a quilt of stars

2003-05-16T16:32:00.000-05:00

"The Exception"
Eddi Reader

in a paparazzi photograph she was stepping from a car
the tired eyes betrayed the smile of the faded singing star
at the publisher’s reception on the launching of her book
she told the grimy details and the toll the details took
the tours, applause, awards of course
but as the years went by
those fundamental things still applied

oh but she thought she’d be the exception
oh yes she thought she’d be the exception
but don’t we all think we’re the exception
sometimes, sometimes

the workaholic millionaire and his pretty younger wife
had everything there was out there in the ad man’s perfect life
but she left him for the milkman and then moved into his flat
oh, everyone said “silly girl to do a thing like that”
the house, the cars, the credit cards – but he didn’t ask her why
he knows that there’s some things that even cash cannot buy

oh yes he thought he’d be the exception
oh yes he thought he’d be the exception
but don’t we all think we’re the exception
sometimes, sometimes

if a handout to the hungry and the homeless
is a fiver in the fickle hand of fate
does it mean we’ll be there on the guest list
when we get to heaven’s gate?

INSTRUMENTAL

no pain no gain that’s what they’re saying and it’s hard to disagree
but I thought somehow they weren’t including me...

oh yes I’d thought I’d be the exception
oh yes I’d thought I’d be the exception
but don’t we all think we’re the exception
sometimes, sometimes

ah-ooh
sometimes, sometimes

ah-ooh
sometimes, sometimes

2003-05-09T08:21:00.000-05:00

"Ants Marching"
Dave Matthews Band

He wakes up in the morning
Brush his teeth, bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends, the week begins

She thinks, We look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
And these crimes between us grow deeper

Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die

Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well
His concerns, he forgets them
He remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming

Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down you up and die

Driving along this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged, no time to exchange when
All the little ants are marching
Red and black antenae waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way

Candyman 'a tempting the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by weight loss
Program cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end cut cut
On the fence, not to offend
Cut cut cut cut

Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Lights down, you up and die

2003-03-31T21:48:00.000-06:00

"Anything But Strong"
Eurythmics

Why do you hurt yourself?
You do it very well
You do it so politely
That you couldn't even tell
When everything has changed
You think you're not to blame
How come you keep on talking
When the whole thing feels so strange?....

But seeing
Is not the same as believing
When everything goes wrong
You're anything but strong

It's all bittersweet
Outside in the street
The grass is growing greener
Underneath your feet
We come and go
The deep water flows
Tiny leaves from smaller seeds
To tall trees do grow

But wanting
Is not the same thing as needing
There's no need to pretend
You can't turn back again
And loving
Is so different to keeping
The hurting that we send
Is so difficult to mend

[Hold on to the good things]
[That keep you from falling down]
[Hold on to the good things]
[That keep you from falling down]

How my heart aches
More than I can take
What are we really learning
When we make the same mistakes?

Where is your hope?
It’s all gone up in smoke
You used to be so funny
Now it's just the same old joke

And laughing
Is so very close to crying
When there's nothing to defend
It gets you in the end
And living
Is so very close to dying
You struggle on and on
To find where you belong

Where do you belong?

2003-03-21T08:46:00.000-06:00

"Seven Years"
Norah Jones

Spinning, laughing, dancing to
her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
Is all alone

Eyes wide open
Always hoping for the sun
And she'll sing her song to anyone
that comes along

Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound

Crooked little smile on her face
Tells a tale of grace
That's all her own

Spinning, laughing, dancing to her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
And she's all alone

2003-03-01T19:49:00.000-06:00

"And You Thought I Was Joking"
Color Theory

Penny for my thoughts
Make a wish and toss it down
Into the well
But the well's run dry
Every thought evaporates on my tongue

Promised I'd try to show you what I feel inside
I keep to myself
Because there's nothing left
Nothing really there to hide
Or confide

This is something I have to do
Maybe not thought-provoking
But it's just what I promised you
And you thought I was joking

