DELBERT MCCLINTON lyrics - I Can't Quit You

I quit drinkin' I quit smokin'

I quit lyin' and I quit jokin'

I quit some things I really ought to do

I quit teasin' I quit cheatin'

I quit all my Midnight creepin'

But I can't quit you



I quit hurtin' I quit hatin'

I quit foolin' and I quit wastin'

I quit some things I really ought to do

I quit fussin' and I quit cussin'

I quit everything disgustin'

But I can't quit you



I tried and I tried, I cried and I cried

But nothin' seems to work

Instead of things gettin' better

I swear they're gettin' worse



I quit rollin' and I quit rockin'

I quit everything that's shockin'

But I can't quit you.



I quit hurtin' I quit hatin'

I quit foolin' and I quit wastin'



I quit some things I really ought to do

I quit fussin' and I quit cussin'

I quit everything disgustin'

But I can't quit you



I tried and I tried, I cried and I cried

But nothin' seems to work

Instead of things gettin' better

I swear they're gettin' worse



I quit rollin' and I quit rockin'

I quit everything that's shockin'

But I can't quit you

But I can't quit you

J. J. CALE lyrics - Mona

(J. J. Cale)



Mona she comes in the morning

She brings me a bottle of wine

She comes to my bed soothes up my head

Makes me feel alright

Makes me feel alright

Mona she comes on a friday

She stays into the night

Mona she comes to my bedroom

To keep my spirits high

To keep my spirits high

Mona she brings me no money

She brings me no food

All she brings is her sweet sweet love

Makes my afternoon

Makes my afternoon

When daylight falls from my window

Another night's come and gone

I always know 'cause I'm feeling so low

Mona you know she has gone

Mona you know she has gone

When daylight falls from my window

Another night's come and gone

I always know 'cause I'm feeling so low

Mona you know she has gone

Mona you know she has gone

NANCI GRIFFITH lyrics - Hometown Streets

(Words By Nanci Griffith, Music By Nanci Griffith & James Hooker)



Everybody packs their goals

And sails away for better shores

I have seen times

My sails have held a brilliant shine

I hear tell that dreams come true

Along these crowded avenues

But, my peace of mind

Is a place I go when I close my eyes



[Chorus:]

I need a hometown street where the boys are pretty

And a friend is still a friend

I need a hometown street where the love you're given

Surely comes back 'round again



Hometown streets are paved in gold

With faces that you've always known

But, you'll never see them

Until you pack your dreams and leave them

The one I loved has moved away

It's hot in this city

Hey, it's always late

Here in this place

Love doesn't get the time of day



[Chorus]



Bridge:

I can't remember

What I came here for

I'm gonna pull up my anchor

And sail for shore



[Chorus]

STING lyrics - Desert Rose

I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand



I dream of fire

These dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire

And in the flames

Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire



This desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this



And as she turns

This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams

This fire burns

I realize that nothing's as it seems



I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand



I dream of rain

I lift my gaze to empty skies above

I close my eyes

This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her love



I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand



Sweet desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this



Sweet desert rose

This memory of Eden haunts us all

This desert flower

This rare perfume, is the sweet intoxication of her love

SHELBY LYNNE lyrics - Till You Were Gone

(Rory Bourke - Mike Reid)



Every day why I don't know

When I pass your house I drive real slow

It's out of my way it's crazy for sure

Cause you do not live in that house anymore



Every night right about now

I grow uneasy kind of restless somehow

It starts out like thunder on a slow steady roll

Then I hit the floor half out of control



Baby I wonder if you look the same

Do you have children what are their names

Does the one that you're with need you all night long

Like I never did until you were gone



I can recall that night at your place

The hurt in your eyes the tears on your face

Would you take comfort if now you could see

How life without you is torture for me



Baby I wonder if you look the same...

THE PRETENDERS lyrics - No Guarantee

No guarantee

Is what i'm getting today

Appetite's so rampant

And they're demanding money

Everybody wants a good time

Yeah-yeah-yeah

And wild terms to agree

No credit taken

Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

No guarantee



No guarantee

When we kiss

Your lips are tempting

Well baby listen to this

Gotta have some action

Yeah-yeah-yeah

You know i got to be free

Contracts are binding

Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

No guarantee



Guarantee my baby

Guarantee my love



Guarantee me for a month of good sundays

Promise me every single one'll be fun-days

Give me a dime for every party revolution

Launder my debts in paragorical solution

Even the boss has been slandered and slagged

Now he's sitting in the alley

With a bottle in a paper bag



No guarantee

When we play

Turn the house lights up bob

- fellas look over dey!

This hall is empty

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Up to 17b

But what's depressing

Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

No guarantee



Guarantee me

Guarantee baby

Guarantee my love

Oh guarantee when you're coming in me

You got a rubber on baby

Guarantee when i love you for free

I`m gonna pay one day

Oh guarantee

When you sock it to me

When you punch it to me

When you hook it to me

When you knock it to me

When you talk it to me

You guarantee my love

Oh!

LOS LOBOS lyrics - La Bamba (Version 2)

(Traditional - new lyrics by E. Rodriguez/G. Gitierrez)



Para bailar La Bamba

Para bailar La Bamba

Se necesita

Unos pies ligeritos

Unos pies ligeritos

Y otra cosita

Ariba, ariba

Ay ariba, ariba

Venga la luz

Asi cantan La Bamba

Asi cantan La Bamba

En veracruz

En veracruz

En veracruz



Para subir al cielo

Para subir al cielo

Se necesita

Un dirigible grande

Un dirigible grande

Y otra cosita

Ariba, ariba

Ariba, ariba

Arriba ire

Con amor de los ninos

Con amor de los ninos

Yo llegare

Yo llegare

Yo llegare



Cuando canto La Bamba

Cuando canto La Bamba

Estoy contento

Porque yo me acompano

Porque yo me acompano

Con mi instrumento

Ay arriba, arriba

Ay arriba, arriba

Arriba ire

Yo no soy marinero

Yo no soy marinero

Por ti sere

Por ti sere

Por ti sere



Cuando canto La Bamba

Cuando canto La Bamba

Yo pego un grito

Porque asi la canta

Porque asi la canta

Mi abuelito

Ay arriba, arriba

Ay arriba, arriba

Arriba van

Como las palomitas

Como las palomitas

Volando van

Volando van

Volando van



Ay, les digo, les digo

Ay, les digo, les digo

Con sentimiento

Que se acabe La Bamba

Que se acabe La Bamba

Tambien el cuento

Ay arriba, y arriba

Ay arriba, y arriba

Arriba voy

Pase Usted buenas noches

Pase Usted buenas noches

Manana y hoy

Manana y hoy

Manana y hoy

EURYTHMICS lyrics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

No-one on earth could feel like this.

I'm thrown and overblown with bliss.

There must be an angel

Playing with my heart.

I walk into an empty room

And suddenly my heart goes

"boom"!

It's an orchestra of angels

And they're playing with my heart.



(Must be talking to an angel)



No-one on earth could feel like this.

I'm thrown and overblown with bliss.

There must be an angel

Playing with my heart.

And when I think that I'm alone

It seems there's more of us at home.

It's a multitude of angels

And they're playing with my heart.



Chorus repeats.



I must be hallucinating

Watching angels celebrating.

Could this be reactivating

All my senses dislocating?

This must be a strange deception

By celestial intervention.

Leavin' me the recollection

Of your heavenly connection.

EMMYLOU HARRIS lyrics - Bright Morning Stars

(Traditional)



Bright morning stars are rising,

Bright morning stars are rising,

Bright morning stars are rising,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.



Oh, where are our dear mothers,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.



They are down in the valley praying,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.



Oh where are our dear fathers,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.



They have gone to heaven shouting,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.



Bright morning stars are rising,

Day is a-breaking in my soul.

BOB DYLAN lyrics - Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)

Well, I had to move fast

And I couldn't with you around my neck

I said I'd send for you and I did

What did you expect?

My hands are sweating

And we haven't even started yet

I'll go along with the charade

Until I can think my way out

I know it was all a big joke

Whatever it was all about

Someday maybe

I'll remember to forget.



I'm gonna get my coat

I feel the breath of a storm

There's something I've got to do tonight

You go inside and stay warm.



Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

I don't know

Has anybody seen my love?



