OH LAURA ~RELEASE ME

This one is very much a 'Me Song': one that really seems to speak to - and possibly about - me!

I am the wilderness locked in a cage
I am a growing force you kept in place
I am a tree reaching for the sun
Please don't hold me down
Please don't hold me down

I am a rolling wave without the motion
A glass of water longing for the ocean
I am an asphalt flower breaking free but you keep stoppin' me
Release me
Release me

I am the rain that's coming down on you
That you shielded yourself from with a roof
I am the fire burning desperately but you're controlling me
Release me
Release me

HEART ~ DOG & BUTTERFLY

For me, this always goes with the previous song by Kansas, since hearing them played together one after the other on a Greek island, whilst sitting looking out to sea at a beautiful view.

Magical moments like that, that you never forget.........

There I was with the old man
Stranded again so off I'd ran
A young world crashing around me
No possibilities of getting what I need
He looked at me and smiled
Said "No, no, no, no, no child.
See the dog and butterfly. Up in the
Air he like to fly." Dog and butterfly
Below she had to try. She roll back down
To the warm soft ground laughing
She don't know why, she don't know why
Dog and butterfly
Well I stumbled upon your secret place
Safe in the trees you had tears on your face
Wrestling with your desires frozen strangers
Stealing your fires. The message hit my mind
Only words that I could find
See the dog and butterfly
Up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft ground
Laughing to the sky, up to the sky
Dog and butterfly
We're getting older the world's getting colder
For the life of me I don't know the reason why
Maybe it's livin' making us give in
Hearts rolling in taken back on the tide
We're balanced together ocean upon the sky
Another night in this strange town
Moonlight holding me light as down
Voice of confusion inside of me
No begging to go back where I'm free
Feels like I'm through
Then the old man's words are true
See the dog and butterfly
Up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly, below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft
Ground with a little tear in her eye
She had to try, she had to try
Dog and butterfly

KANSAS ~ DUST IN THE WIND

One of my all-time favourites this one. I love it so much.

I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind (all we are is dust in the wind)
Dust in the wind (everything is dust in the wind), everything is dust in the wind (the wind)

THE FLAMING LIPS ~ THE YEAH YEAH SONG

When our son was little and still learning to talk, he used to make his own (extremely expressive) names for various things. We once saw a Scottish pipe band playing on the lawns by the sea and he called them the 'Yeah yeah men'! Lol! This song made me remember the 'Yeah yeah men'.

Great lyrics which really make you think......

AVALANCHE CITY ~ LOVE LOVE LOVE

Girl, I say, if only life would lean our way,
Well, you and me, we'd run away to be wherever our adventure waits,
And time would be a distant memory, nobody could tell us to stay,
Well, I've been dreaming ever since I've seen you
Heaven when you came my way.
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
Oh, it's seems awfully far for us to find at all,
All these years will wash away and we'll be clean but we'll have nothing more,
Well I can't say there'll come another day where money and our time affords,
On our hands, our wrinkles understand we never really wanted more.
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
And all the life about to go is in my mind,
Cause all the loudest voices in the world are never right
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
I heard your heart say love, love, love
Wo-oh-ooh, love, love, love
Wo-oh-ooh, love, love, love
Wo-oh-ooh, love, love, love

JONI MITCHELL ~ THE CIRCLE GAME

This great video accompanies one of my favourite songs.

The song is about how quickly children grow up, how quickly life passes..... and at the ripe old age of 64, I can safely vouch for the act that both of those are indeed very true!

Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like when you're older must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him take your time it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

RUN RIVER NORTH ~ GROWING UP

Growing up and growing old....

There's a fight to be won
For the love you find at home.
Work to be done
Before you rest your weary bones.

I'm finding peace don't come
To everyone I know,
So I will love in this life
Until I finally have to go.

Said I will love in this life
Until I finally have to go

.

Well I know I have lived
Just a wrinkle of my life,
And I hear so many times
It'll be over if I blink twice.

