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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: jkeisenh on March 26, 2004, 03:06:00 pm
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ok, i know i'm spending waaaay too much time on the board today, but that's what we do on spring fever days to pass the time till 5, right?
Too much of the music I have is emo-y sadness Bright Eyes style rainy music, so I'm at a loss on days like today.
Anyway, I've found my happy spring day song for today...
Ted Leo, Biomusicology.
Also on my happy song list:
Belle & Sebastian, My Wandering Days Are Over
Most of the Strokes first album
Tuscadero, Dime a Dozen
Death Cab, Blacking Out the Friction
Modest Mouse, Gravity Rides Everything
Elvis Costello, The Other Side of Summer
Polyphoinc Spree, Light & Day
Bright Eyes, Bowl of Oranges
And my perennial favorite, They Might Be Giants, Hey Mr. DJ I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
What are your happy songs for a sunny Friday?
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Originally posted by chimblysweep:
What are your happy songs for a sunny Friday?
I heard "Have a Nice Day" by Stereophonics on the way to the office this morning and thought it was more than appropriate. Especially in SF.
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been digging on the galactic heros "how about san francisco" album all day. 'wonderful' is even about a road trip to dc ("we ate at bob and edith's"). awesome
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everything by Sloan, Anna Waronker and half of Fountains of Wayne... ;)
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i've always associated "magic" by the cars has a happy song for spring days. . but you can't really go wrong with the cars (although, if it's a happy song you're looking for, skip "drive")
i like just about all of the first ben folds five album, any album by cub, "electricity" by spiritualized (great spring driving song), and most of "pet sounds"
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Thanks to Kosmo I am listening to a mix of Splittsville, Myracle Brah, Don Dixon and other power pop bands. Even forcing some of my coworkers to listen as I have it on the radio. Since they took away my stapler I am allowed to play the radio at a reasonable volume.
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I know it's not a Spring song, but "Valley Winter Song" by FOW just hit the spot for me.
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My boss just informed me that he was going to pick up 40oz's for everyone!!! haha.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
My boss just informed me that he was going to pick up 40oz's for everyone!!! haha.
2 hours, 5 minutes to the patio at the Fox.. ;)
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Love the fox....one Friday we should plan an outing, getting a small posse there by about 4:00....
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oooOOOooo... add to my list
Beulah, Gravity's Brining Us Down
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Originally posted by chimblysweep:
oooOOOooo... add to my list
Beulah, Gravity's Brining Us Down
I am listening to "score from augusta" right now
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my spring song in college was "fantastic day" by haircut 100... too bad it's on vinyl or i'd be blasting it right now
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This song always gets me thinking of spring and happy things.
I'm sitting in my bedroom
overlooking Findhorn Bay
Cluny Hill ion the distance
summer on the way
Blue skies and sailing boats
like a picture in a book
I can't believe I got here
or how long it took
Living one step at a time
putting one foot in front of the other
it sure feels right
Healing on my mind
been a long way
been a long way to the light
I'd made it to Manhattan
built myself a nest
I meant to get right back to doing
exactly what I do best:
Pluggin in an electric guitar,
leading a band
Well, if you want to give God a laugh
- tell him your plans!
Summer in the city
wilting in the heat
buzzing up and down to Bearsville
and back to Hudson Street
I learned meditation
and how to visualise -
just breathing, being still
never felt more alive!
Living one step at a time...
I spent the fall in transit
circling the moon
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like a fiddle without a tune
I found what I was searching for
in Mrs Caddy's book
I had to go there straightaway
have myself a look
I flew back to Scotland
anticipation in my bones
the old country welcoming me
like a prodigal coming home
I knelt and kissed the tarmac
in the wild atlantic rain
felt the fiery gaelic blood
rising in my veins
Living one step at a time...
I spent the night in Glasgow
flew to Inverness
I found the Place and at the first
I was not impressed
Nobody said hello
the faces left me cold
Back then how was I to know
all that would unfold?
I entered thje Sanctuary
- heard the vioce of a girl
sending out a circle of light
clear across the world
I shuddered in the Power
like a seedling in a storm
I've been travelling to this place
since the moment I was born
Flew back to New York City
singing the big city blues
the sand of Findhorn Bay
still clingin to my shoes
I tried to re-start my life
but the life I knew was gone
I had to let go everything
but that's another song!
Living one step at a time...
