One More Chance

I turned around too late to see the fallen star
I fell asleep and never saw the sun go down
I took your love for granted
Thought luck was always on my side
I turned around too late and you were gone

Chorus:

So give me one more chance
Darlin' if you care for me
Let me win your love
'Cause you were always there for me
If you care for me,
Be there for me

I like to play the queen of hearts and never thought I'd lose
I rolled the dice but never showed my hand
I planned it out so perfectly,
So you'd never leave a boy like me
I was a fool, but now I understand

(chorus)

Here is the law of the land
You play with fire and you'll get burned
Here is the lesson I've learned
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone

(chorus, without last two lines)

Gimme one more chance
Tell me that it's not too late
Let me win your love
Darlin' please don't hesitate
If you care for me,
Be there for me

Give me one more chance




-- Edited by JohnK at 17:33, 2005-02-10

The whole Lucie Silvas album, Breathe In, is excellent.

I Don't Like Mondays
The Boomtown Rats


The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

All the playings stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain crackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die

The silicon chip ...

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

'I Don't Like Mondays'

...I'll never forget the time I accidentally played that at a wedding reception (I was actually going for 'Come On Eileen', but I think my finger slipped). Surreal.

And does the timing of the post there suggest a veiled reference to the cynical corporate palaver that is Valentine's Day, perchance?

Ok, that song is mediocre - what I want to know is how the fúck Bob Geldof got a lifetime achievement award - I know about 3 songs by him.

Silly Billy.

I've already mentioned this song in a nother thread but it just reminded me. The first time I bothered to listen to the lyrics properly I sat crying in the car with the engine running so the radio would keep playing.
Yes I know I'm a wimp.
______________________

The fights, those nights
I tried to pretend it don't hurt
The way, I prayed
Someday that you would love me
Really, completely
Just how I wanted it to be
But no, so wrong
Can't believe I stayed with you so long

You hit, you spit, you split, ever-y bit of me, yeah
You stole, you broke, you're cold
You're such a joke to me, yeah

For every last bruise you gave me
For every time I sat in tears
For the million ways you hurt me
I just wanna tell you this
You broke my world, made me strong
Thank you
Messed up my dreams, made me strong
Thank you

My head, near dead
Just the way you wanted it
My soul, stone cold
Cos I was under you're control
So young, so dumb
Knew just how to make me succumb
But I understand
To make yourself feel like a man

You hit, you spit, you split, ever-y bit of me, yeah
You stole, you broke, you're cold
You're such a joke to me, yeah

For every last bruise you gave me
For every time I sat in tears
For the million ways you hurt me
I just wanna tell you this
You broke my world, made me strong
Thank you
Messed up my dreams, made me strong
Thank you

You coulda had it all babe
It coulda been so right
I woulda given you everything
Morning through night
Yeah, you taught me some lessons
Those are my blessings
That won't happen again
Thank you
______________________
It's for reasons like this that Jamelia is one of the few 'Urban' acts that I truly love.

i'm in a fairly depressive mood, so i thought i'd give you these.
this song makes me mourn the loss of youth, rather than remind me of a particular person. i know i'm only 21 and still have a fair amount of youth left, but they make me think of being in the sixth form at school and all the fun we used to have, and of how my relationship has changed with the people i used to have fun with. we're still good friends, we just don't have the same childish adventure thing anymore.

autumn leaves

The falling leaves drift by my window
The falling leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburnt hands I used to hold
Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall.

quote:

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Originally posted by: xray dave
"these lyrics where very helpful in my younger days in understanding the complexities of the public transport system

the wheels on the bus go round and round round and round round and round
the wheels on the bus go round and round. all day long"

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or rather:

the drivers in leeds drive like mad bástards, mad bástards, mad bástards.
the drivers in leeds drive like mad bástards, so buy a car.

Kate Bush - Kashka from Baghdad

Kashka from Baghdad
Lives in sin, they say,
With another man,
But no one knows who.

Old friends never call there.
Some wonder if life's
Inside at all--
If there's life inside at all.

But we know the lady who rents the room.
She catches them calling a la lune.

At night
They're seen
Laughing,
Loving.
They know
The way
To be
Happy.

They never go for walks.
Maybe it's because
The moon's not bright enough.
There's light in love, you see.

I watch their shadows,
Tall and slim,
In the window opposite.
I long to be with them.

'Cause when all the alley-cats come out,
You can hear music from Kashka's house.

At night
They're seen
Laughing,
Loving.
They know
The way
To be
Happy.