This is my life
Like someone else's diary
Edited out
Factual and dry
Sterilized for public view
Nothing new

This is something I have to do
Maybe not thought-provoking
But it's just what I promised you
And you thought I was joking

Still I hold hope inside
That someday my words will run free
To play out my part
In something bigger than me
Bigger than me

This is something I have to do
Maybe not thought-provoking
But it's just what I promised you
And you thought I was joking

2003-02-21T22:04:00.000-06:00

"I Saved The World Today"
Eurythmics

Monday finds you like a bomb
That’s been left ticking there too long
You’re bleeding

Some days there's nothing left to learn
From the point of no return
You're leaving

Hey, hey, I saved the world today
Everybody’s happy now
The bad thing's gone away
And everybody’s happy now
The good thing’s here to stay
Please let it stay

There’s a million mouths to feed
And I’ve got everything I need
I’m breathing

And there’s a hurting thing inside
But I’ve got everything to hide
I'm grieving

Hey, hey, I saved the world today
Everybody’s happy now
The bad thing's gone away
And everybody’s happy now
The good thing’s here to stay
Please let it stay

Doo doo doo doo doo the good thing

Hey, hey, I saved the world today
Everybody’s happy now
The bad thing's gone away
And everybody’s happy now
The good thing’s here to stay
Please let it stay
Everybody's happy now

2003-02-14T07:34:00.000-06:00

"Lazy Heart"
Eddi Reader

I’ve got a lazy heart
Can’t make it do a thing
Won’t go to church on Sundays
I’ve never heard it sing

No matter what I do
Can’t make my heart love you

I’ve got a lazy heart
Sleeps when the morning comes
Sleeps through an earthquake
Walks and never runs

I don’t know what to say
I’m sorry it’s that way

My lazy heart and I
Are hostage to the moon
And winter’s far too long
And summer ends too soon
Too soon {far, far, far, far, far, far}...

God damn my lazy heart
It’s dumb as an ox, I know
Won’t go to work on Mondays
I just can’t make it go

Whatever’s to be done
My heart cannot be won

My lazy heart and I
Are hostage to the moon
And winter’s far too long
And summer ends too soon

I’m not the one to blame,
So please don’t make me choose
Between a living lie
And the "I’m so sorry" blues

Between,
And the "I’m so sorry" blues

2003-02-10T07:40:00.000-06:00

"Medicine"
Eddi Reader

Did you fall out of the family tree?
Here’s a kiss to mend your knee
Everybody needs some kind of medicine, sometimes

How long did you think it would last
With your sleeping pills and laughing gas?
Everybody needs some kind of medicine, sometimes

Throwing our hats at the moon in George’s Square --
Was that ever us?
Climbing walls, giving names to the stars --
Was that ever us?

But if you come home with me, I’ll
Slap a little something in your tea
Everybody needs some kind of medicine, sometimes

Throwing our hats at the moon in George’s Square --
Was that ever us?
Climbing walls, giving names to the stars --
Was that ever us?

You’ve been hanging out in casualty
For shooting too much mercury
Everybody needs some kind of medicine, sometimes

Oh, and if you come home with me, I’ll
Score for you if you score for me
Everybody needs some kind of medicine, sometimes

Sometimes
Ah-Ah

2003-01-21T08:30:00.000-06:00

"Candyfloss"
Eddi Reader

Candyfloss
Between my ears
I’ve been getting this way for years
now I’m so dumb, if I walk and chew gum
it’s a miracle
it’s a miracle

Candyfloss
behind my eyes
I see no clouds, I see blue skies
now I’m so tame, if you ask my name
and I don’t think twice,
it’s a miracle

Get me out of here
’cause I know that if I stay
that I will melt away
like candyfloss

This hollow heart inside of me
you can hold it up, you can hear the sea
and if violins can do me in
is that a miracle? – that’s not a miracle

