The other day, I posted something in another thread where I asked members what was the first word that popped into their head when they saw/heard the word "cheap"?
My first response was from
Whoknows and his reply was "perfume". That phrase, cheap perfume, made me instantly think of Journey's DON'T STOP BELIEVING. The post went in a different direction from what I planned but it was so much fun! Example, there were other responses to the word "cheap" that included shoddy, floozy and several more and
huxley999 was able to cite songs with those words in them!
Let's pick a RANDOM word and see if a song comes to mind. My guess is not every word will trigger a song to pop into our heads, but who knows. If you would kindly post a few lines of the song that reflects "the word", the name of the song and the artist and if you like, a YouTube link to the song. PLEASE ATTACH YOUR SONG TO THE PARTICULAR "WORD OF THE DAY".
Let's have some musical fun!
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Your losin' INTEREST in me and it's showin'
It ain't no big thing but it's growing
The pain of heartbreak I've just started knowin'
Well, it ain't no big thing but it's growing
Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend, I don't know this
But If I can hold you, one day more
You've got the look of someone who's goin'
You're gonna leave me and it's showin'
A little tear I can feel start to flowin'
It ain't no big thing but it's growing
Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend, I don't know this
Well, if I can hold you, one day more
You've got the look of someone who's goin'
Well, you're gonna leave me and it's showin'
A little tear I can feel start to flowin'
Well, it ain't no big thing but it's growing
No, it ain't no big thing but it's growing
Like you I tend to post songs that I have in my, clearly largely 60s based, collection.
The Lovin Spoonful - Money
I get money from you
To tickle your whim or blow up your mind
Then I give money to you
And you pay me back in kind
And I gave money to Bill
He pays up my bills and helps me make up my mind
And I give money to Bill
And he will be on my side
Then I gave money to Joe
'Cause Bill said he knows he'll pay me back in time
And Bill's gettin'paid to know
If anyone's lyin'
Then Bill said to give it to Hank
'Cause Hank owns a bank and he can make it grow
Now ain't those amazing folks
That Bill is lucky to know
Somehow my finances will grow
With the interest I show
In the interest it gives me
And now a piece of paper from me
Won't seem half as flimsy
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Too many people need me
I've got so much
So much to do
But when my traveling is over
I'll pay you back with interest
I'll pay you back with interest
It seems unfair to leave you
And sell myself the way I do.
But when my wandering is over
I'll pay you back with interest
I'll pay you back with interest
Most of my life I've been moving
And when I tire out I'll come home to you.
But until then I'll be waiting
I'll pay you back with interest
I'll pay you back with interest
How cold is my room, (How cold is my room)
Without your love beside me?
We look at the same old moon (Looking at the moon)
But you're not here beside me
I'll pay you back with interest
I'll pay you back with interest
Not one song, three songs! Another over achiever! I bow to you, huxley999!
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Now it's come to talking I don't have much to say,
It wouldn't come out right, and so I'll leave it out, oh it's best that way
And I want to get out now 'cause I need just a couple of drinks.
Can you lend me a little money till I draw my pay?
And I'm leaving like a thief in the night.
But I will try to write to you, or maybe phone
And I'll send you back the money,
But not the love you lent
I could never pay no interest on that loan
You really give me comfort I couldn't take more tenderness
My credit's overdrawn and I just slide deeper in your debt
And I want to get out now 'cause I need just a couple of drinks.
Can you lend me a little money till pay day next?
Chorus
Why don't you get some rest now you ought to get an early night.
I've got a key so you can lock the door and it'll be all right.
I'll just take my winter coat, it looks like it might rain.
Can you lend me a little money just for the night?
