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Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Into Temptation - Crowded House

You opened up your door
I couldn't believe my luck
You in your new blue dress
Taking away my breath
The cradle is soft and warm
Couldn't do me no harm
You're showing me how to give

Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into temptation

In a muddle of nervous words
Could never amount to betrayal
The sentence is all my own
The price is to watch it fail
As I turn to go
You looked at me for half a second
An open invitation for me to go

Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into temptation
Safe in the wide open arms of hell

We can go sailing in
Climb down
Lose yourself when you linger long
Into temptation
Right where you belong

The guilty get no sleep
In the last slow hours of morning
Experience is cheap
I should've listened to the warning
But the cradle is soft and warm

Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into your wide open arms
No way to break the spell
Don't tell

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"S.O.S."
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

/ Am G Am - / / C D F G / C D E - /

Captain, I'm getting a signal.
I'm trying to pinpoint the source.
It's garbled and faint and just barely in range,
About fifty degrees off our course.

/ " / C D E - / " / C D FEm GAm /

I'm trying to translate the message.
It seems to be an S.O.S.!
Helm control, station three, calculate delta-V,
Someone's in trouble, we must do our best!

Captain, we don't know what hit them!
It's best we proceed with great care.
This region of space is still largely uncharted --
We have no idea what's there!

Helm, this is no time to argue;
Start bringing the starship about!
We don't know the words, but it sounds like it's urgent,
While we sit and dither, their time could run out!

BREAK

Sir, I don't think we can make it --
It's almost twelve light-years from here.
I've run up the comp, and we might as well stop,
At this speed it will take half a year!

In that case we'll have to go faster --
They're just a few parsecs away;
If we run the rig hot, and we give all we've got,
We can cut the trip down to a matter of days!

The message is coming along, Sir.
I think that this word might be "leak".
Please note my objections, but here's the new heading --
We'll be there in roughly a week.

Wait, Sir, I've got the translation,
And we'd better be quick to get there:
I hope they're still alive by the time we arrive,
'Cause that's just when they're fixin' to run out of air!

BREAK

Captain, I've got them on sensors.
They seem to be doing just fine.
Sir, I think it's a trick! Sir, this dust is too thick!
Sir, I think that we've just hit a mine!

Captain, their weapons are powered!
I think that they're going to attack!
And we ran here so fast, we've tapped out the main batteries --
Captain, we don't have the juice to shoot back!

Helm, take us into the minefield.
Those pirates are right on our six!
If they follow us in, there's a chance we could win.
Would they fall for their own brand of tricks?

Captain, the mines are exploding --
It looks like the pirates are toast!
Sir, we took a few hits, and we're leaking -- oh shit!
Sir, we've got reserve air for eight days at the most!

BREAK

Captain, our signal's been answered.
I think that it's just as you feared.
Comm, please play the message just one time again,
So that all of the crew gets to hear.

I'm sorry, I cannot assist you.
I'm taking my helmsman's advice:
It's none of our business, it's not worth the risk,
And where pirates run rampant, it's best to think twice.

Guest

One of my fav ever

The Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode

You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before

Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

A Sigh - Crowded House

A sigh from the deepest well
You can tell a lot without saying a thing
The truth, between us my friend
This longing
A sigh for lonliness to end
No changing the story now
A sigh from the emptiest part
It's a tender place
A sigh
Is more than I can bear
This show is not fooling anyone
And its all for you
But I think your mind is made up

Posts: 380

Bad religion- Automatic man

he's the latest super hero with powers so profound
he can leap a dotted line in just a single bound
I know you must have seen him in books and magazines
he's the quintessential, mindless, modern epicene
his life is meaningful because he get things done
(bang bang) he's dead
chalk up another triumph for our hero
the automatic man

it's true you must have met him
he's your best friend and your foe
his opinions are determined by the status quo
a true creature of habit
he smokes three packs a day
when he has an original thought
he forgets it right away

he's a paradigm of carefree living
he's our mentor disturb him if you can
he's the answer if your peace of mind is lacking
he's our savior
he is the common man

so if you are troubled by the daily bump and grind
then take a careful look around
and brother you will find...
the automatic man

Posts: 591 Location: Purgatory

Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) 6:49

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

Posts: 454

I go way back, I’m allowed to I’m past my middle forties. For me the best love song ever written is Paul Simon’s ‘Kathy’s Song’ which I suggest could stand as a piece of poetry on its own, and not a cliché in sight.

