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dip it low
pick it up slow
roll it all around
poke it out like your back broke

POP POP POP that thang
I'm gonna show you how to make a man say...


--Dip It Low, Christina Milian

I swear this song was written about me:

I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind

On my own... here we go

My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go

My mind is set on overdrive
The clock is laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My sense dulled
Passed the point of delerium

On my own... here we go

My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go

Brainstew - Greenday

From the band "OneTrueThing" - I love this song:

Change

An old farmhouse stands alone, garage tacked to its side.
Old man inside keeps telling me he wants to die.
Says, “I don’t got much these days...just some photos and a clock, reminding me how fast the time is passing by.”
Well I don’t even know your name.
Don’t even know your name, but I wanted to tell you things change.
A young girl cries in my ear, her heart tries not to break.
She holds her own, but indecision makes her shake.
She’s got so much left to give, all her thoughts and all her dreams, reminding me how fast the time is passing by.
Well I don’t even know your name.
Don’t even know your name, but I wanted to tell you things change.
Things change

DIscussions of Gail's first issue over on the LEGION board reminded me of the song VERDI CRIES from the 10,000 Maniacs cd IN MY TRIBE, which I hadn't listened to in years. I'm glad I was reminded, that is one GREAT cd!!


And I want to say
Want to say, "What's the matter here?"
But I don't dare say
"What's the matter here?"

-- WHAT'S THE MATTER HERE

You've put in about half a day
While here I lie
With a shiver in my bones
Just thinking about the weather

-- ABOUT THE WEATHER

The man in 119 takes his tea all alone
Mornings we all rise
To wireless Verdi cries
I'm hearing opera through the door

-- VERDI CRIES

This is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite groups - Blue Rodeo from Canada. This song is sort of soft country rock and the lead singer has a voice that'll just melt your socks.

Artist: Blue Rodeo
Song: Bad Timing
Album: Just Like A Vacation

Hey it's me what a big surprise
Calling you up from a restaurant round the bend
Just got in from way up North
I'm achin' and tired now and I could use a friend

I might be a fool
To think that you do
wanna see me again...

I know it's been awhile since i talk to you
nothing wrong, just nothing ever goes as planned
many times i thought i'd call
but didn't have your number in my hand

I know it's true
that you'd never do
the same thing to me...

I never meant to make you cry
and though I know i shouldn't call
it just reminds us of the cost
of everything we've lost
bad timing that's all
And maybe soon there'll come a day
when no more tears will fall
we each forgive a little bit
and we both look back on it
it's just bad timing that's all

we used to have so many plans
something always seemed to turn out wrong
never could catch up to you
moving on and doing all you've done

I don't know why
The harder I try
the harder it comes

I never meant to make you cry
and though I know i shouldn't call
it just reminds us of the cost
of everything we've lost
bad timing that's all
And maybe soon there'll come a day
when no more tears will fall
we each forgive a little bit
and we both look back on it
it's just bad timing that's all

we each forgive a little bit
and we both look back on it
it's just bad timing that's all

I know you're not a bad girl, honey
No matter what the neighbours say!
It's just you wear those skin-tight dresses
With your G-string tuned to 'A'

*whaps side of head* Song.. is stuck..

Sweet, sweet, child of the street

*whaps head and more lyrics fall out*

Kitten's got claws
She'll tear your heart out
Kitten's got claws
She'll scratch your back...

I keep hearing this one on the radio, and they won't say what it is or who it's buy:

I don't like your fashion business, mister
I don't like that pill that makes you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First -- we'll take Manhattan
Then we'll take Berlin!

Here's one I *can* identify:
"The Messenger", Tea Party

Got a letter from a messenger
I read it when it came
It said that you were wounded
You were bound and chained
You were lovéd, you were handled
You were poisoned, you were pained
Oh no, oh no
You were naked, you were shamed

You could almost touch Heaven
Right there in front of you
Liberty just slipped away on us
Now there's so much work to do
But the door that closes tightly
Is the door that can swing wide
Oh no, oh no
Not expecting to collide

For a minute I let my guard down
Not afraid to be found out
Completely forgot, dear,
What our fears were all about
Oh no, oh no
There's no need to be without

If there's a chance, I will take it
This desire I can't kill, no
Here's my heart, please don't break it
I will crawl to your foothill
I am frightened but I'm coming
Please, baby, please lay still
Oh no, oh no, I'm not coming for the kill
Oh no, I'm not coming for the kill
Oh no, I'm not coming for the kill

Life
What a sweet fuckin’ drug
Come-on-come-on-come-on-
Complete my world - yeah
Come and make me numb

Listen everybody -

Life - Baby
What a sweet sweet drug - Baby
Complete my world - Daddy
Come and make me numb


Extract from “Life’s Sweet Drug” – slash’s snakepit
From the 2000 album Ain’t Life Grand

It's by Leonard Cohen. I believe it's called "First We'll Take Manhattan". Your station may be playing the version R.E.M. did for a tribute album a few years back, or maybe someone else covered it recently.

