Woensdag 21 februari 2007
Leave It To Jane
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Leave It To Jane
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Woensdag 21 februari 2007
Blues In My Heart
Blues In My Heart
Composer(s): Benny Carter; Irving Mills
Performer(s): Chick Webb
What can I do
Now that you say we're through?
I'm left with the blues in my heart
How can I smile
When love don't seem worthwhile?
I'm left with the blues in my heart
How can I live?
What is there life can give
As long as we're apart?
How can I go on
Knowing that you are gone?
I'm left with the blues in my heart
Dinsdag 20 februari 2007
Leave It
Leave It
Composer(s): Paul McCartney
Performer(s): Mike McGear
I dearly love her artichokes
Their continental flavor makes me choke
Satisfied inside like vinaigrette
Like an old brown photograph
Her memory paints forever Polaroid
Pictures of the day she came my way
Did she stay?
She didn't want to leave it
She didn't want to leave it
She didn't want to leave it
Leave it baby it's gone away
Peeling off her underwear
She makes me think of daisies shedding their
Silver metal petals in the air
Sssupersonic autograph
For simple stage door Johnny was a laugh
On the stairway to the star she cried
'Cause she lied
She didn't want to leave it
She didn't want to leave it
She didn't want to leave it
Leave it baby it's gone away
Come on baby don't be late
I want to help you to celebrate
Come on leave your world behind
Leave it Leave it Leave it Leave it
It's gone away
Dinsdag 20 februari 2007
Blues In Bob Minor
Blues In Bob Minor
Composer(s): Robert Wyatt
Performer(s): Robert Wyatt
Roger's in the archive looking up casement
Martha's in the government digging up the basement
Rebel into representative for the voter
Shadow backhencher couldn't get a word in
Turned up anyway ... issues burning
All consuming ... drinks in the cabinet
Spent a lot of time just examining the building
drinks on the house? you must be joking
Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bills
Long time no see underneath the floorboard
Looking for the roots of the family treetops
Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.
Fingers in the eel pie poke around tip top
Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish
Meadow brown peacock ... pupa-larva-caterpillar
Hibernate in winter of our discotheque no
End in sight .. more like a spiral ... coil
Or curler ... just unwinding ... very slowly
Revealing endless disappearing pipelines
Genuflecting ... bowing deeply ... it
Don't take a weathergirl to see where
The wind is blowing ... what the wind is bending
Isobars are opening ... sex to midnight
Cabinet shuffling homeward bound ... taking
A detour ... rendezvous do ... chapel in the valley
Of the blown up doll ... that's not Martha
Shunting in a siding ... she got homework
Up to here
Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones
Verse and chapter disinterred
Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy
The weight of the evidence in parenthesis
Beggars tightly furled belief
Heads on blockabeater repetition on the line
Shell shock supertroopers ... whirl banking oil palm
Intercontinental drift ... over the rainbow
Over the sea to ska rocker skintone
hirsuit missed a link and that's not all
That he got missing inna thousand years of
Orthotoxic waste disposal ... god proposal
Jealous sky ... whatever is a girl to do
To break the service in its tried and tested
And found wanting state of oh! boy network
Stewardship?
Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt
Nobody ... Martha friend and Roger too
Tone down a little ... sotto voce ... some tall order
Given that four minutes seems eternity time
In the bushed up world of waspish Vsigns
A-sides sui-C-side salads of the bad young B-sides
What's the point of digging deeper just to lay
The ghost of Sala Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
"Don't give up" the dead man cried
"There's more of us than there of you
Soon you'll all be on our side ... forever more or
Lester Young died ... 'Fat Girl' also ... blowing all the blues
Away side ... dust ain't just dust ... trust us like we
Live forever ... broken loose from greystone tether
Keep on tiptoe through the archive ... we are dead
But you are alive ... Martha yes and Roger too
Until you let the gringos grind you down"
Maandag 19 februari 2007
Leave A Tender Moment Alone
Leave A Tender Moment Alone
Composer(s): Billy Joel
First release by: Billy Joel - 1983
Even though I'm in love
Sometimes I get so afraid
I'll say something so wrong
Just to have something to say
I know the moment isn't right
To tell the girl a comical line
To keep the conversation light
I guess I'm just frightened out of my mind
But if that's how I feel
Then it's the best feeling I've even known
It's undeniably real
Leave a tender moment alone
Yes I know I'm in love
But just when I ought to relax
I put my foot in my mouth
Cause I'm just avoiding the facts
If the girl gets too close
If I need some room to escape
When the moment arose
I'd tell her it's all a mistake
But that's not how I feel
No that's not the woman I've known
She's undeniably real
So leave a tender moment alone
But it's not only me
Breaking down when the tension gets high
Just when I'm in a serious mood
She is suddenly quiet and shy
Leave a tender moment
Leave it alone
I know the moment isn't right
To hold my emotions inside
To change the attitude tonight
I've run out of places to hide
And if that's how I feel
Then it's the best feeling I've even known
It's undeniably real
Leave a tender moment alone
You got to leave a tender moment alone
Leave a tender moment
Leave it alone
You've got to leave a tender moment
Leave a tender moment alone
Maandag 19 februari 2007
Blues Hangover
Blues Hangover
Composer(s): Slim Harpo; Jerry West; James Moore
Originally performed by: Slim Harpo
Covered by: George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Lord, I wonder what done happened
Ain't nobody here but me
All these empty bottles on the table here
I know I didn't drink all this by myself
I must have a blues hangover
What's this?
