Thursday, 23 July 2015

Andrew McMahon - "Cecilia And The Satellite"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zY_jSVXSU

I lock myself in a hotel room,
Been waiting all night for the walls to move.
I've loved some girls that I barely knew.
I've made some friends, and I've lost some too.
Crashed my car, I was 17,
My mother in the seat riding next to me.
The things I've learned from a broken mirror,
How a face can change when a heart knows fear.
Through all the things my eyes have seen,
The best by far is you.

If I could fly,
Then I would know,
What life looks like from up above and down below.
I'd keep you safe,
I'd keep you dry,
Don't be afraid Cecilia.
I'm the satellite,
And you're the sky.

Oh,Oh etc.

I've café crawled through Amsterdam.
I've been around the world with a punk rock band,
And I've seen London, and I've played Japan.
I've been knocked down, I got up again.
For all the places I have been,
I'm no place without you.
If I could fly,
Then I would know,
What life looks like from up above and down below.
I'd keep you safe,
I'd keep you dry,
Don't be afraid Cecilia.
I'm the satellite,
And you're the sky.

Oh,Oh etc.

I'm the satellite,
And you're the sky.

For all the things my hands have held,
The best by far is you.
If I could fly,
Then I would know,
What life looks like from up above and down below.
I'd keep you safe,
I'd keep you dry,
Don't be afraid Cecilia.
I'm the satellite,
And you're the sky.

Oh,Oh etc.

And you're the sky

Oh,Oh etc.

I'm the satellite
And you're the sky

Oh,Oh etc.

And you're the sky.

And you're the sky.

http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2015/04/coachella-2015-watch-cecilia-the-satellite-by-andrew-mcmahon-live

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/ferry-corsten-remixes-andrew-mcmahon-in-the-wilderness-ahead-of-coachella-collab

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Terry Callier - "Ordinary Joe'



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YOb5IC1js

And for my opening line
I'm not trying to indicate my state of mind.
I turn you on,
I tell you that I'm laughing just to keep from crying
Pretty music when you hear it,
Keep on trying to get near it.
A little rhythm for your spirit
Oh but that's what it's for
Come on in, here's the door

And I've seen a sparrow get high
And waste his time in the sky
He thinks it's easy to fly
He's just a little bit freer than I

Now here's a mystery
And maybe you can help to make it clear to me
When you're fast asleep
Then what is it that's lighting up the dreams you see
Only your tears can't conceal it
And only your prayers may not reveal it
You've got soul so you can feel it
And when you make the scene
Well you know what I mean

Hey, I've seen a sparrow get high
And waste his time in the sky
He thinks it's easy to fly
He's just a little bit freer than I

Down here on the ground
When you find folks are giving you the runaround
Keep your game uptight
And if you must just take your secrets underground
Now politicians are trying to speech you
Mad color watchers are trying to teach you
Very few will really try to reach you
If you're lost in a stack
That's OK, come all black

Now I'd be the last to deny
That I'm just an average guy
And don't you know each little bird in the sky
Is just a little bit freer than I

Hey ordinary Joe
Although they say you're just a lazy so-and-so
What they think is real
Is nothing but an animated puppet show
So don't let time and space confuse you
And don't let name and form abuse you
Let that Big Joe Williams blues you
In the light of the sun you can see how they burn

Oh I've seen a sparrow get high
And waste his time in the sky
He thinks it's easy to fly
He's just a little bit freer than i

Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. – Writer: LEE, HYUN BAE / CALLIER, TERRENCE O N / CHOI, KYUNG WOOK N / PARK, JAE JIN N / PEEJAY, N – Powered by LyricFind

Sunday, 14 June 2015

Ima Robot - "Greenback Boogie"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slgj96aXgQk

See the money wanna stay, for your meal
Get another piece of pie, for your wife
Everybody wanna know, how it feel
Everybody wanna see, what it's like
Baby wanna be a queen, well alright
We all deserve the finer things, in this life
...
...

So working on a little job, in the night
It's forty dollars an hour when I, see the light
The boss say you got a little time, and oh my
He'll be working in a small box, 'til he die
Me, I gotta be free, all my life
I want a little cream cheese, in my pie

Alright...

Yeah! I'll step back, while you go dance
The greenback boogie
Mother f*ing boogie

Now I'm putting on a big wig, walking hard
Hanging with them big pigs, all them dogs
Got me a couple ideas, straight from God
I want a bean pie
Order me a bean pie
I'll even eat a bean pie, I don't mind
Me and Missy is so very busy busy making money

Alright...

All step back, I'm 'bout to dance
The greenback boogie
The greenback boogie
Boogie for me now
...
...
...

