Let's play a game with song lyrics...

[debrawiest]

heaven, you say?

 A brand new human being, razor sharp, all firm and tanned
 All clean, all pure, with a thirty-second attention span
 As the clock strikes twelve and we're ready for party games
 You play blind man's buff and I'll play out charades

 (Heaven knows) what kind of fool am I
 (Heaven knows) why you take an eye for an eye
 (Heaven knows) what comes over me
 You were pumping iron as I was pumping irony

 Now I find myself fully occupied and half alive
 With your head, heart, arms and legs wrapped around my family pride
 See the whites of their eyes then shoot
 With all the romance of the Ton Ton Macoute

 (Heaven knows) what kind of fool am I

 Nothing will show as we're shedding our clothes
 But then I suppose, anything goes, anything goes
 But then I suppose that anything, anything goes
 (Heaven knows - heaven knows --)

 (Heaven knows) what kind of fool am I
 (Heaven knows) what comes over me
 (Heaven knows) what kind of fool am I
 Tell me please, please, please
 (Heaven knows) what kind of fool am I --

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

[Sanguine]

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

Well talk to me baby
Loud as you can
Don't you know that I was sent to be your man
Still do you chill me
And that ain't right
Everything about you refrigerator white

I wanna shake you
Shake you like a friend
But you freeze badder than a Ukraine wind
Won't you open your door
And make come on your light
'Cos everything about you refrigerator white

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

You're an iceberg baby
Of five feet four
I never seen nothing like you before
One fifth showing
Four fifths hid
Gotta find a way to melt you babe
Gotta find a way to melt you babe

Gotta find a way to melt you
To let you know
That what you got bottled
You must let go
There's a world out there big enough to bite
But everything about you refrigerator white

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

[Suppressed]

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

Well talk to me baby
Loud as you can
Don't you know that I was sent to be your man
Still do you chill me
And that ain't right
Everything about you refrigerator white

I wanna shake you
Shake you like a friend
But you freeze badder than a Ukraine wind
Won't you open your door
And make come on your light
'Cos everything about you refrigerator white

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

You're an iceberg baby
Of five feet four
I never seen nothing like you before
One fifth showing
Four fifths hid
Gotta find a way to melt you babe
Gotta find a way to melt you babe

Gotta find a way to melt you
To let you know
That what you got bottled
You must let go
There's a world out there big enough to bite
But everything about you refrigerator white

So white, so white refrigerator white
Everything about you refrigerator white
You're cold pretty mama like a Utah night
Everything about you refrigerator white

Do you want to build a snowman?
Come on lets go and play
I never see you anymore
Come out the door
It's like you've gone away...
We used to be best buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why!
Do you want to build a snowman?
It doesn't have to be a snowman

(Go away, Anna!)

Okay, bye...

 

[Sanguine]

Does he still think about her
Why there was never really any doubt
Every time he lights a candle
Or blows a candle out
The scientific nature of the ordinary man
Is to go on out and do the best you can

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

This world is full of people
They never seem to fall
Somebody said they seen you
You hadn't changed at all
The fundamental story
Of the contemporary man
Is to walk away and someday understand

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

[skeeter]

Does he still think about her
Why there was never really any doubt
Every time he lights a candle
Or blows a candle out
The scientific nature of the ordinary man
Is to go on out and do the best you can

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

This world is full of people
They never seem to fall
Somebody said they seen you
You hadn't changed at all
The fundamental story
Of the contemporary man
Is to walk away and someday understand

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

Sunshine
on my shoulder
makes me happy

sunshine
in my eyes
can make me cry

[skeeter]

I think I may have finally killed it.

[Sanguine]

I think I may have finally killed it.

I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

Oh-a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?

[Chorus 1]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh

[Verse 2]:
And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go

Oh-a oh
You were the first one
Oh-a oh
You were the last one

[Chorus 2]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone too far

Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh

[Chorus 3]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone to far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VTR

[Outro]:
You are a radio star
You are a radio star

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

[austingirl]

I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

Oh-a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?

