Name that Song!

[war eagle 99 0]

There are places I remember -- the Beatles

it's. oh. so still

you're all alone

and so peaceful until...

you ring the bell

bim bam

you shout and you yell

hi ho ho

you broke the spell

[ToraGirl 5,498]

There are places I remember -- the Beatles

it's. oh. so still

you're all alone

and so peaceful until...

you ring the bell

bim bam

you shout and you yell

hi ho ho

you broke the spell

"In My Life"--The Beatles

"It's Oh So Quiet" -- Bjork

"Uptown, downtown, everybody's getting down

Say uptown, say downtown...

Well, I've missed my bus I know I'm late

I've gotta do something I know, I hate

I'm gonna walk to work fifteen blocks

I already got a hole in my socks

Go ahead and laugh that's okay

'Cause, what I really wanna say

I got bad feet my corns hurt

To top it off I'm late for work

Let me tell you what I say

When I'm dealing with the funky sidewalk

Let me show you how to walk

When I gotta do my funky walk

Let me tell you what I say

When I'm dealing with the funky sidewalk

I say, sugar..."

[war eagle 99 0]

double dutch bus - frankie smith????

I look around

See through myself and to the ground

For I am empty

What I have

It’s all I’ve got and is the cause of pain within me

Now we leave this place

Between the light and the dark there’s a comfortable grey

From all I’ve known I’ll have to part ways

I won’t go through this, the divorce is too great

[ToraGirl 5,498]

Part One---Wavorly

Zwei, drei, vier

One, two, three

Its easy to see

But its not that I don't care so

'Cause I hear it all the time

But they never let you know

On the TV and the radio

[ToraGirl 5,498]

"Der Kommissar"  (After the Fire)

"We've got to move those microwave ovens...custom kitchen delivery..."

[triangletiger 1,599]

"Der Kommissar"   (After the Fire)

"We've got to move those microwave ovens...custom kitchen delivery..."

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits (from the Brothers In Arms album). 

It's only right that you should play it the way you feel it.

But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness,

like a heartbeat, drives you mad

In the stillness of remembering

What you had and what you lost.

[ToraGirl 5,498]

Dreams!  Stevie Nicks and probably a remake out there...

(As a little kid, I used to call that song, "Thunder only happens when it's raining...") 

How about...

Face to face, out in the heat

Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry

They stack the odds

Still we take to the street

For the kill with the skill to survive

Clue:  liked it for today, especially!

[triangletiger 1,599]

Dreams!  Stevie Nicks and probably a remake out there...

(As a little kid, I used to call that song, "Thunder only happens when it's raining...")   

How about...

Face to face, out in the heat

Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry

They stack the odds

Still we take to the street

For the kill with the skill to survive

Clue:  liked it for today, especially!

That's an easy one - Survivor - Eye of the Tiger.  I had that album on cassette back in the day.

I am an old woman

Named after my mother

My old man is another

Child who's grown old

If dreams were thunder

Lightning was desire

This old house would've burned down

A long time ago

[ToraGirl 5,498]

"Angel from Montgomery"--John Prine

Another easy...or at least relevant one...

"By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground

And out in California, the sunshine's falling down

And, maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in lights

And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight..."

[triangletiger 1,599]

"Angel from Montgomery"--John Prine

Another easy...or at least relevant one...

"By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground

And out in California, the sunshine's falling down

And, maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in lights

And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight..."

Christmas in Dixie - Alabama

Here's a newer one, from a group that's been around a long time.  Powerful lyrics.

Moon shining down through the palms

Shadows moving on the sand

Somebody whispering the twenty-third psalm

Dusty rifle in his trembling hands

Somebody trying just to stay alive

He got promises to keep

Over the ocean in america

Far away and fast asleep

Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky

Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by

Galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born

Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn

.....

Music blasting from an suv

On a bright and sunny day

Rolling down the interstate

In the good ol' usa

Having lunch at the petroleum club

Smokin' fine cigars and swappin' lives

He said: "gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"

"gimme 'nother piece o' that pecan pie!"

Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune

We're riding to utopia, road map says we'll be arriving soon

Captains of the old order clinging to the reins

Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains

Back home I was so certain

The path was very clear

But now I have to wonder: "What are we doing here?"

I'm not counting on tomorrow

And I can't tell wrong from right

But I'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight

Weaving down the American highway

Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk

Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda

And now we're driving dazed and drunk

Been down the road to Damascus,

The road to Mandalay

Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian Way

He said, "It's hard to stop this bingeing, once you get a taste."

"but the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste."

Behold the bitten apple - the power of the tools

But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools

.....

[ToraGirl 5,498]

"Long Road Out of Eden"--The Eagles, one of my all-time favorites.  Those are powerful lyrics.

"Heavenly father watching us all

We take from each other and give nothing at all

Well it's a dog-gone shame

But never too late for change

So if your luck runs low

Just reach out and call his name, his name..."

Back to high school for me on that one!  Still love it...and our coaches were playing it in the gym the other day...

[triangletiger 1,599]

"Long Road Out of Eden"--The Eagles, one of my all-time favorites.  Those are powerful lyrics.

"Heavenly father watching us all

We take from each other and give nothing at all

Well it's a dog-gone shame

But never too late for change

So if your luck runs low

Just reach out and call his name, his name..."

