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Title: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 05:01:28 PM
Where have you been?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 06:08:31 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 05:01:28 PM
Where have you been?

I've been everywhere, man

P.S Loved the original thread, so hopefully this one will catch on too!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 06:12:52 PM
Man eater.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 06:51:57 PM
Pulling mussels from a shell.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on September 22, 2015, 07:00:28 PM
In an Octopusses garden?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 07:05:28 PM
Yep - on the 'Green green grass of home'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on September 22, 2015, 07:07:08 PM
But Don't fence me in!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 07:09:55 PM
You can get out via the 'Green Door'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 07:41:06 PM
If it's locked you can always try the Keys of Canterbury to open it.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 07:44:19 PM
Can't - its on the 'Chain of Fools'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 07:50:34 PM
Which is attached to the Ship of Fools presumably?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 07:55:33 PM
The Boat that I Row, to be precise.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 07:57:53 PM
I thought that had Capsized?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 08:06:51 PM
Nope the 'Sloop John B' is as 'Steady as a Rock'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 08:30:11 PM
will that one Rock Around the Clock?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on September 22, 2015, 08:52:53 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 22, 2015, 08:30:11 PM
will that one Rock Around the Clock?

not if it's



anchored to the Rock of Ages
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 22, 2015, 09:27:36 PM
Sweet Sixteen?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 07:08:34 AM
It'll be better When I'm 64.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 23, 2015, 07:53:32 AM
When you and I were seventeen, and life and love were new,
The world was all a field of green and skies were smiling blue,
That golden spring when I was king, and you my wonderful queen,
Do you recall when love was all, and we were seventeen.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 08:24:12 AM
A Teenager in Love, perhaps.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on September 23, 2015, 09:27:47 AM
Perhaps perhaps perhaps ( Doris Day  :-* )
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 09:34:31 AM
Maybe I'm Amazed.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 23, 2015, 09:37:55 AM
Maybe you'll think of me when you are far away,
Maybe the one who is waiting for you
Will prove untrue, then what will you do?
Maybe, you'll sit and sigh, wishing that I were near.
Maybe you'll ask me to come back again ...
And maybe I'll say 'maybe'.  :)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 23, 2015, 09:40:33 AM
Maybe Baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 23, 2015, 09:46:05 AM
Baby it's cold outside.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 23, 2015, 09:46:18 AM
Baby face. You've got the cutest little baby face,
There's not another who can take your place,
Baby face...my poor  heart is jumpin'
You sure have started somethin'
Baby face, I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace.
I didn't need a shove cos I just fell in love
With your pretty baby face!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 23, 2015, 09:49:32 AM
Ooh baby love, my baby love oooh oooh oooh oo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on September 23, 2015, 09:56:32 AM
Sugar baby love ( Rubettes ) bop showaddy 8)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 10:03:17 AM
Sweets for my Sweet (Searchers)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 23, 2015, 10:04:12 AM
Oh, Sugarbush, I love you so
I will never let you go
So, don't you let your mother know
Sugarbush, I love you so
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Post by: Anchorman on September 23, 2015, 10:05:03 AM
Sugarpie honeybunch.......
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 12:07:36 PM
A Taste of Honey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Bubbles on September 23, 2015, 12:33:22 PM
Honey honey - abba
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 23, 2015, 12:36:10 PM
He's never been to gay Paris,
But he's as gay as he can be,
I've told him all about the birds and the bees,
But he still wears those pink chemise.

Ruth Wallis. (worth watching for a laugh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pQEryssh4
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 01:13:36 PM
Pretty Flamingo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 01:18:20 PM
Pretty in pink.

(Thread stickied so we don't lose it this time!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on September 23, 2015, 01:35:29 PM
The Pink Panther.


(TV cartoon theme......what else?)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 02:06:28 PM
Is it one of the Love Cats?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Bubbles on September 23, 2015, 03:19:36 PM

We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don't please
We are from a residence of Siam
There is no finer cat than I am
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 03:20:55 PM
That would be when 'the cat crept in' (Mud).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on September 23, 2015, 03:39:46 PM
Mud mud glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 03:52:19 PM
Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 04:05:46 PM
Yeah, but Baby, It's Cold Outside...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on September 23, 2015, 04:17:13 PM
But -
The heat is on.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 23, 2015, 04:30:41 PM
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 05:58:34 PM
I prefer 'In the Bleak Midwinter'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 07:56:50 PM
Why, Do You Want To Build A  Snowman?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Andy on September 23, 2015, 08:03:31 PM
Sick of hearing bloody Frozen. Can you not just let it go?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 08:12:09 PM
OK - Here Comes the Sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 08:16:38 PM
Nope - the Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 08:20:41 PM
But - The Sun has got his hat on.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 08:37:27 PM
And I've got a Blue Hat for a Blue Day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 08:46:02 PM
and 'Blue Skies' ?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 08:47:16 PM
Mr Blue Sky is my guilty secret.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 08:58:48 PM
I fought the law (and the law won)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 09:01:47 PM
I suppose you tried Kung Fu Fighting?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 09:11:30 PM
No probs for a Street Fighting Man.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 09:14:51 PM
I e heard that happened on Baker Street.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 23, 2015, 09:41:14 PM
My favourite station to be Going Underground.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2015, 09:53:35 PM
Down Down Deeper Down (Status Quo)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 09:59:18 PM
Don't bring me down.



 :-[
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 23, 2015, 10:16:54 PM
I won't if - You Lift Me Up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2015, 10:20:11 PM
Then you'll be Lifted.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 24, 2015, 06:18:20 AM
On wings of song.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 08:46:27 AM
but Singing in the Rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 24, 2015, 09:07:43 AM
but those Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 09:12:14 AM
then go to Spain where 'the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 24, 2015, 09:13:30 AM
Where you can see the lady with Blue Spanish Eyes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 09:20:10 AM
then 'this year 'I'm off to Sunny Spain Y Viva Espana'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 24, 2015, 09:25:09 AM
Seasons in the Sun?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 24, 2015, 09:34:58 AM
Goodday Sunshine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 09:50:00 AM
Good morning starshine, the Earth says Hello.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on September 24, 2015, 09:58:36 AM
Goooooood morning Vietnam, okay that's not a song but you can choose so many from that movie.

I see skys a blue red roses too 8) 8)
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Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 10:10:17 AM
... and Roses are shining in Picardy
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Post by: Rhiannon on September 24, 2015, 10:37:35 AM
Shine on.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 24, 2015, 11:54:07 AM
Instant Karma (And we all shine on)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Rhiannon on September 24, 2015, 12:58:33 PM
Karma Chameleon.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 24, 2015, 03:47:51 PM
Lover, karma back to me. ( from the musical 'New Moon').  :-[
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 24, 2015, 07:26:09 PM
I'm your long-haired lover from Liverpool.

(I'll get my coat)!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 24, 2015, 07:29:47 PM
Her hair hung down in tresses,
Down by the mill that's close to the stream.
She was gathering watercresses
Was Martha the watercress girl.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 24, 2015, 07:49:58 PM
Did she know 'Nellie Dean'?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 25, 2015, 06:19:09 AM
No, but she knew the Nellie that used to sit on Mother Kelly's doorstep.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 25, 2015, 09:14:59 AM
Was that Nellie the Elephant who packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 25, 2015, 09:23:45 AM
Top of the World.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on September 25, 2015, 09:28:30 AM
Everybody wants to rule the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 25, 2015, 09:30:16 AM
If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 25, 2015, 09:33:58 AM
I Don't Like Mondays
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Post by: Leonard James on September 25, 2015, 10:34:44 AM
Sunday, Monday or always.

Oh, won't you tell me when
We will meet again
Sunday, Monday or always

If you're satisfied
I'll be at your side
Sunday, Monday or always

No need to tell me now
What makes the world go 'round
When at the sight of you
My heart begins to pound and pound

And what am I to do
Can't I be with you
Sunday, Monday or always
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Post by: Gordon on September 25, 2015, 10:40:06 AM
May Each Day (in the week be a good day).
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Post by: Leonard James on September 25, 2015, 10:54:25 AM
Day in, day out.

Day in, day out, the same old hoodoo follows me about
The same old pounding in my heart whenever I think of you
And, darling, I think of you Day in and day out

Day out, day in, I needn't tell you how my days begin
When I awake, I awaken with a tingle, One possibility in view
That possibility of maybe seeing you

Come rain, come shine, I meet you and to me the day is fine
Then I kiss your lips, And the pounding becomes
The ocean's roar, A thousand drums
Can't you see it's love, Can there be any doubt
When there it is, day in, day out.
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Post by: ekim on September 25, 2015, 03:33:04 PM
Day zee, day zee, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
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Post by: Leonard James on September 28, 2015, 08:18:09 PM
You keep coming back like a song,
A song that keeps saying 'remember',
The sweet used to be that was once you and me
Keeps coming back like an old melody;
The perfume of roses in June
Still lives in my heart in December,
From out of the past where forgotten things belong,
You keep coming back like a song.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 29, 2015, 08:53:28 AM
Oh, it's a long, long time from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 29, 2015, 08:58:45 AM
It might as well rain until September.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 29, 2015, 09:00:57 AM
Quote from: ekim on September 29, 2015, 08:53:28 AM
Oh, it's a long, long time from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September

September song is a very beautiful and sad one.

........

Long ago and far away.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on September 29, 2015, 10:48:29 AM
So Far Away

Quote
So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're just time away

Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh, how I wish I could
But you're so far away

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Post by: Gonnagle on September 29, 2015, 11:32:41 AM
Away in a manger :P :P

What! it was Sass wot started all this yule,Xmas, seasons greetings, Christmas rubbish.

Gonnagle.
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Post by: Leonard James on September 29, 2015, 12:49:44 PM
I'm spending Christmas with the old folk,
Round the fireside of home sweet home.
It's too good to believe, I'll be home on Christmas Eve:
I'll be in heaven spending seven day leave.
While mother cooks the Christmas dinner,
Round the old place with dad I'll roam,
And then we'll sing and tell the old jokes
Spending Christmas with the old folks,
Round the fireside of home sweet home.

(wartime number)
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Post by: ekim on September 29, 2015, 03:58:49 PM
 I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 29, 2015, 04:08:27 PM
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Tom Waits).
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Post by: ekim on September 29, 2015, 05:46:47 PM
Ten cents a dance
that's what they pay me,
gosh, how they weigh me down!
Ten cents a dance
pansies and rough guys
tough guys who tear my gown!
...
Sometimes I think
I’ve found my hero,
but it’s a queer romance.
All that you need is a ticket
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
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Post by: Gordon on September 29, 2015, 07:37:34 PM
Sabre Dance?
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Post by: Rhiannon on September 29, 2015, 07:39:05 PM
No, you need the Safety Dance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on September 29, 2015, 07:42:22 PM
Dance, dance, dance little lady.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 29, 2015, 07:49:34 PM
Let's face the music and dance.
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Post by: Leonard James on September 29, 2015, 07:54:52 PM
While the music plays on.

Each night in some café, I'm on display
Until the dark turns into dawn
Up upon the stand singing with the band
While the music plays on

Each night is just a long and endless song
Until the last couple has gone
Vainly I'm the star singing out my heart
While the music plays on

Oh what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hid my fears singing through the tears
While the music plays on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 30, 2015, 08:56:46 AM
The song is ended but the melody lingers on.
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Post by: Rhiannon on September 30, 2015, 11:20:12 AM
Because the Carnival is Over.
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Post by: Anchorman on September 30, 2015, 11:22:29 AM
Not if there's a


Morningtown Ride !
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on September 30, 2015, 11:27:23 AM
Or if,

Casey's at the throttle of the Cannonball Express. ( what! it just popped into my head ??? )
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Post by: Aruntraveller on September 30, 2015, 12:47:25 PM
Express Yourself
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Post by: ekim on September 30, 2015, 03:15:24 PM
All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

When I was young
I never needed anyone
Making love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 30, 2015, 03:19:49 PM
Alone again, naturally.
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Post by: ekim on September 30, 2015, 03:49:54 PM
On a clear day
Rise and 1ook around you
And you'll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of every mountain sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A world you've never heard before...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on September 30, 2015, 03:54:42 PM
Good-day Sunshine.
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on September 30, 2015, 11:12:33 PM
Ain't No Sunshine (When She's Gone)
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 01, 2015, 09:43:57 AM
Sunshine on my shoulders
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Post by: ekim on October 01, 2015, 10:05:08 AM
Good morning star shine, the earth says hello 
You twinkle above us, we twinkle below
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 01, 2015, 05:12:25 PM
Twinkle twinkle little star. :)
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Post by: Gordon on October 01, 2015, 07:30:00 PM
Stars look down on Alabama.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 02, 2015, 09:24:24 AM
Are the stars out tonight?  I don't know if it's cloudy or bright.

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Post by: Gonnagle on October 02, 2015, 09:33:27 AM
Bright eyes.

That song always makes me think of demented Bunnie's.

 :o
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Post by: Gordon on October 02, 2015, 09:35:20 AM
Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run.
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 02, 2015, 09:37:17 AM
Bright Eyes makes me howl. Especially when accompanied by the video...that bit where the rabbit stops breathing... :'(

So on that note...Cry me a River.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 02, 2015, 10:00:12 AM
Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on October 02, 2015, 10:05:09 AM
Cruising down the river (on a Sunday afternoon).
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 02, 2015, 10:24:45 AM
Monday, Monday.
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Post by: Gordon on October 02, 2015, 10:30:58 AM
Friday on my mind.
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Post by: Anchorman on October 02, 2015, 11:25:55 AM
Quote from: Gordon on October 02, 2015, 10:30:58 AM
Friday on my mind.

Wot -
Eight days a week?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Enki on October 02, 2015, 12:19:21 PM
Isn't it a lovely day?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on October 02, 2015, 12:41:35 PM
(for a) Daydream Believer
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gonnagle on October 02, 2015, 02:02:07 PM
I would walk five hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more.

( not bad fur a pair of eastcoasters ) >:(
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on October 02, 2015, 02:46:34 PM
Keep right on to the end of the road*



* - and, in the instance of a Lauderite.....JUMP........
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 02, 2015, 03:49:28 PM
It's a long way to Tipperary!
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 04, 2015, 08:38:51 AM
But Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 04, 2015, 09:00:15 AM
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone.
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Post by: Gordon on October 04, 2015, 11:06:02 AM
Paddy McGinty's Goat.
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 04, 2015, 11:16:05 AM
Real Gone Kid.
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Post by: ekim on October 04, 2015, 02:37:33 PM
Gone about that Gal.  (Gene Kelly)
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Post by: Gordon on October 04, 2015, 03:17:01 PM
Gone Fishin'
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 04, 2015, 06:23:19 PM
When I'm gone.
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Post by: Gordon on October 04, 2015, 06:59:14 PM
Leaving on a Jet Plane?
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 04, 2015, 10:29:46 PM
Jet
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Post by: ekim on October 05, 2015, 09:35:44 AM
 When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dyin' day.  (West Side Story)
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 10:47:35 AM
Quote from: ekim on October 05, 2015, 09:35:44 AM
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dyin' day.  (West Side Story)

But...

Don't Smoke in Bed

(Peggy Lee)
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Post by: Gordon on October 05, 2015, 11:47:11 AM
Because - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 11:59:08 AM
Funny though it never bothered "Bette Davis Eyes"
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Post by: Gordon on October 05, 2015, 12:49:06 PM
Ah - 'The Eye of the Tiger'
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 12:54:20 PM
Quote from: Gordon on October 05, 2015, 12:49:06 PM
Ah - 'The Eye of the Tiger'

Which brings to mind the quite sublime:

Tiger Feet
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Post by: Gordon on October 05, 2015, 01:33:01 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on October 05, 2015, 12:54:20 PM
Quote from: Gordon on October 05, 2015, 12:49:06 PM
Ah - 'The Eye of the Tiger'

Which brings to mind the quite sublime:

Tiger Feet

That's Right, That's Right, That's Right, That's Right  :)

and the great Fats Waller - 'Your Feet's Too Big'
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 02:18:48 PM
Was Fats Waller

Big in Japan?
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Post by: ekim on October 05, 2015, 02:42:59 PM
'Twas down in Yokohama, I met this red hot mama, she sell octopus, radishes, rice and dried squid.
This very hot cookie her name it was Suzuki.....
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 03:01:47 PM
Was the cephalopod mollusc from an Octopus's Garden?
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Post by: ekim on October 05, 2015, 03:09:08 PM
No, but it was on 'An all time high' from Octopussy, 007.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 03:11:38 PM
I watch Bond films Time After Time....but I still don't get the appeal.
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Post by: ekim on October 05, 2015, 04:29:12 PM
Then it's 'Time To Say Goodbye'
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Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2015, 04:38:50 PM
But I Never Can Say Goodbye
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2015, 11:19:08 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2015, 04:38:50 PM
But I Never Can Say Goodbye

You'll be hanging around Until the Twelfth of Never, then.
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Post by: ekim on October 06, 2015, 09:39:52 AM
Never say Never.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 07, 2015, 03:06:04 PM
This thread is a Never Ending Story.
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Post by: ekim on October 07, 2015, 04:01:08 PM
The Story of my Life.
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Post by: Gordon on October 07, 2015, 06:57:14 PM
Life in the Fast Lane?
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 07, 2015, 11:13:36 PM
Yellow Submarine


Oh sorry misread that thought it said Faslane  ;)
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Post by: ekim on October 08, 2015, 09:32:21 AM
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree
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Post by: Gordon on October 13, 2015, 07:49:17 PM
Yellow River.
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Post by: Leonard James on October 13, 2015, 08:35:37 PM
Yellow bird.

Goodbye, little yellow bird, I'd gladly mate with you,
I love you, little yellow bird, but I love my freedom too.
So so-long, little yellow bird, I'd rather brave the cold
On a leafless tree than a prisoner be, in a cage of gold.
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Post by: Gordon on October 13, 2015, 08:45:45 PM
Pretty Flamingo
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Post by: Leonard James on October 13, 2015, 10:47:11 PM
Flamingo.

Flamingo, like a flame in the sky
Flying over the island
To my lover nearby

Flamingo, with your tropical hue
For it's you I rely on
And the love that is true

The wind sings a song to you as you go
The song that I hear below
The murmuring heart

Flamingo, when the sun meets the sea
Say farewell to my lover
And hasten to me
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 14, 2015, 09:58:15 AM
Is that the birdy song.

Am I evil :P that tune will be in your head all day now. :)
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Post by: ekim on October 14, 2015, 10:22:46 AM
With a song in my heart
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 14, 2015, 12:52:46 PM
Redemption Song
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 14, 2015, 01:53:33 PM
Guide Me O thou Great Redeemer
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Post by: Nearly Sane on October 14, 2015, 01:58:42 PM
Baby, I'm -a want you
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 14, 2015, 02:28:12 PM
Thumbs up - I had to sing the hymn to get the connection.  ;D
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 14, 2015, 02:28:41 PM
Anyway....Baby Love
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Post by: ekim on October 14, 2015, 04:07:31 PM
(... and now we are back to reply 26)
Baby it's cold outside.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 15, 2015, 12:42:04 PM
As Christmas is coming:

Cold Turkey.

(although I know it is most definitely nothing to do with yuletide feelings!)
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Post by: ekim on October 15, 2015, 05:16:14 PM
In The Still, Chill Of The Night
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 15, 2015, 07:53:13 PM
In the Bleak Midwinter
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Post by: ekim on October 16, 2015, 09:11:09 AM
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 16, 2015, 09:57:28 AM


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Do they ( know ) it's Christmas time at all?

I know a song that will get on yer nerves, get on nerves, get on yer nerves.

Just trying to keep away from the Christmas theme, bah humbug. :P
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Post by: ekim on October 16, 2015, 10:04:31 AM
In that case...... April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom
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Post by: SweetPea on October 16, 2015, 07:57:42 PM
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire ~ Nat King Cole (love the guy!)
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 17, 2015, 09:33:54 AM
Was that guy, King of the road.

No more Christmas songs till Christmas >:(
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Post by: ekim on October 17, 2015, 09:48:38 AM
No, just one of the Guys and Dolls.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 17, 2015, 10:44:36 AM
Quote from: Gonnagle on October 17, 2015, 09:33:54 AM
Was that guy, King of the road.

No more Christmas songs till Christmas >:(

So it's you.....you are the Grinch that stole Christmas  :P
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 17, 2015, 10:45:29 AM
Anyway back on track - sort of:

Hello Dolly.
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Post by: ekim on October 17, 2015, 10:58:04 AM
Hello young lovers, whoever you are,  I hope your troubles are few.
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Post by: Gordon on October 17, 2015, 11:27:45 AM
Pack up your troubles.
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 17, 2015, 11:38:59 AM
Leader of the Pack. <sniff>
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 17, 2015, 11:46:47 AM
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile smile smile.

Dear Trent,

I like Christmas, but it's only October >:( >:( lets wait till say.....................24th of December :P :P

Gonnagle.
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Post by: ekim on October 17, 2015, 03:25:21 PM
Smile though your heart is aching, smile even though it's breaking .....
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Post by: Enki on October 17, 2015, 03:46:07 PM
But don't tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 17, 2015, 04:03:47 PM
Don't go Breaking my Heart
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Post by: ekim on October 17, 2015, 04:09:12 PM
My heart will go on.
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Post by: Gordon on October 20, 2015, 07:14:04 PM
Heart like a Wheel.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 20, 2015, 07:24:38 PM
Helen Wheels.  (Love that track)
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Post by: Gordon on October 20, 2015, 07:29:31 PM
I've got a brand new pair of roller-skates (Melanie).
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 09:18:59 AM
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 21, 2015, 09:38:40 AM
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 21, 2015, 10:18:53 AM
Land of Confusion.
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 10:49:44 AM
Land of Hope and Glory  :-[
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 21, 2015, 12:14:01 PM
Hopelessly Devoted to You
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 21, 2015, 12:44:12 PM
You Sexy Thing
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 21, 2015, 12:47:40 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on October 21, 2015, 12:44:12 PM
You Sexy Thing

 Do ya think I'm Sexy?
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Post by: Bubbles on October 21, 2015, 01:27:16 PM


What do you wanna make those eyes at me for?
If they don't mean what they say
Ooh, they make me glad, they make me sad
They make me want a lot of things that I never had
You're fooling around with me now
Oh, you lead me on and then you run away

👀
💋
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Post by: Gordon on October 21, 2015, 02:13:27 PM
Spanish Eyes?
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Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2015, 02:16:12 PM
I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 03:24:09 PM
I like New York in June, how about you?
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 21, 2015, 03:33:48 PM
Quote from: ekim on October 21, 2015, 03:24:09 PM
I like New York in June, how about you?

I like a Gershwin tune how about:

New York Serenade
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Post by: Gordon on October 21, 2015, 03:52:42 PM
We've got Manhatten (the Bronx and Staten Island too).
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 04:06:19 PM
My kind of town, chicago is
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Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2015, 04:08:27 PM
Smalltown Boy
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 04:22:07 PM
I have often walked on this street before
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Post by: Gordon on October 21, 2015, 04:25:50 PM
Baker Street?
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Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2015, 04:34:31 PM
Street Fightin' Man

I sometimes think that all of these should have a link in the Music was my first love thread.
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Post by: Gordon on October 21, 2015, 04:38:25 PM
Man of the World (Fleetwood Mac - but before they started making crap records, like 'Rumours')
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Post by: ekim on October 21, 2015, 04:50:33 PM
    Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
    I gotta love one man till I die,
    Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 22, 2015, 10:50:17 AM
All Gods creatures got a place in the choir

Love that song.
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Post by: Rhiannon on October 22, 2015, 10:52:40 AM
Unchained melody.
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Post by: ekim on October 22, 2015, 04:20:20 PM
 The song is ended but the melody lingers on.
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 23, 2015, 11:38:13 AM
And now the end is near and so I face the final roller blind ( modern version )

Anyway, all about a guy doing it his way. :P :P
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Post by: ekim on October 23, 2015, 02:32:47 PM
I've got the world on a string.
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Post by: Gordon on October 23, 2015, 05:35:08 PM
But - The World is not Enough.
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Post by: Bubbles on October 24, 2015, 12:14:22 AM
Welcome to my world - Jim Reeves
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Post by: ekim on October 24, 2015, 09:42:53 AM
Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome mit Cabaret, au Cabaret to Cabaret.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 24, 2015, 10:59:19 AM
Quote from: Gonnagle on October 23, 2015, 11:38:13 AM
And now the end is near and so I face the final roller blind ( modern version )

Anyway, all about a guy doing it his way. :P :P

Frankie Howerds version of this was the definitive one.

Anyhow...

Do You know the way to San Jose
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Post by: Gonnagle on October 24, 2015, 11:28:42 AM
Quote
Do You know the way to San Jose

Yes, it's half way to Paradise. :P
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Post by: ekim on October 24, 2015, 02:41:21 PM
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Post by: Leonard James on October 24, 2015, 03:06:36 PM
You may not be an angel,
But angels are so few,
So until the day that one comes along,
I'll string along with you.
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Post by: Gordon on October 24, 2015, 05:18:58 PM
Angel of Harlem (U2)
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Post by: Bubbles on October 24, 2015, 07:17:31 PM
My blue angel

http://youtu.be/8G-2dG9wslA
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Post by: Leonard James on October 25, 2015, 07:58:54 AM
My blue heaven.

When whippoorwills call
And evening is nigh
I hurry to my Blue Heaven

I turn to the right
A little white light
Will lead you to my Blue Heaven

A smiling face, a fireplace, a cosy room
A little nest that nestles where roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We're happy in my Blue Heaven.
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Post by: ekim on October 25, 2015, 09:53:37 AM
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on October 26, 2015, 12:29:55 PM
I'm Still Standing
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Post by: ekim on October 26, 2015, 02:44:16 PM
In the still of the night
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Post by: Bubbles on November 09, 2015, 12:43:14 AM
The night has a thousand eyes

👀

👀
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Post by: Leonard James on November 09, 2015, 06:40:10 AM
 The night is young and you're so beautiful.

The night is young and you're so beautiful.
Here among the shadows, beautiful lady, open you heart.
The scene is set, the breezes sing of it,
Can't you get into the swing of it, lady, when do we start?
When the lady is kissable and the evening is cool,
Any dream is permissible in the heart of a fool.
The moon is high and you're so glamorous,
And if I seem over amorous, lady, what can I do?
The night is young and I'm in love with you.
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Post by: ekim on November 09, 2015, 08:42:30 AM
All you need is love.
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Post by: Leonard James on November 09, 2015, 11:39:22 AM
All the way.

When somebody loves you
It's no good unless he loves you - all the way
Happy to be near you
When you need someone to cheer you - all the way

Taller than the tallest tree is
That's how it's got to feel
Deeper than the deep blue see is
That's how deep it goes - if its real

When somebody needs you
It's no good unless he needs you - all the way
Through the good or lean years
And for all the in between years - come what may

Who know where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say
But if you'll let me love you
It's for sure I'm gonna love you - all the way, all the way
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Post by: ekim on November 09, 2015, 03:29:06 PM
The way you look tonight
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Post by: Leonard James on November 09, 2015, 07:42:59 PM
Quote from: ekim on November 09, 2015, 03:29:06 PM
The way you look tonight

Can't resist posting the full lyric, it's so beautiful!

Someday, when I'm awfully low
And the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Yes, you're lovely
With your smile so warm, and your cheek so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
Just the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows
Tearing my fear apart
And that smile that wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely, never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight.
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Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2015, 07:47:36 PM
Lyric by the the great Dorothy Fields who also wrote the lyric for Hey, Big Spender

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fields
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Post by: Leonard James on November 10, 2015, 06:33:24 AM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2015, 07:47:36 PM
Lyric by the the great Dorothy Fields who also wrote the lyric for Hey, Big Spender

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fields

Yes, those great Tin Pan Alley names were a large part of the youth of us oldies. A Golden, romantic era which, although make-believe, made life rather wonderful.

I suppose every generation has the same experiences and feelings.
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Post by: Gonnagle on November 18, 2015, 01:39:31 PM
Dear Leonard,

Quote
A Golden, romantic era which, although make-believe, made life rather wonderful.

what a wonderful world, yes a very loose connection, but there are no songs about climate change.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34844244

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind :P :P

Gonnagle.
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Post by: ekim on November 18, 2015, 02:25:31 PM
Just blew in from the windy city
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Post by: Leonard James on November 18, 2015, 07:27:00 PM
City of laughter, city of tears.

City of Laughter, City of Tears,
What are the secrets you hold?
What are the sorrows beneath the joys,
The pain 'neath the glitter and gold?
Faces are beaming, happy and bright,
But 'mid all the pleasure that cheers,
There are hearts that seem light, that are breaking to-night,
In that City of Laughter and Tears.
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Post by: ekim on November 19, 2015, 08:43:25 AM
Tears in Heaven.
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Post by: Leonard James on November 19, 2015, 08:10:00 PM
Tera on my pillow.

Tears on my pillow, an ache in my heart
A broken vow, I’m lonesome now
There’s someone else you love

Tears on my pillow, oh, why should it be
She’d often talk about that walk
Right down the aisle with me

Rumours that I disbelieved
Have now all come true
I know that I’ve been deceived
What my heart’s gone through

Tears on my pillow, for now we’re apart
My eyes are red with tears I’ve shed
I’m left a broken heart.
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Post by: Leonard James on November 19, 2015, 08:14:03 PM
Hi Gonners,

There are a number of things I can't get romantic about, and climate change is one of them. It's not that it lacks importance ... it just ain't romantic!  :)
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Post by: Bubbles on November 20, 2015, 06:10:24 PM
Quote from: Leonard James on November 19, 2015, 08:14:03 PM
Hi Gonners,

There are a number of things I can't get romantic about, and climate change is one of them. It's not that it lacks importance ... it just ain't romantic!  :)

 :o

Was goners singing about climate change? 

I'm singing in the rain.............

 8)
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Post by: Leonard James on November 20, 2015, 07:42:59 PM
Quote from: Rose on November 20, 2015, 06:10:24 PM
:o

Was goners singing about climate change? 

I'm singing in the rain.............

 8)

It makes no sense to grumble and complain,
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice,
When God sorts out the weather and sends the rain,
Well ... rain's my choice!  ;)
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Post by: ekim on November 21, 2015, 09:10:03 AM
..... as long as you Don't Rain on My Parade
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Post by: Gonnagle on November 21, 2015, 11:11:20 AM
Rain rain rain rain, oh come to me beautiful rain.

Aye right! try visiting Glasgow ya numpty and then tell what's so beautiful about rain.
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Post by: ekim on November 21, 2015, 02:07:32 PM
Seems it never rains in Southern California
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Post by: Bubbles on November 21, 2015, 11:35:39 PM
Raindrops are falling on my head!
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Post by: ekim on November 22, 2015, 09:16:11 AM
Can't Get You Out of My Head
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 22, 2015, 01:27:28 PM
Young Girl (Get out of my mind)
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Post by: ekim on November 22, 2015, 02:54:38 PM
Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you if you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find
To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 23, 2015, 01:38:01 PM
Tell it to my heart

(Take a look at this on YT, Taylor Dayne wears an absolutely ludicrous "busy" hairstyle.
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Post by: Gordon on February 16, 2016, 07:19:44 PM
First of 2016 (c'mon peeps)

Heart on my Sleeve (Gallacher & Lyle).
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 16, 2016, 07:22:56 PM
Young Hearts Run free

Candi Staton  - oh my lost youth.
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Post by: Gordon on February 16, 2016, 07:31:21 PM
Running Scared.

Roy Orbison
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 16, 2016, 07:36:57 PM
The Boxer

Simon and Garfunkel
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Post by: Gordon on February 16, 2016, 07:42:02 PM
Street Fighting Man

The Strolling Bones (given their combined ages).
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 16, 2016, 07:46:10 PM
Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting

Another old timer with a strange song that condones violence - or comments on it? Was never sure of this songs intent.
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Post by: Gonnagle on February 16, 2016, 07:49:03 PM
Ah the boxer!! always reminds me of a girl I once knew, this was her favourite song "I am a rock I am an Island" I remember her silhouetted in the morning light and thinking, that girl has a beautiful back, the front was not bad to.

Sorry this is the reminiscing thread, right!!

Gonnagle.
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Post by: Gordon on February 16, 2016, 07:53:29 PM
The Heart of Saturday Night

Tom Waits
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Post by: ekim on February 17, 2016, 09:22:26 AM
The night has a thousand eyes.
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Post by: Gordon on February 17, 2016, 09:24:31 AM
Eye of the Tiger
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Post by: ekim on February 17, 2016, 09:29:25 AM
but... In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Lion sleeps tonight .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvsQ9hYKq7c
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Post by: Gordon on February 17, 2016, 02:26:41 PM
The Mighty Quinn
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Post by: ekim on February 17, 2016, 02:47:36 PM
...and for the Christians ..... Mighty to save
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Post by: Nearly Sane on February 17, 2016, 02:56:17 PM
Save a prayer
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 17, 2016, 03:04:13 PM
Weapon Of Prayer
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Post by: Gordon on February 17, 2016, 03:05:11 PM
Shotgun Wedding
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Post by: Nearly Sane on February 17, 2016, 03:12:20 PM
Eton Rifles
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Post by: ekim on February 17, 2016, 05:13:44 PM
eatin dust
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Post by: Gordon on February 17, 2016, 05:17:45 PM
My Old Man's a Dustman.
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Post by: Nearly Sane on February 17, 2016, 05:46:42 PM
Starman
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Post by: ekim on February 18, 2016, 09:20:37 AM
Old man river
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Post by: Gordon on February 18, 2016, 09:22:09 AM
Ferry 'cross the Mersey.
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Post by: ekim on February 18, 2016, 09:24:42 AM
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
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Post by: Gordon on February 18, 2016, 09:33:17 AM
Ride a White Swan
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Post by: ekim on February 18, 2016, 09:45:14 AM
Riders in the shy.
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Post by: Leonard James on February 18, 2016, 12:17:16 PM
Quote from: ekim on February 18, 2016, 09:45:14 AM
Riders in the shy.

Where's that, then?  :o
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Post by: Gonnagle on February 18, 2016, 02:54:12 PM
Dear ekim,

Quote
Riders in the shy.

Don't worry, I will fix it, Ghost Riders in the Sky.

The tune was stolen from Scotland, here are the Corries singing the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUaqkp2xMzY

Gonnagle.
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Post by: ekim on February 18, 2016, 03:14:24 PM
Quote from: Gonnagle on February 18, 2016, 02:54:12 PM
Dear ekim,

Don't worry, I will fix it, Ghost Riders in the Sky.

The tune was stolen from Scotland, here are the Corries singing the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUaqkp2xMzY

Gonnagle.
Thanks for the rescue.  :-[
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 18, 2016, 04:18:24 PM
Quote from: ekim on February 18, 2016, 03:14:24 PM
Thanks for the rescue.  :-[

Save Me
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 18, 2016, 10:36:35 PM
Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on February 18, 2016, 04:18:24 PM
Save Me
Save all your kisses for me.
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Post by: Gordon on February 19, 2016, 07:47:22 AM
Kisses sweeter than wine.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 19, 2016, 08:42:02 AM
Lilac Wine
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Post by: ekim on February 19, 2016, 09:08:21 AM
 Kisses sweeter than wine
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 19, 2016, 09:15:29 AM
Quote from: ekim on February 19, 2016, 09:08:21 AM
Kisses sweeter than wine

Spill the wine
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Post by: ekim on February 19, 2016, 09:41:42 AM
The wine in spine stays minely on the pline .... sung in Australian.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 19, 2016, 02:22:53 PM
Quote from: ekim on February 19, 2016, 09:41:42 AM
The wine in spine stays minely on the pline .... sung in Australian.

Down Under



( IMHO Oz wine is crap it gives me a headache......)
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Post by: ekim on February 19, 2016, 02:33:41 PM
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree.
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 19, 2016, 04:17:49 PM
Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 20, 2016, 07:00:37 AM
Underneath the Arches
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Post by: Leonard James on February 20, 2016, 11:22:54 AM
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree,
I loved her and she loved me
There she used to sit upon my knee
‘Neath the spreading chestnut tree

There beneath the boughs we used to meet
All her kisses were so sweet
All the little birds went tweet, tweet, tweet
‘Neath the spreading chestnut tree

I said I love you,
And there ain’t no ifs or buts
She said I love you
And the blacksmith shouted “Chestnuts”

Underneath the spreading chestnut tree
There she said she’d marry me
Now you ought to see our family
‘Neath the spreading chestnut tree.
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Post by: ekim on February 20, 2016, 01:34:53 PM
The power of love.
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 20, 2016, 03:52:46 PM
People Power In The Disco Hour
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Post by: ekim on February 21, 2016, 09:29:18 AM
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
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Post by: Gordon on February 21, 2016, 10:14:43 AM
Luck be a Lady Tonight.
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Post by: Leonard James on February 21, 2016, 10:54:01 AM
Good luck, good health, God bless you,
That's all my heart can say.
Good luck, good health, God bless you
And guide you on your way.
Wherever you may wander,
As long as we're apart ...
Good luck, good health, God bless you and keep you,
And keep me safe in your heart.
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Post by: ekim on February 21, 2016, 02:11:10 PM
With a song in my heart..
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 21, 2016, 10:16:36 PM
50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
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Post by: ekim on February 22, 2016, 08:44:05 AM
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 22, 2016, 01:27:24 PM
Long, Long, Long
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Post by: ekim on February 22, 2016, 01:51:50 PM
We're almost there...
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Post by: Nearly Sane on February 22, 2016, 01:56:43 PM
Almost Blue
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Post by: ekim on February 22, 2016, 02:15:48 PM
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
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Post by: Leonard James on February 22, 2016, 03:18:20 PM
It's a lovely day tomorrow, Tomorrow is a lovely day,
Come and feast your tear-dimmed eyes, On tomorrow's clear blue skies.
If today your heart is weary, and every little thing looks grey
Just forget your troubles and learn to say, Tomorrow is a lovely day.
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Post by: ekim on February 22, 2016, 04:18:45 PM
Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya tomorrow,
You're only a day away.
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 22, 2016, 04:36:05 PM
Funny How Time Slips Away
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Post by: ekim on February 22, 2016, 04:39:52 PM
My funny valentine
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 23, 2016, 06:05:36 PM
Ballad Of Michael Valentine
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Post by: Gordon on February 23, 2016, 06:25:40 PM
Michael Row the Boat Ashore.
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Post by: ekim on February 24, 2016, 09:05:20 AM
 I am sailing, I am sailing, home again across the sea.
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Post by: Enki on February 24, 2016, 02:09:14 PM
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on February 24, 2016, 03:16:39 PM
Silence is Golden
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Post by: ekim on February 24, 2016, 03:30:19 PM
The Man With The Golden Gun
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 28, 2016, 10:15:14 AM
Fire
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 28, 2016, 12:49:09 PM
Control The Flame
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Post by: ekim on February 28, 2016, 03:50:31 PM
Like a candle in the wind
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Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 29, 2016, 03:04:43 PM
She Can't Hold A Candle To You
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Post by: Gordon on February 29, 2016, 03:23:49 PM
Hold Me Close
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Post by: ekim on February 29, 2016, 03:32:07 PM
Don't stop me now, 'cause I'm having a good time
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Post by: Gordon on February 29, 2016, 03:39:30 PM
Stop, in the name of love.
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Post by: ekim on February 29, 2016, 03:44:26 PM
Love is a many splendored thing.
It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring.
Love is nature's way of giving, a reason to be living.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 21, 2016, 10:14:14 AM
Reasons to be cheerful
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Post by: ekim on March 21, 2016, 10:20:17 AM
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.
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Post by: Leonard James on March 21, 2016, 02:13:29 PM
Three coins in the fountain.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 21, 2016, 03:16:38 PM
Let the water run down
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Post by: ekim on March 21, 2016, 03:19:17 PM
Bridge over troubled water.
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Post by: Gonnagle on March 21, 2016, 03:34:47 PM
There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza dear Liza.
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Post by: ekim on March 21, 2016, 05:06:02 PM
Yep, we all kick the bucket in the end.
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Post by: Leonard James on March 21, 2016, 07:07:36 PM
At the end of the day.

At the end of the day just kneel and say
“Thank you, Lord, for my work and play”.
I’ve tried to be good, for I know that I should
That’s a prayer for the end of the day.

So when the new dawn begins to break
Just lift up your eyes, let your heart awake
Be ready to meet what the day may send
And be ready to greet every man as a friend

Nobody knows what a power you have found
So do what you can for the others around
Carry them high when they seem to be low
As on your way you go.
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Post by: ekim on March 22, 2016, 10:18:01 AM
The power of love.
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Post by: Gordon on March 22, 2016, 10:24:13 AM
Power to the People.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 22, 2016, 02:00:45 PM
Power to all our friends
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Post by: ekim on March 22, 2016, 04:07:17 PM
Friendship friendship just the perfect blendship,
When other friendships have been forgot,
Ours will still be hot.
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Post by: Gordon on March 22, 2016, 04:23:54 PM
You've got a friend.
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Post by: ekim on March 22, 2016, 04:36:24 PM
Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends.
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Post by: Gordon on March 22, 2016, 05:21:17 PM
Living Next Door to Alice.
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Post by: Leonard James on March 22, 2016, 07:40:45 PM
The boy next door.

How can I ignore the boy next door
I love him more than I can say
Doesn't try to please me
Doesn't even tease me
And he never sees me glance his way

And though I'm heart-sore, the boy next door
Affection for me won't display
I just adore him
So I can't ignore him
The boy next door.

"Meet me in Saint Louis, Louis." 1944
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 23, 2016, 06:53:43 AM
The boy from New York City
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Post by: Nearly Sane on March 23, 2016, 07:17:41 AM
The only living boy in New Cross
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Post by: ekim on March 23, 2016, 08:31:08 AM
... and now ..... It's raining men.
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Post by: Leonard James on March 23, 2016, 10:42:37 AM
Quote from: ekim on March 23, 2016, 08:31:08 AM
... and now ..... It's raining men.
If only!  ;)
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 23, 2016, 01:02:33 PM
If
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Post by: Leonard James on March 23, 2016, 03:24:55 PM
If I loved you.


If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I’d want you to know
If I loved you
Words wouldn’t come in an easy way
Round in circles, I’d go
Longing to tell you but afraid and shy
I’d let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you’d leave me
Off you would go in the midst of day
Never, never to know
How I loved you,
If I loved you.
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Post by: ekim on March 23, 2016, 03:32:05 PM
Don't sigh and gaze at me
Your sighs are so like mine
Your eyes mustn't glow like mine
People will say we're in love.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 23, 2016, 04:01:58 PM
Talkin' 'bout love.
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Post by: ekim on March 23, 2016, 05:23:07 PM
Love is a many splendored thing
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Post by: Gordon on April 16, 2016, 05:33:54 PM
Many Rivers to Cross
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Post by: Leonard James on April 16, 2016, 08:06:31 PM
Quote from: ekim on March 23, 2016, 05:23:07 PM
Love is a many splendored thing

Love walked right in
And drove the shadows away.
Love walked right in
And brought my sunniest day.
One magic moment and my heart seemed to know
That love said hello,
Though not a word was spoken!

One look and I forgot the gloom of the past.
One look and I had found my future at last.
Oh, then and there I found a world completely new
When love walked in with you!

This is worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKL04xPXARE
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Post by: ekim on April 17, 2016, 09:34:38 AM
It's a kind of magic.
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Post by: Leonard James on April 17, 2016, 11:38:14 AM
My kind of girl.

She walks like an angel walks
She talks like an angel talks
And her hair has a kind of curl
To my mind shes my kind of girl .

Shes wise like an angel's wise
With eyes like an angel's eyes
And her smile's like a kind of pearl
To my mind shes my kind of girl.
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Post by: ekim on April 17, 2016, 02:25:59 PM
My kind of town, Chicago is
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Post by: Leonard James on April 17, 2016, 03:32:46 PM
It's the talk of the town.

I can't show my face, Can't go anyplace,
People stop an' stare, It's so hard to bare,
Everybody knows you left me, It's the talk of the town...

Every time we meet, My heart skips a beat,
We don't stop to speak, 'Though it's just a week,
Everybody knows you left me, It's the talk of the town...

We send out invitations, To friends and relations,
Announcing our weddin' day
Our friends and our relations, Gave congratulations,
How can you face them? What can you say?

Let's make up sweetheart, We can't stay apart,
Don't let foolish pride, Keep you from my side,
How can love like ours be ended? It's the talk of the town...
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Post by: ekim on April 17, 2016, 04:58:55 PM
People stop and stare, they don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by, I won't care
If I can be here on the street where you live

My Fair Lady
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Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2016, 05:19:37 PM
I look at her she stares almost straight back at me
But her eyes glaze over like she's lookin' straight through me
Then her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity
When they open up she's lookin' down at her feet

The. Streets - Dry Your Eyes
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Post by: Gordon on April 17, 2016, 05:35:53 PM
I'm Looking Through You (The Beatles)
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Post by: Leonard James on April 17, 2016, 08:05:44 PM
Through.

Through, how can you say we're through, the way I've cared for you, sweetheart,
Through, the showers we've been through, and what you drove me to, sweetheart,
Please take me in your arms and love me as you used to do,
Don't ever say we're through.
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Post by: ekim on April 18, 2016, 09:20:25 AM
Though April showers may come your way,
They bring the flowers that bloom in May.
So if it's raining, have no regrets,
Because it isn't raining rain, you know, It's raining violets,
And where you see clouds upon the hills,
You soon will see crowds of daffodils,
So keep on looking for a blue bird, And listening for his song,
Whenever April showers come along.
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Post by: Gonnagle on April 18, 2016, 10:57:38 AM
The Blue Flag

Hello Hello, how do you do,
We are the boys, in Royal Blue,
Where e'er we go,
We fear no foe,
We'll keep the blue flag
Flying high,


Oh flying high up in the sky,
We'll keep the blue flag flying high,
Where e'er we go, we fear no foe,
We'll keep the blue flag flying high.

There is a team, a Glasgow team,
Who's colours they are white and green,
But when they meet the boys in blue,
They simply don't know what to do.

Oh flying high up in the sky,
We'll keep the blue flag flying high,
Where e'er we go, we fear no foe,
We'll keep the blue flag flying high.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on April 18, 2016, 11:47:56 AM
"Blue"

Another northern sky
 Another motorway parade
 Another day like this
 Whatever will be will be
 And we will be in Shrewsbury (do I have to go)

 Do I have to go
 Could I ever stay away
 And you never know
 Tonight our luck could change
 And we'll be flying all the way (going all the way)
 A late point and I'll be laughing
 And Saturday won't seem so bleak
 With you, Blue

 Ever a stepping stone
 Someone's Mickey Mouse affair
 We're so unfashionable
 But I'm not with you for your stylish hair
 Or the seaside air (if we ever get there)
 Tell me we've acquired a striker (Stanley)
 And a lucrative sponsorship came through (on a free)
 Will you, Blue
 Can we not buy someone famous
 And pull a crowd we can't contain at all
 All true, Blue

 Maybe we'll never tread the grass that grows around your feet
 And you let us in for weighting tables like we live to feed
 And not to eat (but we get a seat)
 Three points and the living's easy
 And every day's a Saturday
 With you, true blue
 Saturday

Long been a favourite - one of the reasons being having Shrewsbury in the lyrics - how often does that happen?!!
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Post by: Leonard James on April 18, 2016, 02:17:15 PM
Another bride, another June,
Another sunny honeymoon,
And what's the reason,
It's just the season,
For making whoopee.
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Post by: ekim on April 18, 2016, 03:00:59 PM
June is busting out all over!
All over the meadow and the hill
Buds are busting out of bushes
And the romping river pushes
Every little wheel that wheels beside the mill.

Oklahoma
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Post by: Aruntraveller on April 20, 2016, 01:59:56 PM
 A Windmill In Old Amsterdam

A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning, "How lucky I am,
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!"

Chorus:
I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the stair!
Where on the stair?
Right there!
A little mouse with clogs on
Well I declare!
Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair
Oh yeah

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Post by: ekim on April 20, 2016, 02:15:13 PM
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?
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Post by: Leonard James on April 24, 2016, 07:00:45 PM
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse went up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse went down,
Hickory dickory dock.
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Post by: ekim on April 25, 2016, 09:23:16 AM
Here's a health to the King and a lasting peace,
To faction an end, to wealth increase;
Come, let us drink it while we have breath,
For there's no drinking after death,
And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men,
Down among the dead men,
Down, down, down, down,
Down among the dead men let him lie.
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Post by: Gonnagle on April 25, 2016, 10:19:24 AM
 Of all the money that e'er I had
I spent it in good company
And all the harm I've ever done
Alas, it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be to you all



 
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Post by: ekim on April 25, 2016, 02:21:01 PM
Da, da, da da daa
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
So goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight.

The Platters
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Post by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2016, 02:27:30 PM
Don't get too tired for love
Don't let it end
Don't say goodnight to love
It may never be the same again

Don't say it!
Don't say it!
Say anything but don't say goodnight tonight


Goodnight Tonight by Wings
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Post by: ekim on April 25, 2016, 04:27:07 PM
In the still of the night as I gaze out of my window
At the moon in its flight, my thoughts all stray to you

Cole Porter
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Post by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2016, 06:38:08 PM
Fly me to the moon

(But the Julie London version please)
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Post by: Leonard James on April 25, 2016, 07:00:32 PM
The sky was full of moon, the moon was full of smiles,
And I was full of love and ecstasy.
I raised my hat, she raised her eyes,
It was easy as ABC.
The trees were full of birds, the birds were full of song,
The song kept saying kiss her tenderly,
So I raised my arms, she raised her lips,
And now she belongs to me.
I said, would you like to cuddle, would you like a little bit of love,
She said of course I'd like to cuddle, what do you think that I'm made of.
Now we've got a house, a house that's full of rooms,
And naturally we've got a nursery,
Cos I raised my hat, she raised her eyes,
Now we're raising a family.
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Post by: ekim on April 26, 2016, 09:13:39 AM
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!
Blue moon!
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.
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Post by: Leonard James on April 26, 2016, 03:23:52 PM
Quote from: ekim on April 26, 2016, 09:13:39 AM
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!
Blue moon!
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.

They don't write 'em like that any more. What happened to all those great lyric writers?  :(
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Post by: Bubbles on April 27, 2016, 02:14:44 PM
Quote from:  Leonard James on April 26, 2016, 03:23:52 PM
They don't write 'em like that any more. What happened to all those great lyric writers?  :(

They are still there, but the older generation ( us) don't listen anymore.

 ;D
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Post by: ekim on April 27, 2016, 02:42:21 PM
Quote from: Rose on April 27, 2016, 02:14:44 PM
They are still there, but the older generation ( us) don't listen anymore.

 ;D
Old?  Ah yes .....

Old Man River, that Old Man River
He must know somethin', but he don't say nothin'
He just keeps rollin', he keeps on rollin' along

He don't plant taters, and he don't plant cotton
And them what plants them is soon forgotten
But Old Man River, jest keeps rollin' along

You and me, we sweat and strain
Bodies all achin' and wracked with pain
Tote that barge and lift that bale
You get a little drunk and you lands in ja-ail

I gets weary and sick of tryin'
I'm tired of livin', but afraid of dyin'
And Old Man River, he just keeps rollin' along.
 :)
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Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2016, 02:46:56 PM
The lyrics change and yet remain the same


http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davidgray/thisyearslove.html
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Post by: Leonard James on April 28, 2016, 12:46:10 PM
Here's one that was written in the year I was born, 1925.

I don't care what you used to be
I know what you are today,
If you love me and I love you
Who cares what the world may say,
I was no angel in days gone by,
But you asked no questions so why should I,
I don't care what you used to be
I know what you are today.
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Post by: ekim on April 28, 2016, 04:31:16 PM
I expect that you remember this one too ......

Ah, sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah, at last I know the secret of it all
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning

The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall
For 'tis love and love alone, the world is seeking
And 'tis love and love alone that can repay
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living

For it is love alone that rules for aye
Love and love alone, the world is seeking
For 'tis love and love alone that can repay
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye.
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Post by: Leonard James on April 28, 2016, 07:21:23 PM
Quote from: ekim on April 28, 2016, 04:31:16 PM
I expect that you remember this one too ......

Ah, sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah, at last I know the secret of it all
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning

The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall
For 'tis love and love alone, the world is seeking
And 'tis love and love alone that can repay
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living

For it is love alone that rules for aye
Love and love alone, the world is seeking
For 'tis love and love alone that can repay
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye.

Yes indeed! It was one of Richard Tauber's greatest  hits.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on April 29, 2016, 09:54:50 AM
To all the girls I've loved before  :P
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Post by: ekim on April 29, 2016, 10:25:21 AM
The girl that I marry will have to be ....
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on April 29, 2016, 11:18:20 AM
Marry Me

(Yes you can tell Eurovision is coming soon!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 29, 2016, 03:57:55 PM
Hold me, hold me
Never let me go until you've told me, told me
What I want to know and then just hold me, hold me
Make me tell you I'm in love with you.
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Post by: Leonard James on April 29, 2016, 07:22:18 PM
Hold me, honey won't you hold me,
Hold me, never let me go
Take me, honey won't you take me
Never to forsake me, 'cause I love you so-o

Thrill me, let your kisses thrill me,
Just like you alone can do
Hold me, tenderly enfold me
Never try to hold me from you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 30, 2016, 09:27:46 AM
Love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won't believe me but I love you only
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else

You might find the night-time the right time for kissing
Night-time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else

Doris Day
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Post by: Leonard James on April 30, 2016, 11:21:13 AM
Why do I love you? Why do you love me?
Why should there be two happy as we?
Can you see the why or wherefore,
I should be the one you care for?

You're a lucky boy, I am lucky too,
All our dreams of joy seem to come true.
Maybe that's because you love me,
Maybe that's why I love you!

From Show Boat, by Jerome Kern.
He was one of the greats.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 30, 2016, 02:38:47 PM
also from Show Boat

Fish got to swim and birds got to fly
I got to love one man till I die
Can't help lovin' that man of mine

Tell me he's lazy
Tell me he's slow
Tell me I'm crazy, maybe, I know
Can't help lovin' that man of mine

When he goes away
That's a rainy day
And when he comes back that day is fine
The sun will shine

He can come home as late as can be
Home without him ain't no home to me
Can't help lovin' that man of mine
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 08, 2016, 12:44:05 PM
Love me love my dog  (somebody please think of something quickly :-[)
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 08, 2016, 01:34:08 PM
Automatic Lover (OK its not much of an improvement but its a start).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 08, 2016, 01:49:28 PM
Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
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Post by: Gonnagle on May 08, 2016, 01:56:32 PM
Ferry cross the Mersey ::)
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Post by: ekim on May 08, 2016, 02:57:28 PM
Quote from: Gonnagle on May 08, 2016, 01:56:32 PM
Ferry cross the Mersey ::)
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have music wherever she goes.
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Post by: Nearly Sane on May 08, 2016, 03:13:22 PM
Ride a white swan
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Post by: ekim on May 08, 2016, 03:27:14 PM
Ghost riders in the sky
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Post by: Gordon on May 08, 2016, 08:18:26 PM
Stormy Weather?
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Post by: Rhiannon on May 09, 2016, 05:14:28 AM
Raindrops keep falling on my head...
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Post by: Aruntraveller on May 09, 2016, 09:28:41 AM
Quote from: Rhiannon on May 09, 2016, 05:14:28 AM
Raindrops keep falling on my head...

What even when

'It's Raining Men' ?
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Post by: ekim on May 09, 2016, 10:50:55 AM
but.....

On a clear day
Rise and 1ook around you
And you'll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of every mountain sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A word you've never heard before...
And on a clear day...On a clear day...
You can see forever...
And ever...
And ever...
And ever more. . .
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Post by: Aruntraveller on May 09, 2016, 11:13:33 AM
and

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
 I can see all obstacles in my way
 Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
 It's gonna be a bright (bright)
 Bright (bright) sunshiny day
 It's gonna be a bright (bright)
 Bright (bright) sunshiny day
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Post by: ekim on May 09, 2016, 05:06:13 PM
now there are.....

Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 09, 2016, 05:21:36 PM
Blue Guitar
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Post by: ekim on May 10, 2016, 10:04:46 AM
Well, I never felt more like singing the blues
'Cause I never thought
That I'd ever lose, your love dear
Why did you do me this way

Well, I never felt more like crying all night
'Cause everything's wrong
And nothing is right, without you
You got me singing the blues
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Post by: Aruntraveller on May 10, 2016, 10:44:51 AM
I guess that's why they call it the Blues
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 10, 2016, 11:12:59 AM
Blue Desert
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Post by: Aruntraveller on May 10, 2016, 12:33:50 PM
Blue Bayou
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Post by: ekim on May 10, 2016, 01:11:04 PM
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 10, 2016, 03:28:41 PM
Ma Cherie amour
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Post by: ekim on May 10, 2016, 05:04:22 PM
Amor, amor, amor, this word so sweet that I repeat means "I adore you"
Amor, amor, my love, would you deny this heart that I have placed before you?
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 15, 2016, 07:10:51 AM
Tell it to my heart.
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Post by: ekim on May 15, 2016, 09:38:28 AM
Come cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?
Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready, steady, boys, steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 15, 2016, 10:48:44 AM
Though related to a peer
I can hand reef and steer
A ship or selvagee
Though bother it I may occasionally say
I never use a big big D
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Post by: ekim on May 15, 2016, 02:42:38 PM
I am sailing, I am sailing, home again across the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters, to be near you, to be free.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on May 24, 2016, 08:35:27 AM
Sailor stop your roaming
 Sailor, leave the sea
 Sailor, when the tide turns
 Come home safe to me
 
As you sail across the sea
 All my love is there beside you
 In Capri or Amsterdam
 Honolulu or Siam To the harbour of my heart
 I will send my love to guide you
 As I call across the sea
 Come home to me

The lovely Petula
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Post by: ekim on May 24, 2016, 09:05:06 AM

When it's Spring again I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam
With a heart that's true I'll give to you
Tulips from Amsterdam
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 31, 2016, 04:00:57 PM
Rotterdam or Anywhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 31, 2016, 04:12:30 PM
Anywhere but here.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 31, 2016, 07:39:43 PM
Here, there and Everywhere.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 01, 2016, 09:34:47 AM
Almost there, we're almost there
How wonderful, wonderful our love will be
For you, for me
We're almost there where we will share
A warm caress, tenderness, a dream come true
For me, for you
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Post by: Aruntraveller on June 01, 2016, 12:33:48 PM
What can I do?
 What can I do?
 Much of what you say is true
 I know you see through me
 But there’s no tenderness
 Beneath your honesty
 
Paul Simon
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Post by: ekim on June 01, 2016, 04:47:49 PM
For all we know
This may only be a dream
We come and go
Like the ripples on a stream
So love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come
For all we know.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on June 01, 2016, 07:20:08 PM
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 02, 2016, 09:48:45 AM
Love is a many splendored thing
It's the April rose
That only grows in the early spring
Love is nature's way of giving
A reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
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Post by: Leonard James on June 06, 2016, 06:30:22 AM
Love walked right in and drove my troubles away,
Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day,
One magic moment and my heart seemed to know
That love said hello, though not a word was spoken,
One look and I forgot the gloom of the past,
One look and I had found my future at last,
One look and I had found a world completely new
When love walked in with you.

The Goldwyn Follies. 1938. Gershwin.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 06, 2016, 09:16:43 AM
It's a kind of magic,
It's a kind of magic,
A kind of magic,

One dream, one soul, one prize,
One goal, one golden glance of what should be,

It's a kind of magic,

One shaft of light that shows the way,
No mortal man can win this day,

It's a kind of magic

Queen
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Post by: Leonard James on June 07, 2016, 02:26:00 PM
You sigh, the song begins, you speak and I hear violins
It's magic
The stars desert the skies and rush to nestle in your eyes
It's magic

Without a golden wand or mystic charms
Fantastic things begin when I am in your arms

When we walk hand-in-hand, the world becomes a wonderland
It's magic
How else can I explain those rainbows when there is no rain?
It's magic

Why do I tell me myself these things that happen are all really true
When in my heart I know the magic is my love for you?

"Romance On The High Seas" (1948)
(Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 07, 2016, 03:48:28 PM
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream,
Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
High above the chimney tops,
That's where you'll find me.
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Post by: Leonard James on June 07, 2016, 07:16:08 PM
When you wish upon a star  Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star As dreamers do.
Fate is kind, She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true.

From : Disney's Pinocchio

What romantic little souls we all are!  :)


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Post by: ekim on June 08, 2016, 08:24:09 AM
I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care

My love waits there in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you, San Francisco
Your golden sun will shine for me
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Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2016, 01:27:21 PM
I think you are indulging in some 'California Dreaming' there!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 08, 2016, 02:38:31 PM
Long ago and far away
I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2016, 03:12:06 PM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
 
Say night-ie night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
 
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this
 
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 08, 2016, 04:59:14 PM
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I prayed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
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Post by: Aruntraveller on June 14, 2016, 01:49:06 PM
I'm the dandy highwayman who you're too scared to mention
I spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention
The devil take your stereo and your record collection
The way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension
 
Stand and deliver your money or your life!
Try and use a mirror no bullet or a knife!















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Post by: ekim on June 14, 2016, 03:54:56 PM
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
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Post by: Aruntraveller on June 14, 2016, 06:54:46 PM
Quote from: ekim on June 14, 2016, 03:54:56 PM
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive

Ah Suzi - I once saw her show at a club under the pier at Skegness - yes, really. She was knockout.

Anyway lets have a bit of "Devil Woman" Marty Robbins or Cliff Richard - the choice is yours!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 15, 2016, 09:12:40 AM
Luck be a lady tonight
Luck be a lady tonight
Luck if you've ever been a lady to begin with
Luck be a lady tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 15, 2016, 09:26:34 AM
She gets hungry for dinner at eight
She loves the theatre, doesn't come late
She never bothers with anyone she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on June 18, 2016, 01:18:42 PM
Tea for two
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 18, 2016, 02:32:03 PM
    I’ll sing you one, Ho
    Green grow the rushes, Ho
    What is your one, Ho?
    One is one and all alone
    And evermore shall be so.

    I’ll sing you two, Ho
    Green grow the rushes, Ho
    What are your two, Ho?
    Two, two, the lily white boys clothéd all in green-o.
    One is one and all alone
    And evermore shall be so.
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on June 27, 2016, 07:39:50 AM
One and one is one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2016, 09:10:44 AM
One sweet day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on June 27, 2016, 02:27:28 PM
Daytona Demon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2016, 04:10:28 PM
Nightona  Bare Mountain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 02, 2016, 08:21:34 AM
Cold Mountain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 02, 2016, 09:16:15 AM
I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
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Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 04, 2016, 08:29:55 AM
Inside Out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2016, 10:05:15 AM
Out the Blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 04, 2016, 11:10:08 AM
Blue Bayou (Linda, sigh......)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2016, 03:37:29 PM
Well I never felt more like singin' the blues
'Cause I never thought that I'd ever lose your love dear
Why'd you do me this way?

Well I never felt more like cryin' all night
'Cause every thing's wrong and nothin' ain't right, without you
You got me singin' the blues.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 04, 2016, 03:56:40 PM
I'm just a singer in a rock n roll band
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2016, 05:06:42 PM
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 10, 2016, 08:30:06 AM
Where did all the good times go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 10, 2016, 09:14:49 AM
Are you reeling in the years
Stowing away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 11, 2016, 07:18:22 AM
Fisherman's Wife
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 11, 2016, 08:42:12 AM
Gone fishin', there's a sign upon his door
Gone fishin', he ain't workin' anymore.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 11, 2016, 11:45:02 AM
More Than This
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on July 11, 2016, 11:51:18 AM
More than you know, more than you know
Girl of my heart I love you so
Lately I find you're on my mind
More than you know

Whether you're right, whether you're wrong
Girl of my heart, I'll string along
I need you so
More than you'll ever know

Loving you the way that I do
There's nothing I can do about it
Loving may be all you can give
But, honey, I can't live without it

Oh, how I'd cry, oh how I'd cry
If you got tired and said Goodbye
More than I'd show
More than you'll ever know
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 11, 2016, 02:11:33 PM
You may not be an angel
Cause angels are so few
But until the day that one comes along
I'll string along with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 13, 2016, 08:35:19 AM
Heaven Must be Missing an Angel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 13, 2016, 08:38:07 AM
Heaven, I'm in Heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 13, 2016, 08:55:56 AM
Every time I see you
Something happens to me
Like a chain reaction
Between you and me
 
My heart starts missing a beat
My heart starts missing a beat
Every time, oh oh oh, every time
Oh oh oh, every time

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 13, 2016, 10:23:24 AM
Hit that perfect beat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 13, 2016, 10:24:38 AM
I don't want half hearted love affairs
 I need someone who really cares.
 Life is too short to play silly games
 I've promised myself I won't do that again.
 
It's got to be perfect
 It's got to be worth it
 Yeah.
 Too many people take second best
 But I won't take anything less
 It's got to be
 Yeah
 Pertect.
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 13, 2016, 03:55:50 PM
Always look on the bright side of life.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on July 13, 2016, 05:22:27 PM
Look for the silver lining.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 13, 2016, 05:27:00 PM
Hi HO Silver Lining
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 14, 2016, 08:06:52 AM
By the light of the silvery moon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 14, 2016, 10:06:11 AM
Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey, baby?
Are we losing touch?
 If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 14, 2016, 03:09:32 PM
A strawberry moon in a blueberry sky.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 14, 2016, 03:23:44 PM
You've Blown It All Sky High
 By Telling Me a Lie
 Without a Reason Why
 You've Blown It All Sky High
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 15, 2016, 08:29:39 AM
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on July 15, 2016, 02:02:36 PM
The breeze and I are saying with a sigh
That you .... no longer care.
The breeze and I are whispering goodbye
To love .... we used to share.
Ours was a love song that seemed constant as the moon,
Ending in a strange mournful tune.
Now all about me, they know you have departed without me
And we wonder why. The breeze and I ... we wonder why.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 15, 2016, 02:28:07 PM
Love me or leave me
Or let me be lonely
You won't believe me, I love you only
I'd rather be lonely
Then happy with someone else.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Leonard James on July 15, 2016, 07:04:10 PM
I could be happy with you, If you could be happy with me.
I'd be contented to live anywhere, what would I care,
As long as you were there..........
Skies will not always be blue, but one thing's as plain as can be,
I know that I could be happy with you my darling,
If you could be happy with me!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 16, 2016, 08:54:05 AM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on July 13, 2016, 05:27:00 PM
Hi HO Silver Lining

Hi Fidelity (sorry  :-[)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 16, 2016, 09:26:22 AM
A song of love is a sad song, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
A song of love is a song of woe, don't ask me how I know
A song of love is a sad song, for I have loved and it's so
I sit at the window and watch the rain, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 16, 2016, 02:27:39 PM
Lillibullero

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 16, 2016, 03:23:14 PM
The sons of the prophet were hardy and bold,
And quite unaccustomed to fear,
But the bravest of these was a man, I am told
Named Abdul Abulbul Amir.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 16, 2016, 05:40:15 PM
Bravely bold Sir Robin
Rode forth from Camelot
He was not afraid to die
Oh, brave Sir Robin
He was not at all afraid
To be killed in nasty ways
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin

He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp
Or to have his eyes gouged out
And his elbows broken
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin

His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped
And his bottom burnt off
And his penis split and his...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 17, 2016, 09:23:06 AM
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 17, 2016, 04:34:34 PM
When the red, red, red, robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 18, 2016, 07:52:20 AM
The lady in red is dancing with me, cheek to cheek
There's nobody here, it's just you and me
It's where I want to be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I'll never forget the way you look tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 18, 2016, 02:34:20 PM
Quote from: ekim on July 18, 2016, 07:52:20 AM
The lady in red is dancing with me, cheek to cheek
There's nobody here, it's just you and me
It's where I want to be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I'll never forget the way you look tonight.

Red River Rock
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 18, 2016, 03:28:49 PM
Rock-a-bye, baby, in the tree top
When the wind blows the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall
Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 18, 2016, 05:08:55 PM
Bye Bye Baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 18, 2016, 05:35:21 PM
Walk on by.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 18, 2016, 05:46:34 PM
When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm, there's a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 19, 2016, 08:54:17 AM
Walk in Love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 19, 2016, 09:28:44 AM
Love is a many splendored thing
It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 19, 2016, 09:36:10 AM
Roses are shining in Picardy
 In the hush of the silvery dew
 Roses are flowering in Picardy
 But there's never a rose like you
 
And the roses will die with the summertime
 And our roads may be far, far apart
 But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy
 'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 19, 2016, 02:54:22 PM
Summertime, and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-looking
So hush little baby, Don't you cry
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 19, 2016, 03:02:47 PM
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
 Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 19, 2016, 07:37:43 PM
killer joe don't you go
 hurt me slow please joe
 cool joe mean Joe

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 20, 2016, 07:08:09 AM
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 20, 2016, 05:05:20 PM
Cortez The Killer

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

They carried them to the flat lands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today

And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 21, 2016, 08:36:26 AM
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 23, 2016, 05:01:04 PM
Dancing in the Street

OK, talk to you
South America, Australia, France, Germany, UK, Africa
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York City
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing
Dancing in the street, oh

It doesn't matter what you wear,
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl,
Everywhere, around the world
They'll be dancing, dancing in the street

It's an invitation across the nation, a chance for Folks to meet
They'll be laughing and singing, music swinging
Dancing in the street
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore in DC now
Don't forget the motor city
On the… Full lyrics on Google Play
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 23, 2016, 05:33:50 PM
This is my kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of people, too
People who smile at you
And each time I roam, Chicago is
Calling me home, Chicago is
Why I just grin like a clown
It's my kind of town.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 26, 2016, 07:17:31 PM
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtown

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

So go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure, downtown
Everything's waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close downtown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 27, 2016, 09:02:16 AM
Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up in a city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 27, 2016, 09:10:55 AM
Tom, get your plane right on time
 I know your part'll go fine
 Fly down to Mexico
 Doh-n-doh-de-doh-n-doh
 And here I am
 The only living boy in New York
 
I get the news I need
 On the weather report
 Oh, I can gather all the news I need
 On the weather report
 Hey, I've got nothing to do today
 But smile, de-doh-n-doh-de-doh
 And here I am
 The only living boy in New York
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2016, 09:17:11 AM
I've teamed up with the hippies now
I've got my fringe unfurled
I want to give peace, love and kisses out
to this whole stinking world
The gypsies, the travellers and the thieves
The good, the bad, the average and unique
The grebos the crusties and the goths
And the only living boy in New Cross
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2016, 09:22:58 AM
Alcoholics, child molesters, nervous wrecks and prima donnas
Jilted lovers, office clerks, petty thieves, hard drug pursuers.
Lonely tramps, awkward misfits, oh anyone of these.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 27, 2016, 09:26:28 AM
She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She likes the theater and never comes late
She never bothers with people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2016, 09:31:16 AM
I got six Cadillacs, five Lincolns, four Fords, six Mercuries, three T-Birds, Mustang, ooooooohhh...I'm a lover. Mama was. Papa too. I tell you one thing

Well tell me
I'm the only son-of-a-gun this side of the Sun
You're a tramp, Otis
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 27, 2016, 10:37:22 AM
To my surprise, yes
One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose, y'all
You gettin' down on the roof
Let me hear

The folks was flamin'
Out of control
It was so entertainin'
When the boogie start to explode
I heard somebody say

Burn, baby, burn
Disco inferno
Burn, baby, burn
Burn that mother down
Burn, baby, burn
Disco inferno
Burn, baby, burn
Burn that mother down
Burnin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 27, 2016, 03:32:44 PM
He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
He had a boogie style that no one else could play
He was the top man at his craft
But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft
He's in the army now, a-blowin' reveille
He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 29, 2016, 08:00:11 PM
Furry Sings the Blues

Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties' Snack Bar, boarded up now
And Eagles The Tailor and the Shine Boy's gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handy's cast in bronze
And he's standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like he's listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings the blues
Propped up in his bed
With his dentures and his leg removed
And Ginny's there
For her kindness and Furry's beer
She's the old man's angel overseer

Pawn shops glitter like gold tooth caps
In the gray decay
They chew the last few dollars off
Old Beale Street's carcass
Carrion and mercy
Blue and silver sparkling drums
Cheap guitars, eye shades and guns
Aimed at the hot blood of being no one
Down and out in Memphis Tennessee
Old Furry…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 30, 2016, 08:52:17 AM
Birth of the Blues.
They heard the breeze in the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they made that, the start of the blues
And from a jail came the wail of a down-hearted frail
And they played that as a part of the blues

From a whippoorwill way upon a hill
They took a new note
Pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it
They rehearsed it
And then sent out that news
That the Southland gave birth to the blues.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Jack Knave on July 30, 2016, 06:43:20 PM
"Summer Breeze"

See the curtains hanging in the window
 In the evening on a Friday night
 A little light shining through the window
 Let me know everything is alright, sing this song

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Hear me sing, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

 See the paper lying on the sidewalk
 A little music from the house next door
 So I walk on up to the doorstep
 Through the screen and across the floor

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Sing it, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind, yeah

 When I come home from a hard day's work
 And you're waitin' there not a care in the world

 See the smile a waitin' in the kitchen
 Food cooking and the plates for two
 Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
 In the evenin' when the day is through

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

 Here we go, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Come on, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 31, 2016, 07:46:02 AM
Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise."
Birds in the trees seem to twitter "Louise."
Each little rose tells me it knows I love you, love you.
Every little beat that I feel in my heart
Seems to repeat what I felt at the start.
Each little sigh tells me that I adore you, Louise.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on August 02, 2016, 02:10:33 PM
Brother Louie
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 02:17:30 PM
It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy he's my brother
He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 02, 2016, 02:20:24 PM
Brother Can You Spare a Dime.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 02:36:58 PM
Rita was sixteen years
Hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
And Eddie was a sweet romancer
And a darn good dancer
And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime
And they'd sing
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, it's closing time
And love's on sale
Tonight at this five and dime

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 02, 2016, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 02:36:58 PM
Rita was sixteen years
Hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
And Eddie was a sweet romancer
And a darn good dancer
And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime
And they'd sing
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, it's closing time
And love's on sale
Tonight at this five and dime

Slightly off kilter here - but there is something about those lyrics that brings Stephen King to mind when he's not in full horror mode.

Anyhoo.....

One time
You made me cry
Be proud that I
Remember

My chin is sore
The bruise is gone
But the spot is tender

Gave my hand a sister coy
To Cotton Alley where
You did enjoy
Your wicked games
You curious boy

Tied my laces up together
When I fell
You laughed
Until your belly was sore

In the brick laid aisle behind
The five and dime store



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 04:05:50 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on August 02, 2016, 02:54:32 PM



[/quote author=Trentvoyager link=topic=10895.msg628922#msg628922 date=1470146072]
Slightly off kilter here - but there is something about those lyrics that brings Stephen King to mind when he's not in full horror mode.





Strangely there is this


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660605/

Which is a parody of this

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083745/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 02, 2016, 04:47:03 PM
I work at the Palace Ballroom, but,
gee that Palace is cheap;
When I get back to my chilly hall room
I'm much too tired to sleep.
I'm one of those lady teachers,
a beautiful hostess, you know,
the kind the Palace features
for only a dime a throw.

Ten cents a dance
that's what they pay me,
gosh, how they weigh me down!
Ten cents a dance
pansies and rough guys,
tough guys who tear my gown!
Seven to midnight I hear drums.
Loudly the saxophone blows.
Trumpets are tearing my eardrums.
Customers crush my toes.
Sometime I think
I've found my hero,
but it's a queer romance.
All that you need is a ticket,
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 04:51:24 PM
Still, half a sixpence
Is better than half a penny
Is better than half a farthing
Is better than none
It’s a token of
Our eternal love
When you’re far away
Touch it everyday
And, though, that half a sixpence
Can only mean half a romance
Remember that half a romance
Is better than none
But when I’m with you
One and one make two
And, likewise, two half sixpences
Joined together make one


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 02, 2016, 05:01:04 PM
One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshiping soul possesses

At her call, I'd give my all
All my life and all my love enduring
This would be a magic World to me
If she were mine alone

One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshiping soul possesses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2016, 05:12:31 PM

There's been another man that I've needed and I've loved
But that doesn't mean I love you less
And he knows you can't possess me and he knows he never will
There's just this empty place inside of me that only he can fill

Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
Loving you both is breaking all the rules
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 02, 2016, 06:03:43 PM
The sky was blue
And high above
The moon was new
And so was love
This eager heart of mine was singing
Lover where can you be

You came at last
Love had its day
That day is past
You've gone away
This aching heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Sebastian Toe on August 03, 2016, 12:25:27 AM
In the canyons of your mind
I will wander through your brain
To the ventricles of your heart, my dear
I'm in love with you again!
Across the mountains of your chest
I will stick a Union Jack
To the forest of your cheek, ah...
Through the holes in your string vest!

My darling
In my cardboard-coloured dreams
Once again I hear your laugh
And I kiss, yes, I kiss your perfumed hair
The sweet essence of giraffe


And each time I hear your name
Oh, oh, oh, my, my...how...how it hurts!
In the wardrobe of my soul
In the section labelled "Shirts"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2016, 12:58:28 AM

Go fighting to the top
Go number one
Stick a honey bun
Your mind begins to flop
How take in steam
Recall your dream
Hey Camisas
Your favorite shirt is on the bed
Do a somersault on your head
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 03, 2016, 08:26:51 AM
A taste of honey.
 Tasting much sweeter than wine.
 I dream of your first kiss and then,
 I feel upon my lips again,
 A taste of honey.
 Tasting much sweeter than wine.
 I will return,
 Yes I will return,
 I'll come back
 For the honey,
 And you.
 Yours was the kiss that awoke my heart,
 There lingers still, 'though we're far apart,
 That taste of honey... Tasting much sweeter than wine.
 I will return, yes I will return,
 I'll come back
 For the honey,
 And you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2016, 08:39:32 AM

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 03, 2016, 08:47:07 AM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2016, 08:39:32 AM
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you

Beautiful, beautiful song. One of my fathers favourites.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 03, 2016, 08:48:15 AM
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 03, 2016, 08:51:28 AM
The breeze and I are saying with a sigh
That you no longer care
The breeze and I are whispering goodbye
To dreams we used to share

Ours was a love song that seemed constant as the moon
Ending in a strange, mournful tune
And all about me, they know you have departed without me

And we wonder why, the breeze and I
The breeze and I.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Bubbles on August 03, 2016, 09:05:27 AM
Summertime blues

Parody

https://youtu.be/2jrNu3VQ8qY

http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/south-woodham-ferrers-gp-releases-parody-song/story-29019998-detail/story.html

 ;D
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Bubbles on August 03, 2016, 09:12:36 AM
They call the wind Maria.... Paint your wagon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 03, 2016, 10:03:45 AM
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
(Maria, Maria, Maria)
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word
(Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria
Maria, Maria)
Maria!
I just met a girl named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me
Maria
I just kissed a girl named Maria
And suddenly I found
How wonderful a sound
Can be
Maria
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria,
I'll never stop saying
Maria
Maria, Maria,
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 03, 2016, 03:48:54 PM
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 21, 2016, 12:48:11 PM
Mr. Blue Sky, Blue Sky, Blue Sky, Blue Sky, Blue Sky, yi
Mr. Blue, you'll get it right, but soon comes Mr. Night,
Creepin' over, now his hand is on your shoulder,
Never mind, I'll remember you this, I'll remember you this way

Mr.Blue Sky, please tell us why,
You had to hide away for so long (So Long),
Where did we go wrong
Mr.Blue Sky, please tell us why,
You had to hide away for so long (So Long),
Where did we go wrong
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 21, 2016, 03:34:46 PM
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 21, 2016, 04:57:05 PM
Fly away through the midnight air
 As we head across the sea,
 And at last we will be free

You're a bluebird, you're a bluebird,
 You're a bluebird, you're a bluebird
 Yeah, yeah, yeah


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2016, 08:59:18 AM
Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away.

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In llama land there's a one-man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 22, 2016, 11:38:05 AM
Just like a rollin' stone
 I'm outside lookin' in
 But if your chance came would you take it
 Where on earth do I begin
 I'm Mandy fly me

 I've often heard her jingle
 It's never struck a chord
 With a smile as bright as sunshine
 She called me through the poster
 And welcomed me aboard
 She led me she fed me
 She read me like a book
 But I'm hiding in the small print
 Won't you take another look
 And take me away
 Try me Mandy fly me away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2016, 01:45:04 PM
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me, oh Mandy


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2016, 03:09:39 PM
Take one fresh and tender kiss
(The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me)
Add one stolen night of bliss
(The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me)
One girl, one boy; some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2016, 03:15:55 PM
One boy
One steady boy
One boy to be with
Forever and ever
One boy
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 22, 2016, 03:32:24 PM
Ode to Boy

When he moves I watch him from behind
 He turns and laughter flickers in his eyes
 Intent and direct when he speaks, I watch his lips
 And when he drives I love to watch his hand
 White and smooth almost feminine, almost American, I have to watch him.

 In his face age descends on youth, exaggeration on the truth
 He caught me looking then but soon his eyes forgot
 And everything he seems to do reflects just another shade of blue
 I saw him searching into you and ached a while

I watch his lips caress the glass,
 His fingers stroke its stem and pass
 To lift a cigarette at last, he dries his eyes
 From a shadow by the stair
 I watch as he weeps unaware
 That I'm in awe of his despair, but I am there



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2016, 04:05:54 PM
I'm mad about the boy
I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy
I'm so ashamed of it but must admit the sleepless nights I've had
About the boy

On the silverscreen
He melts my foolish heart in every single scene
Although I'm quite aware that here and there are traces of the cad
About the boy

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2016, 04:35:52 PM
The night is like a lovely tune
Beware, my foolish heart
How white the ever constant moon
Take care, my foolish heart
There's a line between love and fascination
That's hard to see on an evening such as this
For they both give the very same sensation
When you are lost in the magic of a kiss

Her lips are much too close to mine
Beware, my foolish heart
But should our eager lips combine
Then let the fire start
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2016, 05:06:23 PM
Tell me is the crack of the pool balls, neon buzzin'?
Telephone's ringin', it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye
Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night
Well you gassed her up
And you're behind the wheel
With your arm around your sweet one
In your Oldsmobile
Barrellin' down the boulevard,
You're lookin' for the heart of Saturday night


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2016, 05:40:39 PM
You sigh, the song begins, you speak and I hear violins
It's magic
The stars desert the skies and rush to nestle in your eyes
It's magic
Without a golden wand or mystic charms
Fantastic things begin when I am in your arms

When we walk hand in hand, the world becomes a wonderland
It's magic
How else can I explain those rainbows when there is no rain
It's magic
Why do I tell me myself these things that happen are all really true.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2016, 06:03:50 PM
Listen with your eyes,
Please, listen with your eyes
And sing everything you see.
You can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow
sing along with me.

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Orange and purple and blue,
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow, too!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 23, 2016, 09:43:39 AM
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2016, 09:56:04 AM
See how we planned for saddened eyes
And tears to pave the way
I fought the fever as I knew
My hair returned to grey
Study your face and fade the frame
Too close for comfort now
We can recall the harmony
That lingered but turned sour
Feels like heaven...

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 23, 2016, 10:04:56 AM
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue

I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long
Say it isn't true and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 29, 2016, 07:33:41 PM
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I'll be far away
And I say

Blue eyes holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone
Again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2016, 09:23:51 AM
Ooh ooh oooh... baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did I do wrong
To make you stay away so long.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 30, 2016, 09:35:33 AM
People stay just a little bit longer
 We want to play, just a little bit longer

Now the promoter don't mind
 And the union don't mind
 If we take a little time
 And we leave it all behind and sing
 One more song

Oh won't you stay
 Just a little bit longer
 Please please please, say you will
 Say you will



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 30, 2016, 12:34:53 PM
As a union man I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled by the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines

And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say:

Oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Til the day I die
Til the day I die

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 30, 2016, 02:57:26 PM
Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?
 Union, Union, Union City blue
 Tunnel to the other side
 It becomes daylight
 I say he's mine

Oh power, passion plays a double hand
 Union, Union Union City man
 Arrive, climb up four flights
 To the orange side
 Rearrange my mind
 In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
 Skyline, passion, Union City blue


(For me the best of Blondie's output - it's the opening of the song that clinches it)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2016, 03:06:44 PM
Hey driver, where we're going?
I swear my nerves are showing
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they blame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
Ah, ah, the living daylights
Ah, ah, the living daylights.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 30, 2016, 03:36:33 PM
Tom, get your plane right on time
 I know your part'll go fine
 Fly down to Mexico
 Do-n-do-d-do-n-do and here I am,
 The only living boy in New York

I get the news I need on the weather report
 I can gather all the news I need on the weather report
 Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile
 Do-n-doh-d-doh-n-doh and here I am
 The only living boy in New York

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2016, 04:42:07 PM
South of the border, down Mexico way.
That's where I fell in love where stars above, came out to play.
And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray.
South of the border, down Mexico way.

She was a picture, in old Spanish ways.
Just for a tender while I kissed the smile, upon her face.
For it was fiesta, and love had it's day.
South of the border, down Mexico way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 30, 2016, 05:40:36 PM
Blue Spanish eyes
Teardrops are falling from your Spanish eyes
Please, please don't cry

This is just adios and not goodbye
Soon I'll return
Bringing you all the love your heart can hold
Please say "Si, si"
Say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me

Blue Spanish eyes
Prettiest eyes in all of Mexico
True Spanish eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2016, 09:10:30 AM
Don't cry for me Marge and Tina  ;)
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2016, 09:15:47 AM

Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June
We stood beneath an amber moon
And softly murmured "Someday soon"
We kissed and clung together

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now, when twilight dims the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing I'm certain of
Return I will to old Brazil


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2016, 09:23:08 AM
I gave a letter to the postman,
He put it in his sack.
And by the early next morning,
He brought my letter back.
She wrote upon it:
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2016, 09:34:54 AM
Everybody knows His bright red van
All his friends will smile as he waves to greet them
Maybe you can never be sure there'll be knock
Ring
Letters through your door


Postman Pat
Postman Pat
Postman Pat and his Black and White Cat

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2016, 09:55:31 AM
On a day like today
We pass the time away
Writing love letters in the sand

How you laughed when I cried
Each time I saw the tide
Take our love letters from the sand

You made a vow that you would ever be true
But somehow that vow meant nothing to you

Now my broken heart aches
With every wave that breaks
Over love letters in the sand.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2016, 10:18:46 AM
One day we walked along the sand
 One day in early spring
 You held a piper in your hand
 To mend its broken wing
 Now I'll remember many a day
 And many a lonely mile
 The echo of a piper's song
 The shadow of a smile

The shadow of your smile
 When you are gone
 Will color all my dreams
 And light the dawn
 Look into my eyes
 My love and see
 All the lovely things
 You are to me

Our wistful little star
 Was far too high
 A teardrop kissed your lips
 And so did I
 Now when I remember spring
 All the joy that love can bring
 I will be remembering
 The shadow of your smile



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2016, 11:17:20 AM
The song dream happened and the cloven hoofed piper
Played in that holy ground where they felt the awe and wonder
And they all were unafraid of the great god Pan

And the wind in the willows and the piper at the gates of dawn
The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates of dawn

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2016, 01:54:04 PM
They came from the hills
 And they came from the valleys and the plains
 They struggled in the cold
 In the heat and the snow and in the rain
 Came to hear him play
 Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
 We're all summoned by a tune
 We're following the piper
 And we dance beneath the moon
 We're following the piper
 And we dance beneath the moon for him
 And we dance beneath the moon
 Sub luna saltamus

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2016, 02:31:06 PM
Into the valley, betrothed and divine
Realizations no virtue but who can define
Why soldiers go marching, those masses a line
This disease is catching from victory to stone

Ahoy, ahoy, land, sea and sky
Ahoy, ahoy, boy, man and soldier
Ahoy, ahoy, deceived and then punctured
Ahoy, ahoy, long may they die

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2016, 02:58:56 PM
Our little army boy
 Is coming home from B.F.P.O.
 I've a bunch of purple flowers
 To decorate to mammy's hero

Mourning in the aerodrome
 The weather warmer, he is colder
 Four men in uniform
 To carry home my little soldier

(What could he do)
 (Should have been a rock star)
 But he didn't have the money for a guitar
 (What could he do)
 (Should have been a politician)
 But he never had a proper education
 (What could he do)
 (Should have been a father)
 But he never even made it to his twenties
 What a waste
 Army dreamers
 Ooh, what a waste of
 Army dreamers



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2016, 03:17:51 PM
Always look on the bright side of life

For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it, it's the last chance anyhow!

So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it.

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

And always look on the bright side of life.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 01, 2016, 03:53:58 PM
In other words

Don't Fear the Reaper
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2016, 03:57:11 PM
For each a road
For everyman a religion
Find everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason
Forgive everybody and remember

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Face everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason

You got the fear
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2016, 05:48:24 PM
Keep right on to the end of the road,
Keep right on to the end,
Though the way be long, let your heart be strong,
Keep right on round the bend.
Though you're tired and weary still journey on,
Till you come to your happy abode,
Where all the love you've been dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on September 01, 2016, 07:52:22 PM
The road is long
 With many a winding turn
 That leads us to who knows where
 Who knows where

But I'm strong
 Strong enough to carry him
 He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
 His welfare is of my concern
 No burden is he to bear
 We'll get there

For I know
 He would not encumber me
 He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
 I'm laden with sadness
 That everyone's heart
 Isn't filled with the gladness
 Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
 From which there is no return
 While we're on the way  to there
 Why not share

And the load
 Doesn't weigh me down at all
 He ain't heavy he's my brother

He's my brother
 He ain't heavy, he's my brother
 He ain't heavy, he's my brother


(.... a firm favourite!)


 

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 02, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there right on the job.

They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2016, 09:35:45 AM

Ten cents a dance, pansies and rough guys, tough guys who tear my gown.
Seven to midnight I hear drums, loudly the saxophone blows,
Trumpets are tearing my ear-drums, customers crush my toes.
Sometimes I think, I've found my hero
But it's a queer romance
All that you need is a ticket,
Come on big boy, ten cents a dance.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 02, 2016, 10:03:57 AM
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos
The cream of every famous band.

Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
There were more than a thousand reeds
Springing up like weeds
There were horns of every shape and kind.

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having its big, fat say!

There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
Thundering, thundering louder than before
Clarinets of every size
And trumpeters who'd improvise
A full octave higher than the score!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2016, 10:11:31 AM
Well I find myself in reverie
'Bout what we might have had
And what might have been
We had something going once
That was such a long, long time ago
It was way back in '76
Our friendship formed of pure innocence
We first met in Mathew Street

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 02, 2016, 10:31:21 AM
Sometimes I wonder
 Why I spend the lonely nights
 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
 Oh, 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 fairytale
 Of paradise, where roses grew
 Though I dream in vain
 In my heart, it will remain
 My stardust melody
 The memory of love's refrain

Though I dream in vain
 In my heart, it will remain
 My stardust melody
 The memory of love's refrain


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2016, 10:43:31 AM
Chains! Chains! I'm all in chains
Your love will drive me insane
Come on! Let's do it again
I really want my coo ca choo
Night time's a lonely time
When you're gone I'm starting to cry
But you know that you're on my mind
Oh honey be my coo ca choo

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 02, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
Now you say you're lonely
You cry the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you.

Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2016, 02:59:18 PM
Running Bear loved Little White Dove
With a love big as the sky
Running Bear loved Little White Dove
With a love that couldn't die

He couldn't swim the raging river
'Cause the river was too wide
He couldn't reach Little White Dove
Waiting on the other side
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 02, 2016, 03:29:54 PM
The whispers in the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling by like thunder now
As I look in your eyes.

I hold on to your whole body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake.

'Cause I'm your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can.

Lost is how I'm feeling lying in your arms
When the world outside's too much to take
That all ends when I'm with you.

Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side.

We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
Of the power of love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2016, 03:58:00 PM
Turn around, stand up like a man and look me in the eye
Turn around, take one final look at what you've left behind
Then walk away
From the greatest lover you have ever known
Yes, walk away
You're telling me that you can make it on your own
By yourself, all alone, without my help
Mister, you just made a big mistake

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 03, 2016, 08:35:18 AM
I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone.

Living alone
I think of all the friends I've known
When I dial the telephone
Nobody's home.

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself anymore.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 03, 2016, 09:00:39 AM
The reason Nobody's home is because you are looking in Nobody's diary for the number:

If I wait for just a second more,
 I know I'll forget what I came here for,
 My head was so full of things to say,
 But as I open my lips all my words slip away
 and anyway,
 I can't believe you want to turn the page,
 And move your life onto another stage,
 You can change the chapter you can change the book,
 But the story remains the same if you'd take a look.


 For the times we've had I don't want to be - a page in your diary babe,
 For the good, the bad I don't want to see - a page in your diary babe,
 For the happy, the sad - I don't want to be another page in your diary.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 03, 2016, 01:02:10 PM
Keep the Home-fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home.

There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out,
Till the boys come Home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2016, 01:03:34 PM
Baby, baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me all by myself
I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me and it hurts so bad
You came into my heart (baby, baby) so tenderly
With a burning love (baby, baby)
That stings like a bee (baby, baby)
Now that I surrender (baby, baby) so helplessly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 03, 2016, 02:49:28 PM
Baby face you've got the cutest little baby face,
There's not another who can take your place,
Baby face,
My poor heart is thumpin' you sure have started somethin'
Baby face, I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace,
Uh well I need a shove, because I'm in love
With your pretty baby face.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 26, 2016, 12:14:02 PM
Embrace me,
 My sweet embraceable you.
 Embrace me,
 You irreplaceable you.
 Just one look at you, my heart grew tipsy in me.
 You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.
 I love all
 The many charms about you;
 Above all,
 I want my arms about you.
 Don't be a naughty baby,
 Come to papa, come to papa, do!
 My sweet embraceable you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 26, 2016, 04:43:32 PM
The sweet sweet memories you gave me
You can't beat the memories you gave me
Take one fresh and tender kiss
(The sweet sweet memories you gave me
You can't beat the memories you gave me)
Add one stolen night of bliss
(The sweet sweet memories you gave me
You can't beat the memories you gave me)
One girl, one boy; some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 26, 2016, 06:34:25 PM
Memories may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember we simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter we will remember
Whenever we remember the way we were.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 26, 2016, 07:23:23 PM
My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that I'm sure
She smiled at me on the subway
She was with another man
But I won't lose no sleep on that
'Cause I've got a plan

You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You're beautiful, it's true
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
'Cause I'll never be with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 27, 2016, 02:09:38 PM
You're beautiful
 In every single way
 Yes words can't bring you down
 Oh no
 So don't you bring me down today

No matter what we do (no matter what we do)
 No matter what we say (no matter what we say)
 We're the song inside the tune (yeah, oh yeah)
 Full of beautiful mistakes

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 27, 2016, 02:18:56 PM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near, and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 27, 2016, 09:47:14 PM
You are my hearts desire
You really set my soul on fire
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 28, 2016, 09:28:47 AM
Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
When I was being what you want me to be
Suddenly, everything I ever wanted
Has passed me by.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2016, 01:12:53 PM
I'm sorry that I doubted you
 I was so unfair
 You were in a car crash
 And you lost your hair
 You said that you would be late
 About an hour or two
 I said that's alright I'm waiting here
 Just waiting to hear from you

 Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue
 Cause you know darling I love only you
 You'll never know it hurt me so
 How I hate to see you go
 Don't pass me by, don't make me cry
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 28, 2016, 03:08:36 PM
If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye
It's no secret you'll feel better if you cry
When waking from a bad dream
Don't you sometimes think it's real?
But it's only false emotions that you feel

If your heartaches seem to hang around too long
And your blues keep getting bluer with each song
Remember sunshine can be found behind a cloudy sky
So let your hair down and go on and cry.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2016, 03:11:20 PM
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter
I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 28, 2016, 03:31:49 PM
Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2016, 03:34:20 PM
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days,
 Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days,
 Thursday, Friday, Happy Days,
 The weekend comes, my cycle hums
 Ready to race to you

These days are ours
 Happy and free. (Oh Happy Days)
 These days are ours
 Share them with me.(Oh baby)


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2016, 03:36:40 PM
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Saturday wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday never hesitate

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2016, 03:42:51 PM
Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying

Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It's almost touching it will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true...always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me
Almost you
Almost blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 28, 2016, 03:59:40 PM
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new
And don't it make my brown eyes blue.

I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long
Say it isn't true
And don't it make my brown eyes blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2016, 04:01:55 PM
Now you say you're lonely,
 You cry the whole night through.
 Well you can cry me a river,
 Cry me a river,
 I cried a river over you.

 Now you say you're sorry,
 For being so untrue.
 Well you can cry me a river,
 Cry me a river,
 I cried a river over you.

 You drove me, nearly drove me,
 Out of my head;
 While you never shed a tear.

 Remember, I remember,
 All that you said;
 Told me love was too plebeian,
 Told me you were through with me

 And Now you say you love me,
 Well, just to prove you do,
 Come on and cry me a river,
 Cry me a river,

 I cried a river over you
 I cried a river over you
 I cried a river over you
 I cried a river over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2016, 04:35:20 PM
Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 28, 2016, 08:39:01 PM
Moonriver
Wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style
Someday
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 29, 2016, 09:19:34 AM
We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay
We could hear the voices ringing
They seemed to say
"You have stolen her heart"
"Now don't go 'way"
As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 06, 2016, 08:35:19 PM
Moonlight becomes you
It glows in your hair
You certainly know the right thing
To wear
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2016, 09:42:08 AM
I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade.

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming.
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and I sing you a Moonlight Serenade

Let us stray till break of day in love's valley of dreams.
Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissin' the trees.

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night.
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight
A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 08, 2016, 10:07:52 AM
Stars shining bright above you
 Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
 Birds singing in the sycamore tree
 Dream a little dream of me

Say night-ie night and kiss me
 Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
 While I'm alone and blue as can be
 Dream a little dream of me

Stars fading but I linger on, dear
 Still craving your kiss
 I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
 Just saying this

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
 Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
 But in your dreams whatever they be
 Dream a little dream of me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 08, 2016, 10:57:40 AM
From Russia with love I fly to you
Much wiser since my goodbye to you
I've travelled the world to learn
I must return from Russia with love

I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment
But oh, you haunted me so
Still my tongue tied, young pride
Would not let my love for you show
I case you say no

To Russia I flew but there and then
I suddenly knew you'd care again
My running around is through
I fly to you, from Russia with love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 09, 2016, 02:05:38 PM
Are You Safe Miss Gradenko?

(ok it should be Miss Gradenkova, but Stuart Copeland is American & they aint good at that kind of thing)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 10, 2016, 09:28:12 AM
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Do you think I'd crumble
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I, I will survive.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 10, 2016, 09:43:35 AM
In your mind you have capacities you know
 To telepath messages through the vast unknown
 Please close your eyes and concentrate
 With every thought you think
 Upon the recitation we're about to sing

 Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
 Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 10, 2016, 03:58:10 PM
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 12, 2016, 08:38:04 AM
There's a room where the light won't find you
 Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
 When they do, I'll be right behind you
 So glad we've almost made it
 So sad they had to fade it
 Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
 Married with a lack of vision
 Everybody wants to rule the world

Say that you'll never, never, never, need it
 One headline, why believe it?
 Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
 Nothing ever lasts forever
 Everybody wants to rule the world

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 12, 2016, 10:18:33 AM
If I ruled the world,
Every day would be the first day of spring,
Every heart would have a new song to sing,
And we'd sing of the joy every morning would bring.

If I ruled the world,
Every man would be as free as a bird,
Every voice would be a voice to be heard,
Take my word we would treasure each day that occurred.

My world would be a beautiful place,
Where we would weave such wonderful dreams.
My world would wear a smile on its face,
Like the man in the moon has when the moon beams.

If I ruled the world,
Every man would say the world was his friend,
There'd be happiness that no man coud end,
No my friend, not if I ruled the world.

Every head would be held up high,
There'd be sunshine in everyone's sky,
If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 19, 2016, 09:43:16 AM
Free as a bird
 It's the next best thing to be
 Free as a bird

Home, home and dry
 Like a homing bird I'll fly
 As a bird on wings

Whatever happened to
 The life that we once knew?
 Can we really live without each other?

Where did we lose the touch
 That seemed to mean so much?
 It always made me feel so

Free as a bird
 Like the next best thing to be
 Free as a bird
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2016, 03:52:18 PM
Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Let's fly way up to the clouds
Away from the maddening crowds
We can sing in the glow of a star that I know of
Where lovers enjoy peace of mind
Let us leave the confusion and all disillusion behind
Just like bird of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 21, 2016, 10:04:15 PM
Up above the trees and houses
RAINBOW flying high.....(you know what I mean)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2016, 09:36:09 AM
Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away.

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In llama-land there's a one-man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Sassy on November 11, 2016, 08:13:32 PM

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you


Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love  you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 12, 2016, 10:14:04 AM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near, and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 27, 2016, 10:43:24 PM
Just a handful of songs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 28, 2016, 10:24:39 AM
Hands across the water
Heads across the sky.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 29, 2016, 09:43:09 AM
Skywriter
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 29, 2016, 04:32:47 PM
The sky was blue
And high above
The moon was new
And so was love
This eager heart of mine was singing
Lover where can you be

You came at last
Love had its day
That day is past
You've gone away
This aching heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2016, 04:36:08 PM
This old heart of mine been broke a thousand times
Each time you break away, feel you're gone to stay
Lonely nights that come, memories that go
Bringing you back again, hurting me more and more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 29, 2016, 04:46:25 PM
Someday I'm coming back, and it won't be long
Before you call me and tell me to come home
Someday I'm coming back, and it won't be long
Before I'm home, home and in your arms.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2016, 04:49:04 PM
Back home they'll be thinking about us
When we are far away
Back home they'll be really behind us
In every game we play
They'll share every goal we are scoring
Out there we will still hear them roaring
And we'll give all we've got to give
For the folks back home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 29, 2016, 05:02:58 PM
It just takes a little bit of this
A little bit of that
It started with a kiss
Now we're up to bat
A little bit of laughs
A little bit of pain
I'm telling you, my babe
It's all in the game of love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2016, 05:05:58 PM
Am I wrong? Am I so unkind?
Show me the way, dont turn away
I cant hide all these thoughts in my mind
Every moment I'm thinking of you
Ooh aah, just a little bit
Ooh aah, little bit more
Ooh aah, just a little bit
You know what Im looking for


(Looking at this you could put it in Humph's non PC thread)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 29, 2016, 05:19:39 PM
Always look on the bright side of life!
Always look on the bright side of life
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And always look on the bright side of life.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2016, 05:32:02 PM
Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye
Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Won't you help me share my load (help me share my load)
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 30, 2016, 09:42:48 AM
Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me.

Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
"Wait for me, wait for me"
I'll be coming home, wait for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 30, 2016, 10:11:23 AM
We can sail, we can sail
 With the orinoco flow
 We can sail, we can sail...(Sail away, Sail away, Sail away)
 We can steer, we can near
 With Rob Dickins at the wheel
 We can sigh, say goodbye
 Ross and his dependency
 We can sail, we can sail...(Sail away, Sail away, Sail away)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 30, 2016, 04:15:10 PM
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say "Goodbye",
I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly

The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 21, 2016, 10:17:31 AM
Please don't wake me until late tomorrow comes,
 And I will not be late.
 Late today when it becomes tomorrow.
 I will leave to go away.
 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye.
 Songs that lingered on my lips excite me now
 And linger on my mind.

Leave your flowers at my door
 I'll leave them for the one who waits behind.
 Far away my lover sings a lonely song
 And calls me to his side.
 When the song of lonely love
 Invites me on I must go to his side.
 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 21, 2016, 03:49:07 PM
Lover, when I'm near you
And I hear you speak my name
Softly in my ear you breathe a flame.

Lover, when we're dancing
Keep on glancing in my eyes
Till love's own entrancing music dies.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 21, 2016, 07:08:45 PM
Suddenly the landscape has changed
 Horizon Flame
 In the stream, what is square?
 Would you put the lights out? Dead
 Look at all the lights out there
 Could have been enough for you
 Living like we needed to
 Would have been enough left for you


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 22, 2016, 09:50:58 AM
When you were young and your heart
Was an open book
You used to say live and let live
(You know you did)
(You know you did)
(You know you did)
But if this ever changin' world
In which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 06:04:43 AM
A heart of gold
But it lost its pride
Beautiful veins
And bloodshot eyes
I see your face
In another light
Why'd you have to go
And let it die


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 09:25:20 AM
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2017, 09:30:01 AM
Blue eyes
 Baby's got blue eyes
 Like a deep blue sea
 On a blue blue day

Blue eyes
 Baby's got blue eyes
 When the morning comes
 I'll be far away
 And I say

Blue eyes holding back the tears
 Holding back the pain
 Baby's got blue eyes
 And she's alone
 Again



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 09:36:31 AM
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2017, 09:44:11 AM
Late at night when the wind is still
 I'll come flying through your door,
 And you'll know what love is for

I'm a bluebird, I'm a bluebird
 I'm a bluebird, I'm a bluebird
 Yeah, yeah, yeah

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 09:57:18 AM
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn
How to play the game
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do, but you can learn
How to be you in time
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2017, 11:31:47 AM
All is fair in love
 Love's a crazy game
 Two people vow to stay
 In love as one they say
 But all is changed with time
 The future no one can see
 The road you leave behind
 Ahead lies mystery
 But all is fair in love
 I had to go away
 A writer takes his pen
 To write the words again
 That all in love is fair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 12:40:37 PM

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs

I am music and I write the songs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 01:06:44 PM




I've turned a girl into a heaving senseless wreck
Made the captain of a ship dance off his deck
I've made the old man jump to his feet
I'm in demand I am the beat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 02:11:27 PM
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
That freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 03:56:49 PM
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You'd be like heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived.
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 04:05:01 PM
Times was on my side when I runnin'in the street it was the
By by by
A suitcase and an old guitar and something new to occupy my
Mind mind mind

You see we're born, born, born to be alive (born too be alive)
You see we're born, born, born to be alive (born too be alive)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 04:09:50 PM
Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star

Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you're born free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 04:19:53 PM
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelin' on now
There's too many places I got to see
If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 04:46:48 PM
When I'm stuck with a day
That's grey,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh

The sun will come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may

Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

You're always
A day
Away!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 04:50:27 PM
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gather together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 04:57:32 PM
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
And it looks like its climbing clear up to the sky.

Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a wonderful feeling,
Everything's going my way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2017, 05:00:17 PM
 Sunday morning, up with the lark
I think I'll take a walk in the park
Hey hey hey, it's a beautiful day
I've got someone waiting for me
And when I see her I know that she'll say
Hey hey hey, what a beautiful day
Hi hi hi, beautiful Sunday
This is my my my beautiful day
When you said said said said that you loved me
Oh my my my its a beautiful day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2017, 05:29:07 PM
It's a lovely day today
So whatever you've got to do
You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true
And I hope whatever you've got to do
Is something that can be done by two
For I'd really like to stay

It's a lovely day today
And whatever you've got to do
I'd be so happy to be doing it with you
But if you've got something that must be done
And it can only be done by one
There is nothing more to say
Except it's a lovely day for saying
It's a lovely day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2017, 06:33:10 PM
Quote from: ekim on February 28, 2017, 03:56:49 PM
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you*.
You'd be like heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived.
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.

*I don't know from where you copied this but "off of"' is a definite no no. "Off" is sufficient. Listen to the Andy Williams version.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2017, 10:25:19 AM
Quote from: Robinson on February 28, 2017, 06:33:10 PM
*I don't know from where you copied this but "off of"' is a definite no no. "Off" is sufficient. Listen to the Andy Williams version.
It probably depends upon the style of the singer.  Gloria Gaynor and Diana Ross seem to include the 'of'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Enki on March 01, 2017, 10:53:23 AM
"I says, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby"

Rolling Stones 'Get off of my cloud' ;) ;D
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on March 01, 2017, 11:03:11 AM
Er.......I remember a pastiche of that song.....in a folk club.....after midnight.... entitled "Hey, clown, get of of my ewe!" We'll stop there, shall we?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Enki on March 01, 2017, 12:05:02 PM
 :)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2017, 03:44:16 PM
Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better.

Hey Jude, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 01, 2017, 03:53:22 PM
Nobody does it better makes me feel sad for the rest
 Nobody does it half as good as you
 Baby, you're the best
 I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
 I tried to hide from your love light
 But like heaven above me the spy who loved me
 Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2017, 04:04:32 PM
Whippoorwills call, evenin' is nigh
Hurry to my blue heaven
Turn to the right, there's a little white light
Will lead you to my blue heaven

You'll see a smilin' face, a fireplace, a cozy room
Little nest that nestles where the roses bloom

Molly and me, and the baby makes three
We're happy in my, in my blue heaven.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 06, 2017, 11:01:52 AM
Blue Bayou
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 06, 2017, 11:07:08 AM
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell
Full of that yankee doodly dum
Half a million boots went sloggin' through hell
And I was the kid with the drum
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al
It was Al all the time
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Anchorman on March 06, 2017, 11:21:01 AM
 A song of the clearances - tune 'Mist covered mountains'. This one always brings a tear. Hush, hush, time to be sleeping Hush, hush, no time for weeping Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping Smile in your sleep, bonnie baby. Once our valleys were ringing With sounds of our children singing Now sheep feed and bleat til the evening And ceilings stand empty and open Hush, hush..... We stood with heads bowed in prayer While factors laid our cottages bare And screams filled the clear mountain air And many were dead by the morning. Hush, hush.... Where was our proud highland mettle Our men once so fearless in battle Now stand cowed huddled like cattle And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean. Hush, hush, time to be sleeping Hush, hush, no time for weeping Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping Don't die in your sleep, bonnie baby.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 06, 2017, 03:54:15 PM
... and off to Brigadoon ....
Can't we two go walking together, out beyond the valley of trees?
Out where there's a hillside of heather, curtsying gently in the breeze
That's what I'd like to do, see the heather, but with you.

The mist of May is in the gloaming, and all the clouds are holding still
So take my hand and let's go roaming through the heather on the hill.
The morning dew is blinking yonder, there's lazy music in the rill
And all I want to do is wander through the heather on the hill.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 06, 2017, 09:06:00 PM
When the buds are blossoming
Smiling welcome to the spring
Lovers choose a wedding day
Life is love in merry May

(Ruddigore, G & S)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 07, 2017, 09:09:02 AM
Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
Hey little sister who's your superman
Hey little sister who's the one you want
Hey little sister shotgun
It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 07, 2017, 09:12:36 AM
"I'm red white and blue, I've got justice to do
 I'm the man of your fantasy dreams
 But I'm an alien man from an alien land
 Who's alive on your orthicon screens.
 I once ruled the world and when flags were unfurled

 I performed for you live not on tape.
 But the public is cruel when played for a fool
 As you see by the blood on my cape."

I don't want to be like old George Reeves
 Stuck in a Superman role.
 I've got a long way to go in my career
 And some day my fame will make it clear
 That I had to be a Superman
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 07, 2017, 09:19:30 AM
Father's name was Hezikiah
Mother's name was Ann Maria
Yanks through and through
Red, white and blue
Father was so Yankee hearted
When the Spanish War was started
He slipped upon his uniform
And hopped up on a pony
My mother's mother was a Yankee true
My father's father was a Yankee too
And that's going some
For the Yankees, by gum
Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phoney?

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
A Yankee Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my uncle Sam's
Born on the Fourth of July
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart
She's my Yankee Doodle joy
Yankee Doodle came to London,
Just to ride the ponies
I am a Yankee Doodle boy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2017, 11:27:22 AM
A foggy day, in London town
Had me low, had me down
I viewed the morning, with much alarm
British Museum, had lost its charm.

How long I wondered,
Could this thing last
But the age of miracles, hadn't passed
For suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London town,
The sun was shining everywhere.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 07, 2017, 12:13:04 PM
The moon that lingered over London town
 Poor puzzled moon, he wore a frown.
 How could he know that we two were so in love?
 The whole darn world seemed upside down.

The streets of town were paved with stars,
 It was such a romantic affair.
 And as we kissed and said goodnight,
 A nightingale sang in Berkeley square.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2017, 03:32:07 PM
Meanwhile in La La Land....
Him:
Some other girl and guy
Would love this swirling sky
But there's only you and I,
And we've got .. no shot
This could never be
You're not the type for me
And there's not a spark in sight
What a waste of a lovely night.

Her:
You say there's nothing here
Well let's make something clear
I think I'll be the one to make that call.
And though you look so cute
In your polyester suit
You're right.... I'd never fall for you at all.
And maybe this appeals
To someone not in heels
Or to any girl who feels
There's some chance ... for romance
But I'm frankly feeling nothing
Or it could be less than nothing
You're right ...What a waste of a lovely night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 07, 2017, 03:37:14 PM
could be the driver an articulated lorry
 I could be a poet I wouldn't need to worry
 I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars
 I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
 What a waste
 What a waste
 What a waste
 What a waste

 Because I chose to play the fool in a six-piece band,
 First-night nerves every one-night stand.
 I should be glad to be so inclined.
 What a waste! What a waste!
 But I don't mind.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2017, 03:48:17 PM
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
And so I come to you my love,
My heart above my head.
Though I see the danger there.
If there's a chance for me, then I don't care

Fools rush in where wise men never go.
But wise men never fall in love,
So how are they to know
When we met, I felt my life begin.
So open up your heart and let this fool rush in.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 07, 2017, 03:54:22 PM
Wise men say only fools rush in
 But I can't help falling in love with you
 Shall I stay
 Would it be a sin
 If I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
 Darling so it goes
 Some things are meant to be
 Take my hand, take my whole life too
 For I can't help falling in love with you


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 07, 2017, 04:40:10 PM
I come from down in the valley
Where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields were green
We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 08, 2017, 09:41:03 AM
Captain Smith
The master in command
A man with wealth of wisdom
A fine upstanding man
But the fog He didn't hear the calls
The ice block was waiting
For fifteen hundred souls

And she sailed
Through the night
On her way Down among the dead men
Down among the dead men
The band played
She sailed the virgin
She sailed the sea
Down among the dead men
Down among the dead men
And into history.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 08, 2017, 10:29:32 AM
 want all the world to see
 To see you're laughing
 And you're laughing at me
 I can take it all from you
 Again again again again again again again
 Deeper and down
 Down down deeper and down
 Down down deeper and down
 Down down deeper and down
 Get down deeper and down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 08, 2017, 12:53:06 PM
She takes the winter and she makes it summer
And summer could take a few lessons from her
Picture a tomboy in lace
That's Nancy with the laughin' face

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 08, 2017, 03:04:08 PM
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We're happy tonight,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Gone away is the bluebird,
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song,
As we go along,
Walking in a winter wonderland.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 22, 2017, 01:00:42 AM
There will be blue birds over
the White Cliffs of Dover

(Well it is Dame Vera's big ton birthday!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 22, 2017, 09:36:24 AM
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 22, 2017, 10:47:42 AM
Quote from: ekim on March 22, 2017, 09:36:24 AM
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.

Sun is still shining
Look at the view
Moon is still dining
With me and you"


(Yes! I finally got a Moodies song on the board! I think Mike Pinder must have been on the waccy baccy when he wrote this)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 22, 2017, 03:44:10 PM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 30, 2017, 07:35:46 PM
Starlight

So Bright

(Madge)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 31, 2017, 10:28:36 AM
I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing a moonlight serenade.

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and I sing you a moonlight serenade.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 11, 2017, 01:05:02 PM
And when I go away
I know my heart can stay with my love / it's understood
It's in the hands of my love / and my love does it good
Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo / my love does it good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 11, 2017, 03:26:09 PM
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu!
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 11, 2017, 03:29:39 PM
Meine Damen und Herren-
 Mes dames et Messieurs-
 Ladies and Gentlemen,
 Where are your troubles now?
 Forgotten, I told you so!
 We have no troubles here
 Here life is beautiful.
 The girls are beautiful.
 Even the orchestra is beautiful.
 Aufwiedersehen!
А bientôt!

(Ok so not strictly speaking a song, but I don't care)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 11, 2017, 03:34:49 PM
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Don't let your joy and laughter hear the snag
Smile boys, that's the style
What's the use of worrying
It never was worth while
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 11, 2017, 03:40:41 PM



Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you’ll just
Smile


(Music by Charlie Chaplin)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 11, 2017, 03:57:54 PM
Flowers are smiling bright
 Smiling for our delight
 Smiling so tenderly
 For all the world, you and me

I know why the world is smiling
 Smiling so tenderly
 It hears the same old story
 Through all eternity

Love, this is my song
 Here is a song, a serenade to you
 The world cannot be wrong
 If in this world there is you

(Chaplin again)


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 11, 2017, 04:11:45 PM
Serenade
Our love is a serenade
A song the heavens made and angels played
When first we kissed
We touched and I became divine my love
Because of you the stars that shine my love
They're mine my love.

Serenade
Our love is the serenade
A song of sweet desire
No earthly choir could quite resist
I have known the magic of
A theme that cannot fake
Our serenade of love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 02:28:09 PM

Did you see the lights
As they fell all around you
Did you hear the music
Serenade from the stars

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 13, 2017, 02:37:12 PM
The stars at night - are big and bright
Deep in the heart of texas.
The prairie sky - is wide and high
Deep in the heart of texas.
The sage in bloom - is like perfume
Deep in the heart of texas.
Reminds me of - the one I love
Deep in the heart of texas.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 02:51:08 PM
There's a yellow rose in Texas that I'm gonna see
Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me
She cried, so when I left her it'd like to broke my heart
And if I'd ever find her, we never more will part
She's the sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds; they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about, Clementine, and sing of Rosalee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 13, 2017, 02:52:59 PM
Ah but has

"She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 02:55:13 PM
You keep thinking what you shouldn't be thinking
Another to far is down till you kissing ground
I'm a gonna send you back home till you crying
But Uncle Jessie he sure is gonna be proud
These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of theses days these boots are gonna walk all over you
These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of theses days these boots are gonna walk all over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 13, 2017, 03:01:41 PM
When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of the lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 13, 2017, 03:05:26 PM
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all of the time

Oh, yeah
Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
And I just can't get my poorself together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
Oh, yeah
If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 03:07:19 PM
Apologies, I see trentvoyager has posted in the meantime, but it's just too gorgeous a lyric not to share


When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell,
Songbirds sing; winter turns to spring.
Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell.
I know such enchantment can be, 'cos it happened one evening to me:

That certain night, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz,
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 03:10:07 PM

(It's the rocking chair that triggered this)


Through the night my heart was aching
And just before the dawn was breaking,
I peeked in and on her bed,
In gay profusion lying there,
Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair
If I live to be a hundred,
I will never, never know from where,
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons,
Scarlet Ribbons for her hair

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 13, 2017, 03:20:33 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 03:07:19 PM
Apologies, I see trentvoyager has posted in the meantime, but it's just too gorgeous a lyric not to share


When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell,
Songbirds sing; winter turns to spring.
Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell.
I know such enchantment can be, 'cos it happened one evening to me:

That certain night, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz,
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

I may have mentioned this before but there is a lovely rendition of this by John Le Mesurier well worth tracking down imho. He doesn't really sing it - but it's still rather beautiful.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 13, 2017, 03:24:30 PM
back to the lyrics:

Captain Scarlet,
 He's the one who knows the Mysterons' game,
 And things they plan.
 Captain Scarlet,
 To his Martian foes, a dangerous name,
 A Superman.

 They crash him, and his body may burn.
 They smash him, but they know he'll return,
 To live again.

 Captain Scarlet,
 As the Angels are flying, wing to wing,
 Into the scene,
 Spectrum is Green.

 Captain Scarlet,

 Though the Mysterons plan to conquer the Earth,
 This indestructible man will show what he's worth.

 Captain Scarlet,
 In-des-tructible,
 Captain Scarlet.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 03:25:15 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on April 13, 2017, 03:20:33 PM
I may have mentioned this before but there is a lovely rendition of this by John Le Mesurier well worth tracking down imho. He doesn't really sing it - but it's still rather beautiful.
Not to me and it is rather beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFv1653s-pY
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2017, 03:28:13 PM
Oh superman.
Oh judge.
Oh mom and dad.
Mom and dad.
Oh superman.
Oh judge.
Oh mom and dad.
Mom and dad.

Hi, I'm not home right now. but if you want to leave
a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
hello?
this is your mother. are you there? are you coming home?
hello? is anybody home?
well, you don't know me, but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready. ready to go.
You can come as you are, but pay as you go.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 13, 2017, 04:42:27 PM
I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted and my arms are open wide
Cause you know just what to say and you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much, I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2017, 05:30:20 AM

You say "Yes", I say "No".
You say "Stop" and I say "Go, go, go".
Oh no.
You say "Goodbye" and I say "Hello, hello, hello".
I don't know why you say "Goodbye", I say "Hello, hello, hello".
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.
I say "High", you say "Low".
You say "Why?" And I say "I don't know".
Oh no.
You say "Goodbye" and I say "Hello, hello, hello".
I don't know why you say "Goodbye", I say "Hello, hello, hello".

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 18, 2017, 09:47:58 AM
Continuing the McCartney farewells:

Please don't wake me until late tomorrow comes,
 And I will not be late.
 Late today when it becomes tomorrow.
 I will leave to go away.
 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye.
 Songs that lingered on my lips excite me now
 And linger on my mind.

Leave your flowers at my door
 I'll leave them for the one who waits behind.
 Far away my lover sings a lonely song
 And calls me to his side.
 When the song of lonely love
 Invites me on I must go to his side.
 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye.



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 18, 2017, 03:24:16 PM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near, and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2017, 03:53:04 PM
Its a simple understanding
Of the way you hand it over
And hold on to it, too
With the lightness of a feather
Its the web that ties together
What is true

See the others flappin
With their fingers snappin
Tryin to make it happen, too...
Its a hymn to the grace
Thats found a place in you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2017, 12:19:49 PM
I've been so lonely she can't understand the way I feel
 I'm holding on, I'm walking home alone
 I'm here without her
 It seems that all the boys appreciate her
 All the girls speak highly of her energy
 D' you think that it could work for Jane and me

 'Cos I still want her, I still remember summer
 Way back when, we both felt the same
 And I still love her, I can't stop thinking of her
 I'm having trouble understanding Jane

One by one my marbles left me
 Jane would smile but never hold me
 One night at the pool hall
 Asked her if she'd hold my cue
 Can't impress her with no fancy car
 Resigned to lean here at the bar
 I'll lose my mind
 Shiver in responsibility



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 03, 2017, 03:29:22 PM
I was all right for a while, I could smile for a while
But I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say "Hello"

Aw you wished me well, you couldn't tell
That I'd been cwying over you, cwying over you
Then you said "so long". left me standing all alone
Alone and cwying, cwying, cwying cwying
It's hard to understand but the touch of your hand
Can start me cwying.

I thought that I was over you but it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before but darling what can I do
For you don't love me and I'll always be
Cwying over you, cwying over you
Yes, now you're gone and from this moment on
I'll be cwying, cwying, cwying, cwying
Yeah cwying, cwying, over you.

Tony Angelino  (Only Fools and Horses)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2017, 03:37:56 PM
Smile though your heart is aching
 Smile even though it's breaking.
 When there are clouds in the sky
 you'll get by.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow
 Smile and maybe tomorrow
 You'll see the sun come shining through
 For you.

Light up your face with gladness,
 Hide every trace of sadness.
 Although a tear may be ever so near

That's the time you must keep on trying
 Smile, what's the use of crying.
 You'll find that life is still worthwhile-
 If you just smile.


One Charles Chaplin.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 03, 2017, 03:48:04 PM
When you're smiling, when you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you.
When you're laughing, oh when you're laughing
The sun comes shining through.

But when you're crying, you bring on the rain
So stop that sighing, be happy again.
Keep on smiling, 'cause when you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 04, 2017, 07:22:56 AM
You've done it all, you've broken every code
 And pulled the rebel to the floor
 You spoilt the game, no matter what you say
 For only metal, what a bore!

Blue eyes, blue eyes
 How come you tell so many lies?

Come up and see me, make me smile
 Or do what you want, running wild

There's nothing left, all gone and run away
 Maybe you'll tarry for a while
 It's just a test, a game for us to play
 Win or lose, it's hard to smile



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2017, 10:38:08 AM
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
He washed my sins away (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day).

He taught me how to watch, fight and pray, fight and pray
And live rejoicing every, everyday.

Oh happy day.

One for Alan  :D
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 04, 2017, 11:38:05 AM
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days,
 Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days,
 Thursday, Friday, Happy Days,
 The weekend comes, my cycle hums
 Ready to race to you

These days are ours
 Happy and free. (Oh Happy Days)
 These days are ours
 Share them with me.(Oh baby)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 04, 2017, 01:30:16 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on July 04, 2017, 11:38:05 AM
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days,
 Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days,
 Thursday, Friday, Happy Days,
 The weekend comes, my cycle hums
 Ready to race to you

These days are ours
 Happy and free. (Oh Happy Days)
 These days are ours
 Share them with me.(Oh baby)

Monday Monday
So good to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2017, 03:13:14 PM
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday-
I love you
January, February into March and April
Same way too.
May, June or July
I never let a day go by
Without a kiss
For you to remember
Just in case you go away
in August or September.
In October and November not to mention
Warm December- I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 04, 2017, 04:03:40 PM
See the breaking glass
In the underpass
See the breaking glass
In the underpass
Warm leatherette

Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel
Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 04, 2017, 05:20:56 PM
On a clear day
Rise and 1ook around you
And you'll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of every mountain sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A word you've never, never heard before...
And on a clear day...On a clear day...
You can see forever...
And ever...
And ever...
And ever more. . .
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2017, 06:54:44 AM

A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 05, 2017, 08:58:39 AM
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2017, 09:04:13 AM
Tonight, tonight
The world is full of light
With suns and moons all over the place
Tonight, tonight
The world is wild and bright
Going mad
Shooting sparks into space
Today, the world was just an address
A place for me to live in
No better than all right
But here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 05, 2017, 09:13:07 AM
Tonight, tonight,
It all began tonight,
I saw you and the world went away.

Tonight, tonight,
There’s only you tonight,
What you are, what you do, what you say.

Today, all day I had the feeling
A miracle would happen --
I know now I was right.

For here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 07, 2017, 05:46:40 AM
Tonight

Rubette shawaddy
Rubette shawaddy waddy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 07, 2017, 09:15:03 AM
In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you
In the still of the night
All the world is in slumber
All the times without number
Darling when I say to you
Do you love me, as I love you
Are you my life to be, my dream come true
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 10, 2017, 01:33:27 AM
One of these nights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 10, 2017, 10:37:17 AM
It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot, not to cool down

So goodbye, dear, and Amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on August 12, 2017, 09:10:38 AM
Fings ain't what they used to be.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 12, 2017, 10:16:23 AM
What a difference a day made
Twenty four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on August 28, 2017, 05:36:05 PM
24 hours from Tulsa.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2017, 06:18:31 PM
I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on August 28, 2017, 06:40:36 PM
'There I was, digging this 'ole'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2017, 07:20:58 PM
It aint no trick
To get rich quick
If ya dig dig dig
With a shovel or a stick
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on August 28, 2017, 08:07:37 PM
'Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go (whistle whistle) hi ho, hi ho'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 29, 2017, 08:41:32 AM
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home.

