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Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky

You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry

Spread a little happiness as you go by

Please try

 

What's the use of worrying and feeling blue

When days are long keep on smiling through

Spread a little happiness till dreams come true

 

Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day

Don't you realize you'll find next Monday or next Tuesday

Your golden shoes day

 

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky

You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry

Spread a little happiness as you go by

 

I've got a creed for every need

So easy that it must succeed

I'll set it down for you to read

So please, take heed

Keep out the gloom

Let in the sun

That's my advice for everyon

It's only once we pass this way

So day by day

 

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky

You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry

Spread a little happiness as you go by

Please try

 

What's the use of worrying and feeling blue

When days are long keep on smiling through

Spread a little happiness till dreams come true

 

Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day

Don't you realize you'll find next Monday or next Tuesday

Your golden shoes day

 

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky

You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry

Spread a little happiness as you go by

 

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Listen to me just hear me out, if I could have your attention

just quieten down for a voice in the crowd.

I get so confused I don't understand

I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say

but you don't get the chance, just a voice in the crowd.

 

I don't know the score anymore; it's not clear anymore

I can't tell right from wrong anymore; I just don't understand.

I was sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old

like changing channels on the tv, or the dirt we stand in to

gold.

 

When I was young, my father told me just the bad guys die

at the time just a little white lie

it was one of the first but it hurt me the most

and the truth stung like tears in my eye

that even the good guys must die

there's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why

even now it still makes me cry.

 

If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line

just a little helping hand just a little understanding

just some answers to the questions that surround me now.

If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line

just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

where nothing here is ever what it seems

you stand so close but you never understand it

for all that we see is not what it seems, am I blind?

 

And you sit there and talk revolution

but can you tell me just who's in command?

when you tell me the forces we are fighting

then I'll gladly join and make plans

but for now only our t-shirts cry freedom

and our voices are gagged by our greed

our minds are harnessed by knowledge

by the hill and the will to succeed

and if that's not what you believe

would you let me know I'm not standing alone

that I'm not just a voice in the crowd

 

If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line

just a little helping hand just a little understanding

just a little understanding to the questions that I'm asking you

If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line

just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

where nothing here is ever what it seems

I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers

that preside over our minds and our lives

when they find what I want is the deadliest weapon, that is

truth

Day by day it's getting louder

and day by day it's getting stronger

but when I can't scream no more and I need reassurance,

I listen to the crowd.

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Left a good job in the city,

Workin for the man evry night and day,

And I never lost one minute of sleepin,

Worryin bout the way things might have been.

 

Chorus:

Big wheel keep on turnin,

Proud mary keep on burnin,

Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river.

 

Cleaned a lot of plates in memphis,

Pumped a lot of pain down in new orleans,

But I never saw the good side of the city,

til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

 

Chorus

 

Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river.

 

If you come down to the river,

Bet you gonna find some people who live.

You dont have to worry cause you have no money,

People on the river are happy to give.

 

Chorus

 

Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river.

Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river.

Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river.

 

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[Lover:]

 

I've got a feeling twenty one

Is going to be a good year.

Especially if you and me

See it in together.

 

[Father:]

 

So you think 21 is going to be a good year.

It could be for me and her,

But you and her-no never!

I had no reason to be over optimistic,

But somehow when you smiled

I could brave bad weather

 

[Mother:]

 

What about the boy?

What about the boy?

What about the boy?

He saw it all!

 

[Mother and Father:]

 

You didn't hear it

You didn't see it.

You won't say nothing to no one

ever in your life.

You never heard it

Oh how absurd it

All seems without any proof.

You didn't hear it

You didn't see it

You never heard it not a word of it.

You won't say nothing to no one

Never tell a soul

What you know is the Truth.

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The Police are so fun to sing along to biggrin.gif

 

Don't think me unkind

Words are hard to find

They're only checks I've left unsigned

From the banks of chaos in my mind

And when their eloquence escapes me

Their logic ties me up and rapes me

 

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

Their innocence will pull me through

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

They're meaningless and all that's true

 

Poets, priests, and politicians

Have words to thank for their positions

Words that scream for your submission

And no one's jamming their transmission

'Cause when their eloquence escapes you

Their logic ties you up and rapes you

 

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

Their innocence will pull me through

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

They're meaningless and all that's true

 

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

Their innocence will pull me through

De do do do de da da da

Is all I want to say to you

De do do do de da da da

They're meaningless and all that's true

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Canary in a coalmine...