"Watching every night.*
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

"Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

"Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.

"Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?"


Kate Bush, champion of international gays since 1978, apparently.

Now that one is probably one of the most amazing songs ever written. Love it.

talking of Metallica, I DEFY any of you to listen to 'Nothing Else Matters' and not be moved.

This is my favourite song of all time, and that is saying something. It drives me to tears every time, especially when Metallica played it at 2003 LeedsFest....

Nothing Else Matter - get it.
xxx

i'm going to be really poncy now and put up some lyrics in spanish. but it's a really cool song, so i think i'm justified. it's from the buena vista social club album, which you really all need to go and buy.

Dos gardenias

Dos gardenias para ti
Con ellas quiero decir:
Te quiero, te adoro, mi vida
Ponle toda tu attencion
Porque son tu corazon y el mio.

Dos gardenias para ti
Que tendran todo el calor de un beso
De esos besos que te di
Y que jamas encontraras
En el calor de otro querer.

A tu lado viviran y se hablaran
Como cuando estas conmigo
Y hasta creeras que to diran:
Te quiero.
Pero si un atardecer
Las gardenias de mi amor se mueren
Es porque han adivinado
Que tu amor me ha traicionado
Porque existe otro querer.

Now that I'm back into Sleeper...

What Did I Do Now?
Quickly she came dressed up for fame
Riding her perfume downstairs
Make up like glue she danced round the room
To the sound of her corduroy flares
Lets go to town taxis all round
We could stop for a couple of beers
He looks at it all stifles a yawn
She tries not to look like she cares

What do I do now are we going under
What did I do wrong I though we had it sorted
Out the other day maybe I’m just stupid
Can’t we try again
No one told me it was raining

Can’t face a club they walk to a nearby pub
Watch a couple of bands
Draining the glass they walk home at last
Reaching for each others hands

Nothing is said he goes to bed
Dreaming of her on his own
She stays up all week watching him sleep
Scared that she’ll wake up alone

Oh I’ll miss you every day of your life
Oh you’ll feel it too you’re not that strong
You know I’m on to you

Oh I’ll miss you every day of your life
And maybe when you’re dead
I’ll get some rest from holding onto you

What do I do now then are we going under
What did I do wrong I thought we had it sorted
Is there someone else or am I too familiar
Was it when I said I wanted to have children
Tore up all your photos didn’t feel too clever
Spent the whole of sunday sticking you together
Now I’d like to call you but I feel too awkward
Some things need explaining
No one told me it was raining

That'd be Bright Eyes wouldn't it?

hey. i love this song, not sure if anyone else has heard it, but its so good and the lyrics are a bit depressing but they are some of the most honest iv heard. xx

Beverley Craven

Love Scenes

I wonder what she says to you
When you're alone together
My imagination is so creul
Picturing you holding hands
And doing the things that we planned
Sharing every day and night
Making memories

You're playing love scenes without me
And she's got my role
Starring as your leading lady
And stealing the show

I wanted to be with you forever
We belonged together
But my affection was too strong
I played it all wrong
Chasing you and ruining things like i do
I'd give anything to turn back time
Or get over you...

You're playing love scenes without me
And she's got my role
Starring as your leading lady
And stealing the show

Am i just wasting my time
Still believing someday you'll realise
They're my lines
What she says to you
For the rest of your lives

You're playing love scenes without me
And she's got my role
Starring as your leading lady
And stealing the show

--

The whole album 'Love Scenes' is really good, its a bit old now, but if you're into down-tempo moody pop songs and rich orchestral arrnagements, this is it. xx

-- Edited by Phil at 12:49, 2005-02-26

Mike, Dos gardenias para ti is a classic!!

However, my sister gets stage fright every time she hears is now, because they used to play it in a theatrical production she was involved in, and now she hates the song!

Hats off to the man (or lady) who posted lyrics from tomorrows favourite band...The Postal Service, personally prefer Dogs Die In Hot Cars, but it's nice to have a succesful side project

this sounds nice, but if you listen to the words it's actually kinda creepy.

i've been
watching your world from afar
i've been
trying to be where you are
i've been
secretly falling apart
unseen

to me
you're strange and you're beautiful
you'd be
so perfect with me but you just
can't see
you turn every head buy you don't
see me

i'll put a spell on you
you'll fall asleep
i'll put a spell on you
and when i wake you
i'll be the first thing you see
and you'll realise that you love me

sometimes
the last thing you want comes in first
sometimes
the first thing you want never comes
i know
waiting is all you can do
sometimes

i'll put a spell on you
you'll fall asleep
and when i wake you
i'll be the first thing you see
and you'll realise that you love me

quote:

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Originally posted by: jonnycosmic
"Hats off to the man (or lady) who posted lyrics from tomorrows favourite band...The Postal Service, personally prefer Dogs Die In Hot Cars, but it's nice to have a succesful side project"

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Why, thank you. I really do think that they are the bestest.