Work all night on a drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 29, 2017, 09:18:56 PM
Yellow bird,
Up high in banana tree
Yellow bird

You sit all alone like me

   Did your lady friend
 Leave the nest again
 That is very sad
 Make me feel so bad

 You can fly away
 In the sky away
 You more lucky than me

 I also have a pretty man
 He not with me today
 They all the same
 The pretty men
 Make them the nest
 Then they fly away

 Yellow bird
 Up high in banana tree
 Yellow bird
 You sit all alone like me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2017, 08:44:58 AM
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away.

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In lama land, there's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 30, 2017, 09:15:44 AM
And I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight,
There's nothing I know of in Rio,
But it's something to do with the night.
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight,
And I probably won't fly down to Rio,
But then again, I just might.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2017, 09:26:56 AM
The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
Stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray.

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I´ll sing once more.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Gordon on August 30, 2017, 10:36:11 AM
Moderator:

When this thread (and the previous one) first started it was based on connecting (albeit often tenuously) song titles thematically but more recently there has been a tendency to quote all or most of the lyrics of songs: where the song concerned is out of copyright there is no issue, but since that only applies to very old songs then most of the lyrics quoted will still be in copyright.

Therefore, can we ask that those wishing to quote lyrics to limit themselves to a couple of verses and/or the chorus along the same lines that we apply to quotes taken from books and newspaper/magazine articles - where if the C&P is more than around 4 paragraphs we ask for it to be truncated. Put simply: please avoid quoting the entire song lyric.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 30, 2017, 10:54:33 AM
I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2017, 03:24:41 PM
Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise."
Birds in the trees seem to twitter "Louise."
Each little rose
Tells me it knows I love you, love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 30, 2017, 04:48:49 PM
Snowdrops and daffodils
Butterflies and bees

Wishing-wells
Wedding bells
Early morning dew
All kinds of everything remind me of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 08:28:03 AM
The bells are ringing for me and my gal.
The birds are singing for me and my gal.
Everybody's been knowing to a wedding they're going.
And for weeks they've been sewing every Suzie and Sal.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2017, 08:35:13 AM
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
 Ding, ding, ding went the bell
 Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings
 From the moment I saw him I fell
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 08:45:55 AM
I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2017, 08:55:56 AM
If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 09:48:12 AM
People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, needing other children
And yet letting a grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2017, 09:58:09 AM
want to live like common people
 I want to do whatever common people do
 I want to sleep with common people
 I want to sleep with common people
 Like you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2017, 11:52:30 AM
What else do the simple folk do?

They must have a system or two

They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth

And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth

What, then, I wonder, do they

To chase all the goblins away?

They have some tribal sorcery you haven't mentioned yet

Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2017, 01:09:19 PM
They say:-

We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of our human race
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 02:46:15 PM
Drink! Drink! Drink!
To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me!
Drink! Drink! Drink!
To lips that are red and sweet as the fruit on the tree!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2017, 03:21:26 PM
Ay,you're drunk you're drunk, you silly old fool
Still ye cannot see
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2017, 03:22:45 PM
New born eyes always cry with pain
 At the first look at the mornin' sun
 Fool, if you think it's over
 It's just begun


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2017, 03:23:00 PM
No one knows what it's like
 To be the bad man
 To be the sad man
 Behind blue eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2017, 03:26:30 PM
Ooh he's here again
The man with the child in his eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2017, 03:31:44 PM
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2017, 04:05:59 PM
 arm yourself against the pain
A wounded bird can give
And in the end remember
It's with you you have to live

Stand your ground I think you've got
The guts it takes to win
But you must learn to turn the keys
Before she'll let you in
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 04:39:28 PM
The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2017, 05:09:06 PM
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2017, 05:16:45 PM
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2017, 06:50:20 PM
If I were a rich man,
 Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
 All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
 If I were a wealthy man.
 I wouldn't have to work hard.
 Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
 If I were a biddy biddy rich,
 Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2017, 08:05:12 AM
We're a couple of swells
We stop at the best hotels
But we prefer the country
Far away from the city smells.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2017, 08:25:42 AM
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2017, 09:15:05 AM
When the lights go on again all over the world
And the boys are home again all over the world
And rain or snow is all that may fall from the skies above
A kiss won't mean "goodbye" but "hello to love".
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 01, 2017, 03:42:23 PM

You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2017, 04:12:41 PM

Another war and now the pound is looking weak
 And tell me have you read about the latest freak?
 We're bingo numbers and our names are obsolete
 Why do I feel bitter when I should be feeling sweet

 Hello, hello turn your radio on
 Is there anybody out there?
 Help me sing my song
 La la la life is a strange thing
 Just when you think you learned how to use it
 It's gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2017, 04:23:37 PM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
but it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that your're standing near, and ..
At the sound of your voice
heaven opens it's portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
that a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
with a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2017, 04:47:50 PM

We hold in our hearts the sword and the faith
Swelled up from the rain, clouds move like a wraith
Well after all, we'll lie another day
And through it all, we'll find some other way
To carry on through cartilage and fluid
And did you come to stare or wash away the blood?

Well tonight, well tonight
Will it ever come?
Spend the rest of your days rocking out
Just for the dead
Well tonight
Will it ever come?
I can see you awake anytime, in my head
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 02, 2017, 11:26:40 PM
Come into these arms again
And lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
Is beating like a drum
It beats for you, it bleeds for you
It know not how it sound
For it is the drum of drums
It is the song of songs
Once I had rarest rose
That ever deigned to bloom.
Cruel winter chilled the bud
And stole my flower too soon.
Oh loneliness, oh hopelessness
To search the ends of time
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 03, 2017, 10:04:40 AM
Roses are shining in Picardy,
In the hush of the silver dew,
Roses are flowering in Picardy,
But there's never a rose like you!
And the roses will die with the summertime,
And our roads may be far apart,
But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy,
'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 04, 2017, 07:58:18 PM
I saw you in the garden baby
You looked so debonair
Beware of the flowers
Because I'm sure they're gonna get you
Yeah!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 05, 2017, 09:33:33 AM
Baby face
You've got the cutest little baby face
There ain't nobody can ever take your place
You baby face
My poor hearts jumping
You started something.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2017, 11:15:03 AM
Baby don't start
Don't start with me
Yeah, if you gon' do your thing then own it
Don't stop
Don't stop for me

&

Don't stop doin' what you're doin'
Every time you move to the beat
It gets harder for me
And you know it, know it, know it
Don't stop 'cause you know that I like it
Every time you walk in the room
You got all eyes on you
And you know it, know it, know it

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 05, 2017, 02:57:03 PM
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Wo wo wo
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2017, 04:22:27 PM
How lucky can a young bloke get? At least that's what I thought at
the time,
I'd only just turned eighteen, she was thirty-nine,
But if that's the stuff that dreams are made of, be careful what you
wish for son
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 05, 2017, 05:31:30 PM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2017, 07:20:07 PM
One time ago a crazy dream came to me
I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three
I went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kinda words he could say
He said it was a bad dream
I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though
Them old dreams are only in your head
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2017, 07:47:53 PM
 i went to the doctor n'guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl u better try to have fun
No matter what u do
But he's a fool
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 06, 2017, 08:30:37 AM
I come home in the morning light
 My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
 Oh, mother dear, we're not the fortunate ones
 And girls they want to have fun
 Oh girls just want to have fun


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 06, 2017, 10:29:50 AM
I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
I've never seen you shine so bright
I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance
They're looking for a little romance, given half a chance
And I have never seen that dress you're wearing
Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes
I have been blind.

The lady in red is dancing with me, cheek to cheek
There's nobody here, it's just you and me
It's where I want to be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I'll never forget the way you look tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 06, 2017, 11:43:08 PM
(I love that song, ekim, it used to reduce me to tears when I was young  Also like the one I am quoting below)

If you wear red tonight
Remember what I said tonight
For red is the color that my baby wore
And what's more it's true
Yes, it is
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 07, 2017, 07:51:20 AM
I want some red roses for a blue lady,
Mister Florist, take my order please,
We had a silly quarrel the other day
I hope these pretty flowers, chase her blues away.

Wrap up some red roses for a blue lady,
Send them to the sweetest gal in town,
And if they do the trick, I'll hurry back to pick
Your best white orchid for her wedding gown.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 07, 2017, 07:56:55 AM




You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid turned it blue

Something better than nothing
Something better than nothing, it's giving up
We all need to do something
Try to keep the truth from showing up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 07, 2017, 08:05:49 AM
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
I love you.

He, he buys you diamonds
Bright, sparkling diamonds
But, believe me, dear, when I say
That he can give you the world, but he'll never love you the way
I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2017, 08:49:42 AM
But of course:

Diamonds are Forever.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 07, 2017, 09:30:30 AM
When I fall in love
It will be forever
Or I'll never fall in love.

In a restless world
Like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2017, 09:33:38 AM
Perhaps when you fall in love you will need a:

Moonlight Serenade.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 07, 2017, 09:37:14 AM
or a trip with Audrey Hepburn down:
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
You dream maker
You heartbreaker
Where ever you're going I'm going your way.

Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon river and me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2017, 09:38:41 AM
Or you could just go:

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
 There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
 Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
 And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2017, 03:50:38 PM
but eventually we all come down to earth:-

'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 08, 2017, 04:36:19 PM
Well...

Someday I'm coming back, and it won't be long
Before you call me and tell me to come home
Someday I'm coming back, and it won't be long
Before I'm home, home and in your arms.

What did I do my darling? That made you send me running
Told you to cast me down and throw me out
What can I tell you honey, If I don't know what I've done
All I can hope is that you ask me to come back home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2017, 05:08:29 PM
Yes, they'll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Then I awake and look around me, at the four grey walls that surround me
and I realize, yes, I was only dreaming.
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre -
arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak.
Again I touch the green, green grass of home.
Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
as they lay me neath the green, green grass of home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 08, 2017, 05:32:03 PM
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the old oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2017, 05:43:07 PM
Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.
Third boxcar, midnight train, destination, Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out clothes and shoes,
I don't pay no union dues,
I smoke old stogies I have found short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 09, 2017, 10:21:00 AM
I work at the Palace ballroom, but gee that palace is cheap
When I get back to my chilly hall room, I'm much too tired to sleep
I'm one of those lady teachers, a beautiful hostess you know
One that the palace features, at exactly a dime a throw.
Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay me
Gosh how they weigh me down.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 09, 2017, 10:48:22 PM
Perfumery, stationary, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. Going up...

First floor:
Telephones, gents ready made suits, shirts, suits, ties, hats, underwear, and shoes. Going up...

Second floor:
Carpets, travel goods, and bedding, materials, soft furnishings, restaurants, and ties. Going down...

First floor:
Telephones, gents ready made suits, shirts, suits, ties, hats. Going down...

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 10, 2017, 09:54:20 AM
I'm puttin' on my top hat,
Tyin' up my white tie,
Brushin' off my tails.
I'm dudin' up my shirt front,
Puttin' in the shirt studs,
Polishin' my nails,
I'm steppin' out, my dear,
To breathe an atmosphere
That simply reeks with class;
And I trust that you'll excuse my dust
When I step on the gas,
For I'll be there,
Puttin' down my top hat,
Mussin' up my white tie,
Dancin' in my tails.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 10, 2017, 03:20:06 PM
Judy in disguise, well that's what you are
Lemonade pies with a brand new car
Cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise, with glasses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 10, 2017, 03:38:01 PM
I am what I am
I don't want praise, I don't want pity
I bang my own drum
Some think it's noise, I think it's pretty
And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle
Why not try to see things from a different angle
Your life is a sham
Till you can shout out
I am what I am.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 10, 2017, 05:05:40 PM
Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am

I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream
Of life that keeps me alive
I gotta be me, I gotta be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 11, 2017, 11:06:02 AM
Go on now, go. Walk out the door
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I!
I will survive.
Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
And I'll survive,
I will survive, hey, hey.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 11, 2017, 09:53:42 PM
I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 12, 2017, 09:23:38 AM
Cheer up, Robby. You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And ...
Always look on the bright side of life!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 12, 2017, 11:58:01 AM
Whenever you're near I hide my tears
Behind a painted smile
You can't imagine the tears and sorrow
Behind a painted smile
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 12, 2017, 02:59:28 PM
Lover, When You're near me
And I hear you speak my name
Softly in my ear you breathe a flame.

Lover, when we're dancing
Keep on glancing in my eyes
Till love's own entrancing music dies.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 12, 2017, 04:57:18 PM
Oh I love to love
But my baby just loves to dance
He wants to dance, He loves to dance, He's got to dance
Oh I love to love
But my baby just loves to dance
Oh I love to love
But there's no time for our romance
No no no oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 13, 2017, 09:58:52 AM
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 13, 2017, 11:17:05 AM
Let the beat control your body
Let the beat control your body
Let the beat control your body
Now the my beat control your body

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 13, 2017, 03:40:21 PM
When we're together, touching each other
And our bodies do what we feel,
When were dancing, smoochin and swaying,
Tender love song softly playing,
Moove closer
Moove your body real close

Until we-ee-ee-ee
Feel like we're really making love.



Sorry about the spelling.  I get the Forbidden notice when I use that word beginning with 'M'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 13, 2017, 06:24:03 PM
You have to spell it like this:- M- O- N- E- Y  ;)

I had the last waltz with you
Two lonely people together
I fell in love with you
The last waltz should last forever
But the love we had was goin' strong
Through the good and bad we'd get along
And then the flame of love died in your eye
My heart was broke in two when you said goodbye
I had the last waltz with you
Two lonely people together
I fell in love with you
The last waltz should last forever
It's all over now
Nothing left to say

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 14, 2017, 09:09:11 AM
I could have danced all night
I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before
I'll never know what made it so exciting
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when she began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on September 14, 2017, 09:14:17 AM
Not sure what this thread is all about, but:

Drink up thi cider, drink up thi cider,
For tonight we'll merry be!
Well knock the milk-churns over,
And roll 'em in the clover -
The corn's half-cut, and so be we!

I thought a touch of levity was called for.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 14, 2017, 01:12:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1y5zNPH3g

And I'll drink and dance with one hand free
Let the world back into me and on I'll be a sight to see
Back in the high life again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 14, 2017, 03:33:57 PM
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah!
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 14, 2017, 03:38:27 PM
The room is hot and that's good
Some of my friends came by from the neighborhood
The people startin' a climb the walls
Ooh it looks like everybody is having a ball
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling

Come on!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 14, 2017, 03:43:31 PM
What a feeling
Bein's believin'
I can have it all
Now I'm dancing for my life.

Take your passion
And make it happen
Pictures come alive
You can dance right through your life.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 14, 2017, 06:20:23 PM
A-when there's no one else in sight,
A-in crowded lonely night
Well, I wait so long for my love vibration
And I'm dancing with myself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 14, 2017, 06:24:02 PM
Any time of the year, don't you hear?
Dressin' fine, makin' time
We breeze up and down the street
We get respect from the people we meet
They make way day or night
They know the in crowd is out of sight

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on September 14, 2017, 07:56:07 PM
I have often walked down this street before
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live…

(Nat King Cole version)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 14, 2017, 08:09:53 PM
With concentration
My size increased
And now I'm fourteen stories high
At least!!
Empire state human
Just a bored kid
I'll go to Egypt to be
A pyramid

(Just to note I prefer the Jeremy Brett version of Street where you live)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on September 14, 2017, 09:13:37 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 14, 2017, 08:09:53 PM
.....
(Just to note I prefer the Jeremy Brett version of Street where you live)

Ah.... Izz a Nat King Cole Fan..
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 14, 2017, 09:51:52 PM
He's tall
Good looking
And he's large
He's large
Large
Tall
Large
So large
And he's mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on September 14, 2017, 10:32:42 PM
Quote from: SweetPea on September 14, 2017, 07:56:07 PM

All at once am I several stories high

Storeys.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 15, 2017, 10:05:03 AM
Hey, Hey, Good Lookin', whatcha got cookin'
How's about cookin' something up with me.
Hey, sweet baby, don't you think maybe
We could find us a brand new recipe.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 15, 2017, 10:14:43 AM
Walking in the pouring rain
 Walking with Jesus and Jane
 Jane was in her turtleneck
 I was much happier then

 If I were to ask you
 What would you do with yourself?
 If I were to tell you
 Would you just talk to yourself?

 Am I asking oh for so much?
 I'm not asking to be understood
 Am I asking oh for so much?
 I'm just looking for a brand new friend
 A brand new friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 15, 2017, 06:51:52 PM
I'll be there for you
(When the rain starts to pour)
I'll be there for you
(Like I've been there before)
I'll be there for you
('Cause you're there for me too)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 16, 2017, 10:03:01 AM
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Amen
I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna let myself get,
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Every Specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 16, 2017, 10:32:18 AM

When he snores I want the force to blow the bedclothes to the floor
And the breezes from his wheezes to knock the padlock off the door
When I come home some morning all dressed up like Esther's horse
I want him to grab me and tear all of my clothes, just to let me know who's boss
I want a two-fisted, double-jointed, rough and ready man
I want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 16, 2017, 10:38:36 AM
I got a man with two left feet
And when he dances down to the beat
I really think that he should know
That his rhythms go go go
Does he wash up?
He never wash up
Does he clean up?
No, he never cleans up
Does he brush up?
He never brushed up
He does nothing
The boy does nothing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 16, 2017, 10:42:29 AM
My baby he don't talk sweet
He ain't got much to say
But he loves me, loves me, loves me
I know that he loves me anyway
And maybe he don't dress fine
But I don't really mind
Because every time he pulls me near
I just want to cheer
Let's hear it for the boy
Let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby
You know you go to understand


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 16, 2017, 02:45:11 PM
Love me or leave me
Or let me be lonely
You won't believe me, I love you only
I'd rather be lonely
Then happy with someone else.

You might find the night time
The right time for kissing
But night time is my time
For just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting
With somebody else.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 16, 2017, 06:40:39 PM
'm sticking with you
Cause I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 17, 2017, 09:32:44 AM
Anything you can do, I can do better.
I can do anything better than you.
Frank: I can shoot a partridge, with a single cartridge.
Annie: I can get a sparrow, with a bow and arrow.
Frank: I can live on bread and cheese.
Annie: And only on that?
Frank: Yes.
Annie: So can a rat!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 17, 2017, 01:46:28 PM
I shot the sheriff
but I didn't shoot the deputy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 17, 2017, 03:00:25 PM
Mama, just killed a man
Puut a gun against his head
Pulled the trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2017, 06:50:04 PM
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 19, 2017, 10:31:50 AM
Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh Monday morning, Monday morning couldn´t guarantee
That Monday evening you would still be here with me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2017, 11:34:01 AM
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows, she comes and goes

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 19, 2017, 03:10:20 PM
Dancing in the dark,
Till the tune end
We’re dancing in the dark,
And it soon ends.
We’re waltzing in the wonder
Of why we’re here;
Time hurries by,
We’re here and gone.
Looking for the light
Of a new love
To brighten up the night.
I have you to love,
And we can face the music together;
Dancing in the dark.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 19, 2017, 07:46:20 PM
Tender hands to hold me, I need tender hands tonight,
Will you lay them on my shoulders,
Will you lay them on my eyes,
And I need tender hands to take me,
All the way to paradise, and then, when it's over,
I need tender hands to hold me through the night;
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 20, 2017, 10:11:52 AM
I'll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step every day !
I'm gonna get there at any price;
Stand aside, I'm on my way !
I've got the blues
And up above it's so fair.
Shoes ! Go on and carry me there !
I'll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step every day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2017, 10:42:13 AM
She gotta dance, she gotta dance
 And she can't stop 'till them shoes come off
 These shoes do, a kind of voodoo
 They're gonna make her dance 'till her legs fall off

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2017, 02:43:42 PM
My lady loves to dance, my lady loves to sing
My lady has the sparkle of a diamond ring
When purple shadows fall and silver moonlight beams
My lady love to dance in my dreams
She loves a carousel, a roller coaster ride
A party or a picnic by the ocean side
And like a laughing brook the dancers in the sun
My lady has a barrel of fun
Life is a gay thing, play thing, hit parade thing
Not a worry not a care
If there's a trombone toottin' a flute a-fluttin'
Sure as shootin' we'll be there
My lady loves to dance, my lady loves to sing
A schottische or a polka or a gaylin' fling
And when we kiss goodnight the moment we're apart
My lady loves to dance, my lady loves to sing
Sing and dance in my heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 20, 2017, 02:50:22 PM
You can dance every dance with the guy
Who gives you the eye, let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile for the man
Who held your hand neath the pale moon light
But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darling save the last dance for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2017, 03:00:05 PM

 Say, we can act if we want to
 If we don't, nobody will
 And you can act real rude and totally removed
 And I can act like an imbecile

 And say, we can dance, we can dance
 Everything's out of control
 We can dance, we can dance
 They're doing it from pole to pole
 We can dance, we can dance
 Everybody look at your hands
 We can dance, we can dance
 Everybody's taking the chance
 Safety dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 20, 2017, 03:22:11 PM
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek.

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 29, 2017, 05:25:31 PM
Wanna naach all night (2)
Do you feel alright
Wanna naach all night
Dance with me baby, won't you dance with me all night
Won’t you party party party, won't you run the floor all night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 29, 2017, 05:45:07 PM
I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
I'm singing and dancing in the rain!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2017, 05:59:53 PM

One day this love will all blow over
Time for leaving the parade
Is there a place in this city
A place to always feel this way
And hey, there's a red car in the fountain
Tinseltown in the rain
Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 29, 2017, 06:37:34 PM
Some day my prince will come
Some day we'll meet again
And away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know
Some day when spring is here
We'll find our love anew
And the birds will sing
And wedding bells will ring
Some day when my dreams come true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 30, 2017, 10:21:28 AM
The bells are ringing for me and my gal
Oh the birds are singing for me and my gal
Well everyone's been knowing to a wedding there going
And for weeks they've been sewing, every Susie and Sal.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2017, 10:56:30 AM
I don't want a pizza, I don't want a piece of (experimental dog)
Peanut brittle, I don't want a pear.
I don't want a bagel I don't want a bean I wouldn't like (salivating dog)
A bag of beef or a beer or a
Cup of chowder, corn, cake, or creamed cauliflower cause I'm (good dog)
Waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing (waiting for the dinner bell)
Dinner bell dinner bell ring
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2017, 01:39:13 PM
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you'd be true
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 30, 2017, 02:28:19 PM
When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky
You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.
When you spot a John waiting out in the rain
Chances are he's insane as only a John can be for a Jane.
When you meet a gent paying all kinds of rent
For a flat that could flatten the Taj Mahal.
Call it sad, call it funny.
But it's better than even money
That the guy's only doing it for some doll.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2017, 03:15:48 PM
(He says)
And I would do anything for love
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love
I'd never lie to you and that's a fact
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 30, 2017, 03:58:03 PM
Love is a many splendoured thing
It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring.
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
Once on a high and windy hill, In the morning mist
Two lovers kissed and the world stood still,
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing
Yes, true love's a many splendoured thing.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2017, 06:10:28 PM
March went out like a lion
Awakin' up the water in the bay;
Then April cried and stepped aside,
And along came pretty little May!
May was full of promises
But she didn't keep 'em quickly enough for some
And the crowd of doubtin' Thomases
Was predictin' that the summer'd never come
June is a love song, sweetly song
June is bustin' out all over!

(Strictly tonight :-))
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 01, 2017, 09:37:19 AM
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush, little baby, don't you cry.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 02, 2017, 05:33:51 PM
My baby don't care for shows
My baby don't care for clothes
My baby just cares for me
My baby don't care for cars and races
My baby don't care for high-tone places
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 02, 2017, 05:53:32 PM
I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice

My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry?
Father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 02, 2017, 06:03:22 PM
My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine to five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

He takes me to a movie or to a restaurant
To go slow dancing, anything I want
Only when he's with me, I catch light
Only when he gives me, makes me feel alright
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 03, 2017, 11:09:42 AM
When that midnight choochoo leaves for Alabam',
I'll be right there,
I've got my fare!
When I see that rusty-haired conductor man,
I'm gonna grab by the collar
And I'll holler,
"Alabam'! Alabam'!".

That's where you stop your train
That brings me back again,
Down home where I'll remain
Where my honey lamb am!
I will be right there with bells
When that old conductor yells,
"All aboard, all aboard, all aboard for Alabam!".
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 03, 2017, 12:32:09 PM
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 03, 2017, 03:41:04 PM
Come fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come on fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away.

Come fly with me, will float down to Peru
In llama-land there's a one-man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come on fly with me, we'll float down in the blue.

Once I get you up there
Where the air is rarefied
We'll just glide
Starry-eyed
Once I get you up there
I'll be holding you so near
You might hear
All the angels cheer because we're together.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 05, 2017, 01:30:22 AM
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly hoo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 05, 2017, 09:20:53 AM
There were bells on the hill
But I never heard them ringing,
No, I never heard them at all
Till there was you.

There were birds in the sky
But I never saw them winging
No, I never saw them at all
Till there was you.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 10, 2017, 06:45:10 PM
I get the same old dreams same time every night
Fall to the ground and I wake up
So I get out of bed, put on my shoes and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the breakup
These four wall are closing in
Look at the fix you put me in
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Since you been gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 11, 2017, 09:41:25 AM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2017, 01:08:00 PM



Here I've just lost a lifetime
I have just lost my mind
So Mr World look after that girl
The one that I just left behind at 24 Sycamore
Where did my baby go?
Who's gonna mend my rainbow?
Who's gonna separate all the swimming around

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 11, 2017, 05:00:16 PM
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2017, 05:03:02 PM
And I know that I'm still fucked up
But aren't we all, my love?
Darling, our scars make us who we are, are
So when the winds are howling strong
And you think you can't go on, hold tight, sweetheart

You'll find a rainbow, rainbow, baby
Trust me, I know life is scary
But just put those colors on, girl
Come and play along with me tonight
You gotta learn to let go, put the past behind you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2017, 07:33:32 PM
Here we are again
Fading light
Those gleaming eyes and freckled smile light up the night
Here we are alone
My lips on yours
The taste of candy and salt drives me for more
Tied to my urn with your ball-point pen
Say you love me again and again
There will never be an end
To this love my dear friend

You, colour me
You colour my soul
Paint me red in places once filled with gold
You, colour me
You colour my soul
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 12, 2017, 08:54:54 AM
There's nothing you can make that can't me made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy.

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2017, 09:15:08 AM
I make it half past six you come at seven
Always try to keep me hanging round
You little spoilt thing girl you kept me waiting
Never contemplating my point of view
This comes as no surprise
I'm a fool for I believed your lies
But now I've seen through your disguise
Who needs well I don't need who needs you?

Oh muchachos
I like it I like it
Well I don't need you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 12, 2017, 10:11:38 AM
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 12, 2017, 03:40:46 PM
Go on now, go. Walk out the door.
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh, no, not I!
I will survive.
Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
And I'll survive,
I will survive.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

We've already said "Goodbye"
Since you gotta go, oh you'd better
Go now go now, go now (Go now)
Before you see me cry?
I don't want you to tell me just what you intend to do now
'Cause how many times do I have to tell you darlin', darlin'
I'm still in love with you now
Whoa oh oh oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2017, 06:11:07 PM
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
but I don't have a dime
darlin' you're so far behind me
tomorrow's gonna find me
further down the line.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 13, 2017, 08:26:29 AM
When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Living alone
I think of all the friends I've known
When I dial the telephone
Nobody's home.

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself
Anymore.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 13, 2017, 03:26:12 PM

Doo da wop, doo bee doo da wop, do wah doo lang.
Blue days, black nights, doo wah doo lang.
I look into the sky, the love you need ain't gonna see you through,
And I wonder why, the little things you planned ain't comin' true.
Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight.
Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight.

O. K. so no one's answering,
Well, can't you just let it ring a little longer,
Longer, longer oh, I'll just sit tight,
Through shadows of the night let it ring forever more, oh, hoh hoh hoh.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 13, 2017, 03:33:05 PM
I put a nickel in the telephone, dialed my baby's number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby's number
Just a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line

Called his uncle in Jamaica
Left a message with the baker
Even checked the number in the telephone book
Got so awfully, awfully worried
To my baby's house I hurried
When I looked inside, the phone was off the hook.

And as I walked up to my baby - then
I got my baby's number
He was busy in the parlour doing fine
Busy kissing someone else
While I was keeping busy
Getting a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 13, 2017, 03:37:18 PM
I hurried back to the swimming pool
Sinkin' pina colada
I heard a dark voice beside me say
Would you like something harder
She said I've got it you want it
My harvest is the best
And if you try it you'll like it
And wallow in a dreadlock holiday
And I say
Don't like Jamaica oh no
I love her
Don't like Jamaica oh no
I love her oh yea
Don't you walk through her words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk thru her words
'Cause you ain't heard her out yet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on October 13, 2017, 09:30:54 PM
I want you to tell me why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothin' seems to be the same old way

Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away, oh me
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 14, 2017, 09:25:25 AM
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by.

Make believe
that you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve in private
Cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
And walk on by (don't stop)
And walk on by (don't stop)
And walk on by.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 14, 2017, 09:30:27 AM
Now they're some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around, uh
Just like Pagliacci did
I try to keep my surface hid
Smiling in the crowd I try
But in my lonely room I cry
The tears of a clown
When there's no one around, oh yeah, baby
Now if there's a smile on my face
Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression
Don't let this smile I wear
Make you think that I don't care
'Cause really I'm sad
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 14, 2017, 09:41:17 AM
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here, at last, on the ground
You in mid-air
Send in the clowns.

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can't move
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 14, 2017, 07:46:05 PM
Used to feel we had it made
Used to feel we could sail away
Can you imagine how I feel today
Well, it seems a long time ago
You were the lonely one
Now it comes to letting go
You are the only one
Do you know what you've done

It's so funny
How we don't talk anymore
It's so funny
Why we don't talk anymore
But I ain't losing sleep
And I ain't counting sheep
It's so funny
How we don't talk anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 15, 2017, 09:42:29 AM
Don't talk of stars, burning above
If you're in love, show me
Tell me not dreams, filled with desire
If you're on fire, show me.

Never do I ever want to hear another word
There isn't one, I haven't heard
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream
Say one more word and I'll scream.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 16, 2017, 06:31:55 PM
Don't talk of love right now, dance on

Although the lights are low, forget it

Wait until we're alone, wait until we go home

Come on please, I don't tease

Just dance on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 17, 2017, 09:39:25 AM
Gotta dance!
Gotta dance!
Gotta dance!

Broadway rhythm's got me, everybody dance.
Broadway rhythm's got me, everybody dance.
Out on the gay white way and each merry café
Orchestras play taking our breath away,
Broadway rhythm's got me, everybody sing and dance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2017, 09:43:59 AM
Where's the orchestra?
Wasn't this supposed to be a musical?
Here I am,..
In the balcony,
How the hell could I have missed the overture?
I like the scenery
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 17, 2017, 10:20:01 AM
Everything that happens in life
Can happen in a show;
You can make 'em laugh,
You can make 'em cry,
Anything, anything can go!

The clown
With his pants falling down,
Or the dance
That's a dream of romance,
Or the scene
Where the villain is mean,
That's entertainment!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2017, 05:58:26 PM
Hey! Life, look at me, I can see the reality,
'Cause when you shook me, took me outta my world, I woke up.
Suddenly I just woke up to The Happening.
When you find that you left the future behind.
'Cause when you got a tender love you don't take care of,
then you better beware of,
The Happening.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 18, 2017, 09:11:33 AM
That's life, that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.

I said, that's life and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down
'Cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin' around.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2017, 08:13:34 PM
Oh, the good life, full of fun seems to be the ideal
Mm, the good life lets you hide all the sadness you feel
You won't really fall in love for you can't take the chance
So please be honest with yourself, don't try to fake romance

It's the good life to be free and explore the unknown
Like the heartaches when you learn you must face them alone
Please remember I still want you, and in case you wonder why
Well, just wake up, kiss the good life goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2017, 08:16:27 PM
Twenty five, don't recall a time I felt this alive,
So wake up boo, there's so many thing's for us to do
It's early so take your time
Don't let me rush you please
I know I was up all night
I can do anything, anything, anything
Wake up it's a beautiful morning
The sun shining for your eyes
Wake up it's so beautiful
For what could be the very last time
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2017, 08:57:56 PM
When you look at me
I can touch the sky
I know that I'm alive
When you bless the day
I just drift away
All my worries die
I'm glad that I'm alive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2017, 08:47:10 AM
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born.
And now it's all right. It's OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
You're staying alive, staying alive.
Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking,
And we're staying alive, staying alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, staying alive, staying alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, staying alive.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 08:51:46 AM
He had a home, love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes as years unfurl
One day, he crossed some line, and he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn't matter anymore

In a New York minute, everything can change
In a New York minute, you can get out of the rain
In a New York minute, everything can change
In a New York minute



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2017, 08:58:30 AM
I like New York in June, how about you?
I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?
I love a fireside when a storm is due
I like potato chips, moonlight, motor trips, how about you?

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill
And James Durantes looks give me a thrill
Holding hands in the movie show
When all the lights are low may not be new
But I like it, how about you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 19, 2017, 12:06:43 PM
Kissin' in the back row
 Of the movies on a Saturday night with you
 Holdin' hands together, you and I
 Holdin' hands together

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 12:17:44 PM

Every day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me,
the movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
reminds me that I long to be,

Homeward bound,
I wish I was homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting silently for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 19, 2017, 12:28:56 PM
I have a habit i have been trying to lose
 Everyone thinks that they know what they want
 Sometimes your drug chooses you
 There are some things that I've promised myself
 Things i haven't done yet

 It's my last cigarette
 This is my last cigarette
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 12:34:09 PM
I get no kick from champagne,
Mere alcohol,
It doesn't move me at all,
So tell me why should it be true,
That I get a kick out of you.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 19, 2017, 12:54:01 PM
I've got the money, I've got the place
You've got the figure, you've got the face
Let's get together, the two of us over a glass of champagne

I've got the music, I've got the lights
You've got the figure full of delights
Let's get together, the two of us over a glass of champagne
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 12:59:23 PM

The sounds of this small town make my ears hurt
Oh yeah, you caught me. But I caught you one worse
They say, "You want a war? You've got a war."
But who are you fighting for?
The tides out, the ship's run aground
We drown traitors in shallow water

With your backless black dress soaked to the skin
When it's said and done they're all scrambling
And we're friends, yeah we're friends
Just because we move units


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2017, 03:35:55 PM
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
Boy, you've got a friend in me
Yeah, you've got a friend in me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 04:36:12 PM
Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right thru' my open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be

When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets no love no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2017, 04:58:33 PM

Who's gonna wake me on time?
Who'll smile and say I look fine?
And who's gonna stay on my mind
The whole day through?

Who's gonna see that I'm fed?
Then who's gonna want me in bed?
But who'll watch TV instead
Because I do?

Who, if not you?
Tell me, who, if not you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 05:02:14 PM
What's happening in this world, I don't care at all
But it better not pre-empt Monday Night Football
I can't even come up with my own views
I'm taught how to think from the evening news, oh
I never dreamed that I'd spend my days
Staring at some tube emitting cathode rays
I need my TV



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2017, 05:19:50 PM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2017, 05:37:37 PM
Softly, I will leave you softly
For my heart would break if you should wake and see me go
So I leave you softly, long before you miss me
Long before your arms can beg me stay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 05:42:51 PM
I've been too long in the wind, too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains
And lying in your loving arms again
If you could hear me now
Singing somewhere in the lonely night
Dreaming of the arms that held me tight
If you could only hear me now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2017, 06:07:16 PM
Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time
I see reflections of you and me
Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me
Oh, I'm all alone now
No love to shield me
Trapped in a world
That's a distorted reality
Happiness you took from me
And left me alone
With only memories


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2017, 06:10:22 PM

Happiness to me is an ocean tide
Or a sunset fading on a mountain side
A big old heaven full of stars up above
When I'm in the arms of the one I love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2017, 11:08:04 PM
The lights shine down the valley
The wind blows up the alley
Oh how I wish I were lying in the
Arms of Mary
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 20, 2017, 09:01:08 AM
 When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you.

If your heart is in your dreams
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2017, 01:46:02 PM




With no secrets, no obsession
This time I'm speeding, with no direction
Without a reason, what is this fire?
Burning slowly, my one and only... mmm

Desire




Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 20, 2017, 02:14:55 PM
Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free.

So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I am so in love with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2017, 02:20:32 PM



Don't mind telling you, in my humble fash
That you thrill me through, with a tender pash,
When you said you care, 'magine my emoshe
I swore then and there, permanent devoshe,
You made all other men seem blah
Just you alone filled me with ahhhhhhhh...
'S Wonderful, 's marvellous

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 20, 2017, 02:23:14 PM
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous
You should care for me
'S awful nice! 'S paradise
'S what I love to see.

You've made my life so glamorous
You can't blame me for feeling amorous
Oh! 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous
That you should care for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2017, 03:01:29 PM

Strands of light upon a bedroom floor
Change the night through an open door
I'm awake but this not my home
For the first time I'm not alone
Reaching out I touch another skin
Breathing out as he is breathing in
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame
Can my love ever be the same?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 20, 2017, 05:26:08 PM
Love is a many splendored thing
It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 21, 2017, 12:55:50 PM

Once there was a thing called spring
When the world was writng verses
Like yours and mine.

All the lads and girls would sing
When we set a little tables
And drank May wine.

Now April May and June
Are sadly out of tune
Life has stuck the pin in the baloon.

Spring is here!
Why doesn't my heart go dancing ?
Spring is here!
Why isn't the waltz entrancing?
No desire, no ambition leads me,
Maybe it's because nobody needs me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 21, 2017, 02:00:18 PM
Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worries on the doorstep
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.

Can't you hear the pit-a-pat?
And that happy tune is your step
Life can be complete
On the sunny side of the street.

I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade
But I'm not afraid
Because this rover crossed over.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on October 21, 2017, 03:06:21 PM
Well he used to be somebody
And now he's someone else
Well he used to be somebody
And now he's someone else
Took apart his old life
Left it on the shelf
Sick of being someone
He did not admire
Took up all his old things
Set em all on fire

He's gonna change
Gonna change his ways
Gonna change
Gonna change his ways
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 21, 2017, 03:59:27 PM
Why am I feeling so good?
Why am I feeling so strong?
Why am I feeling when things could look black
That nothing could possibly go wrong?
This has been a most unusual day:
Love has made me see things in a different way.
Can it be? I like myself.
She likes me, so I like myself.
If someone wonderful as she is can think I'm wonderful
I must be quite a guy!
Feeling so unlike myself,
Always used to dislike myself.
But now my love has got me riding high!
She likes me, so so do I!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on October 21, 2017, 05:36:05 PM
She makes me smile
She thinks the way I think
That girl makes me wanna be better
Took her down Bleecker Street
Saw she drank the way I drink
I kiss the sky to send her blue a letter
That girl
Makes me wanna be a better man
Ye should she see fit
Gonna treat her like a real man can
She's fearless, she's free
Oh she is a real live wire
And that girl
She's got me feeling so much better
Oh you trade all the money in the world
Just to see this girl's smile
All the while, she'll make you feel so much better

Oh that girl, makes me wanna be a better man
And should she see fit, gonna treat her like a real man can
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 21, 2017, 08:19:00 PM
Say I don't look much like a lover
Doesn't mean that I won't try
Set your world on fire every once in awhile
We lie on the kitchen floor
Hot air rises and it's going to be hot as hell here soon
We are going to need some relief
Sick of leaving things half done, leaving things half said
Sick of leaving things half done, leaving things half said
Oh
I am
I am trying
The best that I can
I am
I am trying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 09:01:04 AM
Say, say, say what you want but don't play games with my affection
Take, take, take what you need but don't leave me with no direction
All alone I sit home by the phone waiting for you baby (baby)
Through the years how can you stand to hear my pleading for you dear?
You know I'm crying, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Yeah.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 10:39:00 AM
You and me
We used to be together
Everyday together always
I really feel
That I'm losing my best friend
I can't believe
This could be the end
It looks as though you're letting go
And if it's real
Well I don't want to know
Don't speak
I know just what you're saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me 'cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know what you're thinking
I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me 'cause it hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 10:45:41 AM
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah!
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 11:03:32 AM
Great times are coming
Coming down the boulevard
Coming down your avenue
I can see it from a bird’s eye view
Great times are coming
Coming to your ghetto too
Coming down the avenue
I can see it form a bird’s eye view
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 22, 2017, 11:11:04 AM
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one, and I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 11:42:41 AM
Only the lonely (Dum-dumb-dummy doo-wah)
Know the way I feel tonight (Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah)
Only the lonely (Dum-dumb-dummy doo-wah)
Know this feeling ain't right (Dum-dumb-dummy doo-wah)

There goes my baby, there goes my heart
They're gone forever, so far apart
But only the lonely know wh-why-why I cry, only the lonely
(Dum-dumb-dummy doo-wah, ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah)
(Oh, oh oh oh oh ooh-ah-ah, only the lonely, only the lonely)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 22, 2017, 11:55:04 AM
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 12:02:33 PM
Where are you?
And I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on so haunting every time
And as I stared I counted
The Webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides
Like indecision to call you
And hear your voice of treason
Will you come home and stop the pain tonight
Stop this pain tonight

Don't waste your time on me
You're already the voice inside my head (I miss you, I miss you)
Don't waste your time on me
You're already the voice inside my head (I miss you, I miss you)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 22, 2017, 12:07:54 PM
Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the Spider-Man.

Is he strong?
Listen bud,
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread
Take a look overhead

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 01:03:43 PM
All these...
I got bugs
I got bugs in my room
Bugs in my bed
Bugs in my ears
Their eggs in my head
Bugs in my pockets
Bugs in my shoes
Bugs in the way I feel about you
Bugs on my window
Trying to get in
They don't go nowhere
Waiting waiting...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 02:35:19 PM
He's a sinner
Candy-coated
For all his friends
He always seems to be alone
But they love him
Bugsy Malone

A city slicker
He can charm you
With a smile and a style all his own
Everybody loves that man
Bugsy Malone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 22, 2017, 02:42:27 PM



You can never tell when he'll show up
He gives you plenty of trouble
I guess he's just a no 'count pup
But I wish that he were double
He's a tramp, he's a rover
And there's nothing more to say
If he's a tramp, he's a good one
And I wish that I could travel his way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 03:00:00 PM
She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She likes the theatre and never comes late
She never bothers with people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp

Doesn't like crap games with barons or earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 03:00:25 PM

We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don't please
Now we looking over our new domicile
If we like we stay for maybe quite a while

Do you seeing that thing swimming round and round?
Maybe we could reaching in and make it drown
If we sneaking up upon it carefully
There will be a head for you, a tail for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 03:08:03 PM
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain
Third is the roses that grow in the lane.

No need explaining, the one remaining
Is somebody I adore
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 03:23:38 PM
Better look over your shoulder and make sure that you're alone
Better stay out of the shadows when you wonder for the fall
Better look over your shoulders because when you're on your own
It'll creep into your head and it'll never let you go
Better look over your shoulder and make sure that you're alone
Better stay out of the shadows when you wonder for the fall
Better look over your shoulders because when you're on your own
It'll creep into your head and it'll never let you go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 22, 2017, 04:04:44 PM
So many times
Said it was forever
Said our love would always be true
Something in my heart always knew
I'd be lying here beside you
On my own
On my own
On my own

So many promises never should be spoken
Now I know what loving you cost
Now we're up to talking divorce
And we weren't even married
On my own
Once again now
One more time
By myself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2017, 08:57:52 PM
She said it's really not my habit to intrude
For the more I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
So I repeat myself, at the risk of being cruel
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 23, 2017, 09:12:15 AM
Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart.

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2017, 11:56:02 AM


I'm free to choose what I please any old time
 I'm free to please what I choose any old time
 So hold me, love me, love me, hold me
 But I'm free, any old time, to get what I want
 Yes I am

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 23, 2017, 02:01:25 PM
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 23, 2017, 03:59:38 PM
I want to love you, feel you
Wrap myself around you
I want to squeeze you, please you
I just can't get enough
And if you move real slow, I'll let it go
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I want you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 23, 2017, 09:26:44 PM
Hey baby, you go your way
And Ill go mine
But in the meantime
When we're together, touchin' each other
And our bodies do what we feel
When were dancin', smoochin' and swayin'
Tender love song softly playin'
Move closer
Move your body real close
Until we-ee-ee-ee
Feel like we're really makin' love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 23, 2017, 09:50:23 PM
I say don't fake the real thing
Don't fake your love
Don't fake the real thing
Don't fake your love
Don't fake the real thing baby

I wanna feel the right connection
I don't wanna live in a fantasy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 24, 2017, 09:41:02 AM
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2017, 09:48:01 AM
(Not song lyrics, just as a little aside, when this thread, and its predecessor started, people used song titles in a sort of conversation. It was the influence of Leonard James posting larger extracts that lead to the current form. In its own way I see the thread as a sort of tribute to LJ who is much missed)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 24, 2017, 09:51:43 AM
So when I'm lying in my bed
 Thoughts running through my head
 And I feel the love is dead
 I'm loving angels instead

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2017, 10:05:45 AM

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance
When our earth is turning
How do we sleep
While our beds are burning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 24, 2017, 02:20:43 PM
Time Ain't Long

(Brownie point to anybody who can tell me the group!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 24, 2017, 03:37:46 PM
What a difference a day made
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain.

My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm a part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2017, 04:14:30 PM
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home

Work all night on a drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 24, 2017, 04:23:39 PM
Now that I've grown up to be a man
The only thing I've learned is don't give a damn
My folks are getting older, and their time ain't long
Well they're both getting old and their time ain't long

Time ain't long
Time ain't long
Time ain't long

(Ace)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 24, 2017, 05:21:32 PM
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true.

Moments to spare with someone you care
For one love affair for two
And so with time on my hands and you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 24, 2017, 05:48:44 PM
Time is on my side, yes it is.
Time is on my side, yes it is.
Now you all were saying that you want to be free
But you'll come runnin' back (I said you would baby),
You'll come runnin' back (like I told you so many times before),
You'll come runnin' back to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 25, 2017, 09:57:12 AM
I wanna run to you (oooh)
I wanna run to you (oooh)
Won't you hold me in your arms
And keep me safe from harm
I wanna run to you (oooh)
But if I come to you (oooh)
Tell me, will you stay or will you run away.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 25, 2017, 11:04:10 AM
And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God
 And I'd get Him to swap our places
 Be running up that road, be running up that hill
 Be running up that building
 Say if I only could, oh


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2017, 11:20:45 AM
My day in the hills
 Has come to an end, I know
 A star has come out
 To tell me it's time to go
 But deep in the dark green shadows
 There are voices that urge me to stay
 So I pause and I wait and I listen
 For one more sound
 For one more lovely thing
 That the hills might say!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 25, 2017, 03:52:31 PM
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the loving we've ever done.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2017, 04:05:23 PM

The branch of the linden is leafy and green
 The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
 But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
 Tomorrow belongs to me

Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come when the world is mine
 Tomorrow belongs to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 25, 2017, 04:12:18 PM
Good Morning
Good Morning
We've talked the whole night through
Good Morning
Good Morning to you.

Good Morning
Good Morning
It's great to stay up late
Good Morning
Good Morning to you.
When the band began to play the stars were shining bright
Now the milkman's on his way and it's too late to say good night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2017, 04:14:38 PM
And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their dreams of past glory
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "what are they
Marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 25, 2017, 04:22:06 PM
Shall we dance?
On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?
Shall we dance?
Shall we then say "Goodnight and mean "Goodbye"?
Or perchance,
When the last little star has left the sky,
Shall we still be together
With are arms around each other
And shall you be my new romance?
On the clear understanding
That this kind of thing can happen,
Shall we dance?
Shall we dance? Shall we Dance?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2017, 04:40:11 PM
I say we can act if we want to
If we don't nobody will
We can act real rude
And totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile
I say we can dance we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance we can dance
Everybody's taking the chance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 25, 2017, 07:15:47 PM

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do, about you now
Backbeat, the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2017, 07:20:20 PM
I've got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
And lose the beauty of the melody
Until they sound just like a symphony

That's why I go for that that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 25, 2017, 08:26:12 PM
Let's go back, back to the days of snapback caps
Before Steve Jobs was the real Big Mac
Go Mac D's and spend two pound
Get filled up and you'll get change back
Back to the days of shirts and shoes
Enfield Town meet News and Chews
Phones back then just call me with a SIM
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 26, 2017, 08:53:19 AM
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 26, 2017, 01:10:46 PM
Quote from: Robinson on October 24, 2017, 04:23:39 PM
Now that I've grown up to be a man
The only thing I've learned is don't give a damn
My folks are getting older, and their time ain't long
Well they're both getting old and their time ain't long

Time ain't long
Time ain't long
Time ain't long

(Ace)

Yes. you win the Brownie point  :) You must have the album at home, since this song was not a single?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 26, 2017, 03:44:07 PM


It's a dirty story of a dirty man,
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job,
But he wants to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
Paperback writer, paperback writer
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 26, 2017, 04:22:12 PM
People always told me be careful of what you do
And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
And mother always told me be careful of who you love
And be careful of what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth.

Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 26, 2017, 04:29:21 PM
The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go!

Sits like a man 
but he smiles like a reptile
She loves him, she loves him but 
just for a short while
She'll scratch in the sand, 
won't let go his hand
He says he's a beautician
and sells you nutrition
And keeps all your dead hair 
for making up underwear
Poor little Greenie
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 26, 2017, 04:32:20 PM
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be.

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when
I shakes 'ands with you
Or blow me a kiss
And that's lucky too.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 26, 2017, 09:42:52 PM
You got it on the side
A little one night thing
I thought it over and this time I will forgive you
Well I'm not letting go
But don't forget I know
You made your bed and she was in it, no no no

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 27, 2017, 12:05:56 AM
Ah, She Sings It So
 I Want To Put Her On The Radio
 One Day And There You Are
 Ladies And Gentleman
 A Brand New Star

 Oh I Feel Like Letting Go
 Oh I Feel Like Letting Go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2017, 08:15:32 AM
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh a oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2017, 09:14:31 AM
And now your song is on repeat
And I’m dancin' on to your heartbeat
And when you’re gone, I feel incomplete
So if you want the truth

I just wanna be part of your symphony
Will you hold me tight and not let go?
Symphony
Like a love song on the radio
Will you hold me tight and not let go?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 27, 2017, 09:31:56 AM
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2017, 10:49:39 AM
Thank you for ev'ry note of music
Thank you for ev'ry song I sing
Thank you for giving me sweet music
Thanks for ev'rything

Thank you for ev'rything you give me
Thank you for ev'rything we share
Thank you for simply being with me
Thanks for being there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2017, 01:48:08 PM



And when we die
And float away
Into the night
The milky way
You'll hear me call
As we ascend
I'll say your name
Then once again
Thank you for being a friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 27, 2017, 04:06:12 PM
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding, you can find the perfect blend
Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2017, 05:44:27 PM



Oh, I don't know why she's leaving
Or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons
But I just don't want to know
'Cos for twenty-four years
I've been living next door to Alice
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance
To tell her how I feel, and maybe get a second glance
Now I've got to get used to not living next door to Alice...

We grew up together
Two kids in the park
We carved our initials
Deep in the bark
Me and Alice
Now she walks through the door
With her head held high
Just for a moment, I caught her eye
As a big limousine pulled slowly
Out of Alice's drive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2017, 07:48:26 PM

Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door
In cars
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2017, 08:04:13 PM

Controller have mercy on me
I don't wanna do the pick-up at number 83
And the girl of my dreams left me all alone
And at number 83 is where she made her home

(Ah-hah, I see 67, I understand your problem)

Is there something else you want me to do-ooh, yeah
(Yes, you can have another job 67)
You know I'm only here to please you
(Stand by all cars, stand by)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2017, 08:15:10 PM
Riding along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity runnin' wild
Crusin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2017, 08:16:25 PM

Have you ever had a ride in a light blue car?
Have you ever stopped to think who's the slave and who's the master?
Have you ever had trouble with your automobile?
Have you ever had to push push push push?
Cartrouble oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2017, 11:34:27 PM
Hey mister, where you headed?
Are you in a hurry?
I need a lift to happy hour say oh no
Do you brake for distilled spirits?
I need a break as well
The well that inebriates the guilt
One, two
One, two, three, four

Hitchin' a ride (don't know where to go)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 28, 2017, 09:18:39 AM
I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away.

She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 29, 2017, 05:46:27 PM
So true
Funny how it seems
Always in time, but never in line for dreams
Head over heels when toe to toe
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound

I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said


(just in case anyone has wondered about the meaning in the lyrics: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/may/14/how-we-made-true-spandau-ballet)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 29, 2017, 11:15:19 PM
How can I tell you
That I love you
I love you
But I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you
That I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you
But my words just blow away
Just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
And I can't think of right words to say
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 30, 2017, 08:41:16 AM
I came home unexpectedly
 And caught her cryin' needlessly in the middle of the day
 And it was in the early spring
 When flowers bloom and robins sing, she went away

 And Honey, I miss you
 And I'm bein' good
 And I'd love to be with you
 If only I could
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 08:45:36 AM
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
Oh the morning sun in all its glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter
You can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2017, 09:27:58 AM
The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes my love you didn't need to coax
Oh, Maggie I couldn't have tried any more
You lured me away from home, just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 10:19:13 AM
Just in time
I found you just in time
Before you came my time
Was running low
I was lost
The losing dice were tossed
My bridges all were crossed
Nowhere to go

Now you're here
And now I know just where I'm going
No more doubt or fear
I've found my way
For love came just in time
You found me just in time
And changed my lonely life
That lovely day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2017, 10:30:42 AM

 The gods may throw the dice
 Their minds as cold as ice
 And someone way down here
 Loses someone dear
 The winner takes it all
 The loser has to fall
 It's simple and it's plain
 Why should I complain?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 30, 2017, 12:03:01 PM
Some people say,
Everything's gonna be okay,
Just give it a while,
You'll find you're back
Back in style
But I don't know life will get better
I am sure they know,
Sooner or later it shows, I know
That's how it goes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 03:22:12 PM
Some people they tease one another
Take pride in themselves
Keeping the other one down
Well I'm not like that at all.

Some people they hurt one another
They love to see
Hurt in the other one's eyes
Well I'm not like that at all.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2017, 03:29:57 PM
You are my fill
you're my supply of love and pride.
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. . . .

Knowing
sensing
seeing
eating
sleeping
that's just being.
Touching
testing
loving
wanting and taking



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 03:45:42 PM
My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you
And dear, I wonder if you find love
An optical illusion, too?

Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
'Cause I only have eyes for you, dear
The moon may be high
But I can't see a thing in the sky
'Cause I only have eyes for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2017, 03:56:58 PM

She'll expose you
When she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 04:14:48 PM
She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a Heaven or a Hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2017, 04:20:34 PM
Heaven is closer now today
The sound is in my ears
I can't believe the things you say
They echo what I fear
Twisting the bones until they snap
I scream but no one knows
You say I'm familiar cold to touch
And then you turn and go
Feels like heaven
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 30, 2017, 04:32:57 PM
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call, she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 30, 2017, 10:53:27 PM
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can't bind your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away from me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2017, 06:19:35 AM
You fooled me with your kisses
You cheated and you schemed
Heaven knows how you lied to me
You're not the way you seemed

You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise

You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 31, 2017, 12:49:08 PM
Down in Devilgate
Down in Devilgate
Down in Devilgate Drive

(Now one more time for Suzi!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 31, 2017, 12:52:50 PM
It's that ole devil called love again,
 Gets behind me and keeps giving me the shove again,
 Putting rain in my eyes, tears in my dreams,
 And rocks in my heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2017, 12:55:11 PM
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 31, 2017, 01:15:34 PM
Doctors orders
Say there's nothing wrong

(Apologies, I will stop here  :-[)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2017, 02:07:21 PM
I saw you there, just standing there
And I thought I was only dreaming yeah
I kissed you then, then once again
You said you would come and dance with me
Dance with me across the sea
And we could feel the motion of a thousand dreams

Oh, Doctor, doctor, can't you see I'm burning, burning
Oh, Doctor, doctor, is this love I'm feeling?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 31, 2017, 02:13:24 PM
Her: Oh doctor, I'm in trouble
Him: Well, goodness gracious me
Her: For every time a certain man
Is standing next to me
Him: Mmm?
Her: A flush comes to my face
And my pulse begins to race
It goes boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom
Boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom-boom-boom
Him: Oh!
Her: Boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom
Him: Well, goodness gracious me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 31, 2017, 03:42:24 PM
You think that they really want just you
(Better think again, better think again)
I? m the only one knows what to do
? Cause you? ve been bad, baby, oh, so bad, baby
And there? s only one thing can be done
You need a little bit of this medicine
(Just a little touch up)
Mama? s gonna give you some medicine


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 31, 2017, 04:42:25 PM
Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again
My my, just how much I've missed you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 31, 2017, 04:55:32 PM
Quote from: ekim on October 31, 2017, 04:42:25 PM
Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again
My my, just how much I've missed you?

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Cos I miss ya
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2017, 06:20:44 PM
When you said, "So long"
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying
Crying, crying

It's hard to understand
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

I thought that I was over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 31, 2017, 06:49:22 PM
So long, see you honey
You can't buy me with your money
Tracy, Daisy, they may be crazy
But I'll never be your girl
So long, see you honey
You can't buy me with your money
You know it's not worth trying
So long, so long, so long


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 31, 2017, 07:34:09 PM
Denise Denise
I'm so in love with you
Denise Denise
Iv'e got a crush on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 31, 2017, 08:06:36 PM
Thank you Humph  :D.

Hmmmmm I've got a crush on someone. Guess who
I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All day and night time give me sign
I never had the least notion that
I could fall with so much emotion

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 01, 2017, 08:35:56 AM
When I fall in love
It will be forever
Or I'll never fall in love.

In a restless world
Like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 01, 2017, 10:02:25 AM
Dancing in the moonlight
 Everybody's feeling warm and bright
 It's such a fine and natural sight
 Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 01, 2017, 10:03:54 AM

 Mr. Moonlight, come again please
 Here I am on my knees
 Begging if you please
 And the night you don't come my way
 I'll pray and pray more each day
 Cos we love you, Mr. Moonlight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 01, 2017, 10:22:21 AM
Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair
 You certainly know the right thing to wear
 Moonlight becomes you, I'm thrilled at the sight

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 01, 2017, 10:26:33 AM
In the Wonderland Zoo, we’re the certain bears who,
 stay at home every night, never quarrel or fight,
 AW, WE DON’T EVEN BITE!!!
 SO DON’T YELL HELP! HELP! here come the bears,
 HELP! HELP! here come the bears,
 HELP! HELP! here come the bears,
 LET’S SPLIT!!! HELP! IT’S THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH!!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 01, 2017, 01:04:00 PM
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My Hair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 01, 2017, 02:22:11 PM
When the moon is in the Seventh House
 And Jupiter aligns with Mars
 Then peace will guide the planets
 And love will steer the stars

 This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
 The age of Aquarius
 Aquarius!
 Aquarius!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 01, 2017, 03:09:10 PM
By the light of the silvery moon
I want to spoon
To my honey I'll croon love's tune
Honey moon, keep a-shining in June
Your silvery beams will bring love's dreams
We'll be cuddling soon
By the silvery moon.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 01, 2017, 04:56:38 PM
What a night to go dreaming, mind if I tag along
And if I say: "I love you" - I want you to know
It's not just because there's moonlight - although
Moonlight becomes you so
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 01, 2017, 09:27:41 PM
When I met you in the restaurant
 You could tell I was no debutante
 You asked me what's my pleasure
 A movie or a measure?
 I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
 Dreaming is free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 01, 2017, 09:32:50 PM
 



Mirror in the bathroom
please talk free
The door is locked
just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
that's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
while you are eating.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 01, 2017, 09:38:41 PM
When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming  Dreaming is free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 01, 2017, 09:48:05 PM
There must be an echo in here  ;D
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 01, 2017, 09:54:42 PM



vroom
Get respect from the get-go, hello
Set to the echo, pyscho
Pen got a mind of it's own, gotta write my rhymes with a timer otherwise
I'll probably vibe out to a nine minute song
As the echo follows the Maserati
As the petrol swallows,
I'm a thousand bodies away from a skeleton
Check your bible inside it, it will say this guys an elephant
I'm fly like I'm, killing the scene like I'm a villain with wings
I'll sleep when I'm 6 feet deep,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 01, 2017, 10:01:33 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on November 01, 2017, 09:48:05 PM
There must be an echo in here  ;D

Oh bum, thought it was familiar.


Down, down under the earth goes another lover

Down, down under earth goes another lover
Down, down under earth goes another lover

Twelve tongues put a hex on you
Small mouths don't dare to shout out
No fun for a night out
No fun for a night out on the town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 02, 2017, 10:14:03 AM
Here I am
Prayin' for this moment to last
Livin' on the music so fine
Borne on the wind
Makin' it mine.

Night fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 02, 2017, 10:18:47 AM
Never know how much I love you
 Never know how much I care
 When you put your arms around me
 I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever
 when you kiss me
 Fever when you hold me tight



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2017, 01:24:06 PM
I've got this fever
That I can't control
that I can't control.
Music makes me move my body
makes me move my soul

Makes me move my soul.
Doc
you better give me something

'Cause I'm burning up
yes
I'm burning up.
Doc
you've got to find a cure or we're gonna die
yes
we're gonna die.
Ijust don't know
don't know
. . .
Doc
Doc
Doc
Doc
Doctor Beat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 02, 2017, 05:20:52 PM
I've been alive forever
And I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs.

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2017, 05:30:41 PM



Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl,
You're much too young, girl
With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe
You're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth, Oh,
Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise

(a favourite of Stephen Crabb)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 02, 2017, 05:48:33 PM
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby.

There's nothing to it
Just say you wanna do it
Open up your heart
And let the loving start.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 02, 2017, 07:19:41 PM
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
I got to love one man till I die.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow,
Tell me I'm crazy, (maybe I know).
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 02, 2017, 07:22:49 PM
Gimme dat, gimme, gimme dat
 Gimme, gimme, gimme, dat ding
 (Oh, sing it one more time, mama)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2017, 07:32:32 PM

Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside the window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom

There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 02, 2017, 08:03:13 PM
It's quarter to three,
There's no one in the place 'cept you and me
So set 'em' up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

We're drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 02, 2017, 08:23:48 PM
3 o'clock in the morning
 I'm getting ready for bed
 It came without a warning
 But i'll be waiting for you baby
 I'll be waiting for you there

 So drink to me drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more
 Drink to me drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 02, 2017, 09:49:47 PM
There goes the three o'clock chime, chiming, rhyming
My heart keeps beating in time
Sounds like an old sweet love tune
Say that there soon will be a honeymoon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2017, 08:55:13 AM
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock.
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me hon'
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2017, 09:05:07 AM


Ever seen a blind man cross the road
 Trying to make the other side?
 Ever seen a young girl growing old
 Trying to make herself a bride?

 So what becomes of you my love
 When they have finally stripped you of
 The handbags and the gladrags
 That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2017, 09:17:40 AM
I've been sitting here all day thinking
Same old thing ten years away thinking
Now my days are gone, memories linger on
Thoughts of when I was boy

Pennyfarthings on the street riding
Motorcars were funny things, frightening
Bow and hoops and spinning tops
Annie gretzel's lollipops
Comic cuts, all different things

Grandad, grandad you're lovely
That's what we all think of you
Grandad, grandad you're lovely
That's what we all think of you
Grandad grandad
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2017, 01:55:22 PM
Yeuch!

I’m just sitting here reminiscing
Wondering who you've been kissing
Baby, oh-oh baby
I've been wandering all around
There must be a new guy in town
You don't love me any more
I'll get over you-a-oo baby
Although my heart's still sore
Well, you know my heart's still sore
Well, you know my heart's still sore
When I think of all the lies you told
To that young man my heart you've sold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 03, 2017, 02:12:20 PM
Baby, baby, baby
Tell me, do you really love me?
Baby, baby, baby
Will you always be there for me?
I can't live without your lovin'
Baby, can't you see?
Baby, baby, baby
Tell me, do you love me now?
I can't wait to see your face everyday
I can't explain the way I feel when I'm around you
There's a space in my heart that belongs to only you
And no one else in this world comes close to you
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Do you understand me?
Got a thing for you, and I'm not playing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2017, 02:22:30 PM
I don't know the meaning of much
I never make the best impressions
And I don't have the means of expression
To explain my obsessions

All I'm trying to tell you
All I'm trying to say
All I'm trying to tell you is this is enough
But you're walking away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2017, 03:00:58 PM
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by.

Make believe
that you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve in private
Cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
And walk on by
And walk on by
And walk on by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2017, 03:47:14 PM
If I heard your voice
I'd beg you to stay
So don't say a word
Just run, run away

Goodbye my love
My tears will fall
Now that you've gone
I can't help but cry
But I must go on
I'm sad that I have been searchin so long
You, I love you but told you
Walk away, walk on, walk on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2017, 04:32:48 PM
If your sweetheart send a letter of goodbye
It's no secret you'll feel better if you cry...
When waking from a bad dream
Don't you sometimes think it's real?
But it's only false emotions that you feel

If your heartaches seem to hang around too long
And your blues keep getting bluer with each song
Remember sunshine can be found
Behind a cloudy sky
So let your hair down and go on and cry.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2017, 04:47:05 PM
I know, somewhere, someday, I'll find
One love to take your place
One girl with an angel face
But in the meantime

I'll never get over you
No I'll never get over you
I just can't keep it a secret anymore
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2017, 05:31:02 PM
There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.

There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to learn, time to care,
Some day!

Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2017, 05:42:02 PM
Our day will come (Our day will come)
And we'll have everything
We'll share the joy (We'll share the joy)
Falling in love can bring
No one can tell me
That I'm too young to know (young to know)
I love you so (love you so)
And you love me
Our day will come (Our day will come)
If we just wait a while
No tears for us (No tears for us)
Think love and wear a smile

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 09:43:11 AM
Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you if you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find
To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart.

You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or on it's way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2017, 09:45:16 AM
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 09:53:06 AM
It's a kind of magic.
It's a kind of magic.
A kind of magic.

One dream, one soul,
One prize, one goal.
One golden glance of what should be.

It's a kind of magic.

One shaft of light that shows the way.
No mortal man can win this day.

It's a kind of magic.

The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time.

It's a kind of magic.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2017, 09:55:43 AM
Ho, ho, ho
It's magic you know
Never believe, it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so

Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning
Lazy day in bed
Music in my head
Crazy music playing in the morning light
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 10:03:11 AM
Lazybones, sleepin' in the sun
How you 'spect to get your day's work done?
You can't get your day's work done
Sleepin' in the noon day sun

Lazybones, layin' in the shade
How you gonna get your cornmeal made?
You can't get no cornmeal made
Sleepin' in that evening shade.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 04, 2017, 11:42:37 AM
The foot bone connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone connected to the knee bone,
The knee bone connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to the back bone,
The back bone connected to the neck bone,
The neck bone connected to the head bone,
Oh, hear the word of the Lord!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 04, 2017, 11:44:59 AM
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything

I'm gonna kick my feet up then stare at the fan
Turn the TV on, throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't

I'll be lounging on the couch just chilling in my Snuggie
Click to MTV so they can teach me how to dougie
'Cause in my castle I'm the freaking man

(I was looking for a song I knew when young which goes,
"Ooh lazy lady you're incredible, sensational, but never operational 'til......
...independent lady of substantial means, puts on her jeans...."

Can't find it.  Can anyone else?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 02:16:30 PM
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah!
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time.

I'm a shooting star leaping through the skies
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go go go
There's no stopping me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2017, 02:23:29 PM

I look like a little girl
Living in a big mans' world
But the ribbons that you see
Hide the real me
Loves I've left behind
Might make you think and change your mind

I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger
I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 02:42:35 PM
I'm comin' home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me
If you still want me.

Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years
Do ya still want me (still want me)
If I don't see a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2017, 02:52:00 PM
Then I awake and look around me, at the four grey walls that surround me
and I realize, yes, I was only dreaming.
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre -
arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak.
Again I touch the green, green grass of home.
Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
as they lay me neath the green, green grass of home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 04, 2017, 04:05:35 PM
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 04, 2017, 04:41:57 PM
Blue skies smilin' at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singin' a song
Nothin' but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shinin' so bright
Never saw things goin' so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2017, 09:29:18 AM
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay

Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actual
Everything is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2017, 12:32:57 PM
Hey hey hey
It's a beautiful day and I can't stop myself from smiling
If we're drinking, then I'm buying
And I know there's no denying
It's a beautiful day, the sun is up, the music's playing
And even if it started raining
You won't hear this boy complaining
'Cause I'm glad that you're the one who got away
It's a beautiful day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2017, 02:40:30 PM
It's a lovely day today
So whatever you've got to do
You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true.

And I hope whatever you've got to do
Is something that can be done by two
For I'd really like to stay.

It's a lovely day today
And whatever you've got to do
I'd be so happy to be doing it with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2017, 02:46:19 PM
I gotta have a reason to wake up in the morning
You used to be the one that put a smile on my face
There are no words that could describe how I miss you
And I miss you everyday
Yeah
And I'm never gonna leave your side
And I'm never gonna leave your side again
Still holding on girl
I won't let you go
'Cause when I'm lying in your arms
I know I'm home


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2017, 02:53:38 PM
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Tears drops rolling down on my face,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl;
You'll never come again.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.

Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
And feelings like I'll never have you
Again in my heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2017, 02:56:54 PM
I could move a mountain when your hand is in my hand
Words cannot express how much you mean to me
There must be some other way to make you see
If it takes my heart and soul, you know I'd pay the price
Everything that I possess I'd gladly sacrifice
Oh, you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I could sing
Oh, baby, oh, baby


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2017, 03:43:33 PM
Listen baby, ain't no mountain high,
Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby
If you need me call me no matter where you are
No matter how far; don't worry baby
Just call my name; I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry.

Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2017, 03:54:28 PM
No ocean no valley no mountain too high
No power on earth there's no distance too wide
No height or no depth could keep me from Your love
No failure no weakness no doubt in my mind
No prison around me could keep you outside
No not even death can pull me from Your arms
Nothing ever could separate us
Nothing ever could separate us
Nothing ever could separate us now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2017, 04:23:53 PM
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes.

Love is in the air, in the whisper of the tree
Love is in the air in the thunder of the sea
And I don't know if I'm just dreaming
Don't know if I feel safe
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when you call out my name.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2017, 08:35:29 PM
I never thought I'd miss you
Half as much as I do
And I never thought I'd feel this way
The way I feel about you
As soon as I wake up every night every day
I know that it's you I need
To take the blues away
It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love
Nothing more, nothing less
Love is the best


 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 06, 2017, 04:30:25 PM
Never know how much I love you, never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear
You give me fever - when you kiss me, fever when you hold me tight
Fever - in the the morning, fever all through the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 06:08:32 PM
I told the witch doctor, I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor, I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He told me:
Ooh, eeh, ooh, ah, ah, ting, tang, walla, walla, bing, bang
Ooh, eeh, ooh, ah, ah, ting, tang, walla, walla, bing, bang
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 06:09:40 PM
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid
Oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 06:13:05 PM
I could make you scared, if you want me to
I'm not prepared, but if I have to
He said, I can make you scared, it's kind of what I do
If you're prepared, here's what I propose to do

You're in Russia and a more than a million works of art
Are whisked out to the woods
When the Nazis find the whole place dark
They'll think god's left the museum for good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 06:15:55 PM
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 06:21:16 PM
He cried like a baby
He screamed like a panther in the middle of the night
And he saddled his pony
and went for a ride

It was the time of the preacher
in the year of 01
Now the preachin' is over
and the lesson's begun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 06:53:02 PM
I am just a lonesome cowboy
And I'm travelling all alone
I ain't even got a nickel
To call my baby on the phone
Just beyond the mountain lies a city
And I hear it calling me
Saddle up and ride you lonesome cowboy
Here is where you'll find your destiny
In my dreams the lights shine bright and pretty
Near to me and yet so far
Will I always be a lonesome cowboy
Am I only reaching for a star


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 06:55:30 PM
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime
Darlin' you're so far behind me
Tomorrow's gonna find me
Further down the line

Takin' me some paper
Pencil in my hand
I'm gonna write
Darlin' you know I feel the cold nights
Thinking of the old nights
Spent along with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 07:09:10 PM
I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main roads
Searching in the sun for another overload
I hear you singing in the wires
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 07:22:03 PM
Quote from: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 07:09:10 PM
I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main roads
Searching in the sun for another overload
I hear you singing in the wires
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

In my far from humble opinion one of the greatest songs ever written
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2017, 07:29:47 PM
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes,
With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked
Right for a smile from my nut brown rose.
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
Till my plough turns rust coloured brown.
Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside
Sits the star of the County Down.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2017, 07:52:28 PM
(Agree with your opinion o Wichita Lineman)

When Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing.
When Irish hearts are happy,
All the world seems bright and gay.
And when Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, they steal your heart away.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 07, 2017, 08:45:06 AM
I sit and wait
Does an angel contemplate my fate
And do they know
The places where we go
When we're grey and old
'Cause I have been told
That salvation lets their wings unfold
So when I'm lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel the love is dead
I'm loving angels instead
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 07, 2017, 04:57:52 PM
And if I really were an angel,
I'd float over your bed
Each night a different dream of me
I'd plant inside your head
And if I were an angel,
I tell you what I'd do
I'd appear in a vision
And I'd give my wings to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 08, 2017, 08:30:08 AM
You may not be an angel
'Cause angels are so few
But until the day that one comes along
I'll string along with you.

I'm looking for an angel
To sing my love song to
And until the day that one comes along
I'll sing my song to you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 08:35:25 AM

The saddest thing I've ever seen on my tv screen
Was a dying man who died for his dream
Toughest thing I've ever heard
Was that new-born scream in this naked world

People say I'm so automatic
People say I'm not so systematic
When I'm down I'm in manual, lord
And time on time again I walk on by
With the look of love

And with those angel eyes, woh woh
You set me on fire baby
And with those angel eyes, woh woh
C'mon now baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 08, 2017, 08:52:07 AM
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true.

Moments to spare with someone you care
For one love affair for two
And so with time on my hands and you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 03:25:16 PM
When I've been following this thread, I couldn't help but notice certain patterns so I did a bit of analysis on the songs and artists
These are the most frequently posted songs with the number showing how many times they appeared
Blue Skies   6
Dream a Little Dream of Me    6
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing   6
With a Song in My Heart   6
Baby, It's Cold Outside   5
Don't Stop Me Now   5
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   4
Angels   4
Come Fly With Me   4
Rock Around the Clock   4
Ten Cents a Dance   4


34 songs appeared 3 times


As for Artists it's a bit harder, many songs have many versions particularly those in the great American Songbook. I chose the ones that seemed most iconic to me - in some case like New York, New York this is easy but to take an example With a Song In My Heart which occurred 6 times is harder - I went with Mario Lanza as it is the first version I remember. So for artists the count was for those with 10 or higher


Frank Sinatra   37
Ella Fitzgerald   34
The Beatles   28
Nat King Cole   21
Bing Crosby   18
Doris Day   13
Judy Garland   13
Abba   12
Andy Williams   10
Dean Martin   10
Mario Lanza   10
Queen   10


Note I had a section of traditional songs that didn't seem to align to anyone and there 20 of those




 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 08, 2017, 04:00:33 PM
Thanks for that NS.

The only solid conclusions I can draw from this analysis is that a) collectively we have quite excellent taste, and b) it does seem to point to an older demographic :(
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 04:04:23 PM
If you include Wings and Paul McCartney as a solo or duet artist he appears 38 times.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 08, 2017, 04:07:22 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 04:04:23 PM
If you include Wings and Paul McCartney as a solo or duet artist he appears 38 times.

Thats more than likely down to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 04:09:12 PM
Shockingly for me there were no songs from The Kinks. Gene Kelly appeared three times more than either Elvis or Bowie. Blink 182 appeared more than The Beach Boys, REM or U2
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 08, 2017, 04:21:40 PM
NS
Yes, I started keeping a list of the songs I have posted to try not to repeat any of them, but it still happens.  I'm not sure what the motive is for this thread but is surprises me how much ?rubbish? I still have stored in my memory banks whilst at the same time more 'important' things I forget.  Must be a sign of an extended and mis-spent youth.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 08, 2017, 04:28:16 PM
You're not alone ekim!  Back to time, a fabulous song to listen to but not a love song (Pink Floyd):

Every year is getting shorter; never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Home,
Home again.
I like to be here when I can.

When I come home
Cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.

Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 04:28:48 PM
We get locked into little loops on Dreams, Moonlight, Blue and Angels at times. It was that that triggered the number crunching.  Perhaps we need to write a forum song about Blue Angels in a Moonlight Dream.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 08, 2017, 04:34:23 PM
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

 Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 04:36:57 PM




But there was something missing in her eyes

I was stumbling, looking in the dark
With an empty heart
But you say you feel the same
Could we ever be enough?
Baby we could be enough

And it's alright
Calling out for somebody to hold tonight
When you're lost, you'll find a way
I'll be your light
You'll never feel like you're alone
I'll make this feel like home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 08, 2017, 05:18:56 PM
(Chris de Burgh - "Much more than this")

Sometimes the man in me gets lonely,
When I am away from you,
And in the darkness of another hotel room,
If there's someone in the night saying,
"It's gonna be alright to ease away the pain of missing you,
What can I do?"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 12, 2017, 03:22:59 PM
Have I killed this thread?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 12, 2017, 04:10:02 PM
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 12, 2017, 04:13:57 PM
I said, love's easier when it's far away
We sat and watched a distant light
We're two ships that pass in the night
We both smile and we say it's alright
We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 12, 2017, 05:16:31 PM
I am sailing
I am sailing
Home again
'Cross the sea
I am sailing,
Stormy waters
To be near you,
To be free.

I am flying,
I am flying
Like a bird
'Cross the sky.
I am flying,
Passing high clouds
To be with you,
To be free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 12, 2017, 06:50:17 PM
Old Man Rhythm is-a in my shoes
It's no use sittin' here singin' the blues
So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
Chorus:
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 13, 2017, 08:55:53 AM
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my gal
Who could ask for anything more
I've got daisies in green pastures
I've got my gal
Who could ask for anything more.

Old man trouble I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I've got starlight
I've got sweet dreams
I've got my gal
Who could ask for anything more.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 13, 2017, 10:34:23 PM
Well she got her daddy's car
And she cruised through the hamburger stand now
Seems she forgot all about the library
Like she told her old man now
And with the radio blasting
Goes cruising just as fast as she can now
And she'll have fun fun fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away
(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 14, 2017, 10:50:02 AM
She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song that summer sings
Maybe the chill that autumn brings
Maybe a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2017, 04:34:32 PM
The nights grow long
The snow up on the hill
I kissed upon your lips
Our summer's slow farewell
No time, my love
No bird his slumber wave
You're still my pretty songbird
No longer for me sing
Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh oh
Crazy love
Oh-oh
Oh season's song
Oh season's song
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 15, 2017, 09:54:40 AM
On every tree there sits a bird
Singing a song of love
On every tree there sits a bird
And every one I ever heard
Could break my heart
Without a word
Singing a song of love

A song of love is a sad song
Hi-lili Hi-lili Hi-lo
A song of love is a song of woe
Don't ask me how I know
A song of love is a sad song
For I have loved and it's so.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 15, 2017, 07:21:19 PM
I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it
I had hoped you'd see my face
And that you'd be reminded that, for me, it isn't over
Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you two
Don't forget me, I beg
I'll remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 16, 2017, 09:14:48 AM
You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 16, 2017, 07:25:32 PM
You don't have to be beautiful
To turn me on
I just need your body baby
From dusk till dawn
You don't need experience
To turn me out
You just leave it all up to me
I'm gonna show you what it's all about
You don't have to be rich
To be my girl
You don't have to be cool
To rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your
Kiss,
Oh oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 17, 2017, 09:09:27 AM
You light the skies, up above me
A star, so bright, you blind me,
Don't close your eyes,
Don't fade away don't fade away,
Ohhhhhhhhh!

Yeah you and me we can ride on a star
If you stay with me girl
We can rule the world-
Yeah you and me we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side
We can rule the world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2017, 09:11:15 AM
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find You acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 17, 2017, 09:25:54 AM
Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose
When you kiss me heaven sighs
And though I close my eyes
I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart
I'm in a world apart
A world where roses bloom
And when you speak angels sing from above
Every day's words seem to turn into love songs
Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 17, 2017, 09:27:48 AM

 Gotta let me in, hey, hey, hey
 Let the fun begin hey
 I'm the wolf today hey, hey, hey
 I'll huff I'll puff
 I'll huff I'll puff and blow you away

 Say you will say you won't
 Say you'll do what I don't
 Say you're true, say to me c'est la vie
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 17, 2017, 09:42:49 AM
Say, say, say what you want but don't play games with my affection
Take, take, take what you need but don't leave me with no direction
All alone I sit home by the phone waiting for you baby (baby)
Through the years how can you stand to hear my pleading for you dear?
You know I'm crying, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2017, 12:52:03 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 17, 2017, 04:03:58 PM
I put a nickel in the telephone, dialled my baby’s number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby’s number
Just a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line

Called his uncle in Jamaica
Left a message with the baker
Even checked the number in the telephone book
Got so awfully, awfully worried
To my baby’s house I hurried
When I looked inside, the phone was off the hook.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2017, 04:13:56 PM
Hello, hello, baby
You called, I can't hear a thing.
I have got no service
In the club, you see, see
Wha-Wha-What did you say?
Oh, you're breaking up on me
Sorry, I cannot hear you,
I'm kinda busy.
K-kinda busy
K-kinda busy
Sorry, I cannot hear you, I'm kinda busy.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 17, 2017, 04:18:09 PM
Hello!
Is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted
And my arms are open wide
'cause you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much
I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2017, 05:23:15 PM
You better shape up, 'cause I need a man
And my heart is set on you
You better shape up, you better understand
To my heart I must be true
Nothing left, nothing left for me to do
You're the one that I want
(You are the one I want)
Ho, ho, ho honey
You're the one that I want


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 18, 2017, 08:43:41 AM
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
I love you.

He, he buys you diamonds
Bright, sparkling diamonds
But, believe me, dear, when I say
That he can give you the world, but he'll never love you the way
I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2017, 12:57:53 PM
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 18, 2017, 01:39:51 PM
 First you put your two knees close up tight
Then you sway 'em to the left and then you sway 'em to the right
 Step around the floor kinda nice and light
 Then you twist around twist around with all of your might
 Put your loving arms straight out in space
 Do the easy rock with style and grace
 Swing your foot way around and bring it back
 Now that's what I call ballin' the jack.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2017, 01:48:43 PM
She said it's really not my habit to intrude
For the more I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
So I repeat myself, at the risk of being cruel
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 18, 2017, 02:16:44 PM
Oh, you had me several years ago
When I was still naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain,
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you?
Don't you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2017, 05:59:50 PM
You're the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
Tear us apart, no, no
Baby, I would rather be dead

You're the best
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 19, 2017, 09:46:16 AM
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best.

I wasn't looking but somehow you found me
It tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2017, 11:46:41 AM
My girl might leave me if she hears about this
LA confidential, LA confidential
I hope she never has to hear about this
LA confidential, oh
'Cause you know I got somebody
So I can't fuck with just anybody
But sometimes I get lonely, I get lonely
So let me keep it real with you, real with you
Can't keep it real with me, real with me
When I get lonely, I get lonely
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 19, 2017, 02:58:12 PM
Only the lonely
Know the way I feel tonight
Only the lonely
Know this feelin aint right
There goes my baby
There goes my heart
They're gone forever
So far apart
But only the lonely
Know why
I cry
Only the lonely.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2017, 06:22:58 PM
A thousand hands applaud tonight
I sing my songs my star shines bright
I stop and smile, I take by bow
I leave the stage and then somehow
Backstage I'm lonely
Backstage I cry
You've gone away and each night I seem to die a little
Out on that stage I play the star
I'm famous now I've come so far
A famous fool I let love go
I didn't know I'd miss you so
Backstage I'm lonely
Backstage I cry
Hating myself since I let you say goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 20, 2017, 10:14:43 AM
I've been alive forever
And I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs.

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2017, 12:36:31 PM
Now when I see the things I want
I can take the things I see
But I keep asking myself why
And if there ain't just a little bit more for me
Here when it's time to count the cost
I keep measuring what I've lost
And wondering if you knew
It would all end up with you
Star maker
Dream breaker
Soul taker
We're happy now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 20, 2017, 02:23:23 PM
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2017, 03:47:30 PM
I'm not here to say I'm sorry
I'm not here to lie to you
I'm here to say I'm ready
That I've finally thought it through
I'm not here to let your love go
I'm not giving up oh no
I'm here to win your heart and soul
That's my goal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 20, 2017, 03:53:06 PM
I'm ready, willing & able
And honey, now it's up to you
So lay your cards on the table
And tell me what you plan to do.

I'm ready, able & willing
To join you in a little fun
But I won't take second billing
I've got to be your number one.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2017, 03:57:53 PM
I can't choose between Cinnamon and Evelyn
One of them a dancer with a body from Heaven
And then the other is a good girl, legs for breakfast
I'm tryin' to fit both into my world like Tetris
I'm no clown but I'm tryin' to juggle both
But both of them ain't feeling it
They say it's unappealing but I can't let them go
So I tell them the news
"You better work it out," 'cause I can't choose


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 20, 2017, 04:12:22 PM
You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you're sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2017, 04:41:53 PM
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 20, 2017, 04:58:14 PM
Some people they tease one another
Take pride in themselves
Keeping the other one down
Well I'm not like that at all.

Some people they hurt one another
They love to see
Hurt in the other one's eyes
Well I'm not like that at all.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2017, 05:30:23 PM
Hey
Every kiss is a door
Can I knock on yours? Can we knock a little more?
If your touch is a key
Keep on twistin', keep unlockin', keep on turnin' me

[Pre-Chorus]
Let me in
I wanna be closer to you, let you under my skin
If I let you in
You gotta be careful with it
Let me tell you again (hey)

[Chorus]
Love so soft, you ain't had nothin' softer
Break it, then you buy it, and it sure gonna cost ya
Love so soft that you can't rub off
You gon' love it, if you try it
Got you hooked, now you're caught up
Love so soft, so soft (so soft)
Love so soft, so soft (so soft)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 21, 2017, 09:40:33 AM
I've got you under my skin.
I've got you deep in the heart of me.
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me.
I've got you under my skin.
I'd tried so not to give in.
I said to myself: this affair never will go so well.
But why should I try to resist when, baby, I know so well
I've got you under my skin?

I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality.
But each time that I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 21, 2017, 10:07:14 AM
He be say you be colonial man
 You don be slave man before
 Them don release you now
 But you never release yourself

 I say you fit never release yourself
 Colo-mentality
 He be say you be colonial man
 You don be slave man before
 Them don release you now
 But you never release yourself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 21, 2017, 02:31:58 PM
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man, please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 21, 2017, 02:33:45 PM
I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day
And stop there for a moment just to watch the children play
Alone a boy was standing and when I asked him why
He turned with eyes that couldn't see and he began to cry
I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child
Just like a flower I'm growing wild
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smiles
Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 21, 2017, 02:58:16 PM
You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you're sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you.

You came along just like a song
And brighten my day
Who would have believed that you where part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 21, 2017, 03:10:34 PM
And now I tell you openly, you have my heart so don't hurt me.
 You're what I couldn't find.
 A totally amazing mind, so understanding and so kind;
 You're everything to me.

 Oh, my life,
 Is changing every day,
 In every possible way.

 And oh, my dreams,
 It's never quite as it seems,
 'Cause you're a dream to me,
 Dream to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 21, 2017, 04:01:35 PM

Who would've known that I could conquer your heart
by reflecting in someone else.
And who would've thought that I could
comfort your heart, when I can't recognize myself.
I know how she speaks and how she moves
when she doesn't know what to say
Cause her emotions carry her away.
I watch it from my rooftop, every night.
And when I go to sleep she holds my head in her arms
And she makes sure that nothing will tear us apart
And then I steal a lock of her hair, and open up my eyes
I will follow you, you will be my main direction
I study you until I get your
Everything you do is a gem in my collection
I follow you until I get your perfection
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 22, 2017, 09:36:00 AM
You're my everything
Underneath the sun
You're my everything
Rolled up into one.
You're my only dream
My only real reality
You're my idea
Of a perfect personality.

You're my everything
Everything I need
You're the song I sing
And the book I read.
You're a way beyond belief
And just to make it brief
You're my winter, summer, spring
My everything.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 22, 2017, 11:16:26 AM
I could go on singing till the moon turns pink
 Anything from Faust to Ink-a-dink-a-dink
 Love does funny things
 When it hits you this way

I could go on singing till the cows come home
 And the rooster starts to crow, crow, crow
 When I see your eyes, I go all out
 I must vocalize till you shout, "Enough already"


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 22, 2017, 01:47:10 PM
All the cattle are standin' like statues
All the cattle are standin' like statues
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by
But a little brown mav'rick is winkin' her eye

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 22, 2017, 05:12:22 PM
You take the good
You take the bad
You take them both and there you have
The facts of life
The facts of life

When the world never seems
To be living up to your dreams
Then suddenly you're finding out
The facts of life are all about you

When there's someone that you care about
It really isn't fair
They're out to slow you up
When you're growing up

When you let them flirt
And then you hurt
A waiting when your date is late in showing up
Then you're growin' up

When it's more than just the birds and the bees
You need someone telling you please
There's only one conclusion
There will always be confusion over you
It takes a lot to get 'em right
When you're learning the facts of life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2017, 05:20:36 PM
The facts of life
The facts of life
A masterpiece
Biology
Smokey water
Air conditioned
Boys 'n' girls
And automation
Chromosomes
Designer jeans
Chimpanzees
And human beings
Machines of love
Machines of love

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 22, 2017, 05:48:08 PM
Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book,
Don't know much about the french I took
But I do know that I love you,
And I know that if you love me, too,
What a wonderful world this would be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2017, 06:25:15 PM
French kissin' in the USA

Lips are in motion
Ocean to ocean to ocean, ocean to ocean to ocean
Paris is calling
Falling, we're falling, we're falling, falling, we're falling, we're falling

Lips close, then blossom like a rose
Embrasser c'est Francais
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 22, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
When he moves I watch him from behind
 He turns and laughter flickers in his eyes
 Intent and direct when he speaks
 I watch his lips
 When he drives I love to watch his hands
 White and smooth almost feminine
 Almost American
 I have to watch him
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 22, 2017, 06:45:55 PM
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
I love you
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
You move me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 23, 2017, 09:00:15 AM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens it's portals to me
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 23, 2017, 04:49:04 PM
Tune in to find my peace and solitude
These empty rooms spin, and I embrace the flaws of being human
The black and white, and sometimes the greys that stay for days
The in-between times, the meantimes that make this song of life sing
Play, rest, repeat, read exactly what is written on the sheet
"Don't deviate, " they say
But I will play what's best for me
I'll press the keys and pull the strings, create a symphony that's mine

And I'll spend my life penning my song, my song
And the verses I write will speak for me
Good girls don't make history
So I may never be what you assume (it's my song)
Don't want your hooks or auto-tune (it's my song)
If I'm off-key then that's alright with me (it's my song)
Oh, and maybe you will learn this when I'm gone (it's my song)
My song will carry on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 24, 2017, 08:48:53 AM
We all know that people are the same where ever you go
There is good and bad in everyone
And we learn to live, we learn to give each other
What we need to survive together alive

Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh lord, why don't we?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2017, 11:29:03 AM
Oooh ekim, I remember that song well. Found it so embarrassing it was like an emetic to me. :D

We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So lets start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 24, 2017, 03:27:24 PM
Yes, I know what you mean Robbie.  Meanwhile.....  :-[

Day by day
Day by day
Oh Dear Lord
Three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly
Day by day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2017, 11:38:49 PM
Sometimes I get to feelin'
I was back in the old days - long ago
When we were kids, when we were young
Things seemed so perfect - you know?
The days were endless, we were crazy - we were young
The sun was always shinin' - we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
The rest of my life's been - just a show.
Those were the days of our lives
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true -
When I look and I find I still love you.
You can't turn back the clock, you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 25, 2017, 08:34:55 AM
but...

We're riding along on the crest of a wave,
and the sun is in the sky.
All of our eyes on the distant horizon,
Look out for passers by.
We'll do the HAILING !
When all the ships around are sailing,
We're riding along on the crest of a wave,
And the world is ours.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 25, 2017, 09:02:17 AM
Standin' at the door of the Pink Flamingo cryin' in the rain,
It was a kind of so-so love
And I'm gonna make sure it doesn't happen again,
You and I had to be the standing joke of the year,
You were a runaround, a lost and found and not for me, I feel,

Take your hands off me, hey,
I don't belong to you, you see,
And take a look in my face, for the last time,
I never knew you, you never knew me,
Say hello goodbye,
Say hello and wave goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 25, 2017, 09:07:46 AM
Hello!
Is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted
And my arms are open wide
'cause you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much
I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2017, 05:01:41 PM
I believe, I believe there's love in you
Grid locked on the dusty avenues
Inside your heart, just afraid to go
I am more, I am more than innocent
But just take a chance and let me in
And I'll show you ways that you don't know
Don't complicate it,
Don't let the past dictate
Yeah,
I have been patient, but slowly I'm losing faith
So please, I know you baby
I know you baby
So please, I know you baby
I know you baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2017, 05:39:44 PM
I've found a place to live
I got it the hard way
A permanent address to give
I got it for always
Nobody can tear me loose
They tell me there's no escape
On Heartache Avenue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2017, 06:52:54 PM
The tax man's taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
And I can't sail my yacht
He's taken everythin' I've got
All I've got's this sunny afternoon
Save me, save me
Save me from this squeeze
I've got a big fat momma tryin' to break me
And I love to live so pleasantly
Live this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In the summertime, in the summertime


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2017, 07:11:15 PM

We only keep them up
For Americans to rent
Though the pipes that supply the bathroom burst
And the lavatory makes you fear the worst
It was used by Charles I
(Quite informally)

And later by George IV
On a journey north
The state departments keep their
Historical renown
It's wiser not to sleep there
In case they tumble down

But still, if they ever catch on fire
Which, with any luck, they might
We'll fight
For the stately homes of England
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2017, 07:26:39 PM
There's a crack up in the ceiling,
And the kitchen sink is leaking.
Out of work and got no money,
A Sunday joint of bread and honey.

What are we living for?
Two-roomed apartment on the second floor.
No money coming in,
The rent collector's knocking, trying to get in.

We are strictly second class,
We don't understand,
(Dead end!)
Why we should be on dead end street.
(Dead end!)
People are living on dead end street.
(Dead end!)
Gonna die on dead end street.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2017, 07:52:18 PM
I'll still do everything you want me to , want me to But you don't treat me like you used to do, use to do There must be something you can let me know (woman want genuine love) My heart's on fire. emotions overflows Second class Don't gimme now second class love Whatever you doing It's not good enough Second class, it cuts like a rock If you don't want me just get out of my life, out of my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2017, 08:24:15 PM
You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather
But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 26, 2017, 09:20:06 AM
Don't you know that it's worth
Every treasure on earth to be young at heart
For as rich as you are
It's much better by far to be young at heart.

And if you should survive to a hundred and five
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2017, 02:57:49 PM
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 26, 2017, 03:29:53 PM
Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
They are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

My little town blues
They are melting away
I gonna make a brand new start of it
In old New York
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2017, 04:16:08 PM
Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 26, 2017, 04:53:56 PM
When you're alone, and life is making you lonely
You can always go
Downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know
Downtown.

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, things 'll be great when you're
Downtown, no finer place for sure
Downtown everything's waiting for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2017, 05:03:42 PM
Paralyzed by my envy of the night
I am lost without you here
And outside it looks like rain
For the last time, I bleed myself dry tonight

And nothing I could ever write would help you understand this life
There's so much beauty when your eyes lay lost in all the city lights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 27, 2017, 08:54:15 AM
Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor
Grasp it, sense it tremulous and tender
Turn your face away from the garish light of day
Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2017, 09:24:32 AM
When it feels like the world is on your shoulders
And all of the madness has got you going crazy.
It's time to get out, step out into the street
Where all of the action is right there at your feet
well, I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
Underneath electric stars
Just come with me and we can shake your blues right away
You'll be doing fine once the music starts, oh
To the beat of the rhythm of the night, dance until the morning light.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 27, 2017, 10:26:22 AM
Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen a woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised to you heaven?
Will you ever win?

She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark
And when the sky is starless
All your life you've never seen a woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised to you heaven?
Will you ever win?
Will you ever win?
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2017, 11:47:51 AM
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, makes me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 27, 2017, 12:34:24 PM
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2017, 03:20:21 PM
Little girl, where did you come from?
A-don't you know
That we could have a lot of fun?
You just moved into my neighborhood
But you oughta be in-a Hollywood
An I want this understood
You're lookin' go-oo-ood
You're lookin' good







Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 27, 2017, 03:47:36 PM
Say, hey, good lookin'
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
Hey, sweet baby
Don't you think maybe
We could find us a brand new recipe?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2017, 03:50:50 PM

 Am I asking oh for so much?
 I'm not asking to be understood
 Am I asking oh for so much?
 I'm just looking for a brand new friend
 A brand new friend

 Walking in the pouring rain
 Walking with Jesus and Jane
 Jane was in her turtleneck
 I was much happier then
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2017, 04:01:20 PM
Happy and I'm smiling
Walk a mile to drink your water
You know I'd love to love you
And above you there's no other
We'll go walking out
While others shout of war's disaster
Oh, we won't give in
Let's go living in the past

Once I used to join in
Every boy and girl was my friend
Now there's revolution, but they don't know
What they're fighting
Let us close our eyes
Outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won't give in
We'll keep living in the past
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 28, 2017, 02:44:18 PM
For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won't say "good night" until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it

For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2017, 02:48:48 PM
Love, look at the two of us
 Strangers in many ways
 We've got a lifetime to share
 So much to say
 And as we go
 From day to day
 I'll feel you close to me
 But time alone will tell
 Let's take a lifetime to say
 "I knew you well"
 For only time will tell us so
 And love may grow
 For all we know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2017, 05:02:39 PM
She ain't got no money
Her clothes are kinda funny
Her hair is kinda wild and free
Oh, but Love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me

She talks kinda lazy
And people say she she's crazy
And her life's a mystery
Oh, but Love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 29, 2017, 04:52:44 PM
Ah! Sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning.

The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall!
For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2017, 05:03:14 PM
Don't understand it blood on your hands
And still you insist on repeatedly trying
To tell me lies
And I just don't know why, oh

This is stupid, I'm not stupid
Don't talk to me like I'm stupid
I still love you, but I just can't do this
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2017, 11:06:52 PM
 know I stand in line until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance, I know that there's a chance
You won't be leaving with me
And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place and have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I love you"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2017, 11:19:11 PM
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect.
What-a you t'ink you do? Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face!


(Nothing personal Trent)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 30, 2017, 09:17:04 AM
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 30, 2017, 09:34:15 AM
Hey, where did we go
 Days when the rains came
 Down in the hollow
 Playin' a new game

Laughin' and a-runnin' hey hey
 Skippin' and a-jumpin'
 In the misty mornin' fog with
 Our, our hearts a-thumpin' and you

My brown eyed girl
 You my, brown eyed girl

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 30, 2017, 04:26:50 PM
This room has emptied out its time to wash your face
& throw away your food leave your sister home & come
with us its not dark enough not yet louder than hell
will be well love the black night falling with every
unfamiliar scene were having much more fun!
you don't know where weve gone were having much more
fun! well crawl through your backyard & whack your
yappin dog were having much more fun!

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 30, 2017, 04:57:10 PM
Sometimes I wonder, how I spend
The lonely nights
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
And now my consolation is in the stardust of a song.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 30, 2017, 05:52:33 PM
I gave you all the that I had.
I believed every word you said.
And now you're back here to say, "Girl, I'm Sorry",
Boy, you know you're so lame, lame
And now you wanna come back,
you're crazy that's just a fact.
You can kick, can shout, can scream,
you're words don't mean a thing
Too bad, too late
I've made my new selection
Too bad, too late
I don't need your affection
Too bad, too late
It's too late for redemption
Too bad, too late
So find some consolation
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 01, 2017, 09:44:19 AM
Don't talk of stars, burning above
If you're in love, show me
Tell me not dreams, filled with desire
If you're on fire, show me.

Never do I ever want to hear another word
There isn't one, I haven't heard
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream
Say one more word and I'll scream.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2017, 12:04:04 PM
I'm saying all the things that I know you'll like
Making good conversation
I gotta handle you just right
You know what I mean
I took you to an intimate restaurant
Then to a suggestive movie
There's nothing left to talk about
Unless it's horizontally
Let's get physical, physical
I want to get physical
Let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2017, 12:07:04 PM


Cool and kind, so soft and pure, a touching moment
Heated feelings once exploded, but have melted
We were two souls torn apart with bitter ages
Through expression, not aggression, we have become one
Body talk, body talk

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2017, 12:22:11 PM
Close together in the afterglow
I remember how his loving flow
Turned the key into another world
Made a woman of a simple girl

Daylight comes as we both know it must
Soon my fantasies will turn to dust
But I would give him anything he asked
If my first love could be my last
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2017, 12:26:07 PM
Thread's gone a bit heavy breathing. Is it the influence of porn, crosses and Damian Green's computer?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 01, 2017, 01:53:44 PM
Come mister tally man tally me Banana.
Day light come and me wanna go home.
lift six foot
seven foot
eight foot
punch.
Day light come and me wanna go home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2017, 02:01:52 PM

 Gotta make out things they said
 Spent too many nights getting out of my head
 They must be mad, must be blind
 Driving me crazy right out of my mind

 Nine Nine Nine Emergency (Emergency)
 Nine Nine Nine Emergency (Emergency)
 Nine Nine Nine Emergency (Emergency)
 Nine Nine Nine Emergency
 Oh No!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2017, 02:18:29 PM
Somebody call the cops up
Lil momma done stole my heart
She's making me fall in love
She's not gonna give it up
Somebody call the cops up
Somebody call 911
Tell'em I've been shot through the heart
I've fallen and I can't get up
Somebody call the cops up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2017, 02:40:30 PM
 Hey, John, come and get me some candy goods
 Shucks, it sure feels like it’s in the woods
 Spend some time on your January trips
 You got tombstone moose up and your grave-yard whips
 If you’re anxious to find out when your friendship’s gonna end
 Come on, baby, I’m your friend!
 And I know that you know that I know that you show
 Something is tearing up your mind
 
 Tell me, momma
 Tell me, momma
 Tell me, momma, what is it?
 What’s wrong with you this time?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 01, 2017, 03:00:56 PM
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2017, 06:18:27 PM
The radio is blasting
Someone's knocking at the door
I'm looking at my girlfriend
She just passed out on the floor
I've seen so many things
I ain't never seen before
Don't know what it is
But I don't wanna see no more

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come (Mama told me she said)
She said "That ain't the way to have fun, no" (no, no)
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2017, 06:50:06 PM
Whoooa, I've been to Nice
And the Isle of Greece
While I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings
And I've seen some things
That a woman ain't supposed to see
I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2017, 07:02:41 PM
Well it's so dark you know
That the blackest clouds are here
And if I ever miss my home
It's around this time of year

And I've been here all the time
I've been here all the time
I've been here all the time
I've been here all the time
I'm not hard to find

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 02, 2017, 10:06:24 AM
Grey skies are gonna clear up
Put on a happy face
Brush off the clouds and cheer up
Put on a happy face

Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy
It's not your style
You'll look so good that you'll be glad
You decided to smile.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2017, 02:30:25 PM
So cry when you're sad
You don't have to laugh
When it's not funny
Don't try to ignore the rain
When it's not sunny

Do you have a clue how much I am afraid for you
All the things trapped in your heart
Are gonna find their way out
I know that you're going to be broken eventually
But I'm hoping for a healing starting
With your life
And love
Relationships
But this is life
This is love and we're wasting it

You've gotta stop all your pretending
It's not helping
You should know it's ok to cry
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 02, 2017, 03:43:56 PM
Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Pretending I'm doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell.

Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2017, 03:51:06 PM
Dip for diplomatic;
'Yp for hypocratic;
Dry for dry-land tourist;
Tup for Topper Norris!
See de 'ypocrites, dem a-galang deh!
See de 'ypocrites, dem a-galang deh!
See de 'ypocrites, dem a-galang deh! Man, go!
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 03, 2017, 03:20:10 PM
She is De delirious
She is I incredible
She is S superficial
She is  C complicated
She is O oh, oh, oh

She is De desirable
She is I irresistible
She is S super sexy
She is C such a cutey
She is O oh, oh, oh
D.I.S.C.O.
She is disco.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2017, 04:11:58 PM
You're written in her book
You're number thirty seven, have a look
She's going to smile to make you frown, what a clown
Little boy, she's from the street
Before you start, you're already beat
She's going to play you for a fool, yes it's true

[Chorus]
Cause everybody knows
(She's a femme fatale)
The things she does to please
(She's a femme fatale)
She's just a little tease
(She's a femme fatale)
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talk
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 03, 2017, 05:17:48 PM
Just why I stayed around?
When all I found was heartache
I believed your every word
Didn't know the hurt and pain that you'd make

But why did it take so long?
At last now I've seen the light
I've found the heart to say

No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights, lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2017, 05:40:34 PM
Well, I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, long time ago!
And I never thought I'd doubt you
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I'm slowly getting closure
I guess it's really over
I'm finally gettin' better
Now I'm picking up the pieces
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together
Putting my heart back together
'Cause I got over you, I got over you, I got over you
The day I thought I'd never get through, I got over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 04, 2017, 09:14:52 AM
And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I've traveled each and every highway
But more, much more than this
I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 04, 2017, 06:39:47 PM
And I ain't got time to waste
Let's make it

Do what you gotta do
Come on back, see me when you can
Man, I can understand how it might be
Kinda hard to love a girl like me
I don't blame you much for wanting to be free
I just wanted you to know
I've loved you better that your own kin did
From the very start it's my own fault
What happens to my heart
You see I've always known you'd go

So you just do what you gotta do, my wild sweet love
Though it may mean that I'll never kiss those sweet lips again
Pay that no mind, find that dappled dream of yours
Come on back and see me when you can
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2017, 08:53:14 PM




Oh your heart has called me closer to you
I will be all that you need
Just trust in what we're feeling
Never leave 'cause baby, I believe

In this love, sweet love
Have me calling out your name, I feel no shame
I'm in love, sweet love
Don't you ever go away, it'll always be this way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 04, 2017, 09:18:28 PM
We've already said "goodbye"
Since you gotta go, oh you'd better
Go now, go now, go now (go now, ooh)
Before you see me cry?
I don't want you to tell me just what you intend to do now
'Cause how many times do I have to tell you darlin', darlin'
I'm still in love with you now
Whoa oh oh oh
We've already said "so long"
I don't want to see you go, oh you'd better
Go now, go now, go now (go now, ooh)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2017, 04:39:22 PM

I said goodbye to Jane, goodbye to Jane
Get a kick from her forties tip boots
Goodbye to Jane, goodbye to Jane
Has them made to match up to her suits
She's a queen,
Can't you see what I mean, she's a queen,
See, see, she's a queen
And I know she's alright, alright, alright, alright
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 10, 2017, 04:44:57 PM
She keeps Moët et Chandon
 In her pretty cabinet
 'Let them eat cake,' she says
 Just like Marie Antoinette
 A built-in remedy
 For Kruschev and Kennedy
 At anytime an invitation
 You can't decline

 Caviar and cigarettes
 Well versed in etiquette
 Extraordinarily nice

 She's a Killer Queen
 Gunpowder, gelatine
 Dynamite with a laser beam
 Guaranteed to blow your mind
 Anytime

 Recommended at the price
 Insatiable an appetite
 Wanna try?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2017, 04:49:53 PM
Met you for the first time late last week
Came to dinner, it could've been bleak
But I held back
Held myself on track

Question of etiquette
Or maybe just regret

Noticed your blond hair
Your blue eyes too
I might have seemed quiet, a little shrewd
I didn't wanna touch you
You seemed so new
But you looked just like me
Eighteen years ago
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 10, 2017, 05:20:38 PM
Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
'Cause I only have eyes for you, dear
The moon may be high
But I can't see a thing in the sky
'Cause I only have eyes for you.

I don't know if we're in a garden
Or on a crowded avenue
You are here, so am I
Maybe millions of people go by
But they all disappear from view
And I only have eyes for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 10, 2017, 05:24:01 PM
This is the story of a starry night,
The faded glory of a new delight
One breathless meeting,

Two lips repeating
Three precious words that were sweet but fleeting...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 10, 2017, 08:28:20 PM
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2017, 07:13:52 AM

From Westwood to Hollywood
The one thing that's understood
Is that you can't buy time but you can sell your soul
And the closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll

And somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through

And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be is true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2017, 08:41:22 AM
When the going gets tough
Just remember it's me and you for life
And when the world is not enough
Baby, are we worth the fight?

Feeling empty, feeling used
It's like we're running off fumes
A little broken, confused
But one thing I know for sure

Ain't giving up on you, ain't giving up on you
Ain't giving up on you, ain't giving up on you
Ain't giving up on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 11, 2017, 10:04:30 AM
Ain't no stoppin' us now
We're on the move
Ain't no stoppin' us now
We've got the groove.

There've been so many things that have held us down
But now it looks like things are finally comin' around,
I know we've got a long, long way to go
And were we'll end up, I don't know.

But we won't let nothing hold us back
We're gonna get ourselves together
We're gonna polish up our act,
And if you've ever been held down before
I know that you refuse to be held down any more.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2017, 10:52:35 AM
Meeting Mr. Right, the man of my dreams
The one who shows me true love or at least it seems
With brown cocoa skin and curly black hair
It's just the way he looks at me that gentle loving stare

Finally you've come along
The way I feel about you it just can't be wrong
If you only knew, the way I feel about you
I just can't describe it, oh no no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 11, 2017, 04:24:58 PM
Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight.

You're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fears apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
Touches my foolish heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2017, 04:53:08 PM
It's over, it's over, it's over
It seems you can't hear me
When I open my mouth you never listen
You say stay, but what does that mean
Do you think that I honestly want to be reminded forever?
Don't waste your time trying to fix
What I want to erase
What I need to forget
Don't waste your time on me my friend
Friend, what does that even mean
I don't want your hand
You'll only pull me down
So save your breath
Don't waste your song on me, on me
Don't waste your time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2017, 04:59:56 PM


Here I am, I'm playing daydreaming fool again
My favourite game
And you are the one who's got my head in the clouds above
You're the one that I love and
You're my-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favourite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favourite waste of time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2017, 06:00:22 PM
Dont treat me like Im a trick
I wont treat you like youre a prick
Dont need no doctor, Im not ill
Im not your baby

Everything is all right
Everything is all right
Im not your baby...please

Cut out the poetry
Lets hit the main artery
No time for a tourniquet
Let the colours all run out of me

You brought me all kinds of goods
Now my heart is so full up it hurts
Its heavy as a shopping bag
Its full of things I should give back

Everything is all right
Everything is all right
Im not your baby...please
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 12, 2017, 10:52:19 AM
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
Then I spent so many nights Just thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along

And so you're back from outer space
I just walked in to find you here, with that look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second you'd be back to bother me

Go on now, go walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no not I, I will survive.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2017, 01:02:48 PM
I asked your mother if you were at home
She said "Yes" but you weren't alone
Well, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out, you see
I been looking around awhile, you got something for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 12, 2017, 03:52:07 PM
I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
But I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2017, 06:45:54 PM
Watching him dash away, swinging an old bouquet (dead roses)
Sake and strange divine Uh-h-h-uh-h-uh you'll make it
Passionate bright young things, takes him away to war (don't fake it)
Sadden glissando strings
Uh-h-h-uh-h-uh, you'll make it
Who'll love Aladdin Sane
Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise
Who'll love Aladdin Sane


(Part of the inspiration of my posting name)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2017, 12:08:39 AM
A man could have bad dreams and not be all he seems
Yet not be far-removed from all the noblest of extremes
Sometimes I think that sanity is just a passing fad
A man could go quite mad
Unblessed are the dull. One ceaseless, peaceless lull
One wondrous night
Storm-struck thund'rous light
Will cast me right
A sculptor lacking arms, a sorc'ror lacking charms
A fiend who frightens no one for there's no one that he harms
Whose clutches clutch at only desp'rate respite
From this dim tableau!
Knowing this is so, I hide myself in thought
Where one cannot be caught
And feed on dreams that contradicts each
Edict I've been taught
And if someday I lose my way and mind
You'll find me glad -
A man could go quite, man could go quite
Man could go quite mad!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 13, 2017, 10:23:50 AM
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man, please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command

He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 10:30:57 AM


As I was slowly passing by an orphan's home one day,
I thought I'd stop a little while just to watch the children play.
Alone, a boy was standing, and when I asked him why,
He turned with eyes that could not see and this was his reply.

I'm nobody's child, nobody's child.
I'm like a flower, just growing wild.
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smiles,
Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2017, 05:37:51 PM
I turned my back
You were gone in a flash
Like you always do
You've always gone off somewhere else
And when the phone rang
And I thought it was you
And I sprung like a kid who just got out of school
But it's almost always never you, never you
I screamed like a child
My insides went wild
When I'm alone with you
You make me feel, you make me feel
When I'm alone with you
You are the one, you are the one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 06:34:56 PM
You turned your head,
You dropped my hand.
All my sorrow, all my blues,
All my sorrow.
Shut me up, go away.
Fool of grace, you cover your face.
Kid, precious kid,
Your eyes are blue but you won't cry.
I know,
Angry tears are too dear, you won't let them go.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2017, 06:44:10 PM

With your long blond hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you
Was sorrow, sorrow
You're acting funny, try to spend my money
You out there playing your high class games
Of sorrow, sorrow
You never do what you know you ought to
Something tells me you're the devil's daughter
Sorrow, sorrow
I tried to find her cause I can't resist her
I never knew just how much I missed her
Sorrow, sorrow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2017, 07:17:38 AM
Holy water cannot help you now
See I've come to burn your kingdom down
And no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out
I'm gonna raise the stakes, I'm gonna smoke you out

Seven devils all around me!
Seven devils in my house!
See they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2017, 10:20:11 AM
They asked me how I knew my true love was true,
I of course replied, something here inside cannot be denied.
They said someday you'll find all who love are blind,
When your heart's on fire, you must realize,
Smoke gets in your eyes.
So I chaffed and then I gaily laughed,
To think that they could doubt my love,
Yet today, my love has flown away,
I am without my love.
Now laughing friends deride tears I cannot hide,
So I smile and say when a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2017, 04:25:25 PM
I left my happy home
I took off down the road
I tried to hold my tongue
I've never felt so dumb
There's only so much I can take
When you point out my every mistake
And you show me up now so everyone can see
You make a fool out of me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2017, 04:36:18 PM
No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2017, 04:44:00 PM
I left my happy home
I took off down the road
I tried to hold my tongue
I've never felt so dumb
There's only so much I can take
When you point out my every mistake
And you show me up now so everyone can see
You make a fool out of me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2017, 04:49:19 PM
See reply 1291.... Are you having a bad day?  ;)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2017, 05:11:19 PM
Nooooo!!! Sometimes when I copy something - then copy something else - the first thing I've copied comes up (once I posted something about Mick Jagger when my response should have been something serious and insightful!). It happens.  Hope the following makes up for it.

I'm a fool to want you
I'm a fool to want you
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too
I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss the Devil has known
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2017, 05:35:12 PM
Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread
And so I come to you my love
My heart above my head
Though I see the danger there
If there's a chance for me
Then I don't care.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go
But wise men never fall in love
So how are they to know
When we met, I felt my life begin
So open up your heart and let
This fool rush in.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2017, 06:01:07 PM

Love is a losing game,
and love can be a shame,
I know of a fool you see,
for that fool is me,
tell me why-ah ah ah ah ah,
tell me why?

Why do birds sing so gay?
And lovers await the break of day,
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2017, 07:55:00 PM
How sweet to be an Idiot,
As harmless as a cloud,
Too small to hide the sun,
Almost poking fun
At the warm but insecure, untidy crowd.
How sweet to be an idiot,
And dip my brain in joy,
Children laughing at my back,
With no fear of attack,
As much retaliation as a toy.

How sweet to be an idiot. How sweet.

(I checked this time that I didn't post the last thing I copied!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 15, 2017, 08:56:15 AM
The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 15, 2017, 02:04:23 PM
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 15, 2017, 03:11:12 PM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend.

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 15, 2017, 04:17:28 PM
The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want

Your loving gives me a thrill
But your loving don't pay my bills
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 15, 2017, 05:11:30 PM
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
There’s a land that’s fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
O the birds and the bees and the sycamore trees
The rock-rye springs where the whang-doodle sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 15, 2017, 05:29:40 PM
Oh this life has knocked me down to my knees
And I think it's time I get
A little bit of that promised land

(And if you, just put your arms around me
I believe I can make you a happy man)

Woah Happy Man,
Yeah Happy Man
And for a little little while
I will be a Happy Man

I aint asking for much
Just your sweet touch
And for a little little while
I'll be happy and such

Well

Sure
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 16, 2017, 09:48:43 AM
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
Washed my sins away (oh happy day)
Oh happy day (oh happy day).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 16, 2017, 04:00:54 PM
I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take
I'm I'm I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take
I'm I'm new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take take take take take
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 16, 2017, 04:37:53 PM
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 16, 2017, 05:01:54 PM
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 17, 2017, 09:54:21 AM
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life.

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 17, 2017, 12:20:34 PM
Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 17, 2017, 01:33:21 PM
Forget your troubles and just get happy
You better chase all your cares away
Sing Hallelujah, come on, get happy
Get ready for the Judgment Day.

The sun is shining, come on, get happy
The Lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout Hallelujah, come on, get happy
We're going to the promised land.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 17, 2017, 01:55:33 PM
You're the joy joy joy lighting my soul
The joy joy joy making me whole
Though I'm broken, I am running
Into Your arms of love
The pain will not define us
Joy will reignite us
You're the song
You're the song
Of our hearts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 17, 2017, 04:12:59 PM
I hear singing and there's no one there
I smell blossoms and the trees are bare
All day long I seem to walk on air
I wonder why
I wonder why
I keep tossing in my sleep at night
And what's more I've lost my appetite
Stars that used to twinkle in the skies
Are twinkling in my eyes
I wonder why

You don't need analyzing
It is not so surprising
That you feel very strange but nice
Your heart goes pitter patter
I know just what's the matter
Because I've been there once or twice
Put your head on my shoulder
You need someone who's older
A rubdown with a velvet glove
There is nothing you can take
To relieve that pleasant ache
You're not sick
You're just in love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 17, 2017, 07:45:50 PM
Never sleep at night, I'm hearing voices in my head
Telling me shit I did
Never sleep at night, I'm hearing voices in my head
Telling me shit I did
I pray Holy Father, you know why I didn't wanna do it
But I did it and I ain't bout to tell nobody but myself
I pray Holy Father, you know why I didn't wanna do it
But I did it and I ain't bout to tell nobody but myself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 18, 2017, 09:04:59 AM
You made me love you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.

You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad
But there were times
You made me feel so bad.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2017, 04:04:46 PM
If I fell in love with you
Would you promise to be true
And help me understand
'Cause I've been in love before
And I found that love was more
Than just holding hands

If I give my heart to you
I must be sure
From the very start
That you would love me more than her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 18, 2017, 05:04:20 PM
When I fall in love
It will be forever
Or I'll never fall in love.
In a restless world
Like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun.

When I give my heart
It will be completely
Or I'll never give my heart
And the moment I can feel that
You feel that way too
Is when I'll fall in love
With you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2017, 06:16:20 PM
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky scraping dove
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal

Make love your goal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 19, 2017, 10:54:19 AM
Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side

'Cause I'm your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened but I'm ready to learn
Of the power of love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 19, 2017, 03:50:11 PM

I know that when you look at me
There's so much that you just don't see
But if you would only take the time
I know in my heart you'd find
A girl who's scared sometimes
Who isn't always strong
Can't you see the hurt in me?
I feel so all alone
I wanna run to you (oooh)
I wanna run to you (oooh)
Won't you hold me in your arms
And keep me safe from harm
I want to run to you (oooh)
But if I come to you (oooh)
Tell me, will you stay or will you run away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 19, 2017, 04:53:06 PM
No more talk of darkness,
Forget these wide-eyed fears;
I'm here, nothing can harm you,
My words will warm and calm you.

Let me be your freedom,
Let daylight dry your tears;
I'm here, with you, beside you,
To guard you and to guide you.

Say you love me every waking moment,
Turn my head with talk of summertime.
Say you need me with you now and always;
Promise me that all you say is true,
That's all I ask of you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 19, 2017, 04:59:51 PM
Just runnin' scared
Each place we go
So afraid
That he might show
Yeah, runnin' scared
What would I do
If he came back
And wanted you?
Just runnin' scared
Feelin' low
Runnin' scared
You love him so
Just runnin' scared
Afraid to lose
If he came back
Which one would you choose?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 20, 2017, 10:13:04 AM
The sky was blue
And high above
The moon was new
And so was love
This eager heart of mine was singing
Lover where can you be.

You came at last
Love had it's day
That day is past
You've gone away
This aching heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 20, 2017, 05:31:59 PM

This is the first time until today
That you have to run away
I'm asking you for the first time baby
Love me enough to stay
Stay
Hey
Hey

Come back
Baby, come back
Come back
Baby, come back

I must admit I was a clown
To be messin' around
But that dosen't mean
That you 'ave to leave town
Come back
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 21, 2017, 09:28:56 AM
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air,
Where are the clowns?

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move,
Where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 21, 2017, 11:35:22 AM
I guess it's funnier from where you're standing
'Cause from over here I miss the joke
Clear the way for my crash landing
I've done it again
Another number for your notes
I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate
I'd be patient if I had the time
I could stop and answer all of your questions
As soon as I find out
How I can move from the back of the line

I'll be your clown
Behind the glass
Go 'head and laugh
'Cause it's funny
I would too if I saw me
I'll be your clown
On your favorite channel
My life's a circus, circus
Round in circle
I'm selling out tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 21, 2017, 04:34:38 PM
I love your funny face
Your sunny, funny face
Though you're a cutie
With more than beauty
You've got a lot of
Personal-I-ty for me.

You fill the air with smiles
For miles and miles and miles
Though you're no Mona Lisa
For world's I'd not replace
Your sunny-- funny face.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 21, 2017, 06:32:46 PM
Look-a there, there he goes
Ha, there goes the funny man
The life of the party, that's me

And they'd never guess
That I had a care
They'd be amazed to see me cry
When the party's through
Cry over you

Talk loud, funny man
In the crowd, funny man
You're in rare form today



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 22, 2017, 09:56:10 AM
One of us is crying
One of us is lying
In her lonely bed
Staring at the ceiling
Wishing she was somewhere else instead
One of us is lonely
One of us is only
Waiting for a call
Sorry for herself, feeling stupid feeling small
Wishing she had never left at all.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 22, 2017, 06:07:03 PM
When will I see you again?
You left with no goodbye, not a single word was said
No final kiss to seal anything
I had no idea of the state we were in

I know I have a fickle heart and a bitterness
And a wandering eye, and a heaviness in my head
But don't you remember, don't you remember?
The reason you loved me before
Baby please remember me once more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 23, 2017, 10:13:24 AM
When will I see you again
When will we share precious moments
Will I have to wait forever
Will I have to suffer
And cry the whole night trough?
When will I see you again
When will our hearts beat together?
Are we in love or just friends?
Is this my beginning
Or is this the end?
When will I see you again?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 23, 2017, 11:37:20 AM
When will I, will I be famous?
Yes, you're suitably one
With your body and the sun
Yes, you are
You've read Karl Marx
And you've taught yourself to dance
You're the best by far
But you keep asking the question
Oh, you're not supposed to mention
When will I, will I be famous?
I can't answer, I can't answer that
When will I see my picture in the paper?
I can't answer, I can't answer that
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 23, 2017, 03:53:14 PM
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother
What will I be
Will I be pretty
Will I be rich
Here's what she said to me

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be

Since I am just a boy
At school I asked my
Teacher what should I try
Should I paint pictures
Should I sing songs
This was her wise reply

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 23, 2017, 04:20:01 PM
I'm not here to say I'm sorry
I'm not here to lie to you
I'm here to say I'm ready
That I've finally thought it through
I'm not here to let your love go
I'm not giving up oh no
I'm here to win your heart and soul
That's my goal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 24, 2017, 11:03:18 AM
I'm ready, willing and able
And honey, now it's up to you
So lay your cards on the table
And tell me what you plan to do

I'm ready, able and willing
To join you in a little fun
But I won't take second billing
I've got to be your number one.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 24, 2017, 11:57:26 PM
(Though I'm only second best you're still first with me)
I tried to make you love me I've done everything I could
I thought if I tried long enough maybe someday that you would
But there was someone else before me and it's her you're lovin' still
And I know no matter what I'd do I'm only second best
Only second best that's all I will ever be
Even though I'm second best you're still first with me
And I'll be loving you when they fall my hand I guess
I love you even though I know I'm only second best
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 25, 2017, 10:06:13 AM
Father has a business strictly second hand
Everything from toothpicks to a baby-grand
Stuff in our apartment came from father's store
Even clothes I'm wearing someone wore before
It's no wonder that I feel abused
I never get a thing that ain't been used
I'm wearing second hand hats
Second hand clothes
That's why they call me
Second hand Rose.

Even our piano in the parlor
Daddy bought for ten cents on the dollar
Second hand pearls
I'm wearing second hand curls
I never get a single think that's new
Even Jake, the plumber, he's a man I adore
He had the nerve to tell me he's been married before!
Everyone knows that I'm just
Second hand Rose
From second Avenue!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 25, 2017, 01:31:50 PM
Now here's a little story
To tell it is a must
About an unsung hero
That moves away your dust
Some people make a fortune
Other's earn a mint
My old man don't earn much
In fact....he's flippin'.....skint

Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears cor blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat
He looks a proper narner
In his great big hob nailed boots
He's got such a job to pull em up
That he calls them daisy roots
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 25, 2017, 04:05:04 PM
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 25, 2017, 08:00:00 PM
Never sing for my supper
I never helped my neighbour
Never do what is proper
For my fair share of labour

I’m a poor boy
And I’m a rover
Count your coins and
Throw them over my shoulder
I may grow older

Nobody knows
How cold it grows
And nobody sees
How shaky my knees
Nobody cares
How steep my stairs
And nobody smiles
If I cross their stiles

Oh poor boy
So sorry for himself
Oh poor boy
So worried for his health
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 26, 2017, 09:04:37 AM
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 26, 2017, 07:02:26 PM
Round
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on December 26, 2017, 08:48:08 PM
Windy Miller
Windy Miller
Sharper than a thorn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 26, 2017, 09:03:39 PM
Wasn't trying to be no hip hop god or raps G.O.A.T.
Shootin' to be a rock star like its my last hope
Eyeballin' that pack of smokes do me in!
Graduatin' on the crack coke DO ME IN!
Knocked of a paddle boat in the middle of the castle moat
Kings men are yelling GRAB THE ROPE!
Three sheets to the wind!
Three sheets to the wind!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 27, 2017, 04:35:19 PM
No wind, (no wind)
No rain, (no rain)
Nor winter's cold
Can stop me, babe
(Oh, babe) baby (baby)

If you're my goal
No wind, (no wind)
No rain, (no rain)
Can stop me, babe
If you wanna go.

