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  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    edited July 2009
    Concrete Jungle

    No sun will shine in my day today; (no sun will shine)
    The high yellow moon won't come out to play:
    (that high yellow moon won't come out to play)
    I said (darkness) darkness has covered my light,
    (and the stage) And has changed my day into night, yeah.
    Where is the love to be found? (oo-ooh-ooh)
    Won't someone tell me?
    'Cause my (sweet life) life must be somewhere to be found -
    (must be somewhere for me)
    Instead of concrete jungle (jungle!)
    Where the living is harder (concrete, jungle!).

    Concrete jungle (jungle!):
    Man you got to do your (concrete, jungle!) best. Wo-ooh, yeah.

    No chains around my feet,
    But I'm not free, oh-ooh!
    I know I am bound here in captivity;
    G'yeah, now - (never, know) I've never known happiness;
    (never, know) I've never known what sweet caress is -
    Still, I'll be always laughing like a clown;
    Won't someone help me? 'Cause I (sweet life) -
    I've got to pick myself from off the ground
    (must be somewhere for me), he-yeah! -
    In this a concrete jungle (jungle!):
    I said, what do you got for me (concrete, jungle!) now, o-oh!
    Concrete jungle (la la-la!), ah, won't you let me be (concrete, jungle!), now.
    Hey! Oh, now!
    I said that life (sweet life) - it must be somewhere to be found
    (must be somewhere for me)
    Oh, instead of concrete jungle (jungle!) - illusion (concrete, jungle!) -
    confusion (confusion). (concrete, jungle!) Eh!

    Concrete jungle (jungle!): baby, you've got it in.
    Concrete jungle (concrete,jungle!), now. Eh!
    Concrete jungle (jungle!).

    What do you got for me (concrete,jungle!), now?


    Peace
    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    You moved like honey in my dream last night
    Yeah, some old fires were burning
    You came near to me and you endeared to me
    But you couldn't quite discern me

    Does that scare you ? I'll let you run away
    But your heart will not oblige you
    You'll remember me like a melody
    Yeah, I'll haunt the world inside you


    And my big secret, gonna win you over
    Slow like honey, heavy with mood

    I'll let you see me, I'll covet your regard
    I'll invade your demeanor
    And you'll yield to me like a scent in the breeze
    And you'll wonder what it is about me

    It's my big secret, keeping you coming
    Slow like honey, heavy with mood

    Though dreams can be deceiving
    Like faces are to hearts
    They serve for sweet relieving
    When fantasy and reality lie too far apart

    So I stretch myself across like a bridge
    And I pull you to the edge

    And stand there waiting
    Trying to attain
    The end to satisfy the story
    Shall I release you?
    Must I release you?
    As I rise to meet my glory

    But my big secret
    Gonna hover over your life
    Gonna keep you reaching
    When I'm gone like yesterday
    When I'm high like heaven
    When I'm strong like music
    'Cause I'm slow like honey, and heavy with mood

    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I knew a girl
    Her name was truth
    She was a horrible liar
    She couldnt spend one day alone
    But she couldnt be satisfied
    When you have everything
    You have everything to lose
    She made herself a bed of nails
    And shes planning on putting it to use
    But she had diamonds on the inside
    She had diamonds on the inside
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Out of the ruins
    Out from the wreckage
    Can't make the same mistake this time
    We are the children
    The last generation
    We are the ones they left behind
    And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
    Living under the fear till nothing else remains


    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    When you're so lonely lying in bed
    Night's closed it's eyes but you can't rest your head
    Everyone's sleeping all through the house
    You wish you could dream but forgot to somehow
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    And if you are waiting, waiting for me
    Know I'll be home soon darling I guarantee
    I'll be home Sunday just in one week
    Dry up your tears if you start to weep
    And sing this lullaby to yourself
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Lullaby, I'm not nearby
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Don't you cry, no don't you cry
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Cause when I arrive dear it won't be that long
    No it won't seem like anytime that I've been gone
    It ain't the first time it won't be the last
    Won't you remember these words to help the time pass?
    So when you're so lonely lying in bed
    Night's closed it's eyes but you can't rest your head
    Everyone's sleeping all through the house
    You wish you could dream but forgot to somehow