So I went fishing
And I got a note which read:

"Dear Dope,

If you want to catch us,
You need a rod and a line.

Signed,
The Fish"

The Fall - "Mountain"

Jya.

Here's Push, by a nice Canadian band named Moist.

Flannel Lass knows why I'm posting this one ... *evils*


a little bit more than i ever wanted
a little bit more than you could ever say
did you really think that i'd forgotten
kicked out the windshield water coming in
fade away fade away

push just a little too late
is this what you want what you need
is this what you wanted me to be
[push just a little too late]
always loved me strapped to you
lock it down and drive me through
no

i tried to give me than you thought i'd take now
taking more than you could ever say
push comes to shove you kicked me in the head
you knocked me down i ripped the handle off again
i wanted more than this wanted more than this
fade away fade away

push just a little too late
is this what you want what you need
is this what you wanted me to be
[push just a little too late]
always loved me strapped to you
lock it down and drive me through
oh

hands gripped to the wheel held too tight to feel
face pressed to the glass please don't ask
one more breath now one more
it's alright
i could never give enough have enough be enough
you could never stand to stay there
only only only
fade away fade away

push just a little too late
is this what you want what you need
is this what you wanted me to be
[push just a little too late]
always loved me strapped to you
lock it down and drive me through
oh

[push just a little too late]
just a little too late
[push just a little too late]
i wanted more than this
[push just a little too late]
i wanted more than this
[push just a little too late]
i expected more than this
[push just a little too late]
more than this
more than this
[push just a little too late]
more than this
more than this
[push just a little too late]
more than this
more than this
[push just a little too late]
more than this

Read my mind, Tai. I'm thinking more along the lines of Leave It Alone by Moist

i'd walk the water to get back to you
and where i was complete
we found you scattered by the highwayside
too soon to be released
gathered the pieces up and clean the places
where you were undone
and washed the wreckage out
unfinished all the thoughts that we'd begun

i came to burn the sky
and tear away the beauty that it sows
if i could rape the day
and find the things i thought i'd always known

leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight

i laid your arms out long untwisted there
and shaped what i could find
unmade the most of it then left the rest
the parts unrecognized
my reconstruction was the only way
for one last look at you
i lost the sense of it
the absolution that we never knew

leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight
and it takes me back from this place here
it takes me back from this place here

i came to burn the sky
and tear away the beauty that it sows
if i could rape the day
and find the things i thought i'd always known

leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again
and it takes me back from this place here
from this place here it takes me over
it might be lost in this place here
in this place here it takes me on
tonight leave it alone
tonight leave it alone
tonight leave it alone
tonight leave it alone

And here's another Moist one, which really.. it sheds light, perhaps on Dick's state of mind now that Donna is dead

believe me
touched by god
touched by you
you know i never asked you to
believe in me
it's all i can do
things you never said

and wanting you to reach out from the dark
to wake up from the cold
and wanting you is all i can do
things you never said

believe me
did we ever try
believe me
keep it all to yourself
believe me
i really wanted to die

i'll take the note
the words that say i'm weak
that show i should have died
crumpled in the fire
i'll take the note
it's all i can do
things you never said

believe me
could you ever try
believe me
just keep it all to yourself

so i'm burning up your pictures
lay you in this shallow grave
so i'm washing clean your body
for the promises i never made
i'm burning up our pictures
still my love remains the same

believe me
keep it all to yourself
oh believe me
i really wanted to die

so i'm burning up your pictures
lay you in this shallow grave
so i'm washing clean your body
for the promises i never made
i'm burning up our pictures
still my love remains the same
oh remains the same
oh no remains the same
oh remains the same
remains the same

........................

Flannel Lass ...

Great minds?

Perhaps why Nightwing is letting Tarantula do -- what she has been doing ...


And now, to keep from hijacking this thread, more Moist. David Usher, at least ...

This is Black Black Heart


[dôme épais le jasmin]
[dôme épais le jasmin]

something ugly this way comes
through my fingers sliding inside
all these blessings all these burns
i'm godless underneath your cover
search for pleasure search for pain
in this world now i am undying
i unfurl my flag my nation helpless

black black heart
why would you offer more
why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
i'm on fire
i'm rotting to the core
i'm eating all your kings and queens
all your sex and your diamonds

[dôme épais le jasmin
à la rose s'assemble]

as i begin to lose my grip
of these realities you're sending
taste your mind and taste your sex
i'm naked underneath your cover covers lie
and we will blend and borrow with the coming sign
the tide will take the sea will rise
time will rape

black black heart
why would you offer more
why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
i'm on fire
i'm rotting to the core
i'm eating all your kings and queens
all your sex and your diamonds

[dôme épais le jasmin]
[dôme épais le jasmin]

black black heart
why would you offer more
why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
i'm on fire
i'm rotting to the core
i'm eating all your kings and queens
all your sex and your diamonds

all your sex and your diamonds
all your sex and your diamonds
all your sex and your diamonds
all your sex and your diamonds

And now, to break up the run of Moist/David Usher, here's a little snippet Twisted Sister which put me in mind of the upcoming new run by Waid on Legion...

