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Dar Williams - What Do You Love More Than Love Well the mountain was so beautiful That this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because He wanted the mountain to love him back Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love When you know that you won't get your heart in that stone When you drop your tools and you stand alone Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love Well when my love felt like another addiction I held my breath and I packed my bags And I went to the land of the monastery And the sunshine children and the prayer flags Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love When you feel your soul go beyond your skin When you know that's the way that it's always been Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love Well, I climbed a mountain and I thought about attachment And I thought about the buddhist king He said, 'you can keep your superpower It just short circuits my country' Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love When you question what your desire is for When you don't just figure that you just want more Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love Well I love the way the world is your garden And you plant your seeds and you let them grow And you take things out of the ground just like You take what comes, but you never know Yeah, and the mountain is so beautiful And we don't know if we're any good at all And we give our love when we think we still need it Yeah we give and give and fall and fall Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love When the giving is all that you ever get back Oh how long do you love like that Can you tell me oh, how to love Hey what do you love more than love Hey what do you love more than love Tags: Dar Williams |
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Elvis Costello - Monkey to Man With The Imposters, Live, 2004 A long time ago, our point of view Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew Now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry, such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We sit here staring at your pomp and pout Outside the bars we use for keeping you out You've taken everything that you wanted Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man Every time that man struggles and fails He makes up some kind of fairytales After all of the misery that he has caused He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs Points up to heaven with cathedral spires All the time indulging in his base desires Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man Big and useless as he has become With his crying statues and his flying bomb Goes 'round acting like the chosen one Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes Hoping to hell that someone's forgiven his crimes Fills up the air with his pride and praise He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man Tags: Elvis Costello |
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Graham Parker - Love Is A Burning Question - Live 1992 We work through the rituals and cover our poisonous tracks Making good use of weaknesses, horoscopes, rumours and facts Inspired by the needles and pins and the pains in the heart With no control over the chemistry that brings us then tears us apart Now we're as hard, as hard as nails Laugh at the butterfly that's just been impaled We're always running and don't know what we're running from we're always sweating bricks The only time the world makes sense to us is when we come Love is a burning, Love is a burning Love is a burning question on the tip of your tongue, baby baby I'll endlessly make you and endlessly become remade I'll endlessly search for your heart with a carnal switchblade, As we thrash in the heat in an effort to beat up the world Then we loose our identities replace them with diamonds and pearls Don't be as hard as hard as nails you might be born to win and then your heart fails get on my wavelength understand my driving force it's sin and sin alone I wouldn't lie to you unless I had to of course Love is a burning, Love is a burning Love is a burning question don't answer no Don't make me take a look just let me off the hook I've seen the future of rock and it sucks, yeah, it sucks I've used you you're bleeding I know but don't be afraid it's only a wound only a wound from a carnal switchblade We're always running and don't know what we're running from we're always so convinced But the more we run the more it just slips through our fingertips Love is a burning, Love is a burning Love is a burning question on our lips baby baby Tags: Graham Parker |
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Bedlam I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived And they were surprised to see us So they greeted us with palms They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small alms I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise Wailing echoes down the corridors I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up the dial I've got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't blow up in my eye And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams Now I'm practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi For if I hold my hand outstretched A little bird comes to me I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars Wailing echoes down the corridors The player piano picks out "Life Goes On" The ring tone rang out "Jerusalem" And in this pit of sadness Where the rank of wretched plunge We've buried all the innocents Now we must bury revenge They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces Then my thoughts returned to vengeance, but I put up no resistance Though I seemed a long way from my home It really was no distance And I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I lay down on an iron frame Found myself in bedlam Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause Wailing echoes down the corridors Bedlam, Bedlam, Bedlam Tags: Elvis Costello |
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Elvis Costello - The Beat, Live 1979 We're all going on a summer holiday Vigilante's coming out to follow me. Heard somebody say they're out to collar me. Anybody wanna swallow me? It takes two to tumble. It takes two to tango. Speak up; don't mumble if you're in the combo. On the beat, on the beat. Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy? Though you never enjoy, such a pleasure to employ.' See your friends in the state their in. See your friends getting under their skin. See your friends getting taken in. Well, if you only knew the things you do to me. I'd do anything to confuse the enemy. There's only one thing wrong with you befriending me. Take it easy. I think you're bending me. I've been a bad boy with the standard leader. My neighbor's revving up his Vauxhall Viva. On the beat, on the upbeat. Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy? Though you never enjoy, such a pleasure to employ.' See your friends walking down the street. See your friends never quite complete. See your friends getting under their feet. Oh, I don't want to disease you, but I'm no good with machinery. Oh, I don't wanna freeze you. Stop looking at the scenery. I keep thinking about your mother. Oh, I don't wanna lick them. I don't wanna be a lover. I just wanna be your victim. I don't go out much at night. I don't go out much at all. Did you think you were the only one who was waiting for a call On the beat, on the upbeat. Till a man comes along and he says, 'Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy? Though you never enjoy, such a pleasure to employ.' See your friends treat me like a stranger. See your friends despite all the arrangements. See your friends Nothing here has changed. Just the beat. Tags: Elvis Costello The Attractions |
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Dar Williams - As Cool As I Am - Live 2001 Yea, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers, I was no sister then, I was running out of time and one liners, And I was afraid, like you are when you're too young to know the time, and So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon, You point, you have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on, Like you own them just because you bought the time, And you turn to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened, Oh -- I'm not that petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already, I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women. So now were at a club, you watch the woman dancing, she is drunk, She is smiling and she's falling in a slow, descending funk, And the whole bar is loud and proud and everybodys trying, yeah. You play the artist, saying, "is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say, it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended, Oh -- and that's not petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already, I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women. You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make me feel like a little less, Oh, I liked you when your soul was bared, I thought you knew how to be scared, And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay, But truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going, And so I'm leaving, you can find out how much better things can get, And if it helps, I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met, So when you find someone else, you can try again, it might work next time, You look out of the kitchen window and you shake your head and say low, "if I could believe that stuff, I'd say that woman has a halo," And I look out and say, "yeah, she's really blond," And then I go outside and join the others, I am the others, Oh -- and thats not easy, I don't know what you saw, I want somebody who sees me, I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women. Tags: Dar Williams |