Musical Wisdom

[thaibebop]

I don't believe I know that one Kayo. Who is it?

Ah, TBP.

That would be The Verve. AKA, Richard Ashcroft.

PM me and, I will if I can send you some of this young mans amazing tunes.

redrus

Can I take you up on that redrus? You know my email

Also wondering if anybody has any Lennon solo stuff, and any cool funky groove stuff like what LJ and Khall have been introducing me to.

´(PS: LJ, Redrus, Khall, for some reason my gmail will not send any music, even when within the attachment confines. Can´t figure it out. Maybe I´m thick, but it just spends 5 minutes trying to send and then returns an error message.)

No, but I have Perfect Circle performing Imagine. Creepy!

[lovejoy]

The Message - Grandmaster Flash

Broken glass everywhere

People pissing on the stairs, you know they just

Don't care

I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise

Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice

Rats in the front room, roaches in the back

Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat

I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far

Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car

Chorus:

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to loose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder

How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window

Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes

Blow

Crazy lady, livin' in a bag

Eating out of garbage bins, used to be a fag-hag

Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go

To search a prince to see the last of senses

Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps

So she can tell the stories to the girls back home

She went to the city and got so so so ditty

She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her

Own

Chorus:

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder

How I keep from goin' under

My brother's doing fast on my mother's t.v.

Says she watches to much, is just not healthy

All my children in the daytime, dallas at night

Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight

Bill collectors they ring my phone

And scare my wife when I'm not home

Got a bum education, double-digit inflation

Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike

At the station

Me on king kong standin' on my back

Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac

Midrange, migraine, cancered membrane

Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might

Hijack a plane!

Chorus:

My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school

Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a

Fool

And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be

Cheaper

If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper

I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet

Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps

Cause it's all about money, ain't a ###### thing

Funny

You got to have a con in this land of milk and

Honey

They push that girl in front of a train

Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again

Stabbed that man, right in his heart

Gave him a transplant before a brand new start

I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy

After the dark

Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the

Run

I feel like an outlaw, broke my last cast jaw

Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a

Seesaw

Chorus:

A child was born, with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind

God is smiling on you but he's frowning too

Cause only God knows what you go through

You grow in the ghetto, living second rate

And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate

The places you play and where you stay

Looks like one great big alley way

You'll admire all the number book takers

Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers

Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens

And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,

Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers

Pickpockets, peddlers and even plan-handlers

You say I'm cool, I'm no fool

But then you wind up dropping out of high school

Now you're unemployed,all null'n' void

Walking around like you're pretty boy floyd

Turned stickup kid, look what you done did

Got set up for a eight year bid

Now your man is took and you're a may tag

Spend the next two years as an undercover fag

Being used and abused, and served like hel_l

Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell

It was plain to see that your life was lost

You was cold and your body swung back and forth

But now your eyes sing the sad sad song

Of how you lived so fast and died so young

[suegha]

There's a line from a Neil Young song, and album of the same name...

...though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away...

[thaibebop]

The Message - Grandmaster Flash

Broken glass everywhere

People pissing on the stairs, you know they just

Don't care

I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise

Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice

Rats in the front room, roaches in the back

Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat

I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far

Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car

Chorus:

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to loose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder

How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window

Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes

Blow

Crazy lady, livin' in a bag

Eating out of garbage bins, used to be a fag-hag

Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go

To search a prince to see the last of senses

Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps

So she can tell the stories to the girls back home

She went to the city and got so so so ditty

She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her

Own

Chorus:

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder

How I keep from goin' under

My brother's doing fast on my mother's t.v.

Says she watches to much, is just not healthy

All my children in the daytime, dallas at night

Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight

Bill collectors they ring my phone

And scare my wife when I'm not home

Got a bum education, double-digit inflation

Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike

At the station

Me on king kong standin' on my back

Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac

Midrange, migraine, cancered membrane

Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might

Hijack a plane!