Please forgive if I don't walk
Off that plank stuck in your eye.
I've got my life to love
And I'm here to take what's mine.

I've got my life to love
And I'm here to take what's mine.

Growing up child
Is just a matter of time,
For giving all you've got,
So won't you dance under the sun.

Growing old
Feels like you're giving up your soul.
I'd rather give it freely
To the ones that I call home.

I ain't scared, no not afraid

Of the world in front of me.
I found my way without your help
With a broken family.

I'll take my breaks with my sins,
I'll do as I do please
With my friends 'til the end,
There lies my loyalty.

With my friends 'til the end,
My lies, their loyalty.

I used to close my eyes
To what stirred under my bed,
Now they're open wide
To the monsters in my bed.

Instead of claws, they whisper lies
Sinking fear in quiet steps,
So I will fight in the light
'Til I give my final breath.

Said I'll fight in the light
'Til I give my final breath.

Oh I will fight in the light
'Til I give my final breath.
Said I'll fight in the light
'Til I give my final breath.

Growing up child
Is just a matter of time,
For giving all you've got,
So won't you dance under the sun.

Growing old
Feels like you're giving up your soul.
I'd rather give it freely
To the ones that I call home.

Growing up child

Is just a matter of time,
For giving all you've got,
So won't you dance under the sun.

Growing old

Feels like you're giving up your soul.
I'd rather give it freely
To the ones that I call home.

Growing up child

Is just a matter of time,
For giving all you've got,
So won't you dance under the sun.

Growing old

Feels like you're giving up your soul.
I'd rather give it freely
To the ones that I call home.

CHRIS SIMMONS ~ YOU COULD HAVE IT ALL

We were very surprised - after travelling all the way to Poole in Dorset from our home near Brighton, Sussex last July to see a Suzanne Vega in concert - to find a guy from the Brighton area was the support act.

I cannot find any lyrics to this song at the moment!

See http://www.chrissimmonsmusic.co.uk

STU LARSEN ~ DARLING IF YOU'RE DOWN

This guy is also from my part of the world and has played with Passenger (see the previous post).
we stood next to Stu at a Suzanne Vega gig in Poole, Dorset last year. Must be a cool guy, if he likes Suzanne! We didn't talk to him though; we are, after all, just old fogies! :-)

I love this song, anyway....

I traveled halfway round the world
I'm never coming back to you
I'm never coming back to you

as I'm searching for the truth
I'll find it in the hardest times
I'll find it in the hardest times

and all along the way
people stop and offer me
everything but sympathy

there'll be another girl
she'll try to fit into your shoes
but never do

things have changed in the mightiest of ways
the long white clouds I saw them rain on our parade
and all I'm hearing
is darling if you're down just don't forget yourself

I'm trying to find my own way home
but maybe I don't wanna go
and maybe you will never know

it's a shame you couldn't hear
you were busy making so much noise
that you couldn't hear the blind boy's words

things have changed in the mightiest of ways
the long white clouds I saw them rain on our parade
and all I'm hearing
is darling if you're down just don't forget yourself

things have changed in the mightiest of ways
the long white clouds I saw them rain on our parade
and all I'm hearing
is darling if you're down just don't forget yourself

darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
(darling, if you're down)
darling, if you're down, down, down
darling, if you're down

PASSENGER ~ THINGS THAT STOP YOU DREAMING

One of my favourite bands - from my local area, too!

I’ve got no money in my hands or my coat or my pocket
Wont get to space cos I haven’t got a rocket
But I’ve air in my lungs
Eyes in my sockets
And a heart that beats
Like a tap that leaks
In the night when you haven’t got a plumber who can stop it
Jack in a box without a key to lock it
Well this boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name
Yeah the boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name
Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming
Well I’ve got no ones word and no bodies promise
Not a lot to show but this book full of sonnets
And my liver may be fucked but my heart is honest
And my word is true
Like the sky is blue
In the summer time when everybody gets on it
Warm our skins and get sunburnt from it
And our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains
Yeah our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains
Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming
Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming

MR. HUDSON & THE LIBRARY ~ EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME!

