B i o g r a p h y
 (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Since he was the son of cult songwriter Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley faced more expectations and pre-conceived notions than most singer/songwriters. Perhaps it wasn't surprising that Jeff Buckley's music was related to his father's by only the thinnest of margins. Buckley's voice was grand and sweeping, which fit with the mock-operatic grandeur of his Van Morrison-meets-Led Zeppelin music. Buckley began playing while in high school. Eventually, he moved to Los Angeles to study music; while he was there, he performed with several jazz and funk bands, as well as playing with Shinehead, a leader in the dancehall reggae movement. A few years later, he moved to New York, forming Gods & Monsters with the experimental guitarist Gary Lucas. The band became a hip name, yet their lifespan was short. Buckley began a solo career playing clubs and coffeehouses, building up a considerable following. Soon, he signed a record deal with Columbia Records, releasing the Live at Sin-e EP in November of 1993. It received good reviews, yet they didn't compare to the raves Buckley's full-length debut, 1994's Grace, received. Unlike the EP, the album was recorded with a full band, which gave the record textures that surprised some of his long-time New York followers. Nevertheless, it made several year-end "Best of 1994" lists and earned him a belated alternative hit, "Last Goodbye," in the spring of 1995. A long hiatus followed as Buckley worked on material for his follow-up effort, provisionally titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk. Originally slated to be produced by Tom Verlaine, who later dropped out of the project, Buckley finally began work on the record in Memphis during the late spring of 1997. On the night of May 29, he and a friend traveled to the local Mud Island Harbor, where Buckley spontaneously decided to go swimming in the Mississippi River and waded into the water fully clothed. A few minutes later, he disappeared under the waves; authorities were quickly contacted, but to no avail — on June 4, his body was finally found floating near the city's famed Beale Street area. Buckley was 30 years old. A collection of unreleased recordings, Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk), appeared in 1998, and two live albums arrived during 2000-2001, Mystery White Boy and Live at L'Olympia.



Click HERE for the NON albums Lyrics of Jeff BUCKLEY or HERE for the Tourography setlist I made.



Grace
- 1994 -

Mojo pin
Grace
Last goodbye
Lilac wine
So real
Hallelujah
Lover, you shoud've come over
Corpus christi carol
Eternal life
Dream brother

 


Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk CD1
- 1997 -

The sky is a landfill
Everybody Here Wants You
Opened Once
Nightmares By The Sea
Yard of Blonde Girls
Witches' rave
New Year's Prayer
Morning theft
Vancouver
You and I

 


Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk CD2
- 1997 -

Nightmares By The Sea
New Year's Prayer
Haven't you heard
I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby
Murder Suicide Meteor Slave
Back in NYC
Gunshot glitter
Demon John
Your Flesh Is So Nice
Jewel Box
Satisfied mind

 


Mystery White boy
- 2000 -

Dream brother
I woke up in a strange place
Mojo pin
Lilac wine
What will you say
Last goodbye
Eternal life
Grace
Moodswing whiskey
The man that got away
Kangaroo
Hallelujah / I know it's over
That's all I ask
Lover, you shoud've come over
So real


Songs to no one
- 2002 -

Hymne à l'amour
How long will it take
Mojo pin
Songs To No One
Grace
Satisfied mind
Cruel
She is free
Harem man
Malign fiesta ( No soul )

Grace

 

 

Live At Sin-é
- 1993 - CD1 -

Be my Husband
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
Mojo Pin
Monologue - Duane Eddy, Songs For Lovers
Grace
Monologue - Reverb, The Doors
Strange Fruit
Night flight
If You Knew
Monologue - Fabulous Time For A Guinness
Unforgiven (Last goodbye)
Twelfth of never
Monologue - Café Days
Monologue - Eternal Life
Eternal Life
Just Like A Woman
Monologue - False Start, Apology, Miles Davis
Calling you
 

Live At Sin-é
- 1993 - CD2 -

Monologue - Nusrat, He's My Elvis
Yeh jo halka halk saroor hai
Monologue - I'm A Ridiculous Person
If you see her, say hello
Monologue - Matt Dillon, Hollies, Classic Rock Radio
Dink’s Song
Monologue - Musical Chairs
Drown In My Own Tears
Monologue - The Suckiest Water
The Way Young Lovers Do

Monologue - Walk Through Walls
Je n'en connais pas la fin
I Shall Be Released
Sweet thing
Monologue - Good Night Bill
Hallelujah



 

Grace EP
- 1994 -

Grace
Grace (live at Palais Theatre)
Mojo Pin (live at Palais Theatre)
Hallelujah

Live From The Bataclan EP
- 1995 -

Dream Brother
The Way Young Lovers Do
Medley Piaf
Hallelujah

Live à L'Olympia
- 2001 -

Je n'en connais pas la fin
Kick out the jams
Kashmir

 


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Grace

Mojo Pin

I'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no mojo pin
To keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Precious, precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty i love you so

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you i've waited my life to see
It's you i've searched so hard for

Don't wanna weep for you, i don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty i love you so

Grace

There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming, i'm not afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love,
But she cries to the clicking of time
Of time

Wait in the fire...

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love

And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain
I might leave
Leave behind

Wait in the fire...

And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow

Last goodbye

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then i'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say "no, this can't happen to me,"
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over... it's over

Lilac wine

( Words by J. Shelton / Performed by Nina Simone)

I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree

I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you

Lilac wine is sweet and heady,
Like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady,
Like my love

Listen to me, I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she, coming to me
Nearly here

Lilac wine is sweet and heady,
Where's my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady,
Where's my love

Listen to me, why is everything so hazy
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear

Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love
Feel unready, for my love.

So real

Love, let me sleep tonight on you couch
And remember the smell of the fabric
Of your simple city dress

Oh... that was so real

We walked around til the moon got full like a plate
The wind blew an invocation and i fell asleep at the gate
And I never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under
Pulled me under

Oh... that was so real

I love you, but i'm afraid to love you
I love you, but i'm afraid to love you

Hallelujah

( Leonard Cohen )

I heard there was a secret chord
That david played and it pleased the lord
But you don't really care for music, do you
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... .

Baby i've been here before
I've seen this room and i've walked this floor
I used to live alone before i knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when i moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Well, maybe there's a god above
But all i've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

Lover, you should've come over

Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so you never know

When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh will I ever learn

Oh lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

Well maybe i'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Well I feel too young to hold on
And i'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love well i'm waiting for you

Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Corpus Christi Carol

( Benjamin Britten )

He bear her off, he bear her down
He bear her into an orchard ground

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

And in this orchard there was a hold
That was hanged with purple and gold
And in that hold there was a bed
And it was hanged with gold so red

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

And on this bed there lyeth a knight
His wound is bleeding day and night
By his bedside kneeleth a maid
And she weepeth both night and day

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

By his bedside standeth a stone
Corpus christi written thereon

 Eternal life

Eternal life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin man, just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names

And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you
You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal
Angel

Racist everyman, what have you done
Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son
Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
All I want to do is love everyone

And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you
You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal

There's no time for hatred, only questions
What is love, where is happiness, what is life, where is peace
When will i find the strength to bring me release

Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said
Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And i've get a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal
Angel

Dream brother

There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled

The love you lost with her skin so fair
Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
Her green eyes bloom goodbyes
With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips another
Dream brother
With your tears scattered round the world.

Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't belie the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like i waited for mine
And nobody ever came

I feel afraid and i call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your words and i know your pain
Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
Your eyes to the ground
And the world spinning round forever

Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over



Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk

The sky is a landfill

Circle around the park
Joining hands in silence
Watch the evil black the sky

The storm has ripped the shelter
Of illusion from our brow
This power is no mystery to us now.

Leave your spirit genocide
The cancer you won’t remove
We cast our funeral rose inside
And bury the need to prove
Our mutilation is to gain from the system

Ooh, turn your head away
From the screen, oh people
It will tell you nothing more
Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K.
Public’s empty promise
To the people that the public can ignore

This way of life is so devised
To snuff out the mind that moves
Moving with grace the men despise
And women have learned to lose

Throw off your shame or be
a slave to the system

I see you take another drag
One more lost soul to raise your flag
The sky is a landfill
I see you take another drag
Let’s see you take another drag

You like to dance to the rolling
Head of the adulteress
You sing in praise of suicide
We know you’re useless
Like cops at the scene of the crime

With your steroids and your feedbag
And your stable and your trainer
I got a mail bomb for you Mister Strong Arm.

Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes
For the violence of a nation gone by

Or the politics of weakness
And the garbage dump of souls
That will now black the sky

Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes
Will plug up the mind that moves
Moving with grace the men despise
And women have learned to lose
We’ll share our bodies
In disdain for the system

Oh, I see you take another drag
One nation bends to kiss the hag
The sky is a landfill
I see you take another drag
I see you take another drag
I have no fear of this machine!

Everybody here wants you

Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me

Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me

I’m only here for this moment

I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away

Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd
I’m a stranger in this town
You’re free with me
And our eyes locked in downcast love
I sit here proud
Even now you’re undressed in your dreams with me

Oh, I’m only here for this moment

I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away

I know the tears we cried
Have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
There’s nothing in our way
My love

Don’t you see, don’t you see?
You’re just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame
And I’ll rise like an ember in your name

I know I, I know I
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
Oh let me show you
That love can rise, rise just like embers

Love can taste like the wine of the ages, oh babe,
And I know they all looks so good from a distance
But I tell you I’m the one

I know everybody here, well, thinks he needs you
Think he needs you
And I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.

Opened once

I once was open
And one with a travelling heart
I loved this sweet guy

Just like the fiction
Rushing in your riverbed
Arise like applause in my head

And in the half-light
Where we both stand
This is the half-light
See me as I am

Just like the ocean
Always in love with the moon
It’s overflowing now
Inside you

We fly right over
The minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings them rain

In the half light
Where we both stand
In the half light
You saw me as I am

I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset
Forgetting
I ever happened
That I ever happened.

Nightmare by the sea

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons
Little girl wants to make her home with him
In the middle of the shore, she wonders

“Don’t know what you asked for.”
“Don’t know what you asked for.”

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls
With their bones they’ll scratch the window, I hear them call

“Don’t know what you asked for.”
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
“Don’t know what you asked for.”

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

Stay with me under these waves, tonight
Be free for once in your life tonight

Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go.

Yard of blonde girls

( The Nymphs )

Through the yard
Through the yard of blonde girls
Through the river and the sea
Gold sharks glittering
A tree of white
Breaks the earth
The streets where Lola played

Very sexy, very sexy, okay, okay

Fear, we may come X4
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

It’s in your heart
It’s in your art, your beauty
Even in this world of lies
There’s purity
You’ve got innocence
In your eyes
Even in this world of lies

You’re still hopeful
Very sexy, okay, okay

Fear, we may come X4
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Through the yard
Through the yard of blonde girls
Through the river and the sea
Gold sharks glittering
A tree of white
Breaks the earth
The streets where Lola played

Very sexy, very sexy, okay, okay

Fear, we may come X4
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

Witches' rave

It sounds just like a scream
I don’t know what you mean
Your witchcraft’s all around me
In your ragged pagan scene

You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like
I float just like a bubble
Heading for a spike

All is well between the breasts of passenger and slave
We’ll never make it out alive to join
The witches’ rave

You’d like to see him suffer
For you fantasy and thrill
He fell sick while we made love
He’s out there, somewhere, still

Oh I feel the spell that you have cast, hot, pink, nasty
Bubble gum, coming down just like a big red coal

I can’t help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can’t help from looking
Outside for a guarantee

Hey! I try to keep all hidden
When you come around
Oh, no! The sight of broomsticks
Sliding on the ground
You’re levitating something
'Cause I feel so collectible

We’re all lying natural
He’s watching from a window up above
I see he loves you, I’ll bring you closer

Something in my fate says it’s not right for me
Tell me
Am I cursed or am I blessed?
I can't tell, oh yes!
'Cause all is well between the breasts of
Passenger and slave
I’ll never make it out alive to join
The witches’ rave

I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking
Outside for a guarantee
For a guarantee

New year's prayer

Oooooo, Fall in light, fall in light. Fall in light, fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are X5
As you now are in your blood
Fall in light

Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel it as a water fall
Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, fall in light
Grow in light

Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice

Leave your office
Run past your funeral
Leave your home, car
Leave your pulpit
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don’t belong, don’t belong
You and the stars
Throwing light

Ooooooh
Fall, fall
Ooooooh
Fall in light, fall in light. fall in light
Oooooh
Fall in light, fall in light fall in light
Grow in light

Morning theft

Time takes care of the wound
So I can believe
You had so much to give
You thought I couldn’t see

Gifts for boot heels to crush
Promises deceived
I had to send it away
To bring us back again

Your eyes and body brighten
Silent waters, deep
Your precious daughter in the
Other room, asleep

A kiss “Goodnight” from every
Stranger that I meet
I had to send it away
To bring us back again

Morning theft
Unpretender left
Ungraceful

True self is what
Brought you here, to me
A place where we can
Accept this love

Friendship battered down by
Useless history
Unexamined failure

But what am I still to you
Some thief who stole from you?
Or, some fool drama queen
Whose chances were few?

That brings us to who we need
A place where we can save
A heart that beats as
Both siphon and reservoir

You’re a woman, I’m a calf
You’re a window, I’m a knife
We come together
Making chance in the starlight

Meet me tomorrow night
Or any day you want
I have no right to wonder
Just how, or when

You know the meaning fits
There’s no relief in this
I miss my beautiful friend

I have to send it away
To bring her back again.

V
ancouver

Lady
All the troubles are my fright, I disgust you
Feel the power you cut the truth into you
Why do you think I’d hidden out on this rely
I could kiss you
With lines of escape in my mouth

Please let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman
His eyes shined on my back as I slept and knew you
You didn’t leave it all
You made an even call
My belly released the stars
And tears between the scars. Ooooh

We're where we belong
It should end here
Until the end of time
Beyond the moment
That ends our bondage
I am your failed husband contender
I’m your loan shark of bliss.

This dream you’ve ridden on
Turns your world to explosions
You need to be alone
To heal this bleeding stone
Now, smell the rain of London it still insists
That we beg for our purity
As if we are pure in the rain of our contentment
As if I can think of this no more.

You & I

You and I
Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild
You and I
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child
Where you look down
I’ve walked before
Burning holes
With eyes of liquid brown
If we had only known
In a way
We wouldn’t reach this ground
You were my only home
Silver eyes
I want to see you shine
And we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time
Searching our past for the true
You and I, you and I, you and I
All for you
Where you think you’ll fall
I adore you
Where you shut your soul
I will open for you
If we had only known
In a way
We’d never reach this ground
I'll know
Silver eyes
I can see us shine
I said, we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time
Searching our past for a true
You and I, you and I, you and I
All for you.

Haven't you heard

Your wish is my command!
Have you heard this talk about eye contact
Gonna be the downfall of this town
First the photographs take you to the right hands
Leads you to the authority mold

Paranoia will write the world prayer
Make sure that you fit in the right holes
But when you take his offer, you’re done for
Done for, done for, oooh....

Phantoms in pockets, we’re in panic
Making order in total disgust
Oh, they read a list of all who cannot stay
Take you down, on the ground

Paranoia will write this world prayer
Make sure that you fit in the right holes
But when you take his offer, you’re done for
Done for, oooh....

Make sure you learn to beware your neighbor
Bolt the doors and hire your guards
Suck your life with their virus called language
Someone told you this all would go down
And the last thing you see is the luster
Hold the razor, goodbye to your friends
Would your underground please call the mayor
Call the neighbor, call your friends

Paranoia will write the world prayer
Make sure that you fit in the right holes
But when you take his offer, you’re done for
Done for, done for, oooh....

Well, when he first saw you
You’d need no protection
Eyes trained on your mouth
You’ll learn to take him
Hmmm, It’s a brand new power, oh

My friends had her questions right
Beware your neighbor
Haven’t you heard, haven’t you heard
That we’re done for. Oh
Learn to beware your neighbor
And the right mode
Haven’t you heard?
Haven’t you heard
That we’re done for, done for ? Oh

When I count down from ten
You’ll feel the lead in your lids
You’ll have no need to exist
And wake up refreshed.

I know we could be so happy baby ( If we wanted to )

There’s no easy answer
None to blame or forgive
Two cripples dancing
To the end we live

I’m not with you not of you
Not with you, not of you
You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
And I hope I’ll catch you
In the throws of one last look at the wonder
One last look at the wonder

O, God, I love you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else we come to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be

You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
I'm hoping that I’ll catch you in the throws
Of one last look at joy that we’ve become

But there’s no easy answer, none to blame or forgive
We were two cripples dancing
To the bitter end we live
I’m not with you, but of you
I’m not with you but of you

O, God, I loved you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else it comes to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be

We had a birthplace in common
We had separate beds and lives

I’ll just sit here and glow
Break out the oldest pictures
Hand your ruined letters out to dry
We had a birthplace in common
And separate beds and lives
And lives, and lives
I know that we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
I know that we could be so happy, baby
Yeah oh.

