Conference turris::womannotes-v3

really don't mind if you sit this one out 
my word's but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT 
i may make you feel but i can't make you think 
your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.

and you ride yourselves over the fields
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick

			- Jethro Tull

    
    If I stand, all alone,
    Will the shadows hide the colours of my heart?
    Blue
    for the tears
    Black
    For the night's fears
    The stars in the sky don't mean nothing to you
    They're a mirror
    
    - Rod Stewart

So you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell;
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rain?

[gosh, I wish I could _remember_ the whole thing]
	Wish You Were Here
	Pink Floyd

    and freedom
    oh freedom!
    that's just some people talkin
    	Eagles
    
    I never could see past yesterday
    	Roy Orbison
    
    but the only thing I have to give
    to make you smile, to win you with
    are all the mornings still to live
    in morning Morgantown
    	Joni Mitchell
    
    
    This is fun!  there are lots more.  I have what I call a
     "musically-associative memory".  Some people make puns, some tell
    jokes, neither of which I can do!  For me, appropriate musical quotes
    just seem to spring to mind, when my m-a memory gets tickled.  'Course,
    those quotes often seem very obscure to a lot of people...

       > So you think you can tell
       > Heaven from Hell;
       > Blue skies from pain.
       > Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rain?
         A smile from a veil?
         So you think you can tell.
    
         Did they get you to trade
         Your heros for ghosts?
         Hot ashes for trees?
         Hot air for the cool breeze?
         Cold comfort for change?
         Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war
    > -< for a lead role in a cage? >-
              
    >  [gosh, I wish I could _remember_ the whole thing]
    >	Wish You Were Here
    >	Pink Floyd
    
    Does that help, Mez? ;-)
    (I cheated, I just put the disc on and listened to it.)
                            
    DougO

sitting here wishing on a cement floor
just wishing that I had something you wore
I'd put it on when I'm all lonely
will you take off your dress and send it to me

- The Pixies

    "I have become comfortably numb"
                        The Wall, Pink Floyd
    
    "I'm looking for someone who can take as much as I give,
     and who can give as much as I need and still have the 
     will to live."
                        Indigo Girls
    
    "I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
     and just for that one moment I could be you.  Yes, I wish that
     for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, you'd know
     what a drag it is to see you."
                        Bob Dylan
    
    Just to mention a few...
    Cathy
    

"Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste"

					Bonnie Raitt

    Though I knew that we had to part, there's silent thunder in my heart.
    The Uppity Blueswomen

    (love is) sorrow and laughter, pain and delight - Verdi - LaTraviata

    Black is the color and none is the number - Dylan

    

    
    "Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'"
    

    "I don't want the world, I just want your half"
    
       Anna Ng - They Might Be Giants
    
    
    "Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
     And my lawn gets wet though I've held my consent"
    
       Its Not My Birthday - They Might Be Giants
    
    
    "She sees what she sees
     What she wants to believe
     As we all seem to be at one time.
    
     She dreams how it seems
     How it was how it will be
     But the colors never seem to rhyme."
    
       She Paints Pictures - fIREHOSE
    
    Tony

    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    There's more than one answer to these questions,
    	pointing me in a crooked line
    And the less I seek my source for some definitive
    	the closer I am to fine...
    			(Closer to Fine - the Indigo Girls)
    
    
    She wants to cut through the circles
    That she has lived in before
    She wants to finally kill the delusions
    She won't need them anymore...
    			(Straight Lines - Suzanne Vega)
    
    
    Water of life, call your light down on me
    Take me out of this darkness, sweet star of the sea
    Water so sweet, you can open my eyes
    You can bring down the rain on this desert so dry
    			(Gerry Rafferty - from the "City to City" album)
    
    Keep yourself alive....keep yourself alive
    Take you all your time and money - honey, you'll survive
    			("Keep yourself alive" - Queen)
    
    Home.....home again
    I like to be here when I can
    When I come home cold and tired
    It's good to warm my bones beside the fire...
    			(Pink Floyd.....)
    
    
    Make me a cradle to rock my weary world
    Make me a gentle voice to soothe her when she weeps
    Make my arms strong enough to hold her when she wakes
    And make me a lullaby so sweet and fine
    That I can sing my weary world to sleep
    			(Technical Difficulties - 
    				"Lullaby for a weary world?")
    
    
    Because you're lonely in your nightmares, let me in
    Because there's heat beneath your winter, let me in
    			("Lonely in your Nightmares" - Duran Duran)
    
    
    Your eyes are where the summer lives
    In pools of quiet fire
    			("I Cried" - Robert Plant)
    
    
    Come to me for service
    Every hundred miles
    Baby let me check your parts
    Fix your overdrive
    			("Trampled Underfoot" - Led Zeppelin)
    
    
    In your eyes.... the light... the heat
    Your eyes - I am complete
    Your eyes - I see the doorway
    Your eyes - of a thousand churches
    Your eyes - the resolution
    Your eyes - of a thousand fruitless searches...
    			("Your eyes" - Peter Gabriel)
    
    
    Changes fill my time....baby that's all right with me
    			("Ten years Gone" - Led Zeppelin)
    
    
    Why are there so many songs about rainbows
    And what's on the other side
    Rainbows are visions, only illusions
    And rainbows have nothing to hide
    So we've been told and some choose to believe it
    I know they're wrong, wait and see
    Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
    The lovers, the dreamers, and me
    			(The Rainbow Connection - as sung by Kermit the Frog)
    
    
    -Jody
    

    The answer my friend is blowing in the wind; the answer is blowing in
    the wind.		
    
    Cat's in the cradle and the silver moon
    Little Boy Blue and the man in the moon
    When ya comin' home Dad?
    I don't know when.
    But we'll get together then.
    
    What's love got to do with it?
    What's love but a second hand emotion?
    What's love got to do with it?
    Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
    
    ...children are our future
    Treat then well and let them lead the way
    Show them all the beauty they posess inside
    Give them a sense of pride
    To make it easier
    Let the children's laughter
    Remind us how it used to be.
    .........the greatest love of all...
    
    Bless the beasts and the children
    For in this world they have no voice
    In this world they have no choice. 
    
    
    
    I'd better stop before I start on Elton John songs. (truely one of the
    best pop lyricists of all times)
    
    .......or James Taylor's
    .......or Carole King's
    .......or Bob Dylan's
    
    Kate
    

    
    It sharpens your perception when your back's against the wall
    - Suzanne Vega
    
    Never wait, or hesitate,
    Get in kid before it's too late
    You may never get another chance
    For youth's a mask
    But it don't last
    Live it long, and live it fast....
    
    - Rod Stewart
    
    P.S. I'm sure we must be crediting the singer rather than the lyricist
    here sometimes.....oh well.....
    

    "They say you can't live without it"
                             - Show Me - Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
    
    "Yes, you could be mine, tonight and every night,
     I will be your knight in shining armor
     Coming to your emotional rescue"
                             - Emotional Rescue - Jagger/Richards 
                                                  (Rolling Stones)
    
    
    
    
    Lorna
    

    My eyes have seen you
    Let them photograph your soul
    Memorize your alleys on an endless roll
    
    Jim Morrison of The Doors

    
    A broken arrow in a bloody pool
    The wound in the face
    of Midnight proposals
    Someone shot nostalgia in the back
    Someone shot our innocence
    In the shadow of his smile........
    
    		Bauhaus
    

    re .17, yes, Bernie Taupin lyrics, Elton John music.
    
    Lorna
    

      "Sweet dreams are made of this,
       who am I to disagree?
       I've travelled the world and the seven seas,
       Everybody's looking for something."

			- Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)"

      "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..."

			- Simon and Garfunkle, "For Emily, wherever I may find
						her"
      "I'm frightened for your children,
       And that the life that we are living is in vain,
       And that the sunshine we've been waiting for,
       Will turn to rain..."

			- The Moody Blues, "The Story in Your Eyes"

      "I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind,
       I got my paper and I was free..."

			- The Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"

And a quote that is not musical, but that I must include because it is
my very favorite...

     "...and I pray to God that I may forget these things that with myself
      I too much discuss, too much explain..."

			- T.S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"

        If I went to battle with someone's herd of cattle
	you'd have steak when the job was done.
	But if I shot the hearder, they'd holler "Bloody Murder!"
	Oh, you can't get a man with a gun!
					    Annie Get Your Gun

	If a man don't understand you,
	and you root for different teams,
	Waste no time, weep no more,
	Show him what the door is for,
	Drum him out of your roll call,
	And drum him out of your dreams.
					South Pacific

	Where are the simple joys of maidenhood?
	Where are all those adoring, daring boys?
	Where's the knight pinning so for me
	he leaps to death in woe for me?
	Oh, where are a maiden's simple joys?
					    Camelot

    re:.17
    
    Taupin did write the words for Elton John for quite some time but I
    don't believe he has for the last few albums. I may be wrong but that's
    what I heard.
    
    Kate

    As your mornings will be brighter
    Break the line
    Tear up rules
    Make the most of a million times no
    
    		Bauhaus
    

   "And now I'm 
    Who I want to be and where I want to be
    And doing what I always said I would
    And yet I feel I haven't won at all,
    Always running for my life and never looking back
    In case there's someone right behind to shoot me down
    And say he always knew I'd fall
         And when that crazy wheel slows down,
         Where will I be?
         Back where I started..."

				- Chess

    "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
    "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
     But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
     So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
                                - All Along The Watchtower, Bob Dylan
    
    
    Lorna
    

I was bored before I even began.

I never wanted to go home because I haven't got one.

If a ten-ton truck kills the both of us it would be a pleasure and a
priviledge to die by your side.

My only weakness is a future crime.

Sing me to sleep, I don't want to wake up on my own anymore.

I don't have much in my life, but take it - it's yours.

===============
The Pee-Wun's

    "It was a cold and wet December day
    When we touched down at JFK
    Snow was melting on the ground
    On BLS I heard the sound (of an Angel)
    
    New York like a Christmas tree
    I said tonight this city belongs to me (Angel)
    
    Soul Love this love won't let me go
    So long.... Angel of Harlem"
    
                              - Angel of Harlem (for Billie Holiday) by
                                         Bono (U2)
    
    "Early morning April four
    A shot rings out in the Memphis sky
    Free at last
    They took your life
    They could not take your pride"
                               - Pride (In the Name of Love) by Bono (U2)
    
    "Many strangers have I met
    On the road to my regret
    Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
    They ask me to reveal
    The very thoughts they would conceal
    Love rescue me"
                                - Love Rescue Me by Bono/Bob Dylan (U2)
    
    "Don't believe the devil I don't believe the book
    But the truth is not the same without the lies he made up
    I don't believe in excess success is to give
    I don't believe in riches but you should see where I live
    I...I believe in love"
                                 - God Part II by Bono (U2)
    
    "You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
    Treasure just to look upon it
    All the riches in the night
    You say you'll give me eyes on a moon of blindness
    A river in a time of dryness
    A harbour in the tempest
    When All I want is you"
                                 - All I Want Is You by Bono (U2)
    
    
    Lorna
    

Friday left me fumbling with the blues,
and its hard to win when you always lose
'cos the night spots spent your spirit
beat your head against the wall
Two dead end and you still gotta choose.

