THE DOOBIE BROTHERS lyrics - Dependin' On You

(Patrick Simmons/Michael McDonald)



When I was so low

You were there to lift me up

Well, there's one thing that I know for sure

You're gonna win life's lovin' cup

Darlin', you're always there at my rescue

Dependin' on you

Darlin', you're always there by my side

You're always there by my side

Darlin', you're always there at my rescue



Dependin' on you



And when I get too high

You are there to cool me down

So fine, someone to turn to

Keepin' my feet on the ground



Dependin' on you



Darlin', you're always there at my rescue

Dependin' on you

Darlin', you're always there by my side

You're always there by my side

Darlin', you're always there at my rescue



I just keep dependin' on you

Someone to turn to

Keepin' my feet on the ground

So fine...



Darlin', you're always there at my rescue

Dependin' on you

Darlin', you're always there by my side

You're always there by my side...

DAVID BOWIE lyrics - All The Madmen

Day after day

They send my friends away

To mansions cold and grey

To the far side of town

Where the thin men stalk the streets

While the sane stay underground



Day after day

They tell me I can go

They tell me I can blow

To the far side of town

Where it's pointless to be high

'Cause it's such a long way down

So I tell them that

I can fly, I will scream, I will break my arm



I will do me harm

Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall

I'm not quite right at all...am I?



Don't set me free, I'm as heavy as can be

Just my librium and me

And my E. S.T. makes three



'Cause I'd rather stay here

With all the madmen

Than perish with the sadmen roaming free



And I'd rather play here

With all the madmen

For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me



(Where can the horizon lie

When a nation hides

Its organic minds in a cellar...dark and grim

They must be very dim)



Day after day

They take some brain away

Then turn my face around

To the far side of town

And tell me that it's real

Then ask me how I feel



Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall

I'm not quite right at all

Don't set me free, I'm as helpless as can be

My libido's split on me

Gimme some good 'ole lobotomy



'Cause I'd rather stay here

With all the madmen

Than perish with the sadmen

Roaming free And I'd rather play here

With all the madmen

For I'm quite content

They're all as sane as me

Zane, Zane, Zane Ouvre le Chien [rpt]

KRAFTWERK lyrics - Numbers

Eins zwei drei vier funf sechs sieben acht

Uno due treis quattro

One two

Ichi ni san chi

Adjin, dva, tri

Li, Tva, Tri

TEARS FOR FEARS lyrics - Change

You walked in to the room

I just had to laugh

The face you wore was cool

You were a photograph

When it's all too late

It's all too late

I did not have the time

I did not have the nerve

To ask you how you feel

Is this what you deserve

When it's all too late

It's all too late

Change

You can change

And something on your mind

Became a point of view

You lost your honesty

I lost the life in you

When it's all too late

It's all too late

We walk and talk in time

I walk and talk in two

Where does the end of me

Become the start of you

When it's all too late

It's all too late

What has happened to

The friend that I once knew

Has he gone away

GLENN HUGHES lyrics - Last Mistake

You went down to ol' Mexico

I said you should not go there alone

29 in the midday sun

I'm not the only one

I should of have known

(That's when I heard a voice say to me)

And the wind gently whispers

And the sky being to crack

I've been far and wide

Now you throw me aside

It's just a lie



This was your last mistake

This was your only break

This was your last mistake

Now it's over, it's all over



I heard you went sailin' to the Ivory Coast

It's where you make the most of your time

Soon you'll be flying on a silver bird

You know I never heard of such a crime

(That's when my inner voice started talking to me)



Then the mountains did crumble

And the earth moved at my feet

I've been far and wide

Now you throw me aside

It's just a lie

PATTI SMITH lyrics - Frederick

hi hello

wake from thy sleep

god has granted

thy soul to keep

all of the power

and all of the gain

is entwined

in a single

name



Frederick

name of care

fast asleep

in a room somewhere

guardian angels/up above

on the one I love.



i am calling

as the young thrush

caught in the crest

astonished tie death

on this night of wonder

on this night I know

i would give all

if you called

to say hello.



high! high!

hey hey

rejoin to me as

the light fades

my soul surrenders

in my glove

take this message

my dove

to the one I love.

BADFINGER lyrics - Rockin' Machine

A-one, two, buckle my blues...



I'm making it this time

I'm making it this time



I'm making it this time around

Before I lose my mind again

Before I lose my mind



At times she rules my mind

I sit here marking time

Well, I'm well in with the rockin' machine

Put me down, you don't know where I've been

Oh, I'm a rockin' machine



Lately, I've been thinking what makes a man

But I can't for the life of me

Get away from the rockin' machine

Oh, I'm a rocking machine

Oh, I'm a rocking machine

Oh, I'm a rocking machine.

STEVE EARLE lyrics - State Trooper

(Bruce Springsteen)



New Jersey Turnpike

Cruisin' on a wet night

Beneath the refinery's glow

Out where the knee black water flow

License, registration

I ain't got none

But I got a clear conscience

About the things that I done

Mister state trooper

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me



Maybe you got a kid

Maybe you got a pretty wife

Well, the only thing that I got

Has been botherin' me my whole life

Mister state trooper

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me



Now in the wee wee hours

Your mind gets hazy

Well, relay towers

Want to lead me to my baby

Now the radio is jammed up

With those talk show stations

It's just talk talk talk

'Till you're losin' your patience

Mister state trooper

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me

Please don't you stop me



Is there anybody out there?

Listen to my last prayer

Hi ho silver-o

Deliver me from nowhere

RICHARD THOMPSON lyrics - Time To Ring Some Changes

(Richard Thompson)