Murder Suicide Meteor Slave

Would you like to meet the villain somewhere
Underneath the skull of a moon
Fire burned his eyes out 'cause his chains are too long for you

Someone has to pay for the damage done
No-one’s gonna love you now
Your whole family’s splintered
You’re a slave to it all now

Oooooh Ahhhhh Oh

You’re a slave to it all now
You’re a slave
Welcome down to paradise rock
There is no single entrance
With the stars to revolve around
There is no real underground

No stars to revolve around
Here, they’re fashioning the noose
Sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell
You know it’s not long for you
Sick of all the vomit childhood
Not a trampoline of the freaks
Not even a slave to your father

Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now
Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now
Welcome down to paradise rock
There is no single entrance
With the stars to revolve around
There is no real underground

There is not single entrance
There’s no stars to revolve around
There is no real underground
You’re a slave to it all, now.

Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy.

Back In N Y C

( Genesis )

I see faces and traces of home
Back in New York City
So you think I'm a tough kid
Is that what you heard
Well I like to see some action
And it gets into my blood
Let me out of Pontiac
When I was just seventeen
I had to get it out of me
If you know what I mean, what I mean

You say I must be crazy
'Cos I don't care who I hit, who I hit
'Cause I know it's me that's hitting out
And I'm not full of shit
Down by my bottle
Filled up high with gasoline
You can tell by the night fires
Where Rael has been, has been


As I cuddled the porcupine
He said I had none to blame, but me
Held my heart, deep in hair
Time to shave, shave it off, it off
No time for romantic escape
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No!

No time for romantic escape
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape

Off we go, off we go, off we go

You're sitting in your comfort
You don't believe I'm real
You never buy protection
From the way that I feel


Your progressive hypocrites
Hand out their trash
It was mine in the first place
So I'll burn it to ash

And I've taken all the strongest meats
And laid them down in colored sheets
Laid them down in colored sheets

Who needs illusion
Of love and affection
When you're out walking in the streets
With your mainline connection, connection.


As I cuddle the porcupine
He said I had none to blame, but me.
Held my heart, deep in hair.
Time to shave, shave it off, it off.
No time for romantic escape,
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No!
No time for romantic escape,
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No!

No time for romantic escape,
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape.

No time
Back in New York City.

Gunshot Glitter

Don't you wanna let go of your heart
Or you resist the beds of bliss
Fortune makes fools of us all
My dear materialista, silence was insane,
The parting was mutual.
Don't you want the rocket to rock out? 
There's room for us both to fly.
Tell the man I'm never coming back again.
Tell the man I'm never coming back again.
Why should you notice at all?
Gone again beside you will fall
Down to the sea out of the skies
Of gold cards and casual tears
I have only come to see you shine
Feminine smiles the right side is wise, more than I.
I wanna be your lover,
Lipstick my name across your mirror.
Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter
And be one with all you disowned in your young life.
You paranoia politician diva.
You paranoia politician diva.

Will you let go of your heart,
Left behind a hypnotizing swirl
The semi's left behind.

Don't you want to rocket to rock?
There's room for both of us to fly
Same show everyday, don't have to blow up in the sky.
So I just came from Hicks town,
Left my coins behind
Maybe some poor cloths pony will himself a life
Why should you care if I crash your affair?
Why should you notice me? I really wanna see you shine.

I wanna be your lover,
Lipstick my name across your mirror.
Now, be one with all you disown,
True love has come to us all.
Blinded by the flame, right side smiles,
Organized male, love, my silence was insane.
The parting was mutual the moment I became
A paranoia politician
diva 
A paranoia politician diva
A paranoia politician diva
A paranoia politician diva
Diva, diva, diva

Demon John

Say farewell
G’night, Sonny-Jim
In your defenseless
Winning smile
What do you hope to win?
And bliss face down, defended

Well, now stoned Demon John
There’s no town the boy cannot belong
Why did you come here?
Is it to excavate all your sins?
Boil within?
Slaughter like the daughter of the devil you send me
I have to deal, you called me here

You couldn’t say that you were juiced
The night that you were introduced
To Demon John
Gonna take him with you when you go?
Dance down slow
Oh, way down

You cannot escape the bar-side angel dissector
You undo your life with too much cocoon
Who’s your protector?
Dark is the city where the white girls walk by
Down below your eyes, just like fireflies
You call me here, come on here, follow me dear
Past cascades of rage and fear
You called me here

You couldn’t say that you had been juiced
The time that you were introduced
To Demon John
Well, you knew you had to want to go
Dance down slow
By the light of the sun
Murder comes
Today or tonight
Better get yourself together
And transcend it, a burst of light
Blaze stars into me
While the love breaks through here and now
So, murder by the light of the sun

Please, don’t get too close to me
You said you are for real, it’s not pretend
All memories stolen, know this for yourself
How would you like to be the happiest man in the world?
Behind the weathered field hands
Whose blistered paws Harvest cut
For wedding clothes they’ll never wear
Marching down a road that was never there
It takes place on a sunlit lace and the backbone broken
Please bring us light
Demon John
You Demon John
Take him with you
When you go.


Your flesh is so nice

I want to tell you a story
About a little cutey
She's ass-slappin' pretty
And voluptuous fingers
Wanna let her lick me
Stick the thick of my pussy
And as I cross the street
She looks good enough to eat me

Kitty!
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is nice
Your flesh is nice
Let me take a bite
Flesh is so nice

Oh
, I take off my belt
Oh, I whip the staircase

Whip the staircase
Oh, kill all the men
Everything's dead to them
You're the only one I follow
Come on and let me give you that "O"

Flesh is nice
Your flesh is so
I wanna take you
twice
Your flesh is nice
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is nice

Your flesh is nice
Wanna take a bite
Your flesh is so (x13)
Your flesh is so nice (x9)
Your flesh is so (x3)
Your flesh is nice
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is nice
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is nice (x4)


Jewel Box

I know you’re a woman
By the way you burn below
I’ll tell you secrets so good
You’ll never tell a soul
Come closer, that bonfire holds his life like stones
My years, my life unknown

Diamonds from the pavement
Where a broken glass had been
Just like these troubles that I’m leaving to the wind
Like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end
Like thieves, my bad luck grows

Jewel box of sadness
Bring to catch your tear
Crystalize illusion shine forgot I’m here
Jewel box of sadness
Bring to catch your tear
Oh, you left some stars in my belly

Star crossed child’s love on the bands of wedding gold
Silver studs of promise hide in the red crushed velvet folds
Inaction, intention, like emeralds I stole
My speech of custom gold
I think I ought to know

Jewel box of sadness
Bring to catch your tears
Crystalize illusion shine, forgot I’m here
Jewel box of sadness
Bring to catch your tear
Oh, you left some stars in my belly
You left some stars in my belly
You left some star in my belly.


Satisfied mind

( J.H."Red" Hayes/Jack Rhodes )

How many times have you heard someone say
If I had money, I will do things my way
But little they know, that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

Money can't buy back all your youth when you're old
A friend when you're lonely, oh peace to your soul
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind

My life is over and my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones
I will leave them no doubt
But one things for certain
When it comes my time
I'll leave this old world, oh yeah oh yeah, with a satisfied mind
One things for certain, when it comes my time, oh yeah,
I'll leave this old world, oh with a satisfied mind
Mind mind mind mind, satisfied mind

Mystery white boy

Woke up in a strange place

Ghost comes to visit with my keys in his pocket
Kisses in my mouth with his eyes hanging out of his sockets
Memories crumbling under still resistance
I was torn out like pages from the book of existence

I woke up in a strange place
Music so loud that i spilled all my beer
I made a call for a blackened cab
Some destination was moving on in
I remember the words that you told me
Now they come down so hard, so plain
Fate is gonna find your love in a glass of champagne

Love came calling as a counterfeit mistress
Stealing from the pockets of a sadomasochist
And she's mouthing for this place like a tongue on crystal meth
Her cigarette smelling like the fear inside my chest

I woke up in a strange place
My mind a blur and some red on my chin
I made a call for a blackened cab
Some destination was moving on in
Easy now, this car was speeding up
For my last chance crashing to freedom
Fate is gonna find your love in a glass of champagne

Sweat pours down
You're in the back seat sleeping
And she waits by the window
From an empty bed, weeping
The ghost guns the motor
To the promised land he promised you
I guess this is the time when the best intentions become facts again

Well, this is no story for the dislocated
You're gonna love but it turned to be hated
Because the lies of the spirit possessed you
Because the eyes of your lover resist you
Listen now, you keep your aim steady
As your temple turns to kiss the pistol
Fate is gonna find your love
In a glass of champagne

Thank you

What will you say ?

