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Darkness Darkness [the Youngbloods] (True Lies soundtrack)
Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your dreams
Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
For the things that cannot be
Keep my mind from constant turning
Towards the things I cannot see now
Towards the things I cannot see now, now
The things I cannot see now, now

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
Is the day that brings me here
I have found the edge of sadness
I have known the depths of fear
Darkness, darkness, oh be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of fright now
The emptiness of fright now
Fill the emptiness of fright

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Oh take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of my shadow
In the silence of my dream
Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with my endless night
Take away, away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of fright now
Fill the emptiness of fright now
Fill the emptiness of fright


E.S.K.
Come in under fallen galaxies
Keeping heaven and earth apart
All the skin it can crawl all over me
You've been watching me crawl from the start

Destinations end
Wherever you go don't follow me
The silence that you send
Is all you show and I can't believe
That the last one left the ground
And you're still waiting for me now

Lining up at the shrine all stars are gone
Clean it up where the dirt is down
All you find is a burned out Babylon
Down and over without a sound

(Repeat chorus 2x)

Lining up at the shrine all stars are gone
Clean it up where the dirt is down
All you find is a burned out Babylon
Down and over without a sound

Come in under fallen galaxies
Keeping heaven and earth apart
All the skin it can crawl all over me
You've been watching me crawl from the start


Feathered Fish [Love] (Throat Culture zine flexidisc)
Feathered fish are quite a dish in the dark
Six and Third is where my bird starts to bark
etc...
coming soon perhaps


Freedom [Buffalo] (Butterfly Single)
The senses are returning
You'll soon be on your way
The old bridge is burning
At your new life's first day

And you travel down the highway
And you open up your mind
And you move down each byway
Understand the truths you find
And remember don't deny
Another who's in need
There's reason left to cry
'till every man lives free

If you open up your eyes
You'll understand the face I mean
And Someday you'll see why
Men die for their dream

Yeah to travel on to feedom
Yeah to travel on to feedom
travel on to feedom
travel on to feedom, yeah


Love or Confusion [Jimi Hendrix] (Sub Pop 200)
Is that the stars in the sky or is it raining far from now?
Will it burn me if I touch the sun,
So bit, so round?
Will I be truthful, yeah,
In choosing you as the one for me?

Is this love baby,
Or is it confusion?

Oh, my mind is so mixed up, goin' round 'n' round
Must there be all these colors
Without names, without sounds?
My heart burns with feelin' but
Oh! but my mind is cold and reeling.

Is this love, baby
Or is it confusion?

Oh, my head is pounding pounding
Going 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round
Must there always be these colors?
My heart burns with feelin'
But oh! But my mind is cold and reeling
Is this love, baby
Or is it confusion?


Maybe (also released as "Van's New One")
Is forever oh so long
Oh so many times been pushed aside
Is my answer all that wrong
I'm just asking to be left alone
And there's nothing left but hate, yeah
There is no one on my side
Were you listening I told you
It's never gonna be all right

Maybe you'll find (3x)
What's inside

And forever is too long
All the people that I've left behind
If you're wondering I'm gone
I'm just asking to be left alone

Maybe you'll find (3x)
What's inside
(repeat)


Morning Dew [Tim Rose via Lee Hazelwood]
Walk me out in the morning dew, my honey
Walk me out in the morning dew today
I can't walk you out in the morning dew, my honey
I can't walk you out in the morning dew at all

I thought I heard a young girl cry, mama
I thought I heard a young girl cry today
You didn't hear no young girl cry, baby
Oh you didn't hear no young girl cry at all

Walk me out in the morning dew, my honey
Walk me out in the morning dew today
I can't walk you out in the morning dew now, baby
I can't walk you out in the morning dew at all

I thought I heard a young man cry, mama
I thought I heard a young man cry today
Oh you didn't hear no young man cry, baby
Oh you didn't hear no young man cry at all

Oh, there's no more morning dew
No there's no more morning dew
What they were saying all these years is true
Cause there's no more morning dew

No there's no more morning dew
No there's no more morning dew
What they were saying all these years is true
No there's no more morning dew

(repeat twice)


New Day Yesterday [Jethro Tull] (Something About Today EP)
Our first and last time together
Now we had some fun
Went walking through the trees, yeah
Then I kissed you once
Oh I want to see you soon
And I wonder how
It was a new day yesterday
But it's an old day now

Spent a long time looking
For a game to play
My luck should be so bad now
To turn out this way
Oh I had to leave today
Just when I thought I'd found ya
It was a new day yesterday
But it's an old day now

Spent a long time looking
For a game to play
My luck should be so bad now
To turn out this way
Oh I had to leave today
Just when I thought I'd found ya
It was a new day yesterday
It was a new day yesterday
It was a new day yesterday
But it's an old day now


Paperback Bible (1994 album, released on Ocean of Confusion)
Waking up to tomorrow
hope a little help to clear my head
what did I do?
what did I try to leave behind?

