CALIFORNIA. LANA DEL REY

 

(One, two, three, oh)

You don't ever have to be stronger than you really are
When you're lying in my arms
Baby, you don't ever have to
Go faster than your fastest pace or faster than my fastest cars

I shouldn't have done it but I read it in your letter
You said to a friend that you wish you were doing better
I wanted to reach out but I never said a thing
I shouldn't have done it but I read it in your letter
You said to a friend that you wish you were doing better
I wanted to call you but I didn't say a thing
(Two, three, four)

Ooh, I'll pick you up
If you come back to America, just hit me up
'Cause this is crazy love
I'll catch you on the flipside
If you come back to California
You should just hit me up
We'll do whatever you want, travel wherever how far
We'll hit up all the old places
We'll have a party, we'll dance till dawn
I'll pick up all of your Vogues and all of your Rolling Stones
Your favorite liquor off the top-shelf
I'll throw a party, all night long

You don't ever have to be stronger than you really are
When you're lying in my arms
And honey, you don't ever have to act cooler than you think you should
You're brighter than the brightest stars

You're scared to win, scared to lose
I've heard the war was over if you really choose
The one in and around you
You hate the heat, you got the blues
You're changing like the weather, oh, that's so like you
The Santa Ana moves you
(Two, three, four)

Ooh, I'll pick you up
If you come back to America, just hit me up
'Cause this is crazy love
I'll catch you on the flipside
If you come back to California
You should just hit me up
We'll do whatever you want, travel wherever, how far
We'll hit up all the old places
We'll have a party, we dance till dawn
I'll pick up all of your Vogues and all of your Rolling Stones
Your favorite liquor off the top-shelf
I'll throw a party, all night long

Ooh, I'll pick you up
If you come back to America, just hit me up
'Cause this is crazy love
I'll catch you on the flipside
If you come back to California
You should just hit me up

On 11/18/2017 at 6:30 PM, Enrico_sw said:

Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas
And I talked to Jesus at the sewer
And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business
While the rain drank champagne

 

My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted
Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted
Oh but they'll take their bonus pay to Molly McDonald,
Neon ladies, beauty is that which obeys, is bought or borrowed

 

Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel full of rumours
But it's I who pays the rent for these fingered-face out-of-tuners
And I make 16 solid half hour friendships every evening

Cause your queen of hearts who is half a stone
And likes to laugh alone is always threatening you with leaving
Oh but they play those token games on Willy Thompson
And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs. Annie Johnson

 

Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues
And I explained that I had overpaid them
So overdued I went to the company store
And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded
So I set sail in a teardrop and escaped beneath the doorsill

 

Cause the smell of her perfume echoes in my head still
Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun
In weekends of whiskey sours
Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sixto Rodriguez 

11 hours ago, nekkator said:

 

Sixto Rodriguez 

 

Yeah!  

For A Spanish Guitar ~ Gene Clark (1971)

 

With Tomorrow ~ Gene Clark/Jesse Ed Davis (1971)

 

It was more like a dream than reality
I must have thought it was a dream while she was here with me
When she was near I didn't think she would leave
When she was gone it was too much to believe
 

So with tomorrow I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream and another ~ with tomorrow
 

So if there some day won't be time just to look behind
There won't be reasons, no descriptions for my place and mind
There was so much I was told that was not real
So many things that I could not taste but I could feel
 

So with tomorrow I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream and another ~ with tomorrow

The scientist- Coldplay

 

 Come up to meet you
Tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Because Of You ~ Gene Clark (1971)

 

You toss your head and turn your eyes when storm clouds brew

You look around to quick relate to a good time you knew

Then the dark clouds break away and a rainbow comes on through

The sun I see only shines for me because of you

 

Before this time we both saw blind in spite of fact

We lost our place and made no haste to make contact

Now by what we gain the taste of one and two

I'm satisfied beneath my pride because of you

 

And now the worth of living wealth is more in the end

And now the price of simple things is not so much to spend

So close your eyes and pick a place to fly away

And think of reasons why this warmth is here to stay

 

Then the dark clouds break away and a rainbow comes on through

The sun I see only shines for me because of you

Yes, the sun I see only shines for me because of you

Sweet Adrienne ~ Gene Clark (1970)

Sweet Adrienne
You say you always try to understand
And why do people all around you criticize
When it's there in your eyes
Not in your hand

 

You look around
You say that love has only let you down
And that the words you hear are either truth or lies
And you need no disguise
Sweet Adrienne

 