This old house is a-tumbling down

The walls are gone but the roof is sound

The landlord's deaf, he can never be found

It's time to ring some changes



They'll arrest you son if you just stand still

They'll ask you to pose with your hand in the till

They'll ask you to die when you've written your will

It's time to ring some changes



It's time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes



O the politicians they look so smug

You say tell the truth and they give you a shrug

You might find the truth swept under the rug

It's time to ring some changes



You pay for your money for your daily bread

But the bread's gone up so you need more money

The money's gone down, better borrow instead

It's time to ring some changes



Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes



O you fall in love with the girl you've seen

Diamond studded on a tv screen

But the change in your pocket won't buy you a dream

It's time to ring some changes



So you steal a car and you go for a ride

You end up sleeping with some girl guide

And everything you do leaves you empty inside

It's time to ring some change



Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

Time to ring some changes

CARPENTERS lyrics - It's Christmas Time

It's Christmas time and time for a carol

Time to sing about the little King

To fill the bowl and roll out the banel

Have ourselves a fling



We greet a friend or welcome a stranger

Let him sing on cheer him on his way

And celebrate the child in the manger

Born on Christmas day



Good cheer for you and for me

With pleasure and glee to share

Oh, we're so happy to be together

On yuletide square



It looks like snow

And falls like snow

Take a moment

Take a look about and say

As snowflakes fall

Merry Christmas to one and all

LOU CHRISTIE lyrics - The Gypsy Cried

I had some trouble with my baby

So I had my fortune read

I had some trouble with my baby

And this is what the gypsy said



The gypsy cried, she cried



Gypsy, oh tell me, what is in your crystal ball

Gypsy, oh tell me, will my tears fall



She cried, she cried and said



Watch your step, oooh she'll hurt you yet

Oh no no no no no no no

Watch your step, oooh she'll hurt you yet

Oh no no no no no no no



Gypsy, oh tell me, does she want to marry me

Gypsy, oh tell me, when the wedding's gonna be



She cried, she cried



Listen to what the gypsy said

Oh no no no no no no no

Listen to what the gypsy said

Oh no no no no no no no



Gypsy, say it isn't true

Watch out, oooh she doesn't love you

Watch out, oooh she doesn't love you

Gypsy, say it isn't true

W. A.S. P. lyrics - Shadow Man

Asleep in black

There's no light in the crack

The crooked fingers for you

No don't ya dare say a prayer

It's just the nights in your mare

Oh the long forever you'll do



Oh free at last

With a heart in the black

Forever Shadowing you

Don't you swear to the terror

You god never cares

Oh come oh whatever your do



No Mercy - no coming back

No mercy - forever fade to black



Oh where's the god that made you

Oh you're superman

Going down forever - to never land

Oh where's the God you pray

Forsaken again

It's never Heaven - oh

The Shadow Man



Where's the god that made you

Oh you're superman

Going down forever to never land

Don't runaway or hide again

No gates of Heaven

LUTHER VANDROSS lyrics - It's All About You

Lady, let me dry the rain drops from your beautiful hair

Thats all I ever want to do

And darling let be the one you can always depend on

You know I will never let you down

Cause I, want to spend my whole life just hoping

That I can please you, cause thats all I ever want to do



It's all about you, it's not about me

There is no one more beautiful than you are to me

It's all about you, it's not about me

And I am proud to know that you have me here by your side

Cause it's all about you, hey, hey



Lady, I will be the sunshine that brighten up your way

And it doesnt have to be a special day

Please, let me take you to a sacred place where only lovers go

Our own little hide away

Cause I, want to spend my whole life just hoping

That I can please you, cause thats all I ever want to do



It's all about you, it's not about me

There is no one more beautiful than you are to me

It's all about you, it's not about me

And I am proud to know that you have me here by your side



Girl, I have search all over the world

Trying to find that special girl

But when I looked into you eyes

I knew you were the one for me

So now I am giving my life to you

So what ever you want

What ever you need

I am willing and able to give



It's all about you, it's not about me

There is no one more beautiful than you are to me

It's all about you, it's not about me

And I am proud to know that you have me here by your side

[Repeat until fade]

TOTO lyrics - Wings Of Time

My faithful companion

I've lost my way once again

A prisoner of darkness

I let you down my friend



A heart left abandoned takes so long to heal its wounds

Your touch not forgotten

The end of the dream

It comes too soon

In this lonely room

Till I leave this world

Always know that



I will surrender my heart to the sky

Oh our love doesn't end here

It lives forever on the wings of time



The road that I travel

Don't know which way I should turn

Till I find the answer

Know that the fire within me will always burn



Angel of mercy, please

Why so much pain?

I cry for forgiveness

I'm the destitute man

Who still remains

It's so hard to explain

Till I leave this world

Always know that



I will surrender my heart to the sky

Oh our love doesn't end here

It lives forever on the wings of time



Sometimes I feel just like crying

I can't turn my back

All these years I've been trying

A vision of you keeps reappearing to me

You can't blame yourself

Just reach out your hand and believe



[Instrumental break]



We sail in dark waters

Lord give me some peace of mind

Temptation before me

Ahead lies the tower of truth that I must find

To you I will climb

Till I leave this cruel world far behind

Always know that



I will surrender my heart to the sky

Oh our love doesn't end here

It lives forever on the wings of time

[repeats 2x]

BLACK SABBATH lyrics - The Shining

There's a man who sees all there is to see

What the future holds for all

As the days grow dark with the grim and final warning

Beware of the ones with invisible friends

They will steal into your mind

And all too soon the signs begin to show



Rise up to the shining

Live long live now

Rise up to the shining

Don't be blind by fools again

Fools again



As the pages turn and the story's told

From the visions he's seen

The house on the hill

With the haunted eyes that call

Noone laughed as madness came out

To play it's game

If you stay too long you'll finally go insane



Rise up to the shining

Live long live now

Rise up to the shining

Don't be blind by fools again

Fools again



Bells will take their toll

On your way

There's no way we're born to shine

Before our time, all your life

You're on your own

Lonely road

Lost in a time

Let the light lead your way

To the golden throne

It's the only way



Rise up to the shining

Live long live now

Rise up to the shining

Don't be blind by fools again

Rise up to the shining

Live long live now

Rise up the shining

Don't be blind by fools again



Oh rise up, to the shining

Wise up they're gonna steal your mind

Rise up, the house is gonna haunt you

No one laughed, no one cried

You stayed too long

You're finally gonna stay

THE KINKS lyrics - 20th Century Man

This is the age of machinery,

A mechanical nightmare,

The wonderful world of technology,

Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,



This is the twentieth century,

But too much aggravation

It's the age of insanity,

What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.



Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.

My mama said she can't understand me

She can't see my motivation

Just give me some security,

I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.



You keep all your smart modern writers

Give me William Shakespeare

You keep all your smart modern painters

I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough,



Girl we gotta get out of here

We gotta find a solution

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here.



I was born in a welfare state

Ruled by bureaucracy

Controlled by civil servants

And people dressed in grey

Got no privacy, got no liberty

Cos the twentieth century people

Took it all away from me.



Don't wanna get myself shot down

By some trigger happy policeman,

Gotta keep a hold on my sanity

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here.



My mama says she can't understand me

She can't see my motivation

Ain't got no security,

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.



This is the twentieth century

But too much aggravation

This is the edge of insanity

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.

TESLA lyrics - Paradise

(Keith, Wheat, Hannon)



Hold me close now, hold me tight, don't let go of me tonight

You're all I want, you're all I need

Hold me close now, hold me tight, and don't let go of me tonight

Sweet paradise, yeah



How I love all of those crazy little things you've said and done for me

You're the one for me

Darlin', dry your eyes, I can't stand to see you cry

Now just turn and walk away, don't look back when I say goodbye paradise



Days go by and life goes on, I feel I've been away too long

What I would give to be with you, days go by and life drags on

Feel I've been away too long, for much too long, yeah



And all the while that I'm away, don't let our love fade away

Don't you fade away

Now as sure as the sun is gonna shine, the day will come

Now I'm waitin' for the day, there'll be no more sayin' goodbye paradise



My sweet paradise, you are the reason why it tears me up inside

And I break down and cry, didn't wanna say goodbye paradise



I'm comin' home to you tonight, comin' home to you tonight

So hold on tight, tonight I'm on my way back home to paradise



I'm so lost without you, I can't live without you

I've been away too long, now, tonight I'm on my way back home to you

My my paradise, my my paradise

To hold you in my arms, you're all that I adore

To see your smilin' face as I walk through the door

I'll never say goodbye again, no



[Solo]



Hey, we're Pogo! Oh, okay. Here we go

As a matter of fact, this song was wrote about a town that is not part of

where we're from (Freebird!) No, we're not from Alabama, man

We're from California (Californ-I-A. We like Philadelphia though, I mean)

Oh yeah, we like ya a whole bunch (yeah, we're ready)

JAMES TAYLOR lyrics - Wichita Lineman

(Jimmy Webb)



I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road

Searchin' in the sun for another overload

I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the whine

And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line



I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain

And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time

And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line



And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time

And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

MICHAEL BOLTON lyrics - Knock On Wood

I don't wanna lose

This good thing

That I got

If I do now

I would surely

Surely lose alot

'Cause your love

Is better

Than any love I know



[Chorus:]

It's like thunder

Lightning

The way you love me is frightening

I better knock, on wood baby



I'm not superstitious

About you

But I can't take no chance

Got me spinning, spinning baby

Baby, I'm in a trance

'Cause your love

Is better

Than any love I know



[Chorus]



I better knock, baby

Ain't no secret

That woman

Fills my lovin' cup

She sees to it

That I get enough

Just one touch

Is better

You know it means so much



[Chorus]



Better knock back

I think I better knock, knock, knock, knock on wood

THE KINGSTON TRIO lyrics - Hard, Ain't It Hard

(Woody Guthrie)



[Chorus:]

Well, it's hard. Ain't it hard? Ain't it hard (oh, yes) to love one who never did love you.

Well, it's hard. Ain't it hard? Ain't it hard, great God, to love one who never did love you?



Well, there is a house in this old town. That's where my true love lays around.

She sits down upon another's knee (do tell) and tells him what she never will tell me.



[Chorus]



The first time I seen my true love she was a-standin' by my door,

And the last time I seen her false-hearted smile, she was dead on that bar room floor! (Poor girl!)



[Chorus]



Well, who's gonna kiss your ruby lips? (Not you, sweetie!) Who's gonna hold your little hand? (Hand?)

Who's gonna do, well, you know what, when I'm down in that promised land? (I will!)



[Chorus]



Well, don't go drinkin' and gamblin'. Don't go there your sorrows for to drown.

This hard liquor place is a low-down disgrace. It's the meanest damn place in this town!