[Chorus 1]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh

[Verse 2]:
And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go

Oh-a oh
You were the first one
Oh-a oh
You were the last one

[Chorus 2]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone too far

Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh

[Chorus 3]:
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone to far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VTR

[Outro]:
You are a radio star
You are a radio star

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

I heard he sang a good song
 I heard he had a style
 And so I came to see him
 To listen for a while
 And there he was this young boy
 A stranger to my eyes

 Strumming my pain with his fingers
 Singing my life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song
 Killing me softly with his song
 Telling my whole life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song

 I felt all flushed with fever
 Embarassed by the crowd
 I felt he found my letters
 And read each one out loud
 I prayed that he would finish
 But he just kept right on

 Strumming my pain with his fingers
 Singing my life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song
 Killing me softly with his song
 Telling my whole life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song

 He sang as if he knew me
 In all my dark despair
 And then he looked right through me
 As if I wasn't there
 And he just kept on singing
 Singing clear and strong

[Suppressed]

I heard he sang a good song
 I heard he had a style
 And so I came to see him
 To listen for a while
 And there he was this young boy
 A stranger to my eyes

 Strumming my pain with his fingers
 Singing my life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song
 Killing me softly with his song
 Telling my whole life with his words
 Killing me softly with his song

Trivium: that was written about Don McLean.







Pilot of the airwaves
Here is my request
You don't have to play it
But I hope you'll do your best
I've been listening to your show
On the radio
And you seem like a friend to me

Or a record of your choice
I don't mind, I'd be happy just to hear your voice
Saying this is for the girl
Who didn't sign her name
Yes, she needs a dedication just the same

Late at night I'm still listening
Don't waste my time chasing sleep
People say I look weary
But that's just the company I keep
Ooooh, you make the nighttime race
Ooooh, I don't need to see your face
You're sounding good (Sounding good)
Sounding good to me

[austingirl]

Trivium: that was written about Don McLean.







Pilot of the airwaves
Here is my request
You don't have to play it
But I hope you'll do your best
I've been listening to your show
On the radio
And you seem like a friend to me

Or a record of your choice
I don't mind, I'd be happy just to hear your voice
Saying this is for the girl
Who didn't sign her name
Yes, she needs a dedication just the same

Late at night I'm still listening
Don't waste my time chasing sleep
People say I look weary
But that's just the company I keep
Ooooh, you make the nighttime race
Ooooh, I don't need to see your face
You're sounding good (Sounding good)
Sounding good to me

Good to me? This is what Tina has to say:


A prisoner of your love
Entangled in your web
Hot whispers in the night
I'm captured by your spell (captured)
Oh, yes, I'm touched by this show of emotion
Should I be fractured by your lack of devotion?
Should I?
Should I?

Oh, you better be good to me!
That's how it's got to be now
Cause I don't have no use for what you loosely call the truth
And you better be good to me
Yeah, you better be good, good
C'mon, c'mon, be good to me

I think it's all so right
That we don't need to fight
We stand face to face
And you present your case
Yes, I know you keep telling me that you love me
And I really do want to believe
But did you think I'd just accept you in blind faith?
Oh, sure, babe, anything to please you!

But you better be good to me
That's how it's got to be now
Cause I don't have the time for your overloaded lines
And you better be good to me
Yeah, you better be good
Be good to me

And I really don't see why it's so hard to be
Good to me, and, you know
I don't understand, what's your plan
That you can't be good to me
What I can't feel I surely cannot see
Why can't you be good to me
And if it's not real, I do not wish to see
Why don't you be good to me

[Suppressed]

Good to me? This is what Tina has to say:


A prisoner of your love
Entangled in your web
Hot whispers in the night
I'm captured by your spell (captured)
Oh, yes, I'm touched by this show of emotion
Should I be fractured by your lack of devotion?
Should I?
Should I?