This should be my theme tune! Lol!

I make a date for golf
And you can bet your life it rains
My flat warming got started
But the bitch next door complained

It seems ill spend my whole life
Catching colds and missing trains

I waited in the rain
For a blind date who never showed
Then a 4x4 drenched my jeans as I tried to cross the road
Got back to the car in time to watch it being towed
Everything happens to me

At first I thought you might break this jinx for me
Your love would bring an end to my despair
That would have been so cool
Not how its meant to be
Instead you vanished into thin air

I've emailed and I've phoned
Sent a text message or two
You told me to piss off and for that respect is due
I fell in love just once
Did it have to be with you?

PERFUME GENIUS ~ NORMAL SONG

Hold my hand
I am afraid
Please pray for me
When I am away
Comfort the girl
Help her understand
No memory
No matter how sad
And no violence
No matter how bad
Can darken the heart
Or tear it apart
Take my hand
When you are scared
And I will pray
If you go back out there
Comfort the man
Help him understand
That no floating sheet
No matter how haunting
And no secret
No matter how nasty
Can poison your voice
Or keep you from joy

LONDON GRAMMAR ~ NIGHT CALL

I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel
I’m gonna drive you through the night down the hills
I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear
I’m gonna show you where it’s dumped but have no fear

There’s something inside you
It's hard to explain
There’s something inside you, boy
And you’re still the same

I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel
I’m gonna drive you through the night down the hills
I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear
I’m gonna show you where it’s dumped but have no fear

There’s something inside you
It's hard to explain
They’re talking about you, boy
But you’re still the same

Tell you how,
Tell you how,
Tell you how.

I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel
I’m gonna drive you through the night down the hills
I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear
I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel and how I feel

MICHAEL STIPE (feat CHRIS MARTIN)

There are no words to adequately describe what this song means to me.........

I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

May god's love be with you
Always
May god's love be with you

I know I would apologize if I could see in your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself I became someone else
But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake

May god's love be with you
Always, always
May god's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find, if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find you
You
I found you... You

I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there's anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand

'Cause I been caught in between all you wish for and all you need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

May god's love be with you
Always
May god's love be with you
Always, Always
May god's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find, if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find, if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find you
You
I found you... You
Oh, I found you... You
Oh, I found you...

SOHA ~ C'EST BIEN MIEUX COMME CA

Parlez-vous français?

A french Song now, from one of my 'World music' C.D.s.

The French lyrics are below, together with a (probably very bad) translation into English.
I like these lyrics a lot......

C’est bien mieux comme ça

On ne peut pas se défaire
De l'endroit d'ou l'on vient
La mère et l'enfance ne sont jamais très loin
On a laissé les siens si souvent
Partir trop souvent, il le faut bien
On apprend à dire "non" un matin

Moi je souris aux petits bonheurs
Je souris, c'est bien mieux comme ça

C'est bien mieux comme ça

Bâtir des murs autour de soi
Vouloir se protéger du froid
Tout ce temps qui passe, on n'en revient pas
Quels sont ceux à qui je tiens ?
La solitude me va si bien
Mais si l'amour s'en vient, ça va

Moi je souris aux petits bonheurs
Je souris, c'est bien mieux comme ça

Je me fous des petits malheurs
Je m'en fous, c'est bien mieux comme ça

C'est bien mieux comme ça

Moi je souris aux petits bonheurs
Je souris, c'est bien mieux comme ça

Je me fous des petits malheurs
Je m'en fous, c'est bien mieux comme ça
  
C'est bien mieux comme ça

C'est bien mieux comme ça


C'est bien mieux comme ça

It's really better that way

You cannot get rid
("One" cannot, but "You " seems better here)
of the place you come from
The mother and the child are never far from each other
Too often you have let your loved ones leave, it must be so,
One morning, you learn to say "No".

