Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Greywind]

 

I should have learned this lesson long ago
That friends and lovers always come and go
And now you claim
that everything's "O.K.", but I've got just one thing to say...

 

Why don't you...
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another...find another...find another fool...to love you
To love you...find another.....

 

I don't believe that I deserve this ride
You took me for my very heart and pride
You let me down...and now your hand is out
Well, here's some...spare change...you can count

 

Why don't you...
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another...find another...find another fool...to love you
To love you...find another.....

 

You pulled this once...you pulled it twice
It's time you listened to my advice....oh, baby

 

I'd never take advantage of our love
I can't imagine what you're thinkin' of
You're over due...you think this storm is through..
Well, baby, I've got news for you

 

Why don't you...
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another (find another)
Find another fool to love you
Find another...find another...find another fool...to love you
To love you...find another.....

 

[death tribble]

Right I now have a list for all the songs from 2016 which goes from page 1 to page 73 inclusive and finishes at the start of page 74. There are 33 pages of unique entries and 2 pages of duplicates and entries that cannot be identified on the internet. I will ask those who posted the lyrics which cannot be identified to give me the details once I have done all the other years. No other year had that many pages.

Once I have completed it all I will post it here.

 

I have never heard of Tony Banks, Jimmy Buffet, Jonathan Coulton and Quarterflash.

There are only a couple of tracks by Kansas, Toto and C W McCall which made radio play in Britain whereas I don't expect Americans to know Mud, Slade and T Rex for example.

 

The Following are the Rush songs currently in the Lyrics thread that were posted in 2016. This is for Cygnia's benefit as the band were important to her in her younger years. And they are still important to hr now.

 

2112 

A Farewell to Kings 

Anagram

Anthem 

Available Light

Bastille Day 

Different Strings

Dreamline 

Earthshine

Freewill 

The Garden 

Ghost of a Chance 

Jacob's Ladder

Roll with the Bones 

Neurotica 

Nobody's Hero

Scars

Tears

The Twilight Zone 

Working Man

You Bet Your Life 

 

I would also like to publicly record my tanks to Greywind for posting particular entries from all ages of music which should have a wide audience.

And Pariah for starting this in the first place.

[Greywind]

 

Standing in your doorway
Nothing much to see
Remember conversations
Between you and me
Forgot about the feeling
Forgot about the pain
Forgot about the hopeful nights
Calling again
Just a victim of the moment-
Nobody's fault, nobody fooled
Ah, it's funny how things seem to slip away
From me and you...so I keep going

 

From eye to eye
Face to face
Moving oh so fast
Never getting any place
I keep going
Eye to eye
And face to face
Will I ever find you, will I ever find you?

 

Looking in a window
Nothing much to do
Almost feeling humble
Needing you
Most of my embraces
Don't hold on so tight
But after all, if I don't try
What will feel right?
Yes, it has to make me wonder-
I'm so alone and yet so free
Ah, it's funny how things seem to slip away
From you and me - still I keep going

 

From eye to eye
Face to face
Moving oh so fast
Never getting any place
I keep going
Eye to eye
And face to face
Will I ever find you, will I ever find you

 

[death tribble]

I'm dancing the seven veils
Want you to pick up my scarf
See how the black moon fades
Soon I can give you my heart

I don't know no shame
I feel no pain
I can't see the flame

 

But I do know Man-din-ka
I do know Man-din-ka
I do know Man-din-ka
I do

 

They're throwing it all this way
Dragging it back to the start
And they say, "See how the glass is raised?"
I have refused to take part

 

I told them "drink something new"
Please let me pull something through

 

I don't know no shame
I feel no pain
I can't

 

I don't know no shame
I feel no pain
I can't see the flame

 

But I do know Man-din-ka
I do know Man-din-ka
I do know Man-din-ka

 

I do
I do
I do

I say I do

 

Soon I can give you my heart
I swear I do
Soon I can give you my heart
I do
Mandinka
Soon I can give you my heart
Soon I can give you my heart
Soon I can give you my heart

[death tribble]

Dizzy
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy

First time that I saw you, girl
I knew that I just had to make you mine
But it's so hard to talk to you
With fellas hanging 'round you all the time