( A.k.a. Such a long time )

It's a song that some of you probably never heard... most of you

It's been such a long time
 And I was just a child then
What will you say 
When you see my face?
Time feels like it's flown away
The days just pass and fade away
What will you say 
When they take my place?

It's funny now
I just don't feel like a man
What will you say 
When you see my face?
My face...

Mother dear, the world's gone cold
No one cares about love anymore
What will you say 
When you see my face?

Father do you hear me?
Do you know me?
Do you even care?
What will you say 
When they take my place? 

My heart can't take this anymore
What will you say
When you see my face?
When you see my,
See my face...

I can feel your time crawling
To a slow end
I can feel my time crawling
To a slow end...

Mother dear, the world's gone cold
No one cares about love anymore
What will you say 
When you see my face?

Father do you hear me?
Do you know me?
Did you even care?
What will you say 
When you take my place?

Well it's so funny now
I just don't feel like I'm a man
What will you say?

Last goodbye

French part :
( Quoi ? qu'est ce que c'est ? / What ? what's this? 
Qu'est ce que c'est piaf ? / What is piaf ?
Ah Paris ! Manger beaucoup le fromage ! / Ah Paris ! Eat a lot of cheese ! 
La la la la la last goodbye... )

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then i'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say "no, this can't happen to me,"
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over... it's over

Moodswing whiskey

Moodswing whiskey
Drank it all in the trailer
Waiting for the dark to move in
Sitting in my step-sister’s kitchen
Horse flies on the window sill
Eyes trained on the lemon peeler
And wishing it were a gun

I’m thinking of my wedding ring
Trapped inside the heater
Spring water on the floor of this
Sex starved room

Your nightmare falls around me
In waves of bliss
Tried to stop it with my hand
I was lost in a kiss

With you moodswing whiskey
Your bliss
The actress bliss
The assassin bliss
The abyss

Took a crazy shot of whiskey
In about zero to sixty
All i could see was the bill

I was singing through a melody
With a drink in my right hand
Eyes sparkling, aflame and amazed

I said buzz me up to your junkyard paradise
Buzz me up to your junkyard paradise
Baby i need a sweet-ass photo of you

I cheated and i lied and you stung her
Stung my tongue just like
Sweat from her shoulder

Ooh moodswing whiskey
You love the destroyer
Love the destroyer
Love
Yes moodswing whiskey flipped my brain
Only you could break this chain
I need her in my bed again
Yeah yeah oh yeah oh yeah x 4

Yeah going down to the subway station
I’m packing a rod
All unnecessary histories erased
I am a punishing god
Moodswing whiskey
Your prodigal son has returned

This is for all the headless acrobats
Faces crushed in the circus dust
All in the name of gravity
And the price of admission

Beautiful loser what has it left you now
Beautiful loser what has it left you
‘cause you’re beautiful

I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since i took a drink of you

*** Thanx a lot to Sammy & Daevid who corrected this one ***

The Man That Got Away

(Words by Ira Gershwin, Music by Harold Arlen & Performed by Judy Garland)

Very nice man

The road
is bitter,
The stars have lost their glitter;
The winds grow colder
Suddenly you're older
And all because of the man that got away.

No more his eager call
The writing's on the wall
The dreams you dreamed
Have all g
one astray

The man that won you
Has run
off and undone you.
That great beginning
Has seen the final inning
Don't know what happened
It's all a crazy game
A game


No more that all-time thrill
For you've been through the mill
And never a new love
Will be the same

Good riddance, good-bye
E
very trick of his you're on to
But fools will be fools
And where's he gone to?

The road gets rougher
It's lonelier and tougher
With hope you burn up
Tomorrow he might
turn up
There's just no letup
The live-long night and day

Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman looking for
The man that got away
The man that got away

Kangaroo

( Originally performed by Alex Chilton & Big Star )

I first saw you
You had on blue jeans
Your eyes couldn't hide
Anything
I saw you leaving, oh

I saw you staring out in space

I next saw you
You were at the party
Thought you was a queen
Oh so flirty

I came against

Didn't say excuse
Knew what i was doing
We looked very fine
As we were leaving
As we were making
What we were making

Saint joan
Doing a cool jerk, hey
Oh, i want you
Like a kangaroo
Yes yes yes yes, oh oh ...

Sydney

Hallelujah / I know it's over

I heard there was a secret chord
That david played and it pleased the lord
But you don't really care for music, do you
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah... 

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Hallelujah...

Baby i've been here before
I've seen this room and i've walked this floor
I used to live alone before i knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah...

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
But remember when i moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head
And as i climb into an empty bed - oh well, enough said
I know it's over still i cling, i don't know where else i can go, over and over...
Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head
See the sea it wants to take me, the knife wants to slit (cut) me
Do you think you can help me?

Sad veiled bride please be happy - handsome groom give her room
Loud loutish lover treat her kindly though she needs you
More than she loves you - and i know it's over - still i cling
I don't know where else i can go - over and over.....
Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head

Well, maybe there's a god above
But all i've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah...


That's all I ask

( By Horace Ott & Performed by Nina Simone )

This is another nina Simone song

Don't try to blow out the sun for me baby
I'm not hope for what I know can't be
All that I ask is for a kiss each day
And I'll give you love that'll never go away
Yes I will yes I will yes I will
This girl I wouldn't ask you to lift up this great
Big world little baby
I know that you're not that kind of a girl

All that I ask
Is for a kiss or two
And nothing in this world will be too good for you

Nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody
Nobody knows
How deep my love for you really goes

Never mind now in your heart how much is owed...

Cause girl I want you to know
I wouldn't ask you to hold back the dawn, madame George, baby
That's just a little too much to ask to anyone

All that I ask
 is for your loving ways
And I'll keep you happy
 for the rest of your natural born days

Never mind now in your heart how much is owed...

Songs for no one

Hymne à l'amour

(M. Monnot/E. Piaf with English lyrics by G. Parsons)

 If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the see should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I don't care

 Shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to, I will.
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still

When at last, our life on earth is through
I will spend eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I won't care

How long will it take

Stood along this lonely track
Watching the trains speed along
Weep, oh willow weep
Let me hear your song
So that my soul can be filled with joy

My heart and I
So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked
"How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?"
Tell me Mama
"Oh How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?"

As I try my best not to sigh
I still feel the tears on my face
I'm hated by you, you're loved by me
Though I can't take it, I will try not to break it

My heart and I
So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked
"How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?"
Oh tell me now
"How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?"

As I try my best not to sigh
I still feel the tears on my face
I'm hated by you, you're loved by me
Though I can't take it, I will try not to break it

My heart and I
So alone in the fright I bear, so I asked
"How long, how long will it take me to be your man again?"
Tell me sister

How long will it take me, will it take me
Oh so alone in the fright I bear, so I asked
How long will it take me, will it take me to be your man again?"
Will it take me to be your man again

*** Thanx a lot to Gabrielle for this one ***

Songs To No One

Back when I was a baby, a baby saying his prayers,
prayers soft and lonely, lonely all these days,
days that meld into nothing, and nothing left for a boy
but to hide his dreams away, hide all his dreams away

Daisies after daisies, a daisy for your floor
Ah days that melt into nothing
A promise piled to the door,
door the door was open
There's nothing left for a boy but to hide these dreams away
…All those dreams decay

Laura…know this song for always
Laura…show this song to no one

I had to fight for these moments, sweet moments of mine
Each line must blossom and die but my song comes strong in time
Nothing left for a boy, nothing left for a boy
But to hide those dreams away, all those dreams decay

Laura…know this song for always
Laura…show this song to no one

Oh I had to fight for these moments, these sweet moments of mine
Each line must blossom , but my song comes strong in time
Although the door was open, there's nothing left for you now
But to hide your dreams away till they come into play

Laura…know this song for always
Laura…show this song to no one
Laura…know this song for always
Laura...Laura…show this song to no one
Show this song to no one

Cruel

Oh Yeah
Born no longer just a baby
Always trying to keep in one place for long, oh long enough to sleep
Oh sleep and dreams are here the same
??? got no rest they'll no longer speak to you

Moving on again
I'm moving... moving on again
Well i'm moving... moving on again
Baby... you're so cruel

You're cruel to yourself, so you never understand
Boy'l never do ya no harm,
For you to build the frame of the bed you sleep upon
So spill your milk and honey, get your kicks off your next man.
Bigger than you think and make him go, go on.

