Musical Wisdom

[Thaddeus]

"I can't help about the shape I'm in

I cant sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

But dont ask me what I think of you

I might not give the answer that you want me to"

No Googling please........

The thread is no a guessing game. Just post the song and let us enjoy the song.

Oki Dokey.... it's "Oh Well" by Fleetwood Mac.... an oldie but a goody

That is a good one.

I've got more Fleetwood Mac........ I've even got the lyrics to "Albatross"

"Albatross

albatross

stormy petrel on a stick"

Only Python fans may smirk ...... and then chant..... "of course you don't get ###king wafers with it"

Sorry.... I'll come up with some real lyrics in a bit

[Thaddeus]

Better one for all the materialist out there.

Im standing alone

Im watching you all

Im seeing you sinking

Im standing alone

Youre weighing the gold

Im watching you sinking

Fools gold

The Stones Roses....... possibly the best band to come out of England since The Beatles...... which leaves a little bit of a hip-hop rap crap gap, 'cos that's all we have had in the intervening time and it hasn't got any better in the latter days..... my God, I sound like my dad!!!!!..... he said the same thing about Peggy Lee.

Edited August 21, 2006 by Thaddeus

[thaibebop]

Better one for all the materialist out there.

Im standing alone

Im watching you all

Im seeing you sinking

Im standing alone

Youre weighing the gold

Im watching you sinking

Fools gold

The Stones Roses....... possibly the best band to come out of England since The Beatles...... which leaves a little bit of a hip-hop rap crap gap, 'cos that's all we have had in the intervening time and it hasn't got any better in the latter days..... my God, I sound like my dad!!!!!..... he said the same thing about Peggy Lee.

Growing old sucks, don't it.

[Thaddeus]

Better one for all the materialist out there.

Im standing alone

Im watching you all

Im seeing you sinking

Im standing alone

Youre weighing the gold

Im watching you sinking

Fools gold

The Stones Roses....... possibly the best band to come out of England since The Beatles...... which leaves a little bit of a hip-hop rap crap gap, 'cos that's all we have had in the intervening time and it hasn't got any better in the latter days..... my God, I sound like my dad!!!!!..... he said the same thing about Peggy Lee.

Growing old sucks, don't it.

Yes it does

[kayo]

So, further musical wisdom...

[Thaddeus]

So, further musical wisdom...

And again.... Oki dokey.

Rows and rows of disused milk floats

Stand dying in the dairy yard

And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk

Bottles to their hearts

Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry

Its enough to make you stop believing when tears come

Fast and furious

In a town called malice.

The Jam

(I like sound-bites...... it's those dreary 15 minute reports that get me down)

P.S....... I'm listening to this right now....... god bless Apple...... god bless iTunes...... Bill Gates can swim in his own filth for all eternity.... I hope he isn't a Buddhist

Edited August 21, 2006 by Thaddeus

[kayo]

Thadd, I saw your last lyrics adn reminds me of htis song by one of my fav bands, Os paralamas Do Sucesso:

It`s about a shanty town called Manguetown

Rough translation:

Threaded in the mud

Is a dirty quarter where Urubus has house

and I do not have a wing.

But I am here in my house where Urubus has wings

I go painting, holding the wall in the fen of my Manguetown yard

Walking among the alleys walking in collective nobody

that runs away to the smell of dirt, of the mud of manguetown

Walking among the alleys walking in collective nobody

that runs away to the dirty life of the days from manguetown

This night I will leave I go to drink with my friends...

Ha! And with the wings that Urubus had given to the day

I will fly for all the periphery

I go dreaming of the woman who I perhaps can find

and I also goes to walk in the mud of my Manguetown yard

Walking among the alleys walking in collective nobody

I run away to the smell of dirt of the mud of manguetown

Walking among the alleys walking in collective nobody

I run away to the dirty life of the days from manguetown

Walking among the alleys walking in collective nobody..etc..

[redrus]

War Baby; Tom Robinson.

Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof

Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise

I don't even care what other people are there

I just stare and stare and stare

I see your shadow in the swimming pool

I see your face in the shaving mirror

Time and time and time again

I follow your footsteps so quietly up the backstairs

And I hope and I pray you're never going to find me there

Smooth skin and tenderness long ago on a dark night

Wish I could see you once again just to remember it was true

I want to be still beside you - quiet and still beside you

Listening to your breathing and feeling your warmth again

War baby - you were a

War baby - this means

War baby - I'm scared, so scared

Of whatever it is you keep putting me through

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back

I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows

When I'm kneeling like a candle at the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters every night on the TV

Sickening reality keeps gripping me in its guts

All my friends talk and joke and laugh about Armageddon

But like a nightmare it's still waiting there at the end of every day

War baby... etc.

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back

But later that same evening we were out in the car talking

When I suddenly wondered who the hel_l it was we were trying to fool

Co you were the first one that I ever wanted

And it's you I come home to at the end of every day

Like a mother-sucking baby, demanding and so helpless

A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes

War baby... etc.

TUNE....!!!!

redrus

[kayo]

nice drus..

Okay,

Gonna do another translation here: ù

Not strictly wisdom, but sweet melancholy

We agreed to meet again in ten years,

Same Day, same time, same same

We'll see eachother when we're thirty

On the steps of the Great Peoples' Square

The day arrived and so did I

But I don't wanna be the first

What IF we had nothing to say, and what if, what if...?

I make some detours in the neighbourhood

It's funny how a sunset of the spring

Reminds me of the same sunset of ten years ago

Sidewalks used by downturned faces

What did I do with all these years?

I didn't float calmly on the water

And I didn't swim with the wind behind me

Last straight, the Whistler's Road (similar)

Ok! How many will be there? 4, 3, 2, 1, Zero!

We agreed to meet again in ten years,

Same Day, same time, same same

We'll see eachother when we're thirty

On the steps of the Great Peoples' Square

I so often desired her

The beautiful Severine, will she see me?

Eric wanted to dive into the subconcsious;

Does he surface from time to time?

I feared to cross the mirror,

If I hadn't of gone, I'd of missed an evening

In front of an Antique Store window

I imagine the encountered renewed friendships

"You've not changed, what have you become?"

"You got married, with three kids! "

"You've succeeded, you a Doctor"

"And you Pascale, You still crack up for no reason?!"

Chorus

"I've known High tides, and Low tides

Like you, like you and you

I've known Hurricanes and Droughts

Like you, like you and you

Every Love that died replaced by a new Love

And you? And you? And you? "

"And you Marco,

Who's sole ambition was to be happy in your life?

Did you win your bet?"

"And you Francis, and you Lawrence, and you Marion?

And you Bruno? And you JJ? and you Evelyn?

"Well that's great my friends!"

"We'vetold eachother all, and we shake hands!"

We can'tjust put ten years on the table,

As we shuffle our letters in scrabble!

In this Window I see the reflection

Of a High school girl

If she goes to the left, I'll follow her.

If she goes to the right, ....

Wait for me.... Wait for me.... Wait for me....

Chorus....

and (to the girl) what say we meet in ten years...

I like this tune. He never actuallymeets his old friends. He imagines it so beautifully though.

[Little Black Duck]

Everything I love is Killing Me,

Cigarettes, Jack Daniels and Caffine..

Alan Jackson Song

[redrus]

Squeeze; Up the Junction. (Just read em, quality )

difford/tilbrook)

I never thought it would happen

With me and the girl from clapham

Out on a windy common

That night I aint forgotten

When she dealt out the rations

With some or other passions

I said you are a lady

Perhaps she said I may be

We moved into a basement

With thoughts of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly

Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissing

The railway arms were missing

But love had got us hooked up

And all our time it took up

I got a job with stanley

He said Id come in handy

And started me on monday

So I had a bath on sunday

I worked eleven hours

And bought the girl some flowers

She said shed seen a doctor

And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter

The weather brass and bitter

I put away a tenner

Each week to make her better

And when the time was ready

We had to sell the telly

Late evenings by the fire

With little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50

I took her rather nifty

Down to an incubator

Where thirty minutes later

She gave birth to a daughter

Within a year a walker

She looked just like her mother

If there could be another

And now shes two years older

Her mothers with a soldier

She left me when my drinking

Became a proper stinging

The devil came and took me

From bar to street to bookie

No more nights by the telly

No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen

I feel theres something missing

Id beg for some forgiveness

But beggings not my business

And she wont write a letter

Although I always tell her

And so its my assumption

Im really up the junction..................

