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[atlantic]

The Pretender - Jackson Browne

 

 

I'm going to rent myself a house

In the shade of the freeway

I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning

And go to work each day

And when the evening rolls around

I'll go on home and lay my body down

And when the morning light comes streaming in

I'll get up and do it again

Amen

Say it again

Amen

 

I want to know what became of the changes

We waited for love to bring

Were they only the fitful dreams

Of some greater awakening

I've been aware of the time going by

They say in the end it's the wink of an eye

And when the morning light comes streaming in

You'll get up and do it again

Amen

 

Caught between the longing for love

And the struggle for the legal tender

Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring

And the junk man pounds his fender

Where the veterans dream of the fight

Fast asleep at the traffic light

And the children solemnly wait

For the ice cream vendor

Out into the cool of the evening

Strolls the Pretender

He knows that all his hopes and dreams

Begin and end there

 

Ah the laughter of the lovers

As they run through the night

Leaving nothing for the others

But to choose off and fight

And tear at the world with all their might

While the ships bearing their dreams

Sail out of sight

 

I'm going to find myself a girl

Who can show me what laughter means

And we'll fill in the missing colors

In each other's paint-by-number dreams

And then we'll put our dark glasses on

And we'll make love until our strength is gone

And when the morning light comes streaming in

We'll get up and do it again

Get it up again

 

I'm going to be a happy idiot

And struggle for the legal tender

Where the ads take aim and lay their claim

To the heart and the soul of the spender

And believe in whatever may lie

In those things that money can buy

Though true love could have been a contender

Are you there?

Say a prayer for the Pretender

Who started out so young and strong

Only to surrender

[wez]

Cumbersome

Seven Mary Three

 

She calls me goliath and I wear the david mask

I guess the stones are coming too fast for her now

You know Id like to believe this nervousness will pass

All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall

I have become cumbersome to this world

I have become cumbersome to my girl

 

Id like to believe we could reconcile the past

Resurrect those bridges with an ancient glance

But my old stone face cant seem to break her down

She remembers bridges, burns them to the ground

I have become cumbersome to this world

I have become cumbersome to this girl

 

Too heavy too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right, today or tonight

Cumbersome

Too rich too poor, shes wanting me less and Im wanting her more

The bitter taste is cumbersome

 

There is a balance between two worlds

One with an arrow and a cross

Regardless of the balance life has become

Cumbersome

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54D8tQbsjk&feature=related]YouTube - Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome (Video)[/ame]

 

 

[wez]

Far Behind

Candlebox

 

Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you bad

But I did it anyway

And not maybe

Some would say your life was sad

But you lived it anyway

And now maybe

Your friends they stand beside they watch you crumble

As you falter to the ground

And now maybe

Your friends they stand beside as you were flying

Oh you were flying oh so high

But then some day people look at you for what they call their own

They watch you suffer

Yeah they hear you calling home

But then some day we could take our time

To brush the leaves aside so you can reach us

But you left me far behind

Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad

But I did it anyway

Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had

But you couldnt share the pain

No, no, no

Couldnt share the pain they watch you suffer

Now maybe I could have made my own mistakes

But I live with what Ive known

Yes maybe we might share in something great

But wont you look at where weve grown

Wont you look at where weve gone

But then someday comes tomorrow holds a sense of what I fear for you in my mind

As you trip the final line

And that cold day when you lost control

Shame you left my life

So soon you should have told me

But you left me far behind

Now maybe I didnt meant to treat you oh so bad

But I did it anyway

Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had

But you couldnt share the pain

No, no, no

Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad

But I did it anyway

No maybe some would say youre left with what you had

But you couldnt share the pain

I said times have changed your friends

They come and watch you crumble to the ground

They watch you suffer

Yeah they hold you down

Hold you down

Maybe brother maybe love I didnt mean to treat you bad

But you left me far behind

Left me far behind

Left me far behind

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSp-cSJNGdQ&feature=related]YouTube - Candlebox - Far Behind[/ame]

[RoyalOrleans]

In The Meantime

 

Spacehog

 

And in the end we shall achieve in time

The thing they call divine

When all the stars will smile for me

When all is well and well is all for all

And forever after

Maybe in the meantime wait and see

 

We love the all the all of you

Our lands are green and skies are blue

When all in all were just like you

We love the all of you

 

And when I cry for me I cry for you

With tears of holy joy

And did I ever say Id never play

Or fly toward the sun

Maybe in the meantime, somethings gone

 

We love the all the all of you

Our lands are green and skies are blue

When all in all were just like you

We love the all of you

 

Well that sounds fine so Ill see you sunshine

Give my love to the future of the humankind

Okay, okay, its not okay.