Chorus:

My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school

Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a

Fool

And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be

Cheaper

If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper

I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet

Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps

Cause it's all about money, ain't a ###### thing

Funny

You got to have a con in this land of milk and

Honey

They push that girl in front of a train

Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again

Stabbed that man, right in his heart

Gave him a transplant before a brand new start

I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy

After the dark

Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the

Run

I feel like an outlaw, broke my last cast jaw

Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a

Seesaw

Chorus:

A child was born, with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind

God is smiling on you but he's frowning too

Cause only God knows what you go through

You grow in the ghetto, living second rate

And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate

The places you play and where you stay

Looks like one great big alley way

You'll admire all the number book takers

Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers

Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens

And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,

Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers

Pickpockets, peddlers and even plan-handlers

You say I'm cool, I'm no fool

But then you wind up dropping out of high school

Now you're unemployed,all null'n' void

Walking around like you're pretty boy floyd

Turned stickup kid, look what you done did

Got set up for a eight year bid

Now your man is took and you're a may tag

Spend the next two years as an undercover fag

Being used and abused, and served like hel_l

Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell

It was plain to see that your life was lost

You was cold and your body swung back and forth

But now your eyes sing the sad sad song

Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Wow, I have not heard any GMF in a long time.

[thaibebop]

Annie Lennox The Gift

Darling, don't you understand

I feel so ill at ease

the room is full of silence and it's getting hard to breathe.

Take this guilded cage of pain and set me free,

take this overcoat of shame.

It never did belong to me.

It never did belong to me.

I need to go outside

I need to leave the smoke

cause I can't go on living in this same sick joke.

It seems our lives have taken on a different kind of twist

now that you have given me the perfect gift.

You have given me the gift.

For we have fallen from our shelves

to face the truth about ourselves

and we have tumbled from our trees.

Tumbled from our trees.

And I can almost....

I can almost feel the rain falling.

Don't you know it feels so good.

So, let's go out into the rain again,

just like we said we always would.

[redrus]

Its the song as whole obviously but, the first 2 lines. Also if you've not heard it, the lyrics might not sound as bouncy and as happy as this song really is.

Kinky Afro Lyrics

Son, I'm 30

I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty

And I don't have a decent bone in me

What you get is just what you see yeah

I see it so I take it freely

And all the bad and ugly things i feed me

I never help or give to the needy

Come on and see me

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey

I had to crucify some brother today

And I don't dig what you gotta say

So come on and say it

Come on and tell me twice

I said dad you're shabby

You run around and groove like a baggy

You're only here just out of habit

Oh that's mine you might as well have it

You take ten feet back and then stab it

Spray it on and 'tag it

So sack on me

I can't stand the needy

Get around here if you're asking you're feeling

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey

I had to crucify somebody today

And I don't dig what you gotta say

So come on and say it

Come on and tell me twice

So sack all the needy

I can't stand to leave it

You come around here and you put both your feet in

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey

I had to crucify somebody today

And I don't dig what you gotta say

So go on and say it

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey

I had to crucify some brother today

And I don't hear what you gotta say

So come on and say it

Come on and tell me twice

Class.

redrus

[thaibebop]

That does sound like a fun song. As fun songs go I like this one.

Living Colour

Love rears It's Ugly Head

I always thought I relationship was cool.

You played the role of having sense,

I always played the fool.

Now something is different,

I don't know the reason why.

Whenever we separate

I almost wanna cry.

Oh no, please not that again.

Love rears it's ugly head.

And when I come home late you don't complain or call,

so as a consequence I don't go out at all.

My friends are frightened,

they don't know what's going on.

They thinkn you put a spell on me

and now my mind is gone.

Oh no, please not that again.

Love rears it's ugly head.

Love's not so bad they say,

but you never know where love is gonna go.

Does anybody really know?

I'm standing at the alter

as they play the wedding march.

I'm in a black tuxedo with my collar full of starch.

She looks as lovely as she's ever gonna get,

I wake up from this nightmare in a pool of sweat!

oh no, please not that again.

Love rears it's ugly head.

What you gonna do,

What you gonna do when love comes and gets you?