[Chorus]

BRYAN FERRY lyrics - Sympathy For The Devil

Please allow me to introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

I've been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man's soul and fate



I was 'round when Jesus Christ

Had his moment of doubt and pain

Made damn sure that Pilate

Washed his hands and sealed his fate



Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game



Stuck around St. Petersburg

When I saw it was time for a change

Killed the Czar and his ministers

Anastasia screamed in vain



I rode a tank

Held a generals rank

When the Blitzkrieg raged

And the bodies stank



Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game



I watched the gleam

While you kings and queens

Fought for ten decades

For the Goth they made



I shouted out

"Who killed the Kennedys?"

When after all

It was you and me



Let me please introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

And I laid tracks for troubadours

Who get killed before they reached Bombay



Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game



Just as every cop is a criminal

And all the sinners Saints

As I end this tale

Just call me Lucifer

'Cause I'm in need of some restraint



So if you meet me

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy and some taste

Use all your well learned qualities

Or I'll lay your soul to waste

GREG BROWN lyrics - Our Little Town

Now the railroad came generations ago

And the town grew up as the crops did grow

The crops grew well and the town did too

They say it's dyin now and there ain't a thing we can do

I don't have to read the news

Or hear it on the radio

I see it in the faces of everyone I know

The cost goes up

What we made comes down

What's gonna happen to our little town



The summer is full of thunder

The kids run and play

Momma got a new wrinkle

Poppa ain't got much to say

Rust grows along the railroad track

The young folks leave

They don't come back

And I don't have to read the news

Or hear it on the radio

I see it in the faces of everyone I know

The boards go up

The signs come down

What's gonna happen to our little town



Tom lost his farm

And we lost Tom

He left in the night

I don't know where he's gone

What he'd lost

He just couldn't face

What we're losin' can't be replaced

I don't have to read the news

Or hear it on the radio

I see it in the faces of everyone I know

The reason we're here

Is the farms around

So what's gonna happen to our little town



We've seen hard times

Many times before

Maybe this whole thing is just one more

It never was perfect

Maybe no one's to blame

To see it die like this

It's a god damned shame

And I don't have to read the news

Or hear it on the radio

I see it in the faces of everyone I know

The sun comes up

The sun goes down

But what's gonna happen to our little town

ROD STEWART lyrics - I Can't Get Started

(Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)



I've been around the world in a plane

I've settled revolutions in Spain

The North Pole I have charted

But man I can't get started with you

And at the golf course I'm under par

Metro-Goldwyn wants me to star

I've got a house and a show place

But can't get no place with you



You're so supreme

The lyrics I write of you

Dream, dream, day and night of you

Scheme just for the sight of you

Baby but what good dose it do

I've been consulted by Franklin D.

Even Gabel had me to tea

But now I'm broken hearted

Can't get started with you



You're so supreme

The lyrics I write of you

Dream, dream, day and night of you

Scheme just for the sight of you

But what good does it do

I've been consulted by Franklin D.

Even Basic had me to tea

But now I'm broken hearted

Can't get started with you

ELTON JOHN lyrics - Hymn 2000

She chose the soft center

And took it to bed with her mother

And the ideal confusion

Was just an illusion

To gain further news of her brother



And the comfort of mother

Was just an appeal for protection

For the cat from next door

Was found later at four

In surgical dissection



And I don't want to be

The son of any freak

Who for a chocolate center

Can take you off the street



For soon they'll plough the desert

And God knows where I'll be

Collecting submarine numbers

On the main street of the sea



The Vicar is thicker

And I just can't see through to him

For his cardinal sings

A collection of hymns

And a collection of coins is made after



And who wrote the Bible

Was it Judas or Pilate

Well one cleans his hands

While the other one hangs

But still I continue to stand

GEORGE MICHAEL lyrics - Too Funky

Hey, You're Just Too Funky For Me

I gotta get inside of you

And i'll show you heaven if you let me

Hey you just too funky for me

I gotta get inside, (i gotta get inside)

I gotta get inside of you (so when will that be)

I watch your fingers working overtime (overtime)

I got to thinking that they should be mine. Oh!

I'd love to see you naked baby

I'd like to think that sometime maybe

Tonight, if that's all right, yeah!



Hey, you"re just too funky for me

I gotta get inside of you, (won't let you go)

Won't let you, no-no

Hey you just too funky for me

I gotta get inside, (i gotta get inside)

I gotta get inside of you (i'll let you love me)

I watch you drinkin' and i take my time

I watch you drinkin' all that cheap red wine, oh!

I've got to see you naked baby

I'd like to think that sometime maybe

Tonight my goal's in sight, yeah!



Baby, baby, baby why do you do this to me?

Won't let you go, (won't let you go)

You're such a, you're such a

Baby, baby, baby why do you do this to me?

I've got to know. (i've got to know)

(i'm gonna be the kind of lover that you never had)

Hey you're just too funky

(you're never gonna have another lover in your bed)

You're just too funky for me



(would you like me to seduce you, is that what your trying to tell me?)

(everybody wants a lover like that) baby

(everybody wants a lover like that) yeah! Yeah!

(everybody wants a lover like that) everybody, everybody

(everybody wants a lover like that)

(everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that

Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that

Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that

Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that)

(would you like me to seduce you?)

You're such a, you're such a

(would you like me to seduce you?) Yeah! Yeah!

(would you like me to seduce you?) You're such a, you're such a

Yeah! yeah!



(would you stop playing with that radio of yours, i'm trying to get to sleep!)

SPARKS lyrics - Balls

Nothing too prosaic

Nothing too archaic

Here's your wakeup call

We are provocation

We are instigation

Here's your wakeup call, your second call



Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

Balls. All you need are

Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

| Balls. All you need are



You can sting or be stung

You can fling or be flung

It's all up to you

When they're being with you

They're agreeing with you

What you say is true, it comes from



Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

Balls. All you need are

Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

Balls. All you need are



You can wait for saviors

Meting out their favors

You can wait and wait

Hope may spring eternal

Sounds a bit maternal

Do you want to wait, or crash the gate



Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

Balls. All you need are

Balls. All you need are,

Balls. To succeed are

Balls. All you need are.



Others will respect you

Others will elect you

They'll accept your calls

Others will desire you

They may not admire you

But they will admit

You do transmit

Balls.

ALBERT KING lyrics - Answer To The Laundromat Blues

(Albert King)



(Spoken:

This number's bein' especially played

And dedicated to all of the women

From all of the men)



You see you women have a good thing goin'

But we hip to ya now



You take two or three pieces

And go down to the laundromat

An' take ya eight hours to wash 'em

No good!



We gonna buy ya washers and dryers

And we're gonna put ya at home in the basement

And we gonna kick the door down that goes to the basement

While we can hear the washer when it stop



And baby, baby, baby, when that washer stop

You better be though

Or you better have a darn good explanation!



Don't you go get whupped all on the toenails

We're gonna raise your eye lashes and whup ya some

And if ya run fast enough

We're gonna whup ya on the bottom of the feet

Ain't that right men?

Speak up for yourself! (yeah, yeah)



There will be no more goin' to the laundromat

Puttin' your clothes in there

And gettin' your girlfriend keep her eye on it

While you step out the back door



You better take my advise

You might need it on your vacation this summer

I'd hate to see ya come up with a leg screwed off

Or a eye punched out

Yeah!



Whoa! yeah, yeah!



I know you don't know it babe (yeah, yeah, yeah)

But things look bad for you

Hey, I know you don't know it babe

But I'm gonna keep a close eye on you



Well, ev'ry time you go to the laundromat, baby

I want you to know, I want you to know

That I'll be there too!

