Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Pariah]

On the corner of Government and Bay Avenue
The old doomsday fanatic wore a crown of kudzu
Sirens where wailing in the gulf coastal heat
And it seemed like the whole world was in forced retreat

 

I paid no attention, revolved through the door
Passed the newspaper rack on the worn marble floor
Near civil war history my heart skipped a beat
She was standing on fiction stretched high on bare feet

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

 

I was the pirate and she was the queen
Sir Francis and Elizabeth the best there's ever been
Then she strolled past my table and stopped at the stairs
Then sent me a smile as she reached for Flaubert

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

 

She gathered her books, walked while she read
Words never spoken but so much was said
You can read all you want into this rendezvous
But it's safer than most things that lovers can do

 

Well stories have endings and fantasies fade
The guard by the door starts drawing the shade
So write your own ending and hope they come true
For the lovers and strangers on Bay Avenue

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

[Greywind]

Another day in the city
Another dancer to the music
But lately, all the music sounds so strange
Well some songs have no meaning
And some songs try to hard
Tryin' to say it all and end up sayin' nothin'

 

Well maybe the words ring true
What's right for them maybe wrong for you
So come out of the jungle
Of another man's dreams
And if you come to a clearing
As lonely as it seems
It's never too late to breakaway to breakaway

 

Another day lost in livin'
And another same old beginning
And knowing where and why we went wrong
Someone says I've changed
And someone says that I've remained in the same place
For maybe just a little too long

 

Well maybe the words ring true
What's right for them maybe wrong for you
So come out of the jungle
Of another man's dreams
And if you come to a clearing
As lonely as it seems
It's never too late to breakaway
It's never too late to breakaway

 

Maybe the words ring true
What's right for them maybe wrong for you
So come out of the jungle
Of another man's dreams
And if you come to a clearing
As lonely as it seems
It's never too late to breakaway oh no
It's never too late to breakaway
To breakaway, to breakaway, to breakaway

[Tjack]

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

On the corner of Government and Bay Avenue
The old doomsday fanatic wore a crown of kudzu
Sirens where wailing in the gulf coastal heat
And it seemed like the whole world was in forced retreat

 

I paid no attention, revolved through the door
Passed the newspaper rack on the worn marble floor
Near civil war history my heart skipped a beat
She was standing on fiction stretched high on bare feet

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

 

I was the pirate and she was the queen
Sir Francis and Elizabeth the best there's ever been
Then she strolled past my table and stopped at the stairs
Then sent me a smile as she reached for Flaubert

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

 

She gathered her books, walked while she read
Words never spoken but so much was said
You can read all you want into this rendezvous
But it's safer than most things that lovers can do

 

Well stories have endings and fantasies fade
The guard by the door starts drawing the shade
So write your own ending and hope they come true
For the lovers and strangers on Bay Avenue

 

Love in the library, quiet and cool
Love in the library, there are no rules
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library once upon a time

     I love me some Buffett.   Vastly underestimated as a songwriter of wonderful imagery.

[Pariah]

17 minutes ago, Tjack said:

     I love me some Buffett.   Vastly underestimated as a songwriter of wonderful imagery.

 

My Mom was a hardcore Parrothead, so I grew up listening to Jimmy Buffett. "Love In the Library" is one of my favorites.

[death tribble]

Rain falling down
Another minute passes by
I'll wait for you
But this time I won't cry
Where are you now ?
Are you with another love ?
It's not the first time
You stood me up and let me down

I, I, I'm wondering why
I still love you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still want you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi

Lights about town
Expect me just to hang around
And you never call
You just stand me up and let me down

I, I, I'm wondering why
I still love you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still want you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
(I, I, I, I)

All through the night
I wanted you to come around
I wait too long
I know you're gonna let me down

I, I, I'm wondering why
I still love you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still want you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still love you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still want you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi
I still love you
Je ne sais pas pourquoi

[Tjack]

1 hour ago, Pariah said:

 

My Mom was a hardcore Parrothead, so I grew up listening to Jimmy Buffett. "Love In the Library" is one of my favorites.

