Joybringer

Manfred Mann's Earth Band



http://www.progarchives.com/mp3/Manfred%20...0Joybringer.mp3

I bring joy and I can take you through
All those days when people seem to get to you
I bring joy and I come here to you I bring life and I can take you where
You can see and feel and breathe and touch the air
I bring life and I can take you there Take your time, remember when you do
There are days when people feel the same as you
I bring time and I can take you through I bring joy and I can take you through
All those days when people seem to get to you
I bring joy and I come here to you


(or did we already have that one) ?? (sweet tune, 'tis well worth it)

Ferry Cross The Mersey
Gerry & The Pacemakers



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/..._the_mersey.wma




FERRY 'CROSS THE MERSEY
Gerry And Pace Makers
(Gerry Marsden)

Life goes on day after day
Hearts torn in every way

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay

People they rush everywhere
Each with their own secret care





So ferry 'cross the Mersey
and always take me there
The place I love

People around every corner
They seem to smile and say
We don't care what your name is boy
We'll never turn you away

So I'll continue to say
Here I always will stay

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay
and here I'll stay
Here I'll stay

almost took that ferry once....then the Chris De Burgh song came to mind.

Spanish Guitar
Toni Braxton



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...dia/Spanish.mp3




a smoky room a small café
they come to hear you play
and drink and dance the night away
i sit out in the crowd
and close my eyes
dream you're mine
but you don't know
you don't even know that i am there

i wish that i was in your arms
like that spanish guitar
and you would play me through the night
'till the dawn
i wish you'd hold me in your arms
like that spanish guitar
all night long all night long
i'd be your song i'd be your song

steal my heart with every note you play
i pray you'll look my way
and hold me to your heart someday
i long to be the one that you caress with tenderness
and you don't know
you don't even know that i exist

i wish that i was in your arms
like that spanish guitar
and you would play me through the night
'till the dawn
i wish you'd hold me in your arms
like that spanish guitar
all night long all night long
i'd be your song i'd be your song

te sientas entre la gente
cierras tu ojos
y suenas que soy tuyo
pero yo no siquiera se que estas ahi
me gustaria tenerte entre mis brazos amor

i sit out in the crowd
and close my eyes
dream you're mine
and you don't know
you don't even know that i exist

i wish that i was in your arms
like that spanish guitar
and you would play me through the night
'till the dawn
i wish you'd hold me in your arms
like that spanish guitar
all night long all night long
i'd be your song i'd be your song

oh my God, is anybody looking ? My hands are on the keyboard, honest !

I thought THAT one would get a rise out of you!



~Shears

Starship Trooper

Yes



http://www.progarchives.com/mp3/YES%20-%20...p%20Trooper.mp3

I. Life Seeker
(Anderson)
Sister Bluebird flying high above,
Shine your wings forward to the sun.
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What you don't know, I have never heard.
Starship Trooper, go sailing on by,
Catch my soul, catch the very night.
Hide the moment from my eager eyes.
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul.
What you can't see, can't be very whole.
Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.
Mother life, hold firmly on to me.
Catch my knowledge higher than the day.
Lose as much as only you can show.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What I don't know, I have never shared.
II. Disillusion
(Squire)
Loneliness is a pow'r that we possess to give or take away forever.
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the fact there shown before you.
Take what I say in a diff'rent way and it's easy to see
that this is all confusion.
As I see a new day in me, I can also show if you and you may follow.
Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.
III: Wurm (Instruemtal)
(Howe)

Here is part of Green Day's "Holiday". Guess who they are singing about and i am pretty sure it aint Hitler.

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

That's another LP I wore out!!!!

~Shears

been lookin for that one....as mp3.....won't give up........not just yet....not just yet !!

greenday.. i have all their cd's.. i love their old music, but their newest album is awesome and has a great message

Can't find it?! I would tell you what to do but it is against the forum rules. It may be a bit too new for you old timers but the whole cd is worth a listen.

My Iron Lung

Radiohead



http://www.progarchives.com/mp3/Radiohead%...Iron%20Lung.mp3

Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm recieving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
We're too young to fall asleep
To cynical to speak
We are losing it
Can't you tell?
We scratch our eternal itch
A twentieth century bitch
And we are grateful for
Our iron lung
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out
We'll just hum
This, this is our new song
Just like the last one
A total waste of time
My iron lung
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's OK
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's OK
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon

(goodnite lads!)

Oh, donna worry aboot the CD...me son can get me that. I is lookin for the song in mp3 form to link to hea. no mo no less. Do ya know where's it could be Jack ?