JOHN (COUGAR) MELLENCAMP lyrics - Ghost Towns Along The Highway

(John Mellencamp)



Ghost towns along the highway

Guess no one wants to live around here any more

Ghost towns along the highway

Listen to the wind blow through the

Cracks on the boarded-up doors



But our love keeps on moving

To the nearest faraway place

I guess no one believes in

Ghost towns along the highway

Ghost towns along the main highway



Perhaps it's the crossroads of another time

Maybe it's too lonely out here

But I can hear the voices of misery cryin'

Some day these highways will all disappear



But our love keeps on moving

And the wind keeps blowin' us around

I guess no one believes in

Ghost towns along the highway

Ghost towns along the main highway



Ghost towns along the highway

So many people used to call this place home

Ghost towns along the highway

I guess folks they're just bound to roam



But our love keeps on moving

To the nearest faraway place

I guess no one believes in

Ghost towns along the highway

Ghost towns along the main highway

CELINE DION lyrics - Toi Sur Ta Montagne

(Eddy Marnay / Christian Loigerot, Thierry Geoffroy)



[You On Your Mountain]



Moi... je te regarde avec mon coeur

Comme un cadeau venu d'ailleurs

Comme un pays que je decouvre

Moi... tu me voyages dans la tete

Et c'est en moi comme une fete

Immense

Quand j'y pense



(Me... I look at you with my heart

Like a gift from elsewhere

Lika a country that I'm discovering

Me... you're travelling in my head

And it's in me like a party

Huge

When I think about it)



Moi... je suis la porte d'a cote

Tu es chez toi avant d'entrer

Tu dis bonjour la porte s'ouvre

Moi... je suis un livre sans mystere

Et j'ai pour toi des pages entieres

De libres

Mais tu ne vois rien de tout cela



(Me... I'm the next door

You are at home before entering

You say hello the door opens

Me... I'm a book without a mystery

And I have for you whole pages

Free

But you don't see a thing of that)



Toi... toi sur ta montagne

On dirait qu'il neige

Quant tu me regardes

Toi... tu parles aux etoiles

Et tu fais ta vie sans moi

Moi qui leve mes yeux vers toi

Toi... toi qui m'accompagnes

Jusque dans mes reves

Jusque dans mes larmes

Toi... toi sur ta montagne

Si demain tu veux de moi

Tu sauras toujours que je suis la



(You... you on your mountain

It's like it's snowing

When you're looking at me

You... you talk to the stars

And you make your life without me

Me who lift my eyes to you

You... you who accompany me

Down to my dreams

Down to my tears

You... you on your mountain

If tomorrow you want me

You'll always know I'm there)



Moi... je suis la porte d'a cote

Tu es chez toi avant d'entrer

Tu dis bonjour la porte s'ouvre

Moi... je suis un livre sans mystere

Et j'ai pour toi des pages entieres

De libres

Si tu veux tourner tes yeux vers moi



(Me... I'm the next door

You are at home before entering

You say hello the door opens

Me... I'm a book without a mystery

And I have for you whole pages

Free

If you want to turn your eyes to me)



Toi... toi sur ta montagne

Il faut que j'espere

Il faut que je gagne

Toi... laisse-moi me battre

Ouvre un peu ton coeur pour moi

Ouvre-moi la route vers toi

Toi... toi qui m'accompagnes

Jusque dans mes reves

Jusque dans mes larmes

Toi... toi sur ta montagne

Si la chance veut de moi

J'irai sur la montagne avec toi



(You... you on your mountain

I need to hope

I need to win

You... let me fight

Open your heart a little for me

Open me the road to you

You... you who accompany me

Down to my dreams

Down to my tears

You... you on your mountain

If chance wants me

I'll go on the mountain with you)

GEORGE HARRISON lyrics - Cockamamie Business

Bust my back on the Levy - broke my strings on the BBC

Found my chops on Eel Pie Island - paid my dues at the Marquee

Slagged off by the N. M.E. - lost my stash and my virginity

In this Cockamamie Business



Got my face on Ed Sullivan - broke my heart on the Soul Train

Introduced to Bad Company - lost cells down at Brain Drain

And before I could mend - lost the missus, missed the girlfriend

In this Cockamamie Business



Now we like to air condition - though the air has no ozone ring

Still they're chopping down the forest for McDonalds and the Burger King

Eating cows with such persistance - doesn't offer much resistance

To this Cockamamie Business



There are too many things - stressing out the nervous system

Girls you used to know - fellas that may have kissed'em

Some got rabies - Some got fleas - some got incurable diseases

From this Cockamamie Business



Everybody's after as many points as they can get

As long as it's not them that has to pay

No one really minds the Debt

5-Star actors, tax inspectors, film producers and directors

With their Cockamamie Business



Well you do what you can - can't do much more than that

(No you can't do what he just said)

Some days you're pretty sharp - on other days you feel half dead

(While you make your daily bread)

Didn't want to be a star - wanted just to play guitar

In this Cockamamie Business

TOTO lyrics - St. George And The Dragon

Can you tell me where I might find the Hydra

Is he wearing a familiar face

Does he still live below Seventh Avenue

With the princess dipped in lace



Does he know that I'm a soldier of fortune

And not a victim of circumstance

We drew lots for his soft underbelly

Now his fate is sealed with my lance



I can tell by the look in your eye

You've never seen the man with nothing to say

I can tell by the look in your eye

You'd better watch yourself

St. George is on his way



Is it true that he's a mighty warrior

And a viper of the first degree

I've been sentenced here to slay the giant

Geld this fear I cannot see



Can you tell me where I might find the Hydra

Is he wearing a familiar face

Does he still live below Seventh Avenue

In the slums of Satan's grace



I can tell by the look in your eye

You've never seen the man with nothing to say

I can tell by the look in your eye

You'd better watch yourself

St. George is on his way

LEO SAYER lyrics - Moonlighting

(Leo Sayer/Frank Farrell)



He sees her at the same time every night

At the Mexican discotheque

She gives him French kisses

He gives her French cigarettes

They sit at the same table every time

The lights are low

But their eyes shine

Just digging the music from those sweet soul bands

She keeps him outta fights

Holds on to his hand

He whispers slowly "Tonight's the night"

Months of planning so it's gotta be right

Under the table her bag is bursting at the seams

She made sure to bring everything

Moonlighting

They're leaving everything

Moonlighting

They're losing all their friends

Moonlighting

It's the only way

It's frightening

But it means they'll stay

Together

They're gonna make it together

His blue Morris van is parked in an alley

Just by Montague Street

His friend Eddie he did the re-spray

So he couldn't drive it all last week

And it cost most of the money that he had saved up

To pay Eddie's receipt

But he figures it's worth it 'cos the disguise is a must

When they go missing they're gonna look for the van first

She whispers slowly "It'll be alright

I took some cash from my building society

And my monthly cheque came in just right"

If only they knew they were giving it away

Moonlighting

They're leaving everything

Moonlighting

They're losing all their friends

Moonlighting

It's the only way

It's frightening

But it means they'll stay

Together

They're gonna make it together

9:15 Monday morning at the printing works

The boss notices someone's not clocked in

And the water department of the council offices has a message

That Mrs. Park's daughter is missing

Meanwhile the Carlisle turn-off of the M6 Motorway

Drinking cold black coffee eating hot cup-cakes

She stares at him with his beard un-shaved

Wonders at his powers of staying awake

He whispers slowly "You did just fine"

They shared the driving all through the night

She laughs "My mother will have lost her mind

We're only ten miles to Gretna

They're three hundred behind"

Moonlighting

They're leaving everything

Moonlighting

They're losing all their friends

Moonlighting

It's the only way

It's frightening

But it means they'll stay

Together

They're gonna make it together

Moonlighting

They're leaving everything

Moonlighting

They're losing all their friends

Moonlighting

It's the only way

It's frightening

But it means they'll stay

Together

They're gonna make it together

BIG BILL BROONZY lyrics - When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)

(Big Bill Broonzy)



I love you, baby,

I ain't gonna lie

Without you, woman,

I just can't be satisfied

'Cause when things go wrong, so wrong with you,

It hurts me too



So, run here, baby,

Put your little hands in mine

I've got something to tell you, baby,

I know, that will change your mind

When things go wrong, so wrong with you,

It hurts me too



I want you, baby,

Just to understand

I don't want to be your boss, baby,

I just want to be your man

When things go wrong, so wrong. with you,

It hurts me too



Now, when you go home,

You don't get along

Come back to me, baby,

Where I live, that's your home

When things go wrong, so wrong with you,

It hurts me too



I love you, baby,

You know it's true

I wouldn't mistreat you, baby,

Not for nothing in this world like you

When things go wrong, so wrong with you,

It hurts me too

So, yes, you know, when things go wrong,

It hurts me too

STEVE EARLE lyrics - Ellis Unit One

(Steve Earle)