I want you for my sweet pet
But you keep playing hard to get
I'm going around in circles all the time

Dizzy
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy

I finally got to talk to you
And I told you just exactly how I felt
Then I held you close to me
And kissed you and my heart began to melt

Girl, you've got control on me
'Cause I'm so dizzy I can't see
I need to call a doctor for some help

Dizzy
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's you girl making it spin

You're making me dizzy
You're making me dizzy
I'm so dizzy
You're making me dizzy

[death tribble]

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something
Something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor
But I wound up here
I just have to look good
I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em all around

We got the bubble headed
Bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation
Is the head dead yet
You know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry

You don't really need to find out
What's going on
You don't really want to know
Just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're stiff
Kick 'em all around

(Kick 'em when they're up)
(Kick 'em when they're down)
(Kick 'em when they're up)
(Kick 'em when they're down)

(Kick 'em when they're up)
(Kick 'em when they're down)
(Kick 'em when they're stiff)
(Kick 'em all around)

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers
In everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done
We haven't told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry

[death tribble]

There's a crack up in the ceiling,
And the kitchen sink is leaking.
Out of work and got no money,
A Sunday joint of bread and honey.

What are we living for ?
Two-roomed apartment on the second floor.
No money coming in,
The rent collector's knocking, trying to get in.

We are strictly second class,
We don't understand,
(Dead end!)
Why we should be on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
People are living on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
Gonna die on dead end street.

Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)

On a cold and frosty morning,
Wipe my eyes and stop me yawning.
And my feet are nearly frozen,
Boil the tea and put some toast on.

What are we living for ?
Two-roomed apartment on the second floor.
No chance to emigrate,
I'm deep in debt and now it's much too late.

We both want to work so hard,
We can't get the chance,
(Dead end !)
People live on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
People are dying on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
Gonna die on dead end street.

Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)

(Dead end !)
People live on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
People are dying on dead end street.
(Dead end !)
Gonna die on dead end street.

Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
Head to my feet (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
How's it feel ? (yeah)
How's it feel ? (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)
Dead end street (yeah)

[death tribble]

If I give up the seat I've been saving
To some elderly lady or man
Am I being a good boy ?
Am I your pride and joy ?
Mother please if you think say I am
And if while in the course of my duty
I perform an unfortunate take
Would you punish me so
Unbelievably so
Never again will I make that mistake
This feeling inside me could never deny me
The right to be wrong if I choose
And this pleasure I get
From say winning a bet
Is to lose

When I'm drinking my Bonaparte Shandy
Eating more than enough apple pies
Will I glance at my screen
And see real human beings
Starve to death right in front of my eyes

Nothing old, nothing new, nothing ventured
Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost
Nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than youth
Nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine
Nothing physically recklessly, hopelessly blind
Nothing I couldn't say
Nothing why 'cos today
Nothing rhymed

This feeling inside me could never deny me
The right to be wrong if I choose
And this pleasure I get
From say winning a bet
Is to lose

Nothing good, nothing bad, nothing ventured
Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost
Nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than youth
Nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine
Nothing physically recklessly, hopelessly blind
Nothing I couldn't say
Nothing why 'cos today
Nothing rhymed

[death tribble]

All this frustration
I can’t meet all my desires
Strange conversation
Self-control has just expired
All an illusion
Only in my head you don’t exist
Who are you fooling
Don’t need a shrink but an exorcist
Show me the movie
Of who you are and where you’re from
Born of frustration
Caught up in the webs you’ve spun
Where’s the confusion
A vision of what life is like
Show me the movie
That doesn’t deal in black and white

Stop stop talking about who’s to blame
When all that counts is how to change

All this frustration
All this frustration
Who put brown owl eyes on the butterfly’s wings
All this frustration
All this frustration
Who gave the leopards spots and taught the birds to sing

Born of frustration
Born of frustration

I’m living in the weirdest dream
Where nothing is the way it seems
Where no one’s who they need to be
Where nothing seems that real to me
How can we build our lives upon
No wall of stone, no solid ground
The world is spinning endlessly
We’re clinging to our own beliefs