[redrus]

TBB, I did not take that lyrically as being a fun song at all, send it to me please.... I don't know it so ........

Anyone who does not know Joy Division, please read these lyrics. ESP, the 2nd verse.

Joy Division

Love Will Tear Us Apart

When routine bites hard,

And ambitions are low,

And resentment rides high,

But emotions won't grow,

And we're changing our ways,

Taking different roads.

Then love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?

You've turned away on your side.

Is my timing that flawed?

Our respect runs so dry.

Yet there's still this appeal

That we've kept through our lives.

But love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

You cry out in your sleep,

All my failings exposed.

And there's a taste in my mouth,

As desperation takes hold.

Just that something so good

Just can't function no more.

But love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

redrus

[thaibebop]

Joy Division kicks ass!

I'll try to send the Living Colour song, here soon.

[chechoie]

Now you say you’re lonely, you slag,

You cried the whole night through, you whore,

Well you can cry me a river, you cow, cry me a river, you bitch,

I cried a river over you.

Now you say you’re sorry, you strumpet,

For being so untrue, you bag

Well you can cry me a river, you cow, cry me a river, you bitch,

I cried a river over you.

You drove me, nearly drove me out of my head, you harlot

While you never shed a tear, you nympho

Remember? I remember all that you said, you jezebel

Told me love was too plebeian, you pleb

Told me you where thru’ with me, you trollop

And now you say you love me, you tart

Well just to prove you do, you hussy

You can cry me a river, you cow, cry me a river, you bitch,

I cried a river over, you

[redrus]

redrus

[thaibebop]

What song is that?

[aughie]

paul mccartney to john lennon: You took your lucky break and broke it in two. - Too Many People

Nothing special though kind of clever.

Hmmm...Cry me a river. It doesn't sound like the Justin Timberlake version....or does it?

Edited February 9, 2006 by aughie

[chechoie]

Hmmm...Cry me a river. It doesn't sound like the Justin Timberlake version....or does it?

A mate of mine always sings "Cry me a River" like that when he's drunk.

It's very funny, ( not the same when you write it down) .

Got to be there I guess.

[thaibebop]

Hmmm...Cry me a river. It doesn't sound like the Justin Timberlake version....or does it?

A mate of mine always sings "Cry me a River" like that when he's drunk.

It's very funny, ( not the same when you write it down) .

Got to be there I guess.

Now I get it! Yeah, that could funny.

[khall64au]

Nah.... Sorry Khall... I've been listening to that eva cassidy song *and that firsat post mortem disc of hers for over six years and hardly ever anymore, it gets worse and worse every time I hear it. Highly over-rated singer *albeit with some vocal talent) and highly capitalising little bastards whoever cashed in on her death in the name of good causes... Oh! Theres a surprise.

Well......... I can listen to any Eva C. song til the cows come home. That's where u and I are different! But it just so happens that the mix I have on Limewire is totally funky... so it works for ME!

[kayo]

Fair enough...

Ben Harper I'm kind of bored of listening to, but a lot of his songs are extremely well written.

For example Excuse Me Mr.

"Excuse Me Mr."

Oh - excuse me Mr.

Do you have the time,

Or are you so important that it stands still for you?

Excuse me Mr.

Want you lend me your ear,

Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?

Excuse me Mr. but isn't that your oil in the sea,

And the pollution in the air Mr.,

Whose could that be?

So, excuse me Mr.

But I'm a mister too.

And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,

Mr. like you.

And, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,

'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.

It's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.

And I've seen enough,

Oh - I've seen enough,

I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

Excuse me Mr.

Can't you see the children dying?

You say that you can't help them,

Mr. you're not even trying.

Excuse me Mr.

Just take a look around.

Oh, Mr. just look up and you will,

You'll see it's coming down.

Oh, excuse me Mr. but I'm, I'm a mister too.

And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,

Mr. like you.

So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,

'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.

it's a Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.

And I've seen enough,

I've seen en..., I've seen en...,

I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

I've seen enough,

Oh - I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

'cause Mr. when you're rattling on heaven's gate.

By then it is too late.