I was fresh out of the service

It was back in '82

I raised some Cain when I come back to town

I left to be all I could be

Come home without a clue

Now, I married Dawn and had to settle down



So I hired on at the prison

Guess I always knew I would

Just like my dad and both my uncles done

And I worked on every cell block

Now, things're goin' good

But then they transferred me to Ellis Unit One



Swing low

Swing low

Swing low and carry me home



Well, my daddy used to talk about them long nights at the walls

And how they used to strap 'em in the chair

The kids down from the college and they'd bring their beer 'n all

'N when the lights went out, a cheer rose in the air



Well, folks just got too civilized

Sparky's gatherin' dust

'Cause no one wants to touch a smokin' gun

And since they got the injection

They don't mind as much, I guess

They just put 'em down at Ellis Unit One



Swing low

Swing low

Swing low and carry me home



Well, I've seen 'em fight like lions, boys

I've seen 'em go like lambs

And I've helped to drag 'em when they could not stand

And I've heard their mamas cryin' when they heard that big door slam

And I've seen the victim's family holdin' hands



Last night I dreamed that I woke up with straps across my chest

And something cold and black pullin' through my lungs

'N even Jesus couldn't save me though I know he did his best

But he don't live on Ellis Unit One



Swing low

Swing low

Swing low and carry me home

Swing low

Don't let go

Swing low and carry me home

BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND lyrics - Persecution Smith

He rises every morning but he don't look at the sun

He reaches in the corner where he keeps his loaded gun

Then he checks the firing action, as he straps it to his chest

Plans an ambush for the mailman, even though it's all in jest

He's here he's there he's everywhere

He's found uptown and underground

Unlike my friend flicka you know he's not a myth

He's persecution, persecution, persecution smith



He's found at every protest march you'll see him looking on

He'd soon join in to help but he thinks it's all in fun

Cause he isn't colorblind not to mention no one's fool

He knows how things should be but he ain't out to change no rule



His eyes can't see like you and me

His voice can't speak but only shreik

His brain is like jelly his muscles they are stiff

He's persecution persecution persecution smith



You can't walk down the street no more without him walking by

You can't go to sleep at night without hearing him cry

You can't read a newspaper without reading about him

You can't escape him in the crowd for he will be among them



He's here he's there he's everywhere

He's found uptown and underground

In Watts, California you know who he was with

With persecution persecution persecution smith



When you're finished with your ideals

And you're finished with your dreams

When you're finished your crusading and no longer hear the screams

When you're finished trying to picture a world with people free

When you're finished looking up and the down is all you see

Then make your goal the first foxhole

And hide your head beneath your bed



Cause you won't be alone my friend you know who you'll be with

With persecution persecution persecution smith

GARY MOORE lyrics - Moving On

I'm gonna leave this place tomorrow

I'm gonna leave this town behind

I'll be gone before the morning

On the other side of the mound.



That's why I'm moving on

I'm moving on

I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on



Oh, well I'm tired of the same old faces

And I'm sick of the same old names

I'm getting bored with the same old places

Everybody starts to look the same



That's why I'm moving on

I'm moving on

I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on



Move it for me!



I've been tryin' to settle down here

But my feet just won't stay still

And I've heard that the grass is greener

On the other side of the hill



That's why I'm moving on

I'm moving on

I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on



Give me one more for the go!



I'm gonna leave this town tomorrow

I'm gonna leave this place behind

You can bet your bottom dollar

All my troubles will be far behind



That's why I'm moving on

I'm moving on

I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on



I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on



Said I've been hanging around too long

It's time I was moving on

Get out of here!

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - Well

(Walter Ward)



[Fillmore East, NYC

Late show, June 6, 1971]



You know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well, well

You know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well, well

You know I love you, honey, child

'Cause nothing I wouldn't do for you right now

You know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well



You know I love you, baby, please, don't go

You know I love you, baby, please, don't go

You know I love you, honey, child

Nothing I wouldn't do for you right now

Y'know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well

Zappa!



You know I want you, baby, please, don't go, well, well

You know I want you, baby, please, don't go

You know I love you, honey, child

'Cause nothing I wouldn't do for you right now

You know I want you, baby, please, don't go, well



Well, you know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well

You know I love you, baby, please, don't go

You know I love you, honey, child

'Cause nothing I wouldn't do for you right now

I know I love you, baby, please, don't go, well

Yeah!

HAWKWIND lyrics - Who's Gonna Win The War

(Brock)



Lonely figures waiting, Shadows on a hill,

Looking into valleys where everything is still.



Only death is lurking, The creeping sickness waits

So who's gonna win the war, Who's gonna win the war.



Radiation-Wasteland in the setting-sun

Dust clouds they are rising to obliterate the guns.



Already weeds are writing their scriptures in the sand,

So who's gonna win the war, Who's gonna win the war.

KISS lyrics - Childhood's End

I lived a life of illusion and you had your kicks

So what, there's nothing left to do

And you and your obsessions and your crucifix

As if what I thought mattered much to you



(chorus)

And you were always my friend from Childhood's End

It was forever and ever

Did you understand

It's Childhood's End

But never, the dream is over



Sunday morning in the New York Times

I read you died last night

It said you were smilin' when you blew your mind

And the note you left behind said:

You were always my friend from Childhood's End

Seems like forever and ever

Yeah, you won't have to have to pretend

It's near the end

You won't ever be a rock and roller



Yeah, you were always my friend from Childhood's End

But never, the dream is over

You were just like me

I was just like you

For eternity I'll think of you



(Repeat choruses, overlapping, fade out)

You've got something about you,

You've got something I need...

DONNA FARGO lyrics - Funny Face

(Donna Fargo)



Funny face, I love you

Funny face, I need you

My whole world's wrapped up in you



When the road I walk seems all uphill

And the colors in my rainbow turn blue

You kiss the tears away

You smile at me and say

"Funny face (funny face) I love you"



Funny face, I love you

Funny face, I need you

These are the sweetest words I've ever heard

Funny face, don't leave me

Funny face, believe me

My whole world's wrapped up in you



And when I hurt your feelings as I sometimes do

And I say those mean things that we know are not true

You forgive my childish way

You hold me close and say

"Funny face (funny face) I love you"



Funny face, I love you

Funny face, I need you

These are the sweetest words I've ever heard

Funny face, don't leave me

Funny face, believe me

My whole world's wrapped up in you



Funny face, I love you

Funny face, I need you



[Fade]



These are the sweetest words I've ever heard

Funny face, don't leave me

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL lyrics - Before You Accuse Me

(E. McDaniels)



Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,

But you've been talkin' to someone else.

I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago.

I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago.

Your mama said, "Son,

Don't call my daughter no more."



Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,

But you've been takin' money from someone else.



Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time.

Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time.

You've been gone away so long,

I'm just about to lose my mind.



Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,

But you've been talkin' to someone else.

THE MONKEES lyrics - Mommy And Daddy

Ask your mommy and daddy, "What happened to the Indian?

How come they're all living in places

With too much snow or too much sand?"

Tell your mommy, "I got a funny feeling deep inside of me"

Ask your daddy, "Is it really as bad as people make it seem?"



Wa ta tick it ta too too..



Ask your mommy why everybody swallows all those little pills

Ask your daddy why that soldier doesn't care who he kills

After they've put you to sleep and tucked you safely down in your bed

Whisper, "Mommy and Daddy would you rather that

I learned it from my friends, instead?

Do you think I'm to young to know, to see, to feel, or hear

My questions need an answer or a vaccuum will appear"

Don't be surprised if they turn and walk away

And tell your mommy and daddy that you love them anyway

That you love them anyway...

Give them a kiss

Love will set you free

Kings of EMI





[Mommy and Daddy (alt.)]



Ask your mommy and daddy, "What happened to the Indian?"

Ask your mommy and daddy to tell you where you really came from

Then mommy and daddy will probably turn and quickly walk away

Then ask your mommy and daddy who really killed J. F.K

Wa ta tick it ta too too...



Ask your mommy if she really gets off on all her - all her pills

Ask your Daddy, "Why doesn't that soldier care who he kills?"

After they've put you to sleep and tucked you safely down in your bed

Whisper Mommy and Daddy,

"Would it matter if the bullet went through my head?

If it was my blood spilling on the kitchen floor

If it was my blood, mommy, would you care a little more?"

