Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant, Wilco
"The birds are singing in your eyes today
Sweet flowers blossom in your smile
The wind and sun are in the words you say
Where might your lonesome lover be?"
"Birds may be singing in my eyes this day
Sweet flowers blossom when I smile
But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
My sweetheart rides a ship on the sea."
"But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
Where might my lonesome lover be?"
Billy Bragg & Wilco (Natalie Merchant, vocals)
"Birds And Ships"
Mermaid Avenue
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Tindersticks
Just as your eyes are closing
There was something that I meant to say
Like falling from my heart
But I don't know how
Before you close your eyes
I don't know how
I never cry for our love
I never cry
I never cry for our love
I never cry
There's no goodbye
These hands have always lived through mine
Now everything I touch I feel I don't know how
Before you close your eyes
I don't know how
I never cry for our love
I never cry
I never cry for our love
I never cry
I'm so cynical
It's in my face and
It's just the bird I caught
Leaves its taste hanging round, round, round
I never cry
Never cry
I never cry for our love
I never cry
Just as your eyes are closing
There was something that I meant to say
Like falling from my heart
But I don't know how
Before you close your eyes
I don't know how
I never cry for our love
I never cry
I never cry for our love
I never cry
Tindersticks
"Before You Close Your Eyes"
Simple Pleasures
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Ani Difranco
Got a garden of songs where I grow all my thoughts
Wish I could harvest one or two for some small talk
Seems like I'm starving for words whenever you're around
Nothing on my tongue and so much in the ground
Nothing on my tongue and so much in the ground
Half the time I got my gaze trained on your motel door
Fourth door from the end
Rest of the time my gaze lays like a stain on the carpeted floor
If it weren't for my brain I'd just go over and make friends
Too bad about my brain 'cause I'd like to make friends
See the little song bird unable to make a sound
You'd never know she follows her words from town to town
We both got gardens of songs, maybe it's okay
That I am speechless, 'cause I picked you this bouquet
Yep, sure am speechless, but I picked you this bouquet
Ani Difranco
"This Bouquet"
Not A Pretty Girl
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Ms. John Soda
Oh, Elvis, do you think it could work?
—Yes, I think it could work, Marilyn.
But it's such a long time ago and I don't know if anyone still knows who we are.
—Don't bother, we have to believe in ourselves.
But I look much older now, look at my legs, Elvis.
They're not as long and nice as they used to be.
—I still like them, and I think everyone will like them, Marilyn.
And what about my voice?
—Your voice sounds as soft as the raindrops on the roses I have in my garden.
Oh, Elvis. But don't you think we've been waiting too long?
—No, I think it was right to take a break.
—Marilyn?
Yes, Elvis?
—What do you think about my sideburns?
—Sometimes I think I should better take them off.
Oh, Elvis, I still like it. It looks good.
Mhmm.
—Oh my god, I am a little bit tired.
What happened, Elvis?
—I've been thinking a lot about this whole situation.
Maybe you're not tired then, just a little bit nervous, Elvis.
—Oh, Marilyn, I hope we can handle this situation.
It's the same with me, I don't sleep very well at the moment.
And when I sleep, then I dream of all these things. I see you dancing, Elvis.
—I started practicing a little bit, but only a little bit.
—Oh, Marilyn, look at these mountains! Isn't it wonderful?
That's unbelievably nice, Elvis.
I haven't seen something like this before.
—Oh, yes, but it's really good to be here, Marilyn.
Elvis, do you think I should buy me a new dress?
I think that nowadays people dress in another way.
—I think this dress fits you very well, Marilyn, why should you change something?
Maybe people don't accept me when I look that old-fashioned.
—Oh, Marilyn, we have to believe in ourselves, that's the only thing we can do.
Yeah, you're probably right Elvis.
Let's go back home for a cup of coffee.
—Oh yes, that's a good idea, Marilyn. Let's go back home.
Ms. John Soda
"I Think It Could Work, Marilyn"
While Talking
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Secret Stars
Help me sleep tonight
Tell me all I do is right
Dream for me when I can't dream
Be what I see when I wake up
Wondering in the night.
Secret Stars
"Sleep, Star"
Secret Stars
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Joy Division
Walk in silence
Don't walk away in silence
See the danger
Always danger
Endless talking
Life rebuilding
Don't walk away
Walk in silence
Don't turn away in silence
Your confusion
My illusion
Worn like a mask of self-hate
Confronts and then dies
Don't walk away
People like you find it easy
Naked to see
Walking on air
Hunting by the rivers
Through the streets
Every corner
Abandoned too soon
Set down with due care
Don't walk away in silence
Don't walk away
Joy Division
"Atmosphere"
Heart And Soul
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • Current 93
As we stared beyond the windows there
Over all the gardens
That have never been
And will never grow again
How long
How long
The shining, winking stars
The clouds too high
So high
Pointing to some final star
The dull face of the sky
The sound of the calling
Of the distant village bell
And all that
And all that
The sun is not enough for us
Any longer
And her smile
Though she wears her hat
And her cheery rays
Do not blanket with their glorious glare
The burning body
With distorted nimbus
I see too well
Just beyond my neighbour's house
It does not blank out
The last sigh of the soul
Whilst the night rejoices profound and still
At the edge of your street
Both shadow and destroyer
But not, alas
The comforter
Current 93
"Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still"
Live in Lisbon
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • The Cranberries
And now
It's all the same to me
Be whatever you want to be
Go wherever you need to go
And when
It all seems like a mistake
Take whatever you need to take
Leave the rest for my own sake
I will always
Go beside you
You will always
Understand
And now
It's all the same to me
So be whatever you want to be
And go wherever you need to go
And when
There's nothing left behind
Taken whatever you needed to
And leave it all into my mind
I will always
Go beside you
You will always
Understand
The Cranberries
"I Will Always"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • The Sleepy Jackson
Don't cry my morning bird
Don't cry right now
Don't cry my morning bird
Don't cry right now
The Lord is sitting in the sky waiting for
All of us, now
The Lord is sitting in the sky waiting for
All of us, now
So don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
Don't cry right now
The Sleepy Jackson
"Morning Bird"
Lovers
Jul 11th, 2008 • Response
Categories • Lyrics
Tags • David Thomas Broughton
How much love can a boy contain in here?
How many contradictions can a girl possess up there?
All these questions
These questions are too ambiguous
Try to narrow down your search
Some things (I know it's hard)
Some things (I know it's hard)
Some things (I know it's hard)
It's easy to forget
Where you came from
If there's no questioning your return
Such selfishnesses trivialize any tenderness
As the coffee commands the torture of my bowels
Such selfishnesses
Such selfishnesses
Pronouncing every word with a rigid insensitivity
Plus i struggle with the nightshade in my blood
I really shouldn't say it
I really shouldn't say it
But i just love what the water does.
David Thomas Broughton
"Ambiguity"
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
