Song Lyrics

[irshes]

SHAKE YER HEAD - ERASERHEADS

 

I was born, upside down

I felt my grandma put my feet on the ground

They put a spoon, in my mouth

And everyone was shocked to hear me shout

 

Well I knew I couldn't take all the dog food that they make

I'd just as soon as put myself on a stake and burn

 

I saw it comin' around

I saw it comin' around, yeah

I saw it comin' around, and so I just, yeah

Shook my head and walked away

 

I grew up, in a town

Where everybody tried to push me around

The girls were alright, but the guys were tough

They're always buggin' me with macho stuff

 

Well, I ain't no stupid fighter, I go for flower power

I've been running every race just to save my face, yeah

 

I saw it comin' around

I saw it comin' around, yeah

I saw it comin' around, and so I just, yeah

Shook my head and walked away...yeah...

 

Oohh...

Well they try to see if you care

It's just a matter of not begging for more

You know it's really suicidal to just give in

Oh people you can never really be sure

 

O-hoh when it gets down to this, they'll eat you up

When the words get in your head, they'll get you up

It's a saving grace to have enough

When you find yourself in a compromising spot

 

You should know you shouldn't take all that dog food that they make

You'd just as soon as put yourself on a stake and burn

 

You'll see it comin' around

You'll see it coming, comin' around

(Oh when you) Oh when you see it coming around, you just...yeah

Shake yer head and walk away

 

Yeah!

(Shake your head and walk away) alright!

Shake, shake, shake, shake yo head (2x)

Yes, the one you think with..wooohh

C'mon, c'mon

You can do it babeh!

Shake it!

[coychee]

World Leader Pretend

 

by REM

 

I sit at my table and wage war on myself

It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing

I know the barricades, and

I know the mortar in the wall breaks

I recognize the weapons, I used them well

 

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down

 

I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses

I proclaim that claims are left unstated,

I demand a rematch

I decree a stalemate

I divine my deeper motives

I recognize the weapons

I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself

 

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

 

Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory

Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me

 

This is my world

And I am world leader pretend

This is my life

And this is my time

I have been given the freedom

To do as I see fit

It's high time I've razed the walls

That I've constructed

 

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

 

You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony

You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls

And I'm the only one

I will be the one to knock it down

[coychee]

The End

 

by The Doors

 

 

This is the end, Beautiful friend

This is the end, My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end

Of everything that stands, the end

No safety or surprise, the end

I'll never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free

Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand

In a...desperate land

Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain

And all the children are insane, All the children are insane

Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

There's danger on the edge of town

Ride the King's highway, baby

Weird scenes inside the gold mine

Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake

To the lake, the ancient lake, baby

The snake is long, seven miles

Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best, The west is the best

Get here, and we'll do the rest

The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us

Driver, where you taken' us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on

He took a face from the ancient gallery

And he walked on down the hall

He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he

Paid a visit to his brother, and then he

He walked on down the hall, and

And he came to a door...and he looked inside

Father, yes son, I want to k*ll you

Mother...I want to...f**k you

C'mon baby, take a chance with us X3

And meet me at the back of the blue bus

Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus

Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah

k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll

This is the end, Beautiful friend

This is the end, My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free

But you'll never follow me

The end of laughter and soft lies

The end of nights we tried to die

This is the end

[kundera]

Amen

World Youth Day 97 Version

music by Manoling Francisco

 

Amen... amen... amen...

amen... amen... amen...

amen!

[coychee]

The Dead Heart

 

by Midnight Oil

 

 

We don't serve your country

Don't serve your king

Know your custom don't speak your tongue

White man came took everyone

 

We don't server your country

Don't serve your king

White man listen to the songs we sing

White man came took everything

 

We carry in our hearts the true country

And that cannot be stolen

We follow in the steps of our ancestry

And that cannot be broken

 

We don't need protection

Don't need your land

Keep your promise on where we stand

We will listen we'll understand

 

Mining companies, pastoral companies

Uranium companies

Collected companies

Got more right than people

Got more say than people

Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state of things

The dead heart lives here

[coychee]

The Living Years

 

by Mike and the Mechanics

 

 

Every generation

Blames the one before

And all of their frustrations

Come beating on your door

 