You want to talk to me

Go ahead and talk

Whatever you got to say to me

Won't come as any shock

I must be guilty of something

You just whisper it into my ear

Madame Butterfly

She lulled me to sleep

In a town without pity

Where the water runs deep

She said, "Be easy, baby

There aint nothing worth stealing in here".



You're the one I've been looking for

You're the one that's got the key

But I can't figure out whether I'm too good for you

Or, or you're too good for me. Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

I don't know

Has anybody seen my love?



Well, they're not showing any lights tonight

And there's no moon

There's just a hot-blooded singer

Singing 'Memphis in June'

And they're beating the devil out of a guy

Who's wearing a powder-blue wig

Later he'll be shot

For resisting arrest

I can still hear his voice crying

In the wilderness

What looks large from a distance

Close up ain't never that big.



I never could learn to drink that blood

And call it wine

I never could learn to hold you, love

And call you mine.



Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

Has anybody seen my love

I don't know

Has anybody seen my love?

ALPHAVILLE lyrics - Faith

(Lyrics: Gold / Music: Bloss-Gold-Lloyd-Echolette)



Woke up in the morning still I heard this song

Must be somewhere from my dreams, I don't know

Made me feel so good, sun was shining bright

God, I love you that you brought

This little song to give me..

Faith

In the morning

I need that faith

To go on, yeah

Give me some faith

Can't get enough of that sweet feeling, give me faith

Oh yeah, I keep the faith



Sweet little girl, lying next to me

Sunlight's playing on your face with soft shadows

You're so beautiful, dream on, dream on, baby

I'm gonna wake you up when the time is right

I'll give you..

Faith...

One day I shall be released by my creator

Going home to where I came from long ago

And the big wheel keeps on turning round and round

Into eternity with me to cosmic meadows

I will be there with all my friends..

..in the morning

I need that faith...

SAMHAIN lyrics - Death... In Its Arms

Searching around

Searching to flee

To the light nothing can hide

No one is safe from their fate



Death

For you kiss

Sin a lie

Embracing unkind

Nothing is safe from their fate



Death

Before you walk

Sensuously light tTo the light

Open your eyes

And no one is safe from their fate



Death in its arms

Death in its arms

Death in its arms

Death in its arms

Death in your arms



Death

Before your kiss

A sin a lie

Embracing unkind

Nothing is safe from their fate



Death in its arms

Death in its arms

Death in its arms

Death in your arms

Death in your arms

Death in its arms

GEORGE HARRISON lyrics - Blowin' In The Wind

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times must the cannon balls fly

Before they're forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,

The answer is blowin' in the wind.



How many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea?

How many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free?

How many times can a man turn his head,

Pretending he just doesn't see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,

The answer is blowin' in the wind.



How many times can a dumb man look up

Before he can see the sky?

How many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry?

How many deaths will it take till he knows

Too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

TEARS FOR FEARS lyrics - Los Reyes Catolicos (Reprise)

A home is like a castle

A place where a king can reign

Los reyes catolicos

Raoul and the kings of Spain



Ghosts all gone (ghosts all gone)

Ghosts all gone

To another place



Los reyes catolicos

Los reyes catolicos

Los reyes catolicos

Los reyes catolicos



Ghosts all gone

Ghosts all gone

Ghosts all gone

To another place

MARVIN GAYE lyrics - Chained

(Frank Wilson)



Seems just yesterday you were in my arms

And in a special way you touched my heart with all your charms

And now you're gone

Oh and I find myself, honey, I'm all alone

And there's no love left to take

Don't know where I fell, for you I've always cared

I did all I know

To win your love and make it so

You'd always stay but you turned away

Honey, what could I say?

How could you, how could you,

How could you do me this way?

'Cause I'm chained to your love and affection

'Cause I'm chained; oh your love's my only direction

Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah



I've got to make it right, somehow it's always wrong

Somewhere down the line

The love I've lost I've got to find, yeah

But it won't be long

I'm gonna make it right, baby

And carry you tenderly back home

'Cause I'm chained to your love and affection

'Cause I'm chained; every time I hear your name I tremble

I tremble, oh you know, oh you know



Oh baby, oh baby

Well, now I admit that I

Haven't been the perfect guy

For a girl as sweet as you

But my heart and soul cries, How do you?

Oh, that's all I need

Oh, gonna make it right, baby

If you just stay, stay with me

'Cause I'm chained

Oh I'm chained to your love and affection

Yes I'm chained

[...and fade]

NEIL YOUNG lyrics - Midnight On The Bay

It's midnight on the bay

And lights are shinin'

And the sailboats sway

And that cool ocean breeze.

Blowin' down through the keys

I think I'll call it a day

Oh, midnight on the bay.

Sure feels good to me.



What's this I see

There's someone comin'

Walkin' right up to me

She tells me I know your name

And if it's all the same

I'd like to spend some time.

And midnight on the bay

Sure feels good to me.



And now it's midnight on the bay

Lights are shinin'

On the sailboats that sway

In the cool ocean breeze

Blowin' down through the keys

I think I'll call it a day

Oh, midnight on the bay.

Sure feels good to me.

IRON MAIDEN lyrics - Running Free

(Steve Harris and Paul Di'anno)



Just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck.

I've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas, and here I go.



[Chorus:]

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.

I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.



Spent the night in an L. A. jail, and listened to the sirens wail.

They ain't got a thing on me, I'm running wild, I'm running free.



[Chorus]



Puller here at the Bottle Top, whiskey, dancing, disco hop.

Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be



[Chorus]

CYNDI LAUPER lyrics - Set Your Heart; Where Are All My Friends

When your heart is beating black and blue

And a cold world's looking back at you

When you're fading low around the bend

Go on turn around you'll see me

I will always be your friend



Set your heart free

Set your heart free...



Said you can't say much about today

Just that dark cloud coming back your way

And that your dreams are all worn thin

Well, you better stop with all that talk

Before it all starts happening



Set your heart free...

Listen to your heart...



When your heart is beating black and blue

And the old world's knocking down on you

And you're starting to become unglued

Don't go there, come on, you know i love you



Set your heart free...

THE POLICE lyrics - Man In A Suitcase

(Sting)



I'd invite you back to my place

It's only mine because it holds my suitcase

It looks home to me alright

But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night



Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face



Another key for my collection

For security I race for my connection

Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well

The world's my oyster a hotel room's a prison cell



Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face



I'd invite you back to my place

It's only mine because it hold my suitcase

It looks like home to me alright

But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night



(Repeat chorus to fade)

THE SUPREMES lyrics - I Want To Hold Your Hand

(Paul McCartney/John Lennon)



I tell you something

I think you'll understand

When I'll say that something

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand



Oh please say to me

That you will be my man

and please say to me

you'll let me hold your hand

Now, let me hold your hand

I want to hold your hand



And when I touch you

I feel happy inside

It's such a feeling that my love

I can't hide

I can't hide

I can't hide



Yeah, you got that something

I think you'll understand

When I say that something

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand



And when I touch you

I feel happy inside

It's such a feeling that my love

I can't hide

I can't hide

I can't hide



Yeah, you got that something

I think you'll understand

When I say that something

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand

I want to hold your hand

RICKY NELSON lyrics - Your True Love

True love (your love)

True love (your love)

True love baby that's what you give me

True love (your love)

True love (your love)

True love baby that's what you give me



Well God made the world and he made it round

I got my baby and I'm glad I found

Her love was meant for me

And my baby she'll always be



She gives me true love (your love)

True love (your love)

True love baby that's what you give me



True love (your love)

Aw, true love (your love)

True love baby that's what you give me



Well the big and little, young and old

They all need somethin' to have and hold

When I found you I found out

You gave me loving I can't forget

You give me true love (your love)

Aw, true love (your love)

True love baby that's what you give me

Oh yeah, true love baby that's what you give me

VONDA SHEPARD lyrics - Jam Karet (Time Is Elastic)

(Vonda Shepard)



I do not measure the space between

Moments of pleasure we'll someday see



If you need a reason let me know

If you need the answer you will know

If you say tomorrow you will go, you will go away



There is no limit



Jam Karet Jam Karet

Open every window

Jam Karet

There is no limit

Jam Karet Jam Karet



I do not measure the distance

Or instigate any resistance



If you need a reason let me know

If you need the answer you will know

If you say tomorrow you will go, you will go away



There is no limit



Jam Karet Jam Karet

Open every window

Jam Karet

(There is no such thing as time)

Stretching every minute

Jam Karet Jam Karet

There is no limit

Jam Karet Jam Karet



I'll light the fire within you

You can make mountains move too



[Bridge:]

Ooh with my truer friends

I do not notice when the clocks unwind



There is no limit



Jam Karet Jam Karet

Open every window

Jam Karet Jam Karet

(There is no such thing as time)

Stretching every minute

Jam Karet Jam Karet

As long as we are in it

Jam Karet Jam Karet



There is no limit

FLEETWOOD MAC lyrics - The Second Time

(Stevie Nicks & Rick Vito)



Was it in my mind

Or was it true

That woman used to Hollywood living

Do you remember how

The angels sang

And your sorrows left you there

Right before the lights came up

Do you remember

You took my hand

Do you remember, my friend

Did you feel like it was

The second time with you,

That feeling of a vivid memory

Well it had to do

With a dream come true

And someone that you loved

And would always love

The second time around

For us

She never looked back

Someone that you loved

And would always love

The second time around, for us

She never looked back

She could never look back

ICE CUBE lyrics - Check Yo Self

[Intro: Das EFX]



Yeah! Word is bond!