Get me out of here
’cause I know that if I stay
that I will melt away

Get me out of here
because if you make me stay
I know I’ll melt away

Like candyfloss
like candyfloss

2003-01-05T22:47:00.000-06:00

"The Obvious Child"
Paul Simon

I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep through the night
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie
But I say why
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

And in remembering a road sign
I am remembering a girl when I was young
And we said These songs are true
These days are ours
These tears are free
And hey
The cross is in the ballpark
The cross is in the ballpark

We had a lot of fun
We had a lot of money
We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny
Sonny gets married and moves away
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
Sonny gets sunnier
Day by day by day by day

I've been waking up at sunrise
I've been following the light across my room
I watch the night receive the room of my day
Some people say the sky is just the sky
But I say
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it's strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny's yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died
Some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair

Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?

2003-01-01T17:48:00.000-06:00

"Grace"
U2

Grace
She takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name

Grace
It's a name for a girl
It's also a thought that
Changed the world

And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness
In everything

Grace
She's got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She's got the time to talk

She travels outside
Of karma, karma
She travels outside
Of karma

When she goes to work
You can hear the strings
Grace finds beauty
In everything

Grace
She carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips
Between her fingertips

She carries a pearl
In perfect condition
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stains

Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things

Grace finds beauty
In everything

Grace finds goodness
In everything

2002-12-30T21:05:00.000-06:00

"That's Just What You Are"
Aimee Mann

In our endeavor we are never seeing eye to eye
No guts to sever so forever may we wave goodbye
And you're always telling me that it's my turn to move
When I wonder what could make the needle jump the groove
I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book
So don't sit there and think you're off of the hook
By saying there is no use changing 'cause

That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did I offend your ears
By suggesting that a change might be a thing to try
Like it would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy
It's not like you would lose some critical piece
If somehow you moved point A to point B
Maintaining there is no point changing 'cause

That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Now I could talk to you till I'm blue in the face
But we still would arrive at the very same place
With you running around and me out of the race

So maybe you're right, nobody can take
Something older than time and hope you could make
It better, that would be a mistake
So take it just so far

'Cause that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did I offend your ears
You're like a sleepwalking man, it's a danger to wake you
Even when it is apparent where your actions will take you

That's just what you are
And that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are

2002-12-26T21:35:00.000-06:00

Strangers In A Car
Marc Cohn

There's a stranger in a car
Driving down your street
Acts like he knows who you are
Slaps his hand on the empty seat and says
Are you gonna get in
Or are you gonna stay out?
Just a stranger in a car
Might be the one they told you about

Well you never were one for cautiousness
You open the door
He gives you a tender kiss
And you can't even hear them no more --
All the voices of choices
Now only one road remains
And strangers in a car
Two hearts
Two souls
Tonight
Two lanes

You don't know where you're goin'
You don't know what you're doin'
Hell it might be the highway to heaven
And it might be the road to ruin
But this is a song
For strangers in a car
Baby maybe that's all
We really are
Strangers in a car
(Driving down your street)
Just strangers in a car
(Driving down your street)
Strangers in a car

2002-12-13T15:48:00.000-06:00

"Downtown Lights"
Blue Nile

Sometimes I walk away
When all I really wanna do
Is love and hold you right
There is just one thing I can say
Nobody loves you this way
It's all right
Can't you see?
The downtown lights

In love we're all the same
We're walking down an empty street
And with nobody, calling on me
Empty streets, empty nights
The downtown lights

How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know it's true?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all right

Tonight and every night
Let's go walking down this empty street
Let's walk in the cool evening light
Wrong or right
Be at my side
The downtown lights

It will be all right
It will be all right
The downtown lights
Yeah, yeah

How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know it's true?
It's all right
It's all right
The downtown lights

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know you feel it?
How do I know it's true?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the downtown lights

The neons and the cigarettes
The rented rooms, the rented cars
The crowded streets, the empty bars
The chimney tops, the trumpets
The golden lights, the loving prayers
The coloured shoes, the empty trains
I'm tired of crying on the stairs