While its on my mind theres a girl that fits the crime

For a future love dream that Im still to find

But in the meantime.

 

We love the all the all of you

Our lands are green and skies are blue

When all in all were just like you

We love the all of you

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxl-4oRu1U]YouTube - spacehog - in the meantime[/ame]

[wez]

In The Meantime

 

Spacehog

 

Great tune! Killer bass.. Kinda reminds me of Rush.

[RoyalOrleans]

Great tune! Killer bass.. Kinda reminds me of Rush.

 

I first heard this song on my way to class one summer day (Thank you GI Bill!) and was blown away. After school, I went out and bought the damn CD.

 

One hit wonder, but a powerful one hit!

[wez]

An oldie but a goodie..

 

Highway Song

Blackfoot

 

Well, another day, another dollar, after I've sang and hollered,

Oh, it's my way of living, and I can't change a thing.

Another town is drawing near. Oh, baby, I wish you were here!

But the only way I can see you, darlin', is in my dreams.

It's a highway song.. you sing it on and on.. on and on..

 

Well, the hurt you leave behind, it's the hurt that's on your mind.

Oh, and last night's show took it's toll on me.

Well the city lights fly by me, as I lay my body in my bed,

Oh, and dreams of you Dance through my head.

It's a highway song.. you sing it on and on.. on and on..

Highway song.. is as lonely.. as the road I'm on..

 

It's those big wheels are ready to roll. We've be flyin' high and so low.

Lord, and all this madness, ain't crazy as it seems.

Everywhere, they stop and stare. I'm just a stranger on this road.

Oh, I stand alone, only in my dream.

Highway song.. you sing it on and on.. on and on..

Highway song.. is as lonely.. as the road I'm on..

Highway song.. you sing it on and on.. on and on..

Highway song.. is as lonely.. as the road I'm on..

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeUdvGQWo0]YouTube - Blackfoot - Highway Song (live '82)[/ame]

[wez]

Bother

Stone Sour

 

Wish I was too dead to cry

My self-affliction fades

Stones to throw at my creator

Masochists to which I cater

You don't need to bother;

I don't need to be

I'll keep slipping farther

But once I hold on,

I won't let go 'til it bleeds

 

Wish I was too dead to care

If indeed I cared at all

Never had a voice to protest

So you fed me to digest

I wish I had a reason;

my flaws are open season

For this, I gave up trying

One good turn deserves my dying

 

You don't need to bother;

I don't need to be

I'll keep slipping farther

But once I hold on,

I won't let go 'til it bleeds

 

Wish I'd died instead of lived

A zombie hides my face

Shell forgotten

with its memories

Diaries left

with cryptic entries

 

And you don't need to bother;

I don't need to be

I'll keep slipping farther

But once I hold on,

I won't let go 'til it bleeds

 

You don't need to bother;

I don't need to be

I'll keep slipping farther

But once I hold on:

I'll never live down my deceit

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_rH9EYWVc&feature=related]YouTube - bother stone sour[/ame]

[RoyalOrleans]

YELLOW LEDBETTER

 

Pearl Jam

 

Unsealed

On a porch a letter sat

Then you said i wanna leave it again

Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand

And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah

On a weekend I wanna wish it all away yeah...

And they called and I said that I want what I said

And then I call out again

And the reason oughta leave her calm I know

I said i dont know whether

Im the boxer or the bag

Ah yeah ehh....

Can you see them

Out on the porch

But they dont wave

I see them round the front way yeah

And I know I dont want to stay...

 

Make me cry

 

Ooooh I see

I dont know theres something else

I wanna drum it all away

Oh I said I dont, I dont know whether Im a boxer or the bag

Ah yeah ehh....

Can you see them

Out on the porch

But they dont wave

I see them round the front way yeah

And I know I dont want to stay

I dont wanna stay

I dont wanna stay

Dont

Dont wanna

Oh... yeah... oooh...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs&feature=related]YouTube - Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter[/ame]

[Guest sheik-yerbouti]

I'll leave the lyrics to JC..

