Missing

I prayed heaven today
would bring its hammer down on me
and pound you out of my head
I can't think with you in it

I dragged all that I owned
down a dirt road to find you
my shoes worn out and used
they can't take me much farther

something always takes the place
of missing pieces
you can take and put together even though
you know there's something missing

the sun burned a hole in my roof
I can't seem to fix it
I hope the rain doesn't come
and wash me down the gutter

she rides in a car like a queen on a card
and the guns of her mind aim a line
straight at mine to a heart that was broke
tried to feel but got choked in the smoke of
a desert
a beach with no leisure a night that's so blue
feed the aching in you and the background
birds take a flight from the earth
where the bonfire burns and the night
current turns on a lifeboat floating
down a river of sleep
I can't see her hollow eyes
I'm walkin along with my boots full of rocks
I can't believe these tears were mine
I'll give them to you to put away in a box

something always takes the place of
missing pieces you can take and put
together even though
you know there's something missing
something always missing always
someone missing something

(Beck)

Lebanese Blonde

Too low to find my way
Too high to wonder why
I've touched this place before
Somewhere in another time
Now I can hear the sun
The clouds drifting through the blinds
A half a million thoughts
Are flowing through my mind

A satellite recalled your voice
Sent me round the world again
All the night you've dreamt away
Sent me round my heart again
One touch upon my lips
And all my thoughts are clear
I feel your smoky mist
Up to the stratosfear

Too low to find my way
Too high to wonder why
I've touched this place before
Somewhere in another time
Now I can hear the sun
The clouds drifting through the blinds
A half a million thoughts
Are flowing through my mind

(Thievery Corporation)

Drunk Or Stoned

When I walk down the alleys, down the mean streets at
night
Going down low, girl, in bad reputation fights

All the girl's faces baby look alike
All their eyes honey got your smile
All their voices baby got your tone
Yeah all this happens I ain't drunk or stoned

Drunk or stoned
Drunk or stoned

I like your toe nails baby, painted red
Love to feel them between sheets in bed
I'm crazy about your panties, baby, love the cut, love
the blue
Yeah girl you look so good you can hardly be true

All the girl's faces baby look alike
All their eyes honey got your smile
All their voices baby got your tone
Yeah all this happens
I ain't drunk or stoned

Drunk or stoned
Drunk or stoned

When I walk down the alleys, down the mean streets at
night
Going down low, girl, in bad reputation fights

All the girl's faces baby look alike
All their eyes honey got your smile
All their voices baby got your tone
Yeah all this happens I ain't drunk or stoned

Drunk or stoned
Drunk or stoned

(Wraygunn)

Leave A Light On

Take my hand,
Tell me what you are feeling,
Understand,
This is just the beginning,
Although I have to go,
It makes me feel like crying,
I don't know when I'll see you again.

Darling leave a light on for me,
I'll be there before you close the door,
To give you all the love that you need.
Darling leave a light on for me,
'cause when the world takes me away,
You are still the air that I breathe.

I can't explain, I don't kow
Just how far, I have to go.
But darling I'll keep the key,
Just leave a light on for me.

Yes, I know,
What I'm asking is crazy,
You could go,
Could just get tired of waiting,
But if I lose your love,
Torn out by my desire,
That would be the one regret of my life.

Just like a spark lights up the dark,
Baby that's your heart,
Baby that's your heart,
Baby that's your heart...

(Belinda Carlisle)

Got 'Til It's Gone

Don't it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till it's
Don't it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till it's
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Have a feelin
Now believin
That you were the one
I was meant to be with
Oh, how I'm wishin
Thinkin dreamin
Bout you
And the love
How I ever let you get away
Got till it's gone
Got till it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you dont know what you've got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
If I could turn back
The hands of time
Make you fall in love
In love with me again
So would you give me
Another chance to love
To love you
Love you the right way
No games
Got till it's gone
Got till it's gone
Don't it always seem to go'
That you don't know what youve got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's
Let me just fuck with it for a minute
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Now you realizing when the nights go long, right
Campaign for me to stay
When you know that I'm gone, right
You act all wild
When I tell you to settle
I was working round the clock
But your girls want me to meddle
Talkin about, I heard he swims with this chick on the beach
That was out with the tide but my love you impeached
Now you lookin at the walls
Head in hand
Cold jonezin
Ringing my house
Hang up and posing
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that?
Don't it always seem to go
That you dont know what you've got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's (Gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's (Gone)
That you don't know what you've got till its gone

(Janet Jackson)

Whale Song

The sun was in clouds. The sun looked out. Exposed a trail of mist and spouts.

Ships followed the ancient lead. Deceiving friends under the sea.

Wow, imagine that? They won't fight back. I got a theory on that.

A whale's heart is as big as a car. A whaler's thought must be smudged by the dark.


They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Means they love or are too proud.

They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Means they love or too proud.

They swim. It's really free. It's a beautiful thing to see. They sing.


Hunters of land. Hunters of sea. Explored anything formally.

I refer to anybody that takes advantage of what that is free.

They won't fight back.

It's only a thought that makes it seem right. What you don't see is because of your sight.