    Have you ever read any of his novels?   Or even better was “A Pirate Looks at Fifty”.  A travelogue of his year long flying trip around the Caribbean Islands to celebrate his fiftieth birthday mixed with the stories of his life.   One of the favorite books of my life.

[Pariah]

I think I read "Where Is Joe Merchant?" back in the day, though I don't really remember it. 

[Clonus]

Keep your eyes all on me, for what you’re gonna see, 

Will redefine the height of attraction 

I’m a distraction, and I’m ready for action 

So the world’s gonna blow,

stop complaining and go to the show. 

There’s explosions in the sky,

and the neighborhood is fried, 

But you don’t have join them in all the fuss, 

Act like nothing’s going wrong,

and just keep playing my song 

Until there’s nothing left around here but us. 

 

we're a distraction!

[Greywind]

Did the best I could to make you mine
If you ever felt anything for me
Well, you never gave a sign

 

Thought time would make you change
Make you want me but baby I never had a chance
Now, I know that there's just some things
Just not meant to be

 

No use makin' you care about me
No way that I'm gonna win
Oh darlin', I might as well be chasin' the wind
Oh, I'm just chasin' the wind

 

Open up my heart, let you inside
If love was what you we're lookin' for
Well, I guess it wasn't mine

 

So I guess I better go, it's over and done
But you know I'm not really sad at all
'Cause you can't really say it's over
When it never had begun

 

No use makin' you care about me
No way that I'm gonna win
Oh darlin', I might as well be chasin' the wind
Oh, I'm just chasin' the wind

 

Can't reach the sea if you can't get past the sand
Can't touch the sky if you can't reach up your hand
Can't give if you give nothin' back

 

No use makin' you care about me
No way that I'm gonna win
Oh darlin', I might as well be chasin' the wind

 

Makin' you care about me
No way that I'm gonna win
Oh darlin', I might as well be chasin' the wind

 

Oh, I'm just chasin' the wind
Oh, I'm just chasin' the wind

[death tribble]

M’extraire du cadre

Ma vie suspendue

Je rêvais mieux

Je voyais l’âtre

Tous ces inconnus

Toi parmi eux

 

Toile

Fibre qui suinte

Les meurtrissures

Tu voyais l’âme

Mais j’ai vu ta main

Choisir Gauguin

 

Et je te rends ton amour

Redeviens les contours

Je te rends ton amour

C’est mon dernier recours

Je te rends ton amour

Au moins pour toujours

Redeviens les contours

La femme nue debout

 

M’extraire du cadre

La vie étriquée

D’une écorchée

J’ai cru la fable

D’un mortel aimé

Tu m’as trompée

 

Toi

Tu m’as laissé

Me compromettre

Je serai l’Unique

Pour des milliers d’yeux

un nu de maître

 

Et je te rends ton amour

Au moins pour toujours

Je te rends ton amour

Le mien est trop lourd

Et je te rends ton amour

C’est plus flagrant le jour

Ses couleurs se sont diluées

Et je reprends mon amour

Redeviens les contours

De mon seul maître : Egon Schiele et...

[Michael Hopcroft]

The glamour boys swear they are a diva
The glamour boys have it all under control
Always dancing and always laughing
The glamour boys are playing the role
The glamour boys never have no money
The glamour boys wear the most expensive clothes
The glamour boys are always at the party
Where the money comes from heaven only knows
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy

 

The glamour boys live off their ambition
The glamour boys have it all figured out
A very, very dubious position when you got no clout
The glamour boys whole life is a gamble
They might get over or fall flat on their face
But if one does, there's no need to worry
Another g-boy will take his place
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy

 

The glamour boys don't think about tomorrow
The glamour boys just need tonight to play
But just like things you can't afford on credit time catches up and you have to pay
The glamour boys are always on the guest list
You'll always find them in the hottest spots in town
They'll be your friend if you have fame or fortune
If you don't they won't be hanging 'round
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy
I ain't no glamour boy, I'm fierce
I ain't no glamour boy, no, no

 

[HEY, what do you mean; my credit is no good?]