Me, I smile at the little joys
I smile, it is really better that way
It is really better that way

Building walls around you
To want to protect yourself from the cold
All this time that passes, you don't think back on it
Who are those I want to hold on to?
Loneliness suits me so well
But if love comes and goes.

Me, I smile at the little joys
I smile, it is really better that way
I don't care about the little misfortunes
I don't care about them, it is really better that way

je souris, c'est bien mieux comme ca
je m'en fous, c'est bien mieux comme ca

FANFARE CIOCARLIA ~ TU ROMNIE

Romania this time. I love this Gypsy Ska music such a lot. Happy, happy music to dance round the streets to! :-)

JOJI HIROTA ~ KOKIRIKO MELODY

This CD of music from Japan entitled 'The Gate' was one of the first albums I purchased not long after we acquired our first computer, way back in 1999

ELLIE GOULDING ~ DON'T SAY A WORD

If you'd never said anything
If you'd never said anything
If you never, If you never
If you never, If you'd never said anything
If you never, if you never
Ohhhh
If you never, if you never
Ohhhh
If you never, if you never
Ohhhh
If you never, if you never
Here it is in my hands
In my veins, and overlands
It spreads like fire, seeking air
To pull me in, my own funfair
Won't you come, won't you come
Won't you come, just don't say a word
Won't you come, won't you come
Won't you come, just don't say a word
If you never, if you never
Just don't say a word
If you never, if you never
Just don't say a word
I'm more alive I've ever been
So now I give you all my sins
I've chosen you, I've chosen you
But don't say a word
And if I save us, and I fall down
I will leave your words behind now
If you never, held me under, if you never hear my thunder
If you never, if you never
Ohhhh
If you never, if you never
Ohhhh
If you never, if you never
Just don't say a word

MARIT LARSEN ~ I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

This is not a song about his lips
This is not another tender wish
That was then and these are different days
Even now I sometimes miss the taste
 
This is not a song about a night
We were young and everything was right
When all the things we did just seem to work
Now the news is old and it all just seems to hurt, just seems to hurt
Don't talk about what we are
Don't talk about what we've been
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it
It's never just one mistake
It's never just one heartbreak
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it

This is not for all the tears we cried
It's not another worthless little fight
It all comes back to me but no regrets
I'd rather let it go than just forget, just forget
 
Don't talk about what we are
Don't talk about what we've been
What done is done, I don't want to talk about it
It's never just one mistake
It's never just one heartbreak
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it

All of the good that remains
All that memory contains
All that is still unexplained after he walked away
He is the reason
You are the reason why I...
Don't talk about what we are
Don't talk about what we've been
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it
It's never just one mistake
It's never just one heartbreak
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it

Don't talk about what we are
Don't talk about what we've been
What's done is done, is done, is done
I don't want to talk about it
I don't want to talk about it
It's done it's done
I don't want to talk about it
 
It's never just one mistake
It's never just one heartbreak
What's done is done, I don't want to talk about it

SUZANNE VEGA ~ IN LIVERPOOL

A very special song......

• No reason to even remember you now

In Liverpool
On Sunday
No traffic
On the avenue
The light is pale and thin
Like you
No sound, down
In this part of town

Except for the boy in the belfry
He's crazy, he's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church
For the last half an hour
He sounds like he's missing something
Or someone that he knows he can't
Have now and if he isn't
I certainly am

Homesick for a clock
That told the same time
sometimes you made no sense to me
if you lie on the ground
in somebody's arms
you'll probably swallow some of their history

And the boy in the belfry
He's crazy, he's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church
For the last half an hour
He sounds like he's missing something
Or someone that he knows he can't
Have now and if he isn't
I certainly am

I'll be the girl who sings for my supper
You'll be the monk whose forehead is high
He'll be the man who's already working
Spreading a memory all through the sky

In Liverpool on Sunday
No reason to even remember you now

Except for the boy in the belfry
He's crazy, he's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church
For the last half an hour
He sounds like he's missing something
Or someone that he knows he can't
Have now and if he isn't
I certainly am

In Liverpool [X2]

THE BEATLES ~ TWO OF US

So, more memories from 1972......

