Great lyrics - "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die...."

[kpc]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> No disrespect KPC

And absolutely none taken. It is a faulted song - consecutive lines ending with 'again' - but that's somehow appropriate for a song about missed opportunity and the chance of redemption. There's an accoustic version I've heard on a compilation by a busker in New York which brings out the vulnerability in the song (Cowboy Junkies version starts well but reverts to closely to the original).

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Is there life in Peckham?

[flapjackdavey]

1952 vincent black lightning - richard thompson

Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike

A girl could feel special on any such like

Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you

It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952

And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems

Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme

And he pulled her on behind

And down to Box Hill they did rid

Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right hand

But I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man

I've fought with the law since I was seventeen

I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine

Now I'm 21 years, I might make 22

And I don't mind dying, but for the love of you

And if fate should break my stride

Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Come down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRae

For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery

Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside

Oh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside

When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left

He was running out of road, he was running out of breath

But he smiled to see her cry

And said I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world

Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl

Now Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't do

They don't have a soul like a Vincent 52

He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys

He said I've got no further use for these

I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome

Swooping down from heaven to carry me home

And he gave her one last kiss and died

And he gave her his Vincent to ride

[RosieH]

Well did you hear, there's a natural order

Those most deserving will end up with the most

That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top

Well I say, "Shit floats"

If you thought things had changed

Friend, you'd better think again

Bluntly put, in the fewest of words:

C*nts are still running the world

C*nts are still running the world

Now the working classes are obsolete

They are surplus to society's needs

So let 'em all kill each other

And get a maid overseas.

That's the word, don't you know

From the guys that's running the show

Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls,

C*nts are still running the world

C*nts are still running the world

Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails,

Find a school near the top of the league

In theory I respect your right to exist

I will kill you if you move in next to me.

Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust

Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so

C*nts are still running the world

C*nts are still running the world

The free market is perfectly natural

Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?

It's the ideal way to order the world

"F*ck the morals, does it make any money?"

And if you don't like it, then leave,

Or use your right to protest on the streets.

Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard:

Oh no no no, c*nts are still running the world.

[Mick Mac]

What's gone wrong today Rosie?

[Keef]

PGC, "Paradise by the dashboard light" is a great song, and an absolute classic on the karaoke circuit in Liverpool!

And now I'm preying for the end of time, to hurry up and arrive. Cos if I've gotta spend another minute with you, I don't think that I could really survive.

Class!

[brum]

Sweet dreams are made of this...

Who am I to disagree?

I travel the world and the seven seas...

Everybody's lookin for something.

Annie Lennox

[ruffers]

I read the excerpts, but quote a whole song and it's scroll to the next one.

Not that anyone cares I'm sure.

[flapjackdavey]

Here?s the gifts of the infant suitor

A cask of ash and a flask of pewter

A map of the city of the future

And a clutch of empty browsers

Here?s the dowry of the leper

A walnut shell and a peck of pepper

And an alder spray to carve a quiver

For a gang of hazel dowsers

[Michael Palaeologus]

Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Unemployments rising In the chigley end of town,

And it's speading like pneumonia doesn't look like going down.

There's trouble at the fire station someone's had the sack,

And the lads are going to launch a scheme to get rid of Captain Flak.

Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate,

And arm themselves with CS gas - they're going to be out late.

We've had cant conformism since 1966,

And now subversions in the air in the shape of flying bricks.

Chorus:

Someone get a message through to Captain Snort

That they better start assembling the boys from the fort.

And keep Mrs. Honeyman right out of sight,

'Cos there's gonna be riot down in Trumpton Tonight.

All this aristocracy has really got to stop'

We could overthrow the surgery and kidnap Dr Mopp.

The Chippy Minton Socialists could storm the market square,

And make plans to assasinate our aristocratic mayor!

Windy Millitant leads his Basque like corngrinders to war,

With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door.

But Snorty and the boys arrive with one big erstwhile crew,

Whereupon they bring about a military coup.

[Kells]

Hand out lobotomies to save little families

Surrealistic fantasy, bland boring pain.

[flapjackdavey]

.............................................

And on the second floor is the Macintosh Man

He's in his overcoats more than out of them

And the typewriter's rattling all through the night

He's burgundy for breakfast tight

He says "One day I'll throw away all of my cares

And it is always Christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs"

[Sue]

Have you seen the old man

In the closed-down market

Kicking up the paper

With his worn out shoes?

In his eyes you see no pride

Hand held loosely at his side

Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

Chorus: so how can you tell me you're lonely

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of london

I'll show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl

Who walks the streets of london

Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?