Chorus
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Our friends on the front porch telling jokes
And they swing swiftly towards happier times
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort
And getting distance from that front porch spotlight
But us we found peace in shadows
Long enough to see the monsters rise
Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams
Living high on yesterday's lie
Talking to me about some 0% interest
And how she got a better deal than the next guy
And the way the lightning shocked us
When we were lost and looking down that long missouri highway
Your hair was longer then and now I remember
Oh the roads unencumbered by cats
They're burning like wet matches
through my miracle mile mind
You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems
But mine only brushes your soft surface
And somehow it leaves me listless
My tongue curls under my lips oh yes
So I can't speak to tell you of the months before I met you
And the way the truth it locked us
Right about the time after the lightning shocked us
When we were young and missing
'round that small new england byway
Our lives they were sheltered then and I now I remember
Well its not even being about that anymore
I gotta get you down
Those tiny fragments of perfection
They please me in a time unchanged
When its not the same beginning
Or a long awaited end
If I knew all the words
I would write myself out of here
If I was all the colors
I would paint you pretty in gold
In a picture so I'm told little sister
So now I'm sold little sister
Why don't you tell me about the sunsets in sweden
And the laws of eden
And how you were the rock of gibraltar
And how they called you foxy
Well that's another whole box of pandoras
That's another whole box of them ties
Slide your foot off the gas
Before we crash right back into the median
It separates our house from the middle of the street
Talking about our house
Is on the front porch telling jokes
And they swing swiftly towards happier times
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort
And getting distance from that front porch spotlight
But us we found peace in shadows
Long enough to see a monster die
We all need to find a little space in our daydreams
Long enough and just so long
Long enough, just as long
Just so long as its long enough
Is it long enough
Is it long enough for me
Long enough for me to chew on
If it isn't
If it isn't
If it ain't
If it don't
If it can't
Then it won't
And that's just the way that it goes
Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables?
You can watch yourself
While you are eating
Mirror in the bathroom
I just can't stop it
Every Saturday you see me
Window shopping
Find no interest in the
Racks and shelves
Just a thousand reflections
Of my own sweet self, self, self, self, self
Mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
Recompense
For all my crimes
Of self defense
Cures you whisper
Make no sense
Drift gently into
Mental illness
Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
While you are eating
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom
The example I have is SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES, by Bob Dylan. Nowhere in the lyrics is there any mention of Subterranean Homesick Blues.
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A clever video.
JUST LIKE TOM THUMB BLUES - BOB DYLAN
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When you're lost in the rain in Juarez when it's Easter time, too
And your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there and they really make a mess outta you
Now, if you see Saint Annie, please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor, won't even say what it is I've got
Sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English and she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon
Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame
You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly, you better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you, and man, they expect the same
Now, all the authorities, they just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post
And picking up Angel, who just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost
I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough
But the joke was on me, there was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough
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Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Well, they'll stone you when you're walking on the street
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to keep your seat
They'll stone you when you're walkin' on the floor
They'll stone you when you're walkin' to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone you when you are young and able
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to make a buck
Then they'll stone you and then they'll say "good luck"
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned alright
Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone
They'll stone you when you are walking home
They'll stone you and then say you are brave
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
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Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game, mm yeah
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame
Oh, right
What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name
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It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore
I am sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
I am lonely
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
Remember what we've said and done and felt about each other
Oh, babe have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
I am not dreaming
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Tearing yourself away from me now you are free
And I am crying
This does not mean I don't love you I do that's forever
Yes and for always
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
Something inside is telling me that I've got your secret
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
And I love you
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard
Friday evening
Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got to lose?
Tuesday morning
Please be gone I'm tired of you
What have you got to lose?
Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I'm sufferin')
Listen to me baby
It's my heart that's a sufferin' it's a dyin' (Help me I'm dyin')
And that's what I have to lose (To lose)
I've got an answer
I'm going to fly away
What have I got to lose?
Will you come see me
Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?
Chestnut-brown canary
Ruby-throated sparrow
Sing a song, don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow
Voices of the angels
Ring around the moonlight
Asking me said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?
Lacy-lilting lyric
Losing-love lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
¡Que linda! Me la traiga a Cuba
La reina de la Mar Caribe
Quiero sólo visitarla allí
Y que triste que no puedo.
¡Vaya!
O Va! O Va!
