| Pink Floyd – The Show Must Go On Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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On his The Wall Live tour, Roger Waters has re-inserted the original first verse: OOOOOOH AAAAHHH Must the Show go on? OOOOH Ma Take me home (3 times) OOOOH Pa Let me go (3 times) Do I have to stand up, wild eyed in the spotlight? What a nightmare, why don't I turn and run? (turn and run) OOOOH Ma Take me home (3 times) OOOOH Pa Let me go (3 times) Then on to the: It was just a mistake... |
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| Johnny Cash – Down There By The Train Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| He does a good job on this Tom Waits song. Basically, whatever you have done in life, if you believe in God, and repent, there is a place for you in Heaven... | |
| Tom Waits – Diamond in Your Mind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Zerelda Samuels said she aint never prayed Since her right arm was blown off in a Pinkerton raid" In 1875, Allan Pinkerton led a raid on the farmhouse owned by the mother of Frank and Jesse James. A firebomb was thrown into the home, killing the James' half-brother and blowing off the right arm of Zerelda Samuels, the mother of Frank and Jesse. |
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| Tom Waits – Jayne's Blue Wish Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Will there ever be a tree grown from the seeds of soul? Life is a path led only by the light of those I've loved" The correct lyrics are: Will there ever be a tree grown from the seeds I've sown? Life is a path lit only by the light of those I've loved. I have to give a speech in a few weeks on my community volunteerism, and those two lines are the foundation of my entire speech. TW is relating the tree to our legacy. We all wish to leave a legacy for when we are gone, and he is hoping the legacy he leaves is one that is large. And our life is a path, and when we are around those we love, the path is easier. |
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| Tom Waits – Please Call Me, Baby Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"If I exorcise my devils Well my angels may leave too When they leave they're so hard to find" Such intelligent lyrics, pointing out that good and bad coexist, and are dependant on the other. Every one of his songs has a line or two that just jumps out at me. Brilliant! |
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| Warren Zevon – Disorder In The House Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Reptile Wisdom" also refers to the past Presidency (Bush II) and the way they got the US in the Iraqi War, according to Crystal Zevon. "Reptile Wisdom" is also a GREAT band name! |
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| Tom Waits – Come on Up to the House Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"And your singin lead soprano In a junkman's choir" As I have found with every one of his songs, there are one or two lines that just jump out at me. These are great. There have been times I feel like I am a soprano in a junkmans choir. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hauntedfox, I've said for a couple of years that Allison Crowe's version was my favorite, so I am glad you found it. How ever, she has been replaced by another version: Leonard Cohen himself, singing on the "Live in London" cd. Sings all of the above mentioned verses, and recaptues his song. |
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| Pink Floyd – I'm a King Bee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Phil Lesh & Friends did a great version of this on 5-14-2008 at The Warfield, San Francisco. It is available on Internet Archive. |
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| Warren Zevon – Mohammed's Radio Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| According to "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", it was Halloween, and WZ saw a mentally challenged man dressed as an Arab with a radio to his ear. He wrote Mohammed's Radio right afterwards. | |
| Allison Crowe – Hallelujah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Okay, that would be "The Baffled King composing Hallelujah". Where and why I typed barefoot I have no idea. | |
| Allison Crowe – Hallelujah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Holly R. I agree. This is my favorite version as well. I stumbled across it on youtube and found it to be so much better, imo, than the other versions. | |
| Roger Waters – Hello I Love You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Roger sounds as if he is ready to let bygones be bygones, and the last verse that says "Have you heard it was on the news you can make your peace on the dark side of the moon" is his way of stating he is ready to reconcile with the rest of the boys... |
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| Roger Waters – Leaving Beirut Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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markjohnson880, I agree, the shows were amazing. He's touring again this summer in the US. I can't wait... |
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| Heywood Banks – Yeah Toast! Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ahh, yes, the French Toast version. Heywood is as funny in person as he is on cd's. | |
| Warren Zevon – The Indifference Of Heaven Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Possibly my favorite. I think WZ is talking about how short life is, but how life carries on. We may lose a loved one to death, but that only affects us, and not the rest of the world. | |
| Roger Waters – Leaving Beirut Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay, the above lyrics also include the story. Here are the lyrics that he actually sings: When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart, fulfilled my summer dream She handed me the keys to the car We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze Got bust in Antibes by the cops And fleeced in Naples by the wops But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes Our dads had helped them win the war When we all knew what we were fighting for But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge Are these the people that we should bomb Are we so sure they mean us harm Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime Is this a mountain that we really want to climb The road is hard, hard and long Put down that two by four This man would never turn you from his door Woah George! Woah George! That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small Is gentleness too much for us Should gentleness be filed along with empathy We feel for someone else's child Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong Someone else's child dies and equities in defense rise America, America, please hear us when we call You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle You got Atticus Finch You got Jane Russell You got freedom of speech You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls Don't let the might of the Christian right fuck it all up For you and the rest of the world Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules History's not written by the vanquished or the damned Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam In 1961 they took this child into their home I wonder what became of them In the cauldron that was Lebanon If I could find them now, could I make amends? How does the story end? |
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| Roger Waters – Leaving Beirut Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| HAving heard this live a couple times, as well as having it on a boot, I think the lyrics as posted above are wrong, or at least changed from these to the ones now. I'll listen again and try yo post them if I am right. | |
| The Knack – Good Girls Don't Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This just takes me back to my junior high days, when this song came out, having a crush on a neighbor girl, and wishing she would. She never did. | |
| Warren Zevon – I Was In The House When The House Burned Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The lyrics are "I kept the promise ‘til the vow got broke" and "I met the man with the thorny crown" |
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| Warren Zevon – I Was In The House When The House Burned Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The lyrics are "I kept the promise ‘til the vow got broke" and "I met the man with the thorny crown" |
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| ZZ Top – Tube Snake Boogie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, in the liner on one of their albums, I think it is their Greatest hits album, they say it is about surfing. I can see that. :) | |
| Grateful Dead – Brown-Eyed Woman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When I first heard this song years ago, I thought they were saying "brown eyed women in red leather jeans". Just thought I'd confess... | |
| Grateful Dead – Brown-Eyed Woman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When I first heard this song years ago, I thought they were saying "brown eyed women in red leather jeans". Just thought I'd confess... | |
| Pink Floyd – Seamus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I have read that it is a sexual entendre. (I don't know how explicit I can be here but) Seamus is the male part, the kitchen is the female, and he is being oral. Then he lost his ability to perform. I actually read an entire paper on this. I just think it was the boys having some fun. | |
| Pink Floyd – The Gunner's Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I do know that the part about "maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control" refers to what happened in 1982. The Royal Green Jackets band was giving a concert in a park, when a bomb under the stage was et off by the Irish Republican Army, killing 6 and injuring 28, most of them bandsmen. | |
| Pink Floyd – The Gunner's Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I do know that the part about "maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control" refers to what happened in 1982. The Royal Green Jackets band was giving a concert in a park, when a bomb under the stage was et off by the Irish Republican Army, killing 6 and injuring 28, most of them bandsmen. | |
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