Born of frustration
Born of frustration

[death tribble]

I still get the same old feeling
Tearing at this heart of mine
Telling me that maybe
I'm not really over you
I still get the same old yearning
Turning my heart inside out
Look there can't be any doubt
I'm still not over you

The oak tree where you carved my name
A year ago now
Somehow it doesn't look the same
I think it knows now
The places we would go
Still play the songs we used to know

I still get the same old feeling
Tearing at this heart of mine
Telling me that maybe
I'm not really over you
I still get the same old yearning
Turning my heart inside out
Look there can't be any doubt
I'm still not over you

The grotto where we used to meet
Is overgrown now
We'd dreamed we'd live there too someday
Just start our own now
The letters you wrote me
Still bring back sad old memories

I still get the same old feeling
Tearing at this heart of mine
Telling me that maybe
I'm not really over you
I still get the same old yearning
Turning my heart inside out
Look there can't be any doubt
I'm still not over you

I still get the same old feeling
Tearing at this heart of mine
Telling me that maybe
I'm not really over you

I still get the same old yearning
Turning my heart inside out
Look there can't be any doubt
I'm still not over you

[death tribble]

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's two timing me.

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's cheating on me.

I was outside the one stop,

Ahen I saw her in the coin-op,

And I didn't like what I see.

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's two timing me

.
She was sharing her spin dry with a guy in a tie-dye,

hen she saw my reflection in the chrome.

I knew that she'd seen me, 'cos she dropped her bikini,

The one that I got her in Rome.

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's two timing me.

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's cheating on me.

When she finished her laundry,

She was all in a quandary, and made for the street like a hare.

Her escape was so urgent,

she forgot her detergent,

And dropped all her clean underwear

Little does she know that I know that she knows

That I know she's cheating on me.

[death tribble]

Got on board a westbound seven forty seven
Didn't think before deciding what to do
Ooh, that talk of opportunities, TV breaks and movies
Rang true, sure rang true

 

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours

 

Out of work, I'm out of my head
Out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm underloved, I'm underfed, I wanna go home

 

It never rains in California
but girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours

 

Pa da dup, da da dup .

 

Will you tell the folks back home, I nearly made it
Had offers but don't know which one to take
Please don't tell 'em how you found me
Don't tell 'em how you found me
Gimme a break, give me a break

 

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours

 

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

[death tribble]

Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go

They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Shoot 'em in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go

They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Shoot 'em in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go

They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go

[Pariah]

Okay, this is the picture. Johnny's been hurt. He's been hurt bad.

 

Look, we can't leave him here, we can't. Look, he's in a pool of blood. He's gonna die, I know it.

 

We've gotta leave him here, honey. We gotta. He won't talk, I promise you that! Will you Johnny?

 

Frankie, I don't care whether he talks or not, I just can't leave him like this.

 

Listen. Leave me here I... I... I can ... I can ... handle it.

 

Oh, no, Johnny, no...

 

The cops are outside. Luke's in the car. Come on, let's get the hell outta this joint.

 

Frankie, when they get here wer're gonna be dead, I know we are! We don't have agun!

 

Listen. We got three million... Listen, [spud]. We got three million in the can, here. We can't look after him, I'll send the bird to his mother. Come on, let's just get out of this place, we can do it!

 

Oh, no, Johnny, no...

 

Okay now, just lean up against that door. When I give the word "Go" we just..., we just go through it and blast at the same time.

 

She came, as in the book, Mickey Spillane
That Saturday night dark masquerade
Had filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheart

 

But then, as nothing happens quite the same
Investigation is the game
He had to check her story right away-he dead

 

Sam Spade his buddy Archer first to go he got it
She spelt it out, how could they know the 'Fatman' got it -he dead
Her sister didn't really live at all-confusion-he dead
His chase led to the Fatman, to face the friends of Mr. Cairo

 

Hey, there's a really terrific dress shop. Can we stop this raid while I buy a new gown?

 

I'll buy you the whole factory, sweetheart. Don't worry.