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
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Kids are scratching up the walk
Across the street and down the block
I wish you'd stuck around to watch the night fall
Smack your hands against the wall
Louise Bogan and Robert Frost
Popped off the shelf when you went through the door, singing
"Years from today
When your name is just a name
And my love is a couple candles
Twinkling on your cake
That burn won't hurt you anymore, no
But I'll still keep your picture lying in a drawer"
Kids are scratching up the walk
Four letter words in rainbow colored chalk
Sweeping dust under the rug
Oh, if only we could talk
"Years away
When your name is just a name
You'll be counting up your pennies
'Til I'm laughing in my grave
Oh, I know (Years away)
Years away (When your name is just a name)
When your name is just a name
And my love's a couple candles
Twinkling on your cake
That burn won't hurt you anymore, oh
But I'll still keep your picture lying in a drawer"
When I was a boy, I could laugh at it, laugh at it
Now I wonder how I got that hold on me, hold on me
When I was a boy, I could laugh at it, laugh at it
When I was a boy, I could laugh at it, laugh at it
(Love his voice. From the vg LP "The Loves of Your Life" released last month)
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You say you stand by your man
Tell me something I don't understand
You said you love me and that's a fact
And then you left me, said you felt trapped
Well some things you can explain away
But the heartache's in me 'til this day
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
All the times
When we were close
I'll remember these things the most
I see all my dreams come tumbling down
I can't be happy without you around
So alone I keep the wolves at bay
And there's only one thing I can say
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me?
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Now I got a job
But it don't pay
I need new clothes
I need somewhere to stay
But without all of these things I can do
But without your love I won't make it through
But you don't understand my point of view
I suppose there's nothing I can do
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me?
Did you stand by me
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Did you stand by me?
No way
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Did you stand by me?
No way
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The US bombs cruising overhead
But there goes my love rocket red
Shoot it up
Oh, shoot it up
Blaster bomb bomb bomb ahead
Multi millions still unfed (unfed)
A mondo teeno giving
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Hold me, shake me, I'm all shook up (all shook up)
Psycho maniac inter blend
Shoot it up
Now shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Teenage crime now fashion's dead
Shoot it up
There goes my love rocket red
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Amondo teeno giving giving giving
Shoot it up
There goes my love rocket red
Shoot it up
Now shoot it up
(Then when you get the money, you get the power) oh, shoot it up
Ultraviolence in Japan
Oh, shoot it up
Oh shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Soon the whole world will know my name
Let's shoot it up
Shoot it up
Sitting on the hillside
Watching all the people die
I'll feel much better on the other side
I'll thumb a ride
I believe in magic
Why? Because it is so quick
I don't need power when I'm hypnotized
Look in my eyes
What are you seeing? (I see...)
How do you feel?
I'll feel real phony when my name is Phil
Or was that Bill?
(Sha-la-lala-lala-lala-lah)
Life goes on here
(Sha-la-lala-lala-lala-lah)
Day after day
I don't know if I am living or if I'm
Supposed to be
Sometimes my life is so eerie
And if you think I'm happy
Paint me (white)(yellow)(pink)
(Sha-la-lala-lala-lala-lah)
I've been here once
(Sha-la-lala-lala-lala-lah)
I've been here twice
I don't know if the third's the fourth or if the
The fifth's to fix
Sometimes I deal with numbers
And if you wanna count me
Count me (out)(in)
I don't need the times of day
Any time with me's OK
I just don't want you using up my time
'Cause that's not right
Ahh...
Ahh...
Ahh...
They're locking them up today
They're throwing away the key
I wonder who it will be tomorrow, you or me?
They're locking them up today
They're throwing away the key
I wonder who it'll be tomorrow, you or me?
They're locking them up today
They're throwing away the key
I wonder who it will be tomorrow, you or me?
We're all normal and we want our freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
I want my freedom
All of God's childrens gotta have their freedom
I've been drifting along
In the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying a noose
In the back of my mind
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together:
It's a strange invitation
When I wake up
Someone will sweep up my lazy bones
And we will
Rise in the cool of the evening
I remember the way that you smiled
When the gravity shackles were wild
And something is vacant
When I think it's all beginning
I've been drifting along
In the same stale old shoes
Loose ends tying a noose
In the back of my mind
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together:
It's a strange invitation
Fellas, things done got too far gone
We gotta let the girls know what they gotta do for us!
It's done gotta be a drag, man, a man can't do nothing no more!
A-ha-ha-ha-ha!
It's really a drag!
You gotta do something!
Can I tell 'em?
Lookey here!
Girl, let me tell you what you got to do
T.C.B. so mellow, so nobody can get through
When he ask you do you love him, smile and kiss his cheek
Walk away and twist your hip, make sure you keep him weak
Don't let nobody take care o' your business better than you do
Do what he wants, give him what he wants, respect will come to you
And than you can hold your man, you can hold your man, you can hold your man
You can hold... hey!
