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In the garbage dump, on a fine December day, we found a beat-up piece of junk, an old-time open sleigh. So then we bought a horse whose coat was solid gray, but that's because the horse of course is older than the sleigh!
--JINGLE BELLS (by The 3 Stooges)
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I just got the new album from drivin'n'cryin' frontman Kevn Kinney's new project/band, Kevin Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival.
Appropriately enough, this song came blasting from my car CD player on my way home from work tonight:
(think Johnny B. Goode 12-bar blues at breakneck speed)
I feel like Marlon Brando, I feel like James Dean I whiz right by the school-girls, they're all staring at me There ain't no more excitement, there ain't no bigger thrill Than a '55 Chevy with a mean-mouth grill
Baby, baby, baby I just want you to know 90 miles an hour in a 30 mile zone, get home
Baby, I just wanna go home Baby, I just wanna go home Baby, I just wanna go home Baby I just wanna go 90 miles an hour in a 30 mile zone Baby, baby, baby I just wanna get home
-------------------- "Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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Another great tune off the album, laid-back country with some of the prettiest pedal steel guitar I've ever heard-- here's the chorus.
This train don't stop at the millworks anymore Ever since all those jobs moved to Mexico If this train stops at all it's so the engineer can rest This train don't stop at the millworks anymore
-------------------- "Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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Do you worry that you're not liked How long till you break You're happy cause you smile But how much can you fake An ordinary boy an ordinary name But ordinary's just not good enough today
Alone I'm thinking Why is superman dead Is it in my head We'll just laugh instead You worry about the weather and Whether or not you should hate
Are you worried about your faith Kneel down and obey You're happy you're in love You need someone to hate An ordinary girl an ordinary waist But ordinary's just not good enough today
Alone I'm thinking Why is superman dead Is it in my head We'll just laugh instead You worry about the weather and Whether or not you should hate
Doesn't anybody ever know that the world's a subway...
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Holy Moses met the Pharaoh Yeah, he tried to set him straight Looked him in the eye "Let my people go"
Holy Moses on the mountain High above the golden calf Went to get the Ten Commandments Yeah, he's just gonna break them in half!
All you zombies hide your faces All you people in the street All you sittin' in high places The pieces gonna fall on you
No one ever spoke to Noah They all laughed at him instead Working on his ark Working all by himself
Only Noah saw it coming Forty days and forty nights Took his sons and daughters with him Yeah, they were the Israelites
The rain's gonna fall on you
Holy Father, what's the matter Where have all your children gone Sitting in the dark Living all by themselves You don't have to hide any more
All you zombies show your faces... ...The pieces gonna fall on you
All you zombies show your faces (I know you're out there) All you people in the street (Let's see you) All you sittin' in high places It's all gonna fall on you
'All You Zombies' - The Hooters
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Marillion, MISPLACED CHILDHOOD
1. Pseudo-Silk Kimono
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears Safe in my own words, learning from my own words Cruel joke, cruel joke Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters of my eyes The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred A refugee, refugee.
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2. Kayleigh
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college hall s Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair By the way didn't I break your heart? Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart So sorry, I never meant to break your heart But you broke mine Kayleigh is it too late to say I'm sorry? And Kayleigh could we get it together again? I just can't go on pretending that it came to a natural end Kayleigh, oh I never thought I'd miss you And Kayleigh I thought that we'd always be friends We said our love would last forever So how did it come to this bitter end?
Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars Do you remember loving on the floor in Belsize Park Do you remember dancing in stilettoes in the snow Do you remember you never understood I had to go By the way, didn't I break your heart Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart So sorry, I never meant to break your heart But you broke mine
Kayleigh I just wanna say I'm sorry But Kayleigh I'm too scared to pick up the phone To hear you've found another lover to patch up our broken home Kayleigh I'm still trying to write that love song Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone Maybe it will prove that we were right Or ever prove that I was wrong
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3. Lavender
I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns Then I heard the children singing They were running through the rainbows They were singing a song for you Well it seemed to be a song for you The one I wanted to write for you, for you Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green When I am King, dilly dilly, you will be Queen A penny for your thoughts my dear A penny for your thoughts my dear I.O.U. for your love, IOU for your love
Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you A penny for your thoughts my dear A penny for your thoughts my dear IOU for your love, IOU for your love
For your love
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4. Bitter Suite
I. Brief Encounter
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow Not the regal creature of border caves But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar Of some obscure Scottish poet
The mist crawls from the canal Like some primordial phantom of romance To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father Your carnation will rot in a vase.
II. Lost Weekend
A train sleeps in a siding The driver guzzles another can of lager To wash away the memories of a Friday night down at the club
She was a wallflower at sixteen She'll be a wallflower at thirty four Her mother called her beautiful Her daddy said, "A whore".
III. Blue Angel
The sky was Bible black in Lyon When I met the Magdalene She was paralysed in a streetlight She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises They were pinned upon her arm. Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear "'J'entend ton coeur" I can hear your heart
IV. Misplaced Rendezvous
It's getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper Something's gonna give under this pressure And the cracks are already beginning to show It's too late The weekend career girl never boarded the plane They said this could never happen again So wrong, so wrong
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous With you The parallel of you, you
V. Windswept Thumb
On the outskirts of nowhere On the ringroad to somewhere On the verge of indecision I'll always take the roundabout way Waiting on the rain For I was born with a habit, from a sign The habit of a windswept thumb And the sign of the rain It's started raining
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5. Heart of Lothian
I. Wide Boy Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, these hearts of Lothian
It's six o'clock in the tower blocks Stalagmites of culture shock And the trippers of the light fantastic, bow down, hoe-down Spray their pheromones on this perfume uniform
And anarchy smiles in the Royal Mile And they're waiting on the slyboys, flyboys, wideboys Rooting, tooting cowboys Lucky little ladies at the watering holes They'll score the Friday night goals
I was born with a heart of Lothian I was born with a heart of Lothian With a heart of Lothian
I was born with a heart of Lothian, with a heart of Lothian.
