Pt. III

Sometimes I live in the city,
Sometimes I live in the town,
And sometimes I get a great notion
To jump in the river and drown.

Irene, good-night
Irene, good-night
Good-night Irene
Good-night Irene
I'll see you in my dreams.

This is not a suicide note.
Catch 22

Hello, H.

Just to clarify, good readers, these lyrics are from "Goodnight, Irene" by Huddie Ledbetter ("Leadbelly".) The only things that aren't in the song are the last three lines. "This is not a suicide note. Catch 22." I'm guessing that "burning man", located at "the fifth level" of Dante's Purgatory, can't commit suicide since he's already dead. In the song, Leadbelly sings that if he can't have his young love Irene, he might as well overdose on morphine. H, or heroin (referenced in the last line of the post), is derived from morphine. Then again, the Big H could be Hell.

These are just pieces of information, whether they have anything to do with burning man's situation or not, I can't judge. But I'm pretty sure that he'll keep his intelligence, wit and offbeat tendencies here at MC for awhile. I think he likes it here.

So everyone feel free to discuss things with burnie, or any of our other newer members. I believe they have more to impart than just riddles and pop-culture quotes. I also believe that we will be seeing tons more, especially at this "free" time of the year (for some of us.)

So, Catch-22 or not, live long and prosper, burning man. And, sorry I didn't mention it before, burnie, but Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" gives me chills. ("I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin'.) Are you able to share who Fill is? Fillmore?

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Thanx, Mk 1. It is indeed Filmore. Once again, my concentration lets me down.

Hi, Mike.

PT iv

Out here in the fields.
I work for my meals,
I get my back into my livin'.

I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right.
I DON'T NEED TO BE FORGIVEN!!!!!

Man, you guys are huge.

New York scenes with the way they talk, knock me
out when they jazz the rock

Cold keeps Chicago boyfriends warm I dig
how they defy the norm

The West Coast, well
I'll admit it's still the most

Hanging out near Manson slayings
Industrial decayings
Inverse utopia

That's why we don't live in Mauritania
Why we like something else going on
Why we all moved to California
And not Saskatchewan
.
.
...or Sierra Leon


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"Threw a party for my friends
So they wouldn't be lonely.
But they wouldn't let me in.
Said "Member-ship only!"

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some of my personal favorite lyricists are paul westerberg and elvis costello, as far actual lyrics these two are constantly stuck in my head:I love all of you
Hurt by the cold
So hard and lonely too
When you don't know yourself
^from by the way- chillipeppers and this one: Strange attraction spreads its wings

It varies but the smallest things
Strange attraction spreads its wings
You never know how anything will change
It varies but the smallest things
Strange attraction spreads its wings
You never know how anything will change
And alters but the smallest things
Strange attraction spreads its wings
You never know how anything will fade
And alters but the smallest things " that one is from strange attraction by the cure wich you will find on wild mood swings

The twenty hundred private loops making up my

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Ian Curtis (I can't believe I said it!) wishlist

-"Ian Curtis Wishlist" Xiu Xiu

i love the part in dashboard confessionals "hands down" when he sings "hey did you get some, man that is so dumb" lord knows ive thought that a million times

Bob Dylan's "Jokerman" is one of the most poetically written songs I've heard, although it's not one of his particularly well-known songs.

(Lyrics)

I like it a lot more (lyrically and melodically) than, say, Like A Rolling Stone or Subterranean Homesick Blues, and possibly even more than Tangled Up In Blue and Shleter From The Storm.

Jello Biafra has always been a favourite lyricist of mine. Some of my top songs from him would be Jesus Was A Terrorist with No Means No, and That's Progress with DOA.

sample from That's Progress-

Progress don't make me feel so good inside

You can't live here
We won't hire you
We know all the nasty things you do

Bought a dossier on your whole life
Clear back to the pranks you did in school at age 5

There's millions on file at the touch of a button
Your boss or your landlord will love our choice cuts of gossip
If it's lies, what can you do?
'Cos it costs too much to sue
The last person who will ever see you file is you

Had enough, I moved back home
To the mountains where I belong
But ski resorts have tamed the wild west

The hills we used to roam
Now they're privately owned
And scarred with cheezy suburbs and cement

The "Tracts for sale" sign promises
"Deer in your back yard"
If the deer somehow get past the fences and guards
And the industrial "park"

That's Progress
That's Progress
Looks like I'll have to move to Yellowknife

Progress-bleah!
Your idea of progress wrecks too many lives


And from Jesus Was A Terrorist-

Jesus was a terrorist
Enemy of the state
That's what the Romans labeled him
So he was put to death

He died for his beliefs
What's changed today?

quote:

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Originally posted by Biggles:
Bob Dylan's "Jokerman" is one of the most poetically written songs I've heard, although it's not one of his particularly well-known songs.

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I think the years have been kind to Infidels, Biggles. I seem to recall it being released to lukewarm reviews, it seems to be finding more regard as one of his better albums.

"Jokerman" is terric, so too are "Sweetheart Like You" and "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight," which include some of my favorite of Dylan's lyrics.