 

That night, the double crosser got it right
Pretending he was really dim
He slipped to Sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)

 

He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gun
They'd left a note to lead him on
The chase to find the Maltese Falcon-you bet-

 

Early thirties gangster movies
Set to spellbind population
From Chicago to Hong Kong
Via Istanbul the Talking Tong

 

Dirty rats through' prohibition
Money flowed through gangsterism
Acting out this fantasy
In Hollywood's vicinity

 

The best part for the best rendition
Al Capone he sent to prison
Citizen Kane came fast and quickly
Conquering ol' New York City

 

Poking fun at superstition
Media became television

Give me Cagney any day
Or Jimmy Stewart for President

 

Or Edward 'G' and all those guys
Who always shoot between the eyes
Between the eyes
Between the eyes

 

Ha, ha, well done Mr. Cairo, and what do you have to say about that, my friend?

 

Allright. So you've got me in it. What about her?

 

Don't worry about me, I'm okay

 

Very magnanimous, sir, very magnanimous indeed, ha, ha, ha

 

You mean..., you won't make us an offer we... we can't refuse...

 

Father love do you work, do you work for Mother
Chances could call, and accept that, be no other
Science as it might, disappear correspond with colour
Chance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brother

 

Call for total wealth to distribute like a picture
In black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit you
Spoil our existence by extreme gift to population

 

Father love do you work, do you work for Mother
Tell me straight be the Godfather be no other
Media Kings give us now give us total movie
Straight right now, give it clear, give us total movie
Now being here, being now, being here believing

 

I don't know which words to put in there sweetheart, you know, I can't do it. Pretty kind of useless, though, don't you think so Mary?

 

Come with me to the far lands of Baghdad.

 

Oh, if only I could. That's what I want more than anything in the world, but it could never be...

 

Of course it can...

 

But my father would find us wherever we went. Yes, he has forbidden me to... to even speak to you, if he finds me now. I don't know what he'd do...

 

But he doesn't know that I'm... I'm a prince. Before, I was the thief of Baghdad now...

 

It doesn't matter...

 

Then follow me, darling, follow me now to the ends of the Earth

 

One on one to talk to you
Like film stars they get close to you
You've mirrored his appeal
He wants you so, he wants to be beside you
Then you pass by giving him the other side of you
Like the mystics do
So that every time he moves, he moves for you

 

Soul and light can always see
The meeting of true love and she
This silent night and I,
I guess a lonely mind might see
I've seen love on the screen
I've seen a screen goddesss and me-oh

 

How often this, how often, this the power of you
And so, I must confess
Whatever I see
I'm meant to be there with you
With you with you

 

Silent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long ago
My younger ways stand clearer, clearer than my footprints
Stardom greats I've followed closely Closer than the nearest heartbeat
Longer that expected, they were great-

 

Oh love oh love just to see them
Acting on the silver screen, oh my
Clark Gable, Fairbanks, Maureen O'Sullivan
Fantasy would fill my life and I
Love fantasy so much

 

Did you see in the morning light
I really talked, yes I did, to God's early dawning light
And I was privileged to be, as I am to this day
To be with you, to be with you

To be with you, to be with you

To be with you

 

Listen. I have arranged this display for... for all of you people to... to come here this evening and I... I know you have been searched, but, what you... you don't realize is, is that in the back of the Maltese Falcon, I have it ...

[Greywind]

 

We're not indestructible
Baby, better get that straight
I think it's unbelievable
How you give into the hands of fate

 

Some things are worth fighting for
Some feelings never die
I'm not askin' for another chance
I just wanna know why

 

There's no easy way out
There's no shortcut home
There's no easy way out
Givin' in can't be wrong

 

I don't wanna pacify you
I don't wanna drag you down
But I'm feelin' like a prisoner
Like a stranger in a no named town

 

I see all the angry faces
Afraid that could be you and me
Talkin' about what might have been
I'm thinkin' about what it used to be

 

There's no easy way out
There's no shortcut home
There's no easy way out
Givin' in can't be wrong

 

Baby, baby, we can shed this skin
We can know how we feel inside
Instead of goin' down an endless road
Not knowin' if we're dead or alive

 