 

 

music.gif First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect

Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect

You live you life like a canary in a coalmine

You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line music.gif

 

music.gif You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza

You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza

You live your life like a canary in a coalmine

You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line music.gif

 

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Canary in a coalmine

Canary in a coalmine music.gif

 

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I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise

I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

 

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

Oh yeah

 

If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played

And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way

 

Well, here's a poke at you

You're gonna choke on it too

You're gonna lose that smile

Because all the while

 

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

Oh yeah

 

You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away

I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say

 

That you still want me

Well, that's as may be

But you gotta stand trial

Because all the while

 

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

Oh yeah

 

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise

I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

 

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

Oh yeah

 

The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days

You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze

 

Well, here's a poke at you

You're gonna choke on it too

You're gonna lose that smile

Beacuse all the while

 

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

and miles and miles and miles and miles

 

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles

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The Enemy Within

 

Part one of 'Fear'

Things crawl in the darkness

That imagination spins

Needles at your nerve ends

Crawl like spiders on your skin

 

Pounding in your temples

And a surge of adrenaline

Every muscle tense-

To fence

The enemy within

 

I'm not giving in

To security under pressure

I'm not missing out

On the promise of adventure

I'm not giving up

On implausible dreams-

Experience to extremes-

Experience to extremes

 

Suspicious-looking stranger

Flashes you a dangerous grin

Shadows across your window-

Was it only trees in the wind?

 

Every breath a static charge-

A tongue that tastes like tin

Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within...

 

To you-is it movement or is it action?

It is contact or just reaction?

And you-revolution or just resistance?

Is it living, or just existence?

eah, you-it takes a little more persistence

To get up and go the distance...

 

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When I talk about it

It carries on

Reasons only knew

When I talk about it

Aries or treasons

All renew

 

Big me to talk about it

I could stand to prove

If we can get around it

I know that its true

 

When I talked about it

Carried on

Reasons only knew

 

But its you I fell into

 

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Kiko and the lavender moon

Out playing - makes believe

Nobody can see

And then he waits

And then he fakes

And then he bends

And then he shakes

He plays and plays

Still playing till he

Goes off to sleep

 

Kiko and the lavender moon

Out dancing making faces at

A big black cat

And then he flies

Up to the wall

Stands on one foot

Doesn't even fall

Dance and dance

Still dancing till

He goes off to sleep

 

He always sleeps

Till the sun goes down

He never wakes

Till no one's around

He never stops

Can't catch his breath

It's always there

Scares him to death

 

Kiko and the lavender moon

Out dreaming 'bout green shoes

Haircuts and cake

And then he wishes

The world away

And then he kneels

As if to pray

He dreams and dreams

Kiko and the lavender moon

 

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The fishing boats go out across the evening water

Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

The wind whips up the waves so loud

The ghost moon sails among the clouds

Turns the rifles into silver on the border

 

On my wall the colours of the maps are running

From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming

The torches flare up in the night

The hand that sets the farms alight

Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border

 

In the village where I grew up

Nothing seems the same

Still you never see the change from day to day

And no-one notices the customs slip away

 

Late last night the rain was knocking at my window

I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow

I thought I saw down in the street

The spirit of the century

Telling us that we're all standing on the border

 

In the islands where I grew up

Nothing seems the same

It's just the patterns that remain

An empty shell

But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well

 

The fishing boats go out across the evening water

Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

The wind whips up the waves so loud

The ghost moon sails among the clouds

Turns the rifles into silver on the border

 

On the border

On the border

On the border

 

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On a morning from a Bogart movie

In a country where they turn back time

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

Contemplating a crime

 

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

Like a watercolour in the rain

Don't bother asking for explanations

She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

 

She doesn't give you time for questions

As she locks up your arm in hers

And you follow 'till your sense of which direction

Completely disappears

 

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls

There's a hidden door she leads you to

These days, she says, I feel my life

Just like a river running through

The year of the cat

 

Well, she looks at you so cooly

And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

She comes in incense and patchouli

So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

 

Well, morning comes and you're still with her

And the bus and the tourists are gone

And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket

So you have to stay on

 

But the drum-beat strains of the night remain

In the rhythm of the new-born day

You know sometime you're bound to leave her

But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat

 

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To my mind, the greatest love song ever written. By Parish and Carmichael. Now, mebee I can stop humming it.