I went all by myself on holiday to Majorca that year. As I was waiting to get on the coach to come home, this song played on the hotel jukebox. It is from the Beatles 1970 album entitled 'Let It Be'.

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone's
Hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters
On my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

[We're going home, you better believe it. Goodbye.]

SCOTT WALKER ~ TWO WEEKS SINCE YOU'VE GONE

This is the second song which reminds me of 1972., although it is actually from Scott Walker's album entitled 'Scott 3'  which was released in 1969.

A sad - but very beautiful - song!

Two weeks since you've gone
And I feel like the tramp
Picking dustbins in the alley.

He looks up as I pass
Clutching rags from a city's restless night

I could read all my sadness
In faces I knew
Down at Kelly's bar last Friday
And I haven't been back since I mistook
Somebody for a friend

And if I walk these streets long enough
Will you happen to me again?

With whom are you sharing
The sweet taste of summer?
My memories pursue you
Through puddles of rain
The rivers inside me still flow
To the sea of your hands

And if I close my eyes long enough
Will you happen to me again?

CURVED AIR ~ BACK STREET LUV

I am going to post a couple of songs which I loved back in 1972, in the period following on from a holiday in Majorca.... and I still love these songs today!

Here is the first one, from Curved Air.

Summer's comin', time to dream the day away
And she's so sunny is the girl you met today
Will she make it? Can she take it?
Like to try love, such a shy love

Racket back street leanin' on the wall
She reads a story of her life before it all
Did she give love? Could she feel love?
Did she find love? Was it real love?

Where's your smile today?
Did she let you .....?
Try to see she didn't mean to
Make you feel so sad

Racket back street sittin' on a wall
She tells a man that she knew before it all
When she made love she tried to find love
When she gives love she will find love.

Summer's comin', time to dream the day away
And she's so sunny is the girl you met today
Will she make it? Can she take it?
Like to try love, such a shy love

Where's your smile today?
Did she let you .....?
Try to see she didn't mean to
Make you feel so sad

LOST FREQUENCIES (feat. JANIECK DEVY) ~ REALITY

My daughter is in love with this song...... and now, so am I!

It is such a catchy tune - and I love the lyrics!

Decisions as I go, to anywhere I flow
Sometimes I believe, at times where I should know
I can fly high, I can go long
Today I got a million, tomorrow, I don't know
Decisions as I go, to anywhere I flow
Sometimes I believe, at times where I should know
I can fly high, I can go long
Today I got a million, tomorrow, I don't know

Stop crying like you're home and think about the show
We're all playing the same game, laying down alone
We're unknown and wrong, special when I come.
Hate will make you cautious, love will make you glow.
Make me feel the warm, make me feel the cold.
It's written in our story, it's written on the walls.
This is our call, we rise and we fall.
Dancin' in the moonlight, don't we have it all?

Decisions as I go, to anywhere I flow.
Sometimes I believe, a time where we should know.
I can fly high, I can go long.
Today I got a million, tomorrow, I don't know.
Make me feel the warm, make me feel the cold.
It's written in our story, it's written on the walls.
This is our call, we rise and we fall.
Dancin' in the moonlight, don't we have it all?

BAD BAD HATS ~ THINGS WE NEVER SAY

The song of the moment for me...... I really love it!

You never say you love me

But you never let me fight you

Can’t get you off my mind babe

So I brought this dress to spite you.

I’ll wear it cos I hate you

Cos you don’t know what you got

Then I’ll wear it to your house

And I’ll let you take it off.

Cos I wanna be the one who holds you

I wanna be the one who says good night.

I never get to see you,

But you never go away.

I’m talking to the ceiling

And asking you to stay.

And sometimes I think I’ll ask you

If you’ve forgotten that you cared,

Then you call me in the morning

Just to tell me that you’re there,

That you wanna be the one who holds me,

You wanna be the one who says goodnight.

I never get tired of dreaming,

It’s you I’m sleeping for.