Jiz copy and paste the link. That would be grand !

(goodnite Jack)

i'm uploading it to one of my sites now.. will post the link when it's done... after you save it let me know so i can take it down

like i said, i have all of greenday's stuff if you need anything else

here you go

link to song

Well Jeeeeezzuss Kuuuuuuurrrrriiiisst ! PTC, I'm in love !!!

Instruction : go to the nearest mirror, look at yourself, get to know yourself, don't waste any time, kiss the mirror.......and think it was me. MMMMMMMmmmmmmmsm mko !

merci beaucoup mon ami ! Molto Grazi, muchas Gracias et vielen Dank !

lol
will do

Wait a minute.......that was cool but it wasn't American Idiot.

And I was actually looking for a more ...semi permanent link. Like the ones above...the last 7 pages or so.

I still luvya PTC ! Can I stay the nite withya tonite ?

i can leave it up.. that's fine...

you want the american idiot song? give me a minute to compress it really quick
i could just create a .zip file for you with a bunch of songs
whichever you prefer.. will go ahead and upload american idiot now

Oh well, guess it's jiz me myself and my wife again. Goodnite music loverz. Sleep tight. Don't let the Zappas bite

here's 'american idiot'

link to song

btw.. have you heard "wake me up when september ends"?

That's it ! How do you say I love you in your language ?

"American Idiot"

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

"Wake Me Up When September Ends"

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends

the video for this is really good
it's pro-soldier, anti-war.. my favorite style
here's a link (windows media player)
http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/greenday_...video_300-v.asx

you can find it on their site also
http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html

Sonny Bono wrote this song.



~




Needles & Pins
The Searchers



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...dles___pins.wma

I saw her today, I saw her face
It was the face I loved and I knew
I had to run away and get down on my knees and pray
That they'd go away
But still they begin
Needles and pins
Because of all my pride
The tears I gotta hide
Hey, I thought I was smart, I wanted her
Didn't think I'd do, but now I see
She's worse to him than me
Let her go ahead, take his love instead
And one day she will see
Just how to say please
And get down on her knees
Yeah, that's how it begins
She'll feel those needles and pins
a-hurtin her, a-hurtin her
Why can't I stop and tell myself I'm wrong, I'm wrong, so wrong
Why can't I stand up and tell myself I'm strong
Because I saw her today, I saw her face
It was the face I loved and I knew
I had to run away and get down on my knees and pray
That they'd go away
But still they begin
Needles and pins
Because of all my pride
The tears I gotta hide
Ah, needles and pins
Needles and pins
Needles and pins

Same here. The early stuff was all excellent, but they've outdone themselves with "American Idiot"

Agreed.


Speaking of messages in music...

(Can't find all the lyrics yet)

Sweet Neo Con
Rolling Stones

...
You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot
Well, I think you are full of shit!
How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con.
...


http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092005/gossip/51059.htm



Newsweek
August 9, 2005 -- PRESIDENT Bush takes it on the chin in the new Rolling Stones tune "Sweet Neo Con." In the most political song from their upcoming "A Bigger Bang" album, Mick Jagger sings: "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of [bleep]!" Jagger tells Newsweek he's not sweating possible repercussions. "I think [Keith Richards] is a bit worried because he lives in the U.S.," crows the English rocker. "But I don't."
...

http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_rolling_s...l_features/8652
Sweet Neo Con
...
The biggest surprise. We thought Mick was an old Thatcherite. But here he
sticks it to Bush and co right between the eyes. ''You say you are a Christian , I think you are a hypocrite,'' he spits in the opening line to a tune a little like Dylan's "Masters Of War", while the chorus sneers, ''How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con.'' A Virgin spokeswoman in the US has already put out a panicky statement denying it's about Bush or anyone on the White House (can't risk upsetting Clear Channel, can we?). But if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
...

The most amazing song on American Idiot is "Jesus of Suburbia". Not political but amazing all the same. It is actually four songs in one and runs a little over nine minutes but that is one you must listen to. Hey Peace, pull that one up.