Blab Waits

There's an advance on freezing now,
the rage is all for drying
keeps the nuclei intact.

It used to be just frogs and below.
Now it's sows and upwards.
Shall I take you down to Prickly Holly ?

Rico Rosa

    Can it have been all so simple then?
    Or has time rewritten every line?
    
    	- sung by Barbara Streisand
    		(don't know who wrote it)

    "Have I told you lately that I love you
    Have I told you there's no one above you
    Fill my heart with gladness
    Take away my sadness
    Ease my troubles, that's what you do"
                                - Have I Told You Lately, Van Morrison
    
    
    "Into this life we're born
    Baby sometimes we don't know why
    And time seems to go by so fast
    In the twinkling of an eye
    
    Let's enjoy it while we can
    Won't you help me sing my song
    From the dark end of the street
    To the bright side of the road"
                           - Bright Side of the Road, Van Morrison
    
    
    
    Lorna
    

    
    
    
    But there's no need for turning back
    'cause all roads lead to where we stand
    And I believe we'll walk them all
    no matter what we may have planned
    
    				- Don McLean (can't remember the name of
    					      the song -- It's on the
                                              American Pie album)
    
    Imagine there's no countries
    I wonder if you can
    No need for greed or hunger
    or folks with empty hands
    Imagine all the people sharing all the world
    
    You may say I'm a dreamer,
    but I'm not the only one.
    I hope someday you'll join us,
    and the world will live as one.
    
    				- Imagine, John Lennon
                                                                 

    "You in the moonlight
    With your sleepy eyes
    Could you ever love a man like me
    And you were right
    When I walked into your house
    I knew I'd never want to leave
    Sometimes I'm a strong man
    Sometimes cold and scared
    And sometimes I cry
    But that time I saw you
    I knew with you to light my nights
    Somehow I'd get by"
                           - Leather and Lace, Stevie Nicks
    
    
    "Once in awhile
    Two people meet
    Seemingly for no reason
    They just pass on the street
    Suddenly thunder, showers everywhere
    Who can explain the thunder and rain
    But there's something in the air"
                            - Don't Get Me Wrong, Chrissie Hynde (The
                                                           Pretenders)
    
    
    "We were just young and restless and bored"
                             - Night Moves, Bob Seger
    
    Lorna
    

all your hidden faces
your seven veils unfold
give me forbidden places
all your tales untold

- Sisters of Mercy

    All God's children have a place in the choir.
    Some sing low and some sing higher,
    Some sing out loud on the telephone wire,
    And some just clap their hands, paws, or anything they got.
    
           --can't remember anything but this chorus about the song

RE .36 - that's by Bill Staines

>      <<< Note 337.33 by COGITO::SULLIVAN "How many lives per gallon?" >>>
>                               -< two "oldies" >-
>
>    
>    But there's no need for turning back
>    'cause all roads lead to where we stand
>    And I believe we'll walk them all
>    no matter what we may have planned
>    
>    				- Don McLean (can't remember the name of
>    					      the song -- It's on the
>                                              American Pie album)
    
Justine:

  That's from "Crossroads".

                                   Atlant

    I haven't heard these ladies but here are some of their rap lyrics
    which were printed in Mother Jones magazine.

    I don't care if they're big
    or small,short, or tall,
    We got to stand or fall.Ain't that right y'all?
    All I can talk about is what I know
    And what I know abut is what I witness
    What I witness is what I see
    Me, way below status quo
    'Cause I'm a Negro wit' an ego
    Yo,that don't go.
    Put some faith in your race
    I'm black and I'm proud to be a
    African-American soul sister
    Using my mind as a weapon.
    A lethal injection...

	    Negro Wit' an Ego by Salt-N-Pepa

    A daddy is boy that braggs about his kid
    A father is man who supports and gives

		    Sucker DJs (I will survive)

    What would you do if a stranger said hi
    Would you dis'him or would you reply?
    If you answer there is a chance
    That you'll become a victim of circumstance
    Am I right fellas,tell the truth
    Or else I'm gonna have to show and prove
    You are what you are, I am what I am
    It just so happens that most men are tramps.

		    Salt-N-Pepa (Push it)    

    The Dance
                ---GARTH BROOKS

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance 
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey who's to say you know I might have chanced it all

	..And then one day you find
	    Ten years have got behind you
	No one told you when to run
	    You missed the starting gun

			- Pink Floyd, from
			  Dark Side of the Moon

    "The highway's jammed with broken heroes
    On a last chance power drive
    Everybody's out on the run tonight
    But there's no place left to hide
    Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
    I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
    Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place
    Where we really want to go
    And we'll walk in the sun
    But till then tramps like us
    Baby we were born to run"
    
                           - Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
    

    "King for a Day", by XTC:

        Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues where they
        didn't ought to be, on stepping stones of human hearts and souls,
        into the land of "nothing for free".

        Well the way that we're living, is all take and no giving, the
        loudest mouth will hail the new found way, to be king for a day...

        You're only here once so you got to get it right (no time to fuss
        and fight).  'Cause life don't mean much if measured out with
        someone else's plight (in time you'll see the light)....

    "One of the Millions", by XTC:

        I got so much to say but I'm afraid it'll come out wrong, I'm not
        akin to the eighties thing where you look after number one.

        But I won't rock the boat, 'cause I'm scared what might happen.  I
        won't rock the boat, 'cause I'm one of the millions.  Who never
        seem to do anything (he never seems to do anything) I never seem to
        do anything (he never seems to do anything)....

    "Here Comes President Kill Again", by XTC

        Here comes President Kill again, surrounded by all of his killing
        men, telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants
        killing again.

        Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead, hooray, now
        back in your cells, we've got President Kill instead.

    "Scarecrow People", by XTC  [A scarecrow describes to a human being
    what a scarecrow society is like]:

        We don't have no tears here, no one hopes or cares or fears here,
        for the old, the sick, the poor and them what taint you.  We
        thought we'd base our civilization on yours, 'cause you're the
        smartest animals on earth, now ain't you?

    -- Mike

    "One World", by Dire Straits
    
        They say it's mostly vanity
        That writes the plays we act
        They tell me that's what everybody knows
        There's no such thing as sanity
        And that's the sanest fact
        That's the way the story goes
        
        Can't get no remedy on my TV
        There's nothing but the same old news
        They can't find a way to be
        One world in harmony
        Can't get no antidote for blues
        

    "Everybody Knows", by the Washington Squares (written by Leonard
	Cohen/Sharon Robinson):
    
	Everybody knows the dice are loaded
	Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
	Everybody knows the war is over
	Everybody knows the good guys lost
	Everybody knows the fight was fixed
	The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
	That's how it goes
	Everybody knows

    "The Fourth Day of July", by the Washington Squares (traditional, new
	words by the Washington Squares):

	We got cities with such bright lights
	That the streets look like they're gold
	Lot's of people walk the sidewalks
	Though the streets get goddamn cold

	And I see (yes I see) on the fourth day of July
	And I see (yes I see) on the fourth day of July

	We have hunger, and red siloes,
	Some bursting with grain
	Purple mountains and rocket's red glare
	Will be all that remain

    "The Pride of Man", by the Washington Squares (written by Hamilton
    Camp):

	Turn around, go back the way you came.
	Can't you see that flash of fire, ten times brighter than the day
	And behold the mighty city, broken in the dust again.

	Oh God, the pride of man, broken in the dust again.

    "No Romance", by the Rainmakers:

    	Save your stories for the bartender
    	And your crying for the theater
    	And your poems and your diary pages
    	To kill some time in your old age

    	There may be gods who hear your prayers
    	And honest men who, men who care
    	And young lovers who say they will wait forever
    	Lives that look like movies and books
    	But the sooner that you learn this
    	The sooner you free your hands
    	To get on with things that really matter
    	There is no romance

    	No romance

    "The Girls Want to be with the Girls", by the Talking Heads:

        The girls don't want to play like that,
        They just want to talk to the boys.
        They just want to do what is in their hearts,
        And the girls want to be with the girls.

        And the boys say, "What do you mean?"
        And the boys say, "What do you mean?"
        Well there is just no love,
        When there's boys and girls.
        And the girls want to be with the girls.
        And the girls want to be with the girls.

    "I'm not in Love", by the Talking Heads:

        Take it easy, baby...Don't let your feelings get in the way.
        Some day, I believe, we can live in a world without love.
        I can answer your questions,
        If you won't twist what I say.
        Please respect my opinions,
        They will be respected some day.
        Because we don't need love.
        I believe that we don't need love.
        There'll come a day when we won't need love.

        "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?"
        
        		--Elvis Costello
        
        "Baby I'll be there to shake your hand,
        Baby I'll be there to share the land,
        That they'll be giving away, when we all live together"
        
        		-- The Guess Who
        

    "The Story in Your Eyes", by the Moody Blues:

        I've been thinking about our fortune,
        And I've decided that we're really not to blame
        For the love that's deep inside us now
        Is still the same.

        And the sound we make together
        Is the music to the story in your eyes
        It's been shining down upon me now
        I realize.

    "This & That", by Michael Penn:

        I'll do this
        and I'll do that
        I'll be burning canyons for you
        I'll do this
        and I'll do that
        and I will wait forever if you'll be there

    "Lips Like Sugar", by Echo & The Bunnymen

        She floats like a swan
        grace on the water
        lips like sugar
        lips like sugar
        just when you think you've caught her
        she glides across the water
        she calls for you tonight
        to share this moonlight

    "Into the Mystic", by Van Morrison

        We were born before the wind
        Also younger than the sun
        Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
        Hark, now hear the sailors cry
        Smell the sea and feel the sky
        Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

        And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
        And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
        I don't have to fear it
        I want to rock your gypsy soul 
        Just like way back in the days of old
        Then magnificently we will float into the mystic

    "Moondance", by Van Morrison

        Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
        With the stars up above in your eyes
        A fantabulous night to make romance
        'Neath the cover of October skies
        And all the leaves on the trees are falling
        To the sound of the breezes that blow
        And I'm trying to please to the calling
        Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
        And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
        And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush

    ...from _Love's Recovery_, by Indigo Girls 
    
    "Oh how I wish I were a trinity so if I lost a part of me
     I'd still have two of the same to live.
     But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal 
     As specks of dust we're universal.
     To let this love survive would be the greatest gift that we could
         give..."