My check!?!
And I don't have change for a grasshopper and that's two crookies
Uh oh, here come Pro
Sent in for this doggie
But he ain't got no money
Look like he done lost everything he ever just had
Ain't that's a come-off
Dear me
I done gave my baby twenty dollars for a Christmas present
All I got was a slice of jelly cake
And Sam and Nedetta
Now that's a wolf-jenny
Now I'll believe I'll go on back on the stem now
With James, Rudolph and Tom Cat
Get my head bad again
Don't seem like nothin' goin' right for me today
All Right, here I go
Same old thing again
Look out now!
Zondag 18 februari 2007
L'eau Vive
L'eau Vive
Composer(s): Guy Béart
First release by: Guy Béart - 1958
Ma petite est comme l'eau, elle est comme l'eau vive
Elle court comme un ruisseau, que les enfants poursuivent
Courez, courez vite si vous le pouvez
Jamais, jamais vous ne la rattraperez
Lorsque chantent les pipeaux, lorsque danse l'eau vive
Elle mene les troupeaux, au pays des olives
Venez, venez, mes chevreaux, mes agnelets
Dans le laurier, le thym et le serpolet
Un jour que, sous les roseaux, sommeillait mon eau vive
Vinrent les gars du hameau pour l'emmener captive
Fermez, fermez votre cage à double cle
Entre vos doigts, l'eau vive s'envolera
Comme les petits bateaux, emportes par l'eau vive
Dans ses yeux les jouvenceaux voguent à la derive
Voguez, voguez demain vous accosterez
L'eau vive n'est pas encore à marier
Pourtant un matin nouveau à l'aube, mon eau vive
Viendra battre son trousseau, aux cailloux de la rive
Pleurez, pleurez, si je demeure esseulé
Le ruisselet, au large, s'en est allé
Zondag 18 februari 2007
Blues From An Airplane
Blues From An Airplane
Composer(s): Marty Balin; Alexander "Skip" Spence
Performer(s): Jefferson Airplane
Do you know how sad it is to be a man alone
I feel so solitary being in my home without you
I don't know what to do and
I don't know where you are
I can see my life is meant to fall apart some day
Just to be a simple man who sadly goes his way got no girl so
I got no world and
I got no words that I'll say
hey hey woman make me happy like I've never known before
say you have ever known no heart fore me anymore
something new, what's that sound around my heart
I feel something new
I'm sure your love you've given must be real I know and
I'm sure of how I can be the man I feel
I can be the man I feel
Zaterdag 17 februari 2007
L'eau À La Bouche
L'eau À La Bouche
Composer(s): Serge Gainsbourg - Alain Goraguer
First release by: Serge Gainsbourg - 1960
Covered by multiple other artists
Écoute ma voix écoute ma prière
Écoute mon cœur qui bat laisse-toi faire
Je t'en pris ne sois pas farouche
Quand me viens l'eau à la bouche
Je te veux confiante je te sens captive
Je te veux docile je te sens craintive
Je t'en prie ne sois pas farouche
Quand me viens l'eau à la bouche
Laisse toi au gré du courant
Porter dans le lit du torrent
Et dans le mien
Si tu veux bien
Quittons la rive
Partons à la dérive
Je te prendrais doucement et sans contrainte
De quoi as-tu peur allons n'aie nulle crainte
Je t'en prie ne sois pas farouche
Quand me viens l'eau à la bouche
Cette nuit près de moi tu viendras t'étendre
Oui je serai calme je saurai t'attendre
Et pour que tu ne t'effarouches
Vois je ne prend que ta bouche
Zaterdag 17 februari 2007
Blues For The Lost Days
Blues For The Lost Days
Composer(s): John Mayall; Mick Taylor
Performer(s): John Mayall
Looking back through the years
Like I got myself a time machine
Memories flood around me
People and places where I've been
I had the blues for the lost days
Back then when times were lean
From a home in the country with the blues
On my wind-up gramophone
Headin' out to the city
Movin' round like a rollin' stone
With a band of bluesbreakers
Make a mark down here on my own
We had Freddie King, Sonny Boy and Hendrix
And they'd be sitting in till the break of dawn
Sweating at the all night Flamingo
And comin' out to pigeons on a Sunday morn
So many good times, so much music
But back then nobody knew
That the London blues were born
It's a sad, sad feeling
When your best friends all drift apart
Some of them are dead and gone
But they still live on in my heart
That's why I have the blues for the lost days
There ain't never gonna be no counterpart
Vrijdag 16 februari 2007
Leather And Lace
Leather And Lace
Composer(s): Stevie Nicks
Performer(s): Stevie Nicks; Don Henley; Smoking Popes
Is love so fragile...