[Greywind]

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do
I've got everything
You could think of
But all I want
Is someone to love

 

Someone, yes, someone to love
Someone to kiss
Someone to hold
At a moment like this
I'd like to hear
Somebody say
"I'll give you my love
Each night and day"

 

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do
I've got everything
You could think of
But all I want
Is someone to love

 

Somebody, somebody, somebody, please
Send her to me
I'll make her happy
Just wait and see
I've prayed so hard
To the heavens above
That I might find
Someone to love

 

I'm just a lonely boy
Lonely and blue
I'm all alone
With nothin' to do

[death tribble]

Loin très loin du monde

Où rien ne meurt jamais

J'ai fait ce long

Ce doux voyage

Nos âmes se confondent

Aux neiges éternelles

L'amour cachait

Son vrai visage

 

Oh viens ne sois plus sage

Après tout qu'importe

Je sais la menace

Des amours mortes

Gardons l'innocence

Et l'insouciance

De nos jeux d'antan

Troublants

 

N'aie pas de regrets

Fais-moi confiance et pense

À tous les no way

L'indifférence des sens

N'aie pas de regrets

Fais la promesse, tu sais que

L'hiver et l'automne n'ont pu s'aimer

 

Debout la tête ivre

Des rêves suspendus

Je bois à nos amours infirmes

Au vent que je devine

Nos lèvres éperdues

S'offrent des noces clandestines

 

N'ouvre pas la porte

Tu sais le piège

De tous les remords,

De l'anathème

Je me fous des saisons

Viens, je t'emmène

Là où dorment ceux qui s'aiment

 

N'aie pas de regrets

(Viens ce soir, viens me voir)

Fais-moi confiance et pense

À tous les no way

(Viens t'asseoir près de moi)

L'indifférence des sens

N'aie pas de regrets

(L'aube est là, reste là)

Fais la promesse, tu sais que

(Je te promets d'être là pour l'éternité)

L'hiver et l'automne n'ont pu s'aimer

 

N'aie pas de regrets

(Viens ce soir, viens me voir)

Fais-moi confiance et pense

À tous les no way

(Viens t'asseoir près de moi)

L'indifférence des sens

N'aie pas de regrets

(L'aube est là, reste là)

Fais la promesse, tu sais que

(Je te promets d'être là pour l'éternité)

L'hiver et l'automne n'ont pu s'aimer

 

N'aie pas de regrets

(Viens ce soir, viens me voir)

Fais-moi confiance et pense

À tous les no way

(Viens t'asseoir près de moi)

L'indifférence des sens

N'aie pas de regrets

(L'aube est là, reste là)

Fais la promesse, tu sais que

(Je te promets d'être là pour l'éternité)

L'hiver et l'automne n'ont pu s'aimer

[Greywind]

Red, red wine
Go to my head
Make me forget that I
Still need her so

Red, red wine
It's up to you
All I can do, I've done
But memories won't go
No, memories won't go

I'd have sworn that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, and I find
Just one thing makes me forget

Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

I'd have sworn that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, and I find
Just one thing makes me forget

Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

 

[death tribble]

Triste elle est prête à tout

Pour rien, pour tout

Dans la ronde des fous elle pleure tout doux

L’amour a tué les mots qui la touchent

Touchent

Contre ta bouche elle veut qu’on la couche

 

Triste elle fait la grimace

Devant sa glace

D’un coup du cœur enlace l’ombre qui passe

Et rien jamais n’effacera les traces, lâches

Du sang qui coule des corps qui se cassent

 

Adieu Tristana

Ton cœur a pris froid

Adieu Tristana

Dieu baisse les bras

Laissez-la partir

Laissez-la mourir

Ne le dites pas

Tristana, c’est moi !