Oh, you better be good to me!
That's how it's got to be now
Cause I don't have no use for what you loosely call the truth
And you better be good to me
Yeah, you better be good, good
C'mon, c'mon, be good to me

Runnin' out of self-control
Gettin' close to an overload
Up against a no-win situation
Shoulder-to-shoulder, push and shove
I'm hangin' up my boxin' gloves
I'm ready for a long vacation

Be good to yourself, when nobody else will
Oh, be good to yourself
You're walkin' a highwire, caught in a crossfire
Oh, be good to yourself

When you can't give no more
They want it all but you gotta say no
I'm turnin' off the noise that makes me crazy
Lookin' back with no regrets
To forgive is to forget
I want a little piece of mind to turn to

[austingirl]

Runnin' out of self-control
Gettin' close to an overload
Up against a no-win situation
Shoulder-to-shoulder, push and shove
I'm hangin' up my boxin' gloves
I'm ready for a long vacation

Be good to yourself, when nobody else will
Oh, be good to yourself
You're walkin' a highwire, caught in a crossfire
Oh, be good to yourself

When you can't give no more
They want it all but you gotta say no
I'm turnin' off the noise that makes me crazy
Lookin' back with no regrets
To forgive is to forget
I want a little piece of mind to turn to

caught in the crossfire? So was SRV:

 Day by day, night after night
 Blinded by the neon lights
 Hurry here, hustlin' there
 No one's got the time to spare

 Money's tight, nothin' free
 Won't somebody come and rescue me?
 I am stranded, caught in the crossfire
 Stranded, caught in the crossfire

 Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye
 Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy
 Beggin' a dollar, stealin' a dime
 Come on, can't you see that I

 I am stranded, caught in the crossfire
 I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

 I need some kind of kindness
 Some kind of sympathy oh, no
 We're stranded, caught in the crossfire

 Save the strong lose the weak
 Never turning the other cheek
 Trust nobody, don't be no fool
 Whatever happened to the golden rule?

 We got stranded, caught in the crossfire
 We got stranded, caught in the crossfire
 We got stranded, caught in the crossfire
 Stranded, caught in the crossfire
 Help me


 
 

[Suppressed]

Save the strong lose the weak
 Never turning the other cheek
 Trust nobody, don't be no fool
 Whatever happened to the golden rule?

It's all I can do
To keep that little girl smiling
And keep my faith alive
Takes all I got to hold on to tomorrow

And you want to make it hard
You want to make it hard on me

Some other time
I'd be understanding
You were supposed to be
The friend that I needed when I was down and now

You want to make it hard
Yeah, you want to make it hard on me

Maybe if I tried, I could turn the other cheek
Maybe, but how big do I have to be

[berdie]

It's all I can do
To keep that little girl smiling
And keep my faith alive
Takes all I got to hold on to tomorrow

And you want to make it hard
You want to make it hard on me

Some other time
I'd be understanding
You were supposed to be
The friend that I needed when I was down and now

You want to make it hard
Yeah, you want to make it hard on me

Maybe if I tried, I could turn the other cheek
Maybe, but how big do I have to be

Walk like a man
Talk like a man.
Walk like a man my son.
No woman is worth crawlin' on the earth
So walk like a man my son.

[Sanguine]

It's New Year's Day
Just like the day before
Same old skies of grey
Same empty bottles on the floor
Another year gone by
And I'm thinking once again
How can I take this losing hand
And somehow win

Just give me one good year
To get my feet back on the ground

I've been chasing grace
But grace ain't so easily found
One bad hand can devil a man
Chase him and carry him down
I gotta get out of here
Just give me one good year

I'm burning oil
Engine's running rough
I drive from job to job
But it's never enough
I can't find the will
To just up and get away
Some kind of chains holding me down
To make me stay.

Just give me one good year.....

It's a bitter wind
In your face every day
It's the little sins
That wear your soull away
When you start giving in
Where do the promises all go
Will your darkest hour
Write a blank check on your soul


Just give me one good year
To get my feet back on the ground
I've been chasing grace
But grace ain't so easily found
One bad hand can devil a man
A good one can turn him around
I gotta get out of here

Just give me one good year
I gotta get out of here
Just give me one good year

[austingirl]

It's New Year's Day
Just like the day before
Same old skies of grey
Same empty bottles on the floor
Another year gone by
And I'm thinking once again
How can I take this losing hand
And somehow win

Just give me one good year
To get my feet back on the ground

I've been chasing grace
But grace ain't so easily found
One bad hand can devil a man
Chase him and carry him down
I gotta get out of here
Just give me one good year

I'm burning oil
Engine's running rough
I drive from job to job
But it's never enough
I can't find the will
To just up and get away
Some kind of chains holding me down
To make me stay.