"Jesus Of Suburbia"

[Part 1]

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Get my television fix sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the moms and brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane and doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

[Part 2: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 were I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to careeeeee

[Part 3: I don't care]

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care
[x4]

I don't careeeeeeeeee

Everyone is so full of shit
Born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of suburbia
Land of make believe
And it don't believe in me
Land of make believe
And I don't believe
And I don't care!
I don't care! [x4]

[Part 4: Dearly beloved]

Dearly beloved are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

[Part 5: Tales of another broken home]

To live and not to breathe
Is to die In tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this
This town that don't exist

So I run
I run away
To the light of masochist
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time

I don't feel any shame
I won't apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home

You're leaving...
You're leaving...
You're leaving...
Ah you're leaving home...


link to entire song

If you listen to Mike Malloy, this song will be familiar to you.



The Story In Your Eyes
Moody Blues



Listen to the entire song:

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...r%20Eyes%20.wav


I've been thinking about our fortune,
And I've decided that we're really not to blame
For the love that's deep inside us now
Is still the same

And the sound we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It's been shining down upon me now
I realize

Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We are part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day

But I'm frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for
Will turn to rain

When the final line is over
And it's certain that the curtain's gonna fall
I can hide inside your sweet sweet love
For ever more

There it is. Good work.

Clarity
John Mayer



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...r_-_clarity.mp3

worry I weigh three times my body
I worry I throw my fear around
But this moment
There's a calm I can't explain
My candle's melted
Only diamonds now remain

By the time I recognize this moment
This moment will be gone
But I will bend the lie, pretending
That it somehow lingered on
When all I got's...

Chorus:
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will pay no mind
When it won't and it won't

Cuz it can't, it just can't
It's not supposed to

Is there a second in time I looked around?
Did I sail through or drop my anchor down?
Is anything enough to kiss the ground?
Say I am here now, and she is here now

So much wasted in the afternoon
So much secret in the mother tomb
How about you...

Chorus

And I will pay no mind
Worry about no rainy weather
And I will waste no time
Remaining in our life together



~Shears

BEATLES TRIVIA QUIZ

The Fab Four

In this day in 1964 the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" opened in
NYC, in 1965 their movie "Help" opened on 8/11, in 1966 they
began their last concert tour of the US on 8/11, and on 8/11 in
1968 they launched the "Apple Records" label. So let's do the
Beatles...you know, since it's August 11th.

1) People went crazy for the Beatles, packing concert halls,
crowding airports just to get a glimpse of them, and many girls
actually fainted when they saw them in person. What was this
phenomena called?
a. Fab Four Fever b. Beatle-itis c. Beatlemania

2) The Beatles were the first band to give a concert in a baseball
stadium. Which stadium was it?
a. Shea Stadium b. Wrigley Field c. Dodger Stadium

3) What was the title of the Beatles first album? Hint: the songs
Twist and Shout, Love Me Do, and I Saw Her Standing There came from
this album.
a. A Hard Days Night b. Please Please Me c. Rubber Soul

4) The last Beatles album was a double album known as the White
Album. Which of the following is NOT a song from the White Album?
a. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
b. Savoy Truffle c. Yellow Submarine

5) The Beatles first album sat atop the charts for 30 weeks. What
band knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts?
a. The Rolling Stones b. The Who c. The Beatles

6) In a song with some of the strangest lyrics ever written, what's
the next line following these lyrics from Come Together?

Here come old flat top
he come grooving up slowly
he got joo joo eyeballs
He want holy roller
He got hair down to his knees
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

a. He walk a straight line, he come curving up slowly, he go get easy
b. He wear no shoeshine, he got toe jam football, he got monkey finger
c. He say who be lookin, he look like the voodoo, he say kiss me never

7) According to the lyrics, who is "writing the words of a sermon that
no one will hear" in the 1966 Beatles classic, Eleanor Rigby?
a. Mean Mr. Mustard b. Father McKenzie c. Preacher Peachy

(PS - Say "Preacher Peachy" out loud 5 times real fast!)

8) When the Beatles made their American debut on a television show,
CBS received over 50,000 ticket requests for a studio that held 703
people. What show was this?
a. Ed Sullivan b. American Bandstand c. The Tonight Show

And now for a question that's sure to make you gleeglehootle...

9) In one song, John Lennon made up words and nonsense phrases such
as "semolina pilchards, textpert, crabalocker, fishwife, etc." When
asked about the song, Lennon said that Bob Dylan got away with
murder in his lyrics, so he decided that, "I can write this crap,
too." What's the title of the song Lennon used these made up words
in?
a. Octopus' Garden
b. Glass Onion
c. I Am The Walrus

Answers below, here's the scoring:

9 correct: Outstanding
5-8 correct: Very Good
1-4 correct: Fairly Fair
0 correct: Wake Up!