...But surely you mean Death Cab For Cutie?

If you come to Curious on Tuesday you will here this song. Ally introduced me to it and I love it :)

Gloria
Patti Smith

Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine
Meltin’ in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, me

People say ’beware!’
But I don’t care
The words are just
Rules and regulations to me, me

I-i walk in a room, you know I look so proud
I’m movin’ in this here atmosphere, well, anything’s allowed
And I go to this here party and I just get bored
Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing
Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter
Oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling and then I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
Ooh I’ll put my spell on her

Here she comes
Walkin’ down the street
Here she comes
Comin’ through my door
Here she comes
Crawlin’ up my stair
Here she comes
Waltzin’ through the hall
In a pretty red dress
And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine

And then I hear this knockin’ on my door
Hear this knockin’ on my door
And I look up into the big tower clock
And say, ’oh my God here’s midnight!’
And my baby is walkin’ through the door
Leanin’ on my couch she whispers to me and I take the big plunge
And oh, she was so good and oh, she was so fine
And I’m gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine

And I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name
She whispered to me, she told me her name
And her name is, and her name is, and her name is, and her name is g-l-o-r-i-a
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria

I was at the stadium
There were twenty thousand girls called their names out to me
Marie and ruth but to tell you the truth
I didn’t hear them I didn’t see
I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock
And I heard those bells chimin’ in my heart
Going ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong.
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong
Counting the time, then you came to my room
And you whispered to me and we took the big plunge
And oh. you were so good, oh, you were so fine
And I gotta tell the world that I make her mine make her mine
Make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine

G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria

And the tower bells chime, ’ding dong’ they chime
They’re singing, ’jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.’

Gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a,
Gloria g-l-o-r-i-a, g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria .

After The Thrills last night, we were in Brighton Beach and they played this. I danced like a bitch! Expect the Libs on Tuesday too!

The Libertines
Don't Look Back Into the Sun

Yeah

Don't look back into the sun
Now you know that the time is come
And they said it would never come for you

Oh my friend you haven't changed
Your looking rough and living strange
And I know you got a taste for it too

They'll never forgive you but they won't let you go, oh no
She'll never forgive you but she wont let you go, oh no

Don't look back into the sun
You got your past, but you are on the run
And all the lies you said, huh did you say?

Then they played that song at the Death Disco
It started fast but it ends so slow
And all the time just reminded me of you

They'll never forgive you but they wont let you go, let me go
She'll never forgive you but she wont let you go, oh no

They'll never forgive you but they wont let you go, let me go
She'll never forgive you but she wont let you go, oh no

Purple Toupee
They Might Be Giants

I remember the year I went to camp
I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax
I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba
Now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else
Way down inside me I can feel it coming back

Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
(Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
(Purple toupee and gold lame)

Chinese people were fighting in the park
We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that
Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
Ten years later they were sharing the same cell
I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"
Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fat
Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man
And the only thing that's different is underneath my hat

Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
(Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
(Purple toupee and gold lame)

Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away
The purple brigade is marching from the grave

We're on some kind of mission
We have an obligation
We have to wear toupees

Return to Innocence Lost
The Roots - feat. Ursula Rucker

Muffled sound of fist on flesh
Blows to chest
No breath
Air gasps
You ain't nothing but white trash, bitch!
With each hit, each kick, each...broken rib
Crack, Crack!
Bones are crying
Mommy's crying and bleeding
And pleading
And then...
Daddy wants to f**k
Dick hard, swelled with power rush
And as if all that wasn't enough
Mommy's seven months heavy with birth
As...Daddy grunts and cursed drunk nothings in her bloodied ear

(singing softly)
First...lullaby
First...Son...will...ever...hear
And never forget

Mommy almost bled to death when she have him...finally
She'd already lost...three
Uterus-bruised, shredded, and weak
>From being daily beat
And Friday nights were the worse and...
Daddy never came with flowers
Instead he spent hours at some corner spot
With some bar pop named Cookie
Putting his thing down
Soiling Mommy's sheets with...
Sweet...talk ****,
Cookie's cheap lipstick,
Hair grease, sperm, and jezebel juice