II. Curtain Call
And the man from the magazine, wants another shot of you all curled up 'Cos you look like an actor in a movie shot. But you're feeling like a wino in a parking lot How did I get in here anyway? Do we really need a playback of the show? 'Cos the wideboys want to head for the watering holes
Let's go
And the man in the mirror has sad eyes
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6. Waterhole
When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity Funeral hearses court the death of virginity Was it paradise lost or paradise found? Did we gain respect or were we holding ground? You had found true love, or so you believed And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves So when you think it's time to go When you think it's time to go Don't be surprised, the heroes never show
And the patter merchants selling false impressions Tipping eyes at the waitress with American expressions Tie angels to the bar with sweet Martini's and their charms They're lying on every word and every arm They're turning down their noses to the best lines And the cheap wines
And the wideboys They wear their lovebites for their crimes
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7. Lords of the Backstage
A love song with no validity Pretend you never meant that much to me Numb, a Valium child, bored by meaningless collisions A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice A mirror cracked among the white lines I just wanted you to be the first one I just wanted you to be the first one Ashes are burning, burning Ashes are burning, burning
A lifestyle with no simplicities But I'm not asking for your sympathy Talk, we never could talk, distanced by all that was between us A lord of the backstage, a creature of language I'm so far out and I'm too far in
I just wanted you to be the first one I just wanted you to be the first one Bridges are burning, burning Bridges are burning, burning
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8. Blind Curve
I. Vocal Under A Bloodlight
Last night you said I was cold, untouchable A lonely piece of action from another town I just want to be free, I'm happy to be lonely Can't you stay away? Just leave me alone with my thoughts Just a runaway, just a runaway I'm saving myself
II. Passing Strangers
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights Cold moan, held on the crest of the night I'm too tired to fight.
So now we're passing strangers, at single tables Still trying to get over Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers All those passing strangers And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper
III. Mylo
Oh I remember Toronto when Mylo went down And we sat and cried on the phone I never felt so alone He was the first of our own Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity Some of us go down in a haze of publicity The price of infamy, the edge of insanity
Another Holiday Inn, another temporary home And an interviewer threatened me with a microphone 'Talk to me, won't you tell me your stories."
So I talked about conscience and I talked about pain And he looked out the window and it started to rain I thought maybe I've already gone crazy So I reached for a bottle and he reached for the door And I picked up the sleeping pills crushed on the floor Inviting me to a casual obscenity.
IV. Perimeter Walk
It would be incredible if we could Retrace all the times that we lived here All the collisions Wasted, I've never been so wasted I've never been this far out before
Perimeter walk There's a presence here I feel could have been ancient, I could have been mystical
There's a presence A child, my child My childhood, a misplaced childhood Give it back to me, give it back to me A childhood, that childhood Oh please give it back to me.
V. Threshold
I saw a war widow in a launderette Washing the memories from her husband's clothes She had medals pinned to a threadbare greatcoat A lump in her throat with cemetery eyes
I see convoys curbcrawling West German Autobahns Trying to pick up a war They're going to even the score Oh... I can't take any more I see black flags on factories Soup ladies poised on the lips of the poor I see children with vacant stares, destined for rape in the alleyways Does anybody care, I can't take any more! Should we say goodbye?
I see priests, politicians? Heroes in black plastic body-bags under nations' flags I see children pleading with outstretched hands Drenched in napalm, this is no Vietnam
I can't take any more, should we say goodbye How can we justify? They call us civilised!
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9. Childhood's End
And it was morning And I found myself mourning, For a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone I'm not alone, I turned to the mirror I saw you, the child, that once loved The child before they broke his heart Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost
Hey you, surprised? More than surprised To find the answers to the questions Were always in your own eyes
Do you realise that you give it on back to her? But that would only be retraced in all the problems that you ever knew So untrue For she's got to carry on with her life And you've got to carry on with yours
So I see it's me, I can do anything And I'm still the child 'Cos the only thing misplaced was direction And I found direction There is no childhood's end You are my childhood friend, lead me on
Hey you, you've survived. Now you've arrived To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie
Now you realise, that you've got to get out of here You've found the leading light of destiny, burning in the ashes of your memory You want to change the world You'd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel But that was looking backward Now you've found the light
You, the child that once loved The child before they broke his heart Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost
So it's me I see, I can do anything. I'm still the child 'Cos the only thing misplaced was direction And I found direction There is no childhood's end I am your childhood friend, lead me on
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10. White Feather
When I hit the streets back in '81 Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears Where have I been for all these years? I saw political intrigue, political lies Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from their eyes
I will wear your white feather I will carry your white flag I will swear I have no nation But I'm proud to own my heart I will wear your white feather I will carry your white flag I will swear I have no nation But I'm proud to own my heart My heart, this is my heart
We don't need no uniforms, we have no disguise Divided we stand, together we'll rise
We will wear your white feather We will carry your white flag We will swear we have no nations But we're proud to own our hearts We will wear your white feather We will carry your white flag We will swear we have no nations But we're proud to own our hearts These are our hearts These are our hearts You can't take away our hearts You can't steal our hearts away I can't walk away No more
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