Never get so confident with nothin' you want to know
Cause that's the time, you lose your thing, then you got to go
You know what we got to tell 'em to be the untold boss
Use your thing so carefully and don't be a total loss
Sister, when you loved your man, be careful how you tell 'im that
He will put you back on the corner, use you like a Sunday hat
You can hold your men, you can hold your men, you can hold your men, you can
Hold, hey!
Hit it!
Good god, git it!
Hit me now!
Good god!
Never get too confident so it's nothing you want to know
Because that's the time, you lose your thing, then you got to blow
You know i got what it takes to be the untold boss
You gotta use it carefully and it can't be a total...
Hit me now!
Good god, kill it!
Yeah!
Good god!
Fellas!
Can i get some help?
Can i get some help?
Look for me some help!
Can i get a witness?
Shall i need a witness?
Shall i need a witness?
I, i, i, i need a witness!
Can i get a witness?
I want a witness over there!
Can i get a witness?
I want a witness over here!
I'm a witness right here!
I'm a witness over there!
Is a witness over there?
I'm a witness right here!
Wait a minute!
Girl, let me tell you what you got to do
Keeping me so mellow, nobody can get through
And when he had to do your loving, smiling keeps us cheek, good god
Walk away and twist your hip, make sure you keep him weak
And make sure you keep him weak, good god
Sure you keep him
Ain't it funky now? Good god!
Ain't it funky now? Hey!
Ain't it funky now?
Ain't it funky now?
Ain't it funky now?
Ain't it funky now?
Ain't it funky now?
One more! Ha!
Don't... Good god!
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you do
Do what he wants, give what he wants expect them come to you
Ain't it funky now?
Can i get some help?
Look for me some help!
Than clap your hands!
I said, clap your hands!
Put the level little higher!
Put the level little higher!
A little bit higher now!
Put the level little higher!
Ain't it funky now?
Ain't it funky now?
Yeah!
People scream!
Can i scream, brother?
Can i scream, brother?
Brother, can i scream now?
Can i scream, brother?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gotta scream!
Good god, gotta scream, now!
I gotta scream, now!
I gotta scream, now!
I gotta scream, now!
You want ta hold a man
I need ta hold a man
I need satisfy the man
I need ta hold a man
I gotta hold a man
Ain't it funky now?
Good god, ain't it funky now?
Hey, yeah, yeah!
Can i get some help?
I gotta have some help!
I wanna get some help!
Wanna get some help!
I wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, i wanna, i wanna, i wanna
Yeah, now!
Good god!
Can i, can i, can i, can i, can i, can i, yeah!
Never get so confident, so it's nothing you want to know
You caught up your time, you lose your thing, you think you got to blow
You know i got what it takes to take a plea until balls
You gotta use it carefully and it can't be a total loss
You girl, looky here!
Sister, when you tell your love your man, get how, telling that
You take upon a planet and use it if it's in the hat
Come on!
Can i get some help?
Can i get a witness?
Can i get a witness?
A witness over there?
A witness over there?
A witness, witness, witness, witness!
Can i get a witness?
Can i get a witness?
Can i get a witness?
Can?
Can i get a witness?
Hey yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Ah!
Ah!
Can i get a witness?
Ah, lord!
Ah!
Ah!
Brother, do you know what i'm talking about?
Brother, do you understand it now?
Ha!
Brother Byrd, you know what i'm talking about!
Ha!
Can i get a witness?
If you will suck my soul
I will lick your funky emotions
(Hey baby, hey...had something last night...man, it was strange...it taste so good...it was some good stuff)
Do it again
Hey baby
What's your thang?
What say we touch each other?
Mess around and get our thing goin' on
Ba-ba ba ba ba
Ba-ba ba ba ba
Ba-ba ba ba bomp bomp buh buh buh buh bah!
By the way, my name is Funk
I am not of your world
Hold still, baby, I won't do you no harm
I think I'll be good to you
Like I said, I won't do you no harm
I am Funkadelic
Dedicated to the feeling of good
And baby, I'm good at being good
Let me play with your emotions
For nothing is good unless you play with it
Yeah
Fly on...Fly on, baby
So...nasty!
I didn't make the rules
I follow them
And what's so nasty about funky music?
Heh, heh, feels good to me!
Lord!
Ba-ba ba ba ba
Ba-ba ba ba ba
Ba-ba ba ba bomp bomp buh buh buh buh bah! (x4)
Whoa! Yeah!
Wait a minute
Do you feel that?
