Sing with me!

[Lerxster]

[OriginalFan]

Another endless day

Silhouettes of grey

Another glass of wine

Drink with eyes that shine

To days without that chill at morning

Nights time out of mind

 

Draw another goblet

From the cask of '43

Crimson misty memory

Hazy glimpse of me

Give me back my wonder

I've something more to give

I guess it doesn't matter

There's not much more to live

 

Another foggy dawn

The mountain almost gone

Another doubtful fear

The road is not so clear

My soul grows ever weary

And the end is ever near

 

[Lerxster]

My friends are so depressed

I feel the question

Of your loneliness

Confide... 'cause I'll be on your side

You know I will, you know I will

 

X Girlfriend called me up

Alone and desperate

On the prison phone

They want... to give her 7 years

For being sad

 

I love all of you

Hurt by the cold

So hard and lonely too

When you don't know yourself

 

My friends are so distressed

And standing on

The brink of emptiness

No words... I know of to express

This emptiness

 

Imagine me taught by tragedy

Release is peace

I heard a little girl

And what she said

Was something beautiful

To give... your love

No matter what

Is what she said

 

[missionman]

.....and then realize that you're all alone

[Lerxster]

People asking questions lost in confusion

Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions

[TheRocinanteKid]

QUOTE (Lerxster @ Feb 21 2008, 11:43 PM)

My friends are so depressed I feel the question Of your loneliness Confide... 'cause I'll be on your side You know I will, you know I will X Girlfriend called me up Alone and desperate On the prison phone They want... to give her 7 years For being sad I love all of you Hurt by the cold So hard and lonely too When you don't know yourself My friends are so distressed And standing on The brink of emptiness No words... I know of to express This emptiness Imagine me taught by tragedy Release is peace I heard a little girl And what she said Was something beautiful To give... your love No matter what Is what she said

Brilliant song. I always felt One Hot Minute was a very unfairly treated Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. Here's my favourite from that record;

 

You are my god, you are my dog

You kept me close, love never lost

I called you hippie, you said f**k off

Said your brother's a real punk rocker

 

[Refrain:]

Something gonna happen

Something very soon

Transcending flesh could be a breeze

Sending me oh over the Moon

 

Friends near death, you gave respect

Sympathetic Intellect

Choices are, for one and all

All we are is, leaves that fall

 

Round and round inside your head

Smartest f*cker I ever met

Vicious fish bit at your toes

Made you lie and numb your soul

 

[Refrain]

 

Mule donkey ass you bore the load

Of all creations tortured souls

Choices are, for one and all

All we are is, leaves that fall

 

Hey, gone to stay

Entire lifetime flash before me

In a loving stream

Hey mother may I have lost a child

But she gave birth

To a loving stream

 

Ooh, never know. When the gods will come and

Take you

To a loving stream

 

Ooh, heart of gold

The most special things you gave me were

From your loving stream

 

In a loving stream

 

f**k the magazines

f**k the green machine

See the human being

In a loving stream

 

f**k the legal greed

f**k the nothing scene

See the family

In a loving stream

[Lerxster]

 

It's a good album. Dark but i like it. Don't know why they always ignore it live. Except for this little ditty.. easy to play on bass too

 

 

I'm a little pea

I love the sky the trees

I'm a teeny tiny little ant

Checking out this and that

I am nothing

So you have nothing to hide

And I'm a pacifist

So I can f*ck your sh!t up

 

Oh yeah I'm small

 

F*ck you @sshole

You homophobic redneck dick

You're big and tough and macho

You can kick my ass

So f*cking what

 

[TheRocinanteKid]

QUOTE (Lerxster @ Feb 22 2008, 02:10 PM)

It's a good album. Dark but i like it. Don't know why they always ignore it live. Except for this little ditty.. easy to play on bass too I'm a little pea I love the sky the trees I'm a teeny tiny little ant Checking out this and that I am nothing So you have nothing to hide And I'm a pacifist So I can f*ck your sh!t up Oh yeah I'm small F*ck you @sshole You homophobic redneck dick You're big and tough and macho You can kick my ass So f*cking what

I don't think John likes playing songs he didn't write which is why there is very little material from the first three albums and One Hot Minute in a typical Red Hot Chili Peppers setlist. However their decision to play Me And My Friends in Sheffield last Summer was amazing!!! Even though 80% of the people there had never heard it before. However all that doesn't explain the absense of Mother's Milk material which J.F. was certainly involved in writing/playing.