and the heart so hollow
Shatter with words...
impossible to follow
You're saying I'm fragile...I try not to be
I search only...for something I can't see
I have my own life...and I am stronger
Than you know
But I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door
Still I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door
Lovers forever...face to face
My city, your mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather...
Take from me...my lace
You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes
Could you ever love a man like me
And you were right
When I walked into your house
I knew I'd never want to leave
Sometimes I'm a strong man
Sometimes cold and scared
And sometimes I cry
But that time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I'd get by
First time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I would get by
Lovers forever...face to face
My city, your mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace
Lovers forever...face to face
My city ,you mountains...stay with me stay
I need you to love me...I need you to stay
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace
Vrijdag 16 februari 2007
Blues For My Baby And Me
Blues For My Baby And Me
Composer(s): Elton John; Bernie Taupin
Performer(s): Elton John
Your old man got mad when I told him we were leaving
He cursed and he raged and he swore at the ceiling
He called you his child said honey get wise to his game
He'll get you in trouble I know it, those bums are all the same
There's a greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us
So tell him goodbye, we gotta go west on that bus
And it's all over now
Don't you worry no more
Gonna go west to the sea
The greyhound is swaying
And the radio is playing
Some blues for baby and me
And the highway looks like it never did
Lord it looks so sweet and so free
And I can't forget that trip to the west
Singing blues for baby and me
Saw your hands trembling, your eyes opened in surprise
It's ninety in the shade babe, and there ain't a cloud in the sky
I called you my child, said honey now it's our game
There's two of us to play it and I'm happy to be home again
There's a greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us
So tell him goodbye, we gotta go west on that bus
Donderdag 15 februari 2007
Learning To Fly (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Learning To Fly
Composer(s): Jeff Lynne - Tom Petty
Performer(s): Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
and multiple other artists
Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
The town lit up the world got still
I’m learning to fly but I ain’t got wings
Comin’ down is the hardest thing
Well the good old days may not return
And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn
I’m learning to fly but I ain’t got wings
Comin’ down is the hardest thing
Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I started out for God kno ws where
But I guess I’ll know when I get there
I’m learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down
I’m learning to fly but I ain’t got wings
Comin’ down is the hardest thing
I’m learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down
I’m learning to fly
I’m learning to fly
Donderdag 15 februari 2007
Blues For Allah
Blues For Allah
Composer(s): Jerry Garcia; Donna Jean Godchaux; Keith Godchaux;
Mickey Hart; Robert Hunter; Bill Kreutzmann; Phil Lesh; Bob Weir
Originally performed by: Grateful Dead
Covered by: Jazz Is Dead; Henry Kaiser
Arabian wind, the needle's eye is thin
The ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand
Out in no man's land, where Allah does command
What good is spilling blood?