Wish I knew what you were thinking

When you kissed me on the floor.

But I’m not sorry that I liked you

Although we did this whole thing wrong

And I’ll never say I love you

But  I meant it all along.

So boy just let me hold you,

So boy just let me hold you,  

Don’t you dare say goodnight.

You never say you love me,

I never say I love you.

You never say you love me,

I never say I love you.

But I - I - I - I - I

But I - I - I - I - I

Wanna be the one who says goodnight.

DAVID GUETTA (feat. SIA) ~ BANG MY HEAD

A bit more upbeat than my usual stuff. A rousing, confidence-building, battle-cry song........

We will overcome!

• Bang my head against the wall
  Instead I rise above it all 

I was bound, was tired
Hadn't seen a light so long
Thought I lost my fight
Couldn't find my way back home
And I found the light stepping out of me
I was bound, and tired
Waiting for daylight

Bang my head against the wall
Though I feel light headed, now I know I will not fall
I will rise above it all
Found what I was searching for
Though I feel light headed
I should have failed, and nailed the floor
Instead I rose above it all

Oh, oh, oh
Bang my head against the wall
Oh, oh, oh
Instead I rose above it all
(Bang my head against the wall)

When you think you're giving up
Just know, you might think you're dying but you won't
And you feel the love stepping out of you
But when you think of giving up, don't

Bang your head against the wall
You may feel light headed, but you won't crawl, no, you won't fall
You will rise above it all
You'll find what you're searching for
And you may feel light headed
You think you're gonna hit the floor
Instead you rise above it all

Oh, oh, oh
Bang your head against the wall
Oh, oh, oh
Instead you rise above it all
(Bang my head against the wall)

I have broken wings
I keep trying, keep trying
No one get out
Oh I'm flying, oh I'm flying

Bang my head against the wall
Though I feel light headed, now I know I will not fall
I will rise above it all
Found what I was searching for
Though I feel light headed, I should have failed, and nailed the floor
Instead I rose above it all

Oh, oh, oh
Bang my head against the wall
Oh, oh, oh
Bang my head against the wall
Bang my head against the wall
Instead I rise above it all

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΤΥΠΑΛΔΟΣ ~ ΑΡΝΗΣΗ

Denial (Greek: Άρνηση) is a poem by Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) published in his collection Turning Point (Στροφή "Strophe") in 1931. After the coup that overthrew the Greek government in 1967, Seferis went into voluntary seclusion and many of his poems were banned, including this musical versions which Mikis Theodorakis had written and arranged. Denial came to be the anthem of resistance to the regime and was sung by the enormous crowds lining the streets at Seferis' funeral.

This version is sung by Dimitris Typaldos with the help of a children's choir who sing very sweetly!

ΑΡΝΗΣΗ

Στο περιγιάλι το κρυφό
κι άσπρο σαν περιστέρι
διψάσαμε το μεσημέρι·
μα το νερό γλυφό.

Πάνω στην άμμο την ξανθή
γράψαμε τ' όνομά της·
ωραία που φύσηξεν ο μπάτης
και σβήστηκε η γραφή.

Mε τι καρδιά, με τι πνοή,
τι πόθους και τι πάθος,
πήραμε τη ζωή μας· λάθος!
κι αλλάξαμε ζωή.

DENIAL 

[English translation by Edmund Kee and Phillip Sherrard]

On the secret seashore
white like a pigeon
we thirsted at noon;
but the water was brackish.

On the golden sand
we wrote her name;
but the sea-breeze blew
and the writing vanished.

With what spirit, what heart,
what desire and passion
we lived our life: a mistake!
So we changed our life.

DAMIEN RICE ~ THE BLOWER'S DAUGHTER

Such a passionate song, this one....... ;-)

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new

PETER GABRIEL ~ IN YOUR EYES

love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
 
in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

love, I don't like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN ~ WE WILL

I adore this song. It was on the Jack Jones/Susan George album, but I can only find the original version by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

You cannot recapture the past.... but you can keep hold of the memories.......