 

 

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzfWLlvlAE]YouTube - Johnny Cash- The Streets of Laredo.[/ame]

[emkay64]

The Stalker Song

 

Imagine me and you, I do

I think about you day and night

It's only right to think about the man I stalk

Each day and night,

So happy together.

 

I dated you, for just a week

You dumped me and I cried real hard

And still can't sleep.

So now I'll have to force you to come back to me,

So happy together.

 

I can't see me stalking nobody but you for all your life

When you're with me baby the skies will be blue

For all my life.

 

I call you up at 2 am

I wake you and hang up the phone

And do it again.

That's what you get for goin' out with other women,

So happy together.

 

I can't see me stalking nobody but you for all your life

When you're with me baby the skies will be blue

For all my life.

 

I see you, you don't see me

I'm hidden with my telephoto lense up in the tree

You're walking and you look around, suspiciously,

So happy together.

 

"Hey...sugar...I like your eyebrows....no no that's kinda lame.

I got it, I got it.Hey baby, it's me again....surprise!That's a good

one, I like that, surprise, haha."

 

I've got your cat, don't be alarmed,

As long as you come talk to me,

He won't be harmed

We'll go and get a bite to eat

I'll come unarmed

So happy together...forever and ever...so happy together.

 

"Get out of the tree with the cat in the air."

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRGbJuGDWWc]YouTube - The Stalking Song[/ame]

[RoyalOrleans]

The Stalker Song

 

I couldn't find that on iTunes.

[emkay64]

That's because I wrote it...just for you. Actually it is a parody of the Turtles Song-Happy Together...

[wez]

From the Time/Life Stalker collection...

 

Possum Kingdom

Toadies

 

Make up your mind

Decide to walk with me

Around the lake tonight

Around the lake tonight

By my side

By my side

I'm not gonna lie

I'll not be a gentleman

Behind the boathouse

I'll show you my dark secret

 

I'm not gonna lie

I want you for mine

My blushing bride

My lover, be my lover, yeah...

 

Don't be afraid

I didn't mean to scare you

So help me, Jesus

 

I can promise you

You'll stay as beautiful

With dark hair

And soft skin...forever

Forever

 

Make up your mind

Make up your mind

And I'll promise you

I will treat you well

My sweet angel

So help me, Jesus

 

(hey, hey, hey)

 

Give it up to me

Give it up to me

Do you wanna be

My angel?

So help me!

 

Be my angel

 

Be my angel

 

Do you wanna die?

 

I promise you

I will treat you well

My sweet angel

So help me, Jesus

 

Jesus

 

Jesus

 

Jesus...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo6UWwCRpH8]YouTube - Toadies: Possum Kingdom[/ame]

[emkay64]

That's pretty good. Perhaps Wez should be RO's stalker

[RoyalOrleans]

That's because I wrote it...just for you. Actually it is a parody of the Turtles Song-Happy Together...

 

Well... I knew the tune the second I scanned over the chorus.

[wez]

That's pretty good. Perhaps Wez should be RO's stalker

 

I'm waaaay to busy stalking eddo.

[wez]

I Saw the Light

Todd Rundgren

 

It was late last night

I was feeling something wasnt right

There was not another soul in sight

Only you, only you

So we walked along,

Though I knew there was something wrong

And the feeling hot me oh so strong about you

Then you gazed up at me and the answer was plain to see

cause I saw the light in your eyes

 

Though we had our fling

I just never would suspect a thing

til that little bell began to ring in my head

In my head

But I tried to run,

Though I knew it wouldnt help me none

cause I couldnt ever love no one, or so I said

But my feelings for you

Were just something I never knew

til I saw the light in your eyes

 

But I love you best

Its not something that I say in jest (ha ha)

cause youre different, girl, from all the rest

In my eyes

And I ran out before but I wont do it anymore

Cant you see the light in my eyes

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbIaIIU5Hvc]YouTube - I saw the light - Todd Rundgren[/ame]

[wez]

Children of the Sun

Billy Thorpe

 

People of the earth can you hear me

Came a voice from the sky on that magical night

And in the colors of a thousand sunsets

They traveled to the world on a silvery light

 

The people of the earth stood waiting

Watching as the ships came one by one

Setting fire to the sky as they landed

Carrying to the world children of the sun, children of the sun

 

All at once came a sound from the inside

Then a beam made of light hit the ground

Everyone felt the sound of their heartbeat

Every man, every woman, every child

 

They passed the limits of imagination

Through the door to the world of another time

And on the journey of a thousand lifetimes

With the children of the sun, they started to climb

 

Children of the sun, children of the sun

 

No more gravity, nothing holding them down

Floating endlessly, as their ship leaves the ground

Through the walls of time, at the speed of light

Fly the crystal ships on their celestial flight, on their celestial flight

 

 

Children of the sun, children of the sun...