 

Triste sort Tristana

Tu sais, crois-moi

Trois petits tours, elle s’en va

La vie comme ça

Les plus beaux jours s’achèvent dans la peine,

Haine

Pourquoi faut-il payer de ses veines

[Pariah]

Summer of '43
The man's gunnin' for me
Blue and white mean war tonight
Say damn my pride
And all the other cats livin' down eastside
Or maybe just my brim's too wide

 

Ooh, Marie
You better grab my jack and zip gun for me
And I'll face no shame
'Cause tonight's the night I die for our name

 

Well, I'd like to be swingin'
Dancin' and swingin'
Just havin' a time
Free to do whatever
Now more than ever
I've gotta stick with that gang of mine

[death tribble]

Late at night in summer heat

Expensive car and empty street

There's a wire in my jacket

For this is my trade

It only takes a moment

Don't be afraid

 

I can hotwire an ignition

Like some kind of star

I'm just a poor boy

In a rich man's car

Et le moteur s'allume enfin

Nos vies s'enlacent

And we drive into the night

 

Oh le cuir doux s'emmêle

Affole ton imagination

Je te vois déjà

Dans une autre situation

Tu es company director

Une vie de famille

J'ai ce feeling qu il y a

Bien plus des choses à dire

 

There's some kind of complication

Il lui dit he's alone

Spends the night with his lover,

Il y a des traces of her cologne

Tous les mots de sa maitresse

À l'oreille et sans détour

Comme une chanson d'amour

 

Please take me dancing tonight

I've been all on my own

Les promesses d'un jour, d'un soir

Je les entends comme un psaume

I'm just a prisoner of love

Prisonnière de mes failles

Take me dancing

Please take me dancing tonight

 

Imagine ta femme

Sa vie glisse entre ses doigts

Il y a une règle

Être chasseur ou bien la proie

Il lui dira je rentre tard

Ses affaires, partira à Rome

But there's more than a suspicion

In this lingering cologne

Et les enfants feront la tête

As she runs a traffic light

And she drives into the night

 

Please take me dancing tonight

I've been all on my own

Les promesses d'un jour, d'un soir

Je les entends comme un psaume

I'm just a prisoner of love

Prisonnière de mes failles

Take me dancing

Please take me dancing tonight

[Pariah]

Well there's this dance, you ought to know
It's a little somethin' I made up cats
To keep your heads low
See there are lots of sore gangsters
Packin' iron all day
So you learn my two step, stay out of their way

Zip gun, zip gun bop
Ya better learn to do it before your poor heart stops now
Zip gun, zip gun bop

Well there's flat-foot Louie
Sittin' on his front stoop
He caught five rounds in the belly
He looked like a messed-up bowl of minestrone soup
Now you take that cat Mugs
Well, he got iced the other day
He could have saved his mama the dry cleanin' bill my way

Zip gun, zip gun bop
Ya better learn to do it before your poor heart stops
Zip gun, zip gun bop

[Pariah]

In a line at the cafe
I overheard the waitress say
"These cats is broke, I knows 'em
Throw 'em out the doors and close 'em
(Get 'em outta here)"

 

Spirits sagging, funds are low
This occupation's got to go
Up pulls the limo, up goes the thrill
The suits are picking up the bill

 

It's alright for them to tag along
It's just one bill they're tacking on
I'll find some way to get along

The business suits to the rescue
So nice doing business with you

 

We will really ape and clown
When we realize the dough they're shelling out
For the deal
The suits are picking up
The suits are picking up the bill

[Pariah]

I'm a mover, a shaker; like Mack the Knife

I can take your last dollar with a throw of the dice
I've got a gift for winning from heaven above
But I'm just a baby in this business of love

 

I'm a smooth operator in all affairs
Sophisticated, debonair
I've got all kinds of fancy stuff
but I'm just a baby in this business of love

 

I'm just a baby
Nobody ever spanked me
Somebody save me
I'm just a baby in this business of love

In pursuit of satisfaction, I started young
I never looked back at the things that I've done
I turned my knack for pleasure into an art
but nothing can save you from your own heart

I'm just a baby
Nobody ever spanked me
Somebody save me
I'm just a baby in this business of love

 

I was right smack-dab at the top of my game
"I Thank Them All" was my middle name
There's just one little thing I never knew
I got a whole lot of nothin' if I ain't got you

 

I'm just a baby
Nobody ever spanked me
Somebody save me
I'm just a baby in this business of love

[Greywind]

Son of a gun

 

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror, as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner and

 

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you

You're so vain (you're so vain)

I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair and that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffee and
You're so vain

 

You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain (you're so vain)

 

I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you don't you?
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffee and

 

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you

 

You're so vain (you're so vain)
I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you?