Make him move on, moving on again
Oh he's moving... moving on again
Baby, you're so cruel

They thought about the dream is so real now
These are dreams of mine
You're so aimless, so aimless
You baby, you're so cruel
You're so cruel

Wonder what your gonna think of yourself when the phone calls fade away
As you hold his shoulders
Did you think it would come to this day?
Ask yourself why he's off when others surround you
He was one of many on the day he found you

Uh huh, you're moving, moving again,
Yeah, you're moving, moving on again
Yeah, you're moving, moving on again

Baby, you're so cruel

She Is Free

Cold wind blow this waiting blood
Flow into my ashen arms
Ice stream prick my sleeping skin

She is like the so black time
Race on in and never go away
She's just like the wind

Black car with your creaking wheel
Take away these thoughts of mine

Once there was a crazy man
Staring from his drunken eyes
Staring stony into her elbow's way
Stared at me and tellin' me
'stead of 'oh poor lonely me
I claw the bed and I claw my hair

Oh black car with your creaking wheel
Take away these thoughts ofmine
Pictures sing in rhythm with 'em
Dig the holes for me to sleep inside

She is free
A shadow crossing the sky
Free from hope and this misery
She's beautiful, so beautiful away from me
She is free
She is free

Instead of me is this creaking wheel
Take away these thoughts of mine
Pictures sing in rhythm with 'em
Dig the holes for me to sleep inside

Black car with your creaking wheel
Take away these thoughts of mine
Catch us sing in rhythm with 'em
Dig both holes for me to sleep inside

She is free
Shadow crossing the sky
Free from hope and this misery
So beautiful away from me
She is free
She is free

Harem Man

Alright alright alright alright woah!
Well yeah
Well I'm your harem man I was paid two by two
Well I'm your harem man I will sing and dance for you
Oh Baby say it
My love is great ???

Well well
Lay your hails down 'till they race over me
Oh sweet pussy cat race your hails all over me
Oh you're so sweet, your pussy cat i'm gonna show you where it's at
Why don't you think I can ?? free
I wanna be your fire when it's cold
It's raining outside mama don't wait until you get too old
Take home a liter and push it in me
I wanna inject you in my blood
I wanna set you free

Well well

My world my world... my love

I wanna be your harem man
Oh baby save you do anything I can
I'll keep you waiting in a room of my own
A man can't be free until he's older
My my my ... woman, man

I wanna be your harem man

I wish I was your 45 dollar bill
Spend all your money pay all your thrills
I wish I could be your walking shoes, step all over me
And take away my blues

My world my love

I wish I was you

Malign Fiesta ( No soul )

You got your 24 Swastika tattoo yesterday
You got ????? away
You got your 24 karat gold pierced earning in your nose
Twenty four years and you still don't know which way the wind blows

You got no, you got no

You know when ??? disease ??? violence
??? wish away your parents
You got yourself a girl wth the face and the voice of a whore
You don't want a phone
But you don't know what you kill yourself for anymore

You got no, you got no You got no, you got no

You're no soul rebel if you rip on your skin
You're no soul rebel with your boot in your skin
You're no soul rebel it's your own chance to fight
You're just the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no soul

You call yourself a rebel but you call that man a nigger like they do
You call yourself a rebel but a woman ??? like they do
You call yourself a rebel but you don't talk, act, walk, and piss like they do
You got no room, no soul, no out, no phone
So whadya got? a God to pray you

You got no, you got no You got no

You're no soul rebel if you spit on your sister
You're no soul rebel with your boot on yourskin
You're no soul rebel it's your last chance to fight
You're the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no

You call yourself a rebel but you call that man a nigger like they do
You call yourself a rebel but your woman down like they do
You call yourself a rebel but you rape, scheme and lie like they do
You got no woman, no song, no drome
So what have you got, a God to pray you

You got no, you got no You got no

You're no soul rebel if you rip on your skin
You're no soul rebel with your boot in your skin
You're no soul rebel it's your own chance to fight
You're just the same as those fat old bastards you hate with no

You got no, you got no You got no

Live at Sine 1993

Be my husband

( Written by A. Stroud / Nina Simone Cover )

Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Loving all of you the rest of your life

Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Loving all of you the rest of your life

If you promise me I’ll be your man
If you promise me I’ll be your man
If you promise me I’ll be your man
I will love you the best I can

Stick to the promise that you made me
Stick to the promise that you made me
Stick to the promise that you made me
And stay away from Johnny Lee

Oh mama love me good
Oh mama love me good
Oh mama love me good
Oh mama mama love me good

If you want me to I’ll cook and sew
If you want me to I’ll cook and sew
If you want me to I’ll cook and sew
Outside of you there is no place to go

Don't you treat me so doggone mean
Don't you treat me so doggone mean
Don't you treat me so doggone mean
You're the meanest man I’ve ever seen

Oh mama love me good
Oh mama-ma love me good
Oh mama love me good
Oh mama mama mama love me good
Oh mama

(And i'll) be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Be your husband if you'll be my wife
Loving all of you the rest of your life

Lover, You Should’ve Come Over

Looking out the door,
I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners.
Parading in a wake of sad relations ,
As their shoes fill up with water.

Maybe I'm too young,
To keep good love from going wrong.
But tonight, you are on my mind so.
You’ll never know… you never know

Every inch of me is full of pain.
Oh, you should’ve come over.
My broken bones can smell the rain,
And they’re aching to recover.

And the rain, I wanna come down fast,
Like kisses on my skin.
But it passed me by,
And it left me dry.

Oh lover, you should’ve come over.

Broken down and hungry for your love,
With no way to feed it.
Where are you tonight?
Child, you know how much I need you.
Too young to hold on,
And too old to break free and run.
Oh, too old to run.

Oh, oh, lover, you should’ve come over.
Well, I wait, And I burn.
Will I ever see your return?
Oh lover, you should’ve come over.

Lonely is the room the bed is made,
Open window lets the rain in.
Burning in the corner is the only one ,
Who wants you with him.
My body turns and yearns for sleep,
That will never come.
It's never over,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder.
It's never over,
All my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her.
It's never over,
All my blood for the memories and the sweetness of her laughter.
It's never over,
She's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Oh, maybe I'm too young,
To keep good love from going wrong.
Oh, lover you should've come over.

Will I wait? Will I burn?
Will I see your return?
Oh lover, you should’ve come over, over, over.

*** Thanx a lot to John for this one ***

Mojo Pin

Well i'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
I wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Precious, precious silver and gold and pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless
I'm there in your arms

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
So, so...

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for...

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
So, black black black black beauty...
Grace
This is a song about a
It's about another dream but
It's about not feeling
So bad about your own mortality
When you have true love
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming, i'm not afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love
But she cries to the clicking of time
Of time

Wait in the fire...
And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love
And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain
I might leave
Leave behind
Wait in the fire...
And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow
Strange Fruit
( Written by Lewis Allen, Performed by Billie Holiday )

Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the root
Oh black bodies swinging
In the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging
From the poplar trees

Pastoral scene
Of the gallant south
Oh the bulging eyes
And the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias
Sweet and fresh
And then the sudden smell
Of burning flesh

Now here is fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the trees to drop
Now here is your strange
And bitter crop
Strange fruit
Night flight

( Led zeppelin Cover )

Well well well well...
Oh baby oh babe oh babe...
Now listen I'll tell you a story about
How I received a message from my brother across the water
He sat laughing as he wrote the end's in sight
So I said goodbye to all my friends
And packed my hopes inside a matchbox
'Cause I know it's time to fly

Oh yeah come on, come on now meet me in the morning
Meet me in the middle of the night
Oh the morning light is coming
Don't it make you wanna go and feel alright
Oh yeah

Well well well well...
I just jumped a train that never stops
So now I said I’ll know I never finished paying for my ride
Someone pushed a gun into my hand
Tell me I’m the type of man to fight the fight that I’ll require
Oh yeah come on, come on now won't you meet me in the morning
Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night yeah
Oh everybody said the morning light is coming
Don't it make you wanna go and feel alright
Feel alright

Well, mama, well I think it's time I’m leaving
Nothing here to make me stay
Well, well, well, well it must be time I’m going
They're knocking down them doors
They're trying to take me away

Please Mr. Brakeman, won't you ring your bell
Oh gonna make ring loud and clear
Please Mr. Fireman, won't you be my friend
Tell the people they got to fly away from here

I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby
Southern lady, had a very, very special smile
We are in the middle of a change in destination
When the train stops, all together we will smile

Oh yeah come on, come on now meet me in the morning
Meet me in the middle of the night
Oh everybody said the morning light is coming
Don't it make, don't it make you feel alright
Make make make you feel alright
Oh make you feel alright
Alright
Make you feel alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright alright alright alright alright alright...
Alright people
Make you feel
Make you feel
Oh oh oh oh yeah !