Das EFX in this yaknowhatI'msayin

Straight from the sewer, word is bond!

Yeah! Yah! Ah-yeah! We doin this with my nigga

Where my nigga? Ice Cube in the motherfucker

Word is bond! (Yeah!)



[Verse One: Ice Cube]



You better check yo self before you wreck yo self

Cos I'm bad for your health, I come real stealth

Droppin bombs on ya moms, fuck car alarms

Doin foul crime, I'm that nigga wit'cha Alpine

Sold it for a six-o, always let tricks know

And friends know, we got the indo

No I'm not a sucker, sittin in a House of Pain

And no I'm not the butler, I'll cut ya (Uh!)

Headbutt ya, you say you can't touch this

And I wouldn't touch ya, in fact motherfuck ya

Here to let you know boy, oh boy

I make dough but don't call me DoughBoy

This ain't no fuckin motion picture

A guy or bitch-a, I'll get wit'cha

And hit ya, takin that yack to the neck

So you better run a check



[Chorus One: Das EFX and Ice Cube]



[Das] So come on and chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

Chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

Yeah, come on and check yo self before you wreck yo self

[Ice] Cause shotgun bullets are bad for your health



[Hook: Das EFX]



Mic-mic-microphone check (One, two! Check it!)

[repeat 2X]



[Verse Two: Ice Cube]



Tricks wanna step to Cube and then they get played

Cause they bitchmade pullin out a switchblade

That's kinda trifle, caise that's a knife-o

AK-47, assault rifle

Hold the fifty, I'm nifty, pow

I gotta new style, "WATCH OUT NOW!"

I hate motherfuckers claimin that they foldin bank

But steady talkin shit in the holding tank

First you wanna step to me

Now your ass screamin for the deputy

They send you to Charlie-Baker-Denver row

Now they runnin up in ya slow

You're gone, used to be the Don Juan (Check that shit out!)

Now your name is just Twan

Switch it, snap it, rollin your eyes and neck

You better run a check



[Chorus Two: Das EFX and Ice Cube]



[Das] So chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

Come on and check yo self before you wrickity-wreck yo self

So chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

[Ice] Cause big dicks up yo ass is bad for yo health



[Hook]



[Verse Three: Ice Cube]



If you're foul, you better run a make on that license plate

You coulda had a V8

Instead of a tre-eight slug to the cranium (POOOOOW!)

I got six and I'm aimin em

Will I shoot or keep you guessin

Cause fuck you and that shit ya stressin

Bitch, get off the wood, you're no good

There goes the neighbourhood hooker (Slut!)

Go ahead and keep your drawers

Givin up the claps and who needs applause

At a time like this, pop the coochie and ya dead

The bitch is a Miami Hurricane hit

Sprung, niggaz call her 'Lips and Lungs'

Nappy dugout, get the fuck out

Cause women like you gets no respect

Bitch, you better run a check



[Chorus Three: Das EFX and Ice Cube]



[Das] So chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

So chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self

Come on and check yo self before you wrickity-wreck yo self

[Ice] Cause bitches like you is bad for my health



[Hook]



[Chorus Three]



[Hook 3X]

VINCE GILL lyrics - I Never Really Knew You

(Vince Gill)



[Chorus:]

Well I never really knew you til you said goodbye

You said it's finally over, here's the reasons why

You said you've heard enough of all those little lies

I never really knew you til you said goodbye



I thought I made you happy but you've proved me wrong

I thought I was the one that really turned you on

When I came home tonight all my things were gone

I guess gettin' over me didn't take you long



[Chorus 2x]



Well, you said you'd heard enough of all those little lies

I never really knew you til you said goodbye

No I never really knew you til you said goodbye

BUDDY & JULIE MILLER lyrics - Mercy's Child

I was a stranger to mercy,

I was lovers with lies,

I was owned by the darkness, blind and hypnotised.



Love had left me abandoned,

Love had left me unclaimed,

Loneliness was my companion 'til I called your name.



Oh, my soul was an orphan, property of the dark,

Now I am mercy's child, and your name is written on my heart.



Tangled up in my pride,

Well, sin is such a hard master,

You reached out when I was hanging over the edge of disaster.



Oh, my soul was an orphan, property of the dark,

Now I am mercy's child, and your name is written on my heart.



And all the bells in Heaven ring it,

It's the name above every name, so let the orphans and angels sing it.



Isolation was the only company I knew,

But now I'm so emotionally attached to you.



Oh, my soul was an orphan, property of the dark,

Now I am mercy's child, and your name...your name is written on my heart, on my heart.

ART GARFUNKEL lyrics - April Come She Will

(P. Simon)



April come she will

When streams are ripe and swelled with rain;

May, she will stay,

Resting in my arms again.



June, she'll change her tune,

In restless walks she'll prowl the night;

July, she will fly

And give no warning to her flight.



August, die she must,

The autumn winds blow chilly and cold;

September I'll remember

A love once new has now grown old.

AMY GRANT lyrics - What A Difference You've Made

(Archie Jordan)



What a difference You've made in my life

What a difference You've made in my life

You're my sunshine day and night

Oh what a difference You've made in my life



What a change You have made in my heart

What a change You have made in my heart

You replaced all the broken parts

Oh what a change You have made in my heart



Love to me was just a word in a song

That had been way over used

But you gave love a meaning

So I've joined in the singing

That's why I want to spread the news



[Chorus:]

What a difference You've made in my life

What a difference You've made in my life

You're my sunshine day and night

Oh what a difference You've made



[Chorus]

BOB MARLEY lyrics - Trench Town

(Scoop, scoop, scoop, scoo-doo;

Scoop, scoop wa-doo.)

Up a cane river to wash my dread;

Upon a rock I rest my head.

There I vision through the seas of oppression, oh-oo-wo!

Don't make my life a prison.



We come from Trench Town, Trench Town (Trenchtown) -

Most of them come from Trench Town.

We free the people with music (sweet music);

Can we free the people with music (sweet music)?

Can we free our people with music? - With music,

With music, oh music!



Oh-y, my head,

In desolate places we'll find our bread,

And everyone see what's taking place, oh-oo-wo! -

Another page in history.



We come from Trench Town,

Come from Trench Town;

We come from Trench Town.

Lord we free the people with music (sweet music);

We free the people with music (sweet music);

We free our people with music,

With music, oh music (oh music)!



They say it's hard to speak;

They feel so strong to say we are weak;

But through the eyes the love of our people, oh-oo-wo!

They've got to repay.



We come from (Trenchtown) Trench Town;

We come from (Trenchtown) Trench Town;

Trench - Trench Town (Trenchtown).

They say, "Can anything good come out of Trench Town?"

(Trench - Trenchtown)

That's what they say, (Trenchtown); (Trench - Trenchtown)

Say (Trench - Trenchtown) we're the underprivileged people,

So (Trenchtown) they keep us in chains:

"Pay (Trench - Trenchtown) - pay - pay tribute to -" (Trenchtown).

We come from (Trench - Trenchtown);

We come from (Trench - Trenchtown);

Just because we come from Trench Town.