Just give me one good year.....

It's a bitter wind
In your face every day
It's the little sins
That wear your soull away
When you start giving in
Where do the promises all go
Will your darkest hour
Write a blank check on your soul


Just give me one good year
To get my feet back on the ground
I've been chasing grace
But grace ain't so easily found
One bad hand can devil a man
A good one can turn him around
I gotta get out of here

Just give me one good year
I gotta get out of here
Just give me one good year

year?


 Your everlasting summer
 You can see it fading fast
 So you grab a piece of something
 That you think is gonna last
 You wouldn't know a diamond
 If you held it in your hand
 The things you think are precious
 I can't understand

[Chorus:]
 Are you reelin' in the years
 Stowin' away the time
 Are you gatherin' up the tears
 Have you had enough of mine

 You been tellin' me you're a genius
 Since you were seventeen
 In all the time I've known you
 I still don't know what you mean
 The weekend at the college
 Didn't turn out like you planned
 The things that pass for knowledge
 I can't understand

[Sanguine]

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm driving by your house
Though I know you're not home

But I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
I see you walking real slow and you're smilin' at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but-

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

[Suppressed]

year?


 Your everlasting summer
 You can see it fading fast
 So you grab a piece of something
 That you think is gonna last
 You wouldn't know a diamond
 If you held it in your hand
 The things you think are precious
 I can't understand

[Chorus:]
 Are you reelin' in the years
 Stowin' away the time
 Are you gatherin' up the tears
 Have you had enough of mine

 You been tellin' me you're a genius
 Since you were seventeen
 In all the time I've known you
 I still don't know what you mean
 The weekend at the college
 Didn't turn out like you planned
 The things that pass for knowledge
 I can't understand

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad men

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?

It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

[austingirl]

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad men

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?

It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

Live forever? What about dying young? This song makes me weep- the line "sharp knife of a short life" literally takes my breath away.

 If I die young, bury me in satin
 Lay me down on a bed of roses
 Sink me in a river at dawn
 Send me away with the words of a love song

 Uh oh, uh oh

 Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
 She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors, oh,
 And life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
 Ain't even grey, but she buries her baby

 The sharp knife of a short life, oh well
 I've had just enough time

 If I die young, bury me in satin
 Lay me down on a bed of roses
 Sink me in the river at dawn
 Send me away with the words of a love song

 The sharp knife of a short life, oh well
 I've had just enough time

 And I'll be wearing white, when I come into your kingdom
 I'm as green as the ring on my little cold finger,
 I've never known the lovin' of a man
 But it sure felt nice when he was holdin' my hand,
 There's a boy here in town, says he'll love me forever,
 Who would have thought forever could be severed by...

 ...the sharp knife of a short life, oh well?
 I've had just enough time

 So put on your best, boys, and I'll wear my pearls
 What I never did is done

 A penny for my thoughts, oh, no, I'll sell 'em for a dollar
 They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
 And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
 Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'

 If I die young, bury me in satin
 Lay me down on a bed of roses
 Sink me in the river at dawn
 Send me away with the words of a love song

 Uh oh (uh, oh)
 The ballad of a dove (uh, oh)
 Go with peace and love
 Gather up your tears, keep 'em in your pocket
 Save 'em for a time when you're really gonna need 'em, oh

 The sharp knife of a short life, oh well
 I've had just enough time

 So put on your best, boys, and I'll wear my pearls.

[Suppressed]

Live forever? What about dying young? This song makes me weep- the line "sharp knife of a short life" literally takes my breath away.