The downtown lights
Yeah, yeah

2002-12-01T13:08:00.000-06:00

"Let's Go Out Tonight"
Blue Nile

Where the cars go by
All the day and night
Why don't you say
What's so wrong tonight
Pray for me
Praying for the light
Baby, baby, let's go out tonight

Where the lights all shine
Like I knew they would
Be mine all mine
Baby, I'll be good
Pray for me
Praying for the light
Baby, baby, let's go out tonight

I know a place
Where everything's all right, all right
Let's go out tonight

Where the cars go by
All the day and night
Why don't you say
What's so wrong tonight
I pray for love
Coming out alright, yeah
Baby, baby, let's go out tonight, yeah
Baby, baby, be my baby
Let's go out tonight
Tonight, tonight, yeah, tonight

2002-11-11T16:19:00.000-06:00

"Darkhouse"
Eddi Reader

the moon flies past the darkhouse
shines a light in
she is in a corner, cornered
and the dust fills everything
she thought she needed saving
by the prince of hopelessness
she dreams of Barbie dolls and lemonade
and she’s nowhere near it

the moon flies past the darkhouse
throws a light in
he left on the ten-fifteen
while the kids were sleeping
oh his talk so sweet
and she’s a sugar junkie
St Francis and the jewel thief
living in the dark in the darkhouse
St Francis and the jewel thief
living in the dark in the darkhouse

is that the price
crawling to paradise
all the way, all the way
on your knees, on your knees
yeah, yeah, yeah, on your knees
yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-...

a car flies past the darkhouse
throws a light in
from here she sees the corner
where he left her crying
she thought she needed saving
by the prince of hopelessness
he dreams of Barbie dolls and lemonade
she was nowhere near it

yeah, yeah, yeah, crawling to paradise
yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, on your knees
yeah, yeah, yeah, on your knees
{yeah, yeah, yeah, on your knees}

don’t talk about l-l-l-l-life
don’t talk about li-ee-ife
yeah, yeah, yeah, on your knees
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
his talk so sweet
yeah, yeah, yeah
his talk so sweet
yeah, yeah, yeah

2002-10-26T21:32:00.000-05:00

"Imagine"
John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one

2002-10-18T22:38:00.000-05:00

Prayer Wheel
Eddi Reader

You don’t seem too glad to see me
Is it a bad time?
Is there somewhere you’d rather be?
Well, it’s about time

Don’t forget about me
Don’t forget about me

Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes
Don’t let me slip out of your mind
Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes

You’ll see me later?
Oh, that’s a good one
How about in the next life?
Well, that’s the best one

Don’t forget about me
Don’t forget about me

Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes
Don’t let me slip out of your mind
Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes

It’s happening again
It's unresolving
It’s happening again

I could live your life
And dream of wires
Or, I could live my life
Among the angels and electricity

Don’t forget about me
Don’t forget about me
You won’t forget about me

Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes
Don’t let me slip out of your mind
Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes

Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes
Don’t let me slip out of your mind
Spin a prayer wheel for me sometimes
Don't let me, don't let me, don't let me...

2002-09-26T15:48:00.000-05:00

"Closer To Fine"
Indigo Girls

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

2002-09-21T13:29:00.000-05:00

"Roll With It"
Ani Difranco

she says my ass hurts
when i sit down
she says my feet hurt
from just standing around
i think my body
is as restless as my mind
and i don't know if i can roll with it
this time

she packed his uniforms
and drove him to the base
she was crying all the way
the world looked her in the face
and said
roll with it, baby
make it your career
keep the home fires burning
till america is in the clear

the mainstream is so polluted with lies
once you get wet, it's so hard to get dry
we're all taught how to justify
history
as it passes by
and it's your world
that comes crashing down
when the big boys decide
to throw their weight around
but just roll with it baby
make it your career
keep the home fires burning
till america is in the clear

what if the enemy
isn't in a distant land
what if the enemy lies behind
the voice of command
the sound of war
is a child's cry
behind tinted windows,
they just drive by
all i know is that those
who are going to be killed
aren't those who preside
on capitol hill
i told him,
don't fill the front lines
of their war
those assholes aren't worth dying for
but he said
roll with it, baby
make it your career
keep the home fires burning
till america is in the clear

she says my ass hurts
when i sit down
she says my feet hurt
from just standing around
i think my body is as restless as my mind
and i'm not gonna roll with it this time
no, i'm not gonna roll with it this time

