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The Lyrics thread
Froderik:
This sounds like an old seafaring song that could've been sung by drunken pirates sitting 'round a table in the Cat's Eye Pub or maybe the Wharf Rat (historical drinking establishments on the waterfront in Fells Pt)... Must be one of the cuts from that Rogues Gallery album you were listening to...arrrr!!
RTP2003:
--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---This sounds like an old seafaring song that could've been sung by drunken pirates sitting 'round a table in the Cat's Eye Pub or maybe the Wharf Rat (historical drinking establishments on the waterfront in Fells Pt)... Must be one of the cuts from that Rogues Gallery album you were listening to...arrrr!!
--- End quote ---
Yeah, it's a real cool record. Lotsa cool folks on it---Richard Thompson, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Ralph Steadman (artist for HST's books), and a bunch of others. I think, but I'm not sure, that "Jack Shit" may be Johnny Depp, 'cause he had a hand in the making of this CD (prolly to tie in with the movies, although there is no "Pirates of the Carribean" or Disney logo on the cover). The two song lyrics I posted definitely could have been, and probably were sung in or around the very taverns you mentioned. I found a pretty old version of "Boney was a Warrior" on YouTube, nothing like the one on the CD I have. Good stuff, check it out sometime.
Free Will:
--- Quote from: "Rush - Freewill" ---There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance,
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.
A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.
Chorus
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.
There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand,
The cards were stacked against them; they weren't born in Lotusland.
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate.
Kicked in the face,
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate.
Chorus
Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.
Chorus
--- End quote ---
Froderik:
LOVE MINUS ZERO/NO LIMIT
My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.
In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.
The cloak and dagger dangles,
Madams light the candles.
In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Statues made of match sticks,
Crumble into one another,
My love winks, she does not bother,
She knows too much to argue or to judge.
The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy,
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.
RTP2003:
I make love to mountain lions,
Sleep on red-hot branding irons,
When I walk the roadway shakes,
Bed's a mess of rattlesnakes,
Voodoo child, black cat bone,
Scratch your back,hear you moan,
I get up, you go down,
Tall building, single bound,
War and peace and love,
Say it if you dare,
Iron fist,velvet glove,
I'm so bad, baby I don't care,
Black-hearted to the bone,
Older than The Rolling Stones,
Been to heaven, been to hell,
Bought the farm, and I won't sell,
Give and take, rise and fall,
Rise up and take it all,
Secret love, I won't tell,
Knock you up and ring your bell,
Kiss the whip, eat the gun,
Tell me it ain't fair,
Midnight victim, hit and run,
I'm so bad, baby I don't care,
I make the blind to see,
Shoot 'em full of R and B,
I make the lame to walk,
Come round and pop your cork,
Wham, bam,thank you ma'am,
Thought I heard the back door slam,
Overkill, walk the line,
Kill the lights, It's lampshade time,
On the road,on the lam,
People running scared,
I'm everything they say I am
I'm so bad, baby I don't care.
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