It will not grow a thing
"Taste eternity", the swords sing
Blues for Allah, Insh'Allah
They lie where they fall, there's nothing more to say
The desert stars are bright tonight, let's meet as friends
The flower of Islam, the fruit of Abraham
The thousand stories have come round to one again
Arabian night, our gods pursue their flight
What fatal flowers of darkness bloom from seeds of light
Bird of Paradise fly in the white sky
Blues for Allah, Insh'Allah
Let's see with our heart these things our eyes have seen
And know the truth must still lie somewhere in between
Under eternity
Under eternity
Under eternity
Under eternity
Under eternity
Under eternity
Bird of Paradise fly in white sky
Blues for Allah, Insh'Allah
Woensdag 14 februari 2007
Learning To Fly (Pink Floyd)
Learning To Fly
Composer(s): Jon Carin - David Gilmour - Bob Ezrin - Anthony Moore - David Gilmour
First release by: Pink Floyd - 1987
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Friction lock - set
Mixture - rich
Propellers - fully forward
Flaps - set - 10 degrees
Engine gauges and suction - check
Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck
Flight instruments...
Altimeters - check both
(garbled word) - on
Navigation lights - on
Strobes - on
(to tower): confirm 3-8-echo ready for departure
(tower): hello again, this is now 129.4
(to tower): 129.4
It's time to go
(tower): you may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots
(to tower): 3-8-echo
Easy on the brakes
Take it easy
It's gonna roll this time
Just hand the power gradually, and it...
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Woensdag 14 februari 2007
Blues Before Sunrise
Blues Before Sunrise
Composer(s): Leroy Carr
Originally performed by: Leroy Carr
Covered by various other artists
I have the blues before sunrise, tears standing in my eyes
I have the blues before sunrise, tears standing in my eyes
It was a miserable feeling, now babe, a feeling I do despise
I have to leave, leave you baby, because you know you done me wrong
I have to leave you baby, because you know you done me wrong
I'm gonna pack up and leave you darling and break up my happy home
I have to leave, leave you baby, I'm gonna leave you all alone
I'm gonna leave you baby, I'm gonna leave you all alone
I'm gonna pack up and leave you darling because you know you done me wrong
Well now goodbye, goodbye baby, I'll see you on some rainy day
Well now goodbye baby, I'll see you on some rainy day
You can go ahead now little darling, 'cause I want you to have your way
Dinsdag 13 februari 2007
Learning The Game
Learning The Game
((French Version: La Règle Du Jeu (by Éric James) - 1998))
Composer(s): Buddy Holly
First release by: Buddy Holly - 1960
Covered by multiple other artists
Hearts that are broken and love that's untrue
These go with learning the game
When you love her but she doesn't love you
You're only learning the game
When she says that you're the only one she'll ever love
Then you find that you are not the one she's thinking of
Feeling so sad and you're all alone and blue
That's when you're learning the game
Dinsdag 13 februari 2007
Blues As Blues Can Get
Blues As Blues Can Get
Composer(s): J. Fred Knobloch; Tim Krekel
Performer(s): Delbert McClinton;
Fabulous Horndogs; Chris Farlowe
Gonna sit right down in my easy chair
Pull out a deck of cards, play some solitaire
Break out a bottle, wash me a glass
To keep me company 'til the feelings pass
Everybody needs someting to do
Me, I'll just sit here and think about you
It might seem hopeless, but it ain't that bad yet
It's just the blues as blues can get...
I need to call somebody, someone I can trust
I need the number for lovers' anonymous
I'll tell 'em my story, hope they understand
Maybe they can explain it to me
'cause I don't think I can
I'll take your picture down from my wall
Try to remember the thrill of it all
I know it's over, but it ain't over yet
It's just the blues as blues can get...
Why fight the feeling when I can't fight back the tears
I stare at the ceiling and wish that you were here
I'm going crazy, but I ain't crazy yet
It's just the blues as blues can get...
Maandag 12 februari 2007
Learning The Blues
Learning The Blues
Composer(s): Dolores Vicki Silvers
First release by: Joe Valino - 1955
Covered by multiple other artists
The tables are empty - the dance floor's deserted
You play the same love song - it's the tenth time you've heard it
That's the beginning - just one of the clues
You've had your first lesson - in learnin' the blues
The cigarettes you light - one after another
Won't help you forget her - and the way that you love her
You're only burnin' - a torch you can't lose
But you're on the right track - for learnin' the blues
When you're at home alone, the blues will taunt you constantly
When you're out in a crowd, the blues will haunt your memory
The nights when you don't sleep - the whole night you're cryin'
But you can't forget her - soon you even stop tryin'
You'll walk that floor - and wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break - you're learnin' the blues
When you're at home alone, the blues will taunt you constantly
When you're out in a crowd, those blues will haunt your memory
The nights when you don't sleep - that whole night you're cryin'
But you can't forget her - soon you even stop tryin'
You'll walk the floor - and you'll wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break - you're learnin' those blues
Maandag 12 februari 2007