Rebellion (Lies)

Sleeping is giving in,
no matter what the time is.
Sleeping is giving in,
so lift those heavy eyelids.

People say that you’ll die
faster than without water.
But we know it’s just a lie,
scare your son, scare your daughter.

People say that your dreams
are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby in our dreams,
we can live our misbehavior.

{Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!} [x4]
{Every time you close your eyes} [x4]

People try and hide the night
underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light
underneath the covers.

Come on hide your lovers
underneath the covers,
come on hide your lovers
underneath the covers.

Hidin’ from your brothers
underneath the covers,
come on hide your lovers
underneath the covers.

People say that you’ll die
faster than without water,
but we know it’s just a lie,
scare your son, scare your daughter,
Scare your son, scare your daughter.
Scare your son, scare your daughter.

{Now here’s the sun, it’s alright!
(Lies, lies!)} [x4]

{Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!} [x4]

Every time you close your eyes

Every time you close your eyes

(Lies, lies!)


Arcade Fire
Funeral
Release: 2004
Lyrics: Arcade Fire
Music: Arcade Fire

Love Reign O'er Me

This Pearl Jam cover of The Who song, “Love Reign O’er Me,” was played 1/8/07 on Seattle radio station KISW, to be featured in the forthcoming Adam Sandler movie, Reign Over Me. Awesome. Click on the Play icon below to listen.

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Check out the movie’s trailer here.

Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach
Is kissed by the sea
Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers
Layin’ in the fields

Love
Reign o’er me

Love
Reign o’er me
Rain on me
Rain on me

Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn
To the sky
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears
From all high

Love
Reign o’er me
Rain on me
Rain on me

Love
Reign o’er me
Rain on me
Rain on me

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spent apart alone
I need to get back home
To cool cool rain

I can’t sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Woo Oh God I need a drink
Of cool cool rain

Love
Reign o’er me
Rain over me
Over me
Over me

Love
Reign o’er me
On me

Love…


Pearl Jam
Reign Over Me
Release: 2007
Lyrics: Pete Townshend
Music: The Who

Hawaii '78

Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono Hawai’i*
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono Hawai’i

How would they feel
would their smiles be content
rather then cry
cry for the gods, cry for the people
cry for the lands that were taken away
and in it you’ll find Hawai’i

Ua mau ke ea o ka aina ka pono Hawai’i

How would they feel
would their smiles be content
rather then cry
cry for the gods, cry for the people
cry for the land that was taken away
and in it you’ll find Hawai’i

Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono Hawai’i
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono Hawai’i

*the constant, wet rain gives life to the land and brings goodness/change to Hawai’i


Pearl Jam
Honolulu 12/2/06
Release: 2006
Lyrics: Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Music: Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
[audio:hawaii78.mp3]

Master Exploder

Augh!… AHGH!…
I do not need, (he does not need)
A microphone, (a microphone)
My voice is fuckin’, (fuckin’)
POWERFUL!

AUGH!… AHGH!…

Sorry,
I did not mean (did not mean)
to blow your mind (blow your mind)
But that shit happen to me,
all the time!

Now take a look (take a look)
Tell me, what do you see? (what do you see)
We got the Pick…of Destiny!

AAAH! YEAH!


Tenacious D
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Release: 2006
Lyrics: JB & KG
Music: The D

Saving Grace

I’m passing sleeping cities, fading by degrees
Not believing all I see to be so
I’m flyin’ over backyards, country homes and ranches
Watching life between the branches below

And it’s hard to say, where ya are these days
But you run on anyway, don’t ya, baby?

Ya keep runnin’ for another place,
to find that saving grace

I’m moving on alone, over ground that no one owns
Past statues that atone for my sins
There’s a card on every door, and a drink on every floor
overflowing with a thousand amens

And it’s hard to say, where ya are these days
But ya run on anyway, don’t ya, baby?

Ya keep runnin’ for another place,
to find that saving grace, don’t ya, baby?

You’re rolling up the carpet, of your father’s two-room mansion
No headroom for expansion no more
There’s a corner of the floor, they’re telling you it’s yours
You’re confident but not really sure

And it’s hard to say, where ya are these days
But you run on anyway, don’t ya, baby?

Ya keep runnin’ for another place,
to find that saving grace, don’t ya, baby?

Ya keep runnin’ for another place
to find that saving grace, don’t ya, baby?


Tom Petty
Highway Companion
Release: 2006
Lyrics: Tom Petty
Music: Tom Petty

The Lonely End of the Rink

I looked up and you were there
just sitting there all alone
holding your fist in the air
like, if you need me you’re on your own

You drove me home through a snowy tomb
I fell asleep in my seat
I had the dream of having no room
you were there just staring at me

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me

Oh to join the rush
as the season builds

I hear your voice ‘cross a frozen lake
a voice from the end of a leaf
saying, ‘you won’t die of a thousand fakes
or be beaten by the sweetest of dekes’

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, the lonely end of the rink

Oh to join the rush
as the season builds
Jump into the rush
as the seasons build

You drove me home through a snowy gloom
and I fell asleep in my seat
then I had the dream of having no room
you were there just staring at me

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, the lonely end of the rink.


The Tragically Hip
World Container
Release: 2006
Lyrics: Gord Downie
Music: The Tragically Hip

Release

I see the world
Feel the chill
Which way to go
Windowsill
I see this world
On a rocking horse of time
I see the words in the rain

Oh dear John
Can you see this now?
I am myself
Like you somehow
I’ll ride this wave
Where it takes me
I’ll hold the pain
Release me

Oh dear dad
Can you see us now?
I am myself
Like you somehow
I’ll wait up in the dark
For you to speak to me
I’m opened up
Release me
Release me
Release me
Release me


Tokyo 3.3.03
Release: 2003
Lyrics: Ed Vedder
Music: Pearl Jam

Strange Apparition

Lord, please don’t forsake me
In my Mercedes Benz
All the riches and the ruins
Now we all know how that story ends

Strange apparition
Haunting my brain
Standing on the last legs
Of a dream that walked away

When the Lord rings my front door
And asks me what I got to show
Besides the dust in my pockets
And the things that just eat away my soul

Strange apparition
Haunting my brain
There’s some permissions
Of a dream that got cremated

The least I had to lose from
Is the most I seem to care
Anything should make you happy
Nothing could make you scared

We’ll be on the shoreline
When that heavy ship goes down
Did you think that you were lucky?
You should see yourself now


The Information
Release: 10/3/06
Lyrics: Beck
Music: Beck

Wide Awake

You can look a hurricane right in the eye
1200 people dead or left to die
Follow the leaders
Were it an eye for an eye, we’d all be blind
Deaf or murdered, of this i’m sure
in this uncertain time

So come pull the sheet over my eyes
so I can sleep tonight
Despite what I’ve seen today
I found you guilty of a crime
of sleeping at a time
when you should have been wide awake

Down on the road the world is floating by
The poor and undefended left behind
While you’re somewhere trading lives for oil
As if the whole world were blind

So come pull the sheet over my eyes
so I can sleep tonight
Despite what I’ve seen today
I found you guilty of a crime
of sleeping at a time
when you should have been wide awake

Come pull the sheet over my eyes
so I can sleep tonight
Despite what I’ve seen today
I found you guilty of a crime
of sleeping at a time
when you should have been wide awake

wide awake! wide awake!
wide awake! wide awake!


Revelations
Release: 9/5/06
Lyrics: Audioslave
Music: Audioslave