    
    
    	"Little child
         You must show the way
    	 To a better day for all the young.
    	 For you were born 
    	 Into this evil world
    	 Where man is killing man
    	 And no one knows just why"
    
    				When the Children Cry - White Lion
    

    
    My life was like a desert flower
    Burning in the sun
    Until I found the way to love
    Was harder said than done
    	let it rain....
    			(Let It Rain - Eric Clapton)
    
    
    On and on the rain will fall
    Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
    On and on the rain will see
    How fragile we are, how fragile we are
    			(Fragile? - Sting (from Nothing Like The Sun))
    
    
    Do you take sugar? - One lump or two?
    			(Pour some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard)
    
    
    -Jody
    

    I don't care what consequence it brings,
    I have been a fool for lesser things.
                           --Billy Joel
    
    So put me on a highway
    Show me a sign
    And take it to the limit one more time.
    		           --Randy Meiser, Don Henley, Glenn Frey
    
    We won't forget the days gone down
    They're written in our hearts (yeah, yeah)
    And we're as much in tune as we were right at the start.
    
    It all semms so much harder now
    It seemed so easy then (yeah, yeah)
    But some day, get to the point [?], we might do it all again.
    
    I just want to tell you
    You still got that light in your eyes, yes you do.
                                           --Gerry Rafferty
    
    It's no matter,
    No distance,
    It's the ride.
        --Stephen Stills
    

    I've done a lot of wrong things I thought were right, but that's
    allright, I had fun. And I'm not the only one.
    
    Paul Butterfield Blues Band - from the Better Days album.
    
    
    There's a whole lotta things that I never done, ain't never had too much
    fun.
    
    Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen


    Don't blink your lights, don't honk your horn, I hate the day that you
    were born. There's no curb service anymore.
    
    From a compilation of old Bluegrass bands - I don't remember the name

    It's the stuff that dreams are made of
    It's the slow and steady fire ...
                          --Carly Simon
    
    So many things I would have done
    But clouds got in my way.
                       --Joni Mitchell
    
    When you're down and troubled
    And you need some loving care
    And nothing, nothing is going right
    Close your eyes and think of me
    And soon I will be there ...
                       --Carole King
    
    I never did believe in miracles
    But I've a feelin' it's time to try.
    I never did believe in the ways of magic
    But I'm beginning to wonder why.
                       --Christine McVie
    

I'm gonna call up China and see if my woman's over there..

I ain't seen my main squeeze in 10 long weeks today...you know I've got
the blues...

Albert King



Tore up over you til I just can't find my way...

Hank Ballard




Jim

Ahh, I was going to include this one but forgot...

>    So many things I would have done
>    But clouds got in my way.
>                       --Joni Mitchell
 
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down and still somehow
It's clouds illusions I recall 
I really don't know clouds at all...

But isn't it Judy Collins, not Joni Mitchell?

D!

    re .58, Joni Mitchell wrote it, Judy Collins got the hit record.
    
    Lorna
    

    
    
    The Turn Of A Friendly Card Part 1,   Alan Parsons Project
        
    There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains
    On a wheel of perpetual motion
    and they follow the races and pay out the gains	
    With no show of an outward emotion
    	
    And they think it will make their lives easier
    For god knows up till now it's been hard
    and the game never ends when your whole world depends
    on the turn of a friendly card
    No the game never ends when your whole world depends
    on the turn of a friendly card
    
    There's a sign in the deser that lies to the west
    where eyou can't tell the night from the sunrise
    and not all the kings horses and all the kings men
    have prevented the fall of the unwise

    And they think it will make their lives easier
    For god knows up till now it's been hard
    and the game never ends when your whole world depends
    on the turn of a friendly card
    No the game never ends when your whole world depends
    on the turn of a friendly card
    
    But a pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine
    as he enters the cathedral...
    
 
    Allison

    For those of us who knew the pain 
    of valentines that never came,
    Whose names were never called
    when choosing sides for basketball,
    
    It was long ago and far away
    The world was younger than today
    And dreams were all they gave for free
    To ugly duckling girls like me
    At seventeen
                            At Seventeen by Janis Ian
    
    
                    

   Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.

		They Might be Giants "Flood"

   I met a man who looked like he might have been a hat check clerk at an ice
   rink. Turned out, he was. Oh boy. Right. Again.

		Laurie Anderson "Big Science"

(These are from memory... I have lots more, I admit to a weakness for quoting
lyrics.)

	-- Charles

    Oh to reach through all your surface
    Just to find an empty shell.
    And to suffer all your pride
    As I lay down by your side.
    You swallowed up my heart and left me a fool.
    
    Indigo Girls
    
    Nanci

    "Try not to hurry
    it's just not to worry
    leave it to those 
    all caught up in time
    
    You've got to deep-six your wristwatch
    you've got to try and understand
    the time it seems to capture
    is just the movement of its hand"

    Bob Weir "Walk in the Sunshine" from "Ace"

    
    I'm much more impressionable when my cement is wet
    
    - Billy Bragg
    

    Hold me closer, tiny dancer.
    Count the headlights on the highway.
    					    Tiny Dancer
    					    Elton John (?)
    
    Hear the whistle blow.  Heeear the whistle bloooow.
    Clickety-clack, clickety-clack!
    The wheels that sing on the railroad track:
    If you go, you can't come back.  If you go, you can't come back.
    If you gooo, you caaan't come back.
    					    Fast Freight
    					    Terry Gilkyson
    
    In Rangoon, in the heat of noon,
    They foam at the mouth and run,
    But mad dogs and Englishmen
    Go out in the midday sun!
    					    Mad Dogs and Englishmen
    					    Noel Coward
    
    Come all you beggars of Paris town,
    You lousy rabble of low degree!
    ...
    You and I are good for nothing but to die.
    We can die for -- liberty!
    
    Sons of toil and danger,
    Will you serve a stranger
    And bow down to Burgundy?
    ...
    Sons of France around us,
    Break the chains that bound us
    And to Hell with Burgundy!
    					    Song of the Vagabonds
    					    Friml & Hooker

    This is the last day of our acquaintance
    I will meet you later in somebody's office
    I'll talk but you won't listen to me
    I know what your answer will be
    
    I know you don't love me anymore
    You used to hold my hand when the plane took off
    Two years ago there just seemed so much more
    And I don't know what happened to our love
    
                             The Last Day of Our Acquaintance by Sinead
                                                         O'Connor
    
    
    I was standing  You were there
    Two worlds collided
    And they could never tear us apart
    We could live for a thousand years
    But if I hurt you I'd make wine from your tears
    I told you that we could fly
    Cause we all have wings
    But some of us don't know why
    
                                   Never Tear Us Apart by INXS
    
    

    I've done my best to live the right way
    I get up every morning and go to work each day
    But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
    Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
    Explode and tear this town apart
    Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
    Find somebody itching for something to start
    
    There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
    I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
    Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    That ain't got the faith to stand it's ground
    Blow away the dreams the tear you apart
    Blow away the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost
                         and brokenhearted
    
                                        The Promised Land by Bruce
                                                             Springsteen
    

    re .68 Lorna, why omit the chorus ? Oh, yeah, ok. :-)
    
    Dana

    Dana, I really didn't put in the entire song!  :-)  There's another
    verse!
    
    Lorna
    

...

I chose and my world was shaken!
So what?
My choice may have been misktaken.
My choosing was not.

You have to move on!

...

Don't worry if your vision is new.
Let others make that decision.
[they usually do]

Look at what you are
not at what you were
Look at all the things you want to be

Open up your eyes
Notice ever tree
Look at all the things you've done for me

Just keep moving on

                      -- Stephen Sondheim
                         'Sunday in the Park with George'

	Last night I had the strangest dream
	I ever dreamed before
	I dreamed the world has all agreed
	to put an end to war

		Last Night I had the Strangest Dream
			Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel


	"Fools" said I, "You do not now
	Silence like a cancer grows.

		The Sound of Silence
			Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

	_peggy

		(-)
		 |
			And other memories of times past.

    
    she crossed herself as she put on her things
    she has promised once before not to live this way
    if she don't calm down she will burn herself out
    like a forest fire
    doesn't that make you smile?
    
    if you don't slow down I swear that I'll come round
    and mess up your place...
    let's go for a spin
    they say we shouldn't even know each other
    and that we'll be undone
    don't it make you smile?
    like a forest fire
    
    if we get caught in this wind then we can burn the ocean
    if we get caught in this scene we're going to be undone
    it's just a simple metaphor
    it's for a burning love
    don't it make you smile
    like a forest fire....... 
    
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
    

	The Moody Blues "The Other Side of Life"


		And when the music plays

		And when the words are
		Touched with sorrow
		When the music plays

		And when the music plays
		I hear the sound
		I had to follow

		Once upon a time

			Justin Haywood "Your Wildest Dreams"



		It doesn't matter
		If you want to
		Rock and roll all night
		I know you're gonna
		Be there when the
		Feeling is right

		I'm just talking, talking

			Justin Haywood/John Lodge "Talkin' Talkin'"


		It may be a fire
		But you gotta get it into your hear

			John Lodge "It may be a Fire"

    
    If the sun refused to shine
    I would still be lovin' you
    Mountains crumble to the sea
    There will still be you and me...
    		(Led Zeppelin - Thank You)
    
    These are the seasons of emotion
    And like the winds they rise and fall
    This is the wonder of devotion
    I see the torch we all must hold
    This is the mystery of the quotient
    Upon us all a little rain must fall...
    		(Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song)
    
    
    Like a Phoenix....I have risen from the flame
    No more living someone else's dreams....
    		(Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix)
    
    
    -Jody
    

    
    frankly Mr. Shankly this position I've held
    it pays my way but it corrodes my soul
    oh I didn't realize that you wrote poetry
    I didn't realize you wrote such bloody awful poetry
    
    - The Smiths
    

        (This is from memory, so forgive me if this isn't exactly right)
    
    	Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not
        	to leave because I'd go berserk?
        Well, you left me anyway and the days got worse and worse and now
        	you can see I've gone completely out of my mind
        And, they're coming to take me away, haha, they're coming to take
        	me away hoho hehe haha
        To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time with those
        	nice young men in their clean white coats they're coming to
        	take me away, ha ha!