[Lerxster]

Ever check out their Off The Map live dvd? The Foo Fighters arranged to have salad and spagetti and other assorted food and ping pong balls dropped from above onto Chad Smith as they closed with Me and My Friends.. he never lost a beat- it's priceless

 

Me and my, me and my, me and my,

me and my, me and my friends

 

Like two sweet peas

in an even sweeter pod

that's my friend

and my friends's named Bob

like the devil knows hell

I know Bob well

well enough to tell you

'bout his 67 smells

well enough to tell you

he's a hell-a-swell fellow

well enough to tell you

that we know each other better

than we know our selves

like freaks of a feather

we rock together

I know Bob well

but I think he knows me better

 

Me and my, me and my, me and my,

me and my, me and my friends

 

He's as close to me

as a friend can be

I'll be standin' by my buddy

he'll be standin' by me

just another half of

the two headed freak

but I need him like

my heart needs to beat

at this point

in this friendly verse

I've got to sing a little something

that I haven't rehearsed

it's about my man

and his name is Hillel

for who my love

is woul brother sacred

take it hickleberry

slim boy take it

 

Me and my, me and my, me and my,

me and my, me and my friends

 

Jacky's eyes are closed

but he's right on course

because he's guided by

the invisible force

he drives a kooky green chrysler

bad as anybody's porsche

he's a working class drummer

he's as strong as a horse

 

Me and my, me and my, me and my,

me and my, me and my friends

 

[Lerxster]

Another highlight delight off Off The Map-

 

Pumpin' the blood through the heart of New Orleans

She's the mystic heat of the Bourbon street dream

She's just made out of flesh and bones

But let me tell you little boy

You better leave her alone

 

Leroy Brown thought he was bad too

'till she left him floatin' in the old bayou

She's the kind of girl

She's built like a bomb

She's the blackeyed blackeyed

Blackeyed blonde, Get down!

 

That blackeyed beauty with the golden crotch

French electric sex a cock shocking swamp fox

Heaten queen of sleeze she's hot to box

But let me tell you little boy

She'll clean your clock

 

A slick and sly spy

Stuck in the muck of the moat

Blew his mind to find a diamond in the boat

Double-o-dooms day for Mr. James Bond

She's the blackeyed blackeyed

Blackeyed blonde, Get down!

 

[nic2112nic]

QUOTE (Vital Signs @ Jan 6 2008, 04:16 AM)

Breaking the law, Breaking the law Thats been stuck in my head all day.

Now that happened to me last monday!

[TheRocinanteKid]

Who decorates the scarf with the fugi-knot?

Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare?

Who gouged the notches from the family tree?

Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance?

[Huck]

Oh yeah

In France a skinny man

Died of a big disease with a little name

By chance his girlfriend came across a needle

And soon she did the same

At home there are seventeen-year-old boys

And their idea of fun

Is being in a gang called the disciples

High on crack, totin a machine gun

 

Time, time

 

Hurricane annie ripped the ceiling of a church

And killed everyone inside

U turn on the telly and every other story

Is tellin u somebody died

Sister killed her baby cuz she could afford 2 feed it

And were sending people 2 the moon

In september my cousin tried reefer 4 the very first time

Now hes doing horse, its june

 

Times, times

 

Its silly, no?

When a rocket ship explodes

And everybody still wants 2 fly

Some say a man aint happy

Unless a man truly dies

Oh why

Time, time

 

Baby make a speech, star wars fly

Neighbors just shine it on

But if a night falls and a bomb falls

Will anybody see the dawn

Time, times

 

Its silly, no?

When a rocket blows

And everybody still wants 2 fly

Some say a man aint happy, truly

Until a man truly dies

Oh why, oh why, sign o the times

 

Time, time

 

Sign o the times mess with your mind

Hurry before its 2 late

Lets fall in love, get married, have a baby

Well call him nate... if its a boy

 

Time, time

 

Time, time

 

 

[Lerxster]

2nd page

 

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhh,

We come from the land of the ice and snow,

From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,

To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

 

On we sweep with threshing oar,

Our only goal will be the western shore.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhh,

We come from the land of the ice and snow,

From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.

How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore,

Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.

 

On we sweep with threshing oar,

Our only goal will be the western shore.

 

So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,

For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

 

[gleamingalloyaircar81]

QUOTE (Lerxster @ Feb 23 2008, 10:39 AM)

2nd page Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhh, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhh, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

I LOVE LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!!!!!

[missionman]

we will

we will

ROCK YOU

[Lerxster]

Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.

Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.

Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.

Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they're all the same.

The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.

The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake as the children of the sun began to awake.

 

Seems that the wrath of the Gods

Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;

I think I might be sinking.

Throw me a line if I reach it in time

I'll meet you up there where the path

Runs straight and high.

 

To find a queen without a king,

They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la

Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn

Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,

Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

 

 

[Jaye]

I woke up with Roy Orbison in my head today.

 

 

I drove all night to get to you

Is that alright?

I drove all night, crept in your room

Woke you from your sleep

To make love to you

 

Is that alright?

I drove all night...

[TheRocinanteKid]

The Mars Volta - Ouroboros

 

I am loving this song...

 

It appears to me

Quoting alarms

The guillotine smirks

In your house I smothered

Sight unseen

Sworn to harm

Ground to a powder

And soaked through the board

 

[Chorus 1]

Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy

Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy

When will you flirt with all that's burning?

Keep them safe and by your side

 

Of all that's left

A lucid home

Anecdote settles in the smear of this corpse

If the larvae speaks ask where to go

They mount the maker with a sulphur in fume

 

[Chorus 1]

 

[Chorus 2]

Of all the warnings that you gave me

With all components in the fault

Have you ever heard me scraping?