2002-09-13T19:38:00.000-05:00

"Both Hands"
Ani Difranco

i am walking
out in the rain
and i am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again
and i am getting
nowhere with you
and i can't let it go
and i can't get through...

the old woman behind the pink curtains
and the closed door
on the first floor
she's listening through the air shaft
to see how long our swan song can last

and both hands
now use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
i am writing
graffiti on your body
i am drawing the story of
how hard we tried

i am watching your chest rise and fall
like the tides of my life,
and the rest of it all
and your bones have been my bedframe
and your flesh has been my pillow
i am waiting for sleep
to offer up the deep
with both hands

in each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
and i'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
and when we leave the landlord will come
and paint over it all

and i am walking
out in the rain
and i am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again
and i am getting nowhere with you
and i can't let it go
and i can't get through

so now use both hands
please use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
i am writing graffiti on your body
i am drawing the story of how hard we tried
hard we tried
how hard we tried

2002-09-13T19:22:00.000-05:00

"Talk To Me Now"
Ani Difranco

he said ani, you've gotten tough
'cause my tone was curt
yeah, and when I'm approached in a dark alley
I don't lift my skirt

in this city
self-preservation
is a full time occupation
I'm determined
to survive on this shore
you know I don't
avert my eyes anymore

in a man's world
I am a woman by birth
and after nineteen times around I have found
they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth
talk to me now

I played the powerless
in too many dark scenes
and I was blessed with a birth and a death
and I guess I just want some say in between

don't you understand
in the day to day
and the face to face
I have to act
just as strong as I can
just to preserve a place
where I can be who I am

so if you still know how
talk to me now
he said ani, you've gotten tough
'cause my tone was curt
yeah, and when I'm approached in a dark alley
I don't lift my skirt

in this city
self-preservation
is a full time occupation
I'm determined
to survive on this shore
you know I don't
avert my eyes anymore

in a man's world
I am a woman by birth
and after nineteen times around I have found
they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth
talk to me now

2002-05-28T00:33:00.000-05:00

"When I Was Dreaming"
Tori Amos

when i was dreaming
fight, i could fight with the best
and i never was on the fence
laugh, i could laugh when i heard the guitar
of the circus man

when i was dreaming
it seemed my world went away
as you were leaving i could see
that i couldn't find what i used to in your eyes
isn't it time, yeah
maybe it's time, yeah

when i was dreaming
it seemed my world went away
as you were leaving i could see
that i couldn't find what i used to in your eyes

when i was dreaming, it seemed my world went away
as you were leaving, i could see
that you couldn't find what you used to in my eyes

when i was dreaming, ooh yeah
when i was dreaming, ooh yeah...

2002-05-28T00:29:00.000-05:00

"Where Are You Going"
Dave Matthews Band

Where are you going?
With the long face pulling down, don’t hide away
Like an ocean, which you can’t see but you can
Smell and the sounds of waves crash down

I am no Superman
I have no reasons for you
I am no hero, oh, that’s for sure
But I do know one thing
It’s where you are, its where I belong
I do know where you go, is where I wanna be

Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Are you looking for answers
To questions under the stars
If along the way
You are growing weary
You can rest with me until a brighter day.
You're ok

I am no Superman
I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh, thats for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are, is where I belong
I do know where you go is where I wanna be

Where are you going?
Where do you go?

Where do you go?
Where are you going?

Where do you go?
I am no superman
I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh, that's for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are is where I belong

I do know where you go is where I wanna be
Where are you going?
Where do you go?

Then where are you going?

Well, let's go.