                        They're Coming To Take Me Away
                                 Napoleon XIV

    	!ah ah ,yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er'yeht staoc etihw naelc rieht ni
		nem gnuoy ecin esoht htiw emit eht lla lufituaeb si efil
		erehw mraf ynnuf eht oT.
	ahah eheh ohoh yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er'yeht ,ahah ,yawa em ekat ot
		gnimoc re'yeht ,dnA
	dnim ym fo tuo yletelpmoc enog ev'I ees nac uoy won dna esrow dna
		esrow tog syad eht dna yawyna em tfel uoy ,lleW
	?kresreb og d'I esuaceb evael ot ton uoy deggeb dna seenk ym no tog
		I dna yawa nar uoy nehw rebmemeR
    
                      yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC re'yehT
                                 VIX noelopaN

>        To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time with those
>        	nice young men in their clean white coats they're coming to
>        	take me away, ha ha!

...where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those
nice young men in their clean white coats...

My favorite song.  :-)

D!

    Cripes, I was a Boy Scout when that one was on the charts. '65

    To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time(?) 
    with trees and flowers and chirping birds
    and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs
    and they're coming to take me away, haha!
    
    
    -Jody (another dementite....;)

    Oh she knows
    She takes his hand
    And prays the child will understand
    At the door they watch the men go by
    In the clothes that daddy wore
    Mothers pride
    Baby boy
    His father's eyes
    He's a soldier waiting for war
    Time will come
    He'll hold a gun
    His father's son
    
    And as he grows
    He hears the band
    Takes the step from boy to man
    And at the shore she waves her son goodbye
    Like the man she did before
    
    Mothers pride
    Just a boy
    His country's eyes
    He's a soldier waving at the shore
    And in her heart the time has come
    To lose a son
    
    And all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone
    They make no difference
    No difference in the end
    Still hear the woman say your daddy died a hero
    In the name of God and man
    
    Mother's pride
    Crazy boy
    His lifeless eyes
    He's a soldier now forevermore
    He'll hold a gun till kingdom come
    
                                       - Mothers Pride by George Michael
    

What, is this a request for a nit?

>    To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time(?) 
>    with trees and flowers and chirping birds
>    and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs
>    and they're coming to take me away, haha!
 
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
and they're coming to take me away, haha!

D!

    Every night that goes between
    I feel a little better.
    As you slowly go away from me
    this is only another death.
    Every night you do not come
    Your softness fades away
    did I ever really care that much
    Is there anything left to say?
    So I try to say "Good by my friend,"
    I'd like to leave you with something warm.
    But never ever been a blue calm sea,
    I've always been a storm.
    
    Storms, Stevie Nicks
    
    

    This may not be my best day
    but this ain't no golden age.
    You looked pretty on the freeway
    let's drive into the brave new world.

    Please don't hit me if I do say
    but this ain't no golden age.
    You looked so pretty on the freeway
    let's drive into this brave new world.

    	-- Michael Penn, "Brave New World"

    It's hiding in the corner
    of every sacred place
    before the ambush you won't want to
    recognize its face.
    It slithers like a viper
    readies its attack
    tears your flesh and soul apart
    then clings on to your back
    But not till it turns away
    can you feel the pain of all the damage done
    and you may notice that
    this quick opiate
    might wear the wings of angels
    that's when you realize
    you've been shot down
    wounded unto death by something called love

    	-- Michael Penn, "Cupid's Got a Brand New Gun"

    
    I feel so lucky loving her
    Tell me, what else is magic for?
    She thinks its better left unsaid....
    She makes her mind up at a glance;
    It really made a difference:
    I seem to be unconditionally hers;
    She's like a new girl every day
    And all the rest don't bother me;
    I'm far too busy loving her....
    
    I'll never be lonely, now I know her;
    (She trusts her intuition)
    'Cause she fills my heart with joy
    (She acts in my defence)
    Shy makes my day
    She just has to smile to blow my cares away
    (We make a definition)
    She just has to touch my hand to make me stay
    (Acts in our best interest)
    She makes my day
    
    She's all good loving at once
    
    Our love was unintentional
    She says we're not responsible
    She thinks with her chin up.
    She always makes uncommon sense
    Always knows just what to say
    She always takes me unawares
    In less time than it takes to fall
    I'm here and there you are.
    We never fought it, anyway......
    
    Robert Palmer
    From "Heavy Nova" - Top 10 fave album
    

	Damn, wish I was a man,
	I'd be sexy with a belly like Jack Nicholson.
	Lord, if I was a man
	It'd say No Fat Chicks on the bumper of my Lincoln.

            	-- Damn, Wish I Was A Man
		   by Cindy Lee Berryhill

Well, the moon sank as the wind blew
and the street lights slowly died
Yeah, they call you the wild one
said stay away from her
Said she couldn't love no one if she tried
But then somethin' I saw in your eyes
told me right away that you were gonna have to be mine
the strangest feeling came over me down inside
no matter what it takes I'll never get over
how good it felt when you finally held me
I will never regret baby 
those few hours linger on in my head forever
                        - The Wild One, Forever by Tom Petty
                            

    
    Re -1
    
    Oooooh! Tingles! You've just reminded me of Petty's "Luna"....
    Can't remember all the words, but that song is so hot it gives
    me goosebumps....
    
    'gail

    "The lights are on, but you're not home,
     Your will is not your own,
     Your body shakes, your heart beats,
     There's no doubt, you're in deep...

     Oh, you'd like to think that you're immune to the stuff,
     Oh yeah,
     But it's closer to truth you say you
     Can't get enough,
     Yeah you're going to have to face it
     You're addicted to love"

			- Robert Palmer, "Addicted to Love"

     "If I can't love you,
      I don't want to love you.
      If I can't hold you 
      I don't want to thinking of you
      And if I can't have you
      I don't want to want you...."

			- Melissa Ethridge

	She said, "Write a song about me.
	Sing a song that's of my day.
	Everybody's special in their ordinary way."

					--Harry Chapin
					  "Anthem"


	Well I read it in the New York Times
	  that was on the stands today
	It said that dreams were out of fashion
	  we'll hear no more empty promises,
	  there'll be no more wasted passions,
	  to clutter up our play.
	It really was a good sign
	  the words went on to say
	  it shows that we are growing up
	  in oh so many healthy ways.
	And I told myself this is exactly where I'm at...
	   ...but I don't much like thinking about that. 

					--Harry Chapin
					  "There Only Was One Choice"

    I wonder what tommorrow has in mind for me
    or am I even in its mind at all?
    Perhaps I'll get a chance to look ahead 
    and see, soon as I find myself a crystal ball,
    soon as I find myself a crystal ball.
    
    But tell me, tell me, where I'm going 
    I don't know where I've been
    Tell me, tell me, won't you tell
    me and then tell me again.
    My heart is breaking, my body's 
    aching and I don't know where to go.
    
    So tell me, tell me, won't you tell
    me, I've just got to know.
    
    
    	                           --Tommy Shaw
                                     "Crystal Ball" Styx 1976

    fascist architecture of my own design
    too long been keeping my love confined
    you tore me out of myself alive

    those fingers drawing out blood like sweat
    while the magnificent facades crumble and burn
    the billion facets of brilliant love
    the billion facets of freedom turning in the light

    					--Bruce Cockburn
    					  "Fascist Architecture"



    sinister cynical instrument
    who turns the gun into a sacrament --
    the only response to the deification
    of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
    idolatry of ideology

    north, south, east, west
    kill the best and buy the rest
    it's just spend a buck to make a buck
    you don't really give a flying fuck
    about the people in misery

    					--Bruce Cockburn
    					  "Call It Democracy"

    The reality of me
    is not what you write
    love songs about
    you'd rather be longing from afar
    you're not as comfortable with love
    as you are without
    and she's a thousand miles gone
    and that's fine
    'cause you're fond of the shimmer
    that distance lends to these things
    
    				--Christine Lavin
    				  "Realities"

    
    Sometimes I think that was written about men I've known...
    
    Oops, wrong note.

    
    sister dear, never fear
    no one's gonna make you fight for
    your love life tonight
    
    				- Billy Idol
    

    "Hi everybody.  I'm Archie Bell of the Drells, of Houston, Texas, and
    we don't only sing, but we dance just as good as we want."
    		-- Archie Bell and the Drells
    
    "I am the God of hell fire.  And I bring you fire."
    		-- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
    
    "I am music, I write the songs."
    		-- Barry Manilow
    
    "I am Henry the Eighth I am, Henry the Eighth I am I am."
    		-- Herman's Hermits
    
    "I'm a man, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so."
    		-- Spencer Davis Group
    
    "I am the walrus."
    		-- The Beatles
    
    "I am, I cried.  I am, said I."
    		-- Neil Diamond
    

    "...It may have a new perspective, on a different day..."
                                      -Mike & the Mechanics
    
    

    I was talkin' with a friend of mine,
    said a woman had hurt his pride,
    told him that she loved him so
    and turned around and let him go.
    Then he said, "You better watch your step
    or you're gonna get hurt yourself.
    Someone's gonna tell you lies,
    cut you down to size."
    Don't do me like that.  Don't do me like that.
    What if I loved you baby?  Don't do me like that.
    
    Listen honey, can you see?  
    Baby, it would bury me
    If you were in the public eye 
    givin' someone else a try.
    And you know you better watch your step
    or you're gonna get hurt yourself.
    Someone's gonna tell you lies,
    cut you down to size.
    Don't do me like that.  Don't do me like that.
    I just might need you, honey.
    Don't do me like that.
    
                      Don't Do Me Like That by Tom Petty
    

    
    And now my brother lays upon the rocks
    He could be dead
    He could be not
    He could be you
    
    He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature....
    
    David Bowie - "The Bewlay Brothers" (sp?)
    (Approximate quotation)

    
    You have to hurt to understand
    
    Have to get by the best you can
    
    Until you hurt and until you cry
    
    You won't know about love
      or the reasons why
    
    You have to hurt
    
    			Carly Simon

    Can anyone tell me the first few stanzas of the song by the Cars
    that says something like
    
    	"I take you home like I did a thousand times before" and
    	"Why should we wait till tomorrow?  I want you tonight."
    
    TIA,
    D!

    In memoriam...
    
    
    "Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace...
    
    Oh, you may say that I'm a dreamer,
    But I'm not the only one.
    I hope someday you'll join us,
    And the world will live as one."
    
    
    	Today would have been John Lennon's 50th birthday.