Back to high school for me on that one!  Still love it...and our coaches were playing it in the gym the other day...

I must confess I had to look that one up, but I do remember the song.

Yah Mo B There - James Ingram and Michael McDonald

Here's a sad one by one of my favorite songwriters:

The words had all been spoken

And somehow the feeling still wasn't right

And still we continued on through the night

Tracing our steps from the beginning

Until they vanished into the air

Trying to understand how our lives had led us there

Looking hard into your eyes

The was nobody I'd ever known

Such an empty surprise to feel so alone

Now for me some words come easy

But I know that they don't mean that much

Compared with the things that are said when lovers touch

You never knew what I loved in you

I don't know what you loved in me

Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be

Awake again, I can't pretend, and I know I'm alone

And close to the end of the feeling we've known

How long have I been sleeping

How long have I been drifting alone through the night

How long have I been dreaming I could make it right

If I closed my eyes and tried with all my might

To be the one you need

Awake again, I can't pretend, and I know I'm alone

And close to the end of the feeling we've known

How long have I been sleeping

How long have I been driftin alone through the night?

How long have I been running for that morning flight

Through the whispered promises and the changing light

Of the bed where we both lie?

........

[ToraGirl 5,498]

Honesty reigns, I too, looked it up...

"Late for the Sky", Jackson Browne.  Wasn't he the one who sang, "Doctor My Eyes", too?

"Anthony works in a grocery store...saving his pennies for someday.

Mama Leone left a note on the door, she said, "Sonny, move out to the country.

Workin' too hard can give you a heart attack (ack ack ack ack ack...)..."

[triangletiger 1,599]

Honesty reigns, I too, looked it up...

"Late for the Sky", Jackson Browne.  Wasn't he the one who sang, "Doctor My Eyes", too?

"Anthony works in a grocery store...saving his pennies for someday.

Mama Leone left a note on the door, she said, "Sonny, move out to the country.

Workin' too hard can give you a heart attack (ack ack ack ack ack...)..."

Yes.  Jackson Browne wrote that one and many other great songs. 

That's a Billy Joel song.  I can hear it, but I'm not sure of the title - 'I'm Movin' Out', maybe?

Here's an older one:

Johnny’s in the basement

Mixing up the medicine

I’m on the pavement

Thinking about the government

The man in the trench coat

Badge out, laid off

Says he’s got a bad cough

Wants to get it paid off

Look out kid

It’s somethin’ you did

God knows when

But you’re doin’ it again

You better duck down the alley way

Lookin’ for a new friend

The man in the coon-skin cap

By the big pen

Wants eleven dollar bills

You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot

Face full of black soot

Talkin’ that the heat put

Plants in the bed but

The phone’s tapped anyway

Maggie says that many say

They must bust in early May

Orders from the D.A.

Look out kid

Don’t matter what you did

Walk on your tiptoes

Don’t try “No-Doz”

Better stay away from those

That carry around a fire hose

Keep a clean nose

Watch the plain clothes

You don’t need a weatherman

To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well

Hang around a ink well

Ring bell, hard to tell

If anything is goin’ to sell

Try hard, get barred

Get back, write braille

Get jailed, jump bail

Join the army, if you fail

Look out kid

You’re gonna get hit

But users, cheaters

Six-time losers

Hang around the theaters

Girl by the whirlpool

Lookin’ for a new fool

Don’t follow leaders

Watch the parkin’ meters

Ah get born, keep warm

Short pants, romance, learn to dance

Get dressed, get blessed

Try to be a success

Please her, please him, buy gifts

Don’t steal, don’t lift

Twenty years of schoolin’

And they put you on the day shift

Look out kid

They keep it all hid

Better jump down a manhole

Light yourself a candle

Don’t wear sandals

Try to avoid the scandals

Don’t wanna be a bum

You better chew gum

The pump don’t work

’Cause the vandals took the handles

[Gr8t2baub 0]

Subterranian Homesick Blues by Robert Zimmerman

She looks like the real thing,

She tastes like the real thing,

My fake plastic love

[ToraGirl 5,498]

"Fake Plastic Trees" (Radiohead)---are those the kind Harvey Updyke prefers?  THAT explains a lot.

"I've warned all my friends and neighbors

Better watch out for yourselves

They should never give a license

To a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves..."

[ballen76 0]

Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy

Had a habit doing mainline

Watch the dragon burn

No regrets, youve got no goals

Nothing more to learn

[Gr8t2baub 0]

Operation mindcrime by queensryche.

Gonna start a revolution from my bed,

Cuz she said the brains I had went to my head. 

[ballen76 0]

Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Just picking the song that comes up next on my randomized playlist.

She's in love with herself

She likes the dark

On her milk white neck

The devil's mark

[ToraGirl 5,498]

"Just picking the song that comes up next on my randomized playlist.

She's in love with herself  She likes the dark  On her milk white neck  The devil's mark 

"

Black No. 1 (End of Green or Type O Negative)---confess I SURE had to look that one up.   

This one's a LITTLE different...

"Do you wonder

As You watch my face

If a wiser one, should have had my place

But I offer-all I am

For the mercy-of Your plan

Help me be strong

Help me be

Help me..."