She's no time for talking

She just keeps right on walking

Carrying her home in two carrier bags

Chorus

In the all night cafe

At a quarter past eleven

Same old man is sitting there on his own

Looking at the world

Over the rim of his tea-cup

Each tea lasts an hour

Then he wanders home alone

Chorus

Have you seen the old man

Outside the seaman's mission

Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears

In our winter city

The rain cries a little pity

For one more forgotten hero

And a world that doesn't care

Chorus

[Mick Mac]

A kiss with a fist is better than none.

[????]

"Oh bondage, up yours"

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

With a hey and a ho and a hey-nonny-no.

[flapjackdavey]

Nostradamus

Al Stewart

In the east the wind is blowing the boats across the sea

And their sails will fill the morning and their cries ring out to me

Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same

And the hand just re-arranges the players in the game

Oh, I had a dream

It seemed I stood alone

And the veil of all the years

Goes sinking from my eyes like a stone

A king shall fall and put to death by the English parliament shall be

Fire and plague to London come in the year of six and twenties three

An emperor of France shall rise who will be born near Italy

His rule cost his empire dear, Napoloron his name shall be

From Castile does Franco come and the Government driven out shall be

An English king seeks divorce, and from his throne cast down is he

One named Hister shall become a captain of Greater Germanie

No law does this man observe and bloody his rise and fall shall be

Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

In the new lands of America three brothers now shall come to power

Two alone are born to rule but all must die before their hour

Two great men yet brothers not make the north united stand

Its power be seen to grow, and fear possess the eastern lands

Three leagues from the gates of Rome a Pope named Pol is doomed to die

A great wall that divides a city at this time is cast aside

These are the signs I bring to you

to show you when the time is nigh

Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

Man, man, your time is sand, your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

[Jah Lush]

Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones

Please allow me to introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

I've been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man's soul and faith

And I was 'round when Jesus Christ

Had his moment of doubt and pain

Made damn sure that Pilate

Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St Petersburg

When I saw it was a time for a change

Killed the Czar and his ministers

Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank

Held a general's rank

When the Blitzkrieg raged

And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name, oh yeah

Ah, what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

(woo woo, woo woo)

I watched with glee

While your kings and queens

Fought for ten decades

For the gods they made

I shouted out,

"Who killed the Kennedys?"

When after all

It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

And I laid traps for troubadours

Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah

(who who)

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

(who who, who who)

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah

But what's confusing you

Is just the nature of my game

(woo woo, who who)

Just as every cop is a criminal

And all the sinners saints

As heads is tails

Just call me Lucifer

'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

(who who, who who)

So if you meet me

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy, have some taste

(woo woo)

Use all your well-learned politesse

Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mmm yeah

(woo woo, woo woo)

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, mmm yeah

(who who)

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, mmm mean it, get down

(woo woo, woo woo)

Woo, who

Oh yeah, get on down

Oh yeah

Oh yeah!

(woo woo)

Tell me baby, what's my name

Tell me honey, can ya guess my name

Tell me baby, what's my name

I tell you one time, you're to blame

[Jah Lush]

Wreckless Eric - Reconnez Cherie

On a convenient seat by the lavatories

In the sodium glare

We used to wait for the bus in a passionate clutch

And go as far as we dared

Do you remember

When I passed my driving test

Took you to the pictures

Forget the rest

Do you remember

All those nights in my Zodiac

Playing with your dress

Underneath your Pac-a-Mac

Reconnez Cherie

Quand nous avons vive en ecstasy

And then a voice from afar in the back of my car

Whispered 'Gay Paris'

And looking ever so French the bohemian dream

You said 'bonjour mon ami'

Do you remember

When I moved into my studio flat

Hot sticky nights

In the summertime in bedsitland

Do you remember

When you sold your paintings in the gallery

And they said 'mais oui ce soir,

'C'est la vie c'est le tricolor'

Reconnez Cherie

Quand nous avons vive en ecstasy

[njc97]

Haven't read all above, so apologies for repeats but:

"It took me a dictionary, to find out the meaning of unrequited,

Meanwhile, she gave it away for free, at parties to which I was never invited"

And

"Born down in a one horse town, first kick I took was when I hit the ground"

[njc97]

Oh, and this obviously:

"Hello, good evening and welcome

to nothing much

A no holds barred half -nelson

and the loving touch

The comfort and the joy

of feeling lost

With the only living boy in New Cross"

[ruffers]

Madness - The Return Of The Los Palmas Seven.

"Waiter".

[Brendan]

Spent 15 years getting loaded

5 years ?til his liver exploded

[flapjackdavey]

did anybody order a taxi ?

did anybody order a taxi ?

[Jah Lush]

"Waiting for your taxi but taxi never come."