Don't be surprised when they turn and start to cry

And tell your Mommy and Daddy, tell your mommy and daddy

Scream it to your mommy and daddy

They're living in a lie, a lie, a lie

It's all a lie, a lie, a lie

A lie, a lie...

LEO SAYER lyrics - Work

(Leo Sayer/Tom Snow/John Vastano)



Five days outa seven

Eight hours of every one

I'm tryin' to buy a piece of heaven

But I'll be gone before that heaven comes

Work, work, work

Who needs it

It's all I ever seem to do

I'm killin' myself for a livin'

Livin' the working man's blues

Minute to minute

Day after day

Wherever I go it's always the same

I work a little longer

And make up my pay

But when the cheque comes along

They've taken half of it away

All this work, work, work, work

Who needs it

All, all I ever seem to do

Y'know I'm killin' myself for a livin'

I should be stayin' at home with you

City to city

All over the world

Wherever I've been to

That's all I ever heard

You work a little longer

To double up on that pay

Then the tax man comes along

They've taken half of it away

Work, work, work

Who needs it

It's all I ever seem to do

I'm killin', killin', killin' time for a livin'

Livin' the working man's blues

Yeah, work, work, work

Oh, my

That's all it is

Killin' myself for a livin'

Like drivin' a nail straight into my hand

I've been working my life away

That's right

Working my life away

I'm working my life

All this work, work, work,

Working my life away

Working my life away

You know sometimes I get home in the evenin'

And lay in bed at night just dreamin'

I had enough a whole pay cheque sittin' in my hand

So we can split it between the two of us

And buy that big mansion on the hill

Where that rich guy lives

Who says he pays me every week

Oh, I don't want to work no more

I can't stand it

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG lyrics - Master's Hands

(Hey hey hey hey... hey hey hey hey...)



Hold my head up, right foot back

Take my hands down, shake my back

Pull my strings and cut my rope

Rattle my frame and shatter my ghost

And if I can't get back in line

They're gonna break me down

Till the broad daylight comes through



Breathe out, come alive

Give me a reason to feel



Take my eyes and paint my bones

Drill my brain all full of holes

And patch it up before it leaks

These memories come two by three

And if I catch these master's hands

Could I spend my days on a discount revelry



Breathe out, come alive

Give me a reason to feel

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - The Legend Of The Golden Arches

[includes Uncle Meat]



Heh heh heh. . . GrrrRRRNNHH. . .



Suzy: The first thing that attracted me to Mothers music was the fact that they played for twenty minutes and everybody was hissing and booing and falling off the dance floor. . . And Elmer was yelling at them to get off stage and turn down their amplifiers

THE KALIN TWINS lyrics - When

When, when you smile, when you smile at me

Well, well I know our love will always be

When, when you kiss, when you kiss me right

I, I don't want to ever say good night



I need you

I want you near me

I love you

Yes, I do and I hope you hear me



When, when I say, when I say "Be mine"

If, if you will I know all will be fine

When will you be mine?



(Oh, baby)

(I need you)

(I want you near me)

(I love you)

(Yes, I do and I hope you hear me when)



When, when you smile, when you smile at me

Well, well I know our love will always be

When, when you kiss, when you kiss me right

I, I don't want to ever say good night



I need you

I want you near me

I love you

Yes, I do and I hope you hear me



When, when I say, when I say "Be mine"

If, if you will I know all will be fine

When will you be mine?

BLACK SABBATH lyrics - Air Dance

She sits in silence, in her midnight world

Her faded pictures, of her dancing girls

Her, distant dreamer, on the seas of time

Her happy memories, dancing through her mind



In days of romance

She was the queen of dance

She'd dance the night away



And as the seasons turn the days to years

She holds her pictures, hears the silent cheers

The days grow lonely for the dancing queen

And now she dances only in her dreams



In days of romance

She was the queen of dance

She'd dance the night away, away, away, away

IRVING BERLIN lyrics - I Paid My Income Tax Today

[Verse:]

I said to my Uncle Sam

Old Man Taxes, here I am

And he

Was glad to see me

Mister Small Fry, yes, indeed

Lower brackets, that's my speed

But he

Was glad to see me



[1st refrain:]

I paid my income tax today

I never felt so proud before

To be right there with the millions more

Who paid their income tax today

I'm squared up with the U. S.A.

See those bombers in the sky?

Rockefeller helped to build 'em, so did I

I paid my income tax today



[2nd refrain:]

I paid my income tax today

A thousand planes to bomb Berlin

They'll all be paid for and I chipped in

That certainly makes me feel okay

Ten thousand more and that ain't hay

We must pay for this war somehow

Uncle Sam was worried but he isn't now

I paid my income tax today



[3rd REFRAIN with coda:]

I paid my income tax today

I never cared what Congress spent

But now I'll watch over ev'ry cent

Examine ev'ry bill they pay

They'll have to let me have my say

I wrote the Treasury to go slow

Careful, Mister Henry Junior, that's my dough

I paid my income tax

Now you've got all the facts

I know you'll pay your taxes too

JONI MITCHELL lyrics - Eastern Rain

Rain comes from the east one night

We watch it come

To hang like beaded curtains

Till the morning sun

Water dripping from our clothes

You with raindrops on your nose

Ask me sadly "Please don't go away now."

Till the rain is done, I say

"I'll stay now."



Rain outside but inside we don't mind at all

Shadows by the fire slowly climb and fall

Kisses fade and leave no trace

Whispers vanish into space

The dawn will send me on a chase to nowhere

Why cry as if I were the first to go there



And I know I shouldn't be here

Yes, I know I should go home

But that eastern rain drones in my brain

And I'm so all alone, so all alone



Morning comes up from the east

We watch it come

And far away now rolls the ancient rain god's drum

You with daybreak in your eyes

Afraid to speak for telling lies

I watch you search for some reply to lend me

But when the rain is done

There's no pretending



And I know I shouldn't be here

Yes, I know I should go home

But that eastern rain drones in my brain

And I'm so all alone, so all alone

WARLOCK lyrics - Catch My Heart

Tonight, the starlight flows into my window

I'm watching the wheels turning round



Tomorrow sleeps in the same old lonely places

Just an empty dream filled with yesterday's faces

Can you tell me, where are my memories?



I was a dream on fire

I was a dream on fire, burning for you



I wanna dream on forever with you boy,

But I feel so blue.



Catch my heart!

Catch my heart!

Don't you leave me here, so alone



Catch my heart!

Never, never, never, never, never

Catch my heart!

Oh, I can feel it falling down to the ground



Catch my heart.



Too long, too strong

I'd trade all this madness

For your company



When fortune and fame meet,

They ask their price and you pay

Success is the name of the game

But where are my memories?

ART GARFUNKEL lyrics - Sail On A Rainbow

(Stephen Bishop)



I heard a nightingale croon last night in town.

I smiled up at the moon, had another round.

You've got to be the prettiest girl I've found,

And I'm gonna Sail On A Rainbow.

I'm gonna dance all night in the rain.

I'll keep on sailin' on a rainbow,

Till I hold you in my arms again.

In sunny spring we were sweethearts

Sleeping in the sand.

Our love was an endless dream,

No one could understand.

Just like pennies from heaven,

I know I cannot fail,

And I'm gonna Sail On A Rainbow.

I'm gonna dance all night in the rain.

I'll keep on sailin' on a rainbow

Till I hold you in my arms again.

So, I'm gonna Sail On A Rainbow.

I'm gonna dance all night in the rain.

I'll keep on sailin' on a rainbow

Till I hold you in my arms, till I hold you in my arms,

Till I hold you in my arms again, till I hold you in my arms again.

Till I hold you in my arms, till I hold you in my arms again.

NEIL DIAMOND lyrics - If I Couldn't See You Again

If I couldn't see you again

Life would make no sense at all to me

I could be a rich man, but why?

It wouldn't mean much, if I

Could never see you again



If I couldn't look in your eyes

How'm I gonna see tomorrow?

How'm I gonna know where to go?

I need to be at your side

Say what you want, babe

But I, I need to see you again



Things are gonna get serious

What a waste of a chance

For the two of us

What can I do?

Is it so mysterious?

I would be much less than I am

If I couldn't have you



And if there wasn't you in my life

All my life would be so empty

And if I couldn't see you again,

Be losing more than a friend

Don't even want to pretend

I need to see you again



Things are gonna get serious

What a waste of a chance

For the two of us

What can I do?