So I'm sitting in my bedroom
overlooking Findhorn Bay
Cluny Hill in the distance
summer on the way
I'm watching sailing boats
bobbing to and fro
- time to hit the road
the only way I know...
Living one step at a time...
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de novo dahl will substitute until i can be arsed to dig out my mixer..,
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So does this!
The lights are on in Standun's
and the spell has been broken
The roadside teahouse door
is wide open
A sign on the wall
says "American also spoken"
As Spring comes to Spiddal
The village girls go walking
by without their coats
The Irish gaelic college
is alive again with folk
Farmers gather talking
freed from Winter's yoke
As Spring comes to Spiddal
A tourist with a telescope
and a funny looking German bloke
And a billy goat
all invoke
The Summer soon to bloom
On a soft and fresh Atlantic air
a mist of pollen floats
On Galway Bay I spy
a gaily painted fishing boat
There's a rustle around the boreens
and a song on every throat
As Spring comes
to Spiddal
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also, add 90% of the music by Mates of State...
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
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Fantastic disc, but I'd hardly call it happy springtime music.
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For me it's Scarlet Begonias by The Grateful Dead.
Or anything by the Go-Go's or B-52's.
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The Undertones "Here Comes the Summer" is my all-time favorite spring raveup.
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Originally posted by twangirl:
The Undertones "Here Comes the Summer" is my all-time favorite spring raveup.
Plus, it has the best drum solo ever! :D
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The Flaming Lips "Race for the Prize" is a great song for a spring day. Couple that with Malcolm X/Meridan Hill Park view right outside my front window.
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i like watching the cherry blossoms wither while listening to joy division's "new dawn fades".
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bagpipes. full volume. nothing else gets the spirit up quite the same.
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Church bells on a Sunday morning, we don't get to hear that much over here stateside.
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the church near me has carillon music on sunday...
and how about elvis songs on bagpipes... (just heard it on wait wait)
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The whole All Night Radio album is pretty damn good for a spring day. Also, I know it is a bit premature, but you can't go wrong with a little Staying Out For The Summer by Dodgy
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Eugenius -- Oomalama
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
i've always associated "magic" by the cars has a happy song for spring days. .
That is a good one. "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins (Also a nice summer day / driving song.)
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The Wee Turtles: Why The Bombers?
Great sunny song.
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A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now ?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry
You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well, and I've heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall
You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
Sure !
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"Make us cry!"
Originally posted by Bollocks:
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now ?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry
You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well, and I've heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall
You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
Sure !
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Sure......
You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know
You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know what the sound is darlin'
It's the sound of my tears fallin'
Or is it the rain?
You don't know how to play the game
You cheat
You lie
You make me wanna cry
You make me wanna cry
Cry...
You make me wanna cry
You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know
You don't know how to ease my pain
Don't you hear any voices cryin'?
That's the sound of my love(?) dyin'
Here comes the rain
You don't know how to play the game
You cheat
You lie
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
You don't know
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
Cry...
Cry (x3)
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Give me time
To realise my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses
Words that burn me
Lovers never ask you why
In my heart
The fires burning
Choose my colour
Find a star
Precious people always tell me
That's a step
A step too far
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Words are few
I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow
Words are token
Come inside/and catch my tears
You've been talking
But believe me
If it's true
You do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I'm prepared
To let you go
If it's love you want from me
Then take it away
Everything is not what you see
It's over again
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
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You don't remember me
But I remember you
T'was not so long ago
You broke my heart in two
[CHORUS:]
Tears on my pillow
Pain in my heart
Caused by you
[2:]
If we could start anew
I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back
And tempt the hand of fate
[CHORUS:]
[3:]
Love is not a gadget
Love is not a toy
When you find the one you love
She'll fill your heart with joy
[2:]
[CHORUS:]
[x3:]
Caused by you
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I take that back. Don't make us cry.
Then again, if I was choosing the Culture Club to make people cry, I would have sticked with "Victims"
The victims we know so well
They shine in our eyes
When they kiss and tell
Strange places we never see
But you're always there
Like a ghost in my dreams
And i keep on telling you
Please don't do the things you do
When you do those things
Pull my puppet strings
I have that strangest void for you
We love and we never tell
What places our hearts in the wishing well
Love lead us into the stream
And it's sink or swim
Like it's always been
And i keep on loving you
It's the only thing to do
When the angel sings
There are greater things
Can i give them all to you
Pull the strings of emotion
Take a ride into unknown pleasure
Feel like a child
On a dark night
Wishing there was some kind of heaven
I could be warm with your smiling
Hold out your hand for a while
The victims
We know them so well
(chorus)
Show my heart some devotion
Push aside those that whisper never
Feel like a child on a dark night
Wishing we could spend it together
I could be warm with your smiling
Hold out your hand for a while
The victims
We know them so well
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Originally posted by chimblysweep:
"Victims"
This is better.
