hotel" (which coincidentally has both "king" and "queen" in it also)

You can open the window
Where the sunset meets the sea
Everything's for sale
Everything's for free

next word: window

[stepper]

Safe and Sound - Taylor Swift (The Hunger Games)

Don't you dare look out your window, darling,
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when music's gone
Gone

Next: War

[Phalon]

from "Indestructible" by Disturbed

Another mission, the powers have called me away
Another time to carry the colors again
My motivation, an oath I've sworn to defend
To win the honor of coming back home again
No explanation will matter after we begin
Unlock the dark destroyer that's buried within
My true vocation, and now my unfortunate friend
You will discover a war you're unable to win

next word: power(s)

[stepper]

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Roadrunner

I got my radio on
It's so exciting here with the skyscrapers
In the dark
I feel in touch with the modern world
I feel in touch I feel alive
With 50,000 watts of power


Next: Radio

[Phalon]

Dang, Stepper. You seem to be plucking words right off a discography of Little Feat songs. I haven't listened to the band in years, though they were one of my favorites way back.

from "Those Feat'll Steer You Wrong Sometimes"

I started pleading my case and getting no sympathy
I said I'm in the Feat...I'm travelin' from town to town
Don't you know my face
I'm on the radio most all the time
And I didn't realize I had the hammer down
So please don't haul me off to jail

next word: hammer

[stepper]

John Henry - Bruce Springsteen

Well, John Henry was a little baby
Sittin' on his dady's knee
He pick up a hammer and a little piece of steel,
And cried, "Hammer's gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord
Hammer's gonna be the death of me"

Next: Steel

[Phalon]

from "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

next word: cowboy

[stepper]

I always associate that with

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

Next: Truck(s)

[Phalon]

Now you are just doing it on purpose..

from "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" by Little Feat

Semi-smokin' mama, you got to give me some
I heard you got the biggest, ooo, the biggest truck in town
Ride on through to Baltimore - you got to love me now
Catch it to me gently - feets don't fail me now (don't fail me)
Feets don't fail me now (don't fail me)

next word: catch

[stepper]

Sorry Phalon, but I've never heard of them.


Right Field - Peter, Paul, and Mary

Then suddenly everyone's looking at me
My mind has been wandering, "What could it be?"
They point at the sky and I look up above
And a baseball falls into my glove

Here in right field, it's important you know
You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw
That's why I'm here in right field
Just watching the dandelions grow

Next: Glove

[Phalon]

No Little Feat, Stepper? No "Dixie Chicken", "Fat Man in the Bathtub", "Oh, Atlanta", "Woman in Love", "Sailin' Shoes", "Rock and Roll Doctor", and god, the list goes on and on. Kind of surprised - two of their biggest albums "Dixie Chicken" and the live "Waiting for Columbus" (considered by many to be one of the best live albums ever) were released during the time-frame of much of the music that you post (70s-80s), and the topic (or mention of) of many of their songs is Texas. Kind of not surprised because I never heard of them growing up listening to any of the Detroit rock radio stations during the same time-frame; ironically an article from the Detroit Free Press about the band's past and present success explains why: Little Feat is "one of those groups that baffled record company executives and radio station program directors [with] a Cuisinart blend of rock, country, jazz, soul, blues and gospel, chopped and mixed into a dish that defied categorization." Kind of Stevie Ray Vaughan mixed with Traveling Wilburys.

Little Feat is also one of those bands that recorded with, for, or produced music with everyone under the sun - Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Palmer - I bought Palmer's "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" album strictly for Little Feat's involvement; his remake of "Sailin Shoes" along with "Hey, Julia", and "Sneakin Sally Through the Alley" is one of my favorite recordings of songs all run together (like Seger's "Travelin' Man" and "Beautiful Loser").

They are still making music and touring and have kind of type of Grateful Dead "Deadhead" type following.

I was turned onto the band in the early 80s when in Germany a guy I knew gave me a copy of "Dixie Chicken". When I moved back stateside, their music was staple on DC's classic rock stations, and years later, they were hugely popular in Cincinnati when we lived there (mid-to-late 90s).

Sorry for the ramble, but I loved Little Feat! I nearly wore out my Dixie Chicken album, and though it's been long gone, BP sold my cassettes of "Dixie Chicken" along with "Representing the Mambo" (a Little Feat 90s release that I played heavily when LX was a toddler; it was one of her favorites) at a garage sale this past weekend - they were the only cassettes she sold; who plays cassettes anymore?

You gotta at least humor me, and give "Dixie Chicken" (with Bonnie Raitt and Emmy Lou Harris as backup singers) a listen:

And though I adored the album, there is one song on it I absolutely hated:

from "Kiss It Off" by Little Feat

You were holy and you made me wonder how
But you looked like a devil who would seize and shake you down
On the hopes of a tyrant
No one makes it over

There is no peace
Is no love, a milk-toasted love
Ain't no velvet glove

next word: devil

[stepper]

Yeah, I've heard of Bonnie - even purchased an album for one of her songs. One. Back then, if anything had even a whif of country I was movin on. The fact that it's called Dixie Chicken would have meant I wouldn't bother to listen. And I still have no memory of anything they've done. Sorry.

Embrace Me You Child - Carly Simon

At night I heard God whisper lullabyes
While Daddy next door whistled whisky tunes
And sometimes when I wanted, they would harmonize
There was nothing those two couldn't do

Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang Daddy
And God sang, Pray the devil doesn't get to you

Next: Whisper

[Phalon]

Ah, well. Great band - lots of nostalgia there for me though my musical tastes have changed some to harder stuff.

from "Sweat" by Tool

Seems like I've been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like I'm slipping
Into a dream within a dream.

Must be the way you whisper.

next word: familiar

[stepper]

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{Now you're doing it on purpose.} Picking words that will point me to the same artist again.

Cross The River - Carly Simon

If only we could cross the river
But something is holding us back
A way of life that's too familiar
Like the lines are to the railroad track

Next: Cross

[Phalon]

HA! Did you know that Little Feat played on Carly Simon's 1976 album "Another Passenger" (she did a cover of their song "One Love Stand")? www.carlysimon.com/music/Another_Passenger.html

I think we might be onto something - this could be as big as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon!

from "My Own Prison" by Creed

I hear a thunder in the distance
See a vision of a cross
I feel the pain that was given
On that sad day of loss
A lion roars in the darkness
Only he holds the key
A light to free me from my burden
And grant me life eternally

next word: key

[stepper]

Um, they were a back up band?

Six degrees of who?

Let's change this up.

Already Gone - Eagles

Well I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

Next: Free

[Phalon]

Um, they were a back up band?

Uhm, no.

from "Wastin' Time" by Kid Rock

I've been sittin' here just wastin' time
Drinking, smoking, thinking, trying to free my mind

next word: think(ing)