Not because we come from Trench Town;

Just because we come from (Trenchtown). [fadeout]

UFO lyrics - Mother Mary

(1) Try to make some changes really on the line

Given your religion, never ever time

All the jokers laughing, queens upon the floor

Don't misunderstand it, baby needs some more



Lovin' up some ransom, weapon and a gun

Just your education, hard to understand

Will the teenage lesion make a mark on you

Make a big tome status, then we run them through



(2) Mother Mary could you ever really feel the same

And would you try to understand a wild colonial boy



(1) Repeat

(2) Repeat

CHRIS DE BURGH lyrics - The Son And The Father

I was walking down that road, to the place that was my home,

And the memories of a life go on forever,

Here's the village, here's the sea and here's the place where it began,

When I found myself in the arms of Lady Madonna,

And then I listen for those footsteps, coming down the hall,

A father to his young boy, who was hurting from a fall,

You must have heard me crying, you must have dried my tears,

But you know, I just can't remember, just can't remember,

The son and the father, the son and the father;



Now I'm walking with my boy through the place that is our home,

And the memories of his life are growing forever,

And I'm looking through his eyes at all the wonders of the world,

Then hand in hand we will make this journey together,

And we will talk of men and pirates, and heroes in the dark,

I will tell him of the hungers and the mysteries of the heart,

And I will always hear you crying, I will always dry your tears;



And I pray you'll always remember, always forever,

The son and the father, the son and the father,

The son and the father, the son and the father.

THE WHO lyrics - Water

The foreman over there hates the gang,

The poor people on the farms get it so rough,

Truck drivers drive like the devil,

The policemen they're acting so tough.

They need water,

Good water,

They need water,

And I'm sure there isn't one of us here

Who'd say no to somebody's daughter.

No, no, no, no, no.



The foreman over there hates the gang,

The poor people on the farms get it so rough,

Truck drivers drive like the devil,

The policemen they're acting so tough.

They need water,

Good water,

They need water,

And maybe somebody's daughter.



Indian Lake is burning,

The New York skyline is hazy,

The River Thames is turning dry,

The whole world is blazing.

We need water,

Wow yeah good water,

Ooh we need water,

And maybe somebody's daughter.



Ah gimme gimme good water,

Ah gimme gimme gimme good water,

Ah gimme good water,

Please don't refuse me, mister,

I seen your daughter at the oasis

And I'm beginning to blister.



My Chevrolet just made steam,

Your crop is laying foul,

My grass skirt's lost its green,

I'm alive but I don't know how.

I need water, good good water,

They need water,

Gimme gimme gimme good water,

Wow, gimme gimme gimme good water,

Gimme gimme gimme good water,

Come on gimme gimme gimme...



[Faintly:] Champagne!

THE WHO lyrics - Pictures Of Lily

I used to wake up in the morning

I used to feel so bad

I got so sick of having sleepless nights

I went and told my dad



He said, "Son now here's some little something"

And stuck them on my wall

And now my nights ain't quite so lonely

In fact I, I don't feel bad at all



Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful

Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night

Pitcures of Lily solved my childhood problems

Pictures of Lily helped me feel alright



Pictures of Lily

Lily, oh Lily

Lily, oh Lily

Pictures of Lily



And then one day things weren't quite so fine

I fell in love with Lily

I asked my dad where Lily I could find

He said, "Son, now don't be silly"



"She's been dead since 1929"

Oh, how I cried that night

If only I'd been born in Lily's time

It would have been alright



Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful

Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night



For me and Lily are together in my dreams

And I ask you, "Hey mister, have you ever seen"

"Pictures of Lily?"

JACKSON 5 / THE JACKSONS lyrics - Rockin' Robin

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet



He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song

All the little birdies on J-Bird Street

Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet



Rockin' robin

Rock, rock

Rockin' robin

Go rockin' robin

'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight



Every little swallow, every chickadee

Every little bird in the tall oak tree

The wise old owl, the big black crow

Flappin' their wings singin' go bird, go



Rockin' robin

Rock, rock

Rockin' robin

Go rockin' robin

'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight

Yeah, yeah



[Instrumental Interlude]



The pretty little raven at the bird man stand

Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand

He started goin' steady and "bless my soul"

He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriole



He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song

All the little birdies on J-Bird Street

Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet



Rockin' robin (tweet, tweedily dee)

Rock, rock

Rockin' robin (tweet, tweedily dee)

Go rockin' robin

'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight

Yeah, yeah



The pretty little raven at the bird man stand

Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand

He started goin' steady and "bless my soul"

He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriole



He rocks in the treetops all day long

Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song

All the little birdies on J-Bird Street

Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet



Rockin' robin (tweet, tweedily dee)

Rock, rock

Rockin' robin (tweet, tweedily dee)

Go rockin' robin

'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweedily deedily dee, Tweedily deedily dee

Tweet, tweet

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - Soup 'N Old Clothes

[Guitar solo from Illinois Enema Bandit

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

December 11, 1980

engineer: George Douglas



FZ lead guitar

Steve Vai rhythm guitar

Ray White rhythm guitar

Ike Willis rhythm guitar

Tommy Mars keyboards

Bob Harris keyboards

Arthur Barrow bass

Vinnie Colaiuta drums

+

Terry Bozzio drum intro (from Hands With A Hammer)]





Good God!

HAWKWIND lyrics - Looking In The Future

Lives of great men all remind us

We may make our lives sublime

And so departing leave behind us

Footprints in the sands of time

And with the writing I will show you

Looking in the days beyond recall

As I lecture back with the spirits of the other time



I'm living in the future

I'm looking in the future

I'm living in the future



Not a sound was heard

No call came from the bird

Only the carpet of green

From towering trees was seen

Where have they all gone?

Why was there no song?



I'm living in the future

Looking at the past

DEPECHE MODE lyrics - Breathing In Fumes

[A dub mix of "Stripped"]



Nothing on this

I taste when we kiss

Come back to the land

For a few hours



Let me see you

Stripped down to the bone



Taste when we kiss

I taste when we kiss

You're breathing in fumes

I taste when we kiss



Let me see you

Stripped down to the

I taste when we kiss

I taste when we kiss



Let me see you

Stripped down to the

Come back to the land

Come back to the land



Let me see you

Stripped down to the bone



Breathing in fumes

I'm breathing in fumes

Breathing in fumes

You're breathing in fumes

ASIA lyrics - Love Like The Video

(Payne/Nye)



She sends her smile by satellite

Steaming up the screen at night

Got the mouth, knows how to squeeze

Every line of make-believe

In the flesh, just like a dream

Fingers touch the fantasy

To hold so close, her lips near mine

Bodies on the borderline



Oh, when the lights went down

I held my breath

But she held the freeze frame



Love like the video

Why can't she love like the video



Captured hot on thirty-five

Tempting all to idolise

Leading lady, pleading man

Picture post, L. A., Cannes

Every take is just like the first

Every fake so well rehearsed

Passions are the cruelest part

Deception in the coolest heart



Oh, when the lights went down

I held my breath

But she held the freeze frame



Love like the video

Why can't she love like the video

NAZARETH lyrics - Nothing So Good

Ain't nothin' so good

As a Sunday morning

When the day is dawnin'

Kinda makes you feel good



There ain't nothing so fine

As a lazy weekend

Just hangin' out with your best friend

There ain't nothing so good

There ain't nothing so good as a good time



There's nothing so right as the right time

I said please - don't count on me

Said please - don't count on me

There's nothing so good as a good time

Maybe there should

There ain't nothing so good



Ain't nothin' so strong

As the strength of a good love

I can't get enough

Can't ever get too much love



There ain't nothing so right

As the sound of your voice

I'm gonna make it my choice

And get into something good



There ain't nothing so good as a good time

There ain't nothing so right as the right time

I said please - don't count on me

Said please - don't you count on me

There's nothing so good as a good time

Maybe there should

There ain't nothing so good



Sail away

Can't drift too far

Gotta get away

Be where you are

Sail away, sail away

Sail on far

Gotta find a way

Into your heart



Ain't nothin' so good

As a Sunday morning

When the day is dawning

Kinda makes you feel good



There ain't nothing so fine

As a lazy weekend

Just hangin' out with your best friend

There ain't nothing so good

There ain't nothing so good as a good time

Ain't nothing so right as the right time

I said please - don't count on me

Said please - don't count on me

There's nothing so good as a good time

Maybe there should

There ain't nothing so good



Good, good, nothin' so good

Good, good, nothin' so good



Good, good, nothin' so good

Nothin' so good as a good time

Good, good, nothin' so good

Nothin' so good as a good time

Good, good, nothin' so good

Nothin' so good as a good time

Good, good, nothin' so good



Nothin' so good as a good time

Good, good, nothin' so good

Nothin' so good as a good time

Good, good, nothin' so good

SHOCKING BLUE lyrics - Venus

(Robbie van Leeuwen)



A goddess on a mountain top

Was burning like a silver flame,

The summit of beauty and love,

And Venus was her name.