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"Looking for a friend,
Looking everywhere.
Walk along the boulevarde,
The boulevarde of friends.
All those mild mannered friends I've got,
There careless and they fall down
All over the place,
All over town.
I don't wan' 'em talkin' ta me.

'Cause I'm leaving it up to you.

(.....and we can all feel safe,
Like Sharon Tate.)

Leaving it up to you
John Cale

The Nits' THE HAT
(Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) FROM 1988:

I met her
In a shop
Downtown
She was buying a hat
With a feather
Brown
She said
Or red
That's all she said
That's all she said
'BROWN'
When the rain falls
On our head.
Think
Think
Of the time
When we met
In a shop
Downtown
Feather
Brown
She said
Or red
That's all she said
BROWN
No one knows she's still there
No one knows she's still there
Now
Open the door
And walk inside.



Third Uncle
(brian eno from 1974)


There were tims
There was pork
There are legs
There are skarks
There was John
There are cliffs
There was mother
There's a poker
There was you
Then there was you

There are scenes
There are blues
There are boots
There are shoes
There are Turks
There are fools
They're in lockers
They're in schools
They're in you
Then there was you

Burn my fingers
Burn my toes
Burn my uncle
Burn his books
Burn his shoes
Cook the leather
Put it on me
Does it fit me
Or you
It looks tight on you.



Ride A White Swan by T. Rex (1971)

Ride it on out like a bird in the sky ways
Ride it on out like you were a bird
Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam
Ride it on out like you were a bird

Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a tatooed gown
Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane
Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong

Catch a bright star and a place it on your fore-head
Say a few spells and baby, there you go
Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder
And in the morning you'll know all you know, oh

Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a tatooed gown
Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane
Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong

Da-da-da-di-di-da, da-da-da-di-di-da ....

Some of my favourites:

"Sometimes I need you naked
Sometimes I need you wild
I need you to carry my children in
And I need you to kill a child.

You know who I am, you've stared at the sun
Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one" - Leonard Cohen

"Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
It was half my fault and half the atmosphere" - Leonard Cohen

"I'm quarter of a century old
But I'm half a century high" - Phil Ochs

"Well I live here with a woman and a child,
the situation makes me kind of nervous.
Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says 'I guess you call this love'
I call it service.
Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist" - Leonard Cohen

"But when it came down to the wire
I called my family to my side
Stood up straight, threw my head back, and I lied, lied, lied" - Randy Newman

"I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come,
the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone.
But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk,
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?" - Leonard Cohen

"But now another stranger seems, to want you to ignore his dreams
As though they were the burden of some other." - Leonard Cohen

quote:

Originally posted by mark f:
Just to clarify, good readers, these lyrics are from "Goodnight, Irene" by Huddie Ledbetter ("Leadbelly".)

Ken Kesey took the name of his book "Sometimes a Great Notion" (one of my all-time favourites) from this Leadbelly chart-topper. The first paragraph is quoted in the preface.

"She knows there's no success like failure
and that failure's no success at all."

Dylan can pack more meaning into one line than others do in their whole careers.

I could list a hundred from Smiths songs. For starters:

"And when we're in your scholarly room
Whom will swallow whom?"
(Handsome Devil)

"I dreamt about you last night
And I fell out of bed twice
You can pin and mount me
Like a butterfly
But take me to the haven of your bed
Was something that you never said
Two lumps please, you're the bee's knees
But so am I"
(Reel Around the Fountain)

"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar
It meant that you were
A protest singer"
(Shakespeare's Sister)

"So if you need a little self-validation
Just meet me in the alley
By the railway station"
(I Want the One I Can't Have)

"Poor woman
Strangled in her very own bed as she read
But that's okay
She was old and she would have died anyway"
(Sweet and Tender Hooligan)

Neutral Milk Hotel, Two Headed Boy

"Two-headed boy
put on sunday shoes
and dance 'round the room to accordion keys
with the needle that sings in your heart
catching signals that sound in the dark!"

Bruce Cockburn, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

"Gotta kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight"

Eels, PS You Rock My World

"A careful man tried to dodge the bullets
while a happy man takes a walk"

Songs: Ohia, Didn't It Rain

"If the blues are your hunter
then you will come face to face
with that darkness and desolation
and the endless depression
but you are not helpless
and you are not helpless
try to beat it...
I'll help you try to beat it"

hey hey hey what about Pavement's timeless line from Wowee Zowee:

Put on those hard hats/
Sing us some scat

Rattled by the Rush!!!

The great, defunct British band Hefner melded some of the best, most literate lyrics to heartbreaking melodies and a geek rock delivery. Why Smiths fans never idolized this band is beyond me.

"Her beauty has not truly been seen
Until her beauty's been seen
Through his tired eyes"
(The Librarian)

"How can she love me
If she doesn't even love the the cinema
That I love"
(Hymn for the Cigarettes)

"I thought you were perfect
But that racist joke made it all
Bitter sweet"
(Hello Kitten)


"Hope was propping me up
When I met her
As soon as I saw her
I wanted to taste her lips
So I did
I was ecstatic
For at least six weeks"
(I Took Her Love for Granted)