If You Knew

( Nina Simone )

If you knew how I miss you,
You would not stay away today.
Don’t you know how I need you?
Stay here, my dear, with me.

I need you here beside me,
Forever and a day, a day.
Together, never parted,
Just you, just me, my love.

I can’t go on without you.
Your love is all I’m living for.
I love all things about you.
Your heart, your soul, my love.

I can’t go on without you,
Forever and a day, a day.
I need you here beside me,
Forever and a day, a day.
And no one else betides me.
I love you, I love you, I do.
I do.

*** Thanx a lot to Carrie & John for this one ***

Twelfth of Never

( Paul Francis Webster, Jerry Livingston / Nina Simone Cover )

You ask how long I'll love you
I'll tell you true
Until the Twelfth of never
I'll still be loving you

Hold me close
Never let me go
Hold, oh hold me close
I love my heart like April snow 

I'll love you 'til the bluebells
Forget to bloom
And I'm gonna love you
'Till the roses run out of perfume
And baby I'm gonna love you
'Till the poets run out of things to rhyme, oh yeah

Until the twelfth of never
And that's a long long time

Monologue - Eternal Life

This is a song about...
It's an angry song
Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks
And people behind masks to be ruining other peoples lives
Initiating force against other peoples lives
On the basis of their income, their colour, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever...

Eternal Life

Eternal Life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names
And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road
Would pave the way for you
You better turn around
And blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel
 
Racist everyman, what have you done
Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son...
Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
All I want to do is love everyone...
 
And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road
Wwould pave the way for you
You better turn around
Aand blow your kiss hello to life eternal

Oh...
 
There's no time for hatred, only questions
Where is love, where is happiness
What is Life, where is peace

When will I find the strength to bring me release
And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said
Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye
To life eternal angel...
Angel...

Just Like A Woman

( Originally performed by Bob Dylan )

No, no, no, no, no...
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
Oh, she takes just like a woman
Oh, and she makes love just like a woman
Oh, then she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

Oh, Queen Mary, she's my friend
But I believe i'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That the Baby can't be blessed
’Till she finally sees that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamines, and her pearls
Oh, she takes just like a woman, yes, and
She makes love just like a woman
Oh, then she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

Well, it was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is all this pain in here
Well, I can't stay in here, oh baby
Ain't it clear that I just can't fit
I believe it's time for us to quit
If we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't you let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Oh, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
And you make love just like a woman
And you, you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl

But you break just like a little girl

*** Thanx a lot to John for this one ***

Calling You

( Bob Telson/Jevetta Steele
)

It's been a while since I played this song

A desert road from Vegas to nowhere
Some place better than where you've been
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
In a little café just around the bend

I am calling you
Can't you hear me
I am calling you

A hot dry wind blows right through me
The baby's crying and I can't sleep
But we all know a change is coming
Coming closer sweet release

I am calling you
I know you hear me
I am calling you, oh
Oh yes yes yes

I am calling you
I am calling you

A desert road from Vegas to nowhere
Some place better than where you've been
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
In a little café just around the bend

A hot dry wind blows right through me
The baby's crying and I can't sleep
But we all know a change is coming
Coming closer sweet release, sweet release

I am calling you
I am calling you
I am calling you
I am calling you

Yeh jo halka halk saroor hai

( written by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan )

Saqi ki har nigah pay bal kha k p gaya
Lehroon say khailta hoa lehra k p gaya
Ey rehmat-e-tamaam meri har khata muaf
Mein intiha-e-shouq (mein) say ghabra k p gaya

Peta baghair izm yeah kab thi meri majaal
Dar pardah chashm-e-yaar ki shay pa k p gaya

Paas rehta hai duur rehta hai
Koi dil mein zaroor rehta hai
Jab say dekha hai un ki aankhon ko
Halka halka suroor rehta hai

Aisay rehtay hein koi mere dil mein
Jaisay zulmat mein noor rehta hai
Ub adam ka yeah haal hai har waqt
Mast rehta hai chuur rehta hai

Yeah joh halka halka saroor hai
Yeah teri nazar ka qasoor hai
K sharab peena sikha diya
Tairay pyar nai, teri chaah nai
Teri behki behki nigaah nai
Mujhay ik sharabi bana diya…

Sharab kaisi (what drink), khumaar kaisa (what elevation)
Yeah sub tumhari nawazishein hein (it is all your gift)
Pilai hai kiss nazar say tu nai (how i have been made into an addict)
K mujhko apni khabar nahi hai (i have no awareness of myself)
Teri behki behki nigah nai (your lost looks)
Mujhe ik sharabi bana dia....

Sara jahan must, jahan ka nizam (system) must
Din must, raat must, saher (morning) must, shaam must
Dil must, sheesha must, sabu (cup of wine) must, jaam must
Hai teri chashm-e-must say her khaas-o-aam (everyone) must

Yoon to saqi her tarah ki tere maikhane mein hai
Woh bhi thori si jo in aankhon k paimane mein hai
Sub samajhta hoon teri ishwa-kari (cleverness) ay saqi
Kaam karti hai nazar naam hai paimane ka.. Bus!
Teri behki behki nigah nai
Mujhe ik sharabi bana diya...

Tera pyar hai meri zindagi (my life is your love)
Tera pyar hai meri bandagi (i am enclosed in your love)
Tera pyar hai bas meri zindagi, tera pyar hai bas meri zindagi
Na namaz aati hai mujhko, na wazoo aata hai
Sajda kar leta hoon, jab saamnay tu aata hai
Bus meri zindagi tera pyar hai....

Mai azal say banda-e-ishq hoon, mujhe zohd-o-kufr ka gham nahin (deep down i am a lover. I am not sad for hereafter-hell)
Mere sir ko dar tera mil gaya, mujhe ab talash-e-haram nahi
Meri bandagi hai wo bandagi, jo muqeed-e-dair-o-haram (bounded to any sacrad place) nahi
Mera ik nazar tumhein dekhna, ba khuda namaz se kam nahi (for me to look at you is no less than namaz)
Bus meri zindagi tera pyar hai...
Bus meri zindagi tera pyar hai...

Tera naam loon zubaan say, tere aagay sir jhuka doon
Mera ishq keh raha hai, mein tujhe khuda bana doon
Tera naam mere lub per, mera tazkara hai dar dar
Mujhay bhool ja'ay dunya, mein agar tujhe bhula doon
Mere dil mein bus rahe hein, tere bepanah jalwe
Na ho jiss mein noor tera, woh charagh hi bujha doon

Jo pucha k kis tarah hoti hai baarish, jabeen (forehead) se paseene ki boondein gira di
Jo pucha k kis tarah girti hai bijli, nigahein milaein mila kar jhuka dein
Jo pucha shab-o-roz milte hain kaise, to chehre pe apne wo zulfein hata deein
Jo pucha k naghmon mein jaadu hai kaisa, to meethe takallum mein baatein suna deein
Jo apni tamanaon ka haal poocha , to jalti howi chand shamein bhujha deein
Main kehta reh gaya khata-e-mohabbat ki achi saza di

Mere dil ki dunya bana kar mita di, acha!
Mere baad kisko satao gay,
Mujhe kis tarah se mitao gay
Kahan ja ke teer chalao gay

Meri dosti ki balaein lo
Mujhe haath utha kar duaein do, tumhein ek qatil bana diya
Mujhe daikho khuwahish-e-jan-e-jaan
Main wohi hoon anwar-e-nim jaan

Tumhain itna hosh tha jub kahan
Na chalao is tarah tum zaban
Karo mera shukriya meherban
Tumhein baat karna sikha diya...

Yeh jo halka halka saroor hai, yeh teri nazar ka kasoor hai
Kay sharab peena sikha diya
 

At a glance from the cup-bearer
I gulped the whole cup of wine in one draught
And thus got intoxicated.