2002-05-28T00:25:00.000-05:00

"Secret World"
Peter Gabriel

I stood in this sunsheltered place
'Til I could see the face behind the face
All that had gone before had left no trace

Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
All the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

So I watch you wash your hair
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air
Did you think you didn't have to choose it
That I alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

In this house of make believe
Divided in two, like Adam and Eve
You put out and I recieve

Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

Oh the wheel is turning spinning round and round
And the house is crubling but the stairways stand

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
Whatever it is, we are all the same

Making it up in our secret world
Making it up in our secret world
Making it up in our secret world
Shaking it up
Breaking it up
Making it up in our secret world

Seeing things that were not there
On a wing on a prayer
In this state of disrepair

Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

Shh, listen...

2002-05-24T18:09:00.000-05:00

"The Wanting Kind"
Eddi Reader

Standing by the wishing well
Make a wish and then rewind
Fingers crossed behind your back
When you're the wanting kind
Here is the perfect life
Just like the one you designed
But you only see the flaws
When you're the wanting kind

Even when you're making love
There's still something on your mind
Even when you're making love
When you're the wanting kind

Make a deal with the devil
The ink is wet, it's all been signed
But you'll be looking over your shoulder
When you're the wanting kind
It doesn't matter who you are
Cynical or unrefined
You'll be digging in the back of the drawer
For all the ones you left behind

Even when you're making love
There's still something on your mind
Even when you're making love
When you're the wanting kind
What does it take to make you happy
What does it take to make you happy
You've been looking all your life
There must be something you can find
Funny thing is you've found yourself
Just another wanting kind

Even when you're making love
There's still something on your mind
Even when you're making love
When you're the wanting kind
What does it take to make you happy
What does it take to make you happy

2002-05-05T20:56:00.000-05:00

"Do You Hear The People Sing"
Les Miserables, Act One

ENJOLRAS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

COMBEFERRE
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

COURFEYRAC
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

FEUILLY
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

2002-05-05T20:50:00.000-05:00

2002-04-27T15:46:00.000-05:00

"Baby Seat"
Barenaked Ladies

You left Billy with the kid
And all the selfless things you did with Billy
You left your home town in the spring
And turned your back on everything
You thought your life would just go by
Without a pause to wonder, don't be silly

But you can't live your life in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own
Don't admit defeat

He came down from his retreat
She saw him later on the street
He said "You are the only one
to recognize that I'm the son"
So she bent down and kissed his feet
And then that night, between the sheets she told him

You can't live your life in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own
Don't admit defeat
You can't live your life in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own
Don't admit defeat

40 days at sea
Then she turned and said to me
"If we make it back
I'll renounce Jack Kerouac
And all that romantic crap
Like I'm an artist don't look back"

Now we're living somewhere else
We keep opinions to ourselves
But still we seek a sneaky peek at heaven
When the working week defeats us
If you think growing up is tough
Then you've just not grown enough, baby

You can't live your life in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own
Don't admit defeat
You can't live your life in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own
Don't admit defeat

2002-04-27T15:43:00.000-05:00

"Mother"
Tori Amos

Go go go go now
Out of the nest it's time
Go go go now
Circus girl without a safety net
Here here here now don't cry
You raised your hand for the assignment
Tuck those ribbons under your helmet
Be a good soldier
First my left foot then my right behind the OTHER
Pantyhose running in the cold

Mother the car is here
Somebody leave the light on
Green limosine for the redhead DANCING dancing girl
And when I dance for him
Somebody leave the light on
Just in just in case I like the dancing I can remember where I come from

I walked into your dream
And now I've forgotten how to dream my own dream
You are the CLEVER one aren't you
Brides in veils for you
We told you all of our secrets
All but one
And don't you even try
The phone has been disconnected
Dripping with blood and with time and with your advice
Poison me against the MOON

Mother the car is here
Somebody leave the light on
Black chariot for the redhead DANCING dancing girl
He's gonna change my name
Maybe you'll leave the light on
Just in just in case I like the dancing I can remember where I come from