I know, I know you must follow the sun
Wherever it leads
But remember
If you should fall short of your desires
Remember life holds for you one guarantee
You'll always have me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2017, 09:42:58 PM
Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 28, 2017, 09:37:40 AM
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning,
Though I've loved you for a million years,
And if I thought our love was ending,
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on December 28, 2017, 01:37:05 PM
Sun is still shining look at the view
Moon is still dining with me and you
Now that we're out here open your heart
To the universe of which we're a part
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 28, 2017, 03:02:45 PM
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!
Blue moon!
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2017, 04:34:11 PM
Don't believe in all that you've been told
The sky's the limit you can reach your goal
No-one knows just what the future holds
There ain't nothing you can't be
There's a whole world at your feet
I said reach

Climb every mountain (reach)
Reach for the moon (reach)
Follow that rainbow
And your dreams will all come true

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 28, 2017, 05:14:09 PM
Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Till you find your dream.

A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2017, 06:22:36 PM
How did I know you were going to post that one?

Follow your dream
The courage found within
Your soul is keeping you so strong
That you could rise each time you fall
And stand up on your own
This time you won't go wrong
Just give your best to hold your will
Persistently, become the one
You've always aimed to be

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 29, 2017, 11:27:53 AM
Quote from: Robbie on December 28, 2017, 06:22:36 PM
How did I know you were going to post that one?

Because I'm simple minded?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 29, 2017, 11:28:39 AM
Long ago and far away, I dreamed a dream one day
And now, that dream is here beside me
Long, the skies were overcast, but now the clouds have passed
You're here at last.

Chills run up and down my spine, Aladdin's lamp is mine
The dream I dreamed was not denied me
Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for long ago was you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 29, 2017, 11:30:26 AM
Long ago and oh so far away
 I fell in love with you before the second show
 Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
 But you're not really here
 It's just the radio

 Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
 You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
 Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 29, 2017, 11:32:32 AM


Long ago,
High on a mountain in Mexico
Lived a young shepherd boy, Angelo
Who met a young girl and he loved her so

Rich was she,
Came from a very high family,
Angelo knew it could never be,
They ran away to their destiny
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 29, 2017, 11:39:24 AM
South of the border, down Mexico way.
That's where I fell in love where stars above, came out to play.
And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray.
South of the border, down Mexico way.

She was a picture, in old Spanish ways.
Just for a tender while I kissed the smile, upon her face.
For it was fiesta, and love had it's day.
South of the border, down Mexico way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 29, 2017, 11:41:25 AM
Blue Spanish eyes
 prettiest eyes in all of Mexico.
 True Spanish eyes, please smile for me once more before I go.
 Soon I'II return, bringing you all the love your heart can hold.
 Please say: si si...
 say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 29, 2017, 03:46:11 PM
Oh this year I'm off to Sunny Spain Y Viva Espana
I'm taking the Costa Brava 'plane Y Viva Espana
If you'd like to chat a matador, in some cool cabana
And meet senoritas by the score, Espana por favor

Quite by chance to hot romance I found the answer
Flamenco dancers are by far the finest bet
There was one who whispered oh hasta la vista
Each time I kissed him behind the castanette
He rattled his maracas close to me
In no time I was trembling at the knee
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 29, 2017, 05:55:26 PM
(My turn to be predictable)

And we paddled our feet,
And we watched all the swimmers,
And my holiday treat felt complete.
We drank lemonade,
And we sat in the shade,
I thought I must be on a winner
And I acted cool and discreet.
For I knew that Lavinia
Was the shyest lady that I'd ever met,
And I knew that Lavinia
Would only be my lady for the week.

It was just a holiday romance
A simple holiday romance.
I wonder should I take this chance?
Just a holiday romance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 30, 2017, 09:50:23 AM
A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you won't nestle
A fine romance, you won't wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I haven't got a chance
This is a fine romance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 30, 2017, 11:12:41 AM
Again, me being predictable and we've had this before but not for a while I think.
I looked on earlier pages of this thread and replies were more subtle than the obvious; maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to go back to that with tenuous associations? In a bit of time.

You don't have to be rich
To be my girl
You don't have to be cool
To rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your
Kiss,
Oh oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 30, 2017, 02:09:11 PM
You light the skies, up above me
A star, so bright, you blind me, yeah
Don't close your eyes
Don't fade away, don't fade away, oh
Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a star
If you stay with me, girl
We can rule the world
Yeah, you and me, we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side
We can rule the world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 30, 2017, 06:30:41 PM
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the

Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 30, 2017, 08:22:33 PM
I love Tears for Fears, Trent!

I'm the boss
I'm the boss
And just in case I didn't get my point across

Of a whole 'nother castle
Ain't no princess inside
Ain't nobody gonna come and find me
I got mad reptilian pride

If you wanna step in my kingdom
I got a real nice surprise
Ain't nobody see me coming
Even if you've got special eyes
Of a whole 'nother castle
Ain't no princess inside



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 30, 2017, 09:11:40 PM
Me too, but I love 10cc more:

I wanna be a boss
 I wanna be a big boss
 I wanna boss the world around
 I wanna be the biggest boss
 that ever bossed the world around

 I wanna do it right
 I wanna do it right away
 I wanna do it right now
 I wanna do it right away
 I wanna do it now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 30, 2017, 09:52:37 PM
Well good morning Judge, how are you today
I'm in trouble, please put me away
A pretty thing took a shine to me
I couldn't stop her so I let it be
I couldn't stop her so I let it be
I couldn't stop her so I let it be
I couldn't stop her so I let it be

He didn't do it, he wasn't there
He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 31, 2017, 11:17:11 AM
You made me love you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.

You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad
But there were times
You made me feel so bad.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 31, 2017, 05:36:03 PM
Left alone just a memory
Life seems dead and so unreal
All that's left is loneliness
There's nothing left to feel
 
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, oh believe me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 31, 2017, 06:01:46 PM
I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows
I believe for everyone who goes astray
Some one will come to show the way
I believe, I believe

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer
Will still be heard
I believe that someone in the great somewhere
Hears every word
Every time I hear a new born baby cry
Or touch a leaf or see the sky
I believe, I believe.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 31, 2017, 06:49:38 PM
One Chance One Moment One Life
Some Pain More Scaring Over Night
That Future Dream Where Your Money Looking Right
That Future Dream When Everybody One Your Side
One Chance One Moment One Life
Some Pain More Scaring Over Night
That Future Dream Where Your Money Looking Right
That Future Dream The Way You Wanna Live Your Life
So Come On!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: floo on January 01, 2018, 09:23:30 AM
Let Go Of Yesterday

Once the clock strikes twelve
Yesterday is consigned to history
The yearning hand reaches backwards
Grasping the security blanket of yesterday
Today is already rushing on a pace
But the spectre of yesterday survives
Its ectoplasmic grasp weak but still palpable
Yesterday will be fixed in time as a fly in amber
It will remain unchanged despite our regret or longing
Forward facing we must walk through today
To reach the future promised by tomorrow
Reluctantly unclasping hands we let go of yesterday.

RJG
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 01, 2018, 03:17:21 PM
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man (2018 - "person") I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 01, 2018, 05:11:43 PM
No more talk of darkness
Forget these wide-eyed fears
I'm here, nothing can harm you
My words will warm and calm you

Let me be your freedom
Let daylight dry your tears
I'm here, with you beside you
To guard you and to guide you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 01, 2018, 05:22:59 PM
I know you've been hurt
By someone else
I can tell by the way
You carry yourself
But if you'll let me
Here's what I'll do
I'll take care of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 02, 2018, 12:50:26 PM
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
Music loud and women warm
I've been kicked around since I was born
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try, to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 02, 2018, 05:18:29 PM
They seek him here, they seek him there
His clothes are loud, but never square
It will make or break him so he's got to buy the best
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion
And when he does his little rounds
'Round the boutiques of London Town
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion
Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is)
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at
And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight
He feels a dedicated follower of fashion
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 02, 2018, 05:57:08 PM
Silver rain was falling down
 Upon the dirty ground of london town.
 People pass me by on my imaginary street,
 Ordinary people it's impossible to meet,
 Holding conversations that are always incomplete.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 02, 2018, 06:19:30 PM
Without love I have no pleasures
Without love my light is dim
Without love I have no treasures
Without love my chance is slim

Without love we are like ships in the night
Without love selling our souls down the river
Sailing away and forever
Our pleasure is blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 03, 2018, 09:50:41 AM
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy
Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy
All you need is love, all you need is love
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 03, 2018, 10:15:31 AM

I love you, 'cause you tell me things I want to know.
And it's true that it really only goes to show,
That I know,
That I, I, I, I should never, never, never be blue.
Now you're mine, my happiness still makes me cry.
And in time, you'll understand the reason why,
If I cry,
It's not because I'm sad, but you're the only love that I've ever had.
I can't believe it's happened to me
I can't conceive of any more misery.
Ask me why, I'll say I love you,
And I'm always thinking of you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 03, 2018, 10:36:03 AM
How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
But I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you, but my words
Just blow away, just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
And I can't think of right words to say
Wherever I am girl, I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you, but I look and you're not there.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 03, 2018, 03:51:29 PM
If you go away
On this summer day
Then you might as well
Take the sun away
All the birds that flew
In the summer sky
When our love was new
And our hearts were high
And the day was young
And the night was long
And the moon stood still
For the night bird's song
If you go away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 03, 2018, 04:52:30 PM
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 03, 2018, 06:18:57 PM

We'll paint the grey clouds
With pretty rainbow hues
And we'll brush the gloom away
And save it for a rainy day
Rainy day

Oh, today
If troubles cast a shadow
And shadows make the sun afraid to stay
But it's okay
'Cause there'll be sunshine shinin'
And we'll find a silver linin'
Another day

Tomorrow is another day
How I hope you'll always stay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 04, 2018, 06:09:44 PM
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go?
I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2018, 06:41:50 PM
If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do
If I could turn back time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 05, 2018, 09:26:32 AM
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 05, 2018, 10:03:57 AM
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,
You hung me on the line.
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 05, 2018, 10:41:58 PM
Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
Too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites
The whites of your eyes
All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 06, 2018, 04:55:34 PM
Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 06, 2018, 06:01:59 PM
Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips are sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn the music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 06, 2018, 10:05:27 PM
Take me by the tongue and I'll know you
Kiss me 'til you're drunk and I'll show you all the moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
I don't need to try to control you
Look into my eyes and I'll own you with them moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 09, 2018, 05:01:50 PM
Lookin' in your eyes I see a paradise
This world that I've found is too good to be true
Standin' here beside ya, want so much to give you
This love in my heart that I'm feelin' for you

Let 'em say we're crazy, I don't care about that
Put your hand in my hand, baby, don't ever look back
Let the world around us just fall apart
Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to-heart.

And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We'll still have each other
Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us now.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 09, 2018, 05:09:46 PM
If paradise is half as nice as heaven that you take me to
Who needs paradise I'd rather have you
They say paradise is up in the stars
But I needn't sigh because it's so far
'Cause I know it's worth a heaven on earth
For me where you are
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 09, 2018, 07:10:41 PM
Keep your silence or
Reach for life beyond the stars
Save your mercy
For someone who needs it more
I'm the guilty
All the feelings come crashing down on me
I'm taking you with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 10, 2018, 03:07:52 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 10, 2018, 03:11:30 PM
When I wake up early in the morning
 Lift my head, I'm still yawning
 When I'm in the middle of a dream
 Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream)
 Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me
 Leave me where I am
 I'm only sleeping
 Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
 I don't mind, I think they're crazy
 Running everywhere at such a speed
 Till they find there's no need (there's no need)
 Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
 And after all I'm only sleeping


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 10, 2018, 08:48:53 PM
Goodnight, time to call it a day
Sleep tight, dream your troubles away
Goodnight, in spite of any sorrow
There's a brand new day on it's way tomorrow
Someday, all your dreams will come true
Someway, for me and you
So close your eyes and dream of it my darling
Till then goodnight, goodnight, sleep tight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 11, 2018, 09:32:55 AM
So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave
A sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye
I'm glad to go
I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float
I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone
To bed and so must I

So long, farewell
Auf Weidersehen, goodbye

Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 11, 2018, 09:46:53 AM
You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 11, 2018, 10:07:34 AM
Take your hands
 Off me, please
 I don't belong to you, you see
 And take a look in my face
 For the last time
 I never knew you
 You never knew me
 Say hello, goodbye

Say hello and wave goodbye


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 11, 2018, 10:50:01 AM
How can you just walk away from me
When all I can do is watch you leave?
'Cause we've shared the laughter and the pain
And even shared the tears
You're the only one who really knew me at all
So take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face
Ooh, take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against the odds
And that's what I've got to face
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 11, 2018, 03:15:45 PM
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by

Make believe that you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve in private cause each time I see you
I break down and cry

Walk on by, don't stop
Walk on by, don't stop
Walk on by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 11, 2018, 03:19:01 PM
And what you gonna say
 In private?
 You still want my love
 We're in this together
 And what you're gonna do
 In public
 Say you were never in love
 That you can remember

What you gonna say, ay
 When you run back to your wife?
 I guess it's just the story of my life
 What you gonna say?



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 11, 2018, 06:29:31 PM
What if I blurt out I love you?
Baby, I got to be cool
I wanna tell you how much you mean to me
Baby, I got to tell you, baby, I got to tell you

I want the world to know
It doesn't matter if you don't
I want the world to know
No, it don't matter if you don't

This feelin', this feelin's
Like a dagger in my stomach
Gotta keep a secret
Can I tell it baby?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 12, 2018, 08:41:43 AM
I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 12, 2018, 08:09:41 PM
I don't want half hearted love affairs
I need someone who really cares.
Life is too short to play silly games
I've promised myself I won't do that again.

It's got to be perfect
It's got to be worth it
Yeah.
Too many people take second best
But I won't take anything less
It's got to be
Yeah
Pertect.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2018, 04:16:11 PM

Yet, in my mind I say
If he makes his move today
I'll just pretend to be shocked?
Oh, baby
It's a tragedy
That you hurt me
We don't even try

You're as much to blame
'Cause I know you feel the same
I can see it in your eyes
But I've got no time to live this love
No, I've got no time to play your silly games
Silly games
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 16, 2018, 12:17:05 AM
Oh come on come on
Well you've been messing with my head
For oh so long now
Oh come on come on
Well you've been messing with my head
And it's oh so wrong now
I can't take it no more
Oh no I
Can't take it no more

(Night night)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 16, 2018, 09:37:55 AM
The jukebox is playin' a honky-tonk song
"One more", I keep sayin', "and then I'll go home"
What good will it do me, I know what I'll find
An empty bottle, a broken heart and you're still on my mind.

The people are dancin' and havin' their fun
And I sit here thinkin' about what you have done
To try and forget you, I've turned to the wine
An empty bottle, a broken heart and you're still on my mind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 16, 2018, 12:41:59 PM
I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
 She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
 She had to heave me right across her shoulder
 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

 It's the honky tonk women
 Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 17, 2018, 10:01:30 PM
Wonderful. The Urban Jungle tour started with that song, saw at Wembley with husband & two cousins. My kid was too small (only one at that time). I must have been 30. An excellent memory!

B side:-

I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 18, 2018, 05:21:57 PM
Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 18, 2018, 06:39:23 PM
Tender is the night
Lying by your side
Tender is the touch
Of someone that you love too much
Tender is the day
The demons go away
Lord, I need to find
Someone who can heal my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 18, 2018, 10:43:13 PM
What can I do
 What can I do
 Much of what you say is true
 I know you see through me
 But there's no tenderness
 Beneath your honesty


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 18, 2018, 11:50:06 PM
You're the one givin' up the love any time he needs it
But you turn your back and then he's off and running with the crowd
You're the one to sacrifice, anything to please him
Do you really think he thinks about you when he's out?
He's a coldhearted snake lookin into his eyes
Oh, oh he's been telling lies he's a lover boy at play
He don't play by the rules oh, oh, oh
Girl don't play the fool now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 19, 2018, 08:44:33 AM
No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 19, 2018, 08:58:48 AM
Thinking,
 Long ago when we were young and free
 Love happened easily and dreams never died
 Life sung a pretty song,
 Now those days are gone

 Crying,
 Finding comfort in the friends we knew
 Now it's just me and you trying alone
 We used to get along (we used to)
 Now those days are gone

 Playing with words
 When there's nothing much to say
 Searching to find what we lost along the way
 Could it be one day our feelings changed
 I hope we see it through
 'Cause I just can't stand the thought
 Of life without you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 19, 2018, 09:18:40 AM
Long ago and far away
I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me
Long the skies were overcast
But now the clouds have passed
You're here at last.

Chills run up and down my spine
Aladdin's lamp is mine
The dream I dreamed was not denied me
Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for long ago was you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 19, 2018, 12:05:00 PM
Down, down in my bones
Somewhere I'd never ever known
Right at the back of my head
It hit me like a beam of light
Hit me like a hook with a right
And I could have fell to the floor
'Cause you talk to me and it comes off the wall
You talk to me and it goes over my head
So let's go to bed before you say something real
Let's go to bed before you say how you feel
'Cause it's you, I always, always knew
Oh, I always knew, oh, it's you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 19, 2018, 03:54:36 PM
Our lips shouldn't touch
(Move over darling)
I like it too much
(Move over darling)
That gleam in your eyes
is no big surprise anymore
'Cause you fooled me before.

I'm all in a spin
(Move over darling)
About to give in
(Move over darling)
And though it's not right
I'm too weak to fight it somehow
'Cause I want you right now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 19, 2018, 04:46:05 PM
I'm too sexy for my love
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 19, 2018, 09:09:17 PM
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes

You did what you did to me
Now it's history, I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 19, 2018, 09:34:12 PM
He said that he loved me, never would go, oh oh, oh oh.
Now I find I'm sitting here on my own, oh oh, oh oh.
Was it somtehing I've said or done,
That made him pack his bags up and run?
Could it be another he's found?
It's breaking up the happy home.
Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?
He's a Japanese boy.
I woke up one morning and my love was gone,
Oh, my Japanese boy, ooh, I miss my Japanese boy.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 20, 2018, 09:34:58 AM
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

You think you've lost your love
Well, I saw her yesterday-yi-yay
It's you she's thinking of
And she told me what to say-yi-yay

She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 20, 2018, 10:31:13 PM
One of my mum's favourites:

You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me
I can't help but love you
But believe me
I'll never tie you down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 21, 2018, 09:27:37 AM
I believe for every drop of rain that falls,
A flower grows,
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night,
A candle glows.
I believe for everyone who goes astray,
Someone will come to show the way.
I believe,
I believe.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer,
Will still be heard.
I believe that someone in the great somewhere,
Hears every word.
Every time I hear a new born baby cry,
Or touch a leaf or see the sky.
Then I know why,
I believe.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 21, 2018, 11:43:35 AM
I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That's the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all of my dreams
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, and I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 21, 2018, 11:58:29 AM
Hello young lovers whoever you are
I hope your troubles are few
All my good wishes go with you tonight
I've been in love like you.

Be brave young lovers and follow your star
Be brave and faithful and true
Cling very close to each other tonight
I've been in love like you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 21, 2018, 12:40:43 PM
Took a little time to get where I wanted
It took a little time to get free
It took a little time to be honest
It took a little time to be me
I took a little lover but then we parted
I took a little time to get over this
From time to time, I get heavyhearted
Thinking of how you used to kiss
Courage
It's a feeling like no other

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 21, 2018, 03:13:48 PM
Love walked right in and drove the shadows away
Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day
One magic moment and my heart seemed to know that love said hello
Though not a word was spoken.

One look, and I forgot the gloom of the past
One look and I had found my future at last
One look and I had found a world completely new
When love walked in with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 21, 2018, 10:32:56 PM
Love came down and rescued me
Love came down and set me free
I am yours
Lord I'm forever yours
Mountains high or valley low
I sing out and remind my soul
I am yours
I am forever yours
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 21, 2018, 11:17:40 PM
My love and I, we are boxing clever
She'll never crowd me out
Fall be free as old confetti
And paint the town, paint the town
When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurtin' you
When love breaks down
The lies we tell
They only serve to fool ourselves
When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurtin' you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 21, 2018, 11:59:47 PM
Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
The things we do for love, the things we do for love

Communication is the problem to the answer
You've got her number and your hand is on the phone
The weather's turned and all the lines are down
The things we do for love, the things we do for love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2018, 12:35:51 AM
Listen to the talk (listen to the talk)
Everywhere you go (everywhere you go)
What about the ring (what about the ring)
Is it there for me to throw it all away?
Is it true? My love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 22, 2018, 09:27:56 AM
Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Turn your face away from the garish light of day
Turn your face away from cold, unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2018, 09:49:59 AM
To the beat of the rhythm of the night, dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind, you can leave them all behind
To the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, the rhythm of the night, oh yeah

Come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home
Ooh, there's too much going on
Tonight is gonna be a night like you've never known
We're gonna have a good time the whole night long
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2018, 10:38:56 PM
Let the beat control your body
Let the beat control your body
Let the beat control your body

My beat B.E.A.T.
It's my beat and it controls your body
It penetrates your brain
Without my beat you go insane
It's my beat and you can't break it
It's my beat and you can't fake it
It's my beat and you can't copy
Let my beat control your body
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 23, 2018, 01:07:37 PM
They told him "Don't you ever come around here
 Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear"
 The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
 So beat it, just beat it

You better run, you better do what you can
 Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man
 You wanna be tough, better do what you can
 So beat it, but you wanna be bad
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 23, 2018, 03:29:43 PM
Don't think cause I'm iced out, I'mma cool off
Who else but me? And if you don't feel me
That mean you can't touch me, it's ugly, trust me
Get it right, dawg, we ain't ever left
We just moved in silence and repped to the death
It's official, I survive what I been through
Y'all got trauma, the saga continues

We ain't goin' nowhere, we ain't goin' nowhere
We can't be stopped now, cos it's Bad Boy for life
We ain't goin' nowhere, we ain't goin' nowhere
We can't be stopped now, cos it's Bad Boy for life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 23, 2018, 04:20:55 PM
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart
Baby, baby
I'm aware of where you go
Each time you leave my door
I watch you walk down the street
Knowing your other love you'll meet
But this time before you run to her
Leaving me alone and hurt
(Think it over) After I've been good to you?
(Think it over) After I've been sweet to you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 23, 2018, 04:34:13 PM
Well I'll be lyin' awake, baby late at night
And I call you up
But you're not alone
And I'd wait for you but it just ain't right
To keep my soul on fire with  your heart of stone

And I still see how it used to be
But somewhere something changed
And I don't know why

All our friends, you know they love to talk
They've been saying that we'll never make it
I just can't help the way I feel inside
You know it makes me crazy, but I just can't shake it

It would be a crime after all this time
if we had to say goodbye

Before you walk away, think it over
Haven't I Been Good To You?
Don't wanna  hear you say
that it's over
Haven't I Been Good To You?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 25, 2018, 09:42:18 AM
Your baby doesn't love you any more
Golden days before they end
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won't be near you any more

Tender nights before they fly
Send falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesn't want you any more
It's over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 25, 2018, 11:42:03 AM
No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way
The story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrow
When I had you there
But then I let you go
And now it's only fair
That I should let you know
What you should know

I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give anymore
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't give
I can't give anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 25, 2018, 01:21:53 PM
You're my everything
Underneath the sun
You're my everything
Rolled up into one

You're my only dream
My only real reality
You're my idea
Of a perfect personality

You're my everything
Everything I need
You're the song I sing
And the book I read

You're a way beyond belief
And just to make it brief
You're my winter, summer, spring
My everything.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 25, 2018, 07:46:02 PM
I don't love you anymore, like the way I did before
And since you've found someone new I think it's best
I don't try and walk the floor, I don't love you anymore
Trouble is I don't love you any less
I don't love you anymore for I've got no more love to give
You drained my heart of all it's love with every sweet caress
I keep saying o'er and o'er, I don't love you anymore
Trouble is I don't love you any less
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 26, 2018, 09:03:05 AM
I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I want to feel you in my arms again
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show

How deep is your love, how deep is your love
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2018, 09:23:28 AM
I hate that I let you down
And I feel so bad about it
I guess karma comes back around
'Cause now I'm the one that's hurting, yeah
And I hate that I made you think
That the trust we have is broken
So don't tell me you can't forgive me
'Cause nobody's perfect
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, nobody's perfect
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 26, 2018, 03:22:51 PM
Don't go changing, trying to please me
You never let me down before
I don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I don't want to work that hard
I just want some, someone to talk to
I want you just the way you are.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2018, 04:04:17 PM
Some days you're too set in your ways
And you forget to shut up, shut up and listen
And some days you just have to misplace all your mistakes
Somewhere that you won't miss them
So stop lying that you're fine
'Cos you're like me
And you can't give up

'Till an all time love
'Cos nothing else is good enough
I want an all time love to find me

I don't believe that it's a failing
I don't believe that it's a fault
'Cos if everything were plain sailing
Oh tell me what would there be left to exalt
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 27, 2018, 10:59:08 AM
Nothing seemed to matter any more,
Didn't care what I was headed for.
Time was standing still,
No one counted till
There came a knocking at the door.

Love walked right in and drove the shadows away ;
Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day.
One magic moment, and my heart seemed to know
That love said "Hello !",
Though no a word was spoken.

One look and I forgot the gloom of the past ;
One look and I had found my future at last.
One look and I had found a world completely new,
When love walked in... with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 27, 2018, 09:28:18 PM
And in the streets, the children screamed
 The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
 But not a word was spoken
 The church bells all were broken

 And the three men I admire most
 The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
 They caught the last train for the coast
 The day the music died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 27, 2018, 11:52:13 PM
He said Hey Sister
It's really really nice to meet ya
I just met this 5 foot 7 guys who's just my type
I like the way he's speaking his confidence is peaking
Don't like his baggy jeans but I'ma like what's underneath it
And no I ain't been to MIA
I heard that Cali never rains and New York heart awaits
First let's see the west end
I'll show you to my bredrins
I'm like this American boy, American boy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 28, 2018, 12:28:49 AM
When he moves I watch him from behind
 He turns and laughter flickers in his eyes
 Intent and direct when he speaks, I watch his lips
 And when he drives I love to watch his hand
 White and smooth, almost feminine
 Almost American, I have to watch him


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 28, 2018, 01:19:20 AM
So click-it or ticket, let's see your seat belt fastened
Trunk rattlin', like two midgets in the back seat wrestlin'
Speaker box vibrate the tag
Make it sound like aluminum cans in a bag
But I know y'all wanted that 808
Can you feel that be-A-S-S, bass
But I know y'all wanted that 808
Can you feel that be-A-S-S, bass
I like the way you move
I like the way you move
I love the way you move
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 29, 2018, 04:16:02 PM
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can't take that away from me.

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can't take that away from me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 29, 2018, 06:19:01 PM
I can still see that star shining bright
And with this love there's no end in sight
It's just you and me, because we're destined
We're destined to be, baby
I like your style
(I like your style)
And you know that I like your smile
(I like it baby)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 29, 2018, 10:29:31 PM
Stars shining bright above you
 Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
 Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
 Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
 Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
 While I'm alone and blue as can be
 Dream a little dream of me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 29, 2018, 10:43:24 PM
Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn

Isn't that the way?
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Dream on, dream on, dream on,
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on,
Dream until your dreams come true

Dream on, dream on, dream on,
Dream on, dream on,
Dream on, dream on, ah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 30, 2018, 08:29:25 AM
I'm not making plans for tomorrow let's live for tonight
 I know I want you baby so hold me so tight
 Put your arms around me you make me feel so safe
 Then you whisper in my ear that you're here to stay

 Dreams can come true
 Look at me babe I'm with you
 You know you gotta have hope
 You know you gotta be strong
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 30, 2018, 11:15:34 AM
My home is a girl with eyes like wishing wells
I'm not alone but I'm still lone-lonely
When I was young, always go below the midnight sun
Those days are done but I'm still glowing

Ooo, la-la-la-la-la
Let's live in the moment
Come back Sunday morning
A lie, oh, well
When you're gone
Goodbye, so long, farewell
Ooo, la-la-la-la-la
Let's live in the moment
Come back Sunday morning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 30, 2018, 11:48:30 AM
So if you wanna make me happy
Here's all you gotta do
Just let me ride your box car
And I'll hobo with you
'Cause all I got is on my shoulders
I'm walkin' on my travellin' shoes
And before I get much older
I'm gonna kick these lovesick blues

And I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby, everywhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 30, 2018, 01:18:44 PM
I wanna sleep out tonight, underneath a billion, stars
And forget about a love that went too, far
And get up in the mornin' and just ride
And find me a good place, to hide

I wanna ride, I wanna ride, I wanna run
I wanna ride, I wanna ride
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 30, 2018, 04:34:47 PM
An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw.

Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry.

Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost riders in the sky.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 30, 2018, 05:08:51 PM
If there's something strange in you neighborhood
Who you gonna call? (ghostbusters)
If there's something weird
And it don't look good
Who you gonna call? (ghostbusters)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 31, 2018, 03:35:29 PM
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 31, 2018, 06:47:07 PM
Ooh, na na yeah
Don't act like you know me, like you know me, na na yeah
I am not your homie, not your, hoo, na na yeah
Don't act like you know me, like you know me, na na yeah
You don't know me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 01, 2018, 08:48:18 AM
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 01, 2018, 04:59:00 PM
For some reason, that song always reduces me to tears  ::), that's despite Alan Partridge. I must be a sad case. However, not to muddy the waters:-

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans, you know I love you so

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 01, 2018, 06:22:44 PM
Not sad at all Robbie....it has the same effect on me. We are just sensitive souls. ;-)

Baby bany dont get hooked on me.
Baby baby dont get hooked on me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 01, 2018, 06:44:01 PM
I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time give me sigh
I never had the least notion
That I could fall with so much emotion
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share
The world will pardon my mush
Cause I have got a crush on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 02, 2018, 10:16:59 AM
I got rhythm, I got music
I got my girl
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisies, in green pastures
I got my girl
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my girl
Who could ask for anything more ?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 02, 2018, 06:21:28 PM
Adventure seeker on an empty street,
Just an alley creeper, light on his feet
A young fighter screaming, with no time for doubt
With the pain and anger can't see a way out,
It ain't much I'm asking, I heard him say,
Gotta find me a future move out of my way,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 03, 2018, 09:19:48 AM
Que será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que será, será
What will be, will be.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 03, 2018, 11:55:23 AM
It's never enough to say I love you
No, it's never enough to say I try
It's hard to believe
That's theres no way out for you and me
And it seems to be the story of our lives

Nobody wins when everyone's losing

It's like one step forward and two steps back
No matter what I do you're always mad
And I, baby I'm sorry to see
Maybe we're not meant to be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 03, 2018, 02:39:49 PM
I don't wanna talk
About things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 03, 2018, 03:03:55 PM
You took it all away
Why did you have to do this now
I'm feeling so empty
There's nothing left in me to say
Want you here right now
I feel you leaving me
I'm hoping you ring me one day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 03, 2018, 03:38:18 PM
Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Like I always do
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show (Wishing every show was the last show)

So imagine I was glad to hear you're coming (Glad to hear you're coming)
Suddenly I feel all right
(And suddenly it's gonna be)
And it's gonna be so different when I'm on the stage tonight.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 03, 2018, 03:42:08 PM
This town can get so lonely
Oh and every day, I want you with me
Sometimes I don't believe in what I'm doing here
That why, all I need is just to know you're there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 03, 2018, 04:27:15 PM
One of us is crying
One of us is lying
In her lonely bed
Staring at the ceiling
Wishing she was somewhere else instead
One of us is lonely
One of us is only
Waiting for a call
Sorry for herself, feeling stupid feeling small
Wishing she had never left at all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 03, 2018, 04:40:40 PM
Now this could only happen to a guy like me
And only happen in a town like this
So may I say to each of you most gratefully
As I throw each one of you a kiss

This is my kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of people too
People who smile at you

And each time I roam, Chicago is
Calling me home, Chicago is
Why I just grin like a clown
It's my kind of town.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 03, 2018, 06:40:19 PM
London calls me a stranger
A traveler
This is now my home, my home
I'm burning on the back street
Stuck here sitting in the backseat
I'm blazing on the street
What I do isn't up to you
And if the city never sleeps
Then that makes two
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 04, 2018, 09:34:05 AM
A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down
I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm.

How long, I wondered, could this thing last?
But the age of miracles hadn't passed,
For, suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London Town
The sun was shining everywhere.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 04, 2018, 09:37:56 AM
Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 04, 2018, 10:14:31 AM
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go
Downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know
Downtown

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

So go
Downtown
Things will be great when you're
Downtown
No finer place for sure
Downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 04, 2018, 10:38:46 AM
Within a week I'd moved in,
at your uptown, east side place
we'd make love for hours on a bed of silk and lace
and she would get up early
and come home late at night
she'd have important busainess
but my prospects all seemed slight
tired on some evenings
she'd get mad and cry
I'm an uptown, uptempo woman
You're a downtown, downbeat guy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 04, 2018, 03:02:50 PM
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired

They are illusions
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me Argentina.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 04, 2018, 05:22:03 PM
Oooh yeah, saw the film with Madonna singing that.

Just stop your crying
It's a sign of the times
Welcome to the final show
Hope you're wearing your best clothes
You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky
You look pretty good down here
But you ain't really good
If we never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets
We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 05, 2018, 05:20:16 PM
I'm quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger
Than a pin point, I'm number one.
But my score with a feller is lower than a cellar-
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.

When I'm with a pistol
I sparkle like a crystal,
Yes, I shine like the morning sun.
But I lose all my luster
When with a Bronco Buster.
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.
With a gun, with a gun,
No, you can't get a man with a gun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 05, 2018, 06:08:00 PM

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy
All around in my home town
They're trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy, but I say
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense
I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 06, 2018, 09:55:07 AM
Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago I will show you around
Bet your bottom dollar you lose the blues in Chicago, Chicago
The town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down

On State Street, that great street, I just want to say
They do things they don't do on Broadway
They have the time, the time of their life
I saw a man, he danced with his wife
In Chicago, Chicago my home town.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 06, 2018, 05:37:34 PM
Who's peekin' out from under a stairway
Calling a name that's lighter than air
Who's bending down to give me a rainbow
Everyone knows it's Windy
Who's tripping down the streets of the city
Smilin' at everybody she sees
Who's reachin' out to capture a moment
Everyone knows it's Windy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 07, 2018, 09:21:28 AM
I just blew in from the windy city
The windy city is mighty pretty
But they ain't got what we got
I'm tellin' ya, boys
We got more life in Deadwood City
Than in all of Illinois

You should-a seen me a-windo' shoppin'
A-windo' shoppin' with eyes a-poppin'
At the sights that you see there, yes sirree
Press a bell and a moment later
Up you go in an elevator
Just as fast as a polecat a-climbin' a tree.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 07, 2018, 09:40:31 AM
Chicago, in fashion
 The soft drinks, expansion
 Oh, Columbia
 From Paris, incentive
 Like Cream of Wheat invented
 The Ferris wheel

 Oh, great intentions
 Covenant with the imitation
 Have you no conscience?
 I think about it now

 Oh, God of Progress
 Have you degraded or forgot us?
 Where have your laws gone?
 I think about it now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 07, 2018, 03:01:17 PM
So this is where we are
It's not where we had wanted to be
If half the world's gone mad
The other half just don't care, you see

You don't want to fuck with us
British to the very last
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 07, 2018, 04:28:40 PM
Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 07, 2018, 04:32:47 PM

Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
But it's always with love
With so much love it looks like
Everything else
Of Charlotte sometimes
So far away
Glass sealed and pretty
Charlotte sometimes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 07, 2018, 06:00:09 PM
You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby
Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby
Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 07, 2018, 11:08:37 PM
I was making my way through the wasteland
 The road into town passes through
 I was changing the radio stations
 With my mind on you
 Oh your friends call you "Lily Paloma"
 But that's not the way that you are
 It's too much of a gentle misnomer
 For a shooting star

 But you and me baby
 I saw you there
 Straight away I knew
 There's really no hiding
 I'll tell you right now
 What we're gonna do
 We'll go collecting the days
 Putting the moments away
 You're on my mind like a
 Song on the Radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 07, 2018, 11:31:10 PM
I bet you had a couple long nights sleeping alone
I bet even on a short drive if our song came on
You'd pull over on the shoulder and cry, thinking 'bout how we used to be
Girl, I bet you had a hard time getting over me
Ooh, that might be true
But if you think getting over me was hard, try getting over you
I don't wanna make light of what you're going through
But if you think getting over me was hard, try getting over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 09, 2018, 04:56:48 PM
Once in your life you find her
Someone that turns your heart around
And next thing you know you're closing down the town
Wake up and it's still with you
Even though you left her way across town
Wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?"

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do
The best that you can do is fall in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 09, 2018, 05:21:24 PM
In the event of something happening to me,
There is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

I keep straining my ears to hear a sound.
Maybe someone is digging underground,
Or have they given up and all gone home to bed,
Thinking those who once existed must be dead.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 09, 2018, 06:27:13 PM
Well, no one told me about her
The way she lied
Well, no one told me about her
How many people cried

But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know? Why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 13, 2018, 02:28:49 PM
Right to the end
 Just like a friend
 I tried to warn you somehow
 You had your way
 Now you must pay
 I'm glad that you're sorry now
 I'm glad that you're sorry now


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 13, 2018, 04:36:35 PM
Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear

Time it was,
And what a time it was
It was . . .
A time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago . . . it must be . . .
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 13, 2018, 04:40:52 PM

I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of them all round my cell
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 13, 2018, 05:22:53 PM
He said that he loved me, never would go, oh oh, oh oh.
Now I find I'm sitting here on my own, oh oh, oh oh.
Was it somtehing I've said or done,
That made him pack his bags up and run?
Could it be another he's found?
It's breaking up the happy home.
Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?
He's a Japanese boy.
I woke up one morning and my love was gone,
Oh, my Japanese boy, ooh, I miss my Japanese boy.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 14, 2018, 09:49:38 AM
A more humane Mikado never
Did in Japan exist
To nobody second
I'm certainly reckoned
A true philanthropist
It is my very humane endeavour
To make, to some extent
Each evil liver
A running river
Of harmless merriment.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 14, 2018, 10:00:36 AM
Quote from: Robbie on February 13, 2018, 04:36:35 PM
Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear

Time it was,
And what a time it was
It was . . .
A time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago . . . it must be . . .
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you

This song never fails to reduce me to tears. This and 'In my life' by Beatles:

There are places I remember
 All my life though some have changed
 Some forever not for better
 Some have gone and some remain
 All these places have their moments
 With lovers and friends I still can recall
 Some are dead and some are living
 In my life I've loved them all


Sorry that's a diversion from the Mikado above - feel free to trip off down the G & S path like three little maids  ;)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 14, 2018, 02:33:18 PM
I feel the same way about those songs Trent.  How about this?


I've watched you go through changes
That no man should face alone
Take to heel or tame the horse
The choice is still your own
But arm yourself against the pain
A wounded bird can give
And in the end remember
It's with you you have to live
And in the end remember
It's with you you have to live
Stand your ground I think you've got
The guts it takes to win
But you must learn to turn the keys
Before she'll let you in
And understand the problems of the girl you want
So near or you'll wear the coat of questions `til the
Answer hat is here
You'll wear the coat of questions `til the
Answer hat is here
Serenade your angel with a love song from your eyes
Grow a little taller even though your age defies
Feel a little smaller
And in stature you will rise
A hobo or a poet must kill dragons for a bride;
And humble pie is always hard to swallow
With your pride

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 14, 2018, 02:40:21 PM
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 14, 2018, 02:53:41 PM
I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all direction
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark
For too long
Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 14, 2018, 03:03:01 PM
The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in the heart of Texas
The prairie sky is wide and high
Deep in the heart of Texas.

The sage in bloom is like perfume
Deep in the heart of Texas
Reminds me of the one that I love
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 14, 2018, 03:36:59 PM
On the songs that make me cry, I can be in buckets by the end of the first line of this



Some day, when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Yes, you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 14, 2018, 03:41:31 PM
You're so gorgeous
I can't say anything to your face
'Cause look at your face
And I'm so furious
At you for making me feel this way
But, what can I say?
You're gorgeous
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 15, 2018, 05:13:39 PM
Say, say, say what you want
But don't play games with my affection
Take, take, take what you need
But don't leave me with no direction

All alone, I sit home by the phone
Waiting for you, baby
Through the years
How can you stand to hear
My pleading for you dear?
You know I'm crying ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 15, 2018, 10:20:53 PM
Love hurts
Love scars
Love wounds and marks
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud, it holds a lot of rain
Love hurts
Ooh love hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 16, 2018, 09:29:39 AM
Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry)
Lord what you're doing to me (yeah yeah)
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 16, 2018, 04:25:06 PM




In a moments anger I will freeze the frame
But my feelings for ya how they will remain
I've been looking at you you've been looking at me
And I want you to know that I like what I see

Mirror mirror, mon amour
Send me what I'm waiting for
Pick me up, an image so fine, so fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 16, 2018, 04:49:35 PM
Who'd believe that after all we've been through
I'd be able to put my trust in you
Goes to show you can't forgive and forget
looking back, I have no regrets 'cause

You who would be there, when I needed somebody
You who would be there, the only one could help me

I had a picture of you in my mind
Never knew it would be so wrong
Why'd it take me so long just to find
the friend that was there all along
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 18, 2018, 09:10:06 PM
Picture this - a day in December
 Picture this - freezing cold weather
 You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
 If it weren't for your job at the garage
 If you could only oh-oh
 Picture this - a sky full of thunder
 Picture this - my telephone number
 One and one is what I'm telling you, oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 18, 2018, 10:16:26 PM
When the lights go down
When you're stuck here in this town
With nowhere to go
So you escape through the radio

And you worked all week
To barely make ends meet

Well, I gotta a little cash burning holes in my pocket
Foot on the gas, taking off like a rocket

So Come on, come on,
Baby, I'm buying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 19, 2018, 03:17:10 PM
When the lights go on again all over the world
And the boys are home again all over the world
And rain or snow is all that may fall from the skies above
A kiss won't mean "goodbye" but "Hello to love"
When the lights go on again all over the world
And the ships will sail again all over the world
Then we'll have time for things like wedding rings and free hearts will sing
When the lights go on again all over the world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 19, 2018, 03:27:06 PM
There's a kind of hush
All over the world tonight
All over the world
You can hear the sound of lovers in love

You know what I mean
Just the two of us and nobody else in sight
There's nobody else
And I'm feeling good just holding you tight


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 19, 2018, 03:38:19 PM
I remember
That night in May
The stars were bright above
I'll hope and I'll pray
To keep
Your precious love
Well before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
So before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
In the still of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 19, 2018, 04:50:22 PM
The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little pray for you
While combing my hair now
And wondering what dress to wear now
I say a little prayer for you

Forever and ever, you'll stay in my heart
And I will love you
Forever and ever, we never will part
Oh, how I love you
Together, forever, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only mean heartbreak for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 19, 2018, 05:13:11 PM
After the night
The sun comes up and kisses the skin
I lay back and watch you sleepin
So beautiful
I can't believe
Youre layin here with me baby
Its so incredible
You were the top of the ladder
We gonna make it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 19, 2018, 05:36:45 PM
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 19, 2018, 06:11:31 PM
And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could, oh...

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 20, 2018, 08:55:44 AM
I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God only knows what I'd be without you.

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 20, 2018, 05:29:00 PM
Baby, I never gave my heart to anyone, oh no
Used to think that love was a game
I used to make it just for fun
When we spent the night together
Didn't mean it meant that much
Now I just can't live without your touch

I didn't wanna to need you, no
I didn't wanna want you like I do
I didn't mean to fall
Didn't wanna care at all
I didn't wanna need you
Like I need you now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 21, 2018, 08:28:28 AM
You made me love you
I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it
You made me love you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.
You made me happy sometimes, you made me glad
But there were times, Dear, you made me feel so bad
You made me sigh for, I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true, yes I do, deed I do, you know I do
Give me, give me, give me what I cry for
You know you got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
You know you made me love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 21, 2018, 04:34:43 PM
Love hurts
Love scars
Love wounds and marks
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud, it holds a lot of rain
Love hurts
Ooh love hurts
I'm young
I know
But even so
I know a thing or two, I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a flame, it burns you when it's hot
Love hurts
Ooh love hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 22, 2018, 05:01:20 PM
Serenade
our love is the serenade
a song the heavens made and angels played
when first we kissed
we touched and I became divine my love
because of you the stars that shine my love
they're mine my love.

Serenade
our love is the serenade
a song of sweet desire
no ordinary choir could quite resist
I have known the magic of
a theme that cannot take
our serenade of love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 22, 2018, 05:07:28 PM


I've been told that you've been bold
With Harry, Mark and John
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday
With Harry, Mark and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

Satellite of love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 22, 2018, 05:53:51 PM
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh, daddy, dear, you know you're still number one
But girls—they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have

That's all they really want
Some fun
When the working day is done
Oh, girls—they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Girls—they wanna
Wanna have fun
Girls wanna have

Some boys take a beautiful girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Oh girls they wanna have fun
Oh girls just wanna have

That's all they really want
Some fun
When the working day is done
Oh, girls—they wanna have fun
Oh girls just wanna have fun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 22, 2018, 05:59:08 PM
When day is done
And shadows fall
I dream of you!

When day is done
I think of all
The joys we knew!

That yearning, returning,
To hold you in my arms,
Won't go love, I know love,
Without you, night has lost it's charms!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 22, 2018, 06:02:50 PM
'm not content to be with you in the daytime
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
The only time I feel alright is by your side
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night
I believe that you and me last forever
Oh yeah, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never
The only time I feel alright is by your side
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 23, 2018, 08:59:19 AM
Night and day, you are the one
Only you 'neath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me or far
It's no matter, darling, where you are
I think of you day and night

Night and day, why is it so
That this longin' for you follows wherever I go?
In the roarin' traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you day and night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 24, 2018, 12:12:38 PM
I'm standing here with my arms a mile wide
I'm hoping and praying for you
Listen to me and enlighten me
I hope that you need me too, 'cause

Ooh, ooh Anytime that you want me
Ooh, ooh Anytime that you need me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 24, 2018, 03:03:39 PM
The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little pray for you
While combing my hair now
And wondering what dress to wear now
I say a little prayer for you

Forever and ever, you'll stay in my heart
And I will love you
Forever and ever, we never will part
Oh, how I love you
Together, forever, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only mean heartbreak for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2018, 03:17:07 PM
Feel how the wind blows, December despair
 Bring me a ribbon to tie up my hair
 I'll be your bride, go where you go
 All of my life, you'll be my beau


 Kiss me and I might
 Put on the white dress
 If you'll take me dancing tonight
 The night's in your face, sky's in your eyes
 The day's in my arms when you're by my side
 Whenever you're weary I'll sing you a song
 Whenever you're lonely I'll show you you're wrong
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 24, 2018, 03:42:41 PM
You get me out of my seat, it's like I've been in bed for a week
I've been slippin' n' slidin' all over the place, and nobody cares
And I'm such a disgrace
You get me out of my mood, that's something only you can do,
Cause I feel like I'm home when I'm in your arms
And that's why I need you to...

Cheer Me Up,
Come on dance with me,
And you take my hand.
Cheer Me Up
Even if we're the only ones dancing
Cheer Me Up
Please won't you cheer me up
Even if were the only ones dancing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 24, 2018, 03:50:23 PM
We've just been introduced,
I do not know you well,
But when the music started
Something drew me to your side.
So many men and girls,
Are in each others arms-
It made me think we might be
Similarly occupied.

Shall we dance?
On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?
Shall we dance?
Shall we then say "Goodnight and mean "Goodbye"?
Or perchance,
When the last little star has left the sky,
Shall we still be together
With are arms around each other
And shall you be my new romance?
On the clear understanding
That this kind of thing can happen,
Shall we dance?
Shall we dance? Shall we Dance?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 24, 2018, 03:54:17 PM
've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
I've never seen you shine so bright
I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance
They're looking for a little romance, given half a chance
And I have never seen that dress you're wearing
Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes
I have been blind
The lady in red is dancing with me, cheek to cheek
There's nobody here, it's just you and me
It's where I want to be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I'll never forget the way you look tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 24, 2018, 04:18:15 PM
Tonight, tonight
It all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away

Tonight, tonight
There's only you tonight
What you are, what you do, what you say

Today, all day I had the feeling
A miracle would happen
I know now I was right

For here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 24, 2018, 05:00:55 PM

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do, about you now
Backbeat, the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I
Would like to say to you but I don't know how
Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me
And after all, you're my wonderwall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 27, 2018, 05:26:53 PM
I will follow Him
Follow Him where ever he may go
And near Him I always will be
For nothing can keep me away
He is my destiny.

I will follow Him
Ever since he touched my heart, I knew
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep
Keep me away, away from his love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 27, 2018, 05:32:07 PM
You're all I need to get by.
Like the sweet morning dew, I took one look at you,
And it was plain to see,
You were my destiny.
With my arms open wide,
I threw away my pride
I'll sacrifice for you
Dedicate my life for you

I will go where you lead
Always there in time of need
And when I lose my will
You'll be there to push me up the hill
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 27, 2018, 07:02:25 PM
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2018, 09:34:31 AM
Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry)
Lord what you're doing to me (yeah yeah)
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 12:46:39 PM
Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time
I see reflections of you and me

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2018, 12:50:41 PM

 Mirror mirror, mon amour
 Give me what I'm waiting for
 Set my heart on making you mine

 In a moments anger I will freeze the frame
 But my feelings for ya how they will remain
 I've been looking at you you've been looking at me
 And I want you to know that I like what I see
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2018, 02:24:45 PM
My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
My cherie amour, distant as the milky way
My cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2018, 02:28:27 PM

Strands of light upon a bedroom floor
Change the night through an open door
I'm awake but this not my home
For the first time I'm not alone

Reaching out, I touch another skin
Breathing out as he is breathing in
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame
Can my life ever be the same?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2018, 02:30:43 PM
I feel the trembling tingle of a sleepless night,
 Creep through my fingers and the moon is bright.
 Beams of blue come flickering through my windowpane,
 Like Gypsy moths that dance around a candle flame.

And I wonder if you know, that I never understood, that
 Although you said you'd go, until you did, I never thought you would.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 05:27:10 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2018, 02:28:27 PM
Strands of light upon a bedroom floor
Change the night through an open door
I'm awake but this not my home
For the first time I'm not alone

Reaching out, I touch another skin
Breathing out as he is breathing in
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame
Can my life ever be the same?

I absolutely love that song, 'Amoureuse' - Veronique Sanson - later Kiki Dee.

Silhouettes of a perfect frame
Shadows of your smile will always remain (always remain)
Beginners luck soon fades away, oh baby
We go on, I'll always say
Long as I live, you will be my
(My first love) oh baby, you and only you
(Long as I live) Long as I live
(My first love) you will be my first love
And I'd choose you again

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2018, 05:34:33 PM
Quote from: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 05:27:10 PM
I absolutely love that song, 'Amoureuse' - Veronique Sanson - later Kiki Dee.

Silhouettes of a perfect frame
Shadows of your smile will always remain (always remain)
Beginners luck soon fades away, oh baby
We go on, I'll always say
Long as I live, you will be my
(My first love) oh baby, you and only you
(Long as I live) Long as I live
(My first love) you will be my first love
And I'd choose you again
Don't know if you watched the Old Grey Whistle Test Live on BBC4 on Friday but they have Kiki Dee singing it live.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 06:35:24 PM
Didn't see it NS. No doubt it will be repeated, I've seen a few things more than once on BBC4.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2018, 06:43:06 PM
Quote from: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 06:35:24 PM
Didn't see it NS. No doubt it will be repeated, I've seen a few things more than once on BBC4.

Try this


www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09scfnb/the-old-grey-whistle-test-for-one-night-only
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2018, 06:51:49 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 01, 2018, 03:27:59 PM
One day we walked along the sand
 One day in early spring
 You held a piper in your hand
 To mend its broken wing
 Now I'll remember many a day
 And many a lonely mile
 The echo of a piper's song
 The shadow of a smile

The shadow of your smile
 When you are gone
 Will color all my dreams
 And light the dawn
 Look into my eyes
 My love and see
 All the lovely things
 You are to me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2018, 03:33:43 PM
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
You dream maker
You heart breaker
Where ever you're going I'm going your way

Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon river and me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 01, 2018, 03:35:49 PM
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
 There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
 Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
 And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
 And wake up where the clouds are far
 Behind me
 Where troubles melt like lemon drops
 Away above the chimney tops
 That's where you'll find me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2018, 04:20:00 PM
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2018, 04:30:45 PM
Snow
It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow
Snow
I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow
Snow
I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow
Snow
Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow
Where it's snowing
All winter through
That's where I want to be.
 :)
Snowball throwing
That's what I'll do
How I'm longing to ski
Through the snow-oh-oh-oh-oh.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2018, 04:40:32 PM
Way up north to Alaska, way up north to Alaska
North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on
North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on

Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92
With George Pratt his partner, and brother Billy too
They crossed the Yukon River, and found a bonanza gold
Below that old white mountain, just a little southeast of Nome
Sam crossed the majestic mountains to the valleys far below
He talked to his team of huskies as they mushed on through the snow
With the Northern Lights a runnin' wild in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Yes Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of nineteen-one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 01, 2018, 04:45:15 PM
She sipped a Minnesota
She sipped a Minnesota
She sipped a Minnesota
That's what she did sip

Where has Oregon, boy
Where has Oregon
If you want, Alaska
Alaska where she's gone

She went to pay her Texas
She went to pay her Texas
She went to pay her Texas
That's where she has gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2018, 05:04:54 PM
Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 01, 2018, 05:27:16 PM
California, here I come
Right back where I started from
Where bowers are flowers bloom in the spring
Each morning at dawning
Birdies sing and everything
A sun kissed miss said "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait,
Open up that Golden Gate!
California, here I come!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2018, 05:38:19 PM
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
'This could be heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face.
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (any time of year) you can find it here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 02, 2018, 03:23:53 PM
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in chicago
Down in new orleans
In new york city.

All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing,
Dancing in the street, oh.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 02, 2018, 06:48:20 PM
Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around, I love it
Bet your bottom dollar, you'll lose the blues in Chicago
Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down

On State Street, that great street, I just want to say
They do things that they don't do on Broadway
They have the time, the time of their life
I saw a man, he danced with his wife in Chicago
Chicago, my home town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 02, 2018, 09:38:17 PM
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 02, 2018, 11:36:58 PM
Waiting for the sunrise, soul dancing in the dark
 Summer night city
 Walking in the moonlight, love-making in the park
 Summer night city

In the sun I feel like sleeping
 I can't take it for too long
 My impatience slowly creeping
 Up my spine and growing strong
 I know what's waiting there for me
 Tonight I'm loose and fancy-free, aa-ahhh



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 03, 2018, 02:24:53 PM
Loneliness is the cloak you wear
A deep shade of blue is always there
The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love, baby
Emptiness is the place you're in
There's nothing to lose but no more to win
The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 03, 2018, 03:16:45 PM
For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won't say "good night" until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it

For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 03, 2018, 05:51:43 PM
Life's a bitch and then u die
If u don't care then why should I
Throwing both hands up to the sky
Letting go right now I'm just living for the moment
Living for the moment
Living for the moment
Living for the moment
Living for the moment
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 04, 2018, 10:16:08 AM
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best

And always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 04, 2018, 10:44:39 AM
Keep, keep on
Never say die
When in the midst of sorrow
You can' t see up when looking down

A brighter day tomorrow will bring
You hear the voice of reason
Telling you this can't never be done
No matter how hard reality seems
Just hold on to your dreams
Don't give up and don't give in
Although it seems you never win
You will always pass the test
As long as you keep your head to the sky
You can win as long as you keep your head to the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 04, 2018, 02:12:06 PM
Keep right on to the end of the road,
Keep right on to the end,
Tho' the way be long, let your heart be strong,
Keep right on round the bend.
Tho' you're tired and weary still journey on,
Till you come to your happy abode,
Where all the love you've been dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 05, 2018, 04:51:59 PM
I was high on a Molotov of cocktails,
I was low on a hundred things,
I was wrong to put my money where my mouth was,
I was right about the whales and the dolphins,
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah.
And I don't mind preserving time at all.
I was blue about the people in the power,
I was green that's my excuse,
I was yellow when they said to fight the reds,
'Cos I knew I'd be beaten black and blue,
Black and blue, battered and bruised, yeah.
Hold the line, just give it some time then (call)...
"Cor", what I like and what I hate about perseverance,
Ooh, what I'd give and what I'd take for perseverance.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 06, 2018, 09:18:05 AM
Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler
If you think we're on the run?
We are the boys who will stop your little game
We are the boys who will make you think again
Cause who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler
If you think old England's done?

Mr. Brown goes off to town on the eight twenty-one
But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun
“So watch out Mister Hitler
You have met your match in us
If you think you can crush us
We’re afraid you’ve missed the bus.”
So who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler
If you think old England's done?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 06, 2018, 06:46:45 PM
I'm not afraid of anything
Be it mountains, water, dragons, dark or sky
I'm not afraid of anything
Tell me where's the challenge if you never try
So watch me fly
I'm not afraid
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2018, 10:33:19 AM
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In lama land, there's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2018, 12:48:42 PM
I know, you know, we know they sometimes know
That our thoughts are locked together
In a world they call forever baby
I love, you love, we love but it's not enough for me
They're clipping your wings so you can't fly
Oh Baby, don't say goodbye
Take a look where I'm going
Take my hand and I'll show

I'll show you how to fly
High above the clouds
Soaring like an eagle, no need to touch down
No one's gonna change us
No one's gonna change the way we live our lives

The way we live our lives
Soaring like two eagles
The way we live our lives
Soaring like two eagles, soaring like two eagles
Flying high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2018, 02:29:18 PM
Ain't No Stoppin Us Now!
We're on the move!
Ain't No Stoppin Us Now!
We've got the groove!

There's been so many things that's held us down
But now it looks like things are finally comin' around
I know we've got, a long long way to go
And where we'll end up, I don't know

But we won't let nothing hold us back
We're putting our selves together
We're polishing up our act!
If you felt we've been held down before

I know you'll refuse to be held down anymore!
Don't you let nothing, nothing
Stand in your way!
I want ya'll to listen, listen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2018, 02:46:27 PM
Just who do you think you are?
Stop actin' like some kind of star
Just who do you think you are?

Take it like a man, baby, if that's what you are
'Cause I'm movin' on up, you're movin' on out
Movin' on up, nothin' can stop me
Movin' on up, you're movin' on out
Time to break free, nothin' can stop me, yeah
They brag a man has walked in space
But you can't even find my place
There ain't nothin' you can do
'Cause I've had enough of me, baby, bein' part of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2018, 02:55:27 PM
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world I'll turn it inside out - yeah
And floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time

I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go go go
There's no stopping me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2018, 03:27:41 PM
Fresh from Monaco
Performing for Microsoft
Miami to L.A., G4, we takin' off
I'm a hard worker, I'm far from the boss
But when it's said and done, I'm owning it all
I know you think it's just rap
Just this, just that, ha ha right
Now baby, this my life
Wanna have fun for a night?
Then just


Loosen up your body 'til you come undone
Loosen up your body baby come undone
Loosen up your body 'til you come undone
Loosen up your body baby come undone

Oh my my, looking like a good good time
Don't disguise
The way you wanna love tonight
Oh my my, hook you with a brand new high
Don't be shy, I just wanna live tonight
Live a little F.U.N. fun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 07, 2018, 05:38:04 PM
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes.

Love is in the air, in the whisper of the tree
Love is in the air in the thunder of the sea
And I don't know if I'm just dreaming
Don't know if I feel safe
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when you call out my name
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2018, 06:00:46 PM
Well I wake up in the morning
Tell me baby what do you see?
I see my true love and she walks up and she kisses me
I say "Cor baby that's really free"

I go walking down to your house
Tell me baby is it good for me?
Your Ma and Pa, they just wanna kick me
I say "Cor baby that's really free"
Really free really free
Really really really really free
Kick me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 08, 2018, 09:16:11 AM
I get no kick from champagne,
Mere alcohol,
Doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me, why should it be true,
That I get a kick out of you.

Some get a kick from cocaine,
I'm sure that if,
I took even one sniff,
It would bore me terrifically, too,
Yet I get a kick out of you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 08, 2018, 10:47:09 AM
Musha ring dum a do dum a da.
Whack for my daddy-o,
Whack for my daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar-o

I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny.
I took all of his money and I brought it home to Molly
She swore that she loved me never would she leave me
But the devil take that woman for you know she tricked me easy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 08, 2018, 03:59:12 PM
Oh every time it rains
It rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven
You'll find your fortune
Falling all over town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
It you want the things you love
You must have showers
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There will be pennies from heaven
For you and me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 08, 2018, 08:25:27 PM
The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want
You're lovin' gives me a thrill
But you're lovin' don't pay my bills
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 09, 2018, 10:01:22 AM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 09, 2018, 04:34:28 PM
I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock
I am an island
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: SweetPea on March 10, 2018, 08:55:56 AM
Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing,
Onward, the sailors cry.
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclaps rend the air,
Baffled our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing,
Onward, the sailors cry.
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 10, 2018, 09:49:08 AM
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailin'

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms
I'd go sailing.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 10, 2018, 08:25:13 PM
Just fight a little longer my friend
It's all worth it in the end
But when you got nobody to turn to
Just hold on, and I'll find you
I'll find you
I'll find you
Just hold on, and I'll find you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 12, 2018, 03:02:08 PM
It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit before the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 12, 2018, 04:08:23 PM
Our love was just a flash in the pan
Blowing away with the first morning rain
But those flames can kill a man
And now the rain can wash my pain

Now even without a witness to see
Even if we sink into oblivion sea
There's a story about you and me
There's a story about you and me

And I will see you around this town sometimes
And we will shake hands just like a friend and that's all right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 12, 2018, 05:28:55 PM
Don't tell me not to live
Just sit and putter
Life's candy and the sun's
A ball of butter
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade
Don't tell me not to fly
I've simply got to

If someone takes a spill
It's me and not you
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!
I'll march my band out
I'll beat my drum
And if I'm fanned out
Your turn at bat, sir
At least I didn't fake it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 12, 2018, 06:41:07 PM
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be here better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone

Why not think about times to come?
And not about the things that you've done?
If your life was bad to you
Just think what tomorrow will do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 13, 2018, 09:10:45 AM
There's an old superstition 'way down south
Everybody believes that trouble won't stay
If you shake it away.

When they hold a revival way down south
Everybody with care and trouble that day
Tries to shake it away.

Shaking the blues away, unhappy news away
If you are blue, it's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles.

Telling the blues to go, they may refuse to go
But as a rule, they'll go if you'll
Shake them away.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 13, 2018, 10:45:58 AM
Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
 Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall,
 Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass
 Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past

 When you believe in things that you don't understand,
 Then you suffer,
 Superstition ain't the way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 13, 2018, 01:06:24 PM
We gotta work it out
Get back what we lost
I see shadows of a doubt
But I'm keepin' my fingers crossed

She was just turning seventeen
He always promised her he'd stay
They were so love crazy 'til she had a baby
Then he turned and walked away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 13, 2018, 02:38:39 PM
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet
Only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl
Watch that scene
Dig in the dancing queen.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 13, 2018, 03:49:36 PM
How kind you are Sir!

Couldn't resist this one:-

She is D desirable
She is I irresistible
She is S super sexy
She is see such a cute
She is O oh, oh, oh
D.I.S.C.O.
She is disco
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 13, 2018, 04:57:03 PM
I won't dance, don't ask me.
I won't dance, don't ask me.
I won't dance, madame, with you.
My heart won't let me do things they should do.

You know what? You're lovely.
You know what, you're lovely. You know what, you're so lovely.
And, oh what you do to me.
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore;
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 13, 2018, 05:09:18 PM
I'm too sexy for my love
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing
'Cause I'm a model, you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk
On the catwalk, yeah
I shake my little tush on the catwalk
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 13, 2018, 05:14:44 PM
The best things happen while you're dancing
Things you would not do at home
Come naturally on the floor
For dancing soon becomes romancing
When you hold a girl in your arms
That you've never held before
Even guys with two left feet
Come out alright if the girl is sweet
If by chance their cheeks should meet while dancing
Proving that the best things happen while you dance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 13, 2018, 05:22:14 PM
It was an Indian chief and he'd say:

"Maggie, do you wanna dance?"

And I'd say, "Daddy, I would love to..."


Everything was beautiful at the ballet,

Raise your arms and someone's always there.

Yes, everything was beautiful at the ballet,

At the ballet,

At the ballet!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 13, 2018, 06:18:44 PM
I had a date with a pretty ballerina
Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
I asked her for this dance
And then she obliged me
Was I surprised, yeah
Was I surprised,
No not at all

I called her yesterday,
It should have been tomorrow
I could not keep
The joy that was inside
I begged for her to tell me
If she really loved me
Somewhere a mountain is moving
Afraid it's moving without me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 14, 2018, 03:53:54 PM
How could you believe me when I said I love you
When you know I've been a liar all my life
I've had that reputation since I was a youth
You must have been insane to think I'd tell you the truth
How could you believe me when I said we'd marry
When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife
I know I said I'd make you mine
But who would know that you would go for that old line
How could you believe me when I said I love you
When you know I've been a liar
Nothing but a liar, all my doggone cheatin' life.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 14, 2018, 04:42:27 PM
She's driving me crazy, but I'm into it, but I'm into it
I'm kind of into it
It's getting crazy, I think I'm losing it, I think I'm losing it
I think she said "I'm having your baby, it's none of your business"
"I'm having your baby, it's none of your business" (None of your, none of your)
"I'm having your baby, it's none of your business"
"I'm having your baby, it's none of your, it's none of your"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 19, 2018, 12:15:18 PM
People always told me, "Be careful of what you do.
And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts."
And mother always told me, "A-be careful of who you love,
And be careful of what you do
'Cause the lie becomes the truth."

Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one
But the kid is not my son
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2018, 12:34:59 PM

I don't want a lover
I just need a friend
I've had time to recover
Now that I know it wasn't love

It's always a different story
When it's me who's in the wrong
But you can't have it all
Cause I'm the one who's strong
I've already been burnt before
Once but never again
I know the time will come
That's when you need me then
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 21, 2018, 05:05:25 PM
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
(Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is

Oh, what do you think about that
Now you know how I feel
Say, you can handle my love, are you for real
(Are you for real)
I won't be hasty, I'll give you a try
If you really bug me then I'll say goodbye
Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2018, 05:15:22 PM

When everything is wrong I'll come talk to you
You make things alright when I'm feeling blue

You are such a blessing and I wont be messing
with the one thing that brings light to all of my darkness

You are my best friend
and I love you, and I love you
Yes I do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 21, 2018, 06:21:50 PM
Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song
That I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
To you I guess
I'm just a clown
Who picks you up
Each time you're down
Oh baby, oh baby
You give me just
A taste of love to
Build my hopes upon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 22, 2018, 09:15:09 AM
Everything I have is yours
You are part of me
Everything I have is yours
My destiny

I would gladly give the sun to you
If the sun were only mine
I would gladly give the earth to you
And the stars that shine
Everything that I posses
I offer you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 22, 2018, 09:30:54 AM
I will give you anything
If you don't demand it
And with one promise
I will make you mine again

I will give you everything
That you've ever wanted
I will give you everything
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 23, 2018, 03:59:05 PM
I'll do anything
For you dear anything
For you mean everything to me
I know that
I'll go anywhere
For your smile, anywhere --
For your smile, everywhere --
I'd see.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 23, 2018, 06:45:27 PM
Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song
That I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
To you I guess
I'm just a clown
Who picks you up
Each time you're down
Oh baby, oh baby
You give me just
A taste of love to
Build my hopes upon
You know you got
The power boy
To keep me holding on
So now you got
The best of me
Come on and
Take the rest of me
Oh baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 24, 2018, 10:06:29 AM
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 24, 2018, 10:13:22 AM
 O thou who camest from above
the fire celestial to impart,
kindle a flame of sacred love
on the mean altar of my heart!

There let it for thy glory burn
with inextinguishable blaze,
and trembling to its source return
in humble prayer and fervent praise.

Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
to work, and speak, and think for thee;
still let me guard the holy fire,
and still stir up the gift in me.

Ready for all thy perfect will,
my acts of faith and love repeat;
till death thy endless mercies seal,
and make the sacrifice complete.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 24, 2018, 10:54:56 AM
I am the God of Hell fire and I bring you

Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn

You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now 's your time burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 24, 2018, 11:15:46 AM
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, that saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
I being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
O Faustus! leave these frivolous demands,   
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 24, 2018, 05:59:41 PM

Is this a dagger I see before me?
The hilt turned to me?
If you are not a dream, let me grasp you.
You fly from me, and yet I can see you!
You run ahead of me
along the unclear path which my mind
intended to follow!
Horrid sight!
The blade is streaked with blood!
But now there’s nothing there.
Only my bloody imagination gives it shape
and presents a dream to my eyes as a reality.
On one half of the world
nature now is dead. Now the murderer
creeps like a phantom through the shadows.
Now the witches consummate their secrets.
Motionless earth!
Stay hushed at my steps.
(Verdi)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 25, 2018, 09:46:10 AM
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name
And do I dream again
For now I find
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside my mind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 25, 2018, 01:06:17 PM
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 25, 2018, 02:07:13 PM
War is coming
War is crying out
The world is shaking
The sky is falling down - the sky is falling down

Into the Darkness - we are one
Into the Darkness - we all must run
Into the Darkness - we'll burn a light
Into the Darkness - we all must fight, we all must fight

Somethings coming
Somethings on its way
Mountains are crumbling
Like statues of clay - somethings on its way

Into the Darkness - we are one
Into the Darkness - we all must run
Into the Darkness - we'll burn a light
Into the Darkness - we all must fight, we all must fight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 25, 2018, 02:31:42 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 25, 2018, 09:40:08 PM
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Some silicone sister
With a manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said
"I'll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break"
And go-cart Mozart
Was checkin' out the weather chart
See if it was safe outside
And little early-pearly
Came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
The calliope crashed to the ground
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 26, 2018, 09:23:55 AM
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor self together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rocking chair will get me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 26, 2018, 01:48:39 PM
KING LEAR
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
Fool
O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry
house is better than this rain-water out o' door.
Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:
here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.
KING LEAR
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 26, 2018, 05:44:42 PM
The Sun Is Burning
The sun is burning in the sky,
Strands of cloud are softly drifting by,


In the park the dreamy bees
Are droning in the flowers among the trees,
And the sun burns in the sky.

Now the sun is sinking low,
Children playing know its time to go,
And the couples in the park
Are holding hands and waiting for the dark,
And the sun is sinking low.

Now the sun is in the West,
Little kids lie down to take their rest,
High above a spot appears,
A little blossom blooms and then draws near,
And the sun is in the West.

Now the sun has come to Earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death,
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash,
And the sun has come to Earth.

Now the sun has disappeared,
All is darkness, anger, pain and fear,
Twisted, sightless wrecks of men
Go crawling on their knees and cry in pain,
And the sun has disappeared.

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 27, 2018, 09:24:36 AM
Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry at the doorstep
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street
Can't you hear that pitter pat and that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade
But I'm not afraid 'cause this rover, crossed over.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 27, 2018, 11:50:33 AM
Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu
Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu

Sumer is i-cumin in—
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb
Lhouth after calve cu
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth—
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu
Wel singes thu, cuccu
Ne swik thu naver nu!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 27, 2018, 12:33:05 PM
Sing, sing, sing, sing
Everybody start to sing
Ooh ooh, waah ooh
Now you're singin' with a swing

Sing, sing, sing, sing
Everybody start to sing
Ooh ooh, waah ooh
Now you're singin' with a swing

When the music goes around
Everybody goes to town
But here's something you should know
Ha ha baby, ho ho ho
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 27, 2018, 12:57:52 PM
I have a song to sing, O
(Sing me your song, O)
It is sung to the moon by a love-lorn loon
Who fled from the mocking throng-o

It's the song of a merry man moping mum
Whose soul was sad and his glance was glum
Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb
As he sighed for the love of a lady

Hey-di, hey-di, misery me, lack-a-day-de
He sipped no sup and he craved no crumb
As he sighed for the love of a lady
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 27, 2018, 01:04:18 PM
I'll sing you twelve, O
Green grow the rushes, O
What are your twelve, O?
Twelve for the twelve apostles,
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven, and
Ten for the Ten Commandments,
Nine for the nine bright shiners,
Eight for the April rainers,
Seven for the seven stars in the sky, and
Six for the six proud walkers,
Five for the symbols at your door, and
Four for the gospel-makers,
Three, three arrivals!
Two, two lily-white boys
Clothed all in green, O
One is one, and all alone,
And ever more shall be so.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 27, 2018, 01:29:12 PM

I have a gentil cock
croweth me day
he doth me risen early
my matins for to stay

I have a gentil cock
comen he is of great
his comb is of red coral
his tail is of jet

I have a gentil cock
comen he is of kind
his comb is of red sorrel
his tail is of inde

his legs be of azure
so gentil and so small
his spurs are of silver white
into the wortewale

his eyes are of crystal
locked all in amber
and every night he pertcheth him
in my lady`s chamber
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 27, 2018, 01:59:00 PM
I syng of a mayden
þat is makeles,
kyng of alle kynges
to here sone che ches.

He came also stylle
þer his moder was
as dew in aprylle,
þat fallyt on þe gras.

He cam also stylle
to his moderes bowr
as dew in aprille,
þat fallyt on þe flour.

He cam also stylle
þer his moder lay
as dew in Aprille,
þat fallyt on þe spray.;

Moder & mayden
was neuer non but che –
wel may swych a lady
Godes moder be.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 27, 2018, 04:14:31 PM
Experience, though noon auctoritee
Were in this world, were right ynogh to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage;
For, *lordynges, sith I twelf yeer was of age,—

Y-thonked be God, that is eterne on lyve!
Housbondes at chirchė dore I have had fyve;
For I so oftė have y-wedded bee;
And alle were worthy men in hir degree.
But me was toold certeyn, nat longe agoon is,
   
That sith that Crist ne wente never but onis
To weddyng, in the Cane of Galilee,
Bý the same ensample taughte he me
That I ne sholdė wedded be but ones.
Herkne, eek, which a sharp word for the nones

*I read that word as 'lozenges' when I about twelf yeer was of age.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 27, 2018, 10:09:54 PM
Done is a battle on the dragon black,
Our champion Christ confoundit has his force;
The yetis of hell are broken with a crack,
The sign triumphal raisit is of the cross,
The devillis trymmillis with hiddous voce,
The saulis are borrowit and to the bliss can go,
Christ with his bloud our ransonis dois indoce:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.

Dungan is the deidly dragon Lucifer,
The cruewall serpent with the mortal stang;
The auld kene tiger, with his teith on char,
Whilk in a wait has lyen for us so lang,
Thinking to grip us in his clawis strang;
The merciful Lord wald nocht that it were so,
He made him for to failye of that fang.
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.

He for our saik that sufferit to be slane,
And lyk a lamb in sacrifice was dicht,
Is lyk a lion risen up agane,
And as a gyane raxit him on hicht;
Sprungen is Aurora radious and bricht,
On loft is gone the glorious Apollo,
The blissful day departit fro the nicht:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.

The grit victour again is rissen on hicht,
That for our querrell to the deth was woundit;
The sun that wox all pale now shynis bricht,
And, derkness clearit, our faith is now refoundit;
The knell of mercy fra the heaven is soundit,
The Christin are deliverit of their wo,
The Jowis and their errour are confoundit:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.

The fo is chasit, the battle is done ceis,
The presone broken, the jevellouris fleit and flemit;
The weir is gon, confermit is the peis,
The fetteris lowsit and the dungeon temit,
The ransoun made, the prisoneris redeemit;
The field is won, owrecomen is the fo,
Dispuilit of the treasure that he yemit:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.

William Dunbar (five days early - a Paschal poem if ever there was one.)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 27, 2018, 10:59:44 PM
This bit makes me feel uncomfortable :- The Jowis and their errour are confoundit.

So something different (in ferra penny) -

He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.

They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
Sudden and still—hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on March 28, 2018, 01:19:11 PM
Dunbar lived in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, so the sentiment is mild for the time. You can't judge someone from 500 years ago by modern sensibilities.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 28, 2018, 02:57:53 PM
I know, same applies to Shakespeare and Dickens; I don't judge but can't help feeling uncomfortable.

Anyway, on lighter note, how about this one which apparently made a lot of people feel uncomfortable  :D:-

Right now ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
I am an anti-Christ
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I want to destroy the passerby
'Cause I want to be anarchy
No dogs body
Anarchy for the U.K.
It's coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic line
Your future dream has sure been seen through
'Cause I want to be anarchy
In the city



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 29, 2018, 11:29:03 PM
A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the cityee ha!

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city yeah!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 30, 2018, 12:00:10 AM
Back through the years
I go wonderin' once again
Back to the seasons of my youth
I recall a box of rags that someone gave us
And how my momma put the rags to use
There were rags of many colors
Every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat
And it was way down in the fall
Momma sewed the rags together
Sewin' every piece with love
She made my coat of many colors
That I was so proud of
As she sewed, she told a story
From the bible, she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph wore and then she said
Perhaps this coat will bring you
Good luck and happiness
And I just couldn't wait to wear it
And momma blessed it with a kiss
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2018, 01:19:28 PM

Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
When I last saw you laughing

If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 14, 2018, 08:37:18 AM
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Now that the light is fading
Silver and purple at twilight
Scenes of the day remain with us
Bright as the fire is burning bright
Blue as the sky above the lake
And blue the water flowing
White birch drooping on the shore
Her leaves of emerald glowing
The night is robed in spangled black
And soon we shall be sleeping
Beyond the moon that rides on high
The radiant dawn is creeping, creeping
Down through the leaves, the sunlight
Came in shafts of gold
Now by the dying embers
We watch the day grow old
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 19, 2018, 09:52:13 AM
Twilight
Twilight, I'll give you time to
Steal my mind away from me

Your brought me here
But can you take me back again

With your head held high
And your scarlet lies
You came down to me
From the open skies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 19, 2018, 09:55:09 AM
Heavenly shades of night are falling
 It's twilight time
 Out of the mist your voice is calling
 'Tis twilight time

When purple colored curtains
 Mark the end of the day
 I hear you my dear at twilight time

Deepening shadows gather splendor
 As day is done
 Fingers of night will soon surrender
 The setting sun

I count the moments darling
 Till you're here with me
 Together at last at twilight time

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 19, 2018, 09:58:21 AM
You're the devil in me I brought in from the cold
You said your body was young but your mind was very old
You're coming on strong and I like the way
The visions we had have faded away
You're part of a life I've never had
I'll tell you that it's just too bad

You're coming on strong
You're showing your color
Like a setting sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 19, 2018, 10:22:00 AM
Well, at the age of five they can do their jive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
And at the age of six they're gonna get their kicks
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Well your mama don't know where your sister done go
She gone down to the Drive. She's the start of the show
And let her move on up. Let her come let her go.
She can jive
Down in Devil Gate Drive

So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 19, 2018, 02:30:27 PM
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
I'm glad I opened your eyes
The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice
Have you seen your brother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another baby, standing in the shadow?
Well I was just passing the time
I'm all alone, won't you give all your sympathy to mine?
Tell me a story about how you adore me
Live through the shadow, see through the shadow,
Live through the shadow, tear at the shadow
Hate in the shadow, love in the shadow life
Have you seen your lover, baby, standing in the shadow?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 19, 2018, 03:38:52 PM
Tell me story, tell me story
Tell me story, remember what you said
You promised me you said you would
You got to give in so I'll be good
Tell me a story, then I'll go to bed

Oh, worry, worry, weary ends my day
Time to go home without my raise in pay
Home by the fire where a man can just relax
Sippers there by the chair, not a worry, not a care
Along comes Junior swinging his little axe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 19, 2018, 05:40:29 PM
Tomahawk

Little lovely dream

Sweet sweet shut your eyes
The wild fireflies
The wild fireflies dancing
Through the fairy name

Straight from the poppy bowl
It was for you I stole
And just for you I stole
A still little lovely dream

Hush demon baby
Your time will soon come
Your sleep shall be broken
By trumpet tantrum
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 20, 2018, 08:47:21 AM
Hush, little baby, don't say a word,
Mama's going to buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird don't sing,
Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring.
And if that diamond ring turns brass,
Mama's going to buy you a looking glass.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 21, 2018, 12:44:58 AM
Won't you sing me your sweet lullaby?
Just the sound of your voice is the thing that I need
Won't you sing me your sweet lullaby?
I could fall for the sound of your sweet melody
'Cause I just need your song
Something to sing along
When I'm not feeling strong
I need you to sing me your sweet lullaby
Need the sound of your sweet melody
So sing to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 21, 2018, 07:58:01 AM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens it's portals to me
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 21, 2018, 03:34:12 PM
Removed becos duplicated
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 21, 2018, 03:50:19 PM
Not another lullaby.  Can't you sleep?  :) See #1665
Anyway, here goes.....

Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway.
The hip hooray and bally hoo,
The lullaby of Broadway.
The rumble of the subway train,
The rattle of the taxis.
The daffy-dills who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxie's.

When a Broadway baby says "Good night,"
It's early in the morning.
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight until the dawn:
Good night, baby,
Good night, milkman's on his way.
Sleep tight, baby,
Sleep tight, let's call it a day,
Listen to the lullaby of old Broadway.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 23, 2018, 09:43:08 AM

Lyrics
I don't like to sleep alone
Stay with me
Don't go
Talk with me for just a while
So much of you to get to know
Reaching out touching you
Leaving all the worries behind
Loving you
My mouth on yours and yours on mine
Marry me
Let me live with you
Nothing's wrong and love is right
Like a man says in his song
Help me make it through the night
Loneliness can get you down
When you get to thinking no one cares
Lean on me
And I'll lean on you
Together we will see it through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 23, 2018, 04:10:56 PM
Take the ribbon from your hair, Shake it loose and let it fall,
Laying soft upon my skin. Like the shadows on the wall.
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time. Help me make it through the night.

I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow. Lord, tonight I need a friend.
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight.
And it's sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 23, 2018, 04:39:10 PM
Oh, what happened to you?
Whatever happened to me?
What became of the people we used to be?
Tomorrow's almost over
Today went by so fast
The only thing to look forward to is the past?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 23, 2018, 10:00:01 PM
Happy and I'm smilin', walk a mile to drink your water
You know I'd love to love you and above you there's no other
We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster
Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend
Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
Let us close our eyes, outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past
Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
Oh no, no, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 24, 2018, 09:01:42 AM
It's a lovely day today
So whatever you've got to do
You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true
And I hope whatever you've got to do
Is something that can be done by two
For I'd really like to stay

It's a lovely day today
And whatever you've got to do
I'd be so happy to be doing it with you
But if you've got something that must be done
And it can only be done by one
There is nothing more to say
Except it's a lovely day for saying
It's a lovely day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 24, 2018, 09:25:26 AM
When I wake up in the morning, love
 And the sunlight hurts my eyes
 And something without warning, love
 Bears heavy on my mind

 Then I look at you
 And the world's alright with me
 Just one look at you
 And I know it's gonna be
 A lovely day
 ... lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2018, 09:25:56 AM
One of my mum's favourites, she was a great Springfield fan though there are several other versions. Sounds good in French.

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night bird's song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
But if you stay, I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail on the sun, we'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 24, 2018, 09:29:51 AM
If I recall correctly, and as it is Dusty I think I do - she does sing this partly in French at least on the version I have got (it's possible there is more than one recording).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 24, 2018, 09:33:33 AM
It was a hot afternoon
 The last day of June
 And the sun was a demon
 The clouds were afraid
 One-ten in the shade
 And the pavement was steaming

I told Billy Ray
 In his red Chevrolet
 I needed time for some thinking
 I was just walking by
 When I looked in her eye
 And I swore, it was winking

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2018, 09:50:07 AM
Given it's a Jacques Brel song, not that surprising that it sounds good in French. The French lyric  is sadder.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 24, 2018, 04:18:05 PM
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way.

All the cattle are standing like statues
All the cattle are standing like statues
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by
But a little brown maverick is winking her eye.

Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way.

All the sounds of the earth are like music
Oh the sounds of the earth are like music
The breeze is so busy, it don't miss a tree
And an old weeping willow is laughing at me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2018, 04:21:30 PM
Sunday morning, up with the lark
I think I'll take a walk in the park
Hey hey hey, it's a beautiful day
I've got someone waiting for me
And when I see her I know that she'll say
Hey hey hey, what a beautiful day

Hi hi hi, beautiful Sunday
This is my my my beautiful day
When you said said said said that you loved me
Oh my my my it's a beautiful day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 25, 2018, 12:28:16 AM
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine,
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine.
A million tomorrows shall all pass away, 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.
I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the songs that I sing.
I'll feast at your table, I'll sleep in your clover, who cares what tomorrow shall bring?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 25, 2018, 09:01:58 AM
I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows,
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows.
I believe for everyone who goes astray
Someone will come to show the way.
I believe,
Oh, I believe.
I believe above the storm
The smallest prayer, will still be heard.
I believe that someone in that great somewhere
Hears every word
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf
Or see the sky,
Then I know why I believe.
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf
Or see the sky,
Then I know why I believe.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 25, 2018, 05:46:52 PM
Fresh winds shadows lifting
Wide open welcoming hearts
Against the pink sky blackberry tangles
A circle of friendship begin under the stars
And this is life
Full of beauty and wonder
Beauty and wonder
And this is life
Full of beauty and wonder
In the twinkling of an eye it came to me
Peace at last within myself
And the white spray of the waves
And the moon is my night light
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2018, 03:04:58 PM
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
 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 dawn
 We're captive on the carousel of time
 We can't return we con only look behind
 From where we came
 And go round and round and round
 In the circle game.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2018, 03:12:06 PM
Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go
Will I catch up to love, I can never tell, I know
Chasing after you is like a fairy tale, but I
Feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel

Come, come one, come all
You must be this tall
To ride this, ride at the carnival
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Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2018, 03:14:42 PM
When I get to the bottom
 I go back to the top of the slide
 An' I stop, an' I turn, an' I go for a ride
 Til I get to the bottom
 An' I see you again
 Yeh
 Do you, don't you, want me to love you?
 I'm comin' down fast, but I'm miles above you
 Tell me, tell me, tell me
 Come on, tell me the answer
 Well, you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer
 Lookout

Helter Skelter
 Helter Skelter
 Helter Skelter, Yeh



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2018, 03:16:49 PM
Spaced out, far out, get another car out
Dodgem Dude is dancing on the desert of the Ring
And he drives his car with style
While he smiles at all the wiles
The cars go round and round and then he hits them

Smash them, crash them, get your chips and cash them
Dodgem Dude don't dare, don't dare to understand
And the music growls and moans
For he knows he can't go home
So he's grinning as the sparks fly when he hits them

Spill them, kill them, have your kicks and thrill them
Race them, chase them, turn the car and face them
Dodgem Dude is dancing on the desert of his brains
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2018, 03:23:10 PM
I guess this means that:

the carnival is over,
 we may never meet again.

Like a drum my heart was beating,
 and your kiss was sweet as wine.
 But the joys of love are fleeting,
 for Pierrot and Columbine.



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2018, 03:26:53 PM
Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow for the next round
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down

And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
And wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the Clown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2018, 03:29:00 PM
Same old boring Sunday morning
 Old man's out washing the car
 Mum's in the kitchen, cooking Sunday dinner
 Her best meal moaning while it lasts
 Johnny's upstairs in his bedroom
 Sitting in the dark
 Annoying the neighbors
 With his punk rock electric guitar
 This is the sound
 This is the sound of the suburbs
 This is the sound
 This is the sound of the suburbs


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2018, 03:30:19 PM
Maybe I'm just waiting for the right time
To come along
Birds don't sing because they have answers
They sing because they have songs
Baby bay how could you forget?
Have not forgotten just not finished yet
So what have we got?
We got a lot of nothing finished yet
How could I forget
We are eiffel tower high
Shaky like a hollywood hillside
Norwegian winter long
Birds flying across the ocean
The dirty war is in our song
As true as any slip of your tongue
Some put on wetsuits others a wedding ring
No need to say anythingjust feel better
I'll be waiting I'm still wainting
Baby bay how could you forget?
Have not forgotten just not finished yet
And we know...
We got a lot of nothing finished yet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2018, 03:38:59 PM
She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2018, 05:26:25 PM
No I don't belong to her
I don't belong to any body
She's my Christ-forsaken angel
But she don't hear me cry
She's a lone-hearted mystic
And she can't carry on
When I'm there, she's all right
But she's not when I'm gone

Heaven knows that the answer
She don't calling no one
She's the way, forsaken beauty
For she's mine, for the one
And I lost her, hesitation
By temptation as it runs
But she don't holler me
But I'm not there, I'm gone


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 27, 2018, 04:22:16 PM
Oh every time it rains
It rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven
You'll find your fortune
Fallin' all over town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
It you want the things you love
You must have showers
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven
For you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 27, 2018, 04:33:53 PM
I can't stand the rain
Against my window
Bringing back sweet memories
I can't stand the rain
Against my window
'Cause he ain't here with me
Hey window pane
Tell me, do you remember
How sweet it used to be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 27, 2018, 05:15:58 PM
The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this
Don't forget a small moon beam
Fold in lightly with a dream
Your lips and mine, two sips of wine
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 27, 2018, 05:43:05 PM
Take me away from the city and lead me to where I can be on my own,
I wanted to see it, and now that I have, I want just to be left alone,
I'll always remember your kind words, and I'll still remember your name,
But I've seen you changing and turning, and I know that things won't be the same.
I remember that summer in Dublin, and the liffey as it stank like hell,
And the young people walking on Grafton street, and everyone looking so well,
I was singing a song I heard somewhere, called "Rock 'n' roll never forgets",
When my hummin' was smothered by a 46a and the scream of a low flying jet.
So I jumped on a bus to dun laoire, stoppin' off to pick up my guitar,
And a drunk on the bus told me how to get rich.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 28, 2018, 08:48:10 AM
In Dublin's fair city
where the girls are so pretty
I once met a girl named sweet Molly Malone
and she wheeled her wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh

She was a fish monger
and sure was no wonder
so were her mother and father before
and they wheeled their wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 28, 2018, 09:25:57 AM
Oh, Mary, this London's a wonderful sight
 With people here working by day and by night
 They don't sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat
 But there's gangs of them diggin' for gold in the street
 At least when I asked them, that's what I was told
 So I just took a hand at this diggin' for gold
 But for all that I've found there, I might as well be
 In the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 28, 2018, 01:57:31 PM
We left our goods behind overnight
They told us there was a place to find
We were all wrapped up in winter coats
Searching gold in the midnight cold
We traveled arm in arm, at the same pace
Keeping each other warm in the rising storm

Searching gold
Where's the gold
That we'll share
As we share the road?
Tree trunks had fallen down on our way
Rocks of the ice age that would not stir
We lifted all that troubled our haste
One spell, one voice for one single aim
Searching gold, will we find it?
Where's the gold
That we'll share
As we share the road?

Oh, silent rejoicing when one of us stumbled
Oh, silent rejoicing when one of us failed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 28, 2018, 03:06:12 PM
Goldfinger
He's the man, the man with the Midas touch
A spider's touch
Such a cold finger
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don't go in
Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can't disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her
It's the kiss of death from
Mister Goldfinger
Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold
This heart is cold.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 28, 2018, 04:05:36 PM
Walk in the light
That shines so bright
Let your soul feel right
Love is pure gold, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 28, 2018, 04:14:49 PM
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of a storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 28, 2018, 08:17:50 PM
See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school
With your feet flyin' up in the air
Singin' hey diddle-diddle with the kitty in the middle
You be swingin' like you just didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Was it me she was foolin'?
'Cause she knew what she was doin'
Told me how to walk this way
She told me to
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Just give me a kiss
Like this
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 29, 2018, 09:22:05 AM
I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P
I reached the top and had to stop
And that's what bothering me
I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town
And be just like those other men
I'm tired of monkeying around

Ooh-bi-doo, I wan'na be like you
I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
You see it's true, an ape like me
Can learn to be like you, too.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 29, 2018, 03:26:23 PM
........... you've been uninvited
'Cause all you say are all the same things I did
Copycat trying to cop my manner
Watch your back when you can't watch mine
Copycat trying to cop my glamour
Why so sad, bunny, you can't have mine?
Call me calloused, call me cold
You're italic, I'm in bold
Call me cocky, watch your tone
You better love me, 'cause you're just a clone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 29, 2018, 04:34:44 PM
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air,
Where are the clones?

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move,
Where are the clones?
There ought to be clones?  ::)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 29, 2018, 04:41:32 PM
I'm a clone
I know it and I'm fine
I'm one and more are on the way
I'm two, doctor
Three's on the line
He'll take incubation another day

I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 07, 2018, 01:42:17 AM
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette
The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget
Ohhh how how how, you're a rock n roll suicide

Youre too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clocks waits so patiently on your song
You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when youve lived too long
Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock n roll suicide
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 07, 2018, 09:00:14 AM
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock.
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me hon'
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 07, 2018, 11:48:56 PM
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 08, 2018, 03:15:03 PM
In my little town
 I never meant nothin'
 I was just my father's son
 Saving my money
 Dreaming of glory
 Twitching like a finger
 On the trigger of a gun
 Leaving nothing but the dead and dying
 Back in my little town

 Nothing but the dead and dying
 Back in my little town
 Nothing but the dead and dying
 Back in my little town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 08, 2018, 07:41:46 PM
Died last night in my dreams
Walking the streets
Of some old ghost town
I tried to believe
In God and James Dean
But Hollywood sold out
Saw all of the saints
Lock up the gates
I could not enter
Walked into the flames
Called out your name
But there was no answer
And now I know my heart is a ghost town
My heart is a ghost town
My heart is a ghost town
My heart is a ghost town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 08, 2018, 08:50:29 PM
Down on the casting couch
 A star is gonna be born
 A star with the stature of a Harlow
 Who's doomed
 And groomed to enrapture
 All her co-stars, and stuntmen, the co-stars
 Oh, let there be lights, action, sound
 Lights, action, sound - Roll 'em!

 Out in the mezzanine
 On the arm of a dumb marine
 Her beauty looks out like a trailer
 Norman Mailer
 Waits to nail her
 He's under the bed
 And he's waiting for her to be dead
 He's out on the patio
 With his polaroid and scenario
 And he's armed and he's dangerously....
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 08, 2018, 09:45:31 PM
Fame, cars, lights stay on you
Cameras flashing for you
I’d trade it all on the way
To happiness. What’s the price of fame?

Yeah
Yo, what’s attracting people to the life of fame?
The nights away binging, getting blind for days
Would you expect a tidal wave of guys
All disguised as mates to try to take a slice of that pie you made?
When you’re famous, you’re the person people like to hate
Are you prepared for all the rumours and the lies they say?
Yo, looking back at life, I’d never thought I’d go this far
Yo, I’m just thankful people welcomed me with open arms
All these new friends and people that I hope to trust
Try to take advantage, got me thinking what their motives are?
Girl, if the light's on, on your iPod
And it’s my songs then drive on 'cause a fan is not what I want
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 09, 2018, 08:41:53 AM
Remember my name, fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly, high
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry, fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame, fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 09, 2018, 10:05:05 AM
Then touch my tears with your lips
 Touch my world with your finger tips
 And we can have forever and we can love forever
 Forever is our today

 Who wants to live forever?
 Who wants to live forever?
 Forever is our today
 Who waits forever anyway?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 09, 2018, 03:22:17 PM
What a difference a day made
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain

My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm a part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine

Lord, what a difference a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss
That thrilling kiss

It's heaven when you
Find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 09, 2018, 04:56:55 PM
Black clouds are behind me, I now can see ahead
Often I wonder why I try hoping for an end
Sorrow weighs my shoulders down
And trouble haunts my mind
But I know the present will not last
And tomorrow will be kinder

Tomorrow will be kinder
It's true, I've seen it before
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 12, 2018, 04:21:35 PM
Grey skies are gonna clear up,
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up,
Put on a happy face.
Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy,
It's not your style;
You'll look so good that you'll be glad
Ya' decide to smile!
Pick out a pleasant outlook,
Stick out that noble chin;
Wipe off that "full of doubt" look,
Slap on a happy grin!
And spread sunshine all over the place,
Just put on a happy face!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 12, 2018, 04:48:20 PM
Hey hey hey
It’s a beautiful day and I can’t stop myself from smiling
If I’m drinking, then I’m buying
And I know there’s no denying
It’s a beautiful day, the sun is up, the music’s playing
And even if it started raining
You won’t hear this boy complaining
‘Cause I’m glad that you’re the one that got away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 12, 2018, 05:03:59 PM
It's a lovely day today
So whatever you've got to do
You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true
And I hope whatever you've got to do
Is something that can be done by two
For I'd really like to stay

It's a lovely day today
And whatever you've got to do
I'd be so happy to be doing it with you
But if you've got something that must be done
And it can only be done by one
There is nothing more to say
Except it's a lovely day for saying
It's a lovely day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 12, 2018, 05:18:39 PM
Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me
I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me
Days I'll remember all my life
Days when you can't see wrong from right
You took my life
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me
But it's all right
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 14, 2018, 04:43:59 PM
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2018, 05:50:58 AM
Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron, thank you very much, thank you very very very much
Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron, thank you very very very much
Thank you very much for the birds and bees, thank you very much, thank you very very very much
Thank you very much for the birds and bees, thank you very very very much

Thank you very much for the family circle, thank you very much, thank you very very very much
Thank you very much for the family circle, thank you very much, thank you very very very very very very very very much
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 15, 2018, 09:03:47 AM
Thanks for the memory
Of things I can't forget
Journeys on a jet
Our wondrous week in Martinique
And Vegas and roulette
How lucky I was

And thanks for the memory
Of summers by the sea
Dawn in Waikiki
We had a pad in London
But we didn't stop for tea
How cozy it was.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 15, 2018, 12:58:49 PM
A foggy day, in London town
 Had me low, had me down
 I viewed the morning, with much alarm
 British Museum, had lost its charm

 How long I wondered,
 Could this thing last
 But the age of miracles, hadn't passed
 For suddenly, I saw you there
 And through foggy London town,
 The sun was shining everywhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2018, 02:19:08 PM
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright
But I don't, need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
Chilly chilly is the evening time, Waterloo sunset's fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 15, 2018, 02:56:33 PM
Ol' man river
Dat ol' man river
He mus' know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin'
He jes' keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along

He don' plant taters
He don't plant cotton
An' dem dat plants 'em
Is soon forgotten
But ol' man river
He jes keeps rollin' along

You an' me, we sweat an' strain
Body all achin' an' racket wid pain
Tote dat barge!
Lif' dat bale!
Git a little drunk
An' you land in jail
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 15, 2018, 02:57:33 PM
Left a good job in the city
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 15, 2018, 03:03:41 PM
Way down yonder in New Orleans
In the land of the dreamy scenes
There's a Garden Of Eden, you know what I mean?

Creole babies with flashin' eyes
Softly whisper their tender sighs
Then stop won't you give your lady fair a little smile
Stop, ya bet your life you'll linger there a little while
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 15, 2018, 03:08:23 PM
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
 In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream

 Maybe tomorrow I'll find my way
 To the land where the honey runs in rivers each day
 And the sweet-tastin' good life is so easily found
 Way over yonder, that's where I'm bound
 Way over yonder, that's where I'm bound

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2018, 04:53:43 PM
I want to live
I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind
It's such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 15, 2018, 05:00:32 PM
From Westwood to Hollywood
The one thing that's understood
Is that you can't buy time
But you can sell your soul
And the closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll

But somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 15, 2018, 05:12:03 PM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens it's portals to me
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2018, 10:41:44 PM
Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another,
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well she looked at me
And I, I could see
That before too long
I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 16, 2018, 09:15:58 AM
When they begin the beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender
It brings back a night of tropical splendor
It brings back a memory evergreen

I'm with you once more under the stars
And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
And even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the beguine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 16, 2018, 11:09:33 AM
Love soft as an easy chair
 Love fresh as the morning air
 One love that is shared by two
 I have found with you

Like a rose under the April snow
 I was always certain love would grow
 Love ageless and evergreen
 Seldom seen by two

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 16, 2018, 02:04:23 PM
"well, well," said the rocking chair.
"it's been a while since I've seen such stark despair."
"who told you like was fair? "
"woa, woa," said the radio, "sit, there are some things you ought to know"
"there is little you can do to stop the pain and it's gonna happen time and time again,
But just remember even though it sounds insane,
It's impossible to ever love somebody in vain."

All right. it's gonna be all right. it's gonna be all right. it's gonna be all right.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 16, 2018, 04:31:20 PM
It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
It's not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry,
I wanna die

It's not unusual to go out at any time
But when I see you out and about it's such a crime
If you should ever wanna be loved by anyone,
It's not unusual it happens every day
No matter what you say
You'll find it happens all the time
Love will never do what you want it to
Why can't this crazy love be mine?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 16, 2018, 06:39:58 PM
When the outside temperature rises
And the meaning is so clear
One thousand and one yellow daffodils
Begin to dance in front of you, dear

Are they trying to tell you something?
You're missing that one final screw
You're simply not in the pink, my dear
To be honest you haven't got a clue

I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened, happened
It finally happened
It finally happened
I'm slightly mad!



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 17, 2018, 08:41:57 AM
Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 17, 2018, 01:00:25 PM
I keep going to the river to pray
'Cause I need something that can wash out the pain
And at most
I'm sleeping all these demons away
But your ghost, the ghost of you
It keeps me awake

My friends I can figure out
You're the soul that's inside of you
It's rock hard in another you
But your evil was coming through
These eyes sitting on the wall
Well they watch every move I make
Bright light taking in the shape
You go hard, makes my spirit shake

I had to go through hell to prove I'm not insane
Had to meet the devil just to know his name
And that's when my love was burning
Yeah it's still burning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 19, 2018, 04:37:03 PM
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 19, 2018, 09:45:59 PM
I am the evil one
The tempter, sinner man
Archfiend, Diabolus
Hail Leviathan
Omnipotence Lucifer
Asmodeus, my soul
Feeding off inhuman life
Blood of liquid gold
Evil one
Flesh and bone
Evil one
Set in stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 20, 2018, 09:30:02 AM
I'm wild again
Beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep
When love came and told me
I shouldn't sleep
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 20, 2018, 09:43:20 AM
Don't fret -

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, No I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
Refrão:
So darling, darling
Stand by me, oh, stand by me
Oh stand, stand by me,
Stand by me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2018, 11:22:12 AM
Those who feel the breath of sadness
Sit down next to me
Those who find they're touched by madness
Sit down next to me
Those who find themselves ridiculous
Sit down next to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 20, 2018, 02:19:10 PM
I dreamed last night I got on the boat to Heaven
And by some chance I had brought my dice along
And there I stood and I hollered, "Someone fade me"
But the passengers, they knew right from wrong

For the people all said, Sit down
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat
People all said, Sit down
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat

And the Devil will drag you under
By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down
Sit down you're rockin' the boat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2018, 02:36:20 PM

I don't have a lot, but with me that's fine
Whatever I got, well, I know it's mine
I don't go around with the local crowd
I don't dig what's in so I guess I'm out
I'm saying these things
So you know me, baby
So, you understand what I'm all about

The boat that I row won't cross no ocean
The boat that I row won't get me there soon
But I got the love and if you got the notion
The boat that I row's big enough for two
Just me and you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 20, 2018, 02:42:41 PM
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
This old world's a mighty big place, hallelujah
It's got satan all over its face, hallelujah
Jordan's river is chilly and cold, hallelujah
But it warms the human soul, hallelujah
So, Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row that boat ashore, hallelujah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2018, 02:45:03 PM

You and me together make a dream team
You should rock my jersey, number 23
You make me feel on top of the world, like I'm balling
I love you like a fresh pair of Jordans
And all them other girls, they don't really know me
I be on my M.J., winning like I'm Kobe
Top of the world, like I'm balling
I love you like a fresh pair of Jordans
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 20, 2018, 06:19:37 PM
These bitches want Nikes
They looking for a check
Tell 'em it ain’t likely
Said she need a ring like Carmelo
It must be on that white like Othello
All you want is Nikes
But the real ones
Just like you
Just like me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 25, 2018, 08:58:59 AM
On the day that you were born the angels got together.
 And decided to create a dream come true.
 So, they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
 And star-light in your eyes of blue.
 That is why all the girls in town follow you all around.
 Just like me, they long to be close to you





Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 25, 2018, 02:34:53 PM
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 25, 2018, 03:01:37 PM
When day is done
And shadows fall
I dream of you!
When day is done
I think of all
The joys we knew!
That yearning, returning,
To hold you in my arms,
Won't go love, I know love,
Without you, night has lost it's charms!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 25, 2018, 05:08:50 PM
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid
Oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 26, 2018, 09:01:12 AM
We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay
We could hear the voices ringing
They seemed to say
"You have stolen her heart"
"Now don't go 'way"
As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 26, 2018, 08:39:14 PM
And Gillian'll meet me like a brother would
I think I remember but it's twice as good
Like how cool the rum is from his silver tray
I thirst to be thirsty in Montego Bay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 01, 2018, 11:36:40 AM
The road is long
 With many a winding turn
 That leads us to who knows where
 Who knows when
 But I'm strong
 Strong enough to carry him
 He ain't heavy, he's my brother
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 01, 2018, 12:09:41 PM
Dear, love is a burning fire
Stay, 'cause then the flames grow higher
Babe, don't let him steal your heart
It's easy, easy
Girl, this game can't last forever
Why we cannot live together
Try, don't let him take your love from me

You're no good, can't you see Brother Louie, Louie, Louie
I'm in love, set her free
Oh, she's only looking to me
Only love breaks her heart Brother Louie, Louie, Louie
Only love's paradise
Oh, she's only looking to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 02, 2018, 01:37:56 PM
She was black as the night
Louie was whiter than white
Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love over night
Hey man, what's wrong with that?

Nothing bad, it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
When she took him home to meet her mama and papa
Louie knew just where he stood

Louie, Louie, Louie
Louie, Louie, Louie
Louie, Louie, Louie
Louie, you're gonna cry

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 02, 2018, 01:43:12 PM


Meet me in St. Louis, Louis
Meet me at the fair
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there

We will dance the Hoochee Koochee
I will be your tootsie wootsie
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis
Meet me at the fair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 02, 2018, 02:05:32 PM
Driving down an endless road
Takin' friends or moving alone
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

It's always friends that feel so good
Let's make amends like all good men should
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

Walk around, be free and roam
There's always someone leaving alone
Pleasure at the fairground on the way



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2018, 12:47:21 PM
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
An' I stop, an' I turn, an' I go for a ride
Til I get to the bottom
An' I see you again
Yeh
Do you, don't you, want me to love you?
I'm comin' down fast, but I'm miles above you
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Come on, tell me the answer
Well, you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer
Lookout

Helter Skelter



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 01:17:36 PM
Red lobby, blue lobby, red lobby, blue lobby
Swings to the left, swings to the right
Till there's a balance, a balance of might, 'cos it
It filters down from the top to the bottom
You mightn't like it but you can't seem to stop 'em
It filters down from the top to the bottom
You mightn't like it but you can't seem to stop 'em

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2018, 04:44:28 PM
red and yellow and pink and green
orange and purple and blue
I can sing a rainbow
sing a rainbow
sing a rainbow too

listen with your eyes
listen with your eyes
and sing everything you see
you can sing a rainbow
sing a rainbow
sing along with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 07:25:22 PM
You with the sad eyes
don't be discouraged, though I realize it's hard to
take courage in a world, full of people
you can lose sight of it
And the darkness inside you
will make you feel so small
But I see your true colors, shining through
I see your true colors, and that's why I love you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2018, 07:56:37 PM

Try to remember the magic that we shared
In time your broken heart will mend
I never used you, you knew I really cared
I hate to sit and defend, but it's over

Sad eyes, turn the other way
I don't want to see you cry
Sad eyes, you knew there'd come a day
When we would have to say goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 08:03:03 PM
My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 03, 2018, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 08:03:03 PM
My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away
From me you couldn't see
How I adored you
So close, so close
And yet so far away

Oh Robbie, Frankie Valli - this is one of those songs that takes me back to a very identifiable point and place in time. In this instance a school called Morley Place in Conisborough, South Yorkshire - sitting on a bus just outside the school in 1975.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 08:07:58 PM
A lovely memory Trent.

(Your turn!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 03, 2018, 08:15:56 PM
Oh ok - another one with a specific memory:

So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
It doesn't help to know you're just time away
Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh how I wish I could but you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2018, 08:25:53 PM

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long


Through all these cities and all these towns
It is in my blood and it is all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 08:28:01 PM
Travelling the road, last known is where I want to be
My compass directing, electing, an open road with golden trees
But there's an old man in need on the ground, I try not to make a sound
He holds out his hand as I walk away, I hear him say
Please don't be a stranger in my place
Travelling come to a tavern for a momentary rest
I see the old man that I passed on the road in his distress
As I turned to go I can hear him say, "Son, stay. Have a drink, I'll pay."
Let bygones be gone, it's all in the past, we raise a glass
Please don't be a stranger in my place
What if I could be what you wanted me to be
What if I could see what you wanted me to see
Come on and show me
Please don't be a stranger in my place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 03, 2018, 11:24:11 PM
Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances we'd be sharing love
Before the night was through

Something in your eyes was so inviting
Something in you smile was so exciting
Something in my heart
Told me I must have you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2018, 11:33:07 PM
We're waiting for better weather on a ship
To pass in the night
Solve all of our problems for us on a ship
To pass in the night
We don't care if it's one way passage on a ship
To pass in the night
Keep all of the lanterns burning for the ship
To pass in the night

Suddenly you see a mast
Approaching you pretty fast
Hope it's not like the last
But it just sails right past
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 04, 2018, 08:59:45 AM
They say that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know

'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 04, 2018, 03:43:05 PM
Ah, I should have known it from the very start,
This girl will leave me with a broken heart.
Now listen people what I'm telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue.

I miss her lips and the smile on her face,
The touch of her hair and this girl's warm embrace.
So if you don't wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 04, 2018, 06:02:12 PM
I've got a feeling that your holding out on me
And you can't see everyone but you see straight through me
And I tried my heart out just to keep you
To keep you, happy

Well I don't believe her
She's a deceiver and she lies about everything
I'd keep my distance if you'd ask me, if you'd beg
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 04, 2018, 06:03:13 PM
I've got a feeling, a feeling deep inside
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Yeah, I've got a feeling.

Oh please believe me, I'd hate to miss the train
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
And if you leave me I won't be late again
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Yeah, I've got a feeling, yeah.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 04, 2018, 09:29:30 PM
What is happening here
Something's going on that's not quite clear
Somebody turn on the lights
We're gonna have a party
It's starting tonight

Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2018, 07:00:19 PM
Look at me, dancing on the moon
I got a girl so sweet, she got me back in tune, yeah
Now I'm floating, floating about in the moon

Baby, you're the one for me
You've got a smile that shines
A smile I thought was mine, yeah
Keep it flowing,
Baby keep it falling
Fall further, floating on to heaven
Keep it floating, floating about in the moon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 05, 2018, 10:26:34 PM
Aquarius, Libra, Leo, Cancer
 Ralph, Charles, Paul, Larry

 Aquarius and my name is Ralph
 Now I like a woman who loves her freedom
 And I like a woman who can hold her own
 And if you fit that description, baby, come with me

 Take my hand, come with me, baby, to Love Land
 Let me show you how sweet it could be
 Sharing love with me, I want you to

 Float, float on (Come on, come on, come on, baby, yeah... eah...)
 Float on, float on (Ooh, ooh, baby)
 Float, float, float on
 Float on (Float with me), float on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2018, 10:32:24 PM

Heaven knows I was just a young boy
Didn't know what I wanted to be
I was every little hungry schoolgirl's pride and joy
And I guess it was enough for me
To win the race? A prettier face!
Brand new clothes and a big fat place
On your rock and roll TV
But today the way I play the game is not the same
No way
Think I'm gonna get myself happy

I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I told you so
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I've got to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me yea yea
Freedom
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 06, 2018, 05:11:00 PM
I spent years and all of this time thinking I was better off
'Cause you were mine, you always said it was your way or the highway
So I'm shiftin' my life into drive, I'm getting out, kissin' the past goodbye
Like Toby said, "How do you like me now?"

This conversation has run dry and I keep telling myself

Ooh ooh ooh, there's more to me than you
Ooh ooh, don't under estimate what I can do
Well I'm alright, it's okay, I know I'll make it through
'Cause there's more to me than you


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 07, 2018, 04:52:44 PM
That's life (that's life) that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June

I said, that's life (that's life) and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down
'Cause this fine old world it keeps spinnin' around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 07, 2018, 04:57:55 PM
While you make pretty speeches,
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance

And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
My body is floating down the muddy river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 07, 2018, 05:50:51 PM
Cannon fire lingers in my mind, I'm so glad that I'm still alive
And I've been gone for such a long time from yellow river

I remember the nights were cool I can still see the water pool
And I remember the girl that I knew from yellow river

Yellow river, yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow river, yellow river is in my blood it's the place I love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 07, 2018, 09:41:41 PM
My face above the water
My feet can't touch the ground,
Touch the ground, and it feels like
I can see the sands on the horizon
Every time you are not around

I'm slowly drifting away (drifting away)
Wave after wave, wave after wave
I'm slowly drifting (drifting away)
And it feels like I'm drowning
Pulling against the stream
Pulling against the stream
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 07, 2018, 09:48:07 PM
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

I can't live without you if the love was gone
Everything is nothin' if you got no one
And you did walk in tonight
Slowly losing sight of the real thing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2018, 08:46:22 AM
Easy when you're number one
Everybody say you're having fun
Smiling for the public eye
When your body say you wanna die
Living on an island
Looking at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Hugh he got a real nice place
Cruxie gonna be there soon
And I just want to see his face
I'm getting lonely in my empty room
Living on an island
Working at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2018, 09:59:43 AM
High flying, adored, did you believe in your wildest moments
All this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all?
Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night
From the bars, from the sidewalks
From the gutter theatrical?
Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2018, 10:07:55 AM
You and me
We used to be together
Every day together
Always
I really feel
Like I'm losing my best friend-kt and laura
I can't believe this could be the end
It looks as though-I'm seeing you
You're letting go
And if its real well I don't want to know

Don't speak
I know just what your saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2018, 10:31:05 AM
Three o'clock in the morning
 And it looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night
 I've been listening to your dreams and getting very low
 Wondering what I can do

 Maybe I'm being foolish
 'Cause I haven't heard you mention anybody's name at
 All
 How I wish I could be sure it's me that turns you on
 Each time you close your eyes
 I've heard it said that dreamers never lie

 You've been talking in your sleep
 Sleeping in your dreams
 With some sweet lover
 Holding on so tight
 Loving her the way
 You used to love me
 Talking in your sleep
 With loving in your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2018, 02:41:08 PM
Now here it is three o' clock in the mornin'
And I can't even close my eyes
It's three o' clock in the mornin', baby
I can't even close my eyes
Well, you know I can't find my baby
I can't be satisfied
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2018, 09:16:59 PM
The grand old painter died last night
 His paintings on the wall
 Before he went he bade us well
 And said goodnight to us all.
 Drink to me, drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more
 Drink to me, drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more

 3 o'clock in the morning
 I'm getting ready for bed
 It came without a warning
 But i'll be waiting for you baby
 I'll be waiting for you there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 09, 2018, 09:16:28 AM
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 10, 2018, 04:46:55 AM
If I were a painter
I would paint my reverie
If that's the only way for you to be with me

We'd be there together
Just like we used to be
Underneath the swirling skies for all to see

And I'm dreaming of a place
Where I could see your face
And I think my brush would take me there
But only...

If I were a painter
And could paint a memory
I'd climb inside the swirling skies to be with you
I'd climb inside the skies to be with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 10, 2018, 08:36:13 AM
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy
Some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this

Don't forget a small moonbeam
Fold in lightly with a dream
Your lips and mine
Two sips of wine
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 10, 2018, 01:11:22 PM
Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time
I see reflections of you and me

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

Oh, I'm all alone now
No love to shield me
Trapped in a world
That's a distorted reality

Hapiness you took from me
And left me alone
With only memories
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 10, 2018, 02:59:04 PM
I have heard all you've been saying
Yet I will love in my own way
Lonely as a desert breeze
I may wonder where I please
Yet I keep on longing
Just to rest a while

Where a sweetheart's tender eyes
Take the place of sand and skies
All the World forgotten
In one Woman's smile

One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshiping soul possesses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 10, 2018, 03:03:26 PM
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 10, 2018, 03:12:45 PM
Quote from: Robbie on June 10, 2018, 03:03:26 PM
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 10, 2018, 04:02:20 PM
Only a flame could light me up,
She ignited a spark then my heart sets off,
She took me higher than I've been before,
The girls a free spirit.

We came from different worlds but we found each other,
Somehow stars brought us closer together,
Her character exploded like fireworks,
That girls a free spirit.

Nothing can get her down,
No barriers can stop her now,
She's got the power in her heart,
The girls a free spirit.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 12, 2018, 03:07:05 PM
Never been a sinner
He never sinned
I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that
When I die
He's gonna set me up
With the spirit in the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 13, 2018, 12:07:07 AM
Oh, Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All along dem day

Well I run to the rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me, Lord
All along dem day

But the rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I ain't gonna hide you guy
All along dem day



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 13, 2018, 08:37:43 AM
Day O! Day O!
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Day me say day me say day Me say day me say day o
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Work all night on a drink a rum
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Stack banana till the morning come
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2018, 09:29:17 AM
Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 13, 2018, 04:55:15 PM

Man, oh, man, you're my best friend
I scream it to the nothingness
There ain't nothing that I need

Well, hot and heavy pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you

[Chorus:]
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 14, 2018, 09:21:21 AM
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

Oh give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely down the stream
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 14, 2018, 12:52:35 PM
As I did travel all on a journey
Over the wayside and under a dark moon
Hanging above a mountain

I spied a young man riding a fine horse
Chasing a white hart and all through the woodland
There go the hunting and cries

And there followed after ten kings and queens
Laughing and joking, the white hart they'd seen
Bloodied running into the bushes

I plume to his helmet, a quiver and a bow
There's nowhere to run now, there's no place to go
The hunter is fast and ready
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 17, 2018, 09:17:30 AM
Now I'm the king of the swingers, oh
The jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you, talk like you, too
You'll see it's true someone like me
Can learn to be like someone like you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2018, 10:49:28 AM
Come on everybody
It's gibbon time

We're the Goodies
How do you do?
We've just been down to the zoo
We saw a monkey in a cage
Doing a dance
That could be the rage
It's not hard
So let's all do the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 19, 2018, 01:59:17 PM
Here comes my happiness again
Right back to where it should have been
'Cause now she's gone and I am free
And she can't do a thing to me

I just wanna dance the night away
With senoritas who can sway
Right now tomorrow's lookin' bright
Just like the sunny mornin' light
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 20, 2018, 04:38:10 PM
She's into new sensations
New kicks in the candlelight
She's got a new addiction
For every day and night

She'll make you take your clothes off
And go dancing in the rain
She'll make you live her crazy life
But she'll take away your pain
Like a bullet to your brain
Come on!



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2018, 10:00:57 AM
I'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over 'cause I'm all alone
I need excitement, oh, I need it bad
And it's the best I've ever had

I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night, all right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 23, 2018, 11:03:47 AM
Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
Yeah, no matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 11:36:16 AM
Rudy
A message to you, Rudy
A message to you

Stop your fooling around (ah-ah-ah)
Time you straighten right out (ah-ah-ah)
Better think of your future (ah-ah-ah)
Else you'll wind up in jail (ah-ah-ah)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 26, 2018, 12:17:14 PM
The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there and they began to wail
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing
You should've heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing
Let's rock everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 02:11:00 PM
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
You [Incomprehesible] me since nineteen sixty-three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen 'em die
And long ago, I stopped askin' why

San Quentin, I hate every inch of you
You cut me and you scarred me through an' through
And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man
Mister Congressman, you can't understand

San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul
Your stone walls turn my blood a little cold

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell
May your walls fall and may I live to tell
May all the world forget you ever stood
And may all the world regret you did no good

San Quentin, I hate every inch of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 02:26:35 PM
Oh, what a night
Late December back in sixty three
What a very special time for me
As I remember, what a night

Oh, what a night, you know I didn't even know her name
But I was never gonna be the same
What a lady, what a night
Oh, I, I got a funny feelin' when she walked in the room
Oh my, as I recall it ended much too soon

Oh what a night, hypnotizin' mesmerizing me
She was ev'rything I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender, what a night
I felt a rush like a rollin' ball of thunder
Spinnin' my head around n' takin' my body under
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 02:51:13 PM
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 26, 2018, 04:25:28 PM
I dreamed last night I got on the boat to Heaven
And by some chance I had brought my dice along,
And there I stood, and I hollered,
"Someone fade me,"
But the passengers they knew right from wrong
For the people all said,
"Sit down, sit down you're rocking the boat."
"And the devil will drag you under
By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat;
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down
Sit down you're rocking the boat."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 04:42:15 PM
For once I had a happy home
 I was loved and respected by my family
 I was looked upon as a leader in my community
 And then Satan came into my life
 I grew selfish and un-neighborly
 My friends turned against me
 And finally, my home was broken apart
 My children took their paths into a world of sin
 Yes preacher, it's sweet to know that God is real
 And know that in Him all things are possible
 And we know that Heaven is a real place
 Where joy shall never end
 But sinner friend, if you're here today
 Satan is real too
 And hell is a real place
 A place of everlasting punishment


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 05:32:57 PM
(Never heard that cheerful song NS. Snake handling country?)

Papa I know you're going to be upset
'Cause I was always your little girl
But you should know by now
I'm not a baby

You always taught me right from wrong
I need your help, daddy please be strong
I may be young at heart
But I know what I'm saying

The one you warned me all about
The one you said I could do without
We're in an awful mess, and I don't mean maybe - please

Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby, oh
I'm gonna keep my baby, mmm...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 05:50:55 PM
It is by the Louvin Brothers, and comes from an album of theirs with one of the all time great covers. See link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers


s
Billy-Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered around and started talkin'
That's when Billy would take me walkin'
Out through the back yard we'd go walkin'
Then he'd look into my eyes
Lord knows to my surprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 06:04:36 PM
(I like that one, the parents were fond of Dusty's version).

If the world looks wrong
And your money’s spent and gone
And your friend has turned away
You can get away to Heaven
On this aeroplane
Just bow your head and pray.

Them’s got ears let them hear
Them’s got eyes let them see
Turn Your Eyes to the Lord of the skies
Take that airline Plane
It will Take You Home again.
Yes, to your home beyond the skies.

Well, a lot of people guess
Some say no and some say Yes
Will it take some and leave some behind?
But you will surely know
When to the airport go
To leave this world behind

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 06:22:13 PM
And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
"Would those having relatives or friends on Flight number 1203
Please report to the chapel across the street at once"

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life's most wonderful prize
My beautiful Ebony Eyes

If I ever get, to heaven I'll bet
The first angel I'll recognize
She'll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful Ebony Eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 06:29:28 PM
That is really sad!

Oh you’ll never get to heaven,
On a Jumbo Jet,
Cause the Lord ain’t got
No runways yet.

Oh you’ll never get to heaven,
In a sardine tin,
Cause a sardine tin’s,
Got sardines in.

Oh you’ll never get to heaven,
In an old Ford car,
Cause an old Ford car,
Won’t get that far.
Chorus

There’s just three things,
You must not do,
You must not swear,
Nor spit, nor chew.

If you ever get to heaven,
Before I do,
Just dig a hole,
And pull me through.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 06:34:12 PM
The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole, now there's a hole in the sky
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold, everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns
I'll get mine, too

This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
Rock me Joe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 06:49:00 PM
Diamonds in your eyes
Don't even apologize
Because all of the hurt
Is a blaze you can't out run

Boy I know that you're regrettin it
I see that you ain't gettin it
We've come to the end
No more lyin, no more beggin

(Chorus)
Armageddon, armageddon
I'm gonna blow this up, this up
You say it's gonna be different this time
Boy, I don't give uh, I don't give uh

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2018, 07:03:48 PM
She makes the sign of a teaspoon
He makes the sign of a wave
The poor boy changes clothes
And puts on after-shave
To compensate for his ordinary shoes

And she said honey take me dancing
But they ended up by sleeping
In a doorway
By the bodegas and the lights on
Upper Broadway
Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2018, 07:22:16 PM
I don't want no time on the big screen
I'm ok with me and my ripped jeans
and you, and you
Messy hair, that's what he likes on me
I don't care as long as we're happy
And free to be just you and me
And free to be just you and me

They think it's a shame that the world will never know our names
But I think that's ok
Cause love gets ruined by money and power and fame, and we're just
Two poor kids from a really rich city
My, oh my, what a pity



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2018, 08:30:32 AM
We're a couple of swells
We stop at the best hotels
But we prefer the country far away from the city smells
We're a couple of sports
The pride of the tennis courts
In June, July and August we look cute when we're dressed in shorts
The Vanderbilts have asked us up for tea
We don't know how to get there, no sirree
No sirree...
We would ride up the avenue
But we haven't got the price
We would skate up the avenue
But there isn't any ice
We would ride on a bicycle
But we haven't got a bike
So we'll walk up the avenue
Yes we'll walk up the avenue
And to walk up the avenue's what we like
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2018, 10:20:46 AM
I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where Gigolo and Gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
And so forget their broken dreams.