Lord...Lord, baby
Fly on...Fly on, baby
Let me kiss your mind
Let me slide a yard of tongue down your throat
There's nothing wrong with that
Merely a kiss
Why is everyone afraid to say:
Kiss me baby! (make it?)
Whoa, yeah
Kiss me baby!
Kiss me
I like it like that
I like it like that
Owww!
Play with it, baby
Play with it
Play with your emotions
Go ahead, brother
Release all of those feelings
I recall, when I left a little town in North Carolina, I tried to escape this music.
I said it was for the old country folks.
I went to New York, got slick, got my hair made (heh-heh- heh-heh), I was cool.
I was cool.
But I had no groove, no groove.
I had no groove
But now, fly on baby…Dig…
Can you feel that baby?
It’s called Funkadelic music. It will blow your funky mind
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The last train is nearly due
The underground is closing soon
And in the dark deserted station
Restless in anticipation
A man waits in the shadows
His restless eyes leap and scratch
At all that they can touch or catch
And hidden deep within his pocket
Safe within its silent socket
He holds a colored crayon
Now from the tunnel's stony womb
The carriage rides to meet the groom
And opens wide and welcome doors
But he hesitates, then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows
And the train is gone suddenly
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand
Now from his pocket quick he flashes
The crayon on the wall he slashes
Deep upon the advertising
A single-worded poem comprised of four letters
And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding
The poem across the tracks rebounding
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night, ooh
It's so relieving to know that you're leaving
As soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing to hear that you're asking
Whenever you get your way
It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me
Starting to sound the same
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
In her false witness, hope you're still with us
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience
Disease-covered Puget sound
She'll come back as fire to burn all the liars
Leave a blanket of ash on the ground
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
It's so relieving to know that you're leaving
As soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing to know that you're asking
Whenever you get your way
It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me
Starting to sound the same
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
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I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind
I been Phil Spectored, resurrected
I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered
Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay
And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce
And all my wealth won't buy me health
So I smoke a pint of tea a day
I knew a man, his brain was so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
Not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry
He's so unhip that when you say Dylan
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma, everybody must get stoned
I been Mick Jaggered and silver daggered
Andy Warhol, won't you please come home?
I been mother, father, aunt and uncled
Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled
I just discovered somebody's tapped my phone
Folk rock
I've lost my harmonica, Albert
Six cheap people in an empty hotel
Every last one with a story to sell
Give them all pills, so their heads won't swell
We were born to a woman whose husband did quite well
Oh sunshine, shone brightly
Through my window today
Could have tripped out quite easy but I decided to stay
"Hold out your hand" said whitey with the blame
I'm gonna bring you up so you really dig the pain
Take you under my wings so you'll never be the same
'Cos your wife is so much older and both her legs are lame
A sunbeam shone brightly through my window today
Could have gone twenty miles but I decided to stay...
Uh, all my flock has packed up and flocked back off to hell
Open up the doors so the place don't start to smell
Carry on with what your doing 'cos you don't to it that well
I've been umpteen different people and no one else can tell
Oh, sunshine shines brightly through my asshole today
Could have tripped out quite easy, man, but I decided to stay
To stay a while
To stay a while
Come up and see me make me smile
Come up and see me make me smile
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Oh, how is it that I could come out to you
And be still floatin'
And never hit bottom and keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention?
All my two-dimensional boundaries were gone
I had lost to them badly
I saw that world crumble and thought I was dead
But I found my senses still working
And as I continued to drop through the hole
I found all surrounding
To show me that joy innocently is
Just be quiet and feel it around you
And I opened my heart to the whole universe
And I found it was loving
And I saw the great blunder my teachers had made
Scientific delirium madness
Oh, I will keep falling as long as I live
Ah, without ending
And I will remember the place that is now
That has ended before the beginning
Oh, how is it that I could come out to you
And be still floatin'
And never hit bottom and keep falling through
Just relaxed and paying attention?
Hey lady, you got the love I need
Maybe more than enough
Oh darling, darling, darling; walk a while with me
Oh, you've got so much, so much, so much
Many have I loved, and many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road
Many times I've lied, and many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know
Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings
I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold
Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road
Many is a word that only leaves you guessing
Guessing 'bout a thing you really ought to know, ooh!
