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[Slipkid42]

It's been a long way from the red of my home
From the valleys
and the green plains never ending
Everyone knows that the sun in his land is stronger
And your hands are full of life
If you can only wait just longer

Martian landscape,
I'll learn to lie in your arms
Where all the freedom is mine and it comes
Martian landscape,
I'll turn my face to your sun
Where your horizon is mine and it comes

[John A Arkansawyer]

Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine
A good friend of mine follows the stars
Venus and Mars
Are alright tonight

[Slipkid42]

A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame,
The summit of beauty and love,
And Venus was her name.

She's got it,
Yeah, baby, she's got it.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at your desire.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at your desire.

Her weapon were her crystal eyes
Making ev'ry man mad;
Black as a dark night she was,
Got what no one else had.
Wow!

[John A Arkansawyer]

Time is the essence
Time is the season
Time ain't no reason
Got no time to slow

Time everlasting
Time to play B-sides
Time ain't on my side
Time I'll never know

Burn out the day
Burn out the night
I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong and what's right
I've seen suns that were freezing and lives that were through
But I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you

[Slipkid42]

The morning is dead
And the day is, too
There's nothing left here to meet me
But the velvet moon
All my loneliness I have felt today
It's like a little more than enough
To make a man throw himself away

And I continue
To burn the midnight lamp
Alone

[John A Arkansawyer]

It's midnight, lights off, clothes off, candles glowing, incense is fading away, don't need no electricity, baby, I'll be your amplifier, 'cause we can boogie in the dark

[Slipkid42]

Put a quarter in the juke
Boogie til you puke
Form a big boss line
It's puking time
Cleaning woman
Found me on the floor
Can't wait til tomorrow
To boogie some more

[one belt loop]

Hey baby, you're my favorite boy,
I think about you all the time.
And this garbage that you still employ,
Do they really pay for every line?

For the juke box fury
Pounding in your soul,
Juke box fury tells them where to go,
Juke box fury pounding in your head,
Juke box fury every word we said when
We were younger
And they hurt us so,
But you never know...

You got a juke box.
You can make it even.

[bovine knievel]

I just came in here from force of habit
I don't intend to spend too much time in here
But I heard you matchin' for the music
And if you play A- Eleven - there'll be tears.

[Slipkid42]

in the jukebox of her memory
the list of names flips by and stops
she closes her eyes
and smiles as the record drops

then she drinks herself up and out
of her kitchen chair
and she dances out of time
as slow as she can sway
for as long as she can say
this dance is mine
this dance is mine

[bovine knievel]

Well you send my life a whirling
Darling when you're twirling
On the floor
Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow?
Than another day.

When you swept me away...

[Slipkid42]

Here's a feller in blue jeans
Dancing with the older queen
Who's dolled up in a diamand rings
Twistin' the night away

Man you oughtta see her go
Twistin' to the Rock and Roll
Here you find the young and old
Twistin' the night away

[Smitty]

I kept up my interest
I kept up my payments
She never said goodbye,
I never asked why
Man we used to dance to
Lynyrd Skynyrd
She used to look so
Good at times

But I guess I gave it all to you, babe
There's not room in no trailer for two babe

[one belt loop]

5 am, March 16th
Jesus on the radio
You took a photograph of me
In your yellow bucket seat

It's too high
It's too wide
You're so low
You don't know
To get through
To go around

So don't look back
There ain't nothing left to see
Once was like you
Can't say I recognize that face
In the picture that you keep

It's too high
It's too wide
You're so low
You don't know
To get through
To go around
To get through
To go around

[Slipkid42]

Don't look around 'cause I'm never comin' back.
It's High time, you saw the last of me.
You know I was a wand'rer, I'd forgotten where to go,
I had no place to lay my head or rest my heavy load.
Don't look around 'cause I'm never comin' back.
It's High time, you saw the last of me.