It will be hard to hold

 

[Chorus]

 

[Chorus 2]

 

All I hear

Mending the gap

Fall in here

Might not make it back

Call that someone

May they hear you

Take me with you

It's not safe in here

 

And all you ask is why, why, why

And all you ask is why I'm certain you're holding on

Mirror floats to the surface

Holding on

 

[Chorus 2]

[x2]

 

They lost the presence they were holding

Looks like the tenants flickered off

If the cell that holds me breaks me

It will be hard to hold

[TheRocinanteKid]

The smile of dawn

Arrived early May

She carried a gift from her

home

The night shed a tear

To tell her of fear

And of sorrow and pain

She'll never outgrow

 

Death is the first dance, eternal

 

There's no more freedom

The both of you will be

confined to this mind

 

I was told there's miracle for

each day that I try

I was told there's a new love

that's born for each one that

has died

I was told there'd be no one to

call on when I feel alone and

afraid

I was told if you dream of the

next world

You'll find yourself swimming

in a lake of fire

 

As a child, I thought I could

live without pain without

sorrow

As a man I've found it's all

caught up with me

I'm asleep yet I'm so afraid

 

Somewhere like a scene from a

memory

There's a picture worth a

thousand words

Eluding stares from faces

before me

It hides away and will never be

heard of again

 

Deceit is the second without end

 

The city's cold blood teaches us

to survive

Just keep my heart in your eyes

and we'll stay alive

 

The third arrives...

 

Before the leaves have fallen

Before we lock the doors

There must be the third and

last dance

This one will last forever

Metropolis watches and

thoughtfully smiles

She's taken you to your home

 

It can only take place

When the struggle between

our children has ended

Now the Miracle and the

Sleeper know that the third

is love

 

Love is the Dance of Eternity

[Lerxster]

Why try? I know why

The feeling inside me says it's time I was gone

Clear head, new life ahead

I want to be king now not just one more pawn

 

Fly by night, away from here

Change my life again

Fly by night goodbye my dear

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

 

Moon rise, thoughtful eyes

Staring back at me from the window beside

No fright or hindsight

Leaving behind that empty feeling inside

 

Fly by night, away from here

Change my life again

Fly by night goodbye my dear

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

 

righteous Alex solo

 

Fly by night, away from here

Change my life again

Fly by night goodbye my dear

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

 

Start a new chapter

Find what I'm after

It's changing every day

The change of a season

Is enough of a reason

To want to get away

 

Quiet and pensive

My thoughts apprehensive

The hours drift away

Leaving my homeland

Playing a lone hand

My life begins today

 

[Lerxster]

this song started playing in my head as i awoke from in my bed (the John's solo specifically)

 

 

Scar tissue that I wish you saw

Sarcastic mister know it all

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause

With the birds I'll share

With the birds I'll share

This lonely view

With the birds I'll share

This lonely view

 

Push me up against the wall

Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra

Fallin' all over myself

To lick your heart and taste your health 'cause

With the birds I'llshare

This lonely view...

 

Blood loss in a bathroom stall

Southern girl with a scarlet drawl

Wave good-bye to ma and pa 'cause

With the birds I'll share

With the birds I'll share

This lonely view

With the birds I'll share

This lonely view

 

Soft spoken with a broken jaw

Step outside but not to brawl

Autumn's sweet we call it fall

I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and

With the birds I'll share

This lonely view...

 

 

[Lerxster]

How many times

Do we tire of all the little battles

Threaten to call it quits

Tempted to cut and run

How many times

Do we weather out the stormy evenings

Long to slam the front door

Drive away into the setting sun

 

Keep going on till dawn

How many times must another line be drawn

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

 

How many times

Do we chafe against the repetition

Straining against a fate

Measured out in coffee breaks

How many times

Do we swallow our ambition

Long to give up the same old way

Find another road to take

 

Keep holding on so long

'Cause there's a chance that we might not be so wrong

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

 

How many times

Do we wonder if it's even worth it

Theres got to be some other way

Way to get me through the day

 

Keep going on till dawn

How many times must another line be drawn

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

[TheRocinanteKid]

Little by little the night turns around

Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn

Novices lean on each other in yearning

Under the leaves the swallow is resting

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Over the mountain watching the watcher

Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine

One inch of love is one inch of shadow

Love is the shadow that ripen's the wine

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun

The heart of the sun

Witness the man who raves at the wall

Making the shape of his question to heaven

Whether the sun will fall in the evening

Will he remember the lesson of giving

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

The heart of the sun

The heart of the sun

[Jaye]

QUOTE (Jaye @ Jan 6 2008, 12:26 AM)

Give me this freedom, this highway of time Give me some more of your strawberry wine Making me dizzy, this love in between Give me some more of you-know-what-I-mean Give me this freedom and strawberry wine Give me some more of that instant sunshine Riding so high with your love in between Give me some more of you-know-what-I-mean

Bringing up my first post in this thread because I'm enjoying this Jon Anderson song again.