    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    Sing this lullaby, sing this lullaby
    Sing this lullaby to yourself
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I will wait like nothing
    I have ever waited for
    I will catch your tears from falling
    Until from my hands they fall
    You can leave me abandoned
    I'll be here if you want back in
    Like the rest I have been branded
    Far beneath the skin
    So far beneath the skin

    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven
    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven

    Here I have been standing
    While the time has come and gone
    I tried singing to you
    But you turned my words to stone

    Here I have been waiting
    It seems for quite a while
    Changed all my reflections
    But inside I'm still just a child
    But inside still just a child

    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven
    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven

    These eyes weren't made for crying
    This love wasn't made to waste
    These arms weren't made for battle
    But to share your warm embrace
    But to share your warm embrace

    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven
    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven
    You shall be
    You shall be
    You shall be forgiven
    You shall be
    You shall be
    You... forgiven
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    edited July 2009
    Fade To Black

    Life it seems, will fade away
    Drifting further every day
    Getting lost within myself
    Nothing matters no one else
    I have lost the will to live
    Simply nothing more to give
    There is nothing more for me
    Need the end to set me free

    Things are not what they used to be
    Missing one inside of me
    Deathly lost, this can't be real
    Cannot stand this hell I feel
    Emptiness is filing me
    To the point of agony
    Growing darkness taking dawn
    I was me, but now He's gone

    No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
    Now I can't think, think why I should even try
    Yesterday seems as though it never existed
    Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye


    Metallica wrote this after their equipment was stolen in early '84 and they had to start all over again. More specifically, James Hetfield wrote the lyrics in response to one of his amps being stolen. Not only was this amp his favorite, but it was also the first amp he ever owned so it had a lot of sentimental value to him. The song is about losing everything and wondering if it is worth going on.

    I've been there when it appeared I lost everything.

    Peace
    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    (Sometimes losing everything is the best way to notice that you still have yourself.) :geek:
    &&&&&&&&&&&&&&
  • ..........up jumps the devil when you come around, as soon as you leave he goes back in the ground.....

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Rural Alberta Advantage- Frank,AB

    I'll hold ..... I'll hold on to your touch
    'til they find the bones of us
    .... save you from this life

    And under the rubble of the mountain that tumbled
    I'll hold you forever
    I'll hold you forever

    They'll build up another on the bodies of our brothers
    I'll love you forever

    that is the last minute of the song sung mostly a cappella. Very good stuff.
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Michael Franti & Spearhead...Say Hey I Love You scene from HBO's *WEEDS*

    This one goes out to you and yours
    worldwide
    I say hey I'll be gone today
    But I'll be back all around the way
    It seems like everywhere I go
    The more I see
    the less I know
    But I know one thing
    That I love you
    I love you
    I love you
    I love you

    I’ve been a lot of places all around the way
    I’ve seen a lot joy and I’ve seen a lot of pain
    but I don’t want to write a love song for the world,
    I just want to write a song about a boy and a girl
    Junkies on the corner always calling my name
    And the kids on the corner playing ghetto games
    When I saw you getting down well I hoped it was you
    And when I looked into your eyes I knew it was true
    I say Hey I'll be gone today
    But I'll be back all around the way
    It seems like everywhere I go
    The more I see
    the less I know
    But I know one thing
    That I love you
    I love you
    I love you
    I love you

    Now I’m not a highly metaphysical man
    But I know when the stars are aligned you can
    bump into person in the middle of the road
    look into their eyes and you suddenly know
    Rocking in the dance hall moving with you
    Dancing in the night in the middle of June
    My momma told me don’t lose you
    ‘cause the best luck I had was you
    I said Hey I'll be gone today
    But I'll be back all around the way
    It seems like everywhere I go
    The more I see the less I know
    But I know one thing
    That I love you
    I love you
    I love you
    I love you