Really ought to know, oh, oh, oh
I really ought to know
You know I should know, I should know, I should have known
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Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake
Floatin' in my bowl takin' movies,
Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style,
Talkin' to a raisin who 'caisson'ly plays L.A.,
Casually glancing at his toupee.
Wish I was an English muffin
'Bout to make the most out of a toaster.
I'd ease myself down,
Comin' up brown.
I prefer boysenberry
More than any ordinary jam.
I'm a "Citizens for Boysenberry Jam" fan.
Ah, South California.
If I become a first lieutenant
Would you put my photo on your piano?
To Maryjane
Best wishes, Martin.
(Old Roger draft-dodger
Leavin' by the basement door),
Everybody knows what he's
Tippy-toeing down there for
I get to feeling
Walked all over
I'm always off guard
Till I can live with my disappointments
You're gonna sleep with yours
Walked all over
Never felt this small
Till I can live with my disappointments
You're gonna sleep with yours
Why you always wanna love the ones who hurt you?
Then break down when they go and desert you
No, oh no
It's so hard to let 'em go
And watch 'em scatter when you start asking questions
Like why we always in the wrong direction?
Shame, such a shame
But you're doing it again
You don't wanna know more
And you've been down this road before
So leave it alone
Just leave it alone
And when you hear about the lies other people are sayin'
Just know they talk cause they don't have a way inside
Oh they try
Look how it hurts their pride
You can never find a soul that's got no pain within
Just like you'll never find a singer without that sin, no sin
Will it ever end?
You don't wanna know more
And you've been down this road before
So leave it alone
Just leave it alone
No this ain't nothing new
The only thing you've got is you
So leave it alone
Just leave it alone
Ever since I was a kid
You sure looked good to me
Now, I'm a man full-grown, and I
Know what I hate to see
(Oh, well) It might be tomorrow
(Oh, well) I just don't know
(Oh well) It might take years
I wonder when they're going to
Destroy your face
It may seem silly, but I don't like
What's been coming down
'Cause you've been looking good too long
To change your color now
(Oh, well) They might test some bomb
(Oh, well) And scar your skin
(Oh, well) I don't think they care, so
I wonder when they're going to
Destroy your face
I hope I see you in the sky
At night when I get old
I hope you'll look about the same
As when I was a boy
(Oh, well) It gets me to gasping
(Oh, well) When I think about
(Oh, well) What they might do
I wonder when they're going to
Destroy your face
Well, you sure look good
In the sky at night
And it's sad to say
You won't shine so bright
Some day
When they're through with you
I bet you've seen the cloud we make
That covers up our rain
I wonder if you'll hide behind
A shroud like that some day
(Oh, well) I'm worried about it
(Oh, well) It makes me sigh
(Oh, well) I just can't help it
I wonder when they're going to
Destroy your face?
(Oh, well) It might be tomorrow
(Oh, well) I just don't know
(Oh, well) It might take years
I wonder when they're going to
Destroy your face
Here I am, motherfucker
Here I am, as I am
As you made me think I am
I don't hear you
I don't need you
I don't want you
I
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't hear you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't need you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't want you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't feel you)
This is this, this is it
Not my kisses, just my fist
I don't hear you
I don't need you
I don't want you
I
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't hear you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't need you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't want you)
Don't wanna feel any more (Don't feel you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Don't wanna feel any more (The sickness is inside you)
Oh
Can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Storm in the morning light
I feel, no more can I say
Frozen to myself
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right
Surely that ain't right
Oh
Can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Oh
Can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
For the man to pour the coffee
And he fills it only halfway
And before I even argue
He is looking out the window
At somebody coming in
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
"It is always nice to see you"
Says the man behind the counter
To the woman who has come in
She is shaking her umbrella
And I look the other way
As they are kissing their hellos
And I'm pretending not to see them
And instead I pour the milk
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
I open up the paper
There's a story of an actor
Who had died while he was drinking
It was no one I had heard of
And I'm turning to the horoscope
And looking for the funnies
When I'm feeling someone watching me
And so I raise my head
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
There's a woman on the outside
Looking inside, does she see me?