Say, it's far better, when you give it away
It's called the greenback boogie
What people don't say, I say

It's better, when you give it away
It's called the greenback boogie
Don't give it all away now, I say
It's better, when you give it away
It's called the greenback boogie
Don't give it all away now, I say

See the money wanna stay, for your meal
I'll say it's gonna put some love, in your life
Don't you really wanna know, how it feel?
Everybody wanna see, what it's like
Babe you wanna be inside, it ain't lies
We all know there's better things in this life

Yes I'll step out, for your last dance
Doin' the greenback boogie
Mother f*ing boogie
Boogie oogie oogie
Greenback Boogie

Come on back to paradise
Come on back to paradise
Come on back to paradise
Come on back to...
Come on back to...
Come on back to paradise
Come on back to paradise
Come on back to paradise
Come on back to...
Come on back to...

It's the greenback boogie
It's the greenback boogie
Don't give it all away now
Don't give it all away now, I say

It's better, when you greenback boogie
Well don't give it all away
Well don't give it all away, I say

It's better...
It's the greenback boogie
Don't give it all away...

Songwriters
M T Ebert, Alex / Nikolic, Filip / Anderson, Tim

Published by
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing


Monday, 13 April 2015

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Red Right Hand"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k

Take a little walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
Like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
In the humming wires
Hey man, you know
You're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
A tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
A red right hand

He'll wrap you in his arms,
Tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
It took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
Heal your shrinking soul,
But there won't be a single thing
That you can do
He's a god, he's a man,
He's a ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his name
Through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat
Is a red right hand

You don't have no money?
He'll get you some
You don't have no car?
He'll get you one
You don't have no self-respect,
You feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
'Cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio
And the bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his
Red right hand

You'll see him in your nightmares,
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
He ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
On the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
You to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god,
He's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog
In his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
His red right hand

Saturday, 11 April 2015

Brandi Carlile - "Keep Your Heart Young"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjlLQSsWVv4

My grandpa gave me a wheat penny and I kept it in my pocket
Had big plans in my backyard to build me a space rocket
Talked to my brother on a fake CB that I made from a tic-tac box
Packed my snowballs nice and tight and in the middle I put rocks

Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of the chain
And don't go spending grandpa's pennies buying into the game
You gotta keep your heart young
Don't go growin' old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young

Dad took the wheels off of my bike and he pushed me down a hill
But speed got the best of me and I took my first spill
That was back when alcohol was only used on cuts
Stung like hell so I jerked my leg and mama said it would give me guts

Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of the chain
And don't go spending grandpa's pennies buying into the game
You gotta keep your heart young
Don't go growing old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young

So take a picture of the one you love and put it in a locket
Go dig up your time capsule and the blueprints for your rocket
Keep in touch on a fake CB and that same old tic-tac box
Pack your snowballs a little less tight but in the middle: still put rocks

And keep your heart young
Don't go growing old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young

You gotta keep your heart young
Sometimes you don't die quick
Just like you wished you'd done
The love is a loaded gun
You've gotta keep your heart young
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young

Writer(s): Timothy Jay Hanseroth, Brandi M. Carlile, Phillip John Hanseroth

Copyright: Southern Oracle Music LLC

Saturday, 21 March 2015

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - "Peeling Off the Layers"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfg8ziVInI

There in the day come to me
Straight into my arms
I try to hold it
But it just ran through my fingers
The ocean
They come to me
Straight into my arms
I tried to caress it
But it rand right through my fingers

Water will keep running
And rivers will turn
(x3)

So how can I ever find
What I'm looking for?
When it's been closer
Stuck at the nights
The wind blows from north to south
But I'm still where I was
Keep taking some shirts off
And taking them off

Peel off the layers
Peel it off
Peel off the layers
Peel it off
Peel off the layers
Peel it off
Peel off the layers
Peel it off

I wish I could find a cure
And to know my disease
But like nothing is heard of
The circle of all of life
And let you carry me to the other side
There is looking just like this
With the sink on the open

Everything is so far
Leaking about
Everything is so far
Leaking about
Everything is so far
Leaking about
Everything is so far
Leaking about

Monday, 9 March 2015

Robert Palmer - Woke Up Laughing



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdWTy9TwvZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jCNDj9r9I

I ran to the window as fast as could be
I thought you were somebody else
I thought you were me
I thought I had lost everything and found you instead
I fell fast asleep in your arms I woke up in bed

I was waiting for you
I was sat in the sun
I could picture your face on the tip of my tongue
I woke up laughing
I broke into a sweat
I broke into a run
You were hot in my heels so I hired a gun
I woke up laughing
I was flat on my back
I was taking a plunge
It was making a stand but my plan was undone
I woke up laughing
Well I planned an escape for the middle of june
But I drug too fast and I fire too soon
I woke up laughing
Woke up laughing

You make yourself a fortune, out in hong kong
You sit at home and wonder whether you were wrong
You take a small vacation just to keep sane
You find on your return your home has blown away
You meditate, you make haste
You run a risk, you come late,
You pay a bill, you lose face
You're not fully unaware
Your star or your fate
If you fall do you break
You go to war, you make love
You sign out in a box

[Repeat whole song]