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day

And a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I

Posts: 1676 Location: amongst the stars ~

The brilliance of my fleeting mind
Chimes like voices in foreign cars
It chimes in time - takes me where I'm going
Alone my fleeting mind is knowing
Believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
With my hands upon my knees

You will steal from my fleeting mind
Remember all our words
They are just smoke rings in the rain:
That's just a poem in brilliant places
But poets, they are too grim
They steal like party thieves
From crowded rooms
To rhyme their homes with better places
The brilliance of their minds
Will seek with never knowing

Alone my fleeting mind is knowing
Believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
With my thought like sifting leaves
I believe in my fleeting mind.

Cradock et al xx

Posts: 1676 Location: amongst the stars ~

Find the river ~ R E M

Hey now, little speedyhead,
the read on the speedmeter says
you have to go to task in the city
where people drown and people serve.
Don't be shy. Your just deserve
is only just light years to go.

Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
ocean storm, bayberry moon.
I have got to leave to find my way.
Watch the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.

The ocean is the river's goal,
a need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go.

I have got to find the river,
bergamot and vetiver
run through my head and fall away.
Leave the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.

There's no one left to take the lead,
but I tell you and you can see
we're closer now than light years to go.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
Fall into the ocean.

The river to the ocean goes,
a fortune for the undertow.
None of this is going my way.
There is nothing left to throw
of Ginger, lemon, indigo,
coriander stem and rose of hay.
Strength and courage overrides
the privileged and weary eyes
of river poet search naivete.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
All of this is coming your way.

One of my fav bands. K xx

This is one of my fav songs by them .... Everybody hurts ~ waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Sad

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
when you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
if you feel like letting go, (hold on)
when you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on.

Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand.
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
when you think you've had too much of this life to hang on.

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
(Everybody hurts. You are not alone.)

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Nails In My Feet - Crowded House

My life is a house
you crawl through the window
slip across the floor and into the reception room
you enter the place of endless persuasion
like a knock on the door
when there's ten or more things to do
Who is that calling?
you my companion
run to the water on a burning beach
and it brings me relief

Pass through the walls
to find my intentions
circle 'round in a strange, hypnotic state
I look into space
there is no connection
a million points of light
and a conversation I can't face

Cast me off one day
to lose my inhibition
sit like a lap dog on a matron's knee
wear the nails on your feet

I woke up the house
stumbled in sideways
the lights went on and everybody screamed "Surprise!"
the savage review
it left me gasping
but it warms my heart to see that you can do it too

Total surrender
your touch is so tender
your skin is like water on a burning beach
and it brings me relief

Like a night in your mind
it brings me relief
in the back door
under the stars
and the scenery is my floor
in the back room
under the stars
and the scenery is my floor

My favourite Crowded House song.

Posts: 1676 Location: amongst the stars ~

Jay you actually turned my head to Crowded House and I listen to them all the time now, they are indeed beautiful lyrics and pure poetry, thanks for sharing, Kermit xxx 8)Into Temptation is probably my favourite Smile

Riverman by Nick Drake ~ (R I P)

Betty came by on her way
Said she had a word to say
About things today
And fallen leaves.

Said she hadn't heard the news
Hadn't had the time to choose
A way to lose
But she believes.

Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime.

Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn't sure.

For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain
And stayed for more.

Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
I don't suppose
It's meant for me.

Oh, how they come and go
Oh, how they come and go

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Crowded House - People are like suns

Sweet madness it must be wrong
What kind of fool imagines love with all this going on?
The star's burning in the empty sky
And the city is aflame with a million lights

And they come and they go in the blink of an eye
People are like suns and they?re burning up inside
People are like suns the sun

Science will enable us to hear to be crystal clear
To make diamonds in the shifting sand
Better take all the love that you've got
In a single hand

And they come and they go in the fullness of time
People are like suns they are burning up inside
People are like suns breathing into life

All that?s good in us say it's because

It can't be helped doesn't stop me thinking out loud
I could have done something

They come and they go they come and they go
And they come and they go
People are like suns people are like suns
People are like suns

