Lyrics - What grabs you? Anything just catch your attention lately?

Alt-J has my head spinning lately...

"Bite chunks out of me
You're a shark and I'm swimming
My heart still thumps as I bleed
And all your friends come sniffing

Triangles are my favorite shape
Three points where two lines meet
Toe to toe, back to back, let's go, my love; it's very late
'Til morning comes, let's tessellate"
 
Here's little lyric from Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees, lifted by Danny Kirwan from a poem by Rupert Brooke, written in about 1910. Kirwan is a fabulous guitarist and singer, but with a troubled side. His guitar work and singing on this cut are really amazing. I'm obviously obsessed with early Fleetwood Mac.

When the white flame in us is gone,
And we that lost the world's delight
Stiffen in darkness, left alone
To crumble in our separate night;

When your swift hair is quiet in death,
And through the lips corruption thrust
Has stilled the labour of my breath --
When we are dust, when we are dust

 
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart

CLOSER TO THE HEART --- Rush
 
"So on the first night we met you said well darling let's make a deal,
If anybody ever asks us well let's say that we met in jail"

Frank Turner - Recovery
 
Picked up the Who's Next CD at the GW the other day and can't get the lyrics to My Wife out of my head now. LOL

My life's in jeopardy
Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night and now my wife
is coming after me
Give me police protection
Gonna buy a gun so I can look after number one
Give me a bodyguard, a black belt judo expert with a machine gun

Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
When she catches up with me won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman and that's enough
to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car, put on my lead boots and take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money, but I'll still be alive
All I did was have a bit too much to drink and I picked the wrong precinct
Got picked up by the law and now I ain't got time to think

Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
When she catches up with me won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman and that's enough
to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car, put on my lead boots and take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money, but I'll still be alive
And I'm oh so tired of runnin' gonna lay down on the floor
I've gotta rest sometime, so I can get to run some more.
 
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.

And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's.
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb toward the light.

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.

And no one called us to the land
And no one crosses there alive.
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun....

Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.

And no one sings me lullabyes
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....
 
Maybe if you'd listen then you'd know what I just said.
If you think the words I'm singing are why your kids are dead.
Maybe could it be that no one was there to hear.
Did you pay attention to their angers and their fears ?
You're trying to find someone to blame who can't be put on trial.
The enemy you're looking for is laughing all the while.

I mourn for those who have been so deceived.
You know the last words that they spoke were "Who loves me" ?

People in glass houses should not be throwing stones.
A sticker on a record won't give your kids a home.
So sad it takes someone to die for you to start to care.
Your neglect and misguidance have become your nightmare.
I hope and pray this tragedy was not all just in vain.
Now you can help somebody else avoid the endless pain.

I mourn for those who have been so deceived.
You know the last words that they spoke were "Who loves me" ?
I hope that someday you will stop and realize.
Just why so many kids have died.

Think twice before you point a finger, that you may regret.
To clear your conscience is your goal, but that is all you'll get.
What's done is done, you can't bring em back, just let go of despair.
You keep saying to yourself, "If only I'd been there".

I mourn for those who have been so deceived.
You know the last words that they spoke were "Who loves me" ?
I hope that someday you will stop and realize.
Just why so many kids have died.

Tell me why ?
 
Clap For The Wolfman
The Guess Who

Oh, you thought she was digging you but she was digging me

As long as you got the curves baby, I got the angles
 
The world is a mosaic, upon a golden floor,
Moving silently, darkly through space.
And our lives are the fragments,
And all that's gone before.
Broken jewels in excrement base.

The world in which we live- Wang Chung.
 
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place
at your command
Can I stay here
for a while
Can I see your
sweet sweet smile
Old enough now
to change your name
When so many love you
is it the same?
It's the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
 
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Huh!

Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya
Well now you do what they told ya

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Uggh!

Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya!

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Come on!

Yeah! Come on!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
**** you, I won't do what you tell me!
Motherfucker!
Uggh!
 
She's got everything delightful
She's got everything I need
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed.
 
Beneath the noble bird
Between the proudest words
Behind the beauty, cracks appear
Once with heads held high
They sang out to the sky
Why do their shadows bow in fear?

The guns replace the plow, façades are tarnished now
The principles have been betrayed
The dreams gone stale, but still, let hope prevail
History's debt won't be repaid

Rush- Beneath Between Behind
 
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Kirsty MacColl - "My Affair"

When I was just a child
My folks would drive me wild
They’d spy upon my every move
Until it drove me to despair
They told me what to wear
They told me not to cut my hair
But that’s all over now
I had to tell them anyhow

It’s my affair
Where I go and what I do
It’s my affair oh yeah
It’s my affair
It’s up to me and not to you
It’s my affair

That’s how I want to keep it
I kissed the boy in secret
Thrilled me to the very core
I couldn’t stop I wanted more and
I didn’t hear the door and
They caught me on the floor
With my affair

And when we first got wed
We used to stay in bed
All day and night all night and day
We bedded half our lives away
But that’s all over now
We move in higher circles
Chomping through the upper crust
I couldn’t see you for the dust
And then you met that girl
Who left you with your money spent
And now it’s no concern of yours
If I sleep with the President

It’s my affair
And if I don’t come home tonight
It’s my affair alright
It’s my affair
Who I see is up to me
It’s my affair

That’s how I want to keep it
I kiss the boys in secret
Hiding in the parking lot
Is just as far as I have got
If the phone should ring and
There’s no one there
Then it’s my affair

Eso es asunto de ella
Donde va y lo que hace

Well it’s all over now
You’ve seen the last of me
And I don’t have to put up with you
Giving me the third degree
So you go on your way
And don’t come sneaking round the back door
Trying to get yourself back in
Where you’re not wanted anymore
It’s my affair
Shoodoloowapbob
Shoodolowap
It’s my affair oh yeah
It’s my affair
Who I see is up to me
It’s my affair

That’s how I want to keep it
I kiss the boys in secret
Making eyes at perfect strangers
I know that it could be dangerous
So if the phone should ring and
There’s no one there
Then it’s my affair

Donde va y lo que hace
Si yo vivo mi vida
Feliz y contenta
A nadie eso le importa
 
Every Grain of Sand
Bob Dylan
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet floods every newborn seed
There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and the morals of despair
Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand
 
To keep it simple, Simon and Garfunkle always managed to speak directly to my soul. Yeah, I know that Paul Simon wrote them but it's the collaboration of the vocals of that duo that managed to connect to me.
 
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
 
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