You laugh today and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes
And Gigolo and Gigolette wake up to find
Their eyes are wet with tears that tell of
Broken dreams
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2018, 01:08:54 PM
I wake up crying

After tossin' and turnin'

And a-yearnin' the whole night long

Pretty baby oh my love since you went away

Haven't spent a happy day

I wake up crying

After sobbin' and sighin'

And a-wonderin' just what went wrong
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2018, 03:00:30 PM
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2018, 03:03:24 PM



Years ago when I was younger
I kinda liked a girl I knew
She was mine and we were sweethearts
That was then, but then it's true

I'm in love with a fairytale even though it hurts
'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind I'm already cursed

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2018, 03:18:51 PM
Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good
So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2018, 03:34:33 PM

Mayday, mayday
This is an emergency
Mayday, mayday
You've gotta let me leave
I'm lying here, inches away
But you can't hear me call mayday, yeah, yeah

Said I'm moving on, cause things were getting rough
But here I am in your bed
I strung it on too long, afraid to be alone
Now we're in over our heads
It's either sink or swim, we've tried so many times
For worse or for better
It tears my heart in two to leave it all behind
And say goodbye forever
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2018, 03:55:03 PM
Can't we two go walking together out beyond the valley of trees?
Out where there's a hillside of heather curtseying gently in the breeze
That's what I'd like to do; see the heather but with you.
The mist of May is in the gloaming, and all the clouds are holding still
So take my hand and let's go roaming through the heather on the hill.
The morning dew is blinking yonder, there's lazy music in the rill,
And all I want to do is wander through the heather on the hill.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2018, 04:18:13 PM
Roamin' in the gloamin' on the bonny banks o' Clyde
 Roamin' in the gloamin' with my lassie by my side
 When the sun has gone to rest
 That's the time we love the best
 Ach, it's lovely roamin' in the gloamin'

 I've seen lots of bonnie lassies travelin' far and wide
 But my heart is centered now on bonny Kate McBride
 And altho' I'm no' a man who throws a word away
 I'm surprised mysel' sometimes at all I've got to say.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2018, 06:05:47 PM
Standing in the twilight, darling.
Can't you lend helping hand?
Won't you take me with you where it's peaceful?
Baby, try to understand.
Standing in the twilight, darling.
Every time you're watching me.

But will it live up to expectations?
Won't you keep me company?

I miss the movement and the action.
I miss the boy who called me "love".
The way he held my hand and sang me a song
About all the stars above.
Last night I dreamed about a party (party, party)
And every one was there.
I miss his tender smile, how he once in a while
Was messing up my hair.
I wanna be there, hanging around.
I wanna be there, getting my feet back on the ground.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 28, 2018, 08:11:53 AM
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed, that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2018, 04:29:03 PM
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
The room was filled with men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again

And when the papers all were signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands end bowed their heads And grateful prayers were prayed
And the people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round
And guns and swords and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground

 


 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 28, 2018, 04:38:52 PM
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York city
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing,
Dancing in the street, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2018, 04:53:31 PM
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 28, 2018, 05:21:14 PM
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
A kind of magic - no way
One dream, one soul, one prize
One goal, one golden glance of what should be
It's a kind of magic
One shaft of light that shows the way
No mortal man can win this day
It's a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time
It's a kind of magic
The waiting seems eternity
The day will dawn of sanity
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Is this a kind of magic?
It's a kind of magic
There can be only one
This rage that lasts a thousand years
Will soon be done
This flame that burns inside of me
I'm hearing secret harmonies
It's a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2018, 05:30:23 PM
That old black magic has me in its spell
That old black magic that you weave so well
Those icy fingers up and down my spine
The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine

The same old tingle that I feel inside
And then that elevator starts its ride
And down and down I go, round and round I go
Like a leaf that's caught in the tide
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2018, 05:36:43 PM
Though I've tried before to tell her
Of the feelings I have for her in my heart
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my nerve as I've done from the start

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she doe just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 09, 2018, 08:49:34 PM
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Big fat juicy ones
Tiny little squiggly ones
Watch them wriggle and squirm

Bite their heads off
Suck their juice out
Throw their skins away
I don't see how birds can live on
Worms three times a day

Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Long thin slimy ones
Short fat juicy ones
Gooey, gooey, gooey, gooey, worms

Long thin slimy ones slip down easily
Short fat juicy ones stick
Short fat juicy ones stick between your teeth
And the juice goes slurp, slurp, slurp

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 10, 2018, 08:51:53 AM
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who she can be
Somebody needs me, I wish that I knew
Who she can be worries me

Every girl who passes by, I shout
"Hey, maybe you were meant to be my lovin' baby"
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
Maybe it's you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 10, 2018, 05:12:04 PM
Yo, I’m done with you
You don’t get it
I’m through trying to explain
I will no longer stress it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 11, 2018, 03:57:37 PM
No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 11, 2018, 04:07:46 PM
She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 11, 2018, 11:33:48 PM
I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely
I had to call you up in the middle of the night
I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance
But I really needed stimulation
Though it was only my imagination

It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
But sometimes a fantasy
Is all you need



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 11, 2018, 11:36:30 PM
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself you're such a lucky guy,
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
out of all the fellows in the world she belongs to me.
But it was Just my imagination,
once again runnin' away with me.
It was just my imagination runnin' away with me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 12, 2018, 02:09:28 PM
I felt the world was ours for the taking,
When I fell into your eyes,
Never a doubt that we would make it if we tried.
You promised you'd never break my heart,
Never leave me in the dark,
Said your love would be for all time,
But that was back when you were mine
When you were...

Here, with me, I thought we'd be,
Stronger than the past,
Better than the ones before.
How did I fool myself in thinking,
We had it all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 12, 2018, 03:04:09 PM
No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 12, 2018, 06:14:05 PM
Darling are you feeling
The same thing that I'm seeing
The troubles of the day
Took my breath away
Took my breath away
Now you're no longer talking
And I'm no longer listening
There's nothing left to say
Said it anyway
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 20, 2018, 01:17:51 PM
I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me
And then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you’re not my troubles anymore

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 21, 2018, 02:33:52 PM
Non, rien de rien, non, je ne regrette rien

No! No regrets
No! I will have no regrets
All the things
That went wrong
For at last I have learned to be strong

No! No regrets
No! I will have no regrets
For the grief doesn't last
It is gone
I've forgotten the past

And the memories I had
I no longer desire
Both the good and the bad
I have flung in a fire
And I feel in my heart
That the seed has been sown
It is something quite new
It's like nothing I've known.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 21, 2018, 06:56:14 PM
If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that have hurt you
And you'd stay

I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife, it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes
I didn't really mean to hurt you



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 21, 2018, 09:13:51 PM
Give me time
To realize 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

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 21, 2018, 10:23:54 PM
You say, that you've always been true
Lookin' in your eyes, I see you lie
You're trying hard to hide that
There someone new you found and,
You want me to believe that you still care

How can you hurt me this way
Everything I knew was lovin' you
How could you try pretending
Your love was never ending
Now you can't even say that you will stay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 22, 2018, 12:24:37 AM
Stop pretending, stop pretending,
 That you'd walk a mile
 Just to see me smile

 Stop pretending, stop pretending
 That your future lies
 In my dark brown eyes

 It's the song that took your life with a smile
 And a kept a knocking at your door
 You turned wild but listen child
 It's never gonna happen no more

 Stop pretending, stop pretending
 That you care for me
 Cause I'm hep you see

 Oh stop pretending that you care for me
 Stop pretending and let me be
 Oh babe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 22, 2018, 11:26:25 AM
Ooh ooh, yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)
I seem to be what I'm not (you see)
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 23, 2018, 05:56:48 PM
Ah who do ya, who do ya, who do ya think you're foolin
Who do ya, who do ya, who do ya, who do ya, who do ya
Who do ya think you're foolin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 26, 2018, 11:51:13 AM

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
I got a brand new chimney made on top
Made out of a human skull
Now come on take a walk with me, arlene
And tell me, who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 27, 2018, 04:54:18 PM
I like a man with a hip hop style
I like a man with a drop top ride
I like a man who is independant
Uh, uh, say it again
I like a man with a hip hop style
I like a man who can drive me wild
I like a man who can take control
Uh, huh huh huh huh, thats all

Yo

I need a rude boy, with some edge
I need a rough neck, making ends
I need a hot player, hustling
Now thats what i want
I need t-shirt, with some jeans
Uh, thats just how it is
I need a good lover to do me right
Somebody that can turn me on



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2018, 09:17:22 AM


Folks I'm looking for a worker �not you
I want an extra special kind
When I get the type of man I want
I know I'm gonna have a little time
Got to be ambitious, a man that loves to work
I don't want no man that's lazy, no man that tries to shirk
I want a two-fisted, double-jointed, rough and ready man
I want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 06, 2018, 09:56:30 AM
Gone fishin'
Well there's a sign upon your door
Gone fishin'
You ain't workin' anymore
There's your hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half done
You claim that hoein' ain't no fun
You ain't got no ambition
Gone fishin' by a shady-wady pool
I'm wishin' I could be that kind of fool
I'd say no more work for mine
On my door I'd hang a sign
Gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2018, 09:58:34 AM



Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
I got to love one man till I die.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow,
Tell me I'm crazy, (maybe I know).
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 11, 2018, 03:43:46 PM
Fish and chips and vinegar,
Vinegar, vinegar,
Fish and chips and vinegar,
Pepper, pepper, pepper salt!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 11, 2018, 03:46:40 PM
We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you have enjoyed the show
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We're sorry but it's time to go
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We'd like to thank you once again
Sergeant Pepper's one and only Lonely Hearts Club Band
It's getting very near the end
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 11, 2018, 05:11:16 PM
I woke up in the middle of the night
And I noticed my girl wasn't by my side
Coulda sworn I was dreamin', for her I was feenin'
So I hadda take a little ride
Back tracking ova these few years
Tryna figure out what I do to make it go bad
Cause ever since my girl left me
My whole left life came crashin'
I'm so lonely (so lonely)
I'm Mr. Lonely (Mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 11, 2018, 05:13:59 PM
Sink into your eyes
Your eyes
Are all I see
Your love is an ocean

An ocean refuses no river
Ever so lonely
An ocean refuses no river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 11, 2018, 06:26:13 PM
And now you say, you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
'Cause I cried a river over you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 11, 2018, 06:36:23 PM
Listen to the story
I left a good job in the city
Working for the man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleeping
Worrying 'bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turning
Proud mary keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on the river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 12, 2018, 08:41:37 AM
Night and day
You are the one
Only you 'neath the moon
Or under the sun
Whether near to me or far
No matter, darling where you are
I think of you
Night and day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2018, 06:42:01 PM
Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do, about you now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2018, 02:58:16 PM
You could've done anything if you'd wanted
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together like glue

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes,
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day
Your life will surely change.
This is the day
When things will fall into place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2018, 04:22:52 PM
Don't pretend, don't pretend (pretend pretend) don't pretend that you will ever love again.
(don't pretend that you will ever love again)
Little miss teary eyes, you have no reason to lie to me
Put your coat down, why you waving goodbye to me ?
I've been reassessing the situation sitting silently
And finally realizing how you can't look eye to eye with me
And I knew about him the whole time, the hotels, phone calls shit the whole nine
But I guess that's what friends are for, and I've come to a conclusion that you're nothing but a very selfish person
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2018, 04:58:04 PM

I'm reviewing the situation,
I must quickly look up ev'ryone I know.
Titled people -- with a station --
Who can help me make a real impressive show!
I will own a suite at Claridges,
And run a fleet of carriages,
And wave at all the duchesses
With friendliness, as much as is
Befitting of my new estate...
"Good morrow to you, magistrate!" Oh gawd!
...I think I'd better think it out again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2018, 05:27:49 PM
Good Morning
Good Morning
We've talked the whole night through
Good Morning
Good Morning to you
Good Morning
Good Morning
It's great to stay up late
Good Morning
Good Morning to you
When the band began to play the stars were shinging bright
Now the milkman's on his way
and it's too late to say good night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2018, 05:36:04 PM

No milk today my love is gone away
The bottle stands forlorn a symbol of the dawn
No milk today it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of all my hopes the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2018, 05:53:58 PM
She keeps Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake,' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2018, 05:56:31 PM
Is it worth the aggravation
To find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
It's a crazy situation
But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol!

You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
'Cause when it comes on top

You gotta make it happen!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2018, 06:01:46 PM
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2018, 06:12:35 PM

Reaching out, I touch another skin
Breathing out as he is breathing in
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame
Can my life ever be the same?

I should have told him
I'd do anything if I could hold him
For just another day, for just another day
His love is something I will not forget
When I am far away, when I am far away
I feel the rainfall of another planet
Another planet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 18, 2018, 05:13:29 AM
Every day she takes a morning bath she wets her hair
Wraps a towel around her as she's heading for the bedroom chair
It's just another day
Slipping into stockings, stepping into shoes
Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat
It's just another day
At the office where the papers grow she takes a break
Drinks another coffe and she finds it hard to stay awake
It's just another day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 18, 2018, 08:58:17 AM
It's a lovely day today
And whatever you've got to do
I'd be so happy to be doing it with you
But if you've got something that must be done
And it can only be done by one
There is nothing more to say
Except it's a lovely day for saying
It's a lovely day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 18, 2018, 08:42:45 PM
Today is gonna be a good day
Don’t care what anybody else say
Oh-oh, I don’t need a fortune cookie to tell me the way I’m feeling
Gonna be a good day, a good day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 19, 2018, 08:45:59 AM
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as a elephant's eye
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky

Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 19, 2018, 06:34:16 PM
The day that the rains came down
Mother Earth smiled again
Now the lilacs could bloom
Now the fields could grow greener
The day that the rains came down
Buds were born, love was born
As the young buds will grow
So our young love will grow
Love, sweet love
A robin sang a song of love
A willow tree reached up to the heavens
As if to thank the sky above
For all that rain, that welcome rain
We looked across the meadowland
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 19, 2018, 06:46:32 PM
Whisper to the wind and say that love has sinned
To leave my heart a sign
And crying alone
Murmur to the night
Hide her starry light
So none will find me sighing
Crying all alone
Weeping willow tree
Weeping sympathy
Bent your branches down along the ground and cover me
Listen to me plead
Hear me willow and weep for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 19, 2018, 09:52:15 PM
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2018, 01:19:26 AM

When will I be there?
I don't know
When will I get there?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way
Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2018, 05:58:07 AM
You've read Karl Marx
And you've taught yourself to dance
You're the best by far
But you keep asking the question
Oh, you're not supposed to mention
When will I, will I be famous?
I can't answer, I can't answer that
When will I see my picture in the paper?
I can't answer, I can't answer that
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2018, 08:16:38 AM
It can treat you with a vengeance
Trip you in the dark
Sirens in the distance
Can steer you from the path
It can lift you to the heavens
Put your troubles in the past
Whisper the elixir
Then vanish in a blast

It's a mystery, oh, it's a mystery
I'm still searching for a clue
It's a mystery to me
A shot in the dark
The big question mark in history
Is it a mystery to you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 20, 2018, 09:08:17 AM
Ah! Sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;

All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall!
For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2018, 01:44:48 PM
I watch the street, I watch the radio
I don't need to turn it on
Another friend comes by and tries to say hello
Another weekend's almost gone
It's not the letters that you just don't write
It's not the arms of some new friend
It's not the crying in the depth of the night
That keeps me hanging on, just waiting for the end.

It's that sweet little mystery that's in your heart
It's just that sweet little mystery that makes me cry
Oh that sweet little mystery that's in your heart
It's just that sweet little mystery that makes me try.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2018, 05:47:40 PM
..one day you came
You told me you were leaving
You gave your folks the blame
And made me cry again
When you said

Little girl
Please don't wait for me
Wait patiently for love
Someday will surely come

Ooh, little girl
Please don't wait for me
Wait patiently for love
Someday will surely come
And I'm still waiting
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2018, 05:50:30 PM
Don't need a whore
I don't need no booze
Don't need a virgin priest
But I need some one I can cry to
I need someone to protect

Ooh, making love and breaking hearts, it is a game for youth
But I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2018, 06:41:10 PM
Oh baby
I found the nerve to try again
Some broken hearts, give time will mend
Will you be gentle if I surrender all to you, to you
Please understand that I got to be sure
The lessons I've learned I can't ignore
Will you be gentle if I surrender all to you, to you
Take good care of me
'Cause my heart's a tender thing, oh yeah
Take good care of me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 20, 2018, 07:17:34 PM
Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
The things we do for love, the things we do for love

Communication is the problem to the answer
You've got her number and your hand is on the phone
The weather's turned and all the lines are down
The things we do for love, the things we do for love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2018, 07:29:55 PM

Telex or tell me, but it's always second-hand,
I'm incognito but no rendezvous's been planned...
Dictate or relay, I could send it to your home,
"Return to Sender" - I could sing it down the phone!

Communication let me down,
But I'm left here
Communication let me down,
But I'm left here, I'm left here, I, I, I...

(Dictate!)
(Relay!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 21, 2018, 06:00:24 PM
Used to think that life was sweet.
Used to think we were so complete.
I can't believe you'd throw it away.
Used to feel we had it made.
Used to feel we could sail away.
Can you imagine how I feel today.
Well it seems a long time ago you were the lonely one.
Now it comes to letting go you are the only one.
Do you know what you've done.
It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore.
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
it's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2018, 09:01:58 AM
Don't talk of stars, burning above
If you're in love, show me
Tell me not dreams, filled with desire
If you're on fire, show me

Never do I ever want to hear another word
There isn't one, I haven't heard
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream
Say one more word and I'll scream

Sing me no song, read me no rhyme
Don't waste my time, show me
Please don't implore, beg on the seats
Don't make all the speech, show me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 09:24:02 AM
Quote from: ekim on August 22, 2018, 09:01:58 AM
Don't talk of stars, burning above
If you're in love, show me
Tell me not dreams, filled with desire
If you're on fire, show me

Never do I ever want to hear another word
There isn't one, I haven't heard
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream
Say one more word and I'll scream

Sing me no song, read me no rhyme
Don't waste my time, show me
Please don't implore, beg on the seats
Don't make all the speech, show me
Just as an aside that is a brilliant piece of lyric writing developing the character, Eliza,  and tying in with the story, My Fair Lady.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 09:26:33 AM
Show me a man that's got a good woman
 I'll show you a man that goes to work hummin'
 He knows he's got some sweet love coming
 At the end of his working day.

 *Yeah*

 Show me a woman that's got a good man
 Show me!
 I wanna see a woman out there that claims she got a good man!
 Show me!
 And if you show me a woman that's got a good man
 Show me a woman that's got a good man
 Show me a woman that's got a good man
 Show me a woman that's got a good man

 Show me a woman that's got a good man
 I'll show you a woman doin' all she can
 To make life worth living for her good man
 So his troubles don't cross his mind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 22, 2018, 12:56:01 PM
How do two people like
us ever happen to meet
I think about that
Was the timing just right
Was it that the night was so sweet
I think about that
Was it chemical, physical what was the deal
Or did some kind of magic turn out to be real
Might be how you kiss and hold me tight
When we're walkin', honey, underneath the moonlight
Might be how it keeps on getting better
We haven't even talked about forever
I just know that we're so good together
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 22, 2018, 02:30:01 PM
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
A kind of magic - no way
One dream, one soul, one prize
One goal, one golden glance of what should be
It's a kind of magic
One shaft of light that shows the way
No mortal man can win this day
It's a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time
It's a kind of magic
The waiting seems eternity
The day will dawn of sanity
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 02:33:42 PM
 When the moon is in the Seventh House
 And Jupiter aligns with Mars
 Then peace will guide the planets
 And love will steer the stars

 This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
 The Age of Aquarius
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 23, 2018, 08:45:59 AM
Sitting In The Stand Of The Sports Arena
 Waiting For The Show To Begin
 Red Lights, Green Lights, Strawberry Wine,
 A Good Friend Of Mine, Follows The Stars,
 Venus And Mars
 Are Alright Tonight.


 
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2018, 08:51:58 AM
I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2018, 04:51:19 PM
I keep craving, craving, you don't know it, but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they want to say to you
This is typical of love
Can't wait anymore, I won't wait
I need to tell you how I feel when I see us together forever
In my dreams, you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be
And from there, who knows, maybe this will be the night
That we kiss for the first time
Or is that just me and my imagination
Imagination
Imagination
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 24, 2018, 08:17:40 AM
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself you're such a lucky guy,
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
out of all the fellows in the world she belongs to me.
But it was Just my imagination,
once again runnin' away with me.
It was just my imagination runnin' away with me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2018, 01:12:08 PM
Here we lie all alone am I dreaming?
Your heart's smooth my soul is unbelieving
Now you see the me and I'm feeling, I'm feeling
I feel your hands, your lips, the heat of your body
Whisper your love to me say that you love me
Please just love me down and never leave me,
I'm a dreamer
Am I a dreamer?
Am I a dreamer?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 24, 2018, 01:24:11 PM
Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings
The six-o'clock alarm would never ring
But six rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving razor's cold and it stings

Cheer up sleepy Jean
Oh, what can it mean to a
Daydream believer and a
Homecoming queen?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2018, 02:28:12 PM
Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
Watchin' the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide, roll away
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 24, 2018, 02:53:13 PM
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true

Moments to spare with someone you care
For one love affair for two
And so with time on my hands and you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 24, 2018, 03:46:21 PM
Please don't leave any clues around
 The last time we...
 She found some lipstick on the ground
 I said an Avon girl had called
 Free samples on display
 She left her card
 But I threw it away

 But if she knew what I was doing
 She'd throw the ring back in my face
 An 18 carat love affair
 Would then be stamped "repair"
 So we can't be seen in this place
 Love
 An 18 carat love affair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2018, 10:41:38 PM
The other woman has time to manicure her nails
The other woman is perfect where her rival fails
And she's never seen with pin curls in her hair, anywhere.
The other woman enchants her clothes with French perfume
The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room
There are never toys that's scattered everywhere

And when her old man comes to call
He finds her waiting like a lonesome queen
'Cause to be by her side
It's such a change from old routine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 26, 2018, 01:38:48 PM

I've got no fire inside of me can't be the man I try to be
Oh Mr Lonesome hanging round
Don't wanna see nobody don't wanna be nobody
Oh Mr Lonesome got me down
He makes me leave the party when folks are laughin' hearty
Happiness is one thing he can't stand
Nobody wants or needs me I go just where he leads me



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 26, 2018, 10:07:55 PM
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine
In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine
Where you carved your name and I carved mine

Oh, you - like the mountains are blue
Like the pine - I am lonesome for you
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2018, 11:30:47 AM
Sleeplessly embracing
Butterflies and needles
Line my seamed-up join
Encased in case I need it
In my stomach, for my heart
Chain mail
Hunger of the pine
Hunger of the pine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 27, 2018, 03:06:18 PM
I'm wild again
Beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep
When love came and told me
I shouldn't sleep
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2018, 06:18:19 PM
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I tell ya I ain't lyin'
I ain't lyin'
You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it 'cause you put me down
Oh no
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 28, 2018, 08:37:59 AM
I'm yours
Heart and soul I am yours
Can't you see it my eyes
Can't you hear it in my sighs
I'm yours

I'm yours
Every kiss says I'm yours
Take my lips and take my arms
I'm a victim of your charms
I'm yours

My life and my love, dear
Are yours to command
I stand here before you
My heart in my hand

I'm yours
All the world knows I'm yours
And I only hope and pray
That someday I'll hear you say
I'm yours
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 28, 2018, 08:18:43 PM
Just say that you'll be mine
And run away with you
Together we'll make it through
No matter what they say
I've never felt this way
For anyone before
We'll make it through the storm
Together safe and warm
Just say that you'll be mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 29, 2018, 09:13:28 AM
Be my love, for no one else can end this yearning
This need that you and you alone create
Just fill my arms the way you've filled my dreams
The dreams that you inspire with every sweet desire
Be my love, and with your kisses set me burning
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
And hand in hand, we'll find love's promised land
There'll be no one but you, for me eternally
If you will be my love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2018, 01:32:03 PM
Baby, baby, where did our love go?
And all your promises of a love forevermore!
I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me, and it hurts so bad

Before you won my heart (baby, baby)
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind (baby, baby)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 29, 2018, 07:52:24 PM
Ooh la, la, la, la.
I did you wrong, my heart went out to play
And in the game I lost you, what a price to pay!
I'm cryin', ooh baby baby ooh baby baby
Mistakes I know I've made a few,
But I'm only human; you've made mistakes too!
I'm cryin', ooh baby baby ooh baby baby
Ooh baby baby
Ooh baby baby I'm just about at the end of my rope.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2018, 01:26:09 PM
Come on, baby, dry your eyes
Wipe your tears
Never like to see you cry
Won't you please forgive me?

I wouldn't ever try to hurt you
I just needed someone to hold me
To fill the void while you were gone
To fill this space of emptiness

I'm only human of flesh and blood I'm made
Human, born to make mistakes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 21, 2018, 02:36:37 PM
Some people got the real problems
Some people out of luck
Some people think I can solve them
Lord heavens above
I'm only human after all
I'm only human after all
Don't put the blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2018, 02:57:23 PM
Now Eleven million later, I was sittin' at the bar.
I bought the house a double, then the waitress a new car.
Dwight Yoakim's in the corner, try'n' to catch my eye.
Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh.
The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true:
Hey, the stars might lie, but the numbers never do.

I feel lucky,
I feel lucky, yeah.
Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight.
Hot dog, I feel lucky tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 24, 2018, 05:06:58 PM
A bit obvious but there we are:-

In my imagination
There is no complication
I dream about you all the time
In my mind, a celebration
The sweetest of sensation
Thinking you could be mine
In my imagination
There is no hesitation
We walk together hand in hand
I'm dreaming
You fell in love with me
Like I'm in love with you
But dreaming's all I do
If only they'd come true
I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 25, 2018, 09:41:06 PM
When I met you in the restaurant you could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure, "A movie or a measure"?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreamin'
Dreamin' is free
Dreamin', dreaming is free

I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living verite
People stop and stare at me, we just walk on by
We just keep on dreamin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 25, 2018, 10:18:16 PM
Love life and laughter is all I believe
My savior is pure now because my lonely heart would bleed
I never learned how to hold love and stay strong to love
Now I close my eyes now and I'm dreaming right where I belong
Here we lie all alone am I dreaming?
Your heart's smooth my soul is unbelieving
Now you see the me and I'm feeling, I'm feeling
I feel your hands, your lips, the heat of your body
Whisper your love to me say that you love me
Please just love me down and never leave me,
I'm a dreamer
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 26, 2018, 09:22:34 AM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2018, 09:28:05 PM
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colours on the snowy linen land
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 28, 2018, 08:56:27 AM
Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise
Birds in the trees seem to twitter Louise
Each little rose tells me it knows I love you love you
Every little beat that I feel in my heart
Seems to repeat what I felt a the start
Each little sigh tells me that I adore you Louise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 28, 2018, 09:06:53 AM
I'm always there
She knows I'm there and heaven knows
I hope she goes (Eloise)
I find it hard to realise
That love was in her eyes
It's dying now
She knows I'm crying now
And every night I'm there
I break my heart to please
Eloise
Eloise


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2018, 03:55:01 PM
Laid out, puking in the back of a fancy bar
 You and your friend in the front booth
 Laughing at my sweet naïveté
 And its awkward gravity

 Three years, I saw the decimation of the world in you
 Messiah complex lead a fickle flu
 To see its antidote and end in you
 But now I'm gonna leave you

 Eloise, Eloise
 You never meant that much to me
 Baby, please let go, my Eloise
 Let it bleed, let it freeze and fall apart in front of me
 My Eloise, you took the world from me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2018, 02:10:56 PM
Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind, ah
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band
Oh, yeah
Ooh
Ziggy played guitar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 21, 2018, 12:01:01 AM
I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2018, 07:29:05 PM
Play the guitar, play it again, my Johnny
Maybe you're cold but you're so warm inside
I was always a fool for my Johnny
For the one they call Johnny Guitar
Play it again, Johnny Guitar

What if you go, what if you stay, I love you
But if you're cruel, you can be kind, I know
There was never a man like my Johnny
Like the one they call Johnny Guitar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 04, 2018, 08:48:45 AM
Fools rush in
Where angels fear to tread
And so I come to you my love
My heart above my head
Though I see
The danger there
If there's a chance for me
Then I don't care

Fools rush in
Where wise men never go
But wise men never fall in love
So how are they to know
When we met
I felt my life begin
So open up your heart and let
This fool rush in.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2018, 09:25:34 AM
Last night I was taking a walk along the river
And I saw him together with a young girl
And the look that he gave made me shiver
Cause he always used to look at me that way
And I thought maybe I should walk right up to her and say
Ah-ha-ha, it's a game he likes to play

Look into his angel eyes
One look and you're hypnotized
He'll take your heart and you must pay the price
Look into his angel eyes
You'll think you're in paradise
And one day you'll find out he wears a disguise
Don't look too deep into those angel eyes
Oh no no no no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 04, 2018, 03:21:37 PM
Take my hand
I'm a stranger in Paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry eyed
That's a danger in Paradise
For mortals who stand beside
An angel like you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2018, 03:31:42 PM
If paradise is half as nice as heaven that you take me to
Who needs paradise I'd rather have you
They say paradise is up in the stars
But I needn't sigh because it's so far
'Cause I know it's worth a heaven on earth
For me where you are

A look from your eyes, a touch of your hand
And I seem to fly to some other land
When you are around my heart always pounds
Just like a brass band

If paradise is half as nice as heaven that you take me to
Who needs paradise I'd rather have you
Oh yes I'd rather have you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't ya know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune falling all over town
Be sure that your umbrella
Is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So when you hear it thunder, Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2018, 03:42:25 PM
These fancy things will never come in between
You're part of my entity, here for Infinity
When the war has took its part
When the world has dealt its cards
If the hand is hard together we'll mend your heart
Because

When the sun shines we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said, I'll always be your friend
Took an oath, I'mma stick it out 'till the end

Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 04, 2018, 04:07:16 PM
I'm singing in the rain, just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds so dark up above
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love.

Let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place
Come on with the rain, I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane with a happy refrain
Just singin', singin' in the rain.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2018, 04:09:40 PM
Come on, you little fighter
No need to get up-tighter
Come on, you little fighter
And get back up again

It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 05, 2018, 09:41:32 AM
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
Boy, you've got a friend in me
Yeah, you've got a friend in me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 05, 2018, 10:13:03 AM
The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
 You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze

 Well, here's a poke at you
 You're gonna choke on it too
 You're gonna lose that smile
 Because all the while

 I can see for miles and miles
 I can see for miles and miles
 I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
 and miles and miles and miles and miles
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 05, 2018, 10:24:49 AM
On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of
Every mountain, sea, and shore
You can hear from far and near
A world you've never heard before
And on a clear day
On that clear day
You can see forever, and ever, and ever
And ever more.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 05, 2018, 02:29:34 PM
(Ever and ever, forever and ever) you'll be my dream
My symphony, my own lover's theme
(Ever and ever forever and ever) my destiny
Will follow you eternally

Take me far beyond imagination
You're my dream come true, my consolation
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 05, 2018, 03:54:50 PM
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed, that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2018, 01:07:12 PM
I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because I brings me back you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 08, 2018, 09:59:14 PM
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2018, 08:29:22 PM

Susie got your number
And Susie ain't your friend
Look who took you under
With seven inches in
Blood is on the dance floor
Blood is on the knife
Susie got your number
And Susie says it's right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 11, 2018, 11:27:10 PM
It's murder on the dance floor
But you'd better not kill the grove
Hey hey
It's murder on the dance floor
But you'd better not steal the moves
DJ, gonna burn this god damn house right down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2018, 11:55:34 PM
Groove is in the hea-a-a-art (astronomical)
Groove is in the hea-a-a-art (hit me!)

Watch out!

The depth of hula groove
Moves us to the nth hoop
We're going through too
Horten hears a who-o-o
I couldn't ask for another (I-I-I-I)
No, I couldn't ask for another
DJ Soul (Soul!) was on a roll
I've been told he can't be sold
He's not vicious or malicious
Just dee-lovely and delicious
I couldn't ask for another
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 12, 2018, 09:13:16 AM
The night is young, the skies are clear
So if you want to go walking, dear
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely

I understand the reason why
You're sentimental, 'cause so am I
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2018, 10:55:37 AM
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
I'm like a child in wild anticipation
I long to hear that "All aboard"

Seven, that's the time we leave, at seven
I'll be waitin' up for heaven
Countin' every mile of railroad tracks
That takes me back
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2018, 02:12:23 PM
Heaven, I'm in heaven,
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven,
And the cares that hang around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2018, 02:19:43 PM
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die
in your sleep

And when he finished speakin'
He turned back toward the window
Crushed out his cigarette
And faded off to sleep
And somewhere in the darkness
The gambler he broke even
But in his final words
I found an ace that I could keep

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 14, 2018, 02:22:32 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 17, 2018, 09:18:08 PM
Oh don't it hurt deep inside
To see someone do something to her
Oh don't it pain to see someone cry
How especially if that someone is her

Silence is golden, but my eyes still see
Silence is golden, golden, but my eyes still see
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 17, 2018, 09:26:34 PM
I've a dream, silver dream machine
Here am I, I'm going for another try
Flying high, I've got a lot of love inside
Is there love enough now to get me through?
Yeah, I know now where I'm going to
Not to lose now but to win
Tell me, how do I begin?I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 17, 2018, 10:03:42 PM
High flying, adored, so young, the instant queen
 A rich beautiful thing of all the talents, a cross between
 A fantasy of the bedroom and a saint
 You were just a back street girl
 Hustling and fighting
 Scratching and biting
 High flying, adored, did you believe in your wildest moments
 All this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2018, 09:39:15 AM
Just to say nice one Trent!


Everybody
Rock your body
Everybody
Rock your body right
Backstreet's back alright

Oh my God we're back again
Brothers, sisters, everybody sing
Gonna bring the flavour show you how
Gotta question for ya
Better answer now yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 20, 2018, 12:09:14 PM
If you're happier without me
I'll try not to care
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer

You must know that I've been true
Won't you say that we can start anew
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please answer me my love
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 20, 2018, 12:17:53 PM
The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
 Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
 A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
 But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

 He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
 In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise
 He's chained forever to a world that's departed
 It's not enough, it's not enough
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 20, 2018, 02:49:23 PM
Take my hand
I'm a stranger in Paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry eyed
That's a danger in Paradise
For mortals who stand beside
An angel like you

I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the common place
Into the rarest somewhere in space
I hang suspended
Until I know
There's a chance that you care
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 25, 2018, 10:49:00 AM
Another part of the symphony
Lost between eternity
But God is in the detail
I know that there's a part of me
Doomed to face infinity
Cause every wave has gotta break
Has gotta break

Have you forgotten the deal we made?
I've seen the end and the pain we trade
All these walls will fall
I guess we're mortal after all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 25, 2018, 02:02:57 PM
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho, Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
The walls came tumblin' down, Hallelujah

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho, Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls came tumblin' down

You may talk about the men of Gideon
You may talk about the men of Saul
But there're none like good old Joshua
At the battle of Jericho, Hallelujah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 25, 2018, 02:22:31 PM
I just a-lose control
Down to my very soul.
I get hot and cold
All over, all over, all over, all over.

I feel the earth move
Under my feet.
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down.
I feel the earth move
Under my feet.
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down,
A-tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down,
A-tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down,
Tumblin' down.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 01, 2019, 10:50:16 PM
Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night and
Wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight and
Who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
A woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 02, 2019, 09:03:59 AM
The bells are ringing for me and my gal,
The birds are singing for me and my gal,
Everybody's been knowing
To a wedding they're going
And for weeks they've been sewing,
Every Susie and Sal.

They're congregating for me and my gal,
The Parson's waiting for me and my gal.
And sometime
We're gonna build a little home for two,
Or three or four or more,
In Love-land for me and my gal.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2019, 03:32:37 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2017, 03:25:16 PM
When I've been following this thread, I couldn't help but notice certain patterns so I did a bit of analysis on the songs and artists
These are the most frequently posted songs with the number showing how many times they appeared
Blue Skies   6
Dream a Little Dream of Me    6
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing   6
With a Song in My Heart   6
Baby, It's Cold Outside   5
Don't Stop Me Now   5
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   4
Angels   4
Come Fly With Me   4
Rock Around the Clock   4
Ten Cents a Dance   4


34 songs appeared 3 times


As for Artists it's a bit harder, many songs have many versions particularly those in the great American Songbook. I chose the ones that seemed most iconic to me - in some case like New York, New York this is easy but to take an example With a Song In My Heart which occurred 6 times is harder - I went with Mario Lanza as it is the first version I remember. So for artists the count was for those with 10 or higher


Frank Sinatra   37
Ella Fitzgerald   34
The Beatles   28
Nat King Cole   21
Bing Crosby   18
Doris Day   13
Judy Garland   13
Abba   12
Andy Williams   10
Dean Martin   10
Mario Lanza   10
Queen   10


Note I had a section of traditional songs that didn't seem to align to anyone and there 20 of those
I posted this summary just over a year ago so I thought that someone might be interested in an updated version

The songs with more than 4 occurrences are

With a song in my heart   9
Dream a little dream of me   8
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   6
Blue Skies   6
Don't Stop Me Now   6
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing   6
The Power of Love   6*
Baby It's Cold Outside   5
Come Fly With Me   5
It's a Kind of Magic   5
It's a Lovely Day Today   5
No More the Fool   5
Rock Around the Clock   5
All You Need is Love   4
Amoreuse   4
Angels   4
Cry Me a River   4
Devil Gate Drive   4
Everybody Wants to Rule the World   4
Fools Rush In   4
For All We know   4
Hello   4
Homeward Bound   4
I Will Survive   4
In The Still of the Night   4
Moon River   4
On a Clear Day   4
Somewhere over the rainbow   4
Strangers in the Night   4
Ten Cents a Dance   4
Tonight   4
Walk on by   4
Wonderful World   4

* The Power of Love being 2 different songs 4 x the Frankie Goes to Hollywood version, and 2 of the Jennifer Rush - so far no Huey Lewis

Note it has been a bad year for Angels.


For artists

Frank Sinatra   55
Ella Fitzgerald   49
The Beatles   47
Trad.   34
Nat King Cole   28
Abba   24
Bing Crosby   24
Queen   23
Doris Day   22
Judy Garland   21
Simon and Garfunkel   18
Mario Lanza   15
Gene Kelly   14
Billie Holiday   13
Diana Ross and The Supremes   13
Fred Astaire   13
Andy Williams   12
Barbra Streisand   12
Louis Armstrong   12
Theme   12*
Dean Martin   11
Hymn   11
The Rolling Stones   11
Tony Bennett   11
Roy Orbison   10
Vera Lynn   10
Wings   10

* Tv Themes e.g. Happy Days


In addition to Paul McCartney having 47 appearances with the Beatles and 10 with Wings, he had 6 solo appearances and 3 duets.

Paul Simon has a further 7 solo appearances to go along with the 18 S & G.

Fred Astaire and Judy Garland additional 2 duets, and Gene Kelly an additional 2 as part of a trio


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2019, 03:38:56 PM
Quote from: ekim on January 02, 2019, 09:03:59 AM
The bells are ringing for me and my gal,
The birds are singing for me and my gal,
Everybody's been knowing
To a wedding they're going
And for weeks they've been sewing,
Every Susie and Sal.

They're congregating for me and my gal,
The Parson's waiting for me and my gal.
And sometime
We're gonna build a little home for two,
Or three or four or more,
In Love-land for me and my gal.

And to get back on track

Been out here for so long
 The road it just stretches on
 Till I stop pretending
 Till I stop pretending

 But the world is an empty frame
 And now you are just a name
 I'll keep it that way
 It's staying that way

 How could I turn around?
 Face the sound of the bell that chimes?
 Ringing out, shrill and loud
 To drag me back down

 But I'm not coming home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2019, 04:27:56 PM
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away all of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world that I'm coming
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 04, 2019, 04:35:23 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2019, 03:32:37 PM
I posted this summary just over a year ago so I thought that someone might be interested in an updated version

Thanks for your sturdy work.  I suspect that I might be the most guilty.  It surprises me how much 'rubbish' remains in my memory banks and how it can be triggered by a single word.  The trouble is, when triggered, I find myself singing it the rest of the day, thereby reinforcing the memory ready to be triggered again.  ::) You can see how advertising jingles work.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 04, 2019, 04:53:02 PM
 I was tempted with 'Football's coming home but instead...   :-[ :-[

I'm comin' home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me, if you still want me
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 04, 2019, 09:07:05 PM
Take the ribbon from my hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Layin' soft against your skin
Like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side
'til the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time
Help me make it through the night


Can I add my vote of thanks to Ekims for NS's analysis. I'll hold my hand up I'm responsible for McCartney related lyrics quite frequently, as well as Paul Simon. And Doris.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 05, 2019, 09:08:02 AM
Wake up late honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card to the liquor store
That's one for you and two for me by tonight
I'll be loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

I'm on the nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain
Ready to crash and burn
I never learn
I'm on the nightrain
I love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
I can never get enough
I'm on the nightrain
Never to return - no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 05, 2019, 01:31:33 PM
Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
if you miss the one, you'll never get another one
Bee dee dee dee bom bom, to San Fernando

(I remember my uncle playing that when I was little)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 05, 2019, 11:44:24 PM
Take the last train to Clarksville
And I'll meet you at the station
You can be there by four-thirty
'Cause I've made your reservation, don't be slow
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no

'Cause I'm leaving in the morning
And I must see you again
We'll have one more night together
Till the morning brings my train and I must go
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no

And I don't know if I'm ever coming home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 05, 2019, 11:47:56 PM
Train whistle blowing makes a sleepy noise
Underneath their blankets go all the girls and boys

Rocking rolling riding out along the bay
All bound for Morningtown many miles away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 05, 2019, 11:50:46 PM
Casey Jones
 Steamin' and rollin'
 Casey Jones
 You never have to guess
 When you hear the tootin' of the whistle
 It's Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 06, 2019, 01:14:42 PM
Me and Mrs. Jones
We got a thing goin'on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

We meet every day at the same cafe
Six-thirty and no one knows she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the juke box plays our favorite songs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 06, 2019, 09:06:09 PM
Cafe on the left bank, ordinary wine
Touching all the girls with your eyes
Tiny crowd of Frenchmen round a tv shop
Watching Charles de Gaulle makes a speech
Dancing after midnight, sprawling to the car
Continental breakfast in the bar
English speaking people drinking German beer
Talking far too loud for their ears

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 06, 2019, 09:18:16 PM
It's quite the fashion, the Continental
Because you tell of your love while you dance
You kiss while you're dancing
It's continental, ooh, it's continental

You sing while you're dancing
Your voice is gentle and so sentimental
You'll know before the dance is through
That you're in love with her and she's in love with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 06, 2019, 09:21:24 PM
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
I'm like a child in wild anticipation
I long to hear that "All aboard"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 06, 2019, 09:30:05 PM
All aboard!
Mean old Frisco, take my babe away
Mean old Frisco, take my babe away
Well I'm hopin' and tusslin
She'd come back home some day

Well, that people
Just don't understand
One day people
Just don't understand
Well, now she gone away and left me
Left me for another man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 06, 2019, 10:43:45 PM
Dress the way you please and put your mind at ease
It's a city known for its freedom, (freedom)
Cycles shining bright break the silence of the night
Inhibitions, no, you don't need them, (no),no,(no)

(San Francisco), San Francisco
(San Francisco), City by the Bay yeah
(San Francisco), he he he he hey
(You've got me)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 07, 2019, 08:40:38 AM
Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night

Slowly, gently night unfurls it's splendor
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Hearing is believing, music is deceiving
Hard as lightening, soft as candlelight
Dare you trust the music of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2019, 09:05:17 AM
Music was my first love
And it will be my last.
Music of the future
And music of the past.

To live without my music
Would be impossible to do.
In this world of troubles,
My music pulls me through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 07, 2019, 10:02:28 AM
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuo-
Sos, the cream of every famous band.

Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
There were more than a thousand reeds
Springing up like weeds
There were horns of every shape and kind.

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having its big, fat say!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2019, 10:08:03 AM
As I walked home on a Summer night
When stars in Heav'n were shining bright
Far away from the footlight's glare
Into the sweet and scented air
Of a quaint old Cornish town

Borne from afar on the gentle breeze
Joining the murmur of the summer seas
Distant tones of an old world dance
Played by the village band perchance
On the calm air came floating down

I thought I could hear the curious tone
Of the cornet, clarinet and big trombone
Fiddle, 'cello, big bass drum
Bassoon, flute and euphonium
Far away, as in a trance
I heard the sound of the Floral Dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 07, 2019, 02:26:36 PM
I could have danced all night
I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before
I'll never know ahat made it so exciting
Why all at once my heart took flight
I only know when he began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2019, 02:41:40 PM
All night long
 Sweet love all night long
 Sweet love all night long
 Sweet love all night long
 All I wanna, ain't no other
 We together, I remember
 Sweet love all night long

 

 They say true love's the greatest weapon
 To win the war caused by pain, pain
 But every diamond has imperfections
 But my love's too pure to watch it chip away
 Oh nothing real can be threatened
 True love breathes salvation back into me
 With every tear came redemption
 And my torturer became a remedy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 07, 2019, 04:12:01 PM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2019, 04:19:28 PM
A passion course that leads to pain
 An acid taste that laced her soul again
 She loved like diamond
 She loved like diamond
 And cut so hard, she died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2019, 11:33:03 PM
(A-wa) O kodwa you zo-nge li-sa namhlange
(A-wa a-wa) Si-bona kwenze ka kanjani
(A-wa a-wa) Amanto mbazane ayeza
She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing Ta na na
Ta na na na

She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2019, 01:47:40 AM
Got brass in pocket
Got bottle I'm gonna use it
Intention I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Got motion restrained emotion
Been driving Detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 09, 2019, 06:41:35 AM
There was a time I used to pray
I have always kept my faith in love
It's the greatest thing from the man above
A game I used to play
I always put my cards on the table
Never said that I'd be unstable

It was just my imagination
It was just my imagination
It was just my imagination
Just my imagination

(Cranberries)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 10, 2019, 01:31:29 PM
Well I guess it would be nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like you, uhh

But I've got to think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
Because I play them too

Oh but I
Need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
Oh when that love comes down
Without devotion
Well it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showing you the door

'Cause I gotta have faith
I gotta faith
Because I gotta to have faith faith
I gotta to have faith, faith, faith

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 10, 2019, 07:23:54 PM
It's the way you love me
It's a feelin' like this
It's centrifugal motion
It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment
It's, ah, impossible
This kiss, this kiss
Unstoppable
This kiss, this kiss

Cinderella said to Snow White
'How does love get so off course?
Oh, all I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse'
Ride me off into the sunset
Baby. I'm forever yours

(This Kiss - Faith Hill)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2019, 05:33:57 PM
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Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 24, 2019, 08:13:21 PM
Down in the meadow where the wind blows free, in the middle of a field stands a lightning tree.
It's limbs all torn from the day it was born for the tree was born in a thunderstorm.

Grow, grow, the lightning tree, it's never too late for you and me;
Grow, grow, the lightning tree, never give in too easily.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 25, 2019, 08:06:23 AM
I don't want to lose the good thing that I've got
If I do, I will surely, I will lose a lot

For your love is better than any love other I've know
It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
I better knock on wood
Baby

I got superstitious about you, but I can't take change
You got me spinning, baby, spinning in a trance
But your love is better than any other love I've known
It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
You better knock on wood
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 25, 2019, 09:06:39 AM
I don't want to walk without you , baby
Walk without my arm about you , baby
I thought the day you left me behind
I'd take a stroll and get you right off my mind
But now I find that
I don't want to walk without the sunshine
Why'd you have to turn off all that sunshine
Oh baby, please come back
Or you'll break my heart for me
Cause, I don't want to walk with out you
No siree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 01, 2019, 03:33:27 PM
Come, let's stroll
Stroll across the floor
Come, let's stroll
Stroll across the floor
Now turn around, baby
Let's stroll once more

Feel so good
Take me by my hand
I feel so good
Take me by my hand
And let's go strolling
In wonderland
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 04, 2019, 10:48:05 PM
And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

Yeah, you got that somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I say that somethin'
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 04, 2019, 11:09:25 PM

Remember all the things we used to say
In the hope that we'd remain
I said forgiven, not forgotten, boy
It's not too late

But I've got no tears left for you
I held on, and I hope you come through, I do

Hold your hands up
I miss you, I miss you tonight
Hold your hands up
I'll find you when I look inside
Hold your hands up
I miss you, I miss you tonight, I'm alive

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 04, 2019, 11:14:01 PM
Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time.
There's somethin' wrong here, there can be no denyin'.
One of us is changin', or maybe we've just stopped tryin'.

And it's too late, baby now, it's too late,
Though we really did try to make it.
Somethin' inside has died, and I can't hide,
And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 04, 2019, 11:19:17 PM

Give me about an hour
I wanna groove and hear your song
Let's take a little bit of time now
Can't rush to get it on
Wait a minute here
Don'tcha move too fast
Gotta play this game to last
Don'tcha get the feeling?
We can rock it tonight
Everything is going just right

Now hear the thunder
Hear the rhythm and rhyme
It's coming right on time
It's not too early to tell
It's not too early to tell
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 05, 2019, 07:47:09 PM
Girl, close your eyes
Let that rhythm get into you
Don't try to fight it
There ain't nothing that you can do
Relax your mind
Lay back and groove with mine
You gotta feel that heat
And we can ride the boogie
Share that beat of love

I want to rock with you (all night)
Dance you into day (sunlight)
I want to rock with you (all night)
Rock the night away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 05, 2019, 08:24:55 PM
At night when you turn off all the lights
There's no place that you can hide
No no, the rhythm is gonna get'cha

In bed, throw the covers on your head
You pretend like you are dead
But I know it, the rhythm is gonna get'cha
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 05, 2019, 11:48:00 PM
This is the rhythm of the night
The Night
Oh yeah
The rhythm of the night
This is the rhythm of my life
My life
Oh yeah
The rhythm of my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 06, 2019, 09:12:29 AM
Daddy started out in San Francisco,
 Tootin' on his trumpet loud and mean.
Suddenly a voice said, "Go forth, Daddy.
 Spread the picture on a wider screen. "

 And the voice said, "Daady, there's a million pigeons
 Ready to be hooked on new religions.
 Hit the road, Daddy. Leave your common-law wife.
 Spread the religion of the rhythm of life. "

 And the rhythm of life is a powerful beat,
 Puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet,
 Rhythm in your bedroom, rhythm in the street,
 Yes, the rhythm of life is a powerful beat.

 To feel the rhythm of life,
 To feel the powerful beat,
 To feel the tingle in your fingers,
 To feel the tingle in your feet.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 06, 2019, 09:30:07 AM
I got rhythm, I got music
I got my gal
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got my gal
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my gal
Who could ask for anything more?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 06, 2019, 06:27:00 PM
Oliver, Oliver
Never before has a boy wanted more
Oliver, Oliver
Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store
There's a dark, thin winding stairway without any banister
Which we'll throw him down
And feed him the cockroaches served in a canister
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 07, 2019, 12:45:30 PM
The little cockroach
The little cockroach
All she wanted was to dance
She doesn't mind that her leg is missing
She would never miss the chance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 11, 2019, 08:58:16 AM
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two

Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 11, 2019, 01:57:41 PM
The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 11, 2019, 02:11:17 PM


How many nights does it take to count the stars?
 That's the time it would take to fix my heart
 Oh, baby, I was there for you
 All I ever wanted was the truth, yeah, yeah
 How many nights have you wished someone would stay?
 Lay awake only hoping they're okay
 I never counted all of mine
 If I tried, I know it would feel like infinity

Infinity, infinity, yeah
 Infinity

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 11, 2019, 03:38:26 PM
Sometimes I wonder, how I spend
The lonely nights
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
And now my consolation is in the stardust of a song.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 11, 2019, 03:58:16 PM
By the time we got to Woodstock,
 We were half a million strong
 And Everywhere there was song and celebration.

 And I dreamed I saw the bombers
 Riding shotgun in the sky,
 And they were turning into butterflies
 Above our nation.

 We are stardust.
 Billion year old carbon.
 We are golden..
 Caught in the devil's bargain
 And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 26, 2019, 10:44:27 PM
Love is like a butterfly
 As soft and gentle as a sigh
 The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
 Love makes your heart feel strange inside
 It flutters like soft wings in flight
 Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing

(Now here's a thing - I was thinking of the old Butterflies programme, but when I looked the song up it is written by none other than Dolly Parton, a fact that has escaped me these last 40 odd years. Never too old to learn  ;) )
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 27, 2019, 08:48:13 AM
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
 Take these broken wings and learn to fly
 All your life
 You were only waiting for this moment to arise


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 27, 2019, 09:32:39 AM
Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye-bye, blackbird

Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet and so is she
Bye, bye, blackbird

No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard-luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed, light the light, I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 27, 2019, 10:03:38 AM
For you, there'll be no more crying
 For you, the sun will be shining
 And I feel that when I'm with you
 It's alright, I know it's right

 To you, I'll give the world
 To you, I'll never be cold
 'Cause I feel that when I'm with you
 It's alright, I know it's right

 And the songbirds are singing
 Like they know the score
 And I love you, I love you, I love you
 Like never before
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 28, 2019, 05:08:37 PM

Feeling so good I don't know what to do
Just had a taste of some Rock and Roll stew
Just got to tell you in case I go blind
That its making the sun start to shine
So I guess I'll just let the sun shine

So let's let the sun shine out into the dark
Cause nobody's bite is as bad as their bark
And everyone's good at least some of the time
And just like the sun we will shine
Yes and just like the sun we will shine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on March 29, 2019, 09:10:13 AM
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 29, 2019, 04:41:25 PM
It's just the sun that's shinin' in your eyes.
It's just the moon that is the sun's disguise.
Just the sky, with clouds a blowin' by.
The sun and the moon and the sky, and you and I.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 29, 2019, 05:09:07 PM
You are sunlight and I moon
Joined by the gods of fortune
Midnight and high noon
Sharing the sky
We have been blessed you and I

You are here like a mystery
I'm from a world that's so
Different from all that you are
How in the light of one night
Did we come so far
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 02, 2019, 11:06:40 AM
Oh the world is full of people with money just to burn
Affording all the things in life for which a man might yearn
Some can take life easy but I live from day by day
God has my fortune laid away
I search for sunshine every day but there always comes the rain
The hope over my horizon was smoke without a flame
Pockets that stay empty dreams that go astray
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 02, 2019, 02:24:15 PM
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed, that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Roses on April 02, 2019, 03:20:58 PM
Someday, I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top
That's where you'll find me




I wish!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 02, 2019, 11:01:37 PM
Chim, chimney
 Chim, chimney
 Chim, chim, cher-ee
 A sweep is as lucky
 As lucky can be

 Chim, chimney
 Chim, chimney
 Chim, chim, cher-oo
 Good luck will rub off when
 I shakes hands with you
 Or blow me a kiss
 And that's lucky too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2019, 08:09:31 AM


Don't need a bracelet
No salt for my shoulder
I don't own a rabbit
No clover, no heather
No cross, no wonder
I'm lucky, I'm lucky, I'm lucky
I can walk under ladders

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on April 03, 2019, 09:06:19 AM
Lucky, lucky, lucky me!
I'm a lucky son of a gun.
I work eight hours, and sleep eight hours.
That leaves eight hours for fun.

Lucky, lucky, lucky me!
Even though I haven't a dime,
I laugh and play in a carefree way
And I have a wonderful time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 04, 2019, 01:34:14 AM
They used to tell me
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow
Or guns to bear
I was always there
Right on the job.
They used to tell me
I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead.
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 27, 2019, 04:43:11 PM
This old town should've burned down in 1929
That's when we stood in line
Waiting for our soup
Swallowing our pride

This old town should've burn down in 1931
When the rain refused to come
Air filled up our bellies, dust filled up our lungs
And we thought our time had come

This old town was built by hand
In the dust bowl of the motherland
There must be rock beneath this sand
Oh' I'll be damned, this town still stands
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 28, 2019, 09:33:17 AM
In my little town I never meant nothing
I was just my father's son
Saving my money
Dreamin of glory
Twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun

Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2019, 02:09:42 PM
A man's love is mighty
He'll even buy a nightie
For a gal who he thinks is fun.
But they don't buy pajamas
For Pistol packin' mamas,
And you can't get a hug
From a mug with a slug,
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 14, 2019, 09:46:46 AM
I went to a party at the local county jail
 All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail
 But the guys were indiscreet
 They were brawling in the street
 At the local dance at the local county jail

 Well the band were playing
 And the booze began to flow
 But the sound came over on the police car radio
 Down at Precinct 49
 Having a tear-gas of a time
 Sergeant Baker got a call from the governor of the county jail

 Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
 Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

 I love to hear those convicts squeal
 It's a shame these slugs ain't real
 But we can't have dancin' at the local county jail
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 14, 2019, 01:26:35 PM
By the time we got into tulsa town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, callin' all trucks, this here's the duck.
We about to go a-huntin' bear.

'cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'cross the u-s-a.
Convoy!


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 25, 2019, 05:52:24 PM
Dearest darling I had to write to say that I won't be home anymore
'Cause something happened to me while I was driving home
And I'm not the same anymore

Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa
Ah, only one day away from your arms
I saw a welcoming light and stopped to rest for the night
And that is when I saw her as I pulled in outside of the small motel she was there
And so I walked up to her, asked where I could get something to eat
And she showed me where.

Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa
Ah, only one day away from your arms
She took me to the café, I asked her if she would stay, she said "OK"

Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa
Ah, only one day away from your arms

The jukebox started to play and night time turned into day as we were dancing
Closely, all of a sudden I lost control as I held her charms
And I caressed her, kissed her, told her I'd die
Before I would let her out of my arms

Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa
Ah, only one day away from your arms
I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?
And I can never, never, never go home again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 26, 2019, 08:20:37 AM
Never say never
(Never, never)
Yeah, yeah
See I never thought that I could walk through fire
I never thought that I could take the burn
I never had the strength to take it higher
Until I reached the point of no return
And there's just no turning back
When your heart's under attack
Gonna give everything I have
It's my destiny.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2019, 06:38:41 PM
Doctor, lawyer, beggar man thief
Philly Joe remarkable looks on in disbelief
If you want a taste of madness, you'll have to wait in line
You'll probably see someone you know on heartattack and vine

Boney's high on china white, Shorty found a punk
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk
Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line
What you say you meet me down on heartattack and vine



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2019, 07:20:51 PM
I'm stoned again
I miss you very much
I'm stoned again
I'm missin' that vital love

That you chose to give to me
But not for eternity
I'm stoned again
I miss you very much
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2019, 07:40:59 PM
I know you think I'm wrong, but I'm not your tour guide
Have a guess, I don't let you look inside
Cold dry stone

What makes you want to carve your initials in me?
Rained and weathered, erasing, hard to read
Find me distant, outwardly rough, obscene
Cold dry stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2019, 09:25:06 PM
You've got a good heart,
But I know it changes.
A restless tide, untameable.
You came my way, and I knew a storm could come too.
You'd lift me high, or let me fall.
But I took your hand, promised I'd withstand
Any blaze you blew my way.

'Cause something inside, it solidified,
And I knew I'd always stay.
You can build me up, you can tear me down,
You can try but I'm unbreakable.
You can do your best, but I'll stand the test.

You'll find that I'm unshakeable.
When the fire's burnt,
When the wind has blown,
When the water's dried, you'll still find stone.
My heart of stone.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2019, 09:37:45 PM
I've been to Hollywood, I've been to redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I've been admired by, it's such a fine light
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2019, 10:03:28 PM
Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 27, 2019, 08:16:03 AM
(The sweet, sweet memories you've given me
You can't beat the memories you've given me)
Take one fresh and tender kiss,
Add one stolen night of bliss,
One girl; one boy; some grief; some joy:
Memories are made of this.
Don't forget a small moonbeam.
Fold it lightly with a dream.
Your lips and mine,
Two sips of wine:
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2019, 09:11:32 AM
Quiet thought come floating down
 And settle softly to the ground
 Like golden autumn leaves around my feet
 I touched them and they burst apart with sweet memories
 Sweet memories
 Of holding hands and red bouquets
 And twilight trimmed in purple haze
 And laughing eyes and simple ways
 And quiet nights and gentle days with you

 Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
 Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2019, 08:48:33 PM
You say you've got to go home
'cause he's sitting on his own again this evening.
I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again.
Oh God, it's half past eight,
You'll be late.
You say you've never been sure,
Though it makes good sense for you to be together.
Still you bought a toy that can reach the places he never goes.
Oh, now it's getting late.
He's so straight.

Do you remember the first time?
I can't remember a worse time.
But you know that we've changed so much since then,
Oh yeah,
We've grown.
Now I don't care what you're doing,
No I don't care if you screw him.
Just as long as you save a piece for me,
Oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2019, 08:44:19 AM
Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school
 They ain't said I broke no rule
 I ain't never been in Dutch
 I don't browse around too much

 Don't bother me, leave me alone
 Anyway I'm almost grown

 I don't run around with no mob
 Got myself a little job
 I'm gonna buy me a little car
 Drive my girl in the park

 Don't bother just leave us alone
 Anyway we're almost grown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2019, 11:23:53 AM
They say for every boy and girl
There's just one love in this whole world
And I know I've found mine
The heavenly touch of your embrace
Tells me no one could take your place
Ever in my heart

Young love (young love), first love (first love)
Filled with true devotion
Young love (young love), our love (our love)
We share with deep emotion
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2019, 12:15:20 PM
When I was a young boy
My mama said to me
There's only one girl in the world for you
And she probably lives in Tahiti

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her

Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
Where the Caribbean Sea is blue
Weeping in a tropical moonlit night
Because nobody's told her 'bout you

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2019, 12:54:57 PM
How did you tell it's okay?
When I need a high from the story
And you are the one that I crave

Every night, you know, I'm searching for you
I'm searching for you, you
I'm searching for you
For you
I'm searching for you
For you
Searching for you
For you
For you
For you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on June 28, 2019, 02:12:32 PM
Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances we'd be sharing love
Before the night was through.
Something in your eyes was so inviting,
Something in your smile was so exciting,
Something in my heart,
Told me I must have you.
Strangers in the night
Two lonely people we were strangers in the night
Up to the moment
When we said our first hello.
Little bit we know
Love was just a glance away,
A warm embracing dance away,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2019, 02:17:32 PM
Can you remember remember my name
 As I flow through your life
 A thousand oceans I have flown
 And cold spirits of ice
 All my life
 I am the echo of your past

 I am returning the echo of a point in time
 Distant faces shine
 A thousand warriors I have known
 And laughing as the spirits appear
 All your life
 Shadows of another day

 And if you hear me talking on the wind
 You've got to understand
 We must remain
 Perfect Strangers
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2019, 02:41:06 PM
That night we fell in love
Beneath the stars above
That was a lovely summer night
Remember then, then
Then, then, then
Remember

Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Then, then, remember then
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2019, 03:18:49 PM
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

 See the curtains hanging in the window
 In the evening on a Friday night
 A little light shining through the window
 Lets me know everything's alright


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2019, 04:11:44 PM
Won't you open a window sometime?
What's so wrong with the light?
What's so wrong with the light?
Wind in your hair, sun in your eyes
Light
Light

We throw our shadows down
We must throw our shadows down
We live and throw our shadows down
It's how we get around
In the sun
In the sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 29, 2019, 10:09:14 AM

As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 29, 2019, 11:02:06 AM
You make me cry
Make me smile
Make me feel the joy of love
Oh kissing you
Thank you for all the love you always give to me
Oh I love you
Greatness as you
Smallest as me
You show me what is deep as sea

A little love, little kiss
A little hug, little gift
All of little something, these are our memories
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 01, 2019, 11:11:45 AM

 When I'm sad, she comes to me
 With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
 It's alright she says it's alright
 Take anything you want from me,
 Anything.

 Fly on little wing,
 Yeah yeah, yeah, little wing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 01, 2019, 02:45:57 PM
Mammy,
Mammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
I know where the sun shines best--

Mammy,
My little mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I'm comin',
Sorry that I made you wait.
I'm comin',
Hope and trust that I'm not late, oh oh oh

Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! Oh oh oh...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 01, 2019, 07:38:39 PM
Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea?
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me?
This is the wildest party there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light 'cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
Mama said, "That ain't no way to have fun"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 01, 2019, 11:02:28 PM
Do it
Take your mama out all night
So she'll have no doubt that we're doing oh the best we can
We're gonna do it
Take your mama out all night
You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man

It's a struggle, livin' like a good boy oughta
In the summer, watchin' all the girls pass by
When your mama, heard the way that you'd been talking
I tried to tell you, that all she'd want to do is cry

Now we end up takin' the long way home
Lookin' overdressed wearin' buckets of stale cologne
It's so hard to see streets on a country road
When your glasses in the garbage
And your Continental's just got towed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 02, 2019, 07:55:34 AM
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oh oh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2019, 10:37:00 AM
I've got emotion
Dripping out my pores and I
Thought I would let you know
You are the night light,
Ripping through my wicked world
How you make it sparkle and glow,
Before I lose control
There's just one thing you should know

This is for real, this time I mean it
I'm coming clean, please don't let go
I said from the start, that you could take it or leave it
I'd prefer that you keep it
Don't let go
Don't let go
Don't let go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2019, 10:39:11 AM
in this proud land we grew up strong
 we were wanted all along
 I was taught to fight, taught to win
 I never thought I could fail

 no fight left or so it seems
 I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
 I've changed my face, I've changed my name
 but no one wants you when you lose

 don't give up
 'cos you have friends
 don't give up
 you're not beaten yet
 don't give up
 I know you can make it good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2019, 11:56:29 AM
You and me
We used to be together
Every day together
Always
I really feel
Like I'm losing my best friend-kt and laura
I can't believe this could be the end
It looks as though-im seeing u
You're letting go
And if its real well I don't want to know

Don't speak
I know just what your saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know just what your thinking
And I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2019, 12:40:54 PM
"Fools," said I, "You do not know
 Silence like a cancer grows
 Hear my words that I might teach you
 Take my arms that I might reach you."
 But my words like silent raindrops fell
 And echoed in the wells of silence

 And the people bowed and prayed
 To the neon god they made
 And the sign flashed out its warning
 In the words that it was forming
 And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
 Are written on the subway walls
 And tenement halls
 And whispered in the sounds of silence."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2019, 02:29:09 PM
There is a quiet place,
far from the rapid pace
Where God can soothe
my troubled mind
Sheltered by tree and flower
There in my quiet hour with Him,
my cares are left behind

Whether a garden small,
or on a mountain tall
New strength and courage
there I find
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2019, 02:32:45 PM
When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
 That always followed you around
 Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
 No I'll never let you down

 Cause it grows stronger, like a river flows
 And it gets bigger baby, and heaven knows
 And it gets sweeter baby, as it grows

 And do I love you my oh my
 Yeh river deep, mountain high
 If I lost you would I cry
 Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2019, 03:16:40 PM
I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All he asks from me is the food to give him strength
All he ever needs is love and that he knows he'll get
So, I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All the pay I need comes a-shinin' through his eyes
I don't need no cold water to make me realize that
I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
Na, na, na, na, na, na, nana
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2019, 03:25:05 PM
Freedom is a dusty road heading to a highway
 Californian skyways will lead us where we wanna stay
 Suddenly a summer breeze breaks a misty morning
'There's a new day dawning we'd better be on our way.
So love me love my dog
 We've lived the road too long to break up
 Love me live my life and travel through this land
 I can't leave a friend I promised that before we started
 So love me love my dog
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 02, 2019, 03:54:43 PM
I'm on the road to freedom
On the road to love
Yonder can you see them
Who they're thinking of

I met a rich man on the road
He told me where to go
To get my hands upon some gold
But I still answered no
'Cause freedom waits for me ahead
Your gold will slow me down
I smiled as I walked on my way
And left him with a frown

I met an old man on the road
His eyes were clear and wise
Can you direct me on my way
To where the answer lies
I'm looking for the road to freedom
So I can be free
He said keep thinking as you walk
And one day you will see
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2019, 04:37:28 PM

BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco And somewhere I feel kind of numb
 BC: For any villains we may meet we haven't any fears
BH: Paramount will protect us 'cause we're signed for five more years
 BOTH: We certainly do get around Like a complete set of Shakespeare that you buy in the corner drugstore for a dollar ninety-eight We're Morocco bound Or like a volume of Omar Khayyam that you buy in the department store at Christmas time for your cousin Julia We're Morocco bound
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2019, 10:57:47 PM
Whoopa, hey mesa, hooba huffa, hey meshy goosh goosh

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue

Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead bring us back to where they've led
Listen not to what's been said to you

Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All aboard the train, all aboard the train
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2019, 07:35:37 AM

Take the last train to Clarksville
I'll be waiting at the station
We'll have time for coffee flavored kisses
And a bit of conversation
Oh... Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!

Take the last train to Clarksville
Now I must hang up the phone
I can't hear you in this noisy
Railroad station all alone
I'm feelin' low. Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 03, 2019, 09:20:00 AM
Down the rock island line is a might good road
Oh the rock island line is the road to ride
The rock island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the rock island line
Well I may be right, I may be wrong
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2019, 09:27:09 AM
They say the skies of lebanon are burning
those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat
they're showing pictures on the television
women and children dying in the streets
and we're still at it in our own place
still trying to reach the future through the past
still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone

but hey don't listen to me
this wasn't meant to be no sad song
i've sang to much of that before
right now i only want to be here with you
till the morning due comes falling
i want to take you to the island
and trace your footprints in the sand
and in the evening when there's no one around
we'll make love to the sound of the ocean
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 03, 2019, 05:49:32 PM
I have to get my girl!

Sorry, Sergeant, it's straight from
Washington
No one leaves the grounds now, not
Anyone
A fast as we load the planes
We're gone
Okay! Keep quiet! Don't shout!
The Ambassador won't leave till
Everyone's out
The choppers're on there way there's
Room for you all
They're climbing over the wall!
(GET BACK!)
Get Back! Tell you, don't shout!

The Ambassador won't leave till
Everyone's out
Th' Ambassador just sent an order to
Freeze
That's it! No more Vietnamese!
Get in!

But my girl's out there!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2019, 05:57:05 PM

I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign, and strange to me
get the expert, at kissing and stuff
he stays easy, when things get rough

Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
some girls, can make themselves so cold
a no-mans land.


Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 03, 2019, 09:15:02 PM
War means tears to thousands of mothers eyes
When their sons go to fight
And lose their lives

I said, war, huh good god, why'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing say it again
War, whoa, lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

it ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) friend only to the undertaker
Oh, war it's an enemy to all mankind
The point of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 04, 2019, 06:44:45 AM

You're begging me to go
Then making me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way
Or am I the best thing you've had

Believe me
Believe me
I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love
And I'm chained to your side

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises
No demands
Love is a battlefield
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 04, 2019, 07:12:01 PM
Babe, I love you so
I want you to know
That I'm going to miss your love
The minute you walk out that door
So please don't go
Don't go, don't go away
Please don't go
Don't go, I'm begging you to stay
If you live, at least in my life time
I had one dream come true
I was blessed to be loved
By someone as wonderful as you
Hey hey hey
I need your love
I'm down on my knees

Beggin' please please
please don' go
Don't you hear me baby
Don't leave me now
Oh no no no don't go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 05, 2019, 07:55:29 AM
Love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won't believe me but I love you only
I'd rather be lonley than happy with somebody else
You might find the night time the right time for kissing
Night time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else
There'll be no one unless that someone is you
I intended to be independently blue
I want your love, don't wanna borrow
Have it today to give back tomorrow
Your love is my love
There's no love for nobody else
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 09:16:52 AM
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2019, 11:52:40 AM
Ours is not to question the reasons why
Crippled indecision repeats the path I once denied
Insignificant, am I?

The color of sundown, of crimson sky
The beauty that breaks down
And gives the day unto the night
And then one day you'll realize
Just a speck in the spectrum
Insignificant, am I?

And then one day you'll realize
The beauty that breaks down
never learns the reason why
Scan my horizon as blue turns to black
The sky is gone again
And all beneath are born to die
Insignificant, am I?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 12:36:04 PM
The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes
The black queen chants
the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
To summon back the fire witch
To the court of the crimson king
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 05, 2019, 03:25:48 PM
Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what's botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you too
You'll see it's true
An ape like me
Can learn to be human too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 04:16:05 PM

Too many souls are lost,
So many dreams lie broken.
Will you try to help them
Chase the night away,
Turn on the booming silver day.
We do it in swingtime,
We don't count the skinny seconds
Passing by or wonder why.
We do it in swingtime,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2019, 04:31:59 PM
There's a little pile of ashes where my old life used to be.
Credit cards and memories all dumped into the sea.
Well this ain't no time for bull as I fly into the sun.
Well you can't trust anybody if you can't trust number one.

Well the man tells me my future, is not so far away.
And get ready for tomorrow, I gotta waste my whole today.
My inner luck knows better, it's what I wanna hear.
Just like a diamond bullet where it's crystal crystal clear.
Whooaaa Yeaaah!
Whooo!

I can slap a tornado,
I can dry up a sea, yeah.
When I live for the moment,
There ain't no ain't knowin' me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 04:37:38 PM

She ran the risk from unity
Obsession dies alone with tragedy
She loved like diamond
She loved like diamond
And cut so hard, she died

A passion course that leads to pain
An acid taste that laced her soul again
She loved like diamond
She loved like diamond
And cut so hard, she died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2019, 08:09:48 PM
You are an obsession
I cannot sleep
I am your possession
Unopened at your feet
There's no balance
No equality
Be still I will not accept defeat

I will have you
Yes, I will have you
I will find a way and I will have you

Like a butterfly
A wild butterfly
I will collect you and capture you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 08:47:02 PM


Dipping and weaving
Flutter through the golden needle's eye
In our haystack madness.
Butterfly-stroking on a Spring-tide high.

Life's too long (as the Lemming said)
As the candle burned and the Moths were wed.
And we'll all burn together as the wick grows higher
But before the candle's dead.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2019, 09:39:40 PM
Pockets full of money that I saved and never spent
A shoebox full of letters that I wrote and never sent
Words of love and promises I thought but never said
Hoping that I wouldn't fall behind
Nights I wasted dreaming things that I forgot when I awoke
Journeys I had plotted out, but I never found the road
Running into strangers, never looking in their eyes
All the magic that we might have shared if not for my disguise
And still, I'm grateful to be alive, and waiting for the moment to arrive

Seize the moment when it comes
Seize the moment - it may be the only one
Seize the moment - don't you let it pass you by
You've gotta seize the moments of your life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2019, 10:12:58 PM
Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send

Beauty I've always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2019, 10:53:02 PM
I can feel that my powers are slowly returning
tie my sash and a dash of cologne for that smell!
as the pieces fall into place,
I'll see her crawl into place,
dasvedanja Anya your grace, farewell!

In the dark of the night, terror will find her (terror's the least I tell you!)
in the dark of the night, evil will brew
soon she will feel,
that her nightmares are real
in the dark of the night, she'll be through

in the dark of the night evil will find her (find her)
in the dark of the night, terror comes true (doom her)
my dear, heres a sign,
it's the end of the line,
in the dark of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 06, 2019, 09:07:25 AM
In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you

In the still of the night
All the world is in slumber
All the times without number
Darling when I say to you

Do you love me, as I love you
Are you my life to be, my dream come true
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2019, 09:09:25 AM
Dawn
Go away back where you belong
Girl we can't
Change the places where we were born
Before you say
That you want me
I want you to think (think)
What your family would say
Think (think)
What your throwing away
Now think what the future would be with a poor boy like me
Me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 06, 2019, 01:02:32 PM
Please go home
Please go home
Well maybe I'm talkin' to fast
But I won't be the first or the last
In the sea of the thousand you cast
C'mon please go home
I don't have to ask what you do
I just have to look to get you
Means nothing to me to get through
Please go home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 06, 2019, 02:04:39 PM
I'm comin' home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me, if you still want me

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 06, 2019, 02:41:01 PM
Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best

Blue's the colour of the sky
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best

Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best

Mellow is the feeling that I get
When I see her, mm hmm
When I see her, uh huh
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 06, 2019, 06:58:29 PM
I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me

They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 06, 2019, 08:26:48 PM
Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow
Sing a rainbow
Sing a rainbow too

Listen with your eyes
Listen with your ears
And sing everything you see
I can sing a rainbow
Sing a rainbow
Sing along with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2019, 08:56:14 PM
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend
Baby I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
I only wanted to see you underneath the purple rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 06, 2019, 09:42:21 PM
The day that the rains came down
Mother Earth smiled again
Now the lilacs could bloom
Now the fields could grow greener
The day that the rains came down
Buds were born, love was born
As the young buds will grow
So our young love will grow
Love, sweet love
A robin sang a song of love
A willow tree reached up to the heavens
As if to thank the sky above
For all that rain, that welcome rain
We looked across the meadowland
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2019, 09:55:38 PM

I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because I brings me back you

Lilac wine is sweet and heady,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 07, 2019, 07:15:28 AM
Lilac blowing through the warm summer air
Hint of your perfume, the smell of your hair
Sun is setting and the crows all cry
Electrical storm forming in the sky

Got a hurt inside that I just gotta heal
All I can do is feel, feel, feel
Day is dying and the night is born
Baby, don't leave me so lovelorn

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

Birds do it, bees do it, I wanna do it
The only thing we need to do is get down to it
Please hear my plea, know it comes from the heart
Baby, you and me got something to start

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

Why won't you hear me?
I'm a desperate man
Darling don't fear me
Just say we can

Lilac blowing in the warm summer breeze
Floating so soft with the cries in the trees
Sun is setting and the day is dead
How can I get it through your pretty little head?

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

(See you in a fortnight.)



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 07, 2019, 08:36:19 AM
Obvious follow on, but too good not to post:

Birds do it, bees do it
 Even educated fleas do it
 Let's do it, let's fall in love...

 In Spain the best upper sets do it
 Lithuanians and Letts do it
 Let's do it
 Mama, let's fall in love...

 The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
 Not to mention the Finns
 Folks in Siam do it
 Just think of the Siamese twins
 Some Argentines, without means do it
 People say in Boston even beans do it
 Let's do it, let's fall in love...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 07, 2019, 10:06:49 AM
 A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning, "how lucky I am,
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!"


I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the stair!
Where on the stair?
Right there!
A little mouse with clogs on
Well i declare!
Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair
Oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on July 07, 2019, 02:11:53 PM
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 07, 2019, 02:54:47 PM
Hey, why am i talkin' on like this?
My kid ain't even been born, yet!
I can see him when he's seventeen or so,
And startin' to go with a girl
I can give him lots of pointers, very sound
On the way to get 'round any girl
I can tell him ...
Wait a minute!
Could it be?
What the hell!
What if he is a girl?
What would i do with her?
What could i do for her?
A bum with no money!
You can have fun with a son
But you gotta be a father to a girl
She mightn't be so bad at that
A kid with ribbons in her hair!
A kind o' sweett and petite
Little tin-type of her mother!
What a pair!

(Soliloquy from Carousel)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 12, 2019, 09:26:28 AM
You wait little girl
On an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on

Your life little girl
Is an empty page
That men will want to write on

To write on

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby its time to think
Better beware
Be canny and careful
Baby you're on the brink

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads
And grue ways and cads
Will offer you fruit and wine

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone
Older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on 18
I'll take care of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 12, 2019, 09:46:04 AM
Seventeen
And not yet a woman
So-ho clean
Thought that you were never coming
Seventeen
Completely new sensations
Someones dreams
Created your perfection
All the girls
(all the girls just love to hate her)
And all the boys
(all the boys they wanna make her)
They want you
(seventeen)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 12, 2019, 10:55:10 AM
I leaned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone

Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems at seventeen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 21, 2019, 03:51:46 PM
Put money in my savings
‘Cause anything can happen
Get married and have babies
‘Cause what is life without them
A spiritual awakening
‘Cause life needs meaning
Some social interaction the perfect calculation

Momma always told me
That first impressions matter
To wear nice clothes and makeup
And not get any fatter
To find a guy that suits me
A decent Christian man

You’re young just for a short time
Enjoy it while you can
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 24, 2019, 10:35:57 AM
Each night seems just like the Fourth of July
 When stars spangle the sky

 The moon at night (shines so bright)
 Seems to shine twice as bright
 When you're young and in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 24, 2019, 05:11:49 PM

They try to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that love's a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know the meaning of

And yet we're not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then someday they may recall
We were not too young at all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 24, 2019, 05:28:47 PM
ANd they called it puppy love
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love her so

And they called it puppy love
Just because we're, we're seventeen
Tell them all it...
Please tell them it isn't fair
To take away my only dream
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 24, 2019, 10:12:12 PM
I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls, they wanna have fun
Oh girls just want to have
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 25, 2019, 09:55:48 AM


Well the girls can't stand her
 Cause she walks looks and drives like an ace now
 (You walk like an ace now you walk like an ace)
 She makes the indy 500 look like a roman chariot race now
 (You look like an ace now you look like an ace)
 A lotta guys try to catch her
 But she leads them on a wild goose chase now
 (You drive like an ace now you drive like an ace)

 And she'll have fun fun fun
 Til her daddy takes the t-bird away
 (Fun fun fun til her daddy takes the t-bird away)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 26, 2019, 07:37:03 PM
Get down, deeper and down
Down down, deeper and down
Down down, deeper and down
Get down, deeper and down
I want all the world to see
To see you're laughing
And you're laughing at me
I can take it all from you
Again, again, again, again, again, again, again

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 26, 2019, 08:18:39 PM
Well, hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Well it may bring war
Any old thing
Well, look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
Well, look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
There's hundreds of people
Like you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 26, 2019, 11:04:58 PM
I sit here every day looking at the sky
Ever wondering why I dream my dreams away
And I'm living for today in my mind's eye
Things are clearer than before
Showing me the way, asking me to stay
I'll never close the door
To all these things and more
In my mind's eye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 30, 2019, 11:12:17 AM
His sister's black but she is sho 'nuff pretty
 Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
 To walk to school she's got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
 Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum

 Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many
 His patience's long but soon he won't have any
 To find a job is like a haystack needle
 Cause where he lives they don't use colored people
 Living just enough, just enough for the city...
 Living just enough...
 For the city...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 30, 2019, 06:09:16 PM
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl

Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 31, 2019, 08:10:38 AM
End of night a new day dawning
 And the first birds start to sing
 In the pale light of the morning
 Nothing's worth remembering
 It's a dream, it's out of reach
 Scattered driftwood on the beach

 Summer night city
 Summer night city

 Waiting for the sunrise, soul dancing in the dark
 Summer night city
 Walking in the moonlight, love-making in the park
 Summer night city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2019, 09:22:42 AM
Nobody is an island
 Everyone has to go
 Pillars turn to butter
 Butterflying low
 Low is where your heart is
 But your heart has to grow
 Drifting under bridges
 Never with the flow

And you really didn't think it would happen
 But it really is the end of the line
 So I'm sorry that you turned to driftwood
 But you've been drifting for a long, long time



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 31, 2019, 07:20:45 PM
You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby

Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby

Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 01, 2019, 08:07:55 AM
Stars in your eyes, little one
Where do you go to dream
To a place, we all know
The land of make believe

Shadows, tapping at your window
Ghostly voices whisper will you come and play
Not for all the tea in China
Or the corn in Carolina
Never, never ever
They're running after you babe

Run for the sun, little one
You're an outlaw once again
Time to change, Superman
He'll be with us while he can
In the land of make believe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2019, 09:34:26 AM
 Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
 O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
 Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
 message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
 Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
 coming home?
 Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
 but I know you.
 And I've got a message to give to you.
 Here come the planes.
 So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
 as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 01, 2019, 09:53:07 AM
I don't want to be like old George Reeves
Stuck in a Superman role.
I've got a long way to go in my career
And some day my fame will make it clear
That I had to be a Superman


"I'm red white and blue, I've got justice to do
I'm the man of your fantasy dreams
But I'm an alien man from an alien land
Who's alive on your orthicon screens.
I once ruled the world and when flags were unfurled

I performed for you live not on tape.
But the public is cruel when played for a fool
As you see by the blood on my cape."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2019, 09:59:14 AM
Father's name was Hezikiah
 Mother's name was Ann Maria
 Yanks through and through
 Red, white and blue
 Father was so Yankee hearted
 When the Spanish War was started
 He slipped upon his uniform
 And hopped up on a pony
 My mother's mother was a Yankee true
 My father's father was a Yankee too
 And that's going some
 For the Yankees, by gum
 Oh, say can you see
 Anything about my pedigree that's phoney?

 I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
 A Yankee Doodle, do or die
 A real live nephew of my uncle Sam's
 Born on the Fourth of July
 I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart
 She's my Yankee Doodle joy
 Yankee Doodle came to London,
 Just to ride the ponies
 I am a Yankee Doodle boy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 02, 2019, 06:14:34 PM
That's my family tree
That's my family tree
No bad vibes, just good energy
If you know about about them, then you know about me
So, that's my family tree

That's my family tree
From primary right through secondary
If you know about about them, then you know about me, yeah
Ten years deep and still the same company
I ain't never gonna change my company
Mum said "Son, be careful of your company"
Because your company shows who you are
I went from nothing to something and still ain't changed
Still gettin' on the bus and the train
Still livin' in the same old place
And still thank God for every breath I take
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2019, 07:02:47 PM
Grow, grow, the lightning tree, it's never too late for you and me;
Grow, grow, the lightning tree, never give in too easily.
Down in the meadow where the wind blows light, the lightning struck in the middle of the night.
Limbs stripped bare by the lightning flare the lightning flare was a wild affair.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 04, 2019, 01:11:10 PM
I came to town to search for gold
And I brought with me a memory
And I seem to hear the night wind cry,
"Go hang your dreams on the hangin' tree
Your dreams of love that could never be
Hang your faded dreams on the hangin' tree!"

I searched tor gold and I found my gold
And I found a girl who loved just me
And I wished that I could love her too
But I'd left my heart on the hangin' tree
I'd left my heart with a memory

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 05, 2019, 09:59:57 AM
The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay
 The glory that was Rome is of another day
 I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan
 I'm going home to my city by the Bay

 I left my heart in San Francisco
 High on a hill, it calls to me
 To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
 The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 05, 2019, 01:38:09 PM
We'll have Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island too
It's lovely going through the zoo
It's very fancy on old Delancy Street, you know
The subway charms us so, when balmy breezes blow to and fro

And tell me what street compares with Mott Street in July?
Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by
The great big city's a wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy
We'll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 05, 2019, 05:16:33 PM
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City

When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 05, 2019, 05:24:31 PM
We'll go to Greenwich,
Where modern men itch
To be free,
And Bowling Green you'll see with me.

We'll bathe at Brighton,
The fish you'll frighten
When you're in,
Your bathing suit so thin
Will make the shellfish grin,

Fin to fin.

I'd like to take a
Sail on Jamaica
Bay with you,
And fair Canarsie's Lakes we'll view.

The city's bustle cannot destroy
The dreams of a girl and boy --
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 06, 2019, 01:44:53 AM
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more
What'd you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more
Oh woman, oh woman, don't treat me so mean
You're the meanest old woman that I've ever have seen
I guess if you say so
I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right)
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more
What'd you say?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 06, 2019, 07:50:17 AM
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques,
Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines
Ding dang dong, ding dang dong.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2019, 10:03:25 AM
 I blame you for the moonlit sky
 And the dream that died
 With the Eagle's flight
 I blame you for the moonlit nights
 When I wonder why
 Are the seas still dry?
 Don't blame this sleeping satellite

 Did we fly to the moon too soon
 Did we squander the chance
 In the rush of the race
 The reason we chase is lost in romance
 And still we try
 To justify the waste
 For a taste of man's greatest adventure


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 06, 2019, 05:08:45 PM
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can sore
I see me runnin through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2019, 05:09:35 PM
Quote from: ekim on August 06, 2019, 05:08:45 PM
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can sore
I see me runnin through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
Sore?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2019, 05:28:31 PM
No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you

It's so sad that you're leaving
It takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're gonna be the lonely one
Oh, oh

Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say,
"I really don't think you're strong enough, no."
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say,
"I really don't think you're strong enough, no."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 06, 2019, 05:34:35 PM
Yeah, a little song we gotta call striving
We gotta keep moving
No matter what the obstacle, no matter what the test
We gotta push through it, here to help you

Every day of the week when I'm sleep
He's got His angels watching over me
Interceding for me, looking out for me
Now tell me how good is He

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, never give up
Keep on striving
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, never give up
Keep on, keep on striving
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2019, 11:36:27 AM
Just sweet sixteen, and now you're gone
 They've taken you away.
 I'll never kiss your lips again
 They buried you today

Teen angel, can you hear me
 Teen angel, can you see me
 Are you somewhere up above
 And I am still your own true love
 Teen angel, teen angel, answer me, please
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2019, 06:06:29 PM
Sweet sixteen, goes to church just to see the boys
Laughs and screams and giggles at every little noise
Turns her face a little and turns her head awhile
But everybody knows she's only putting on the style

That's what all the young folks are doing all the while
And as I look around me, I'm sometimes apt to smile
Seeing all the young folks putting on the style

Young man in the hot-rod car, driving like he's mad
With a pair of yellow gloves he's borrowed from his dad
He makes it roar so lively just to see his girlfriend smile
But she knows he's only putting on the style

That's what all the young folks are doing all the while
And as I look around me, I'm sometimes apt to smile
Seeing all the young folks putting on the style
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2019, 07:13:48 PM

Have you seen the well-to-do?
Upon Lennox Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air

High hats and coloured collars
White spats and fifteen dollars
Spending every dime on a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where Harlem flits

Puttin' on the Ritz
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2019, 09:24:01 PM
We're a couple of swells
We stop at the best hotels
But we prefer the country far away from the city smells
We're a couple of sports
The pride of the tennis courts
In June, July and August we look cute when we're dressed in shorts
The Vanderbilts have asked us up for tea
We don't know how to get there, no sirree
No sirree...

We would ride up the avenue
But we haven't got the price
We would skate up the avenue
But there isn't any ice
We would ride on a bicycle
But we haven't got a bike
So we'll walk up the avenue
Yes we'll walk up the avenue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2019, 09:29:20 PM
I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams

You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes
And gigolo and gigolette
Wake up to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2019, 09:35:01 PM
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She sayes, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side

And the colored girls go,
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 08, 2019, 07:06:04 AM

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware, beware

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 09, 2019, 06:07:27 PM
Won't you go away (little girl)
Wish you wouldn't stay (little girl)
Won't you go away (little girl)
Woo ooh go away.
Go away little girl
Go away little girl
I'm not supposed to be alone with you

Oh yes I know that your lips are sweet
But our lips must never meet
I belong to somebody else and I must be true.
Please go away little girl
Go away little girl
It's hurting me more each minute that you delay

When you are near me like this
You're much too hard to resist
So go away little girl before I beg you to stay.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 09, 2019, 09:16:03 PM
With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe
You're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth

Whaoo-oh-oh
Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2019, 01:06:58 PM
Hey little girl
You'll never believe
There's a ghost inside of you
But it's hidden too deep
Hey little girl
You'll never imagine
When you get a little older
You'll get abandoned
Hey little girl
You know smoking kills
You don't really care
'Cause you love how it feels
Hey little girl
You're falling apart
You don't really care
'Cause they broke your heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 10, 2019, 01:28:56 PM

You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on
To write on
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2019, 03:19:30 PM
You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby
Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby
Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 10, 2019, 03:53:27 PM
Only make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending;
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2019, 04:58:53 PM
Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh)
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell

Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 10, 2019, 05:04:27 PM
One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshiping soul possesses

At her call, I'd give my all
All my life and all my love enduring
This would be a magic World to me
If she were mine alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 10, 2019, 05:33:48 PM
A love supreme
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2019, 06:07:35 PM
Oh, it seemed forever stopped today
All the lonely hearts in London
Caught a plane and flew away
And all the best women are married
All the handsome men are gay
You feel deprived
Yeah, are you questioning your size?
Is there a tumor in your humor
Are there bags under your eyes?
Do you leave dents where you sit
Are you getting on a bit?
Will you survive?
You must survive

When there's no love in town
This new century keeps bringing you down
All the places you have been
Trying to find a love supreme
A love supreme
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 11, 2019, 09:24:18 AM
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Do you think I'd crumble
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I, I will survive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 11, 2019, 04:03:16 PM



 I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 11, 2019, 09:01:37 PM
Oh I loved that, loved Melanie. Have you heard her, 'I don't eat animals'.

This one really is quite dreadful:-

Bad bitches to the right, weak bitches to the left
Like I said man we here to party
You do what you gone do
If you smoke, you gone smoke
If you drink, you gone drink
If you gone roll, you gone roll
Do your thing just don't step on these all white G Fazos
Gang! Turn up

[Hook]
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm bussin' it's bussin', I'm bussin' it's bussin'
Somebody pass me a water or something
I'm bussin', I'm bussin', I'm bussin', it's bussin'
Somebody pass me a water or something
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin
I'm rollin, I'm rollin I'm rollin, I'm rollin

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 12, 2019, 08:20:20 AM
Listen to the story
 I left a good job in the city
 Working for the man every night and day
 And I never lost one minute of sleeping
 Worrying 'bout the way things might have been
 Big wheel keep on turning
 Proud mary keep on burning
 And we're rolling, rolling
 Rolling on the river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2019, 10:14:24 AM
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know
That when she left that day
Along with her she took my heart
Rain please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care
I can't love another when my hearts somewhere far away
The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 12, 2019, 11:03:39 AM
I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2019, 11:57:06 AM
It's five and I'm driving home again
 It's hard to believe that it's my last time
 The man on the wireless cries again
 It's over, it's over

 Dancing with tears in my eyes
 Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
 Dancing with tears in my eyes
 Living out a memory of a love that died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 12, 2019, 12:08:18 PM
I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head that drives my heel
It's my baby callin', says I need you here
And it's a half past four and I'm shiftin' gear
When she is lonely and the longing gets too much
She sends a cable comin' in from above
Don't need no phone at all
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2019, 12:08:52 PM
Golden days before they end
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won't be near you any more
Tender nights before they fly
Send falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesn't want you any more
It's over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2019, 12:42:11 PM
For love may come and tap you on the shoulder
 Some starless night
 Just in case you feel you wanna hold her
 You'll have a pocket full of starlight

 Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
 Never let it fade away
 Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
 Save it for a rainy day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2019, 08:26:37 PM
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the lovin' we've ever done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2019, 08:35:56 PM
You ain't got the heart
To break me in two,
You ain't got the soul
To run it like I do,
You ain't got the will
Now the toll is over due,
I'm talking to you
Hey, I'm talking to you
Yeah
I'm so high, calling
Make me a star
Starmaker
Cause you've always been a giver
Not a taker
But in our hearts
The stars break us
And they never let you go
Even when you leave your mark
Starmaker
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 13, 2019, 01:04:52 AM
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Lift off
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 13, 2019, 07:48:09 AM
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 09:25:58 AM
We love to boogie
 We love to boogie
 Jitterbug boogie

 Bolan pretty boogie
 We love to boogie
 On a Saturday night

Belinda Mae Fender's got a Cadillac Bone
 Jenny's lost her cherry walking all the way home
 The passions of the Earth blasted it's mind
 Now it's neat sweet ready for the moon based grind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 13, 2019, 07:46:03 PM
Oh I love to love
But my baby just loves to dance
He wants to dance, He loves to dance, He's got to dance
Oh I love to love
But my baby just loves to dance
Oh I love to love
But there's no time for our romance
No no no oh

I love to love
But my baby just loves to dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 09:27:43 PM
A fine romance, my good fellow
You take romance, I'll take jello
You're calmer than the seals
In the Arctic Ocean
At least they flap their fins
To express emotion
A fine romance with no quarrels
With no insults and all morals
I've never mussed the crease
In your blue serge pants
I never get the chance
This is a fine romance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 14, 2019, 12:10:50 AM
You should've known by the tone of my voice, maybe
But you didn't listen
You played dead, but you never bled,
Instead you lay still in the grass, all coiled up and hissing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2019, 09:16:10 AM
How does the earth around your feet
 Just slip away?
 And abandon that greets you in the night
 With snake eyes, the most precious kind

 It's in the eyes!
 I can tell, you will always be danger!
 We had it tonight! Why do you always seek absolution?
 It's in the eyes!
 I can tell you will always be danger!

(Apologies for posting a Mumford and Meh lyric)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 14, 2019, 10:54:47 AM
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue

I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long
Say it isn't true and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2019, 11:05:52 AM
When my fist clenches
 Crack it open
 Before I use it
 And lose my cool

 And when I smile
 Tell me some bad news
 Before I laugh
 And act like a fool

And if I swallow
 Anything evil
 Put your finger
 Down my throat

 And if I shiver
 Please give me a blanket
 Keep me warm
 Let me wear your coat

 No one knows what it's like
 To be the bad man
 To be the sad man
 Behind blue eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 14, 2019, 05:55:20 PM
Well they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true
But my friend you have seen nothin'
Just wait 'til I get through
Because I'm bad, I'm bad come on
You know I'm bad, I'm bad come on, you know
You know I'm bad, I'm bad come on, you know
And the whole world has to
Answer right now
Just to tell you once again
Who's bad
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 15, 2019, 09:23:27 AM
On the day I was born
 The nurses all gathered 'round
 And they gazed in wide wonder
 At the joy they had found
 The head nurse spoke up
 Said "leave this one alone"
 She could tell right away
 That I was bad to the bone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 16, 2019, 06:43:22 PM
For some reason I find your above song quite depressing!

My love,
I'll never find the words my love, to tell you how I feel my love.
Mere words, could not explain.
Precious love,
You held my life within your hands, created everything I am,
Taught me how to live again.
Only you,
Cared when I needed a friend, believed in me through thick and thin,
This song is for you, filled with gratitude and love

God bless you, you make me feel brand new,
For God blessed me with you, you make me feel brand new,
I sing this song 'cause you, make me feel brand new.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2019, 09:44:02 AM
I've been alive forever
And I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2019, 12:02:25 PM
Baby, look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time
I'll make you forget the rest
I got more in me
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hand
Don't you know who I am
Remember my name, fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly, high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2019, 01:53:37 PM
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2019, 02:25:41 PM
You did that one very recently, ekim (tho' I can't find it, can't see for looking); iirc, NSane made a comment about it at the time.

She makes me laugh
She makes me cry
With a twinkle of her eye

She flies like a bird in the sky
She flies like a bird and I wish that she was mine
She flies like a bird
Oh me, oh my
I see, I sigh
Now I know, I can't let Maggie go





Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 17, 2019, 05:14:04 PM
Ah yes, that was a sore point.  I've probably got a one track mind..... but

I'll never forget the people I met
Braving those angry skies
I remember well as the shadows fell
The light of hope in their eyes
And though I'm far away
I still can hear them say
"Thumbs up!"
For when the dawn comes up
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow, when the world is free.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2019, 05:55:28 PM
Wide and deep and high as the heavens
Is my love for you, is my love for you
Wide and deep and high as the heavens
Is my love for you

Lay down your burdens, lay them before me
Lift up your eyes to the warmth of the sun
Peace like a river flowing so freely
Will flow over you before this day is done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 18, 2019, 09:26:30 AM
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way.

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 18, 2019, 11:18:30 AM
That's nice ekim.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together
Brighter than a lucky penny
When you're near the rain just disappears, dear
And I feel so fine
Just to know that you are mine
My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
That's how this refrain goes
Come on, join in, everybody
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
Everything that's wonderful is sure to come your way
When you're in love to stay
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 18, 2019, 02:34:04 PM
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 18, 2019, 03:59:42 PM
You don't remember me
But I remember you 't was not so long ago
You broke my heart in two

Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you, you
If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hands of fate
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Caused by you, you, you, you, you

Love is not a gadget, love is not a toy
When you find the one you love, he'll fill your heart with joy
If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hands of fate

Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you, you
No, no no no now, no, no no
You, you,you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 18, 2019, 05:16:44 PM
Pillow talk, pillow talk
Another night of hearing myself talk, talk, talk, talk
Wonder how it would be to have someone to pillow talk with me
I wonder how
I wonder who

Pillow talk, pillow talk
Another night of being alone with pillow talk
When it's all said and done, two heads together can be better than one
That's what they say
They always say
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 18, 2019, 07:58:08 PM
I got the lonesome blues tonight
Won’t you stay here dear friend that’s what I need
Someone to hold me tight well it’s all right
I got the lonesome blues tonight

I got the homely blues tonight
May be got some time to lend I’ll try to be
The one you miss tonight make you feel all right
I got the homely blues tonight

I got the cold cold blues tonight
Won’t you try to understand if I can be
With someone else tonight when you dim the light
I got the cold cold blues tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 19, 2019, 08:59:48 AM
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2019, 06:39:43 AM
Every night I go to sleep, the blues fall down like rain
Every night I go to sleep, the blues fall down like rain
Takin' pills and cheap whiskey, just to try to ease the pain

It's hard to gamble when you lose every bet
Hard to save money when you're twenty years in debt
The blues is fallin', fallin' down on me like rain
I'm gonna take a shotgun now, people, and disconnect my brain

I made some mistakes, had some bad breaks
Now my mind don't work and my whole body aches
Blues is fallin', fallin' down on me like rain
My life is like water, just swirlin' down the drain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 20, 2019, 08:11:38 AM
I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That's too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 20, 2019, 08:18:17 AM
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.


A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2019, 05:05:07 PM

Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 20, 2019, 05:16:32 PM
Come fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come on fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away

Come fly with me, we'll float down to Peru
In llama-land there's a one-man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come on fly with me, we'll float down in the blue.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2019, 06:15:23 PM
All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
It's early morn
The taxi's waitin'
He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 20, 2019, 06:59:15 PM
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 20, 2019, 09:50:40 PM
Mr. cab driver won't you stop to let me in
Mr. cab driver don't you like my kind of skin
Mr. cab driver you're never gonna win
Mr. cab driver won't stop to pick me up
Mr. cab driver I might need some help
Mr. cab driver only thinks about himself

Mr. cab driver
Mr. cab driver
Mr. cab driver
Mr. cab driver

Mr. cab driver don't like to way I look
He don't like dreads he thinks we're all crooks
Mr. cab driver reads too many story books
Mr. cab driver pass me up with eyes of fire
Mr. cab driver thinks we're all 165'ers
Mr. cab driver fuck you I'm a survivor
Let me in
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 22, 2019, 04:16:32 PM
My daddy was the family bassman
My mamma was an engineer
And I was born one dark gray morn
With music coming in my ears
In my ears

They call me Baby Driver
And once upon a pair of wheels
I hit the road and I'm gone
What's my number
I wonder how your engines feel
Ba ba ba ba
Scoot down the road
What's my number
I wonder how your engines feel
Shine a light, ooo ooo oo, ooo ooo oo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 22, 2019, 06:28:52 PM
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars

Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars

Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door
In cars
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 23, 2019, 09:32:19 AM
Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
We love you and our pretty
Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Loves us too
High, low, anywhere we go
On Chitty Chitty we depend
Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine four fendered friend
Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine four fendered friend.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2019, 09:34:43 AM
Riding along in my automobile
 I'm anxious to tell her the way I feel
 So I told her softly and sincere
 And she leaned and whispered in my ear
 Cuddlin' more and drivin' slow
 With no particular place to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2019, 11:26:23 AM
While riding in my Cadillac, what, to my surprise,
A little Nash Rambler was following me, about one-third my size.
The guy must have wanted it to pass me up
As he kept on tooting his horn. Beep! Beep!
I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn.

Beep, beep. (Beep, beep.)
Beep, beep. (Beep, beep.)
His horn went, beep, beep, beep. (Beep! Beep!).

I pushed my foot down to the floor to give the guy the shake,
But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind; he still had on his brake.
He must have thought his car had more guts
As he kept on tooting his horn. Beep! Beep!
I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn.

Beep, beep. (Beep, beep.)
Beep, beep. (Beep, beep.)
His horn went, beep, beep, beep. (Beep! Beep!).
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2019, 11:30:53 AM
Make like a Mister Milquetoast and you'll get shut out,
 Make like a Mister Meek and you'll get cut out,
 Make like a little lamb, and wham, you're shorn,
 I tell ya, chum, it's time to come blow your horn.

 Make like a Mister Mumbles and you're a zero,
 Make like a Mister Big; they dig a hero.
 You've got to sound your "A" the day you're born,
 I tell ya, chum, it's time to come blow your horn.

 The taller the tree is the sweeter the peach,
 I'll give you the whole maguilla in a one word speach: Reach!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2019, 12:23:49 PM
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good
Living life just like I should
Wouldn't change it if I could
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good

Trying to figure out who I am
Or who I'm supposed to be
Feel good about where I stand
So I can make the most of me-I'm
Coming back down from space
A million miles away
There's a lot of love in this place
(Oh) and I'm just trying to say

I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good
Living life just like I should
Wouldn't change it if I could
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2019, 01:03:38 PM
Eight miles high and when you touch down
 You'll find that it's stranger than known
 Signs in the street that say where you're going
 Are somewhere just being their own

 Nowhere is there warmth to be found
 Among those afraid of losing their ground
 Rain gray town known for its sound
 In places small faces unbound
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2019, 05:50:29 PM
Just like in the movies
It starts to rain and we
We're the broken beauties
Blindfolded minds collide and we fall

When the curtain drops
Our touch is just a touch
Not like in the movies
Our story's after the end

Like strangers
Perfect pretenders
We're falling head over heels
For something that ain't real
It could never be us, eh
Just you and I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2019, 08:51:26 PM


Oh-oh, yes I'm the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I've played the game but to my real shame
You've left me to grieve all alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2019, 11:05:22 PM
Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 24, 2019, 08:20:32 AM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 24, 2019, 08:54:56 AM

Away out here they got a name
For rain and wind and fire
The rain is Tess, the fire Joe,
And they call the wind Maria

Maria blows the stars around
And sends the clouds a’flyin’
Maria makes the mountains sound
Like folks were up there dying

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
Far over the Misty Mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and caverns old,
We must away, ere break of day,
To seek our pale enchanted gold.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells,
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 24, 2019, 01:38:11 PM
We dig up diamonds
By the score
A thousand rubies
Sometimes more
We don't know what we dig them for
We dig dig dig a-dig dig

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
It's home from work we go
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2019, 05:19:54 PM
Just whistle while you work
And cheerfully together we can tidy up the place
So hum a merry tune
It won't take long when there's a song to help you set the pace
And as you sweep the room
Imagine that the broom is someone that you love
And soon you'll find you're dancing to the tune
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 25, 2019, 08:45:32 AM
Must you dance every dance
With the same fortunate man?
You have danced with him since the music began
Won't you change partners and dance with me?

Must you dance quite so close
With your lips touching his face?
Can't you see
I'm longing to be in his place?
Won't you change partners and dance with me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2019, 10:03:54 AM

Yesterday - well it seemed so cool
When I walked you home, kissed goodnight
I said "it's love" you said "all right"
It's funny how I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying'

Dance away the heartache
Dance away, tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away, fears
Dance away...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 25, 2019, 11:51:44 AM
You can dance every dance with the guy
Who gives you the eye, let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile for the man
Who held your hand neath the pale moon light

But don't forget who's takin' you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin' save the last dance for me

Oh I know that the music's fine
Like sparklin' wine, go and have your fun
Laugh and sing, but while we're apart
Don't give your heart to anyone

But don't forget who's takin' you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin' save the last dance for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2019, 12:37:11 PM
My word I've had a party, my word I've had a spree
Believe me or believe me not, it's all the same to me!
I'm wild with exultation, I'm dizzy with success
For I've danced with a man, I've danced with a man-
Who
Well, you'll never guess
I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 25, 2019, 01:25:59 PM
What is happening here
Something's going on that's not quite clear
Somebody turn on the lights
We're gonna have a party
It's starting tonight

Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 25, 2019, 01:44:22 PM
First when there's nothing
But a slow glowing dream
That your fear seems to hide
Deep inside your mind

All alone I have cried
Silent tears full of pride
In a world made of steel
Made of stone

Well, I hear the music
Close my eyes, feel the rhythm
Wrap around
Take a hold of my heart

What a feeling
Bein's believin'
I can have it all
Now I'm dancing for my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 25, 2019, 05:02:51 PM
This is the rhythm of the night
The night
Oh yeah
The rhythm of the night

This is the rhythm of my life
My life
Oh yeah
The rhythm of my life

You could put some joy upon my face
Oh, sunshine in an empty place
Take me to turn to and babe I'll make you stay
Oh, I can ease you of your pain
Feel you give me love again
Round and round we go, each time I hear you say

This is the rhythm of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 25, 2019, 05:33:50 PM
Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night

Slowly, gently night unfurls it's splendor
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Hearing is believing, music is deceiving
Hard as lightening, soft as candlelight
Dare you trust the music of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2019, 06:22:06 PM

I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly renown
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin' to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves
In the summertime
In the sweet summertime
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 25, 2019, 10:51:22 PM
A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried when I
Read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music
Died

So bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey 'n' Rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 25, 2019, 11:59:04 PM
Then the music stop,all the lights went out
Someone is crying now a time ago
For a moment we wished reality wasn't mend to be hurting so
A falling star music and candlelight
You know where they are so darling lead me through the night
When the music stopped, we just walked away
Into every day people go
Cloudy summer nights, dying city lights ,now I know that I need you so

Please stay by me cause I can still feel the falling rain
I wanna be loved by you and the music starts again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 26, 2019, 08:47:10 AM
I wanna be loved by you, just you
And nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you, alone!
Boop-boop-a-doop!

I wanna kissed by you, just you
Nobody else but you
I wanna be kissed by you, alone!

Boop-boop, I couldn't aspire
To anything higher
Than, filled with desire
To make you my own!
Boop-boop-a-doop, boop-boop-a-doop!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 26, 2019, 09:46:07 AM


Now I'm suitable and MC, I'm no inbetween
Top of the rank like Pearl and Dean
And if you can't take the heat get out the kitchen
Ain't got no time for your boo-boo-be

Betty Boo, Betty Boo just doin' the do
And you are through and there's nothing you can do
Betty Boo, Betty Boo just doin' the do
And you are through and there's nothing you can do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 26, 2019, 10:41:14 AM
Just who do you think you are?
Stop actin' like some kind of star
Just who do you think you are?
Take it like a man, baby, if that's what you are
'Cause I'm movin' on up, you're movin' on out
Movin' on up, nothin' can stop me
Movin' on up, you're movin' on out

Time to break free, nothin' can stop me, yeah
They brag a man has walked in space
But you can't even find my place
There ain't nothin' you can do
'Cause I've had enough of me, baby, bein' part of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 26, 2019, 10:49:47 AM

Fine eyed baby
I don't mean maybe
We're gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be crying
On 'count of all you're lying
Oh yeah, just look who's laughing now

I'm gonna walk like a man
Fast as I can
Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world
Forget about it girl
And walk like a man from you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 26, 2019, 09:03:24 PM
And when I see the sign that points one way
The lot we used to pass by every day

Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home

The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
You're not to blame
From deep inside the tears that I'm forced to cry
From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide

Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home
Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2019, 06:58:05 AM

It's a long and twisting journey
From the sweeping northern plains
To the outcrops of the jungle
Bowed beneath the tropic rains
In the customs hall the officer
Takes you to one side
And his eyes reveal no feeling
As you hand over the bribe
And once again you've bought a little time
And once again you're fading out of sight
Still the fox is growing older
As he calls over his shoulder to the night:

What do you want from me?
What do you need from me?
There's no rest for the running man
Why can't you let him be?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2019, 05:55:51 PM
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these strings until my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me

Do you think I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one you need
What do you want from me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2019, 06:09:46 PM
What do you want if you don't want money?
What do you want if you don't want gold?
Say what you want and I'll give it you darling
Wish you wanted my love, baby

What do you want if you don't want ermine?
What do you want if you don't want pearls?
Say what you want and I'll give it you darling
Wish you wanted my love, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2019, 07:51:50 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha
Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

If you want my future, forget my past
If you wanna get with me, better make it fast
Now don't go wasting my precious time
Get your act together we could be just fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2019, 09:22:46 PM
Precious time is slipping away
But you're only king for a day
It doesn't matter to which God you pray
Precious time is slipping away

It doesn't matter what route you take
Sooner or later the hearts going to break
No rhyme or reason, no master plan
No Nirvana, no promised land
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2019, 10:08:09 PM
There's a little pile of ashes where my old life used to be.
Credit cards and memories all dumped into the sea.
Well this ain't no time for bull as I fly into the sun.
Well you can't trust anybody if you can't trust number one.
Well the man tells me my future, is not so far away.
And get ready for tomorrow, I gotta waste my whole today.
My inner luck knows better, it's what I wanna hear.
Just like a diamond bullet where it's crystal crystal clear.
Whooaaa Yeaaah!
Whooo!

I can slap a tornado,
I can dry up a sea, yeah.
When I live for the moment,
There ain't no ain't knowin' me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2019, 07:54:31 AM
No escape, you disappear
 It rips you off, keeps you in
 Rises you up and pushes you out
 The frontal attack, now is in the past
 Is it finished, or is it coming back?
 No one knows, where it goes
 Am I safe? Am I gone with it?
 Running scared!
 Do it quickly, if you see it
 There is no time, for a warning
 The tornado has struck, hope you have some luck
 Dust will make you blind, nothing you can find
 Running scared!
 Tornado! Tornado! Tornado!...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 28, 2019, 11:56:07 AM
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
It's not love, I'm a running from
It's the heartbreak I know will come
'Cause I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me
Ev'rywhere I go, your face I see, ev'ry step I take, you take with me yeah
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2019, 12:13:28 PM

 Sleep, I don't need no sleep
 I've had such a week
 I just wanna take off flying
 High, higher than the birds
 Words are only words
 Take my hand and go there with me

 There's no hide and seek
 I see you, see me
 What's the mystery?
 Give it up, let go
 Somewhere in between
 Real and make believe
 You've got what I need
 Give it up, let go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 28, 2019, 04:53:04 PM
They're not making the skies as blue this year - wish you were here
As blue as they used to when you were near - wish you were here
And the mornings don't seem as new
Brand-new as they did with you
Wish you were here, wish you were here, wish you were here

Someone's painting the leaves all wrong this year - wish you were here
And why did the birds change their song this year - wish you were here
They're not shining the stars as bright
They've stolen the joy from the night
Wish you were here, wish you were here, wish you were here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2019, 05:06:42 PM


They're writing songs of love
But not for me
A lucky star's above
But not for me

With love to lead the way
I found more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play
Could guarantee

I was a fool to fall
And get that way
Hi-ho, alas! and al-
So, lack-a-day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 28, 2019, 05:33:05 PM
...I guess I'm a fool
I'm a fool in love
But I'm willing to stay here
And bask in the glory of his heart
I guess I'm a fool in love
But I'm willing to look so stupid
Till I had enough

Mama, don't judge me now
I'm not trying to hurt you
I know this won't make you proud
Papa, did I let you down?
Are you ashamed of how your little girl turned out?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2019, 08:14:57 AM
Papa I know you're going to be upset
'Cause I was always your little girl
But you should know by now
I'm not a baby

You always taught me right from wrong
I need your help, daddy please be strong
I may be young at heart
But I know what I'm saying

The one you warned me all about
The one you said I could do without
We're in an awful mess, and I don't mean maybe - please



Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby, oh
I'm gonna keep my baby, mmm...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 29, 2019, 05:13:43 PM
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free

She(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Daddy, our baby's gone.
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2019, 05:16:03 PM
Open up the window
Let some air into this room
I think I'm almost choking
From the smell of stale perfume
And the cigarette you're smoking 
'Bout to scare me half to death
Open up the window
Let me catch my breath!

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
She said "That ain't the way to have fun, son
That ain't the way to have fun, son, son, son"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 29, 2019, 05:20:16 PM
strange girl fingers send a
shiver up my thighs
she speak in tongues when she
looks into my eyes
she'll claw my back up
just to get a rise
but when I tell her about my problems
she don't sympathize ha ha ha
she says were
all alone in the big city
o violence tempting violence
we try to make it count
sensations rise as
the doubt begin to mount
a quality performance is
what it's all about
rock and roll is easy it's love that you
surmount you see we're
all alone in the big city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2019, 06:41:35 PM

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity?
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be all right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 29, 2019, 08:20:29 PM

In the heat of the night
Seems like a cold sweat
Creeping cross my brow, oh yes
In the heat of the night
I'm a-feelin' motherless somehow
Stars with evil eyes stare from the sky
(In the heat of the night)
Ain't a woman here before
Knows how to make the morning come
So hard to control
Well I guess I could sell my soul for just a little light
In the heat of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 30, 2019, 08:18:17 AM
In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the Moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you

In the still of the night
While the world is in slumber
Oh, the times without number
Darling, when I say to you

Do you love me as I love you
Are you my life to be, my dream come true
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight
Like the Moon growing dim on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still of the night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 30, 2019, 09:36:40 AM

 We played the games that people play
 We made our mistakes along the way
 Somehow I know deep in my heart
 You needed me
 Remembering the pain if I must say
 It's deep in my mind and locked away
 But then most of all
 I do love you
 Still
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 30, 2019, 09:48:37 PM
Oh the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean
And they wile away the hours
In their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers
In the back of a black limousine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2019, 09:18:35 AM

Well I hope and I pray that maybe someday
You'll walk in the room with my heart
Add and subtract but as a matter of fact
Now that you're gone I still want you back
Remembering, surrendering
Remembering that part
All of my heart


Spilling up pink silk and coffee lace
You hook me up, I rendezvous at your place
Your lipstick and your lip gloss seals my fate
Sentimental powers might help you now
But skip the hearts and flowers, skip the ivory towers
You'll be disappointed and I'll lose a friend

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2019, 09:31:39 AM
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
I'm like a child in wild anticipation
I long to hear that "All aboard"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2019, 09:46:42 AM

Take the last train to Clarksville
And I'll meet you at the station
You can be there by four thirty
'Cause I made your reservation
Don't be slow, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!

'Cause I'm leavin' in the morning
And I must see you again
We'll have one more night together
'Til the morning brings my train
And I must go, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2019, 10:09:02 AM
When the train comes
in the morning
I'll be waiting
how about you?
I'll be standing
at the station
with my ticket
how about you?

When the train comes
When the train comes
When the train comes
I'll be listening for the whistle
to go woo woo woo woo
how about you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2019, 10:14:36 AM
She was beautiful as southern skies the night he met her
She was married to someone
He was doggedly determined that he would get her
He was old she was young

From time to time
He'd tip his heart
But each time she withdrew
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks it's true

Well eventually the boy and the girl get married
Sure enough they have a son
And though they were both occupied with the child she carried
Disagreements had begun

And in a while
They fell apart
It wasn't hard to do
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2019, 10:25:40 AM

Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere

Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
The smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on, and on, and on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2019, 12:50:00 PM
L.A. proved too much for the man
(Too much for the man he couldn't make it)
So he's leavin' the life
He's come to know, ooh

(He said he's goin')
He said he's goin' back to find
(Goin' back to find)
Ooh, what's left of his world
The world he left behind not so long ago

Oh, he's leavin'
(Leavin')
On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah
(Leavin' on that midnight train)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2019, 12:57:59 PM


One o'clock in the morning
And I'm leaving from the club
My friends are having a party
I kind of feel I've had enough
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2019, 01:23:46 PM
3 o'clock in the morning
 I'm getting ready for bed
 It came without a warning
 But i'll be waiting for you baby
 I'll be waiting for you there

 So drink to me drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more
 Drink to me drink to my health
 You know i can't drink any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on August 31, 2019, 01:53:10 PM
Drink! Drink! Drink!  To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me! 
Drink! Drink! Drink!  To lips that are red and sweet as the fruit on the tree!   
Here's a hope that those bright eyes will shine
Lovingly, longingly soon into mine! 
May those lips that are red and sweet, 
Tonight with joy my own lips meet!   
Drink! Drink!  Let the toast start! 
May young hearts never part! 
Drink! Drink! Drink! 
Let every true lover salute his sweetheart!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2019, 01:55:24 PM

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
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2019, 05:57:07 PM
So many times, i've been alone
I didn't know what to do
I don't know where i'd be if I didn't have
I didn't have you yeah
You comfort me, make me believe, give me the strength I need
Since you came into my life it's been so heavenly

Me and my piano
It's all I... me and my piano
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 31, 2019, 11:03:18 PM
I am the music man
 I come from down your way
 And I can play
 What can you play?
 I play piano

 Pia-pia-pia-no
 Pia-no pia-no
 Pia-pia-pia-no
 Pia-pia-no

 I am the music man
 I come from down your way
 And I can play
 What can you play?
 I play the trombone

 Umpa-umpa-um-pa-pa
 Um-pa-pa um-pa-pa
 Umpa-umpa-um-pa-pa
 Umpa-um-pa-pa

 Piano!
 Pia-pia-pia-no
 Pia-no pia-no
 Pia-pia-pia-no
 Pia-pia-no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 01, 2019, 08:11:48 AM
i remember when i was a lad
times were hard and things were bad
but there's a silver linin' behind ev'ry cloud
just four people that 's all we were
tryin' to make a livin' out of black-land dirt
but we'd get together in a family circle singin' loud

daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor)
me and little brother would join right in there
singin' seems to help a troubled soul
one of these days and it won't be long
i'll rejoin them in a song
i'm gonna join the family circle at the throne
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2019, 09:16:11 AM
I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
I'm laughin' at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin'
Singin' in the rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2019, 10:19:52 AM

When the sun goes down
The birds on the trees
Are singing sweet for the night

When the sun
Says good night to the mountain
I am dreaming of the sun
Say goodnight

Rain
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Beautiful rain
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 01, 2019, 02:01:09 PM
I can't stand the rain
Against my window
Bringing back sweet memories
I can't stand the rain
Against my window
'Cause he ain't here with me

Hey window pane
Tell me, do you remember
How sweet it used to be
When we were together

Everything was so grand
Now that we've parted
There's just one sound
That I just can't stand

I can't stand the rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 01, 2019, 02:29:03 PM
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't ya know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
(You'll find your fortune fallin' all over town)
(Be sure that your umbrella)
Is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
(So when you hear it thunder) Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2019, 02:30:45 PM

In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all
I'd fool around and have a ball

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 01, 2019, 06:44:00 PM
I just want to be a millionaire and have a good time
I ain't worried about shit, let's have a good night
No stress on my mind, trying to get right
I just want to feel nice. I just want to feel alive
I just want to be a millionaire and have a good time
I ain't worried about shit, let's have a good night
No stress on my mind, trying to get right
I just want to feel nice. I just want to feel alive

I want the money and the fame, and imma get that too
If I believe it, then I mean it, Imma see that through
I need the money for the bills, for the thrills, for the fan mail
For my hommies that have never let their man down
I just want to show love to the ones that I trust
With my life, on my life, there’s only been a few good people that I let get close
If I had a million dollars, we’d be doing the most tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2019, 07:09:20 PM

Who wants a fancy foreign car? I don't
Who wants to tire of caviar?
Who wants a marble swimming pool too? I don't
And I don't 'cause all I want is you

Who wants to be a millionaire? I don't
And go to every swell affair?
Who wants to ride behind a liveried chauffeur?
A liveried chauffeur, do I want? No sir
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 01, 2019, 08:42:43 PM
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, "baby, can't you see
I want to be famous, a star on the screen
But you can do something in between

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you"

I told a girl that my prospects were good
And she said, "baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you"
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2019, 09:22:26 PM
Look it here.
I bought you a brand new mustang nineteen sixty five. Huh
Now you come around signifying a woman, you don't wanna let me ride
Mustang Sally, now baby, oh Lord, guess you better slow that mustang down
Huh, oh Lord. Look here
You been running all over the town
Oh! I got to put your flat feet on the ground. Huh, What I said now?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 02, 2019, 05:17:07 AM
I seen a Cadillac window uptown
And there was nobody aroun'
I got into the driver's seat
And I drove down 42nd Street
In my Cadillac
Good car to drive after a war

Well, I remember seein' some ad
So I turned on my Conelrad
But I didn't pay my Con Ed bill
So the radio didn't work so well
Turned on my record player
It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin'
Tell your Ma, tell your Pa
Our loves are gonna grow ooh-wah, ooh-wah

I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue
I needed somebody to talk to
So I called up the operator of time
Just to hear a voice of some kind
When you hear the beep
It will be three o'clock
She said that for over an hour
And I hung up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2019, 07:08:40 AM
People walk on fleet feet
On the way down 42nd Street
Except for the bums, down for the count
That one's dead but no one's found out
And look at the bitch, with her dress up ass
When she moves that thing, she must move it fast
Cop with a nightstick, checking around
A neon lit junkie slides to the ground
Here comes a flasher, a jogger, a punk
Check out that guy, drunk as a skunk
Blinking, reflection, lights melt in the rain
The sidewalks are empty, nothing's the same
4 A.M. people are crashing
Where the hookers are huddled
Colored raindrops are splashing
The deals have gone down, the bimbo's split town
Burned from the hustle, burned from the hype
But under the lights, I'm feeling alright
On 42nd Street, it's just another night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 02, 2019, 07:33:04 AM
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She sayes, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2019, 08:29:13 AM
Candy on the beach, there's nothing better
 But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater
 Some day soon I'll make you mine
 Then I'll have candy all the time

 I want candy
 I want candy
 I want candy
 I want candy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 02, 2019, 09:26:56 PM
Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you

I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to
(I just can't believe it's true)

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting yo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 02, 2019, 09:37:07 PM
My boy Lollipop
 You make my heart go giddy-up
 You are as sweet as candy
 You're my sugar dandy

 Whoa oh, my boy Lollipop
 Never ever leave me
 Because it would grieve me
 My heart told me so

 I love you, I love you, I love you so
 But I don't want you to know
 I need you, I need you, I need you so
 And I'll never let you go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2019, 09:48:39 PM
My girl's mad at me
Been on the telephone for an hour
We hardly said a word
I tried and tried but I could not be heard
Why can't I explain?
Why do I feel this pain?
'Cause everything I say
She doesn't understand
She doesn't realise
She takes it all the wrong way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 03, 2019, 06:14:28 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 06:17:21 PM
Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's packin'
She's gonna be leavin' today'
Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's marryin'
A fella down Galveston way'
Sylvia's mother says, 'Please don't say nothin'
To make her start cryin' and stay'

And the operator says, '40 cents more for the next 3 minutes'
Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 03, 2019, 06:26:44 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 06:17:21 PM
Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's packin'
She's gonna be leavin' today'
Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's marryin'
A fella down Galveston way'
Sylvia's mother says, 'Please don't say nothin'
To make her start cryin' and stay'

And the operator says, '40 cents more for the next 3 minutes'
Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye

Ooh - one of my favourites!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 03, 2019, 06:33:13 PM


Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
 I still see her dark eyes glowin'
 She was 21 when I left Galveston

 Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
 While I watch the cannons flashing
 I clean my gun and dream of Galveston
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 07:01:19 PM

They were closer now Fernando
Every hour every minute seemed to last eternally
I was so afraid Fernando
We were young and full of life and none of us prepared to die
And I'm not ashamed to say
The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry

There was something in the air that night
The stars were bright, Fernando
They were shining there for you and me
For liberty, Fernando
Though we never thought that we could lose
There's no regret
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, Fernando
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 03, 2019, 07:53:29 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on September 03, 2019, 06:26:44 PM
Ooh - one of my favourites!
Re: Sylvia's Mother. Yes! The pathos in the voice really gets to you doesn't it? I don't like all Dr Hook's work though, the one that goes: "Who's gonna iron my shirt?" is infuriating!
________

I'll bid farewell to my wife and child
Farewell to my aged mother
And go and join in the bloody strife
Till this cruel war is over
Till this cruel war is over
I'll go and join in the bloody strife
Till this cruel war is over

If I am shot on the battlefield
And I should not recover
Oh, who will protect my wife and child
And care for my aged mother
And care for my aged mother
Oh, who will protect my wife and child
And care for my aged mother

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 08:08:08 PM

"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife"
And as Billy started to go she said: "Keep your pretty head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me"

I heard his fiancee got a letter
That told how Billy died that day
The letter said that he was a hero
She should be proud he died that way
I heard she threw the letter away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 03, 2019, 08:47:07 PM
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be
Oh Ruby, I still need some company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and needs of a woman your age really I realize
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
Oh Ruby,…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 09:18:17 PM
Quote from: Robbie on September 03, 2019, 08:47:07 PM
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be
Oh Ruby, I still need some company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and needs of a woman your age really I realize
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
Oh Ruby,…
My karaoke song
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 09:22:01 PM
For people like Che or George Jackson or Malcolm X
Love was the prime mover of their struggle
That love cost them their lives, love coupled with a man's pride
Love coupled with a man's pride
Give it to you on top, now

War, I despise 'cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War, means tears to thousands of mothers how
When their sons go off to fight and lose their lives

I said, war, good god, now, what is it good for?
Absolutely, nothing
Say it again, war, what is it good for?
Absolutely, nothing, listen to me
War, it ain't nothing but a heart breaker
War, friend only to the undertaker, war
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 03, 2019, 09:26:29 PM
The air attack warning sounds like
This is the sound

When you hear the air attack warning
You and your family must take cover

Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah

Let's go, oh, oh, oh

When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Score no more, score no more)
When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Workin' for the black gas)

Comrad number one
A born again poor man's son
(Poor man's son)
On the air America
I modeled shirts for Van Heusen
(Workin' for the black gas) yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 03, 2019, 10:16:38 PM
C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes
And bye bye, bye byes

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2019, 10:23:41 PM

So I'll light up a cigarette
I'll drink it down 'til there's nothing left
'Cause I sure can't get no sleep
And Lord knows there's no relief
You held my heart in your fingertips
So now I drown in my bitterness
Oh, I can't get no sleep
And I sure won't, I sure won't find no peace
No peace
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 03, 2019, 11:53:56 PM
Midnight
Driving till my eyes give up
Headlights
To your apartment

This ride
I done it 'bout a thousand times
But it doesn't feel right
Here without you

It takes me back to windows down in ocean air
Sunset eyes through messy hair
I miss chasing down the morning light
And all those sleepless nights
I know that it's over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 04, 2019, 06:16:15 AM
I cannot sleep
I cannot dream
The night is way too long
Even when I'm counting sheep
The night is way too long

Sleepless nights
Exhausted, too uptight
I don't think
Before I speak
It makes me lose sight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 04, 2019, 08:55:51 AM
I didn't hear you leave
 I wonder how am I still here
 And I don't want to move a thing
 It might change my memory

 Oh I am what I am
 I'll do what I want
 But I can't hide
 I won't go
 I won't sleep
 I can't breathe
 Until you're resting here with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 04, 2019, 10:12:51 AM
Somebody get me a hammer
 Wanna break all the clocks and the mirrors
 And go back to a time that was different
 A time when I
 Didn't feel like there was something missing
 Now my body and mind are so distant
 Don't know how to escape from this prison

 How can I
 Free my mind?