They go out tonight set this town alight
All fade into white

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Skunk Anansie Brazen (Weep) Lyrics:

i called you brazen
called you whore
right to your face
and watched you silently
and publicly disgraced

i didn`t notice when
you strenghted
like a vice
that you were
trembling and burned
beneath the ice, ooh, ooh

why don`t you weep
when i hurt you
why don`t you weep
when i cut you
you don`t bleed
and the anger builds
up inside [x2]

na, na, na, na, na,

you said a prayer
and i betrayed you with a kiss
i never realized
that all had come to this

so keep your dignity
don`t throw it all to waste
stronger feelings
than you`ve ever
learned to face, ooh

Posts: 591 Location: Purgatory

Time After Time

(Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman)

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion -
Is nothing new
Flashback - warm nights -
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after -

Sometimes you picture me -
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, I can't hear
What you've said -
Then you say - go slow -
I fall behind -
The second hand unwinds

Chorus:
If you're lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I'll be waiting
Time after time

After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows - you're wondering
If I'm OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time -

Chorus:
If you're lost...

You said go slow -
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds -

Chorus:
If you're lost...
...Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Beautiful song Myth, although I hate every other song she released that wa legendary to say the least!

Hedonism - Skunk Anansie

I hope you're feeling happy now
I see you feel no pain at all it seems
I wonder what you're doin' now
I wonder if you think of me at all
Do you still play the same moves now
Or are those special moods
For someone else
I hope you're feeling happy now.

Just because you feel good
Doesn't make you right (oh no)
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight

Does laughter still discover you
I see through all those smiles
That look so right
Do you still have the same friends now
To smoke away your
Problems and your life
Oh how do you remember
Me the one that made
You laugh until you cried
I hope you're feeling happy now

Just because you feel good
Doesn't make you right (oh no)
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight

Solo

Just because you feel good
Doesn't make you right (oh no)
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight

I wonder what you're doing now
I hope you're feeling happy now
I wonder what you're doing now
I hope you're feeling happy now

Posts: 434 Location: Hertfordshire, U.K

Afterglow - Genesis

(Written by - Tony Banks)

Like the dust that settles all around me
I must find a new home
The ways and holes that used to give me shelter
Are all as one to me now

But I, I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
In a world I used to know before
I miss you more

Than the sun reflecting off my pillow
Bringing the warmth of new life
And the sounds that echoed all around me
I caught a glimpse of in the night
But now, now I've lost everything
I give to you my soul
The meaning of all that I believed before
Escapes me in this world of none, no thing, no - one

And I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
I a world I used to know before
For now I've lost everything
I give to you my soul
The meaning of all that I believed before
Escapes me in this world of none
I miss you more

Posts: 309 Location: South Carolina

The Wallflowers~ "One Headlight"

So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
So I wondered how she hung around this place

Chorus:
Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me & Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
We'll run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothin' left
She hit the end-it's just her window ledge

(chorus)

Well this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
Well it smells of cheap wine & cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
I think her death it must be killin' me

(chorus)

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Tragic song Sarah, wish I had heard it or could download it...sigh

Burn - Ray Lamontagne

Oh mama don't walk away
I'm a goddam sore loser
I ain't too proud to stay
But I'm still thinking 'bout you
And I'm so lonesome without you
And I can't get you out of my mind
Oh mama don't leave me alone
with my soul sat down so tight it's like a stone cold tomb
Ain't it clear when I'm near you
I'm just dying to hear you
Calling my name one more time
Oh so don't pay no mind
To my watering eyes
Must be something in the air
That I'm breathing
Yes'n I try to ignore
All this blood on the floor
It's just this heart on my sleeve that's a bleeding
Oh mama don't walk away
You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain
Saying the love that we had
was just selfish and sad
To see you now with him
is just making me mad
Oh so kiss him again
just to prove to me that you can
an I will stand here
and burn in my skin
Yes I will stand here
and burn in my skin

Posts: 309 Location: South Carolina

"I Will Remember You"~Sarah McLachlan

*always loved this song*

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories

Posts: 2282 Location: Nuneaton UK

Sigh*** Gotta love David and his vocals on this are flawless, each word said with diction.

Absolute Beginners Lyrics By Bowie

I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could laugh at the ocean
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Sail over heartaches
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

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