And so you take them where the early morning finds them
And you delight in what you find there for a while
And then you leave them just the same way that you found them
But you swear you always leave them with a smile

Sweet Adrienne

 

You say your love is there for any man
And that you know now that man's truth is in his lies
And so you sympathize
Sweet Adrienne

Sweet Adrienne

Angelene ~ PJ Harvey (1988)
 
My first name Angelene
Prettiest mess you've ever seen
Love for money is my sin
Any man calls, I let him in
 
Rose is my color, and white
Pretty mouth and green my eyes
I see men come and go
But there'll be one who will collect my soul and come for me
 
Two-thousand miles away
He walks upon the coast
Two-thousand miles away
It lays open like a road
 
Dear God, life ain't kind
People getting born and dying
But I've heard there's joy untold
Lays on that open road in front of me
 
Two-thousand miles away
He walks upon the coast
Two-thousand miles away
It lays open like a road
It seems so far away
He walks upon that coast
It seems so far away
I see men come and go
Two-thousand miles until
I reach that open road

My first name Angelene

Wind-Up ~ Ian Anderson (1971)

 

When I was young and they packed me off to school
and they taught me how not to play the game
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success
or if they said that I was just a fool

 

So I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm
Their half-assed smiles and the book of rules

 

And I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply
He said, "I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays."

 

So to my old headmaster and to anyone who cares,
before I'm through I'd like to say my prayers.

 

I don't believe you, you have the whole damn thing all wrong
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays

 

So you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school
and have all your bishops harmonize these lines

 

How do you dare tell me that I'm my father's son
when that was just an accident of birth?

 

I'd rather look around me, compose a better song
'cause that's the honest measure of my worth

 

In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me
as you lick the boots of death born out of fear

Maybe I Will ~ Rory Gallagher (1971)

 

Running through a pool of rain
I think I'll do it one more time again
I hope I always feel this way
Maybe I will

 

Searching for a piece of ground
Where I can lay my body down
With the earth for a pillow under my head

 

Wake up in the morning
It's a brand new day
And though it seems the same
It's different from yesterday
Then I read the leaves
And put my cup away

 

Running down a country lane
Looking on a field of grain
Just to see you smile
Makes me feel alive again

 

Opening another door
I'll see what I have not seen before
Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for

Maybe I will

 

Running through a pool of rain
I think I'll do it one more time again
I hope I always feel this way
Maybe I will

 

Maybe I will

Teenage dream - Katy Perry

 

Dont think of me- Dido

So you're with her -- and not with me
I hope she's sweet, and so pretty
I hear she cooks delightfully,
a little angel beside you

So you're with her -- not with me
Oh how lucky can one man be?
I hear your house is smart and clean
Oh how lovely, with your homecoming queen
Oh how lovely it must be

When you see her sweet smile, baby
don't think of me
When she lays in your warm arms
don't think of me

So you're with her -- and not with me
I know she spreads sweet honey
In fact your best friend, I heard he
spent last night with her
Now how do you feel?

When you see her sweet smile, baby
don't think of me
When she lays in your warm arms
don't think of me

And it's too late, and it's too bad
Don't think of me
Oh it's too late, and it's too bad
Don't think of me

Does it bother you now, all the mess I made?
Does it bother you now, the clothes you told me not to wear?
Does it bother you now, all the angry games we played?
Does it bother you now, when I'm not there?

When you see her sweet smile, baby
don't think of me
When she lays in your warm arms
don't think of me

And it's too late, and it's too bad
Don't think of me
Oh it's too late, and it's too bad
Don't think of me

 

 

The Straighten Outer ~ Grant Lee Phillips (2012)

 

Thunder on the mountain terrace

Lightning in the sky

Hammer of the straighten-outer

Working overtime

 

And all the world's a rattle snake

Waiting to unwind

And all the world needs setting straight

In his crooked mind

 

Birds of prey they circle over

Black wing-ed birds

Smithy of the straighten-outer

Hammer out the curves

 

Volley of the straighten-outer

Make the ravens laugh

Nature, she got all the power

He will never have

 

The thunder of the straighten-outer

Sparking up the sky

Hammer of the straighten-outer

Working overtime…

 

And all the world's a rattle snake

Waiting to unwind

And all the world needs setting straight

In his crooked mind

 

Story of the straighten-outer

Story of the straighten-outer

Story of the straighten-outer

REHAB- Rihanna

 

Oh, you're the reason why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more
I guess that's what I get for wishful thinking
I should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed