Favorite Song Lyrics

[Guest]

Grateful Dead

Throwing Stones


Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face.
But afraid, we may our home to waste.
There's a fear down here we can't forget hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around singing ashes to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley roll them bones. Need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping, then the flesh is ink.
History's page, it is thusly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.
If the game is lost then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame.
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or this shinning ball of bule we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing "Black goes south while white comes north"
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing "I got mine and you got yours."
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical he rant and rage,
Singing "someone got to turn the page"
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing "Just leave well enough alone"
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities.
Ashes, Ashes all fall down.

 

[Guest]

Bob Dylan- Cold Irons bound

I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
Now I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
I went to church on Sunday and she passed by
And my love for her is taking such a long time to die
God I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like I don't exist
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

There's a wall of pride high and wide,
Can't see over to the other side
It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay,
It's sadder still to feel your heart turn away
One look at you and I'm out of control
like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm 20 miles out of town and Cold Irons bound

There's too many people, too many to recall
I thought some of 'em were friends of mine
I was wrong about 'em all
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud
Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
I found my own, I found my one in you
But your love just hasn't proved true
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound
20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

Now the winds in Chicago have turned me to shreds
The RT has always had too many heads
Some things last longer than you think they will
Some kind of things you can never kill
It's you and you only I'm thinking about
But you can't see in, and it's hard looking out
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

Well the fat's in the fire, and the water's in the tank
And the whiskey's in the jar, and the money's in the bank
I tried to love and protect you because I cared
I'm gonna remember forever the joy we've shared
But looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
You have no idea what you do to me
I'm 20 miles out of town Cold Irons bound
20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

 

[Guest]

and one more for today


Bob Dylan- The death of Emmet Till

"Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till.

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up.
They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what.
They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat.
There was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die.

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial,
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till.
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea.

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust,
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust.
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give,
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.

 

[mybeans420]

John Lennon

Mind Games



We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra, peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic, the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower, you got to let it, you got to let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future, outta the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games forever
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love

Love...
(I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)

 

[illegal_smile]

Kinky(Big Dick) Friedman and The Texas Jewboys
Ride em Jewboy

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Ride, ride ˜em Jewboy,
Ride ‘em all around the old corral.
I'm, I'm with you boy
If I've got to ride six million miles.

Now the smokes from camps are rising
See the helpless creatures on their way.
Hey, old pal, ain't it surprising
How far you can go before you stay.

Don't you let the morning blind ya
When on your sleeve you wore the yeller star.
Old memories still live behind ya,
Can't you see by your outfit who you are.

How long will you be driven relentless ˜round the world,
The blood in the rhythm of the soul.

Wild ponies all your dreams were broken,
Rounded out and made to move along.
The loneliness which can't be spoken
Just swings a rope and rides inside a song.

Dead limbs play with ringless fingers
A melody which burns you deep inside.
Oh, how the song becomes the singers,
May peace be ever with you as you ride.

How long will you be driven relentless around the world,
The blood in the rhythm of the soul.

In the window candles glowing
Remind you that today you are a child,
Road ahead, forever rolling,
And anything worth cryin' can be smiled.

So ride, ride ˜em Jewboy,
Ride ‘em all around the old corral.
I'm, I'm with you boy
If I've got to ride six million miles.

Ooh ooh ooh,
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Ooh ooh ooh,
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.

full info about this lyric: http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/...rican_to_another/ride_em_jewboy-185238-lyric/

 

[illegal_smile]

Townes Van Zandt :White freightliner


I'm goin out on the highway
listen to them big trucks whine
I'm goin out on the highway
listen to them big trucks whine

White freight liner
won't you steal away my mind
Ah, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord
and the people there they treat you kind
and the people there they treat you kind

Well, it's bad news from Houston
half my friends are dying
Well, it's bad news from Houston
half my friends are dying

Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble
till I get back to where I came
Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble
till I get back to where I came

I'm goin out on the highway
listen to them big trucks whine
I'm goin out on the highway
listen to them big trucks whine

 

[hilljack]

phish - sanity

sanity never came my way
sanity never came my way
i dont know what ill do today
cause sanity never came my way


lost my mind just a couple of times
lost my mind just a couple of times
you can spend your nickels you can spend your dimes
but i lost my mind just a ......


you can tresspass anywhere
you can tresspass anywhere
but where you go you better beware
cause you can tresspass anywhere

i forgot the rules i forgot my pride
but i dont need a place to hide
i forgot the rules i forgot my pride
but i dont need a place to hide


the stars in the sky are very bright
the stars in the sky are very bright
the stars they really suck tonight
they stars in the sky are very bright

and i dont care if the world explodes
i dont care if the world explodes
you can save the whales you can save the toads
but i dont care if THE WORLD EXPLODES


BOOOOOOOOOOM
POOOWWWWW
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
BOOOOM
POWWWWWWW
POOWWWWW
BOOOOOOOOM boooooom
POOWWW

BOOOM
POOOW
BOOOM
POOWW

booom

boom pow

sanity never came my way
sanity never came my way
i dont know what ill do today
cause sanity never came my way

lost my mind just a couple of times
lost my mind just a couple of times
you can spend your nickels you can spend your dimes
cause i lost my mind just a couple of times

 

[hilljack]

phish - sleep

i cant describe the feeling when
im in my bed asleep and then
i wake up with a vision blurred
and all my efforts are deterred

to reconstruct this image lost



there's certain things my mind must do
and even though they're very few
the image glistens like a gem
repairing is not one of them

so im awaked though in my mind
the image thats so unrefined
is calling to me from the deep
tempting me to fall asleep

 

[hilljack]

phish - brian and robert



if you're just staring at your walls
just observing echoed foot falls
from tennants wandering distant halls

then this one is for you
if children playing all around
to you is noise not pleasant sound
then youll be lost on the playground

then this one is for you
all alone in life you lead
a silent diamond where you feed
bow your head pretend to read

then this one is for you


you slip passed strangers in the street
there's noone that you care to meet
longing for your tv seat

then this one is for you
if you're just staring at your walls
if you're just staring at your walls

then this one is for you
if you're just staring at your walls
if you're just staring at your walls

then this one is for you
then this one is for you
then this one is for you
then this one is for you

this one is for you
this one is for you
this one is for you
this one is for you

this one is for you.....

 

[hilljack]

dogs - pink floyd

and when you lose control
you reap the harvest you have sown
and as the fear grows
the path floods closed and turns to stone

and its to late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around

so have a good drown as you go down all alone

dragged down by the stones

 

[hilljack]

mother's only son - yonder mountain string band


i am my mothers only son
and you might think that i regret the things ive done

but i can only think of one right now
and you and i both know the reason that youve turned your gun on me

im rarely held in high regard
and most folks dont seem to trust me very far

but i can promise you one thing
i would have turned my back if she had worn a ring


please dont put your bulletts in me
please dont bury me neath the cold cold ground

you and i alone will know the truth of what went on and you will never see my face again in town

most nights i go to bed alone
and theres no place on this earth that id call home
and ill admit i have a roving eye
but im not the only man that turned to look when she walked by

i dont expect to buy much time
but i need to find a way to change your mind
and to convince you that i could not know
she wore no ring upon her hand to mark the vowes that she had spoken

so im beggin you
please dont put your bulletts in me
please dont bury me neath the cold cold ground

you and i alone will know the truth of what went on and you will never see my face again in town


i swear the whole world must be blind
if im the first man to see murder in your eyes
how fitting now the wind is turning cold
and with my dying breath i curse your life
i curse your very soul

please dont put your bulletts in me
please dont bury me neath the cold cold ground

you and i alone will know the truth of what went on and you will never see my face again in town

i am my mothers only son
and you might think that i regret the things ive done
but theres just one thing i wish i could change
and thats the day i met the sheriffs wife t
he day that robbed me of my life and left me in this shallow mountain grave

please dont put your bulletts in me
please dont bury me neath the cold cold ground

you and i alone will know the truth of what went on and you will never see my face again in town

 

[hilljack]

big boss man -


big boss man
cant you help me when i call

big boss man
cant you help me when i call

well now you aint so big
you just tall thats a just about all

now you got me working boss man
workin round the clock

i wanna lil drink o whiskey
but you sure wont let me stop

big boss man
cant you help me when i call

cause now yous aint so big
you just tall thats a just about all

well im gonna get me a bossman
one gonna treat me right
i work hard in the daytime
sure get stoned at night

talkin big boss man
cant you help me when i call
cause you aint so big
you just tall thats justa bout all

 

[mybeans420]

LED ZEPPELIN
"The Battle Of Evermore"

Queen of Light took her bow, And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom, And walked the night alone.

Oh, dance in the dark of night, Sing to the morning light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight, And time will tell us all.

Oh, throw down your plow and hoe, Rest not to lock your homes.

Side by side we wait the might of the darkest of them all.

I hear the horses' thunder down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow.

The apples of the valley hold, The seeds of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care, Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Dance in the dark of night, sing to the morning light.

The apples turn to brown and black, The tyrant's face is red.

Oh the war is common cry, Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.

Oh, well, the night is long the beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.

The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall, the ring wraiths ride in black, Ride on.

Sing as you raise your bow, shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night that lights the face so cold.

Oh dance in the dark of night, Sing to the morning light.
The magic runes are writ in gold to bring the balance back. Bring it back.

At last the sun is shining, The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness, the sunlight blinds his eyes.

 

[mybeans420]

LED ZEPPELIN
"Houses Of The Holy"

Let me take you to the movies. Can I take you to the show
Let me be yours ever truly. Can I make your garden grow

From the houses of the holy, we can watch the white doves go
From the door comes Satan's daughter, and it only goes to show. You know.

There's an angel on my shoulder, In my hand a sword of gold
Let me wander in your garden. And the seeds of love I'll sow. You know.

So the world is spinning faster. Are you dizzy when you're stoned
Let the music be your master. Will you heed the master's call
Oh... Satan and man.

Said there ain't no use in crying. Cause it will only, only drive you mad
Does it hurt to hear them lying? Was this the only world you had? Oh-oh

So let me take you, take you to the movie. Can I take you, baby, to the show.
Why don't you let me be yours ever truly. Can I make your garden grow
You know.

 

[mybeans420]

LED ZEPPELIN
"Hey Hey What Can I Do"

Wanna tell you about the girl I love
My she looks so fine
She's the only one that I been dreamin' of
Maybe someday she will be all mine
I wanna tell her that I love her so
I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one I really love

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true

Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin' in line
I said they come to pray to the Lord
With my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low
Everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town, Keep a-searchin' all around
Lookin' for my street corner girl

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true

In the bars, with the men who play guitars
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
My little lover does a midnight shift
She followed around all the time
I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do
Gonna pack my bags and move on my way
Cause I got a worried mind
Sharin' what I thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I got a little woman and she won't be true

(Hey hey what can I do)

I said she won't be true

(Hey Hey, What can I say?)

Hey hey, what can I do
I got a woman, she won't be true
Lord, hear what I say
I got a woman, wanna ball all day

 

[mybeans420]

BEN HARPER

"I'll Rise"

You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise
Does my happiness upset you
Why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
Pumpin' in my living room

So you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise

Now did you want to see me broken
Bowed head and lowered eyes
Shoulders fallen down like tear drops
Weakened by my soulful cries

Does my confidence upset you
Don't you take it awful hard
Cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
Breakin up in my front yard

So you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise

So you may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise

Does my happiness upset you
Why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine
Diggin' up in my living room

Now you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise

 

[mybeans420]

BEN HARPER
"Excuse Me Mr."

Oh - excuse me Mr.
Do you have the time,
Or are you so important that it stands still for you?
Excuse me Mr.
Want you lend me your ear,
Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?
Excuse me Mr. but isn't that your oil in the sea,
And the pollution in the air Mr.,
Whose could that be?

So, excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
And, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
It's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.

And I've seen enough,
Oh - I've seen enough,
I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

Excuse me Mr.
Can't you see the children dying?
You say that you can't help them,
Mr. you're not even trying.
Excuse me Mr.
Just take a look around.
Oh, Mr. just look up and you will,
You'll see it's coming down.
Oh, excuse me Mr. but I'm, I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
it's a Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.

And I've seen enough,
I've seen en..., I've seen en...,
I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.
I've seen enough,
Oh - I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

'cause Mr. when you're rattling on heaven's gate.
By then it is too late.
'cause Mr. when you get there,
They don't ask what you saved.
All they'll want to know Mr. is what you gave.
So, excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like... you.

So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you puts the rest of us to shame.
Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.
Oh...
...shame.

 

[Guest]

Ben Harper with Blind Boys of Alabama
There Will Be A Light

Satisfied Mind

How many times have you heard someone say
"If I had his money I'd do things my way"
But little they know that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

Once I was waiting in fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in life's game
Suddenly it happened I lost every dime
But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind

When my life is over and my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones I'll leave there's no doubt
But one thing is for certain when it comes my time
I'll leave here for certain with a satisfied mind

I got a satisfied mind

 

[Californian]

Addition

Addition

Rush, "A Passage to Bangkok" from the LP "2112".

Our first stop is in Bogota to check Columbian fields,
the natives smile and pass along a sample of their yield.
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams, golden Alcapulco nights,
then Morocco and the East, fly by morning light.

We're on the train to Bangkok aboard the Thailand express,
we hit the stops along the way; we only stop for the best.

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon, we burn the midnight oil,
the fragrance of Afghanistan rewards a long days' toil.
Pulling into Kathmandu, smoke rings fill the air,
perfumed by a Nepal night, the express gets you there.

We're on the train to Bangkok aboard the Thailand express,
we hit the stops along the way; we only stop for the best.


I figured it was appropriate.

 

[Guest]

Gold Dust Woman
(Stevie Nicks)

Rock on -- gold dust woman
Take your silver spoon
And dig your grave

Heartless challenge
Pick your path and I'll pray

Wake up in the morning
See your sunrise -- loves -- to go down
Lousy lovers -- pick their prey
But they never cry out loud

Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now -- do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home.

Rock on -- ancient woman
Follow those who pale
In your shadow

Rulers make bad lovers
You better put your kingdom up for sale

Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
Is it over now -- do you know how
Pickup the pieces and go home.



This one goes out to a great friend

Tex