It's over now
You've had your fun
Get up them stairs
Go on quickly
Don't run
Take off your shoes
The both of you's
Leave them down outside the door
Turn the landing light off,
No wait, leave it on
It might make the night
That much easier to be gone
And in the morning
Who'll be wide awake
And eating snow flakes
As opposed to those flakes.

(We Will) We Will (We Will) We will

That afternoon
We spent the day
With Uncle Frank (remember?)
And His wife Auntie Mae
Well do you know
Since then I've received
Up to four letters
All of which repeat the same
They say Thrilled to bits
Can't believe you came
We've relived it both
Over time and time again
And if there's ever a chance
Or even half
You might be our way
Would you promise to stay

(We will) We will (We will) We Will
Yeah..yeah..yeah

Oh its not easy pretending
That you cannot hear
Once you've suffered the affliction within
It's no use in an ending
To proclaim from the start
That the Moral of the story's to begin.

On Sunday next
If the weather holds
We'll have that game
But I bagsy-being-in-goal
Not because I'm good
Or because I think I should
It's just that well
At My age I think standing still
Would really suit me best
Do we all agree?
Hands up those who do
Hands up those who don't
I see well in that case will we
Please be kind enough
If not On Sunday
To go to mass on Monday

(We will) We will
(We will ) We will yeah yeah (We will)

CARLY SIMON ~ COMING AROUND AGAIN

Baby sneezes
Mommy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
So bewildering

I know nothin' stays the same
But if you're willin' to play the game
It's comin' around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart (Broken heart)

Pay the grocer
You fix the toaster
You kiss the host goodbye
Then you break a window
Burn the soufflé
Scream the lullaby

I know nothin' stays the same
But if you're willin' to play the game
It's comin' around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

And I believe in love
But what else can I do
So in love with you

I know nothin' stays the same
But if you're willin' to play the game
It's comin' around again

(Baby sneezes)
(Mommy pleases)
(Daddy breezes in)
I know nothin' stays the same
But if you're willin' to play the game
It will be comin' around again

(The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout)
(Down come the rain and washed the spider out)
(Out come the sun and dried up all the rain)
(And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again)

(The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout)
(Down come the rain and washed the spider out)
(Out come the sun and dried up all the rain)
(And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again)

I believe in love
Now who knows where or when
But it's comin' around again

(The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout)
(Down come the rain and washed the spider out)
(Out come the sun and dried up all the rain)
(And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again)

I know nothin' stays the same
But if you're willin' to play the game
It's comin' around again

(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider)
(The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout) (Comin' around again)
(Down come the rain and washed the spider out) (Down the rain came)
(Out come the sun and dried up all the rain)
(And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again)

(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider)
(Itsy bitsy spider) (Again)

JACK JONES AND SUSAN GEORGE ~ THAT'S THE WAY I'VE ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE

I own the LP of this song, which the American singer Jack Jones made with his then girlfriend, Susan George.

Jack Jones is one of the fairly small number of singers I have seen live; this because my husband took me to see him in Brighton before we were married.

I loved this album which he made with Susan, which was entitled 'Together'.

My father sits at night with no lights on
His cigarette glows in the dark.
The living room is still;
I walk by, no remark.
I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines.
I hear her call sweet dreams,
But I forgot how to dream.
But you say it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be:
You want to marry me, we'll marry.
My friends from college they're all married now;
They have their houses and their lawns.
They have their silent noons,
Tearful nights, angry dawns.
Their children hate them for the things they're not;
They hate themselves for what they are-
And yet they drink, they laugh,
Close the wound, hide the scar.
But you say it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be:
You want to marry me, we'll marry.
You say we can keep our love alive
Babe - all I know is what I see -
The couples cling and claw
And drown in love's debris.
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds,
But soon you'll cage me on your shelf -
I'll never learn to be just me first
By myself.
Well O.K., it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me -
Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be,
You want to marry me, we'll marry,
We'll marry.