Some things are worth fightin' for
Some feelings never die
I'm not askin' for another chance
I just wanna know why

 

There's no easy way out
There's no shortcut home
There's no easy way out
Givin' in, givin' in can't be wrong, no

 

There's no easy way out
(There's no easy way out)
There's no shortcut home
(There's no shortcut home)
There's no easy way out
(There's no easy, no easy, no easy way out)
There's no easy way out
(There's no easy way out)
There's no shortcut home
(There's no shortcut home)
There's no easy way out
(There's no easy, no easy, no easy way out)
There's no easy way out
There's no shortcut home
There's no easy way out

 

[Greywind]

 

Some dreams are in the night time
And some seem like yesterday
But leaves turn brown and fade
Ships sail away
You long to say a thousand words
But seasons change

 

It feels like it's forever
No reason for emptiness
But time just runs away
No more day by day
You dream again it seems in vain
When seasons change

 

I want you
I want to feel you by my side
I need you
Don't you know I need you baby

 

Seasons change feelings change
It's been so long since I found you
Yet it seems like yesterday
Seasons change people change
I'll sacrifice tomorrow
Just to have you here today

 

For ever seems so far away
There's time for love and for play
You dream about today
Feeling slips away
The winds that blow they go away
And seasons change

 

I want you
Don't hide your feelings from inside
I need you
I've got to have your love now baby

 

Seasons change feelings change
It's been so long since I found you
Yet it seems like yesterday
Seasons change people change

 

I want you
I want to feel you by my side
I need you
I've got to have your love now baby

 

Seasons change feelings change
It's been so long since I found you
Yet it seems like yesterday
Seasons change people change
I'll sacrifice tomorrow
Just to have you here today
Just to have you here today

 

Seasons change feelings change
It's been so long since I found you
Yet it seems like yesterday
Seasons change people change
Change the season

 

[Greywind]

 

Oooooh (Ooh ooh)

 

Debonair lullabies
In melodies revealed
In deep despair on lonely nights
He knows just how you feel
The slyest rhymes, the sharpest suits
In miracles made real

 

Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right, makes it out of sight
And everything's good in the world tonight

 

When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything
As she's packing her things
As she's spreading her wings
The front door might slam
But the back door it rings
And Smokey sings, he sings

 

Elegance in eloquence
For sale or rent or hire
Should I say yes and match his best?
Then I would be a liar
Symphonies that soothe the rage
When lovers' hearts catch fire

 

Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right, makes it out of sight
And everything's good in the world tonight

 

When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything yeah
As she's packing her things
As she's spreading her wings
Smashing the hell
With the heaven she brings
Then Smokey sings, he sings

 

Luther croons
Sly's the original originator
James screams uh-uh
Marvin was the only innovator
(Innovator)
But nothing can compare
Nothing can compare
When Smokey sings
(Sings)

 

When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything
As she's packing her things
(Ooh ooh)
As she's spreading her wings
(Ooh ooh)
She threw back the ring
(Ooh ooh)
When Smokey sings
Smokey sings
(Smokey sings)
Smokey sings
(Smokey sings)

 

[Pariah]

You've got the look, they'll never forget
You want to be noticed, but they haven't noticed yet

 

When the time is right, a star on your door
Taking you places that you've never been before
Where did you go?

 

Go to sleep tonight and dream about it till the morning
Appearing for the very first time

On the screen tonight
And when you want to, they treat you like a Prima Donna

 

You're a movie queen, familiar face
Prettiest woman in the whole of the human race

 

You're gonna be famous, you want to go far
Name up in lights, everybody knows who you are
On with the show

 

How will it feel being number one
Hard to imagine but I can't blame you for tryin'
How will it feel havin' so much fun
Hard to imagine but it's so electrifying

 

Go to sleep tonight and dream about it till the morning
Appearing for the very first time

On the screen tonight
And when you want to, they treat you like a Prima Donna

[Pariah]

Where was I? I forgot
The point that I was making
I said if I was smart that I would
Save up for a piece of string
And a rock to wind the string around

 

Everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around
Everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

 

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down

 

They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around
But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

 

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down

 

They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around
But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

 