    And I said rocking in the dance hall moving with you
    I said Hey momma hey momma close to you
    Rocking in the dance hall moving with you
    I said hey papa, hey papa close to you
    Rocking in the dance hall moving with you
    I said Hey Momma close to you
    Rocking in the dance hall moving with you I said
    hey momma, hey momma, hey momma, hey momma
    hey momma, hey momma, hey momma, hey momma
    what you gonna do?

    My momma told me don’t lose you
    Cause the best luck I had was you
    And I know one thing that I love you
    I said I'll be gone today
    but I’ll be back all around the way
    It seems like everywhere I go
    The more I see the less I know
    I said I'll be gone today
    but I’ll be back all around the way
    It seems like everywhere I go
    The more I see the less I know
    But I know one thing that I love you
    I love you (3x)
    I love you (3x)
    I love you (3x)




    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    i'm better than this
    don't leave me so cold...
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Here comes the Sun....
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Armagideon Time

    I stayed around don't played around
    This old town too long
    Seems like I got to
    Travel on

    A lotta people won't get no supper tonight
    A lotta people won't get no justice tonight
    The battle is getting harder
    In this iration, Armagideon time


    A lotta people runnning and hiding tonight, ah
    A lotta people won't get no justice tonight
    Remember to kick it over
    No one will guide you, Armagideon time



    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Junior Byles...FADE AWAY

    He who seeks of only vanity
    And no love for humanity
    Shall fade away, fade away.

    He who checks for only wealth
    And not for his physical health
    Shall fade away, fade away.


    Though some believe in diamonds and pearl
    And feel like they're on top of the world,
    They shall fade away, hear what I say.

    The rich is getting richer every day,
    And the little that the poor man got it shall be
    taken away.
    Do you hear what I say? Yeah, hear what I say.

    The man who worships silver and gold
    Shall surely, surely, surely lose his own soul,
    Then fade away.

    The one who's always acting smart
    And don't carry no love in his heart
    Shall fade away.

    God is here and there and everywhere
    And he knows when you play the game unfair,
    So people beware, or else you fade away!
    Hey! Beware, or dare you fade away.
    You've gotta fade, gotta fade, gotta fade now.

    The rich is getting richer every day,
    And the little that the poor man got it shall be
    taken away.
    Do you hear what I say, hey? Hear what I say.

    The one who's always acting smart
    And forgetting to carry love in his heart
    Shall fade away.

    God is here and there and everywhere
    And his eyes, his eyes are watching you,
    You're gonna fade away, yeah, yeah,
    You're goin' to fade, fade, fade, fade away...
    Fade away... Yeah, yeah... !



    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Don't leave me here tonight
    In this shitty hotel room'

    Oh wait, you did. It may not of been shitty but you left me there......
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Days are getting long now
    Open all the windows
    And leave it all behind me

    I've come a long, long way
    But I don't know what's worse
    This time in the morning
    Or laying here in the evening light

    I'll be fine
    But it's been all I can take
    Seven hours later
    I can feel my poor heart break'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'I'll see you somewhere at the end'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'You had your answers within every smile'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    POLICE & THIEVES

    Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
    Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
    Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
    Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition

    From Genesis to Revelation yeah
    And next generation will be hear me

    All the crimes committed day by day
    No one try to stop it in any way
    All the peacemakers turn war officers
    Hear what I say


    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    STEPPING RAZOR

    If you wanna live
    Treat me good
    If you wanna live, live
    I beg you treat me good

    I'm like a walking razor
    Don't you watch my size
    I'm dangerous
    Said I'm dangerous
    (2X)

    If you are a bully
    Treat me good
    If you are a bully, a bully
    I beg you treat me good

    I'm like a stepping razor
    Don't you watch my size
    I'm dangerous, dangerous


    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    David Bowie

    I, I will be king
    And you, you will be queen
    Though nothing will drive them away
    We can beat them, just for one day
    We can be heroes, just for one day

    And you, you can be mean
    And I, I'll drink all the time
    'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
    Yes we're lovers, and that is that

    Though nothing, will keep us together
    We could steal time, just for one day
    We can be heroes, for ever and ever
    What d'you say?


