Back on the Chain Gang/Pretenders (Hynde)
I found a picture of you
What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We've been cast out of?
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
A circumstance beyond our control
The phone, the tv and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they've done to you
But I'll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They'll fall to ruin one day
For making us part
I found a picture of you
Those were the happiest days of my life
Like a break in the battle was your part
In the wretched life of a lonely heart
Now we're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville/R.E.M. (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and
That's not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Waterloo Sunset/Kinks (Davies)
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy
Taxi lights shine so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
Millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And they don't need no friends
As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
They are in paradise
Waterloo sunset's fine
Secret Nothing/Cub
Meet me down on the corner
We'll talk it over
You'll see me if I don't see you first
Make sure you bring some quarters
And we'll go get a soda
Hop a bus, I'll show you my new dress
Sunday afternoon, nothing much to do
But there's no one I'd rather do nothing with than you
Tell me a secret and I'll give you a kiss
I'll bake a cake for you if you'll just make a wish
Meet me down by the river
It's hot but you make me shiver
Let's go under the pier
We'll take off all our clothes
Sunday afternoon, nothing much to do
But there's no one I'd rather do nothing with than you
Drifting/Jimi Hendrix (Hendrix)
Drifting
On a sea of forgotten teardrops
On a lifeboat
Sailing for
Your love
Sailing home
Drifting
On a sea of old heartbreaks
On a lifeboat
Sailing for
Your love
Sailing home
(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay/Otis Redding (Redding/Cropper)
Sitting in the morning sun,
I'll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in,
Then I'll watch 'em roll away again.
Yeah, I'm sitting on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away.
Ooh, I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time.
I left my home in Georgia,
Headed for the Frisco Bay.
'Cause I've had nothing to live for
And looked like nothing's gonna come my way.
So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away.
Ooh, I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time.
Looks like nothing's gonna change;
Everything still remains the same.
I can't do what ten people tell me to do,
So I guess I'll remain the same.
Sitting here resting my bones,
And this loneliness won't leave me alone.
Two thousand miles I roamed,
Just to make this dock my home.
Now I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away.
Ooh, I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time.
I'll Be Your Mirror/Velvet Underground & Nico (Reed)
I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are
In case you don't know
I'll be the wind, the rain, and the sunset
The light on your door
To show that you're home
When you think the night has seen your mind
that inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'cause I see you.
I find it hard
to believe you don't know
The beauty you are
But if you don't,
let me be your eyes
A hand to your darkness
So you won't be afraid.
When you think the night has seen your mind
that inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'cause I see you
I'll be your mirror
Bad/U2 (Bono/U2)
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would let it go
Surrender, dislocate
If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
Into the night, and through the rain
Into the half-light and through the flame
If I could, through myself, set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away
Into the light and to the day
To let it go and so to fade away
To let it go and so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake, wide awake
I'm not sleeping
If you should ask, then maybe
They'd tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in bloodshot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would let it go
This desperation, dislocation
Separation, condemnation
Revelation, in temptation
Isolation, desolation
Let it go and so to fade away
To let it go and so to fade away
To let it go and so to fade away
I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh no, no, no
In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel (Gabriel)
Love, I get so lost sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
All my instincts, they return
And the grand façade so soon will burn
Without a noise,
Without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive
And all my instincts, they return
And the grand façade so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes
You Got the Silver/Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards)
Hey babe, what's in your eyes?
I saw them flashing like airplane lights
You fill my cup, babe, that's for sure
I must come back for a little more
You got my heart, you got my soul
You got the silver, you got the gold
You got the diamonds from the mine
Well that's all right, it'll buy some time
Tell me, honey, what will I do
When I am hungry and thirsty too?
Feeling foolish and that's for sure
Just waiting here at your kitchen door
Hey baby, what's in your eyes?
Is that the diamonds from the mine?
What's that laughing in your smile?
I don't care, no, I don't care
Oh babe, you got my soul
You got the silver, you got the gold
If that's your love, just leave me blind
I don't care, no, that's no big surprise
All I Have to Do Is Dream/Everly Brothers (B. Bryant/F. Bryant)
Dream dream dream dream
Dream dream dream dream
When I want you in my arms,
When I want you and all your charms,
Whenever I want you all I have to do is
Dream dream dream dream
When I feel blue in the night,
And I need you to hold me tight,
Whenever I want you all I have to do is dream
I can make you mine,
Taste your lips of wine,
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz,
I'm dreaming my life away
I need you so, that I could die,
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you all I have to do is
Dream dream dream dream
I can make you mine,
Taste your lips of wine,
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz,
I'm dreaming my life away
I need you so, that I could die,
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you all I have to do is
Dream dream dream dream
Dream dream dream dream
It's Not Peculiar/Hüsker Dü (Mould)
Is it sensible, life is what it seems
When you're living in a dream
Could you care enough? While pausing on a thought
Can you think of what you've got?
(Only you know what matters in your life)
When it's pouring out, you're pondering inside
And all the times you shouted, everybody cried
You've got to learn to compromise
To live inside the others' lives
It's not peculiar, there's nothing to devise at all
On a stormy night, you're sitting on the floor
Is it nothing anymore?
Waking up to fix it, making up the fight
Will it be one more tonight?