If I were a carpenter I'd
Hammer on my piglet, I'd
Collect the seven dollars and I'd
Buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head

 

Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads
Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads

 

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down

 

They want to stop the ones who want
Prosthetic foreheads on their heads
But everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads

 

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the foreheads down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around

 

But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

[Greywind]

 

I was thinking about her, visiting the past
Reconstructing details with old photographs
I was studying the faces with an objective point of view
Suddenly remembering doesn't haunt me
I'll follow the sun
And now the time has come, and so, my love, I must go
And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know oh
One day you'll find that I have gone
But tomorrow might rain so I'll follow the sun
All the time you couldn't tell me that one day I'd be glad
That something that I thought was love was misinterpreted
But they were doing me a favor, a blessing in disguise
If she would've been faithful, if she could have been true
Then I would've been cheated, I would never know real love
I would've missed out on you
I watch you sleeping, your body touching me
There's no doubt about it, this is where I want to be
You know it's so ironic, I had to lose to win
I want to thank her, if she would've been faithful
If she could have been true
Then I would've been cheated, I would never know real love
I would've missed out on you
It's a paradox full of contradiction, how I got from there to here
It defies a logical explanation
If she would've been faithful, if she could have been true
Then I would've been cheated, I would never know real love
I would've missed out on you
If she would've been faithful, if she could have been true
Then I would've been cheated, I would never know real love
I would've missed out on you

 

[Pariah]

I can see reflections
Drifting into space
Always through a mirror
Never face to face

 

I ask another question
The words disintegrate
The absence of presence fills the air
I know you're here but you're not really there

 

Blinding bright projections
Crash against the wall
I can't get your attention
No matter how loudly I call

 

Reaching for connection
To break the silent stare
The absence of presence fills the air
I know you're here but you're not really there

 

Imagine we broke through
The noise of our creation
And found the missing pieces
This moment kept alive
In suspended animation
And finally completed

 

I can hear the echoes
As they reverberate
I turn to chase the sound again
But I'm just a step too late

 

I can still remember
The way it resonates

The presence of absence disappears
I know you're there but you're not really here

[Pariah]

Not too many gathered
On this rainy afternoon
Some cried this old gardener
They'll forget by the new moon
Hated by most,
Those he loved were few

 

And what have you done with your life?
Asked the old man at the door
With who did you share all your love?
All your love

 

They walked in a hall
And stood in the center
Mirror covered walls
Where his whole life was played through

 

I guess I have wasted my life
Realised the old gardener
I've never loved anyone
In my life (In my life)
In my life (In my life)
In my life

 

He cried alone for days
They could feel the coldness from his heart
Chilling them away

So they took him back home
In a field enlightened by a sun
From a near future

And he stood still in the wind
Amazed by the beauty of a Tree
Of a tree

 

Young lovers' first kiss immortalised
Thanks to you
And the birds have a home to sleep at night
Because of you

Children dancing around
And their laughter sings in Heaven
Thanks to you

 

Have you seen their eyes?
The joy on a summer day
Memories will never fade away
You have touched their lives
No one could ever say
But there lives the meaning of your passage yesterday
Have you seen their eyes?

 

Have you seen their eyes?
The joy on a summer day
Memories will never fade away
You have touched their lives
Touched in so many ways
For there lives the reason of your passage yesterday...

[Pariah]

My mama told me when I was hatched
Act like a superstar
Save your allowance, buy a bubble dress
And someday you will go far

 

Now on red carpets, well, I'm hard to miss
The press follows everywhere I go
I'll poke your eye out with a dress like this
Back off and enjoy the show!

