there is a child sleeping near his twin
the pictures go wild in a rush of wind
that dark angel he is shuffling in
watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled
 
the love you lost with her skin so fair
is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
her green eyes blew goodbyes
with her head in her hands 
 and your kiss on the lips of another
dream brother with your tears scattered round the world.
 
don't be like the one who made me so old
don't be like the one who left behind his name
'cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
and nobody ever came...

don't be like the one who made me so old
don't be like the one who left behind his name
'cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
and nobody ever came...

don't be like the one who made me so old
don't be like the one who left behind his name
'cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
nobody ever came
nobody ever...

I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your words and I know your pain
with your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
your eyes to the ground and the world spinning round forever
asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over

ah do you meet the one I love
and smell the one who loves you
dream brother, dream brother, dream, dream
 dream asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over

ghost comes to visit with my keys in his pocket
kisses on my mouth with his eyes 
 hanging out of his sockets
memories crumbling under still resistance
I was torn out like pages from the book of existence

I woke up in a strange place
music so loud that i spilled all my beer
I made a call for my blackened cab
some destination was moving on in
I remember the words that you told me
now they come down so hard, so plain
fate is gonna find your love 
 in a glass of champagne

love came calling as a counterfeit mistress
stealing from the pockets of a sadomasochist
and she's mouthing for this place like a tongue on crystal meth
her cigarette smelling like the fear inside my chest

I woke up in a strange place
my mind a blur and some red on my chin
I made a ride in that blackened cab
some destination is moving on in
easy now, this car was speeding up
 for my last chance crashing to freedom
fate is gonna find your love 
 in a glass of champagne

sweat pours down 
you're in the back seat sleeping
and she waits by the window 
 from an empty bed, weeping
the ghost guns the motor 
 to the promised land he promised you
I guess this is the time when 
 the best intentions become facts again

this is no story for the dislocated
you're gonna love but it turned to be hated
because the lies of the spirit possessed you
because the eyes of your lover resist you
listen up, you keep your aim steady
 as your temple turns to kiss the pistol
fate is gonna find your love
 in a glass of champagne

I'm lying in my bed
the blanket is warm
this body will never be safe from harm
still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
touch my skin to keep me whole

if only you'd come back to me
if you laid at my side
wouldn't need no mojo pin to keep me satisfied

don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
black beauty I love you so

precious, precious silver and gold and pearls in oyster's flesh
drop down we two to serve and pray to love
born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms

don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow black beauty I love you so

the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
well it's you I've waited my life to see
it's you I've searched so hard for

I lost myself on a cool damp night
gave myself in that misty light
was hypnotized by a strange delight
under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
put my heart in its recipe
it makes me see what I want to see
 and be what I want to be
when I think more than I want to think
do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
because I brings me back you...
 
lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
listen to me... I cannot see clearly
isn't that she coming to me nearly here? 
lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love?
lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love? 
listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear? 
lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love...

it's a song that some of you probably never heard... most of you

it's been such a long time
 and I was just a child then
what will you say 
 when you see my face?
time feels like it's flown away
the days just pass and fade away
what will you say 
 when they take my place?

it's funny now
I just don't feel like a man
what will you say 
 when you see my face?
my face...

mother dear, the world's gone cold
no one cares about love anymore
what will you say 
 when you see my face?

father do you hear me?
do you know me?
do you even care?
what will you say 
 when they take my place? 

my heart can't take this anymore
what will you say
 when you see my face?
when you see my,
 see my face...

I can feel your time crawling
 to a slow end
I can feel my time crawling
 to a slow end...

mother dear, the world's gone cold
no one cares about love anymore
what will you say 
 when you see my face?

father do you hear me?
do you know me?
did you even care?
what will you say 
 when you take my place?

well it's so funny now
I just don't feel like I'm a man
what will you say

^ torna su

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last goodbye

(J. Buckley) 

Quoi? qu'est ce que c'est?
Qu'est ce que c'est Piaf?

Ah Paris! Manger beaucoup le fromage!
La la la la la last goodbye...

^ torna su

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eternal life
(J. Buckley)

there's no time for hatred, only questions
what is love, where happiness, what is life, where is peace?
when will I find the strength to bring me release?
eternal life is now on my trail
got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
while all these ugly gentleman play out their foolish games
there's a flaming red horizon that screams our names
and as your fantasies are broken in two
did you really think this bloody road would
pave the way for you?
you better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel
racist everyman, what have you done?
man, you've made a killer of your unborn son...
crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
all I want to do is love everyone...
and as your fantasies are broken in two
did you really think this bloody road would
pave the way for you?
you better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel
there's no time for hatred, only questions
what is love, where happiness, what is life, where is peace?
when will I find the strength to bring me release?
wnd tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
and I've got a message for you and your twisted hell
you better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal, angel...