        In dreams we do so many things
	we set aside the rules we know
	And fly above the world so high
	with great and soaring wings
	If only we could always live in dreams
	If only we could make of life
	What in dreams, it seems.

	    Roy Orbison

    
    "I'm not waiting on a lady.....
     I'm just waiting on a friend"
    
    The Stones
    

    
    the bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
    in the violet hour to the violent sound
    and the darkness the blinding eyes that shine
    and the voices singing and the line on line
    
    I feel the bite
    I feel the beat
    I see the dancing feet
    I feel the light
    I feel the heat
    I see the new elite
    I see the final floorshow
    I see the western dream
    I see the faces glow and
    I see the bodies steam
    
    - Sisters of Mercy
    

    
    the love you take
    is equal to the love you make
    

    "Sometimes in the dark of night
    you see the crossroad sign
    one way is the morning light
    you've got to make up your mind"
    
    "Seven Turns" The Allman Brothers Band
    
    Dedicated to my friend Sheila who, one night a year ago, took the 
    wrong turn. She was 26, found herself attracted to another woman,
    was turned down. Couldn't handle being gay in a straight world.
    Comitted suicide. If you ever lose sight of the supportiveness of
    this file remember what the real world drives people to.

    re .109, maybe she just couldn't handle being turned down.
    
    And, another thought, notesfiles aren't with us all the time.
    
    Lorna
    

    Sometimes I wish I knew you well
    Then I could speak my mind and tell you
    Maybe you'd understand
    
    I want to tell you
    I feel hung up but I don't know why
    I don't mind
    I could wait forever, I've got time
    
    	- The Beatles, "I Want to Tell You" (written by George Harrison)

    I've got freinds in loooowww places
     where the whiskey pours 
      and the beer chases
       my blues away....
    
                    Garth Brooks

    ... and not enough songs about friendship
    
    Open the door and come on in
    I'm so glad to see you my friend
    You're like a rainbow coming around the bend
    And when I see you happy
    Well, it sets my heart free
    I'd like to be as good a friend to you as you are to me
    
                             -Judy Collins
    

    Wow, is that (337.113) really by Judy Collins?  It reads just
    like the lyrics to a song on the Wilson Phillips album, only 
    a few different words that change the scansion, not the meaning.
    
    DougO

    
    "I want to see a touch of evil in your eye
     But all that I'm getting is sweetness and light
     
     I want to see something that I might desire...."
    
    Lloyd Cole
     

    Re:.114
    
    The song is on Judy Collins' album called "Living" (early 1970's), the
    title is "Song for Judith" and Judy Collins is credited as the
    songwriter.
    
    Mary

    Mary, that's interesting!  Look at the similarities:
    
    > Open the door and come on in
    > I'm so glad to see you my friend
    > You're like a rainbow coming around the bend
    > And when I see you happy
    > Well, it sets my heart free
    > I'd like to be as good a friend to you as you are to me
    >                         -Judy Collins
    
    Open the door and come in
    I'm so glad to see you my friend
    I don't know how long it has been
    Having those feelings again
    But now I see that you're so happy
    And oooh, it just sets me free
    And I'd like to see us as good of friends
    As we used to be...
                        -Wilson Phillips, G. Ballard
    
    DougO

    That goes well beyond coincidence.

    This otherwise forgettable song from the early Seventies popped into my
    head today, and I couldn't resist posting some of the lyrics.  I don't
    even remember the name of the song or the artist:
    
    	Tell your daddy and your mama too
    	You got something better to do
    	Than stick around your house the rest of your life
    	You're eightteen, you can be my wife
    	You'll be the queen of the highway
    	A motorcycle mama
    	And you can see the world from my Harley
    
    So then, wouldn't you know it, another forgettable song from the same
    era just popped into my head:
    
    	I am Neanderthal man
    	You are Neanderthal girl
    	Let's make Neanderthal love
    	In this Neanderthal world
    
    I'm a sucker for insipid lyrics.  Just don't get me started on "Yummy
    Yummy Yummy".  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    re: .119
    
    And maybe in a year or two 
    We'll have a little one
    She'll look just like you
    And we'll (something)
    In a sidecar built for two.
    
    The song's "Motorcycle Mama."  I think the group's 10CC.
    
    --bonnie

    Suicide blonde
    Was the colour of her hair
    Like a cheap distraction
    For a new affair
    She knew it would finish
    Before it began
    Something tells me you lost the plan
    You want to make her
    Suicide blonde
    Love devastation
    Suicide blonde
    She stripped to the beat
    But her clothes stay on
                    - by A.Farriss & M. Hutchence (INXS)
    

    Goodbye my friends, Maybe forever
    Goodbye my friends, The stars wait for me
    Who knows where we shall meet again
    If ever
    But time
    Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
    To the sea, to the sea
    Till it's gone forever
    Gone forever
    Gone forevermore
    
    	- Eric Woolfson/Alan Parsons

    In a while with a smile on my face turned to plaster
    Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
    For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
    Is it strange I should change
    I don't know, why don't you ask her

    	- "Mr. Soul", by the Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young)

    In a strange game I saw myself as you knew me
    When the change came and you had a chance to see through me
    Though the other side is just the same 
    You can't tell my dream is real
    Because I love you
    Can you see me now

    	- "On the Way Home", by the Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil
    		Young)

    And oh.... when I'm old and wise
    Bitter words mean little to me
    Like autumn words will blow right through me
    And someday
    In the mists of time
    When they ask you if you knew me
    Remember that you were a friend of mine....
    			"Old and Wise" - Alan Parsons Project
    
    
    You know there ain't no use in cryin'
    Cause it'll only only drive you mad
    Did it hurt to hear they were lyin'?
    Was this the only world you had?
    			Led Zeppelin
    
    
    
    All veiled and misty streets of blue
    Almond looks that chill divine
    Some silken moment goes on forever
    And we're leaving broken hearts behind
    Mystify - mystify me....
    			Mystify - INXS
    
    
    
    -Jody
    

    this one's from "Music Man"; the difference is, there it was all in
    good fun.
    
    "Pick a little, talk a little, Pick a little, talk a little,
    "Pick pick pick talk a lot pick a little more!
    "Pick a little, talk a little, Pick a little, talk a little,
    "Pick pick pick talk a lot pick a little more!
    "Pick a little, talk a little, Pick a little, talk a little,
    "Pick pick pick talk a lot pick a little more!
    "Pick a little, talk a little, Pick a little, talk a little,
    "Pick pick pick pick pick pick pick pick pick."

    Just call out my name and you know where ever I am,
    I'll come running just to see you again.
    Hey ain't good to know you've got a freind.
                                              
    People can be so cruel they'll hurt you and desert you 
    They'll break your soul if you let them but don't you let them.
    Just call out my name.
    
    James Taylor
    
    I don't remember if that's the right order but love the lyrics.
    
    
    

    Everyone can see what's going on
    they laugh cause they know they're untouchable
    not because what I said was wrong
    Whatever it may bring
    I will have my own policies
    I will sleep with a clear conscience
    I will sleep in peace
    
    maybe it sounds mean
    but I really don't think so
    you asked for the truth and I told you
    
    through they're own words 
    they will be exposed
    they've got a severe case of
    the emperors new clothes
    
                               - The Emperor's New Clothes, by Sinead
                                                             O'Connor
    

    
    re:.127
    nit- i believe that was written by carole king (though, of course,
    performed by james taylor, et al.)
    

    re .129, my god, you're actually right!  And I didn't think you
    knew anything about rock music! ;^)
    
    Remember the Saturday Night Live skit where Lorraine Newman,
    as carole King, sings this song as a friend is being mugged on her
    doorstep and calling for help?
    
    Lorna
    

    
    in the heat of the night
    in the heat of the day
    when i close my eyes
    when i look your way
    when i meet the fear that lies inside
    when i hear you say
    in the heat of the moment
    
    - dominion
      sisters of mercy
    

    I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car,
    I'm only lonely after dark,
    I'm only lonely when I watch my TV,
    I'm only lonely occasionally.
    
    			- Melissa Ethridge, "Occasionally"

"From a distance, you look like my friend,
 even though we're at war."

	Bette Midler, "From a Distance"

    re:  337.133 by NUPE::HAMPTON "Drug Addiction: The New Slavery" 
    
    I love that song!  I think it's Nanci Griffith, unless there's
    two versions out.

    Well I have a version of it by Judy Collins ;-)
    
    Bonnie

Re: 133-135  Actually, Julie Gold wrote the song -- Nanci Griffith credits
	her in the intro to the song on the "One Fair Summer Evening"
	recording...

	Ron 

    Here is one for all the people who have been having birthdays lately:
    
        Seventeen has turned thirty-five
        I'm surprised that we're still livin'
        If we've done any wrong
        I hope that we're forgiven
        Got a few kids of my own
        And some days I still don't know what to do
        I hop that they're not laughin' too loud
        When they hear me talkin' like this to you
        	"Cherry Bomb", by John Cougar Mellencamp

        New York City and the morning sun
        were awokened by the strangest sound
        Reportedly as far as Washington
        The tremors shook the earth as Alfie
        Blew underground, blew underground, he blew underground
        All aboard sub rosa subway
        Did you wonder who's been digging under Broadway?
        It's Alfred, it's Alfred, it's Alfred....
        
        	"Sub Rosa Subway", by Klaatu

    
    maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age
    my heart beats like the wings of wild birds in a cage
    my greatest hope
    my greatest cause to grieve
    and my heart flew from its cage 
    and it bled upon my sleeve
    the cries of passion were like wounds
    that needed healing
    i couldn't hear them for the thunder
    i was half the naked distance between
    
    - Indigo Girls
    

    And in these days, darkness falls early
    and people rush home 
    to the ones they love
    You'd better take a fool's advice
    and take care of your own,
    Cause one day they're here...
    next day they're gone
    
    

    And I was walking down the street one day
    Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock
    Oh I just don't know I don't know I don't know
    And I said
    Does anybody really know what time it is
    Does anybody really care
    So I can't imagine why
    We all have time enough to die
    
    	- Chicago

    
    why can't I get just one kiss
    why can't I get just one kiss
    there'd be some things that I wouldn't miss
    but I look at your pants and I need a kiss
    
    why can't I get just one screw
    why can't I get just one screw
    believe me I'd know what to do
    but something won't let me make love to you
    
    - Violent Femmes
    

    Good song, Carla, but you didn't quote my favorite lines.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    
    somehow, Mike, I knew you'd extend that comment.  =8-)
    
    Carla
    

    re .143, what are your favorite lines?  :-)
    
    I thought the ones she quoted were pretty exciting myself.  :-)
    
    Lorna
    
    P.S.  I'm not familiar with the music of the Violent Femmes.
    But, the lyrics sound interesting anyway!
    