    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    you got to spend it all....
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196


    Don't take no prisoners if can't afford to feed none
    don't start no fights if you can't predict the outcome
    don't make donations where you cannot get your dough back
    fuck the apathetic bullshittas send em' all your prozac
    I will not climb into your telephone tree
    and "hell no you can't put me on hold!"

    it's the same recorded message you'd been singin' all along
    keep handin' us the bible while you walkin' off with all the gold
    the bureaucratic office sends you merry-go-rounding
    while the KKK police the streets by blood hounding
    interest on the credit card just keeps on compounding
    but the FCC can neva shut this pirate sound down

    Live and direct we comin' never pre-recorded
    with information that will never be reported
    disregard the mainstream media distorted
    whoop! whoop!
    we comin' listener supported



    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Carelessly careening quickly
    Screaming all the way
    Gravity is such a drag
    Now we will have our way
    Wasn't I? Or was it shadow?
    A trick of light in play
    Leaving me to see that I saw
    The garden from whence we came
    But I'm not saying anything
    That hasn't been said before
    You may hear it now if you wish to
    Put an ear against the floor
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Darkness comes in waves...tell me,
    Why invite it to stay?

    You're one with negativity
    Yes, comfort is an energy
    But why let the sad song play?
    heheheh...
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    LISTENER SUPPORTED

    Six foot six above sea level
    I grab the mic because I take you to
    another mental level
    low power frequency radio modulation
    the big sound from the underground another pirate radio station
    we bring the truth to places truth is never heard before
    we bring the sound communication of our tribal war
    dark vision fly by helicopters in the night
    attempt triangulation of our station in the fight
    straight from the bass the deep down low precision
    high crime treason we broadcastin' sedission
    like the wall street mornin' afternoon edition
    commandeering airwaves from unknown positions

    (chorus)
    Live and direct we comin' never pre-recorded
    with information that will never be reported
    disregard the mainstream media distorted
    whoop! whoop!
    we comin' listener supported


    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    On the turning away
    From the pale and downtrodden
    And the words they say
    Which we wont understand
    Dont accept that whats happening
    Is just a case of others suffering
    Or youll find that youre joining in
    The turning away

    Its a sin that somehow
    Light is changing to shadow

    And casting its shroud
    Over all we have known
    Unaware how the ranks have grown
    Driven on by a heart of stone
    We could find that were all alone
    In the dream of the proud

    On the wings of the night
    As the daytime is stirring
    Where the speechless unite
    In a silent accord
    Using words you will find are strange
    And mesmerized as they light the flame
    Feel the new wind of change
    On the wings of the night

    No more turning away
    From the weak and the weary
    No more turning away
    From the coldness inside
    Just a world that we all must share
    Its not enough just to stand and stare
    Is it only a dream that therell be
    No more turning away?
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Stay Human (All The Fraky People)

    Starvation is a creation of the devil
    a rebel
    I'm bringin' food to the people like a widow
    brinin' flowers to a grave in the middle
    of the city isolation is a riddle
    to be surrounded by a million other people
    but feel alone like a tree in the desert
    dried up like the skin of a lizard
    but full of color like the spots of a leopard
    drum and bass pull me in like a sheperd
    scratch my itch like a needle on a record
    full of life like a man gone to Mecca
    sky high like an eagle up soaring
    I speak low but I'm like a lion roaring
    baritone like a Robeson recordin'
    I'm giving thanks for bein' human every morning...


    Peace & Stay Human
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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