I escape into your escape into our very favorite fearscape
It's across the sky and across my heart and I cross my legs oh my god
First my left foot then my right behind the other
Breadcrumbs lost under the snow

Oo who mother
Oo mother the car is here
Maybe maybe you'll leave the light on for the for the for the dancing girl
He's gonna change my name
Maybe you'll leave the light
Just in case I like the dancing I can remember where I come come from

Mother mother mother

2002-04-19T13:50:00.000-05:00

"17 Again"
Eurythmics

Yea though we venture through
The Valley of the stars
You and all your jewelry
And my bleeding heart

Who couldn't be together
And who could not be apart

We should’ve jumped out
Of that airplane after all
Flying skyways overhead
It wasn’t hard to fall

And I had so many crashes
That I couldn't feel
At all...

And it feels like
I’m seventeen again
Feels like I’m seventeen

Times might break you
God forsake you
Leave you burned and bruised
Innocence will teach you
What it feels like to be used

Thought that you’d done everything
You didn’t have a clue

And it feels like
I’m seventeen again
Feels like I’m seventeen

Looking from the outside in
Some things never change

Hey hey I'm a million miles away
Funny how it seems like yesterday ...

All those fake celebrities
And all those viscous queens
All the stupid papers
And the stupid magazines

Sweet dreams are made of anything
That gets you in the scene

And it feels like
I’m seventeen again
Feels like I’m seventeen

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Yea

2002-04-14T16:24:00.000-05:00

"Why"
Annie Lennox

How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I'm sorry for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
Hey... this kind of trouble's only just begun
I tell myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me...
Why
Why

I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard is said too many times
That you'd be better off
Besides...
Why can't you see this boat is sinking
(this boat is sinking this boat is sinking)
Let's go down to the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out turning inside out
Tell me...
Why
Tell me...
Why

This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears...
The tears we shed
This is the fear
This is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
And this is how I feel
Do you know how I feel?
'cause i don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
You don't know what I feel

2002-04-12T22:55:00.000-05:00

"You Can Call Me Al"
Paul Simon

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bone-digger, bone-digger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly, beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don’t find this stuff
Amusing anymore

If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And woe my nights are so long
Where’s my wife and family
What if I die here
Who’ll be my role model
Now that my role model is
Gone gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It’s a street in a strange world
Maybe it’s the third world
Maybe it’s his first time around
He doesn’t speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen and Hallelujah

If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me

Na na na na ...

If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

Call me Al

2002-03-30T01:14:00.000-06:00

"The Boy In The Bubble"
Paul Simon

It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That’s dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don’t cry baby don’t cry
Don’t cry

It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That’s dying in the corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don’t cry baby don’t cry
Don’t cry

It’s a turn-around jump shot
It’s everybody jump start
It’s every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
a loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That’s dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don’t cry baby don’t cry
Don’t cry

2002-03-30T00:53:00.000-06:00

"Stuck In A Moment"
U2

I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard

I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep

I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

2002-03-30T00:40:00.000-06:00

"The Space Between"
Dave Matthews Band

You cannot quit me so quickly
Is no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I got all the time for you, love
The Space Between
The tears we cry
Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain

But will I hold you again?
These fickle, fuddled words confuse me
Like 'Will it rain today?'
Waste the hours with talking, talking
These twisted game we play

We're strange allies
With warring hearts
What wild-eyed beast you be
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain

Will I hold you again?
Will I hold...

Look at us spinning out in
The madness of a roller coaster
You know you went off like a devil
In a church in the middle of a crowded room
All we can do, my love
Is hope we don't take this ship down

The Space Between
Where you're smiling high
Is where you'll find me if I get tickled
The Space Between
The bullets in our firefight
Is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you
The rain that falls
Splash in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into...
The Space Between
Our wicked lies
Is where we hope to keep safe from pain

Take my hand
'Cause we're walking out of here
Oh, right out of here
Love is all we need here
The Space Between
What's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you
The Space Between
Your heart and mine
Is the space we'll fill with time
The Space Between...