I know that I'm a prisoner

To all my Father held so dear

I know that I'm a hostage

To all his hopes and fears

I just wish I could have told him in the living years

 

Crumpled bits of paper

Filled with imperfect thought

Stilted conversations

I'm afraid that's all we've got

 

You say you just don't see it

He says it's perfect sense

You just can't get agreement

In this present tense

We all talk a different language

Talking in defence

 

Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye

 

So we open up a quarrel

Between the present and the past

We only sacrifice the future

It's the bitterness that lasts

 

So Don't yield to the fortunes

You sometimes see as fate

It may have a new perspective

On a different day

And if you don't give up, and don't give in

You may just be OK.

 

Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye

 

I wasn't there that morning

When my Father passed away

I didn't get to tell him

All the things I had to say

 

I think I caught his spirit

Later that same year

I'm sure I heard his echo

In my baby's new born tears

I just wish I could have told him in the living years

 

Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye

[SnowKing69]

The Book Of My Life - Sting

 

Let me watch by the fire and remember my days

And it may be a trick of the firelight

But the flickering pages that trouble my sight

Is a book I'm afraid to write

 

It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life

And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife

And it's all there to see as the section reveals

There's some sorrow in every life

 

If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze

Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days

I'm still forced to remember,

Remember the words of my life

 

There are promises broken and promises kept

Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept

There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess

If I lose everything that I possess

There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die

There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry

There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies.

 

Though the pages are numbered

I can't see where they lead

For the end is a mystery no-one can read

In the book of my life

 

There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons

There are pages of conflicts that nobody won

And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat,

There's a page where we fail to meet

 

There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned

There's a chapter on god that I don't understand

There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see

 

Though the pages are numbered

I can't see where they lead

For the end is a mystery no-one can read

In the book of my life

 

Now the daylight's returning

And if one sentence is true

All these pages are burning

And all that's left is you

 

Though the pages are numbered

I can't see where they lead

For the end is a mystery no-one can read

In the book of my life

[SnowKing69]

A thousand years - Sting

 

A thousand years, a thousand more,

A thousand times a million doors to eternity

I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times

An endless turning stairway climbs

To a tower of souls

If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,

The towers rise to numberless floors in space

I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,

A million names but only one truth to face

 

A million roads, a million fears

A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty

I could speak a million lies, a million songs,

A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time

But if there was a single truth, a single light

A single thought, a singular touch of grace

Then following this single point , this single flame,

The single haunted memory of your face

 

I still love you

I still want you

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves

Like galaxies in my head

 

I may be numberless, I may be innocent

I may know many things, I may be ignorant

Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands

Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands

I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times

Reborn as fortune's child to judge another's crimes

Or wear this pilgrim's cloak, or be a common thief

I've kept this single faith, I have but one belief

 

I still love you

I still want you

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves

Like galaxies in my head

On and on the mysteries unwind themselves

Eternities still unsaid

'Til you love me

[SnowKing69]

You Still Touch Me - Sting

 

Another night finds me alone

In my dreams

You still touch me

Your picture by my telephone

In that smile

You still thrill me

 

Now if I sleep

I sleep here alone

In my bed tonight

You still haunt me

And if I'm falling

I'm falling like a stone

In my nightmares

You still hold me

 

And after all that we've been through

Now I'm wondering

If you still blame me

If only half of this was true

That you believe of me

You still shame me

 

Dark rain will fall until I see your face

I close my eyes

I seem to hear the raindrops saying

You won't come back

You still touch me

 

And when I'm sick at heart and low

In my prayers

You still heal me

When I'm so sure, so sure this isn't so

In my complacency

You still shake me

 

I wonder if you feel the same way as I do

And you'd come back

You still touch me

 

Another night finds me alone

In my bed tonight

You still haunt me

You still hold me

You still touch me

You still touch me

You still touch me

Another night

Another night

Another night

Another finds me alone

[SnowKing69]

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

 