 

 

Stardust

 

And now the purple dusk of twilight time

Steals across the meadows of my heart

High up in the sky the little stars climb

Always reminding me that were apart

You wander down the lane and far away

Leaving me a song that will not die

Love is now the stardust

Of yesterday

The music

Of the years

Gone by

 

Sometimes I wonder why I spend

The lonely nights

Dreaming of a song.

The melody haunts my reverie

And I am once again with you.

When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration.

But that was long ago, and now my consolation

Is in the stardust of a song.

Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright

You are in my arms

The nightingale tells his fairy tale

Of paradise where roses grew.

Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain

My stardust melody

The memory of loves refrain.

 

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QUOTE (umoveme @ Jul 29 2008, 03:48 PM)
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

Nice one, J!

 

Al Stewart is a great lyricist. Year of the Cat is supposedly based on Casablanca.

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Today I walked.

Today I ran.

Today I tried to figure who I am.

Yesterday we played in our waterfall...

Dancing with the Summer...laughing at it all.

Over the Mississippi moon...

Have to make myself remember,

it's something that I used to know.

Over the Mississippi moon...

Got to get myself together,

I've started seeing blue and gold.

Today I flew over the hill.

Reaching for that feeling, that one more thrill.

Yesterday the same, tomorrow never knows.

I carry all my life wherever I go

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The Sea Epic

Crack the Sky

 

God, save the captain, he's got a wife at home

And quite a few children, you can't let them live alone

Oh, I'll go down yelling or quiet if you like

But please save the captain, you see, I've got no wife waiting for me

God, save the admiral, he's got the mind to lead

And the country needs him, she's got more ships to fleet

Oh, I'll go down yelling or quiet if you like

But please spare the admiral, you see, I've got no lives to lead to the sea

 

DON'T TRY TO TELL ME WHO TO SAVE OR KILL

I'VE GOT MY OWN MIND, YOU KNOW

AND I'LL DO WHAT I WILL

I'LL DO WHAT I WILL

YOU KNOW, I WILL!

 

I'LL KILL THE CAPTAIN IF IT'S HIS TIME, MY BOY

I'LL TAKE THE ADMIRAL TOO, AND IF YOU'RE NOT COOL

I'LL TAKE YOU.

 

I'm sorry, Lord, you know what's best, but please would you at least spare the cook?

I'm very hungry, and by the looks of this ship

I'm gonna starve!

I'm gonna starve!

 

Well the ship went down

To the bottom of the sea

And the only ones left

Were the fat cook and me

So I looked to the sky with a smile in my eye

Caught a glimpse of the Dude

And started singing

 

I'm sorry Lord that I doubted you

Oh, babe you really came through

And I thank you, I thank you!!

I thank you

I thank you ... Lord

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The Hourglass

Savatage

 

Standing alone by the edge of a river

He's traded his life for a glass full of tears

The bargain was quick for one's life is less dearer

When the sand's running out and the ending is near

 

The ending is near

The ending is near

The ending is...

 

The man climbed aboard and set sail for the ocean

He put on the mast all the canvas she'd take

Then laid himself down on the deck neath the tiller

The ship was his coffin this moment his wake

 

Runaway reason

Runaway seasons

Time is a treason

That I give back to you now

 

The wind touched the sail and the ship moved the ocean

The wind from the storm set the course she would take

From a journey to nowhere towards a soul on the ocean

From the wake of Magellan to Magellan's wake

 

Runaway reason

Runaway seasons

Everything in it

Hours and minutes

You take tomorrow

Because it means nothing

To me

To me

To ...

 

In the dark he heard a whisper

Asking him to understand

In the desert look for water

On the ocean look for land

 

In the dark he heard a whisper

Asking him to understand

In the desert look for water

On the ocean look for land

 

And there in the waves

Was a man in his grave

That he saw in the night

'Tween the flashes of light

And he could not be there

 

And all he had prayed

Or had given away

He now found to be wrong

In the grip of the storm

And he could not be there

 

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

 

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

 

And all at once the heavens bled their fire

The anchor broke the chains they flew away

And suddenly the waves were reaching higher

And in the dark I thought I heard them say

 

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

 

Everything I ever had for one more tomorrow

Everything I ever had for just one more night

And if this is not to be I pray could I borrow

Just another final hour onto my life

 

Did you ever really want to

Did you ever really want to

 

Lord, tell me how it will be

Lord, tell me how it will be

 