2002-03-30T00:36:00.000-06:00

"Georgia On My Mind"
Ray Charles

Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

I'm say Georgia
Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

I said Georgia,
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

Georgia,
Georgia,
No peace, no peace I find
Just this old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

I said just an old sweet song,
Keeps Georgia on my mind

2002-03-30T00:29:00.000-06:00

"Only Us"
Peter Gabriel

Only us
Only us
Only us

It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throats
It wasn't with the angels in their quilted coats
These battered wings still kick up dust
Seduced by the noise and the bright things that glisten
I knew all the time I should shut up and listen
And I'm finding my way home from the great escape

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I hear you calling me
Yes I hear you calling me
Home from the great escape
Yes I can read you loud and clear

The further on I go, oh the less I know
Friend or foe, there's only us

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I'm coming home again, home again
And I hear you calling me home again
I am coming home again

Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us

2002-03-28T22:26:00.000-06:00

"32 Flavors"
Alana Davis

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will
and i have done well by their names
just the kindness i've lavished on strangers
is more than i can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so i would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
til i'd passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a pheonix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying back

i'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and i would like to state for the record
i did everything that i could do
i'm not saying that i'm a saint
i just don't want to live that way
no, i will never be a saint
but i will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said

2002-03-28T21:53:00.000-06:00

"The Teacher"
Paul Simon

There once was a teacher of great renown
Whose words were like the tablets of stone
Because it’s easier to learn than unlearn
Because we’ve passed the point of no return
Gather your goods and follow me
Or you will surely die

I was only a child of the city
My parents were children of immigrant stock
So we followed as followers go
Over a mountain with a napkin of snow
And ate the berries and roots
That grow along the timberline
Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love
Sleeps on a quilt of stars

It’s cold
Sometimes you can’t catch your breath
It’s cold

Time and abundance thickened his step
So the teacher divided in two
One half ate the forests and fields
The other half sucked all the moisture from the clouds
And we, we were amazed at the power of his appetite

Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love
Sleeps on a quilt of stars
Sometimes we don’t know who we are
Sometimes force overpowers us and we cry
My teacher carry me home
Carry me home my teacher
Carry me home
Carry me home my teacher
Carry me home

a quilt of stars

"The Exception" Eddi Reader

"Ants Marching" Dave Matthews Band

"Anything But Strong" Eurythmics

"Seven Years" Norah Jones

"And You Thought I Was Joking" Color Theory

"I Saved The World Today" Eurythmics

"Lazy Heart" Eddi Reader

"Medicine" Eddi Reader

"Candyfloss" Eddi Reader

"The Obvious Child" Paul Simon

"Grace" U2

"That's Just What You Are" Aimee Mann

Strangers In A Car Marc Cohn

"Downtown Lights" Blue Nile

"Let's Go Out Tonight" Blue Nile

"Darkhouse" Eddi Reader

"Imagine" John Lennon

Prayer Wheel Eddi Reader

"Closer To Fine" Indigo Girls

"Roll With It" Ani Difranco

"Both Hands" Ani Difranco

"Talk To Me Now" Ani Difranco

"When I Was Dreaming" Tori Amos

"Where Are You Going" Dave Matthews Band

"Secret World" Peter Gabriel

"The Wanting Kind" Eddi Reader

"Do You Hear The People Sing" Les Miserables, Act One

"Stars" Les Miserables, Act One

"Baby Seat" Barenaked Ladies

"Mother" Tori Amos

"17 Again" Eurythmics

"Why" Annie Lennox

"You Can Call Me Al" Paul Simon

"The Boy In The Bubble" Paul Simon

"Stuck In A Moment" U2

"The Space Between" Dave Matthews Band

"Georgia On My Mind" Ray Charles

"Only Us" Peter Gabriel

"32 Flavors" Alana Davis

"The Teacher" Paul Simon