O'divine mercy pardon my slip from grace
As my eagerness for wine drinking pushed me in committing this error

I could i dare to drink without permission!
It was only a wink from my sweetheart which prompted me to do so.

O'holy man don't scoff at my apparent irreligiosity
I am the one with his knack of chit-chat coaxed the divinity
In granting me permission to drink

Dark clouds are hovering near and bring along the musicians' captivating notes.
Who has spread her hair in the rainy season
Because the breeze is pregnant with sweet fragrance?

Larks dance in the open tunes played by the clouds
As they are bringing along their own playing instruments.

The eyes of my sweetheart are so bewitchingly red
That even the best wine of the tavern pales in comparison.

Being coquettish my sweetheart sometimes comes very near to me
And at other time goes far away
But all the time she is close to my heart.

Since the day my eyes met her lovely ones
I am in perpetual state of slight intoxication.

Her residence in my heart is comparable to a ray of light
Penetrating the pitch of darkness, this state of slight intoxication.
Your love and your bewitching eyes have induced me to become a drunkard.

The whole universe is in a state of drunkenness; the day
The night, the dawn, the dusk, everything is perpetually intoxicated.
Even the wine cup and wine bottle are drunk
And this is all a result of your bashful eyes.

O'lovely cup-bearer although your repository contains all sorts of wines,
But i am only fond of the wine that drips from your drowsy eyes.
This state of slight intoxication.
I don't know how to say prayers nor do i know the rites of ablution.
I just prostrate myself before you whenever i see you
Because your worship and your love is my life.

Right from creation i am the slave of love
And i don't care for belief or disbelief.

My sweetheart, since i have found you
And have become the worshipper at the alter of your love
I don't require a mosque to prostrate myself and say my prayers
This slight state of intoxication.

Even on the day of judgement when i am resurrected the scars of your love
Will be manifest on my body and your picture clinging to my heart.

My extreme love of you has so elevated me spiritually
That who ever i bow my heat it appears as if holy kaaba is in front of me.
It does not behove you to jeer and mock your disappointed lover.

For god sake o'lovely one turn away your alluring eyes
Otherwise i will totally lose control of my heart.

I pray to god that like me you also fall in love with someone
And then having been rebuffed in dejection you also roam about
And lament the loss of your heart.

To fall in love was a joke for me, but it has turned into a serious affair
And now i am getting the punishment.

While i am bewailing the loss of my heart why are you laughing
And making merry? What have you gained out of it?

Raise your hands in prayer for me and be thankful of my friendship
Because it is i who has sharpened your charms
Thus turning you lovely being into a killer.

O'darling of my heart bestow a glance of your lovely eyes at me
I am the same halfdead anwar who as mentor
And guide taught you to display captivating manners
And charm the people with your conversation.
 

 

Monologue - I'm A Ridiculous Person

Hallah hallah hallah ouh !
I am a ridiculous person
And you're lucky you've paid no money to see me

If you see her, say hello

 ( Bob Dylan )

 If you see her, say hello
She might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring
Is livin' there, I hear
Say for me that I'm all right
Though new things come and go
She might think that I've forgotten her
Don't tell her it isn't so

 We had a falling-out, like lovers often will
But to think of how she left that night
It still brings me a chill
And though our separation
Well it chilled me to the heart
She still lives inside of me
We've never been apart

If you're making love to her
Kiss her for the kid
Who always has respected her
For doin' what she did
Oh, I know it had to be that way
It was written in the cards
But the bitter taste still lingers on
It all came down so hard

Well I meet a lot of people
As I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there
As I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it
I've just learned to turn it off
Well either I'm too sensitive
Or else I'm just gettin' soft

 If you see her

Sundown, yellow moon
I replay the past
I know every scene by heart
Cause they all went by so fast
If she's passin' back this way
I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up
If she's got the time

Tell her she can look me up
If she's got the time

Dink’s Song

( Traditional / Also performed by Bob Dylan )

If I had wings like Noah's dove
I'd fly the river to the one I love 
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

If I met your man, and he was long and tall
I’d heave his body like a cannonball 
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

Then, one evening, it was drizzling rain
And in my heart I felt an aching pain 
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

As you wore, wore your apron low
I’m gonna keep you away from my door
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
And your apron is straight up to your chin
I cross your door but I never come in
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

Oh, the woman I love, I crave to see
She leaves up the country
And I know she won’t write to me
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
Ah, she’s gone, I know she won’t come back
Ah, she took the last nickel out of my saving sack
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

And I went to the mountain
Looked as far as my eye could see
Some other man got my woman, and a lonesome blues got me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

And I found her letter on the old maple tree,
She says “I’m gonna get you
For all the things you did to me.”
Oh yeah, baby, baby, fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

Now, if a man is a cheater
He’s having himself a time
But he’ll never keep his woman
‘Cause he just won’t know his mind
His mind mind mind mind
Fare thee well, my honey, oh yeah

A muddy river runs a muddy mile
But you can't give me money for my unborn child
Child, child, child
Fare thee well, my honey, oh fare thee well

When a woman gets in trouble
Everybody puts her down
Looking for a good friend
And none can be found
Oh yeah, oh yeah, fare thee well

Number nine train
Never done no harm
Number nine train
Take my poor baby home
Fare thee well, oh yeah

Another woman, I love.

I’m the fastest man that I ever saw,
But I mus’ get from Missouri all the way to Arkansas. 
Oh yeah, oh yeah, fare thee well, oh yeah.

Although papa's dead
How much will to be
I got no woman
To love and care for me, oh yeah
Oh yeah, fare thee well, my honey,
Oh my honey, fare thee well, fare thee well
*** Thanx a lot to John for this one ***

Drown in my own tears

(written by Henry Glover)

It brings a tear into my eyes
When I begin to realize
I've cried so much
Since you've been gone
I guess I'm drowning
In my own tears

I sit and cry
Just like a child
My pouring tears
Are running wild
If you don't think
That you'll be home soon
I guess I'll drown
Oh yes, in my own tears

I know it's true
Into each life
Oh little rain, rain must pour
And I'm so blue
Here without you
It keeps raining
More and more

Why can't you please come home
So I won't be all alone
If you don't think that you'll be home soon
I guess I'll drown in my own tears
Drown in my own tears
Drown in my own tears
Come on people
Drown in my own tears
Oh don't let me
Drown in my own tears
Well I get in trouble baby
Drown in my own tears
I guess I'll drown, oh yes, in my own tears, oh...

The Way Young Lovers Do

Oh...

We strolled through fields all wet with rain
And back along the lane again
There in the sunshine
In the sweet summertime
Oh the way that young lovers do
 
I kissed you on the lips once more
We said goodbye at your front door
There in the nighttime
Love, that's the right time
Oh to feel the way that young lovers do
 
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were
And the way that we wanted to be
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you
 and that you were for me
And then we long to dance the night away
Turned to each other, saying 'I love you, baby I love you'
Oh the way that young lovers do
Lovers do...
Do, do, do, do...
 
The way young lovers do
Do, do, do, do...

The way young lovers do...
 
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way
 that we wanted to be
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you
 and you were for me
Oh baby, baby.
And then we long to dance the night away
And turned to each other, saying 'I love you, baby I love you'
Oh the way...

I held her with her looking down
And I kissed her, with the snow falling down
In the street light
It was a sweet light
And the way that young...
Oh, the way that young lovers...
Oh the way that young... that young lovers...
That young lovers do.

Good night

Je n'en connais pas la fin

(R. Asso/M. Monnot) (Jeff sings an English translation.)

I used to know a little square
So long ago, when I was small
All summer long it had a fair
Wonderful fair with swings and all
I used to love my little fair
And at the close of everyday

I could be found, dancing around
A merry-go-round that used to play...

"Ah, mon amour
 A toi toujours
 Dans tes grands yeux
 Rien que nous deux"

All summer long my little fair
Made everyday like a holiday
Night after night it used to play
And people came there from so far away
And everyone sang that little tune
All around town you heard it played

Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie
This serenade...

"Ah, mon amour
 A toi toujours
 Dans tes grands yeux
 Rien que nous deux"

All summer long my little fair
Made everyday like a holiday
Night after night it used to play
And people came there from so far away
And everyone sang that little tune
All around town you heard it played

Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie
This serenade...

"Ah, mon amour
 A toi toujours
 Dans tes grands yeux
 Rien que nous deux"

I can't forget my little square
Even though I'm so far away
I can't forget my little fair
Maybe it's still there, still there today
I sometimes hear that little tune
 playing in a dream of long ago

And in my brain runs the refrain
That old French refrain I used to know...