Told ya......

redrus

[game4shame]

electronic - flicker

twisted tenderness LP

every time I watch TV

on the news is something major

I'm a prisoner, set me free

turn this atoll into vapor

genocide put on the side

it's always new

politicians want to share their

point of view

united nations are demanding

foreign troops have made a landing

city dealers at an auction

shares are falling fast

suicide is not an option

waiting for the crash

I walk this wild road

can you tell me

will I reach the end

this endless night goes on

but I still can't find my way home

misguided youth are mixing juice

with alcohol

desert states are praying for the

rains to fall

peace in Ireland is an issue

goodbye bombs we're gonna miss you

the southern ice has almost gone

the silly fools just

carry on

I walk this wild road can you tell me

will I reach the end

this endless night goes on

but I still can't find my way home

I walk this wild road can you tell me

will I reach the end

this endless night goes on

but I still carry on

this world's out of reach

but I don't want it

the people are creeps

that live here on it

it's always the same

it's not gonna change

when we go to school

with Sadam Hussein

I'd cry all night

if I could change it

ask Jesus Christ

could he arrange it

Is there anyone out there who cares

if a child can run free

can a girl walk the street

when united get beat?

[eddie11]

'When Your'e Young'

Life is timeless, days are long when you're young

You used to fall in love with everyone

Any guitar and any bass drum

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young

Life is new and there's things to be done

You can't wait to be grown up

Acceptance into the capital world

You pull on some weed, then you pull on someone when you're young

But you find out life isn't like that

It's so hard to comprehend

Why you set up your dreams to have them smashed in the end

But you don't mind you've got time on your side

And they're never gonna make you stand in line

You're just waiting for the right time

You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young

You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone

No corporations for the new age sons

Tears of rage roll down your face

But still you say "it's fun"

And you find out life isn't like that

It's so hard to understand

Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam

It's got you in its grip before your born

It's done with the use of a dice and a board

They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn

You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young

You used to fall in love with everyone

Any guitar and any bass drum

The Jam Classic

[coldcrush]

The Verve Lyrics

History

I wander lonely streets

Behind where the old Thames does flow

And in every face I meet

Reminds me of what I have run from

In every man, in every hand

In every kiss, you understand

That living is for other men

I hope you two will understand

I've got to tell you my tale

Of how I loved and how I failed

I hope you understand

I've got to tell you my tale

Of how I loved and how I failed

I hope you understand

These feelings should not be in the man

In every child, in every eye

In every sky, above my head

I hope that I know

So come with me in bed

Because it's you and me, we're history

There ain't nothing left to say

When I will get you alone

Maybe we could find a room

Where we could see what we should do

Maybe you know it's true

Living with me is like keeping a fool<

In every man, in every hand

In every kiss, you understand

That living is for other men

I hope you know that I am me so come on

I'm thinking about history

And I'm living for history

And I think you know about me

Cause I am

And one and one is two

But three is company

When you're thinking about the things you do

And you're thinking about the things you do

I want to tell you my tale

How I fell in love and jumped out on my bail

I hope you understand there's more in a smile than in a hand

In every sky, in every kiss

There's something that I might have missed

Why am I going to

A place that now belongs to you

But you were weak and so was I

Let's pick it up, let's even try

To live today, so why not smile

Don't dream away your life 'Cause it is mine

Is that a crime (repeat) this life is mine

The bed ain't made but it's filled full of hope

I've got a skin full of dope