 Cause I can't breathe
 I can't breathe
 I can't breathe
 I can't breathe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 04, 2019, 02:20:08 PM
If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land,

I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between,
My brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening,
All over this land,
I'd ring out danger,
I'd ring out a warning,
I'd ring out love between,
My brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 04, 2019, 02:57:11 PM
Stop! Hammer time!

 Go with the flow, it is said
 If you can't groove to this then you probably are dead
 So wave your hands in the air
 Bust a few moves, run your fingers through your hair
 This is it, for a winner
 Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner
 Move, slide your rump
 Just for a minute let's all do the bump, bump, bump, bump

 Yeah... (You can't touch this)
 Look, man (You can't touch this)
 You better get hype, boy, because you know you can't (You can't touch this)
 Ring the bell, school's back in

 Break it down!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 04, 2019, 07:55:17 PM
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 04, 2019, 08:06:36 PM
For once in my life I've got something to say,
I wanna say it now for now is today.
A love has been given so why not enjoy,
So let's all grab and let's all enjoy!

If the kids are united,
Then we'll never be divided.
If the kids are united,
Then we'll never be divided.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 04, 2019, 09:32:59 PM
There's nowhere in the world that I would rather be
Than with you my love
And there's nothing in the world that I would rather see
Than your smile my love

For united we stand
Divided we fall
And if our backs should ever be against the wall
We'll be together, together, you and I
For united we stand
Divided we fall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2019, 06:51:21 AM
I was so lost back then
But with a little help from my friends
I found a light in the tunnel at the end
Now you're calling me up on the phone
So you can have a little whine and a moan
And it's only because you're feeling alone

At first when I see you cry
Yeah it makes me smile
Yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while
But then I just smile
I go ahead and smile



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 05, 2019, 08:17:13 AM
What would you think if I sang out of tune?
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2019, 08:54:57 AM


When everything is wrong I'll come talk to you
 You make things alright when I'm feeling blue

 You are such a blessing and I wont be messing
 with the one thing that brings light to all of my darkness

 You are my best friend
 and I love you, and I love you
 Yes I do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2019, 07:18:56 PM
Rainbows in the sky, ice tea in July
Watching shooting stars can be so much fun
But they don't mean a thing if you're not with me
You're a miracle, you're number one

You are number one
(You are my one and only one)
You are number one
(There will never be another yo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2019, 08:50:29 PM

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them, but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a new England
I'm just looking for another girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2019, 08:59:26 PM
Our paths may never cross again
Maybe my heart will never mend
But I'm glad for all the good times
Cause you've brought me so much sunshine
And love was the best it's ever been

I wouldn't have missed it for the world
Wouldn't have missed loving you girl
You've made my whole life worth while, with your smile
I wouldn't trade one memory
Cause you mean too much to me
Even though I lost you girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2019, 09:01:20 PM

That nasty boogie bugs me, but somehow how it has drugged me
Spellbound rhythm gets me on my feet
I've changed my life completely, I've seen the lightning leave me
And my baby just can't take her eyes off me

Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times
Blame it on the boogie
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 05, 2019, 11:15:34 PM
Happy days are here again
 The time is right for making friends
 Let's get together, how 'bout a quarter to ten?
 Come tomorrow, let's all do it again

 Boys will be boys, better let them have their toys
 Girls will be girls, cute ponytails and curls
 Must put an end to this stress and strife
 I think I want to live the sporty life

 Good times
 These are the good times
 Leave your cares behind
 These are the good times
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2019, 05:44:31 AM

One step behind don't make you what you're worth
Blue collar pride, breathing that salty earth
Pay every price, can't keep that dollar bill
It ain't much desire when you're done, lost your will

Talkin' 'bout bad times
Here in these sad times
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 06, 2019, 09:29:00 AM
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life!
Always look on the bright side of life
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And always look on the bright side of life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2019, 10:55:20 AM

There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean
Oh, is it a dream?

Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 06, 2019, 06:01:18 PM
 you wont stop talkin,
why dont you give it a rest?,
you got more rabbit than sainsburys,
it's time you got it off your chest,
now you is just the kinda girl to break my heart in two,
I knew right off when I first clapped my eyes on you,
but how was I to know you'd bend my earholes too?,
with your incessant talking,
your becoming a pest,

rabbit x 20
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 07, 2019, 08:33:31 AM
Words! Words! Words!
I'm so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?
Don't talk of stars Burning above; If you're in love,
Show me!
Tell me no dreams
Filled with desire. If you're on fire,
Show me!
Here we are together in the middle of the night!
Don't talk of spring! Just hold me tight!
Anyone who's ever been in love'll tell you that
This is no time for a chat!
Haven't your lips
Longed for my touch? Don't say how much,
Show me! Show me!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 07, 2019, 06:52:01 PM
We don't talk anymore, we don't talk anymore
We don't talk anymore, like we used to do
We don't love anymore
What was all of it for?
Oh, we don't talk anymore, like we used to do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 08, 2019, 10:17:35 AM
Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You gotta have a dream
if you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?
Talk about a moon floatin' in the sky
Lookin' like a lily on a lake;
Talk about a bird learnin' how to fly
Makin' all the music he can make.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2019, 11:14:48 AM
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk

There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me

I think I should speak now
Why won't you talk to me
I can't seem to speak now
You never talk to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 08, 2019, 02:14:53 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2019, 04:17:38 PM
I used to fall asleep to you talking to me
I don't listen to anything now
Nothing to do with us
I'm just so tired of thinking about everything
I'm not afraid of being alone
I just don't know what to do with my time
Between you and me, I thought it would all last a little while longer

But I'm learning to lie here in the quiet light
While I watch the sky go from black to grey
Learning how not to die inside a little every time
I think about you and wonder if you are awake
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 08, 2019, 04:34:55 PM
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true
Moments to spare
With someone you care tor
One love affair for two
And so with time on my hands
And you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 08, 2019, 07:31:01 PM
You won't ever have to worry
You don't ever have to cry
I'll be there beside you
To dry your weeping eyes

So darlin' tell me
That you'll be true
'Cause there's no doubt in my mind
I know what I want to do

And just as sure
One and one is two
I just got, I got to take care of you
I just got to take care of you
Take care of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 08, 2019, 11:27:03 PM
My baby don`t care for shows, my baby don`t care for clothes,
My baby just cares for me.
My baby don`t care for furs and laces,
My baby don`t care for high-toned places,
My baby don`t care for rings or other expensive things,

She`s sensible as can be.
My baby don`t care who knows it,
My baby just cares for me.

My baby`s no Crosby fan, Dick Tracy is not her man,
My baby just cares for me.
My baby don`t care for Mr. Tibbits,

She`d rather have me around to kibbitz.
Roy Rogers is not her style, and even Clark Gable`s smile
Is something that she can`t see.
(Oh, you lucky so-and-so)

I wonder what`s wrong with baby,
My baby just cares for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 09, 2019, 07:20:46 PM
Some boys kiss me
Some boys hug me
I think they're ok
If they don't give me proper credit
I just walk away

They can beg and they can plead
But they can't see the light (that's right)
'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always Mister Right

'Cause we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 10, 2019, 08:16:26 AM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square cut or pear shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 10, 2019, 08:43:57 AM
Beautiful music, dangerous rhythm
 It's something daring, the continental
 A way of dancing, that's really ultra-new
 It's very subtle, the continental
 Because it does what you want it to do

 It has a passion, the continental
 An invitation to moonlight and romance
 It's quite the fashion, the continental
 Because you tell of your love while you dance

 Your lips whisper so tenderly
 Her eyes answer your song
 Two bodies swing, the continental
 And you are saying just what you're thinking of
 So keep on dancing, the continental
 For it's the song of romance and of love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 10, 2019, 06:06:39 PM
I'll always remember the song they were playin'
The first time we danced and I knew
As we swayed to the music and held to each other
I fell in love with you

Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?
Would you be my partner every night?
When we're together it feels so right
Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?

I'll always remember that magic moment
When I held you close to me
As we moved together, I knew forever
You're all I'll ever need
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 10, 2019, 06:22:47 PM
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Let's dance
To the song they're playing on the radio
Let's sway
While color lights up your face
Let's sway
Sway through the crowd to an empty space

If you say run, I'll run with you
If you say hide, we'll hide
Because my love for you
would break my heart in two
If you should fall into my arms
And tremble like a flower

Let's dance
Let's dance
Let's dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 10, 2019, 10:35:57 PM
I don't want to be the kind to hesitate,
Be too shy, wait too late
I don't care what they say other lovers do,
I just want to dance with you.

I gotta feeling that you have a heart like mine,
So let it show, let it shine.
If we have a chance to make one heart of two,
I just want to dance with you.

I want to dance with you, twirl you all around the floor
That's what they intended dancin' for,
I just want to dance with you.
I want to dance with you, hold you in my arms once more,
That's what they invented dancin' for,
I just want to dance with you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 10, 2019, 11:04:07 PM
Well, do you wanna dance and hold my hand
Squeeze me, baby,
I'm your man
Oh baby, do you wanna dance
Well, do you wanna dance under the moonlight
Squeeze and hug me all through the night
Oh baby, do you wanna dance
Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance
Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance
Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 11, 2019, 05:32:53 AM
Last dance, last chance for love
Yes, it's my last chance, for romance, tonight
I need you, by me,
Beside me, to guide me,
To hold me, to scold me,
'Cause when I'm bad
So let's dance, the last dance

Let's dance, the last dance
Let's dance, this last dance toniiiiiight
Last dance, last chance for love
Yes it's my last chance
For romance tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 11, 2019, 08:22:05 AM
A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you won't nestle
A fine romance, you won't wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I haven't got a chance
This is a fine romance.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 11, 2019, 09:07:57 PM
I wouldn't usually post a song's lyrics in entirety but this is priceless:-

We've been together for so very long
But now things are changing, oh I wonder what's wrong?
Seems you don't want me around
The passion is gone and the flame's died down
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem
That time that you made it with the whole hockey team
You used to think I was nice
Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the brakes on my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You're still the light of my life

Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?
You know, I even think it's kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down that elevator shaft
Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?

Sometime I get to thinking you don't love me any more
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will
You set my house on fire
You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think that I'm ugly and you say that I'm cheap
You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
You drilled a hole in my head
Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn't like you at all
You never acted this way before
Honey, something tells me you don't love me any more, oh no no
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 12, 2019, 08:29:04 AM
No more talk of darkness
Forget these wide-eyed fears
I'm here, nothing can harm you
My words will warm and calm you
Let me be your freedom
Let daylight dry your tears
I'm here, with you, beside you
To guard you and to guide you
Say you love me every waking moment
Turn my head with talk of summertime
Say you need me with you now and always
Promise me that all you say is true
That's all I ask of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 12, 2019, 10:21:28 AM
Oh my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above
Are sizzlin' like a snare
Honey I'm on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothin' scares me anymore

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best

I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 12, 2019, 02:57:11 PM
I call you when I need you, my heart's on fire
You come to me, come to me wild and wired
Oh, you come to me, give me everything I need
Give me a life time of promises and a world of dreams
Speak the language of love like you know what it means
Mm, and it can't be wrong, take my heart and make it strong, babe
You're simply the best, better than all the rest
Better than anyone, anyone I ever met
I'm stuck on your heart, I hang on every word you say
Tear us apart, baby, I would rather be dead
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 12, 2019, 06:05:14 PM
You're just another that failed me again
I wanted more than love
I wanted suffocation
Tie me to your leash
Drag me all over the ground
I want to go wherever you go
Let me be your pair of shoes
Walk, walk all over me
Walk, walk all over me

Sometimes I love you so much
I wanna tear you apart
I just wanna be your everything
I just wanna be your everything
I just wanna be your everything
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 13, 2019, 07:51:29 AM
You're my everything
Underneath the sun
You're my everything
Rolled up into one

You're my only dream
My only real reality
You're my idea
Of a perfect personality

You're my everything
Everything I need
You're the song I sing
And the book I read

You're a way beyond belief
And just to make it brief
You're my winter, summer, spring
My everything
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 13, 2019, 07:20:56 PM
Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet

Every roommate kept awake by
Every sigh and scream we make
All the feelings that I get
But I still don't miss you yet

Only when I start to think about it
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
You hate everything about me
Why do you love me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 14, 2019, 08:24:58 AM
Why do I love you?
Why do you love me?
Why should there be two
Happy as we?
Can you see
The why or wherefore
I should be
The one you care for?
You're a lucky boy,
I am lucky, too.
All our dreams of joy
Seem to come true.
Maybe that's because you love me,
Maybe that's why I love you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 14, 2019, 07:39:19 PM
There you are rose amongst the weeds
Subtle as the summer breeze, you're perfectly seen
A gift to me, you shine so brightly like a diamond in the sky
And you're the reason why you opened up my eyes
You're like a portrait or a picture painted very long ago
A moment frozen in time immortalized in my mind
Never lost a precious find a poetic silhouette for my eyes

Fortunately you, you have me, I have you
It's fortunate for us, we have love, love has us
It's fortunate that we, we have time, on our side
Never take for granted, that we are so fortunate to be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 15, 2019, 07:48:58 AM
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 15, 2019, 09:00:58 AM
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
Where a hundred tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 15, 2019, 09:25:51 AM
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
An' it looks like its climbing clear up to the sky.
Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a wonderful feeling,
Everything's going my way.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 15, 2019, 12:13:02 PM
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 15, 2019, 03:10:23 PM
This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again

For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
At skyfall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 15, 2019, 05:24:15 PM
That made me want to cry ekim :'(.

Now the sun is sinking low
Children playin' know it's time to go
High above a spot appears
A little blossom blooms and then draws near
And the sun is sinking low

Now the sun has come to Earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash
And the sun has come to Earth

Now the sun has disappeared
All is darkness, anger, pain and fear
Twisted, sightless wrecks of men
Go groping on their knees and cry in pain
And the sun has disappeared
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 16, 2019, 09:25:43 AM
Then it's time for you to sing:-
 ;D ;D ;D
Joy bells are ringing,
The songs birds are singing,
And everyone's happy and gay.
Dull days are over,
We'll soon be in clover,
So pack all your troubles away.

The sun has got his hat on
Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on,
He's coming out today.

Now we'll all be happy,
Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on,
And he's coming out today.

(Of course, in today's lingo not everyone is gay)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 16, 2019, 06:03:50 PM
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and gay!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today.

I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 17, 2019, 08:34:24 AM
Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
 You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
 You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
 To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
 I had a friend who was gentle and short
 He was lonely one evening and went for a walk
 Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
 He was only hospitalised for a week

 Sing if you're glad to be gay
 Sing if you're happy that way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 17, 2019, 11:12:31 AM
I have often walked down the street before
But the pavement always
Stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I
Several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live.

Are there lilac trees
In the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 17, 2019, 05:17:54 PM
I play the streetlife because there's no place I can go
Streetlife, it's the only life I know
Streetlife and there's a thousand parts to play
Streetlife until you play your life away

You let the people see, just who you wanna be
And every night you shine just like a superstar
That's how the life is played a ten cent masquerade
You dress, you walk, you talk, you're who you think you are
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 17, 2019, 05:29:24 PM
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by
Make believe
That you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve
In private 'cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
And walk on by (don't stop)
And walk on by (don't stop)
And walk on by.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 17, 2019, 06:15:46 PM
The best you thing you can do is just to ignore me
Forget I was born
Baby, ignore me
Since you don't need me anymore
You can ignore me
like we never met before
Baby, ignore me
since you don't need me anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 17, 2019, 07:25:49 PM
Bad luck and trouble is my only friend
I've been down ever since I was ten.

Born under a bad sign
I've been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

More wine and women is all I crave
Big bad women gunna carry me to my grave.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 17, 2019, 08:19:07 PM
You tell lies thinking I can't see
You can't cry 'cause you're laughing at me
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (Down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down

Man buys ring woman throws it away
Same old thing happens everyday
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (Down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 18, 2019, 08:56:36 AM
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

Here's a health to the King and a lasting peace
To faction end, to wealth increase
Come, let us drink while we have breath
For there's no drinking after death

And he that will this health deny
Down among the dead men, down among the dead men
Down, down, down, down
Down among the dead men let him lie!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2019, 09:54:33 AM
Sens la pluie comme un été anglais
 Entends les notes d'une chanson lointaine
 Sortant de derrière un poster
 Espérant que la vie ne fut aussi longue

 We fade to grey (fade to grey)
 We fade to grey (fade to grey)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 18, 2019, 03:31:47 PM
Des yeux qui font baisser les miens
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche
Voilà le portrait sans retouches
De l'homme auquel j'appartiens
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2019, 03:44:11 PM
Oh, now I'm gonna find her
 For my heart is full of woe
 We'll do the things together
 We did so long ago
 We'll play the banjo gaily
 She'll love me like before
 And the Yellow Rose of Texas
 Shall be mine forevermore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2019, 04:24:21 PM
if you see me cryin'
Just touch my hand, don't pass me by
'Cause girl, I am tryin'
To find you, I need you, lady

'Cause girl, I am searching for you
And will you help me find my way
And girl, I am searching for you
And will you kindly show your face

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2019, 04:35:04 PM


Just like Pagliacci did
I try to keep my sadness hid
Smiling in the public eye
But in my lonely room I cry
The tears of a clown
When there's no one around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 18, 2019, 04:50:27 PM
No! I'm not a clown!
If my face is pale
it's from shame
and from craving for revenge.

The man is taking back his rights
and the heart that bleeds wants blood
to wash away the shame,
oh, accursed woman!

No, I'm not a clown!
I'm the one who, stupid,
picked up you, a little orphan on the street,
almost dead of hunger and offered you a name
and a crazy feverish love.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2019, 05:05:05 PM
My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff
Is I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up

My brother sit me right down and he talked to me
He told me that I ought not to let you just walk on me
And I'm sure he meant well yeah but when our talk was through
I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes
You just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 18, 2019, 05:20:06 PM
Whats the use of wondring
If hes good or if hes bad
Or if you like the way he wears his hat?
Oh, whats the use of wondring
If hes good or if hes bad?
Hes your fella and you love him
That's all there is to that.

Common sense may tell you
That the ending will be sad
And now's the time to break and run away
But whats the use of wondring
If the ending will be sad?
Hes your fella and you love him
There's nothing more to say.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2019, 05:49:17 PM
By the look in your eye 
I can tell you're gonna cry
Is it over me?
If it is, save your tears
For I'm not worth it, you see

For I'm the type of boy who is always on the run
Wherever I lay my hat that's my home
I'm telling you that's my home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2019, 05:57:33 PM
Ooh, girl, I'm leaving you
Yes, I'm leaving you
I've got to go tonight
Ooh, girl, I'm leaving you
Yes, I'm leaving you, I've got to go
I can't stay

You shouldn't feel so blue
Shouldn't feel so blue
When I go tonight
Baby, you shouldn't feel so blue
Shouldn't feel so blue, when I'm gone
I can't stay
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2019, 06:09:34 PM
Come with me
While the moon is on the sea,
The night is young
And so are we, so are we

Dreams come true
In blue Hawaii
And mine could all come true
This magic night of nights with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2019, 06:32:47 PM
I feel so bad I got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickles, saving dimes
Working til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may
To Blue Bayou

Where the folks are fun
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 18, 2019, 08:45:27 PM
A good-bye Joe, you gotta go, me oh my oh
He gotta go-pole the pirogue down the bayou
His Yvonne the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Thibodaux, Fontaineaux, the place is buzzin'
A kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dressed in style they go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Jambalaya, crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
For tonight, I'm-a gonna see my ma cher a mi-o
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2019, 09:10:15 PM
Ports of call, dayglo bait
Why not see a legend while it's still being made?
Think it's kind of squirrelly when you're sleeping in the park
Jam too far propagating in the night
My colleagues and associates have kicked out all the lights
Like I said they say, nothing stops a party barge

"This is lake directory, calling party barge.
I'm on the phone with pump control, they say you are at large
Send us your coordinates, we'll send a Saint Bernard"
Think it's kind of squirrelly when you're sleeping in the park
Chicken fried pigeon in a sunny jane sauce
Satan's jeweled laughter has your wife in its claws
Like I said they say, nothing stops a party barge

"Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
This is lake directory, calling party barge."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2019, 12:48:13 PM
Come with us to the boat party,
 the water is blue, the sky is upon me.
 Inhale our music as everybody,
 just dance and don't say sorry!

 Seasalt and a sunstroke now refills my used soul,
 breaks up a solid stray, this trace is the only way.
 Laying back, sand on me, serenity eternally,
 awaken dreamworld, bring it in real worlds!

 Let this sea, set you free - let this sea, set who you wanna be!
 Let this sea, set you free - let this sea, set who you wanna be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 19, 2019, 06:29:47 PM
Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure
Learn science technology?
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea?
Where can you learn to fly, play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography?
Sign off for the big band or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet

In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on people, fall an' make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2019, 07:32:29 PM
Tears o'er a tin box
Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know
Like a chicken with a fox
He couldn't win the war with ego

Give the kid the pick of pips
And give him all your stripes and ribbons
Now he's sitting in his hole
He might as well have buttons and bows

"What could he do?
Should have been a rock star"
But he didn't have the money for a guitar
"What could he do?
Should have been a politician"
But he never had a proper education
"What could he do?
Should have been a father"
But he never even made it to his twenties
What a waste
Army dreamers
Ooh, what a waste of
Army dreamers
Ooh, what a waste of all that
Army dreamers
Army dreamers
Army dreamers, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2019, 01:12:03 AM
Missiles flying over your head
If you want to survive, get out of bed
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now

Shots ring out in the dad of night
The sergeant calls (stand up and fight)
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now

You've got your orders better shoot on sight
Your finger's on the trigger
But it don't seem right
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now

Night is falling and you just can't see
Is this illusion or reality
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army, in the army now
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 20, 2019, 07:41:24 AM
Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right
Called careers information
Have you got yourself an occupation?

Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

There was a checkpoint Charlie
He didn't crack a smile
But it's no laughing party
When you've been on the murder mile

Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2019, 08:53:28 AM
Me and Benny went out last night
Looking for fun
Supping ale in the moonlight
Waiting for the dawn to come
Benny pointed at a HiFi shop
He said hey man look at all the stuff they've got
How'd you make a have out of a have not
Hmmmm.
Who needs information
When you're working underground
Just give me confirmation
We could win a million pounds
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2019, 04:58:20 PM
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Uh but they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2019, 05:05:04 PM
When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last dying day
When you're a Jet if the spit hits the fan
You've got brothers around 
You're a family man
You're never alone
You're never disconnected
You're home with your own
When company's expected
You're well-protected
Then you are set with a Capital J
Which you'll never forget 'till they cart you away
When you're a Jet you stay a Jet!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2019, 05:57:18 PM
Jet
Jet
Jet
I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told them that you were going to be marrying soon
And Jet, I thought the only lonely place was on the moon
Jet, ooh
Jet, ooh
Jet
Was your father as bold as a sergeant major?
Well, how come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet?
And Jet, I thought the major was a lady suffragette
Jet, ooh
Jet, ooh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 20, 2019, 10:40:08 PM
(Hey man) oh leave me alone you know
(Hey man) oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
(Hey man) I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place

(Hey man) my schooldays insane
(Hey man) my works down the drain
(Hey man) she's a total blam-blam
She said she had to squeeze it but she... and then she...

Oh don't lean on me man, cause you cant afford the ticket
I'm back from suffragette city
Oh don't lean on me man
'Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my suffragette city
It's outta sight... she's all right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2019, 09:04:34 AM

Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union Union City man
Arrive, climb up four flights
To the orange side
Rearrange my mind
In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
Skyline, passion, Union City blue

Power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union, Union City man
I say he's mine
I have a plan
I say he's my Union City man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 21, 2019, 05:09:55 PM
Now I'm a union man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think, that the company stinks
Yes I'm a union man
When we meet in the local hall
I'll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout, it's "Out brothers, out!"
And the rise of the factory's fall
Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Until the day I die, until the day I die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2019, 05:24:20 PM
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged high

And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 21, 2019, 06:55:02 PM
You never lived to see
what you gave to me
one shining dream of hope and love
life and liberty
With a host of brave unknown soldiers
for your company, you will live forever
here in our memory
In fields of sacrifice
heroes paid the price
young men who died for old men's wars
gone to paradise
We are all one great band of brothers
and one day you'll see we can live together
when all the world is free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 22, 2019, 08:37:05 AM
Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That's a danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside an angel like you
I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there's a chance that you care
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 22, 2019, 09:08:55 AM
If paradise is half as nice as heaven that you take me to, who needs paradise, I'd rather have you
They say paradise is up in the stars but I needn't sigh because it's so far
Cause I know it's worth a heaven on earth for me where you are.
A look from your eyes, a touch of your hand and I seem to fly to some other land
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 23, 2019, 09:46:23 AM
There's an old Australian stockman, er, rock band
Trying, but dying
They get themselves up onto their collective elbows
Revert to their sixties instrumentation
And they try again

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
All together now, and she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if those stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
All together now, with a word she can get what she came for

Ooh and it makes me wonder
(How does it affect you blokes?) Ooh and it makes us wonder
(That's interesting that, yeah)

There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'cause you know words sometimes have two meanings
All together now, 'cause you know words sometimes have two meanings
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 23, 2019, 10:03:32 AM

 Hills burn in California
 My turn to ignore ya
 Don't say I didn't warn ya

 All the good girls go to hell
 'Cause even God herself has enemies
 And once the water starts to rise
 And Heaven's out of sight
 She'll want the Devil on her team

 My Lucifer is lonely
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 23, 2019, 06:53:01 PM
You could travel the world
But nothing comes close
To the golden coast
Once you party with us
You'll be falling in love
Ooh oh ooh oh oh ooh
California girls
We're unforgettable
Daisy dukes
Bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin
So hot
We'll melt your popsicle
Ooh oh ooh
Ooh oh ooh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 23, 2019, 10:50:10 PM
Unforgettable, that's what you are)
Unforgettable, tho' near or far
(Like a song of love that clings to me)
How the thought of you does things to me
(Never before has someone been more)

Unforgettable in every way
(And forever more) and forever more
(That's how you'll stay) that's how you'll stay
That's why darling it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 24, 2019, 01:05:48 PM
'Cause after all
 I see you sometime maybe
 When I can't recall
 How you drove me crazier
 Forget about those starlit nights
 Laying by the fireside
 Holding you tight
 I can't remember when I felt so right
 So just forget about it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 24, 2019, 06:35:36 PM
If something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
The first to admit it
But the last one to know
If something goes right
Well, it's likely to lose me
It's apt to confuse me
Because it's such an unusual sight
Oh I can't get used to something so right
Something so right

Some people never say the words
"I love you"
It's not their style to be so bold
Some people never say the words
"I love you"
But like a child
I'm longing to be told

They've got a wall in China
And I've got a wall around me
It took a little time
To get next to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 24, 2019, 06:56:03 PM
Now the sun is rising in the east
Looking for my golden fleece
Ivory skin, scarlet color deep
Lips that burn but do not speak

Three misty nights waiting by the shore
May be that my lover comes no more
Red chamber dream from the sky above
Ancient tales of hidden Chinese love

On the Chinese wall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 24, 2019, 06:58:38 PM
I could escape this feeling with my China girl
I feel a wreck without my little China girl
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw their stars crashing

I’m a mess without my little China girl
Wake up in the morning, where’s my little China girl?
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw their stars crashing down

I feel tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China girl
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 24, 2019, 07:00:56 PM

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
she says a girl needs a gun these days
hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
she's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
and her neverborn child still haunts her
as she speeds down the freeway
as she tries her luck with the traffic police
out of boredom more than spite
she never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
she's obvious despite herself
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in On The Waterfront
she says all she needs is therapy yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 24, 2019, 07:05:17 PM
Do you know the way to San Jose?
 I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
 Do you know the way to San Jose?
 I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

 L.A. is a great big freeway.
 Put a hundred down and buy a car.
 In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
 Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass
 And all the stars that never were
 Are parking cars and pumping gas

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 24, 2019, 07:21:31 PM
Head to foot
I was covered in soot
Village Liquors
Is calling my name
Told the Bloods
I´m the man from nowhere

We huffed up a thousand snowflakes
Practicing nasiology
Told the Crips
I´m the man from nowhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 24, 2019, 07:25:32 PM
Little boy got a hot rod
Thinks it makes him some kind of new god
Well this is one race he won't win
'Cause life's no cruise with a cool chick
Too many folks feelin' car sick
But it never pulls in
Brucies thoughts, pretty streamers
Guess this world needs its dreamers
May they never wake up

But look at us now, quit driving
Some things hurt more much more than cars and girls
Just look at us now, start counting
What adds up the way it did when we were young?
Look at us now, quit driving
Some things hurt much more than cars and girls
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 25, 2019, 06:49:13 PM
I got a brand new car
And I like to drive real hard
I got a brand new car
And I'm feeling good so far

Take her on the highway for a little spin
I want to see the kind of shape she's in
And I got a brand new star
Jack her up baby, go on, open the hood
I want to check if her oil smells good
Mmmm...smells like caviar

Give her some stick
Push her too far
Right to the brink

Hear the motor running
Yeah, she's right in synch
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 25, 2019, 07:08:49 PM
You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

See my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 25, 2019, 09:28:10 PM
Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave
I said, let's go and play Adam and Eve
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'
When she said, hey man, you crazy or sumpin'
You seen what happened last time they started

Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown
And there was nobody aroun'
I got into the driver's seat
And I drove down 42nd Street
In my Cadillac
Good car to drive after a war

Well, I remember seein' some ad
So I turned on my Conelrad
But I didn't pay my Con Ed bill
So the radio didn't work so well
Turned on my record player
It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin'
Tell your Ma, tell your Pa
Our loves are gonna grow ooh-wah, ooh-wah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 11:53:54 AM
In the garden of Eden where live began
 yes the very beginning of woman and man
 I'm sure you remember and I know you believe
 the story of Adam and Eve

 They were in the garden while they both fell in love
 sheltered by the guiding hand of the one above
 Life was filled with happiness until one day around
 a very great temptation, you know how it goes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2019, 04:08:37 PM
In the beginning
There's a heatwave
It's us from nothing
I caught a red-eye
Out to bed-sty
To get your lovin'
'Cause we got no secrets to tell
You know me like I know myself
Well, it's alright

All of my time in the world
I want you to be my one girl
It's alright

If you were the first person on Earth
We would be together when it ends
Started when we had no names or words
Finishing each others sentences
Nobody understands me
Nobody like you do
So if I'm the last one standing
I would wanna watch it burn with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 04:46:03 PM
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2019, 07:04:04 PM
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes
And bye bye, bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 07:10:10 PM
The sinister minister's grinning.
What have I got to offer?
What have you got to lose?
In your alcohol haze...
In the softest grace.
When you could be mine,
And even God needs lambs.
And I am the shepherd...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2019, 07:40:53 PM
When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 07:42:53 PM
Louise is a girl
I know her well
She's up on the pavement
Yes, she's a weather girl
And I'm staying up here so I may be undone
She's inappropriate but then she's much more fun and

When she smiles my way 
My eyes go out in vain
She's got perfect skin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2019, 07:53:50 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99
Wear Sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
Sunscreen would be it
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience...
I will dispense this advice now...
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth
oh nevermind;

you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded
But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 07:58:38 PM
How well I can remember
The things we tried to say
But now they're just a memory
On graduation day

How come our reputations
Were always on the line
The kings of degradation
The class of 69
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 27, 2019, 08:41:30 PM
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
I should've known we'd never get far

Oh, when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 08:44:56 PM
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 28, 2019, 12:13:04 PM
Don't look back
To the days of yester-year
You cannot live on in the past
Don't look back

An' I've known so many people
They're still tryin' to live on in the past
Don't look back, whoa no-oh

If I could call back
All those days of yester-year
I would never grow old
And I'd never be poor
But darlin', those days are gone
Oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2019, 12:39:04 PM
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime
Darlin' you're so far behind me
Tomorrow's gonna find me
Further down the line.

Takin' me some paper
Pencil in my hand
I'm gonna write.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 28, 2019, 01:10:41 PM
I gave a letter to the postman, he put it his sack
Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back

She wrote upon it
Return to sender, address unknown
No such number, no such zone
We had a quarrel, a lover's spat
I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back
So then I dropped it in the mailbox and sent it special D
Bright in early next morning it came right back to me

She wrote upon it
Return to sender, address unknown
No such person, no such zone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2019, 01:16:59 PM
I stumbled across your picture today
I could barely breath
The moment stopped me cold,
Grabbed me like a thief.
I dialed your number, but you wouldn't be there
I knew the whole time, but it's still not fair
I just wanted to hear your voice,
I just needed to hear your voice.
What do I do with all I need to say
So much I wanna tell you everday
Oh it breaks my heart,
I cry these tears in the dark
I write these letters to you, 
But they get lost in the blue,
'Cause there's no address in the stars.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 28, 2019, 02:42:26 PM
We hear you're leaving, that's okay
I thought our little wild time had just begun
I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run
But if you have a change of heart ...

Rikki don't lose that number
You don't want to call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself

Rikki don't lose that number
It's the only one you own
You might use it if you feel better
When you get home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 28, 2019, 05:37:20 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

I heard your mother, now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2019, 06:46:00 PM
Used to think that life was sweet
Used to think we were so complete
I can't believe you'd throw it away

Used to feel we had it made
Used to feel we could sail away
Can you imagine how I feel today?

Well, it seems a long time ago
You were the lonely one
Now it comes to letting go
You are the only one
Do you know what you've done?

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 28, 2019, 07:24:51 PM
Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time
I see reflections of you and me
Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

Oh, I'm all alone now
No love to shield me
Trapped in a world
That's a distorted reality
Happiness you took from me
And left me alone
With only memories
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 28, 2019, 11:29:54 PM
Whose sticky hands are these?
And what is this empty place
I could be happily lost but for your face
Here stands an empty house
That used to be full of life
Now it's home for no one and his wife
It's a hovel and
Who can take your place?
I can't face another day
And who will shelter me?
It's cold in here
Cover me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2019, 10:00:18 AM

You got this thing about you
Everything that I think about you
Is gonna go and make me something else
You've been the smile on my face for about until this day
You believe it's true, and I believe it too
And everything's gonna be alright
When you say, "I, I've got this thing about you"

An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Living without you
An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Nothing but an empty house
Nothing but an empty house
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 29, 2019, 12:03:28 PM
At night when everything is quiet
The old house seems to breathe a sigh
Sometimes I hear a neighbor snoring
Sometimes I can hear a baby cry
Sometimes I can hear a staircase creaking
Sometimes a distant telephone
Oh, and when the night settles down again

This old house and I are all alone
Lonely house, lonely me
Funny with so many neighbors
How lonely it can be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on September 29, 2019, 12:36:32 PM
I have heard all you've been saying
Yet I will love in my own way

Lonely as a desert breeze
I may wonder where I please
Yet I keep on longing
Just to rest a while

Where a sweetheart's tender eyes
Take the place of sand and skies
All the World forgotten
In one Woman's smile

One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshipping soul possesses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2019, 12:46:16 PM

And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
"Would those having relatives or friends on Flight number 1203
Please report to the chapel across the street at once"

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life's most wonderful prize
My beautiful Ebony Eyes

If I ever get, to heaven I'll bet
The first angel I'll recognise
She'll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful Ebony Eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2019, 08:06:57 PM
Oh, you can't get to Heaven in an old Ford car
'Cause an old Ford car won't get that far

Oh, you can't get to Heaven in a ping pong ball
'Cause a ping pong ball is much too small

Oh, you can't get to Heaven in a limousine
'Cause the Lord ain't got no gasoline

Oh, you can't get to Heaven in a Sabre Jet
'Cause the Lord ain't got no runways yet

Oh, you can't get to Heaven in a Girl Scout's arms
'Cause the Lord don't fall for those feminine charms
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2019, 09:14:36 PM

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? 

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ? 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2019, 09:53:40 PM

How does it feel to be
One of the beautiful people?
Now that you know who you are.
What do you want to be?
And have you travelled very far?
Far as the eyes can seeHow does it feel to be
One of the beautiful people?
How often have you been there?
Often enough to know
What did you see when you were there?
Nothing that doesn't show
Baby you're a rich man
Baby you're a rich man
Baby you're a rich man too
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 30, 2019, 10:13:06 PM
"Dear God, you made many, many poor people.
I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor.
But it's no great honor either!
So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?"

If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2019, 10:16:17 PM
Work through the winter, Lord, work through this fall
All I got for Christmas was a pair of overalls
And there ain't a thing for a poor man
In this world

Well I got down on my knees
Looked up to the sky
All I can think of is to ask the good Lord why
And there ain't a thing for a poor man
In this world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 30, 2019, 10:18:27 PM
Is this the real life, is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide no escape from reality
Open your eyes look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2019, 10:21:47 PM
I'm getting older, too
Well I'm getting older too
So, take this love and take it down
Yeah and if you climb a mountain and ya turn around

And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well the landslide brought me down
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 03:09:16 PM
Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 01, 2019, 04:02:06 PM
The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 04:18:00 PM
Hey!
One man, one goal
Ha, one mission
One heart, one soul
Just one sore loser
One flash of light

Yeah, one god, one vision
One flesh, one bone, one true religion
One voice, one hope, one real decision
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Give me one vision, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 01, 2019, 04:24:33 PM
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near, and

At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 04:26:42 PM
You've got a cute way of talking
You got the better of me
Just snap your fingers and I'm walking
Like a dog hanging on your lead
I'm in a spin, you know
Shaking on a string, you know

You make me feel like dancing, I'm gonna dance the night away
You make me feel like dancing, I'm gonna dance the night away
You make feel like dancing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 01, 2019, 04:31:08 PM
I could have danced all night
I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before
I'll never know ahat made it so exciting
Why all at once my heart took flight
I only know when she began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2019, 04:32:56 PM
So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 04:55:19 PM
When I am down, and, oh, my soul, so weary
When troubles come, and my heart burdened be
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence
Until you come and sit awhile with me

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 01, 2019, 05:00:08 PM
When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all
I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 05:28:54 PM
The road is long, with many of winding turns
That lead us to (who knows) where, who knows where?
But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him - yeah
He ain't heavy - he's my brother

So long we go, his welfare is my concern
no burden is he to bear, we'll get there
But I know he would not encumber me
He ain't heavy - he's my brother
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 01, 2019, 05:31:51 PM
A long and winding road that leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to your door
The wild and windy night that the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here?
Let me know the way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2019, 05:43:14 PM

Off on the road to Morocco
Hang on till the end of the line (I like your jockey. Quiet)
I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils
We'd tell you more (uh-ah) but we would have the censor on our tails (good boy)

We certainly do get around
Like Webster's Dictionary we're Morocco bound
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 01, 2019, 05:45:05 PM
Looking at the world
Through the sunset in your eyes
Trying to make the train
Through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call
Animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five foot tall in blue.

Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead
Bring us back to where they've led
Listen not to what's been said to you

Would you know we're riding
On the Marrakesh Express
Would you know we're riding
On the Marrakesh Express
All on board that train
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2019, 05:51:58 PM

Long stem roses are the way to your heart
But he needs to start with your head
Satin sheets are very romantic
What happens when you're not in bed
You deserve the best in life
So if the time isn't right then move on
Second best is never enough
You'll do much better baby on your own
(Baby on your own)



Express yourself
(You've got to make him)
Express himself
Hey, hey, hey, hey
So if you want it right now, make him show you how
Express what he's got, oh baby ready or not
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 06:00:04 PM
Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
(Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
(You've got to give)
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2019, 10:16:26 PM
You can't just leave me
To face life on my own
I know you don't love me no more
I knew this day it would come
Even when it cuts so deep
It's true I still want you
But the harder I try
The more I seem to lose

I don't want a lover
I just need a friend
I've had time to recover
Now that I know it wasn't love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 01, 2019, 10:30:03 PM
Now that it's all said and done
I can't believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down
Like an old abandoned house
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath
I felt as if I was in way to deep
Guess I let you get the best of me

Well, I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, long time ago!
And I never thought I'd doubt you
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I'm slowly getting closure
I guess it's really over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 02, 2019, 09:23:19 AM
This affair is killing me
I can't stand uncertainly
Tell me now I've got to know
Whether you want me to stay or to go

Love me or leave me
Or let me be lonely
You won't believe me, I love you only
I'd rather be lonely
Then happy with someone else

You might find the night time
The right time for kissing
But night time is my time
For just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting
With somebody else.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 02, 2019, 10:02:50 AM
Darlin' you got to let me know
 Should I stay or should I go?
 If you say that you are mine
 I'll be here 'til the end of time
 So you got to let me know
 Should I stay or should I go?

 It's always tease tease tease
 You're happy when I'm on my knees
 One day is fine and next is black
 So if you want me off your back
 Well come on and let me know
 Should I stay or should I go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 02, 2019, 05:10:49 PM
This is an interesting one:

Tell me what to do
Tell me what to do
Tell me what to do
요즘 난 I don't know, I don't know you
많은 걸 포기한 듯한 눈빛
하지만 들려 무언의 외침
Tell me what to do
극적인 전개도 없는 연인
시간이 두는 패착인 걸까?
끝내지 않아도 이미 끝난
Tell me what to do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 02, 2019, 07:02:54 PM
Lol


If I could turn the page
In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 03, 2019, 06:26:09 AM
 the way you make me feel
The moment I am close to you
It's a feeling so unreal
Somehow I can't believe it's true
The pounding I feel in my heart
The hoping that we'll never part
I can't believe this is really happening to me

I close my eyes and count to ten
And when I open them you're still here
I close my eyes and count again
I can't believe it but you're still here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 03, 2019, 07:06:20 AM
When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
When my bankroll is getting small
I think of when I had none at all
And I fall asleep counting my blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
If you're worried and you can't sleep
Just count your blessings instead of sheep
And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 04, 2019, 06:09:52 PM
Early morning, she wakes up
Knock, knock, knock on the door
It's time for make-up, perfect smile
It's you they're all waiting for
They go
Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?
And they say
She's so lucky, she's a star
But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking
If there's nothing missing in my life
Then why do these tears come at night?
Lost in an image, in a dream
But there's no one there to wake her up
And the world is spinning, and she keeps on winning
But tell me what happens when it stops?

They go
Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?
And they say
She's so lucky, she's a star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 04, 2019, 06:31:27 PM
I'm lucky
I'm lucky
I can walk under ladders
Yes I'm so lucky
That I'm as lucky
As me

Struck it rich
Dirty rich
No work
And get richer
And the world
Loves a winner
Yes I'm so happy
That you're happy
With me

You are happy too
Ain't you baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 04, 2019, 08:19:02 PM
Everything I want the world to be
Is now comin' true especially for me
And the reason is clear, it's because you are here
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen

I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 04, 2019, 09:04:10 PM

So now love's made it to the outside
I wanna tell the world of everything I've found
Somehow your love released a spring wound up inside me
You've turned my living upside-down

And I can't tell the bottom from the top
Am I standing on my head or on my heels?
Is it cloudy is it bright?
Is it day or is it night?
Am I wrong or am I right?
And is it real?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 04, 2019, 09:52:04 PM
Maybe I'm crazy, what did I fall into?
Lookin' for a key to a door that I can't get through.
Just maybe, I'm crazy.
Don't you know, don't you know I'm going under,
Just maybe, in a world of wonder - wonder!

Topsy (topsy) turvy (turvy)
Wake me (wake me)
I've had enough
Topsy (topsy) turvy (turvy)
Don't know (don't know)
Which way is up or down
Tears on the ground
Whatever I'm dreaming of
Topsy (topsy) turvy (turvy)
Wake me (wake me)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 04, 2019, 11:07:05 PM
Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
 I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue
 I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted
 And then someday you'd leave me for somebody new
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2019, 08:07:47 AM

Twenty-four hours is all that I care for
I believe that's the only way
Twenty-four hours is all that is needed
Because I live my life day by day

People say that I'm crazy
But I'm not that way inclined
I know what I know and I'll happily show
That madness is all in the mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 05, 2019, 08:53:39 AM
I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions have an echo in so much space
And when you're out there, without care
Yeah I was out of touch

But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 05, 2019, 09:36:27 AM
Do you remember grandma's lye soap?
Good for everything in the home,
And the secret was in the scrubbing,
It wouldn't suds and couldn't foam.

Then let us sing right out of grandma's, of grandma's lye soap
Used for - for everything, everything on the place,
For pots and kettles, the dirty dishes, and for your hands and for
your face.

Little Herman and brother Thurman
Had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with the lye soap.
And they haven't heard a word in years.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2019, 09:46:25 AM
No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means?
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know the palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 05, 2019, 10:30:54 AM
Ann Hegerty reminded me of this a few years ago when she was in the jungle, she knew it in its entirety and was very funny with it.  Came out when I was a kid, in the days before BH was considered politically incorrect (& in fairness, he probably was).

You could hear the hoof beats pound
As they raced across the ground
And the clatter of the wheels
As they spun round and round
And he galloped into Market Street
His badge upon his chest
His name was Ernie
And he drove the fastest milkcart in the west

Now Ernie loved a widow
A lady known as Sue
She lived all alone in Linley Lane
At number twenty two
They said she was too good for him
She was haughty, proud and chic
But Ernie got his cocoa there
Three times every week

They called him Ernie (Ernie)
And he drove the fastest milkcart in the west

She said she'd like to bathe in milk
He said alright sweetheart
And when he finished work one night
He loaded up the cart
He said you wanted pasturised
Coz pasturised is best
She says Ernie I'll be happy
If it comes up to me chest.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2019, 10:56:15 AM

Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 05, 2019, 03:07:39 PM
The man of a thousand faces
Sits down at the table
Eats a small lump of sugar
And smiles at the moon like he knows her
And begins his quiet ascension
Without anyone's sturdy instruction
To a place of no religion
Has found a path to our alikeness
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2019, 06:05:51 PM

A robin feathering his nest
Has very little time to rest
While gathering his
Bits of twine and twig

Though quite intent in his pursuit
He has a merry tune to toot
He knows a song
Will move the job along

For a...
Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 05, 2019, 07:03:32 PM
You make it easy
Lovin' up on you
Make it easy
With every little thing you do
You're my sunshine in the darkest days
My better half, my saving grace
You make me who I wanna be
You make it easy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 05, 2019, 10:44:28 PM
What's wrong with you?
I wish, I knew
You say, time will tell
I hope that's true

There's more to life than blues and reds
I say, I know how you feel
Now your friends are dead

Dead on your feet, you won't get far
If you keep on sticking your hand
In the medicine jar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 01:06:11 AM
let me get this straight 

My temperature is up to 103
Is there anything you can prescribe for me?
Well the doctor said "Hmmm, now let me see
just keep your body moving that's what works for me"
Baby, you really drive me coconuts
Tell me, what am I gonna do? 

You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both together
Put the lime in the coconut and you feel better
Put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em all up
You put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning
doctor, is there nothing I can take
I said doctor, to relieve this bellyache
I said doctor, is there nothing I can take
I said doctor, to relieve this bellyache 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 06, 2019, 10:37:25 AM
Her:
Oh doctor, I'm in trouble
Him:
Well, goodness gracious me!
Her:
For every time a certain man
Is standing next to me
Him:
Mmm?
Her:
A flush comes to my face
And my pulse begins to race
It goes boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom
Boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom-boom-boom
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 10:55:44 AM

Mister Percy Snodgrass
Would often have the odd glass --
But never when he thought anybody could see
Secretly he'd buy it
And drink it on the quiet
And dream he was an Earl
Wiv a girl on each knee!
Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!
That's how it goes
Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!
Ev'ryone knows...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 06, 2019, 01:38:40 PM
Oh, as I went home on Monday night
As drunk as drunk could be
I saw a horse outside the door
Where my old horse should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her
"Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that horse outside the door
Where my old horse should be?"

Ay, you're drunk, you're drunk you silly old fool
Still you cannot see
That's a lovely sow that my mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've traveled, a hundred miles or more
But a saddle on a sow, sure, I never saw before
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 02:09:58 PM



My lovely horse
Running through the field
Where are you going
With your fetlocks blowing
In the wind?

I want to shower you with sugar lumps
And ride you over fences
Polish your hooves every single day
And bring you to the horse dentist
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 06, 2019, 02:31:17 PM
Is that from Father Ted?

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 02:38:19 PM
Yep, Father Ted from one of the great sitcom episodes


Four letter word just to get me along
It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue and I
I keep stalling, keeping me together
People around gotta find something to say now

Holding back, everyday the same
Don't wanna be a loner
Listen to me, oh no
I never say anything at all
But with nothing to consider they forget my name (ame, ame, ame)


They call me 'hell'
They call me 'Stacey'
They call me 'her'
They call me 'Jane'
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
They call me 'quiet'
But I'm a riot
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 06, 2019, 04:26:29 PM
Tell me your name you're lovely
Please tell me your name
Just when I thought
This would be one of those boring games
You walked into these feelings
You looked at me and smiled
My heart unfroze and started going wild
Can you imagine this
The confusion of
First love's kiss
A return to wondering
If the magic of love was this
You merely said hello
And my mind did a stop and go
Can it possibly be
The future for me is you
Tell me your name
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 04:33:01 PM

I'm called Little Buttercup — dear Little Buttercup,
Though I could never tell why,
But still I'm called Buttercup — poor little Buttercup,
Sweet Little Buttercup I!

I've snuff and tobaccy, and excellent jacky,
I've scissors, and watches, and knives;
I've ribbons and laces to set off the faces
Of pretty young sweethearts and wives
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 06, 2019, 06:29:09 PM
A many years ago,
When I was young and charming,
As some of you may know,
I practised baby-farming.

Chorus.
Now this is most alarming!
When she was young and charming,
She practised baby-farming,
A many years ago.

Two tender babes I nursed:
One was of low condition,
The other, upper crust,
A regular patrician.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 06:34:21 PM
Silk or leather or a feather
Respect yourself and all of those around you
Silk or leather or a feather
Respect yourself and all of those around you

Prince Charming
Prince Charming
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Don't you ever, don't you ever
Stop being dandy, showing me you're handsome
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 06, 2019, 07:02:56 PM
Once there was a Princess
Was the Princess, you?
And she fell in love
Was it hard to do?
Well, it was very easy
Anyone could see that the Prince was charming
The only one for me
Was he strong and handsome?
Was he big and tall?
There's nobody like him anywhere at all
Did he say he loved ya?
Did he steal a kiss?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 06, 2019, 07:52:39 PM

I don't want no seven stone weakling
Or a boy who thinks he's a girl
I'm after a hunk of a guy
An experienced man of the world
There ain't no way that I'll make do
With anything less than I'm used to
If I have a man tonight
He's gotta be right, right, right
So Macho
He's got to be
So Macho
He's got to be big and strong enough
To turn me on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 07, 2019, 06:16:54 AM
(Olive Oyl on Bluto)

He's tall
Good looking
And he's large
He's large
Large
Tall
Large
So large
And he's mine

He's not a mandolin (Oh no)
He's an accordion
I'll have to squeeze him each night to keep him warm (Warm)
He's virile, and he's strong (Strong)
He's strong (Strong)
And he's large (Large)
Large (Large)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 09:23:09 AM
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.

I'm one tough Gazookus, which hates all Palookas.
Wot ain't on the up and square.
I biffs 'em and buffs 'em and always out roughs 'em
and none of 'em gets nowhere.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 09:24:51 AM
Who's that knocking at my door?
 Who's that knocking at my door?
 Who's that knocking at my door?
 Said the fair young maiden

 Well, it's only me from over the sea
 Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor
 I'm all lit up like a Christmas tree
 Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor
 I'll sail the sea until I croak
 Drink my whiskey, swear, and smoke
 But I can't swim a bloody stroke
 Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 09:37:42 AM
I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

I am flying, I am flying
Like a bird 'cross the sky
I am flying, passing high clouds
To be with you, to be free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 09:45:17 AM
To mark the thread reaching 100 pages, here's one of my occasional summaries of what has been chosen.

In Songs these are the ones that have appeared 5 times or more:

With a song in my heart                   10
Dream a little dream of me                    9
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life    7
Memories are made of this                    7
Blue Skies                                            6
Come Fly With Me                            6
Don't Stop Me Now                            6
In The Still of the Night                    6
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing    6
Singing in the Rain                            6
Baby It's Cold Outside                     5
Bohemian Rhapsody                             5
I Will Survive                                    5
It's a Kind of Magic                            5
It's a Lovely Day Today                    5
Moon River                                            5
No More the Fool                            5
Rock Around the Clock                    5
Somewhere over the rainbow            5
Strangers in the Night                            5
The Sound of Silence                            5
Tie a Yellow Ribbon                            5
Walk on by                                            5


Of those 3 are Queen songs.

The Power of Love did appear in the analysis at 6 - but 4 of those were the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song, and 2 the Jennifer Rush song - Huey Lewis scored 0.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 09:49:57 AM
Oh dear, is me who keeps repeating them?  Time for a mind purge, I think!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 09:53:38 AM
For artists, those who have appeared more than 10 times:


Artist   Number
Frank Sinatra   61
The Beatles   59
Ella Fitzgerald   54
Trad.                   40
Nat King Cole   32
Abba                   28
Bing Crosby   28
Doris Day          27
Queen           26
Simon and Garfunkel   25
Judy Garland   22
Fred Astaire   19
Gene Kelly           17
Mario Lanza   17
Theme           15
Billie Holiday   14
Diana Ross and The Supremes   14
Andy Williams   13
The Rolling Stones   13
Wings            13
Barbra Streisand   12
David Bowie    12
Hymn            12
Louis Armstrong 12
Tony Bennett    12
Dean Martin    11
Don McLean    11
Paul Simon    11
Roy Orbison    11
The Carpenters    11
Vera Lynn      11
Blondie            10
Elkie Brooks    10
Perry Como    10


Both Pauls Simon And McCartney appear in 2 guises there. In addition for McCartney he has 6 solo appearances, 2 in duet with Michael Jackson, and 1 with Stevie Wonder. That the 'newest' of the acts in this list is Blondie speaks of our vintage.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 09:56:25 AM
Quote from: ekim on October 07, 2019, 09:49:57 AM
Oh dear, is me who keeps repeating them?  Time for a mind purge, I think!
I think we are all guilty. And often what someone has put in one place will be raised again by someone else. Songs about the weather, or it being night, or the moon stick together.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 10:03:33 AM
You've got enough material there to start a psychology paper, I think. ;)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 10:07:01 AM
Overall we've put up 1783 different songs in that 1st 100 pages, and 1031 different artists/classifications.

668 artists have only 1 song, and 1398 songs only appear once.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 10:11:14 AM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 10:07:01 AM


668 artists have only 1 song, and 1398 songs only appear once.
I blame Robbie!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 10:11:34 AM
Quote from: ekim on October 07, 2019, 10:03:33 AM
You've got enough material there to start a psychology paper, I think. ;)

Yep, I'm working on it - anyway to get back on track


Let me sail, let me sail
 Let the orinoco flow
 Let me reach, let me beach
 On the shores of Tripoli
 Let me sail, let me sail
 Let me crash upon your shore
 Let me reach, let me beach
 Far beyond the Yellow Sea
 De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De

 Sail away,sail away, sail away [x4]

 From Bissau to Palau - in the shade of Avalon
 From Fiji to Tiree and the Isles of Ebony
 From Peru to Cebu hear the power of Babylon
 From Bali to Cali - far beneath the Coral Sea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 07, 2019, 10:17:16 AM
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?

We all know that people are the same wherever you go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive, together alive

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 10:55:12 AM
I could write a song with my new piano
 I could sing about how love is a losing battle
Not hard, (it's not hard),
 It's not hard, (it's not hard),
 It's not hard, (it's not hard),
 It's not hard, (It's not hard),

 And I could sing about cupid and his shooting arrow
 In the end, you'll find out that my heart was battered
 Real hard (Real hard)
 It's so hard (So hard)
 Real hard (Real hard)
 It's that hard (It's that hard)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 07, 2019, 05:11:41 PM
The evening winds are still
I've lost the way and will
Can't tell you where they went
I just know what they meant
I'm always on my guard
Admitting life is hard
Without you near me

The friend you used to be
So near and dear to me
You slipped so far away
Where did we go astray?
I passed the old schoolyard
Admitting life is hard
Without you near me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 05:23:46 PM

My heavens low but the songs the same 
Seems I'm always looking when I hear your name 
You've been away but don't leave this side 
Seen all of your faces you've tried to hide 
So I'm sitting here in a train station 
Traveling to an unknown destination 
Oh I always seem to try 
Still I'm one still I'm one to testify and I say 


I'll find a way to let you know 
Hold me close when tradewinds blow 
Chances are you're over me, I'll catch that train eventually 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 07, 2019, 06:03:10 PM
Got no bags and baggage to slow me down
I'm traveling so fast my feet ain't touching the ground
Traveling' light, traveling' light
Well I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight

No comb and no toothbrush
I've got nothing to haul
I'm carryin' only
A pocket full of dreams
A hand full of love
And they weigh nothing at all

Soon I'm going to see that love look in her eyes
I'm a hoot and a holler away from paradise
Traveling' light, traveling' light
I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2019, 06:07:00 PM

I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste
A flannel for my face
Pyjamas, a hairbrush
New shoes and a case
I said to my reflection
Let's get out of this place
Past the church and the steeple
The laundry on the hill
Billboards and the buildings
Memories of it still
Keep calling and calling
But forget it all
I know I will

Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on
Now that you have gone
There's no other
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the truth is discovered
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 08, 2019, 09:14:31 AM
You're a pink toothbrush, I'm a blue toothbrush
 Have we met somewhere before?
 You're a pink toothbrush and I think toothbrush
 That we met by the bathroom door.

Glad to meet toothbrush, such a sweet toothbrush
 How you thrill me through and through
 Dont be hard toothbrush on a soft toothbrush
 'Cause I cant help loving you.

Every time I hear you whistle...... it makes my nylon bristle.......
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 09:17:53 AM



Tell me something that'll save me
 I need a man who makes me alright
 (just a man who makes me alright)
 Just tell me when it's alright
 Tell me something that'll change me
 I'm gonna love you with my hands tied

 Show me your teeth
 Just tell me when
 Show me your teeth
 Open your mouth boy
 Show me your teeth
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 04:59:50 PM
Look me over closely
Tell me what you see
The lady likes to look her best
Before she pours the tea
You said I'm [?]
That makes the evening sun go down
Oh look me over closely
Tell me what you find
But don't be over anxious
I'm not the marryin' kind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 05:14:39 PM

If I am dancin'
Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin'
Whewt me out the door

For I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up a rumpus
But don't lose the compass;
And get me to the church,
Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 05:44:09 PM
Quote from: ekim on October 07, 2019, 10:11:14 AM
I blame Robbie!

Yeah why not make me the 'escaped goat'  >:(.

Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married
Gee, I really love you
And we're gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel of love

Spring is here, the sky is blue, whoa-oh-oh
Birds all sing as if they knew
Today's the day we'll say "I do"
And we'll never be lonely anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 05:46:35 PM

Inside the walls of prison my body may be,
But my Lord has set my soul free.

There's a grey stone chapel here at Folsom,
A house of worship in this den of sin.
You wouldn't think that God had a place here at Folsom,
But he saved the soul of many lost men.

Now this grey stone chapel here at Folsom,
Stands a hundred years old made of granite rock.
It takes a ring of keys to move here at Folsom,
But the door to the house of God is never locke
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 05:55:14 PM
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.
You've guarded me since nineteen sixty three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen 'em die
And long ago I stopped askin' why

San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
You've cut me and you've scarred me through and thru.
And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man;
Mister Congressman why can't you understand.

San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
You bend my heart and mind and you warp my soul;
Your stone walls turn my blood a little cold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 06:01:14 PM

Oh, what a night
Late December, back in '63
What a very special time for me
As I remember, what a night

Oh, what a night
You know, I didn't even know her name
But I was never gonna be the same
What a lady, what a night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 06:04:35 PM
In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning,
and the nightmare I had was as bad as can be.
it scared me out of my wits!
a corpse falling to bits!
then I opened my eyes and the nightmare was me!

I was once the most mystical man in all Russia (ooh ahh ooh)
when the royals betrayed me they made a mistake (ooh ahh ooh)
my curse made each of them pay
but one little girl got away,
little Anya beware Rasputin's awake!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 06:06:45 PM
(Which demands this)



"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 09:42:20 PM
Look alive, crème de la Kremlin's arriving
Try to serve Ivan? No surviving
You're a land rover, I'm a land expander
Here to hand you your first loss, Alexander
I'll school you like Aristotle
Smack you harder than you hit that bottle
You're nothing but an overrated lush, I'll crush ya
I'm the first Tsar of all of Russia
You're an asshole with an anastole
I'm heaven sent, divine and holy
So don't even try to approach the God
Or you'll get a huge sack like Novgorod
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 09:47:40 PM
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 08, 2019, 09:54:36 PM
As I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountains
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting
I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier
Saying "Stand and deliver" for he were a bold deceiver

Mush-a ring dumb-a do dumb-a da
Wack fall the daddy-o, wack fall the daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2019, 10:00:33 PM
I'm the dandy highwayman
So sick of easy fashion
The clumsy boots, peekaboo roots
That people think so dashing
So what's the point of robbery
When nothing is worth taking?
It's kind of tough to tell a scruff
The big mistake he's making

Stand and deliver
Your money or your life
Hoh!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 08, 2019, 10:46:40 PM
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood

He called the greatest archers to a tavern on the green
They vowed to help the people of the king
They handled all the troubles on the English country scene
And still found plenty of time to sing

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 09, 2019, 09:39:08 AM
Seventy six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos,
the cream of every famous band.

Seventy six trombones caught the morning sun,
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind.
There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds,
there were horns of every shape and kind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 09, 2019, 09:44:36 AM
But you are surely just as evil as the worst my tongue can tell,
For you'll never face my heaven and I'll not endure your hell.
You have lost the chance to mingle by your constant, quiet lies;
Deceptions hidden with your lips, but spoken with your eyes.

For I know you for what you are not, for that's really all you are.
And your talents of a minor order seem to stretch too far.
And we both know that this masquerade can't carry on too long.
You're deep inside the Pride Parade, but where do you belong?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 09, 2019, 11:17:24 AM
Although I'm not making plans
 I hope that you understand there's a reason why
 Close your, close your, close your eyes
 No more broken hearts
 We're better off apart let's give it a try
 Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
 Tell me lies
 Tell me sweet little lies
 (Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
 Oh, no, no you can't disguise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 09, 2019, 01:57:06 PM
Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
The things we do for love, the things we do for love

Communication is the problem to the answer
You've got her number and your hand is on the phone
The weather's turned and all the lines are down
The things we do for love, the things we do for love

Like walking in the rain and the snow
When there's nowhere to go
And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes
You think you're gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 09, 2019, 01:59:14 PM
Last night you talked about leaving
 I said I can't let you go
 It's not just emotional feeling
 I need your body and soul

 You give me one good reason to leave me
 I'll give you ten good reasons to stay
 You're the only one I believe in
 I'll be hurt, I'll be hurt if you walked away

 Too many broken hearts in the world
 There's too many dreams can be broken in two
 Too many broken hearts in the world
 So I won't give up the fight for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 09, 2019, 02:03:45 PM
Love hurts inside
Look into my eyes
The pain i can't hide
The pain i can't hide

Love hurts ,love scars
love wounds any heart
But I'm not so tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain ,take a lot of pain
Love is like a flower ,hold a lot of rain
Love hurts love hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 09, 2019, 02:34:57 PM


Pain
 She loves me
 Wants me to be
 Less scared, more free to feel all of my pain

 I'm your friend
 And I'm your shade
 Do what you want
 Just remember it's for love

 I'm your wall
 And I'm your rock
 Don't run away
 Don't forget it's only love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 10, 2019, 05:27:43 PM
If ever you've got rain in your heart
Someone has hurt you, and torn you apart
Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me?
And let it be like they said it would be
Me loving you girl, and you loving me
Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me?

Run to me whenever you're lonely
(To love me)
Run to me if you need a shoulder
Now and then, you need someone older
So darling, you run to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 10, 2019, 05:56:35 PM
As I walk along
I wonder what went wrong
With our love, a love that was so strong
And as I still walk on
I think of the things we've done
Together, a-while our hearts were young

I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery
And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
Why
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away
And I wonder
A-where she will stay-ay
My little runaway
Run, run, run, run, runaway
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 10, 2019, 06:56:40 PM
People say I'm the life of the party
Because I tell a joke or two
Although I might be laughing loud and hearty
Deep inside I'm blue
So take a good look at my face
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer, it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

I need you, need you
Since you left me if you see me with another girl
Seeming like I'm having fun
Although she may be cute
She's just a substitute
Because you're the permanent one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 10, 2019, 08:39:46 PM
Sam, you've been waiting
Much too long now
It looks like she's
Not coming home

Sam, you've been
Loyal, true and faithful
All this time with being alone

If I could get that same dedication
I'd give you everything in creation
If she doesn't come back
(If she doesn't come back)

I'll be your substitute
Whenever you want me
Don't you know
I'll be your substitute
Whenever you need me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 10, 2019, 08:52:45 PM
You think we look pretty good together
 You think my shoes are made of leather
 But I'm a substitute for another guy
 I look pretty tall but my heels are high
 The simple things you see are all complicated
 Look pretty young, but I'm just back dated, yeah
Substitute your lies for fact
 I can see right through your plastic mac
 I look all white, but my dad was black
 My fine looking suit is really made out of sack
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 10, 2019, 09:37:10 PM
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 10, 2019, 11:03:21 PM
Here We Sit
 Two Lonely Old People
 Eaking Our Lives Away

 Bit By Bit
 Two Lonely Old People
 Keeping The Time Of Day

 Here We Sit
 Out Of Breath
 And Nobody Asked Us To Play

 Old People's Home For The Play
 Nobody Asked Us To Play

 Treat Her Gently
 Treat Her Kind
 She Doesn't Even Know Her Own Mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 06:17:51 AM
I wondered should I go or should I stay
The band had only one more song to play
And then I saw you out the corner of my eyes
A little girl alone and so shy
I had the last waltz with you
Two lonely people together
I fell in love with you
The last waltz should last forever
But the love we had was goin' strong
Through the good and bad we'd get along
And then the flame of love died in your eye
My heart was broke in two when you said goodbye
I had the last waltz with you
Two lonely people together
I fell in love with you
The last waltz should last forever
It's all over now 
Nothing left to say
Just my tears and the orchestra playing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 11, 2019, 09:12:17 AM
Dancing in the dark 'til the tune ends
We're dancing in the dark and it soon ends
We're waltzing in the wonder of why we're here
Time hurries by, we're here, and gone

Looking for the light of a new love
To brighten up the night, I have you love
And we can face the music together
Dancing in the dark.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 11:11:42 AM
I wanna see you dance like no one's there
You're all alone and you don't care cause
This is your night, I let them all stay
You're so amazing, amazing

Baby tonight, turn the music loud
'Cause we'll all be dancing, dancing, dancing
Set this floor on fire, throw your hand's higher
Everyone's dancing, dancing, dancing
We'll be dancing tonight
Oooh I like the sound
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 11:15:01 AM

To my surprise one hundred storeys high
People getting loose y'all
Getting down on the roof
Folks are screaming out of control
It was so entertaining
When the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 11:36:58 AM
Get your party gown
Get your pigtail down
Get your heart beatin' baby
Got my timin' right
Got my act all tight
It's gotta be tonight my little
School babe

Your Mamma says you don't
Your Daddy says you won't
And I'm boilin' up inside
Ain't no way I'm gonna lose out this time, oh no

Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Lock your daddy out of doors
I don't need him nosin' around
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 11:40:24 AM

Father, I'm gonna say thank you
Even if I'm still hurt
Oh, I'm gonna say bless you
I wanna mean those words

Always wished you the best
I, I prayed for your peace
Even if you started this
This whole war in me

You did your best or did you?
Sometimes I think I hate you
I'm sorry, dad, for feelin' this
I can't believe I'm sayin' it
I know you were a troubled man
I know you never got the chance
To be yourself, to be your best
I hope that Heaven's given you
A second chance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 12:04:46 PM
Back when I was a child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high
And dance with my mother and me
And then
Spin me around 'till I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure
I was loved

If I could get another chance
Another walk
Another dance with him
I'd play a song that would never ever end
How I'd love love love
To dance with my father again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 12:21:27 PM

Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Ooh, aah, mother, should I build the wall?

Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooh, aah, is it just a waste of time?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 05:35:29 PM
Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me
This is the craziest party
That there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light
'Cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 06:15:58 PM

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 07:14:21 PM
Just dreaming dreams of you
I watched your ship as it sailed out to sea
Taking all my dreams
And taking all of me
The sighing of the waves
The wailing of the wind
The tears in my eyes burn
Pleading,
"My love, return
Why, oh, why must I go on like this?
Shall I just be a lonely stranger on the shore?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 11, 2019, 09:19:50 PM

So, tonight I wanna fall in love
Fall in love with a stranger
And if they go break my heart
Then I'll just fix it later
I'm only here for the rush
I don't need no disclaimer
Tonight I wanna fall in love
Fall in love with a stranger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 11, 2019, 10:29:01 PM
Drive up, you can stay with me
I sure could use a friend
I'm [?] what you think you need
But I love having you around

We'll make love, go see a show
Share pizza and a beer
But these sails point to a storm
So away I'll have to steer
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 11, 2019, 10:57:09 PM
If this world is wearing thin
 And you're thinking of escape
 I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
 But if you try to go alone
 Don't think I'll understand
Stay with me
 Stay with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2019, 07:48:01 AM
I'm sticking with you
Cause I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

You held up a stage coach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
Saw you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me

I'm sticking with you

(Off to work today, 09-1400 roughly.  See you all later.)
Cause I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2019, 08:42:54 AM

Oh, I'm leaving on that midnight train tomorrow
And I know just where I'm going
I've packed up my troubles
And I've thrown them all away
Because this time little darling
I'm coming home to stay

I'm stuck on you
I've got this feeling down
Deep in my soul
That I just can't lose
Guess, I'm on my way
Needed a friend
And the way I feel now I guess
I'll be with you till the end
Guess I'm on my way
I'm mighty glad you stayed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 12, 2019, 08:56:40 AM
Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2019, 09:35:31 AM
You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
(I heard the news today, oh boy)
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man who can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can
sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?


All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
All right
I want the young American
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2019, 02:55:51 PM
Just another one champion sound
Me and you about to get down
Who the hottest in the world right now
Just touched down in London town
Bet they give me a pound
Tell them put the money in my hand right now
Tell the promoter we need more seats
We just sold out all the floor seats

Take me on a trip, I'd like to go some day
Take me to New York, I'd love to see L.A.
I really want to come kick it with you
You'll be my American boy, American boy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2019, 03:18:49 PM
In my mind there's a face
On my lips there's a name
In my life there's no place
For the man that I love
Cause I'm livin' my life 
Just to sing and be free.

From L.A. to New York, from New York to L.A.

From New York to L.A. 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2019, 03:29:02 PM
The worst is yet to come
But at least we'll both be beautiful and stay forever young
This I know, yeah, this I know

She told me, "don't worry about it"
She told me, "don't worry no more"
We both know we can't go without it
She told me you'll never be alone, oh, oh, woo

I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, oh
I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2019, 03:30:21 PM


Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy (Look at me, I'm happy)


Don't worry, be happy
(Hey I'll give you my phone number, when you worry call me I'll make you happy!)
Don't worry, be happy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 12, 2019, 04:52:40 PM
Pack up your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing Hallelujah, come on get happy
Get ready for the judgment day

The sun is shining, come on get happy
The Lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout Hallelujah, come on get happy
We're going to the Promised Land

We're heading 'cross the river
Gonna wash our sins in the tide
It's all so peaceful
On the other side

Forget your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing Hallelujah, c'mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2019, 04:55:30 PM
I don't know why I love her like I do
All the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven't seen the worst of it yet


I wanna know, can you tell me
Am I in love to stay?
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 12, 2019, 08:23:36 PM
hushaby my darling
hushaby my darling
hands now i'll wash them, feet now i'll wash them.

Handsome you my young one,
fair and smooth your body clothes, made of silk so fine.
Each day puts strength upon you,
my darling sweet with you hair a' curling.
King of stars, blessings on you,
oh my heart, my joy.

At morning that which grows not, by the night time's growing,
Hands now i'll wash them, feet now i'll wash them.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 13, 2019, 10:29:28 AM

Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

Sin for sale. Buying just a need. Just who planted all the devils seeds?
And what's the truth? And the truth that lies at home.
It's on the inside and I can't get it off. Yeah.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 13, 2019, 08:46:37 PM
 I'm having it out with the rain
It argues so long and so loud
It keeps tapping and talking
We're walking forever on 1st Avenue headed South
And all the traffic lights blur
Into a bright bouquet

My heart is in mothballs
It's been packed away
And I can't get to it no way
Until the Birds return for spring cleaning

All the traffic lights blur into a bright bouquet
I wish I could just turn and walk away
But I can't do it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 14, 2019, 08:01:25 AM

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows I can't change.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 15, 2019, 05:34:43 PM
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting
For its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers
That will bloom again in spring

When I was young my heart was young then too
Anything that it would tell me
That's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life's
The thing thing that I can't win

Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 16, 2019, 11:19:15 AM
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart

You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart, or on it's way

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2019, 01:05:26 PM
Ooh, this old heart of mine, been broken thousand times
Each time you break away, I fear you're gone to stay
Lonely nights that come, memories that go
Bringing you back again, hurting me more and more

Maybe it's my mistake
To show this love I feel inside
'Cause each day that passes by
You've got me never knowing if I'm coming or going but I

I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 16, 2019, 06:06:00 PM
 I know we're not supposed to talk
But I'm getting ahead of myself
I get scared when we're not
'Cause I'm scared you're with somebody else
So I guess that it is gone
And I just keep lying to myself
I can't believe it

I, I miss you, yeah I miss you
I miss you, yeah I miss you, oh I do
I miss you, yeah I miss you
Though I'm tryin' not to right now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2019, 06:09:23 PM

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time
Thinking about you
And it's almost driving me wild

And there's a heart that's breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain't missing you at all
Since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you
No matter what I might say
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 16, 2019, 06:57:17 PM
Your lies and deceiving diplomats
Can't reach me where I'm hiding at
You'll find you have no powers over me
I'm in a place where no one's been
It's free of greed and all your sin
And weapons that are lying to your mirror

I want to forget you just the way you are
So I won't be lonely here without you near
('Cause I can't afford your tears)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2019, 07:02:51 PM
If I was to tell you how I feel
That my love was silent that my heart was real
I've been looking at you, you've been looking at me
And I want you to know that I like what I see

Mirror mirror, mon amour
Send me what I'm waiting for
Pick me up, an image so fine, so fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2019, 03:08:12 PM
A summer disregard, a broken bottle top
And a one man soul
They follow each other on the wind ya' know
'Cause they got nowhere to go
That's why I want you to know

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
(If you want to make the world a better place)
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 03:17:26 PM
I watch the ripples change their size
 But never leave the stream
 Of warm impermanence and
 So the days float through my eyes
 But still the days seem the same
 And these children that you spit on
 As they try to change their worlds
 Are immune to your consultations
 They're quite aware of what they're going through

 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
 (Turn and face the strange)
 Ch-ch-changes
 Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
 (Turn and face the strange)
 Ch-ch-changes
 Where's your shame
 You've left us up to our necks in it
 Time may change me
 But you can't trace time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2019, 05:15:43 PM
I just want to ask a question
Who really cares?
To save a world in despair
There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try to save a world
That's destined to die
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow
Little children today are really gonna suffer tomorrow
Oh what a shame, such a bad way to live
All who is to blame, we can't stop livin'
Live, live for life
But let live everybody
Live life for the children
Oh, for the children
You see, let's save the children
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 05:42:31 PM
. This did Herod sore affray,
And grievously bewilder
So he gave the word to slay,
And slew the little childer,
And slew the little childer.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2019, 05:51:24 PM
Well, the crooks are out
And the streets are gray
You know I wouldn't have it
Any other way

Your mother's words
They're ringin' still
But your mother don't
Pay our bills

A sinister kid is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A drop dead sprint from the day he's born
Straight into his maker's arms
And that's me, that's me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, that's me
The devil won't let me be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 06:46:57 PM

She's so pretty
Her hair is a mess
We all love her
To that we confess

She has a halo
We really do adore her
For she has a halo
Can we touch her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2019, 07:07:02 PM
It's just like heaven being here with you
You're like an angel, too good to be true
But after all, I love you, I do
Angel baby, my angel baby
When you are near me, my heart skips a beat
I can hardly stand on my own two feet
Because I love you, I love you, I do
Angel baby, my angel baby
Oh, I love you, oh I do
No one could love you like I do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 08:14:32 PM
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast

She's just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She's gonna get you...
She's just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She's gonna get you from behind...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2019, 09:43:40 PM
I told Mary about us, told her about our great sin
Mary just cried and forgave me, Mary took me back again
She said if I wanted my freedom, I could be free evermore
But I don't want to be and I don't want to see Mary cry anymore.

Devil woman, devil woman, let go of me
Devil woman, let me be
Just leave me alone,
I want to go home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 17, 2019, 09:52:23 PM
Suddenly the heavens rolled
Suddenly the rain came down
Suddenly was washed away
The Mary that I knew
So when you find somebody who gives
Think of me and celebrate
I made such a big mistake when I was Mary's Prayer

So if I say save me, save me
Be the light in my eyes
And if I say ten Hail Mary's
Leave a light on in heaven for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2019, 06:09:53 PM
For anyone who's prayed a thousand prayers
And still can't find the answer anywhere
Fighting off the lie that no one cares
For anyone who's out there losing hope
Feeling you're forsaken and alone
Clinging to the last strands of your rope
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2019, 06:17:13 PM
Pretty looking road
Try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin
Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise
Melt the ice
And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance
But fear is in your soul
Some people call it a one night stand
But we can call it paradise

Don't say a prayer for me now
Save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now
Save it 'til the morning after
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2019, 06:52:57 PM
Strands of light upon a bedroom floor
Change the night through an open door
I'm awake but this not my home
For the first time I'm not alone

Reaching out, I touch another skin
Breathing out as he is breathing in
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame
Can my life ever be the same?

I should have told him
I'd do anything if I could hold him
For just another day, for just another day
His love is something I will not forget
When I am far away, when I am far away
I feel the rainfall of another planet
Another planet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2019, 06:57:12 PM
(I do love Amoreuse)



My head is stuck on something precious
Let me know if you're coming down to land
Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I can't see you

Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2019, 07:46:31 PM
Me too. Valerie Sansone. Beautiful, romantic.

Not one day goes by
That I don't compromise
Your love for the cold love of the world
It's killing me through
My own evil pride
Not one day goes by
That I don't know
That I'm dying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2019, 07:51:23 PM
You defend, exhume, begin again
It's the riddle of a skeleton.
We're all diseased so count the coupe,
I can't imagine stopping you. 

When I'm walking through this world,
I need to hold your hand.
Let me take you on this ride,
I hope you understand,
I'm not asking for a compromise. 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2019, 08:04:25 PM
Stay by my side
And help me through the night
The wind's blowing cold
Stay by my side
Lock out the world tonight
There's just you and me
So please become reality

Sometimes you feel a stabbing pain
Which tells your wicked rambling brain
That you're all alone
The lights go out all voices die
You're small and fragile but you try
To roll back the stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2019, 08:27:17 PM

There's a rockabilly party on Saturday night
Are you gonna be there?
(I got my invite)
Gonna bring your records
(Ohh, will do)
Made it

Won't you roll away the stone
Why be cold and so alone?
Won't you roll away the stone
Don't you let it die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 18, 2019, 09:43:48 PM
I'm coming out
I'm coming
I'm coming out
I'm coming out

I want the world to know
Got to let it show
I'm coming out
I want the world to know
I got to let it show

There's a new me coming out
And I just had to live
And I want to give
I'm completely positive
I think this time around
I am gonna do it
Like you never do it
Like you never knew it
Oh, I'll make it through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 19, 2019, 09:02:12 AM
I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company

I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace through out the land
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2019, 05:21:09 PM
It isn't always easy
We've been through a few hard times
But when we stick together
There's no mountain we can't climb

With all that we've been through
And everything we've done
Nothing comes between us ? we stand as one

United in love ? there's nothing we can't rise above
United in love ? whatever happens to us
United in love ? we'll always be
United in love ? so united

And if you reach your hand out
But your dreams just seem too far
Stand upon my shoulders
And you can touch that star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 19, 2019, 09:03:50 PM
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means


And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow praying never comes
And I'm wishing on all the loving we've never done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2019, 09:30:49 PM
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2019, 09:38:09 PM
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do i see

Blue birds singing a song
Nothing but blue skies from now on

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2019, 10:38:42 PM
The heart has a way
Of pushing you though the darkest days
We live in our mind
And it makes us all forget sometimes
Can make life hard to tell
But if you can take a moment
And just listen to your heart
You will find there something to relive the pressure
From the start
If you look outside and take a breath
You're really not too far from sunny days
Oh you're really not too far away from sunnier days
Sunnier days
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 19, 2019, 10:43:32 PM

See the curtains hangin' in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light a-shinin' through the window
Lets me know everything's all right

Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' though the jasmine in my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 20, 2019, 12:11:19 AM
Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights

Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car

She swam by me she got a cramp
He ran by me got my suit damp
I saved her life she nearly drowned
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun somethings begun but oh oh the summer nights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 20, 2019, 12:27:04 AM
Summertime
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll fly to the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 20, 2019, 10:29:03 AM
Everyday dreams
To go to a better life
But they remain only dreams
You are the children
Your life will be very hard
You are the children
You're singing every day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2019, 10:49:30 AM

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and...
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness...

Like a heartbeat... drives you mad...
In the stillness of remembering what you had...
And what you lost...
And what you had...
And what you lost
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 20, 2019, 05:34:38 PM
There's a storm ragin' deep in my soul
There's a howlin' wind that I just can't control
There'sa fire inside me I can't explain
Every time you touch me my love falls like rain
I've only known you for an hour or more
The time is standin' still
Your love has opened up the door

I feel a thunder in my heart
It takes my breath away
I feel a thunder in my heart
Will I ever be the same?
I feel a thunder in my heart
It's telling me you're here to stay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 20, 2019, 08:53:33 PM
And I am telling you I'm not going
You're the best man I'll ever know
There's no way I can ever go
No, no, no, no way
No, no, no, no way
I'm living without you
I'm not living without you
I don't want to be free
I'm staying, I'm staying
And you, and you, you're gonna love me
Oh, you're gonna love me

And I am telling you I'm not going
Even though the rough times are showing
There's just no way, there's no way
We're part of the same place
We're part of the same time
We both share the same blood
We both have the same mind
And time and time we have so much to share
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 20, 2019, 11:48:13 PM
No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving,
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows

Yes it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrows,
When I had you there but then I let you go

And now it's only fair that I should let you know
What you should know

I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2019, 09:38:07 AM
The branch of the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 21, 2019, 05:38:24 PM
Unchain the colors before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2019, 05:52:15 PM
With your long blond hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you
Was sorrow, sorrow

You're acting funny, try to spend my money
You out there playing your high class games
Of sorrow, sorrow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 21, 2019, 09:55:11 PM
You tell lies thinking I can't see
You can't cry 'cause you're laughing at me
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (Down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down

Man buys ring woman throws it away
Same old thing happens everyday
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (Down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) When you know I'm down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 22, 2019, 02:47:43 PM
Once I lived the life of a millionaire,
 Spent all my money, didn't have any care.
 Took all my friends out for a mighty good time,
 Bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine.

 Then I began to fall so low,
 Lost all my good friends, had nowhere to go.
 I get my hands on a dollar again,
 I'll hang on to it 'til that old eagle grins.

 Because nobody loves you
 When you're down and out.
 In your pocket, not one penny,
 And as for friends... you don't have many.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 23, 2019, 10:01:09 PM
Alarm goes off at seven
And you start uptown
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been

Downtown
Where the folks are broke
Downtown
Where your life's a joke
Downtown
When you buy your token
You go
Home to skid row
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2019, 10:05:00 PM
I wake up every mornin', I stumble out of bed
Stretchin' and yawnin', another day ahead
It seems to last forever and time goes slowly by
Till babe and me's together, then it starts to fly

'Cause the moment that he's with me, time can take a flight
The moment that he's with me, everything's alright
Night time is the right time, we make love
Then it's his and my time, we take off

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine to five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 23, 2019, 11:02:53 PM

 Jump in the shower
 And the blood starts pumpin'
 Out on the street
 The traffic starts jumpin'
 The folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

 Workin' 9 to 5,
 What a way to make a livin'
 Barely gettin' by
 It's all takin' and no givin'
 They just use your mind
 And they never give you credit
 It's enough to drive you crazy
 If you let it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2019, 07:01:07 AM
In Germany in the forty five, my mind was on the altar
Thought of god, the iron rod and thought that needed shelter
From 'Tragen' pain and men insane and eyes that got much colder
Saw a German son with a Yankee gun and a uniform much older
Yankee, to war
Yankee, head high
Yankee, in call
Yankee, we cry
Working for the Yankee dollar
Working for the Yankee dollar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 24, 2019, 08:56:36 PM
Once I Built A Railroad, Made It Run
 Made it race against time
 Once i built a rairoad, now it's done
 Brother can you spare a dime?
 Once i built a tower to the sun
 Brick and rivet and lime
 Once i built a tower, now it's done
 Brother can you spare a dime?

 Once in khaki suits
 Gee, we looked swell
 Full of that yankee doodle de dum
 Half a million boots went slogging through hell
 I was the kid with the drum
 Say don't you remember, they called me al
 It was al all the time
 Say don't you remember, i'm your pal!
 Buddy can you spare a dime?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 24, 2019, 08:59:59 PM
Silver wings upon their chest. These are men, America’s best.
One hundred men will test today, but only three win the Green Beret.
Trained to live off nature’s land, trained in combat hand to hand,
Men who fight by night and day, courage big from the Green Beret.

Back at home a young wife waits. Her Green Beret has met his fate.
He has died for those oppressed, leaving her his last request.
Put silver wings on my son’s chest. Make him one of America’s best.
He’ll be a man they’ll test one day. Have him win the Green Beret.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2019, 09:03:24 PM
The marching band came down along Main Street
The soldier blues fell in behind
I looked across and there I saw Billy
Waiting to go and join the line

And with her head upon his shoulder
His young and lovely fiancée
From where I stood I saw she was cryin'
And through her tears I heard her say:

"Billy, don't be a hero
Don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero
Come back and make me your wife"

And as Billy started to go, she said
"Keep your pretty head low
Billy, don't be a hero
Come back to me"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 24, 2019, 09:06:20 PM
*Paper Lace from Nottingham you know!


(Quiero ser tu héroe)

Si una vez yo pudiera llegar
A erizar de frio tu piel
A quemar que sé yo, tu boca
Y morirme allí después
Y si entonces
Temblaras por mi
Lloraras al verme sufrir
Ay sin dudar tu vida entera dar
Como yo la doy por ti

Si pudiera ser tu héroe
Si pudiera ser tu dios
Que salvarte a ti mil veces
Puede ser mi salvación
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2019, 09:36:43 PM
Du
Koenntest Du schwimmen
Wie Delphine
Delphine es tun
Niemand gibt uns eine Chance
Doch wir koennen siegen
Fuer immer und immer
Und wir sind dann Helden
Fuer einen tag

Ich
Ich bin dann Koenig
Und Du
Du Koenigin
Auch wenn sie
Unschlagbar scheinen
Werden wir Helden
Fuer einen Tag
Wir sind dann wir
An diesem Tag
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 25, 2019, 10:28:16 AM
Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
Where's the street wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight, fresh from the fight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2019, 10:33:23 AM
(street wise Hercules is a brilliant lyric)

Bless my soul
Herc was on a roll
Undefeated
Riding high
And the nicest guy
not conceited


He was a nothin'
A zero, zero
Now he's a hot shot
He's a hero
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 26, 2019, 02:21:07 PM
Would you dance if I asked you to dance?
Or would you run and never look back?
Would you cry if you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul tonight?
Would you tremble if I touched your lips?
Or would you laugh? Oh, please tell me this
Now would you die for the one you love?
Oh hold me in your arms tonight

I can be your hero baby
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 27, 2019, 08:35:03 AM
We've just been introduced,
I do not know you well,
But when the music started
Something drew me to your side.
So many men and girls,
Are in each others arms.
It made me think we might be
Similarly occupied.
Shall we dance?
On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?
Shall we dance?
Shall we then say "Goodnight and mean "Goodbye"?
Or perchance,
When the last little star has left the sky,
Shall we still be together
With are arms around each other
And shall you be my new romance?
On the clear understanding
That this kind of thing can happen,
Shall we dance?
Shall we dance?
Shall we Dance?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 27, 2019, 09:05:40 AM
Yesterday - well it seemed so cool
When I walked you home, kissed goodnight
I said "it's love" you said "all right"
It's funny how I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying'

Dance away the heartache
Dance away, tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away, fears
Dance away...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 27, 2019, 02:38:07 PM
Chorando se foi quem um dia só me fez chorar
Chorando se foi quem um dia só me fez chorar
Chorando estará, ao lembrar de um amor
Que um dia não soube cuidar
Chorando estará, ao lembrar de um amor
Que um dia não soube cuidar
A recordação vai estar com ele aonde for
A recordação vai estar pra sempre aonde for
Dança sol e mar, guardarei no olhar
O amor faz perder e encontrar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 28, 2019, 07:25:47 AM
Your love is king
Crown you with my heart
Your love is king
Never need to part
Your kisses ring
Round and round and round my head
Touching the very part of me
It's making my soul sing
Tearing the very heart of me
I'm crying out for more 
Your love is king
Crown you with my heart
Your love is king
You're the ruler of my heart
Your kisses ring
Round and round and round my head
Touching the very part of me
It's making my soul sing
I'm crying out for more
Your love is king 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 28, 2019, 08:45:17 AM
Tu corazón, es el lugar de mis sueños
Dónde me pierdo y me encuentro
Es mi refugio de amor
Tu corazón, es donde yo vivo y muero
Me hace sentir tan completo
Vivamos al mismo latir... corazón....corazón

Es en la luz de tus ojos
Que llego a encontrar mi paz
Solo a tu lado, no existe ni tiempo ni espacio

Por dónde quiera que estés
Yo contigo estaré
Te he buscado por cada rincón
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 28, 2019, 08:51:32 AM
Oh I wear my heart on my sleeve, don't count the cost
 If I can't live in love, then surely I've lost
 Oh you tend to get burn, tend to get bruised
 But it's my life, the way that I choose

 And I just wanna let you know
 Sometimes I find it so hard not to show
 Oh don't sigh, baby you're not alone

 I wear my heart on my sleeve, I wear my heart on my sleeve
 I wear my heart on my sleeve, I wear my heart on my sleeve
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 28, 2019, 05:43:07 PM
Everybody knows that I love you
Everybody knows that I need you
Everybody knows that I do, except you

I told the stars above
About the one I love
I told the morning sun
Yeah I'm telling everyone
I told my mum and dad
They seemed to understand
And I'll get through to you
If it's the last thing that I do

Everybody knows that I love you
Everybody knows that I need you
Everybody knows that I do, except you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 28, 2019, 05:54:08 PM
Don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
When I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all

À tout le monde [To all the world]
À tout mes amis [To all my friends]
Je vous aime [I love you]
Je dois partir [I have to leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 28, 2019, 06:06:10 PM
Hey yo when this first started off it was just linkin park...
then in the middle came motion man...
and at the end of it all it was kutmasta kut wit a remix One thing i don't know why
it doesn't even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind i designed this rhyme when i was obsessed with time
all i know, time was just slipping way
and i watched it count down till the end of the day
watched it watch me and the words that i say
the echo of the clock rhythm in my veins
i know that i didn't look out below
and i watched the time go right out the window
trying to grab hold, trying not to watch
i wasted it all on the hands of the clock
but in the end no matter what i pretend
the journey is more important than the end or the start
and what it meant to me will eventually be
a memory of the time when i tried so hard

I tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesn't even matter
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 28, 2019, 09:04:27 PM

Don't put your head on my shoulder
Sink me in a river of tears
This could be the best place yet
But you must overcome your fears
In time we could've been so much more
But time is precious I know
In time we could've been so much more
The time has nothing to show
because
Time won't give me time
And time makes lovers feel
Like they've got something real
But you and me we know
We got nothing
but time
And time won't give me time
Won't give me time
Don't make me feel any colder
Time is like a clock in my heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 28, 2019, 09:07:07 PM
Now you say you're lonely
You cry the whole night thorough
Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For bein' so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 29, 2019, 08:26:30 AM
Betty came by on her way
 Said she had a word to say
About things today
 And fallen leaves.

 Said she hadn't heard the news
 Hadn't had the time to choose
 A way to lose
 But she believes.

 Going to see the river man
 Going to tell him all I can
 About the plan
 For lilac time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 30, 2019, 04:45:07 PM
Jeannine, I dream of lilac time
Your eyes, they beam in the lilac time
Your winning smile
And cheeks blushing like the rose
Yet all the while, you sigh when nobody knows
Jeannine, my queen of lilac times
When I return, I'll make you mine
For you and I, our love dream can never die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 30, 2019, 04:47:42 PM

We'll gather lilacs in the spring again
And walk together down a British lane
Until our hearts have learned to sing again
When you come home once more

And in the evening by the firelight's glow
You'll hold me close and never let me go
Your eyes will tell me all I long to know
When you come home once more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 30, 2019, 11:31:12 PM
Look out baby
Look out Pet
Here's the kid
Who's gonna get the Blues
When you go away
I'm on fire
Cause I'm in love
With a girl who's not the girl she was
When I was out with her

I saw you in the garden baby
You looked so debonair
Beware of the flowers
'Cause I'm sure they're gonna get you
Yeah!

(The incomparable John Otway whom I have seen live three times. He is such fun!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on October 31, 2019, 09:33:38 AM
There's an old superstition 'way down south
Everybody believes that trouble won't stay
If you shake it away

When they hold a revival way down south
Everybody with care and trouble that day
Tries to shake it away

Shaking the blues away, unhappy news away
If you are blue, it's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles

Telling the blues to go, they may refuse to go
But as a rule, they'll go if you'll
Shake them away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2019, 10:15:41 AM
I never miss a beat
 I'm lightning on my feet
 And that's what they don't see, mmm-mmm
 That's what they don't see, mmm-mmm

 I'm dancing on my own (dancing on my own)
 I make the moves up as I go (moves up as I go)
 And that's what they don't know, mmm-mmm
 That's what they don't know, mmm-mmm

 But I keep cruising
 Can't stop, won't stop grooving
 It's like I got this music
 In my mind
 Saying, "It's gonna be alright."

 'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
 And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
 Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
 I shake it off, I shake it off
 Heart-breakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
 And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
 Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
 I shake it off, I shake it off
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 31, 2019, 03:50:13 PM
I'm in a dancing mood
I'm in a dancing mood
I'm in a dancing mood

When you feel the beat
You've got to move your feet
You've got to clap your hands
You've got all the soul
Deep inside 'cause you can't hide

I'm in a dancing mood
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2019, 04:02:45 PM
Daddy started out in San Francisco
 Tootin' on his trumpet loud and mean
 Suddenly a voice said, go forth, Daddy
 Spread the picture on a widest screen
 And the voice said, Daddy, there's a million pigeons
 Waitin' to be hooked on new religions
 Hit the road, Daddy leave your common law wife
 Spread the religion of the rhythm of life

 And the rhythm of life is a powerful beat
 Puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet
 Rhythm in your bedroom, rhythm in the street
 Yes, the rhythm of life is a powerful beat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 31, 2019, 10:41:01 PM
Single pigeon through the railing
Did she throw you out
Sunday morning fight about Saturday night
Single seagull gliding over Regent's Park canal
Do you need a pal for a minute or two
You do
Me too, me too, me too
I'm a lot like you
Me too, me too, me too
I'm a lot like you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 01, 2019, 09:09:39 AM
Early each day to the steps of Saint Paul's
The little old bird woman comes
In her own special way to the people
She calls, "Come, buy my bags full of crumbs"

"Come feed the little birds, show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do
Their young ones are hungry, their nests are so bare
All it takes is tuppence from you"

Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
Feed the birds," that's what she cries
While overhead, her birds fill the skies


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 01, 2019, 01:41:03 PM
Spring is here, spring is here
Life is skittles and life is beer
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the spring, I do, don't you? Course you do
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me
And makes every Sunday a treat for me

All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park
Every Sunday you'll see my sweetheart and me
As we poison the pigeons in the park
When they see us coming
The birdies all try and hide
But they still go for peanuts
When coated with cyanide

The sun's shining bright
Everything seems all right
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2019, 09:40:18 AM
Your cruel device,
Your blood like ice.
One look could kill,
My pain, your thrill.

I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don't touch)
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you, but your lips are venomous poison
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 02, 2019, 11:33:17 AM
White shirt, now red my bloody nose
Sleeping, you're on your tippy toes
Creeping around like no one knows
Think you're so criminal
Bruises, on both my knees for you
Don't say thank you or please
I do what I want when I'm wanting to
My soul? So cynical

So you're a tough guy
Like it really rough guy
Just can't get enough guy
Chest always so puffed guy
I'm that bad type
Make your mama sad type
Make your girlfriend mad tight
Might seduce your dad type
I'm the bad guy, duh

I'm the bad guy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2019, 12:11:38 PM
Folks think want an extra special kind
when i get the type of man i want
i know i’m gonna have a little time
got to be ambitious, a man that loves to work
i don’t want no man that’s lazy, no man that tries to shirk
i want a two-fisted, double-jointed, rough and ready man
i want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man

now he can be a backwards farmer or a digger in a ditch
he can even drive a garbage wagon
honey it don’t make no difference which
long as he’s a two-fisted (oh please), double-jointed, rough and ready man
i want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 02, 2019, 06:08:16 PM
We got a bucket of Corona,
Enough stories to last all night,
About the trials and tribulations,
Of findin' Mr. Right:
Of findin' a good man.

Here's to the liars and the cheaters and the cold mistreaters;
To the Momma's boys who can't make a stand.
Here's to the superficial players;
The "I love ya" too-soon-sayers;
If you hear me girls, raise your hand:
Let's have a toast:
Here's to findin' a good man.

Blind dates an' horror stories;
Pushy gals and fast movers.
Let's dedicate this girl's night out,
To big-talkers; bad losers,
It's so hard findin' a good man.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 02, 2019, 11:25:10 PM
Quote
It's so hard findin' a good man.

On the other hand it's good finding a hard man.

Anyway:


When you grow up, livin' like a good boy oughta
And your mama, takes a shine to her best son
Something different, all the girls they seem to like you
Cause you're handsome, like to talk and a whole lot of fun
But now your girl's gone a missin'
And your house has got an empty bed
The folks'll wonder 'bout the wedding
They won't listen to a word you said
Gonna take your mama out all night
Yeah we'll show her what it's all about
We'll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne
We'll let the good times all roll out
And if the music ain't good, well it's just too bad
We're gonna sing along no matter what
Because the dancers don't mind at the New Orleans
If you tip 'em and they make a cut
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2019, 09:43:51 AM

Seeing na-na, my parin
Couzine and my ma and pa
Want to plant my feet on Rampart Street
Be there for the Mardi Gras

Goin' back home, fe nan e'
And never more will I roam
Goin get me fill of that etoufee
Cus New Orleans is my home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 03, 2019, 09:51:41 AM
Well, way down yonder in New Orleans in the land of the dreamy scenes
There's a Garden of Eden, ah, you know what I mean
Yeah, Creole babies with flashin' eyes softly whisper with tender sighs
And then you stop
Oh won't you give your lady fair a little smile
And then you stop
You bet your life you'll linger there a little while
Yeah, there is heaven right here on earth with those beautiful queens
Yeah, way down yonder in New Orleans
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 03, 2019, 09:51:57 AM
C'mon take me to the Mardi Gras
Where the people sing and play
Where the dancing is elite
And there's music in the street
Both night and day
Hurry take me to the Mardi Gras
In the city of my dreams
You can legalize your lows
You can wear your summer clothes
In the New Orleans
And I will lay my burden down
Rest my head upon that shore
And when I wear that starry crown
I won't be wanting anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2019, 10:09:53 AM
Well I met old Satan in the lane
and I hit him in the head with a walkin' cane.
I'm goin' to wear that starry crown over there

Over there, over there,
I'm goin' to wear that starry crown, over there.
Well I got no skillet, I got no lid
Ashcake tastes like shortenin' bread!
I'm goin' to wear that starry crown over there.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2019, 04:19:22 PM
Isn't that my girl
And is that my best friend
Aren't they walking much too close together
And it don't look like they're talking about the weather

I must be seeing things I thought I'd never see
I must be hearing things when I hear her say to him
"I want you, I need you, I love you"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2019, 04:24:31 PM
The way she walks
The way she talks
How long can I pretend
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
with the girl of my best friend

Her lovely hair
Her skin so fair
I could go on and never end
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
With the girl of my best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2019, 04:41:05 PM
Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet
Only when I stop to think about it
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

Only when I start to think about you I know
Only when you start to think about me do you know
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
You hate everything about me
Why do you love me

I hate
You hate
I hate
You love me
I hate everything about you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2019, 05:08:25 PM
So sick of your games, I?ll set your truck to flames
And watch it blow up, blow up, tell me (How you gonna see it now)
So far I'm sincere {I love you}, fabrications in my ear
Drive me so far up the wall, I come slidin? down

What is this I see (I don't believe this)
You don't come home to me
When you don't come home to me
I can't deal, can't bear (I won?t)

You keep tellin? me lies
But to your surprise
Look, I hope you're happy
Since you're caught out there

Yeah, you've been caught
Yo?, come on
Come on

I hate you so much right now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 03, 2019, 07:42:55 PM
Never felt bad lending a hand
I think you hoped i wouldn't be in a band
Broken ashtray i can always replace
I kick the door then i spit in you face
You are not my friend
Never ever again
Dream of sunsets with a drink the in sand
Of all my friends and losing money in the van

Remember holidays that weren't such a waste
And a broken jaw from a punch in the face
Picture perfect with a frame that pretends
To be a martyr for a cause with no end
I was thinking that you needed a break
What i meant was every bone in your face

A mental photo of discoloured eyes
Of dirty carpets and moistened thighs
These recollections i will keep to the end
I'm sure it's wrong that you were never my friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 03, 2019, 07:57:58 PM
Sneaking out at night
Living like we're free
You and I can do anything we please
You've got the face to fit the frame
I cannot look away
Like can't you see
I'm hypnotized
We're picture perfect
Sweet like candy
I'll be your girl
Yeah
I'll be your baby
Picture perfect
Barefoot beauty
You stole my heart
Just like in a movie
Got the key to me
Tell me, tell me
I'm your darling daisy
Picture perfect
Sweet like candy
I'll be your girl
Yeah
I'll be your baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 03, 2019, 11:02:45 PM
I don't want half-hearted love affairs
I need someone who really cares
Life is too short to play silly games
I've promised myself I won't do that again
It's got to be perfect, it's got to be worth it, yeah
Too many people take second best
Well, I won't take anything less
It's got to be, yeah, perfect
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 04, 2019, 05:51:30 AM
Still you're in my dreams
Ok not constantly, baby
But believe me enough
To be eternally, endlessly
Stirred but never shaken
Well turned, but never burned
By your love

Your perfect love
(Your perfect love)
Your perfect love
(Your perfect love)
Your perfect love
(Your perfect love)
Your perfect love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2019, 07:21:54 AM
And maybe I’m a little bit selfish
Maybe this is just a crush
I can be a little bit jealous
Maybe I think too much
I know that I can be hard to reach
But I promise I’d let you in, yeah
Girl you know I still need love


I know I’m perfectly imperfect for you
But girl I promise my intentions are true
So if you gotta little bit of patience
Baby we could make it through
Cause you know that I’ll be perfectly imperfect for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 04, 2019, 06:59:27 PM
'll give you all that I own
You got me standing in line
Out in the cold
Pay me some mind

Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me
Long as you love me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me
You got the power to turn on the light

Everybody tells me I'm wrong
To want you so badly (badly, badly, badly)
But there's a force driving me on
I follow it gladly (gladly, gladly, gladly)
So let them laugh I don't care
Cause I got nothing to hide
All that I want is you by my side

Bend…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 05, 2019, 08:27:14 AM
I got plenty of nothing
And nothing's plenty for me
I got no car - got no mule
I got no misery

Folks with plenty of plenty
They've got a lock on the door
Afraid somebody's gonna rob 'em
While there out making more - what for
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 05, 2019, 10:19:05 AM
 ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
 Ain't got no money, ain't got no class
 Ain't got no skirts, ain't got no sweater
 Ain't got no perfume, ain't got no bed
 Ain't got no mind

 Ain't got no mother, ain't got no culture
 Ain't got no friends, ain't got no schooling
 Ain't got no love, ain't got no name
 Ain't got no ticket, ain't got no token
 Ain't got no God

 And what have I got?
 Why am I alive anyway?
 Yeah, what have I got
 Nobody can take away?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2019, 03:41:20 PM
Take me for what I am
'Cause I'll never change
All my colors for you
Take my love
I'll never ask for too much
Just all that you are
And everything that you do
I don't really need to look
Very much further

I don't wanna have to go
Where you don't follow
I will hold it back again
This passion inside
Can't run from myself
There's nowhere to hide
Don't make me close one more door
I don't wanna hurt anymore

Stay in my arms if you dare
Or must I imagine you there
Don't walk away from me
I have nothing, nothing, nothing
If I don't have you, you, you, you, you

(I could still cry over Whitney)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 05, 2019, 04:47:15 PM

And when I see the sign that points one way
The lot we used to pass by every day

Just walk away, Renée
You won't see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
You're not to blame

From deep inside the tears
I'm forced to cry
From deep inside the pain
That I chose to hide

Just walk away, Renée
You won't see me follow you back home
Now as the rain burns down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2019, 06:56:21 PM
Walk away, please go
Before you throw your life away
A life that I could share for just a day
We should have met some years ago

For your sake I say
Walk away, just go.
Walk away, and live
A life that's full
With no regret
Don't look back at me
Just try to forget

Why build a dream that cannot come true
So be strong, reach the stars now
Walk away, walk on.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 05, 2019, 07:05:42 PM
The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms
The thoughts we used to share I now keep alone
I woke last night and spoke to you not thinking you were gone
And it felt so strange to lie awake alone

There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2019, 07:50:52 PM
As long as the stars shine down from the heavens,
Long as the rivers run to the sea,
I'll never get over you getting over me
Oh, no matter what I do,
Each night's a lifetime to live through
I can't go on like this
I need your touch
You're the only one I've ever loved
Oh oh ah

And as long as the stars shine down from the heavens,
Long as the rivers run to the sea,
I'll never get over you getting over me
Never get over you getting over
I'll never get over you getting over me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on November 05, 2019, 09:04:50 PM
Wide river
She opens her mouth to the sea
Singing dear, dear ocean, now
Here is a kiss from me

And she runs like a river to the setting sun
She runs like a river that has never been won
She runs like a river that will always be free

Wide river
Carry me back home
To the place I love
That I call my own

And we can run like a river to the setting sun
Run like a river that has never been won
Run like a river that will always be free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2019, 09:44:55 PM
Left a good job in the city
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2019, 06:53:08 AM

Mary, Mary, where you goin' to?
Mary, Mary, can I go too.
This one thing I will vow ya,
I'd rather die than to live without ya.
Mary, Mary, where you goin' to?

Mary, Mary, tell me truly
What did I do to make you leave me.
Whatever it was I didn't mean to,
You know I never would try and hurt ya.
Mary, Mary, where you goin' to?

What more, Mary, can I do
To prove my love is truly yours?
I've done more now than a clear-thinkin' man would do.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 06, 2019, 08:54:52 AM
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2019, 10:10:53 AM
Don't take this Heaven from one
 Well if you must cling to someone
 Now and forever
 Let it be me

 Each time we meet love
 I find complete love
 Without your sweet love
 Tell me, what would life be?

 So never leave me lonely
 Just tell me you love me only
 And that you'll always
 Let it be me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2019, 04:22:19 PM
I don't mind when you say that you're going away
I just don't want to be lonely
And I don't care if you share only moments a day
I just don't want to be lonely

I'd rather be loved and needed
Depended on to give a love I can't give
When you're gone, when you're gone
I just don't want to be lonely

I'd just rather be loved
I don't mind when the time sets the sun to the moon
I just don't want to be lonely
Let the stairs find you there, at the end of the room
I just don't want to be lonely
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2019, 04:42:21 PM
I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 06, 2019, 09:09:09 PM
Children keep on dreaming
When you wake i will be gone
I will vanish with the darkness
And i will leave before the dawn
I am going to a city by the sea
But don't you worry, because

I carry you with me
I carry you with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2019, 08:16:13 AM
Down here all the fish is happy
 As off through the waves they roll

 The fish on the land ain't happy
 They're sad 'cause they're in a bowl

 But fish in the bowl is lucky
 They're in for a worser fate

 One day when the boss gets hungry
 Guess who's gon' be on the plate (uh-oh)

 Under the sea, under the sea
 Nobody beats us
 Fry us and eat us in fricassee

 We what the land folks love to cook
 Under the sea we off the hook

 We got no troubles life is the bubbles

 Under the sea, under the sea
 Since life is sweet here
 We got the beat here
 Naturally
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 07, 2019, 08:36:42 AM
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailin'
Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms
I'd go sailing
It's far beyond the stars
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2019, 08:39:04 AM
Birds flying high
 You know how I feel
 Sun in the sky
 You know how I feel
 Breeze driftin' on by
 You know how I feel

 It's a new dawn
 It's a new day
 It's a new life
 For me
 And I'm feeling good
 I'm feeling good

 Fish in the sea
 You know how I feel
 River running free
 You know how I feel
 Blossom on a tree
 You know how I feel

 It's a new dawn
 It's a new day
 It's a new life
 For me
 And I'm feeling good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 07, 2019, 05:52:42 PM
That is one lovely song, relaxing and sensual.

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dew fall on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight
Mine is the morning
Born of the one light Eden saw play




Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2019, 05:54:37 PM

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Black bird fly, black bird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 07, 2019, 10:39:31 PM
That certain night
The night we met
There was magic abroad in the air
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley square

I may be right I may be wrong
But I'm perfectly willing to swear
That when you turned and smiled at me
A nightingale sang in Berkeley square

(heard that recently, it was sung in a film I saw at cousin's house. It's stayed with me, charming song.)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 08, 2019, 08:27:07 AM

 High hats and narrow collars
 White spats and fifteen dollars
 Spending every dime
 For a wonderful time

 If you're blue
 And you don't know where to go to
 Why don't you go where Harlem sits
 Puttin' on the Ritz
 Spangled Gowns upon the bevy of
 High browns from down the levy
 All misfits
 Puttin' on the Ritz
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 06:55:23 AM
Baby put your clothes on, put on those brand new shoes
I wanna take you downtown, I gotta little blues to lose
I wanna see you dancing, swinging to a country song
I love to show you off, baby put your clothes on

We been sittin 'round here doin' nothin'
Baby we could use a little belt-buckle rubbin'
Where the lights are low and the music's fine
It Wouldn't hurt us none to have a little you and me time

Baby put your clothes on, paint up those pretty lips
Put on those cool blue jeans
The ones that ride low on your hips
You know you make their heads turn
Little girl you look so strong
I love to show you off, baby put your clothes on

Baby put your clothes on, put on those brand new shoes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 09:10:15 AM
Walking in the pouring rain
Walking with Jesus and Jane
Jane was in her turtleneck
I was much happier then

If I were to ask you
What would you do with yourself?
If I were to tell you
Would you just talk to yourself?

Am I asking oh for so much?
I'm not asking to be understood
Am I asking oh for so much?
I'm just looking for a brand new friend
A brand new friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 01:10:46 PM
All I need is a friend
Someone to give a helpin' hand
When I'm afraid in the night
Someone to squeeze me
And tell me it's alright

You know I worry such a lot
And I would give all I've got
Just to have someone believe in me
Just to do that and put me
Back on evenly

Baby, baby, be my friend
Baby, baby, be my friend
Baby, baby, be my friend
I will love you till the very end
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 09, 2019, 01:14:06 PM
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
Boy, you've got a friend in me
Yeah, you've got a friend in me

You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You've got troubles, and I've got 'em, too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and we see it through
'Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
I never had no one that I could count on
I've been let down so many times
I was tired of hurtin' so tired of searchin'
Til you walked into my life
It was a feelin' I'd never known
And for the first time I didn't feel alone

You're more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Every time I look at you

I don't know where I'd be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
You're my best friend
You're my best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 09, 2019, 03:34:55 PM
Love is a many splendoured thing
It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king
Once on a high and windy hill, In the morning mist
Two lovers kissed and the world stood still
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing
Yes, true love's a many splendoured thing.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 03:45:56 PM

I wish my heart could whisper my delight
When I behold what I love best;
A rose, a ship, a book, a bird in flight,
Orion riding in the West.

But when I look upon the best of men,
Or hear his voice far up the hill,
Such noisy thoughts sing in my bosom then
I'm glad my heart is silent still.

My heart is silent still.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 05:05:04 PM
The heater's on
The windows are thin
I'm trying hard
To keep this warmth in

I turn to her
She's sound asleep
Someplace I don't know
Doesn't matter how far you come
You've always got further to go

I tried to tell you
I can only say it when were apart
About this storm inside of me
And how I miss your quiet, quiet heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 05:16:43 PM


The heat is on, on the street
Inside your head, on every beat
And the beat's so loud, deep inside
The pressure's high, just to stay alive
'Cause the heat is on


Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho
Caught up in the action I've been looking out for you
Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho
(Tell me can you feel it)
(Tell me can you feel it)
(Tell me can you feel it)
The heat is on, the heat is on, the heat is on
Oh it's on the street , the heat is - on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 06:54:22 PM
Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole
Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole
Feelin' Hot Hot Hot
Feelin' Hot Hot Hot
BRASS SOLO
Me mind on fire,
Me soul on fire
Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!
All da people,
All around me
Feelin Hot Hot Hot!

(Strictly just started)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 07:37:44 PM
Set the bait and I'm waiting
In a state of concentrating
I'm gonna knock this mothafucka down
Down, down-down-down
And there's a catch with this waiting
Alone my thoughts are overtaking
Do I got the strength to take this fucker down?

Deep in me
Is something
Talking shit
Pushing me
Cold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 09:37:50 AM
which naturally leads to:

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away

Mama, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 09:43:05 AM

Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube ohh oh oh oh
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan?
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 09:53:47 AM
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to

If a man ever needed dyin', he did
No one had the right to say what he said about you
And it's so cold and lonely here without you
Out there the law's a comin'
I'm gettin' so tired of runnin'

Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 12:57:25 PM
Uno, due, tre, quattro
Oh what did Missi sip boy
What did Missi sip
What did Missi sip boy
Through her pretty lips

She sipped a Minne sota
She sipped a Minne sota
She sipped a Minne sota
That's what she did sip

Un deux trois quatre
Where has Oregon, boy
Where has Oregon
If you wan Al-ask-a
Al-ask-a where she's gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 01:07:26 PM
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine
In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine
Where you carved your name and I carved mine.

Oh, you - like the mountains are blue
Like the pine - I am lonesome for you
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 02:42:54 PM

Veins without the blood, legs without the run,
Sex without the come, you got aches without the fun.
I saw it and I knew it, I was right inside it,
You can close your mind but then you just ain't trying, no.

Tap tap on my windowsill and now I'll let you in, yeah.
Cheep cheep from a sparrow says you ain't gonna win, no.

Carve your name into my heart, better than a tattoo or a photograph.
Put your face on a contact lens, only I have been to all the places we've seen and,
Where am I gonna go gonna go it again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 04:40:08 PM
I know what you're doing
When you flip your hair like that
Body language so fluent
I can read your silhouette, oh
And I know what you're thinking
When you bite your lip, I swear
That I'm not overthinking
Got your signals everywhere

So let's lose control and rock the boat
You know you want it, you know you want it
Let's break the rules, a little rendez-vous
You know you want it, you know you want it, baby
I want a piece of your mind

So let me in, let me in now
Don't wanna take up your time
Just have a drink, have a drink
Let's lose control and rock the boat
You know you want it, you know you want it
Let's break the rules, a little rendez-vous
You know you want it
'Cause I just wanna know you better
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 04:59:11 PM

I sailed away on that little boat to Heaven
And by some chance
Found a bottle in my fist
And there I stood
Nicely, passing out the wiskey
But the passenger were bound to resist

For the people all said
Beware, you're on a Heavenly trip
Beware beware you'll struggle the ship
And the devil will drag you under
By the fancy tie
'round your wicked throat
Sit down!
Sit down!
Sit down!
Sit down you're rocking the boat!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 05:09:01 PM
Boat drinks.
Boys in the band ordered boat drinks.
Visitors just scored on the home rink.
Everything seems to be wrong.
Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap airfare.
I've got to fly to Saint Somewhere.
I'm close to bodily harm.

Twenty degress and the hockey game's on.
Nobody cares; they are way too far gone,
screamin' "Boat drinks, "
somethin' to keep them all warm.

This morning,
I shot six holes in my freezer.
I think I got cabin fever.
Somebody sound the alarm.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 05:19:20 PM

There ain't no secrets anymore
My name's been hanging on the hook outside your door
Just an old eyesore

I got this feeling, I can't keep it down anymore
Bring me some healing
Saint Cecilia, carry me home to your house of broken bones
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 10, 2019, 05:32:37 PM
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed someone's taken my place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 06:13:06 PM
I've got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
I say, I've got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
To pick up me a tombstone, and be pronounced dead
When I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
That's when I decided, that I would be better off dead
It read, there is no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Oh, there's no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Yes, because it's all over now, and you can bet on that
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 06:32:17 PM

Well, I used to wake in the morning, get my breakfast in bed
When I'd gotten worried she'd ease my aching head
But now she's here and there, with every man in town
Still trying to take me for that same old clown

Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 07:00:26 PM
misogynistic or what:-

Who's gonna water my plants?
Who's gonna patch my pants?
And who's gonna give me
The chance to feel brand new?

Who's gonna iron my shirts?
Who's gonna kiss where it hurts?
And who needs a man when
He flirts the way I do?

Who, if not you?
Who, if not you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2019, 07:08:26 PM
Lucifer son of the mourning, I'm gonna chase you out of earth!
I'm gonna put on a iron shirt, and chase satan out of earth
I'm gonna put on a iron shirt, and chase the devil out of earth
I'm gonna send him to outa space, to find another race
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 10:30:05 PM
Do you believe in power with this demon?
Do you think you can resist?

I will be your angel being a demon
I'll be behind you, Ryuk
I was behind Light

Okay, I'll be your devil
I hope you know how to control
I can do many things

I will be the devil to take care of you
Talcual an angel of hell
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 10, 2019, 10:51:30 PM
It's that ole devil called love again
Gets behind me and keeps giving me that shove again
Putting rain in my eyes
Tears in my dreams
And rocks in my heart
It's that sly old sun of a gun again
He keeps telling me that I'm the lucky one again
But I still have that rain
Still have those tears
And those rocks in my heart
S'pose I didn't stay
Ran away
Wouldn't play
The devil
What a potion he would brew?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 11:11:49 PM
You are my special angel
Sent from up above
The Lord smiled down on me
And sent an angel to love
You are my special angel
Right from paradise
I know you're an angel
Heaven is in your eyes
The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine
Tears from your eyes bring the rain
I feel your touch, your warm embrace
And I'm in heaven again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 11, 2019, 06:16:30 AM

You're a child of sweet sixteen
Never made the big town scene
Always loved to stay at home
Never made it on your own

I see your picture
what do I see
The face of an angel
Staring at me
staring at me

Angel face
angel face
You've got the cutest angel face

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 11, 2019, 09:39:07 AM
Donald Trump sings this in front of the mirror each morning.....

Baby face you've got the cutest little baby face
There's not another who can take your place
Baby face my heart poor heart is thumpin' you sure have started somethin'
Baby face I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace
Uh well I need a shove because I'm in love with my pretty baby face.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 11, 2019, 09:49:24 AM
Heaven is closer now today
 The sound is in my ears
 I can't believe the things you say
 They echo what I fear
 Twisting the bones until they snap
 I scream but no one knows
 You say I'm familiar cold to touch
 And then you turn and go

 Feels like heaven...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 11, 2019, 05:57:33 PM
I grieve for you
you leave me
'so hard to move on
still loving what's gone
they say life carries on
carries on and on and on and on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 11, 2019, 06:34:18 PM
Another missing person
One of many we assume
The young wear their freedom
Like cheap perfume

(It's useless information)
Returning my call
(To help the situation)
They've nothing at all
You're just another message
On a pay phone wall

Carrie doesn't live here anymore
(Carrie)
Carrie used to room on the second floor
(On the second)
Sorry that she left no forwarding address
That was known to me, Carrie

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 11, 2019, 09:29:52 PM
Wednesday morning at five o'clock
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free

She(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 12, 2019, 01:10:06 PM
She would never say where she came from
 Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
 While the sun is bright
 Or in the darkest night
 No one knows
 She comes and goes
 Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
 Who could hang a name on you?
 When you change with every new day
 Still I'm gonna miss you...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 12, 2019, 11:52:00 PM
You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby

Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 13, 2019, 07:00:09 AM
I bought my baby a red radio 
He played it all a go-go a go-go 
He liked to dance to it down in the streets 
He said he loved me but he loved the beat 
But when I switch on I rotate the dial 
I could see it there driving him so wild 
I bought my baby a red radio 
He said he loved me but he had to go 
It just the same old show on my radio 
It just the same old show on my radio 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on November 13, 2019, 09:48:22 AM
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
There was nothin' happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll

Despite all the imputations
You know, you could just go out
And dance to a rock'n'roll station
And it was all right, hey baby,
You know, it was all right

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 13, 2019, 06:34:19 PM
Some of my friends sit around every evening
and they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
and the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut out;
they don't wanna hear about it.
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio...

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 13, 2019, 07:39:10 PM
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh, a, oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh, a, oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 13, 2019, 08:48:30 PM
 was making my way through the wasteland
The road into town passes through
I was changing the radio stations
With my mind on you
Oh your friends call you "Lily Paloma"
But that's not the way that you are
It's too much of a gentle misnomer
For a shooting star
But you and me baby
I saw you there
Straight away I knew
There's really no hiding
I'll tell you right now
What we're gonna do
We'll go collecting the days
Putting the moments away
You're on my mind like a
Song on the Radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 08:00:57 AM


Days I'll remember all my life,
Days when you can't see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me,
But it's all right,
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me.
Days.

Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I wont forget a single day, believe me.

I bless the light,
I bless the light that shines on you believe me.
And though you're gone,
Youre with me every single day, believe me.
Days.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 05:07:17 PM
Sometimes I get to feelin'
I was back in the old days, long ago
When we were kids, when we were young
Things seemed so perfect, you know?
The days were endless, we were crazy, we were young
The sun was always shinin', we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately, I just don't know
The rest of my life's been, just a show
Those are the days of our lives
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true
When I look and I find I still love you

You can't turn back the clock, you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame?
Ooh, I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately, I just don't know
Better sit back and go, with the flow

These are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 05:13:24 PM
I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons they wound sometimes

I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry, but baby

If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that've hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give them all to you
Then you'd love me, love me
Like you used to do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 05:29:57 PM
Holding back the years
Thinking of the fear I've had so long
When somebody hears
Listen to the fear that's gone
Strangled by the wishes of pater
Hoping for the arms of mater
Get to me the sooner or later

Holding back the tears
Chance for me to escape from all I know
Holding back the tears
'Cause nothing here has grown

I've wasted all my tears
Wasted all those years
Nothing had the chance to be good
Nothing ever could, yeah
I'll keep holding on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 05:40:45 PM
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor
drinking milk shakes cold and long
smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained
so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma
and I wanted to get back there
Your face
your race
the way that you talk
I kiss you
you're beautiful
I want you to walk
We've got five years
stuck on my eyes
Five years
What a surprise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 07:17:12 PM
The first time, ever i saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars
Were the gifts you gave
To the dark, and the endless skies
My love
To the dark, and the endless skies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 07:26:22 PM
Quote from: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 07:17:12 PM
The first time, ever i saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars
Were the gifts you gave
To the dark, and the endless skies
My love
To the dark, and the endless skies


Utterly beautiful song.