 

love I get so lost, sometimes

days pass and this emptiness fills my heart

when I want to run away

I drive off in my car

but whichever way I go

I come back to the place you are

 

all my instincts, they return

and the grand facade, so soon will burn

without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

 

in your eyes

the light the heat

in your eyes

I am complete

in your eyes

I see the doorway to a thousand churches

in your eyes

the resolution of all the fruitless searches

in your eyes

I see the light and the heat

in your eyes

oh, I want to be that complete

I want to touch the light

the heat I see in your eyes

 

love, I don't like to see so much pain

so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away

I get so tired of working so hard for our survival

I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

 

and all my instincts, they return

and the grand facade, so soon will burn

without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

 

in your eyes

the light the heat

in your eyes

I am complete

in your eyes

I see the doorway to a thousand churches

in your eyes

the resolution of all the fruitless searches

in your eyes

I see the light and the heat

in your eyes

oh, I want to be that complete

I want to touch the light,

the heat I see in your eyes

in your eyes in your eyes

in your eyes in your eyes

in your eyes in your eyes

[SnowKing69]

Duran Duran Ordinary World

 

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights the TV and the radio but still I can't escape the ghost of you

What is happening to me crazy some would say

Where is the life that I recognize, gone away

 

And I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive

 

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say pride will tear us both apart

Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops runaway

Left me in the vaccuum of my heart

What is happening to me crazy some will say where is my friend when I need you most gone away

 

But I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive

 

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and grief

Fear today forgot tomorrow beside the news of holy war and holy need

Our's is just a little sorrowed talk, just blown away

 

And I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive

Every world is my world (I will learn to survive)

Any world is my world (I will learn to survive)

Any world is my world, every world is our world, every world

[SnowKing69]

Eric Clapton

 

Change The World

 

If I can reach the stars,

Pull one down for you,

Shine it on my heart

So you could see the truth:

 

 

That this love I have inside

Is everything it seems.

But for now I find

It's only in my dreams.

 

 

And I can change the world,

I will be the sunlight in your universe.

You would think my love was really something good,

Baby if I could change the world.

 

 

And if I could be king,

Even for a day,

I'd take you as my queen;

I'd have it no other way.

 

 

And our love would rule

This kingdom we had made.

Till then I'd be a fool,

Wishing for the day...

 

 

That I can change the world,

I would be the sunlight in your universe.

You would think my love was really something good,

Baby if I could change the world.

Baby if I could change the world.

 

 

I could change the world,

I would be the sunlight in your universe.

You would think my love was really something good,

Baby if I could change the world.

Baby if I could change the world.

Baby if I could change the world.

[SnowKing69]

Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight

 

It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.

She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.

And then she asks me, Do I look all right?

And I say, &Yes, you look wonderful tonight.

 

 

We go to a party and everyone turns to see

This beautiful lady that's walking around with me.

And then she asks me, Do you feel all right?

And I say, Yes, I feel wonderful tonight.

 

 

I feel wonderful because I see

The love light in your eyes.

And the wonder of it all

Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.

 

 

It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,

So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.

And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,

I say, My darling, you were wonderful tonight.

Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight.

[SnowKing69]

KATIE MELUA

 

The Closest Thing To Crazy

 

 

 

How can I think I'm standing strong,

Yet feel the air beneath my feet?

How can happiness feel so wrong?

How can misery feel so sweet?

How can you let me watch you sleep,

Then break my dreams the way you do?

How can I have got in so deep?

Why did I fall in love with you?

 

[CHORUS:]

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been

Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,

This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,

I was never crazy on my own...

And now I know that there's a link between the two,

Being close to craziness and being close to you.

 

How can you make me fall apart

Then break my fall with loving lies?

It's so easy to break a heart;

It's so easy to close your eyes.

How can you treat me like a child

Yet like a child I yearn from you?

How can anyone feel so wild?

How can anyone feel so blue?

 

[CHORUS]

[Mayella]

IF I AIN'T GOT YOU

alicia keys

 

Some people live for the fortune

Some people live just for the fame

Some people live for the power yeah

Some people live just to play the game

Some people think that the physical things

Define what's within

I've been there before

But that life's a bore

So full of the superficial

 

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you

 

Some people search for a fountain

Promises forever young

Some people need three dozen roses

And that's the only way to prove you love them

 

And in a world on a silver platter

And wondering what it means

No one to share, no one who truly cares for me

 

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you

 

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you

 

If I ain't got you with me baby

Nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing

If I ain't got you with me baby