^ torna su

< testi

there's the moon asking to stay
long enough for the clouds to fly me away
well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die

my fading voice sings of love, but she cries to the clicking of time,
oh, time.  Wait in the fire...
and she weeps on my arm
walking to the bright lights in sorrow
oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
oh my love...
and the rain is falling and I believe my time has come
it reminds me of the pain I might leave behind... Wait in the fire
and I feel them drown my name
so easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow...

mood swing whiskey
drank it all in the trailer
waiting for the dark to move in
sitting in my step-sister's kitchen
horseflies on the window sill
eyes trained on the lemon peel
and wishing it were a gun

I'm thinking of my wedding ring
trapped inside the heater
spring water on the floor of this
 sex starved room

your nightmare falls around me
 in waves of bliss
I tried to stop it with my hand
I was lost in a kiss with you

mood swing whiskey
your bliss, the actress,
bliss, the assassin
bliss, the abyss

took a shady shot of whiskey
burns zero to sixty
all I could see was the bill

I was singing to a melody with a drink in my right hand
eyes sparkling, afraid, and amazed

say pass me up to your junkyard paradise
pass me up to your junkyard paradise
baby I need a sweet-ass photo of you

I cheated, and I lied, and you stole her
stung my tongue just like
 sweat from her shoulder

ooh, mood swing whiskey
your love, the destroyer
love, the destroyer
love, love...

yes mood swing whiskey flood my brain
only you could reap this change
I need her in my bed again

you, you, you, you...

going down to the subway station
 packing a rod
all our necessary histories erased
I am a punishing god
mood swing whiskey
 your prodigal son has returned

this is for all the headless acrobats
faces crush in the circus dust
all in the name of gravity
 and the price of admission

beautiful loser what hearts have left you now
beautiful loser what hearts have left you
 cause you're beautiful...

I think of mankind in quotation marks
 ever since i took a drink of them

the road is bitter
the stars have lost their glitter
the winds grow colder
suddenly you're older
and all because of the man that got away

no more his eager call
the writings on the wall
the dreams you dreamed have all gone astray

the man that won you
 has run off and undone you
that great beginning
 has seen the final inning
don't know what happened
it's all a crazy game!

no more that all time thrill
 for you've been through the mill
and never a new love will be the same

good riddance, goodbye!
every trick of his you're on to
but fools will be fools
and where's he gone to?

the road gets rougher
it's lonelier and tougher
with hope you burn up
tomorrow he may turn up
there's just no let up the live-long night and day.

ever since this world began
there is nothing sadder than
a one-man woman looking for
the man that got away
the man that got away

^ torna su

< testi

I first saw you
you had on blue jeans
your eyes couldn't hide
 anything
I saw you breathing, oh

I saw you staring out in space

I next saw you
you were at the party
thought you was a queen
oh so flirty

I came against...

didn't say excuse
knew what i was doing
we looked very fine
 as we were leaving
 as we were making
 what we were making

oh...

saint Joan
 doing a cool jerk
oh I want you
 like a kangaroo, oh...
yes, yes, yes, yes, oh oh...

^ torna su

< testi

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
but you don't really care for music, do you?
well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
 the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing Hallelujah

hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
and she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
but from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

yeah but baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
you know I used to live alone before I knew you
and I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not some victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

well there was a time when you let me know
 what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me, do you?
but remember when I moved in you
 and the holy dove was moving too
 and every breath you drew was Hallelujah

hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
and as I climb into an empty bed, oh well, enough said
I know it's over still I cling
I don't know where else I can go, over
oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

well, maybe there's a God above
but all I've ever learned from love
 was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
and it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

^ torna su

< testi

this is another Nina Simone's song

don't try to blow out the sun for me baby
I'm not hoping for what I know can't be
all that I ask is for a kiss each day
 and I'll give you love that will never go away

yes I will, yes I will, yes I will
this girl, I wouldn't ask you to lift up this great big world little baby
I know that you're not that kind of a girl

all that I ask
 is for a kiss or two
 and nothing in this world will be too good for you

nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody,
 nobody knows
how deep my love for you really goes

never mind now in your heart how much is owed...

cause girl I want you to know
I wouldn't ask you to hold back the dawn, madame George, baby
that's just a little too much to ask to anyone

all that I ask
 is for your loving ways
and I'll keep you happy
 for the rest of your natural born days

never mind now in your heart how much is owed...

looking out the door 
 I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
parading in a wake of sad relations 
  as their shoes fill up with water
and maybe I'm too young
yo keep good love from going wrong
but tonight you're on my mind so
 you'll never know
 
I'm broken down and hungry for your love 
with no way to feed it
where are you tonight? 
 child, you know how much I need it
too young to hold on 
and too old to just break free and run 
sometimes a man gets carried away,
when he feels like he should be having his fun
and much too blind to see the damage he's done
sometimes a man must awake to find that, really,
he has no-one...
 
so I'll wait for you... And I'll burn oh
will I ever see your sweet return,
 oh, will I ever learn?
lover, you should've come over
'cause it's not too late.
 
lonely is the room the bed is made
the open window lets the rain in
burning in the corner is the only one 
 who dreams he had you with him 
my body turns and yearns for a sleep
 that will never come
it's never over,
 my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
it's never over, all my riches for her smiles 
 when I slept so soft against her...
it's never over,
 all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
it's never over, she is the tear
 that hangs inside my soul forever
maybe I'm just too young to keep good love
from going wrong 
oh... lover you should've come over...
 'cause it's not too late...

I feel too young to hold on 

 I'm much too old to break free and run
 too deaf, dumb, and blind
  to see the damage I've done
 sweet lover, you should've come over
 oh, love I'm waiting [I waited] for you
 lover, you should've come over
 cause it's not too late

^ torna su

< testi

love, let me sleep tonight on you couch
and remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress 
oh... That was so real 
we walked around 'til the moon got full like a plate
the wind blew an invocation 
and I fell asleep at the gate... And I never stepped
 - on - the - cracks - 'cause  - I - thought - I'd - hurt - my - mother 
...and I couldn't awake from the nightmare 
    that sucked me in and pulled me under pulled me under
 
oh... that was so real
 
I love you
but I'm afraid to love you

I love you
but I'm afraid to love you...