Answers:

1) c. Beatlemania
2) a. Shea Stadium
3) b. Please Please Me
4) c. Yellow Submarine (Yellow came from the Revolver album)
5) c. The Beatles (their 2nd album displaced their 1st album)
6) b. He wear no shoeshine, etc.
7) b. Father McKenzie
8) a. Ed Sullivan
9) c. I Am The Walrus

PS - I made up "gleeglehootle" because, if it was good enough for
Lennon, it's good enough for me!

When We Was Fab
George Harrison



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...henWeWasFab.mp3

Back then long time ago when grass was green
Woke up in a daze
Arrived like stangers in the night
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - back when income tax was all we had

Caresses fleeced you in the morning light
Casualties at dawn
And we did it all
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - you are my world you are my only love

And while you’re in this world
The fuzz gonna come and claim you
But you mo better wise
When the buzz gonna come and take you away
Take you away
Take you away

The microscopes that magnified the tears
Studied warts and all
Still the life flows on and on
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - but it’s all over now baby blue
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - like this pullover you sent to me

Fab
And you’ve really got a hold me
Fab - long time ago when we was fab



~Shears

Getting Better
Beatles



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...ttingbetter.ram

It's getting better all the time

I used to get mad at my school (No I can't complain)
The teachers who taught me weren't cool (No I can't complain)
You're holding me down (Oh), turning me round (Oh)
Filling me up with your rules (Foolish rules)

I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine

Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me the word, I finally heard
I'm doing the best that I can

I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better

I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can (Ooh)

I admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
Yes I admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
Getting so much better all the time




~Shears

The Cranberries
"Zombie"

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

http://www.peacetakescourage.com/Someone's.html

Powerful, nice job.


~Shears

thanks

Lives In The Balance
Jackson Browne



Listen to the entire song:
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/clickit/...nthebalance.wav

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire





~Shears

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"We Can't Make it Here"
Lyrics


Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing, both hands free
No one's paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget's stretched so thin
And there's more comin' home from the Mideast war
We can't make it here anymore

That big ol' building was the textile mill
It fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can't make it here anymore

See all those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They're just gonna set there till they rot
'Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don't come down here 'less you're looking to score
We can't make it here anymore

The bar's still open but man it's slow
The tip jar's light and the register's low
The bartender don't have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day

Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO
See how far 5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one of your stores
Bet you can't make it here anymore

High school with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromat
A woman with kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant what'll she do
Forget the career, forget about school
Can she live on faith? live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it's way too late to just say no
You can't make it here anymore

Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
'Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in
Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their sh@# don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in the da$% little war
And we can't make it here anymore

Will work for food
Will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
Let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake
Let 'em eat sh$%, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore

And that's how it is
That's what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you're listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why

In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That's done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There's rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can't make it here anymore

Music and lyrics © 2004 by James McMurtry

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Fixing A Hole
Beatles



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I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong

See the people standing there who disagre and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting my room in a colourful way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong

Silly people run around, they worry me
And never ask me why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a number of things
That weren't important yesterday
And I still go

Fixing a hole where the rain gets in
Stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go




~Shears

Babylon Sisters
Steely Dan





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Drive west on Sunset
To the sea
Turn that jungle music down
Just until we're out of town
This is no one night stand
It's a real occasion
Close your eyes and you'll be there
It's everything they say
The end of a perfect day
Distant lights from across the bay
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine so young
Tell me I'm the only one

Here come those Santa Ana winds again

We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell
Well I should know by now
That it's just a spasm
Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it's cheap but it's not free
That I'm not what I used to be
And that love's not a game for three

Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine so young
Tell me I'm the only one

My friends say no don't go
For that cotton candy
Son you're playing with fire
The kid will live and learn
As he watches his bridges burn
From the point of no return

Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine so young
Tell me I'm the only one





~Shears

Steely Dan
Reeling in the Years!

Reeling in the Years


REELIN' IN THE YEARS

Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something
That you think is gonna last
You wouldn't know a diamond
If you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious
I can't understand

CHORUS:
Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine

You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
The weekend at the college
Didn't turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge
I can't understand

CHORUS

I spend a lot of money
And I spent a lot of time
The trip we made in Hollywood
Is etched upon my mind
After all the things we've done and seen
You find another man
The things you think are useless
I can't understand

CHORUS

Lazyboy


Lazyboy
Underwear Goes Inside The Pants

Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal?
It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt.
Do you know what's not natural?
80 year old dudes with hard-ons.
That's not natural.But we got pills for that.
We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

You know we have more prescription drugs now.
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.
I can't watch TV for four minutes without thinking I have five serious diseases.
Like: "Do you ever wake up tired in the morning?"
Oh my god I have this, write this down.
Whatever it is, I have it.
Half the time I don't even know what the commercial is:people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean.
I'm like that is the greatest disease ever.
How do you get that?
That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy.