 

I'm sure my critics will say it's a grotesque display
Well they can bite me, baby, I perform this way
I might be wearin' Swiss cheese or maybe covered with bees
It doesn't mean I'm crazy, I perform this way ('from this way)

 

Ooh, my little monsters pay lots 'cause I perform this way
Baby, I perform this way (perform this way)
Ooh, don't worry, I'm okay, hey, I just perform this way
I'm not crazy, I perform this way

 

I'll be a troll or evil queen
I'll be a human jelly bean
'Cause every day is Halloween for me

 

I'm so completely original
My new look is all the rage
I'll wrap my small intestines 'round my neck
And set fire to myself on stage

 

I'll wear a porcupine on my head
On a W-H-I-M
And for no reason now I'll sing in French
Excusez-moi, qui a PT (express yourself)

 

Got my straight jacket today, its made of gold lamé
No, not because I'm crazy, I perform this way
I strap prime rib to my feet, cover myself with raw meat
I'll bet you've never seen a skirt steak worn this way

 

Don't be offended when you see
My latest pop monstrosity
I'm strange, weird, shocking, odd, bizarre
I'm Frankenstein, I'm Avatar

 

There's nothing too embarrassing
I'll honestly do anything
But wear white after Labor Day
'Cause baby, I perform this way

 

Hope you won't think it's cliche if I go nude today
Don't call the cops, now, baby, I perform this way
No reason I should regret all the attention I get
I'm not completely crazy, I perform this way, yeah

 

I perform this way-hey, I perform this way-hey
I'm always deviating from the norm this way-hey
I perform this way-hey, I perform this way-hey
I'm really not insane, I just perform this way-hey

[Pariah]

I was drifting for days
Where the sun don't shine
While the night is young
I might clock a little overtime

 

I'll work until dawn
Awaken with the setting sun
And I'll tether my blimp
Wherever there's a party on

 

And if you roll with it
You can ride the Spice Train
When it boils down to it
You could hold the world

In the palm of your hand

 

One big bazzar
The other's like a garage sale
And I'm pitching my stall
To cater to the infidels

 

I'm shifting my shape
And morphing into Spider-Man
And I'll tether my blimp
Wherever there's a party on

 

And if you roll with it
You can ride the Spice Train
When it boils down to it
You can hold the world

In the palm of your hand

 

And the beat goes on
From Bahrain to Brixton
From Beirut to Bruges
From Beijing to Boston

 

And if you roll with it
You can ride the Spice Train
When it comes down to it
You would trade it all

For one night in her arms

 

One big bazaar
The other's like a garage sale
And I peddle my wares
Wherever there's a floor to fill

 

And if you roll with it
You can ride the Spice Train
When it comes down to it
You would trade it all

For one night in her arms

 

Still the beat goes on
From Bahrain to Brixton
From Beirut to Bruges
From Beijing to Boston

 

Still the beat goes on
Still the beat goes on

[Ternaugh]

On 5/17/2021 at 1:22 PM, death tribble said:

I have never heard of Tony Banks, Jimmy Buffet, Jonathan Coulton and Quarterflash.

There are only a couple of tracks by Kansas, Toto and C W McCall which made radio play in Britain whereas I don't expect Americans to know Mud, Slade and T Rex for example.

 

 

Tony Banks was the keyboard player for a small English band known as Genesis.

Jimmy Buffet is known for "Margaritaville", and a chain of restaurants bearing that name.

Jonathan Coulton wrote the song, "Still Alive" from the video game, Portal. He also has a vast number of folk/comedy songs.

Quarterflash is an American band best known for "Harden My Heart", which got a lot of play back in the day on MTV and various Top-40 radio outlets here in the States.

 

I can't say that I've listened to Mud.

Slade is known in the States mainly through the band, Quiet Riot, which performed many of their songs as covers.

T Rex is considered something of a one-hit wonder here in the US, for "Get It On (Bang a Gong)", which was later covered by The Power Station. They are name-dropped in the lyrics to "You Better You Bet" by the Who.

 

 

 

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Oh, it's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
And you know it's hard to pretend

 

Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend
Oh no, it's raining again
Oh will my heart ever mend

 

You're old enough some people say
To read the signs and walk away
It's only time that heals the pain
And makes the sun come out again

 

It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend

 

Na na na na na na
Na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na

 

Come on you little fighter
No need to get uptighter
Come on you little fighter
And get back up again

 

It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend

 

Na na na na na na
Na na
Na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na

 

Come on you little fighter
No need to get uptighter
Come on you little fighter
And get back up again
Oh, get back up again
Oh, fill your heart again

 

It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed and bumped his head
And he couldn't get up in the morning