Anyway



Taking stock of what I have and what I haven't
What do I find?
The things I've have will keep me satisfied.
Checking up on what I have and what I haven't
What do I find?
A healthy balance on the credit side.

Got no diamonds, got no pearls,
Still I think I'm a lucky girl,
I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night

Got no mansion, got no yacht,
Still I'm happy with what I've got
I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 08:07:33 PM
I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no

When I'm drivin' in my car, and the man come on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more about some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey
That's what I say

I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 08:59:32 PM
Each day through my window
I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself
You're such a lucky guy
To have a girl like her
Is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellas in the world
She belongs to you

But it was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me-once again
Seems it was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 09:23:15 PM
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 09:35:56 PM
Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said "far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
You know, well you know, you had it comin' to you
Now, there's not a lot I can do

Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer
So now you put your head in your hands, oh no

I said, "far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
You know, well you know, you had it comin' to you
Now, there's not a lot I can do

Work it out someday
Oh ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 14, 2019, 10:09:11 PM
Okay, don't get excited man, it's 'cause I'm short, I know
Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings
The six-o'clock alarm would never ring
But six rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving razor's cold and it stings

Cheer up sleepy Jean
Oh, what can it mean to a
Daydream believer and a
Homecoming queen?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 14, 2019, 10:26:48 PM
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash back plazas
And ate all your razors while pullin' the waiters
Talking bout Monroe and walkin' on snow white
New York's a go-go and everything tastes right
Poor little Greene

Ohh
Hoo, ooo, ooo
Give up now

Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous
(Jean Genie)
He screams and he bawls
Jean Genie, let yourself go
Ooo, oww

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 15, 2019, 12:40:37 AM
You got it on the side
A little one night thing
I've bought it over and it's time that
I'll forgive youWell, I'm not letting go
But don't forget I know
You made your bed and she was in it
No no no

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her

(Nighty night)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 15, 2019, 06:27:21 AM

Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right through that open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be

When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets, no love, no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears

Bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big
Without you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 15, 2019, 08:11:58 AM
Nobody to keep me warm
No arms to hold me tight
I'm so unhappy leaving here all alone
So tired of these cold, lonely nights

Now it's you, girl, you that I need
Without you, honey, my heart's about to freeze, oh
It's cold in here (Cold in here)
So cold without your love (Cold without your love)
It's cold in here (Cold in here)
So cold without your love

When you were here with me
It was so warm, so warm in this house
Since you've been gone, girl
My love's been on ice
And only you can thaw it out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 15, 2019, 08:28:38 AM
Whose sticky hands are these?
And what is this empty place
I could be happily lost but for your face
Here stands an empty house
That used to be full of life
Now it's home for no one and his wife
It's a hovel and
Who can take your place?
I can't face another day
And who will shelter me?
It's cold in here
Cover me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 15, 2019, 10:16:16 AM
Sometimes you get so lonely
 Sometimes you get nowhere
 I've lived all over the world
 I've left every place

 Please be mine
 Share my life
 Stay with me
 Be my wife
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on November 15, 2019, 11:50:37 AM
Sometimes it ain't easy
Just to hit this damn guitar
'N sometimes it ain't easy
When you don't know who you are
And honey you don't make it easy
When I don't know where you are
And you knew I just can't take it
If your love is not all mine
And you know I just can't take it
If your love is not all mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 15, 2019, 12:04:52 PM
Know it sounds funny
But, I just can't stand the pain
Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl
You know I've done all I can
You see I begged, stole, and I borrowed! (yeah)

Ooh that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 15, 2019, 01:24:19 PM
I don't care if Monday's black
 Tuesday, Wednesday heart attack
 Thursday never looking back
 It's Friday I'm in love

 Monday you can hold your head
 Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
 Or Thursday watch the walls instead
 It's Friday I'm in love

 Saturday wait
 And Sunday always comes too late
 But Friday never hesitate...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 03:33:14 PM
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be sure

Oh, oh, oh tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 04:09:41 PM
Quote from: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 03:33:14 PM
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be sure

Oh, oh, oh tell me why
I don't like Mondays

I Have a CD of me singing that somewhere - it has a flip Side with this on it - which is the only connection

What a dream I had
 Pressed in organdy
 Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy
 Softer than the rain
 I wandered empty streets
 Down past the shop displays
 I heard cathedral bells
 Tripping down the alley ways
 As I walked on

 And when you ran to me
 Your cheeks flushed with the night
 We walked on frosted fields
 Of juniper and lamplight
 I held your hand

 And when I awoke and felt you warm and near
 I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears
 Oh, I love you, girl
 Oh, I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 04:18:55 PM
She is my true love
The touch of her hand captured my soul
And the kiss from her lips set my heart aglow
And I know from Heaven, From Heaven above
Came my, my true love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 04:45:25 PM
After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run
You're a winner

You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool

You're at your best when when the going gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power
When all hell's breaking loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm
You got the heart
You got the motion
You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 06:04:37 PM
I've got the power, hey, yeah, hey

Like the crack of the whip, I snap attack
Front to back in this thing called rap
Dig it like a shovel, rhyme Devil on a Heavenly level
Bang the bass, turn up the treble
Radical mind day and night all the time
Seven, fourteen, wise, divine
Maniac, brainiac, winning the game
I'm the lyrical Jesse James

Oh, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, gettin' kinda heavy
It's getting', it's getting', it's gettin' kinda heavy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 06:20:51 PM
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 07:54:29 PM
People were standing, all around
At a shot gun wedding, here in this town
And I'm the victim oh yeh
Of a shotgun wedding
'Cause your fathers got a gun
And there ain't no place to run
Shotgun wedding and oh yeh
Now I got to find a job, yes I have
You, me, the baby makes three

Shotgun (shotgun)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 08:00:34 PM
It's a nice day to start again
C'mon, it's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again, ow!
There is nothing fair in this world, baby
There is nothing safe in this world
And there's nothing sure in this world
And there's nothing pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again
C'mon, it's a nice day for a white wedding, wow!
It's a nice day to start again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 08:05:42 PM
Let's begin now
I woke up this morning and I said
You know instead of waitin' for a good day to happen, you know
Waitin' around through up's and down's, you know
We're gonna have
We're gonna have
We're gonna have a good day
And all my homies gonna ride today
And all these mommies look fly today
And all we wanna do is get by today
Heyyy

We're gonna have a good day
And ain't nobody gotta cry today
'Cause ain't nobody gonna die today
You save that drama for another day
Heyyy we're gonna have a good day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 08:10:53 PM


Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
They tell me your blue skies fade to grey
They tell me your passion's gone away

And I don't need no carryin' on
You stand in the line just ahead of the law
You're faking a smile with the coffee you go
You tell me your life's been way off line
You're falling to pieces everytime

And I don't need no carryin' on
Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 18, 2019, 09:12:23 PM
You got me runnin' goin' out of my mind
You got me thinkin' that I'm wastin' my time
(Don't bring me down, no no no no no)
I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor
(Don't bring me down)

You wanna stay out with your fancy friends
I'm tellin' you it's got to be the end
(Don't bring me down, no no no no no)
I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor
(Don't bring me down)

Don't bring me down, groos


Don't know what 'groos' means.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 18, 2019, 10:34:02 PM
You're at the stage
You want your empty words heard and everybody's ready
I want to know your secrets but you're not telling
You're just gesturing saying open up your arms and hearts, and lets me in

You must be out of your brilliant mind
You must be out of your brilliant mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2019, 06:24:53 PM
What's it like inside your head where you know you're the king?
And your wisdom and your talent are both never-ending
Where you help the little people who all need your helping
And the extent of who you are is more than just buying jeans
You and i are no one, both already dead
And i know that things are wonderful inside of your head but...
You're so stupid, you make no sense
You're so dense
You're unintelligent, irrelevant with no self-defense
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 19, 2019, 06:43:07 PM
When you go on your summer vacation you go to Juan-les-Pins
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even sun tan, on your back and on your legs

When the snow falls you're found in Saint Moritz
With the others of the jet-set
And you sip your Napoleon brandy
But you never get your lips wet, no you don't

But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2019, 07:37:35 PM
I book myself tables
At all the best restaurants, then eat alone
I buy myself fast cars
Just so I can drive them real fuckin' slow
I like my own company
Company, I don't need it
I'm not always cold
I'm just good on my own, so good on my own

I've always been told, one day, I'll find
Somebody who changes my mind
If they come along, I won't think twice
'Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah, I already got everything I need
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 19, 2019, 07:49:36 PM
You see, my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say, his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2019, 07:57:04 PM
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you

Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true, yeah
You'll be dead before your time is due, I know it
Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 19, 2019, 08:04:52 PM
Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though you know
That it is wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes, Oh,


Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl,
You're much too young, girl

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2019, 08:47:23 PM
You were too old for me
Although there was some apprehension
My plan was to wait and see
What God alone has brought together
Well, must be something
Well, there must be something

Much too old for me
Oh, the shortness of breath and the missteps never
Well, they never really fazed me
And all your old stories of war and depression were
Well, they were really something
Were they really something?
Well, they must be something

Not long ago, but far away
Away, away, away
You wrote the rules
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 19, 2019, 09:04:26 PM
Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here, it's just the radio
Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby
I love you, I really do
Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again
What to say to make you come again?
Come back to me again and play your sad guitar
Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby
I love you, I really do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 19, 2019, 09:09:41 PM
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh, a, oh
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh, a, oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 20, 2019, 06:40:57 AM
'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony, this life
Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah
No change, I can change, I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mould, I am here in my mould

But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mould, no, no (have you ever been down?) no, no

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2019, 05:39:00 PM
The world is treating me bad, misery
I'm the kind of guy
Who never used to cry
The world is treatin' me bad, misery

I've lost her now for sure
I won't see her no more
It's gonna be a drag, misery
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 20, 2019, 05:48:28 PM
By the look in your eye
I can tell you're going to cry
Is it over me?
If it is
Save your tears for I'm not worth it, you see

For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam
Wherever I lay my hat
That's my home
I'm telling you that's my home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2019, 06:33:26 PM
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name

They call me the wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 20, 2019, 08:17:10 PM
I don't know my name
I don't play by the rules of the game
So you say I'm just trying, just trying

So I heard you are my sister's friend
You get along quite nicely
You ask me why I cut my hair
And changed myself completely

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2019, 09:58:54 PM
She captures her reflection then she throws the mirror to the floor
Her image is distorted screaming, "Is it worth it anymore?"

No-oh-oh

Are you scared of the things that they might put you through?
Does it make you wanna hide the inner you?

You're not the only one so let them criticize
You're untouchable when you realize

Change, change your life, take it all
We're gonna stick together, know we'll get through it all
Change, change your life, take it all
( Yeah, take it all)
You're gonna use it to become what you've always known
( Become what you've always known)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 21, 2019, 07:09:09 AM


II watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 21, 2019, 10:35:59 PM
I've watched you go through changes
That no man should face alone
Take to heel or tame the horse
The choice is still your own
But arm yourself against the pain
A wounded bird can give
And in the end remember
It's with you you have to live
And in the end remember
It's with you you have to live
Stand your ground I think you've got
The guts it takes to win
But you must learn to turn the keys
Before she'll let you in
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 21, 2019, 10:41:32 PM
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2019, 06:16:43 AM

Where the clouds are made of candy floss
As the day is born.
When the stars are gone
We'll race to meet the dawn

So when I can only see the grey
Of a sad and very lonely day
That’s when I softly sigh
On white horses
Snowy white horses
Let me ride away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 22, 2019, 07:49:46 PM
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you've decided to show me the same
No sweeping exit or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2019, 09:28:07 PM
Ran a red light, running lonely through Gaudi's soft confusion
Hey, hey, my Barcelonian
Such a gentle Jones running through my bones
Placa reial calls, it calls, it calls
It calls the night home

And then her eyes like Spanish horses
Danced as language died
They danced like Spanish horses

As saddened skies descended on the night
We saw two ships set sail
And the lights danced on the water
They danced, they danced like Spanish horses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 22, 2019, 11:22:53 PM
Chilling in my four point six at the light
Bout to be VIP for the night
Shorty in the drop top V made a right
Pull up to her bumper baby, beeped twice
Jumped out the whip like I was the police
Didn't have a gun, but my wrist said freeze
Got Friday on a DVD
She's a baller and I'm a baller
What?

[Chorus]
To all my hot girls
Livin' fiesta
To all my hot boys
Livin' fiesta
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 23, 2019, 08:56:51 AM
Operate around the clock
Why don't you come in?
I've got lot's of space for everyone
Why don't you my friend?

Lines are short
I'll pick you up so won't you please come on
Shiny sleek machine believe
It I've got to blow your horn

Pull up to my bumper baby
In your long black limousine
Just pull up to my bumper baby
And drive it in between
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 23, 2019, 09:01:14 AM
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, "baby, can't you see
I want to be famous, a star on the screen
But you can do something in between
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 23, 2019, 09:04:59 AM
(Uh uh ah) Let me put my arms around your head
(Dom do ah) Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed
Don't forget to turn on the light
Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright
(Dom do ah) Pour me out another phone
(Dom do ah) I'll ring and see if your friends are home
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome
Can lend us a book we can read up alone

And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw

His name was always buddy (got got do ah aah aah)
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like twink the wonder kid (got got do ah)
And turn her face away

She's uncertain if she likes him (got got do ah aah aah)
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers (got got do ah)
It's a drive-in Saturday
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 23, 2019, 04:20:05 PM
Just shoot for the stars if it feels right
And aim for my heart if you feel like it
Take me away and make it okay
I swear I'll behave

You wanted control so we waited
I put on a show now we're naked
You say I'm a kid my ego is big
I don't give a shit and it goes like this

Take me by the tongue and I'll know you
Kiss me 'til you're drunk and I'll show you all the moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
I've got the moves like Jagger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 10:08:26 AM
Ahh you've gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2019, 02:39:44 PM
Like waking up from a fantasy
In all that's left is you and me
We're invincible in a violet sea
Dare to move
Dare to believe

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
How do we find our wings
How do you breathe without dreams
Where do we go from here
From here, from here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 24, 2019, 03:07:10 PM
If I never feel you in my arms again
If I never feel your tender kiss again
If I never hear "I love you" now and then
Will I never make love to you once again?
Please understand, if love ends
Then I promise you, I promise you that
That I shall never breathe again (breathe again, breathe again)
That I shall never breathe again (breathe again)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 03:49:21 PM

Last night in the sky
Such a bright light
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to keep

Breathing
Out, in, out, in, out, in
Breathing, breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing, breathing her nicotine
Breathing, breathing the fallout in
Out, in, out, in, out, in, out, in
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2019, 05:40:27 PM
I won't worry
'Cause there's no hurry
The world's not passin' me by
'Cause the Lord he knows
Just where each day goes
I know He won't leave me behind
And I won't be bringin' a single thing
That my heart can't carry inside
Lord I'm goin' home
And I'm only takin' my time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 06:06:06 PM

Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me,
And I realize: yes, I was only dreaming.

For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre.
On in on we'll walk at daybreak.
Then again I'll touch the green, green grass of home.

Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green, green grass of home.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2019, 07:16:39 PM
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 09:10:41 PM
Down in the meadow where the wind blows free, in the middle of a field stands a lightning tree.
It's limbs all torn from the day it was born for the tree was born in a thunderstorm.

Grow, grow, the lightning tree, it's never too late for you and me;
Grow, grow, the lightning tree, never give in too easily.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 24, 2019, 09:23:50 PM
She sits among the pieces
Of broken glass and photographs
Reluctantly releases the
Last of what was her past
It struck without a warning or
Did she just ignore the signs
In those dark clouds forming
Behind her silver lines?

[CHORUS:]
The door
It slammed like thunder
And the tears
They fell like rain
And the warnings
From her family
Whirl like a hurricane
She's drowning in emotions
And she cannot
Reach the shore
She's alive but
Can she survive the storm?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2019, 06:32:06 AM

Time it was 
And what a time it was, it was 
A time of innocence 
A time of confidences

Long ago it must be 
I have a photograph 
Preserve your memories 
They're all that's left you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2019, 07:07:30 AM
Lovely.

I had a friend who had friends by a river
They too had friends who had friends of their own
All seated round takin' port after dinner, Port that was bought by the friends that were known No one ever seems to care
Just as long as they were there
Friends beside you
Friends to guide you
Friends beside you, everywhere. There's nothing new, it's all there to remind you
It's no different anyway you recall
You only wait around and float on every corner
And know you're in luck' cause you know them more No one ever seems to care
Just as long as you are there
Friends beside you (beside you)There to guide you (to guide you)Friends beside you (beside you)Everywhere

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2019, 07:49:00 AM

We're your friends
We're your friends
We're your friends to the bitter end

When you're alone
Who comes around
To pluck you up
When you are down
And when you're outside, looking in
Who's there to open the door?

That's what friends are for!
Who's always eager to extend
A friendly claw?
That's what friends are for!

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 25, 2019, 07:58:30 AM
When you're down in troubles
And you need some love and care
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon i will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you got to do is call
And I'll be there
Yes I will
You've got a friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2019, 08:57:34 AM


4 seasons, they've flied by
 And I cry usually in the evening
 Before I calm myself and start sleeping
 And I'm a-sleeping 'cause each weekend is like a Monday to me
 She stays behind a bar at work
 So I'm getting Redbull for free
 And I'm so bored of being awkward
 I hit my head against a door
 All night she may be much less awkward, I'm not so awkward anymore
 And I'm flying back to LA
 And I can't wait for her to see
 And I'm not fucking with first class
 But I sure like a sleeper seat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 25, 2019, 08:59:04 AM
Four seasons in one day
Lying in the depths of your imagination
Worlds above and worlds below
The sun shines on the black clouds hanging over the domain
Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day
Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, again
You can take me where you will
Up the creek and through the mill
Like all the things you can't explain
Four seasons in one day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2019, 09:42:16 AM
Goodbye Michelle, my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
 And every time that I was down
 You would always come around
 And get my feet back on the ground

 Goodbye Michelle, it's hard to die
 When all the birds are singing in the sky
 Now that the spring is in the air
 With the flowers everywhere
 I wish that we could both be there

 We had joy, we had fun
 We had seasons in the sun
 But the stars we could reach
 Were just starfish on the beach
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2019, 06:34:31 PM
We took a vow in summertime
Now we find ourselves in late December
I believe that New Year's Eve
Will be the perfect time for their great surrender
But they don't remember
Anger wants a voice, voices wanna sing

Singers harmonize till they can't hear anything
I thought that I was free from all that questionin'
But every time a problem ends, another one begins
And the stone walls of Harmony Hall bear witness
Anybody with a worried mind could never forgive the sight
Of wicked snakes inside a place you thought was dignified
I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die

Ooh, ooh, ooh
I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2019, 07:11:08 PM
All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspapers says, says 
Say it's true it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two 
We can be one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2019, 05:58:44 AM
My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day
In a dream that's divine

My prayer is a rapture in blue
With a world far away
And your lips close to mine
Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words that I'm longing to know

My prayer and the answer you give
May they still be the same
For as long as we live
That you'll always be there
At the end of my prayer

My prayer is to linger with you
My prayer is a rapture in blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 06:40:56 AM
Everything is wonderful
Being here is heavenly
Every single day, she says
Everything is free

I used to be so careless
As if I couldn't care less
Did I have to make mistakes
When I was Mary's prayer?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on November 26, 2019, 08:43:51 AM
Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Everybody's beautiful in their own way
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

There is none so blind as he who will not see
We must not close our minds, we must let our thought be free
For every hour that passes by, you know the world gets a little bit older
It's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 26, 2019, 08:45:38 AM
Waiting at the station with a workday wind a-blowing
I've got nothing to do but watch the passers-by
Mirrored in their faces I see frustration growing
And they don't see it showing, why do I?
You've got to get up every morning
With a smile in your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes you will
That you're beautiful as you feel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 08:57:08 AM


 The return of the Thin White Duke
 Throwing darts in lovers' eyes
 Here are we, one magical moment
 Such is the stuff, from where dreams are woven
 Bending sound, dredging the ocean
 Lost in my circle
 Here am I, flashing no colour
 Tall in this room overlooking the ocean
 Here are we, one magical movement
 From Kether to Malkuth
 There are you drive like a demon
 From station to station
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2019, 05:57:39 PM
Roll up roll up for the Mystery Tour
Roll up roll up for the Mystery Tour
Roll up
That's an invitation
Roll up for the Mystery Tour
Roll up
To make a reservation
Roll up for the Mystery Tour

The Magical Mystery Tour
Is waiting to take you away
Waiting to take you away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 08:13:31 PM
Somewhere in the distance
Hidden from the view
Suspended in the atmosphere
Waiting to come through
Sometimes it's so far away
Sometimes it's very near
A sound being carried by the wind
Just loud enough to hear
I feel it's power within me
Bells ringing in my head
So often I have heard it's cry
But forgotten what it said

It's a mystery, oh, it's a mystery
I'm still searching for a clue
It's a mystery to me
A shot in the dark
The big question mark in history
Is it a mystery to you?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2019, 08:36:33 PM
With the wind in the willows
The birds in the sky
There's a bright sun to warm us wherever we lie...
We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine
To share on our journey with all of mankind.

So I asked them to tell me their name and their race
So I could remember each smile on their face
"Our names, they mean nothing...
They change throughout time
So come sit beside us and share in our wine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 26, 2019, 08:40:12 PM
When I think more than I want to think
I do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me, I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she, coming to me nearly here?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2019, 08:48:16 PM
I spent all my money on women and wine
And didn't, give enough time to the rhythm and rhyme
I stay focused on the nickel and dime
I should be, Benjamin thinking
But when I get them I be spending them drinkin'
And then I wake up, feelin' nervous and lifeless
A thin line between worthless and priceless

When my life gets confusing ahead of me
I don't ever solve problems I just start boozin' heavily
In san diego I got off work everyday around four
And every single day the roadworker next door
Comes home with an eighteen pack
Of miller high life

I said, my life is heading down a path thats way too sim-
Ilar, I'd prefer not to end up like him
And I'd look up and I'd cringe
But everytime I try to change I say fuck it and binge
Thats my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 08:54:15 PM

I took from my pocket ten sovereigns bright
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight
She said I'd have whiskey and wines of the best
And the words that you told me were only in jest

And it's no, nay, never
No, nay, never, no more
Will I play the wild rover
No, never, no more

I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And when they've caressed me as oft' times before
I never will play the wild rover no more

And it's no, nay, never
No, nay, never, no more
Will I play the wild rover
No, never, no more


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 26, 2019, 08:55:45 PM
As I was goin' over
The Cork and Kerry Mountains
I saw Captain Farrell
And his money, he was countin'
I first produced my pistol
And then produced my rapier
I said, "Stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya"
I took all of his money
And it was a pretty penny
I took all of his money,
Yeah, and I brought it home to Molly
She swore that she loved me,
No, never would she leave me
But the devil take that woman,
Yeah, for you know she tricked me easy

Musha rain dum a doo, dum a da
Whack for my daddy, oh
Whack for my daddy, oh
There's whiskey in the jar, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 09:01:25 PM
I'm the dandy highwayman
Whom you're too scared to mention
I spend my cash
On looking flash
And grabbing your attention
The devil take your stereo
And your record collection
The way you look, you'll qualify
For next year's old age pension!

Stand and deliver
Your money or your life
Hoh!

Try to use a mirror
Not a bullet or a knife
Hoh!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 26, 2019, 11:06:00 PM
Everyone thinks they know the story
Of Dick Turpin's highway glory
But my past is far more gory
Was no saint
You think life is one big antic
My profession is romantic
Hate to be pedantic
But it ain't

(Huh!)

As a butcher down in Essex
I was handy with a knife
Had a sideline as a poacher
Led a less than honest life
The notorious gang of Gregory
Liked my style and dedication
They signed me up and gave me
A real robber's education

We rampaged through the Essex farms
We stole and robbed and fought
But when the law came for us
I escaped and they got caught
I was no prince charming
Nothing dandy about me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 06:45:58 AM
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old Macheath, babe
And he keeps it, out of sight
You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old Macheath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red

Now on the sidewalk, ooh, sunny morning, uh-huh
Lies a body just oozin' life
Eek, and someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 07:58:32 AM
Dun ah dun ah
dun ah dun ah dun dun dun dun DAAAAAAA
dun ah dun ah dun dun dun dun Dahhhhhhh
there's a fishy in the sea and his name is me
there's a fishy and he is really mean
fishy fishy fishy
fish fish fish
He is the bish bosh bop
he has a big bad cock
OHHHHHHHH

i love the fishy in the sea.
The big bad mean really really mean fishy
My fishy!!!!!
My lovely dubby kissy wissy fishy!!
With a heart as blue as the SEAAAAA
OHHHH
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 27, 2019, 08:38:03 AM
The berth surrounding my body crushing every bit of bone
The salt, it seeps in through the pores of my open skin
I wait on you inside the bottom of the deep blue sea
I wait on you inside the bottom of the deep blue

Welcome to my cage, little lover
Attempt to rearrange with you, baby
Still don't know your name, Miss Honey
Let's go up in flames, pretty lady
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 12:57:33 PM
We glide
Far below the rolling tide
Serene
Through the bubbly blue and green


It's lovely, bobbing along
Bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea
What if the octopus
The flounder and the cod
Think we're rather odd
It's fun to promenade
Bobbing along, sing a song
On the bottom of the beautiful briny sea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 05:26:51 PM
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 05:32:50 PM
How many insects find their home
In an English country garden?
I'll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you'll pardon
Dragonflies, moths and bees
Spiders falling from the trees
Butterflies sway in the mild gentle breeze
There are hedgehogs that roam
And little gnomes
In an English country garden.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 08:14:56 PM
No body likes me
Every body hates me
Guess i'll go eat worms
Big fat juicy ones
Long thin slimey ones
Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms
Downgoes the first one
Down goes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm
Big fat juicy ones
Long thin slimey ones
Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms

Up comes the first one
Up comes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm
Big fat juicy ones
Long thin slimey ones
Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 06:13:21 AM


Well hail Caesar, shadow on my backseat
And her friends all standin' right in front of me
Worldwide from the Cimmaron to Turkey
Open up, said everybody loves me
And you don't have to make a sound
'Cause they got what you need
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Got love for the people that have warned you
God love all your sentimental virtue
Eight balls with the takers that'll make you
Late calls with the lovers that'll hate you
And you don't have to make a sound
They got what you need
What you need

Make ya say oh my, feels just like I don't try
Looks so good, I might die
All I know is everybody loves me
Head down, swingin' to my own sound, flashes in my face now
All I know is everybody loves me
Everybody loves me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2019, 05:31:51 PM
I'm a match, you're dynamite
An open flame to your gasoline
My peddled flower, my finest hour
You're the razor blade that I need
The heart's wish within my dreams
A nightmare the likes I've never seen

You and I, me and you
My life
Me and you, you and I
I wonder why

You are so beautiful
So I wrote you this lovely little hate song
Our love is so true
I wrote this love song to let you know I hate you
I hate you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 06:18:04 PM
But if anything should happen and my plans go wrong
Should I stray to the house on the hill
Let it be known that my intentions were good
I'd be singing in my alley if I could

And if I'm called away and it's my turn to go
Should the blood run cold in my veins
Just one favor I'll be asking of you
Don't bury me here, it's too cold
Take me back, carry me back
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from
Take me back, won't you carry me home
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2019, 07:00:50 PM
So I said, "Listen, I got..." and I said, uh, somethin' about, uh, goin' to somebody's funeral or something. She... I said, "Man," I said, I said, "Bring my flowers now, while I'm living"

Bring my flowers now, while I'm living
I won't need your love when I'm gone
Don't spend time, tears, or money
On my old breathless body
If your heart is in them flowers, bring 'em on

There's always sunrise and rainbows and babies
And the little things I cherish on my way
Even though one day
They'll bury me and Jesse Ray
I just know we're gonna ride again someday

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 07:53:24 PM

You don't bring me flowers
You don't sing me love songs
You hardly talk to me anymore
When you come through the door
At the end of the day

I remember when
You couldn't wait to love me
Used to hate to leave me

Now after lovin' me late at night
When it's good for you
And you're feeling alright
Well, you just roll over
And you turn out the light

You don't bring me flowers anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2019, 08:29:19 PM
My eyes are closed and yet I see
You're slipping away from me
Someone else's new charms
Are you're reason to his arms.
My lips are sealed but my heart knows
A love for someone else in your heart grows
I'm holding you're love that just can't be
You're slipping away from me.

A precious love that used to be
It's slipping away from me
And I already miss
The thrill that was in your kiss.
I know I'm loving you in vain
With all to lose and nothing left to gain
I'll soon be living with the memory
You're slipping away from me...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 08:35:56 PM

And I know a father who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done
He came a long way just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and he headed home again

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip slidingaway

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2019, 08:50:08 PM
Some time in the future we can share our stories
When we won't care about all of our mistakes
Our failures, and our glories
But until that day comes along I'll keep on moving on
I'll keep on moving on

It's funny how but it still bothers me
I know it's been so long but I did not expect to see oh how beautiful you are
I guess that all that time apart has done you well
But hey I wish you all the best and maybe someday we might even meet again

Yeah, sometime in the future maybe we can get together
Maybe share a drink and talk awhile
And reminisce about the days when we were still together
Maybe some day further down the line
And I will meet you there

Some time in the future we can share our stories
When we won't care about all of our mistakes
Our failures, and our glories
But until that day comes along
Until that day comes along
Until that day comes along
I'll keep on moving on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 05:58:50 AM
Well... you didn't wake up this morning 
Because you didn't go to bed.
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red.
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off.
You've been reading some old letters --
You smile and think how much you've changed.
All the money in the world 
Couldn't buy back those days.

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes,
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day 
Your life will surely change.
This is the day 
When things fall into place.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 08:11:47 AM
Well, that'll be the day, when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day, when you make me cry
You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die

Well, you give me all your loving and your turtle doving
All your hugs and kisses and your money too
Well, you know you love me baby, until you tell me, maybe
That some day, well I'll be through
Well, that'll be the day, when you say goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 09:22:49 AM
She was born in a handbag
 Love left
 on a doorstep
 What she lacks is a backup
 Nothing seems to make a dent
 Gonna find her some money honey
 Try to pay her rent
 That's the kind of protection everyone is shouting about

 Day-In Day-Out
 Stay-In Fade-Out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2019, 09:28:43 AM
Ever seen a blind man cross the road
Trying to make the other side
Ever seen a young girl growing old
Trying to make herself a bride

So what becomes of you my love
When they have finally stripped you of
The handbags and the gladrags
That your poor old Granddad had to sweat to buy you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 09:30:04 AM
Aeroplanes tied up with string flying
Telephones and talking things sighing
A radio and phonograph, Charlie Chaplin made us laugh
Silently falling about
Familiar things I keep around, near me
Memories of my younger days, clearly
Come into my mind
Everyday I find, thoughts of when I was boy


Grandad, grandad you're lovely
That's what we all think of you
Grandad, grandad you're lovely
That's what we all think of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 06:25:15 PM
I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind
Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
And an old fashioned millionaire

I want an old fashioned car, a cerise Cadillac
Long enough to put a bowling alley in the back
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
And an old fashioned millionaire
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 06:48:06 PM
Well now way back in the Bible
Temptations always come along
There's always somebody tempting
Somebody into doing something they know is wrong
Well they tempt you, man, with silver
And they tempt you, sir, with gold
And they tempt you with the pleasure
That the flesh does surely hold
They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple
But man I ain't going for that
I know it was her pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money
On a Saturday night
Honey I just wonder what it feels like in the back
Of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 06:56:44 PM
Oh
The machine of a dream, such a clean machine
With the pistons a pumpin', and the hubcaps all gleam
When I'm holding your wheel
All I hear is your gear
With my hand on your grease gun
Mmm, it's like a disease, son
I'm in love with my car, gotta feel for my automobile
Get a grip on my boy racer roll bar
Such a thrill when your radials squeal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 07:53:20 PM
I've a dream, silver dream machine.
Here am I, I'm going for another try,
Flying high, I've got a lot of love inside.
Is there love enough now to get me through?
Yeah, I know now where I'm going to -
Not to lose now but to win;
Tell me, how do I begin?
I've a dream, silver dream machine.
Well, alright, I've got a lot of love to try,
'Cause love is the thing,
And freedom is the word I sing.
Is there force now, yeah, to get us through?
Yeah, it's deep in me and it's deep in you -
Not to lose now but to win,
Tell me how do I begin?
I've a dream, silver dream machine;
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 08:19:31 PM
But if only I'd have no bones
I know the air isn't breathable
And it's no good for my lungs
I feel an anger inside of me
Burns like the sun in my chest
I got no patience or self-control
God knows I'm trying my best

If I was a machine
I'd never have to worry
I know that I could always press delete
If I was a machine
I wouldn't be affected
By violence on the television screen
Wouldn't have a heart
So you couldn't break it
No such thing as time
So you couldn't waste it
That would be the dream
The world could never bother me

If I was a ma-, if I was a machine
No oh oh oh, no, oh
If I was a machine, no, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 08:48:33 PM
Got to pick up the phone
I will call any number
I will talk to anyone
I know I'm gone too far
Much too far I gone this time
And I don't want to think what I've done
I don't know how to stop
No, I don't know how to stop

There are always hidden silences
Waiting behind the chair
They come out when the coast is clear
They eat anything that moves
I go shaky at the knees
Lights go out, stars come down
Like a swarm of bees

No self-control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2019, 08:52:59 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother, now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 08:56:23 PM
Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby, I'm your telephone man"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2019, 08:59:03 PM
When I was a little biddy boy,
My grandmother bought me a cute little toy.
Silver bells hangin' on a string,
She told me it was my ding-a-ling-a-ling!
Oh, my ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling,
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling!
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling,
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 09:01:17 PM

You're not the only cuddly toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy
You're not the only choo-choo train that was left out in the rain
The day after Santa came
You're not the only cherry delight that was left out in the night
And gave up without a fight
You're not the only cuddly toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy

You're not the kind of girl to tell your mother
The kind of company you keep
I never told you not to love no other
You must've dreamed it in your sleep
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 10:17:33 PM
Hurry up before you go and get old
Hurry up before your blood runs cold
None of us were ever meant to stay
We're all gonna find out one day
You see life's too short to run it like a race
So it's never gonna matter if you win first place
'Cause we're all the same
Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame
'Cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade
But you're not special
I'm not tryin' to bring to you down
I'm not tryin' to sound so inaffectual
But you're not special
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2019, 10:19:52 PM
Don't tell me not to live
Just sit and putter
Life's candy and the sun's
A ball of butter
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade

Don't tell me not to fly
I've simply got to
If someone takes a spill
It's me and not you
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!
I'll march my band out
I'll beat my drum
And if I'm fanned out
Your turn at bat, sir
At least I didn't fake it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 10:25:46 PM
When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream)
Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
'Til they find there's no need (there's no need)
Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 29, 2019, 10:33:20 PM
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2019, 10:53:13 PM
Love you because, you put me in my rightful place
And I love the PRS cheques, that you bring

Cheap, never cheap
I'll sing you songs till you're asleep
When you've gone upstairs I'll creep
And write it all down, down, down, down

Oh Shirley, oh Deborah, oh Julie, oh Jane
I wrote so many songs about you
I forget your name, I forget your name
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
I forget your name
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
I forget your name
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 29, 2019, 11:53:05 PM
Search Results
Knowledge result
That's Not My Name
The Ting Tings
Four letter word just to get me along
It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue
And I I keep stalling, keeping me together
People around gotta find something to say now
Holding back, everyday the same
Don't wanna be a loner
Listen to me, oh no I never say anything at all
But with nothing to consider they forget my name (ame, ame, ame)

They call me "Hell"
They call me "Stacey"
They call me "her"
They call me "Jane"
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
They call me "quiet girl"
But I'm a riot Mary, Jo, Lisa
Always the same
That's not my name
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2019, 12:12:42 AM
Quite extraordinarily fucked up

'Hi kids! Do you like violence? (Yeah yeah yeah!)
Wanna see me stick Nine inch Nails, through each one of my eyelids? (Uh-huh!)
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (Yeah yeah!)
Try 'cid and get fucked up worse that my life is? (Huh?)
My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight
But I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate (Oh)
And Dr. Dre said, "Slim Shady you a base-head!" Uh-uh!
"So why's your face red? Man you wasted!"
Well since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else
'Cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt
Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off
And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross
I smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my ass, faster than a fat bitch
Who sat down too fast
C'mere slut! (Shady, wait a minute, that's my girl dog!)
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off!

Hi! My name is (what?)
My name is (who?)
My name is
Slim Shady
Hi! My name is (huh?)
My name is (what?)
My name is
Slim Shady'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 30, 2019, 11:32:05 AM
The naughty lady of shady lane had hit the town like a bomb
The back fence gossips ain't been this good since Mabel ran off with Tom
Our town was peaceful and quite before she came on the scene
The lady has started a riot disturbing the suburban routine

Oh the naughty lady of shady lane has the town in a whirl
The naughty lady of shady lane me oh my oh what a girl
You should see how see carries on with her admirers galore
She must be giving them quite a thrill the way they flock to her door
She throws those come-hither glances at every Tom, Dick and Joe
When offered some liquid refreshment the lady never never says no

Oh the naughty lady of shady lane has the town in a whirl
The naughty lady of shady lane me oh my oh what a girl

(Does anyone remember a song that goes (roughly):

Ooo shady lady, you're impossible, sensational
but never operational 'til the sun is in the sky

I knew it when I was a teen, 1976 ish.  Can't find it anywhere)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2019, 11:37:38 AM
I'm (She's) a maid who would marry
And would no longer tarry,
I'm (She's) a maid who would marry,
May my hopes not miscarry!
I'm (She's) a maid mad marry
And will take double-quick
Any Tom, Dick or Harry,
Any Tom, Harry or Dick.
Dick, dick, dick,
A dicka dick,
Dick, dick, dick,
A dicka dick,
Dick, dick, dick,
A dicka dick,
Dick, dick, dick,
A dicka dick!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 30, 2019, 03:59:48 PM
I wanna hold you all night long
And cuddle til we're blue
I'll hold you in a tight embrace
I know it seems taboo

But I have to have you with me now
I have to have you quick
I love you more than anything
My dick!

 :o
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2019, 09:30:15 AM
Just my Bill
Along came Bill
An ordinary guy
He doesn't have a thing that you can brag about
And yet to be
Upon his knee
So comfy and roomy
Feels natural to me
Well I can't explain
It's surely not his name
That makes me thrill
I love him
Because he's wonderful
Because he's just my Bill
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2019, 10:58:32 AM
Sounds like a field being painted
In the delta sun
Songs from the book of life
For everyone
Miss William's guitar
Miss William's guitar
I remember watching her play
And the whole damn crowd
Seemed so far away
Oh so far away

One night in a bar in Louisville
We had some fun
Walked through a graveyard park
Left flowers alone
Miss William's guitar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2019, 11:19:11 AM
When She woke up and found that her dream of love was gone,
Madam, She ran to the man who had led her so far astray,
And from under her velvet gown,
She drew a gun and shot her lover down,
Madam, Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch to day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2019, 12:46:02 PM
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2019, 12:57:58 PM
(White light) White light goin', messin' up my mind
(White light) And don't you know it's gonna make me go blind
(White heat) Aw, white heat, it tickle me down to my toes
(White light) Ooh, have mercy, while I have it, goodness knows
(White light) White light goin', messin' up my brain
(White light) Aw, white light, it's gonna drive me insane
(White heat) Aw, white heat, it tickle me down to my toes
(White light) Aw, white light, I said now, goodness knows, do it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2019, 03:24:59 PM
Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more

'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2019, 04:25:15 PM
The hand that wrote this letter
Sweeps the pillow clean
So rest your head and read a treasured dream
I care for no one else but you
I tear my soul to cease the pain
I think maybe you feel the same
What can we do?
I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do
So I've been writing just for you

They say your life is going very well
They say you sparkle like a different girl
But something tells me that you hide
When all the world is warm and tired
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2019, 10:50:38 PM
Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I'm not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write

*I memorize ev'ry line
I kiss the name that you sign
And, darling, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 06:48:45 AM
No I won't be told there's a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow
Or that pleasure and pain sunshine and rain might make this love grow

But I hope and I pray that maybe someday
You'll walk in the room with my heart
Add and subtract but as a matter of fact
Now that you're gone I still want you back

Remembering
Surrendering
Remembering that part
All of my heart

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 02, 2019, 06:57:03 AM
Hey little fella, get your show together
I was listening in before
But now I don't care no more
Look around now
It's always that it's gonna get you down
It's only begun
One look is all it took
I remember that sweet surrender
I recall, do you
That sweet surrender
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 07:31:33 AM

My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself

Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo - promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo - couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo - knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo - finally facing my Waterloo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2019, 05:24:15 PM
You came in
That's what my little heart was looking for
Laughter in the rain
Feeling like a fool in love again
The laughter came
When the tears stopped falling
Now all I do is just call your name
(When I say lover)
You walked in and my heart discovered
That my life would never be the same
Oh, you are my destiny
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 05:50:53 PM
Strolling along country roads with my baby
It starts to rain, it begins to pour
Without an umbrella we're soaked to the skin
I feel a shiver run up my spine
I feel the warmth of her hand in mine

Oh, I hear laughter in the rain
Walking hand in hand with the one I love
Oh, how I love the rainy days
And the happy way I feel inside

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2019, 06:31:55 PM
One day, far away, you gently won my heart
And one night, by candlelight, we made a vow to never part
And then it seemed just like a dream
When wide eyed, side by side
We faced the future holding hands

Years fly, they hurry by, the simple times are gone
Bills due, a kid or two, a week can feel eight days long
By fading light, let's kiss goodnight
And then we trace God's daily grace
Thankful we're still holding hands
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 06:37:05 PM
Oh, yeah, I tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something's
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

Oh, please say to me
You'll let me be your man
And, please, say to me
You'll let me hold your hand
You'll let me hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2019, 06:42:56 PM
Well, I will call you darlin' and everything will be okay
'Cause you know that I am yours and you are mine
Doesn't matter anywayIn the night, we'll take a walk
It's nothing funny, just to talk
Put your hand in mine

You know that I want to be with you all the time
You know that I won't stop, until I make you mine
You know that I won't stop, until I make you mine
Until I make you mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 06:57:15 PM
I know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain, aoh
Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl, you know I've done all I can, aoh
See I begged, stole and I borrowed, yeah

Ooh, that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday mornin', yeah, oh
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday mornin'

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 02, 2019, 08:39:26 PM
I know a girl from a lonely street
Cold as ice cream but still as sweet
Dry your eyes Sunday girl
Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl
Looks like he's in another world
Run and hide Sunday girl
Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see
What your loving means to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 08:57:23 PM
Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
A you can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be
But Monday mornin', Monday mornin' couldn't guarantee
That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 02, 2019, 09:06:12 PM
Mamas and Papas - just lovely.

Anyhow:

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be sure
Oh, oh, oh tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2019, 09:38:04 PM
Nqo more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's
Dirty looks

Well, we got no class
And we got no principals
We ain't got no intelligence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2019, 09:49:59 PM
he mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation

It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law

The mama looked down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, "oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"

Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard

Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2019, 07:40:59 AM
Said a small boy once
asked:"When will I grow up?"
When will I see what grownups do see?"
And he's bout to come his age
he will act another age
to be reconized is
quite another mess

And mama used to say:
"Take your time young man"
And mama used to say:
"Don't you rush to get old"
And mama used to say:
"Take it in your stride"
And mama used to say:
"Live your life"

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2019, 05:53:42 PM
Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me
This is the craziest party
That there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light
'Cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2019, 06:01:16 PM
It's a warning
It's in every tongue
Gotta stop them crazy
Horses on the run

What a show, there they go
Smoking up the sky, yeah
Crazy horses all got riders
And they're you and I

Crazy horses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2019, 07:22:11 PM
There's just one word I don't want to hear
When I heard it called it cost a friend quite dear
I can hear it echo as though it were now
When I was a chasin' of the long horned cow

Stampede they're comin' up to draw
Stampede three thousand herd or more
Here they come a smokin' fire boys you better earn your hire
Stampede and hell to score

Now Frank he was my partner he rode point upon my heart
We drank and fought and partnered back to back at troubles start
We heard the call on evening in the thunder and the black
When the lightnin' hit the leaders and the devil led the pack

Stampede they're comin' up to draw...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2019, 05:37:42 AM
Keep movin', movin', movin',
though they're disapproving,
Keep them dawwgies rollin', Rawhide!
Don't try to understand them,
Just rope and throw and brand 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide!
My heart's calculating,
My true love will be waiting,
Be waiting at the end of my ride.

Move 'em on, hit 'em up, hit 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, hit 'em up, Rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em im,
let 'em out, cut 'im out, Ride on in, Rawhide!

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 04, 2019, 04:57:21 PM
You take your all-right, you take your can't-wait
A lotta of bring-it-on and some damn straight
And mix it all up with some down home southern drawl, y'all
You got your yee haw!

I'm talkin' big time, I mean saddle up ad hold on tight
And if you know what I'm talkin' about, y'all, yeah
How about a yee haw! Ha, ha
Yep, bow bow, Y E E H A W, yee haw!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 05, 2019, 10:39:03 AM
Well, I'm the first one to say ladies first
 Last one at the bar with a thirst, yeah
 Hard to hate and hard to love, that's right
 Open up a can of hell in a fight

 Yeah, that's whiskey and cigarettes on my breath
 Or better than an old Tom Petty cassette
 And I don't always make it on Sundays to Jesus
 But I do good and hopes that he smiles when I mean it
 Cause I'm…

Southern
 And it ain't my fault
 My daddy came from Louisiana
 Like the hot sauce
 Southern
 And it ain't my fault
 Yeah this is how we roll
 Baby, this is how we roll
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 05, 2019, 05:04:35 PM
Oh yeah
Boots and buckles, red clay and sand
My point ain't subtle here
I'm a southern man
Where the beer seems cooler and the women seem hotter
Where the world don't seem so damn modern
And a good ole boy like me still has a chance
This is where I was born this is where I'll die
Yeah, this is where I was born and this is where I'll die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 05, 2019, 10:50:09 PM
I was born in the wagon of a travellin' show
My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw
Papa would do whatever he could
Preach a little gospel, sell a couple bottles of doctor good
Gypsy's, tramps, and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town
They'd call us gypsy's, tramps, and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down
Picked up a boy just south of mobile
Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal
I was sixteen, he was twenty-one
Rode with us to Memphis
And papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done
Gypsy's, tramps, and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town
They'd call us gypsy's, tramps, and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 05, 2019, 11:43:32 PM
Memories don't live like people do
They always remember you
Whether things are good or bad, its just the memories
Memories don't live like people do-o
Baby don't forget me, I'm a travellin' man

Movin' through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things I got to do
God willin' I'm comin' back to you
My baby boo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 06, 2019, 06:08:59 AM
You had romance, did you break it by chance
over me?
If it's so I'd like for you to know
that I'm not worth it, you see.
For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam, mm,
wherever I lay my hat that's my home,
mm, that's my home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 06, 2019, 10:40:00 PM
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
They call me the wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2019, 09:25:41 AM
The lyrics here are somewhat problematic.



You know how to skweeze me Oh Oh you know how to pleeze me Oh Oh
you're learnin' it easy Oh Oh
And I thought you might like to know
when a girl's meaning yes, she says no.
You got rude talk you got one walk, all your jokes are blue
You've got long nails you tell tall tales, some you think are true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 07, 2019, 10:16:04 AM
Lies, deception and fantasy
Keep on floating in my memories
Hell is empty and bout to freeze
Keep on dancing with my sanity
Lies, deception and fantasy
Keep on floating in my memories
Hell is empty and bout to freeze
Keep on dancing with my sanity

Even if it makes me blind I wanna see the light
So why do I keep being evil every single night?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2019, 10:53:29 AM
Some silicone sister
With her manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said, I'll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break
And go-kart Mozart
Was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early Pearly
Came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride

'Cause she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 07, 2019, 12:44:46 PM
I get carried away by the look by the light in your eyes
Before I even realize the ride I'm on
Baby I'm long gone

I get carried away nothin' matters but bein' with you
Like a feather flyin' high up in the sky on a windy day
I get carried away
It might seem like an ordinary night
Same ol' stars same ol' moon up high
But when I see you standin' at your door
Nothin's ordinary anymore
I get carried away by the look by the light in your eyes

Before I even realize the ride I'm on
Baby I'm long gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2019, 12:50:39 PM

I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think twice
She ought to do right by me

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away, yeah

Oh, she's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
But she don't care
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 07, 2019, 05:29:02 PM
Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
Ifin' you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do some how
When your rooster crows at the break a dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2019, 10:27:42 AM
The dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl
Dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl
Watch out strange cat people
Little red rooster's on the prowl

If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home
If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home
Ain't had no peace in the farm yard
Since my little red rooster's been gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 10:32:08 AM
The cockerel crows in the morning,
The lark sings high at noon,
The blackbird whistles the sun down
And the owl cries out to the moon.

We must make do with their music
For the Birds of Safaddan are dumb;
They only sing for the rightful Prince
And he has not yet come.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 08, 2019, 10:35:32 AM
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 10:46:13 AM
Don't be scared to fly alone
Find a path that is your own
Love will open every door
Its in your hands
The world is your
Don't hold back and always know
All the answers will unfold
What are you waiting for
Spread your wings and soar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2019, 10:50:55 AM
On our block all of the guys call her flamingo
Cause her hair glows like the sun
And her eyes can light the sky
When she moves she walks so fine like a flamingo
Crimson dress that clings so tight
She's out of reach and out of sight
When she walks by she brightens up the neighborhood
Oh every guy would make her his if he just could
If she just would
Some sweet day I'll make her mine pretty flamingo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 11:55:55 AM
If I close my eyes and imagine you are here
It'll last for awhile before you disappear
So I close my eyes, cause the only thing I fear
Is waking up one day, forgetting you were ever here

Darling, it's you I remember with your red dress on
Dancing in the moonlight till the break of dawn
It's you I remember dancing with your red dress on

Dancing with your red dress on
Woah
Dancing with your red dress on

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2019, 12:06:01 PM

Feel how the wind blows, december despair,
Bring me a ribbon to tie up my hair,
I'll be your bride, go where you go,
All of my life, you'll be my beau.


Kiss me and I might
Put on a white dress,
If you'll take me dancing tonight.
The night's in your face, sky's in your eyes,
The day's in my arms when you're by my side,
Whenever you're weary I'll sing you a song,
Whenever you're lonely I'll show you you're wrong.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 12:14:09 PM
Put on your red dress baby
'Cause we're going out to night
Put on your red dress baby
'Cause we're going out to night
You better wear some boxing gloves
In case a fool might wanna fight

Put on your high-heel sneakers
Wear your wig hat on your head
Put on your high-heel sneakers
Wear your wig hat on your head
I'm pretty sure now baby
'Cause you know, you're gonna knock 'em dead
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2019, 12:18:51 PM
So you wanna be a boxer
In the golden ring
Can you punch like a south-bound freight train
Tell me just one thing
Can you move in a whirl like a humming bird's wing
If you need to (ooh thats fast!)
Can you bob, can you weave can you fake and deceive when you need to?
Well, you might as well quit
If you haven't got it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 12:33:09 PM
This goes on a bit but couldn't make mind up which bits to take out.

You create a hell for the ones to buy your illusion
You design a spell that you cast upon the forsaken
Hortative
You engender temptation
Re-create
Invent the latest sensation
Procreate
Produce the perfect delusion
Your god is digital
You erase the deviations
Adding beauty to the frail
Dreams contrived upon a drawing-table set the pace of the vain
Trust the vagaries of fashion
Do what an the others do
Total loss of independence
You've always wishing you were someone else
You behold your victims inane
Opinions cast aside
And when they try to change
And try to find their native demeanor
They are frozen out. precluded from the coven from the mass of fools
There's a message and receivers who will see it as a rule
There's an image made to covet
Global mass-manipulation complete
High-technology will cover all the errors in the way
Can't you see that you deflower and deform the generations to come
I will have to confess
The music you listen to now
Is pretty damn far from the truth
In league with machines
That help me to play all of the harmonies born in my head

   
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 08, 2019, 01:39:06 PM
I've been alive forever, and I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 08, 2019, 05:05:31 PM
Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me

Without the beat I'm nothing
Without a song in my heart
I'd be a different girlfriend
But we're all here so let's start
The things her says are always true start
He's never gonna change his tune start
And though you're still the boy me
Music is my life you see

Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 08, 2019, 09:25:47 PM
Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's serious
Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's really serious

There were times when I could
Have murdered her
But you know, I would hate
Anything to happen to her

No, I don't want to see her

Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do ooh ooh ooh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 09, 2019, 06:25:01 PM
Anyway
I got a story here for you guys
Any of you guys
Got an ol' lady that just love's to talk and talk
You know what I'm sayin'
And just talk about everything?!!

Sa, ya know
I went to bed the other night
And I was thinking this in my head
I was like, ya know
What would happen like say if
like , my girl died, ya know?
And I was like cool -
cuz, she like talks so damn much!
I can't even get her to shut up half the time

So, anyway
I woke up the next mornin' -
and there she was!

Lying dead, lying dead in the bed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2019, 02:36:01 AM

I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me on
my birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me
'cause I'm dead & bloated

Ohh yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
Ohh yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 10, 2019, 04:46:18 PM
I still hang out with my best friend Dave,
I've known him since we were kids at school.
Last night he had a few shots,
Got in a tight spot
Hustling a game of pool,
With a couple of red neck boys,
And one great big fat biker man,
I heard David yell across the room,
Hey Buddy how bout a helping hand.

I said Dave!
I ain't as good as I once was,
My how the years have flown,
But there was a time,
Back in my prime,
When I could really hold my own,
But if you want a fight tonight,
Guess those boys don't look all that tough,
I ain't as good once was,
But I'm as good once, as I ever was.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2019, 07:47:06 PM
And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 10, 2019, 08:39:33 PM
A thousand times I've seen you standing
Gravity like lunar landing
You make me wanna run till I find you
I shut the world away from here
Drift to you, you're all I hear
As everything we know fades to black

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But, love remains the same

Find a place where we escape
Take you with me for a space
The city bus sounds just like a fridge
I walk the streets through seven bars
I have to find just where you are
The faces seem to blur
They're all the same

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2019, 08:44:28 PM
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 10, 2019, 10:40:09 PM
Up in the sky, nothing is insane
Like a rocket driven plane you can fly above the rain
Up in the sky, you just feel fine
There is no running out of time and you never cross a line
I wanna live in the sky

Up in the sky, you can fly
You will make it if you try
In the sky you are far away
Up in the sky you can sing
And you can do everything
And no matter what they say it's true
I'm going to the blue

Up in the sky, there's no religion
There are no cars and no phones and you can't not be controlled
Up in the sky, you just feel fine
There is no money making crime but a lot of good wine
I wanna live in the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on December 11, 2019, 08:55:52 AM
This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again
For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
At skyfall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 11, 2019, 09:01:30 AM
It isn't the way that you look
And it isn't the way that you talk
It isn't the things that you say or do
Make me want you so

It is nothing to do with the wine
Or the music that's flooding my mind
But never before have I been so sure
You're the someone I dreamed I would find

It's the way you make me feel
The moment I am close to you
It's a feeling so unreal
Somehow I can't believe it's true
The pounding I feel in my heart
The hoping that we'll never part
I can't believe this is really happening to me

I close my eyes and count to ten
And when I open them you're still here
I close my eyes and count again
I can't believe it but you're still here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2019, 09:39:45 AM
I know you're trying to diet
 But your eyeing everything that you see
 So there ain't no use in hiding
 You need someone to confide in
 And your secret's safe with me

 Just in case you wanna stop in, I clock in
 Everyday at quarter to noon
 And if you just happen to be round much, after lunch
 I can take my break real soon for you

 I'm always early shift on the weekend
 If you want something sweet and
 I can feed your appetite
 And if you want a slice of baked heaven
 I'm here till eleven tonight, night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 11, 2019, 10:40:45 AM
They say "Can I place an order for three weeks ahead?
I'd rather have your jelly than my own baked bread
'Cause I'm just crazy 'bout your jelly
I'm so wild about your jelly roll
You're the only man bakes jelly and you keeps it in your soul"

You can take all my women, you can sure keep 'em all
I've got a brand new secret that your men can't catch on to at all
I'm a jelly roll baker
I bake the best jelly roll in town
I'm the only man baking jelly and I'm keeping my damper down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2019, 10:52:16 AM
Spring was never waiting for us girl it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance
 'Tween the parted pages and were pressed
 In love's hot fevered iron like a stripped pair of pants
 I recall the yellow cotton dress
 Foaming like a wave on the ground around your knees
 And birds like tender babies in your hands
 And the old man playing checkers by the trees
 MacArthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 I don't think that I can take it cause it took so long to bake it
 And I'll never had that recipe again oh no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2019, 05:42:39 PM
Now ever since I was a mite
I've 'ad a whackin' appetite
My 'ollerin' for dinner would raise the rafters
I'd swallow me befores as well as me afters
Till one sunny afternoon
They bunged something in me spoon
And I'm sure it must 'ave been ever since then
That I've 'ad an irresistible yen.....For

Jellied eels, jellied eels
Wogg-a-ling about like wonky wheels
Why d'ya frown and look so sickly
Slide 'em down your throat and quickly
Don't bring up any empty cup
Though I knows just how ya feels
When you gets the taste, you won't wanna waste
Them lovely jellied eels
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2019, 06:37:11 PM
Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2019, 07:30:06 PM
“Hello to you out there in Normal Land

You may not comprehend my tale or understand
As I crawl past your window give me lucky looks
You can read my body but you’ll never read my books

I’m spasticus, I’m spasticus
I’m spasticus autisticus
I’m spasticus, I’m spasticus
I’m spasticus autisticus
I’m spasticus, I’m spasticus
I’m spasticus autisticus

I’m knobbled on the cobbles
‘Cos I hobble when I wobble”
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2019, 07:50:28 PM

I can assure you that all the wealth and the weapons stay with me
Just stop looking like, stop looking like that at me
Please don't mess with me
See what we shall see

Out on the cobbles
Sixteen on the side
See what we shall see
Out on the cobbles
Twenty four on the cobbles
Come out all day with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2019, 10:44:26 PM
I saw a glimpse of the world
outside my home town.
American porch light
hanging over the shop where my tennis socks are supplied.
What's that, I've been falling asleep at the table again.
Well I'm afraid I've led you to believe I'm not what I am.

Should it be this hard, should it feel like disconnecting
when the role I play is a sweet and tired array
and I wonder why I am home first every night
Should it be this hard.
Should it be this hard.

And I'm good at smiling when required
filter all my words, and you'll like what you heard.
And I could write a song and sell it to someone who better fits my work.
But should it be this hard, should it feel like disconnecting.
When the role I play is a sweet and tired array.
And I wonder why I am home first every night.

Should it be this hard, these cobbled streets and I.
Should it be this hard, these cobbled streets and I.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2019, 06:45:24 AM

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 12, 2019, 07:05:55 AM
Redneck Souljers
Every time I walk outside my door
I see another scene
So I load my gun and lock my door I see another sin
This is mine and that is yours
You better not set a foot inside my home (Inside my home)


Granddaddy Winchester still on the shelf (Yeah)
Get it, got it, load it, blowed it (Yeah)
My daddy 30-30 loaded with shells (Yeah)
Bitch you better notice
Get out my yard (Get out my yard)
Better leave me alone (Better leave me alone)
Better know my rights (Better know my rights)
Now protect my home (Now protect my home)
Get out my yard (Get out my yard)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2019, 07:55:18 AM
Go jump in the lake, go ride up the hill
Get out of this house
It's a house of your making, it's a house of ill will
Get out of this house

Go listen to Buddha, go listen to Joe
Get out of this house
If anyone asks, you tell them you don't know
Get out of this house

I spent 11 long years in a hothouse zone
I spent 29 more trying to get home
Well, I never got home, but I did what I did
And I got myself this house, and you can't come in, oh

Yeah
Get out of this house
Get out of this house
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 12, 2019, 07:31:46 PM
Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired, she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep (ah)
Brother's got a date to keep, he can't hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our
Our house, it has a crowd

There's always something happening
And it's usually quite loud
Our mum she's so house-proud
Nothing ever slows her down and a mess is not allowed

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our (something tells you that you've got to move away from it)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2019, 07:35:27 PM
And he's as wicked as he can be
'Cause he's got a house in the country
Where he likes to spend his weekend days
Oh yeah, oh yeah, well, all right

Well, he got his job when drunken Daddy
Tumbled down the stairs
From that very day this boy
Is more than having his share

One of these days I'm gonna
Knock him off of his throne

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 12, 2019, 07:54:17 PM
City dweller, successful fella thought to himself
Oops I've got a lot of money
Caught in a rat race terminally
I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it
I'm payin' the price of livin' life at the limit
Caught up in the century's anxiety
Yes, it preys on him
He's gettin' thin, try the simple life

He lives in a house
A very big house in the country
Watchin' afternoon repeats
And the food he eats in the country
He takes all manner of pills
And piles up analyst bills in the country
Oh, it's like an animal farm
That's the rural charm in the country
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2019, 07:59:04 PM

I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime

In a big country, dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 12, 2019, 10:57:54 PM
Making love on the mountain
Making love in the cold starlight
Making love on the mountain
Making love under midnight skies

Making love on the mountain
Making love in the firelight
Making love on the mountain
Making love and we shine so bright

Hey hey hey
We shine so bright
We shine so bright
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2019, 01:28:18 AM
Making love in the afternoon
With Cecilia
Up in my bedroom
(Making love in my bed)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone's taken my place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2019, 06:26:29 AM
Walk with me in the dark
Hold my hand through the park
Don't be scared it'll be alright
Come to bed, turn out the light

Something about you
Makes me wanna try again
I tried to fill the space
Forget for my mistakes

You just can't be replaced
You just can't be replaced
I can't forget your face
Come home, don't fade away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2019, 07:08:55 AM
You think we look pretty good together
 You think my shoes are made of leather

 But I'm a substitute for another guy
 I look pretty tall but my heels are high
 The simple things you see are all complicated
 I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

 Substitute your lies for fact
 I can see right through your plastic mac
 I look all white, but my dad was black
 My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2019, 07:03:33 PM
Your name was Patty
but now it's Kay
Girl
you seem to change it every day.
Your hair was long
but now it's short
You say: I got it cut
but I don't see no hair upon the floor.
Whenever I go out with you I find out something new.

You're a fake
baby
you can't conceal it
Know how I know
'cause I can feel it.
You're a fake
baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2019, 08:08:49 PM
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow
Sorrow
You acted funny trying to spend my money
You're out there playing your high class games of sorrow
Sorrow

You never do what you know you oughta
Something tells me you're the devil's daughter
Sorrow, sorrow
Ahhhh, oo, oooo

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 13, 2019, 09:34:01 PM
You make me sad
You make me wanna die
Sometimes I think about you
I just wanna sit and cry

You're always on my mind
I wish that were a lie
But every time I see you I just wanna fuckin' die

U make me sad
I really wanna die
Sometimes I creep your Insta when I really wanna cry

'Cause I'm not on your mind
Your voice ain't on my line
And everytime I see you I just wanna fuckin' die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2019, 09:45:43 PM
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind

But you were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Walter on December 13, 2019, 10:16:12 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2019, 09:45:43 PM
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind

But you were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
ive asked myself that so many times ,
I haven't had an answer back yet 😥
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2019, 02:10:53 PM
Didn't I treat you right, now
Didn't I
Didn't I do the best I could
Didn't I
Didn't I give ya everything
Didn't I

I tried my best just to be a man
Didn't I
Didn't I do it baby
Didn't I do right
Why you wanna leave me baby
Didn't I treat you right
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2019, 04:20:23 PM
Oh, how you tried
To cut me down to size
By telling dirty lies to my friends
But my own father
Said give her up, don't bother
The world isn't coming to an end

He said walk like a man
Talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth
Crawling on the earth
So walk like a man my son
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2019, 05:35:56 PM
They say boys don't cry
But your dad has shed a lot of tears
They say I should be a strong man
But baby, I'm still filled with fear
Sometimes I don't know who I am
Sometimes I question why I'm here
I just wanna be a good dad
Will I be? I have no idea
They say girls shouldn't be tough
And moms should raise their kids at home
But baby, I know that that isn't true
Cause your momma's the toughest person I know
I wanna raise you to be like her
And watch you show the world how to do it on your own
I'm still tryna figure out who I am
I don't wanna mess this up or do this wrong
I'm gonna be there for your first breath
I don't know if I'll be there for your first step
I can promise you that I'll try to work less
But the tour's routed, and I got this album
Put in so many hours, and I just want the outcome
To be something that I can look back and I can be proud of
Don't wanna be a dad that's living in FaceTime

If I'm still growing up, up, up, up
If I'm still growing up, up, up, up
I'm still growing up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2019, 08:06:14 PM

Young at heart
Yet what a start
Old before their time
They married young
For love at last
Was their only crime


How come I love them now?
How come I love them more?
Young at heart
You're so young at heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2019, 10:40:08 PM
Down a back road
Long, hot summer
A couple kids running loose and wild
He kissed her
She said mister
Take an inch and I'll give you a mile
I ain't here to do anything half-way
Don't give a damn what anyone might say
I just wanna free fall for a while

That rebel moon is shining
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasing down that crazy spark
I'll follow you where you're leading
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me running baby
Wild at heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 14, 2019, 11:11:10 PM
She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, who's crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

And it's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy, cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

Now I'm free
Free fallin'
Yeah, I'm free
Free fallin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 14, 2019, 11:42:10 PM
Here's the situation
Sometimes I feel like I don't have control
About the things in my life and my decisions
I just wanna' try to do things on my own
I'm not trying to disrespect
But I gotta' live my life
I wanna' see the world and do it right
Although sometimes it's rough
I still find time to shine
Hey

Baby, let me spread my wings
Don't tie me down to the floor, floor, floor
Don't wanna' be held back
I know I can do so much more, more, more
Tonight it's going down, down, down, down, down
Tonight, I'm gonna' do it
Yeah, I'm gonna' do it
It's going down, down, down, down, down
Tonight, I'm gonna' do it
Yeah, I'm gonna' do it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2019, 08:35:02 AM

I want all the world to see
To see you're laughing, and you're laughing at me
I can take it all from you
Again again again again
Again again again and deeper and down

Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Get down deeper and down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 15, 2019, 01:08:22 PM
Sinking I'm sinking fast
In your eyes
The memories dance
Waking up this heart of mine
This crazy love
It's you and I
Can't you see
This was meant to be
So far from where we've been
We'll carry on the ties that never end
Will bring us home again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2019, 07:00:57 PM
I try hard to hide my hurt inside
This old heart of mine always keeps me cryin'
The way you're treatin' me leaves me incomplete
You're here for the day, gone for the week

But if you leave me a hundred times
A hundred times I'll take you back
I'm yours whenever you want me
I'm not too proud to shout it, tell the world about it 'cause I

I love you-ou-ou
This old heart (this old heart) is weak for you
I love you-ou-ou

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 15, 2019, 07:09:20 PM
Keep on running, keep on hiding
One fine day I'm gonna be the one
To make you understand
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be your man.

Keep on running, running from my arms
One fine day I'm gonna be the one
To make you understand
Oh yeah, I'm gonna be your man.

Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is talking about me
It makes me feel so sad.
Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is laughing at me,
It makes me feel so bad,
So keep on running
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2019, 09:36:42 PM
Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind

People stopping, staring
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes

I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 16, 2019, 04:35:04 PM
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away
All the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits
And they've forgiven my mistakes

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world that I'm coming
I'm back where I belong
Yeah I never felt so strong

I'm feelin' like there's nothing that I can't try
(I'm back, baby)
And if you with me put your hands high
(Put your hands high)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 16, 2019, 04:41:46 PM
Everything is open
Nothing is set in stone
Rivers turn to ocean
Oceans tide you home
Home is where the heart is
But your heart had to roam
Drifting over bridges
Never to return
Watching bridges burn

You're driftwood, floating underwater
Breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces
Just driftwood, hollow and of no use
Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 16, 2019, 10:38:09 PM
Though you're always on my mind
Found a sickness that was mine
Chose a life out on the run
All alone inside this game until I'm done

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more

Seems I've failed you all my life
Youthful dreams you'd be my wife
Before I fall into the sun, yeah yeah
If there never is again, you were the one

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more
So I don't feel that I can love you anymore

On this settling down
Oh, I better lay down and rest awhile
On this settling down
Oh, I better lay down and rest awhile
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 17, 2019, 08:20:48 AM
I could plant a pretty garden
 Or just send myself flowers
 Be a jet set Friday
 Or a Sunday hometown girl
 I could stay a little lonely
 Or let you get to know me
 Yeah, I could love a picket fence
 If it wrapped around the world



I’m a little wild child and a homing pigeon
 Caravan and an empty kitchen
 Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
 I’m one heart going both directions
 One love and a couple of questions
 Am I settling up
 Or settling down?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 17, 2019, 05:37:05 PM
Just who do you think you are
Stop acting like some kinda star
Just who do you think you are
Take it like a man baby if that's what you are

Cause I'm moving on up
You're moving on out
Moving on up
Nothing can stop me
I'm moving on up
You're moving on out
Time to break free
Nothing can stop me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 17, 2019, 05:49:30 PM
Hey baby
You go your way, and I'll go mine
But in the mean time

When were together
Touching each other
And our bodies
Do what we feel
When were dancing
Smooching and swaying
Tender love songs
Softly playing

Move closer
Move your body real close
Until we, feel like we're really making love
Ooh, move closer
Move your body real close
Until we, feel like we're really making love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 17, 2019, 08:49:26 PM
Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 05:36:10 AM
So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're just time away

Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh, how I wish I could
But you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you

But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2019, 08:20:41 AM
You're here, but won't be for long
Just 'til that certain song
It set you off
Heart is broken
They won't ever stop
I don't wanna know
I suppose where you are
Don't go far

They've told us all
Both know that's hard
Don't go, don't go far
Just leave me alone

Mind of mine
You waste my time
I'm not taking steps anymore that size
I don't need to know
I suppose where you are
But don't go far

We should try to let go
Even though it's hard
But don't go, don't go far
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 09:31:14 AM
I've seen the yellow lights go down the Mississippi
 I've seen the bridges of the world and they're for real;
 I've had a red light of the wrist without me even gettin' kissed
 It still seems so unreal.

 I've seen the morning in the mountains of Alaska
 I've seen the sunset in the east and in the west;
 I've sang the glory that was Rome,
 And passed the hound dog singer's home;
 It still seems for the best.

 And I'm far, far away
 with my head up in the clouds
 And I'm far, far away
 with my feet down in the crowds
 Lettin' loose around the world
 But the call of home is loud still as loud
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 18, 2019, 04:51:36 PM
They were summoned from the hillside
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking
Make it sing this cheery song

Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
'Til the boys come home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 04:55:38 PM


Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance
When our earth is turning
How do we sleep
While our beds are burning

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2019, 05:20:32 PM
There's an edge to the wind
Cutting into my skin
And the air's like an icicle
As the night starts to fall

And there's no one around
(No one around)
My ears strain for a sound
(Sound)
As I search through these canyons
So cold and so tall

Armageddon, oh no
(Oh no)
Armageddon
It came too soon

In this city so proud
Full of noises and crowds
This once was a monument
Now, it's a grave

And they warned us about
(They warned us about)
When reason gave out
(Reason gave out)
Now, it's too late for miracles
There's nothing to save
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 05:26:36 PM
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch a heel crush, crush, uh oh, this means no fear
Cavalier, renegade and steer clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2019, 07:31:45 PM
We gotta take life as it comes
And never worry about who's right or wrong
It's an uphill climb
To the finish line
We're gonna try to make it
One more time

Starting all over again is gonna be rough, so rough
But we're gonna make it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 07:38:32 PM


Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Till you find your dream.

A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 18, 2019, 07:45:36 PM
I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside
You'll only see my reflection
It's always best when the light is off

I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know we're friends till we die
And either way you turn
I'll be there

Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2019, 07:48:21 PM
As I peer through the window
Of lost time
Looking over my yesterdays
And all the love I gave all in vain
(All the love) All the love
That I've wasted
(All the tears) All the tears
That I've tasted
All in vain

Through the hollow of my tears
I see a dream that's lost
From the hurt
That you have caused

Everywhere I turn
Seems like everything I see
Reflects the love that used to be

In you I put
All my faith and trust
Right before my eyes
My world has turned to dust

After all the nights
I sat alone and wept
Just a handful of promises
Are all that's left of loving you

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 18, 2019, 08:18:45 PM
I watch his lips caress the glass,
His fingers stroke its stem and pass
To lift a cigarette at last, he dries his eyes
From a shadow by the stair
I watch as he weeps unaware
That I'm in awe of his despair, but I am there

In his face age descends on youth, exaggeration on the truth
He caught me looking then but soon his eyes forgot
And everything he seems to do reflects just another shade of blue
I saw him searching into you and ached a while
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 19, 2019, 06:32:20 AM
Gone my lovers dream
Lovely summer dream
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream
Sad as I can be
Hear me willow and weep for me

Whisper to the wind and say that love has sinned
Left my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Murmur to the night to hide its starry light
So none will see me sighing and crying all alone

Weeping willow tree
Weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, hear me willow and weep for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 19, 2019, 05:27:03 PM
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree
I loved him and he loved me
There I used to sit up on his knee
'Neath the spreading chestnut tree

There beneath the boughs we used to meet
All his kisses were so sweet
All the little birdies went "tweet-tweet"
'Neath the spreading chestnut tree

I said "I love you", and there ain’t no if‘s or but’s
He said "I love you", and the blacksmith shouted "Chestnut!"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 20, 2019, 08:22:33 AM
There’s a bird on a branch
 There’s a branch on a tree
 There’s a tree in the meadow
 And that’s where I long to be

‘Neath that bird on a branch
‘Neath that branch on a tree
‘Neath that tree in the meadow
 Where you said you love me

Sing, little birdie, sing your song
 Sing, you’ll help our love along
 Sing, little birdie up above
 Sing a song of love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 20, 2019, 08:04:10 PM
There's a little bird that somebody sent
Down to the earth to live on the wind
Going on the wind and he sleeps on the wind
This little bird that somebody sent

He's light and fragile and feathered sky blue
So thin and graceful the sun shines through
This little bird who lives on the wind
This little bird that somebody sent

He flies so high up in the sky
Way out of reach of human eye
And the only time that he touches the ground
Is when that little bird
Is when that little bird
Is when that little bird dies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 20, 2019, 08:26:20 PM
The bird-catcher, that's me,
always cheerful, hip hooray!
As a bird-catcher I'm known
to young and old throughout the land.
I know how to set about luring
and how to be good at piping.
That's why I can be merry and cheerful,
for all the birds are surely mine.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 21, 2019, 09:02:57 AM
Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh, elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase

San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we've got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read
That always makes you cry
The statue's crying too and well he may
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 21, 2019, 12:38:25 PM
Stop for a minute, baby
I will go anywhere
Take all the time you need
As long as I'm with you, I don't care
Let's run away together and never look back
Somewhere we can be alone out of the black
Let's run away together and never look back
So we can watch the sun go down and lose track
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 22, 2019, 08:47:26 AM
He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy

You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 22, 2019, 11:14:01 AM
You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use
And did you think this fool could never win
Well look at me, I'm coming back again

I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away
Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 22, 2019, 12:03:06 PM


Standing in the shadows of love
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Can't you see me standing in the shadows of love
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come

I wanna run but there's no way to go
'Cause heartaches will follow me I know
Without your love, a love I need
It's the beginning of the end for me

'Cuz you've taken away all of my reasons for living
When you pushed aside all the love I've been giving
Now wait a minute

Didn't I treat you right, now baby didn't I
Didn't I do the best I could, now didn't I, didn't I?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 22, 2019, 09:58:02 PM
Open up my eyes, to face another day
And I start to struggle, who will I obey?
Temptation surrounds me, trying to resist
I may end up winning or end up caving in

This is life on the edge
Tell me I'm meant for more than this
I get closer and closer to regret
Won't someone pull me in from livin' on the edge?

Conviction comes easy, never seems to stay
Avoiding my family, I wonder what they'd say
If they knew the endless circles I have run
Would mom or dad still love me, no matter what I've done?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 22, 2019, 10:05:52 PM
Living on the ceiling
No more room down there
Things fall into place
You get the joke, fall into place

And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
You raise me and then you let me fall
And I'm so small, I'm so small
Wrap me around your finger, see me fall
Here we go

You keep me running round and round
Well, that's alright with me
Up and down, I'm up the wall
I'm up the bloody tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 23, 2019, 06:06:05 AM
it's coming to get me
You're under my skin
No I can't let you go
You're a part of me now
Caught by the taste of your kiss
And I don't want to know the reason why I can't stay forever like this
Now I'm climbing the walls cause I miss you
Take my hand, take my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 23, 2019, 08:15:01 AM
I've got you under my skin
I have got you, deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me
I've got you under my skin
I'd tried so, not to give in
I said to myself this affair it never will go so well
But why should I try to resist when baby I know so well
I've got you under my skin
I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear

Don't you know, little fool
You never can win
Use your mentality
Wake up to reality
But each time I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 23, 2019, 08:58:54 AM

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 24, 2019, 05:40:53 AM
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
Those kids were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
But they fought with expert timing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 24, 2019, 08:44:47 AM
Purple french tail lights and thirty inch fins
oh yeah
A Palomino dashboard and duel muffler twins
oh yeah
With new pistons, plugs, and shocks I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't bragging she's a real pussy wagon
Grease lightning

Go grease lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
Go grease lighting you're coasting through the heat lap trial
You are supreme the chicks'll scream for grease lightning

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 25, 2019, 12:14:11 PM
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, "baby, can't you see
I want to be famous, a star on the screen
But you can do something in between
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you

I told a girl that my prospects were good
And she said, "baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 25, 2019, 12:29:13 PM
Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace child
I moved up to take a place near you

So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tired
It's a trick to make you see wide
It can all but break your heart in pieces

Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The Prettiest Star

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 26, 2019, 03:32:49 AM
I fell down, down, down
Into this dark and lonely hole
There was no one there to care about me anymore
And I needed a way to climb and grab a hold of the edge
You were sitting there holding a rope

And we'll go up, up, up
But I'll fly a little higher
Go up in the clouds because the view is a little nicer
Up here my dear
It won't be long now, it won't be long now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 26, 2019, 09:10:49 AM
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me

Stars fading but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longin' to linger till dawn dear
Just saying this

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 26, 2019, 11:26:02 AM
When she said that you were through
I thought that there was
Nothing that I could do
Just because she ran right here
Doesn't mean I interfered
Now I'm wondering
If we can feel the same
'Cause she keeps whispering your name
She keeps on whispering your name
Like she's just waiting

She once told me how she felt
Didn't just want me
To hear it from someone else
There were unknowns she couldn't know
But she hoped you two would grow
And when you didn't
She was brought to me in pain

And she keeps whispering your name
She keeps on whispering your name
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 26, 2019, 12:38:11 PM
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I've been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you find
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 26, 2019, 05:01:22 PM
I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, Madame, with you

My heart won't let my feet do things that you do
You know what? You're lovely
And so what? I'm lovely
But, oh, what you do to me

I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor
When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle
Especially when we do the Continental
But this feeling isn't purely mental
For, heaven rest us, we're not asbestos
And that's why I won't dance, why should I?

I won't dance, how could I?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 26, 2019, 05:05:54 PM



Well Annie's pretty neat
She always eats her meat
Joey's almost strong
Bet your life he's putting us on
Oh lordy
Oh lordy
You know I need some loving
Move me, touch me

John, I'm only dancing
She turns me on
But I'm only dancing
She turns me on
Don't get me wrong
I'm only dancing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 26, 2019, 09:02:54 PM
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2019, 12:05:42 AM
Hurt you.
How could anyone hurt you
Leave you
How could anyone want to
You must forget him
Turn away from your sorrow
Let me love you
And I'll show you tomorrow
Just let me into your life
Let me tear down the wall
That is keeping you outside the heart of you
Let me into your life
If I can't have you all
Then at least give me one little part of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 27, 2019, 09:11:29 AM
Love hurts
Love scars
Love wounds and marks
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud, it holds a lot of rain
Love hurts
Ooh love hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 09:42:52 AM
Love is like a butterfly
The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
Love makes your heart feel strange inside
It flutters like soft wings in flight
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing

Your laughter brings me sunshine
Everyday is spring time
And I am only happy when you are by my side
How precious is this love we share
How very precious, sweet and rare
Together we belong like daffodils and butterflies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 27, 2019, 09:47:08 AM
Bring me sunshine
In your smile
Bring me laughter
All the while
In this world where we live
There should be more happiness
So much joy you can give
To each brand new bright tomorrow

Make me happy
Through the years
Never bring me
Any tears
Let your arms be as warm
As the sun from up above
Bring me fun
Bring me sunshine
Bring me Love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 10:30:34 AM

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire!

I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 27, 2019, 10:37:29 AM
Jerusalem, Jerusalem all roads lead to you.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem your light is shinning through.
And you will show (you will show), show the way (show the way), to all who see it shine,
That we can live, in peace, in Jerusalem this time.
Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new,
Jerusalem can hold, Moslem, Christian, Jew.

(PS This was by a songwriter I held in quite high esteem, until I heard this naive piece of shit)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 10:56:31 AM
You burn as you work
You burn as you play
The spark of fear is smouldering
With ignorance and hate


And with anxiety
Babylon's burning
Babylon's burning


(Looked up who wrote that last one, colour me shocked)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2019, 11:34:42 AM
I am the god of hellfire and I bring you
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn

You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now's your time, burn your mind
You're falling far, too far behind
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
You're gonna burn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 12:56:10 PM

To my surprise one hundred storeys high
People getting loose y'all
Getting down on the roof
Folks are screaming out of control
It was so entertaining
When the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco Inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 27, 2019, 06:52:20 PM
When this old world starts a getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I'll climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there the world below don't bother me
No, no
So when I come home feeling tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet
I get far away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat race noise down in the street
On the roof, that's the only place I know
Look at the city, baby
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let's go up on the roof
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 07:01:43 PM

What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you'd better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets

But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground (going underground)
Well, let the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground (going underground)
So let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2019, 07:19:56 PM
When your world trembles and quakes
And your footing suddenly shifts and shakesTake my hand
We'll hide in the corner, hide in the corner

Take my hand
We'll hide til it's over, til it's all overWe have choices to make
We have promises that we can't break
There is nothing left to lose
So hold on to me, I'll hold on to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 27, 2019, 07:34:45 PM
Talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say
I'll say it anyway
Today is another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, okay?

Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2019, 09:12:40 PM
Came to you with a broken faith
Gave me more than a hand to hold
Caught before I hit the ground
Tell me I'm safe, you've got me now

Would you take the wheel
If I lose control?
If I'm lying here
Will you take me home?

Could you take care
Of a broken soul?
Will you hold me now?
Oh, will you take me home?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 28, 2019, 10:06:34 AM
Confusion in her eyes that says it all
She's lost control
And she's clinging to the nearest passer by
She's lost control
And she gave away the secrets of her past
And said, "I've lost control again"
And a voice that told her when and where to act
She said, "I've lost control again"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2019, 02:32:38 PM
There must be something we can talk about
And maybe there's something here that we can do
No matter what your friends say, don't go too far
Remember there's just one thing
Whenever you come this way
You know I wouldn't get you down
I just like talking to you
It's raining outside
I shake my shoes, downstairs
You never stop dancing
You don't make much sense

No matter what your friends say
Don't go too far
Remember there's just one thing
Whenever you come this way
Maybe we can get together

We can get it together
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 28, 2019, 03:05:35 PM
Here come ol' flat top
He come groovin' up slowly
He's got Joo Joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knees
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine
He's got toe jam football
He's got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Come together right now over me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2019, 09:21:03 PM
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up a big monkey man
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up a big monkey man

I never saw you, I only heard of you
Huggin' up the big monkey man
I never saw you, I only heard of you
Huggin' up the big monkey man

It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up the big monkey man
It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up the big monkey man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 29, 2019, 09:24:55 AM
If I could turn the page
In time, then I'd rearrange
Just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day
To believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 29, 2019, 10:42:45 AM
Could you remember
When you walked among men
Jesus, you know when you're looking below
It's worse now than then
Pushin' and shovin' crowd in your mind
Lord for my sake
Teach me to take
One day at a time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 29, 2019, 08:53:51 PM
I know that I said that there'd be no one else
I know that I said I'd be true
But baby, I burned Cupid's arrow
And here's the short and narrow
I've nothing left to offer you
I'm all cried out
You took a whole lot of loving for
A handful of nothing
All cried out
It's hard to give you something when
You're pushing and shoving me around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 30, 2019, 09:54:55 AM
No rhythm in cymbals
No tempo in drums
Love on arrival
She comes when she comes
Right on the target
But wide of the mark
What I thought was fire
Was only the spark
The sweetest melody
Is an unheard refrain
So lower your sights
Yeah but raise your aim
Raise your aim

Who broke my heart?
You did, you did
Bow to the target
Blame Cupid, Cupid
You think you're smart
Stupid, stupid

Shoot that poison arrow to my heart
Shoot that poison arrow

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 02, 2020, 03:48:56 PM
Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me

Cupid please hear my cry
And let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress
There's danger of me losing all of my happiness
For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist
And this you can fix
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 02, 2020, 04:39:17 PM
You just want what you never can
Want what you never can’t have
Only love ‘cause it makes you feel
Love ‘cause it makes you feel bad


Am I dreaming all I feel electrified?
Am I dreaming I see Eros in the skies?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 03, 2020, 06:30:45 AM
I got chills
They're multiplying
And I'm losing control
Cause the power you're supplying
It's electrifying!

You better shape up
Cause I need a man
And my heart is set on you
You better shape up
You better understand
To my heart I must be true
Nothing left
Nothing left for me to do

You're the one that I want
You are the one I want
Oh, honey
The one that I want
You are the one I want
Oh, honey
The one that I want
You are the one I want
Oh, the one I need
Oh, yes indeed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 03, 2020, 07:39:50 AM
I only knew you for a while
I never saw your smile
'Til it was time to go
Time to go away
(Time to go away)
Sometimes it's hard to recognise
Love comes as a surprise
And it's too late
It's just too late to stay
Too late to stay

We'll always be together
However far it seems
(Love never ends)
We'll always be together
Together in electric dreams

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 03, 2020, 11:35:51 AM
And in my occasional analysis of the songs we put the latest in terms of songs that appear more than 5 times are:


Dream a Little Dream of me            10
With a Song in My Heart                   10
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   7
Blue Skies                                           7
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing   7
Memories are Made of This                   7
Bohemian Rhapsody                         6
Come Fly With Me                           6
Don't Stop Me Now                           6
In The Still of the Night                   6
Singing in the Rain                           6
Amoreuse                                           5
Baby It's Cold Outside                           5
Banana Boat Song                           5
Brother Can you spare a dime           5
Cry Me a River                              5
Don't it make my brown Eyes Blue   5
I Will Survive                                   5
I Write the Songs                           5
It's a Kind of Magic                           5
It's a Lovely Day Today                   5
Lilac Wine                                           5
Love Me or Leave Me                           5
Mama Told Me Not To Come           5
Moon River                                           5
No More the Fool                           5
Oh What a Beautiful Morning           5
Reflections                                      5
Rock Around the Clock                     5
Somewhere over the rainbow           5
Strangers in the Night                    5
The Sound of Silence                           5
Tie a Yellow Ribbon                           5
Walk on by                                           5

Two titles would appear The Power of Love and Young at Heart but they are different songs - The Power of Love is 4 FGTH and 2 Jennifer Rush. Young at Heart is 4 Frank Sinatra and 1 The Bluebells
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 03, 2020, 11:40:06 AM
For Artists that have more than 10 entries the lists is:

The Beatles   76
Ella Fitzgerald   66
Frank Sinatra   66
Trad.             43
Nat King Cole   34
Doris Day           30
Queen           30
Abba                    29
Simon and Garfunkel   29
Bing Crosby   28
David Bowie   28
Judy Garland   23
Fred Astaire   21
The Rolling Stones   18
Gene Kelly           17
Mario Lanza   17
Theme           17
Hymn           16
Billie Holiday   15
Diana Ross and The Supremes   15
Wings           15
Andy Williams   14
Louis Armstrong   14
Paul Simon   14
Barbra Streisand   13
Don McLean   13
The Carpenters   13
Blondie           12
Dean Martin   12
Tony Bennett   12
Vera Lynn           12
Elkie Brooks   11
Perry Como   11
Pink Floyd           11
Roy Orbison   11
Bob Dylan           10
Carole King   10
Johnny Cash   10
Julie Andrews   10
Lionel Ritchie   10
The Kinks      10


Since last time The Beatles have passed Frank Sinatra and built up a substantial lead. Bing Crosby has been passed by a number of acts. David Bowie has moved up rapidly. All of the artists on 10 songs are new.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 03, 2020, 12:12:45 PM
Thanks for the analysis NS. As noted before it speaks to our ages.

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night bird's song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
But if you stay, I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail on the sun, we'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 03, 2020, 01:01:57 PM

I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

The breeze hasn't time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain

But suddenly my words
Reach someone else's ear
At someone else's heart strings too

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 03, 2020, 02:50:21 PM
Dancing in the shallows of a river
Lonely moonchild
Dreaming in the shadow
Of the willow.

Talking to the trees of the
Cobweb strange
Sleeping on the steps of a fountain
Waving silver wands to the
Night-birds song
Waiting for the sun on the mountain.

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 03, 2020, 02:53:20 PM
And thus begins the web
Attempting to discard these clinging memories
 I only serve to wallow in our past
 I fabricate the weave with my excuses
 Its strands I hope and pray shall last
 Oh please do last
The flytrap needs the insects, ivy caresses the wall
 Needles make love to the junkies, the sirens seduce with their call
 Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me
 Confused and rejected, despised and alone
 I kiss isolation on its fevered brow
 Security clutching me, obscurity threatening me
 Your reasons were so obvious
 As my friend have qualified, I only laughed away your tears
 But even jesters cry
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 03, 2020, 05:19:36 PM
Take every memory ingrained in me
Erase it from my thoughts so I can sleep
I know I need to move on, but it's the last thing that I'm ready to do
These subtle signs cause angry tides that rip me right in two

I tell myself that this all will pass
But it just won't stop and it all adds up, so I'm sure that this will last
Take every memory ingrained in me
Erase it from my thoughts so I can sleep

I'd give anything to feel no pain
Name your price and take the past away
Take every memory ingrained in me, in me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2020, 04:12:56 PM
My baby and I are back together again
Lovin' is better than it's ever been
If it weren't for the trials we've been through
I'd never have the courage to come back to you

We're all entitled to make a mistake
We got to prepare for some heartbreak
I as earnin' my man, while I was learnin' my man
Something you young girls might not understand

No pain (no pain), no pain (no pain)
No gain (no gain), no
No pain (no pain), no pain (no pain)
No gain (no gain)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2020, 06:10:17 PM
I wake up every mornin', I stumble out of bed
Stretchin' and yawnin', another day ahead
It seems to last forever, and time goes slowly by
Till babe and me's together, then it starts to fly

'Cause the moment that he's with me, time can take a flight
The moment that he's with me, everything's alright
Night time is the right time, we make love
Then it's his and my time, we take off

My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again to find me waitin' for him
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2020, 06:30:58 PM

I know your window and I know it's late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four way
You watch them as they fall
They all have heart attacks
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back

Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Where Every night its just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
All of my dreams just fall like rain
All upon on a downtown train
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2020, 08:46:23 PM
Trains and boats and planes are passing by
They mean a trip to Paris or Rome
For someone else but not for me
The trains and the boats and planes
Took you away, away from me

We were so in love and high above
We had a star to wish upon
Wish and dreams come true, but not for me
The trains and the boats and planes
Took you away, away from me

You are from another part of the world
You had to go back awhile and then
You said you soon would return again
I'm waiting here like I promised to
I'm waiting here, but where are you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 05, 2020, 09:33:41 AM
When a star is born
They possess a gift or two
One of them is this
They have the power to make a wish come true
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are

Anything your heart desires will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 05, 2020, 11:12:26 AM
Here, as I watch the ships go by
I'm rooted to my shore
I keep asking myself why
And if there's more on the other side
Here, as I see the friends I thought I'd made
A little bit crazed, knowing now
We've outgrown one another

Starmaker
Dream breaker
Soul taker
We're happy now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 05, 2020, 12:07:34 PM
Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
Watchin' the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide, roll away
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 05, 2020, 12:15:46 PM
Here I am
I'm playing day dreaming fool again
My favourite game

And you are the one
Who's got my head in the clouds above
You're the one that I love

Cause you're mine
Baby, you're my favourite waste of time
Mine
Baby, you're my favourite waste of time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 05, 2020, 12:51:53 PM
Baby, I'm yours (baby, I'm yours)
And I'll be yours (yours) until the stars fall from the sky
Yours (yours) until the rivers all run dry
In other words, until I die

Baby, I'm yours (baby, I'm yours)
And I'll be yours (yours) until the sun no longer shines
Yours (yours) until the poets run out of rhyme
In other words, until the end of time

I'm gonna stay right here by your side
Do my best to keep you satisfied
Nothin' in the world could drive me away
Everyday, you'll hear me say

Baby, I'm yours (baby, I'm yours)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 05, 2020, 01:25:15 PM

I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time.

Hold me close, never let me go.
Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 05, 2020, 04:17:36 PM
Trent said 2 days ago:- Thanks for the analysis NS. As noted before it speaks to our ages.

A lot of the time, yes but I don't always know the songs I post, I google words & themes and come up with all sorts.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new
In city and in forest they smiled like me and you
But now it's come to distances and both of us must try
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 06, 2020, 09:10:06 AM
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 06, 2020, 09:23:09 AM

She's walking down the street 
Blind to every eye she meets 
Do you think you'll be the guy 
To make the queen of the angels sigh? 

Hello, I love you 
Won't you tell me your name? 
Hello, I love you 
Let me jump in your game 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 06, 2020, 09:32:03 PM
Uh she works in the cubical next to me
She looks like she just stepped out of a magazine
She's got style, she's got class,
She's not just naughty
She's legs for days, she got the body

She ain't the type to give it up quick
She won't fall for that every day stick
This may take a little more time, aha
I'm about to make er mine

And she doesn't know ah ah oh oh
She doesn't know ah ah oh oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh oh
She doesn't know ah ah oh oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2020, 07:20:58 AM

When she finished her laundry she was all in a quandary
And made it for the street like a hare
Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent
And dropped all her clean underwear

Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know shes cheatin on me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 07, 2020, 05:09:21 PM
Story of my life
Searching for the right
But it keeps avoiding me
Sorrow in my soul
Cause it seems that wrong

Really loves my company
He's more than a man
And this is more than love
The reason that the sky is blue
The clouds are rolling in
Because I'm gone again

And to him I just can't be true
And I know that he knows I'm unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2020, 05:53:33 PM

Your cheatin' heart
Will pine some day
And crave the love
You threw away
The time will come
When you'll be blue
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...

When tears come down
Like falling rain
You'll toss around
And call my name
You'll walk the floor
The way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 07, 2020, 06:27:35 PM
The sun died, the sun died, with my love
When you left me blue
The summer died too
My love and the sun, it's the same

The sun died, the sun died with my love
And I'm so alone
And yet life goes on
But for me there can't be no more dawn

Yesterday, the coldest winter was like spring
I thought my heart would always sing
I thought our love would never end
But that was yesterday
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2020, 06:42:44 PM
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gathered together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me

The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2020, 07:02:50 PM
Still sends shivers......


The sun will come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinking about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2020, 07:12:47 PM
As did the Annie song for different reasons.



When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more

Lookin' back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed

It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2020, 07:14:31 PM
Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey, if I get restless
Baby, you're not that kind
Don't go breaking my heart
You take the weight off me
Oh, honey, when you knock on my door
Ooh, I gave you my key
Ooh-hoo, nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your clown
Ooh-hoo, nobody knows it, nobody knows
Right from the start
I gave you my heart
Oh oh, I gave you my heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 07, 2020, 08:34:55 PM
I absoflippinglutely love that song Trent.

I heard you told your friends I wrote you a breakup song
The funny thing is, it wasn't even about you
Ok, maybe I did
So, what if it was?
That don't make you a king

The world ain't revolving around you
I'm in my car, riding around
My bass is up, no slowing down
Love ain't a game, don't got no time
No, you don't see me crying, no baby, baby

I ain't gonna hit you with a heartbreak song
I ain't gonna give you what you're betting on
'Cause boy you don't deserve a single word
Don't know if you heard
I forgot all about you

I ain't gonna bore you with a sob story
Go crying to my friends and throw a hate party
It's so overrated, overplayed, and I'm ok
I'm just better without you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2020, 09:17:14 PM
I got to say it and it's hard for me
You got me crying like I thought I would never be
Love is believing, but you let me down
How can I love you when you ain't around

And I get to the morning and you never call
Love should be everything or not at all
And it don't matter whatever you do
I made a life out of loving you

Only to find any dream that I follow is dying
I'm crying in the rain
I could be searching my world for a love everlasting
Feeling no pain
When will we meet again

Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
Is it a lesson that I never knew
Got to get out of the spell that I'm under
My love for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2020, 09:50:56 PM
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door
In cars

Here in my car
I know I've started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2020, 10:36:23 PM
If you wanna make me happy, here is all you gotta do
Take me where you're going and I'll take care of you
'Cause I got this need that's growing to keep you satisfied
And if you keep your green light showing well you can take me for a ride

'Cause I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby everywhere

Well, I like the way you're moving, and I like a the way you go
I like the way you let your locomotion show
'Cause my drivin' wheel is drivin' and my piston's working good
And if your motor gives you some trouble baby, I'll take a look underneath your hood (yes, I would)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 07, 2020, 10:39:18 PM
I got a brand new car
And I like to drive real hard
I got a brand new car
And I'm feeling good so far

Take her on the highway for a little spin
I want to see the kind of shape she's in
And I got a brand new star
Jack her up baby, go on, open the hood
I want to check if her oil smells good
Mm, smells like caviar

Mm, give her some stick
Push her too far
Right to the brink
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 07, 2020, 10:41:37 PM
I've been lookin' around awhile
You've got something for me
Well, I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go so fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive, I've been all around the world
Some people say I've done all right for a girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 06:38:21 AM
Last week it went 'round the clock
I also had a little knock
I dented somebody's fender
He'll learn not to park on a bender
Ha ha ha

I've been driving in my car
It don't look much but I've been far
I drive up to Muswell Hill
I've even been to Selsey Bill

I drove along the A45
I had her up to fifty-eight
This copper stopped me the other day
You're mistaken what could i say?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 08, 2020, 08:57:11 AM
Driving down those city streets
Waiting to get down
Won't you get your big machine
Somewhere in this town?
Now in the parking lot garage
You'll find the proper place
Just follow all the written rules
You'll fit into the space

Pull up to my bumper baby
In your long black limousine
Pull up to my bumper baby
And drive it in between

Pull up
To it
Don't drive
Through it

Back it
Up twice
Now that
Fit's nice
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 09:23:54 AM
White wheels in the city tonight
There is dust in their hearts
They turn they burn and bring me down
There is dust in their hearts

Cool blue notes echo this land loud
The jewels in my heart
Strike a chord and break my spine
There is dust in their hearts

I saw your face
In a long white car
Move away from here
Get away from here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 08, 2020, 10:04:36 AM
o kodwa you zo-nge li-sa namhlange
(A-wa a-wa) si-bona kwenze ka kanjani
(A-wa a-wa) amanto mbazane ayeza
She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing ta na na
Ta na na na

She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 10:19:25 AM
Got brass in pocket
 Got bottle, I'm gonna use it
 Intention, I feel inventive
 Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

 Got motion, restrained emotion
 Been driving Detroit leaning
 No reason, just seems so pleasing
 Gonna make you, make you, make you notice


 Gonna use my arms
 Gonna use my legs
 Gonna use my style
 Gonna use my side step
 Gonna use my fingers
 Gonna use my, my, my imagination
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 08, 2020, 11:03:08 AM
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself you're such a lucky guy
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellows in the world she belongs to me
But it was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me
It was just my imagination runnin' away with me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 11:06:07 AM
You don't want to hurt me,
 But see how deep the bullet lies.
 Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.
 Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

 Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
 Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
 You, it's you and me.
 It's you and me won't be unhappy.

 And if I only could,
 I'd make a deal with God,
 And I'd get him to swap our places,
 Be running up that road,
 Be running up that hill,
 Be running up that building,
 Say, if I only could, oh...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 08, 2020, 12:08:06 PM
Good morn or evening friends
Here's your friendly announcer
I have serious news to pass on to every-body
What I'm about to say
Could mean the world's disaster
Could change your joy and laughter to tears and pain

It's that
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay
Send yours in right away
Hate's goin' round
Breaking many hearts
Stop it please
Before it's gone too far
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 03:07:25 PM
Hello good morning, how ya doing?
 Waking up shaking off yesterday's booze yeah
 Turn the TV off cause bad news man
 Feeling fresh like a Ziploc new man
 OJ with a champagne tune up
 Mimosa holy ghost running through
 Hell yeah, it's a new hallelujah
 Popping like the top off a bottle and I ain't stopping yeah

 Baby it's a brand new day
 Ain't no clouds hanging over me
 Something doesn't feel the same
 The rest of my life gonna start today
 Good morning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2020, 08:12:50 PM
The sun in the morning
Comes over the hill
And kisses the tall grass beside me

We are so young at heart
And living is an art
To be good at

We get our strength in the day time
By the sun's golden rays
That lasts us into the night time
We find ourselves in many ways

The sun in the morning
A new day’s a dawning
Look out your window
And see yourself walking
Through fields of love
And the sky up above
Is with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 08:38:39 PM
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Among the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky,
When we walked in fields of gold

So she took her love for to gaze awhile,
Among the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold.

Will you stay with me? Will you be my love
Among the fields of barley?
And you can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2020, 09:12:01 PM
Thank you for coming home
Sorry that the chairs are all worn
I left them here I could have sworn
These are my salad days
Slowly being eaten away
Just another play for today

Oh, but I'm proud of you
But I'm proud of you
Nothing left to make me feel small
Luck has left me standing so tall
Gold
(Gold)
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible, always believe in, 'cos you are
Gold
(Gold)
I'm glad that you're bound to return
There's something I could have learned
You're indestructible, always believe in
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2020, 09:26:01 PM
Well, I met an old man walkin' down the street
His clothes were torn and tattered
With sandals on his feet
And I stopped to help him
And lend him a hand
He said, I love you so much
But you must understand

Silver and gold might buy you a home
But things of this world
They won't last you long
And time has a way of turning us old
And time can't be bought back with silver and gold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 08, 2020, 11:07:39 PM
I was walking by the graveyard, late last Friday night,
I heard somebody yelling, it sounded like a fight.
It was just a drunken hobo dancing circles in the night,
Pouring whiskey on the headstones in the blue moonlight.
So often have I wondered where these homeless brothers go,
Down in some hidden valley were their sorrows cannot show,
Where the police cannot find them, where the wanted men can go.
There's freedom when your walking, even though you're walking slow.

Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,
That homeless brother is my friend.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 08, 2020, 11:22:39 PM
I was working in the lab
late one night,
when my eyes beheld
an eerie sight.
for my monster from his slab
began to rise.
and suddenly to my surprise...

He did the mash.
He did the monster mash.
The monster mash.
It was graveyard smash.
He did the mash.
It caught on in a flash.
He did the mash.
He did the monster mash.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 09, 2020, 12:48:27 AM
It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart

You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer thriller tonight, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 09, 2020, 07:11:15 AM
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
Everybody got to go
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
The one that shut the kitchen door
He don't give a hoot of warning
Wrapped up in a black cat cloak
He don't go in the light of the morning
He split the time the cock'rel crows

Talkin' about the midnight gambler
The one you never seen before
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Did you see him jump the garden wall
Sighin' down the wind so sadly
Listen and you'll hear him moan
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Everybody got to go
Yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 09, 2020, 10:40:22 AM
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 09, 2020, 10:55:13 AM
And when he finished speakin'
 He turned back toward the window
 Crushed out his cigarette
 And faded off to sleep
 And somewhere in the darkness
 The gambler he broke even
 And in his final words
 I found an ace that I could keep

 You got to know when to hold 'em
 Know when to fold 'em
 Know when to walk away
 And know when to run
 You never count your money
 When you're sittin' at the table
 There'll be time enough for countin'
 When the dealing's done
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 11, 2020, 03:52:13 PM
Yeah, yeah
They love to see you at your worst
Stick the knife in where it hurts
Fuck 'em all, I know my worth
I'm cashing in for that purse
I've spent years in that dirt
Now I'm takin' chances, I'm buildin' my own Church
They can't take away what you've been going through for years (Years)
But I'm back in this bitch overcoming these fears (Fears)
No hip hip hooray, I don't hear no cheers
That's fine, I got six figures and I made it all with my peers (Peers)
Never take no for an answer
I got the game at ransom
Been fuckin' up the industry for years, don't call me Branson
I do it differently, I'm a different breed (Breed)
Look what I've achieved
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 12, 2020, 02:05:33 PM

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old Macheath, babe
And he keeps it out of sight

You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old Macheath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red

Now on the sidewalk, ooh, sunny morning, uh-huh
Lies a body just oozin' life
Eek, and someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 12, 2020, 10:52:24 PM
I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look into my mouth
I'm not coming back

So knives out
Cut him up
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog
They would have drowned you at birth
Look into my mouth
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

So knives out
Cut him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2020, 04:03:23 PM

I would have given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And he's taken just all that I had
But if you want, I'll try to love again
Baby, I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest
Baby, I know the first cut is the deepest
But when it comes to being lucky he's cursed
And when it comes to loving me he's worst

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 15, 2020, 12:42:36 PM
All the times I told you I love you
I really loved you
Sometimes I love you so much
I wanna tear you apart

You're just another that failed me again
I wanted more than love
I wanted suffocation
Tie me to your leash
Drag me all over the ground
I want to go wherever you go
Let me be your pair of shoes
Walk, walk all over me
Walk, walk all over me

Now that's what love is
Hopelessly, helplessly
Hopelessly, helplessly
Hopeless

Sometimes I love you so much
I wanna tear you apart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 15, 2020, 01:53:06 PM
I rolled out my coffin
 Drink poison in my chalice
 And pride begins to fade
 And you all can feel my malice

 Put gris-gris on your doorstep
 Soon you'll be in the gutter
 Melt your heart like butter
 A-a-and I can make you stutter

 Come killy, killy, come, come
 Walk on gilded splinters
 Come killy, killy, come, come
 Walk on gilded splinters
 Come killy, killy, come, come
 Walk on gilded splinters

 'Til I burn up, 'til I burn up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 15, 2020, 02:44:33 PM
Well I lost my job at the weekend,
And I was back out on the streets,
Well I lost my job at the weekend,
I was back out on the streets,
Found a way to get a dollar,
But I spent it on the roulette wheel.

Walk on hot coals,
Sleep on a bed of nails,
Walk on thin ice,
Skate on razor blades,
Got my little girl beside me,
No matter what else fails, yea.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 15, 2020, 03:34:58 PM

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a run
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 16, 2020, 05:12:03 PM
Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there
And they're all livin' devil may care
And I'm just the devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
But even if there were forty more
I wouldn't sleep a minute away
Oh, the black jack and poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal
All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 16, 2020, 05:15:11 PM

Bright light city
You're her religion
Superstars in their own private movie
Play just like children

Lies that take her
Places she's never seen
The kiss and tell of it all
To her it seems so obscene

She's so pretty
Her hair is a mess
We all love her
To that we confess

She has a halo
We really do adore her
For she has a halo
Can we touch her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 16, 2020, 06:16:12 PM
Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you
Before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby
I love you, I really do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 16, 2020, 06:16:59 PM

Hail, Queen of Heav'n, the ocean Star,
⁠Guide of the wand'rer here below!
Thrown on life's surge we claim thy care,
⁠Save us from peril and from woe.
⁠Mother of Christ, Star of the sea,
⁠Pray for the wanderer, pray for me

O gentle, chaste, and spotless Maid,
⁠We sinners make our prayers through thee
Remind thy Son that He has paid
⁠The price of our iniquity.
⁠Virgin most pure, Star of the sea,
⁠Pray for the sinner, pray for me.

Sojourners in this vale of tears,
⁠O thee, blest Advocate, we cry,
Pity our sorrows, calm our fears,
⁠And soothe with hope our misery.
⁠Refuge in grief, Star of the sea,
⁠Pray for the mourner, pray for me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 16, 2020, 06:27:59 PM
Oh, Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All along dem day

Well I run to the rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me, Lord
All along dem day

But the rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I ain't gonna hide you guy
All along dem day

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 16, 2020, 06:44:21 PM
I am a rock, I am an island
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me

I am a rock, I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 16, 2020, 06:48:19 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 16, 2020, 06:53:31 PM
Every street lamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning
Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 16, 2020, 07:18:48 PM
I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit, red danger

Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life

Transitions to another place
So the time will pass more slowly
Features fuse and your shadow's red
Like a film I've seen now show me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 16, 2020, 09:38:47 PM
It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go
Drifting into time passages
Years go falling in the fading light
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Well I'm not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don't last
Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There's something back here that you left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 16, 2020, 10:30:56 PM
January
Sick and tired, you've been hanging on me
You make me sad with your eyes
You're telling me lies
Don't go, don't go


January
Don't be cold, don't be angry to me
You make me sad, come and see
Oh, January
Don't go, don't go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 17, 2020, 10:39:44 AM
Winter blues no love for you
Seasons change in a gothic way
10,000 lux to light us up
In these winter nights if I'm wandering all alone

I'll turn on my S.A.D. light

As I'm staring at Alpha Centauri
All I can see is low its glow seems so far
How did I get to this point of things playing
So heavy on my heart
Twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2020, 10:53:00 AM
Listen, Captain Strange, what's our destination
 The scanners seem to indicate a small deviation
 Static on the comm - it's Starfleet Command
 Requesting your position, it's their final demand


 You're intentions are known, they've found out at last
 So if you're gonna take me, please make it fast
 Touch me, feel me, do what you will
 I want to feel that galatic thrill


 I lost my heart to a starship trooper
 Flashing lights in hyper space
 Fighting for the Federation
 Hand in hand we'll conquer space
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 17, 2020, 11:32:36 AM
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me
Long as you love me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me
You got the power to turn on the light

Everybody tells me I'm wrong
To want you so badly (badly, badly, badly)
But there's a force driving me on
I follow it gladly (gladly, gladly, gladly)
So let them laugh I don't care
Cause I got nothing to hide
All that I want is you by my side
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2020, 11:36:21 AM
Bend it, bend it, just a little bit
 And take it easy, show you're likin' it
 And lover, you know that we're gonna hit
 The heights cause I'm sure that we're made to fit
 Together just like pieces of a
 Jigsaw puzzle, what's the hustle
 Bend it, bend it, just a little more

 Without you, baby, I'm so insecure
 But you can make me feel that I am sure
 I've got a sickness only you can cure
 So just relax, there's stacks of time, but honey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 17, 2020, 12:22:40 PM
Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you

I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to
(I just can't believe it's true)

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2020, 12:25:19 PM
She wrecked the car and she was sad
 And so afraid that I'd be mad, but what the heck
 Though I pretended hard to be
 Guess you could say she saw through me and hugged my neck

 I came home unexpectedly
 And caught her cryin' needlessly in the middle of the day
 And it was in the early spring
 When flowers bloom and robins sing, she went away

 And Honey, I miss you
 And I'm bein' good
 And I'd love to be with you
 If only I could
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 17, 2020, 07:41:09 PM
The flowers that bloom in the spring,
Tra la,
Breathe promise of merry sunshine -
As we merrily dance and we sing,
Tra la,
We welcome the hope that they bring,
Tra la.
Of a summer of roses and wine.
And that's what we mean when we say that a thing
Is welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring.
Tra la la la la la, etc.
ALL. Tra la la la, etc.
KO. The flowers that bloom in the spring,
Tra la,
Having nothing to do with the case.
I've got to take under my wing, Tra la,
A most unattractive old thing,
Tra la,
With a caricature of a face,
And that's what I mean when I say, or I sing,
'Oh, bother the flowers that bloom in the spring.'
Tra la la la la la, etc.
ALL. Tra la la la, Tra la la la, etc.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2020, 08:35:42 PM
Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where, Oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me
And now it's..

Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 18, 2020, 08:03:49 PM
We must be kind
And with an open mind
We must endeavour to find
A way-
To let the Germans know that when the war is over
They are not the ones who'll have to pay.
We must be sweet-
And tactful and discreet
And when they've suffered defeat
We mustn't let
Them feel upset
Or ever get
The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them,
Our future policy must be to reinstate them.

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our victory is ultimately won,
It was just those nasty Nazis who persuaded them to fight
And their Beethoven and Bach are really far worse than their bite
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 19, 2020, 10:22:31 AM
Well I'm-a write a little letter
I'm gonna mail it to my local D.J.
Yeah and it's a jumpin' little record
I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven
I gotta hear it again today

You know my temperature's risin'
The jukebox's blowin' a fuse
My heart beatin' rhythm
And my soul keep-a singing the blues
Roll over Beethoven
And tell Tchaikovsky the news

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 19, 2020, 10:34:38 AM
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'Cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear
Why'd you do me this way?

Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'Cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you
You got me singin' the blues
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 19, 2020, 10:59:00 AM


The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide it's light
When you get the blues in the night
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing the saddest kind o' song
He knows things are wrong, and he's right

From Natchez to mobile,
From Memphis to St. Joe
Wherever the four winds blow
I been in some big towns
An' heard me some big talk
But there is one thing I know
A man's a two-face, a worrisome thing
Who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 19, 2020, 11:03:21 AM
Everybody have you heard?
He's gonna buy me a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird won't sing
He's gonna buy me a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring won't shine
He's gonna surely break this heart of mine
And that's why I keep on tellin' ev'rybody, sayin'
Wo, wo, wo, wo, wo
Hear me now and understand
He's gonna find me some peace of mind

And if that peace of mind won't stay
I'm gonna find myself a better way
And if that better way ain't so
I, I, I'll ride with the tide and go with the flow
And that's why I keep on shoutin' in your ear sayin'
Wo, wo, wo, wo, wo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 19, 2020, 11:36:33 AM


Now hush little baby don't you cry
Everythings gonna be alright
Stiffen that upper lip up little lady
I told ya daddy's here to hold ya
Through the night
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
We feel how we feel inside
It may seem a little crazy pretty baby
But I promise
Mama's gonna be alright
And if you ask me to
Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
I'mma give you the world
I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
I'mma sing for you, I'll do anything for you to see you smile
And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
I'mma break that birdy's neck
I'll go back to the jewler who sold it to ya
And make him eat every karat
Don't fuck with dad, haha

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 19, 2020, 10:03:14 PM
Be my, be my sugar daddy
And provide me with your candy
I will be your sugar, sugar baby
If you'll be my sugar, sugar daddy, sugar, sugar daddy
I think I need a taste, I've been a good girl

Come give me, give me some
'Cause I've been here waiting for you, for you
Why don't you come through? (Why don't you come through?)
My caramel lollipop, my Hershey Kisses
My favorite candy shop
That's what I'm missing is you, is you
Why don't you come through? (Why don't you come through?)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 20, 2020, 10:58:07 PM
My boy lollipop
You make my heart go giddy up
You are as sweet as candy
You're my sugar dandy
Ho, ho, my boy lollipop
Never ever leave me
Because it would grieve me
My heart told me so
I love ya, I love ya, I love ya so
But I wanted you to know
I need ya, I need ya, I need ya so
And I'll never let you go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 20, 2020, 11:18:01 PM
Got myself a cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin', livin' doll
Got to do my best to please her just 'cause she's a livin' doll
Got a roamin' eye and that is why she satisfies my soul
Got the one and only walkin', talkin', livin' doll

Take a look at her hair, it's real
If you don't believe what I say, just feel
I'm gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunk
Can steal her away from me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 21, 2020, 09:05:59 AM
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 21, 2020, 09:55:08 AM
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 21, 2020, 05:16:01 PM
Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 21, 2020, 06:59:50 PM
Go on now, go. Walk out the door
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I
I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive
I will survive, hey, hey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 21, 2020, 07:31:45 PM
We've already said "goodbye"
Since you gotta go, oh you'd better
Go now, go now, go now (go now, ooh)
Before you see me cry?

I don't want you to tell me just what you intend to do now
'Cause how many times do I have to tell you darlin', darlin'
I'm still in love with you now
Whoa oh oh oh

We've already said "so long"
I don't want to see you go, oh you'd better
Go now, go now, go now (go now, ooh)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 22, 2020, 09:51:56 AM
Well, don't get on the wrong train
Don't fly in an old plane
Don't go out in the p0uring rain
You might get wet I'd be upset
You're bound to get sneezes or nasty diseases
Take good care when I'm not there
I'm still in love with you

While I'm on vacation, you'd be a good patient
Take your medication, I worry so each time I go
Try to keep warm, dear
In case there's a storm, dear
Take good care while I'm not there
I'm still in love with you

Some younger guys with roving eyes
May tantalize you with their lies
You must be wise and realize
Leave well alone till you get home, dear
Won't see other fellas, don't wanna make you jealous
No need to fear when you're not here
I'm still in love with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 23, 2020, 06:38:29 PM
Holiday
Celebrate
Holiday
Celebrate

If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice

Everybody spread the word
We're gonna have a celebration
All across the world
In every nation
It's time for the good times
Forget about the bad times, oh yeah
One day to come together to release the pressure
We need a holiday
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 23, 2020, 07:37:43 PM
A-a-aye, I'm on vacation
Every single day 'cause I love my occupation
A-a-aye, I'm on vacation
If you don't like your life, then you should go and change it
A-a-aye, I'm on vacation
Every single day 'cause I love my occupation
A-a-aye, I'm on vacation
Every single day, every, every single day
Every single day, every, every single day
Every single day, every, every single day-ay
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 24, 2020, 08:57:36 AM
When day is done
And shadows fall
I dream of you!

When day is done
I think of all
The joys we knew!

That yearning, returning,
To hold you in my arms,
Won't go love, I know love,
Without you, night has lost it's charms!

When day is done
And grass is wet
With twilight's dew,
My lonely heart is sinking
With the sun!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 24, 2020, 10:48:09 AM
When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpires pocket away
And all remains in the groundsman's pains for the rest of the time and a day
There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun.

When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee and it could be the sting in the ale, the sting in the ale.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 24, 2020, 02:35:43 PM

Days, that were so few
Full of love and you
Gone, the days are gone now
Days, that seem so wrong now

Life, won't be the same
Without you to hold again in my arms
To ease the pain and remember
When our love was a reason for living

Days, that were so few
Full of love and you
The game is over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 24, 2020, 03:39:03 PM
Thinking,
Long ago when we were young and free
Love happened easily and dreams never died
Life sung a pretty song,
Now those days are gone

Crying,
Finding comfort in the friends we knew
Now it's just me and you trying alone
We used to get along (we used to)
Now those days are gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 24, 2020, 04:56:31 PM
I was alright for a while, I could smile for a while
Then I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight
When you stopped to say, "Hello"
You wished me well, you couldn't tell
That I'd been crying over you
Crying over you then you said, "So long"
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying,
Crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand
That the touch of your hand
Can start me crying.



or if you prefer..... this version.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93VbNiVpAXw
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 24, 2020, 09:45:37 PM
Just a song we shared, I'll hear
Brings memories back when you were here
Of your smile, your easy laughter
Of your kiss, those moments after
I think of you,
And think of you
And think of you.

Of the dreams we dreamt together
Of the love we vowed would never
Melt like snowflakes in the sun
My days now end as they begun
With thoughts of you,
And I think of you
And think of you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 25, 2020, 09:37:07 AM
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you

Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 25, 2020, 10:33:07 AM
Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That's a danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside an angel like
I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there's a chance that you care
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 25, 2020, 10:38:47 PM
When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise

Every time she closed her eyes
When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach and the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes

In the night the stormy night away she'd fly
And dream of para-para-paradise
Para-para-paradise
Para-para-paradise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 26, 2020, 09:31:20 AM
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps rainin' all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all the time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2020, 02:13:16 PM
I've been down so long
That down don't worry me
I've been down so long
That down don't worry me
I just sit and wonder
Where can my good man be

When it rains in here
It's storming on the sea
When it rains in here
It's storming on the sea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 26, 2020, 03:59:14 PM
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2020, 05:13:46 PM
It's raining tacos
From out of the sky
Tacos
No need to ask why

Just open your mouth and close your eyes
It's raining tacos
Raining tacos
Out in the street

Tacos
All you can eat
Lettuce and shell
Cheese and meat
It's raining tacos

Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yumity Yum
It's like a dream!!!
Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yumity Yum
Bring your sourcream!!!

(It was either that or 'It's raining men' which I've done before)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 26, 2020, 06:24:32 PM
It's the way you make me feel
The moment I am close to you
It's a feeling so unreal
Somehow I can't believe it's true
The pounding I feel in my heart
The hoping that we'll never part
I can't believe this is really happening to me

I close my eyes and count to ten
And when I open them you're still here
I close my eyes and count again
I can't believe it but you're still here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2020, 11:44:53 PM
I'm tired but I'm listening
The story's long, the kids asleep
An ancient sky is hovering
But all in all don't mean a thing

One day I walked across the sand
There was an evil I could not see
The edge of time was quickening
I made it up the joke's on me

Oh man, I can't believe our luck
Oh man, I can't believe our luck
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 27, 2020, 08:45:43 AM
Lucky, lucky, lucky me!
I'm a lucky son of a gun.
I sleep eight hours, I work eight hours.
That leaves eight hours for fun.

Lucky, lucky, lucky me!
Even though I haven't a dime,
I laugh and play in a carefree way
And I have a heck of a time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 27, 2020, 06:24:08 PM
In my imagination
There is no complication
I dream about you all the time
In my mind, a celebration
The sweetest of sensation
Thinking you could be mine
In my imagination
There is no hesitation
We walk together hand in hand

I'm dreaming
You fell in love with me
Like I'm in love with you
But dreaming's all I do
If only they'd come true

I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 27, 2020, 09:26:46 PM
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 28, 2020, 10:23:59 AM
"I'm red white and blue, I've got justice to do
I'm the man of your fantasy dreams
But I'm an alien man from an alien land
Who's alive on your orthicon screens.
I once ruled the world and when flags were unfurled

I performed for you live not on tape.
But the public is cruel when played for a fool
As you see by the blood on my cape."

I don't want to be like old George Reeves
Stuck in a Superman role.
I've got a long way to go in my career
And some day my fame will make it clear
That I had to be a Superman
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 28, 2020, 12:59:39 PM
At last the moment of vengeance is at hand!
For thirty days I have waited,
weeping tears of blood
behind my fool's mask. This door…
examining the house
is closed!... ah, it is not yet time! I shall wait.

What a night of mystery!
A tempest above,
a murder below!
Oh, how big I feel now!
The clock chimes twelve.
Midnight!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 28, 2020, 09:09:06 PM
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love come tumbling down
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
When there' no one else around

I'm gonna take you, girl, and hold you
And do all things I told you, in the midnight hour
Yes I am, oh yes I am
One thing I just wanna say, right here

I'm gonna wait till the stars come out
And see that twinkle in your eyes
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love begins to shine

You're the only girl I know
Can really love me so, in the midnight hour
Oh yeah, in the midnight hour
Yeah, all right, play it for me one time, now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 29, 2020, 09:18:47 AM
Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile happy your days (I can dream of the old days)
Life was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
Every street lamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 29, 2020, 09:20:30 AM
Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories of the way we were
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 31, 2020, 02:12:16 PM
In the darkest hour, when I cannot breathe
Fear is on my chest, the weight of the world on me
Everything is crashing down, everything I had known
When I wonder if I'm all alone
I remember, I remember

You have always been faithful to me
I remember, I remember
Even when my own eyes could not see
You were there, always there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on January 31, 2020, 04:10:14 PM
Do you remember Grandma’s Lye Soap,
Good for everything in the home,
And the secret was in the scrubbing,
It wouldn’t suds, and wouldn’t foam,

Oh, let us sing right out, sing out!
For Grandma’s Lye Soap,
Sing it out, all over the place!
For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,
And for your hands,
And for your face!


Little Therman, and Brother Herman,
Had an aversion to washing their ears…
Grandma scrubbed them with her lye soap,
And they haven’t heard a word in years!

Oh, let us sing right out, sing out!
For Grandma’s Lye Soap,
Sing it out, all over the place!
For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,
And for your hands,
And for your face!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 31, 2020, 05:20:03 PM
Think I just remembered something
I think I left the faucet running
Now my words are filling up the tub
Darling, you're just soaking in it
But I know you'll get out the minute
You notice all your fingers pruning up
I'm tired of being careful, gentle, trying to keep the water warm
Let me under your skin
Uh-oh, there it goes, I said too much, it overflowed
Why do I always spill?

I feel it coming out my throat
Guess I better wash my mouth out with soap
God, I wish I never spoke
Now I gotta wash my mouth out with soap
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 01, 2020, 08:46:32 AM
The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me
You can't beat the memories you gave-a me
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy; some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 01, 2020, 04:18:00 PM
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber

Then, then, remember then
Whoa, oh, oh...
That night we fell in love
Beneath the stars above
That was a lovely summer night
Remember then, then
Then, then, then

Remember
Re-mem-mem
Re-mem-mem-mem-ber
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 02, 2020, 08:58:57 AM
Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights

Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car

She swam by me she got a cramp
He ran by me got my suit damp
I saved her life she nearly drowned
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun somethings begun but oh oh the summer nights
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 02, 2020, 09:29:37 PM
A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I'm drownin'
I'm drownin'
I'm drownin'
I'm drownin'

Wrist so icy, wonder why she like me, bitch I'm drownin'
In water, I just bought a Cuban, dipped it in a fountain
Every where that I go it's a light show, I'm surrounded
Bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bitch I'm drownin'
I just bought a Cuban ring and dipped it in a fountain
Chain so heavy I feel like I'm holdin' up a mountain
Everywhere that I go it's a light show, I'm surrounded
Bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bitch I'm drownin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 03, 2020, 08:24:17 AM
Three coins in the fountain
Each one seeking happiness
(Thrown by three hopeful lovers)
(Which one will the fountain bless?)

