Destination Unknown: Missing Persons
Life is so strange when you don’t knowHow can you tell where you’re going toYou can’t be sure of any situationSomething could change and then you won’t knowYou ask yourselfWhere do we go from hereIt seems so all too nearJust as far beyond as I can seeI still don’t know what this all means to…
Driving School: Pylon
The Driving School — a parking placeSeatbelt windshield dashboard floormatSpare tire lug wrench AM FMTime again — faulting wiringAnother example of defensive drivingRadiator — fold the map upCaution red lights bus stop turn rightReverse forward neutral low gear
Danger>Feast On My Heart (sound check): Pylon
Feast on my heartDrill a hole in itI want you to drown me in itPick up the scalpel and do itI want you to do itFeast on my heartI missed the turnoffThis map has too many symbolsPunch a hole in itI want you to do itDrown me through my heartPull down your eyebrowsUncross your armsI…
Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles
Turn off your mind, relax and float down streamIt is not dying, it is not dyingLay down all thoughts, surrender to the voidIt is shining, it is shiningYet you may see the meaning of withinIt is being, it is beingLove is all and love is everyoneIt is knowing, it is knowingThat ignorance and hates may…
Poor Skeleton Steps Out: XTC
Poor skeleton steps out, dressed up in bad blood, bad brains, bad thoughts, and others deeds. Poor skeleton no doubt, one of these days, you can cast aside your human, be free.When the cities run with blood, and you drink our health in mud, “All flesh be gone.”Save your dry and joyous shout, for the…
Cemetery Gates: The Smiths
A dreaded sunny daySo I meet you at the cemetry gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sideA dreaded sunny daySo I meet you at the cemetry gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sideWhile Wilde is on mineSo we go inside and we gravely read the stonesAll those people, all those lives where are they now?With…
Midnight Rambler: The Rolling Stones
I’m a-talkin’ ’bout the midnight ramblerEverybody got to goWell I’m a-talkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerThe one you never seen beforeI’m sighin’ down the wind so sadlyA-listen and you’ll hear me moanWell I’m a talkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerAnd everybody got to goTalkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerThe one you never seen beforeI’m talkin’ ’bout the midnight…
Across This Antheap: XTC
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, nurses, queens and drones.Wish they’d leave my head tonight, let me rest my bones.(Ziggedy zig zag just look at ’em.)A billion feet sound just like a billion drums. A bed is creaking as the new messiah comes.The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked. The coffin’s lowered and the…
Never Stop: Echo & the Bunnymen
Good God, you said Is that the only thing you care aboutSplitting up the money and share it outThe cake’s being eaten straight through the mouth poisonPoised to come back in seasonFor all the ones who lack reasonMeasure by measure, drop by dropAnd pound for pound, we’re taking stockOf all the treasure still unlockedThe love…
Party Out Of Bounds: The B-52s
Who’s to blame when parties really get out of hand?Who’s to blame when they get poorly planned?Crashers get bombed, slobs make a messYou know sometimes they’ll even ruin your wife’s dressCrashers getttin’ bombedWho’s to blame?Can you pull it back in line?Can you salvage it in time?What can you do to save a party?Parcheesi, charadesA spur-of-the-moment…
Pinch Me: Barenaked Ladies
It’s the perfect time of year, Somewhere far away from hereI feel fine enough, I guess, Considering everything’s a messThere’s a restaurant down the street, Where hungry people like to eatI could walk but I’ll just drive, It’s colder than it looks outsideLike a dream you try to remember but it’s goneThen you try to…
The Cutter: Echo & the Bunnymen
Who’s on the seventh floorBrewing alternativesWhat’s in the bottom drawerWaiting for things to giveSpare us the cutterCouldn’t cut the mustardConquering myselfUntil I see another hurdle approachingSay we can, say we willNot just another drop in the oceanCome to the free for allWith seven tapered knivesSome of them six feet tallWe will escape our livesAm I…
Fools’ Gold: The Stone Roses
Gold road’s sure a long roadWinds on through the hills for fifteen daysThe pack on my back is achingThe straps seem to cut me like a knifeI’m no clown, I won’t back downI don’t need you to tell me what’s going downI’m standing alone, I’m watching you allI see you sinkingI’m standing alone, you’re weighing…
The Puppet: Echo & the Bunnymen
I’ll practice my fall for practice makes perfect Chained to the wall for maximum hold The window’s too far, too far from my legs Open the door and let out the coldYou knew about this With your head in your hands All along I was the puppet Trampolines broken ceiling has come down The ache in my back tells me something’s gone wrong Rocking horse rocks as the…
Monkey and the Engineer: The Grateful Dead
Once upon a time there was an engineerDrove a locomotive both far and nearAccompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stoolWatching everything the engineer would doOne day the engineer wanted a bite to eatHe left the monkey sitting on the driver’s seatThe monkey pulled the throttle locomotive jumped the gunAnd did 80 miles…
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before: The Smiths
Stop me, oh, stop me Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before Nothing’s changed I still love you, oh, I still love you Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my loveI was delayed, I was way-laid An emergency stop I smelt the last ten seconds of life I crashed down on the crossbar And the pain…
The Strange Remain: The Other Ones
I’ve been searching in sectors both private and darkWith the eye of a witness – silent and starkSeen everything that goes on in the nightThings that are twisted and hide from the lightThings that live under the rock and the stoneFlesh like a fever on a platter of boneBlacker than blackness and whiter than whiteThings…
Easy Answers: The Grateful Dead
Promises made in the dark dissolve by light of dayAin’t no saying what will be, it’s always been that wayOnly thing I know for sure, someone got to payAin’t no easy answers, is what I got to sayI don’t wanna hearAin’t nobody caresC’mon let’s goI don’t wanna knowLove is an easy word to say, roll’s…
Alabama Getaway: The Grateful Dead
Thirty-two teeth in a jawboneAlabama’s tryin’ for noneBefore I have to hit himI hope he’s got the sense to runReason the poor girls love himPromise them everythingWhy they all believe him?He wears a big diamond ringAlabama getaway, get awayAlabama getaway, get awayOnly way to please meJust get down and leave and walk awayMajordomo Billy BojanglesSat…
Whammy Kiss: The B-52s
I need a refueling I need your kissCome on now and planet on my lipsWhammy kiss me whammy hugRevitalize me give me whammy loveOn Planet X-oh it won’t be long nowI got a light year to get to the phone nowI’m gonna contact you when I get homeGive it all you got give it all…
Do It Clean: Echo & the Bunnymen
I’ve got a handful of thisWhat do I do with it?I’ve got a barrel of thisWhat do I do with it?I do it clean, I do it cleanDo it clean, do it cleanKnow what I meanWhere am I goingWhere have I beenWhere are you goingWhere have you beenI’ve been here, I’ve been thereI’ve been here,…
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