To hell with the good news that...
He was a father for the first time
His thirst for wine and women
Clouded his vision...
No warm welcome for mother and son
Just...
The rank smell of ass-crack, funk, and cum
But Mommy's prayerful strength-her best defense
She...burned the dirty linens
Made a fresh bed
Laid sleeping First Son down
And never made a sound
As she purged her scourge
With birth-blood and quiet tears
Watching as her fears and love and sacrifice
Lie there in his soft skin and new life
Breathing, dreaming, fresh from God's eye
Mommy's little survivor
Like...her

Mommy called crazy and scorned
'Cuz she two more born
One boy soon after
The girl much later and...
Although they were both sung the same lullabies of hate
Her...First Son, the first one
Whose...womb-world was profaned
Came of age playing street games
With Stewie, Rezzie, and Little Brother

'Till his heart start to wither
In pain and shame
Blamed Mom for the wrong she let Daddy do to her
And him...
Let...sins of the Father cause his Innocence to wander
Found out amongst thieves
Chose to squander his dreams
Stopped believing in himself
Become prodigal with his life
Make impossible **** right with...
Gang-ties, crime, lies
Erase wise, woeful words of Mother
Replaced them with absurdities of others
Who had also lost their way

Played a different kind of street game now
First Son plunged deep
Speak street-family vows
Espouse no causes but his own
See, he couldn't protect Mommy's neck from Daddy's grasp
Or...protect Mommy's ass from Daddy's wrath
Couldn't shield her ears from...
Daddy's foul-mouthed, liquor-breath jeers
His only defense-served be confidence
Brown bottles housed his swift descent
Phones called cops on block frequent for his shenanigans
Now...Daddy and him twins in addiction
Driven to false-hearted heavens and friends
By liquefied demons
Had become what he despised from Conception 'til End
Destined for a demise
Survived nine lives of staying high
Conning, jewelry-pawning, arrests, theft
Womanizing...only for money, never for sex
Bullet in chest, baseball bat to the head
Left for dead
So, eyes wide and glassy
Speech...slowed and slurred
Lips twitched with caked-up codeine candy
And mouth corners one December 24th
Mr. Hide and False Friend
Took final ride to suburban supplier
Shots were fired by the gray man
With shaky hand
But not shaky enough to miss...
Hit...Lost Boy in back
So-called Friend runs for door
Leaves First Son blood-born
Lying alone in blood on cold floor

Death was the cause of...
Returning to Innocence Lost...

Baby 'Sis awake for dawn on Christmas morn
To Mommy's sobs and shakes
Daddy's silhouettes of regret
All past, omitted, and absolved by lost
As they clung to each other
Knowing...

"Over Now"

Here we go
Take a bow
Because we're over now
You were not
There for me
When I needed you and honestly
I think I loved you more
If that's possible
I think I loved you more

[Chorus:]

It's over now and I can't save you
Some things are better left unsaid
And all the promises I made were so stupid
Maybe we'll be able to be friends
If that's possible

Two days gone I'm alright
But you can't sleep at night
What is it you don't like
Are I'm happy now
I was playing with your head
And I close the door
I was kidding when I said
I love you more, yeah

[Chorus:]

It's over now and I can't save you
Some things are better left unsaid
And all the promises I made were so stupid
Maybe we'll be able to be friends
If that's possible

It's over now and I can't save you
Some things are better left unsaid
And all the promises I made were so stupid
Maybe we'll be able to be friends
If that's possible

If that's possible
If that's possible
If that's possible
It's over now

Janis Ian
In the Winter

The days are okay
I watch the TV in the afternoon
If I get lonely
The sound of other voices
Other rooms are near to me
I'm not afraid
The operator
She tells the time
It's good for a laugh
There's always radio
And for a dime I can talk to God
Dial-a-prayer
Are you there?
Do you care?
Are you there?
And in the winter extra blankets for the cold
Fix the heater, getting old
I am wiser now, I know, but still as big a fool
Concerning you
I met your friend
She's very nice what can I say?
It was an accident
I never dreamed we'd meet again this way
You're looking well
I'm not afraid
You have a lovely home
Just like a picture
No, I live alone
I found it easier
You must remember how I never liked
The party life
Up all night
Lovely wife
You have a lovely wife
And in the winter extra blankets for the cold
Fix the heater, getting old
You are with her now, I know
I'll live alone forever
Not together now