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Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues


Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine,
I'm on the pavement thinking about the government,
the man in the trench coat, badge out, laid off,
says he's got a bad cough, wants to get it paid off.
Look out kid, it's something you did, God knows when, but you're doing it again.
You better duck down the alley way, looking for a new friend,
the man in the coon-skip cap in the big pen wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten.

Maggie comes fleet foot, face full of black soot,
talking that the heat put, plants in the bed but
the phone's tapped anyway, Maggie says that many say
they must bust in early May, orders from the DA.
Look out kid, don't matter what you did. Walk on your tiptoes, don't try, 'No Doz.'
Better stay away from those that carry around a fire hose,
keep a clean nose, watch the plain clothes,
you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.

Get sick, get well, hang around an ink well.
Ring bell, hard to tell if anything is going to sell,
try hard, get barred, get back, write Braille,
get jailed, jump bail, join the army if you failed.
Look out kid, you're gonna get hit, but users, cheaters,
six-time losers hang around the theaters.
Girl by the whirlpool looking for a new fool,
don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters.

Ah get born, keep warm, short pants, romance, learn to dance,
get dressed, get blessed, try to be a success,
please her, please him, buy gifts, don't steal, don't lift,
twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.
Look out kid, they keep it all hid.
Better jump down a manhole, light yourself a candle.
Don't wear sandals, try to avoid the scandals.
Don't wanna be a bum, you better chew gum.
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles.

Mother, you had me but I never had you,
I wanted you but you didn't want me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.
Farther, you left me but I never left you,
I needed you but you didn't need me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.
Children, don't do what I have done,
I couldn't walk and I tried to run,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy come home...

Love - Signed D.C.

Sometimes I feel so lonely
My comedown I'm scared to face
I've pierced my skin again, Lord
No one cares
For me

My soul belongs to the dealer
He keeps my mind as well
I play the part of the leecher
No one cares
For me, cares for me

Look out Joe, I'm fallin'
I can't unfold my arms
I've got one foot in the graveyard
No one cares
For me, cares for me

RJD2 - Making Days Longer

It’s nice to hear you say hello
And how are things with you?
I love you
But very soon it’s time to go
An office job to do
And I’m here writing songs for you

It’s nice to hear your voice again
I’ve waited all day long
even wrote a song for you
It’s strange the way you make me feel
With just a word or two
I’d like to do the same for you

It’s strange how a phone call can change your day
Take you away
Away from the feeling of being alone
That’s the telephone

It’s nice to hear you say hello
And how are things with you?
I love you
But very soon it’s time to go
An office job to do
And I’m here writing songs for you

It’s nice to hear your voice again
I’ve waited all day long
even wrote a song for you
It’s strange the way you make me feel
With just a word or two
I’d like to do the same for you

It’s strange how a phone call can change your day
Take you away
Away from the feeling of being alone
That’s the telephone

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT

"best feeling"

I woke to the world one morning
did not really know what was going on
Didn't care about tomorrow
worry when tomorrow comes
I went outside that night
set the ole imagination a flight
For one second I felt like a kid on Christmas day
feeling stops all if I said in a word I will explain if I may
I climbed up a tree that night
Sat up in the branches and I felt just like a bird
it was the best feeling in the world
Felt so good that night my soul it seemed to fly around that night as I flew that night
For one second I felt like a bird hangin' up in the air
feelin' stops all if I said in a word the feeling to be without a care
Swam in the sea that night dove through the waves and I felt like a fish it was the best feeling in the world
Felt so good that night my soul it seemed to swim around that night as I swam that night
For one second I Felt like a fish cruising around in the sea,
the feeling stops all if I said in a word the feeling to be free

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT

"panama red"


Panama Red, Panama Red
He'll steal your woman, then he'll rob your head
Panama Red, Panama Red
On his white horse, Mescalito
He come breezin' through town
I'll bet your woman's up in bed with
Panama Red


The judge don't know when Red's in town
He keeps well hidden underground
But everybody's acting lazy
Falling out and hangin' 'round


My woman said, "Hey Pedro
you're actin' crazy like a clown"
Nobody feels like working
Panama Red is back in town


[chorus]


Everybody's looking out for him
'Cause they know Red's satisfies
Little girls love to listen to him
Sing and tell sweet lies


But when things get too confusing, honey
You're better off in bed
And I'll be searching all the joints in town for
Panama Red

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Typical Cats - What You Thought Hops

