Last Time I Heard Her Voice She Said:
Be Back In Town By Five
Be Great To See Your Face Across A Table"
Walking Out Was Not My Choice
Talk About How We Survive
It's So Much More Than Who's Upset About It
Two So Close
Two So Far Away
But So It Goes And So It Goes

Now She's Far From These Worries
She's A Somewhere Girl
A Somewhere Girl, Yeah
Every Night And Day
Every Moment She Slips Away
I Won't Be Looking For Answers
I Won't Be Waiting For A Telephone Call
I Know She's Out There
Somewhere Girl

Now And Then I Hear A Song
It Always Makes Me Smile
To Think About The Girl I Still Remember
From Love To Hate To Compromise
Getting Over Takes A While
Do You Believe We Reached The Point Of Never
Two So Close
Two So Far Away
But So It Goes And So It Goes

Cry, Tears Wash Away Your Little Empty Dreams
And I've No More Regrets
No Sense In Making It More Than It Seems

"Cathedrals," Jump Little Children

In the shadows of tall buildings
Of fallen angels on the ceilings
Oily feathers in bronze and concrete
Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
The line moves slowly past the electric fence
Across the borders between continents
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
The architecture is slowly peeling
Marble statues and glass dividers
Someone is watching all of the outsiders
The line moves slowly through the numbered gate
Past the mosaic of the head of state
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
Of open arches endlessly kneeling
Sonic landscapes echoing vistas
Someone is listening from a safe distance
The line moves slowly into a fading light
A final moment in the dead of night
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

___

"Such Great Heights," by the Postal Service

I think that it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
I have to speculate that God himself did make us into
corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay
True it may seem like a stretch but it's thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you're out there on the road for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say.
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now." But we'll stay.

I tried my best to leave this song on your machine
but the persistant beat it sounded thin on listening
And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows
with the windows down when this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay
______

"Summer, Highland Falls," by Billy Joel

They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

So we argue and we compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfil each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our repsective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria
__

"Do You Realize," by the Flaming Lips

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize we're floating in space?
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.

Do you realize?
Do you realize?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'rond
Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize?

And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me
His voice was filled with evangelical glee
Sipping down his gin and tonic
While preaching about the evils of narcotics,
And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin
Whlie he mentally fondles his next of kin.

FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT LYRICS

It’s four in the morning, the end of december
I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better
New york is cold, but I like where I’m living
There’s music on clinton street all through the evening.

I hear that you’re building your little house deep in the desert
You’re living for nothing now, I hope you’re keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You’d been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without lili marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody’s wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see jane’s awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I’m glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

-- sincerely, l. cohen

I am the Fish
(Carmichael-Parish)

And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we’re apart

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain

(Carmichael-Parish)

Another great Crowded House song...

She came all the way from america
Had a blind date with destiny
And the sound of Te Awamutu
Had a truly sacred ring
Now her parents are divorced
And her friend’s committing suicide

I could not escape
A plea from the heart
You know what it means to me
She said don’t walk away
I’m down on my knees
So please don’t be mean to me


And one of my favourite Split Enz songs...

I don't want to say I love you
That would give away too much
(it's) Hip to be detached and precious
The only thing you feel is vicious

I don't wanna say I want you
Even though I want you so much
It's wrapped up in conversation
It's whispered in a hush
Though I'm frightened by the word
Think it's time that it was heard

No more empty self-possession
Vision swept under the mat
It's no new years resolution
It's more than that

Neil Finn is a genius:)

I've really wanted to illustrate this song. I bet if I looked, someone's already done it...

I now bring you the longest set of lyrics on this page:

Mr Tambourine Man, by Bob Dylan

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
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The Piano Has Been Drinking, Tom Waits
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone’s out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man’s blind in one eye
And he can’t see out of the other
And the piano-tuner’s got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...

And you can’t find your waitress with a geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can’t get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me

So long, and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear.

You may not share our intellect,
which might explain your disrespect
for all the natural wonders that grow around you.

So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish.

The worlds about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed.
Lie back and let the planet dissolve
around you

Despite those nets of tuna feets
We thought that most of you were sweet
especially tiny tots and your pregnant women.

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long-
so long, so long, so long, so long, so long-
so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish

If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish

If we could just change one would thing
We would all have learnt to sing

Come one and all
man and maanimal
Side by side in life's great gene pool

instrumental interlude

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long-
so long, so long, so long, so long, so long
so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish

She Give Too Many Kisses

She gives too many kisses to me
She gives them all the day and the night
She gives too many kisses it feels all right
She gives too many kisses to me

She gives them from my head to my toe
She gives them places nobody know
And when at night as I go to sleep
She concentrates too much on my feet

(Repeat one hundred times)