    Lorna, I can't repeat them in this notes conference.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    
    i am intense
    i am in need
    i am in pain
    i am in love
    
    - amy ray
    

     
    I have asked so many people
       what the spark of life might be
    But they bade me not to ask for
       more than the muted heart could be
    And though they posed me many faces
       all but one I could not see
    And so I'm waiting in your valley
       to be standing on your mountain
    That I might tumble down your hillside
       to a place that waits for me.
    
                                   -Ferron
    

    just thought i would let people know that the
    wonderful lines in 440.62 come from a song
    called Primary, released by The Cure.
    
    and maybe i'll include a bit more of it.....
    
    The innocence of sleeping children
    Dressed in white
    And slowly dreaming
    Stops all time
    I slow my steps and start to blur
    So many years have filled my heart
    I never thought I'd say those words
    
    The further we go
    And older we grow......
    
    

 
"Dear God, sorry to disturb you but...
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in the amount of tears"
 
                       Dear God
                       -XTC
                       "Skylarking"
 

    So Jody, you listen to XTC?  My respect for your musical tastes has
    just increased significantly.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    The whole world's gotta learn to juggle.
    
    				Ivan, Smerdyakov, Dmitri,
    				and Fyodor Karamazov
    				

    
    and if i show you my dark side
    will you still hold me tonight
    and if i open my heart to you
    and show you my weak side
    what would you do
    would you sell your story to Rolling Stone
    
    - Pink Floyd
    

  The discussion in 47 and 48 brought the following to mind...

    There are men who love women who love men.
    There are women who love women every now and then.
     There are men who love men
     Because they can't pretend
    They are men who love women who love men.

 
  The trouble is that I have no idea who wrote/performed this.  Charles
  Laquidera (a DJ on Boston's WBCN) used to play it all the time, though 
  that was many years ago...

  JP

    I found a picture of you--oh
    those were the happiest days of my life.
    Like a break in the battle was your part
    in the wretched life of a lonely heart
    
    
    Pretenders

    -< can't remember the name of the song >-
    
    Back on the Chain Gang
    
    D!

    
    What the hell is wrong with you tonight?
    I can't seem to say or do the right thing...
    Wanted to be sure you're feeling right,
    Wanted to be sure we want the same thing
    
    She said "I can't believe it
    You can't possibly mean it
    Don't we all want the same thing?
    Don't we?
    But who said anything about love?"
    
    Mother always told me "Save yourself.
    Take a little time and find the right girl.
    Then again don't end up on the shelf..."
    Logical advice gets you in a whirl...
    "I know a lot of thing that you don't.
     You wanna hear some?" she said...
    "Just give me something
     Anything
     Just give me all you've got, but not love...." 
    
    Joe Jackson
    

    The warm look of radiance on your face
    And your heart beating close to mine
    And the evening fading in the candle glow
    This must be what it's all about
    Oh this must be what it's all about
    This must be what paradise is like
                                       - So Quiet In Here by Van Morrison
    

    When it's so high
    I can reach for the sky
    But when it's so low
    I got nowhere to go
    When it goes wrong
    I just don't belong
    When it goes right
    It's clean out of sight
                           - She's My Baby by Van Morrison
    
    
    Well I've been too long in this storm
    I feel so sad and forlorn
    And perhaps I'm counting on you
    See me through
                            - See Me Through by Van Morrison
    
    
    Real real gone
    I got hit by a bow and arrow
    Got me down to the very marrow
    And I'm real real gone
                             - Real Real Gone by Van Morrison
    

    I know so rarely that things come your way.
    Your ways are tender and your paths are straight
    and your mind's not lived in the way ours are set.
    Your heart is open to love and regret.
    
    Rings and letters they pass you by.
    You wish them well and seldom cry
    for stones and promises and wedding sighs.
    You've known the times that you've lived and died.
    
    These sailors come by and spend time ashore.
    Their thoughts are hoarded as yours have been stored.
    Cause your mind's not lived in the way ours are set.
    Your heart is open to love and regret.
    
                                           - Love and Regret by Ricky Ross
                                                          (Deacon Blue)
    

    
    ...the map of the sky
    Is the map of your heart...
    
                         Ferron
    

    Coming up close,
    everything sounds like 
    welcome home - come home
    And oh by the way,
    Don't you know that I can make a dream that's barely half awake
    come true,
    I wanted to say,
    but anything I could have said I know somehow that you already knew.
    
    Til Tuesday

    
    mistress of avalon, cast a spell 
    and let the mist draw down on me
    slumber in lavender and take the
    primrose path to the eternal sea
    the dragon's breath of shadowland
    resting on the waves and drifting across the sand
    
    - the mission
    

    Here comes Dick, he's wearing a skirt.
    Here comes Jane, you know, she's sporting a chain.
    Same hair, revolution; same build, evolution;
    Tomorrow, who's going to fuss?
    And they love each other so
    Androgynous
    Closer than you know, love each other so
    Androgynous
    
      - The Replacements
    
    
    (I also groove on this couplet later on: "She doesn't need the advice that
    is sent to her / She likes the way she looks, she's happy with her
    gender."  Yeah, I know, humans-have-sex-words-have-gender; gotta cut
    'em some slack, they're just a rock band...)
    

    
    	Should I stay or should I go now
    	Should I stay or should I go now
    	If I stay there may be trouble
    	But if I go it could be double
    	You just gotta let me know
    	Should I stay or should I go
    
    				The Clash
    

	Yesterday is dead and gone
	and tomorrow's out of sight
	I don't want to be alone
	help me make it through the night

	I don't care what's right or wrong
	I don't try to understand
	let the devil take tomorrow
	for tonight I need a friend

from the C&W song "Help me make it through the Night", sung by everybody but I
don't know who wrote it. liesl

    re: .167
    
    Kris Kristofferson

    Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes (got big lanes, got
    	big lanes)
    Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same (look the same,
    	look the same)
    There's not a rhyme that goes here that rhymes with anything (anything, 
    	anything)
    I had a dream last night but I forget what it was

    Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling
    Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling

    I had a dream last night about you my friend
    I had a dream I wanted to sleep next to plastic
    I had a dream I wanted to lick your knees
    I had a dream it was about nothing

    Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling
    Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling

    	-- Camper Van Beethoven, "Take the skinheads bowling"

I just heard this on the radio the other day and loved it. I didn't catch who it
was by.

	Whiskey don't make liars, it just makes fools.
	Lost in the wasteland, don't know what I do.

	I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
	Lost in the wasteland, out of my head.

    My little dog Lassie packed her bags and went out on the porch.
    	(Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.  Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.)
    Her golden fur glistened in that sunny blue backdrop sky of Kansas.
    	(Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.  Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.)
    Before her stretched majestic wheat fields and Polka, that great city
    to the west.
    	(Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.  Yeah, yeah; yeah, yeah.)
    Lassie knew she had a duty to serve the youth of America and the stars
    above.
    
    The day...  the day...  THAT WAS THE DAY THAT LASSIE WENT TO THE MOON.
    
      - Camper Van Beethoven
    

    "They laugh because they know they're untouchable,
    Not because what I say is wrong..."
    
    			- Sinead (ohmigawd) O'Connor

    "Last night I dreamt
    that somebody loved me
    no hope - but no harm
    just another false alarm
    Last night I felt
    real arms around me
    no hope - no harm
    just another false alarm..."
    
    		- The Smiths

    
    I trace the print of your body
    with my hand
    like the map of some forbidden land
    I trace the ghosts of your bones
    with my trembling hand
    
    - Nick Cave
    

    I'll shine up my old brown shoes
    I'll put on a brand new shirt
    I'll get off early from work
    If you'll say 
    that you love me...
    
    
    Cheap Trick

    In the dark of night
    Those small hours
    Uncertain and anxious
    I need to call you
    Rooms full of strangers
    Some call me friend
    But I wish you were so close to me
    
                                 - By My Side, A. Farriss & K. Pengilly
                                   (INXS)
    

    Wilson Pickett said:
    - "In the midnight hour, that's
    When my love comes tumbling down"
    Solomon Burke said:
    - "If you need me, why don't you call me"
    James Brown said:
    - "When you're tired of what you got, try me"
    Gene Chandler said:
    - "There's a rainbow in my soul"
    
                                 - Real Real Gone, by Van Morrison
    

    Ride the wave of destiny
    Rise above the crest
    And believe everything that happens to you
    Happens for the best
    
    	Alan Parson's Project, "Don't Hold Back"

    from a distance ... you look like a friend ...
    
       Bette Midler

    I saw a newspaper picture from the political compaign:
    A woman was kissing a child who was obviously in pain.
    She spills with compassion as that young face in her hands she grips.
    Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's
      lips?
    
    When England was the whore of the world, Margaret was her madam,
    And the future looked as bright as a black tarmacadam.
    I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't haunted by every tiny
      detail,
    'Cause when she held that lovely face in her hands, all she thought of
      was betrayal.
    
    	- Elvis Costello, "Tramp the Dirt Down"

    Some they do and some they don't
    And some you just can't tell
    Some they will and some they won't
    And some it's just as well
    
    Supertramp, "Goodbye Stranger"

	Who comes to find you first
	Your devils or your gods.

			Tracy Chapman "Crossroads"

    And now I'm who I want to be
    and where I want to be
    and doing what I always said I would
    and yet I feel I haven't won at all...
    Running for my life 
    and never looking back
    in case there's someone right behind
    to shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall...
        And when that crazy wheel slows down,
        Where will I be?
        Back where I started...
    
    			- from the show "Chess"

    
    blood and fire
    are too much for these restless arms to hold
    and my nights of desire
    are calling me back to your fold
    and I'm calling you
    calling you from 10,000 miles away
    won't you wet my fire with your love, babe
    
    I am looking for someone who can take
    as much as I give
    give back as much as I need
    and still have the will to live
    
    - Amy Ray
    

    i'm awake
    i have awakened to a deeper sleep
    i lie
    i lie here so truthfully
    i've made my bed
    i only wish i could sleep in it

    we lie head to head
    make up your mind
    why don't you make up anything
    tell me you love me or
    just tell me you love me
    no, i don't hear a word you're saying
    i don't think anyone could hear
    it's too dark for apologies
    i'm too far gone to be anywhere near here

    - eleventh dream day
    

    Yeah you got ruby lipstick
    Rose petal rouge
    And dime store jewelry
    Cheap perfume
    I don't mind - take my hand
    Honey I wanna be your mystery man.
    
