Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
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
–Rolling Stones
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldnt have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh
Because I have to know the story of your bones
And I long to rove the map of your skin
And I’m tired of us both feeling loved yet alone
I want to feel where you hurt
I want to taste where you’ve been
[Jennifer Nettles Band (Jennifer is the lead singer for Sugarland, and this was her old Atlanta-based band who ROCKED)]
I know your name,
I know your skin,
I know the way
these things begin
(Suzanne Vega)
Most people i know think that im crazy and
i know at times i act a little hazy but
if thats my way
and you should know it then
in every way help me to show it
(Billy Thorpe[sub](RIP, 29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007)[/sub] and the Aztecs)
People say I’m crazy doing what I’m doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I’m o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you’re not happy now you no longer play the game
(Lennon)
I’m crazy for tryin, and crazy for cryin
And I’m crazy for lovin’ you…
(Patsy Cline: “Crazy”)
TBJ
Lovin’ you is more than just a dream come true
And everything that i do is out of lovin’ you
La la la la la la la… do do do do do
No one else can make me feel
The colors that you bring
Stay with me while we grow old
And we will live each day in springtime
– Minnie Riperton
Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brown
(The Stranglers)
*The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying:
Valhalla, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
*
In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather’s fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
–Mungo Jerry
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge no frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare, `round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat
(Split Enz)
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
when the “Gales of November” came early.
–Gordon Lightfoot
I was crowned with a spike right thru my head.
But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas!
But it’s all right, I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash,
It’s a Gas! Gas! Gas!
Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
– Jagger/Richards
We came on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
'Round Nassau town we did roam
Drinkin’ all night
Got into a fight
I feel so broke up, I wanna’ go home
(Kingston Trio and a bajillion others)
Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama – come on pretty mama
(Beach Boys)
I am sailing, stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free.
(Rod Stewart)
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin’
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.
I’ll wait the signs to come.
I’ll find a way
I will wait the time to come.
I’ll find a way home.
Who then can warm my soul?
Who can quell my passion?
Out of these dreams - a boat
I will sail home to you.
(Enya)
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
(Five Man Electrical Band)