 If I die young, bury me in satin
 Lay me down on a bed of roses
 Sink me in a river at dawn
 Send me away with the words of a love song

Come out Virginia, don't let 'em wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aw but sooner or later it comes down to faith
Oh I might as well be the one

Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Only the good die young
That's what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

[debrawiest]

Come out Virginia, don't let 'em wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aw but sooner or later it comes down to faith
Oh I might as well be the one

Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Only the good die young
That's what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

[berdie]

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

@debrawiest ... that is one of my top favorite songs.





If life is like a candle bright, death must be the wind
You can close your window tight and it still comes flowing in
So I will climb the highest hill and watch the rising sun
And I pray that I don't feel the chill till I'm too old to die young

Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young

Now I have had some dear sweet friends I thought would never die
Now the only thing that's left of them is the teardrops in my eyes
If I could have one wish today and know it would be done
Well, I would say everyone could stay till they're too old to die young

Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young
Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young.

[austingirl]

@debrawiest ... that is one of my top favorite songs.





If life is like a candle bright, death must be the wind
You can close your window tight and it still comes flowing in
So I will climb the highest hill and watch the rising sun
And I pray that I don't feel the chill till I'm too old to die young

Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young

Now I have had some dear sweet friends I thought would never die
Now the only thing that's left of them is the teardrops in my eyes
If I could have one wish today and know it would be done
Well, I would say everyone could stay till they're too old to die young

Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young
Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow till I'm too old to die young.

rising sun, you say?

 There is a house in New Orleans
 They call the Rising Sun
 And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
 And God, I know I'm one

 My mother was a tailor
 She sewed my new blue jeans
 My father was a gamblin' man
 Down in New Orleans

 Now the only thing a gambler needs
 Is a suitcase and trunk
 And the only time he's satisfied
 Is when he's on a drunk

 Oh mother, tell your children
 Not to do what I have done
 Spend your lives in sin and misery
 In the House of the Rising Sun

 Well, I got one foot on the platform
 The other foot on the train
 I'm goin' back to New Orleans
 To wear that ball and chain

 Well, there is a house in New Orleans
 They call the Rising Sun
 And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
 And God, I know I'm one

[Sanguine]

Rising sun, huh?

Everything is goin' wrong
it's not right anymore
We can't seem to get along
the way we did before

Sun is hangin' in the sky
sinkin' low and so am I
Just for the love of someone
and a big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

True love to hold
is worth everything
It's worth more than gold
or any diamond ring

But this little diamond
and a heart that's been broken
Are all I got from you
big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

Look out at that western sky
out over the open plains
God only knows why
this is all that remains

But give me one more promise
and another kiss
And I guess the deal's still on
you big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

[LateForLunch]

Rising sun, huh?

Everything is goin' wrong
it's not right anymore
We can't seem to get along
the way we did before

Sun is hangin' in the sky
sinkin' low and so am I
Just for the love of someone
and a big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

True love to hold
is worth everything
It's worth more than gold
or any diamond ring

But this little diamond
and a heart that's been broken
Are all I got from you
big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

Look out at that western sky
out over the open plains
God only knows why
this is all that remains

But give me one more promise
and another kiss
And I guess the deal's still on
you big red sun

How'm I gonna lose
these big red sun blues
Big red sun big red sun
big red sun blues

Hah hah Come on! Did someone say something about The Blues...?

 I've been all over Europe
 And across the sea
 With each new place
 It gets clearer to me
 Week after week
 On tour with my band
 You don't have to speak
 'Cause they all understand!

 The power of the blues
 Hey, hey, the power of the blues
 And that's good news
 I'm talking about the power of the blues!

 Yes, it's just a few changes
 That I won't deny
 But if you think it's easy
 You just give it a try
 You know the truth
 But you're afraid to say it
 That it ain't what I play
 It's the way that I play it!

 That's the power of the blues
 Yes, the power of the blues
 You'll change your views
 When you hear the power of the blues!

 Now me and Lucille
 We're gonna stop this war
 I'm no politician
 But I know the score
 You can call me a hawk
 Or maybe I'm a dove
 But all we gotta do
 Is shoot 'em full of love!!

 With the power of the blues
 Hey, the power of the blues
 It's the thing to use
 Talking about the power of the blues
 Yes, I am!!