The kids are back
The kids are back
Oh, watch out
The kids are back

Well, can you blame us
For living our dreams
Just look around,
And you'll see why
We don't wanna follow
That same routine
Maybe it's for nothing,
But we gotta try

So just remember that
The kids are back...

That's my friggin' anthem!

I used to be sad.
I used to be shy.
The funniest thing,
The saddest part,
Is I never knew why.

Kicking myself for nothing,
Was my favorite sport.
I had to get up, get out, get started,
Cuz life's too short.

There's a new girl in town,
And I'm feeling good!
Got a song, got a smile,
For the neighborhood.

There's a fresh, freckled face,
On her own two feet.
And, this girl's here to stay,
With some luck and love,
Life's gonna be...

So sweet!

-- Linda Lavin, theme song from Alice and my personal pick-me-up tune *hee hee*

I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off sometimes life's ok
I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what can i say
Well you just laughed it off it was all ok

And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on any way well

Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
Well we'll float on good news is on the way

And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Now don't worry we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Alright don't worry we'll all float on

And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Aliright don't worry even if things end up a bit to heavy
we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Ok don't worry we'll all float on
Even if things get heavy we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Don't you worry we'll all float on
All float on

-- Modest Mouse, "Float On"

Scott, I was just listening to that song when I clicked on this thread! Excellent choice.

My favorite song right now. Kinda like a 00's version of "Don't Worry, Be Happy", just not quite as annoying.

I know, it's not the right time of year, but hey.. "post it if you feel it"!

I don't know if you believe in Christmas
Or if you have presents underneath the Christmas tree
But if you believe in love
That will be more than enough
For you to come and celebrate with me

I have held the precious gift that love brings
Even though I never saw a Christmas star
I know that there is a light
I have felt it burn inside
And I have seen it shining from a far

Christmas is the time to come together
A time to put all differences aside
And I reach out my hand
To the family of man
To share the joy I feel at Christmas time

For the truth that binds us all together
I would like to say a simple prayer
That at this special time
You will have true peace of mind
And love to last throughout the coming year

And if you believe in love
That will be more than enough
For peace to last throughout the coming year
And peace on earth will last throughout the year

Recent talk of Edgar Allen Poe inspired this one:

"When She Comes"

Slow motion in the quiet of the room;
so potent is the smell of her perfume
that you think she's eternal,
that you think she is everything...
but no-one knows what she is.
Repentance for all you should have said;
her entrance seems to raise you from the dead
and you think she's really with you,
and you think that she'll always stay,
always ready to forgive you,
always ready to grant you her mercy
- but in her own way.
When she comes, she'll be a stranger;
struck dumb, you'll try to protest
as the drum beats out the danger...
too late, you should have noticed
that the lady with the skin so white,
like something out of Blake or Burne-Jones
always blocked out the light
and shadowed all you owned.

Still you think she's forever,
yesterday and tomorrow...
but no-one knows where she is.
Still you swear that you can win her
and your prayer is that she'll want you;
aware, once a saint, now you're a sinner
and your sins are going to haunt you
when the lady with her skin so white
like something out of Edgar Allen Poe
holds your hand so very tight
and you hope that she'll never let go.

Easy targets, easy crosswords, easy life:
these key margins leave you balanced on the knife,
bleeding darkly In the end it all comes down
to sleazy bargains.
That hidden key-you tried so hard to find it,
all you can conceive is the effort to be worthy.
Even now you need tobe reminded
that La Belle Dame is without mercy.
The lady with her skin so white
- you never did quite catch her name -
now she holds you in the night
and she'll never let go again,
she'll never let go again.

I put this song up for trivia on the Rock 'n' Roll Trivia Thread, and I was shocked by how long it took to get an answer, so I am posting it here because it's a good song that I love. The video of this song features aged versions of Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, etc. showing up for Superman's funeral. Just imagine a few Legionnaires in there for completeness.

Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies

Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm
Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle
But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no
Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him

Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job
Even though he could have smashed through any bank
In the United States, he had the strength, but he would not
Folks said his family were all dead
Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself
To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him

Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes
But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."

Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes
I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back
On man, join Tarzan in the forest
But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes
In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through
And nothing to do but go on home

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him
(x2)

This has been going through mt head lately:

Hit me hard!
Hit me right between the eyes
I wanna see the stars
Hit me, hit me
Well hit me hard!

- The Sounds

"I know I didn't say I was comin down,
I know you didn't know I was here in town,
But bay-yay-yaby you can tell me if anyone can,
Baby, can you dig your man?
He's a righteous man,
Tell me baby, can you dig your man?"

Not exactly from a 'real' song, although one was supposedly recorded. Can anyone guess what it is from?