"Ah, mon amour
 A toi toujours
 Dans tes grands yeux
 Rien que nous deux"

I Shall Be Released 

( Originally performed by Bob Dylan )

They say everything can be replaced,
Yet every distance is not near.
So I remember every face,
Of every man that put me here.

I see my light come shining,
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released. 

They say every man needs protection,
They say that every man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection,
Somewhere so high above this wall.

Sing,
I see my light come shining,
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any way now,
I shall be released. 

There standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear his voice shouting so loud,
Crying out he has been framed.

I see my light come shining,
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any way now,
I shall be released.

Everybody sing with me.

I see my light come shining,
From b’da west to east,
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

*** Thanx a lot to John for this one ***

Sweet Thing

( Van Morrison / Live 92 & 96 )

And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear
Clean water for to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry-boats
And they'll get high
On a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow's sky
And I will never ever grow so old again
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain

Oh sweet thing, sweet thing
My, my, my, my, my sweet thing

And I would drive my chariot
Down your streets and cry
Well, it's me, I'm dynamite
And I don't know why
And you hold me so strong in your arms again
Pretty babe
I will not remember that I ever felt the pain
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never ever grow so old again

Oh sweet thing, oh oh
Oh my my sweet thing
Sweet thing...

And I will raise my hand up
Into the night time sky
And count the stars
That's shining in your eye
Just to dig it all and not to question well that's just fine
Just to dig it all and never wonder well that’s just fine
And I will be satisfied not to read in between the lines

And we will walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
You know we will, someday
And we, you and me, walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
Oh you and me, we will walk
And talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
And we will walk in gardens all misty wet with rain
And we shall walk in gardens all misty wet with rain
Oh we shall walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
And we will never, ever grow so old again
Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing
Sweet thing, and you know we will
Oh you know we will

Remember the day when I held you hand
The look in my eyes only you can understand
Remember when we held each other soft and low
How nothing could ever be that strong

Sleep tonight with dreams as sweet as angel's wings
And all your dreams will bring you sweeter things
Sweet sweet sweet thing, oh sweet thing
Don’t, don’t, don’t you cry, oh no no no
Come here and let me tell you
Let me tell you how much I love you
Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing
Oh sweet thing, oh sweet thing

You know we will walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
And will never grow so old again
Oh sweet thing, sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet
Sweet sweet thing, sweet thing, sweet thing
Oh my sweet thing

Live Bataclan 1995 EP

Dream Brother

There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled
 
The love you lost with her skin so fair
Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
Her green eyes blew goodbyes
With her head in her hands
 and your kiss on the lips of another
Dream Brother with your tears scattered round the world.
 
Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
And nobody ever came...

Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
And nobody ever came...

Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
Nobody ever came
Nobody ever...

I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your words and I know your pain
With your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
Your eyes to the ground and the world spinning round forever
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over

Ah do you meet the one I love
and smell the one who loves you
Dream brother, dream brother, dream, dream
 dream asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over

The Way Young Lovers Do

We...
We strolled through fields all wet with rain
And back along the lane again
There in the sunshine
In the sweet summertime
Oh the way that young lovers do
 
I kissed you on the lips once more
We said goodbye at your front door
There in the nighttime
Love, that's the right time
Oh to feel the way that young lovers do
 
Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the
way that we wanted to be
Then we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you
and that you were for me
And then we long to dance the night away
And turned to each other saying 'I love you, baby I love you'
Oh the way that young lovers do
 
Oh the way...
Oh the way that young lovers do
The way young lovers do
The way young lovers do
The way young lovers do
The way young lovers do
The way young lovers...

Now won't you love me the way young lovers do
Oh won't you love me the way that young lovers do
Oh the way...

Won't you love me the way that young lovers do
It's so close
I can't feel you
Take your time on my body
Until we both go crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy...
 
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way
 that we wanted to be
And we sat on our own star and dreamed of the way that I was for you
 and that you were for me
Oh, baby, babe
Then we long to dance the night away
And turned to each other saying 'I love you, baby, I love you'
Oh, yes...

[Cocteau Twins part]
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone

I held her with her looking down
And I kissed her, with the snow falling down
There in the street light
Oh, it was a sweet night
And the way that young lovers do
Oh, the way that young lovers do
Oh the way that young... Oh
Oh the ways you do, yes it's you... Yes

[That's all I ask Part]
Oh, don't try to blow out the sun from me, baby
Oh, and I'm hopin' for what I know can't be
All that I ask is for your kiss each day
And I'll give you love that will never go away
I'll give you love that will never go away

Oh the way that young lovers do

*** Thanx a lot to Kieran who corrected some mistakes ***

Medley Piaf : Je n'en connais pas la fin / Hymne à l'amour

I used to know a little square
So long ago, when I was small
All summer long it had a fair
Wonderful fair with swings and all
I used to love my little fair
And at the close of everyday

I could be found, dancing around
A merry-go-round that used to play:

"Ah, mon amour
 A toi toujours
 Dans tes grands yeux
 Rien que nous deux"

All summer long my little fair
Made everyday like a holiday
Night after night it used to play
People came there from so far away
And everyone sang that little tune
All around the town you heard it played

Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie this serenade

If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I won't care

Shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to, I will. (I hope I get this right)
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still

When at last, our life on earth is through
I will spend eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I won't care

Hallelujah

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrough ya
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
Well, maybe I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live with Leonard before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath you drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
And maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
Well it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Halle...
It's not what you're told
It's not her face
It's not his touch
In the room you both share
Where he's gone when he loved
When your time and your memory fills your dreams
When you're honest and together
Together no more
No more
Hallelujah, until you're nothing
Hallelujah, baby, until she's everywhere
Hallelujah, until together you are somewhere I'd lost
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Bonne nuit, bonne nuit, I love you, I love you, We love you, Thank you


Grace EP

Grace (live at Palais Theatre)

There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die

My fading voice sings of love
But she cries to the clicking of time,
Wait in the fire...

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love...

And the rain is falling and I believe my time has come
And it reminds me of the pain I might leave behind
Wait in the fire...

And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
But I'm not afraid to go, baby it's all because of you
But I'm not afraid to go, but it goes so slow, slow
Wait in the fire, wait in the fire
Wait in the fire...

Don't you take it away from me

Mojo Pin (live at Palais Theatre)

[Chocolate Part]
You got me shaking like a lovers bed on a hardwood floor
In the New York summertime, melting on a tongue of gold

I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

Well if only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Yeah precious, precious silver and gold and pearls
 in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Yes born again from the rhythm, screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your...

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so...

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've waited my life to see
It's you...
If you hurt me I'll kill you...

Hallelujah (live at Palais Theatre)

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this :
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrough ya
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not some victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
 
Well, maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah...

[Last Month Of The Year Part]
Tell me what month was Jesus born in
Last month of the year
Tell me what month was Jesus born in
Last month of the year
Got January, January, March oh Lord
Got April, May and June Lord
You got July oh yeah
September, October and November
Got the twenty fifty
December is the last month of the year

What month was Jesus born in
Last month of the year
What month was Jesus born in
Last month of the year
Got January, February, March oh Lord
Got April, May and June Lord
You got July oh but
September, October and November
Got the twenty fifty
December is the last month of the year

Thank you Melbourne

Live à L'olympia

Kick out the jams

 ( Cover from The Motor City Five / MC5 )

I'm gonna kick 'em out

Well I feel pretty good
And I guess that I could get crazy now, baby
'Cause we all got in tune
When the dressing room got hazy now, baby

I know how you want it, child,
Hot, sweet, and tight
The girls can't stand it
When you're doing it right
When they're up on the stand
And then they kick out the jams, yes
Kick out the jams, I like to kick 'em out

Yes I'm startin' to sweat
You know my shirt's all wet
What a feelin'
And the sound that abounds and
Resounds and rebounds off the ceiling
You gotta have it, baby
You can't do without
When you get the feelin'
You've got the sounds above
Put that mic in my hand
And let me kick out the jams
Yes, kick out the jams, got to kick 'em out

So you got to get it up
And then can't get enough
That's what ....
'Cause it gets in your brain
It drives you insane, makes you crazy
The ...... the faster you funk
If you wanna feed my rocket
Till the morning comes
Let me be who I am
And let me kick out the jams
Yes kick out the jams
I done kick 'em out

Kashmir

(Led Zeppelin) 

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
Stars to fill my dream. 
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been. 
To sit with Elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen. 
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
And all will be revealed... 

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