Empty your pockets
tear out a page from a paperback bible
Mercy's rare

Is there anywhere that I could do
I would do much better than today
Find me outside in the cold
Would you take me in or let me go?

Empty your pockets
tear out a page from a paperback bible
Empty your pockets
tear out a page from a paperback bible
Mercy's rare to find.

..to find my peice of mind....

repeat


Polly Pereguin (Beat Happening/Screaming Trees EP)
She's coming down the stairs again
Just like Polly Pereguin
Noticing the carpet stains, one by one
Then she goes out to the terrace
And she's made of plaster paris
Lighting up her cigarette, she stands in the sun

She's messing up her hair again
Not sitting in the chair again
Then she spills a bowl of cherries over the wall

Just like Polly Pereguin, she's messing up her hair again
Go tell Polly Pereguin, then you'll see

Sitting on the bed in a room of laughter
The aftermath sparks a real disaster
Living in the attic in her boarded up old house
The picture of Polly she can't do without
She's all wrapped up
Her head puzzles together
Hoping that maybe it'll change the weather

Just like Polly Pereguin, she's messing up her hair again
Go tell Polly Pereguin, then you'll see

Coming down the stairs Polly looked at her and said
The stains upon the store put there one by one
Opening the window that she painted red
The rain outside lands upon her head

Just like Polly Pereguin, she's messing up her hair again
Go tell Polly Pereguin, then you'll see


Psycho [the Sonics] (Here Ain't The Sonics compilation)
Baby, you're drivin' me crazy
Baby, you're drivin' me crazy
The way you turn me on
And then you shut me down
Well, tell me baby
Am I just your clown?
Psycho...

Baby, you're drivin' me crazy
I bet I'm losin' my mind
You treat me so unkind
Psycho...

Baby, you're drivin' me crazy
I'm goin' out of my head
And now I wish I was dead
Psycho...

Baby, you're drivin' me crazy
I'm goin' out of my head
And now I wish I was dead
Psycho...
Oh psycho, yeah psycho
Oh psycho, oh psycho, oh


Silver Tongue [Deep Purple]
Well I'm standing here on moving station
All the world is traveling by
To strange outlandish destinations
There they go, I wonder why

I may be crazy
But I'm no stupid
I get along
I use my silver tongue

You know I can dream in any language
Flying on my magic bed
And I don't need to work my passage
All I do is use my head

I may be crazy
But I'm no stupid
Sometimes I ramble
Then I'm lucid
I might seem lazy
But I'm hurting no-one
I get along
I use my silver tongue

I know exactly what you're thinking
But you don't know what's in my mind
You went too fast and now your sinking
Because you forgot to read the signs


Song Of A Baker [The Small Faces]
There's wheat in the field
And water in the streams
And salt in the mine
And an aching in me
I can no longer stand and wonder
Cause I'm driven by this hunger
So I'll jug some water, make some flour
Store some salt and wait the hour

I'm thinking of love
Love is thinking of me
And the baker will come
And the baker I'll be
I'm depending on my labor
The texture and the flavor

I can no longer stand and wonder
Cause I'm driven by this hunger
So I'll jug some water, make some flour
Store some salt and wait the hour


Tales of Brave Ulysses [Cream] (Taste Test cd)
You thought the leaden winter
Would bring you down forever
So you rode upon a steamer
To the violence of the sun, hey

And the colors of the sea
Blind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you've touched the distant beaches
With tales of brave Ulysses
How his naked ears were tortured
By sirens sweetly singing
And the sparkling waves are calling you
To kiss their white lacements

And you see your girl's brown body
Dancing through the turquoise
And you want to take her with you
Where the sky loves the sea
And when your fingers find her
She drowns you in her body
Carving deep blue ripples
In the tissues of your mind

Tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
And you want to take her with you
To the heartland of the winter
Wow

Her name is Aphrodite
And she rides a crimson shell
And you know you cannot leave her
For you've touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses
How his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing

"It's a pretty little valley in the center of the state
Where the clouds are blown from the sun
In the pretty little valley in the center of the state
It's Ellensburg, Washington
It's Ellensburg, it's Ellensburg
It's Ellensburg, Washington..."