[one belt loop]

If you ain't glad I'm leavin'
Girl, you know you oughtta be

[Slipkid42]

If you don't know me by now (If you don't know me)
You will never never never know me (No you won't)
If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me

We've all got our own funny moods
I've got mine, woman you've got yours too
Just trust in me like I trust in you
As long as we've been together it should be so easy to do
Just get yourself together or we might as well say goodbye
What good is a love affair when you can't see eye to eye, oh

[LBRod]

"If I were the man you wanted,
I would not be the man that I am."

[Smitty]

The post mistress telling tales
While all the blue hairs come get their mail
Wonderin' why a boy like me
Gets into trouble
Well let me see
They might be kinder if I were poor
But they might only hate me more
When they only know you by your car
It's who you come from not who you are

[Slipkid42]

Well I guess I might have known from the start
She’d come for a star
Might have told my imagination not to run too far
Of all the times that I’ve been burned
By now you’d think I’d have learned
That it’s who you look like
Not who you are

[John A Arkansawyer]

You're a shining star
No matter who you are
Shining bright to see
What you can truly be

Shining star for you to see
What your life can truly be
Shining star for you to see
What your life can truly be

[Slipkid42]

As I fell asleep and dreamed
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie
This really blew my mind
The fact that me an overfed long haired leaping gnome
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie, hmmm
But there I was
I was taken to a place
The hall of the mountain kings
I stood high by the mountain tops
Naked to the world
In front of
Every kind of girl

[one belt loop]

What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline
Of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain

I wandered empty streets down
Past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Dripping down the alleyways
As I walked on

And when you ran to me, your
Cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke
And felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair
With my grateful tears
Oh, I love you girl
Oh, I love you

[Slipkid42]

Wake up in the morning with the sunshine in your eyes
And the smell of flowers blooming fills the air.
Your mind is filled with the thoughts of a certain someone - that you love;
Your life is filled with joy when she is there.

Love can make you happy if you find someone who cares
To give a lifetime to you and who has a love to share.

[LBRod]

She is my everything
From her suntanned shoulders
Down to the freckles on her wedding ring
Her feet are so warm
They could melt the snow in the early spring
She is my everthing

[John A Arkansawyer]

All the men would turn their head
When she walked down the street
Clothes so fine and hair that shines
Smiling oh so sweet, smiling oh so sweet

Got a taste of all religion
Comes on with the new
In her hair a yellow ribbon
And she's decked out all in blue, decked out all in blue

Steppin' lightly, steppin' brightly
With her books in hand
Going to the university to teach them
Help them understand, help them understand

[Slipkid42]

Teacher, teacher, teach me love
I can`t learn it fast enough
Teacher, teacher, teach me more
I`ve got to learn to love for sure

Lesson one, just begun
Growing up, ain`t much fun
Grown up, out of school
Out of luck and out of rules
No one there to tell me how
A different world – teacher, teacher, teach me now

Teacher, teacher, teach me love
I can`t learn it fast enough
Teacher, teacher, teach me more
I`ve got to learn to love for sure

Lesson two nothing new
I can`t love, just passing through
The books I read don`t understand
What it means to be a man
I need a woman just like you
Teacher, teacher, teach me what to do

[The Black Canary]

The world is full of compromise, the infinite red tape
But the music's got the magic, it's your one chance for escape
So turn me on - turn me up - it's your turn to dream
A little magic power makes it better than it seems

She's young now, she's wild now, she wants to be free
She gets the magic power of the music in me

[John A Arkansawyer]

See me through days of wine and roses
By and by when the morning comes
Jazz and blues and folk, poetry and jazz
Voice and music, music and no music
Silence and then voice
Music and writing, words
Memories, memories way back
Take me way back, Hyndford Street and Hank Williams
Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet on Sunday afternoons in winter
Sidney Bechet, Sunday afternoons in winter
And the tuning in of stations in Europe on the wireless

Before, yes before it was the way it was
More silence, more breathing together
Not rushing, being
Before rock 'n' roll, before television
Previous, previous, previous

[Smitty]

Taking the midnight train
Taking the midnight train
I can't stand this pain
Just can't stand this pain
To have somebody hurt me for no reason
For no cause, for no cause