Bumping an older thread
She never mentions the word “addiction”
In certain company
She Talks To Angels
I ain’t slept in seven days, haven’t ate in three
Methamphetamine has got a damn good hold of me
Dust in a Baggie/Billy Strings
They say that these are not the best of times
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
“Oh, I used to be disgusted
And now I try to be amused”
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh, and just like the river, I’ve been runnin’
Ever since.
It’s been a long
A long time comin’, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh, yes, yes it will
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
In May of 1941 the war had just begun, The Germans had the biggest ships that had the biggest guns.
I spent all my money in
a Mexican whorehouse,
across the street from a
catholic church.
Tom Waits - **Mr. Seigal**
I took a train across a solitary desert, and drew a landscape with a sunset sky, but all the ink was type, and the type was the first lines of the songs that I was listening to:
.
I hear mariachi static on the radio,
and the tubes they glow in the dark… (Zevon)
In the time of my confession,
in the hour of my deepest need,
When the pool of tears beneath my feet
floods every newborn seed … (Dylan)
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
where no one notices the contrast of white on white… (Duritz)
I walked in my greatcoat, down through the days of the leaves. No, before after, yes, after before… (Van)
All through the night you telephoned;
I saw the light blinking red
Beside the cradle …
But do people living in Toledo
Know that their name hasn’t travelled very well?
And does anybody in Ohio
Dream of that Spanish citadel? … (Costello/Bacharach)
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
YOU CAN NOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!
The Soft Parade / The Doors
Just serving up three quick Beatles openers…
“Now somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoo-ooon-a.”
“When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide…”
“I am he, as you are he, as we are he, and we are all together.”
“I read the news today, oh boy”
“Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street”
“Hello darkness, my old friend”
“Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?”
“Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo”
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I’m out to cut the junkie.
Loser/Beck
I love that song. I posted Dwight Yoakum’s cover here.
David Bowie is a contender for career opening lyricist…
It’s a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
Ground Control to Major Tom, take your protein pills and put your helmet on
They pulled in just behind the bridge, he lays her down, he frowns
Wake up you sleepy head, put on some clothes shake up your bed
You get a shiver in the dark, it’s raining in the park, but meantime
South of the river, you stop n’ you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double-four time
You feel all right when you hear that music ring
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
In another time’s forgotten space
Your eyes looked from your mother’s face.
Franklin’s Tower
Grateful Dead
couple King Crimsons
“I do remember one thing.” - Indiscipline
“Blood rack, barbed wire, politician’s funeral pyre.” - Twenty First Century Schizoid Man
“Health Food f****t, with a bartered bride.” - The Great Deceiver
“Lady Supermarket with an apple in her basket.” - Cat Food
“There’s a madman in the corner of your eye” Iron Maiden, Chains of Misery.
Woke up in my clothes again this morning - Shadows in the Rain -The Police
Lost my shape .Trying to act casual - Crosseyed and Painless - Talking Heads
Old friends. . .old friends
Sat on a park bench like bookends.
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
On the high shoes
Of the old friends.
Old Friends - Simon & Garfunkel
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen, and died
(hey I like this kick, here)
Woke up this morning, with a wine glass in my hand.
Whose wine?
What wine?
Where the hell did I dine?
- Pete Frampton