Tag: Song of the Moment

White, Discussion

[audio:white_discussion.mp3]

I talk of freedom
You talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
You’d much rather brag

And as the decibels of this disenchanting discourse
Continue to dampen the day
The coin flips again and again, and again, and again
As our santity walks away

All this discussion
Though politically correct
Is dead beyond destruction
Though it leaves me quite erect

And as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
And the clock is finally dead
I’ll look at you, and you’ll look at me
And we’ll cry alot
But this will be what we said
This will be what we said

Yeah…

Look where all this talking got us, baby [x3]

Talk on…

(I warned you
I prepared you
I instructed you
I told you what to expect
All the times and seasons together to this)
Yeah…

Look where all this talking got us, baby [x3]
Look where all this talking got us…
My God…

Lie, liar, liar, liar
Liar, liar, liar, ooh
Ah, ah, ah…

(You, yourselves know soon
That the day so cometh….)
Live
Throwing Copper
Release: April 26, 1994
Lyrics: Ed Kowalczyk
Music: Live

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

[audio:lazarus.mp3]

[Dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Back in that hole.]

Larry made his nest up in the autumn branches
Built from nothing but high hopes and thin air
He collected up some baby blasted mothers who took their chances
And for a while they lived quite happily up there

He came from New York city man, but he couldn’t take the pace
He thought it was like a dog eat dog world
Then he went to San Francisco, spent a year in outer space
With a sweet little San Franciscan girl

I can hear my mother wailing and a whole lot of scraping of chairs

I don’t know what it is but there’s definitely some’n going on upstairs
[Dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
(I want you to dig)[Back in that hole.]

(I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)

Well yeah, New York City, he had to get outta there
And San Francisco, well I don’t know
And then to LA, where he spent about a day
He thought even the pale sky stars were smart enough to keep well away from LA

Meanwhile, Larry made up names for the ladies
Like Miss Boo and Miss Quick
He stockpiled weapons and took potshots in the air
He feasted on their lovely bodies like a lunatic
And wrapped himself up in their soft yellow hair

I can hear chants and incantations and some guy is mentioning me in his prayers
Well, I don’t know what it is but there’s definitely some’n going on upstairs

[Dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
(I want you to dig)[Back in that hole.]

(I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)

Well L, New York City man, San Francisco, LA, I dunno
But Larry grew increasingly neurotic and obscene
I mean he, he never asked to be raised up from the tomb
I mean, no one ever actually asked him to forsake his dreams

Anyway, to cut a long story short, fame finally found him
Mirrors became his torturers, cameras snapped him at every chance
The women all went back to their homes and their husbands
With secret smiles in the corners of their mouths

He ended up like so many of them do, back on the streets of New York City
In a soup queue, a dope fiend, a slave, then prison, then the madhouse, then the grave
Aw, poor Larry

But what do we really know of the dead and who actually cares?

Well, I don’t know what it is but there’s definitely some’n going on upstairs.

[Dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
[Laz’rus dig yourself]
(I want you to dig)[Back in that hole]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Release: 2/18/08
Lyrics: Nick Cave
Music: The Bad Seeds

Breakerfall

[audio:breakerfall.mp3]

There’s a girl on a ledge who’s got nowhere to turn
Cause all the love that she had was just wood that she burned
Now her life is on fire it’s no ones concern
She can blame the world or prey till dawn
But only love can break her fall

Break her fall. Yeah, only love can break her fall. Fall.

It’s like she lost her invitation to the party on earth
And she’s standing outside hatin’ everyone here
Yeah, she’s her own disease, crying to her doll
But only love can break her fall

Break her fall. Only love can break her fall. Yeah…

Yeah fall (The world is her fall) Break her fall
Love, love, love can break her fall… Who?
Now only love can break her fall…
Love, love, love can break her fall… Fall.
Love, love can break her fall
Only love can break her…
Pearl Jam
Binaural
Release: 2000
Lyrics: Vedder
Music: Pearl Jam

The Enemy Guns

[audio:enemy_guns.mp3]

Oh my love
Here in our darkest hour
It is you, my desert flower
That I am dreaming of
We’re up to our neck in foreign soil
We are the sacramental spoils
And they love to choke
The rivers with my brothers’ blood

We have given our bodies
To the Mexican army
But my heart and soul
Belong to you my love
So let the enemy guns
Cut me to ribbons
For my eternal soul
Will know the way back home

*Sobreviviendo
Sin sangre en mi cuerpo
Era amor de suenos
Somos los terribles

And I have given my body
To the Mexican army
But my heart and soul
Belong to you my love
So let the enemy guns
Cut me to ribbons
For my eternal soul
Will know the way back home