Poetry is the language of imagination
Poetry is a form of positive creation
Difficult, isn't it the point? Ya missin it
Rockin's kinda new to me cause my true love is poetry
I don't know what you thought hops but chief I've got tall props see
This be thee rebuttal version
To mister academic who does not believe that my poems would
could should have muscles and bodies like this one
I want my poem to be brazen and long legged
and squash mud under a hard yellow heals wicked gravity
I wish to leave this lab of brains swishing in jars
and write poems that shatter glass with undeniable bodies
I want to be a word that wants to be a sweating brick
so drink that through your pointed teeth and critique it
I want to be the strophe that strokes the ear in salty heaves
a spine that bends and works like the dance you shut the door to be
Listen to me, with your hips
Clutch this line in the fleshy grip of bold thighs
Eat through your ears and drink through your pores
and if you see me splashed across a page
Know that a leaf is a tongue that you wear to make love
to a voice not your own, eat this poem
Floss with the barbed length of a simile
and scrape your tongue across the living verses
bristling skin my I is just my I I promise
I believe in closure but not in hospital corners
the way first principles are real but untraceable see
God is meaning, means becoming, means I knock before I come in
Means I wriggle through the riddle of the flesh to out sweat it
Means I wear my impertinence upon my fluttering lip
My refusal to bow out to some abstract curtain
and exist backstage by the sandbags and pulleys
Hell ******* no! I exist to be seen
to see and be seen, to push my I to the thou
Because the premise of my rhythm is the un-apologetic
emphatic insistence of the declarative sentence
That's right bad boy, I am I is I be, **** you.
I can speak about myself and rhyme in couplets if I want to
I am I is I be I do I self I delf I solo I dolo is is is is I I I
Am my mother's talk stories from beginning to end.
Listen to this poem with your hips..

Yes it's Denizen an exhalation of breath
and these Typicaaal Cats will make the session start fresh
Yes it's I grip tight the lemon scented mic device
these Typicaaal Cats will make the session start right

See I was born with two tongues but no green card
my skin marked by the immigration narratives of my people drifting a-part
Of the two worlds I reside in the high yellow phantasm, of an undiscovered future
I am to breach the chasm between my mother's memory and my hazy prison I so knew
Languages off the scraps of my hand-me-down clothes
I grip with ten toes the type or types are putting fact in funk
deliver colder than statistics, bubble hot like a Cali trunk
I dwell in the fertile valley between ghosts and history
subvert the dogma lefty-loosy righty-tighty every time I speak
Conjunction junction what's ya function my assumption
that the fearful face of my future would fall and then my punching is in question
Ghosts grip my chest and I can't breathe
panic brings my chinky eyes wide and then I can't read
Roll and I tumble and I cry the whole night long
roll and I tumble and I cry the whole night long
But my creator calls the human out the thinnest of the vapors
I tease the story out the blankness of the paper
I can weave a family out the scarlet of a sin
and write the world in which my seed will be at ease inside his own skin
See Miss Liberty stagger with evictions falling out
I tap with two tongues against the inside of my mouth
Had a date with assimilation, but I stood her ass up
and made love to the multi-color features brimming in my cup
Because the end comes quick, ego says quit
I say work is love let my body be a brick
Because the end comes quick and ego says quit
I say work is love let my body be a brick


PEACE!!!

This song has been stuck in my head for the last few weeks. I can't get it out!!

The Preacher and The Slave - Joe Hill

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

And the Starvation Army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray.
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they'll tell you when you're on the bum:

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Holy Rollers and jumpers come out,
And they holler, they jump and they shout.
"Give your money to Jesus," they say,
"He will cure all diseases today."

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

If you fight hard for children and wife -
Try to get something good in this life -
You're a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell.

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight:
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.

I've had Sonic Youth's cover of The Carpenter's Superstar stuck in my head lately.

Long ago, and oh so far away
I fell in love with you,
before the second show.
Your guitar, it sounds so
sweet and clear
But you're not really here
it's just the radio.

Don't you remember you told me
you loved me, baby?
You said you'd be coming
back this way again, baby.
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby,
I love you.
I really do.

Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait
to be with you again.
What to say to make you come again,
Come back to me again
And play your sad guitar?

Don't you remember you told me
you loved me, baby?
You said you'd be coming
back this way again, baby.
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby,
I love you.
I really do.

All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
We can be like they are

Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper
Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper
We'll be able to fly... Don't fear the Reaper
Baby I'm your man...

Valentine is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity...
Romeo and Juliet

40,000 men and women everyday... Like Romeo and Juliet
40,000 men and women everyday... Redefine happiness
Another 40,000 coming everyday...We can be like they are

Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper

Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper
We'll be able to fly... Don't fear the Reaper
Baby I'm your man...

Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared
Saying don't be afraid

Come on baby... And she had no fear
And she ran to him... Then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodbye
She had become like they are
She had taken his hand
She had become like they are

Come on baby...don't fear the reaper

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

"pictures to prove it"

-for her-

well you insisted the day you walked away
that we shared nothing, but I've got something
I'd still like to say
you're not here to listen, and we were never good at that
let's set the record straight, we shared something great
even though now nothing's where we're at
pictures to prove it, I've got the proof
when you hit the bricks, I hit the roof
I hit the bottle, put the pictures on the bar
I'll always have these pictures, but I don't know where you are
and I've got pictures to prove it
if you saw them, I'm sure
you'd be forced to remember
what we don't have anymore
I've got a pile of pictures
I've got a whole stack of proof
I've got pictures to prove it, I've got, I've got
pictures to prove it, smudged with fingerprints and tears
cigarette ashes
and our first few happy years
they're old now, they're faded and the edges all are frayed
I'll always have these pictures
but I wish that you had stayed
I've got pictures to prove it
if you saw them, I'm sure
you'd be forced to remember
what we don't have anymore
I've got a pile of pictures
I've got a whole stack of proof
I've got pictures to prove it and all I ever do is
stare at the pictures for hours on end
they tell the truth to me
while I'm sure you just pretend
and you deny we ever happened and swear it never was that way
even you'll admit when I submit to you exhibit A right?
I've got pictures to prove it
I'm not just blowing smoke
If you don't believe me, believe them
no this ain't no joke
I've got a pile of pictures
I've got a whole stack of proof
someone look at the pictures
I've got, I've got...

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

"hell of a hat"

that's a hell of a hat that you're wearing
it goes real well with the earring
five through the nose, bold and daring
you've got to pardon me if I'm staring
man, I really dig your shoes
phat fade and fresh tattoos
bet the females can't refuse
and if I'm staring please excuse
sharpest mother****** in the joint
the other mother******s stop and point
the gear you wear seems complete
why you gotta pack the heat
we question one accessory
don't think the piece is necessary
we agree you're dressed to kill
but wonder if you will
hell of a hat you're sporting Jack
diamond cuff links and a sweet tie tack
the pocket watch must've set you back
you're the man, man, you're the mack
the pinstriped number, me oh my, that's rude
and that's a hell of an attitude
you made the scene and set the mood
I'm only staring, cause I'm nervous dude
sharpest mother******, we repeat
no other mother****** can compete
the clothes you chose, are stylish son
why you gotta wear the gun
we question one accessory
don't think the piece is necessary
we agree you're dressed to kill
but wonder if you will

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

"they came to boston"

they came to Boston on their vacation
they came, they saw, they annoyed me
they saw it all, what! Fanueil Hall! It's best if they just avoid me
rented a car to see the sights they found the Hub confusing
looked for the Swan Boats In Mattapan well, I find that real amusing
I was here before they came. I'll be here long after
don't want to share, but it seems clear that I'm gonna have to
they came to Boston for an education live in the dorms, join a frat
jam my bars and subway cars now, what the **** is that?
spend year one having fun and causing aggravation
spending daddy's cash on a toga bash when the hell's graduation?
I was here before they came I'll be here long after
don't want to swear, but it seems clear that I'm gonna have to aww ****
I was here before they came I'll be here long after
don't want to share, but it seems clear that I'm gonna have to
I was here before they came I'll be here long after
don't want to share, but it seems clear that I'm gonna have to
They came to Boston[9x]

MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

"jump through the hoops"


wake up and shake myself out of bed again
shaking the day down in my head and then
it's up and out, rise and shine, on the double
no time to slack, attack, and tackle the trouble
shake myself out of bed again
no time to stop and assess, can't let it grind to a halt
can't stop and look at the mess and then find out it's my fault
I can't stop for a single minute
I know hell, well, I'm living in it
no time to stop at all, I've got to jump through the hoops
my job, well, it's a nine to five nightmare
I'm serving whiskey, stale wit, and beer
come on in, how've you been? Have I met ya?
what'll it be now, what can I get ya?
my job, well it's a nightmare
and every day from nine to five I'm there
no time to stop and assess, can't let it grind to a halt
can't stop and look at the mess and then find out it's my fault
I can't stop for a single minute
I know hell, well, I'm living in it
no time to stop at all, I've got to jump through the hoops
roll over, sit up and beg
well I'd much rather lie down and play dead
here comes another hoop
holidays have got to be the worst
I've seen so many I've got it well rehearsed
joy to the world, hark the hey, let me hear it
deck the halls, trim the tree, that's the spirit
holidays are not for me, chop down the tree
they've got to be the worst
I'm old and set in my ways, no stopping now, it's a shame
but in my much younger days I'd stop and I'd take the blame
I'm alright if I don't know and can't see
I'll live in hell, till the day, that they plant me
no time to stop at all, I've got to jump through the hoops
roll over, sit up and beg
well I'd much rather(3x)...lie down and play dead
all over so long my friend
so long all over the end