BILLY SITS ALONE AND WONDERS WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO , BILLY GROWS TIRED EVERY DAY AND MEANING SEEMS TO FADE AWAY , BILLY KNOWS HE'S NOT ALONE , HE KNOWS HE'S NO TO BLAME , OTHERS FEAR THROUGH IGNORANCE , AND BILLY'S CARED TO STAY AMONG THE WHISPERS BARELY SPOKEN , BILLY FEELS CONTEMPT , INDIGNANT WORDS FROM HYPOCRITES , TO THEM IT'S GOD'SREVENGE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY WORKED WITH OTHER MEN , TO THEM WAS ONCE A LAD . WHEN THEY LEARNED OF BILLY'S STORY , WENT BEHIND HIS BACK , SPREAD AROUND THE FACTORY FLOOR , THEN BILLY GOT THE SACK , FRIENDS HAVE WASHED THEIR HANDS OF BILLY , HE FEELS SO BETRAYED . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY'S YOUNG AND BILLY'S DYING , FIGHTING EVERY DAY . THE FEW HE TRUSTS WILL GIVE HIM STRENGTH , THEY WILL NOT WALK AWAY , LOVE WILL NEVER WASH ITS HANDS , AND NEVER WILL BETRAY , BILLY CAN'T ESCAPE THE TRUTH , BUT HE WONT DIE ALONE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . ( TO FADE
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Well, if we're going for sad, this one takes the cake.
the kitchen is cold
but the coffee is warm
and the suns coming up
the day has just begun
and your already bored.
bored of cheering me up
bored of calming me down
bored of drying my eyes
but there once was a time when you were the one.
you were the blue of the sky
you came after the storm
you were the switch on the wall
in the dark of the hall
im still fumbling for
cuz im lost in the black
i dont know where I am.
arms strecthed out in front
im calling your name
just as loud as I can
I know theres words that we will never speak
and the questions cant be answered easily
but I wanted to be easy so
nod your head if the plans have change
shake it, love, they stayed the same
smile at me and I will stay
start to cry and I'll go away
just please dont leave me guessing.
so you made me come
then you sent me away
like a messenger bird
so I circled the earth
blown away in the wind
but I always returned
with some new little song
some sad story to tell
of a breif love affair
with a girl I compared to you and she failed
you said you dont want me to beg
then you said get down on your knees
cuz you knew that I would
if I do any good satisfying your needs.
and I know all about those things we cannot speak
and just so you know well they dont bother me
so you dont have to be worried
just nod your head if the plans have changed
shake it, love, if they stayed the same
smile at me and I will stay
start to cry and I'll go away
just please dont keep me waiting
just nod your head if your mind's been changed
shake it, love, if some hope remains
just say the word and of course ill stay
roll your eyes and Ill go away
just please dont leave me guessing.
just please dont keep me waiting
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This is to make you "happy cry"
A man is in love, how do I know?
He came and walked with me, and he told me so
In a song he sang, and then I knew
A man is in love with you
A man is in love, how did I hear?
I heard him talk too much whenever you're near
He whispered your name when his eyes were closed
A man is in love and he knows
A man is in love, how did I guess?
I figuered it out while he was watching you dress
He'd give you his all, if you'd but agree
A man is in love and he's me
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Umm two songs in a row I do not recognise.....
Back to sad:
Gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
And I'm singing to all the torn betting slips
Flying around my feet
I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street
And they're ringing the bells all over the city on a Saturday night
Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright
Cos it's gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
I'm standing at the sale of the shoes of bankrupt men
I just had to buy a pair to show I can live again
They're ringing the bells all over the city on a Saturday night
Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright
It's gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
And they're banging on the sheets of metal, sheets of gold
And these were the finest shoes that were ever sold
Raining on roofs, raining on drums
Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums
They're ringing on the bells in the city on a Saturday night
Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright
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Yeah, lets keep the sad theme going!
If, if you choose that we will always lose
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
And if, if you decide to give him another try
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
Well they said if I wrote the perfect love song
You would take me back
Well I wrote it but I lost it
And now will you take me back anyway
Now if, if you insist that this is for the best
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
And if, if you swear that you no longer care
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
I'll sail this ship alone
Between the pain and the pleasure
I'll sail this ship alone
Amongst the sharks and the treasure
If you would rather go your way then go your way
I'll sail this ship alone
If, if you're afraid that I won't make the grade
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
And if, if you agree to him instead of me
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
Well they said if I wrote the perfect letter
That I would have a chance
Well I wrote it, and you burnt it
And now do I have a chance anyway
If, if you swear that you no longer care
Well then I'll sail this ship alone
I'll sail this ship alone
Between the pain and the pleasure
I'll sail this ship alone
Amongst the sharks and the treasure
If you would rather go your way then go your way
I'll sail this ship alone
Well they said if I burnt myself alive
That you'd come running back
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Umm two songs in a row I do not recognise.....
Mine was the inconceivably sad "Messenger Bird's Song" by Bright Eyes. Just thinking of it... *sigh* Don't think I've ever heard a song that so well captures that hurt-angry-feeling-used-deflated-why-why-why feeling of a breakup.
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Of course there's always this one...this gets old Manks waterworks going everytime!
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
and what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?
Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute
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i've always been partial to this song for sadness:
In the spring of my life she came to me
She brought sunshine where winter winds had blown
Then I took her for my wife in the spring of my life
And she brought me a joy I'd never known
And the years they went by in the spring of my life
And in summer she blessed me with a child
Love continued to grow in the summer of my life
And in every morning sun I saw her smile
But in the autumn of my years I noticed the tears
And I knew that our life was in the past
Though I tried to pretend, I knew it was the end
For the autumn of my life had come at last
Now what, what do you say to a child of ten?
How do you tell him his daddy's goin' away?
Do I tell him that I reached the autumn of my life
And that he'll understand some winter's day?
Now a rose can't be found on a snow-covered ground
And the sun cannot shine through cloudy skies
But I'm richer, you see, for the years she gave to me
And I'm content in the autumn of my life
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
This is to make you "happy cry"
A man is in love, how do I know?
He came and walked with me, and he told me so
In a song he sang, and then I knew
A man is in love with you
A man is in love, how did I hear?
I heard him talk too much whenever you're near
He whispered your name when his eyes were closed
A man is in love and he knows
A man is in love, how did I guess?
I figuered it out while he was watching you dress
He'd give you his all, if you'd but agree
A man is in love and he's me
Is this what you sang to each other in the Royal Navy?
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Since your mother cast her spell
Every kiss has left a bruise
Youâ??ve been raiding too much meaning from existence
Now your head is used and sore
And the forecast is for more
Memories falling, like falling rain
Falling rain
Every view they hold on youâ??s
A piano, out of tune
Youâ??re an angel
Youâ??re a demon
Youâ??re just human
Now your world has turned to trash
Broken windows on the past
Take that child and teach him senseless
Damage the dream, damage the dream
I feel nothing, I feel nothing at all
I feel nothing at all
In this gloomy, haunted place
All the feelings are of shame
All the windows have been broken by the children
So the wind screams up the stairs
Slams the doors and rattles chairs
I wish we werenâ??t conceived in violence
Damage the dream, damage the dream
The magic is broken
The house is in ruins
Your memoryâ??s one-sided
The side that youâ??re choosing feels nothing
Feels nothing at all
We feel nothing at all
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as I am writing a review for this bands debut CD.
I can only think of springtime, driving with my arm out the window and singing at the top of my lungs
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
check bigyawn this week for my review, it might make you sick, this is the best album i have heard in years, maybe.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
as I am writing a review for this bands debut CD.
I can only think of springtime, driving with my arm out the window and singing at the top of my lungs
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
check bigyawn this week for my review, it might make you sick, this is the best album i have heard in years, maybe.
Do you mean Welcome to the Infant Freebase, from 1997?
Or do you mean the third album -- Behind the Music -- released in 2001 (2002 in the U.S.)?
If it's the latter, I agree. It's one of the best albums of the last five years. The debut album has it's moments, but overall it's kind of weak.
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I was actually referring to the Infant Freebase, but i would agree that Behind the Music is almost as good. That CD was in my car for almost a whole year.
Time will tell if i go back to Behind the Music. I just love that band, though.