                               Mystery Man by Tom Petty
    

    It's all right if you love me.
    It's all right if you don't.
    I'm not afraid of you running away honey.
    I get the feeling you won't.
    
                            Breakdown by Tom Petty
    

    
    .....there ain't no use in pretending
    your eyes give you away
    something inside you is feeling like I do...
    
    We've said all there is to say...
    
    (great song! Thanks for reminding me...)
    
    

    "They claim that no man is an island
     while I land up in jeopardy
    more distant from you by degrees
    I walk the shore in isolation
    and at my feet eternity
    draws ever sweeter plans for me..."
    			(Robert Plant, "Ship of Fools")
    
    
    "If logic is a glass bead game
     and science is an iron wheel
     and your life is a riderless horse
     dragging you by the heel
     you need a place where you can concentrate
     on what it is to feel
     don't think, don't speak any language
     the silence in the room
     is all that belongs to you."
    		(Wang Chung, "snakedance")
    
    -Jody
    

    
    in the Albuquerque airport
    trying to find a flight
    to the old ariabi, third mesa
    TWA is the only desk open
    bright lights outline New York, Chicago
    and the attendant doesn't know
    that the third mesa
    is part of the center
    of the world
    and who are we
    just two indians
    at three in the morning
    trying to find a way back
    
    - Harjo
    

    Been running so hard
    When what I need is to unwind
    The voice of reason
    Is one I left so far behind....
    			"Head over Heels" - The Go-Go's
    
    
    Feelin' tired but I feel good
    Cause I did everything I said I would...
    			"Home and Dry" - Gerry Rafferty
    
    

    "I could put my arms around every boy I see
     but they'd only remind me of you
    I went to the doctor Guess what he told me
     Guess what he told me
    he said Girl u better have fun
     no matter what u do
     but he's a fool
    'cos nothing compares
    nothing compares 2U"
                       - by Prince, as sung by Sinead O'Connor :-)
    

    
    the first love seemed like such a find
    that I hardly even missed my mind
    hey don't try and make me
    some of us are slower to trust
    older don't mean wiser
    I'm more disguised
    rather have love in the dryer
    than love on the line
    
    - Catie Curtis
    

did jesus have a baby sister?
was she bitter? was she sweet?
or did she wind up in a convent?
did she end up on the street, on the run
on the stage? did she dance?

did he have a sister?
a little baby sister
did jesus have a sister
did they give her a chance

did he a baby sister
could she speak out
by and large, 
or was she told by mother mary
huh, ask your brother
he's in charge
he's the chief
he's the whip cream on the cake

did he have a sister?
a little baby sister
did jesus have a sister
did they give her a name?

her brother's birth announcement
it was pretty big pretty big i guess
while she got precious little notice
in the local press
her mother was the virgin 
when she carried him, carried 
carried him there in 
and if the little girl came later
then was she conceived in sin
and in sorrow 
and in suffering
and in shame

did he have a sister
a little baby sister
did jesus have a sister
tell me what was her name

and did she long to be the savior
saving everyone she met
and in private to a mirror
did she whisper
save your rent
save your woman
save your person
save your breath

and did she cry for mary's comfort
as she watched him on the cross
and was mary too disparaged
she said ask your brother 
he's the boss
he's the chief
he's the king
he's in charge

did he have a sister
a little baby sister
    
    (Thanks to Kelly for providing these lyrics and this song to me.)
    

    Thanks, but: WHO DID THE SONG?
    
    D!

    Great word! Don't think I've heard the song
    Thanks Carla

    
    I know Casselberry-Duprey's done it, but I don't know
    from where the song originates.
    

    
    re: .199
    
    That's the version I have.
    
    Carla
    

    
    love for the party, love for the nation
    love for the fix and for the fabrication
    love for the corpse, for the corporation
    love for the death and for the defecation
    romance and assassination
    give me the love for the genocide
    give me love
    
    - Sisters of Mercy
    

    
    politically correct
    hold a benefit for me, a benefit for me
    politically correct
    you and Jackson Browne can write a song for me
    politically correct
    honk if you love me
    politically correct
    I'll build a wheelchair ramp to your heart
    politically correct
    I'm an endangered species so save me
    politically correct
    I have 70,000 signatures demanding you go home with me tonight
    politically correct
    taste me, taste me, I'm organic
    
    - The Bobs
    

    re: .202
    
    song is "Let me be your third world country" or somesuch.
    Off they're "My I'm Large" album which is just about to go out of
    production, unfortunately!
    
    -Jody
    

    
    Right, the title is "Your Third World Country".  They're playing in
    Seattle 1.March and I'm psyched.
    
    I am a palm tree
    but I am on my knees
    mopping, mopping
    with the last of the sponges
    
    Carla
    

    Carla - 
    
    See if you can find out what label they're recording on now.  I have a
    tape of their first (the one with _Art for Art's Sake_) album but haven't 
    been able to find any subsequent albums.  From what I hear they tour
    the Pacific northwest fairly frequently. 
    
    Thanks - 
    
    Nanci

    
    Will do, Nanci.
    
    I do know their management company is located in Colorado Springs!
    
    Carla
    

    You can join the FOBS (Friends of the Bobs Society)
    Perrysfanalia
    PO Box 60039
    Colorado Springs, CO 80960
    
    not only do they have the scoop on albums, but also videos, and by
    calling 
    (415) THE-POOP
    you can hear all about their tour schedules.
    
    And I thought *I* was the only one weird enough to listen to 'em!
    
    Oh, and for you who are unfamiliar with them, their a vocals-only group
    that is a cross between...uh....Manhattan Transfer and Gary Larsen's
    "The Far Side"....
    
    -Jody
    

    You're kidding!  I thought their management group was out of San
    Fransisco!  They were here all the time and I didn't even know it! 
    **SMACK!** (In true _I coulda had a V-8 style!)
    
    Thanks Jody and Carla!  :-)
    
    I first heard them 6-7 years ago when I lived in Oregon and thought
    they were wonderful!  I haven't seen them in concert yet - they did a
    concert a few days after I moved from there.  I heard they were in
    Boulder a year ago or so but I wasn't able to catch them.  Maybe next
    time.  Tell me all about it Carla!  With your lucy You'll probably get
    to meet them!  :-)  
    
    nanci

    When the days
    are getting longer
    and the people
    come out on the streets at night
    I'll be among
    the starry eyes
    I'll be among
    the wishful sighs
    I'll be among
    the fools, forever fantasizing
    
    When will I see you?
    summertime would be perfect
    When will I see you?
    could be a long summertime
    When will I see you?
    endless nights of love could be ours
    When will I see you?
    
                     - When Will I See You?, Chrissie Hynde (The
                                                             Pretenders)
    

    "You're browsing through a second-hand bookstore
    and you see her in Non-fiction 'V' through 'Y'
    She looks up from World War 2 and you catch her catching you
    catching her eye
    And you quickly turn away your wishful stare
    and take a sudden interest in your shoes
    if you only had the courage
    but you don't, she turns and leaves and
    you both lose"
    
    Rupert Holmes "The People That You Never Get To Love"
    
    

    Arg, Dana, that happened to me Sunday!  So frustrating!  Arrrrggg!
    (But it was the "Women's Mysteries" section, not WWII.)
    
    *sniff*
    
    Reminds me of The Pretenders song with something about "when two people
    meet, they just pass on the street, suddenly thunder and rain are
    everywhere...:
    
    D! 
    
    

    What with the Current Situation, I've been listening to my old PP&M
    records. This hit so *exactly* how I'm feeling, it felt a little weird.
    
    Greenwood 
    	by Peter Yarrow
    
    I've seen a thousand people kneel in silence,
    I saw them face the rifles with their songs,
    I always thought that we could end the killing,
    But now I live in fear that I was wrong.
    			.
    			.
    			.
    If we do these things in the green wood,
    What will happen in the dry?
    
    

    The recent on-again, off-again decision to go with bi-weekly paychecks
    brings this song to mind:
    
    	Every other Thursday's mine
    	Watching thirteen days pass by
    
    		- "Every Other Thursday", by The Parachute Men

a perennial favorite of mine:

	Jam yesterday,
	Jam tomorrow,
	But NEVER Jam today!
			-Lewis Carroll

    You may be bound for heaven, 
    But there's a hell of a mess at home:
    
    God may forgive you, but I won't.
    Yes, Jesus loves you, but I don't.
    They don't have to live with you; neither do I.
    You say that you're born again?  Well, so am I.
    
    	- Rosie Flores

there's god like
and war like
and strong like only some show
and there's sad like
and mad like
and had like we know

but by my life be i spirit
and by my heart be i woman
and by my eyes be i open
and by my hands be i whole

they say slowly
brings the least shock
but no matter how slow i walk
there are traces, empty spaces
and doors and doors i've locked

but by my life be i spirit
and by my heart be i woman
and by my eyes be i open
and by my hands be i whole

you young ones, you're the next ones
and i hope you choose it well
though you tried hard
you may fall prey
to the jaded jewel

but by your lives be you spirit
and by your hearts be you women
and by your eyes be you open
and by your hands be you whole

listen

there are waters 
hidden from us
in the maze we find them still
i take you to them
you take your young ones
may they take their own in turn

and by our lives be we spirit
and by our hearts be we women
and by our eyes be we open
and by our hands be we whole
    
- ferron
    

    We've got dachshunds, ostriches, and platypi.
    Don't tell me God ain't got a twinkle in her eye!
    
    		-- Eric Kilburn, "She Likes to Dance"

 
I'm gonna take you to queer bars
I'm gonna drive you in queer cars
you're gonna meet all of my queer friends
our queer, queer fun it never ends
we're gonna have a happy life
both of us are gonna be the wife
I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
it's queer, queer fun for you and me
 
- Two Nice Girls

    We've got dachshunds, ostriches, and platypi.
    Don't tell me God ain't got a twinkle in her eye!
    
    		-- Eric Kilburn, "She Likes to Dance"

you shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

- Morrissey

"But ain't life a brook
Just when I get to feeling like a polished stone
I get me a long drawn look
It's kind of a drag to find yourself alone
and sometimes I mind
especially when I'm waiting on your heart
but life don't clickety-clack 
down a straight-line track
It comes together and it comes apart..."