(Some things we said will never wash away)
Taking all of this into another day
Recollections of the words we used to say
The times you looked into my eyes
Whispered vowing not to lie
It's not peculiar, there's nothing to devise at all
Hear the telephone, it's raining in the fall
And you hope I never call
Sending messages that never get received
But we're trying, I believe
(Sometimes we wonder what our lives are for)
Taking all of this is taking all of me
Sometimes I wish I had the energy
When it falls apart like fragments of our lives
Give a little bit, and give a lot to die
It's not peculiar, there's nothing to devise at all
I Lost It/Lucinda Williams (Williams)
I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare
Gimme some love to fill me up, gimme some time, give me some stuff
Gimme a sign, give me some kind of reason
Are you heavy enough to make me stay, I feel like I might blow away
I thought I was in heaven, but I was only dreamin'
I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare
I just wanna live the life I please, I don't want no enemies
I don't want nothin' if I have to fake it
Never take nothin' don't belong to me, everything's paid for, nothing's free
If I give my heart, will you promise not to break it
I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare
All Come to Meet Her/Skip Spence (Spence)
All come to meet her now
All come to meet her now
All come to meet her now
Won't you meet me too?
I come to meet her now
Won't you meet me now?
I come to meet her now
Won't you come too?
Come on down
Come on down
I come to meet her
I come to
I come to meet her
With you
Ballerina (live)/Van Morrison (Morrison)
Spread your wings
Come on, fly awhile
Straight to my arms
Little angel child
You know you're only lonely
Twenty-two story block
And if somebody, not just anybody
Wanted to get next to you
Just like me
All you gotta do
Is ring the bell
Step right up, step right up
Step right up
Just like a ballerina
Grab it, catch it
Well, I may be wrong
But this time I know I'm right and I don't think so
You know I saw the writing on the wall
When you came up to me
Child, you were heading for a fall
But if it gets to you
And you feel like you just can't go on
All you gotta do is
Ring the bell
Step right up, step right up
Step right up
Just like a ballerina
Grab it, catch it, let it shine
Well, it's getting very, very late
Yes, it is
And it's time I should think you should slip into your slumber
The light is on the left side of your head
And I'm standing in your doorway and I'm mumbling
And I can't remember the last thing that ran through my head
Here come the man, he say the show must go on
All you gotta do is ring the bell
Step right up, step right up
Step right up, step right up
Step right up, step right up
Step right up
Just like a ballerina
Grab it, catch it
Just like a ballerina
Keep moving on up, keep moving on up
A Heart Needs a Home (alt. take)/Richard and Linda Thompson (R. Thompson)
I know the way that I feel about you
I'm never gonna run away
I'm never gonna run away
Never knew the way when I lived without you
I'm never gonna run away
I'm never gonna run away
I came to you when no one could hear me
I'm sick and weary of being alone
Empty streets and hungry faces
The world's no place when you're on your own
A heart needs a home
Some people say that I should forget you
I'm never gonna be a fool
I'm never gonna be a fool
A better life, they say, if I'd never met you
I'm never gonna be a fool
I'm never gonna be a fool
Tongues talk fire and eyes cry rivers
Indian givers, hearts of stone
Paper ships and painted faces
The world's no place when you're on your own
A heart needs a home
That's How Strong My Love Is/Otis Redding (Jamison)
If I were the sun, way up there
I'd glow with my love most everywhere
I'll be the moon when the sun goes down
Just to let you know that I'm still around
That's how strong my love is
That's how strong my love is
That's how strong my love is
That's how strong my love is
I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
You can go swimming when you're here
And I'll be the rainbow after the tears are gone,
Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
I'll be the ocean, so deep and wide
And catch all the tears whenever you cry
I'll be the breeze after the storm is gone
To dry your eyes and love you warm
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes/Thelonious Monk Quintet (Kern)
Sweet Jane (live)/Velvet Underground (Reed)
Anyone who's ever had a heart
Wouldn't turn around and break it
and anyone who's ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around and hate it
Sweet Jane, sweet Jane
Sweet, sweet Jane
Waiting for Jimmy down by the alley
Waiting there for him to come home
Waiting down on the corner
Thinking of ways to get back home
Anyone who ever had a dream
Anyone who's ever played a part
Anyone who's gonna live lonely
Anyone who's ever stood apart
Heavenly wine and roses
seem to whisper to me when you smile
Heavenly wine and roses
seem to whisper to me when you smile
Glynis/Smashing Pumpkins (Corgan)
Here's a name you cannot forget
Her name is Glynis, yes
And with these tears of respect
Conforms a sadness
For anyone who's ever lost
One who's dearest, and the love of a friend
On our worried knees
Given to all beliefs
Scarecrows and disease haunt us all
Ooh, bury your heads in the sand
Ooh, bury your heads
So have we stumbled from grace
Are we being punished for fate
My God is subtle and great
He can't be wounded
By the gossip and the hate of the frightened
Who took their paths on the sand, yeah
Fear that grips us all
Gives us an awful sound
Can't help anything but ourselves
Ooh, bury your head in the sand
Ooh, bury your head, yeah
Ooh, bury your head
Ooh, I believe in one love
Ooh, I believe in one love
Ooh, I believe in one love
Yeah, yeah