The schools now: It is all about self-esteem in the schools now.
Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves.
If everybody grows up with high self-esteem,
who is going to dance in our strip clubs?
What's going to happen to our porno industry?
These women don't just grown on trees.
It takes lots of drunk dads missing dance recitals before you decide to blow a goat on the internet for fifty bucks.
And if that disappears, where does that leave me on a Friday night with my new high speed connection?

Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these
terrorists masterminds
that get killed in the middle east.
Terrorists masterminds.
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do,
don't you think?
They're not masterminds.
"OK, you take bomb, right?
And you put in your backpack.
And you get on bus and you blow yourself up. Alright?"
"Why do I have to blow myself up?
Why can't I just:"
"Who's the fucking mastermind here?
Me or you?"

Americans, let's face it: We've been a spoiled country for a long time.
Do you know what the number one health risk in America is?
Obesity.
They say we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
An epidemic like it is polio.
Like we'll be telling our grand kids about it one day.
The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004.
"How'd you get through it grandpa?"
"Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere."
Nobody knows why were getting fatter?
Look at our lifestyle.
I'll sit at a drive thru.
I'll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter.
Everything is mega meal, super sized.
Want biggie fries, super sized, want to go large.
You want to have thirty burgers for a nickel you fat mother fucker.
There's room in the back.
Take it!
Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that?
It's only three more cents.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
You got to spend a long time in your own locker with your underwear shoved up your ass before you start to think,
"You'll see. I'm going to take of the world of computers! I'll show them."

We're in one of the richest countries in the world,
but the minimum wage is lower than it was thirty five years ago.
There are homeless people everywhere.
This homeless guy asked me for money the other day.
I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol.
And then I thought,
that's what I'm going to use it on.
Why am I judging this poor bastard.
People love to judge homeless guys.
Like if you give them money they're just going to waste it.
Well, he lives in a box,
what do you want him to do?
Save it up and buy a wall unit?
Take a little run to the store for a throw rug and a CD rack?
He's homeless.
I walked behind this guy the other day.
A homeless guy asked him for money.
He looks right at the homeless guy and says why don't you go get a job you bum.
People always say that to homeless guys like it is so easy.
This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants.
Outside his pants.
I'm guessing his resume isn't all up to date.
I'm predicting some problems during the interview process.
I'm pretty sure even McDonalds has a
"underwear goes inside the pants" policy.
Not that they enforce it really strictly,
but technically
I'm sure it is on the books.

Rise & Fall
Sting & David Graig







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Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
And it seems as though the writings on the wall,
Superstar you finally made it,
But once your picture becomes tainted,
It's what they call,
The rise and fall (x2)

I always said that I was gonna make it,
Now it's plain for everyone to see,
But this game I'm in don't take no prisoners,
Just casualties,
I know that everything is gonna change,
Even the friends I knew before me go,
But this dream is the life I've been searching for,
Started believing that I was the greatest,
My life was never gonna be the same,
Cause with the money came a different status,
That's when things change,
Now I'm too concerned with all the things I own,
Blinded by all the pretty girls I see,
I'm beginning to lose my integrity

Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
And it seems as though the writings on the wall,
Superstar you finally made it,
But once your picture becomes tainted,
It's what they call,
The rise and fall

I never used to be a troublemaker,
Now I don't even wanna please the fans,
No autographs,
No interviews,
No pictures,
And less demands,
Given advice that was clearly wrong,
The type that seems to make me feel so right,
But some things you may find can take over your life,
Burnt all my bridges now I've run out of places,
And there's nowhere left for me to turn,
Been caught in comprimising situations,
I should have learnt,
From all those times I didn't walk away,
When I knew that it was best to go,
Is it too late to show you the shape of my heart,

Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
And it seems as though the writings on the wall,
Superstar you finally made it,
But once your picture becomes tainted,
It's what they call,
The rise and fall

Now I know,
I made mistakes,
Think I don't care,
But you don't realise what this means to me,
So let me have,
Just one more chance,
I'm not the man I used to be,
Used to beeeeeeeeeee

Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
And it seems as though the writings on the wall,
Superstar you finally made it,
But once your picture becomes tainted,
It's what they call,
The rise and fall (x4)


~Shears

The Grandmothers

Hungry Freaks Daddy



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Mr. America, walk on by
Your schools that do not teach
Mr. America, walk on by
The minds that won't be reached
Mr. America, try to hide
The emptiness that's you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you've tried
Will not forestall the rising tide of
Hungry freaks, daddy

They won't go for no more
Great, big Western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say
What's on their minds
The left-behinds
Of the great society

Hungry freaks, daddy

Mr. America, walk on by
Your supermarket dream
Mr. America, walk on by
The liquor store supreme
Mr. America, try to hide
The product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes and then you cried,
"Those hungry freaks, daddy"

They won't go for no more
Great, big Western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say
What's on their minds
The left-behinds
Of the great society

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This remains my favorite Beatle Composition!


I'll Be Back
Beatles







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You know if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back
again, 'cause I told you once before goodbye, but I came back again.
I love you so oh I'm the one who wants you, yes, I'm the one
who wants you, oh ho, oh ho, oh
You could find better things to do, than to break my
heart again, this time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend.
I thought that you would realize that if I ran away from you that you would want
me too, but I've got a big surprise, oh ho, oh ho, oh
You could find better things to do, than to break my
heart again, this time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend.
I wanna go but I hate to leave you, you know I hate to leave you , oh ho,
oh ho, oh
You, if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back again.



~Shears

Things We Said Today
Beatles







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You say you will love me
If I have to go.
You'll be thinking of me,
Somehow I will know.
Someday when I'm lonely,
Wishing you weren't so far away,
Then I will remember
The things we said today.
You say you'll be mine, girl,
Until the end of time.
These days such a kind girl
Seems so hard to find.
Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will tremember
The things we said today.
Me, I'm just the lucky kind.
Love to hear you say that love is luck.
And, though we may be blind,
Love is here to stay. And that's enough
To make you mine, girl,
Be the only one.
Love me all the time, girl.
We'll go on and on.
Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will tremember
The things we said today.
Love me all the time, girl.
We'll go on and on.
Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will tremember
The things we said today.



~Shears

That Kind Of Girl
Maxi Priest







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That Girl
Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy
Album: Man With The Fun

The girl has got the touch
Whoo-wh-wh-whoo, whoa
What she got is a little something, oh yeah
That kind of girl
Maxi Priest just make them know, huh!

She's the kind of woman who lets you know
When she knows what she wants, she won't let go
Takes you to a place of your fantasy
Walks you to the door, but she holds the key

1-That girl, ooh, that kind of girl
That's the kind of lover, that girl, ooh
That kind of girl
Smooth type of girl

No matter who you are or what you do
She knows hot to click in everything you do
She can make you hot when it's cold outside
Take you on a high, even make you fly, that girl, ooh
That kind of girl
That's the kind of lover, that girl, ooh
That kind of girl

She's outspoken, I'm heartbroken
Just the kind of girl to keep my love life rollin'
She's outspoken, I'm heartbroken
Just the kind of girl to keep me
That, that, that girl to make you
Break your silence and speak
'Cause a glimpse upon the silhouette
My knees get weak, mmm, mmm, baby, baby, so unique
A reggaematic lover, lover make her life complete
(repeat 1)

Say what? She's the kind of woman who knows the street
And even under pressure, she's smooth and sweet
No complications, just attitude
Believe in what she got, said she won't get used
(rpt 1)

Well, I'm weak to her touch, gon' rub her to her blush
Love struck that girl, I got an instant crush
You can call me a lush, infatuation or just lust
The girl possess the stuff to make the man def, ooh, ah
Holy Moses, Lord, it could have been me
Caught up in this trap and didn't wanna be
But I ain't a fool, I was one step ahead
I had to let go 'cause I was over my head
(rpt 1)

She's a cocky kind of girl, that girl, ooh
I got to let her know, that kind of girl
That's the kind of lover, that girl, ooh
I'll let her know, that kind of girl
That's the kind of girl, she's outspoken, I'm heartbroken
Just the kind of girl to keep my love life flowin'
She's outspoken, I'm heartbroken
She's the kind of girl to keep my, that, that girl
That girl, ooh, I got to let her know, that kind of girl
She's the kind of girl that captivates your soul
That girl, ooh, that kind of girl
A rude girl type of lover, that girl, ooh
Shaggy and Maxi Priest, definitely on the girl them case
(rpt 1)


~Shears