'cause Mr. when you get there,

They don't ask what you saved.

All they'll want to know Mr. is what you gave.

So, excuse me Mr.

But I'm a mister too.

And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,

Mr. like... you.

So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,

'cause it's a Mr. like you puts the rest of us to shame.

Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.

Oh...

...shame.

Oh! And I've just sen that on his new album he does a cover of the Late Jeff Buckley's Stisfied Mind (written by Hayes/Rhodes).

Beautiful song, extreme wisdom.

"Satisfied Mind"

How many times have you heard someone say

"If I had his money I'd do things my way"

But little they know that it's so hard to find

One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

Once I was waiting in fortune and fame

Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in life's game

Suddenly it happened I lost every dime

But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind

When my life is over and my time has run out

My friends and my loved ones I'll leave there's no doubt

But one thing is for certain when it comes my time

I'll leave here for certain with a satisfied mind

I got a satisfied mind

Edited February 9, 2006 by kayo

[thaibebop]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

I look at the TV, your America is doing well

I look out the window, my America's catching H3ll

I just wanna know which way do I go to get to your America?

I change the channel, your America is doing fine

I read the headlines, my America is doing time

I just wanna know which way do I go to get to your America?

Go west young man, go west young man

Don't want to crossover, but how do I keep from going under?

Where is my picket fence? My long, tall glass of lemonade? Where is my VCR, my stereo, my TV show?

I look at the TV, I don't see your America.

I look out the window, I don't see your America.

I want to know how to get to your America!

[Bung]

Does anyone find that they suddenly enjoy singing along to Niel Diamond songs when they've had a few drinks or am I alone in this phenonemon?(sic)

[thaibebop]

Does anyone find that they suddenly enjoy singing along to Niel Diamond songs when they've had a few drinks or am I alone in this phenonemon?(sic)

Oh my, I wouldn't admit this in public. You are a brave man......or drunk again.

[raro]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

great song, great band!

[thaibebop]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

great song, great band!

One of my faves!

I posted another thread with their lyrics for This Is The Life, I was trying to cheer people up, but it seems you and I might be the only ones here who know or like Living Colour. Sad I know.

[wittleus]

"I'm going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender"

[raro]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

great song, great band!

One of my faves!

I posted another thread with their lyrics for This Is The Life, I was trying to cheer people up, but it seems you and I might be the only ones here who know or like Living Colour. Sad I know.

...having a good taste in music makes lonely...I experienced this when I brought my Zappa collection to High School parties,

[jtb]

Now I guess I’ll have to tell ’em

That I got no cerebellum

Teenage Lobotomy - The Ramones

or..........

Goodbye binoculars and mackintosh,

everything is just great.

Take elocution lessons,

learn to speak posh

But still I can't find a mate.

Look Out There's a Monster Coming - Bonzo Dog Doodah band

[thaibebop]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

great song, great band!

One of my faves!

I posted another thread with their lyrics for This Is The Life, I was trying to cheer people up, but it seems you and I might be the only ones here who know or like Living Colour. Sad I know.

...having a good taste in music makes lonely...I experienced this when I brought my Zappa collection to High School parties,

Some many people dismiss Zappa. I always tell them you don't have to understand him to like him, though it helps.

[raro]

Living Colour

Which Way To America?

great song, great band!

One of my faves!

I posted another thread with their lyrics for This Is The Life, I was trying to cheer people up, but it seems you and I might be the only ones here who know or like Living Colour. Sad I know.

...having a good taste in music makes lonely...I experienced this when I brought my Zappa collection to High School parties,

Some many people dismiss Zappa. I always tell them you don't have to understand him to like him, though it helps.

arf she said

[aughie]

It's a Sears poncho.

[raro]

It's a Sears poncho.

Looks like there are some more out there!

[thaibebop]

It's a Sears poncho.

It's a Sears poncho.

Looks like there are some more out there!

You guys make me sad. All the Zappa I listened to belonged to other people, my father mostly, so I don't have any of his stuff to listen to, never got around to buying it when it was just lying around.