She's got it,

Yeah, baby, she's got it.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.



Her weapon were her crystal eyes

Making ev'ry man mad;

Black as a dark night she was,

Got what no one else had.

Wow!



She's got it,

Yeah, baby, she's got it.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.



Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!



She's got it,

Yeah, baby, she's got it.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.

Well, I'm your Venus,

I'm your fire at your desire.

BEE GEES lyrics - Irresistible Force

In the name of love and life

Turn your face to the lonely night

But you're not alone when she calls you home

And this your world is on the edge

As good as lost but you know the way

Through this faceless town and she pulls me down

I know the place and the time (of our lives)

So long ago, and all through the years (never dies)

All things must pass

Irresistible force meets an immovable object and

Human animal madness and blood starts to flow

Invisible fingers and indescribable pleasure

I get to find my personal god

I get to find my personal god

God of love, God of gold

Ring of fire in the days of old

It's what I'm living for

And love's the only law

So answer mayday SOS

Search me north south east or west

It's all I miss, just the one last kiss

This is goodbye to the days (of our lives)

My fair-weather friend

I feel your sorrow and tears (they are mine)

I share to the end

Irresistible force meets an immovable object and

Human animal magic, how far can you go

The rolling of thunder and you decide what your after

I get to find my personal god

I get to find my personal god

I surrender all or nothing

You must spread your wings and fly

I know the place and the time (of our lives)

My fair-weather friend

I feel your sorrow and tears (they are mine)

I share to the end

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object

Human animal madness and blood starts to flow

There's bound to be a heartbreak

You make it the hard way

I surrender all or nothing

You must spread your wings and fly

THE RAMONES lyrics - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm.

I know, and it's been comin' for some time.

When it's over, so they say, it'll rain a sunny day.

I know, shinin' down like water.



I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain

comin' down on a sunny day?



Yesterday, and days before, sun is cold and rain is hard.

I know, been that way for all my time.

'Til forever on it goes through the circle fast and slow,

I know, and it can't stop, I wonder.



I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain

comin' down on a sunny day?

DOLLY PARTON lyrics - Best Woman Wins

(Dolly Parton)



Who do you think you are

What do you think this is

A game you can play

Tryin' to steal him away

Well, I don't need a heartache like this



Well, don't think I don't go through hell

But heaven is what we both want

He's easy to love, but he's hard to give up

And if you think I will, well, you're wrong



The best woman wins

I will fight 'til the end

I'll lay down and die if I must

I'll beg and I'll plead

I will suffer and bleed

But he must make a choice between us



This soap opera play that we're in

Is just like you watch on t. v.

But I never thought that I'd ever get caught in it;

Starring you, him and me



In love as in war all is fair

So a fight to the finish begins

When you fight from desire

You fight fire with fire

So may the best woman win



The best woman wins

I will fight 'til the end

I'll lay down and die if I must

I'll beg and I'll plead

I will suffer and bleed

But he must make a choice between us



So may the best woman win

JOHN DENVER lyrics - My Sweet Lady

Lady, are you crying, do the tears belong to me?

Did you think our time together was all gone?

Lady, you've been dreaming. I'm as close as I can be.

And I swear to you our time has just begun.

Close your eyes and rest your weary mind. I promise I will stay right here beside you.

Today our lives were joined, became entwined.

I wish that you could know how much I love you.



Lady, are you happy, do you feel the way I do?

Are there meanings that you've never seen before?

Lady, my sweet lady, I just can't believe it's true.

And it's like I've never ever loved before.

Close your eyes and rest your weary mind. I promise I will stay right here beside you.

Today our lives were joined, became entwined.

I wish that you could know how much I love you.

Lady, are you crying, do the tears belong to me?

Did you think our time together was all gone?

Lady, you've been dreaming. I'm as close as I can be.

And I swear to you our time has just begun.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE lyrics - We Are The Ones

We're dreaming from the bottom of the well

We're curled up in the corner of our cell

Freedom's just a story that we tell

I say give me liberty or give me hell

I know life is just a song

If I can get the world to sing along

Brothers and sisters



[Chorus:]

We are the ones we are the ones we are the ones

The ones that we're waiting for



There are differences we cannot hide

Yet we are all one spirit deep inside

Finding out our past has been denied

Now we can tell our story and start to question why

Climbing out from under fear

We'll know what we're doing here

Brothers and sisters



[Chorus]



Who built this pyramid

One hundred years ago

Cause we're trapped inside a grid

While they feeds us what we need to know

The scientists keep telling me

That we are all what we agree

So I agree to let you be

Anyone you want to be



[Chorus]



Every stranger you see is a part of you

Teaching we are the ones



We are all there is

We are the all that is

We can get through this

We are the ones



I feel you

You feel me

We are the ones

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE lyrics - Crown Of Creation

(Jefferson Airplane)



You are the Crown of Creation

You are the Crown of Creation

and you've got no place to go.



Soon you'll attain the stability you strive for

in the only way that it's granted

in a place among the fossils of our time.



In loyalty to their kind

they cannot tolerate our minds.

In loyalty to our kind

we cannot tolerate their obstruction.



Life is Change

How it differs from the rocks

I've seen their ways too often for my liking

New worlds to gain

My life is to survive

and be alive

for you.

INXS lyrics - Dancing On The Jetty

Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



We could sit here forever

Just never get old

Listen to the world

Letting God's tyres down



Hit cities, sharp nights

Rag clothing

Dancing on the jetty



So our feet stay dry



Watch the world argue

Argue with themselves

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



Blood is upon the steps

Two thousand years ago

Pray like hell then we go to fight

Another war in a holy land



Shot the world

True story

Snap decision

In a moment's glory



We're gonna watch them keeping it strong



Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



We're making trouble

We change tracks

Fool the system

Take time to take notice



Hit city

Sharp nights

Rag clothing

Dancing on the Jetty



Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness



Watch the world argue

Argue with itself

Who's going to teach me

Peace and happiness

LA TOYA JACKSON lyrics - Private Joy

(Prince)



Get up!

(Oh...)



My little secret, my private joy

Who could never let another play with his toy

You're my little sweetheart from heaven above

Oh, oh oh oh oh I think I'm falling in love

And he ain't gonna tell nobody nobody 'bout his little pretty toy

(You see)

All the other girls would love to love him but he's my little private joy

My private joy... you're my private joy

Private joy... such a, such a pretty boy

Joy, you are my private joy



I'm his little lover, his cosmotron

And only I know, only I know, baby what turns him on

(Ah yeah)

You're my little secret neon light

Boy I wanna turn it on turn it on turn it on every night

Ooah



And he ain't gonna tell nobody nobody 'bout his little pretty toy

(You see)

All the other girls would love to love him but he's my little private joy

My private joy... you're my private joy

Private joy... such a, such a pretty boy

Joy... you are my private joy

Joy...

Pick me up baby let's take the trip

Joy...

Got to get away...oh be alone with my private

(Get up!)

(Get up!)



I strangled Cleopatra (strangled Cleopatra)

You been mine ever since (been hers ever since)

If anybody asks boy (anybody asks boy)

Well, you're a lonely toy

Come on baby...get up!

Get up!

Oh, oh oh oh oh

Oh, oh oh oh oh

Ooah oh oh oh

Ooah oh oh oh



Private joy...

Private joy...

Private joy...

Private joy...

CHER lyrics - Hell On Wheels

Well I'm hell on wheels I'm a roll on mama

I can slide down places that you never knew

Try me on for size at the roll-a-rama

If you tie my laces and I'll follow you

Follow you follow you



[Chorus:]



See something I like, gonna go for it

See something I want, I'm gonna go after it

See something I like, gonna go for it

See something I want

Let's roll hell on wheels let's roll

Come on and roll with me

I roll at a quarter till three yeah

And let's rock hell on wheels let's rock

Come on and rock it with me

I'll make you feel so free yeah, Look out



Well I'm hell on wheels say I'm roller crazy

I won't go too fast no I won't go too far

We'll be high on wheel if the room gets hazy

Just look out for me I'm your guiding star

guiding star, guiding star



See something you like, better go for it

See something you want, better get down on it

See something you like, better go for it

See something you want



Let's roll hell on wheels let's roll

Come on and roll with me

I roll at a quarter till three yeah

And let's rock hell on wheels let's rock

Come on and rock it with me

I'll make you feel so free yeah, look out



If you see something you like, you better go for it

If you see something you want, you better get down on it

If I see something I like, I'm gonna go for it

If I see something I want

You know I'm gonna get down on it



Well I'm hell on wheels I'm a roll on mama

I can slide down places that you never knew

Try me on for size at the roll-a-rama

If you tie my laces and I'll follow you

Follow you follow you



[Chorus]

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER lyrics - The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)

(Al Castellanos)



[Intro:]

IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE (Pronounced e-oh-ah, e-oh-ah-a)

IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE



Cuentame que te paso

Cuentame que te paso



Que estaba alla en la playa

Recorriendo las aguaritas

Y vino una abejita y me pico ay ay!