Standing once more by a boat on a river

He pushes it off while he stays on the land

And seeing the hourglass now so much clearer

Which someone had refilled by hand

 

And somewhere that boat's now adrift on the ocean

The mast at full sail and there's no one on board

The hourglass no longer sits by the ocean

Only his footprints all alone on the shore

And soon they're no more

No more

No more

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Seether - Rise Above This

 

Take the light and darken everything around me

Call the clouds and listen closely I'm lost without you

Call your name every day when I feel so helpless

I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this

 

Hate the mind, regrets are better left unspoken

For all we know, this void will grow

And everything's in vain, distressing you though it leaves me open

Feels so right, but I'll end this all before it gets me

 

Call your name every day when I feel so helpless

I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this

Call your name every day when I seem so helpless

I've fallen down, and I'll rise above this, rise above this doubt

 

I'll mend myself before it gets me

(I'll mend myself before it gets me)

I'll mend myself before it gets me

(I'll mend myself before it gets me)

 

Call your name every day when I feel so helpless

I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this

Forty eight ways to say that I'm feelin' helpless

I'm Falling down, falling down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this,

Rise above this, rise above this doubt

 

 

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It was meant to be

But all along it never meant a thing

Never stopped to ask you why

You didn't pass me by

Did you see me in your life?

Flash before your eyes

Was it just that I wasn't hard enough

Hard enough for you

 

Stop using my

Confusion

Wait, wait

 

There's a world out there (There's a world out there)

Don't you deny me (Don't you deny me)

Give me one last wish (Give me one last wish)

There's a world out there

 

Elementary

I solved them all

All your mysteries

Settle down and in good time

We can solve all mine

Tell me lies or tell me when

Tear me up again

I will let you know

When I've had enough

 

Had enough of you

 

Stop using my

Confusion

Wait, wait

 

There's a world out there (There's a world out there)

Don't you deny me (Don't you deny me)

Give me one last wish (There's a world out there)

There's a world out there (Don't you deny me)

 

I know you've got your reasons

Hey let's call it even

Turn out all the lights and go to bed

Still I get this feeling

No one will believe me

When I let these ghosts outside my head

 

There's a world out there (There's a world out there)

Don't you deny me (Don't you deny me)

Give me one last wish (Give me one last wish)

Don't you deny me (Don't you deny me)

There's a world out there (There's a world out there)

Don't you deny me (Don't you deny me)

Give me one last wish (There's a world out there)

There's a world out there (Don't you deny me)

 

 

- Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running) by the Foo Fighters

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She was a white skinned black beauty,

The daughter of an Indian

Her Grandparents raised her in northern Illinois.

I call her mother.

 

He was the son of a hellfire holiness preacher woman.

They say nobody was wilder,

But maybe his brother.

I call him father

 

She was young, calling love.

He was young, stealing love.

 

We all got together for the first time last September.

I said "Somebody take a photograph I've got a camera."

Now I got me a favorite picture.

 

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music.gif Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

but she doesn't have a lot to say.

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

but she'll change from day to day.

I wanna tell her that I love her a lot

but i got to get a belly full of wine.

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

someday I'm gonna make her mine

Oh yeah!

Someday I'm gonna make her mine music.gif

 

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This is the day

Of the expanding man

That shape is my shade

There where I used to stand

It seems like only yesterday

I gazed through the glass

At ramblers

Wild gamblers

That's all in the past

 

You call me a fool

You say it's a crazy scheme

This one's for real

I already bought the dream

So useless to ask me why

Throw a kiss and say goodbye

I'll make it this time

I'm ready to cross that fine line

 

CHORUS:

I'll learn to work the saxophone

I'll play just what I feel

Drink Scotch whisky all night long

And die behind the wheel

They got a name for the winners in the world

I want a name when I lose

They call Alabama the Crimson Tide

Call me Deacon Blues

 

My back to the wall

A victim of laughing chance

This is for me

The essence of true romance

Sharing the things we know and love

With those of my kind

Libations

Sensations

That stagger the mind

 

I crawl like a viper

Through these suburban streets

Make love to these women

Languid and bittersweet

I'll rise when the sun goes down

Cover every game in town

A world of my own

I'll make it my home sweet home

 

CHORUS

 

This is the night

Of the expanding the man

I take one last drag

As I approach the stand

I cried when I wrote this song

Sue me if I play too long

This brother is free

I'll be what I want to be

 

CHORUS

 

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