lyric snippets

[tannis]

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music"

And you got away, didn't you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
and all of that jiving around

Chelsea Hotel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YDb1mZxQRk

Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
is fastening my ankle to a stone.

Leonard Cohen - So long, Marianne [Studio Version]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ61su9H5RU&feature=related

[Adena]

These are the darkest clouds
That have surrounded me
Now I find myself alone
Caught in a cage
There's no flower I can find in here
Not withering, not pale to me
Everyone with a friendly face
Seems to hide some secret inside

Caged, Within Temptation (Mother Earth)

[tannis]

Lakota
by Joni Mitchell

I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Looking at money man
Diggin' the deadly quotas
Out of balance
Out of hand
We want the land!
Lay down the reeking ore
Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees?
Everywhere you touch the earth she's sore
Every time you skin her all things weep
Your money mocks us
Restitution what good can it do?
Kennelled in metered boxes
Red dogs in debt to you

I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Fighting among ourselves
All we can say with one whole heart
Is we won't sell
No we'll never sell
We want the land!
The lonely coyote calls
In the woodlands footprints of the deer
In the barrooms poor drunk bastard falls
In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years
You think we're sleeping but
Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars
We have seen the trampled rainbows
In the smoke of cars

I am Lakota
Brave
Sun pity me
I am Lakota
Broken
Moon pity me
I am Lakota
Grave
Shadows stretching
Lakota
Oh pity me
I am Lakota
Weak
Grass pity me
I am Lakota
Faithful
Rocks pity me
I am Lakota
Meek
Standing water
Lakota
Oh pity me

I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Standing on sacred land
We never sold these Black Hills
To the missile heads
To the power plants
We want the land!
The bullet and the fence broke Lakota
The black coats and the booze broke Lakota
Courts that circumvent choke Lakota
Nothing left to lose
Tell me grandfather
You spoke the fur and feather tongues
Do you hear the whimpering waters
When the tractors come?

Sun pity me
Mother earth
Mother
Moon pity me
Father sky
Father
Shadows
Stretching on the forest floor
Mother earth
Oh pity me
Father sky
Father
Grass pity me
Mother earth
Mother
Rocks pity me
Father sky
Father
Water
Standing in a wakan manner
Mother earth
Oh pity me

© 1988; Crazy Crow Music

[Adena]

Beyond the silence
where your voices whisper to my heart
In the midst of December
on a night that comes without a star
I fall into darkness
like I've done a thousand times before
I've burned all bridges
to the treacherous world outside my door

Downfall, Sirenia (Nine Destinies and a Downfall)

[Adena]

Maybe I was wrong
Maybe I just imagined all these things
Did you want to be here with me?
Are you sorry you came?
All those times on the street
Why didn't you walk with me?

Don't be afraid
I had to escape

...and Then The World Froze, Octavia Sperati (Grace Submerged)

Misted windows
Hide your empty eyes
Every moment, every whisper
Separates you from me
I've been screaming
Won't you let me in?
Let me see a trace
Of the places hidden
Under your skin

Frozen, Delain (Lucidity)

I can feel the flames
the fire lick me in vain
My life can't be regained
not now, nor then, nor ever again
We cross our feeble hearts
the day our souls depart
Life move in strangest ways
We died somewhat, somehow in every day

At Sixes and Sevens, Sirenia (At Sixes and Sevens)

[Adena]

Standing by the paintings of your dreams
But you have awoken
And all the purples and the greens
Have turned to black
And the ruins of your soul have died
No more meaning
I wonder when you have
Become so cold

See Me In Shadow, Delain (Lucidity)

[tannis]

Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again

~ Marcie, Joni Mitchell (Song To A Seagull, 1968)

[Adena]

There it is carrying the spoken word
Throughout lifelines of depths
Imperceptible implementation of life
The day is breaking

Lifelines of Depths, Octavia Sperati (Winter Enclosure)

All of my memories keep you near
In silent moments, imagine you'll be here
All of my memories keep you near
In silent whispers, silent tears

Memories, Within Temptation (The Silent Force)

Never again
The way you’re turning all my wrongs to right
Never again
This one you can’t deny
Never again
I wanted to reveal a softer side
Never again
Forgive me if I tried to do what’s right

Lost, Delain (April Rain)

Cover your eyes to mend the hurt inside
You wither in life like autumn leaves
Infidel divine, you are the reason why I choose this way
to cease my life, you are the treason in us all

Lethargica, Sirenia (At Sixes And Sevens)

[Adena]

I don't want to be like you
It seems like you outrun me every time
I want to be you
Why can't I erase you from my mind?
I don't want to be like you
It seems like you outrun me every time
I want to be you
Why can't I erase you from my mind?

Invidia, Delain (April Rain)

[Christopher]

Times are hard
You're afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
When you need a bit of lovin'
Cause your man is out of town
That's the time you get me runnin'
And you know I'll be around

CHORUS:
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
I don't wanna do your dirty work
No more
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah

Light the candle
Put the lock upon the door
You have sent the maid home early
Like a thousand times before
Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same

[Adena]

You can't lock us out (hey-o, hi-o)
You try to shut us up (hey-o, hi-o)
We're gonna sing and dance (hey-o, hi-o)
We're gonna live our life at every chance

Here we come from the inside
You can't stop us even if you try
Look out, we're on, it's time to take a ride
We're voices from inside

Voices from Inside, Voices from Inside (Jail Birds)

[Adena]

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
She lay on the bank, but went light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said 'All beauty must die'
And I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth...

Where the Wild Roses Grow, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Murder Ballads)

[Adena]

But every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen

It's you and me
Daddy...

Cloudbusting, Kate Bush (Hounds of Love)

[tannis]

Mar 20, 2010 5:28:48 GMT Adena said:

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
She lay on the bank, but went light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said 'All beauty must die'
And I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth...

Where the Wild Roses Grow, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Murder Ballads)

^ That is the best song Kylie has ever done...

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where The Wild Roses Grow (HQ)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srgfw7GDkM&feature=related

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.

He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday Party in the early 1980s, a band renowned for its highly dark, challenging lyrics and violent sound influenced by free jazz, blues, and post-punk. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman that released its debut the following year. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with "religion, death, love, America, and violence."

Upon Cave's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said “Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute."

Nick Cave currently lives in Brighton and Hove, England.

[Adena]

I heard you call my name
on a stormy day
from beneath the waves
I watched you slip away
and I knew it was far too late

Sirens of the Seven Seas, Sirenia (The 13th Floor)