Take what you want. Kill what you can. That's just one way of the mind of man.

Take their lives. Sell their parts but there is not taking of their hearts.


If I was lost at sea. That harpoon boat in front of me. It's the whale I'd like to be.


They won't fight back.

They don't know how.

They won't fight back.

(Pearl Jam)

The Obvious Child

I’m accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost it’s bite
I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don’t expect to sleep through the night
Some people say a lie’s a lie’s a lie
But I say why
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

And in remembering a road sign
I am remembering a girl when I was young
And we said these songs are true
These days are ours
These tears are free
And hey
The cross is in the ballpark
The cross is in the ballpark

We had a lot of fun
We had a lot of money
We had a little son and we thought we’d call him sonny
Sonny gets married and moves away
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
Sonny gets sunnier
Day by day by day by day

I’ve been waking up at sunrise
I’ve been following the light across my room
I watch the night receive the room of my day
Some people say the sky is just the sky
But I say
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it’s strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny’s yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died
Some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair

Well I’m accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I’m a dog that’s lost his bite
I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don’t expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?

(Paul Simon)

Fade Into You

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go blind
Some kind of light into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
I think it's strange you never knew

(Mazzy Star)

The Holiday Song

Well sit right down my wicked son
And let me tell you a story
About the boy who fell from glory
And how he was a wicked son

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am with my hand

He took his sister from his head
And then painted her on the sheets
And then rolled her up in grass and trees
And they kissed 'till they were dead

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

Well sit right down my evil son
And let me tell you a story
About the boy who fell from glory
And how he was a wicked son

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

(Pixies)

In A Manner Of Speaking

In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that i feel about you
Is beyond words

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrificed

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

(Nouvelle Vague)

Inertia Creeps

Recollect me darling raise me to your lips
Two undernourished egos four rotating hips
Hold on to me tightly I'm a sliding scale
Can't endure then you can't inhale
Clearly
Out of body experience interferes
And dreams of flying I fit nearly
Surrounds me though I get lonely
Slowly

Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
She's moving up slowly
Slowly
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Moving up slowly

In my home no chrome as clear as
See me now with my nearest dearest
Been there when I'm over careering
Room shifting is endearing
Between us is our kitchen
Would you found my irritant's itching
Been here before
Been here forever

Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Moving up slowly
She comes moving up slowly
Inertia creeps moving up slowly

She comes
I make no sound in my eidertown
Awake I lie in the morning's blue
Room is still my antenna in you
Nylon burns the bedspread with two
Gravity's zero see me stall
I bounce off walls lose my footing and fall
It can be sweet though incomplete though
And the frames will freeze
See me on all four's
It's been a long time

She comes
She comes
I want to x you
She comes
I want to x you
She comes

I caught your radio waves
I caught your radio waves
Will you take a string
Say you string me along
Say you string me along
Say inertia creeps
Inertia creeps and she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes

(Massive Attack)

Galvanize

don't hold back...
cause you woke up in the mornin, with initiative to move, so why make it harder...
don't hold back...
if you think about it, so many people do, be cool man, look smarter....
don't hold back...
and you shouldnt even care, bout those losers in the air, and their crooked stares...
don't hold back...
cause there's a party over here, so you might as well be here, where the people care...
don't hold back...
--
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
galvanize!
c'mon, c'mon c'mon....
--
dont hold back...
if you think about it too much, you may stumble, trip up, fall on your face...
dont hold back...
you think its time you get up, crunch time, like a sit up, come on keep pace...
dont hold back...
put apprehension on the back burner, let it sit, dont even get it lit...
dont hold back...
get involved with the jam, don't be a prick, hot chick, be a dick....
dont hold back...
--
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
the world, is holdin back...
the time has come to...
galvanize!
c'mon, c'mon c'mon....
--
world, the time has come to...
push the button...
world, the time has come to...
push the button...
world, the time has come to...
push the button...
world, my finger, is on the button...
my finger, is on the button...
my finger, is on the button...
push the button...
the time has come to...
galvanize!
the time has come to...
galvanize!
galvanize!
galvanize!

(Chemical Brothers)

I Don't Believe In The Sun

They say there's a sun in the sky
but me, I can't imagine why
There might have been one
before you were gone
but now all I see is the night, so

I don't believe in the sun

How could it shine down on everyone
and never shine on me

How could there be
such cruelty.

The only sun I ever knew
was the beautiful one that was you
Since you went away
it's nighttime all day
and it's usually raining too

The only stars there really are
were shining in your eyes
There is no sun except the one
that never shone on other guys
The moon to whom the poets croon
has given up and died
Astronomy will have to be revised

(The Magnetic Fields)

Mercy Mercy Me

Ah, mercy, mercy me,
Ah, things ain't what they used to be, no, no.
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south andeast.

Mercy, mercy me,
Ah, things ain't what they used to be, no, no.
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon
our seas fish full of mercury,

Oh, mercy, mercy me.
Ah, things ain't what they used to be, no, no, no.
Radiation underground and in the sky;
animals and birds who live near by are dying.