(They'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) [trad via Johnny Cash]
Well I'm tired and so weary
But I must go alone
Till the Lord comes and calls me away, oh yes
With the morning so bright and the lamb is alight
And the night is as black as the sea

There'll be peace in the valley for me someday
There will be peace in the valley for me, dear Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness no sorrow no trouble that I see
There will be peace in the valley for me

Well the bear will be gentle and the wolf will be tame
And the lion shall lay down with the lamb, oh yes
And the beast from the wild would be led by a child
And I'll be changed from this creature that I am

There'll be peace in the valley for me someday
There will be peace in the valley for me, dear Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness no sorrow no trouble that I see
There will be peace in the valley for me
Amen


This Perfect Day [the Saints] (Something About Today EP)
Don't talk to me about what you've done
There's nothing changed, it all goes on
and we'll be happy 'til the end
I've seen them drive around in cars
All look the same, get drunk in bars
And don't talk back, we got no social rights

On this perfect day
What more to say
I don't need no one to tell me
What I don't already know

We got no high times always flat
And you go out your door and back
It's all so funny I can't laugh

Oh this perfect day
What more to say
I don't need no one to tell me
What I don't already know

Don't talk to me about what you've done
There's nothing changed, it all goes on
And then we laugh until the end

Oh this perfect day
What more to say
I don't need no one to tell me
What I don't already know

Oh this perfect day
What more to say
I don't need no one to tell me
What I don't already know


Tomorrow's Dream [Black Sabbath]
Well I'm leaving tomorrow at daybreak
Take the fastest train around nine
Yes I'm leaving the sorrow and heartache
Before it takes me away from my mind

Give me love and I may let you see me
Give me hopes that can spin in my head
But if you really want me to answer
I can only let you know when I'm dead

When sadness fills my days
It's time to turn away
And let tomorrow's dream
Become reality to me

So realize I'm much better without you
You're not the one and only thing in my heart
I'll just go back to pretending I'm living
But this time I'm gonna have to depart


Wasted Time (Japanese edition of Dust)
Have you ever really needed something so bad that it hurt?
Have you ever just wanted to feel better?
Have you ever really wanted someone you never will lose?
Have you ever just wanted to feel nothing?
Nothing more, nothing less
Nothing matters till I'm gone

I don't want to say that I need you
Every day is wasted time
All I do is lose when I need you
All I do is lose what I find

You ask me if I care about you, like you really don't know
I wonder if my answers still mean something
Nothing more, nothing less
Nothing matters till I'm gone

(Chorus)

Have you ever just wanted someone you never will lose?
Have you ever just wanted to feel nothing?
Nothing more, nothing less
Nothing matters till I'm gone

(Chorus, repeat)


Watchpocket Blues (1994 album, released on Ocean of Confusion)
She's got those watchpocket blues
She cried to like Mary at the manger
And ain't got time to lose

Don't care if I'm right
Baby I'm just dying all the time
Reborn again
I'll fall and rise
I can't help it
Can't help it

Send me back to heaven
????????
Crashing through bad visions
And I stagger from the pain
Help me make it easy coming down
Help me make it easy with the sound
The sound of voices raised in celebration
Don't you stop my speed to salvation

Second hand is running
Got me running out to see
Changing shape for tomorrow
And coming back again

Help me make it easy coming down
Help me make it easy with the sound
The sound of voices raised in celebration
Trying to stop my speed to salvation

You've loved the dark before the summer
You've loved the ocean that you're under
You've faught the storm before the thunder
Don't you know the shadows still remain?

Send me back to heaven
?
Crashing through bad visions
And I stagger from the pain
Help me make it easy coming down
Help me make it easy with the sound
The sound of voices raised in celebration
Don't you stop my speed to salvation

She got them watchpocket blues
She cried like Mary at the manger
Couldn't help but lose

She cried like Jesus on the mainline
Couldn't help but lose


What Goes On [Velvet Underground]
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am falling down
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am upside down

Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll work alright
Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll be alright

Well I'm going up, I'm going down
I'm gonna fly from side to side
See the bills up in that sky
Somebody cut that string in two

Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll work alright
Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll be alright
Oh yeah...

One minute born, one minute doomed
One minute up, one minute down
What goes on in your mind?
I think that I am falling down

Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll be alright
Baby, be good
Do what you should
You know it'll work alright
Alright
Oh yeah...


Who Lies In Darkness (Something About Today EP)
I should be hours outside yourself
A bitter dream now dark could tell
Some mirror's reflection falls aside
We're into darkness

I have found you hours away
Silent fate that steps away
I wouldn't call you back to wait
For me

watchin' the storm that's drawin' near
what's barely seen is always here
It leaves a question your breath
It has no answer

I have found you hours away
Silently it steps away
I wouldn't call you back to wait
For me

I'll soon be hours outside yourself
A bitter dream now dark can tell
I don't know where or what I've got
Who lies in darkness?

I have found you far too late
Silently it steps away
I wouldn't call you back to wait
For me


Working Class Hero [John Lennon]
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
by giving you no time instead of it all
Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be (repeat)

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Til you're so fucking crazy you can't follow the rules

Then a working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
Then you can't really function you're so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be (repeat)

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
Then you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

Then a working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they're all telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

Then a working class hero is something to be
Yeah, a working class hero is something to be

If you wanna be a hero then just follow me (repeat)