Is it so mysterious?

I would be much less than I am

If I couldn't have you

Know that it's true



How'm I gonna make you believe

What have I got left to give to you?

Maybe just a piece of my life

It wouldn't mean much, if I

Could never see you again

I need to see you again

RAY CHARLES lyrics - Drinking Again

Drinkin' again and thinkin' of when, when you loved me

I'm havin' a few and wishin' that you were here

Makin' the rounds, accepting a round from strangers

Bein' a fool just hopin' that you'll appear

Sure, I can borrow a smoke, maybe tell some joker a bad joke

But nobody laughs, they don't laugh at a broken heart

Oh, yeah, I'm drinkin' again, it's always the same

That same old story

After the kicks there's little old mixed-up me

Tryin' to lose a dream that used to be

Look at me, I'm drinkin' again, drinkin' all over town

Yeah, I'm drinkin' again

ROBERT GOULET lyrics - My Love Forgive Me (Amore Scusami)

(English lyrics by Sydney Lee, Italian lyrics by Bito Pallavicini, Music by Gino Mescoli)



My love, forgive me,

I didn't mean to have it end like this,

I didn't mean to have you fall in love, in love with me.



My love, please kiss me,

Arrivederci amore, kiss me,

Remember when we part, you'll have my heart,

I love you so.



It was just a slight flirtation,

That was all it was to be,

How could I know this fascination

Would turn to love for you and me.

How to tell you of my heartache?

How to tell you I'm not free?

How can I bear to see your heart break,

To see your heart break over me.



Amore scusami se sto piangendo

Amore scusami, ma ho capito che lasciandoti io soffriro,



Amore baciami, arrivederci amore baciami,

E se mi penserai ricordati che amo te.



Ti ricordi quella sera che per gioco ti bacia?

Sembrava solo un'avventura, un'avventura in riva al mar.

Ti baciavo nel silenzio, non volevo confessar,

Che stavo forse a poco a poco innamorandomi di te.



My love, forgive me,

I didn't mean to have it end like this,

I didn't mean to have you fall in love, in love with me,



My love, please kiss me,

Arrivederci amore, kiss me,

Though we're apart, you'll still be in my heart,

I love so, I love so, I love so.

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL lyrics - Take Me

Don't go, don't go, don't go.

Baby, baby, baby, I'm lonely can't you see.

Baby, baby, baby come give your love to me.

Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.

Before you turn around, take one look at me.

Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.

Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time

Before you go.



Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.

Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.

Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.

Before you turn around, take one look at me.

Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.

Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time

Before you go.

BETTE MIDLER lyrics - Dreamland

"Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

Angels on my left and right to keep me safe all through the night."



There's a place way up high,

starry bright there, through the night there.

Close your eyes. Let your wishes fly.

You'll be in Dreamland by and by.



Dimpled and drowsy, off you go,

over the treetops, sliding down a rainbow.

Sleepyhead, curl up in your bed.

And 'til the sun says, "Rise and shine,"

sleep warm in Dreamland, baby mine.



There's a place worlds away,

time has wings there, green with springs there.

Smiles and songs bloom on every tree.

Only in Dreamland, just wait and see.



Deep down inside us, a child's still there,

wishing for Dreamland, knowing that it's somewhere.

Though it may seem so far away,

if you believe that dreams come true,

you'll find a Dreamland waiting for you.

Mmmmmm.

"Go to sleep now, dear."

10,000 MANIACS lyrics - You Won't Find Me There

I'd like to know

What makes you stay

While your eyes still search for escape.



You think that I

Don't feel the cold (babe),

But I wait while confessions unfold.



You'll never make a living from reading minds

Or from getting your direction from exit signs.

Look into your heart

And you won't find me there.



You won't find

Me where you hide

And that makes us a matter of time.

Like trees exposed by fall,

Time reveals it all.



Tell me you want to do everything

But you're stuck up to your knees.

And I'm less likely pushed forward

By ambition than a breeze.



But there's a flame

That must be fanned,

And it appears as a beckoning hand.



Don't think cause you're not,

Talking you're being kind,

You've been getting there

Tolls your direction from exit signs.

Look into your heart

And you won find me there.

FREDDIE MERCURY lyrics - The Fallen Priest

(Mercury, Mike Moran and Tim Rice)



Free me, free yourself

A life of sacrifice controlled me

But those promises I made no longer hold me

Mercurial more wayward by the hour

The shackles fall away, I'm in your power



Free me, and free yourself

Come to me and let me lead you

I beg you, I beseech you to let go

My heaven is yours and heaven is all I know



We are mortal

In the hands of Gods who roll the dice

Searching for an earthly paradise

So hard to find

We are mortal

We are victims of our weaknesses and passion

We are reaching for the heights

(I am falling, I am falling from the heights)



But I promised I would serve

I should be a rock against depravity and sin

Oh no sin no sin

Free yourself, let your life begin, oh

To yourself be true

I am a man of God

I should not be here with you



Free me we are mortal, ah



Come a little closer to the fire

To love and live that one desire

Denial of that love is treason

The love that we make

The force of our lives and its reason



We are mortal

In the hands of Gods who roll the dice

Searching for an earthly paradise

So hard to find

We are mortal

Victims of our weaknesses and passion

(I am falling, I am falling we, we are mortal)



Why do I believe in you

You're destroying my world

Hold nothing back

Give me all there is

I want it all



This is where we stand

This is all there is

Prisoners of each others love

Prisoners of each others love

DAVID LEE ROTH lyrics - Hot Dog And A Shake

I see ya shake and shimmy

Cross the burger shop floor

I never seen a woman move so slow

I'm dyin'

French-fryin'

By the seat of my pants

Take a bite of double fries

Swear to god it make ya

Late for the dance



Here's one for hte road

One shot for the real go-getter

Silly rabbit, you know just what it takes



A hot dog and a shake

That's what you're hungry for

A hot dog and a shake



My stomch's makin' noise

We're having dinner late

Cuz I gotta be kept

In a cool dry place

Just like any bowl of cherries

When the cream is risin' to the top.

You find your real bottom line is when your

Spine snap crackie and pops, pal



Give me one to go

He buddy, take a number

She can't say no

To what it takes



A hot dog nad a shake

That's what you're hungry for

A hot dog and a shake.



I'm more that just a victim

Of a hungry heart

Kiss me quick

I'm double - parked



A hot dog and a shake

That's what you're hungry for

A hot dog and a shake

DAN FOGELBERG lyrics - This Heart

[Chorus:]

This heart - this heart

Has been beaten down and battered

This heart - this heart

Has been torn apart and scattered

But what's left of this heart of mine

I will lay down in your hands

'Cause in the light of your love

This heart still stands



Well I'd been walking down a one way street

Filled with sorrow and confusion

Searching every single face I'd meet

For some heaven I could hold

And when I felt like I was running dry

And love was always gonna pass me by

You brought me out of the rain and in from the cold



[Chorus]



Well I believe for every wayward soul

Crying out for its completion

There's another that will make it whole

That's just waiting to be found

And I confess that I was losing faith

And I'd all but given up the chase

When you took hold of my heart and turned it around



[Chorus]



What's left of this heart of mine I will lay down in your hands

'Cause in the light of your love this heart still stands



[Chorus]

[Fade]

KING CRIMSON lyrics - Frame By Frame

(Belew/King Crimson)



Frame by frame,

If by drowning.

In your arms,

In your arms,

Analysis.



Step by step,

Down by numbers.

In your arms,

In your arms,

Analysis.



Frame by frame,

If by drowning.

In your arms,

In your arms,

Analysis.



Step by step,

Down by numbers.

In your arms,

In your arms,

In your arms,

Analysis.

VAN MORRISON lyrics - Crazy Jane On God

(Based on a poem by W. B. Yeats)



That lover of a night

Came when he would,

Went in the dawning light

Whether I would or no;

Men come, men go;

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.



Banners choke the sky;

Men-at-arms tread;

Armoured horses neigh

In the narrow pass:

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.



I had wild Jack for a lover;

Though like a road

That men pass over

My body makes no moan

But sings on:

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.



Before their eyes a house

That from childhood stood

Uninhabited, ruinous,

Suddenly lit up

From door to top:

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.