Cuentame que te paso

Cuentame que te paso



Yo me saque la loteria

Corriendo fui de romeria

Y fue alli donde to el dinero perderi



Pero las dos vienen las dos pao pao



Pao pao pao pao pao (chiquita)

Pao pao pao pao pao (senorita)

Pao pao pao pao pao



Pero las dos vienen la colococota

E La la la la la la la la la pao pao



Pao pao pao pao pao (chiquita)

Pao pao pao pao pao (senorita)

Pao pao pao pao pao



IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE

IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE



Cuentame que te paso

Cuentame que te paso



Que estaba alla en la playa

Recorriendo las aguaritas

Y vino una abejita y me pico ay ay!



Pero las dos vienen las dos pao pao



Pao pao pao pao pao (chiquita)

Pao pao pao pao pao (senorita)

Pao pao pao pao pao



Woo-ooh!

THE MCGUIRE SISTERS lyrics - Something's Gotta Give

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give



When an irresistible force such as you

Meets and old immovable object like me

You can bet as sure as you live

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give



When an irrepressible smile such as yours

Warms an old implacable heart such as mine

Don't say no because I insist

Somewhere, somehow

Someone's gonna be kissed



So en garde who knows what the fates have in store

From their vast mysterious sky

I'll try hard ignoring those lips I adore

But how long can anyone try



Fight, fight, fight

Fight, fight it with all of our might

Chances are some heavenly star spangled night

We'll find out as sure as we live

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give



Fight, fight, fight it with all of our might

Chances are some heavenly star spangled night

We'll find out as sure as we live

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give

Something's gotta give



Something's gotta

Something's gotta give

SANTANA lyrics - No One To Depend On

(Carlos Santana, Michael Carabello, Coke Escovedo, & Gregg Rolie)



Ain't got nobody that I can depend on

Ain't got nobody that I can depend on



Ain't got nobody that I can depend on



Ain't got no one tengo anadie

That I know of no tengo anadie

That I can depend on no tengo anadie

Ain't got no one



Got nobody

That I can depend on no tengo anadie

Ain't got nobody that I can depend on

No tengo anadie.

MARK KNOPFLER lyrics - The Ragpicker's Dream

When jack frost came for christmas

With a brass monkey date

The rail-king and the scarecrow

Hopped a florlda freight

And they blew on their paper cups

And stared through the steam

Then they drank half a bottle

Of ragpicker's dream where



The whiskey keeps following

Cold pitchers of beer

Me and my associate

Like the clientele here get

The onions and the 'taters

Rib-eyes on the grill

Toothpicks and luckies

And a coffee refill as



The rail-king lay rocking

He was leaving the ground

Then he was flying like santa claus

Over the town where

He came to the window

Of a house by a stream

It was a family christmas

In the ragpicker's dream there



Were kids at the table

All aglow in the light

Music in the wintertime

Sure carries at night there

Was turkey and gravy

Pie and ice-cream

And gifts for each and everyone

In the ragpicker's dream where



The red-eye keeps tumbling

In our glasses of beer

Me and my associate

Like the service in here there's

A ten for your trouble

You have beautiful hair

Make the last one two doubles

It's a cold one out there where



The scarecrow and the rail-king

Have started to dance

But a nightstick and a billyclub

Won't give peace a chance here

I think they went thataways

Your song and dance team

Heading home for the holidays

With the ragpicker's dream on



His knees like a fighter

The rail-riding king

Like a sack of potatoes

Like a bull in the ring where

The scarecrow falls over

With a tear in the seam

Home for the rover

In the ragpicker's dream where



The red-eye keeps tumbling

Like tears in our beer

Me and my associate

Like the ambience here where

They cornered two castaways

In a white flashlight beam

Merry christmas and happy days

In the ragpicker's dream

LEO SAYER lyrics - Only Foolin'

(Leo Sayer / Alan Tarney)



Yeah, when we're round at a friend's house

You act so precious and cool

You tell her I'm nothin' special at all

Just somebody who's passing through

Just somebody who's passing through

And here am I tryin' to tell you again

But you just don't understand

That we could be somethin' special I know

If you'd only let go, take a chance

Try it just once, take a chance

But we're only, we're only, we're only foolin'

You know that we are, we're only foolin'

You know that we are

We're only, we are, we're only foolin'

Tell me what are you gonna do

About a fool who's in love with you

What are you gonna do

When we go out on a Saturday night

Feel like I'm stringing along

I ask you where are we going from here

You know but you're not letting on, babe

Well you know but you're not letting on

So here we are at the crossroads

Between better or worse

You telling me I'm too serious babe

And one of us is gonna get hurt

Why do I always get hurt

We're only, we're only, we're only foolin'

You know that we are, we're only foolin'

You know that we are

We're only, we only, we're only foolin'

Tell me what are you gonna do

About a fool who's in love with you

What are you gonna do



[Solo]



You know that we are

We're only, we're only, we're only foolin'

You know that we are

We're only, we are, we're only foolin'

Tell me what are you gonna do

About a fool who's in love with you

When you know it won't do no good

To keep falling in love with you

I gotta know

I gotta know who's foolin' who

I wanna know who's foolin' who

We're only

Foolin'

Foolin around

We're only foolin'

CYNDI LAUPER lyrics - Comfort You

(Cyndi Lauper, Jan Pulsford)



Lot of havoc in the sea

People rushing endlessly

Sometimes I think it's just their way

Of capturing a better day

You keep rushing home baby

For your dose of reality

I'll hold out my hands to you

You do what you need to



Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)

Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)



An ocean of humanity

Some wash up along the street

It's hard to keep in stepping round

It's hard to keep that frame of mind

Trying to move with the sun

Gives the illusion that we're one

I'll be running next to you

We do what we need to



Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)

Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)



But when the moonlight washes over our bed

and the road slows

A lonely siren screeching 'round the bend

The cool air blows

Raising the hair on my skin

We come face to face

Try to let each other in



Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)

Ohh, whoa

I will comfort you (I will comfort you)



I will I will I will I will

I will I will I will I will

I will comfort you

LUTHER VANDROSS lyrics - Better Love

(Luther Vandross and Nat Adderley, Jr.)



Lately I toss and turn at night

I hold my pillow very tight

Wake up to find the covers on the floor

I can't go on since you 've been gone

Sometimes I don't know what I'm living for

See I don't know what he told you 'bout the better life

His better cars and how he can treat you better

But none of that will keep you warm at night

He'll give you more

But who could have a better love



[Chorus:]

Better love

A better love

A better, better love

Who could love you better

There is no reason

Honey, you should ever worry what I'm doing

While you're gone I'm being true to you

My fire burns for your return

And I'll just dream of you until you do



See I never could replace your love with anyone's

I do believe it's easier said than done

No matter whose promises you dream of

Go search the world

You couldn't find a better love



[Fade]

SARAH MCLACHLAN lyrics - Solsbury Hill

(Peter Gabriel)



Climbing up on Solsbury Hill

I could see the city light

Wind was blowing, time stood still

Eagle flew out of the night

He was something to observe

Came in close, I heard a voice

Standing stretching every nerve

Had to listen had no choice

I did not believe the information

[I] just had to trust imagination

My heart going boom boom boom

"Son," he said "Grab your things,

I've come to take you home."



To keepin' silence I resigned

My friends would think I was a nut

Turning water into wine

Open doors would soon be shut

So I went from day to day

Tho' my life was in a rut

"Till I thought of what I'd say

Which connection I should cut

I was feeling part of the scenery

I walked right out of the machinery

My heart going boom boom boom

"Hey" he said "Grab your things

I've come to take you home."