Oh, mercy, mercy me.
Ah, things ain't what they used to be.
What about this over crowded land?
How much more abuse from man can she stand?


(Marvin Gaye)

Camel Walk

yo ye pharoahs let us walk
through this very desert
in search for truth and
some pointy boots and
maybe a few snack crackers
baby you make me walk like a camel
who's in charge here where's my captain's weight don't go around hungry now
the way you eat that oatmeal pie
makes me just wanna die
baby you make me wanna walk like a camel
say you don't think there's anyway
i could get that quarter
from underneath your pointy boot do ya
all i want is one more oatmeal pie
little debbie little debbie i'm coming on home baby
cause you make me walk like a camel

(Southern Culture On The Skids)

Answer

I will be the answer at the end of the line
I will be there for you while you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance if you cant look down

If it takes my whole life I wont break I wont bend
Itll all be worth it worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
that I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
youll still be burning so bright

Cast me gently into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight

If it takes a whole life I wont break I wont bend
Itll all be worth it worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
And when the stars have all burned out
Youll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently into morning for the night has been unkind

(Sarah McLachlan)

Roka (Danza de la Muerte)

sleeping in the valley, valley of ill fortune
waking cross the river, river of delusion
full moon lures the waves, waves of desperation
empty hearts and mouths wither away

so close your eyes
slow your breath
dream of northern lights
around this dance of death

no abandones, no llores, busca tu rio
no te sientas perdido
gira, vuelta y vuelta gira
danza de la muerte
que viene a verte
bailala

cup your hands to her parched heart, parched and
broken heart
no water here to drink way downstream
one goes where the water flows and water's running dry
so don't give up no don't cry, don't cry

just close our eyes
pretend we forget
north country dreams
twist this dance of death

danza de la muerte
si viene a verte
que bailando te encuentre
bailando, girando
danza de la muerte

spin round, spin round, spin round
vuelta, vuelta, muerte

bailala

(Calexico com Amparo Sanchez)

I'll Fall With Your Knife

To the crowd
To the world
You were so dry
And with the token bird I made
Send it to fly right to your side
With the broken wing you sailed
Oh like winter in July
A barren river wide
I'll pray for the flood
To wash on you
It's here I'll be with you

Well if the birds can reach the sky
To this land I'll be with you
'Til the sun bursts from your side
With my hands I reach to you
When you think your chance is passing by
When you blow your moon away
I'll bleed like the reed
Fall with your knife
It's here I'll be with you

I'll fall

(Peter Murphy)

Snowball

(Moby)

Naked Eye

Wearing nothing is divine
Naked is a state of mind
I take things off to clear my head
To say the things I haven't said
I live inside the elements
The earth and sky are my best friends
Water is the evidence
That washes me from end to end

With my naked eye
I saw all the falling rain
Coming down on me
With my naked eye
I saw all if I said it all
I could see

It's not a choice I tried to make
It's not a thought I couldn't take
Something told me it was time
To give you yours and leave me mine
My vision started to be clear
I watched the sunlight coming near
I knew the day I knew the night
I knew I could regain my sight
And it feels alright

Last night I came into your home
To break some ice and throw some stones
I asked if we could be alone
I had some troubles of my own
Knew I had to say goodbye
To all the old things held inside
If I let the moment fly
I knew they'd all be magnified

And it feels alright

Came around after dark
You are nothing but a lark
Know I snuck in like a narc
I knew I had to leave my mark
Wanted to be satisfied
I tried to be dignified
Wearing nothing is divine
Naked is a state of mind

And it feels alright
It feels alright

(Luscious Jackson)

Luz Vaga

Luz vaga, luz vesga, a tua cruz
Já não sai da cama, a minha luz
Da sala, do quarto

Pilha a palavra
Troca a quantidade, do assunto modal
A tensão está normal
O lábio fora da boca,
A boca fora do mal

Os teus olhos não são de gente
O teu ar foge para cima
Tens a perna no cimento,
Tens a mão no pensamento

Ciclope, cicloturismo
Na parte de fora, na nesga do abismo
Imaginário que remete, para onde ainda não fui

Convite ao Universo
Com a tua própria câmara
Fecho a luz num olho
Prego a tábua à sensação

Som da casa, quando não estás...

Dancei para te ver aqui,
eu sei que nada mais pode me ajudar
É do nono andar? Sim
Quis pedir ajuda, mas a língua estava morta
Sei lá! Parei de olhar,
tenho uma corda acesa, prestes a queimar
Não és capaz de me levar a sério.
Vou saltar em teu lugar.

Sei que nada mais pode me ajudar

Atrasa o passo
Leva o lenço à boca
Fica na mira do choque frontal
Não é doença, é um animal
Um ruído feito no acto de fingir
seres mau, mesmo a dormir

Dancei para te ver aqui,
eu sei que nada mais pode me ajudar
É do nono andar? Sim
Quis pedir ajuda, mas a língua estava morta
Sei lá! Parei de olhar,
tenho uma corda acesa, prestes a queimar
Não és capaz de me levar a sério.
Vou saltar em teu lugar.

(Mesa com Rui Reininho)