Showing posts with label folk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folk. Show all posts

Friday, September 28, 2012

I wanna go!

I wanna go to Marz
Where green rivers flow
And your sweet sixteen is waiting for you after the show
I wanna go to Marz
We'll meet the gold dust twins tonight
You'll get your heart's desire, I will meet you under the lights*

--
* I Wanna Go To Marz by John Grant

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Together again *happy sigh*

I've longed for you
And I have desired
To see your face, your smile
To be with you wherever you are

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
Please say you'll be waiting

Together again
It would feel so good to be
In your arms
Where all my journeys end
If you can make a promise
If it's one that you can keep
I vow to come for you
If you wait for me

And say you'll hold
A place for me
In your heart*

--
* The Promise by Tracy Chapman

Monday, September 26, 2011

Warning signs don't lie

We wove a sticky web in a dirty little game
And I was hypnotized
All your bad juju and all your weird voodoo
Made me go blind
There was nothing there but the shell of the girl
You left behind
But I wasn't seeing, I just wasn't seeing
Somehow I missed the warning signs

They were warning signs, warning signs, warning signs
They told me you were evil but I want you for mine*

--
* Warning Signs by Eilen Jewell

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Traveling on to new shorelines seeking...

Love is a hazard in lower Manhattan
You cannot escape, and musn't be saddened
By men who abandon your eyes for another's
There are always Brazilian boys to discover

Set your sights straight now
Don't forget pain
Drink 'til tomorrow becomes yesterday
Think of the shorelines you have yet to see
Men who will hold you with eyes you believe

On the way I will go
Where the days left to breathe
Are not gone, are still long
I am traveling on *
--
* Rio by Hey Marseilles

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Like dragonflies

Brooklyn Bridge
by Sxip Shirey

High up on the roof the dawn is breaking
We're kissing
The trafficopters fly
Above the the Brooklyn Bridge
We are so high, they're not so far
Like dragonflies above the cars
And we've been up all night
Drinking whiskey and laughing
What were the reasons why?

But we should not be kissing here
High up on the roof, my dear
The trafficopters fly
Above the the Brooklyn Bridge
We are so high, they're not so far
Like dragonflies above the cars
And we have kissed to the dreaming
Of a million people sleeping
A million people waking to find
That the sun is in the sky

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Tied

So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain*

--
* Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Friday, August 20, 2010

Black & Blue & Beautiful

Come out from the burning fire butterfly
Let me lock you in my room and keep you
For a while
Could you be the answer to my every prayer?
Could you be the one for who I care?
...

A million nights have led
To this one that we are spending
And I know it's better here
Than anywhere I've been going
With every morning grew
A void more wide and endless*

--
* Admiral Fell Promises by Sun Kil Moon

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The lover in my dreams

You're only just a dreamboat
Sailing in my head
You swim my secret oceans
Of coral blue and red
Your smell is incense burning
Your touch is silken yet
It reaches through my skin
And moving from within
It clutches at my breast

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams
You got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But I only hear you breathe

Somewhere in my sleep
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside-down
But its only when I sleep*
--
* Only When I Sleep by The Corrs

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Holy sadness Batman

He was crazy of course
From the first she must have known it
But still she went on with him
And she never once had shown it
And she took him off the street
And she dried his tears of grieving
She listened to his visions
She believed in his believe-ins

Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle
And she was the moon shining back his light a little
He was a shooting star
She was softer and more slowly
He could not make things possible
But, she could make them holy

He was dancing to some music
No one else had ever heard
He'd speak in unknown languages
She would translate every word
And then when the world was laughing
At his castles in the sky
She'd hold him in her body
Till he once again could fly

Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle
And she was the moon shining back his light a little
He was a shooting star
She was softer and more slowly
He could not make things possible
But, she could make them holy*
--
* Shooting Star by Harry Chapin

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Undeterred

I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner
For a heart of gold
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
For a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keeps me searching
For a heart of gold
And I'm getting old*

--
* Heart of Gold by Neil Young

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Go ahead...I'll follow...

Laughing with your pretty mouth
Laughing with your broken eyes
Laughing with your lover's tongue
In a lullaby

Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue
Stars go blue, stars go blue, stars go blue*

--
* When The Stars Go Blue by The Corrs (featuring Bono)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Longing

I had a dream I was alone
Nowhere was mine, no one was home
Sunshine don't you wake me,
darkness come and take me...*

--
* Don't Go Home by Kirsty MacColl

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Wassup Doc? ;)

Closer to Fine
by the Indigo Girls

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Three by Gaia Consort


One – strong at the core of my being I stand
One – dreaming of someone who knows,
who might understand that

Every touch our grace is multiplied
Every kiss our souls are opened wide
Every moment is precious and sanctified

Two – joyous and trembling I celebrate you
Two – boundless and teeming there's no end to what we can do when

Every touch our grace is multiplied
Every kiss our souls are opened wide
Every moment is precious and sanctified

And our time is filling like cups of honey wine
Sweeter the water, the deeper the well
Life is spilling out all over
We're spilling out over ourselves

Three – infinite new possibilities
Three – doesn't it seem like there's no end to what we can be when

Every touch our grace is multiplied
Every kiss our souls are opened wide
Every moment is precious and sanctified

And our time is filling like cups of honey wine
Sweeter the water, the deeper the well
Life is spilling out all over
We're spilling out over ourselves

Four – who knows what the future will bring
Four – now I know three works I'm open to possibly more

Every touch our grace is multiplied
Every kiss our souls are opened wide
Every moment is precious and sanctified

And our time is filling like cups of honey wine
Sweeter the water, the deeper the well
Life is spilling out all over
I'm spilling out over myself

And our time is filling like cups of honey wine
Sweeter the water, the deeper the well
Life is spilling out all over
We're spilling out over ourselves

But we're basically three
Well six with the kids but you know what I mean
Basically three – basically three