Three hearts in the fountain
Each heart longing for its home
(There they lie in the fountain)
(Somewhere in the heart of Rome)
Which one will the fountain bless?
Which one will the fountain bless?

Three coins in the fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
(Just one wish will be granted)
(One heart will wear a valentine)
Make it mine!
Make it mine!
Make it mine!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 03, 2020, 08:57:12 AM
My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet your my favorite work of art

Is your Figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little week?
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don't change your hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is Valentines day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2020, 01:24:11 PM

 Trying to get her dancing was not an easy job
 She made out like Houdini when I said do you bop
 Funny what rhythm does it kills me
 Like champagne women only seem to spill me
 Trying to get the picture, I settled down to a drink
 When up came Cinderella, so what was I to think
 Funny how these shoes fit a dragon
 Well she's like the sharks that you get in Manhattan

 Funny how it goes - how money steals the show
 And all her diamonds twinkle as she dances and what's it got for me
 Hung over in my tree?
 I saw the sun shine bright in front of...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 03, 2020, 04:06:35 PM
And she said honey take me dancing
But they ended up by sleeping
In a doorway
By the bodegas and the lights on
Upper Broadway
Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes

And I could say ooh ooh ooh
As if everybody here would know
What I was talking about
I mean everybody here would know exactly
What I was talking about
Talking about diamonds
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2020, 04:10:22 PM

From their graves I heard the fallen
Above the battle cry
By that bridge near the border
There were many more to die

Then onward over the mountain
And outward towards the sea
They had come to claim the Emerald
Without it they could not leave
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 03, 2020, 04:34:38 PM
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors
And the brown earth bleached white
At the edge of his gravestone
He's gone

When the wars of our nation did beckon
The man, barely twenty, did answer the calling
Proud of the trust
That he placed in our nation
He's gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 03, 2020, 05:12:46 PM
All round the world
Little children being born to the world
Got to give them all we can till the war is won
Then will the work be done

Help them to learn (help them to learn)
Songs of joy instead of burn, baby, burn, (burn, baby burn)
Let us show them how to play the pipes of peace
Play the pipes of peace
Help me to learn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2020, 05:37:18 PM
I don't know where my baby is
but I'll find him somewhere somehow
I've gotta let him know how much I care
I'll never give up looking for my baby

Been around the world and I I I
I can't find my baby
I don't know when I don't know why
why he's gone away
and I don't know where he can be
my baby but I'm gonna find him

Ooh we had a quarrel
and I let myself go
I said so many things
things he didn't know

and I was oh so bad
I don't think he's coming back
He gave the reason
the reasons he should go

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 03, 2020, 07:01:33 PM
There ain't no reason things are this way
It's how they've always been and they intend to stay
I can't explain why we live this way
We do it every day

Preachers on the podiums speaking of saints
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape
Cursing my name

I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing
You could spend your whole life working for something
Just to have it taken away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2020, 07:14:18 PM
It was the time of the preacher
When the story began
With the choice of a lady
and the love of a man

How he loved her so dearly
he went out of his mind
When she left him for someone
she'd left behind

He cried like a baby
He screamed like a panther in the middle of the night
And he saddled his pony
and went for a ride
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 03, 2020, 11:10:08 PM
I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

I came to a high place of darkness and light
Dividing line ran through the center of town
I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down

A man in the corner approached me for a match
I knew right away he was not ordinary
He said, are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch
Said, I got no money, he said, that ain't necessary
...

I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty
There was no jewels, no nothin', I felt I'd been had
When I saw that my partner was just bein' friendly
When I took up his offer I must-a been mad

I picked up his body and I dragged him inside
Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover
I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied
Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 04, 2020, 07:05:33 PM
I don't know why I love her like I do
All the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven't seen the worst of it yet
I wanna know that you'll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down

I don't know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Love is an ocean that I can't forget
My sweet sixteen I would never regret
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 04, 2020, 09:37:47 PM
The coffee's all gone
And my eyes burn like fire
It's way past the hour
When most folks retire
You told me you'd call me
But you haven't yet
And I'm down to my last cigarette

I'm down to my last cigarette
For I know what made you forget
You're sill out there somewhere
With someone you met
And I'm down to my last cigarette
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 04, 2020, 10:49:22 PM
Sitting by the telephone
Waiting for a bell to ring
I don't want another call
I just want to hold you

I'm givin' my everything
Givin' all my time
So darlin', darlin', darlin', darlin' call

Won't you call me boy
I'll go anywhere you want
I'll be anything you say
All I want is to feel your arms around me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 05, 2020, 09:14:36 AM
You're my everything
Underneath the sun
You're my everything
Rolled up into one

You're my only dream
My only real reality
You're my idea
Of a perfect personality

You're my everything
Everything I need
You're the song I sing
And the book I read

You're a way beyond belief
And just to make it brief
You're my winter, summer, spring
My everything.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 05, 2020, 09:54:12 AM
When Madam Pompadour was on a ballroom floor
 Said all the gentlemen "Obviously,"
 "The madam has the cutest personality"

 And think of all the books about Du Barry's looks
 What was it made her the toast of Paree?
 She had a well-developed personality

 What did Romeo see in Juliet?
 Or Figaro in Figarette?
 Or Jupiter in Juno?
 You know!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 05, 2020, 10:15:14 PM
Let not Caesar's servile minions
Mock the Lion thus laid low;
'Twas no foeman's arm that felled him�'Twas his own that struck the blow,-
His, who, pillowed on thy bosom,
Turned aside from glory's ray-
His, who, drunk with thy caresses,
Madly threw a world away.

Should the base plebeian rabble
Dare assail my name at Home,
Where my noble spouse, Octavia,
Weeps within her widowed home,
Seek her; say the Gods bear witness-
Altars, augurs, circling wings-
That her blood, with mine commingled.
Yet shall mount the throne of kings.

And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian!
Glorious sorceress of the Nile,
Light the path to Stygian horrors
With the splendours of thy smile.
Give the Caesar crowns and arches,
Let her brow the laurel twine;
I can scorn the Senate's triumphs,
Triumphing in love like thine.

I am dying. Egypt, dying;
Hark! the insulting foeman's cry.
They are coming! quick, my falchion!
Let me front them ere I die.
Ah! no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell-
Isis and Orisis guard thee!
Cleopatra, Rome, farewell!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 06, 2020, 07:05:13 AM

Tony and Cleo struck out for the freeo down Egypt's way
But Caesar had squeezed her in Rome on his quilt for a day
Hey, hey

Now Antony got really angry
About old Caesar's hanky panky
She told em she would use em
And boy did she abuse em
Fall in love and blew em away

Bang, bang, the mighty fall
Bang, bang, when love has called

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 06, 2020, 10:16:43 AM
Some guys like to sweet talk, and others, they like to tease,
Tie my hands behind my back and, oh, I'm in ecstasy.
Don't slobber me with kisses, I can get that from my sisters,
Before I get too cranky, you better

Like hanky panky (hanky panky)
Nothing like a good spanky (good spanky)
Don't take out your handkerchiefs,
I don't wanna cry, I just wanna hanky panky.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 07, 2020, 07:31:45 PM
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to the kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 15, 2020, 10:02:07 AM
We get it almost every night
When that moon is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancin' in the moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark, and they don't bite
They keep things loose, they keep 'em tight
Everybody was dancin' in the moonlight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 16, 2020, 11:12:26 AM
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love come tumbling down
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
When there' no one else around

I'm gonna take you, girl, and hold you
And do all things I told you, in the midnight hour
Yes I am, oh yes I am

One thing I just wanna say, right here
I'm gonna wait till the stars come out
And see that twinkle in your eyes
I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love begins to shine

You're the only girl I know
Can really love me so, in the midnight hour
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 16, 2020, 12:12:07 PM
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you

Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away
And ever since that night
We've been together
Lovers at first sight
In love forever
It turned out so right
For strangers in the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 17, 2020, 07:40:07 AM
We seem like passing strangers now
How can you hurry by?
There were never two who loved
Half as much as you and I

We seem like passing strangers now
Funny, how things can change
We were so inseparable
Now you're acting very strange

The hands I used to touch
Don't even wave hello
How I miss your lips
You'll never know

If you would only turn to me
Speak my name just once more
You might find right there and then
Strangers can be lovers again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 17, 2020, 09:28:35 AM
I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you're looking for?

I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted, and my arms are open wide
'Cause you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much, I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 17, 2020, 11:02:26 AM
y that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know

'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes

You say that you're at home when you phone me
And how much you really care
Though you keep telling me that you're lonely
I'll know if someone is there

'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 17, 2020, 11:46:38 PM
The only time I ever
Sat down and wrote you a letter
That letter was a why
That letter asked you why

Why do you feel the need for fabrication
Cos you know it's not real
You've got a vivid imagination

Because truth will out
Truth will out
So get some soap and wash your mouth out
Don't insult me if you're in doubt
Because truth will out
Truth will out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 18, 2020, 08:06:21 AM
I'm sick and tired of hearing
Things
From uptight-short sighted-
Narrow minded hypocritics
All i want is the truth
Just give me some truth

I've had enough of reading
Things
By nuerotic-pyschotic-
Pig headed politicians
All i want is the truth
Just give me some truth

No short haired-yellow bellied
Son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard
Soft soap me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 18, 2020, 11:55:24 PM
It's been hard wakin' up,
Wakin' up to the truth.
I been so blind,
Couldn't see for love no.
Tried my best to ignore it,
Wish the pain away,
But just like tomorrow - it's coming round again.

So darling, please don't treat me like a fool,
It's been hard enough for me, getting over you,
Darling, please don't treat me like you do,
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let ya,
Damned if I don't forget ya,
So please don't treat me - like a fool.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 19, 2020, 08:39:47 AM
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
And so I come to you, my love, my heart above my head.
Though I see the danger there
If there`s a chance for me, then I don`t care

Fools rush in where wise men never go
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
When we met, I felt my life begin
So open up your heart and let this fool rush in.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 19, 2020, 11:41:54 PM

Please don't leave me
Don't deceive me
Oooeee Oooeee
Please don't leave me
'Cause if you leave me
You know you gonna grieve me

Oooee Ooeee
Please believe me
I've got love in my heart just for you
No other love will do
You know I love you
Put no one above you

Oooeee oooeee
Please don't leave me

Please don't leave me
Don't deceive me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 20, 2020, 08:04:26 AM
Came in from the city walked into the door
I turned around when I heard the sound of footsteps on the floor
Love just like addiction now I'm hooked on you
I need some time to get it right
Your love gonna see me through
Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go

Baby make your mind up give me what you got
Fix me with your lovin' shut the door and turn the lock
Hey go get the doctor, doctor came too late
Another night I feel alright my love for you can't wait
Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 20, 2020, 07:07:01 PM
Don't speak
I know just what your saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know just what your thinking
And I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me cause it hurts

Our memories
They can be inviting
But some are altogether mighty
Frightening

As we die
Both you and I

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2020, 02:35:37 PM
How could she tell he deceived her so well
 Pity she'll be the last one to know
 How many times will she fall for his lines
 Should I tell her or should I keep cool
 And if I tried I know she'd say I lied
 Mind your business don't hurt her you fool
 Silence is golden, but my eyes still see
 Silence is golden, golden, but my eyes still see

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 24, 2020, 06:35:52 PM
I know that she knows that I'm not fond of asking
True or false, it may be
She's still out to get me

I may say it was your fault
'Cause I know you could have done more
Oh, you're so naive, yet so
How could this be done
By such a smiling sweetheart?

Oh, and your sweet and pretty face
In such an ugly way something so beautiful
Every time I look inside
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2020, 06:48:37 PM
The wind makes a noise in the leaves
And the calm on your face I want to believe
Through troubles contort and constrain
Yet I know you'll return to peace once again

Like a moon on fire, or a silver wave
Bring on a peaceful face to me again
Like a heart in chains, or a hole in flames
Bring a peaceful face to me again

So difficult to achieve
Through the calm of your face
The future I see
The century comes and it goes
And my child will be there to bear all its woes...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 24, 2020, 09:40:36 PM
Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2020, 09:45:22 PM
Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire. The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe. They call the wind Maria.
Maria blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flyin'. Maria makes the mountains sound like folks was out there dyin'.
Maria. (Maria). Maria. (Maria). They call the wind Maria.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 24, 2020, 09:49:54 PM
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria
Maria, Maria, Maria

I've just met a girl named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me
Maria!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2020, 10:04:57 PM
I am beautiful no matter what they say.
Words can't bring me down.
I am beautiful in every single way.
Yes, words can't bring me down... Oh no.
So don't you bring me down today.

To all your friends you're delirious,
So consumed in all your doom.
Trying hard to fill the emptiness.
The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone.
is that the way it is?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 24, 2020, 10:54:35 PM
You got me runnin' goin' out of my mind
You got me thinkin' that I'm wastin' my time
(Don't bring me down, no no no no no)
I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor
(Don't bring me down)

You wanna stay out with your fancy friends
I'm tellin' you it's got to be the end
(Don't bring me down, no no no no no)
I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor
(Don't bring me down)

Don't bring me down, groos
Don't bring me down, groos
Don't bring me down, groos
Don't bring me down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2020, 08:53:35 AM


I work on the front line
 I work to survive
 I sleep in a fever
 So this is my life

 I cry in my sleep (Cry boy, Cry boy)
 Just makes me weep when I try, how I try
 Know what it means to work hard on machines
 It's a labour of love so please don't ask me why

 Working for reason (Day in, Day out)
 Trying to hard (He's trying too hard)
 Moving in circles (Too hot, Too hot)
 Don't get very far (Don't get very far)

 Should I ask you to dance (Dance Boy, Dance Boy)
 If I promised romance would you come for the ride
 I know what it means to work hard on machines
 Will you believe in love, one that lasts for all time

 You take me up
 You take me up to the higher ground
 You take me up
 So high
 Now I never want to come back down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 25, 2020, 10:46:24 PM
Your love, lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it it up
Quench my desire
And I'll be at your side, forever more

You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me)
Higher (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on (love keeps lifting me)
Lifting me (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher)
Listen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 26, 2020, 07:21:15 AM
Workin' like a dog for the boss man
Workin' for the company
I'm bettin' on the dice I'm tossin'
I'm gonna have a fantasy
But where am I gonna look?
They tell me that love is blind
I really need a girl like an open book
to read between the lines

Love in an elevator
Livin' it up when I'm goin' down
Love in an elevator
Lovin' it up 'til I hit the ground
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 26, 2020, 08:19:42 AM
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 26, 2020, 08:27:54 AM
"The problem is all inside your head", she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover"
She said, "it's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover"

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 26, 2020, 09:14:12 AM
Don't believe in Jesus
 Don't believe in Jah
 Don't believe in the wars we fight
 Just to prove how real we are

 I believe in lovers
 I believe in friends
 I believe in heaven here on earth
 Till the, the beginning ends

 Love me and leave me
 Love me and leave me
 Love me and leave me
 Leave me to love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 26, 2020, 11:34:15 PM
Love me and do not ever leave me
You're the only one
You're not just for fun
Love me, don't believe them when they say
I don't really care
That just isn't fair

'Cause babe, I believe you so
I will always be true to you
Never mind how I sometimes act
My feelings are the same

Love me, need me
That's all I want from you
Love me, believe me
And always be true
Love me, don't leave me
Without you
My life would be blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 27, 2020, 06:41:28 AM
Did you say it's all over? It was me not a whisper
The marriage is over, was it me or my heart?
Justify all affection, beyond recollection
I was fine in Virginia, guess it's true what I said

Wake up, get up, get out, break up
Just say goodbye for today
I'm wearing my blue hat for a blue day is all we need
Please my love, release the things that I touch

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 27, 2020, 05:14:44 PM
Your baby doesn't love you any more

Golden days before they end
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won't be near you any more
Tender nights before they fly
Send falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesn't want you any more

It's over

It breaks your heart in two, to know she's been untrue
But oh what will you do? then she said to you
There's someone new we're through we're through
It's over it's over it's over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on February 28, 2020, 08:57:15 AM
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day

For love may come and tap you on the shoulder
Some starless night
Just in case you feel you wanna hold her
You'll have a pocketful of starlight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2020, 10:21:51 AM
I've been swimming for a hundred miles
My arms' getting sore but I'm not turning back
'Til I'm faster than a whale or a shark
Trust me now brother, time to win a new shark attack
Win another shark attack

I'm just waiting for a change in your barriers
'Cause in my heart I hesitate with what I'm thinking of

'Cause nobody loves a spaceman
And nobody loves their friends
You look at me like I'm crazy
But you'll get what you deserve
When suddenly the world stops
And you think I'm not around
Look down baby, I'm probably in your pocket now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 29, 2020, 04:15:28 PM
Please don't make my wedding dress
I'm too young to marry yet
Can you see my pocket knife?
You can't make me be a wife
How the world just turns & turns
How does anybody learn?

Mummy, put your needle down
How did you feel when you were young?
Cos I feel like I've just been born
Even though I'm getting on
How the world slips by so fast
How does anybody last?

As the world keeps coming
And the bees keep humming
And I'll keep running
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 01, 2020, 09:23:13 AM
I got off the riverboat in New Orleans in the spring of 82,
I walked into a gambling house as gamblers often do.
I had myself a drink, and I joined in a poker game,
The dealer was a woman, so I asked her for her name.
She smiled at me so pretty, but a hush fell over the place,
As a big man crossed the table, stood up and slapped my face.

Bowie knife, bowie knife, long, glitterin' steel,
If my gun don't take your evil life,
You can bet, my bowie knife will.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 01, 2020, 11:34:24 AM
Oh the shark baby has pretty teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack knife has Mac Heath, dear
And he keeps it out of sight

When the shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though wears Mac Heath, dear
So there's not a trace of red

On the sidewalk, oh Sunday morning don't you know
Lies a body oozing life
Someone's sneaking round the corner
Could that be our boy Mack the knife?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 01, 2020, 12:02:44 PM

Conquering myself 
Until I see another hurdle approaching 
Say we can, say we will 
Not just another drop in the ocean 

Come to the free for all 
With seven tapered knives 
Some of them six feet tall 
We will escape our lives 

Spare us the cutter 
Spare us the cutter 
Couldn't cut the mustard 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2020, 09:28:40 PM
Climb every mountain
Search high and low
Follow every byway
Every path you know

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find your dream

A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2020, 10:01:35 AM
Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side?
 Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide
 So we've been told and some choose to believe it
 I know they're wrong wait and see

 Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
 The lovers, the dreamers and me
 Who said that wishes would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star?

 Someone thought of that and someone believed it
 And look what it's done so far
 What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 02, 2020, 09:32:30 PM
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means

I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means

And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the lovin' we've ever done

I never thought I'd see
A time when you would be
So far away from home
So far away from me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 02, 2020, 09:36:02 PM
So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
It doesn't help to know you're just time away
Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh how I wish I could but you're so far away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2020, 09:31:23 AM
It's not the pale moon that excites me
 That thrills and delights me, oh no
 It's just the nearness of you

 It isn't your sweet conversation
 That brings this sensation, oh no
 It's just the nearness of you

 When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me
 All my wildest dreams came true

 I need no soft lights to enchant me
 If you'll only grant me the right
 To hold you ever so tight
 And to feel in the night the nearness of you


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 04, 2020, 11:18:52 AM
What can you do when your dreams come true
And it's not quite like you planned?
What have you done to be losing the one
You held it so tight in your hand well

Time passes and you must move on,
Half the distance takes you twice as long
So you keep on singing for the sake of the song
After the thrill is gone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 04, 2020, 11:38:27 PM
Said, I'm pulling down the shades for the long ride
I never knew that I could feel so black and blue
And I've been holding onto something now for some time
All I know is it's a feeling fit for two
'Cause when the sunlight laid its head down on this dark night
And I was talking to myself in the rear view

Yeah I've got questions but I know everything is alright
And all I have to do is just remember you
'Cause I'm never gonna lose you
I've got you deep inside my chest
And I can feel you beating like the soul of a drummer boy

We've gotta keep going
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going
Don't care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We've gotta keep going
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2020, 06:59:36 AM
I can feel the earth begin to move
I hear my needle hit the groove
And spiral through another day
I hear my song begin to say
Kiss me where the sun don't shine
The past was yours
But the future's mine
You're all out of time

I don't feel too steady on my feet
I feel hollow I feel weak
Passion fruit and holy bread
Fill my guts and ease my head
Through the early morning sun
I can see her here she comes

She bangs the drums
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 06, 2020, 06:20:06 PM
I know I'm a fool to let her run away with my heart,
And she'll never tire of these games,
Loving her is like playing catch in the dark,
I'm a tear drop in an ocean of flames,

And we'll drink too much for a wednesday,
She'll ask me why none of her men stay,
I tell her just what her friends say,
It never goes down too well,

And she'll stay hear til late in the evening,
But she's always arriving or leaving,
Never decides to believe in,
The people who know her so well
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 07, 2020, 08:35:23 AM

There she goes I want to see her again
She's gone to school with her best friend
She only does the things she likes to do
Now she wants something new

Wednesday week - she loved me
Wednesday week - never happened at all
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2020, 12:51:29 PM
There she goes with her nose in the air
Funny how love can be
Wonder why she pretends I'm not there
Funny how love can be
Funny how love can be

There she is with her look in her eyes
Hasn't got time for me
Wonder why she pretends I'm not there
Funny how love can be
Funny how love can be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 07, 2020, 01:16:27 PM
There she goes
There she goes again
She calls my name
Pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
But I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes
There she goes again
Chasing down my lane
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 07, 2020, 02:48:17 PM
No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows

No, I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrows
When I had you there but then I let you go
And now it's only fair that I should let you know
What you should know

I can't live, if living is without you
I can't live, I can't give any more
Can't live, if living is without you
I can't give, I can't give any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 08, 2020, 09:03:57 AM
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow
Sorrow
You acted funny trying to spend my money
You're out there playing your high class games of sorrow
Sorrow

You never do what you know you oughta
Something tells me you're the devil's daughter
Sorrow, sorrow

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 08, 2020, 05:36:23 PM
It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me, Do I look all right?
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight

We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that's walking around with me
And then she asks me, Do you feel all right?
And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 08, 2020, 06:13:14 PM

Lipstick powder and paint, lipstick powder and paint
Lipstick powder and paint, is you is, or is you ain't

Taller than the barnyard, ten feet high, hide me till your man pass by
Don't you sneeze and don't you cough, if you get dusty, I'll brush you off
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 08, 2020, 08:52:31 PM
Darling, oh Darling, you're not the same...
With your lipstick, powder and paint
You're all dressed up like a-what-a-you ain't
You spray your hair a different shade
We're goin' to a movie, not a masquerade
Warpaint, warpaint, you don't need-a warpaint, warpaint
Can't you see you're not goin' to fight a war
You're only goin' out with the boy next door
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2020, 06:45:24 AM

War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreak
War, friend only to the undertaker

Oh, war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest within the younger generation
Induction then destruction, who wants to die?

Oh, war, huh, good god, y'all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it, say it, say it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 09, 2020, 10:07:10 AM
It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you're down

It's a fool's game
Nothing but a fool's game
Standing in the cold rain
Feeling like a clown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2020, 10:17:50 AM
In the wilds of Borneo
And the vineyards of Bordeaux
Eskimo, Arapaho
Move their body to and fro

Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me! Hit me!
Das ist gut, c'est fantastique
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Hit me with your rhythm stick
It's nice to be a lunatic
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 09, 2020, 04:32:42 PM
Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right here?
Oh baby, baby, I shouldn't have let you go
And now you're out of sight, yeah
Show me how want it to be
Tell me, baby, 'cause I need to know now, oh because

My loneliness is killing me (and I)
I must confess I still believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2020, 05:03:53 PM
I remember when,
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions have an echo in so much space
And when you're out there without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much

Does that make me Crazy
Does that make me Crazy
Does that make me Crazy
Possibly

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 09, 2020, 10:56:29 PM
Ooh, ooh

I felt like running through the pouring rain
I felt like letting go of my mind
I felt it coming with no ground to brace
I think I just might be (just might be, just might be)
Mad for you

Driven by the fact I don't need a reason to
Be mad for you
I'm losing my head going mad for you
I'm losing my head going mad for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 10, 2020, 07:16:54 AM
I can`t stand the rain
Against my window
Bringing back sweet memories
I can`t stand the rain
Against my window
Because here`s not here with me

Hey window pane
Do you remember
How sweet it used to be
When we were together
Everything was so grand
Now that we`ve parted
There`s one sound that I just can`t stand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 10, 2020, 10:59:29 PM
She, she buys you diamonds
Bright, bright, sparkling diamonds
But believe me, dear, when I say
That she can give you the world
But she'll never love you the way
I love you

No, no, no (She can't do it)
She can't do it, baby
But she can take you any place she wants
To fancy clubs and restaurants
Where I can only watch you with
My nose pressed up against the window pane
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 11, 2020, 06:19:58 AM
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips
Then I stepped into a satin dancing dress
That had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standing back from the looking glass
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood

[
She said, "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down"
She said, "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 19, 2020, 01:05:02 PM
Oh oh, la la la
I am, I'm too fabulous
I'm so, fierce that it's so nuts
I live, to be model thin
Dress me, I'm your mannequin
J'adore Vivienne habillez moi,
Gucci, Fendi, et Prada.
Valentino, Armani too.
Merde I love them Jimmy Choo

Fashion put it all on me
Don't you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2020, 01:11:38 PM
When you want her lips, you get her cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
If you want some more then she's fast asleep
Leaves you twinkling with the stars
Poor young grandson, there's nothing I can say
You'll have to learn, just like me
And that's the hardest way, ooh la la
Ooh la la la la, yeah

I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was stronger

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 19, 2020, 05:31:35 PM
When I was younger so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2020, 05:42:20 PM
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 19, 2020, 06:01:12 PM
Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion
We're setting off with soft explosion
Bound for a star with fiery oceans
It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home

Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Energy here in every part
It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home

It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home

It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 19, 2020, 06:09:06 PM
I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare
We walked a million hills
I must have died alone
A long, long time ago

Who knows?
Not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2020, 06:32:31 PM
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me,
Said the laughing gnome

Well I gave him roasted toadstools,
And a glass of dandelion wine. ([*burp* Pardon...])
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne.
Carried his bag, and gave him a fag.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 20, 2020, 11:31:19 AM
Turpentine and dandelion wine
I've turned the corner and I'm doing fine
Shooting at the birds on the telephone line
Picking 'em off with this gun of mine
I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head
Going higher and higher till I'm dead

Sister Sue, short and stout
She didn't grow up - she grew out
Papa says she's plain but she's just being kind
Mama says she's pretty but she's almost blind
Don't let her out much 'cept at night
But I don't care 'cause I'm all right

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2020, 09:26:13 AM
Someone's knockin' at the door
Somebody's ringin' the bell
Someone's knockin' at the door
Somebody's ringin' the bell
Do me a favor
Open the door and let 'em in, ooh yeah, let 'em in

Sister Suzie, brother John
Martin Luther, Phil and Don
Uncle Earnie, uncle Lin
Open the door and let 'em in, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 21, 2020, 11:50:54 AM
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin' down
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2020, 12:27:53 PM

Read me tonight
When the warnings said leave a shudder upon you
Running from all that you feared in your life
Soul of the night
When the sun mislead paint a horror upon you
Marking the moment, displaying in my ghost of a life!

And I can't get round the way you left me out in the open to leave me to die!
So how can I forget the way you lead me through the path into Heaven to leave me behind!

Now I can't stay behind
Save me from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning now I bring you Hell!

Oh, burning now I bring you Hell!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 21, 2020, 07:01:03 PM
I'm wiser now
I'm not the foolish girl you used to know
So long ago
I'm stronger now
I've learned from my mistakes which way to go
And I should know
I put myself aside to do it your way
But now I need to do it all alone
And I am not afraid to try it on my own
I don't care if I'm right or wrong
I'll live my life the way I feel
No matter what I'll keep it real you know
Time for me to do it on my own
Yeah yeah, mmm, yeah yeah

It's over now
I can't go back to living through your eyes
Too many lies
And if you don't know by now
I can't go back to being someone else
Not anymore
I never had a chance to do things my way
So now it's time for me to take control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 21, 2020, 10:28:08 PM
I'm lying in a hospital,
I'm pinned against the bed.
A stethoscope upon my heart,
A hand against my head.
They're peeling off the bandages.
I'm wincing in the light.
The nurse is looking anxious,
And she's quivering in fright

I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2020, 10:07:23 AM
I'm all out of hope.
One more bad break
Could bring a fall.

When I'm far from home
Don't call me on the phone
To tell me you're alone.

It's easy to deceive.
It's easy to tease,
But hard to get release.

Les yeux sans visage.
Eyes without a face.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 22, 2020, 10:24:15 AM
Her hair is Harlowe gold
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2020, 10:28:31 AM
Some days it gets completely crazy
And I feel like howling at the moon
Then sometimes it feels so easy
Like I was born with a silver spoon

Other times you just can't reach me
Seems like I've got a heart of stone
Guess I need my solitude
And I have to make it on my own

Well I guess I'm going A.W.O.L.
Disconnect my telephone
Just like Greta Garbo
I want to be alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 22, 2020, 12:01:53 PM
I been feelin' good (Good)
Like the world just cater to me
If it don't, it should
Yeah I been feelin good
Like nobody could play me

I stay winnin', rich in passion
So I'm rich in richest definition
Don't care if they get it
Sure you could pull up for a sec
You could love me down and dip
Yeah you could pull up for a sec

You could love me down and dip
Maybe bring some bud or compliments
It gets me up, then leave me alone
Enjoy my own company
Don't care what they on
Wrapped up in my zone
So leave me alone, enjoy my own company
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2020, 12:12:32 PM
Phone rings,
Door chimes,
In comes
Company!
No strings,
Good times,
Just chums,
Company!
Late nights,
Quick bites,
Party games,
Deep talks,
Long walks,
Telephone calls.
Thoughts shared,
Souls bared,
Private names
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 22, 2020, 04:04:13 PM
Company
Always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh I was born six gun in my hand
Behind a gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me

Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
Till the day I die
Till the day I die
Till the day I die

Rebel souls
Deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the sword
Now these towns
They all know our name six gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say

Bad company
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2020, 04:18:32 PM
Before the union did appear
My life was half as clear
Now I've got the power
To the working hour
And every other day of the year.

So though I'm a working man
I can ruin the government's plan
Though I'm not too hard
The sight of my card
Makes me some kind of superman.

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die, till the day I die.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 22, 2020, 06:14:03 PM
Somebody took the papers
And somebody's got the key
And somebody nailed the door shut
That says hey what you think that you see
But me l'm down around the corner
You know I'm lookin' for Miss Linda Lee
Because she's got the power
To love me by the hour
Gives me double you L-O-V-E

Hey baby if you want it so fast
Don't you know that it ain't gonna last
Of course you know
It makes no difference to me

Somebody's got the time time
Somebody's got the right
All of the other people
Tryin' to use up the night
But now me l'm out on the corner
You know I'm lookin' for Miss Linda Lee
Because she's got the power
To love me by the hour
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2020, 06:28:55 PM
Who wants yesterdays papers
Who wants yesterdays girl
Who wants yesterdays papers
Nobody in the world
Living a life of constant change
Every day means the turn of a page
Yesterdays papers are such bad news
Same thing applies to me and you
Who wants yesterdays papers
Who wants yesterdays girl
Who wants yesterdays papers
Nobody in the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 23, 2020, 03:33:14 PM
If i could only tell you what i feel now
It's been so long inside of me
All the years that i've been trying
To stay in touch, to stay in line
Trying just to be myself, be myself
And no one else

Front page right through to back page
Have i got news for you
You know the story; it's the truth; love's the proof
If you keep on rocking long as it keeps raining
Back and forth on your porch
Just keep on rocking; keep on rocking

Have i got news for you
Front page, back page
Have i got news for you
Front page, back page
Have i got news for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 23, 2020, 04:09:34 PM
Well I've been lookin' real hard and I'm tryin' to find a job
But it just keeps gettin' tougher every day
But I got to do my part 'cause I know in my heart
I got to please my sweet baby, yeah

Well, I ain't superstitious, and I don't get suspicious
But my woman is a friend of mine
And I know that it's true that all the things that I do
Will come back to me in my sweet time

So keep on rock'n me baby
Keep on a rock'n me baby
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 27, 2020, 08:37:03 PM

Very superstitious, writings on the wall, 
Very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall, 
Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin' glass 
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past

When you believe in things that you don't understand, 
Then you suffer, 
Superstition ain't the way 

Very superstitious, wash your face and hands, 
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can, 
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong, 
You don't wanna save me, sad is my song 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 28, 2020, 04:47:59 PM
Bad luck and trouble's my only friend,
I've been down ever since I was ten.

Born under a bad sign.
I've been down since I began to crawl.
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

You know, wine and women is all I crave.
A big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave.

Born under a bad sign.
I've been down since I began to crawl.
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck.
If it wasn't for real bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 28, 2020, 05:11:31 PM

And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out there's a light up above
And twenty men scrambled from a would be grave
And now there's only one left down there to save
Big John

With jacks and timbers they started back down
Then came that rumble way down in the ground
And smoke and gas belched out of that mine
Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John

(Big John)
(Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 30, 2020, 12:55:30 PM
In the event of something happening to me
There is something I would like you all to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jones.

I keep straining my ears to hear a sound
Maybe someone is digging underground
Or have they given up and all gone home to bed?
Thinking those who once existed must be dead?

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jones
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 30, 2020, 02:00:19 PM
Me and Mrs. Jones
We got a thing goin'on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

We meet every day at the same cafe
Six-thirty and no one knows she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the juke box plays our favorite songs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 30, 2020, 03:34:12 PM
Cafe on the left bank, ordinary wine
Touching all the girls with your eyes
Tiny crowd Of Frenchmen 'round a TV shop
Watching Charles De Gaulle make a speech

Dancing after midnight, sprawling to the car
Continental breakfast in the bar
English-speaking people drinking German beer
Talking far too loud for their ears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 30, 2020, 03:43:06 PM
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo across the water
Like to see America
See the girls in California
I'm hoping it's going to come true
But there's not a lot I can do
Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear, mummy dear
They got to have 'em in Texas
'Cause everyone's a millionaire
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 01, 2020, 09:35:20 PM
I’m playin’ the field
Some other guys
Ought to get wise
And do like me.

I’m looking around
Playin’ it cool,
Nobody’s fool
Feet on the ground.

Oh, I’m playin’ the field
Walkin’ on air
I haven’t a care
The live long day

I’m feelin’ no pain
I’m makin’ no slips
Takin’ no trips
Down lovers lane.

Oh, I can throw my clothes around
And come home late at night
And mess the papers up
Nobody cares
Sometimes it gets a little lonesome, true
But that’s alright
I never have to dust those empty chairs

Oh, I’m playin’ the field
Bachelor man
Long as I can
That’s what I’ll be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 02, 2020, 08:59:51 AM
When I was young my father said
'Son I have something to say'
And what he told me I'll never forget
Until my dying days
He said son you are a bachelor boy
And that's the way to stay
Son you'll be a bachelor boy
Until your dying days
When I was 16 I fell in love
With a girl as sweet as can be
But I remembered just in time
What my daddy said to me
He said son you are a bachelor boy
And that's the way to stay
Son you'll be a bachelor boy
Until your dying days
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 02, 2020, 11:09:06 PM
The single girl all alone in a great big town
The single girl gets so tired of love letting her down
The life's unreal and the people are homely
And the nights can get so lonely
The single girl needs a sweet loving man to lean on
I'm a single girl wondering if love could be passing her by
I'm a single girl and I know all about men and their lies
Nobody loves me cause nobody knows me
Nobody takes the time to go slowly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2020, 08:51:51 AM
C-c-c-come, come inside
Oh I've been expecting you to arrive
Sh-sh-sh-shoes, shake 'em off
While I go and turn the music down soft


Oh, but all I've got is a s-s-single bed
There ain't no room for your sweet head
Now ain't it a shame you missed the last train?
'Cause all I've got is a s-s-single bed
S-s-s-single bed, s-single bed
There ain't no room for your sweet head
S-s-s-single bed, s-single bed
I've got a one solitary lonesome single bed

P-p-p-pour out the wine
And we could explore each other's minds
T-t-t-time don't half fly
When the pleasures of night are reaching so high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 04, 2020, 01:28:07 PM
Little girl, you look so lonesome
I see you are feeling blue
Ain't no use in staying in home
I know what you should do

Come on over to my place
Hey, girl, we're having a party
We'll be swinging, dancing and singing
Baby, come on over tonight

Now you don't need the address
To find out where we'll be
Cause you can't help hearing the music
Halfway down the street

So, baby, come on over to my place
Come on, we're having a party
We'll be swinging, dancing and singing
Baby, come on over tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 04, 2020, 01:32:30 PM
I'll have a shower and then phone my brother up
Within the hour I'll smash another cup
Please don't start saying that or I'll start believing you
If I start believing you I'll know that this party fears two

And what if this party fears two?
The alcohol loves you while turning you blue
View it from here from closer to near
Awake me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 09, 2020, 05:12:15 PM
I see myself on T.V., I'm a faker, a paper clown
It's clear to all my friends that I habitually lie; I just bring them down
I claim proneness to exaggeration
But the truth lies in my frustration
The children of the night, they all pass me by
Have to drench myself in brandy
In sleep I'll hide

But however much I booze
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
I don't care what you say, boy
There ain't no way out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 09, 2020, 06:03:54 PM
I heard you on the wireless back in '52
Lying awake intently tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh-a-oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh-a-oh
I met your children
Oh-a-oh
What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 10, 2020, 07:51:39 PM
My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

So don't create
Be sedate
Be a vegetable at home
And thwack on that dial

If we have our way even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll
How far will you go
How low will you stoop

To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill
You've turned rock and roll rebellion
Into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination

M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the air
Get off the air
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 10, 2020, 08:00:43 PM


Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated

Just get me to the airport
Put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane
I can't control my fingers
I can't control my brain, oh no

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 11, 2020, 08:07:10 AM
Well you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall was ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters
You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days

You pull back the curtain
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky
This is the day, your life will surely change
This is the day, when things fall into place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 11, 2020, 08:42:07 AM
I've seen your picture
Your name in lights above it
This is your big debut
It's like a dream come true
And when you smile for the camera
I know they're love it

I got your pin shot
I keep it with your letter
Done up in blueprint blue
It sure looks good on you
So won't you smile for the camera
I know I'll love you better

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 11, 2020, 09:08:11 AM
I see you tempt the night
I see you take a bite
You can tell me you were home
But the camera never lies

You walk out in disguise
To pull the wool over my eyes
You play me for a fool
To believe your alibis

And you can count on being safe as houses
Underestimate my eyes
But you can't argue with the image
The camera never lies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 12, 2020, 05:50:28 PM
Judy in disguise, well that's what you are
Lemonade pies with your brand new car
So, cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise, with glasses

Keep a-wearing your bracelets and your new rara's
And cross your heart, yeah, with your livin' bra
Chimney Sweep Sparrow with guise
Judy in disguise, with glasses

Come to me tonight, come to me tonight
Taking everything in sight
Except for the strings on my kite
Judy in disguise, hey that's what you are
A lemonade pies, hey, got your brand new car
So cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise, with glasses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2020, 06:09:37 PM
Now, as the ladder of life has been strung
You may think a sweep’s on the bottommost rung
Though I spend my time in the ashes and that hm-hmm
In this whole wide world there’s no happier cat

Chim chim chim-in-ey, chim chim chim-in-ey

I choose me bristles with pride, yes, I do
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flute
Though I’m covered in soot from my head to my toe
A sweep knows he’s welcome where’er he goes

Chim chim chim chim-in-ey, chim chim chim chim-in-ey
Chim chim chim chim-in-ey, chim chim chim chim-in-ey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 15, 2020, 05:20:42 AM
You got it on the side
A little one night thing
I've bought it over and it's time that
I'll forgive youWell, I'm not letting go
But don't forget I know
You made your bed and she was in it

No no noWhat's she gonna look like with a chimney on her
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her
What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2020, 10:06:18 AM


Whattaya mean?!
You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2020, 11:47:34 AM
One night in Paris
Is like a year in any other place!
One night in Paris
Will wipe the smile off your pretty face!
Try a girl in Paris
But try one of mine

Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
Each night in Paris
May be your last!!!

Forty-Two, Quarante-Deux
Rue de Saint Jacques
All our girls are how you say
Good in the sack
I was a stripper
On the Champs Elysees
He was a gendarme
In the gendarmerie
Going Oh La La La
Oh La La La La

He was a pimp
In a black beret
But he was an artiste
In his own way
Going Oh La La La
Oh La La La La

When they raided my club that night
They ruined my act with the leather umbrella
The Chief de Police got a fright
He was up in my boudoir with some other fella
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2020, 12:02:23 PM
The can can's such a pretty show
They'll steal your heart away
But backstage, back on earth again
The dressing rooms are gray

They come on strong and it ain't too long
Before they make you feel a man
But love is blind and you soon will find
You're just a boy again

When you want her lips, you get a cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
If you want some more and she's fast asleep
Then she's twinkling with the stars

Poor young grandson, there's nothing I can say
You'll have to learn, just like me
And that's the hardest way
Ooh la la, ooh la la la yeh

I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was stronger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 16, 2020, 05:57:54 AM
We had that one not long ago I'm sure.

You wind me up
Like a clockwork orange
Then you hide the key
To my destination
No satisfaction its all frustration
The times are changing
They're changing me
Open the cage
Let free the animals
Running wild
With hardened criminals
No satisfaction it's all frustrations

The times are changing when you're
13, 14: It's a teenage warning
15, 16: But nobody's listening
17, 18: Who takes the blame
19, 20: The twentieth century

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2020, 07:52:27 AM
You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on
To write on
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and roués and cads
Will offer you food and wine
Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken
You need someone older an wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 16, 2020, 08:12:54 AM
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone

Who called to say "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems
At seventeen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2020, 08:19:09 AM
I love Janis Ian!


Seventeen
And not yet a woman
So-ho clean
Thought that you were never coming
Seventeen
Completely new sensations
Someones dreams
Created your perfection

All the girls
(all the girls just love to hate her)
And all the boys
(all the boys they wanna make her)
They want you
(seventeen)

A permanent reaction
(reaction)
Makes your scene
Now you're caught in her reflection
(reflection, reflection)
Seventeen
She a beautiful mutation
(mutant)
We sow the seeds
(ooh eeooh, ooh eeooh)
Of a future generation
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 17, 2020, 10:45:25 AM
Well, she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another
Ooh, when I saw her standing there?

Well, she looked at me
And I, I could see
That before too long
I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another
Ooh, when I saw her standing there

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2020, 10:51:55 AM

You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could never win
Well, look at me, I'm a-coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
And I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 18, 2020, 01:56:57 PM
He was standin' by the highway
With a sign that just said "Mother"
When he heard a driver comin'
'Bout a half a mile away
Then he held the sign up higher
Where no decent soul could miss it
It was ten degrees or colder
Down by bolder dam that day

He was raised up in Milwaukee
Though he never was that famous
He was just a road musician
To the taverns he would go
Singin' songs about the ramblin'
The lovin' girls and gamblin'
How the world fell on his shoulders
Back in Boulder I don't know

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2020, 02:06:30 PM
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes they're sharing a drink they call "Loneliness"
But it's better than drinking alone

Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 18, 2020, 03:29:44 PM
...

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2020, 03:35:08 PM

First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way!
Who's next?

France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side, I believe.
China got the bomb, but have no fears;
They can't wipe us out for at least five years!
Who's next?

Then Indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South Africa wants two, that's right:
One for the black and one for the white!
Who's next?

Egypt's gonna get one, too,
Just to use on you know who.
So Israel's getting tense,
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb!
Who's next?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 20, 2020, 07:20:46 PM
Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder
Echo like the crack of doom?
While they rend the skies asunder
Fall-out makes the earth a tomb
Do you want your homes to tumble
Rise in smoke towards the sky?
Will you let your cities crumble
Will you see your children die?

Chorus:
Men and women, stand together
Do not heed the men of war
Make your minds up now or never
Ban the bomb for evermore

Tell the leaders of the nations
Make the whole wide world take heed
Poison from the radiations
Strikes at every race and creed
Must you put mankind in danger
Murder folk in distant lands?
Will you bring death to a stranger
Have his blood upon your hands?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 20, 2020, 07:26:32 PM
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 20, 2020, 07:42:25 PM
Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Super Hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 20, 2020, 08:34:38 PM
Ahem - I apologise in advance:

Star Trekkin' across the universe,
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk.
Star Trekkin' across the universe,
Only going forward 'cause we can't find reverse.

Lt. Uhura, report.
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.

Analysis, Mr. Spock.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it;
it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 20, 2020, 08:37:29 PM
I'll see you and raise you this


Dr. Who! (HEY) Dr. Who
Dr. Who! (HEY) The TARDIS
Dr. Who! (HEY) Dr. Who
Dr. Who doc.Dr. Who
Dr. Who doc.Dr. Who
You wot?
You wot?
You wot?
You wot?
You wot?
You wot?
You wot?
Exterminate!
Who-ha
ha ha ha who ha
ha ha ha who ha
we obey no-one
ha ha ha who ha
we are the superior beings


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 21, 2020, 02:34:10 PM
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire,
I got a cobra snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house by the road side,
Made out of rattlesnake hide.
I got me a chimney made on top,
Made from a human skull,
Now come on, take a little walk with me,
Now who do you love?

Come on Arlene, take me by the hand,
Let me know you understand,
Who do you love? ...

Ride nine times on the midnight train
Through the fire and cold rain,
Who do you love? ...

I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine,
Just twenty-two and I don't mind dying,
Who do you love? ...

(darn .. I think I've posted that before ... and it has lots of our most popular words...)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 21, 2020, 03:01:16 PM
Down on nightmare alley, where the shady people sway
A hobo came a-hikin' on a salty summer day
Well he hopped a freight in Dallas, and he rode out of sight
But on a turn he slipped, and he lost his grip
And he fell in-to the night.

Who are you? Who are you?
Where have you been, where are you going to?
Well, Andrew McCrew must have lost his way
'Cause though he died long ago he was buried today.

Well, Andrew had one leg of wood, the other leg was small.
And when he fell off the train that night he found he had no legs at all.
Well they found him in the thicket, and the undertaker came.
And they mummified his body for a relative to claim.

Who are you? Who are you?
Where have you been, where are you going to?
Well, Andrew McCrew must have lost his way
'Cause though he died long ago he was buried today.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 21, 2020, 03:01:30 PM
Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
she says a girl needs a gun these days
hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
she's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
and her neverborn child still haunts her
as she speeds down the freeway
as she tries her luck with the traffic police
out of boredom more than spite
she never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
she's obvious despite herself
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she says all she needs is therapy yeah
all you need is, love is all you need
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 22, 2020, 11:19:54 AM
Where did you get that hat
Where did you get that tile
Isn't it a knobby one
In just the proper style
I should like to have one
Just the same as that
(Where 'ere i go they shout)
"Hello, where did you get that hat?"

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 22, 2020, 11:24:37 AM
By the look in your eye I can tell you're gonna cry
Is it over me?
If it is, save your tears
For I'm not worth it, you see

For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam
Wherever I lay my hat that's my home
I'm telling you that's my home
You had romance, did you break it by chance
Over me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 22, 2020, 11:27:51 AM
heear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
On Ilkley Moor baht'at
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
On Ilkley Moor baht'at x3

Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkley Moor baht'at
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkley Moor baht'at x3
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 22, 2020, 11:34:08 AM
Now when I go to work, I work all day,
Always turns out the same.
When I bring home my hard-earned pay
I spend my money all on mary jane.
Mary jane, mary jane, lord, my mary jane.

Oh if a man should look tame now, mean and mature,
They all turn out the same.
cause they cant do nothing to make a man feel good
Like my old mary jane.
Mary jane, mary jane, lord, my mary jane.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 22, 2020, 07:18:54 PM
My sweet Lady Jane
When I see you again
Your servant am I
And will humbly remain
Just heed this plea my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane
My dear Lady Anne
I've done what I can
I must take my leave
For promised I am
This play is run my love
Your time has come my love
I've pledged my troth to Lady Jane
Oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station's right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2020, 10:14:34 PM
A little less wholesome:-

Mary Jane's flowers, Mary Jane's flowers
Mary Jane's flowers, Mary Jane's flowers
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush
Mary Jane's flowers

I don't smoke no reggie, I don't smoke no mid
I'm always fucking high, so much we might have kids
And why you babysitting a blunt, that's that shit I don't like
I'm looking for one of these bad bitches to come ride me like a turnpike
On some real shit, I'm a pothead, please don't blow my high man
Look into my eyes and it look like I'm from Thailand
I am smoking on that gas, life should be on Cinemax
Smoking on that OG in that Double R, I'm real relaxed
I smoke so much kill, they call me Killa
And I'm on that strong, I'm on that strong, bodybuilder
Light that shit and pass it, my white girl on that acid
But me I'm on that kush, that kush
Tunechi

And I got a big bouquet of Mary Jane's flowers
Mary Jane's flowers, Mary Jane's flowers
And I got a big bouquet of Mary Jane's flowers
Mary Jane's flowers, Mary Jane's flowers
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush, that kush
That kush, that kush
Mary Jane's flowers
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2020, 10:02:31 AM
You don't bring me flowers
You don't sing me love songs
You hardly talk to me anymore
When you come through the door
At the end of the day

I remember when
You couldn't wait to love me
Used to hate to leave me

Now after lovin' me late at night
When it's good for you
And you're feeling alright
Well, you just roll over
And you turn out the light

You don't bring me flowers anymore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2020, 10:04:55 AM
Woke up one morning half asleep
With all my blankets in a heap
And yellow roses scattered all around
The time was still approaching four
I couldn't stand it anymore
Saw marigolds upon my eiderdown

I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain making the garden grow
I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain keeping me good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 25, 2020, 09:39:47 PM

Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2020, 10:05:04 PM
I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me
It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my senses
Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
I said I was down in the tube station at midnight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2020, 07:28:14 AM
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out

You don't have to sit around
Complaining 'bout the way your life has wound up
Think of all the time you waste
And time's a precious thing to let go by
Sure you've hit the bottom
But remember you'll be building from the ground up
Ev'ry day's another step
That takes you even closer to the sky, so give a try

Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down and out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2020, 10:34:51 AM
I work on the front line
I work to survive
I sleep in a fever
So this is my life

I cry in my sleep (Cry boy, Cry boy)
Just makes me weep when I try, how I try
Know what it means to work hard on machines
It's a labour of love so please don't ask me why

Working for reason (Day in, Day out)
Trying to hard (He's trying too hard)
Moving in circles (Too hot, Too hot)
Don't get very far (Don't get very far)

Should I ask you to dance (Dance Boy, Dance Boy)
If I promised romance would you come for the ride
I know what it means to work hard on machines
Will you believe in love, one that lasts for all time

You take me up 
You take me up to the higher ground
You take me up
So high
Now I never want to come back down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 29, 2020, 04:30:44 PM
Funny how a lonely day, can make a person say
What good is my life
Funny how a breaking heart, can make me start to say
What good is my life
Funny how I often seem, to think I'll find never another dream
In my life
Till I look around and see, this great big world is part of me
And my life
This is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be

This is me
This is me
This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 02:31:00 PM
You fill the air with smiles 
for miles and miles and miles 
Though you're no Mona Lisa 
for world's I'd not replace 
your sunny-- Funny Face

I love your Funny Face 
your sunny-- Funny Face 
you're not exotic 
but so hypnotic 
you're much-- too much 
if you can cook 
the way you look

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 03, 2020, 10:20:27 AM
There she goes with her
Nose in the air.
Funny how
Love can be.

Wonder why she
Pretends I'm not there.
Funny how
Love can be, girl.

Funny how love
Can be.

There she is with
That look in her eye.
Hasn't got time
For me.

Does she know
How it's making me cry?

Funny how love
Can be, girl.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2020, 10:30:10 AM
There she goes, she's walking away
Each step she takes, brings the heartaches my way
He won her heart, I lost her someway
There she goes she's walking away

If I hadn't cheated, if I hadn't lied
I'd be the one, walking by her side
I love her still and I guess that it shows
She's walking away there she goes

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 03, 2020, 12:51:13 PM
There she goes again
She's out on the streets again
She's down on her knees, my friend
But you know she'll never ask you please again

Now take a look, there's no tears in her eyes
She won't take it from just any guy, what can you do
You see her walkin' on down the street
Look at all your friends she's gonna meet
You better hit her
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2020, 01:13:14 PM
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by

Make believe 
That you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve 
In private 'cause each time I see you
I break down and cry

Walk on by (don't stop)
Walk on by (don't stop)
Walk on by 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 03, 2020, 01:38:14 PM
All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino

All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette

Foreign types with the hookah pipes say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2020, 01:49:19 PM
It's just gone noon
Half past monsoon
On the banks of the river Nile
Here comes the boat
Only half-afloat
Oarsman grins a toothless smile
Only just one more
To this desolate shore
Last boat along the river Nile
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 05, 2020, 05:02:37 AM
It was late at night on the open road,
Speeding like a man on the run,
A lifetime spent preparing for the journey;
He is closer now and the search is on,
Reading from a map in the mind,
Yes there's the ragged hill,

And there's the boat on the river.
And when the rain came down,
He heard a wild dog howl,
There were voices in the night, "Don't do it!"
Voices out of sight, "Don't do it!
Too many men have failed before,
Whatever you do,

Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even fix a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to the other side"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2020, 09:58:05 AM
Stuck inside these four walls
Sent inside forever
Never seeing no one nice again,
Like you, mama
You, mama...
You...

If I ever get out of here
Thought of giving it all away
To a registered charity.
All I need is a pint a day
If I ever get out of here
(if we ever get out of here)

Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash
As we fell into the sun
And the first one said to the second one there,
"I hope you're having fun."

Band on the run, band on the run
And the jailer man,
And sailor Sam
Were searching everyone
For the band on the run, band on the run.
For the band on the run, band on the run.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 05, 2020, 12:49:14 PM
Band on the Run - still one of my favourite albums, anyway:

The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there and they began to wail
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing
You should've heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing

Let's rock everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone
Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang
The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang

Let's rock everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2020, 02:51:03 PM

I went to a party at the local county jail
All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail
But the guys were indiscreet
They were brawling in the street
At the local dance at the local county jail 

Well the band were playing
And the booze began to flow
But the sound came over on the police car radio
Down at Precinct 49
Having a tear-gas of a time
Sergeant Baker got a call from the governor of the county jail 

Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 05, 2020, 05:21:36 PM
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to

If a man ever needed dyin', he did
No one had the right to say what he said about you
And it's so cold and lonely here without you
Out there the law's a comin'
I'm gettin' so tired of runnin'

Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to

It hurts to see the man that I've become
And to know I'll never see the morning sunshine on the land
I'll never see your smiling face or touch your hand
If just once more I could see you, our home and our little baby

Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2020, 05:27:41 PM

Oh what did del-a-ware boy, what did delaware
what did del-a-ware boy, what did delaware
she wore a brand new jersey,
she wore a brand new jersey,
she wore a brand new jersey,
that's what she did wear
One, two, three, four
oh, why did cali-fon-ia
why did cali-fon
why did cali-fon-ia
was she all alone
she called to say ha-wa-ya
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 05, 2020, 06:12:37 PM
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about them cotton fields of home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother
And I dreamed about the girl who's been waitin' for so long

I want to go home
I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home

Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm just fine, yes they do
But by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2020, 06:14:54 PM
Last night a deejay saved my life
Last night a deejay saved my life from a broken heart
Last night a deejay saved my life
Last night a deejay saved my life with a song
You know I hopped into my car, didn't get very far, no
Because I had you on my mind, why be so unkind
You got your women all around, all around this town
But I was trapped in love with you and I didn't know what to do
But when I turned on my radio
I found out all I needed to know
Check it out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 06, 2020, 03:42:11 PM
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh, a, oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh, a, oh

I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2020, 03:49:19 PM

You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
Skip out for beer during commercials
Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
Hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 06, 2020, 04:45:35 PM
...

I'm shopping in town for our homemade agrarian fortress
You're texting: Corian, Granite, or Tile Kitchenette in the gun nest?

Well we will find a little meadow
High up in the Cascades

Baby we won't ever come down
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

Turn on, tune in, drop out, with me
The whole things coming down
So lets just get out of the way
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2020, 04:56:54 PM
Love and hate get it wrong
She cut me right back down to size
Sleep the day
Let it fade
Who was there to take your place

No one knows never will
Mostly me but mostly you
What do you say
Do you do when it all comes down

'Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud
It's taken me all this time to find out what I need
I don't wanna come back down from this cloud
It's taken me all this all this time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 06, 2020, 09:14:55 PM
Baby, you don't have to keep looking through my phone
If something's going on, girl, you'd already know
We can't even say two words without a fight anymore
How did we get here? Baby, I gotta know

On the other side of love
You tell me you hate me and I hate you more
On the other side of love
How did we get here? Baby, I gotta know
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: ekim on May 07, 2020, 08:44:18 AM
I really can't stay (Baby it's cold outside)
I gotta go away (Baby it's cold outside)
This evening has been (Been hoping that you'd dropped in)
So very nice (I'll hold your hands they're just like ice)
My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what's your hurry?)
My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar)
So really I'd better scurry (Beautiful please don't hurry)
Well maybe just a half a drink more (I'll put some records on while I pour)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 07, 2020, 08:58:16 AM
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 07, 2020, 09:07:08 AM
Barefooting 'round the city, bare feet getting dirt pretty
Living my life, loving my life
It's easy

Wake up tired, go back to sleep
There's no hurry, can't keep me from living my life
Loving my life
It's easy

People may stare, I don't care a damn
I'm doing fine, just living my life
Loving my life
My life is mine
It's easy
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 07, 2020, 09:32:39 AM

Funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I'd pay to lose
One half won't do
I've asked myself, how much do you
Commit yourself

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends (it never ends)

Funny how I blind myself, I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon, afraid to lose
I'd tell myself, what good do you do
Convince myself

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends (it never ends)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 07, 2020, 05:46:28 PM
It's a hard world to get a break in
All the good things have been taken
But girl there are ways to make certain things pay
Though I'm dressed in these rags, I'll wear sable some day
Hear what I say

I'm gonna ride the serpent
No more time spent sweatin' rent
Hear my command
I'm breakin' loose, it ain't no use
Holdin' me down, stick around
But baby (baby)

Remember (remember)

It's my life and I'll do what I want
It's my mind and I'll think what I want
Show me I'm wrong, hurt me sometime
But some day I'll treat you real fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 08, 2020, 09:22:31 AM

Empty belly life! (empty belly life)
Rotten smelly life! (no no no no no)
Full of sorrow life! (full of sorrow life...)
No tomorrow life!

Santa Claus we never see...
Santa Claus what's that? Who's he?

No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage

It's the hard-knock life for us
It's the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 08, 2020, 10:22:14 PM
I don't want to lose you, this good thing
That I got 'cause if I do
I will surely
Surely lose a lot

'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know
It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening

You better knock, knock on wood, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 08, 2020, 10:49:57 PM
Why this car is automatic
It's systematic
It's hydromatic
Why it's grease lightning (Grease lightning)
We'll get some overhead lifters and some four barrel quads
oh yeah


Keep talking whoa keep talking


A fuel injection cutoff and chrome plated rods oh yeah


I'll get the money I'll kill to get the money


With a four speed on the floor they'll be waiting at the door
You know that ain't no crap we'll be getting lots of that
In Grease Lightning
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 10, 2020, 11:34:14 PM
Oh, says Red Molly to James, "That's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like"
Says James to Red Molly, "My hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes, it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme"
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Boxhill that they did ride

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 12, 2020, 03:01:45 PM

She died of a fever
And no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
Now her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

"Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh"
Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 12, 2020, 11:26:56 PM
In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again? For now I find
'The Phantom of the Opera' is there inside my mind

Sing once again with me our strange duet
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
'The Phantom of the Opera' is there inside your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 12, 2020, 11:35:16 PM
A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle star dust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is alright"

I close my eyes then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 13, 2020, 03:55:08 PM
Wonderful baby livin' on love
The sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
Up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows,
Where babies float by just
Counting their toes.

Wonderful baby nothin' but new
The world has gone crazy, I'm glad I'm not you.
At the beginning or is it the end?
It goes in and comes out and starts over again.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2020, 04:16:42 PM
Tarzan and Jane were swingin' on a vine
Candyman, Candyman
Sippin' from a bottle of vodka double wine
Sweet sugar candy man

I met him out for dinner on a Friday night
He really had me working up an appetite
He had tattoos up and down his arm
There's nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm
He's a one stop shop, makes the panties drop
He's a sweet-talkin', sugar coated candy man
A sweet-talkin', sugar coated candyman
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 13, 2020, 07:09:30 PM
Alright everybody gather 'round
The Candy Man is here
What kind of candy do you want
Sweet chocolate
Chocolate malted candy
Gum drops
Anything you want

You've come to the right man
Because I'm the Candy Man
Who can take a sunrise (who can take a sunrise)
Sprinkle it with dew (sprinkle it with dew)
Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two
The Candy Man (the Candy Man)
Oh, the Candy Man can (the Candy Man can)

The Candy Man can
'Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good (makes the world taste good)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2020, 07:15:02 PM
I'm a motherfuckin' icon, boots made of python
I'm met with the Pres and I'm in Obama's iPod
My front yard got all kinds of cars
Long caddy blue body call it Avatar
I don't really fuck with the caviar
Six figures get your sixteen Wonka bars, give me that

Willy Wonka flavor (Willy Wonka)
Willy Wonka been had haters (Hey)
Willy Wonka live on acres (Acres)
Willy Wonka got a lot of paper (Racks)
Golden ticket put you in a Wraither (Wraith)
I barely see my own neighbors (Where?)
Willy Wonka, I got flavor
Willy Wonka, I got flavor
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 13, 2020, 08:33:09 PM
Two tablespoons of cinnamon,
And two or three egg whites
A half a stick of butter
Melt it
Stick it all in a bowl, baby
Stir it with a wooden spoon
Mix in a cup of flour,
You'll be in heaven soon

Say everybody have you seen my balls
They're big and salty and brown!!
If you ever need em' quick,
Pick me up
Just stick my balls in your mouth

Ooohh!!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
Stick 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
They're packed full of vitamins and good for you,
So suck on my balls!!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 13, 2020, 09:17:39 PM
 :-\

In every job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!
The job's a game
And every task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake

A lark! A spree! It's very clear to see that
A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 13, 2020, 11:11:03 PM
It could be a spoonful of coffee
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me

Men lie about that spoonful
Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2020, 11:13:37 PM
Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart
How the music can free her whenever it starts?
And it's magic if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie
I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul
But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout-a rock and roll

If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose
If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues
Just go and listen, and it'll start with a smile
That won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try
Your feet start tapping, and you can't seem to find
How you got there, so just blow your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 14, 2020, 09:48:11 PM
Spirit move me
Every time I"m near you
Whirling like a cyclone in my mind

Sweet Melissa,
Angel of my life time
Answer to all answers I can find

Baby I love you come, come
Come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby I want you,
Now, now, now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 14, 2020, 10:22:12 PM
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memories seep from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 15, 2020, 07:29:52 PM
No one on earth could feel like this
I'm thrown and overflown with bliss
There must be an angel
Playing with my heart

I walk into an empty room
And suddenly my heart goes boom
It's an orchestra of angels
And they're playing with my heart
(Must be talking to an angel)

No one on earth could feel like this
I'm thrown and overflown with bliss
There must be an angel
Playing with my heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 15, 2020, 07:39:34 PM
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your Cancer when you turn back

Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2020, 08:31:26 PM
Damn baby what's going on with you
What he ain't treating you right
Let me give you this counseling for free
You know you need to understand
You gets this loving fa-free
Whatever's going on it's not your fault
Girl you don't look like you're from around here
Why you sitting here eyes full of tears
If you want to talk I'm listening
I'll be the one that's got your back
Just tell me where him and his homies be hanging at
He needs to know how he's supposed to act
He shouldn't treat you like that
I'm not gon' charge you for being the one you run to
And it won't cost you thing if I'm the one you give your love to
Don't worry girl it's on me
I'm gonna give you all this loving fa-free
And I ain't charging for being the one to counsel you
Let's make a deal
I'm gon' pick you up and shape you
All you gotta do is trust in me
Girl you gets this loving fa-free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 15, 2020, 08:34:44 PM
Seven tears have flown into the river

Seven tears are runnin' to the sea.
If one day they reach some distant waters

Then you'll know
it's sent with love from me.
Here I stand
head in hand
Lonely like a stranger on the shore.
I can't stand this feeling anymore.
Day by day
this world's all grey
And if dreams were eagles I would fly

But they ain't
and that's the reason why.
Seven tears have flown into the river

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 15, 2020, 08:56:27 PM
You told me you love me
Why did you leave me all alone
Now you tell me you need me
When you call me on the phone
Girl, I refuse
You must have me confused with some other guy
The bridges were burned
Now it's your turn, to cry

Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 15, 2020, 09:16:52 PM
Betty came by on her way
Said she had a word to say
About things today
And fallen leaves.

Said she hadn't heard the news
Hadn't had the time to choose
A way to lose
But she believes.

Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 16, 2020, 03:36:32 PM
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh

In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 17, 2020, 01:34:25 PM

Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine

Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 17, 2020, 01:39:36 PM
You don't want to hurt me
But see how deep the bullet lies
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, it's you and me
It's you and me, won't be unhappy

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
Be running up that building
Say, if I only could, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 18, 2020, 08:52:50 PM
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
Heading for the land of dreams
When I look back to those happy childhood days
Like yesterday it seems
It was grand my mother held my hand
Daddy was the old gee gee
The old wooden hill was the old wooden stairs
And Bedfordshire of course where I knelt to say my prayers
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 18, 2020, 08:57:32 PM
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la la la la, la la la, la la...
La, la, la la la la, la la la, la la...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 20, 2020, 03:49:00 PM
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire
This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seems
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2020, 03:55:55 PM
She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a traveling show
For love or money money money
money money money money money
money money money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 20, 2020, 09:34:22 PM

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 21, 2020, 01:36:00 PM
I am the god of hell fire and I bring you:
Fire, I'll take you to burn.
Fire, I'll take you to learn.
I'll see you burn!
You fought hard and you saved and learned,
but all of it's going to burn.
And your mind, your tiny mind,
you know you've really been so blind.
Now 's your time burn your mind.
You're falling far too far behind.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 22, 2020, 10:06:33 AM
Wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Just notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well, you'll remember that you're the one
That called on them to call on me to get you your favors done
And after every plan had failed and there was nothing more to tell
And you know that we shall meet again if your memory serves you well

Wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Just notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

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Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 22, 2020, 10:23:46 AM
In these days of confusion
You've turned angry and cold
You say it's an illusion
There's no fire in your soul

Say you don't love me
Say you don't care
But don't leave me standing here
Your heart's like a wheel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 23, 2020, 12:50:32 PM
In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home

Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Well, well, well, so I can die easy

Jesus, gonna make up/out siviers
Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed

Meet me, Jesus, meet me
Oh meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord
Oh please meet me with another pair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 23, 2020, 01:39:22 PM
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 23, 2020, 01:47:47 PM
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine
In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine
Where you carved your name and I carved mine

Oh, you - like the mountains are blue
Like the pine - I am lonesome for you
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome Pine

On a mountain in Virginia stands a lonesome Pine
Just below is the little cabin home of a little girl of mine
Her name is June and very, very soon shell belong to me
For I know shes waiting there for me neath that lone Pine tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 23, 2020, 02:42:56 PM
Far beyond the pale horizon
Some place near the desert strand
Where my Studebaker takes me
That's where I'll make my stand but wait
Can't you see that Holzer mane?
What's her name Virginia Plain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 23, 2020, 02:59:06 PM


I left my home in Monterey,
Just another no prospects man,
Who'd rather work in the foundries,
Than put fishes in a can,
I'm twenty five but I have not traveled far,
And I spend all my money on this misbegotten car,

And I'm up against it all like a leaf against the wind,
And the Studebaker keeps on breakin' down again,
This Studebaker keeps on breakin' down again,

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 23, 2020, 06:30:12 PM
Riding down the street
And I see a pretty girl
She wants me, I want her
I will take her to my world

I'm in my car
I'm stunting in my car
You know I'm in my car
I'm stunting in my car
My car
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 23, 2020, 06:37:36 PM
Cars
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live

In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days

In cars
Here in my car
The image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 23, 2020, 09:11:20 PM
While riding in my Cadillac
What to my surprise

Young shawty I'm the pimp, so you know my game cold
Brush all my teeth cause my whole grill gold
Step out my house, pink gators on my toes
Tryna hit tha club before they all close
Hop in the Lac, Fleetwood eight four
Twenty inch G's with tha triple gold spokes
Creep in the door with my pockets on swole
Limp across tha flo like both of my legs broke
Slide to tha bar to get me somn cold
Got a glass of Thunderbird cause I can't stay in mode
Put down my glass and hit tha dance flo
Don't get mad at me boy what you cuffin' my hands for
If I want it I'ma get it ya know how my game go
? I'm pullin ya main woe
I'm chargin' for this game, I'm givin' you lames yos
Gotta line these girls up in a soul train row
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 23, 2020, 09:19:52 PM

He got up every morning
While I was still asleep
And I remember the sound of him shuffling around
Right before the crack of dawn
Is when I heard him turn the motor on
But when I got up they were gone
Down the road in the rain and snow
The man and his machine would go
Oh, the secrets that old car would know
Sometimes I hear him sayin'

Don't you give me no Buick
Son, you must take my word
If there's a God in heaven
He's got a Silver Thunderbird
You can keep your Eldorados
And the foreign car's absurd
Me, I wanna go down
In a Silver Thunderbird
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 25, 2020, 10:54:39 AM
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes, you will
That you're beautiful as you feel

Waiting at the station with a workday wind a-blowing
I've got nothing to do but watch the passers-by
Mirrored in their faces I see frustration growing
And they don't see it showing, why do I?

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes, you will
That you're beautiful as you feel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 25, 2020, 12:28:06 PM
Wake up, you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window, what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 26, 2020, 03:20:13 PM

On our block all of the guys call her flamingo
Cause her hair glows like the sun
And her eyes can light the skies
When she walks she moves so fine like a flamingo
Crimson dress that clings so tight
She's out of reach and out of sight
When she walks by she brightens up the neighborhood
Oh every guy would make her his if he just could
If she just would
Some sweet day I'll make her mine pretty flamingo
Then every guy will envy me
Cause paradise is where I'll be
Pretty flamingo
Pretty flamingo

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on May 28, 2020, 12:26:48 PM

Well she's walking, through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams
And-a, fairytales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 28, 2020, 12:55:59 PM
Snowdrops and daffodils
butterflies and bees
sailboats and fishermen
things of the sea
wishing-wells
wedding bells
early morning dew
all kinds of everything remind me of you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 28, 2020, 06:49:39 PM
Nearly puked there NS - here's an antidote:

You look different every time you come
From the foam-crested brine
It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
Joking apart, when you're drunk you're terrific when you're drunk
I like you mostly late at night you're quite alright
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 29, 2020, 10:39:53 AM
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 31, 2020, 10:39:50 AM
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2020, 10:49:56 AM
So long boys you can take my place got my papers I got my pay So pack my bags and I'll be on my way to yellow river

Put my guns down the war is won
Put my bags as the time has come
I'm going back to the place that I love yellow river

Yellow river yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow river yellow river is in my blood it's the place I love
Get no time for explanation got no time to loose
Tomorrow night should find me


Sleeping underneath the moon at yellow river

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 31, 2020, 12:16:26 PM
We got an inner-tube,
We got a trailer hitch.
We're near the river and far from rich.

But we have got each other and gas in the tank,
We're laughing all the way to the river bank.
Still can you imagine if we ever struck it,
I'd go shoot tequila take a lime and suck it.
And we'd all tell our bosses they can do the same
We'll find a big cruise ship and buy the whole dang thing.
We'd sail around the world and go to shore in a dinghy
But 'til that dream comes go and grab your bikini, 'cause

We got an inner-tube,
We got a trailer hitch.
We're near the river and far from rich.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2020, 12:27:40 PM
Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road

Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found, short but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 31, 2020, 09:46:29 PM
The early light is breaking
The morning sun is waiting in the sky
And I think I'm gonna break away
And follow where the birds of freedom fly
I need to give, I need to live
For the world is slowly turning
And the lights of love are burning in my eyes
Caravans, oh my soul is on the run
Overland, I am flying
Caravans moving out into the sun
Oh I don't know where I'm going
But I'm going
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2020, 10:27:57 PM

Are you ready for the time of your life
It's time to stand up and fight
(It's alright) it's alright (It's alright, it's alright)
Hand in hand we'll take the caravan to the mother land
One by one we gonna stand with the pride
One that can't be denied (stand up, stand up, stand up)
From the highest mountain, and valley low
Well join together with hearts of gold

Now the children of the world can see
There's a better way for us to be
The place where mankind was born is so neglected and torn... torn apart

Every woman, every man
Join the caravan of love(stand up, stand up, stand up)
Everybody take a stand
Join the caravan of love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 03, 2020, 04:23:36 PM
Night and stars above that shine so bright
The mystery of their fading light
That shines upon our caravan
Sleep upon my shoulder as we creep
Across the sand so I may keep
The memory of our caravan
This is so exciting
You are so inviting
Resting in my arms
As I thrill to the magic charms
Of you beside me here beneath the blue
My dream of love is coming true
Within our desert caravan
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2020, 04:31:26 PM
I know your Daddy`s a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him
They all send him
Jump at his beck and call

But you won`t need no harem, honey
When I`m by your side
And you won`t need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride

Come on, cactus is our friend
He`ll point out the way
Come on, til the evening ends
Til the evening ends

Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 04, 2020, 08:32:55 AM
And the Sultans,
Yes the Sultans play Creole.
And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone.
And says at last, just as the time bell rings, "
Goodnight, now it's time to go home."
And he makes it fast, with one more thing:"
We're the Sultans, "
We are the Sultans of Swing."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 04, 2020, 12:13:23 PM
When the days are sad and long,
I just keep wandering on,
To the place I hear a call,
Because the one I love is there;
Back to the fields of cotton
To hear a Creole love song.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 04, 2020, 02:46:21 PM
Long, long journey
Through the darkness,
Long, long way to go,
But what are miles
Across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?

Where the road
Runs through the valley,
Where the river flows,
I will follow every highway
To the place I know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 04, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me
in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me.

Homeward bound,
I wish I was homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting silently for me.
Silently for me.


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 05, 2020, 10:22:00 AM
In my little town
I never meant nothin'
I was just my father's son
Saving my money
Dreaming of glory
Twitching like a finger
On the trigger of a gun
Leaving nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town

Nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2020, 10:32:38 AM

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 05, 2020, 05:06:04 PM
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Yes, they'll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2020, 05:08:29 PM
Blue is the colour, football is the game
We're all together, and winning is our aim
So cheer us on through the sun and rain
'Cause Chelsea, Chelsea is our name

Here at the Bridge whether rain or fine
We can shine all the time
Home or away, come and see us play
You're welcome any day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 05, 2020, 05:11:35 PM
And I'm alright
Standing in the streetlights here
Is this meant for me
My time on the outside is over
We don't know how you're spending
All of your days
Knowing that love isn't here
You see the pictures
But you don't know their names no
Cause love isn't here

And I can't do this by myself
All of these problems, they're all in your head
And I can't be somebody else
You took something perfect
And painted it red
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2020, 05:17:55 PM
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore, I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby, it just happens everyday

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and must have it painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 05, 2020, 05:28:13 PM
That aways makes me think of the 1980s TV series, 'Tour of Duty'. Paint it Black was theme tune.

Look how far we've come
Now, now, now, now
There's beauty in the unity we've found
I'm ready, I'm ready
We still got a long way
But look how far we've come
Now, now, now, now
Hands up for your colors
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2020, 05:30:41 PM
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2020, 05:38:20 PM
The bright August sun feels like yellow
And the white of her eyes is so yellow
The tiny lie I told to myself is making me hollow
I've been choking out truths that I couldn't swallow

I'm fallin' apart over a memory
And the weight in my heart is getting too heavy
'Cause every word is a nail that slips in slowly
And I can't hammer it down enough to keep holding in

And I could lie but
It's never made me feel good
Inside I'm still so blue
Can't erase the hue
It's just colored over
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2020, 06:00:09 PM


Born-a high forever to fly
A-wind-a velocity nil
Born-a high forever to fly
If you want, your cup I will fill

They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow

So mellow yellow

Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 08, 2020, 06:34:04 PM
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough
He tells you
"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
We've string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2020, 06:36:51 PM
She came from Greece
She had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martins College
That's where I
Caught her eye
She told me that her dad was loaded
I said, "Well, in that case I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola"
She said, "Fine"
And then in thirty seconds' time, she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you."
Well, what else could I do?
I said "Oh, I'll see what I can do."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 08, 2020, 06:58:27 PM
If you ever go down Trinidad
They make you feel so very glad
Calypso sing and make up rhyme
Guarantee you one real good fine time
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar
Oh, beat it man, beat it
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2020, 08:02:12 PM
To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
To work in the service of life and living
In search of the answers to the questions unknown
To be part of the movement and part of the growing
Part of beginning to understand

Aye Calypso the places you've been to
The things that you've shown us
The stories you tell
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2020, 08:06:59 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is captain Tobias Wilcock welcoming you aboard Coconut Airways flight 372 to Bridgetown Barbados
We will be flying at an 'ight of 32000 feet and at an airspeed of approximately 600 miles per hour
Refreshments will be served after take-off, kindly fasten your safety belts and refrain from smoking until the aircraft is airborne

Woah, I'm going to Barbados
Woah, back to the palm trees
Woah, I'm going to see my girlfriend
Woah, in the sunny Caribbean sea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2020, 08:19:08 PM
I hurried back to the swimming pool
Sippin' piña colada
I heard a dark voice beside me say
"Would you like something hotter?"
She said, "I've got it, you want it
My harvest is the best
And it you try it, you'll like it
And wallow in a dreadlock holiday

And I say
Don't like Jamaica, oh no
I love her
Don't like Jamaica, oh no
I love her, oh yea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2020, 08:45:20 PM

I know that sounds kinda mean
But me and my old lady
Had fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
Yes I like pina colada's

And gettin' caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red tape
At a bar called o'malley's
Where we'll plan our escape
So I waited with high hopes

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2020, 09:23:24 PM
Could be holding you tonight
Could be doing wrong or start doing right
You don't care about what I think
I think I'll just stay here and drink

Hey, putting you down, don't square no deal
Least you'll know the way I feel
Take all the money in the bank
I think I'll just stay here and drink
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 08, 2020, 09:28:55 PM
A grand old painter died last night
His paintings on the wall
Before he went, he bade us well
And said goodnight to us all

Drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more
Drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more.

Three o'clock in the morning
I'm getting ready for bed
It came without a warning
But I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be waiting for you there

So drink to me drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more
Drink to me drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2020, 10:39:43 PM
It's four in the morning
And once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me
Wishing I'd never met her
Knowing if I'd forget her
How much better off she would be.

The longer I hold on
And the longer this goes on
The harder that it's gonna be
But it's four in the morning
And once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 12, 2020, 12:15:04 PM
...

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crimson crystal beads to beckon

Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
There's a sun show every second

Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today
And the streets are paved with passersby
And pigeons fly
And papers lie
Waiting to blow away

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses

Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 12, 2020, 12:17:17 PM
Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six
He thinks of all the lips that he licks
And all the girls that he's going to fix
She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle
But there's no place here for the mini-skirt waddle
Capital punishment, she's last year's model
They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don't want to go to Chelsea
Oh, no, it does not move me


Even though I've seen the movie
I don't want to check your pulse
I don't want nobody else
I don't want to go to Chelsea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 14, 2020, 06:31:53 PM
Here she comes
Little town flirt
You're falling for her
And you're gonna get hurt
Yeah, I know it's so hard to resist
The temptation of her tender red lips
But you can hurt, hurt
Yeah, you can get hurt
Foolin' around
With that little town flirt
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 14, 2020, 06:33:29 PM
I've never been closer
I've tried to understand
That certain feeling
Carved by another's hand

But it's too late to hesitate
We can't keep on livin' like this
Leave no track
Don't look back

All I desire
Temptation
Keep climbin' higher and higher
Temptation

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 15, 2020, 12:53:01 AM
I have the strangest feeling
Don't know what to believe in (mm)
'Cause every time you touch me
I can't control my body
Baby you are on my mind
All I think about and I don't wanna stop, I don't wanna stop
Could you come closer to me
I just can't resist you, I'm giving up, I'm giving up
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 15, 2020, 03:28:26 PM
Got to pick up the phone
I will call any number
I will talk to anyone
I know I'm gone too far
Much too far I gone this time
And I don't want to think what I've done
I don't know how to stop
No, I don't know how to stop

There are always hidden silences
Waiting behind the chair
They come out when the coast is clear
They eat anything that moves
I go shaky at the knees
Lights go out, stars come down
Like a swarm of bees

No self-control
no self-control
No self-control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 16, 2020, 01:15:26 PM
Let 'em say we're crazy, I don't care about that
Put your hand in my hand baby don't ever look back
Let the world around us just fall apart
Baby we can make it if we're heart to heart

And we can build this thing together
Standing strong forever
Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We'll still have each other
Nothing's gonna stop us
Nothing's gonna stop us now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2020, 01:26:34 PM
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She's a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 16, 2020, 06:47:30 PM
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You can start me up
You can start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot

You got me ticking going to blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
Never stop, never stop, never stop
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2020, 07:06:00 PM
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 17, 2020, 08:21:13 AM
n the night a new day dawning
And the first birds start to sing
In the pale light of the morning
Nothing's worth remembering
It's a dream, it's out of reach
Scattered driftwood on the beach

Summer night city...
Summer night city...

Waiting for the sunrise, soul dancing in the dark
Summer night city
Walking in the moonlight, love-making in a park
Summer night city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 09:00:20 AM
Dancing in the dark till the tune ends
We're dancing in the dark and it soon ends
We're waltzing in the wonder of why we're here
Time hurries by, we're here and gone

Looking for the light of a new love
To brighten up the night, I have you, love
And we can face the music together
Dancing in the dark
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2020, 01:13:16 PM
You can dance, go and carry on
'Til the night is gone
And it's time to go
If he asks if you're all alone
Can he walk you home, you must tell him no

'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
Save the last dance for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 17, 2020, 01:18:02 PM
Do you wanna dance, and hold my hand?
Tell me I'm your lover man.
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?

We could dance under the moonlight,
hug and kiss all through the night.
Oh baby, tell me, do you wanna dance with me baby?

Do you, do you, do you, do you want to dance?
Do you, do you, do you want to dance?
Do you, do you, do you, do you want to dance with me baby?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 01:29:04 PM
You're so hot, teasing me
So you're blue but I can't take a chance on a chick like you
That's something I couldn't do
There's that look in your eyes
I can read in your face that your feelings are driving you wild
Ah, but girl you're only a child

Well I can dance with you honey
If you think it's funny
Does your mother know that you're out?
And I can chat with you baby
Flirt a little maybe
Does your mother know that you're out?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2020, 02:51:32 PM
You always taught me right from wrong
I need your help, daddy please be strong
I may be young at heart
But I know what I'm saying
The one you warned me all about
The one you said I could do without
We're in an awful mess
And I don't mean maybe, please

Papa don't preach I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 17, 2020, 03:06:12 PM
Billy Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered around and started talkin'
That's when Billy would take me walkin'
Out through the back yard we'd go walkin'
Then he'd look into my eyes
Lord knows, to my surprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was
He was, ooh
Yes he was
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 04:46:09 PM
It was the third of September, that day I'll always remember
'Cause that was the day that my daddy died
I never got a chance to see him, never heard nothin' but bad things about him
Mama I'm depending on you to tell me the truth

Mama just looked at him and said, "Son
Papa was a rollin' stone
Wherever he laid his head was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone"

Papa was a rollin' stone
Wherever he laid his head was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 17, 2020, 06:43:05 PM
You had romance
Did you break it by chance over me?
If it's so
I'd like for you to know
That I'm not worth it, you see

For I'm the type of boy
Who is always on the roam, mmm
Wherever I lay my hat
That's my home
Mmm, that's my home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 06:47:48 PM

I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
'Cause I was a bit too leisurely

Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before
That's when I saw her, Ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the out door, out door

She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 17, 2020, 09:30:51 PM
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin', don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no no
And, feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
You know, feelin' good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 09:44:57 PM
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holdin' me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should say

Say 'em loud, say 'em clear
For the whole 'round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the thoughts
That keep us apart

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2020, 10:07:57 PM
I want to break free
I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need you
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free

I've fallen in love
I've fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it's for real
I've fallen in love, yeah
God knows, God knows I've fallen in love

It's strange but it's true, yeah
I can't get over the way you love me like you do
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door
Oh, how I want to be free, baby
Oh, how I want to be free
Oh, how I want to break free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 10:09:51 PM
I watch the distant lights along the runway
Disappear into the evening sky
Oh you know I'm with you on your journey
Never could say goodbye

It's not the sun you're trying to find
Something else is on your mind
You need a little space and time to break away
It's not the place you're going to
It's just a phase you're going through
Though I won't stop you, I don't want you to

Break away, fly across your ocean
Break away, time has come for you
Break away, fly across your ocean
Break away, time has come...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2020, 10:15:20 PM
Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Spread your little wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Pull yourself together
'Cause you know you should do better
That's because you're a free man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2020, 10:20:55 PM
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows I can't change.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 18, 2020, 06:08:46 PM
You gave my eyes a new sight they'd never had before
You brought beauty every day
You gave my eyes a new sight they'd never had before
And I threw it away.

The song that I sing
Is the music I bring
Don't try to change me
I'm doing the best I can
Don't try to change me
I'm happy the way I am.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2020, 06:15:09 PM
When you hear the music, you make a dip
Into someone else's pocket then make a slip
You take a car and go to Las Vegas
Ooh, gigolo cool

Hanging out by the state line
Turning holy water into wine
Drinkin' it down, oh, oh-oh, ow

I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip
Reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip
I'm thinkin' of you, you're out there, so
Say your prayers
Say your prayers
Say your prayers (oh)

Now I close my eyes
And I wonder why
I don't despise

Now all I can do
Love what was once
So alive in you
But it's gone from your eyes
I better realize

(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 18, 2020, 07:22:48 PM
Your cold eyes cut like knives, frozen from the horrors in sight
Your cold eyes cut like knives, frozen from the horrors in sight
I watched you fall, hit the ground as you trembled
The room is spinning as the clocks tick away
Nauseated by the weakened will I have displayed
Last night I watched you die
Your cold eyes cut right through me like hot knives

Last night I watched you die
Another soul that's shed its skin and left a man behind
Laying restless, eyes locked on the ceiling
Anguish, from the guilt that I've been feeling
Your cold eyes cut like knives, frozen from the horrors in sight
Your cold eyes cut like knives, frozen from the horrors in sight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2020, 07:29:14 PM
It's out of my hands
It's out of my hands
To think for two years she was here
And I took her for granted I was so cavalier
Now the way that it stands
She's out of my hands

So I've learned that love's not possession
And I've learned that love won't wait
Now I've learned that love needs expression
But I learned too late

She's out of my life
She's out of my life
Damned indecision and cursed pride
Kept my love for her locked deep inside
And it cuts like a knife
She's out of my life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 18, 2020, 07:33:03 PM
She's gone
Out of my life
I was wrong
I'm to blame
I was so untrue
I can't live without her love
In my life
There's just an empty space
All my dreams are lost

I'm wasting away
Forgive me, girl
Lady, won't you save me?
My heart belongs to you
Lady, can you forgive me?
For all I've done to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2020, 07:39:52 PM
Think I'll spend eternity in the city
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away
And pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
They can never be what she was (was) to (to) me

And she's gone, and she's gone
Oh I, oh I
I better learn how to face it
She's gone, and she's gone
Oh I, oh I
I'd pay the devil to replace her
She's gone, and she's gone
Oh I
What went wrong?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 19, 2020, 12:21:55 PM
...
Now people talk and they speculate about what other people would do
But they can't put themselves within my shoes
It used to be my life, now it's become my story
I'm heading down this highway with those blues

Well I'd love to see the sun setting on the riverside
Just to go back home yeah I want to settle down
Well I have to pay the devil for my music
Well I have to keep on with this roaming around

Have to pay the devil for my music
Keep on rolling from town to town
Have to pay the devil for to play my music
Keep on rolling from town to town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 12:34:30 PM
If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says
"15 miles to the
Love Shack"
Love Shack, yeah, yeah
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway
Lookin' for the love getaway
Headed for the love getaway
I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the Love Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 19, 2020, 05:49:51 PM
0-0-7, 0-0-7
At ocean eleven
And now rude boys have a go wail
'Cause them out of jail
Rude boys cannot fail
'Cause them must get bail

Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail (a shanty town)
Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail (a shanty town)
Dem rude boys get a probation (a shanty town)
And rude boy bomb up the town (a shanty town)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 05:54:05 PM
Five seven o five
But there's no reply
Five seven o five

Got myself just one more dime
But will the operator hold the line
When my ears keep telling me
There's no reply, no reply
I pick up the telephone
I go crazy when there's no one home
I feel cheated and small when
My number's on the wall of her room
Call me soon

Hey operator
Five seven o five
But there's no reply
Five seven o five
Why do you keep me hanging on the line

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 19, 2020, 05:55:53 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother, now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
All those things she said, I told you to ignore

Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 06:12:24 PM
I rented my apartment
On a Monday at one
A-singin' do lolly, lolly
Shicky bum, shicky bum

Started movin' in it
On a Tuesday at two
A-singin' do lolly, lolly
Shicky do, shicky do

Wednesday at three
I called the phone company, singin'
Hey baby, put a phone in for me

Thursday at four
He came a-knockin' at my door, singin'

Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it
And I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom
I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom
I can hang it on the wall

You can have it with the buzz
You can have it with the ring
And if you really want it
You can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby
I'm your telephone man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 19, 2020, 06:48:28 PM
Sing your song to me
Oh there's no greater thing
Than to listen to the sound of your voice
When I hear your song
I want to sing along
And listen to the sound of your voice
The sound of your voice
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 06:49:42 PM
Every lousy Monday morning
Heathrow jets goes crashing over my home
Ten o'clock broad-moor siren
Driving me mad, won't leave me alone
The woman next store
Just sits and stares outside
She hasn't come out once
Ever since her husband died
This is the sound
This is the sound of the suburbs
This is the sound
This is the sound of the suburbs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 19, 2020, 06:52:27 PM
Suburbia
where the suburbs met utopia
where the suburbs met utopia

Lost in the high street, where the dogs run
roaming suburban boys
Mother's got her hairdo to be done
She says they're too old for toys
Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
in this suburban hell
and in the distance a police car
to break the suburban spell

Let's take a ride
and run with the dogs tonight in suburbia
You can't hide
Run with the dogs tonight
in suburbia
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 06:55:49 PM

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 19, 2020, 06:57:36 PM
You have my heart
And we'll never be worlds apart
Maybe in magazines
But you'll still be my star
Baby, 'cause in the dark
You can't see shiny cars
And that's when you need me there
With you, I'll always share
Because

When the sun shine, we shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh-eh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 07:01:52 PM
I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feeling
And I'm happy again.
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark, up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love.

Let the stormy clouds chase.
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I have a smile on my face.
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin', singin' in the rain.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 19, 2020, 07:05:33 PM
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all of the time

Oh, yeah
Life is bad
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, stormy weather
And I just can get my poor self together
Oh, I'm weary all of the time
The time, so weary all of the time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 07:36:18 PM
Since you went away
(Since you went away)
My hearts not free
It keeps on raining down on me
Will there be a day when the sun will shine?

I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountains again
Oh, where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 19, 2020, 07:48:38 PM
Late at night when the wind is still
I'll come flying through your door,
And you'll know what love is for.
L'm a bluebird, i'm a bluebird
I'm a bluebird, l'm a bluebird
Yeah ,yeah ,yeah.

I'm a bluebird, i'm a bluebird,
I'm a bluebird
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Touch your lips with a magic kiss
And you'll be a bluebird too,
And you'll know what love can do.

L'm a bluebird, i'm a bluebird
L'm a bluebird, l'm a bluebird
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

L'm a bluebird, i'm a bluebird,
L'm a bluebird,
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 07:50:28 PM
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 19, 2020, 07:52:49 PM
Blackbird, blackbird singing the blues all day
Right outside of my door
Blackbird, blackbird who do you sit and say
There's no sunshine in store

All through the winter you hung around
Now I begin to feel homeward bound
Blackbird, blackbird gotta be on my way
Where there's sunshine galore

Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet, so is she
Bye bye blackbird
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2020, 07:59:50 PM

When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss can be)
Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)

Sugar, pour a little sugar on it honey
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 20, 2020, 12:36:01 PM

All through the summers, into January
I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
Looking for the necessary body parts
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
I wanna create my own version of you

Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
They talk all night and they talk all day
Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 20, 2020, 12:38:34 PM
Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now

Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below

Ain’t that just like me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 20, 2020, 05:13:30 PM
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2020, 09:17:58 AM
Mother Earth, she's on overload
One more war and she might explode
We got to look back and see a love from the past
We got time to change it but it's running out fast
(Out fast)

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 23, 2020, 08:42:45 AM
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make it a better place
For you and for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2020, 01:37:34 PM
Come on, baby, dry your eyes
Wipe your tears
Never like to see you cry
Won't you please forgive me?
I wouldn't ever try to hurt you
I just needed someone to hold me
To fill the void while you were gone
To fill this space of emptiness
I'm only human of flesh and blood I'm made
Human, born to make mistakes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 23, 2020, 08:34:19 PM
In broken dreams that keep me from sleeping,
I remember all the things I said,
Well I've broken all the promises,
I said I would be keeping,
They're gone, like leaves they fell,
For it's so hard when you're far away,
All I needed was a shoulder I could cry on,
Now these broken dreams have woken me,
My love, will you carry me home.

Or will you treat me like some traveller,
On a dark and lonely road,
Who sees a light and a woman who will give him love,
Oh and just when she reaches the part,
When she's supposed to comfort his broken heart,
She turns away, and sends him travelling on, on,
Oh when I left I believed that nothing would go wrong,
I thought the whole world would be waiting for my story,
Take me back, my love, I need you now,
Come back and carry me home,
Take me back and heal theses broken wings,
Come back and carry me home.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2020, 08:37:25 PM
I've traveled the land with a guitar in my hand
And an eye ever open for some fun
I've made some mistakes had my share of the breaks
Seen the boys on the make and on the bum

Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home
Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home

I've seen all the frowns on the faces of the clowns
And the downs that they take just to be free
And I've seen all the girls in their pretty frocks and curls
But they don't mean a lot to me

Run for home run as fast as I can
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 23, 2020, 08:41:21 PM
 I've been keeping all the letters
That I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
I'm fine baby, how are you?

Well I would send them but I know
That it's just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that.

Another airplane
Another sunny place
I'm lucky I know
But I wanna go home.

Mmm, I got to go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far
From where you are

I wanna come home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2020, 08:45:26 PM

I wouldn't want to be you
Mostly not even near you
When you're gone they will curse you
And raise the tide against you 

I no longer care now
For what you said was fair now
I just don't go there now
I just don't go 

Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse
Living out in your town 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 23, 2020, 09:11:56 PM
Came in from the city walked into the door
I turned around when I heard the sound of footsteps on the floor
Love just like addiction now I'm hooked on you
I need some time to get it right
Your love gonna see me through

Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go

Baby make your mind up give me what you got
Fix me with your lovin' shut the door and turn the lock
Hey go get the doctor, doctor came too late
Another night I feel alright my love for you can't wait

Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2020, 09:13:58 PM
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high

Time on my side
I got it all
I've heard that pride
Always comes before a fall

There's a rumor goin' around the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Everywhere I turn, I lose

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 24, 2020, 04:43:09 PM
I'm a loser
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

Of all the love I have won, and have lost
There is one love I should never have crossed
She was a girl in a million my friend
I should have known she would win in the end

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

(I googled 'I'm a loser' cuz remembered hearing it & never knew til then it was Beatles! This board is an educaation)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 24, 2020, 04:46:52 PM


I couldn't figure why
You couldn't give me what everybody needs
I shouldn't let you kick me when I'm down
My baby

I find out everybody knows that
You've been using me
I'm surprised you
Let me stay around you

One day I'm gonna lift the cover
And look inside your heart
We gotta level before we go
And tear this love apart

There's no fight you can't fight this battle of love with me
You win again, so little time, we do nothing but compete
There's no life on earth, no other could see me through
You win again, some never try but if anybody can, we can
And I'll be, I'll be following you
Following you, oh girl

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 24, 2020, 04:53:48 PM
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 24, 2020, 05:05:06 PM
So I handed him my bottle
And he drank down my last swallow
Then he bummed a cigarette
And asked me for a light
And the night got deathly quiet
And his face lost all expression
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy,
You gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 24, 2020, 09:45:16 PM
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's all drunk

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 24, 2020, 09:57:21 PM
You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a bitch girl but it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far
Get you too far

Don't you know, don't you know
That it's wrong to take what is given you
So far gone, on your own
You can get along if you try to be strong
But you'll never be strong 'cause

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2020, 09:53:15 PM
Enjoy your privileged life
'Cause I'm not gonna hold you through the night
We said our last goodbyes
So let's just try to end it with a smile
And I don't wanna hear that you are suffering
You are suffering, no more
'Cause I held you down when you were suffering
You were suffering

Blues away, way, way
I got two red pills to take the blues away
Blues away, way, way
I got two red pills to take the blues away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2020, 09:57:33 PM
Drivin' in my car
Headed for the local bar
Pickin' up my girl tonight
Everything is gonna be alright
Shootin' pool with my friends
Smokin' cigarettes
Tellin' jokes out loud
We're laughing way too proud

And we rock it
And we roll it
And we're laughing
And we're joking
And we roll it
Baby we roll it, roll it,
We won't get the blues because we

Rock the blues away
Up all night and day
Drink the night away
Until the light of day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 28, 2020, 09:31:34 PM
He's right and I'm wrong
This love is good as gone
He's pushing, I'm pulling
Who did I think I was fooling?
He's rockin', I'm rollin'

He's beautiful and I'm broken
I should've known better
Thinking this could last forever
Giving up, giving in, let's
Call it out for what it is
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2020, 09:45:30 PM

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 29, 2020, 04:16:06 PM
Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray
To a bright sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?


Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 29, 2020, 04:30:53 PM
On Mother Kelly's doorstep
down paradise row
I'd sit along O' Nelly
she'd sit along O' Joe
She'd got a little
hole in her frock
hole in her shoe
hole in her sock
where her toe
peeped through
But Nelly
was the smartest
down our alley
On Mother Kelly's doorstep
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 29, 2020, 05:33:24 PM
And the pharaoh raised his hand
Said dig a hole in the promised land
The pointing men are marching in a line
They're shooting poison arrows in the sky

These are the last days of paradise row

There's a man knocking on my door
He's playing games with word of the law
A hammer in his hand to break your soul
But the spirit is a house that will not fall

These are the last days of paradise row
Tell me Moses where will your children go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 29, 2020, 06:04:36 PM
Moses went up to the mountain high
To find out from God why did you make us why
Secret words in a secret room
He said a womp bop a lu bop a lop bam boom

I did not put you here to suffer
I did not put you here to whine
I put you here to love one another
And to get out and have a good time now now now

Let my people go-go-go
You gotta let my people go-go-go
Let my people go-go-go
You gotta Let my people go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 29, 2020, 06:06:34 PM
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height

Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped

Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 29, 2020, 07:35:24 PM
Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 30, 2020, 06:27:09 PM
All night long, you've been looking at me
Well you know you're the dance hall cutie that you love to be
Oh well now, you've been laying it down
You've got your hips swinging out of bounds
And I like the way you do what you're doin' to me
Alright

That's right, that's right, that's right,
that's right I really love your tiger light
That's neat, that's neat, that's neat,
that's neat, I really love your tiger feet
I really love your tiger feet
Your tiger feet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 30, 2020, 06:28:34 PM
Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high hand stand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel

We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
I said

Dance hall days, love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2020, 07:17:36 AM
I set my sights on you (and no one else will do)
And I, I've got to have my way now, baby
All I know is that to me
You look like you're having fun
Open up your lovin' arms
Watch out here I come

You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 02, 2020, 09:03:56 PM
Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending nor beginning
On an ever spinning reel

Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space

Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2020, 09:12:47 PM
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 03, 2020, 06:08:32 AM
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry

Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost riders in the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2020, 09:35:13 AM
There's a message floatin' in the air
Come from crazy horses riding everywhere
It's a warning it's in every tongue
Got to stop them crazy horses on the run
What a show there they go smokin' up the sky yeah
Crazy horses all got riders and they're you and I
Crazy Horses
Crazy Horses
Crazy Horses
Crazy Horses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2020, 01:27:32 PM
Now take me dancing at the disco
Where you buy your Winniebago
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

When the light turns into darkness
Will he turn up to explain us?
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2020, 01:30:34 PM
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothin to gain except killin' your brain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 06, 2020, 03:52:32 PM
The auctioneer said, I'm not through yet
Here's a horse the likes of which you've never seen
And the straw hats in the sun, with a face beneath each one
Shown doubtful and the auctioneer got mean
Do you think that you can find a horse like this every day?
I don't think there's any better on this earth
And the more you pay, the more it's worth

Then out she came, a snow-white mare
Prancin' and a dancin' in the silver sun
They watched her from behind, as she did her bump and grind
Walkin' naked, sad and graceful for their fun
Oh how I wished I could afford that lady painted white
A queen with high nobility of birth
But the more you pay, the more it's worth
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2020, 08:21:00 PM
I got the horse right here, the name is Paul Revere.
And here's a guy that says that if all weather's clear,
Can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do.
If he says the horse can do, can do, can do.
I picked the Valentine, cause on the Morning Line,
The guy has got em figured at five to nine
But take the Epitaph, he went to buy a half,
He's got it cold in here in the Telegraph.
About Rivera's fight, I guess the sport's alright
Suppose it all depends if it rained last night.
I know it's Valentine, the morning works were fine
You know the jockey's brother is a friend of mine
But just a minute, boys, I got the feedback's choice,
It says the great grandfather was Aqua Poise.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2020, 10:08:45 AM
It's been a little while since my last summary of what's been posted on this thread, and given that it has been quiet for a few days, I updated it. Below is the current list of artists with 10 or more entries. Since the last summary The Beatles have extended their lead slightly, Ella Fitzgerald has pulled ahead of Frank Sinatra, David Bowie has continued his move up the chart. The biggest increase in the period was The Rolling Stones with 9 more entries but they only moved up 2 places due to the gap that was there in January. Paul McCartney currently has 9 entries as a solo artist in addition to 82 with The Beatles, and 18 with Wings. If I counted dues  with Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson he would appear in this list 3 times.

When I did the first of these breakdowns Frank Sinatra was out in front and was for some time after, I suspect that the increase in 60s and 70s music performers is to do with losing the influence of the much missed Leonard James.

I'll do a separate post for songs that have appeared more than 5 times.

One slight oddity because of the way I decided to work this is that The Sound Of Music appears but The Sound of Music the song itself is part of the set of songs that count towards Julie Andrews appearance. Rather similarly to my approach to the Great American songbook, I've put songs from musicals that I think have a definitive version to the singer(s). If not, then just the musical itself


Artist   Number
The Beatles   82
Ella Fitzgerald   71
Frank Sinatra   69
Trad.                   48
Nat King Cole   35
David Bowie   34
Simon and Garfunkel   33
Abba   32
Queen   32
Bing Crosby   31
Doris Day   30
The Rolling Stones   27
Judy Garland   23
Fred Astaire   22
Don McLean   20
Gene Kelly   18
Wings   18
Hymn   17
Paul Simon   17
Theme   17
Billie Holiday   16
Mario Lanza   16
Diana Ross and The Supremes   15
The Carpenters   15
Andy Williams   14
Barbra Streisand   14
Bob Dylan   14
Louis Armstrong   14
Perry Como   14
Roy Orbison   14
Blondie   13
Dean Martin   13
Vera Lynn   13
10CC   12
Carole King   12
Cliff Richard   12
Elkie Brooks   12
Elvis Presley   12
Tony Bennett   12
Dionne Warwick   11
Elton John   11
Johnny Cash   11
Julie Andrews   11
Kate Bush   11
Lionel Ritchie   11
Michael Jackson   11
Pink Floyd   11
The Kinks   11
Dusty Springfield   10
John Lennon   10
Stevie Wonder   10
The Sound of Music   10
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2020, 10:21:52 AM
Here is the list of songs appearing 5 times or more. Very little change at the top with only  Memories Are Made of This that was in the top 10 going up by 1, and Singing In The Rain entering the top 10. Lots of new appearances with 5 such as Sorrow, The Green Green Grass of Home, and Video Killed the Radio Star, As before The Power of Love scores 6 as a title but is 2 different versions - Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4, Jennifer Rush 2, Huey Lewis and the News 0. Young at Heart has 5 as a title - 4 Frank Sinatra, 1 The Bluebells.

Cry Me River does appear on here with 5, though it has 6 as a title - 5 Julie London, 1 Justin Timberlake



Song                            Number
Dream a little dream of me   10
With a song in my heart   10
Memories are made of this   8
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life   7
Blue Skies   7
Love Is a Many Splendoured  Thing   7
Singing in the Rain   7
Strangers in the Night   7
Baby It's Cold Outside   6
Bohemian Rhapsody   6
Come Fly With Me   6
Don't Stop Me Now   6
I Will Survive   6
In The Still of the Night   6
The Sound of Silence   6
Walk on by   6
Amoreuse   5
Banana Boat Song   5
Brother Can you spare a dime   5
Cry Me a River   5
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes   5
Don't it make my brown Eyes Blue   5
Fools Rush In   5
Green Green Grass of Home   5
Hanging on the Telephone   5
Hello   5
Homeward Bound   5
I write the songs   5
It's a Kind of Magic   5
It's a Lovely Day Today   5
Just my imagination   5
Lilac Wine   5
Love Me or Leave Me   5
Mama Told Me Not To Come   5
Moon River   5
No More the Fool   5
Oh What a Beautiful Morning   5
Pennies From Heaven   5
Reflections    5
Rock Around the Clock   5
Somewhere over the rainbow   5
Sorrow   5
Stormy Weather   5
Summer in the City   5
Tie a Yellow Ribbon   5
Video Killed the Radio Star   5
Wherever I lay My Hat   5

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 17, 2020, 09:37:08 PM
Thanks for the breakdown NS. I am now adding to the Don McLean total with this one (I am probably largely responsible for his high showing in the list):

And Lincoln is laughing with Amos and Andy
Concerning the great Civil War
And Paul Revere sleeps with the worst-looking creeps
While revolution's knocking at his door

Magdalene Lane is the red-light domain
Where everyone's soul is for sale
A piece of your heart will do for a start
You can send us the rest in the mail
For we have our own families to feed
And we can't let them starve just for you
But we'd rather not watch while you bleed
So come back in an hour when you're through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 20, 2020, 07:16:27 PM
The lion is weak and ready for his jungle
What is the jungle
Equal rights and justice
And if he doesn't get it
He's gon' to take it any way and anyhow
So you better give up

We want our piece of the pie
Right here, right now
We want our piece of the pie
Right here, right now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 20, 2020, 07:36:46 PM
You
With your masquerading
And you
Always contemplating
What to do
In case Heaven has found you
Can't you see
That it's all around you?
So follow me

Hey come on, babe
Follow me
I'm the Pied Piper
Follow me
I'm the Pied Piper
And I'll show you where it's at
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 20, 2020, 07:45:02 PM
They came from the hills
And they came from the valleys and the plains
They struggled in the cold
In the heat and the snow and in the rain
Came to hear him play
Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
We're all summoned by a tune
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon

We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon for him
And we dance beneath the moon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 20, 2020, 08:08:17 PM

Melody, it was a second name
Melody, it was a second name

Came home one morning about quarter to three
I'm banging on my door cause I just lost my key
Open up, baby, you got someone else inside
I'm going to come get you dead or alive

I took her out dancing but she drank away my cash
She said, "I'm going to fix my face don't you worry I'll be back"
I'm looking for her high and low like a mustard for a ham
She was crashed out in the bathroom
In the arms of my best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 21, 2020, 09:32:22 PM
The way she walks
The way she talks
How long can I pretend
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
with the girl of my best friend

Her lovely hair
Her skin so fair
I could go on and never end
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
With the girl of my best friend

I want to tell her how I love her so
And then hold her in my arms but then
What if she got real mad and told him so
I could never face either one again

oh the way they kiss
Their happiness
Will my aching heart ever mend
Or will I always be in love
With the girl of my best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 22, 2020, 09:01:52 AM
You're always dancing down the street
With your suede blue eyes
Every new boy that you meet
He doesn't know the real surprise(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing 'neath the starry sky
Ooh, she'll make you flip
(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing 'neath the starry sky
I kinda like the way she dips
Well she's my best friend's girl
She's my best friend's girl
But she used to be mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 24, 2020, 12:20:12 AM
It's so pathetic, don't know what to do
Cause now you got me cornered in the room
Picture moment and now I'm screwed
Hey, don't tell me I'm beautiful
Cause I don't want to hear it from you

Are you kidding?
You're my best friend's boyfriend
Best friend's boyfriend
What you thinking?
You're my best friend's boyfriend
Best friend's boyfriend
Don't try to tell me it's okay
Don't try to make me play your game
Boy, you're tripping
You're my best friend's boyfriend
Best friend's boyfriend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 24, 2020, 10:14:42 AM
I got my cat moves
That so upsets them
Zippers and buttons
Fun to frustrate them

They get so angry
Like pouty children
Denied their candy
I laugh right at them

I know what boys like
I know what guys want
I know what boys like
Boys like, boys like me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 25, 2020, 09:40:21 PM
(This one's goin' out to the strip joints
Yo, meet me at Suzy's Rendez-vous
For every Go-Go Bar
I'ma send this one out to the gentlemen's clubs
Magic City, New York dogs, Rolex
I be seeing y'all up in there late at night
I understand when your girl is stressing you out
(Crazy girls) Know what I'm saying?
Don't let the ladies fool y'all now, fellas
They be doin' the same thing y'all be doin'
Turn up my symphony, man
Turn up my symphony
Drop a BEAT!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 25, 2020, 10:19:08 PM
'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony, this life
Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah
No change, I can change, I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mould, I am here in my mould

But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mould, no, no (have you ever been down?) no, no
Well, I've never prayed
But tonight I'm on my knees, yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing to me now
No change, I can change, I can change, I can change

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 26, 2020, 05:54:52 AM
Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid
All that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold

Go for the moon
Go for the moon
Go for the moon
Go for the moon


Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars


Somebody once asked, “could I spare some change for gas?
I need to get myself away from this place"
I said, "Yep, what a concept
I could use a little fuel myself and we could all use a little change"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 26, 2020, 10:39:25 AM

When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child's eyes
And an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the sky
It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations
With adventures for the stout of heart, and the lure of the open spaces

There's 2 lanes running down this road, whichever side you're on
Accounts for where you want to go, or what you're running from
Back when darkness overtook me on a blind man's curve

I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon
I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher
Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes
For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 26, 2020, 02:41:17 PM
I hear him
Before I go to sleep
And focus on the day that's been
I realize he's there
When I turn the light off
And turn over
Nobody knows about my man
They think he's lost on some horizon
And suddenly I find myself listening
To a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea
Oh his love is to eternity

Ooh he's here again
The man with the child in his eyes
Ooh he's here again
The man with the child in his eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 26, 2020, 03:21:13 PM
Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you
How much I love you

Do you remember when we met
That's the day I knew you were my pet
I want to tell you
How much I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 26, 2020, 09:12:06 PM
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailin'

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms
I'd go sailing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 26, 2020, 09:28:50 PM
Well it's not far down to paradise, at least's not for me
If the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility
Oh the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me
It's not far to never, never land, reason to pretend

And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again
Oh the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me
Sailing, takes me away
To where I've always heard it

Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Soon I will be free
Fantasy, it gets the best of me when I'm sailing

All caught up in the reverie
Every word is a symphony, won't you believe me?
Sailing, takes me away
To where I've always heard it

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 28, 2020, 09:49:42 AM
One day we will have what we need
To build an extremely big neon sign
For people who don't know who we are
Five guys in a band

We have the wind in our sales
Why quit when we are this close to a dream?
We have the wind in our sales
The heat is waiting for us to be turned on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 28, 2020, 10:03:47 AM
I gotta tell you a story from way back
Truck on down and dig me Jack
There's Big Moe, Little Moe, Four-Eyed Moe, No Moe,
Look at brother, look at brother, look at brother Eat Moe
Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, MoeWho's the greatest band around
Makes the cats jump up and down
Who's the talk of Rhythm Town
Five guys named Moe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 28, 2020, 09:29:59 PM
One man went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
One man and his dog,
Went to mow a meadow

Two man went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
Two man,
One man and his dog,
Went to mow a meadow

Three man went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
Three man, two man,
One man and his dog,
Went to mow a meadow

Four man went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
Four man, three man,
Two man,
One man and his dog,
Went to mow a meadow    etc.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 28, 2020, 10:07:46 PM
Between a father and a son
Between the city and the one
Before the teacher and the test
Before the journey and the rest

The shining eye will never cry
The beating heart will never die
The house on fire holds no shame
I will be coming home again

400 miles without a word until you smile
400 miles on fields of fire
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 28, 2020, 11:17:51 PM

It's not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old
But I'm happy
I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm
When you've found something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Why, think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not


How can I try to explain
When I do he turns away again
It's always been the same
Same old story
From the moment I could talk
I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way
And I know that I have to go away
I know, I have to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 28, 2020, 11:44:05 PM
We've already said ‘Goodbye’.
Since you've got to go
Oh you had better go now.
Go now. Go now. Go now
Before you see me cry.
I don't want you to tell me
Just what you intend to do now.
'Cause how many times do I have to tell you
Darling, darling,
I'm still in love
With you now?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 29, 2020, 05:28:26 PM
"The problem is all inside your head", she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover"

She said, "it's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover"

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free

Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 30, 2020, 01:01:54 PM
I read about your Uncle Ronnie, too, I'm sorry
I had a friend kill himself over some bitch who didn't want him
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even got the underground shit that you did with Skam
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures, man
I like the shit you did with Rawkus, too, that shit was phat
Anyways, I hope you get this, man, hit me back
Just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 31, 2020, 09:33:39 PM
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2020, 09:49:14 PM
And my mates are all there trying to calm me down
'Cause I'm shouting your name all over town
I'm swearing if I go there now
I can change her mind, turn it all around

And I know that I'm drunk but I’ll say the words
And she'll listen this time even though they’re slurred
So I dialed her number and confessed to her
I'm still in love but all I heard
Was nothing (nothing, nothing, nothing)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 01, 2020, 12:15:02 AM
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packing,
She's gonna be leaving today.
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying
A fellah down Galveston way .
Sylvia's mother says "Please don't say nothing
To make her start crying and stay."

And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."
Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye!

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's hurrying,
She's catching the nine'o'clock train.
Sylvia's mother says:"Take your umbrella,
Cause Sylvie it's starting to rain."
And Sylvia's mother says "Thank you for calling
And sir won't you come back again?"

And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."
Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 01, 2020, 02:10:36 PM
...
He's a smooth operator,
Smooth operator,
Smooth operator,
Smooth operator.
Coast to coast, la to chicago, western male.
Across the north and south, to key largo, love for sale.
Face to face, each classic case.
We shadow box and double cross,
Yet need the chase.
A license to love, insurance to hold.
Melts all your memories and change into gold.
His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold.
No need to ask.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2020, 02:20:25 PM
Long-distance operator,
Place this call, it's not for fun.
Long-distance operator,
Please, place this call, you know it's not for fun.
I gotta get a message to my baby,
You know, she's not just anyone.

There are thousands in the phone booth,
Thousands at the gate.
There are thousands in the phone booth,
Thousands at the gate.
Ev'rybody wants to make a long-distance call
But you know they're just gonna have to wait.

If a call comes from Louisiana,
Please, let it ride.
If a call comes from Louisiana,
Please, let it ride.
This phone booth's on fire,
It's getting hot inside.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 01, 2020, 06:11:40 PM
Call me on the telephone
I'll be there

Everyone needs someone to love
Call me, and I'll give you love
In my heart, you'd have a home
But I'll never leave you alone

When you feel like you need someone there
Feel like no one really cares
Call me on the telephone
I'll be there

When you feel like you really need love
I'll always be by your side
Call me on the telephone
I'll be there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2020, 09:04:46 PM

Now if you feel that you can't go on (can't go on)
Because all of your hope is gone (all your hope is gone)
And your life is filled with much confusion (much confusion)
Until happiness is just an illusion (happiness is just an illusion)
And your world around is crumbling down, darlin'

(Reach out) Come on girl reach on out for me
(Reach out) Reach out for me
Hah, I'll be there with a love that will shelter you
I'll be there with a love that will see you through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 01, 2020, 10:05:29 PM
Just like a child
Got to set your heart to believing
But you don't even try
To let yourself believe
What you're feeling

So I'll hold out my hand
And I'll be your friend
You don't have to be mine
And I'll try and I'll try
And try it again
To get you to open your eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2020, 10:07:27 PM

When you find a love
When you know that it exists
Then the lover that you miss
Will come to you on those cold, cold nights
When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Then the lover that you kissed
Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

Sadness in my eyes
No one guessed, well no one tried
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child
Loveless and cold
With your last breath you saved my soul
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 01, 2020, 10:15:07 PM
Anyone who ever loved could look at me
And know that I love you
Anyone who ever dreamed could look at me
And know I dream of you
Knowing I love you so

Anyone who had a heart
Would take me in his arms and love me, too
You couldn't really have a heart and hurt me
Like you hurt me and be so untrue
What am I to do

Every time you go away, I always say
This time it's goodbye, dear
Loving you the way I do
I take you back, without you I'd die dear
Knowing I love you so
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2020, 10:33:49 PM
Mem'ries (mem'ries), good days (good days), bad days (bad days)
They'll be (they'll be), with me (with me) always (always)
In these old familiar rooms children would play
Now there's only emptiness, nothing to say

Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 03, 2020, 10:10:33 AM
It's not time to make a change
Just sit down, take it slowly
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to go through
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry

Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know not me
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2020, 10:21:23 AM
People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 03, 2020, 10:24:25 AM
You don't own me
Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay

I don't tell you what to say
I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2020, 10:30:24 AM
Spring in the air (filled with love)
There's magic ev'rywhere
When you're young and in love

Life seems to be (just a dream)
A world of fantasy
When you're young and in love

Each night seems just like the Fourth of July
When stars spangle the sky

The moon at night (shines so bright)
Seems to shine twice as bright
When you're young and in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 03, 2020, 01:00:15 PM
Spring has sprung in the summer
All the girls take off their clothes
The warmer weathers so much finer
Winter it goes so slow

I went to have just a little but
I had a little too much
I was planning on just chilling out
Now wanna have some fun

I found a feeling that feels too real
Nobody knows just how good I feel
I took a pill now I can't stay still
But I'm too fucked up for romance too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2020, 01:02:29 PM
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 03, 2020, 01:06:15 PM
On the way back home we sang a song
But our throats were getting dry
Then we saw the man from across the road
With the sunshine in his eyes
Well he lived all alone in his own little home
With a great big gallon jar
There were bottles too, one for me and you
And he said Hey! There you are

Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Get it myself from the mountain stream
And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like goin' home
And it stoned me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2020, 01:11:11 PM
If I could I'd like to be, a great big movie star
An overnight sensation, drive a big expensive car
I would buy you everything your little heart desires
These things I do, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
(Stone in love with you)

If I were a business man, I'd sit behind a desk
I'd be so successful, I would scare Wall Street to death
I would hold a meeting for the press to let them know
I did it all, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
(Stone in love with you)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 03, 2020, 06:17:12 PM
If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.
I
f a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 04, 2020, 10:44:39 AM

(As an aside I have to say that 'If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way' is one of the most annoying lyrics.)


Now they said his works of art were dull
No room, all round the walls are full
But Lowry didn't care much anyway
They said he just paints cats and dogs
And matchstalk men in boots and clogs
And Lowry said that's just the way they'll stay

And he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
He painted kids on the corner of the street with the sparking clogs
Now he takes his brush and he waits outside them factory gates
To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 06, 2020, 01:45:20 PM
A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning, "How lucky I am
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!"

I saw a mouse!
(Where?)
There on the stair!
(Where on the stair?)
Right there!
A little mouse with clogs on
Well I declare!
Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair
Oh yeah!

This mouse he got lonesome, he took him a wife
A windmill with mice in, it's hardly surprisin'
She sang every morning, "How lucky I am
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2020, 01:54:39 PM

When you out on the street,
You practice lies and deceipt
And you scandalize my name
But when I catch you up
I'm gonna pull you up
I'm gonna check-out inside your brain


There's a rat in mi kitchen what am I gonna do?
There's a rat in mi kitchen what am I gonna go?
I'm gonna fix that rat thats what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna fix that rat.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 06, 2020, 03:38:31 PM

I'm a little pimp with my hair gassed back
Pair a khaki pants with my shoe shined black
Got a little lady ... walk the street
Tellin' all the boy that she cain't be beat
Twenny dollah bill ( I can set you straight )
Meet me onna corner boy'n don't be late
Man in a suit with a bow-tie neck
Wanna buy a grunt with a third party check
Standin' onna porch of the Lido Hotel
Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell:

HOT MEET
HOT RATS
HOT ZITZ
HOT WRISTS
HOT RITZ
HOT ROOTS
HOT SOOTS
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2020, 03:42:36 PM
At a tombstone bar
In a jukejoint car
He made a stop
Just long enough
To grab a handle off the top

Next stop Chi town
Lido put the money down let em roll
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One for the road

Lido.. woah oh oh oh
He's for the money
He's for the show
Lido's waiting for the go

Lido.. woah oh oh oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 06, 2020, 03:52:46 PM
It's quarter to three
There's no-one in the place
'Cept You and me.
So set 'em up Joe,
I've got a little story
I think you should know

We're drinking my friend,
To the end of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby, and one more
For the road
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 06, 2020, 08:03:13 PM
Now some men like the fishin' and some men like the fowlin'
And some men like ta hear a cannon ball a roarin'
Me? I like sleepin' specially in my Molly's chamber
But here I am in prison, here I am with a ball and chain, yeah

Musha ring dumb a do dumb a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar-o

And I got drunk on whiskey-o
And I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love my Molly-o
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2020, 08:16:22 PM

I'm praying for rain in California
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
And I'm sitting in a honky in Chicago
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind

I asked the man behind the bar for the jukebox
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
And he asked who's the fool in the corner crying
I say a little ole wine drinker me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2020, 06:27:17 AM
Oh, one more drink and then I'll go
But there's one more thing I've got to know
Does he take you places that I don't?
And what happened to the story that we wrote?

You just say you don't know, you don't know
Oh no, you don't know, you don't know, woo!
Oh, let's just get this whole thing straight
I don't wanna kidnap the truth and negotiate
Or miss the point that they met you
Just wanna hear you say something that you believe to be true

But you say you don't know, you don't know
You just say you don't know, you don't know
What it feels like, what it feels like
And so I'll go before I fall to pieces
Yes, I'll go before I fall to pieces
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2020, 09:08:29 AM
You want me to act like we've never kissed
You want me to forget (to forget)
Pretend we've never met (never met)
And I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet
You walk by and I fall to pieces

I fall to pieces
Each time someone speaks your name (speaks your name)
I fall to pieces
Time only adds to the flame
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2020, 04:33:33 PM
You where looking for another way out
Try to fix these broken things
All we had were fragments
You were stumbling a new way down
Falling on you're broken wings
All we had were fragments

And it's hard looking back
Knowing what I could've done
I'm never going Back
I'm always on the run,
And you never really find
The pieces that you Leave behind

All I got from this place is fragments
You where looking for another way out
Try to fix these broken things
All we had were fragments
You were stumbling a new way down
Falling on you're Broken wings
All we had were fragments, fragments
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2020, 04:36:11 PM
Baby, don't understand
Why we can't just hold on to each others' hands
This time might be the last, I fear
Unless I make it all too clear
I need you so, ohh

Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
Learn to live so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in
Take these broken wings
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 07, 2020, 04:43:21 PM
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned it's back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold

When darkness is upon your door and
You feel like you can't take anymore
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2020, 04:45:42 PM

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 08, 2020, 04:29:45 PM
I admire you from afar
You've changed the way I see
I used to think that I
Should make you be like me

But after this short time
Watching what you do
I realize that I
Should strive to be like you

Whenever I am near you
I tread so awkwardly
Afraid someone may steal you
I guard you jealously

Then sing the world your praises
Let everybody know
That I just saw the future
A place I want to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 08, 2020, 04:55:38 PM
Well, tell me do you think it'd be all right
If I could just crash here tonight
You can see I'm in no shape for driving
And anyway I've got no place to go
And you know it might not be that bad
You were the best I'd ever had
If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago
I might not be alone

Tomorrow we can drive around this town
And let the cops chase us around
The past is gone but something might be found
To take its place...hey jealousy
Hey jealousy
Hey jealousy
Hey jealousy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 08, 2020, 05:35:18 PM
I'm blue as I can be,
Green with jealousy,
Look what you done to me!
I've got those green with envy blues,
I mean those red with anger blues,
And there's the purple with passion blues
Over you!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 08, 2020, 05:41:36 PM

I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain

I only want to see you underneath the purple rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 09, 2020, 10:12:08 AM
I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree

I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
I do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me, I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she, coming to me nearly here?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 09, 2020, 10:44:19 AM
We'll gather lilacs in the spring again
And walk together down a British lane
Until our hearts have learned to sing again
When you come home once more

And in the evening by the firelight's glow
You'll hold me close and never let me go
Your eyes will tell me all I long to know
When you come home once more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 09, 2020, 04:38:45 PM
Purple haze, all in my brain
Lately things they don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze, all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 09, 2020, 04:43:47 PM
The grass is high
The fields are ripe
It's the springtime of my life
Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?
Funny how my memory skips
Looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime
I look around Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Look around Leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground
Look around Leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 09, 2020, 04:48:30 PM
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl

Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights

In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 09, 2020, 05:01:19 PM

It takes a big hearted girl from the north country you can tell
How you payed those bills and went through heaven and hell
And you you cried and you travelled and you spat but you never asked
Well how long how long how long is this pain
You're on for three minutes trying hard to say "hello"
I'm down here working on some dumb show

In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those days you're not around
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2020, 02:35:15 PM
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys whatever happened to that old song
to all those little girls and boys
Now the song is nearly over
we may never find out what it means but there's a light I hold before me
and you're the measure of my dreams
the measure of my dreams
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 10, 2020, 02:44:41 PM
Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 10, 2020, 07:26:48 PM
All those days watching from the windows
All those years outside looking in
All that time never even knowing
Just how blind I've been
Now I'm here blinking in the starlight
Now I'm here suddenly I see
Standing here it's all so clear
I'm where I'm meant to be

And at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything looks different
Now that I see you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 11, 2020, 03:30:28 PM

Some people that you see around you
Tell you how devoted they are
They tell you something new on Sunday, but come Monday
They've changed their minds

I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the post office tower
So I can see
All there is to see

Life from a window
I'm taking in the view
Life from a window
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 12, 2020, 10:40:30 AM
Sunday morning brings the dawn in
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed not so long ago
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2020, 12:24:57 PM
Sunday morning going slow
I'm talking to the radio
Clothes and records on the floor
The memories of the night before
Out in club land having fun
And now I'm hiding from the sun
Waiting for a visitor
Though no-one knows I'm here for sure

Dancing laughing
Drinking loving
And now I'm all alone
In bedsit land
My only home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 12, 2020, 05:16:35 PM
If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2020, 05:43:12 PM


Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven
Like the first dewfall on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2020, 06:08:09 PM
You're gonna miss me
Early in the mornin'

One of these days oh, yeah
Well, you're gonna want me
Early in the mornin'

When I'm away don't ya know
Yes you'll be sorry
For the times I cried
You'll be sorry
For the time you lied
Well you're gonna miss me
Early in the mornin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2020, 06:11:28 PM
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been "When it's right, it's right"
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day
And we know the night is always gonna be here any way

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together make the sparks ignite
And the thought of loving you is getting so exciting

Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2020, 09:19:26 PM
Goodbye the stream has stopped flowing
The big sun has parched all the pools
Goodbye the dream has stopped growing
A fantasy surely for fools

Goodbye the journey was topping
We saw all we wanted to see
I really don't think I'll be stopping
I think I'll go home and have tea
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2020, 09:26:37 PM
Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABCs
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2020, 09:30:31 PM
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
And I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2020, 09:40:01 PM
Tony and Cleo struck out for the freeo down Egypt's way
But Caesar had squeezed her in Rome on his quilt for a day
Hey, hey

Now Antony got really angry
About old Caesar's hanky panky
She told em she would use em
And boy did she abuse em
Fall in love and blew em away

Bang, bang, the mighty fall
Bang, bang, when love has called


Bang, bang, the mighty fall
Bang, bang

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 15, 2020, 02:47:17 PM
All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino

All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette

All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (oh whey oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian

All the kids in the marketplace say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian

All the Japanese with their yen
The party boys call the Kremlin
And the Chinese know (oh whey oh)
They walk the line like Egyptian

All the cops in the donut shop say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian
Walk like an Egyptian
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 15, 2020, 02:58:09 PM
Butterfly, spread
Your painted wings
For an answer
From the I Ching

By the stream
Stretching in the rocks
Tiger on the mountaintop

Walking on the Chinese Wall
Watching for the coins to fall
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 15, 2020, 06:01:20 PM
Along the Hwang Ho Valley where young men walk and dream,
A flower boat with singing girls came drifting down the stream.
I saw the face of only one come drifting down the stream.