When illusion spin her net

I'm never where I want to be

And liberty she pirouette

When I think that I am free

Watched by empty silhouettes

Who close their eyes but still can see

No on taught them etiquette

I will show another me

Today I don't need a replacement

I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant

My heart going boom boom boom

"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,

They've come to take me home."

ELLA FITZGERALD lyrics - Strictly From Dixie

I didn't get my Dixie drawl

A-drinkin' out of a Dixie cup

Yes sir, I'm strictly from Dixie



And when I say, "I loves you all"

It's meant to be on the up-and-up

Yes sir, I'm strictly from Dixie



When I came up from the South

I felt so down in the mouth

Then I took one look at you

And thought about Dixie skies of blue

I thought about sweet magnolias too



I never missed a cotton bowl

I like my tulips a trifle tall

Yes sir, I'm strictly from Dixie

THE DEAD KENNEDYS lyrics - Jock-O-Rama

You really like gorillas?

We've got just the pet for you

It's the way you're forced to act

To survive our schools



Make your whole life revolve around sports

Walk tough-don't act too smart

Be a mean machine

Then we'll let you get ahead



Jock-O-Rama-Save my soul

We're under the thumb of the Beef Patrol

The future of America is in their hands

Watch it roll over Niagara Falls

Pep rally in the holy temple

And you're forced to go

Masturbate en masse

With the favored religious cult

Cheerleaders yell-"Ra Ra Team"

From the locker room parades the prime beef

When archaeologists dig this up

They'll either laugh or cry



Jock-O-Rama-On the brain

Redneck-a-thon drivin' me insane

The future of America is in their hands

Watch it roll over Niagara Falls

Unzip that old time religion

On the almighty football field

Beerbellies of all ages

Come to watch the gladiators bleed

"Now boys, this game ain't played for fun

You're going out there to win

How d'ya win?

Get out there

And snap the other guy's knee!"



Beat 'em up! Beat 'em up!

Ra Ra Ra

Snap those spinal cords

Ha Ha Ha



The star quarterback lies injured

Unconscious on the football field

Looks like his neck's been broken

Seems to happen somewhere every year



His mom and dad clutch themselves and cry

Their favorite son will never walk again

Coach says, "That boy gave a hundred percent

What spirit

What a man"



But who cares?

Games over-Let's go get wasted man

To the 7-11, to the liquor store

Let's party all night and party some more



Another Trans-Am

Wrapped itself around a telephone pole

"I ain't drunk, officer

I just fell gettin' out of my car"



Don't worry about it, son

We were that way when we were young

You've got all the skills

To make a damn good businessman



Jock-O-Rama-that's the law

Come lick the butts of the Beef Patrol

If the future of America is handed to them

Watch it roll over Niagara Falls

SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON I lyrics - Win The War Blues

(Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee))



Uncle Sam is gonna give me a Thunderbolt, he want me to fly away up above the clouds

Uncle Sam is gonna give me a Thunderbolt, he want me to fly away up above the clouds

He wants to drop the bombs on the Japanese, I really got to make my baby proud



I wants a machine gun, and I wants to be hid out in the wood

I wants a machine gun, and I wants to be hid out in the wood

I wants to show old man Hitler, that Sonny Boy don't mean him no good



I wants to drop a bomb and set the Japanese city on fire

I wants to drop a bomb and set the Japanese city on fire

Now because they are so rotten, I just love to see them die



I've got the victory blues, because I know I've got to go

I've got the victory blues, because I know I have got to go

Now to keep the dirty Japanese from slippin' into my baby's back door

T. REX lyrics - Calling All Destroyers

Walking wild at midnight

Breathing like a panther

Holding hands with my love

Dancing like a master

Calling all destroyers

Calling all destroyers yeah



Shadow beach Burgandy

Get you high as lightning

Driving in your Porsche coupe

Don't marry Fanny Frightning



Mixing with the moon maids

Melting down her rainbow

King Kong, bang a gong

All around your boudoir

COCTEAU TWINS lyrics - My Love Paramour

Two different fates; my love paramour ooze out and away

Two different fates; my love paramour ooze out and away

Two different fates they fig up my love ooze out and away



Two different fates

My love paramour ooze out and away onehow



Love if it's swallowed for pity must ooze out and away onehow



Love if it's swallowed for pity must ooze out and away onehow

Two different fates of my love paramour ooze out and away onehow

[x2]



Two different fates

My love paramour ooze out and away onehow

SADE lyrics - Sally

Sally You opened out your arms

To all those young men

And girl you had room

For every one of them

You're the only girl

on bowery and third

Sure as hell you're the one

who cared



So put your hands together for sally

She saved all those young men

Put your hands together for sally

She's the one who cared for them



She's doing our dirty work

She's the only one who cares

Doing our dirty work

Thirsty world one angry day, in new york



Take a look at dave he was once seventeen

Zoot suit and shinny shoes

He ran around town

and through his methylated laughter

Most of his memories drowned

But he remembers what his mommy use to shout

She used to shout

One day surely son

The streets are gonna tire you out



So put your hands together for sally

She's the one who cared for him

Put your hands together for sally

She was there when his luck was running thin





She's doing our dirty work

She's the only one who cares

Doing our dirty work

Thirsty world, one angry day, in new york



Tommy had a wife and family

But the needle came between the love and the hard times

Thank God for sally

She was there through the misery

Just a place to lay his head

Just about better off than dead



She's doing our dirty work

She's the only one who cares

Doing our dirty work

Thirsty world, one angry dame



Vince came up from the country

Couldn't even find himself a room

Thinking about his babies

That's further away than the moon



With no money but his pride in his pocket

There's really no way he can go home

There's a picture of his woman in his locket

Most of all he doesn't want to be alone



So put your hands together for sally

She's the one who cared for him

Put your hands together for sally

She was there when his luck was running thin



She's doing our dirty work

She's the only one who cares

Doing our dirty work

Thirsty world, one angry day, in new york

GREG BROWN lyrics - Nice When It Rains

Oh it's nice when it rains,

And were apart.

It's nice when it rains.

You're in my heart-

With all my joys and pains

And it's nice when it rains.



Oh it's nice when it rains.

Life is sad.

It ain't all good,

But it ain't all bad.

And you're the best that I ever had,

And it's nice when it rains.



Oh it's nice when it rains,

And I'm thinking of you.

I get so happy

And I get so blue.

And I don't know what we're gonna do,

And it's nice when it rains.

BLUE OYSTER CULT lyrics - Sole Survivor

There walked a lonely man,

silent, mute, the only man

not knowing how, not knowing why

was he the sole survivor



why should he be alive,

breathing still while others died

and the only question

why was he the sole survivor



Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night

Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night



Wind blew across the sand

He stood alone and he had no plan

And with the last rays of the sun

He screamed aloud, began to run



In his tears he sees his face

I am the end of the human race

When I'm gone there'll be no trace

For I'm the sole survivor



Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night

Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night



One night when years had passed

The skies shook from a fiery blast

And there a starship - safe at last!

To come rescue this survivor



They beckoned him inside

but only man, he would not ride

instead he found a place to hide

for he's the sole survivor



Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night

Sole survivor, cursed with second sight

Haunted saviour, cried into the night

BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN lyrics - Hymn To Mary

I'll sing a hymn to Mary,

The Mother of my God,

The Virgin of all virgins,

Of David's Royal blood.

O teach me, holy Mary,

A loving song to frame,

When wicked men blaspheme thee,

To love and bless thy name.



O Lily of the Valley,

O mystic Rose what tree

Or flower, e'en the fairest,

Is half so fair as thee?

O let me, though so lowly,

Recite my Mother's fame:

When wicked men blaspheme thee,

I'll love and bless thy name.



O noble Tower of David,

Of gold and ivory,

The Ark of God's Own promise,

The Gate of Heaven to me;

To live, and not to love thee,

Would fill my soul with shame:

When wicked men blaspheme thee,

I'll love and bless thy name.



But in the crown of Mary,

There lies a wondrous gem,

As Queen of all the Angels,

Which Mary shares with them;

"No sin hath e'er defiled thee,"

So doth our faith proclaim:

When wicked men blaspheme thee,

I'll love and bless thy name.