 

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun

 

Well you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend wife of a close friend and

 

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain (so vain)
I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you don't you?

 

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
Probably think this song about you
You're so vain

[death tribble]

Allongé, le corps est mort

Pour des milliers

C'est un homme qui dort...

À moitié pleine est l'amphore

C'est à moitié vide

Qu'on la voit sans effort

Voir la vie, son côté pile

Ô philosophie

Dis-moi des élégies

Le bonheur

Lui me fait peur

D'avoir tant d'envies

Et j'ai un souffle au cœur

Aussi

 

C'est une belle journée

Je vais me coucher

Une si belle journée

Qui s'achève

Donne l'envie d'aimer

Mais je vais me coucher

Mordre l'éternité

À dents pleines

C'est une belle journée

Je vais me coucher

Une si belle journée

Souveraine

Donne l'envie de paix

Voir des anges à mes pieds

Mais je vais me coucher

Me faire la belle

 

Allongé, le corps est mort

Pour des milliers

C'est un homme qui dort...

À moitié pleine est l'amphore

C'est à moitié vide

Que je la vois encore

Tout est dit puisqu'en amour

Si c'est du lourd

Si le cœur léger

Des élégies toujours

Les plaisirs, les longs, les courts

Vois-tu, mon amour

Moi, j'ai le souffle court

Vois-tu

 

Belle

La vie est belle

Comme une aile

Qu'on ne doit froisser

Belle

La vie est belle

Mais je vais là

Belle

La vie est belle

Mais la mienne

Un monde emporté

Elle, j'entre en elle

Et mortelle, va

 

C'est une belle journée

Je vais me coucher

Une si belle journée

Qui s'achève

Donne l'envie d'aimer

Mais je vais me coucher

Mordre l'éternité

À dents pleines

C'est une belle journée

Je vais me coucher

Une si belle journée

Souveraine

Donne l'envie de paix

Voir des anges à mes pieds

Là, je vais me coucher

Me faire la belle

[Greywind]

Gloom, despair, and agony on me

Deep, dark depression, excessive misery

If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all

Gloom, despair, and agony on me

 

We figured she was rich, loaded to the hilt

And we figured she had class like the Vanderbilts

'Cause we had heard for years how she was so well reared

How was we to know they meant the way she was built

 

Gloom, despair, and agony on me

Deep, dark depression, excessive misery

If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all

Gloom, despair, and agony on me

[Pariah]

Every town
Has its ups and downs
Sometime ups
Outnumber the downs
But not in Nottingham

 

I'm inclined to believe
If we weren't so down
We'd up and leave

 

We'd up and fly if we had wings for flyin'
Can't you see the tears we're cryin'?
Can't there be some happiness for me?

Not in Nottingham

[death tribble]

It's beyond my control

 

Je ne comprends plus pourquoi

J'ai du sang sur mes doigts

Il faut que je te rassure

Je soignerai bien tes blessures, mon amour

 

Tu n'as plus vraiment le choix

Nos deux corps étendus, là

Qu'à l'aube ils se mélangent

Là tu as les yeux d'un ange, mon amour

 

Lâche !

It's beyond my control

C'est plus fort que... Toi

Toujours en cavale

It's beyond my control

Tu dis : J'ai besoin de... Tes bras

Oh lâche !

It's beyond my control

Mais c'est plus fort que... Toi

Tu nous fais du mal

It's beyond my control

 

Ne t'éloigne pas de mes... Bras

 

Je ne comprends plus pourquoi

J'ai du sang sur mes doigts

Dors en paix je t'assure

Je veillerai ta sépulture, mon amour

 

C'était plus fort que moi

Même si je sens là l'effroi

Envahir tout mon être

Je te rejoindrai peut-être, mon amour