No she does not really see me
'Cause she sees her own reflection
And I'm trying not to notice
That she's hitching up her skirt
And while she's straightening her stockings
Her hair has gotten wet
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Oh, this rain it will continue through the morning
As I'm listening to the bells of the cathedral
I am thinking of your voice
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, duhdoodoo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodoo-do
Thank goodness the word wasn't doo or doodoo. 😆🤣😂
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Conquistador your stallion stands in need of company
And like some angel's haloed brow
You reek of purity
I see your armor plated breast
Has long since lost its sheen
And in your death masked face
There are no signs which can be seen
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador a vulture sits, upon your silver sheath
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador there is no time, I must pay my respect
And though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
And though you came with sword held high
You did not CONQUER, only die
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind.
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he jewel, the prize
Looking into your eyes
Cool pools drown your mind
What else will you find
I heard a rumour - it was just a rumour
I heard a rumour - what have you done to her
Myriad lights - they said I'd be impressed
Arabian Knights - at your primitive best
A tourist oasis - reflects in seedy sunshades
A monstrous oil tanker
Its wound bleeding in seas
I heard a rumour - what have you done to her
I heard a rumour - what have you done to her
Veiled behind screens
Kept as your baby machine
Whilst you CONQUER more orifices
Of boys, goats and things
Ripped out sheeps' eyes - no forks or knives
Myriad lights - they said I'd be impressed
Arabian Knights - at your primitive best
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That line: "Whilst you CONQUER more orifices
Of boys, goats and things" stuck in my mind!!
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Rescue me, take me in your arms
Rescue me. I want your tender charms
'Cause I'm lonely and I'm blue
I need you and your love too
Come on and rescue me
Come on baby, and rescue me
Come on baby, and rescue me
'Cause I need you by my side
Can't you see that I'm lonely
Rescue me, come on and take my heart
Take your love and CONQUER every part
'Cause I'm lonely and I'm blue
I need you and your love too
Come on and rescue me
Come on baby, take me baby
Hold me baby, love me baby
Can't you see that I need you baby
Can't you see that I'm lonely
Rescues me
Come on and take my hand
Come on baby and be my man
'Cause I love you
'Cause I want you
Can't you see that I'm lonely
Take me baby
Love me baby
Need me baby
Can't you see that I'm lonely
I think the original was by Fontella bass in the 60s
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Hey baby
That's alright people
I know that's alright
Oh, when we love each other
I know that's alright
Oh feel it, feel it
Oh everybody feel it
God know that's alright, yes
Some of us were born
With money to spend
Some of us were born
For races to win
Some of us are aware
That it's good for us to care
Some of us feel the icy wind
Of poverty blowing in the air
For those of us who simply like to socialize
For those of us who tend the sick
Ah, and heed the people's cries
Let me say to you
Right on
Right on, feel it
Yea, oh, oh, Oh Lord, Lord, people
And I say, Right on
Honey right on
For those of us who live
Where peace is craved
For those of us who live, uh-huh
Where hatred is enslaved, alright
For those of us who live a life
Yea, surrounded by good fortune and wealth
Talk about it
Those of us who live a life
Hey, hey, hey enjoying ourselves
For those of us who got drowned
In the sea of happiness
For the soul that takes pride in his God
And himself and everything else
Love
That's all it is
We need love
That's all it is
Oh, oh
Love, love
Love's the thing
Love, love, love, love
Sweet love, love
Wonderful love
Ah, true love, love
Love for your brother
Love, for God
Pure love
Love can CONQUER hate everytime
Give out some love and you'll find
Peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is King
Ah, ah baby, baby
Ah, ah, ah, baby
People, people
People who love and care
That's alright
Alright
Ah...
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I wish I was the man with the mechanical heart
I'd CONQUER all my enemies alone
I'd tear the guys apart
then scatter the pieces
I wish I was the man in the soundproof booth
I wish I had a chance to stump the band
or maybe tell truth
and maybe I could win a color television
I really love my television
I love to sit by television
Can't live without my television
TV is king
You're my everything
I wish I had the girl with the bouncy hair
We'd ride off in a brand new car
or fly a plane somewhere
like probably Jamaica
I brush my teeth, shampoo my hair, and shave my face
Apply the necessary aerosol
in the appropriate place
And we'll spend the night together watching television
I can't turn off my television
Don't really know why television
I understand my television
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Walking 'round the room singing Stormy Weather
At Fifty Seven Mount Pleasant Street
Well it's the same room, but everything's different
You can fight the sleep, but not the dream
Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't CONQUER the blue sky
Well, there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantelpiece
Well, do I lie like a lounge-room lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released?
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you
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