		- Ferron

    "I watch his lips caress the glass,
    His fingers stroke its stem and pass
    To lift a cigarette at last, he dries his eyes
    From a shadow by the stair
    I watch as he weeps unaware
    That I'm in awe of his dispair, but I am there."
    
    	from "Ode to Boy", YAz

	Love is never easy
	It's almost always out of your way
	It's not the path of least resistance
	It's not some words you get to say

					--John Gorka

    
    
    		"I can feel a mounting rain
    	  	 that'll wash away
    		 and shine again
    	 	 empty my pockets
    		 that were weighing me down
    		 sift through my soul
    		 to see what's lost and found
    		 gonna walk away from trouble 
    		 with my head held high
    		 then look closly you'll see
    		 luck in my eyes"
    
    				- "Luck in My Eyes", k.d. lang

    Ya can't beat 'em up
    'Cuz they're bigger 'n you
    Ya can't live with 'em
    And you just can't shoot 'em
    Men
    Talkin' 'bout men
    
    	-Bonnie Raitt

    re .224

    Nit... Did Bonnie Raitt write that? The version that's been
    playing on the radio is by the Forrester Sisters (country group).

    Funny song.

    Look at the ceiling, the shadows are bears
    I wonder what's on the T.V.?
    And Daddy's hands rub me all over.  I wonder
    Do leaves in the creek find their way to the sea?
    
    . . .
    
    When the spider scared Little Miss Muffet away
    How did she know where to run?
    Oh, I'd love to sleep in the bathtub all night
    And wake up as clean as the sun.
    
    			Peter Alsop, "Look at the Ceiling"

    
    Baby - you lose that frying pan
    You don't live to feed that man
    Nothing's gained through self-denial
    Cos you weren't born to be servile
    
    Rise
    (think about what you're doing now)
    Rise
    (where do you belong?)
    Rise
    (are you somebody's "niggerbabe"?)
    Rise
    (does the fight go on?)
    
    Do you think the hurting is going to go away
    If you leave it for another day?
    
    Sister - better teach your child to run
    Do you show respect everywhere you go?
    Do you teach your young men how to treat your own?
    
    Cos you know you've got to rise.....
    (think about what you're doing)
    Rise
    (how do you behave?)
    Rise
    (would you give your children what you see today?)
    
    Freedom!
    To the children of the world....
    
    Think about what you do now,
    Everything you see
    Life ain't living in a magazine
    Life ain't living.....
    
    Sister! Why did you trade it in
    For a diamond chip and a rabbit skin?
    His big red car is a mite to fast
    And it wasn't built for the ride to last
    
    Rise, rise, rise....
    Freedom to the slave of a slave
    (and you know you are....)
    
    "Rise" - Alison Moyet - "Hoodoo" album
    

    He thinks of himself as a victim of love 
    But he's not, he's a volunteer.
    He has consistently fallen for all the wrong women
    year after year after year,
    Now he blames every woman who has every kissed him
    Says she told him she loved him and later dismissed him
    Now he thinks he's a walking victim,
    he's not, he's a volunteer.
    
    She thinks of herself as a victim of circumstance,
    When she a volunteer.
    She has placed her life in the hands of every man 
    fool enough to come near,
    Now she blames anyone she thinks has used her
    emotionally and mentally abused her
    she's not a victim of her persecutor
    she's a volunteer
    
    He thinks of himself as a victim of fate
    when he just volunteers
    he has invested his money in well-bred astrologers, 
    healers, pyschic seers,
    now he blames every tilted constellation
    for every negative vibration.
    He's not a victim of UFO infestation
    he's a volunteer...
    
    			- Christine Lavin
    

    re.228 ouch!

    I LOVE Christine Lavin...
    
    

    
    Those lyrics are just as powerful as you alluded to, Diana.
    Thanks for posting them!  I hope to hear them soon.
    
    Carla
    

I WASN'T LOOKING FOR YOU by Linda Worster

all alone...just the memory of your arms around me
thoughts of the kisses and a love that found me...I wasn't looking for
    you
time so sweet...all the ways we linked our hearts together
all of the moments that we touched forever...  I wasn't looking for you

and yet, here I am now...missing you...that-I swore I would not do
I picture what you're doing now...I wonder where and when and how I
    will see you again

but I'm all alone...I have chosen my way carefully
facing feelings I hardly dare to see...
I've been looking for you...
I've been waiting for you...
I've been aching for you...

    
    Those were sweet words, John....
    

    
    
    "Gotta get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail
    Learn how to use my hands
    Not just my head
    I think myself into jail
    Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in hand in a thoughtful
    pose"
    
               the Indigo Girls
    
    
     ....and all the rest of the song, and the album, particularly
     "Up on the Watershed" 

Waterfall

Sometimes it takes a rainy day
Just to let you know
Everything's gonna be all right, all right

I've been dreaming in the sun
Won't you wake me up someone
I need a little peace of mind.

Wake me from this dream that I have dreamed so many times
I need a little peace of mind,
Oh I need a little peace of mind.

   Chris Williamson

    
    "but on inspection of the dust
    I came upon this thing called trust
    it helps
    us to adjust
    
    if we dare expose our hearts
    and just reveal our purest parts
    that's when strange sensations start to grow
    
    we are not alone
    you'll find out when you're cover's blown
    there'll be somebody there to break your fall
    we are not alone
    but when we cut down to the bone
    We're really not so different after all..."
    
    
    "We are not alone" by Karla (I think - off The Breakfast Club
    soundtrack)
    
    

		THE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE
				by Alix Dobkin
The woman in your life
Will do what she must do
To comfort you and calm you down
And let you rest now...
The woman in your life,
She can rest so easily.
She knows everything you do
Because the woman in your life is you.

The woman in your life
Knows simply what is true.
She knows the simple way to touch
To make you whole now.
The woman in your life,
She can touch so easily.
She knows everything you do 
Because the woman in your life is you.

And who knows more about your story,
About your struggles in the world?
Who cares more to bless your weary shoulders,
Than...

The woman in your life
As she's trying to come through;
A woman's voice with messages,
A woman's schemings.
The woman in your life,
She can feel so easily.
She knows everything you do
Because the woman in your life is you.

And who is sure to give you courage
And who will surely make you strong?
Who will bear all the joy that is coming to you?
If not...

The woman in your life
As she's someone to pursue.
She's patient and she's waiting and
She'll take you home now.
The woman in your life,
She can wait so easily.
She knows everything you do
Because the woman in your life is you.

Because the woman in your life,
The woman in your life,
The woman in your life is you.

    "Two gunslingers walked out in the street
        and one said
    'I don't wanna fight no more'
    And the other gunslinger thought about it
        and said 'Yeah,
    What are we fighting for?
    
    I'm takin' control of my life, I'm takin'
        control of my life,
    I'm takin' control of my life now, right
        now, oh yeah'
    
    Well the crowd that assembled for the
        gun fight
    Were let down, everyone hissed and booed
    And a stranger told his mrs, 'that's the
        last one of these gunfights
    You're ever gonna drag me to.
    
    I'm takin control, etc'
    
    Well the two gunslingers went ridin'
        out of town and
    Were never heard from no more
    And there ain't been a gunfight for a
        long time,
    Maybe never, but nobody knows for sure
    
    I'm takin control, etc
    
                                - Two Gunslingers by Tom Petty, Gone Gator 
                                                            Music, 1991
    

    
    for every one you take, ten more will come
    we're women rising up, we shall not be undone
    
    - Unknown
    

    
    help me remember those times every once in a while
    when I'm a quick flashing light
    when I'm aglow in a midnight smile
    or deep in a wide, wide night
    that I'm glad we're more than bodies
    and that we're ever souls in journey
    I am thrilled this earth is beauty
    and there's no past tense for 'easy'
    my, my . . .
    
    - Ferron
    

Oh I live in California 
I can look out at the ocean 
At the silver-blue Pacific
It's always there to see
And I'm so busy working
That I don't have time to see it
But it's the knowing that it's there
That means a lot to me

And it makes it hard
When I close my eyes
When I can see the pictures
Taken at Botswana
The pictures of the children
With the flies in their eyes.

And those with all the money
They are having nervous breakdowns
And they're always taking pills
To make them feel the otherwise
Well how could I ever stumble
Or complain that things ain't going right
How could I ever fail to see
Rainbows in the skies

And it makes it hard
When I close my eyes
When I can see the pictures
Taken at Botswana
The pictures of the children
With the flies in their eyes.
 
Oh faith it is a fire
And it's fanned by the winds of fate
I am worried of out numbers
And I'm worried of our ranks
As we fire up the Porsches
Fighting to survive
And we look for valet parking
Out on Rodeo Drive

And it makes it hard
I wonder if God cries
When he sees the pictures
Taken at Botswana
The pictures of the children
With the flies in their eyes.

And I am not my bother's keeper
For I do not have th power
Is it part of some great game
That they play on the other side
Because it's all that I can do
To keep myself together
Still I see the faces
In the blue Pacific tide

And it makes it hard
When I close my eyes
When I can see the pictures
Taken at Botswana
The pictures of the children
With the flies in their eyes.

Is it not for us to wonder
Is it not for us to question
Is it not for us to cry out
This cannot be denied
For we are but a family without walls
But we have waters
And every face you see is you
And it is I

And it makes it hard
When you close your eyes
And you can see the pictures
That were taken at Botswana
Oh the pictures of the children
Yes the pictures of the children
With the flies in their eyes.

					--John Stewart
					  "Botswana"
					  from "Punch The Big Guy"

    
    you look at me as if you're in a daze
    it's like the feeling at the end of a page
    when you realize
    you don't know what you've just read
    
    what are words for
    when no one listens anymore
    
    - (I forgot!)
    

 Missing Persons?

that's right, from Spring Session M...

DougO

    "May the long time sunshine upon you
     all love surround you
     and the pure light within you
     guide you all the way on."
    
            The Incredible String Band
            
            (I know I'm dating myself with this one!
             But I don't care, I've always thought it a 
             lyrical blessing. And my best friend wrote it
             in my high school yearbook... 22 years ago.)
           

    It's up to you not to heed the call-up
    'N you must not act the way you were brought up
    Who knows the reasons why you have grown up
    who knows the plans or why they were drawn up

    It's up to you not to heed the call-up
	I don't wanna die
    It's up to you not to hear the call-up
	I don't wanna kill

    Maybe I wanna see the wheatfields
    over Kiev and down to the sea

    All the young people down the ages
    They gladly marched off to die
    Proud city fathers used to watch them
	-tears in their eyes

    There is a rose that I want to live for
    Although God knows I may not have met her
    There is a dance and I should be with her
    There is a town unlike any other

    It's up to you not to hear the call-up
    'N you must not act the way you were brought up
    Who give you work and why should you do it?
    At 55 minutes past eleven
	There is a rose...

    		-- The Clash