Sobreviviendo
Sin sangre mi cuerpo
Ese amor doloroso
Somos los terribles
DeVotchKa
How It Ends
Release: 2004
Lyrics: DeVotchKa
Music: DeVotchKa

I Got Id

[audio:i_got_shit.mp3]

My lips are shakin’, my nails are bit off
Been a month since I’ve heard myself talk
Only advantage this life’s got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea

And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me be right
I got memories, I got shit
So much it don’t show

Oh, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
I walked the line, when you held my hand that night

An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions, don’t know who I could even ask
So I’ll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I’m not ugly and you’re lookin’ at me

And I’ll stay in bed
All blue, I’ve seen hell
If just once I could feel love
Oh, stare back at me

But, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held my hand that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me close that night
I paid the price, never held you in real life

My lips are shakin’…
Pearl Jam
Merkinball
Release: 1996
Lyrics: Eddie Vedder
Music: Pearl Jam and Neil Young

The Shock of the Lightning

I’m all over my heart’s desire,
I feel cold but I’m back in the fire,
Out of control but I’m tied up tight,
Come in, come out tonight..

Comin’ up in the early morning,
I feel love in the shock of the lightning,
I fall into the blinding light,
Come in, come out, come in, come out tonight..

Love is a time machine,
Up on the silver screen,
It’s all in my mind,
Love is a litany,
A magical mystery,
And all in good time, and all in good time,
And all in good time..

I got my feet on the street but I can’t stop flyin’,
My head is in the clouds but at least I’m tryin’,
I’m out of control but I’m tied up tight,
Come in, come out tonight..

There’s a hole in the ground into which I’m fallin’,
So God’s speed to the sound of the poundin’,
I’m all into the blinding light,
Come in, come out, come in, come out tonight..

Love is a time machine,
Up on the silver screen,
It’s all in my mind,
Love is a litany,
A magical mystery,
And all in good time, and all in good time,
And all in good time..

It’s all in my mind,
Love is a time machine,
Up on the silver screen,
And all in good time, and all in good time,
And all in good time..


Oasis
Dig Out Your Soul
Release: 2008
Lyrics: Noel Gallagher
Music: Oasis

Yes

When it started we had high hopes
Now my back’s on the line
My back’s on the ropes

When it started we were alright
But night makes a fool
of us in the daylight

Then we were dying of frustration
Saying Lord lead me not into temptation
But it’s not easy when she turns you on
Sin, stay gone

If you’d only, if you’d only say yes
Whether you will’s anybody’s guess
God only God knows I’m trying my best
But I’m just so tired of this loneliness

Hey

So up they picked me by the big toe
I was held from the rooftop then they let go
Dizzily screaming ‘Let the windows down’
As I crawl to the ground

If you’d only if you’d only say yes
Whether you will’s anybody’s guess
God only God knows she won’t let me rest
But I’m just so tired of this loneliness
I have become so tired of this loneliness…
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Release: 2008
Lyrics: Chris Martin
Music: Coldplay

Step by Step

Step by step
All the happy Saints go marching in
And if one of those Saints step out of line
He’ll have to start again
Cause Jacob’s golden ladder
Gets slippery at the top
And many a happy-go-lucky saint
Has made that long long drop

If I’m late don’t wait
Go on without me
I may tarry awhile
Cause I need to know
Before I go
How come the Devil smiles

If I’m late don’t wait
Go on without me
I may tarry awhile
Cause I need to know
Before I go
How come the Devil smiles

Free from care
Free from sin
The Saints are trooping in
The children play all around the throne
Innocent of sin
A trillion voices sing the name
The mortals may not know
And Heaven’s walls are too high to hear
The trouble down below

If I’m late don’t wait
Go on without me
I may tarry awhile
Cause I need to know
Before I go
How come the Devil smiles
I need to know
Before I go
How come the Devil smiles
I need to know
Before I go
How come the Devil smiles
Jesse Winchester
The Wire: …and all the pieces matter
Release: 2008
Lyrics: Jesse Winchester
Music: Jesse Winchester

Reckoner

Reckoner
Can you take it with you
Disavow the pleasure

You were not to blame for
Bittersweet distractors
Dare not speak his name
Did I cater to all you
All your needs?

Because we separate
it ripples our reflections
Because we separate
it ripples our reflections

Reckoner

Did I cater to all you
All your needs?


Radiohead
In Rainbows
Release: 2007
Lyrics: Thom Yorke
Music: Radiohead