L. L. COOL J lyrics - Dear Yvette

[Verse 1]



Yo Yvette, there's a lot of rumours goin' around

They're so bad, baby you might have to skip town

See something's smellin' fishy and they say it's you

All I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew

They say you're a man-eater during the full moon

Mascot of the senior boys' locker room

They said Yvette walked in, there wasn't too much rap

Her reputation got bigger, and so did her gap

Cuz girl your momma shoulda taught you better

I'mma sit down and write you a long letter.



[Chorus]



Dear Yvette [x4]



[Verse 2]



I'm glad you ain't my sister, then again if you was

I'd have to treat you like you was my distant cuz

I'm not a news reporter, I don't mean to assume

What should I think? I seen ya comin' out the men's bathroom

You wasn't in there alone, wasn't usin' the phone

The door was locked for twenty minutes, all I heard was "Moan".



[Repeat chorus]



[Verse 3]



I don't really know if the story is so

I can either ask Curly, or Larry or Moe

or Earl, Shabazz, Lou, Mookie or Joe

Like Santa Claus said, you're a ho-ho-ho

In every disco you say hello

Like you're a little angel, but we all know

Since you was eleven you been actin' this way

You always got in bed when you wanted to play

You're a freak, you think you're Lady Godiva

Some freaks are live, but Yvette you're liver.



[Repeat chorus]



[Verse 4]



You're a back-seat queen, a elevator pro

A high-powered body makes your Levis grow

See the stories I've heard, they could amaze

I heard she did it on a motorcycle back in the days

So calm down freak, get a G. E.D.

That's a General Education on Decency

One day you'll see, and agree with me

unless you're gonna be a freak until you're 93

For you there's no fee, everything is free

This is from me to you, not you to me

Every night is your night, your leather pants are tight

You try to shake your butt with all your might

I don't really wanna dis nobody

You might think I had a little too much Bacardi

But that's not the problem, the problem's Yvette

How bad can a girl's reputation get?

See she's the kinda girl all the homeboys met

If you're desparate ask Yvette, cuz she'll say "Bet".



[Repeat chorus]



[Verse 5]



B-Boys are hard on the boulevard

The Reverend at the church said you was barred

Homeboys on the block love you a lot

You're a real famous freak whether you like it or not

So before you start walking and your beak starts squawkin'

let me explain to you who is talkin'

I'm L. L. Cool J from around the way

You boogie down to my records almost every day

Go a hundred miles an hour when you're standin' still

You're faster than my Caddy when it's goin' downhill

Won't forget that day in the Y. M.C. A.

The guy at the desk said it was OK

for you to come inside cuz he knew you'd stay

Greg G. and Garfield yelled "Hooray"



[Repeat chorus x2]

BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST lyrics - A Matter Of Time

It's a matter of time before we know

If you follow the signs, let your feelings show

Oh babe, you've got nothing to lose

We can talk for a while and that's all right

I can see in your eyes what you feel inside

You don't know what you've been doing

Leave me standing here

We are on the edge of reality



We've gone too far

Not the way that it's meant to be

It's a matter of time

It's just a matter of time



It's a matter of time before we say

We got out of line looking for the way

Oh babe, you've got something to hide



You can stay for a while and that's all right

I see in your smile what you feel tonight

You don't know what you've been doing

Leave us standing here

We are on the edge of reality



We've gone too far

Not the way that it's meant to be

It's a matter of time

It's just a matter of time



Are you really looking for someone

Who'll turn you on

And always be around you?



Take another look and you will see

That I will be waiting

It's a matter of time

It's a matter of time

Oh babe, it's just a matter of time

K. D. LANG lyrics - Once In A While

In love comes waltzing in

And gives my head a spin

With the answers backing one

Whose world turns upside down

Shattering the ground

Other expectations



Love beyond reason, is a love so hard to find

And love that can season you, make your heart a one tract mind

I will make you happy baby

I will make you smile

I'll drive you crazy baby

Once, in a while

Once, in a while



(Ohhhhh)

Love beyond reason, is a love so hard to find

(Ohhhhh)

Love that can season you, make your heart a one tract mind

I will make you happy baby

I will make you smile

I will drive you crazy, baby

Once, in a while

Baby once, in a while

Once, in a while

NIRVANA lyrics - Heart-Shaped Box

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak

I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks

I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (Alt: ... when you turn black)



Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait! (Alt: Hate! Haight!)

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Your advice



Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet

Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath

Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black

Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back



Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Your advice



She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak

I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks

I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (Alt: ... when you turn black)



Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Hey! Wait!

I've got a new complaint

Forever in debt to your priceless advice



Your advice [x3]

THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT lyrics - Winding Me Up

Well it was only a game she was mine for the asking

And I'd figured the whole thing out

When she told me her name it was more that a feeling

There wasn't any doubt



Well it felt so good it was too hard to break it

Too much for me to explain

But in a matter of time I'm gonna be myself again



You've been

Winding me up too long

I'm over my head is it day or night

Cause woman you ain't so strong

But you caught me by surprise

Burned me with your eyes

Cut me down to size

Saw through my disguise



Well it was only a game she was only a number

But I figured it out all wrong

Every time that I said I'll move on tomorrow

I hung around too long

Well it felt so good it was too hard to break it

Too much before me to face

Now I got nowhere to run she knows my every hidin' place



You've been

Winding me up too long

I'm over my head is it day or night

Cause woman you ain't so strong

But you caught me by surprise

Burned me with your eyes

Cut me down to size

Saw through my disguise



Winding me up too long

I'm over my head is it day or night

Cause woman you ain't so strong

But you caught me by surprise

Burned me with your eyes

Cut me down to size

Beat me to the prize

Hurt me with your lies

Saw through my disguise

Burned me with your eyes

Cut me down to size

Saw through my disguise

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND lyrics - Neptune (Icebringer)

You don't have to be a legend to survive

All you need now is a stronger plan

If you're wondering why we're here

We were waiting for your melt down

Behind a wall

You don't have to be a legend to survive

All you need now is a stronger plan

If you're wondering why we're here

We were waiting for your melt down



All I know is that mine is the fate

To be man on ice, man on ice

Behind a wall

PRINCE lyrics - Prettyman

Don't hate me, cuz I'm beautiful



Hey now - what's up?

Ah, you know 2 come over here

Staring at a brother so hard

Say U what?



If U wanna be my baby

Got 2 tell me so

Overconfident lady

Better act like U know

If U wanna be my baby

Come on, take my hand

Tell me that U wanna get with...

A prettyman



See me up here dancing...

Dancing on the blow

Got 2 do about doing

Just a little more

Where I wear my knickers

Round this booty tight

Make a sucker gonna call me up

Every night

Hey



If U wanna be my baby

Got 2 tell me so

Overconfident lady

Better act like U know

If U wanna be my baby

Come on, take my hand

Tell me that U wanna get with...

A prettyman



Everywhere I go

People stop and stare

They just wanna see me swing

This pretty hair

What ever comfort up

Just want grow

Like my brother

Buy some more

Hey!



If U wanna be my baby

Got 2 tell me so (Tell me, tell me)

Overconfident lady (Hurry up)

Better act like U know (Do U know)

If U wanna be my baby

Come on, take my hand (Take my hand)

Tell me that U wanna get with... (Say)

Prettyman



If U wanna be my baby (Prettyman)

Prettyman (Prettyman)

Begin



In the early morning

When I'm feeling nice (Prettyman)

I walk by the mirror

And kiss it twice (Prettyman)

When it cover perfume

It's on the shelf

I get it down

Hit me, your body around

I, I, I smell myself



Hey

Now

Prettyman

Do U...

(Prettyman)

I ain't U

See out

Prettyman

Come on band, break down (Prettyman)

I don't care about money

I buy gold by the once

Y2K not today

I write a check and the bank bounce



Superbowl used 2 be my nickname

If U ask about love

No money might guarantee

When I'm a bow



Pretty

Man



If U wanna be my baby

Got 2 tell me so

Overconfident lady

Better act like U know

If U wanna be my baby

Come on, take my hand

Tell me that U wanna get with...

A prettyman



Maceo [Maceo Parker - sax]

Brother - can U blow

Pretty (Prettyman)

Come harder

[...]

Wait - stop - go (Prettyman)

Maceo - can U...

Maceo - can U blow

Hey!

Prettyman (Prettyman)

Oh yeah



Can't scream now - [screams]

(Prettyman)

Can't scream now - [screams]

(Prettyman)

Hey



[phone rings]

Hello

Who is it? (Prettyman)

Yes, this is the prettyman (Prettyman)

[hangs up]



Princely!