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLKkNY9eUA&feature=related]YouTube - Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun (Stereo!)[/ame]

[Guest sheik-yerbouti]

I cant be bothered with the lyrics, sorry.

 

Theres lots of people doing the "buffalo bill mangina dance" to this at youtube. You know, from the film silence of the lambs. I'm thinking of uploading me doing it. Trouble is, at 50 I'm not eye candy material anymore.

 

How about you having a go Wez, or maybe Eddo. That ought to please the ladies here at BS.

 

 

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KxCCYBKXn44&feature=related]YouTube - Q Lazarus - Goodbye Horses[/ame]

[wez]

Trouble is, at 50 I'm not eye candy material anymore.

 

How about you having a go Wez, or maybe Eddo. That ought to please the ladies here at BS.

 

 

 

 

Not sure about eddo but eye candy material left me at birth 40 years ago, and a dancer I am not...

 

 

I put a pic in my profile if ya wanna ogle... I'll send ya a friends link..

[emkay64]

Hello Lonely ~ Theory of a Deadman

 

 

Hello lonely

How you doin' today?

Hello sweet thing

Why don't you walk this way?

 

Hello, you again

How could you go and be so cold?

She said "Goodbye sad man"

Cuz all this pain is getting old

 

So why're you sad?

Don't you know that

It's you that haunts my dreams and seems to always come back?

 

How do I live without you?

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-7joBQB6o]YouTube - Hello Lonely (Walk Away From This) - Theory of a Deadman[/ame]

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this again?

How do I live without you?

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this?

 

Hello lonely

Now that you're gone I can move on

Goodbye sweet thing

Just know that I've been here all along

 

So why're you sad?

Don't you know that

It's you who haunts my dreams and seems to always come back?

 

How do I live without you?

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this again?

How do I live without you?

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this again?

Again

Again

All those days you waste on me

I just can't let you go

 

So why're you sad?

Don't you know that

It's you who haunts my dreams and seems to always come back?

 

How do I live without you?

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this again?

How do I live without you?

How could you walk away from this, just walk away from this again?

 

How could you walk away?

(Again)

How could you walk away from this?

(Again)

Just walk away from this again

[ImWithStupid]

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

 

Teach Your Children

 

You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.

And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,

and feed them on your dreams, the one they picks, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,

so just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

 

And you, of the tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,

and so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die.

Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by,

and feed them on your dreams, the one they picks, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,

so just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKySbfgvyVw]YouTube - CROSBY-STILLS-NASH & YOUNG TEACH YOUR CHILDREN[/ame]

[snafu]

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Our House

 

 

 

 

I'll light the fire

You put the flowers in the vase

That you bought today

 

Staring at the fire

For hours and hours

While I listen to you

Play your love songs

All night long for me

Only for me

 

Come to me now

And rest your head for just five minutes

Everything is good

Such a cosy room

The windows are illuminated

By the sunshine through them

Fiery gems for you

Only for you

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpHpbllByg&feature=related]YouTube - Our House[/ame]

 

Our house is a very, very fine house

With two cats in the yard

Life used to be so hard

Now everything is easy

'Cause of you

And our la,la,la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la.....

 

Our house is a very, very fine house

With two cats in the yard

Life used to be so hard

Now everything is easy

'Cause of you

And Our

 

I'll light the fire

And you place the flowers in the jar

That you bought today

[ImWithStupid]

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

 

Carry On

 

One morning I woke up and I knew that you were gone.

A new day, a new way, I knew I should see it along.

Go your way, I'll go mine and carry on.

 

The sky is clearing and the night has gone out.

The sun, he come, the world is all full of light.

Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but to carry on.

 

The fortunes of fables are able to sing the song.

Now witness the quickness with which we get along.

To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and carry on.

 

Carry on, love is coming, love is coming to us all.

 

Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow?

Will you bring me happiness? Will you bring me sorrow?

Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see,

lover, can you talk to me?

 

Girl, when I was on my own, chasing you down,

what was it made you run, trying your best just to get around?

The questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see,

lover, can you talk to me?

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EgsNfzsy4]YouTube - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Carry On[/ame]