Oh, that lover of a night

Came when he would,

Went in the dawning light

Whether I would or no;

Men come, men go;

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.



All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.

All things remain in God.

BARBRA STREISAND lyrics - Emotion

Face in the mirror looks the same every morning

I keep looking for a change

Sometimes I wonder am I standing still in time

Tired of doing everything the same old way

Tired of playing all the games that people play

This running round in circles gives me no peace of mind I need to find....

I need the emotion

I need to laugh

Sometimes I need to cry

I need the emotion

I need to love so hard

I don't know what to do

And baby, I need you...

Oooooooooooh



Sometimes I need a good old fashioned fight

It doesn't matter If I'm wrong or right

Please don't worry about it

You know how much I care

Sometimes I need to make love all day long

Sometimes I need to hold you in my arms

Let's drift away together

It doesn't matter where

As long as you're there cause I need...



I need the emotion

I need to laugh

Sometimes I need to cry

I need the emotion

I need to love so hard

I don't know what to do

And baby, I need you...

Oooooooooooh



Sometimes I need to tear the whole thing down

Sometimes I need to turn it all around

When I put it back together I'll be calling out to you

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?



I need the emotion

I need to laugh sometimes I need to cry

Cry...



I need the emotion

I need to feel each passing day go by

By...

I need the emotion

I need to love so hard I don't know what to do

And baby I need you

I need the emotion

I need the emotion

Yes I do

I need the emotion

I need ya baby

I need, I need, I need emotion

Oh won't ya baby?

I need, I need, I need emotion

Feels so good...

I need, I need, I need emotion

Yes I do baby

Oooooohh

I need the emotion

I said emotion

I need, I need, I need emotion

I need, I need, I need emotion

I need, I need, I need emotion

Every day

I need the emotion

Emotion

Every hour

I need emotion baby

T. REX lyrics - Diamond Meadows

If I could have grown

All upon my own

If I could have grown

I grew

If I could have grew

I do



If I had a throne

You could call it home

If I cry my tears are yours

To open any frozen doors



Hey let's do it like we're friends

Let's do it do it

Hey let's do it like we're friends.

MEMPHIS MINNIE lyrics - Reachin' Pete

(Memphis Minnie)



Friend, you go to Helena, stop on Cherry Street

Friend, you go to Helena, stop on Cherry Street

And just ask anybody to show you Reachin' Pete



He's the tallest man, walks on Cherry Street

He's the tallest man, walks on Cherry Street

And the baddest copper ever walked that beat



(spoken: Eh, let's go to town now, that's what I'm talking about)



He met me one Sunday morning, just about the break of day

He met me one Sunday morning, just about the break of day

I was drinking my moonshine, he made me throw my knife away



Well, he taken my partner down to the jail

Well, he taken my partner down to the jail

After he locked her up, he turned and went her bail



Reachin' Pete's all right, but his buddy

Reachin' Pete's all right, but his buddy

Every time he meet you, he ready for plenty hell



(spoken: Look out, now, here comes Reachin' Pete and Buzzell

Don't let 'em catch you, it'll be too bad, I'm telling you

Ahw, shake it, that's what I'm talking about

Boys, you tired?

Shucks, I'll go a long time)

STEPHEN STILLS lyrics - Grey To Green

Certain my heart too much impaired

My life was fallin' into disrepair

I was beginning to despair

Of finding love at all



No one gave me a second look

Fewer still knew of a good book

She said "I would if I didn't

Have to work so hard"



And her eyes turn green

When she's feelin' love

When she's feelin' bad they

Turn blue



They're hazel

When she works

Until she sees

That my love can change her

Grey eyes back to green for me



Told me I caught her at her worst

Saw the confusion and the hurt

She felt that she'd been livin'

With this curse for far too long



But in the twinkling of an eye

Something between us laughed and cried

As we began to see

Indeed together we could fly

BONEY M lyrics - African Moon

African Moon

Roll with the mighty waves

We'll be there soon

Feel the winds as we sail on home to African Moon



African Moon

My heart beats like the drum

Now it is noon

Loved ones we left behind I'll see again

African Moon



African Moon

I will see you once more

Yes again I'll adore the real sound of the drum

Oh yes I'm sailing feel your hot sun

African Moon



African Moon

Looking out to the sea

A reunion there'll be in the evening sun

Oh there's a new life that's awaiting me

African Moon



African Moon

This land is my rightful home

We'll never roam

You'll weep fou your sons no more and daughters

African Moon



Hold up your head

One day you'll be understood

Stand and be proud

Your sorrows are gone for good

Hold up your head

And you'll be satisfied!

JOHN HIATT lyrics - Feelin' Again

I thought I had to cut off from my head down to my toes

But heaven knows that I was wrong, I'm feeling again

Holding my breath and holed up in this cheap motel, I feel like hell

I'm holding my own heart, I'm feeling again



When I get that feeling like a bass drum

Pounding til my head is numb

Electric onion peeling within

I got that feeling again



(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again



And all those nights just kill a billion brain cells

Now I'm swelling up inside with teeth and nails, I'm feeling again

From the bottoms up I put the top down on this town

And drove it around till I passed out, I'm feeling again



When I get that feeling like a bass drum

Pounding til my head is numb

Electric onion peeling within

I got that feeling again



(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again



Morning comes like Catholic guilt, wilted lettuce bar

The family farm on false alarms, I'm feeling again

Holding on to fear and lust and hate, now it's too late

To spin the wheel, it's drink or feel, I'm feeling again



When I get that feeling like a bass drum

Pounding til my head is numb

Electric onion peeling within

I got that feeling again



(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

(I got that) Feeling again

DREAM THEATER lyrics - The Dark Eternal Night

No one dared to

Speak of the terrible danger

The hideous ancient warnings

Forged in the void of night



He has risen up

Out of the blackness

Chaos

The last of the prophets

Sinister

A sickening monstrous sight



Through the stifling heat

Underneath the pale green moon



I burned with a thirst

To seek things not yet seen



Climbing endless stairs

Leading to the choking room



Eager to explore

His most shocking mysteries



Drifting beyond all time

Out of a churning sky

Drawn to the beckoning light

Of the dark eternal night



Black forces

Rage in the vortex,

Fighting

Waves of destruction

Swallowing

The echo of the universe



I am the last

Born of the blood of the pharaohs

The ultimate god of a rotting creation

Sent to unleash this curse



Restless crowds draw near

Nameless hooded forms appear



Amidst fallen ruins

Grotesque creatures battle



Shadowed on a screen

Yellow evil faces leer



Vacant monuments

Corpses of dead worlds left behind



Drifting beyond all time

Out of a churning sky

Drawn to the beckoning light

Of the dark eternal night



Trapped in a hellish dream

Spinning past worlds unseen

And frightfully vanishing

Into the dark eternal night



Drifting beyond all time

Out of a churning sky

Drawn to the beckoning light

Of the dark eternal night



Trapped in a hellish dream

Spinning past worlds unseen

And frightfully vanishing

Into the dark eternal night

CHEAP TRICK lyrics - A Day In The Life

(Lennon/McCartney)



I read the news today oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure

If he was from the House of Lords

I saw a film today oh boy

The English Army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book

I'd love to turn you on



Woke up, fell out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream



I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

I'd love to turn you on

GENESIS lyrics - Blood On The Rooftops

(Hackett/Collins)



Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday Play

We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day

Won't you stay?



Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry

The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain

Saved again.



Let's skip the news boy (I'll make some tea)

The Arabs and the Jews boy (too much for me)

They get me confused boy (puts me off to sleep)

And the thing I hate - Oh Lord!

Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation's fate.



Hypnotised by Batman, Tarzan, still surprised!

You've won the West in time to be our guest

Name your prize!



Drop of wine, a glass of beer dear what's the time?

The grime on the Tyne is mine all mine all mine

Five past nine.



Blood on the rooftops - Venice in the Spring

Streets of San Francisco - a word from Peking

The trouble was started - by a young Errol Flynn

Better in my day - Oh Lord!

For when we got bored, we'd have a world war, happy but poor



So let's skip the news boy (I'll go make that tea)

Blood on the rooftops (too much for me)

When old Mother Goose stops - they're out for 23

Then the rain at Lords stopped play

Seems Helen of Troy has found a new face again.