You are beautiful, small and shy.
You are the girl whose eyes met mine
Just as your boat sailed by.

This I know of you, nothing more,
You are the girl whose eyes met mine
Passing the river shore.

You are the girl whose laugh I heard,
Silver and soft and bright;
Soft as the fall of lotus leaves
Brushing the air of night.

While your flower boat sailed away,
Gently your eyes looked back on mine,
Clearly you heard me say,
"You are the girl I will love some day."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 15, 2020, 06:11:01 PM
Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore did wield
When the night came
Silently lain
Dead on Colloden field

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing
Onward the sailors cry
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 16, 2020, 10:15:22 AM
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 16, 2020, 10:19:09 AM
Oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station's right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 16, 2020, 02:50:34 PM
When the day is dawnin'
On a Texas Sunday mornin'
How I long to be there
With Marie who's waitin' for me there
Ev'ry lonely city where I hang my hat
Ain't as half as pretty as where my baby's at

Is this the way to Amarillo?
Ev'ry night I've been huggin' my pillow
Dreamin' dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me

Show me the way to Amarillo
I've been weepin' like a willow
Cryin' over Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me

Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la
And Marie who waits for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 16, 2020, 02:52:30 PM
Whisper to the wind and say that love has sinned
Left my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Murmur to the night to hide its starry light
So none will see me sighing and crying all alone

Weeping willow tree
Weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, hear me willow and weep for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2020, 02:07:08 PM
You promised me, green grass, not to tell what you heard.
Whispering Grass, say! you can't keep your word, keep your word.

Why do you whisper, green grass?
Why tell the trees what ain't so?
Whispering Grass, the trees don't have to know.
No, No, Why tell them all your secrets?
Who kissed there long ago?
Whispering grass, the trees don't need to know.
Don't you tell it to the breeze 'cause she will tell the birds and bees
And ev'ryone will know because you told the blabbering trees
Yes, you told them once before;
It's no secret any more.
Why tell them all the old things?
They're buried under the snow.
Whispering Grass, don't tell the trees
'Cause the trees don't need to know.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2020, 02:10:21 PM
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 17, 2020, 02:13:05 PM
Until the day I die, until the day I die
As a union man I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled by the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say
Oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Until the day I die, until the day I die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2020, 02:17:20 PM

Telegram force and ready
I knew this was a big mistake
There'sa fine line drawing
My senses together
And I think it's about to break

If I listen close I can hear them singers
Voices in your body coming through on the radio
The Union of the Snake is on the climb
Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break
Through the borderline
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 31, 2020, 11:57:33 PM
Telegram Sam Telegram Sam
You're my main man

Golden Nose Slim Golden Nose Slim
I know's where you've been
Purple Pie Pete Purple Pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat

Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 01, 2020, 08:50:42 AM
Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple eater to me

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2020, 09:09:45 AM
There's a message floatin' in the air
Come from crazy horses riding everywhere
It's a warning it's in every tongue
Got to stop them crazy horses on the run
What a show there they go smokin' up the sky yeah
Crazy horses all got riders and they're you and I
Crazy Horses
Crazy Horses
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 03, 2020, 04:59:29 AM
 find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 03, 2020, 09:17:54 AM
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel

Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space

Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 04, 2020, 09:01:09 PM
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 04, 2020, 10:38:34 PM

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing forevermore
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please, be true
In other words, I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 04, 2020, 11:09:19 PM
Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine
A good friend of mine, follow the stars
Venus and Mars
Are alright tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2020, 08:10:07 AM

I left her arms to find my way
To find a place for me in the world outside
I wasn't alive, I could not survive
The frantic pace
The constant chase
To win the race
Turned my heart cold inside
I gotta find what I left behind

Red light, green light
Speedin' through the dark night
Drivin' through the poundin' rain
I gotta see Jane
Freeway, byway
Tearin' up the highway
Runnin' up a world insane
Just gotta see Jane
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 09, 2020, 04:38:24 PM
Maybe I'm still hurting
I can't turn the other cheek
But you know that I still love you
It's just that I can't speak
I looked for you in everyone
And they called me on that too
I lived alone but I was only
Coming back to you

Ah they're shutting down the factory now
Just when all the bills are due
And the fields they're under lock and key
Tho' the rain and the sun come through
And springtime starts but then it stops
In the name of something new
And all the senses rise against this
Coming back to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 09, 2020, 06:38:56 PM
In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps his eye on us all
And he used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord, I recall my little town
Coming home after school
Flying my bike past the gates of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze
And after it rains there's a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It's not that the colors aren't there
It's just imagination they lack
Everything's the same back in my little town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 01:52:25 PM
Rows and rows of disused milk floats
Stand dying in the dairy yard
And a hundred lonely housewives
Clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts
Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry
It's enough to make you stop believing
When tears come fast and furious
In a town called Malice
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 11, 2020, 10:17:07 PM
They call it a scene I call it disaster
Down here the kids grow up faster
Scared they're scared to the bone
Like a pack of wolves they don't run alone
One on one they won't look you in the eye
But when the pack's together there's a battle cry
I saw it fifteen on one
When the crowd dispersed the kid was done

No (no more)
No (bad town)
No more bad town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 14, 2020, 08:33:48 AM
When we were wolves, when we were wolves, when we were wolves, when we were wolves

And we run, and we hide, and we hid, and we ran
And we hide in lightless rooms
And we banged on our pianos,
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2020, 05:08:58 AM
Mm--"Is she really going out with him?
"Well, there she is, Let's ask her"
"Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?"
"Mm-hm"
"Gee, it must be great riding with him"
"Is he picking you up after school today?"
"Mm-mm"
"By the way, where did you meet him?"
"I met him at the candy store
He turned around and smiled at me
You get the picture
"Yes, we see"

That's when I fell for the leader of the pack
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2020, 08:47:33 AM
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile now that's the style
What's the use of worrying
It's never worth your while
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 18, 2020, 04:43:31 PM
It's not right but it's okay
I'm gonna make it anyway
Pack your bags up and leave
And don't you dare come running back to me

It's not right but it's okay
I'm gonna make it anyway
Close the door behind you leave your key
I'd rather be alone than unhappy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 18, 2020, 05:03:57 PM
Today the landlady, she said to me (what did she say?)
You're looney friend just made a pass at me (slap him in the face)
Perhaps you might enjoy a cottage by the sea

So pack your toys away
Your pretty boys away
Your 45s away
Your alibis away
Your Spanish flies away
Your one-more-tries away
Your old tie-dyes away
You're moving out today

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2020, 11:21:47 AM
Anthony works in the grocery store
Savin' his pennies for someday
Mama Leone left a note on the door
She said, Sonny, move out to the country
Workin' too hard can give you
A heart attack (ack)
You oughta know by now (oughta know)
Who needs a house out in Hackensack
Is that what you get with your money
It seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about

Mama if that's movin' up
Then I'm movin' out
I'm movin' out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2020, 03:38:14 PM
Counts the days into years
Yes 82 brings many fears
Yesterday's laughter turns to tears
His arms, his legs don't feel so strong
His heart is weak there's something wrong
Opens windows in despair
Trying to breath in some fresh air
His conscience cries "get on your feet"
"Without you Jack the town cant eat"

Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don't let them down
Oh no no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 20, 2020, 04:08:33 PM
I live above the grocers store,
owned by an Austrian
He often calls me down to eat
And he jokes about his broken English,
tries to be a friend to me
But for all my years of reading conversation,
I stand without a word to say
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 20, 2020, 04:13:28 PM
Now your body language is broken, broken english
Lost inside communication breakdown
Better just read my lips
Coming in clear when we get down
Iceberg, just the tip
My words get lost
Can you read the look that's on my face?
Wires get crossed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 21, 2020, 12:07:52 PM
Hey, girl, stop what you're doin'
Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin
I don't know what it is I like about you, but I like it a lot
Won't you let me hold you, now, let me feel your lovin' touch

Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane

Hey, girl, I got somethin' I think you oughta know
Hey, babe, I wanna tell ya that I love you so
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah
I'm never gonna let you go, 'cause I like your charm

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2020, 12:15:42 PM
You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal, dull affairs
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years
And though you've tried you just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 30, 2020, 01:34:57 PM
You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school.
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby

Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby

Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2020, 01:54:42 PM


I bought my baby a red radio
He played it all a go-go a go-go
He liked to dance to it down in the streets
He said he loved me but he loved the beat
But when I switch on I rotate the dial
I could see it there driving him so wild
I bought my baby a red radio
He said he loved me but he had to go
It just the same old show on my radio
It just the same old show on my radio

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 03, 2020, 02:29:42 PM
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

Oh, a, oh
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh, a, oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 03, 2020, 03:08:33 PM
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Get your money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Money for nothin', chicks for free
Get your money for nothin', chicks for free

Money for nothin', chicks for free
Get you money for nothin', get your chicks for free
Get you money for nothin', and the chicks for free
Get you money for nothin', and the chicks for free

Look at that, look at that

I want my—I want my—I want my MTV
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 14, 2020, 07:03:50 PM
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The questions you have found
Looking for
An open door

Oh, you don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 14, 2020, 07:09:37 PM

Bye, bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah,
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it so badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And the bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord, help me, I can't change.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 14, 2020, 10:02:27 PM
...
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 14, 2020, 11:15:10 PM

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
From my window I'm staring while my coffee grows cold
Look over there
(Where?)
There's a lady that I used to know
She's married now or engaged or something so I'm told

Is she really going out with him?
Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
Is she really going out with him?
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me
There's something going wrong around here, around here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 15, 2020, 09:34:32 PM
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up a big monkey man
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Them a-tell me, you huggin' up a big monkey man

I never saw you, I only heard of you
Huggin' up the big monkey man
I never saw you, I only heard of you
Huggin' up the big monkey man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 08:37:20 AM
Dogs are always howlin'
Cats are always yowlin'
But gibbons only
Like to sing and dance
Oop, oop, sh boop

You'll be like that monkey
Get a little funky
And in a while
Start to smile
Gibbon half a chance

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 16, 2020, 03:28:50 PM
Now I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P
I reached the top and had to stop
And that's what bothering me
I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town
And be just like those other men
I'm tired of monkeying around

Now don't try to kid me, man-cub, I'll make a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire to make my dreams come true
So give me the secret, man-cub, clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower so I can be like you

Ooh-bi-doo, I wan'na be like you
I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
You see it's true, an ape like me
Can learn to be like you, too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 03:46:27 PM


I looked over Jordan and what did i see?
Commin' for to carry me home
There was a band of angels, a-commin after me
Commin' for to carry me home

Swing low, sweet chariot
Commin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Commin' for to carry me home

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 16, 2020, 06:44:48 PM
Underneath this canopy of snow
Where fifty-seven winters took their toll
Where did you go?

And I believed in you
I believed in you
Like Elvis Presley singing psalms on a Sunday
Where did you go?

Well she's gone to meet her maker
Back to where she came from
Come to save her soul (come to save her soul)
Come to save her soul
Come to take her home
'Cause it's late and past your bedtime
Well past bedtime

Angel, my angel
Fly over me, angel
Angel, my angel
Fly over me, angel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 06:48:40 PM


Earth angel, earth angel
please be mine
my darling dear
love you all the time
i'm just a fool
a fool in love with you
I fell for you and i knew
the vision of your loveliness
i hope and pray that someday
that i'll be the vision of your happiness
Oooooooh
Earth angel, earth angel
please be mine
my darling dear
love you all the time
i'm just a fool
a fool in love with you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 16, 2020, 07:46:07 PM
Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 08:08:54 PM
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
but I don't have a dime
darlin' you're so far behind me
tomorrow's gonna find me
further down the line.

Takin' me some paper
pencil in my hand
I'm gonna write.

Darlin' you know I feel the cold nights


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 16, 2020, 08:16:31 PM
They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there right on the job

They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 08:26:37 PM
I know your window and I know it's late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four way
You watch them as they fall
They all have heart attacks
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back

Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Where every night it's just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
All of my dreams just fall like rain
All upon on a downtown train




Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 16, 2020, 08:32:35 PM
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtown

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

So go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure, downtown
Everything's waiting for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2020, 08:34:51 PM
And then one Saturday in March
I decided I would go
as I was going nowhere
and my mind was getting slow
I opened all the closets
there wasn't much to pack
I felt bad not telling her
that I wasn't coming back
but this day she was early
she looked at me and asked why
I said why

You're an uptown, uptempo woman
I'm a downtown, downbeat guy

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 17, 2020, 08:12:52 PM
All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
It's early morn
The taxi's waitin'
He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2020, 11:17:09 AM
People stay
Just a little bit longer
We want to play
Just a little bit longer

Now the promoter don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind, and sing
One more song

Oh, won't you stay
Just a little bit longer?
Please, please, please
Say you will, say you will
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 21, 2020, 08:53:09 PM
I'm not a dream
Not an angel
I'm a man
You're not a queen,
You're a woman,
Take my hand
We'll make a space
In the lives that we planned
Here I'll stay
Until it's time for me to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2020, 09:04:55 PM
Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me

Dream lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah, yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 22, 2020, 10:39:47 PM
Someday we'll be together
Say it, say it again
Someday we'll be together
You're far away from me my love, and just as sure my,
My baby as there are stars above,
I wanna say, I wanna say, I wanna say some day we'll be together;
Yes we will, yes we will say some day we'll be together.
Someday day, some sweet day we will be together
I know, I know, I know, I know
My love is yours, baby
Oh, right from the start
You, you, you possess my soul now honey
And I know, I know you won my heart.
And I wanna say someday (some sweet day) we'll be together.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2020, 11:12:41 AM
Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got joo joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what you please.

He wear no shoe shine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 23, 2020, 06:59:59 PM
 
Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
 
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 23, 2020, 11:42:49 PM
Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day
We got to run to the rock
Please hide me, I run to the rock
Please hide me, run to the rock
Please hide here
All on that day
But the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I ain't gonna hide you there
All on that day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2020, 12:35:10 PM
There's nothin' to it just say you wanna do it
Open up your heart and let the lovin' start

Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 24, 2020, 03:07:25 PM
Well I've been lookin' real hard
And I'm tryin' to find a job
But it just keeps gettin' tougher every day
But I got to do my part cause I know in my heart
I got to please my sweet baby, yeah
Well, I ain't superstitious
And I don't get suspicious
But my woman is a friend of mine
And I know that it's true that all the things that I do
Will come back to me in my sweet time
So keep on rock'n me baby
Keep on a rock'n me baby
Keep on a rock'n me baby
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2020, 03:31:45 PM
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong,
You don't wanna save me, sad is my song

When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, yeah, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 24, 2020, 03:54:06 PM
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds (suspicious minds)
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2020, 04:27:56 PM
But it's gonna take money
A whole lotta spending money
It's gonna take plenty of money
To do it right child

It's gonna take time
A whole lot of precious time
It's gonna take patience and time, ummm
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it
To do it right child

I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 24, 2020, 09:23:47 PM
I'm sticking with you
Cause I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

You held up a stage coach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
Saw you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me

I'm sticking with you
Cause I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2020, 10:40:20 AM
I'm the dandy highwayman
So sick of easy fashion
The clumsy boots, peekaboo roots
That people think so dashing
So what's the point of robbery
When nothing is worth taking?
It's kind of tough to tell a scruff
The big mistake he's making

Stand and deliver
Your money or your life
Hoh!

Try to use a mirror
Not a bullet or a knife
Hoh!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on October 25, 2020, 08:17:28 PM
Yeah, my baby knows that I deliver
That's exactly what I'm gon' do, do
Yeah, my baby knows that I deliver
He know what's coming when I come through, through
I know you got the message, I deliver
That's exactly what I'm gon' do, do
Yeah, my baby knows that I deliver (I deliver, yeah, I deliver, yeah)
Know what's coming when I come through

Oh, baby, I deliver, ah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2020, 08:52:45 PM
So many days, you've passed me by
You saw the tears standin' in my eye
You wouldn't stop to make me feel better
By leavin' me a card or a letter

Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
Is there a letter, oh yeah, in your bag for me?
You know it's been so long
Yeah, since I heard from this boyfriend of mine

You better wait a minute, wait a minute
(Wait a minute, Mr. Postman)
Whoa, you better wait a minute
Please, please, Mr. Postman (Wait a minute, Mr. Postman)
Please check and see
Just one more time for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 26, 2020, 09:34:58 AM
f I could go down now while the whole town is sleeping, see the sun creeping up on the hill,
I know the river and the railroad would run through the valley still.
I guess it never was much to look at, just a one-horse town,
The kind of place young people want to leave today,
Store fronts pretty much boarded up, Main Street pretty much closed down.
The church bell still rings on Sunday, old folks still go, the young ones listen on the radio.
Saturday night nothing but a stray dog running wild like nobody's child.

And little by little, light after light, that's how it died.
They say you never go home again, that's no lie.
Its like a letter in the mail to a brother in jail,
It's a matter of time until you can do a little bit better time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 26, 2020, 09:39:29 AM


I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day
And stop there for a moment just to watch the children play
Alone a boy was standing and when I asked him why
He turned with eyes that couldn't see and he began to cry

I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child
Just like a flower I'm growing wild
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smiles
Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 04, 2020, 01:29:58 PM
I hear him
Before I go to sleep
And focus on the day that's been
I realize he's there
When I turn the light off
And turn over
Nobody knows about my man
They think he's lost on some horizon
And suddenly I find myself listening
To a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea

Oh his love is to eternity
Ooh he's here again
The man with the child in his eyes
Ooh he's here again
The man with the child in his eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2020, 01:56:05 PM
It's cost me a lot
But there's one thing that I've got
It's my man, it's my man
Cold and wet, tired you bet
All of this I'll soon forget with my man

He's not much for looks
He's no hero out of books
But I love him, yes I love him
Two or three girls has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him
I don't know why I should
He isn't true
He beats me too
What can I do
Oh, my man I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 05, 2020, 09:55:11 PM
Oh my man I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, alright,
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees someday
Oh whatever my man is
I am his
Forever more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 06, 2020, 12:34:20 PM
My man's gone now
Ain't no use a listenin'
For his tired footsteps
Climbin' up the stairs

Old man sorrow's
Come to keep me company
Whisperin' beside me
When I say my prayers
When I say my prayers
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2020, 01:48:53 PM
Why do you whisper, green grass?
Why tell the trees what ain't so?
Whispering grass
The trees don't have to know

Why tell them all your secrets?
Who kissed there long ago?
Whispering grass
The trees don't need to know

Don't you tell it to the breeze
'Cos she will tell the birds and bees
And everyone will know
Because you told them once before

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 09, 2020, 11:01:22 PM
When she said that you were through
I thought that there was
Nothing that I could do
Just because she ran right here
Doesn't mean I interfered
Now I'm wondering
If we can feel the same

'Cause she keeps whispering your name
She keeps on whispering your name
Like she's just waiting
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2020, 09:29:03 AM

Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green

Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2020, 06:16:47 PM

With your long blond hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you
Was sorrow, sorrow

You're acting funny, try to spend my money
You out there playing your high class games
Of sorrow, sorrow

You never do what you know you ought to
Something tells me you're the devil's daughter
Sorrow, sorrow

I tried to find her cause I can't resist her
I never knew just how much I missed her
Sorrow, sorrow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2020, 06:38:09 PM
Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him drink his wine
He always had some mighty fine wine, sing it

Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
And joy to you and me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 15, 2020, 09:29:15 PM
Let's be happy
Or beheaded
I don't, I won't not get it
Let's be happy
And if I say hello again
Let it be for the last time
And if I break my bones again
Let it be for the last time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 15, 2020, 09:42:10 PM
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2020, 09:11:28 PM
Now I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P
I reached the top and had to stop
And that's what bothering me
I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town
And be just like those other men
I'm tired of monkeying around
Now don't try to kid me, man-cub, I'll make a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire to make my dreams come true
So give me the secret, man-cub, clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower so I can be like you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 17, 2020, 09:17:35 PM
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye!
Tell you baby,
You huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye!
Tell you baby,
You huggin up the big monkey man

I never saw you, I only heard of you
huggin up the big monkey man
I never saw you, I only heard of you
huggin up the big monkey man

It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me,
You huggin up the big monkey man
It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me,
You huggin up the big monkey man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 17, 2020, 09:23:05 PM
Ooh I like that, makes me think of Amy Winehouse though :'(.

Girl aren't you afraid of the dark
Afraid of being human, afraid of going back again
(Skip ahead-unintelligible)
You're not so wild you can't be tamed
You're not so free that you can't be framed
I could use this magic too
I could see your mystery through

It's animal, it's passion, it's magic
It's animal, animal magic
The things you do to me
The way you make me feel
It's animal, animal...

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 17, 2020, 09:34:00 PM
Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning
Lazy day in bed
Music in my head
Crazy music playing in the morning light


Oh, ho, ho
It's magic you know
Never believe, it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2020, 06:31:43 PM
Dreamers
They never learn
They never learn
Beyond the point
Of no return
Of no return
And it's too late
The damage is done
The damage is done

This goes
Beyond me
Beyond you
The white room
By window
Where the sound goes
Through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 20, 2020, 06:37:33 PM

The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned
They got Burton suits, ha you think it's funny
Turning rebellion into money

All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway

I'm the all night drug-prowling wolf
Who looks so sick in the sun
I'm the white man in the Palais
Just lookin' for fun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on November 20, 2020, 06:52:42 PM
Wide-eyed with a heart made full of fright
Your eyes follow like tracers in the night
And the tightrope that you wander every time
You have been weighed, you have been found wanting

Been wandering for days
How you felt me slip your mind
Leave behind your wanton ways
I wanna learn to love in kind
'Cause You were all I ever longed for

Sheltered, you better keep the wolf back from the door
He wanders ever closer every night
And how he waits, baying for blood
I promised you everything would be fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 20, 2020, 07:00:16 PM
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen
Doin' the werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen
Doin' the werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect
Ah-hooo
Werewolves of London
Heh, draw blood
Ah-hooo
Werewolves of London
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 20, 2020, 10:44:46 PM
...they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 21, 2020, 02:07:43 PM
Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can't mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

When harm is done no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can't understand oh please God hold my hand
Why it had to happen to me

And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 22, 2020, 05:48:16 PM
When you were young
and on your own
How did it feel
to be alone?
I was always thinking
of games that I was playing.
Trying to make
the best of my time.

But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?

I have a friend
I've never seen
He hides his head
inside a dream
Someone should call him
and see if he can come out.
Try to lose
the down that he's found.

But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2020, 06:06:55 PM
Oh the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean

And they wile away the hours
In their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers
In the back of a black limousine

La-da da da da da da da
La-da da da da da de
Talking 'bout you and me
And the games people play

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 25, 2020, 07:59:42 PM
I'm outta the game
I've been out for a long time now
I'm lookin' for something
Can't be found on the main drain, no
I'm out of the game
I've been out for a long time now
I'm looking for something
Can't be found on the main drain, no.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 25, 2020, 08:02:30 PM

I've seen you twice, in a short time
Only a week since we started
It seems to me, for every time
I'm getting more open-hearted

I was an impossible case
No-one ever could reach me
But I think I can see in your face
There's a lot you can teach me
So I wanna know..

What's the name of the game?
Does it mean anything to you?
What's the name of the game?
Can you feel it the way I do?
Tell me please, 'cause I have to know
I'm a bashful child, beginning to gro
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 28, 2020, 10:57:34 AM
I've been wanting you
For so long, it's a shame
Oh, baby
Every time I hear your name
Oh, the pain
Boy, how it hurts me inside

‘Cause every time we meet
We play hide and seek
I'm wondering what I should do
Should I, dear, come up to you
And say, “How do you do?”
Would you turn me away

You're as much to blame
‘Cause I know you feel the same
I can see it in your eyes
But I've got no time to live this lie
No, I've got no time to play your silly games
Silly games
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2020, 11:10:43 AM
Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.

Whistling tunes, we hide in the dunes by the seaside.
Whistling tunes, we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
It's a knockout.

If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers
War without tears.
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers
War without tears.
Games without frontiers
War without tears.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 28, 2020, 06:09:54 PM
n the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight

(A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh)
(A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh)
(A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh)
(A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh)

Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village, the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2020, 08:59:27 PM
Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2020, 09:30:47 PM

I may go out tomorrow if I can borrow a coat to wear
Oh, I'd step out in style with my sincere smile and my dancing bear
Outrageous, alarming, courageous, charming
Oh, who would think a boy and bear
Could be well accepted everywhere
It's just amazing how fair people can be

Seen at the nicest places where well-fed faces all stop to stare
Making the grandest entrance is Simon Smith and his dancing bear
They'll love us, won't they?
They feed us, don't they?
Oh, who would think a boy and bear
Could be well accepted everywhere
It's just amazing how fair people can be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on November 28, 2020, 11:01:17 PM
Did you ever have a dream
where you're walking naked down the street
And everyone just stares
Did ya ever feel so deep yet to speak your mind
you put others straight to sleep
you wonder if anybody cares

Sometimes I think I'm the only one whose day turned out
Unlike it had began
And I feel barenaked and I just can't take it
I'm getting jaded no I just can't take it anymore
'cause I'm barenaked and I know
Life's what you make it
Wish I could float away to some other day.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Steve H on November 29, 2020, 05:01:21 PM
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

Refrain:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.

 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2020, 09:20:31 PM
I eat cannibal
Feed on animal
Your love is so edible to me
I eat cannibals

I eat cannibal
It's incredible
You bring out the animal in me
I eat cannibals

What can you do
You're in a stew
Hot hot cook it up
I'm never gonna stop
Fancy a bite
My appetite
Yum yum gee it's fun
Banging on a different drum
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 30, 2020, 08:48:45 PM

I can't stop
The way I feel
Things you do
Don't seem real

Tell you what I got in mind
'Cause we're runnin' out of time
Won't you ever set me free?
This waitin' 'round's killin' me

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I can't help myself

I can't get
Any rest
People say
I'm obsessed

Everything you say is lies
But to me that's no surprise
What I had for you was true
Things go wrong, they always do

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I can't help myself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2020, 10:11:49 PM
You are an obsession
I cannot sleep
I am a possession
Unopened at your feet
There is no balance
No equality
Be still
I will not accept defeat

I will have you
Yes I will have you
I will find a way
And I will have you
Like a butterfly
A wild butterfly
I will collect you and capture you

You are an obsession
You're my obsession
Who do you want me to be
To make you sleep with me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 30, 2020, 10:58:07 PM
Where hides sleep is she watching me
Don't desert me now
Where hides sleep you're tormenting me
Don't forsake me now
Take hole of my soul and pull me into darkness
Cover me over and stifle my anguish

Where hides sleep she's avoiding me
Don't evade me now
Where hides sleep please don't torture me
Don't forsake me now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 30, 2020, 11:03:26 PM
Nice girls not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs

She is watching the detectives
"Ooh, he's so cute!"
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops start
But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart

Long shot of that jumping sign
Visible shivers running down my spine
Cut the baby taking off her clothes
Close-up of the sign that says,"We never close"
You snatch a tune, you match a cigarette
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake

She is watching the detectives
"Ooh, he's so cute!"
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops start
But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2020, 11:30:20 PM
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well

My chain hits my chest
When I'm bangin' on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm bangin' on the radio

Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
Hands up, hands tied
Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang

Suki Zuki
I'm coming in the Cherokee
Gasoline
There's steam on the window screen

Take it, take it
World's bouncing like a trampoline
When I get to where I'm going, gonna have you trembling
Live fast, die young

Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2020, 09:25:54 AM

Once upon a time, I drank a little wine
Was as happy as could be, happy as could be
Now I'm just like a cat on a hot tin roof
Baby, what do you think you're doing to me

Told you once before
And I won't tell you no more
So get down, get down, get down
You're a bad dog, baby
But I still want you around, around
I still want you around
Hey hey hey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 02, 2020, 07:04:45 PM
I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires
After the summer rain
Will power made that old car go
A woman's mind told me that so
Oh how I wish
We were back on the road again

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travellin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2020, 07:10:59 PM
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2020, 12:16:28 AM
It makes no difference if you love or hate her;
Whatever you do, it’s all the same
It makes no difference if you just ignore her
Whatever you do, she runs the game.

Serendipity said, our eyes would meet without us ever knowing
Serendipity said she don’t care
Serendipity said, our paths would cross without us ever knowing
Serendipity said she don’t care.

It makes no difference if you love her or hate her
Whatever you do, it’s all the same
It makes no difference if you just ignore her
Whatever you do, she runs the game

At the tip of a wink, the drop of a hat
At the turning of the card
Serendipity told me, she’d be there
At the spin of a coin, the drop of the bead
At the rolling of the dice
Serendipity told me, she’d be there.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2020, 08:17:36 AM
Oh I just don't know where to begin
Though he says he'll wait forever
It's now or never
But she keeps him hanging on
The silly champion
She says she can't go home
Without a chaperone


Accidents will happen
We only hit and run
He used to be your victim
Now you're not the only one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 03, 2020, 07:51:04 PM
No I don't believe in luck
No I don't believe in circumstance no more
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
So I won't believe in luck
I saw you walking in the dark
So I slipped behind your footsteps for a while

Caught you turning 'round the block
Fancy meeting in a smaller world
After all accidents never happen
Could have planned it all
Precognition in my ears
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Complications disappear
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2020, 08:02:46 PM
Whenever I hear goodbyes
Remind me baby of you
I break down and cry
Next time I'll be true, yeah
Fever for lost romance
Remind me baby of you
I took a crazy chance
Next time I'll be true
I'll be true, I'll be true

Footsteps on the dance floor
Remind me baby of you
Teardrops in my eyes
Next time I'll be true, yeah
Whispers in the powder room
"She cries on every tune
Every tune, every tune"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 04, 2020, 08:03:47 PM
It's murder on the dance floor
You'd better not kill the groove
DJ, gonna burn this god damn house right down

I know I know I know I know I know I know I know
About your kind
And so and so and so and so and so and so and so
I'll have to play

If you think your gettin' away
I will prove you wrong
I'll take you all the way
Boy, just come along
Hear me when I say
Hey

It's murder on the dance floor
But you'd better not kill the grove
Hey hey
It's murder on the dance floor
But you'd better not steal the moves
DJ, gonna burn this god damn house right down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 04, 2020, 08:09:07 PM
Here's your ticket pack your bags
Time for jumpin' overboard
The transportation is here
Close enough but not too far,
Maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire

All wet, hey, you might need a raincoat
Shakedown, dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 06, 2020, 09:24:12 PM
I don't want to fuss with you
So I'm gonna sit out on the couch
Don't try to talk to me
'cause boy I am blocking you out
I don't want to hear a thing
Nothing you got to say
You should think twice
About the way you've been talking to me

Pack yo bags
Get on the bus
Ain't got no time…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2020, 09:27:16 AM
o get on the bus that takes me to you (Too much, Magic Bus)
I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile (Too much, Magic Bus)
You house is only another mile (Too much, Magic Bus)

Thank you, driver, for getting me here (Too much, Magic Bus)
You'll be an inspector, have no fear (Too much, Magic Bus)
I don't want to cause no fuss (Too much, Magic Bus)
But can I buy your Magic Bus? (Too much, Magic Bus)

Nooooooooo!

I don't care how much I pay (Too much, Magic Bus)
I wanna drive my bus to my baby each day (Too much, Magic Bus)

I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it ... (You can't have it!)
Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
'Cause I drive my baby every way

Magic Bus, Magic Bus, Magic Bus ...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 07, 2020, 06:30:26 PM
Bus driver, please look for me
'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see
I'm really still in prison and my love, she holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free
And I wrote and told her please
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2020, 07:11:57 PM
Through the night my heart was aching
Just before the dawn was breaking.

I peeked in and on her bed
In gay profusion laying there
Scarlet ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Pretty scarlet ribbons for her hair.

If I live to be a hundred
I will never know from where
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 07, 2020, 09:01:29 PM
Captain Scarlet,
As the Angels are flying, wing to wing,
Into the scene,
Spectrum is Green.

Captain Scarlet,

Though the Mysterons plan to conquer the Earth,
This indestructible man will show what he's worth.

Captain Scarlet,
In-des-tructible,
Captain Scarlet.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2020, 09:39:31 PM
For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 11, 2020, 03:25:11 PM
NS every time that song comes up I want to cry. Dunno why.

Hope this one isn't tooooo controversial:

Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon

Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon

Long time ago
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun
Cars full of motors, painted green
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Arms that can only lift a spoon
Everyone's gone to the moon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 11, 2020, 03:52:46 PM

Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine
A good friend of mine follow the stars
Venus and Mars
Are alright tonight
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 12, 2020, 08:47:27 PM
Standing in the shadows of love
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Can't you see me standing in the shadows of love
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
I want to run but there's nowhere to go
'Cause heartaches will follow me, I know
Without your love, the love I need
It's the beginning of the end for me
'Cause you're taking away all my reasons for livin'
When you pushed aside all the love I been givin'
Now wait a minute

Didn't I treat you right, now baby, didn't I?
Didn't I do the best I could now, didn't I?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2020, 08:53:27 PM

It's a fool's game
Nothing but a fools game
Standing in the cold rain
Feeling like a clown

It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Love him till your arms break
Then he lets you down

It ain't right with love to share
When you find he doesn't care for you
It ain't wise to need someone
As much as I depended on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 13, 2020, 12:44:38 PM
The human race was dyin' out
Noone left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon
Smog will get you pretty soon

Everyone was hanging out
Hanging up and hanging down
Hanging in and holding fast
Hope our little world will last

Yeah, along came Mr. Goodtrips
Looking for a new a ship
Come on, people better climb on board
Come on, baby, now we're going home
Ship of fools, ship of fools
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2020, 05:02:47 PM
And as I laughed at those passengers to Heaven
A great big wave came and washed me overboard
And as I sank and I hollered, "Someone save me"
That's the moment I woke up, thank the Lord

And I said to myself, Sit down
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat
Said to myself, Sit down
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat

And the Devil will drag you under
With a soul so heavy you'd never float
Sit down, sit down, sit down
Sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 18, 2020, 11:21:54 PM
Ever since our voyage of love began
Your touch has thrilled me like the rush of the wind
And your arms have held me safe from a rolling sea
There's always been a quiet place to harbor you and me

Our love is like a ship on the ocean
We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion

(To rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat), don't tip the boat over
(Rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 18, 2020, 11:33:45 PM
There's a man I meet walks up our street
He's a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never seems to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag
The children call him "bogie"
He never lets on
But I know 'cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He's gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her dignity

And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how I got her I'll say "I saved my money"
They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2020, 10:04:40 PM
We're just ordinary people
We don't know which way to go
'Cause we're ordinary people
Maybe we should take it slow
Take it slow, oh-oh
This time we'll take it slow
Take it slow, oh-oh

This time we'll take it slow
This ain't a movie no
No fairy tale conclusion ya'll
It gets more confusing everyday, oh
Sometimes it's heaven sent
Then we head back to hell again
We kiss, then we make up on the way
I hang up you call
We rise and we fall
And we feel like just walking away

As our love advances
We take second chances
Though it's not a fantasy
I still want you to stay
We're just ordinary people
We don't know which way to go
'Cause we're ordinary people
Maybe we should take it slow
Take it slow, oh-oh
This time we'll take it slow

Take it slow, oh-oh
This time we'll take it slow
Take it slow
Maybe we'll live and learn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 28, 2020, 10:28:45 PM
As the midnight moon, was drifting through
The lazy sway of the trees
I saw the look in your eyes, lookin' into mine
Seeing what you wanted to see

Darlin' don't say a word, 'cause I already heard
What your body's sayin' to mine
I'm tired of fast moves I've got a slow groove
On my mind

I want a man with a slow hand
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a slow hand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 01, 2021, 04:30:11 PM
Take it slow with the flow are my eyes deceiving
Am I reading this all wrong
But when you smile then I know it was worth believing
And the feeling was so strong, but
Slowly your love starts to fade
I notice it die by the day
In my mind it unwinds all my thoughts perceiving
What I feared all along
At a glance we advance in our plight achieving
What was written in my song, but
Slowly our world starts to change
Infected by words cold and grey
Oohoo baby, how my mind keeps making things up baby
I can't stop the feeling
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 01, 2021, 05:17:27 PM
You gotta speed it up
And then you gotta slow it down
'Cause if you believe that our love can hit the top
You gotta play around
But soon you will find that there comes a time
For making your mind up

You gotta turn it on
And then you gotta put it out
You gotta be sure that it's something
Everybody's gonna talk about
Before you decide that the time's arrived
For making your mind up

Don't let your indecision
Take you from behind
Trust your inner vision
Don't let others change your mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 04, 2021, 02:12:59 PM
...

You're messin' up the water
You're rolling in the wine
You're poisoning your body
You're poisoning your mind
You gave me coca-cola
You said it tasted good
You watch the television
It tell you that you should.

How can you live in this way?

You must have something to say.

There must be more to this life.
It's time we did something right.
Child of Vision, won't you listen?
Find yourself a new ambition.

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2021, 02:31:03 PM
Your cruel device,
Your blood like ice.
One look could kill,
My pain, your thrill.

I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don't touch)
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you, but your lips are venomous poison

You're poison running through my veins
You're poison, I don't wanna break these chain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2021, 04:15:34 PM
Scary scary sexy lady
Angry scary sexy lady
Angry like a witch
But sexy like a sexy witch

Scary scary sexy lady
Angry angry sexy scary lady
Scorned like a lady
And angry like a lady scorned

Wearin' high heels
And a short skirt made of murder
A trenchcoat made of pain
She's walkin' down an alleyway
With high heels made of daggers
And eyes made of daggers too
She's here to chop your penis off
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2021, 04:36:39 PM
When I was a little bitty boy
My grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hanging on a string
She told me it was my ding-a-ling-a-ling, oh

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling

You know, then mama took me to Sunday school
They tried to teach me the golden rule
Everytime that choir would sing
Watch me playin' with my ding-a-ling-a-ling, oh

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 04, 2021, 10:37:27 PM
Silver Bells, Silver Bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day

City sidewalks
Busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's
A feeling of Christmas
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every
Street corner you'll hear

Silver Bells, Silver Bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them sing
Soon it will be Christmas Day

(A bit late or very early)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 04, 2021, 10:48:57 PM


I'm glad you're home
Well, did you really miss me?
I guess you did by the look in your eye (look in your eye, look in your eye)
Well lay back and relax while I put away the dishes
Then you and me can rock a bell

You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell

The night is young and full of possibilities
Well come on and let yourself be free
My love for you, so long I've been savin'
Tonight was made for me and you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2021, 10:37:09 AM
Ring the living bell
Ring the living bell
Shine the living light
Shine the living light
Ring the living bell
Ring the living bell

Been celebrating 'way too long
An' I've been drinkin', I'm ashamed to tell
Still feel thirsty
God I want to drink the water from the well
Still feel thirsty
God I want to drink and ring the living bell
Ring the bell, ah
Ring the living bell
Still feel thirsty
God, I want to give and ring the living bell
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2021, 10:59:42 AM
Take a look at her hair, it's real
And if you don't believe what I say, just feel
I'm gonna lock her up in a trunk
So no big hunk can steal her away from me

Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, living doll
Got to do my best to please her, just 'cause she's a living doll
Got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul
Got the one and only walking talking, living doll

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2021, 02:19:58 PM
Hey, I think you forgot how to play
My teddy bear's running away
The Barbie got something to say
Hey, hey, hey, hey
My "Simon says" leave me alone
I'm taking my Pikachu home
You're stupid just like your smartphone

Wonder Woman don't you ever forget
You're divine and he's about to regret
He's a bucka-mhm-buckbuckbuck-mhm boy
Bucka-mhm-buckbuckbuck
I'm not your bucka-mhm-buck-mhm-buck-mhm

I'm not your toy (not your toy)
You stupid boy (stupid boy)
I'll take you down now, make you watch me
Dancing with my dolls on the motha-bucka beat
Not your toy…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 08, 2021, 02:34:31 PM
Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2021, 02:37:35 PM

All the faces all the voices blur
Change to one face change to one voice
Prepare yourself for bed
The light seems bright and glares on white walls
All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes
Into the night with Charlotte sometimes
Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark
The streets all looked so strange
They seemed so far away
But Charlotte did not cry

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2021, 02:38:36 PM
Well I think it's fine, building Jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems you can't get off

Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2021, 02:52:58 PM
Hey, farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 08, 2021, 03:04:11 PM

Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and, Jesus, people bought 'em
And they called it paradise, the place to be,
They watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
Just like the missionaries did so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign 'Jesus is Coming'
Brought the white man's burden down, brought the white man's reign

Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny and in the name of God

And you can see them there on Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about what it's like up there
They called it paradise, I don't know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2021, 03:14:00 PM
Dress back jump back this is a bluebeat attack
'Cos it won't get you anywhere
Fooling with your guns
The British Army is waiting out there
An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons

White youth, black youth
Better find another solution
Why not phone up Robin Hood
And ask him for some wealth distribution
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 08, 2021, 04:09:27 PM
In golden Hannibal Carthage days, marching on to Rome,
Knocking on the door and finding nobody home there.
Rome she cut our armies down and left them in the snow,
So now I go to where I come from,
Now I go home to the sun.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again my friend,
Let the lady ride on through,
When the earth moves again.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 08, 2021, 04:15:40 PM

I feel the earth move
Under my feet.
I feel the sky tumblin' down.
I feel my heart start
To tremblin' whenever you're around.

Ooh, baby, when I see your face,
Mellow as the month of may,
Oh, darlin', I can't stand it
When you look at me that way.

Hey, I feel the earth move
Under my feet.
I feel the sky tumblin' down.
I feel my heart start to tremble
whenever you're around.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 08, 2021, 08:51:28 PM
You to me
Are sweet as roses in the morning
And you to me
Are soft as summer rain at dawn, in love we share
That something rare
The sidewalks in the street
The concrete and the clay beneath my feet
Begins to crumble
But love will never die
Because we'll see the mountains tumble
Before we say goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 09, 2021, 04:46:46 AM

I have often walked down the street before
But the pavement always
Stayed beneath my feet before

All at once am I
Several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Are there lilac trees
In the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?

Does enchantment pour
Out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live




Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 09, 2021, 09:58:51 PM
I play the streetlife, because there's no place I can go
Streetlife, it's the only life I know
Streetlife, and there's a thousand parts to play
Streetlife, until you play your life away

You let the people see, just who you wanna be
And every night you shine, just like a super star
That's how the life is played a ten cent masquerade
You dress, you walk, you talk
You're who you think you are

Streetlife, you can run away from time
Streetlife, for a nickel or a dime
Streetlife, but you better not get old
Streetlife, or you're gonna feel the cold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 10, 2021, 07:35:45 AM
Heavy armour fails
The battle ground affairs

Incitements all around
Defeat shows through but no one cares

Arrange new attacks
Demand a new decree
Listen to the ploys
Destroy them as they flee

Holy to the high masquerade masquerade
Fanfares in the sky masquerade masquerade

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 10, 2021, 08:51:38 AM
It's been so long
Been so long
But I made it through
It's been so long
Been so long
But I made it through
It's been so long

We'll never leave
We can't be beat
We can't be beat
We'll never leave
We can't be beat
The world is ours
We can't be beat
We can't be beat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 10, 2021, 08:55:32 AM

You're unsurpassed in style
The price you paid was dear
You make the moves come alive
Yet movements dance with fear

Your speciality's lonely nights
As you and pride compete
Neglect the pain you hide
Come on and dance with me

Come on and jump to the beat (jump)
Come on and dance with me
Come on and jump to the beat (jump)
Come on and dance with me, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 10, 2021, 09:00:24 AM
Get up and dance to the music!
Get on up and dance to the fonky music!
Dance to the Music, dance to the music
Dance to the Music, dance to the music

All we need is a drummer
For people who only need a beat
I'm gonna add a little guitar
And make it easy to move your feet

I'm gonna add some bottom
So that the dancers just won't hide
You might like to hear my organ
I said ride Sally ride

If I could hear the horns blow
Cynthia on the throne, yeah!
Cynthia and Jerry got a message that's sayin'
All the squares, go home!

Dance to the Music, dance to the music
Dance to the Music, dance to the music
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 10, 2021, 09:31:11 AM
Mustang Sally, huh, huh, guess you better slow your mustang down
Oh Lord, what I said now?
Mustang Sally, now baby, oh Lord, guess you better slow your mustang down
Huh oh yeaah
You been running all over the town now
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground
Huh, what I said now?

Listen
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride. Huh
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 11, 2021, 06:01:18 PM
You spin me right 'round, baby
Right 'round like a record, baby
Right 'round, 'round, 'round
You spin me right 'round, baby
Right 'round like a record, baby
Right 'round, 'round, 'round

If I, I get to know your name
Well I could trace
Your private number, baby
All I know is that to me
You look like you're lots of fun
Open up your lovin' arms
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 12, 2021, 08:57:10 AM


If you could see me now
The one who said that he'd rather roam
The one who said he'd rather be alone
If you could only see me now

If I could hold you now
Just for a moment if I could really make you mine
Just for a while turn back the hands of time
If I could only hold you now

I've been too long in the wind, too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains
And lying in your loving arms again

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 12, 2021, 12:29:40 PM
Tonight at eight you shoulda seen
A chauffeur pull up in a rented limousine!
My neighbors burned! They like to die!
When I tell them who is gettin' in and goin' out is I!
If they could see me now,
That little gang of mine,
I'm eating fancy chow
And drinking fancy wine.
I'd like those stumble bums to see for a fact
The kind of top drawer, first rate chums I attract.
All I can say is "Wow-ee!
Looka where I am.
Tonight I landed, pow!
Right in a pot of jam.
What a set up! Holy cow!
They'd never believe it,
If my friends could see me now!

If they could see me now,
My little dusty group,
Traipsin' 'round this million dollar chicken coop.
I'd hear those thrift shop cats say:
"Brother, get her!
Draped on a bed spread made from three kinds of fur."
All I can say is, "Wow!
Wait till the riff an' raff
See just exactly how
He sign this autograph."
What a build up! Holy cow!
They'd never believe it,
If my friends could see me now!

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 12, 2021, 12:33:05 PM
See me, feel me
Touch me, heal me
See me, feel me
Touch me, heal me
...

Listening to you, I get music
Gazing at you, I get the heat
Following you, I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you, I see the millions
On you, I see the glory
From you, I get opinions
From you, I get the story
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 12, 2021, 07:52:07 PM
Girl, you really got me goin'
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

Oh no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2021, 08:08:44 AM
I'm so wired,
Very tired,
Why can't I
Close my eyes.

Times speeding
It's day, it's night, it's night, it's day
And it's time
I went to sleep.

Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired,
I'm falling on my feet
Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired,
Why can't I close my eyes and go to sleep?
It's not as easy as it seems.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 13, 2021, 10:58:26 AM
I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink
No, no, no


I'm so tired, I don't know what to do
I'm so tired, my mind is set on you
I wonder should I call you but I know what you would do

You'd say I'm putting you on
But it's no joke, it's doing me harm
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane
You know I'd give you everything I've got
For a little peace of mind


I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2021, 11:01:31 AM

I drink my coffee in the morning
I brush my teeth before bed
I fake a smile to keep the sad thought
Out of my head
I sit outside and watch the world spin
I bet you probably moved on
But I still can't seem to sing
Hmm, anything but this song

I've asked my therapist, my mom and dad the same
I've asked my friends and fam, they all say I'm to blame
I've spent all this time pretending I'm okay
Well, I'm not okay

Today might be the day I go insane
The day I go insane
The day I go insane
That'll be the day, today might be the day
The day I go insane
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 13, 2021, 07:15:24 PM
Tumble out of bed
And stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawn and stretch and try to come to life

Jump in the shower
And the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the streets
The traffic starts jumpin'
For folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

Workin' 9 to 5
What a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin'
And no givin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2021, 07:32:21 PM

She don't build her world 'round no single man
But she's gettin' by, doin' what she can
She is free to be, what she wants to be
'N all what she wants to be, is a modern girl
Na na na na na, na na na na na, na na na na na, she's a modern girl



It looks like rain again, she takes a train again
She's on her way again through London town
Where she keeps a tangerine, flicks through a magazine
Until it's time to leave her dreams on the underground
She walks to the office like everyone else
An independent lady, takin' care of herself

She's been dreaming 'bout it all day long
As soon as she gets home, it's him on the telephone
He asks her to dinner, she says I'm not free
Tonight I'm going to stay at home and watch my TV

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 13, 2021, 08:35:17 PM
Does she walk? Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel
Always pulled me from my seat

She was pure like snowflakes
No one could ever stain
The memory of my angel
Could never cause me pain

Years go by, I'm lookin' through a girly magazine
And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in between

My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold
(Angel is the centerfold)

My blood runs cold (wooh)
My memory has just been sold
(Angel is the centerfold)
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 13, 2021, 08:39:34 PM

There'll be no strings to bind your hands
not if my love can't bind your heart.

There's no need to take a stand
for it was I who chose to start.
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn.
Just call me angel of the morning, Angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby.

Just call me angel of the morning, Angel
Then slowly turn away from me.
Maybe the sun's light will be dim
and it won't matter anyhow.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 14, 2021, 05:53:48 PM
Lovely NS!

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh a beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins

Let me be empty
Oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 14, 2021, 06:33:32 PM
Right back at you, Robbie. Big fan of Sarah Mclachlan



A whisper to my ear, I'll make the words out through the waves
Since you've not been here, I've changed my tune
And all I can hear is your sound, and I'd say you're coming 'round

I can feel the sunlight barely breaking on the sea
I don't want to miss you, I don't want you missing me
It's about time we climb out of the wreckage
I can see a way now, you could come and rescue me
I don't want to waste this, I don't want it wasting me
It's about time we climb out of the wreckage,
Sky is ours to write, we can finally send the message
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 15, 2021, 08:02:18 PM
The back and forth
Has gotten me so messed up
Don't take more
The signs we had enough

Of the whole damn thing
That we got going
You hold the strings
Without me knowing

Why do I
Have to suffer through the thinking?
Why do I
Have the feeling that we're sinking?

I need to Find a Way
(Find a Way)
Find a Way
Find a Way Out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 15, 2021, 08:12:57 PM
You ask me where to begin
Am I so lost in my sin?
You ask me where did I fall
I'll say I can't tell you when

But if my spirit is lost
How will I find what is near
No question, I'm not alone
Somehow I'll find my way home

My sun shall rise in the east
So shall my heart be at peace
And if you're asking me when
I'll say it starts at the end

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 16, 2021, 08:20:08 PM
Ooh, and it's alright an it's coming on
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where we started from

Do you remember the day (that sunny day)
When you first came my way
I said, no one could take your place
And if you get hurt (if you get hurt)
By the little things I say
I can put that smile back on your face

Ooh, and it's alright and it's coming on
We gotta get it right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get it right back to where we started from
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2021, 11:31:44 AM
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds
And marks, any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts...... ooh, ooh love hurts

I'm young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a flame
It burns you when it's hot
Love hurts...... ooh, ooh love hurts
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 18, 2021, 11:06:59 PM
No, I didn't see this one commin'
It suddenly snuck up on me
I can't say you didn't tell me so
I can't say you didn't warn me

Well I can't take the pain,
Knowing that I left you
And I can't bare the shame
Of knowing I was wrong
But I'll take the blame for everything that I've done
But I can't take the pain of leaving you alone
Leaving you alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 19, 2021, 09:26:10 AM
I've never been too good with names.
The cellar door was open, I could never stay away.
I know it's prob'ly not my place.
It's either or, I'm hoping for a simple way to say.

It's a shame about Ray.
In the stone, under the dust,
his name is still engraved.
Some things need to go away.
It's a shame about Ray.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 19, 2021, 10:42:19 PM
Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray
Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray
Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray

Drink this to put out the fire
Drink this to put out the flame
Drink this it tastes like vanilla
Drink this to cool down your brain

Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray
Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray
Hey, Uncle Ray, Hey
Uncle Ray
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 20, 2021, 07:46:33 AM
Were on our own cousin,
all alone cousin.
Let's think of a game to play
Now the grownups have all gone away.
You won't be much fun
being blind deaf and dumb
But I've no one to play with today.
D'you know how to play hide and seek?
To find me it would take you a week,
But tied to that chair you won't go anywhere
There's a lot I can do to a freak.
How would you feel if I turned on the bath,
Ducked your head under and started to laugh.
What would you do if I shut you outside,
To stand in the rain
and catch cold so you died?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2021, 06:23:06 PM
That is .... horrible!

Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton, I must've played 'em all
But I ain't seen nothin' like him in any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine
Feelin' all the bumpers, always playin' clean
Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist
A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it? I don't know!
What makes him so good?
Ain't got no distractions, can't hear no buzzes and bells
Don't see no lights a-flashin', plays by sense of smell

Always gets the replay, never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

I thought I was the Bally table king
But I just handed my pinball crown to him

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2021, 06:25:54 PM
I'm gonna tell you a story
Strange as it now seems
Of zombie, voodoo, gris gris
And the Witch Queen of New Orleans

She lived in a world of magic
Possessed by the devils skew
From a shack near the swamplands
Made of mud-brown brick
Marie stirred the witches brew

Marie, Marie
La voodoo veau
She'll put a spell on you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 22, 2021, 08:40:14 PM
I've had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call

Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast

She's just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She's gonna get you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2021, 09:20:31 PM
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, "I feel my life
Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 24, 2021, 02:50:59 PM
Pussycat's going to London
Looking for love and for fame
I wish somebody had told her
City folks ain't the same

Pussycat carries a postcard
Won't the big city be nice?
That's the place with the action
She's gonna have her a slice

Pussycat, pussycat
Where have you been?
I've been to London
And now I'm queen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 24, 2021, 03:05:58 PM
Out of work again, the actor entertains his wife
With the same old stories of his ordinary life
Maybe he exaggerates the trouble and the strife
Well, I don't know
Oh, where are there places to go?
Someone, somewhere has to know


Crawling down the pavement on a Sunday afternoon
I was arrested by a rozzer wearing a pink balloon about his foot
Toot, toot, toot, toot
Silver rain was falling down upon the dirty ground of London town
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 25, 2021, 03:39:26 PM
...

Alright, crawl a while

C'mon crawl
C'mon crawl
Get on out there on your hands and knees, baby
Crawl all over me
Just like the spider on the wall
Ooo, we gonn' crawl, one more

Well, I'm the Crawlin' King Snake
And I rule my den
Call me the Crawlin' King Snake
And I rule my den
Yeah, don't mess 'round with my mate
Gonna use her for myself
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 25, 2021, 04:09:26 PM
She is less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her neverborn child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself

She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She says all she needs is therapy
Yeah, all you need is love is all you need

Jodie never sleeps because there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 25, 2021, 09:28:06 PM
Don't look back, ooh, a new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind, ooh, where I get taken
The road is callin', today is the day

I can see, it took so long just to realize
I'm much too strong not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around

Oh, yes, I will
I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 25, 2021, 09:34:09 PM
I met an old man on the road, his eyes were clear and wise
Can you direct me on my way, to where the answer lies
I'm looking for the road to freedom so I can be free
He said keep thinking as you walk, and one day you will see

I'm on the road to freedom, on the road to truth
Yonder can you see them wasting precious youth

I thought as I walked down the road, of what the man had said
It seems to me that what he meant is freedom's in your head
The road I walk along is time, it's measured out in hours
And now I need not rush along, I stop to see the flowers
Stop to smell the flowers
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 25, 2021, 10:19:46 PM


I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I told you so
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I've got to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me, yeah yeah

Freedom (I won't let you down)
Freedom (I will not give you up)
Freedom (Gotta have some faith in the sound)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 26, 2021, 10:52:05 PM
I'm gonna make a change
For once in my life
It's gonna feel real good
Gonna make a difference

Gonna make it right
As I, turn up the collar on
My favorite winter coat
This wind is blowing my mind

I see the kids in the streets
With not enough to eat
Who am I to be blind?
Pretending not to see their needs

A summer disregard, a broken bottle top
And a one man soul
They follow each other on the wind ya' know
'Cause they got nowhere to go

That's why I want you to know
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer

If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
Na-na-na, na-na-na
Na-na, na-na
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 27, 2021, 08:18:04 AM
Momma sewed the rags together
Sewin' every piece with love
She made my coat of many colors
That I was so proud of

As she sewed, she told a story
From The Bible, she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph wore and then she said

"Perhaps this coat will bring you
Good luck and happiness"
And I just couldn't wait to wear it
And momma blessed it with a kiss

My coat of many colors
That my momma made for me
Made only from rags
But I wore it so proudly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 27, 2021, 11:08:11 AM
...
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me

Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned

And while Lennin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died

We were singing bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey 'n rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 27, 2021, 11:17:53 AM

Hey, kid, rock 'n' roll, rock on
Ooh, my soul
Hey kid, boogie, too, did ya?
Hey, shout, summertime blues
Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes
Hey, kid, rock 'n' roll, rock on

And where do we go from here?
Which is a way that's clear?
Still looking for that blue jean baby queen
Prettiest girl I've ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
(James Dean)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 30, 2021, 12:40:59 AM
Rock and roll, rock, rock and roll
Rock and roll, rock, rock and roll

Can you see where you call in the juke box hall
When the music played
And the world sang rounds to a pretty sound
No sorrow base
And them blue swede shoes, they will scream and shout
I guess they sing the blues, let it all hang out

Rock and ro-o-oll, rock and roll
Rock and ro-o-oll, rock and roll
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 30, 2021, 08:39:24 AM
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'Cause I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your love dear
Why'd you do me this way?

Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'Cause everythin's wrong, and nothin' ain't right
Without you
You got me singin' the blues

Oh, the moon and stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There's nothin' left for me to do
But cry-y-y-y over you (cry over you)

Well, I never felt more like runnin' away
But why should I go 'cause I couldn't stay
Without you
You got me singin' the blues
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 30, 2021, 09:32:26 AM
My mama done tol' me
When I was in pigtails
My mama done tol' me
A man's gonna sweet-talk and give you the big eyes
But when the sweet-talking's done
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing
Who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night

Now the rain's a-fallin'
Hear the train a-callin, "whoo-ee!"
My mama done tol' me
Hear that lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, "whoo-ee!"
My mama done tol' me
A-whooee-ah-whooee ol' clickety-clack's
A-echoin' back th' blues in the night

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on January 30, 2021, 11:44:58 PM
Want some whiskey in your water?
Sugar in your tea?
What's all these crazy questions they're askin' me?
This is the craziest party that could ever be
Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
She said "That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"

Open up the window, let some air into this room
I think momma's chocking from the smell of stale perfume
And the cigarette you're smoking about to scare me half to death
Open up the window, let me catch my breath

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
She said "That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son, son, son"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 31, 2021, 09:15:31 AM
There's smell of fresh cut grass
and it's filling up my senses

And the sun is shining down on the blossoms in the avenue.
There's a buzzing fly hanging
around the bluebells and the daisies

And there's a lot more loving left in this world.

Don't go
don't leave me now
now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 01, 2021, 11:57:05 PM
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you, so, baby, please don't go

Baby, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone, left the county farm
You had the shackles on; baby, please don't go

Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog to get you way down here
I'll make you walk alone; baby, please don't go, hey
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 02, 2021, 09:28:54 AM
Freedom is a dusty road heading to a highway
Californian skyways will lead us where we wanna stay
Suddenly a summer breeze breaks a misty mornin'
There's a new day dawning we'd better be on our way.
So love me love my dog
We've lived the road too long to break up
Love me live my life and travel through this land
I can't leave a friend I promised that before we started
So love me love my dog
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 11, 2021, 10:38:10 PM
I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All he asks from me is the food to give him strength
All he ever needs is love and that he knows he'll get

So, I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All the pay I need comes a-shinin' through his eyes
I don't need no cold water to make me realize that

I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
Na, na, na, na, na, na, nana
Na, na, na, na, na, na, nana

I love my dog as much as I love you…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 11, 2021, 10:46:23 PM

Told you once before
And I won't tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You're a bad dog, baby
But I still want you around

You give me the creeps
When you jump on your feet
So get down, get down, get down
Keep your hands to yourself
I'm strictly out of bounds

Once upon a time, I drank a little wine
Was as happy as could be, happy as could be
Now I'm just like a cat on a hot tin roof
Baby, what do you think you're doing to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 12, 2021, 11:41:45 AM
Penny's place a crummy room
Her dansette crackles to Jimi's tune
I don't care, I taste Ambre Solaire
Her neck, her thighs, her lips, her hair
Ring-a-ding-ding-ding, I'm going down
I'm coming 'round

All thoughts of sleep desert me
There is no time (there is no time)
Thirty minutes brings me round to
Her number 9

There she looks like a painting
Jackson Pollock's No. 5
Come into the forest and taste the trees
The Sun starts shining, and I'm hard to please
Ring-a-ding-ding-ding, I'm going down
I'm coming 'round
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 12, 2021, 11:44:36 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97.
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience...
I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked...
You're not as fat as you Imagine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 27, 2021, 08:22:15 AM
What's cute about a little cutie?
It's her beauty, not brains
Old father time will never harm you
If your charm still remains
After you grow old, baby
You don't have to be a cold baby
Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young, beautiful
If you want to be loved
Don't fail to do your stuff
With a little powder and a puff
Keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved

If you're wise, exercise all the fat off
Take it off, off of here, off of there
When you're seen anywhere with your hat off
Wear a Marcel wave in your hair
Take care of all those charms
And you'll always be in someone's arms
Keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved
If you're wise, exercise all the fat off...

(Very sexist song)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 27, 2021, 08:49:31 AM
Hey, listen here
Now I got mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you done made a big man of me (now get this)

Oh (I know), you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh, down beside that red fire light
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round (yeah)
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round

Get on your bikes and ride
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 27, 2021, 09:24:54 AM
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties, oh yeah
Fat bottomed girls
They'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties, oh yeah
On your marks! Get set! Go!
Bicycle race, bicycle race, bicycle race


Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle race
(I want a bicycle race)

Hey! You say coke, I say caine
You say John, I say Wayne
Hot dog, I say, Cool it man
I don't wanna be
The President of America
You say smile, I say cheese
Cartier, I say please
Income tax, I say Jesus
I don't wanna be a candidate
For Vietnam or Watergate
'Cause all I want to do is

Bicycle, (Yeah) bicycle, (Hey) bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle, bicycle, (Come on!) bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 27, 2021, 09:28:25 AM
He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 03, 2021, 11:11:39 AM
Common sense tells me, “Kiss the girl goodbye”
Common sense tells me,“Leave it all behind”
Common sense says ,“The girl's not worth my time”
But common sense ain’t comin’ when you come to mind

Common sense told me, “She was not worthwhile”
Common sense said, “Don't go the extra mile”
Common sense said, “Go back and reconcile”
But common sense forgot about her smile

Second chances are thought of to be weak
Second chances in volumes, do they speak?
Second chances aren't given usually
But a second chance is all I really need
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2021, 12:08:24 PM
There you see her
Sitting there across the way
She don't got a lot to say
But there's something about her
And you don't know why
But you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl.

Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It's possible she wants you too
There's one way to ask her
It don't take a word, not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl (kiss the girl)

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 03, 2021, 12:14:51 PM
Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance
She looked awful nice and so I hoped she might take a chance

When we danced I held her tight
Then I walked her home that night
And all the stars were shining bright
And then I kissed her

Each time I saw her I couldn't wait to see her again
I wanted to let her know that I was more than a friend

I didn't know just what to do
And so I whispered I love you
And she said that she loved me too
And then I kissed her

I kissed her in a way that I'd never kissed a girl before
I kissed her in a way that I hope she liked for evermore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2021, 12:35:16 PM
You don't have to be beautiful
To turn me on
I just need your body baby
From dusk till dawn
You don't need experience
To turn me out
You just leave it all up to me
I'm gonna show you what it's all about

You don't have to be rich
To be my girl
You don't have to be cool
To rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your

[Muah muah muah muah muah]

Kiss
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 03, 2021, 09:05:33 PM
No matter what we do (No matter what we do)
No matter what we say (No matter what we say)
We're the song inside the tune, yeah
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go (And everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
The sun will always, always shine
(And tomorrow, we might wake on the other side)

'Cause we are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down, no
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down, oh no
So don't you bring me down today
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2021, 09:16:08 PM
Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat, the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
But I don't know how
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 03, 2021, 09:18:10 PM
Never one to void an obvious link:

The long and winding road, that leads, to your door
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before
It always leads me here, lead me to your door
The wild and windy night, that the rain, washed away
Has left a pool of tears, crying for the day
Why leave me standing here, let me know the way

Many times I've been alone, and many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know, the many ways I've tried
And still they lead me back, to the long winding road
You left me standing here a long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to your door
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2021, 09:36:02 PM

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home. I'm so cold
Let me in-a-your window
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 04, 2021, 04:01:46 PM
I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2021, 04:22:05 PM
Crowded train, separation
But still I see you in the corner of my eye
Busy station, anticipation
For you to turn around and see me smile

And you look so trendy
Spaghetti straps and six inch soles
I just looked down and didn't see me
Are you an uptight, turnaround
No-esteem wreck like me?

So long SOHO
I just sat and watched you go
Take good care and always know
I'll always know that you are there
Somewhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 04, 2021, 07:07:24 PM
Did you walk down the imaginary lover
Were you there on the right down on the backstreet guys
So it's a left on the right side of the litter
It's a bitch when the hive and the make-up drags
What a drag

It was last night in Soho I was dancing
Last night in Soho you were there
Then the light comes down and you hear the sound
Of your things not there, you're my last to care
It was last night in Soho I was dancing
(Last night in Soho it was)
Last night in Soho I was dancing
(Last night in Soho it was)
Last night in Soho you were there
Easy come, easy go, let it ride in the city
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2021, 07:18:19 PM
Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a madman around
Running down underground
To a dive bar in a West End town

In a West End town, a dead-end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead-end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 05, 2021, 04:15:01 PM
Well my cigarette died when I washed my face
Dropped some drops in an ashtray hit a wrong place
Woman at my blinds to see spiders spinning lines
It's a safe as milk, it's a safe as milk
I never heard it put quite that way
The shape I'm in is a gone a way
They called a day, they called a day

Yesterday's paper headlines approach
Rain gutter teasing, rusty cat sneezing
Soppin wet hammer, dusty and wheezing
Lusty alley whining trashcan blues
Children running after rainbows stocking poor
Gracious ladies nylon hanging on to line
Jumping onto leg looking mighty fine
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2021, 04:19:11 PM

I'm living a life of constant change
Every day means the turn of a page
Yesterday's papers are such bad news
Same thing applies to me and you

Who wants yesterday's papers?
Who wants yesterday's girl?
Who wants yesterday's papers?
Nobody in the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 05, 2021, 04:34:31 PM
I read the news today—oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2021, 04:49:31 PM

The butler Henry Baker extinguishes the fires
Whilst sir Fred'rick Harold Robinson casually retires
Another day tomorrow cries Alan crayon steel
All must be up early to have the morning meal
The maid comes with decanter and to the butler there
Said 'sir, here's what you ordered'
He said 'no one seems to care'

It must be good to live in the house of lords
It must be good to live in the house of lords
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 14, 2021, 09:30:23 AM
Behold the Lord High Executioner
A personage of noble rank and title —
A dignified and potent officer
Whose functions are particularly vital!
Defer, defer
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord
To the Lord High Executioner!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 16, 2021, 09:39:20 AM

Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 16, 2021, 09:31:07 PM
Loudly let the trumpet bray!
Tantantara!
Proudly bang the sounding brasses!
Tzing! Boom!
As upon its lordly way
This unique procession passes
Tantantara tzing boom!
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen! Bow, ye masses!
Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses!
Tantantara tzing boom!
We are peers of highest station
Paragons of legislation
Pillars of the British nation
Tantantara tzing boom!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 16, 2021, 10:31:35 PM
Iolanthe! I was in the Peer's chorus in a production at school.

So we waved our hands as we marched along
And the people smiled as we sang our song
And the world was saved as they listened to the band
And the Banner-Man held the banner high

He was ten feet tall and he touched the sky
And I wish that I could be a Banner-Man

Glory, glory, glory

Listen to the band
Sing the same old story
Ain't it something grand?
To be good as you can
Like a Banner-Man

And the drums went, boom as the cornets play
And the tuba, "Umba "D", all the way
And the kids and the dogs were laughing as they ran
And the Banner-Man held the banner high
With an Allelujah in his eye
And I wish that I could be a Banner-Man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 17, 2021, 08:43:10 AM
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten coronets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows
of the finest virtuosos,
the dream of ev'ry famous band.

Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun,.
With a hundred and ten coronets right behind.
There were more than a thousand reeds
Springing up like weeds.
There were horns of every shape and kind.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 18, 2021, 06:57:09 AM
Everybody clap your hands in the air
And follow the music man!
I am the music man
I come from down your way
And I can play
What can you play?
I play piano
Pia-pia-pia-no
Pia-no pia-no
Pia-pia-pia-no
Pia-pia-no

I am the music man
I come from down your way
And I can play
What can you play?
I play the trombone
Umpa-umpa-um-pa-pa
Um-pa-pa um-pa-pa
Umpa-umpa-um-pa-pa
Umpa-um-pa-pa
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 18, 2021, 10:41:00 AM
Mirror dawn dawnin' on me
Crack o dawn mirror dawn
Mirror man mirror gone
Mirror fall down mirror gone down

Mirror girl mirror boy
Mirror frog mirror man
Mirror worm mirror worm
Mirror bird mirror germ
Germ...

Little girl little girl
Little girl little girl

Mirror man mirror me
Mirror man mirror me
Mirror man mirroe me
Mirror man further than
Mirror day mirror way
Mirror man mirror me
Mirror dawn dawnin' on me
Dawnin' on me dawnin' on me
Dawnin' on me dawnin' dawnin'
Drum dromb...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 18, 2021, 10:50:20 AM
The water shines
A pebble skips across the face
A dozen times
Then disappears, not a trace
Left behind
The thrower turns and walks away
A change of mind
Another start, a brand new day

You know I'll change
If change is what you require
Your every wish
Your every dream, hope, desire

Here comes the mirror man
Says he's a people fan
Here comes the mirror man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 20, 2021, 02:58:13 PM
I'm on a highway full of red lights
I've lost so many long nights
Felt words that cut like knives
I know, I know they're gonna
Say what they wanna
I know they're gonna
Say what they want, yeah (want, want)

But I feel it changing
I can taste it, I'm on the wave and
I won't waste it
I have been patient
But I'm not waiting anymore
Not anymore, no

I'm gonna dance on broken glass, ey
On broken glass
And I'm gonna make that ceiling crash, ah
That ceiling crash
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 21, 2021, 12:49:54 PM
Walking on walking on broken glass
Walking on walking on broken glass

You were the sweetest thing that I ever knew
But I don't care for sugar honey if I can't have you
Since you abandoned me
My whole life has crashed
Won't you pick the pieces up
'Cause it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass

Walking on walking on broken glass
Walking on walking on broken glass
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 21, 2021, 01:12:20 PM
Inside her silver house, alone
She sings a song
Of water turned to sand
She waits, her time is her own

Inside her looking glass
Black is the color she sees
While waiting for the sun
She lives, so patiently

Young man travelling along
Passes by a window
Singing a song
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2021, 09:38:16 AM
How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain?
How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame?
Who gets to say?
Who gets to work and who gets to play?
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same.

How many times have you been told if you don't ask you don't get?
How many lads have taken your money? Your Mother said you shouldn't bet.
Who has the fun?
Is it always a man with a gun?
Someone must have told you if you work too hard you can sweat?

There's always the sun.
Mmmm
There's always the sun.
Always, always, always the sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 22, 2021, 10:17:37 AM
It's just the sun that's shinin' in your eyes
It's just the moon that is the sun's disguise
Just the sky, with clouds a blowin' by
The sun and the moon and the sky, and you and I

It's just the rain that's rollin' down my cheek
It's just the wind that makes me hear you speak
It's just the song that anyone can sing
The rain and the wind and the song and the love you bring
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 22, 2021, 01:54:14 PM
Taking stock of what I have and what I haven't
What do I find?
The things I've have will keep me satisfied.
Checking up on what I have and what I haven't
What do I find?
A healthy balance on the credit side.

Got no diamonds, got no pearls,
Still I think I'm a lucky girl,
I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night

Got no mansion, got no yacht,
Still I'm happy with what I've got
I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 25, 2021, 12:36:46 PM
In my imagination
There is no hesitation
We walk together hand in hand
I'm dreaming
You fell in love with me
Like I'm in love with you
But dreaming's all I do
If only they'd come true

I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 26, 2021, 01:07:03 PM
If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead!

A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on March 28, 2021, 11:17:25 AM
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling
'Nothing matters Mary, when you're free'
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down
Now you must raise our child with dignity

Low lie, The Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 31, 2021, 09:49:01 AM
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows I can't change.

Bye, bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah,
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it so badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 01, 2021, 12:44:56 AM
This time I have to leave
It's all too clear, it's plain to see
No use in hangin' 'round
Like a dog that cries and growls
This time I have to leave

Did you hear that I'm attached?
I'm on a dead end path
Can't you see it hurts me so?
But I really got to go

This time I have to leaveI'm gonna disappear
Stayed too long, I'll shake my tears
You gave your all, we weren't shy
So thanks again, it's been nice
This time I have to leave
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 01, 2021, 08:34:28 AM
I don't know what's worse
That you walked in my room
Smelling like her perfume
Or that I called you first
Thought that I was immune
Wouldn't let you get any closer
I shouldn't get used to you
Losing my composure
You love me being lost in you

You lie on my sheets, then lie to my face
I lie through my teeth and say I'm okay
Won't settle for a second place
You could say you warned me
But this time I mean it
I'm so sick of these dead end feelings
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 01, 2021, 10:45:20 AM
Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess

So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot...
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 01, 2021, 11:15:52 AM

The kids that fought the war are livin' outa state
And the CIA is runnin' things of late
When we elect a man, we put him on the spot
'cause if he don't play ball, he might get shot
The national security keeps it from the voters
'cause what's good for America isn't good for General Motors

We went and found ourselves some mighty strange lovers
The kind that like to blow from underneath the covers

Well millions can avoid with Dr Sigmund Freud
Those realities of life that tend to make me paranoid
Lookin' for the answer just gives me indigestion
I spent so much time, just dealin' with the question
We'd rather talk of dollars and forget about events
When what we have to decide is; Does it all make sense?

Well everybody's happy, I saw it on the news
But me, I' got a case of color TV blues

You know, just 'cause you're paranoid
Doesn't mean they're not trying t' get ya'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 01, 2021, 12:33:08 PM
Processions bear that human flare which mark a hero's welcome
For those dead and for those shed it was a big occasion
And all flags and Yankee mags which embroidered all the meaning
In an oversight, forgot the fight, which never bore elation
Yankee, to war
Yankee, head high
Yankee, in call
Yankee, we cry
Working for the Yankee dollar
Working for the Yankee dollar
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 01, 2021, 02:16:24 PM
...
From Chicachicaree to Mona's Isle
Native girls all dance and smile
Help soldier celebrate his leave
Make every day like New Year's Eve

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar
It's a fact, man, it's a fact

In old Trinidad, I also fear
The situation is mighty queer
Like the Yankee girl, the native swoon
When she hear Der Bingo croon

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar

Out on Manzanella Beach
G.I. romance with native peach
All night long, make tropic love
Next day, sit in hot sun and cool off

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar
It's a fact, man, it's a fact
...

(a bit too obvious!)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 02, 2021, 06:14:15 PM
I'm a travelin' man and I've made a lot of stops
All over the world
And in every part I own the heart
Of at least one lovely girl

I've a pretty Señorita waiting for me
Down in old Mexico
If you're ever in Alaska stop and see
My cute little Eskimo

Oh, my sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town
Makes my heart start to yearn
And my China doll down in old Hong Kong
Waits for my return

Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea
I remember the night
When we walked in the sands of the Waikiki
And I held you, oh so tight

Oh, my sweet Fraulien down in Berlin town
Makes my heart start to yearn
And my China doll down in old Hong Kong
Waits for my return

Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea
I remember the night
When we walked in the sands of the Waikiki
And I held you, oh so tight

Oh, I'm a travelin' man
Yes, I'm a travelin' man
Yes, I'm a travelin' man
Whoa, I'm a travelin' man
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2021, 01:11:52 PM
I could escape this feeling with my China girl
I feel a wreck without my little China girl
I hear her heart beating loud as thunder
Saw the stars crashing

I'm a mess without my little China girl
Wake up in the morning, where's my little China girl
I hear her heart's beating loud as thunder
I saw the stars crashing down

I feel tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China girl
I could pretend nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 04, 2021, 06:29:36 PM
This a number one champion sound (yeah)
Yeah, Estelle, we 'bout to get down (get down)
Who the hottest in the world right now? (Uh)
Just touched down in London town (uh)
Bet they give me a pound (uh)

Tell them put the money in my hand right now (yeah)
Tell the promoter we need more seats
We just sold out all the floor seats
Take me on a trip, I'd like to go some day
Take me to New York, I'd love to see L.A.
I really want to come kick it with you
You'll be my American boy

He said, "Hey, sister, it's really, really nice to meet ya"
I just met this 5-foot-7 guy who's just my type
Like the way he's speaking his confidence is peaking
Don't like his baggy jeans but I'ma like what's underneath it
And no I ain't been to MIA
I heard that Cali' never rains and New York heart awaits
First let's see the West End
I'll show you to my brethren
I'm likin' this American boy, American boy

Take me on a trip, I'd like to go some day
Take me to New York, I'd love to see L.A.
I really want to come kick it with you
You'll be my American boy, American boy

Will you be my American boy? American boy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 04, 2021, 06:45:41 PM
When he moves
I watch him from behind
He turns and laughter
Flickers in his eyes
Intent and direct when he speaks
I watch his lips

When he drives
I love to watch his hands
White and smooth
Almost feminine
Almost American
I have to watch him

In his face
Age descends on youth
Exaggeration on the truth
He caught me looking then
But soon his eyes forgot
And everything he seems to do
Reflects just another
Shade of blue
I saw her searching into you
And ached a while
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 04, 2021, 07:15:48 PM
Turn around, stand up like a man and look me in the eye
Turn around, take one final look at what you've left behind
Then walk away from the greatest lover you have ever known
Yes, walk away, you're telling me that you can make it on your own
By yourself, all alone, without my help
Mister, you just made a big mistake

You think you're a man but you're only a boy
You think you're a man; you are only a toy
You think you're a man but you just couldn't see
You weren't man enough to satisfy me

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 04, 2021, 07:20:01 PM
Humidity is rising (Mm rising), barometer's getting low (How low, girl?)
According to all sources (What sources now?)
The street's the place to go (You better hurry up)
'Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men

It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Every specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 04, 2021, 07:22:30 PM
Folks I'm looking for a worker - not you
I want an extra special kind
When I get the type of man I want
I know I'm gonna have a little time
Got to be ambitious, a man that loves to work
I don't want no man that's lazy, no man that tries to shirk
I want a two-fisted, double-jointed, rough and ready man
I want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man

Now he can be a backwards farmer or a digger in a ditch
He can even drive a garbage wagon
Honey it don't make no difference which
Long as he's a two-fisted (oh please), double-jointed, rough and ready man
I want a hard working, no shirking, good and steady man

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 06, 2021, 12:20:42 PM
I want a clean shaven man
I want a clean shaven man
If he's short or tall, doesn't matter at all
He doesn't have to be too sharp to be my razor man

I want a clean shaven man
I want a clean shaven man
Oh, how I'd behave when he takes a shave
I want a clean shaven man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFsKcjjxZM&ab_channel=OliveOyl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2021, 01:01:12 PM
Take out all your trimming scissors
Every little skincare products
Do something about your body
Cause you be lookin like a hobbit


Shave what you need to shave
Shave what you need to shave
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 06, 2021, 02:54:00 PM
Switch it up, switch it up (ooh-wah)
Yeah, eh-eh-eh
Yeah, let's go
I call my girl 'cause I got a problem
Only a curl is gonna solve it

Man, I don't really care
Just get him out my hair, yeah
Let's switch it up, get it off my shoulder
I've had enough, can't take no longer
I'm over him, I swear

I'm like, yeah

Gotta get him out my hair
Gotta get him out my hair
Gotta get him out my hair
Gotta get him out my hair
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2021, 02:57:00 PM
I was alone, I took a ride
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
Ooh, then I suddenly see you
Ooh, did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life?

You didn't run, you didn't lie
You know I wanted just to hold you
And had you gone, you knew in time
We'd meet again, for I had told you
Ooh, you were meant to be near me
Ooh, and I want you to hear me
Say we'll be together every day
Got to get you into my life

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 06, 2021, 03:03:58 PM
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
When the conch shell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down your door
You'd better run
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2021, 09:44:15 PM
Long ago,
High on a mountain in Mexico
Lived a young shepherd boy, Angelo
Who met a young girl and he loved her so

Rich was she,
Came from a very high family,
Angelo knew it could never be,
They ran away to their destiny

Running away together
Running away forever
Angelo

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 07, 2021, 12:23:01 AM
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar

Across the crowded floor, they worked from eight til four
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
At the copa (co) Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the copa (co) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the copa they fell in love
Copa, Copacabana

His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit to far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who

At the copa (co) Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the copa (co) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the copa, she lost her love
(Copa, Copacabana)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 07, 2021, 08:05:23 PM
When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs (Uh-huh)
When I roll twenty deep, it's twenty knives in the club (Yeah)
Niggas heard I fuck with Dre, now they wanna show me love
When you sell like Eminem and the hoes, they wanna fuck (Woo)
Look homie, ain't nothin' changed: hoes down, G's up
I see Xzibit in the cut, hey nigga, roll that weed up! (Roll it!)
If you watch how I move, you'll mistake me for a player or pimp
Been hit with a few shells, but I don't walk with a limp (I'm aight)
In the hood in L.A. they sayin', "50, you hot" (Uh-huh)
They like me, I want 'em to love me like they love Pac
But holla in New York, the niggas'll tell you I'm loco (Yeah)
And the plan is to put the rap game in a chokehold (Uh-huh)
I'm fully focused, man, my money on my mind
Got a mil' out the deal and I'm still on the grind (Woo)
Now shorty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' my flow (Uh-huh)
Her girlfriend with her, they bi and they ready to go (Okay)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 11, 2021, 05:55:03 PM
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she

She says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey, honey
Take a walk on the wild side"

Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head

She says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"

And the colored girls go
"Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 11, 2021, 06:14:05 PM
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware, beware

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 11, 2021, 08:01:23 PM
The dress is Chanel, the shoes YSL
The bag is Dior, agent Provocateur
My address today, L.A. by the way
Above Sunset Strip, the hills are the way
My rings are by Webster, it makes their heads twirl
They all say, darling, what did you do for those pearls?
What? I am a good girl

B.H I adore, Rodeo l'amour
Breakfast Polo Lounge and poolside for sure
The Chateau for cocktails
The Courtyard at nine
Dan Tana's for dinner, the Helen's divine
You know I have found the words going round
They all say my feet never do touch the ground
What? I am a good girl

I am a good girl
Ohh
Uhh
Ahh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2021, 04:41:24 PM
Some boys romance, some boys slow dance
That's all right with me
If they can't raise my interest, then I have to let them be
Some boys try, and some boys lie
But I don't let them play, no way
Only boys that save their pennies make my rainy day

'Cause we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 12, 2021, 08:18:37 PM
Some girls give me money, some girls buy me clothes
Some girls give me jewelry, that I never thought I'd own
Some girls give me diamonds, some girls, heart attacks
Some girls I give all my bread to, I don't ever want it back
Some girls give me jewelry, others buy me clothes
Some girls give me children, I never asked them for
So give me all your money, give me all your gold
I'll buy you a house in Baker Street, and give you half of what I own
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2021, 08:57:13 PM
You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
And in the middle of negotiations
You break down

I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
And in the middle of investigation
I break down

Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 13, 2021, 07:19:47 AM
Money
Get away
You get a good job with good pay and you're okay
Money
It's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money
Well, get back
I'm all right Jack
Keep your hands off of my stack

Money
It's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class travelling set
I think I need a Lear jet

Money
It's a crime
Share it fairly
But don't take a slice of my pie

Money
So they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a raise
It's no surprise that they're giving none away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2021, 05:23:28 PM
I work all night, I work all day
To pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad?
And still there never seems to be
A single penny left for me
That's too bad

In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all
I'd fool around and have a ball

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world

Aha-aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 14, 2021, 10:13:59 PM
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender
Good lookin' so refined
Say, wouldn't you like to know what's goin' on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender,
Spend a little time with me

Wouldn't you like to have fun, fun, fun
How's about a few laughs, laughs
I could show you a good time
Let me show you a good time!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2021, 10:05:15 AM
Well she got her daddy's car
And she cruised through the hamburger stand now
Seems she forgot all about the library
Like she told her old man now
And with the radio blasting
Goes cruising just as fast as she can now

And she'll have fun fun fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away
(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away)

Well the girls can't stand her
'Cause she walks, looks and drives like an ace now
(You walk like an ace now, you walk like an ace)
She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now
(You look like an ace now, you look like an ace)
A lotta guys try to catch her
But she leads them on a wild goose chase now
(You drive like an ace now, you drive like an ace)

And she'll have fun fun fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away
(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 15, 2021, 11:10:57 AM
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there's nothin' happening at all
Every time she put on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all
Not at all

One fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
And she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
Ooohhh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
Hey baby, rock 'n' roll

Despite all the amputation
You could dance to a rock 'n' roll station
And it was all right
It was all right
Hey babe

Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there's nothin' happening at all
Two TV sets, two Cadillac cars
Ahhh, hey, ain't help me nothin' at all
Not at all
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2021, 12:37:23 PM
It's been a long time since I rock-and-rolled.
It's been a long time since I did the Stroll.
Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back, baby, where I come from.

It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

Yes, it has.

It's been a long time since the book of love.
I can't count the tears of a life with no love.
Carry me back, carry me back, carry me back, baby, where I come from.

It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 15, 2021, 08:24:56 PM
They paint a picture
In my head
A faded photograph
I piece together
With the shreds
Of memories
Of you and me
Through the years

Then you walk
Right back
Into my world
Yesterday
Returns
And now you're
Bringing it all back home

Like a wave rushing over me
Bringing it all back home
Say you're bringing me back to your love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 15, 2021, 09:40:38 PM
...
All your seasick sailors
They are rowing home
Your empty handed army
Is all going home

Your lover, who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, baby blue

Leave your stepping stones behind
Now, something that calls for you
Forget the dead you've left
They will not follow you

The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, baby blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 16, 2021, 09:17:02 AM
-I-I-I-I'm not your steppin' stone
I-I-I-I-I'm not your steppin' stone

You're trying to make your mark in society
You're using all the tricks that you used on me
You're reading all them high-fashion magazines
The clothes you're wearing, girl, they're causing public scenes

I said, I-I-I-I-I'm not your steppin' stone
I-I-I-I-I'm not your steppin' stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2021, 10:31:53 AM
If I could I'd like to be, a great big movie star
Overnight sensation, drive a big expensive car
I would buy you everything your little heart desires
These things I do, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
(Stone in love with you)

If I were a business man, I'd sit behind a desk
I'd be so successful, I would scare wall street to death
I would hold a meeting for the press to let them know
I did it all, 'cause I'm stone in love with you
(Stone in love with you)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 16, 2021, 12:34:52 PM
You've got a good heart
But I know it changes
A restless tide, untameable
You came my way, and I knew a storm could come too
You'd lift me high, or let me fall
But I took your hand, promised I'd withstand
Any blaze you blew my way
'Cause something inside, it solidified
And I knew I'd always stay

You can build me up, you can tear me down
You can try but I'm unbreakable
You can do your best, but I'll stand the test
You'll find that I'm unshakeable
When the fire's burnt
When the wind has blown
When the water's dried, you'll still find stone
My heart of stone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2021, 12:40:29 PM
I hear a lot of stories
I suppose they could be true
All about love and what it can do to you
Highest risk of striking out
The risk of getting hurt
And still, I have so much to learn

I know, 'cause I think about it all the time
I know, that real love has quite a price

And a good heart, these days, is hard to find (a good heart)
True love, the lasting kind
A good heart, these days, is hard to find
So please be gentle with this heart of mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 16, 2021, 09:17:38 PM
Gently my mind escapes into the relaxing mode of pleasure
A pleasure that will take my mind off the reality of life
My past life
Life as I know it know
And whatever may come it slowly disappears
To somewhere in the back of my mind
It will remain there until I wish to retrieve it

Yes I will stay here for awhile for I need the break
A break from the pressures of life
And everything that lay in the palm of life's hands, life's hands
This mode is incredible
It's out of this world
Too bad I must always leave it
But that's life
That's life, that's life, that's life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 16, 2021, 11:13:06 PM
That's life (that's life) that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June

I said, that's life (that's life) and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down
'Cause this fine old world it keeps spinnin' around

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate
A poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life (that's life) I tell ya, I can't deny it
I thought of quitting, baby
But my heart just ain't gonna buy it
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2021, 09:12:36 AM
Pull the string and I'll wink at you
I'm your puppet
I'll do funny things if you want me to
I'm your puppet

Mm, I'm yours to have and to hold
Darling, you've got full control of your puppet

Pull them little strings and I'll kiss your lips
I'm your puppet
Snap your fingers and I'll turn you some flips
I'm your puppet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 17, 2021, 10:31:49 AM
Marina, Aqua Marina,
What are these strange enchantments that start whenever you're near?

Marina, Aqua Marina,
Why can't you whisper the words my heart is longing to hear?

Your magic to me, a beautiful mystery.
I'm certain to fall I know, because you enthrall me so.

Marina, Aqua Marina,
Why don't you say, that you'll always stay, close to my heart.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 17, 2021, 01:09:30 PM
Spring break's come around and
There's no heroes to be found
There's something major going down on Tracy Island
Weapons underground
Keeping our planet safe and sound
If someone evil's coming round they should be frightened
'Cause now the boys are back in town
No strings to hold them down

Don't be mad please, stop the hating
Just be glad that they'll be waiting
Friends we have are ever changing
Now the lid's about to blow
When the Thunderbirds are go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2021, 02:56:44 PM
Watched him coming up Winslow
Down South Park Boulevard
Looking good from tail to hood
Great big fins and painted steel
Man, it looked just like the Batmobile
With my old man behind the wheel
Well, you could hardly even see him in all that chrome
The man with the plan and a pocket comb
But every night it carried home
And I could hear him saying

Don't you give me no Buick
Son,  you must take my word
If there's a God up in Heaven
He's got a silver Thunderbird
You can keep your El Dorado
Man, the foreign car's absurd
Me, I wanna go down
In a silver Thunderbird

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 17, 2021, 06:01:50 PM
I love that car,
My number one star,
At the Silver Hatch, In his little white cap,
Come one Roary, One more lap!

Roary the racing car,
Roary the number one star,
He's coming to the line, Looking real fine,
Watch out Roary, They're right behind you,
Come on!

Roary the racing car,
Roary, My number one star
Roary the racing car!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2021, 06:05:55 PM
Have you ever had a ride in a light blue car?
Have you ever stopped to think who's the slave and who's the master?
Have you ever had trouble with your automobile?
Have you ever had to push push push push?
Cartrouble oh yeah

You might have seen them very busy at the weekends (oh oh)
Lick lick and polishing the beep-beeps into shape
And then its proudly up the M1 M2 M3
And keep your feet off the upholstery Ronnie
Cartrouble oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 17, 2021, 07:16:21 PM
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, "baby, can't you see
I want to be famous, a star on the screen
But you can do something in between
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you"

I told a girl that my prospects were good
And she said, "baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you"

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 17, 2021, 11:25:15 PM
 If you wanna make me happy, here is all you gotta do
Take me where you're going and I'll take care of you
'Cause I got this need that's growing to keep you satisfied
And if you keep your green light showing well you can take me for a ride

'Cause I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby everywhere

Well, I like the way you're moving, and I like a the way you go
I like the way you let your locomotion show
'Cause my drivin' wheel is drivin' and my piston's working good
And if your motor gives you some trouble baby, I'll take a look underneath your hood (yes, I would)

'Cause I la la la la la la love you
And I la la la la la la care
And I really want you with me baby everywhere
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2021, 11:45:11 PM
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye
 He'll never love you, the way that I love you
 'Cause if he did, no no, he wouldn't make you cry .
He might be thrillin' baby but a-my love (My love, my love)
 So dog-gone willin', so kiss him (I wanna see you kiss him, wanna see you kiss him)
Go on and kiss him goodbye, now
 Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 18, 2021, 09:45:56 PM
The future is bulletproof
The aftermath is secondary
It's time to do it now and do it loud
Killjoys, make some noise
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Na-na, na-na, na-na

Drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs
I don't need it, but I'll sell what you got
Take the cash and I'll keep it
Eight legs to the wall
Hit the gas, kill 'em all
And we crawl, and we crawl, and we crawl
You be my detonator
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2021, 10:27:55 PM
I said I don't think I can take it much longer
She said maybe your tabloid should be stronger
Get some serious drugs
Get some serious drugs
Toytown medicine don't make a change
If you want your head rearranged
Get some serious drugs
Get some serious drugs

The trouble with me
I can't give in you see
The trouble with me
I can't give in you see

I'd cut off my hair if you want me to
I'd cut off a finger if it'd get me
Your serious love
I've got serious love
I said I don't think I can much longer
She said maybe your tabloid should be stronger
Get some serious drugs
Get some serious drugs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 19, 2021, 09:43:58 PM
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears

Tell me, sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor
Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score

Well it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Please, sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 20, 2021, 08:57:39 PM
Now there was a time when they used to say
That behind every - "great man."
There had to be a - "great woman."
But in these times of change you know
That it's no longer true.
So we're comin' out of the kitchen
'Cause there's somethin' we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doin' it for themselves.
Standin' on their own two feet.
And ringin' on their own bells.
Sisters are doin' it for themselves.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 23, 2021, 05:18:46 PM
Ring them bells ye heathen from the city that dreams
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams
For they're deep and they're wide
And the world on its side
And time is running backwards
And so is the bride.

Ring them bells Saint Peter where the four winds blow
Ring them bells with an ironhand
So the people will know
Oh it's rush hour now
On the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down upon the sacred cow.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 23, 2021, 09:36:18 PM
Ring the living bell
Ring the living bell
Shine the living light
Shine the living light
Ring the living bell
Ring the living bell

Been celebrating 'way too long
An' I've been drinkin', I'm ashamed to tell
Still feel thirsty
God I want to drink the water from the well
Still feel thirsty
God I want to drink and ring the living bell
Ring the bell, ah
Ring the living bell
Still feel thirsty
God, I want to give and ring the living bell
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 23, 2021, 10:04:15 PM
Gather around, I've got a story to tell, About a Manhattan lady that I know very well
She lives at five Riverside, her name is Shirley Devore, And she travelled 'round the world to meet the guy next door

Well there was trouble inside apartment 29 E, 'Cause Shirley's mother and dad were as upset as can be
They said we hate to complain dear and we don't like to grouse, But your nearly 32, you should get out of the house

You gotta ring them bells, you gotta ring them bells, You gotta make 'em sing and really ring them bells
It's such a happy thing to hear 'em ting-a-ling, You gotta ring - them - bells
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2021, 06:25:03 AM
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's busy
Too busy to come to the phone
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's trying
To start a new life of her own
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's happy
So why don't you leave her alone?

And the operator says forty cents more
For the next three minutes

Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her awhile
Please, Mrs. Avery, I just want to tell her goodbye
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packing
She's gonna be leaving today
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying
A fella down Galveston way
Sylvia's mother says please don't say nothing
To make her start crying and stay

And the operator says forty cents more
For the next three minutes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2021, 06:11:16 PM
I went to my apartment on a Monday at one
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky bum, shicky bum
Started movin' in it on a Tuesday at two
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky do, shicky do
Wednesday at three I called the phone company, singin':
"Hey baby, put a phone in for me"
Thursday at four he came a-knockin' at my door, singin':

"Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby, I'm your telephone man"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2021, 06:52:18 PM
Don't act like you don't see me around
You see me everyday in the ends
A box of mixtapes in the boot of the car
I might be going up North for the week
If I come back on a bassline ting
That don't mean that I think grime's dead
Never that fam, I'll keep it alive
Everyone knows what I represent
SWITCH!

I be the guy they can't catch
I be like gimme the mic you can't rap
Your killin' the vibey last track
Must have been written in five or half that
I'm bringin' the hype your bars lack
You'll be sittin' inside the car mad
Until you're sick of the sight of tarmac
I am livin' the life I can't act

Don't phone me just cuz you got my number
Don't ask what I'm on, don't ask what I'm under
Don't phone me just cuz you got my number
Don't ask what I'm on, don't ask what I'm under
Don't phone me just cuz you got my number
Don't ask what I'm on, don't ask what I'm under
Don't phone me just cuz you got my number
Got my number, got my number
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2021, 07:14:23 PM
I'll pick you up
In my car
Take you home
Its not far

If you wanna ...
Do it - do it - do it - do it

Why don't you ring my number ?
Why don't you ring my number now ?

Let's say goodbye
I couldn't stand it
You've got my number
Why don't you use it ?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2021, 07:18:27 PM
I may be wrong
But just as long, as I can have my say
I won't be true, to only you
It's gotta be that way
While I'm young
I'll have fun

There's so much to do
So don't tie me down
Don't wait around
And don't call me, I'll call you

You seem so sure
Actin' like your the only boy in town
But your so wise oh-oh-oh-oh
There are other guys I'd like be around

Why should I, date just one guy
When I-I can date a few
So just bide your time, wait in line
And don't call me, I'll call you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2021, 07:24:18 PM



Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your colour chart
I know where you're comin' from
Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) my love
You can call me any day or night
Call me

Cover me with kisses, baby
Cover me with love
Roll me in designer sheets
I'll never get enough
Emotions come, I don't know why
Cover up love's alibi

Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) oh my love
When you're ready we can share the wine
Call me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 24, 2021, 07:28:10 PM
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call

Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

I heard your mother, now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?
Oh, why can't we talk again?

Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 24, 2021, 08:15:51 PM
Please send me a letter
Make me feel better
Darling please
Send me a letter
Make me feel better
Oh, darling please
 
When you went away
You said you'd write home everyday
But nothing appeared
You haven't sent a single word
What are you doing?
What has gone wrong?
Were you just fooling all along?
 
You tell me to wait
Will you return
It's getting late
You left me alone
Promised me that you'd soon be home
I'm sick with worry
Waiting patiently
I wish you'd hurry back to me
 
Please send me a letter
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2021, 09:01:34 AM
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm-a goin' home
Oh, my baby, just-a wrote me a letter

I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm-a goin' home
Oh, my baby, just-a wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen, mister, can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once-a more
Anyway, yeah!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 25, 2021, 10:36:30 AM
I gave a letter to the postman
He put it his sack
Bright early next morning
He brought my letter back

Return to sender, address unknown
No such number, no such zone
We had a quarrel, a lover's spat
I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back

So then I dropped it in the mailbox
And sent it special D
Bright and early next morning
It came right back to me

Return to sender, address unknown
No such person, no such zone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2021, 10:54:10 AM
(Stop)
Oh yes, wait a minute Mister Postman
(Wait)
Wait Mister Postman

Please Mister Postman, look and see
(Oh yeah)
If there's a letter in your bag for me
(Please, Please Mister Postman)
Why's it takin' such a long time
(Oh yeah)
For me to hear from that boy of mine

There must be some word today
From my boyfriend so far away
Please Mister Postman, look and see
If there's a letter, a letter for me

I've been standin' here waitin' Mister Postman

So patiently
For just a card, or just a letter
Sayin' he's returnin' home to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2021, 11:09:36 AM
The hand that wrote this letter sweeps the pillow clean
So rest your head and read a treasured dream
I care for no one else but you
I tear my soul to cease the pain
I think maybe you feel the same
What can we do?

I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do
So I've been writing just for you

They say your life is going very well
They say you sparkle like a different girl
But something tells me that you hide
When all the world is warm and tired
You cry a little in the dark
Well so do I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2021, 01:08:33 PM
Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I'm not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write

I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
And, darling, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart

I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
And, darlin', then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2021, 12:37:45 AM
Two o'clock in the mornin'
I'm sleepin'
And something wakes me but I don't know what it is
[Computer goes:] "You've got mail."
It's my ex, prob'ly just misses my sex
Lemme get up and see what the deal
What the hell?!
It's cryin' faces
All over my screen
And a picture of her eye
Try to tell myself
This ain't nothing to L-O-L about
Gotta be serious
'cause usually she'd call but this time my baby done...

Sent Me An Email
With all the details
She said she want me back and she don't care what she gotta do for me
She couldn't say it in person
She put it all in words
And I don't know what to say
Dot. Dot. Dot. (Da - da - da - da)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2021, 11:01:28 AM
The grand old painter died last night
His paintings on the wall
Before he went, he bade us well
And said goodnight to us all

"Drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more"
"Drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more"

3 o'clock in the morning, I'm getting ready for bed
It came without a warning
But I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be waiting for you there

So drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more
Drink to me, drink to my health
You know I can't drink any more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2021, 09:32:16 PM
What good can drinkin' do, what good can drinkin' do?
Lord, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue.
There's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain,
And there's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain.
But I drink it down, an' the next day I feel the same.
Gimme whiskey, gimme bourbon, give me gin.
Oh, gimme whiskey, give me bourbon, gimme gin.
Cause it don't matter what I'm drinkin', Lord, as long as it drown this sorrow I'm in.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2021, 09:44:11 PM
Oh, Sam done something fine
When he bought that good whiskey, beer and wine
I love my whiskey and I love my gin
Every time you see me I'm in my sin
So what's the use of getting sober
When you're gonna get drunk again
I went out last night about half past one
Thought I'd whoop it up a little and have some fun
I got me a half pint about half past two
Mmm, mmm, the way I was feeling you know what I wanna do
Got me a pint about half past four
Felt so good, went out and got me some more
Got me a quart about half past five
Boy, that was so nice didn't know if I was dead or alive
So what's the use of getting sober
If you're gonna get drunk again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2021, 11:38:09 PM
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you

just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you-oo-oo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2021, 01:13:52 AM
Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I won't forget a single day, believe me.

I bless the light,
I bless the light that lights on you believe me.
And though you're gone,
You're with me every single day, believe me.

Days I'll remember all my life,
Days when you can't see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me,
But it's all right,
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me.

I wish today could be tomorrow,
The night is dark,
It just brings sorrow anyway.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 27, 2021, 01:04:53 PM
Love that, takes me bakc to the radio in childhood. So does this:-

Dirty old river
Must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night?
People so busy
Make me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
(Sha-la-la) But chilly, chilly is evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)

Terry meets Julie
Waterloo Station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy
Don't want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2021, 03:51:50 PM

She's not a picture above somebody's fire
She sits in a towel with a purple hair dryer
She waits to get even with me
She hooks up her cupcakes and puts on her jumper
Explains that she'll be late to a worrying mother
She meets me in Piccadilly
A begging folk singer stands tall by the entrance
His song relays worlds of most good intentions
A fiver a ten p in his hat for collection

She talks about office she talks about dresses
She's seen one she fancies her smile is impressing
So maybe I'll treat her someday
We queue among strangers and strange conversation
Love's on the lips of all forms of engagements
All queuing to see tonight's play
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 27, 2021, 04:26:03 PM
It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before
And juggled away the night for the same old crowd
These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor
As here once again they strut and they fret their hour
I see those half-familiar faces in the second row
Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes
But where or when we met like this last time I just don't know
It's like a chord that rings and never dies
For infinity

And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes
Are waiting around for someone to call their names
They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing-rooms
And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames
But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago
In some play in Paris or Madrid?
And was I there among them then, in some travelling show
And is it all still locked inside my head
For infinity
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 27, 2021, 04:29:56 PM
Quiet please, there's a lady on stage
She may not be the latest rage
But she's singing and she means it
And she deserves a little silence

Quiet please, there's a woman up there
And she's been honest through her songs
Long before your consciousness was raised
Now doesn't that deserve a little praise

So put your hands together and help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation
And give her one last celebration

Quiet please, there's a person up there
Who's singing of the things
That none of us could bear to hear for ourselves
Give her your respect if nothing else
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2021, 04:33:20 PM
Pearl's a singer
And they say that she once cut a record
They played it for a week or so
On the local radio, it never made it

She wanted to be Betty Grable
But now she sits there at that beer stained table
Dreaming of the things she never got to do
All those dreams that never came true

Pearl's a singer
She stands up when she plays the piano
In a nightclub

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 27, 2021, 05:12:34 PM
In a small cafe on a crowded night
In a spot of light stands the singer
Then the band begins and the beat is strong
And the room belongs to the singer
All the people turn to hear her sad refrain
And catch the cry of pain that's in her song
But in her haunted face and in her searching eyes
There is a sign that something's wrong

Now the eager crowd hangs on every word
But the sounds are slurred by the singer
Til' the people feel every aching part
Of the broken heart of the singer
Still the song goes on about a love she knew
That seemed so sure, so true, but turned out wrong
And from the tears she shows nobody really knows
Is she the singer or the song?
Is she the singer or the song?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2021, 05:28:39 PM
Flowers are smiling bright
Smiling for our delight
Smiling so tenderly
For the world, you and me

I know why the world is smiling
Smiling so tenderly
Its just the same old story
Thru all eternity

Love, this is my song
Here is a song, a serenade to you
The world cannot be wrong
If in this world there's you
I care not what the world may say
Without your love there is no day
So Love, this is my song
Here is a song, a serenade to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 27, 2021, 05:35:52 PM
Ah Chaplin. Apparently, Harry Secombe was the first to record this and could not get past the line "I care not what the world may say" without bursting out laughing, he found the lyrics risible. Details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_My_Song_(1967_song)

Anyway I digress, here's another Chaplin:

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through
for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you’ll just
Smile
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2021, 05:44:47 PM
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember, I remember, all that you said
You told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and

Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
I cried a river over you
I cried a river...over you...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 27, 2021, 06:07:41 PM
I was all right for awhile
I could smile for awhile
But I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say, "Hello"

Oh, you wished me well
You, you couldn't tell
That I'd been crying over you
Crying over you

When you said, "So long"
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying
Crying, crying

It's hard to understand
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 28, 2021, 12:09:49 AM

When paradise is no longer fit for you to live in
And your adolescent dreams are gone
Through the days you feel a little used up
And you don't know where your energy's gone wrong
It's just your soul feelin' a little downhearted
Sometimes life is too ridiculous to live
You count your friends all on one finger
I know it sounds crazy just the way that we live

Between a laugh and a tear
Smile in the mirror as you walk by
Between a laugh and a tear
And that's as good as it can get for us
And there ain't no reason to stop tryin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 28, 2021, 10:59:31 PM
Whenever you're near I hide my tears
Behind a painted smile
You can't imagine the tears and sorrow
Behind a painted smile

My life's a masquerade
A world of let's pretend, yeah
Since you took your love
Pretending never ends, yeah

But I can't let you know
That I still need you so, no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 29, 2021, 12:03:05 AM
Oh-oh, yes I'm the great pretender
Pretending that I'm doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell

Oh-oh, yes I'm the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I've played the game but to my real shame
You've left me to grieve all alone

Too real is this feeling of make-believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 29, 2021, 06:36:16 PM
Your name was Patty
But now it's Kay
Girl, you seem to change it every day.

Your hair was long
But now it's short
You say, "I got it cut!"
But I don't see no hair upon the floor.
Whenever I go out with you
I find out something new.

You're a fake, baby
You can't conceal it
Know how I know?
'Cause I can feel it.

You're a fake, baby
No rhyme or reason
'Cause in your mind
It's lyin' season.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 29, 2021, 06:45:24 PM
Although I'm not making plans
I hope that you understand there's a reason why
Close your, close your, close your eyes

No more broken hearts
We're better off apart let's give it a try
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 29, 2021, 10:08:19 PM
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me

Well, I gave you everything I had
But you left me sitting on my own
Did you have to treat me oh, so bad?
All I do is hang my head and moan

Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me

If there's something I have said or done
Tell me what and I'll apologize
If you don't, I really can't go on
Holding back these tears in my eyes

Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 29, 2021, 10:18:54 PM
City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man and she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace and go in style

Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is only
Given to a man with hands as cold as ice

So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend who's feelin' down
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'
She is headed for the cheatin' side of town

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lying eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 29, 2021, 10:19:06 PM
Where do you go after midnight
When all the doors should be closed
Your alibis just don't sound right
I asked but nobody knows
How can you look in the eyes
And make it sound so very nice
With those True Lies

Someone's been sleepin' in my bed
This room don't smell like you and me
Who's that been sneakin' out the window
Do you think I'm too blind to see
When you look me in the eyes
And, make it sound so very nice
With those True Lies
It was a clever disguise
But, girl, I'm gettin' wise
To your True Lies
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 29, 2021, 11:52:19 PM
You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair, yes, there are

You live in a fancy apartment
Off the Boulevard St. Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes, you do

But where do you go to, my lovely
When you're alone in your bed?
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes, I do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2021, 10:24:04 AM
(a-wa) O kodwa u zo-nge li-sa namhlange
(a-wa a-wa) Si-bona kwenze ka kanjani
(a-wa a-wa) Amanto mbazane ayeza

She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing Ta na na
Ta na na na
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2021, 10:31:05 AM
This will be the day
That you will hear me say
That I will never run away

I am here for you
Love is meant for two
Now tell me what u're gonna do

If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
But all I can do is just offer you my love

Which one of us is right
If we always fight
Why can't we just let love decide (Let love decide)

Am I the weaker man
Because I understand
That love must be the master plan (Love is the master plan)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2021, 10:33:38 AM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand
May be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

A kiss may be grand
But it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat

Men grow cold
As girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end

But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't loose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2021, 12:30:47 PM
You've got your nuclear boots
And your drip dry glove
Ooh, when you bite your lip
It's some reaction to
Love, oh..ove, oh..ove

(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
Yeah, I think you'll flip
(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
(Here she comes again)
I kinda like the way
I like the way she dips

'Cause she's my best friend's girl
Well, she's my best friend's girl
And she used to be mine
She's so fine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on April 30, 2021, 03:48:01 PM
The way she walks
The way she talks
How long can I pretend
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
with the girl of my best friend

Her lovely hair
Her skin so fair
I could go on and never end
Oh I can't help it, I'm in love
With the girl of my best friend

I want to tell her how I love her so
And then hold her in my arms but then
What if she got real mad and told him so
I could never face either one again

oh the way they kiss
Their happiness
Will my aching heart ever mend
Or will I always be in love
With the girl of my best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2021, 03:54:51 PM
You placed gold on my finger
You brought love like I've never known
You gave life to our children
And to me a reason to go on.

You're my bread when I'm hungry
You're my shelter from troubled winds
You're my anchor in life's ocean
But most of all you're my best friend.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2021, 04:36:16 PM
Goldfinger, he's the man, the man with the Midas touch
A spider's touch
Such a cold finger beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don't go in

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can't disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her
It's the kiss of death from Mister

Goldfinger, pretty girl, beware of this heart of gold
This heart is cold
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2021, 04:39:20 PM
Thank you for coming home
I'm sorry that the chairs are all worn
I left them here I could have sworn

These are my salad days
Slowly being eaten away
Just another play for today
Oh but I'm proud of you, but I'm proud of you

Nothing left to make me feel small
Luck has left me standing so tall

Gold (Gold)
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
Always believe in, 'cos you are
Gold (Gold)
Glad that you're bound to return
There's something I could have learned
You're indestructible, always believing
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2021, 04:44:09 PM
Captain Scarlet,
As the Angels are flying wing to wing,
Into the scene, Spectrum Is Green.

Captain Scarlet,
Though the Mysteron's plan to conquer the earth,
This indestructible man will show what he's worth.
Captain Scarlet
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2021, 04:49:48 PM

I peeked in to say goodnight
And then I heard my child in prayer
Send for me some scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for my hair.

All the stores were locked and shuttered
All the streets were dark and bare
In our town no scarlet ribbons
No scarlet ribbons for her hair.

Through the night my heart was aching
Just before the dawn was breaking.

I peeked in and on her bed
In gay profusion laying there
Scarlet ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Pretty scarlet ribbons for her hair.

If I live to be a hundred
I will never know from where
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 01, 2021, 06:34:50 PM
Isn't she lovely?
Isn't she wonderful?
Isn't she precious?
Less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely made from love?

Isn't she pretty?
Truly the angel's best
Boy, I'm so happy
We have been heaven blessed
I can't believe what God has done
Through us He's given life to one
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 01, 2021, 08:58:18 PM
No-one on earth could feel like this
I'm thrown and overblown with bliss
There must be an angel
Playing with my heart
And when I think that I'm alone
It seems there's more of us at home
It's a multitude of angels
And they're playing with my heart

Must be talking to an angel
Must be talking to an angel
Must be talking to an angel


I must be hallucinating
Watching angels celebrating
Could this be reactivating
All my senses dislocating?
This must be a strange deception
By celestial intervention
Leaving me the recollection
Of your heavenly connection

I walk into an empty room
And suddenly my heart goes "boom"
It's an orchestra of angels
And they're playing with my heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 01, 2021, 09:27:35 PM
You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise

You fooled me with your kisses
You cheated and you schemed
Heaven knows how you lied to me
You're not the way you seemed

You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise

You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 02, 2021, 03:50:34 PM
I've had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast

She's just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She's gonna get you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 02, 2021, 04:05:11 PM
A long, long time ago,
In the land of idiot boys,
There live a cat, a phenomenal cat,
Who loved to wallow all day.

No one bothered him
As he sat, content in his tree.
He just lived to eat 'cause it kept him fat,
And that's how he wanted to stay.

Though he was big and fat,
All the world was good to him,
And he pointed out on the map
All the places he had been.
[Cowes, Cathage,Karthom,Cannes?], [India,Sardinia?], Kathmandu,
The Scilley Isles and Sahara, too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 03, 2021, 10:53:05 PM
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
You're taking all the sunshine away
Making out like you're the main line (I knew that)
'Cause you're a cool cat
Tapping on the toe with a new hat
Ooh just cruising
Driving along like the swing king

Feeling the beat of my heart, huh!
Feeling the beat of my heart
Ooh you're a cool cat
Coming on strong with all the chit chat
Ooh you're alright
Hanging out and stealing all the limelight
Ooh messing with the beat of my heart yeah!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2021, 11:13:51 PM
Ooh wah, ooh wah cool, cool kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
Ooh wah, ooh wah c'mon kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City

He's kind of tall
He's really fine
Some day I hope to make him mine, all mine
And he's neat
And oh so sweet
And just the way he looked at me
He swept me off my feet
Ooh whee, you ought to come and see
How he walks
And how he talks

Ooh wah, ooh wah cool, cool kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 04, 2021, 10:18:10 PM
What's new, pussycat? Woah, woah
What's new, pussycat? Woah, woah, woah
Pussycat, pussycat, I've got flowers
And lots of hours to spend with you
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose

Pussycat, pussycat, I love you, yes, I do
You and your pussycat nose

What's new, pussycat? Woah, woah
What's new, pussycat? Woah, woah, woah

Pussycat, pussycat, you're so thrilling
And I'm so willing to care for you
So go and make up your big little pussycat eyes

Pussycat, pussycat, I love you, yes, I do
You and your pussycat eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2021, 08:41:19 AM
What's new? How is the world treating you?
You haven't changed a bit, lovely as ever, I must admit
What's new? How did that romance come through?
We haven't met since then, gee, but it's nice to see you again
What's new? Probably I'm boring you
But seeing you is grand, and you were sweet to offer your hand
I understand. Adieu! Pardon my asking what's new
Of course you couldn't know, I haven't changed, I still love you so


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 06, 2021, 05:12:22 PM
What now, my love, now that you left me?
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes
And all my hopes into bits of clay?

Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I'm numb, I've become unreal
I walk the night, oh, without a goal
Stripped of my heart, my soul

What now, my love, now that it's over?
I feel the world closing in on me
Here comes the stars tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be

What now, my love, now that you're gone?
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live or die
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2021, 05:49:23 PM
You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
(You can actually try changing it)

I know we've always been taught to rely
Upon those in authority
But you never know until you try
How things just might be
(If we came together so strongly, yeah)

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change
Yes an' walls come tumbling down

(Governments crack and systems fall
'Cause unity is powerful)
Lights go out
Walls come tumbling down
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 06, 2021, 06:07:45 PM
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darling, I can't stand it
When you look at me that way

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around

Ooh, darling, when you're near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions
Are something I just can't tame
I've just got to have you, baby, uh huh huh uh huh huh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2021, 06:24:53 PM



June is bustin' out all over
All over the meader and the hill
 Flowers bustin' out on bushes
 And the roughen river pushes
 Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill
June is bustin' out all over
The ocean is full of Jacks and Jills
 With the little tail is swishing'
Ev'ry lady fish is wishin' that a male would come
And grab 'er by the gills
 Because it's June, June, June, June
Just because it's June, June, June!
Fresh and alive and gay and young
June is a love song, sweety song
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 06, 2021, 06:36:39 PM
Down in the meadow in a
little bitty pool
Swam three little fishies
And a mama fishie too
"Swim," said the mama fishie,
"Swim if you can."
And they swam and they swam all
over the dam

Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
And they swam and they swam
right over the dam
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 08, 2021, 06:12:42 PM
When the weather is fine you know it's the time
For messin' about on the river
If you take my advice there's nothing so nice
As messin' about on the river
There's big boats and wee boats ands all kinds of craft
Puffers and keel boats and some with no raft
With the wind in your face there's no finer place
Than messin' about on the river

There are boats made from kits that'll reach you in bits
For messin' about on the river
And you might want to skull in a glass fibred hull
Go messin' about on the river
Anchors and tillers and rudders and cleets
Ropes that are sometimes referred to as sheets
With the wind in your face there's no finer place
Than messin' about on the river
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 10, 2021, 10:59:15 AM
I see your eyes light up like fire
It's medicine to me
But as the hunted live their lives
You're keeping out of reach

So i keep running, falling
Till i reach the water
Run with me holyman
But when i reach out
I find i'm standing right beside her
Now we're living
Blessed with all the thunder in the world

Now, should you ask me to come home
To wake up from the sleep
Like a boat inside a storm
Is there no hope for me?

So i keep running, falling
Wade into the water
Run with me riverman
But when i reach out
I find i'm standing right beside her
Now we're living
Blessed with all the thunder in the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 18, 2021, 01:30:31 PM
It was late at night on the open road
Speeding like a man on the run
A lifetime spent preparing for the journey
He is closer now and the search is on
Reading from a map in the mind

Yes there's the ragged hill
And there's the boat on the river
And when the rain came down
He heard a wild dog howl
There were voices in the night, ("Don't do it")
Voices out of sight, ("Don't do it")
Too many men have failed before

"Whatever you do
Don't pay the ferryman
Don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman
Until he gets you to the other side"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 18, 2021, 06:43:55 PM
Oh the little boats are gone from the breast of Anna Liffey
The ferrymen are stranded on the quay
Sure the Dublin docks are dying and a way of life is gone
And Molly it was part of you and me

Where the strawberry beds sweep down to the Liffey
You kiss away the worries from my brow
I love you well today and I love you more tomorrow
If you ever loved me Molly love me now

'Twas the only job I know, it was hard but never lonely
The Liffey ferry made a man of me
Now it's gone without a whisper half forgotten even now
And it's over, Molly, over can't you see
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 19, 2021, 01:14:43 PM
I come from down in the valley
Where, mister, when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We drive out of this valley
Down to where the fields were green
We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh, down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
And man, that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday
I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh, down to the river we did ride
Yeah, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 19, 2021, 01:26:07 PM
Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watchin' for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms, I'd go sailin'

It's far beyond a star
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'

I know beyond a doubt, ah!
My heart will lead me there soon
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 20, 2021, 03:02:03 PM
Sometimes I feel you are cheating me
Then you kiss me and my mind is free
But then I think I should let you know that
I've got friends - so baby listen to me....

A shooting star will shoot you and Mars will go to war
The man in the moon will jump on you if you don't love me no more....

I saw you in someone else's car
You told me that - he won't go too far
That may be so but you let him know that
I've got friends, so baby listen to me....


You tell me then I'm the man for you
But you do things you should never do
So now, hear this warning once again, yes,
I've got friends, so baby listen to me....
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2021, 04:18:41 PM
Mott the Hoople and the game of Life yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'll see you in heaven if you make the list yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby
Are we losing touch?

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 20, 2021, 07:46:34 PM
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
You can waste your time on the other rides
This is the nearest to being alive
Oh let me take my chances on the Wall Of Death

You can go with the crazy people in the Crooked House
You can fly away on the Rocket or spin in the Mouse
The Tunnel Of Love might amuse you
Noah's Ark might confuse you
But let me take my chances on the Wall Of Death

On the Wall Of Death all the world is far from me
On the Wall Of Death it's the nearest to being free.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2021, 08:03:28 PM
Fat man sitting on a little stool
Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you
Hands me the ticket smiles and whispers good luck
Cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove
We'll ride down baby into this tunnel of love

I can feel the soft silk of your blouse
And them soft thrills in our little fun house
Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us
You me and all that stuff we're so scared of
Gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 20, 2021, 11:57:26 PM
Well, I won't pretend to know what you're thinking
And I can't begin to know what you're going through
And I won't deny the pain that you're feeling
But I'm gonna try and give a little hope to you
Just remember what I told you
There's so much your living for

There's a light at the end of this tunnel
There's a light at the end of this tunnel for you, for you
And there's a light at the end of this tunnel
Shining bright at the end of this tunnel for you, for you
So keep holding on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 21, 2021, 12:15:30 AM

Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
No, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 21, 2021, 10:10:37 PM
There's a light
A certain kind of light
That never shone on me
I want my life to be lived with you
Lived with you

There's a way everybody say
To do each and every little thing
But what does it bring
If I ain't got you, ain't got?

You don't know what it's like, baby
You don't know what it's like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 21, 2021, 10:49:31 PM
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(take a look at yourself)
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord, what you're doing to me

I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody (somebody), somebody (somebody)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

I work hard (he works hard) every day of my life
I work 'til I ache my bones
At the end (at the end of the day) I take home (takes home) my hard-earned pay all
(goes home on his own) on my own

I go down (down) on my knees (knees)
And I start to pray (praise the Lord)
'Til the tears run down from my eyes
Lord, somebody (somebody), somebody (please)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

(he works hard) everyday (everyday)
I try, and I try, and I try

But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm goin' crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
I got no common sense (he's got)
I got nobody left to believe in
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 22, 2021, 02:21:12 PM
Need someone's hand to lead me through the night
I need someone's arms to hold and squeeze me tight
Now, when the night begins, I'm at an end
Because I need your love so bad

I need some lips to feel next to mine
I need someone to stand up and tell me when I'm lyin'
And when the lights are low, and it's time to go
That's when I need your love so bad

So why don't you give it up, and bring it home to me
Or write it on a piece of paper, baby, so it can be read to me
Tell me that you love me, and stop drivin' me mad
Ooh, because I, I need your love so bad

Need your soft voice, that talked to me at night
I don't want you to worry, baby
I know we can make everything alright
Listen to my plea, baby, bring it to me
Because I need your love so bad
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 22, 2021, 04:31:41 PM
Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for a place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come to look for a king

Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance

You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine
Oh, yeah

You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on May 24, 2021, 01:37:13 AM
Aw, that's nice, quite Eurovision-y.

I'm in a dancing mood.
I'm in a dancing mood.
I'm in a dancing mood.

When you feel the beat,
You've got to move your feet,
You've got to clap your hands.
You've got all the soul,
Deep inside,
Coz you can't hide.

I'm in a dancing mood.

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 29, 2021, 09:57:38 AM
I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing
Ooh I'm giving it all tonight
I'm in the mood for chancing
I feel like dancing
Ooh so come on and hold me tight

Dancing, (dancing) I'm in the mood, babe
So let the music play
Ooh I'm dancing, (dancing) I'm in the groove, babe
So get on up and let your body sway (body sway)

I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing
You know I shan't ever stop tonight
I'm in the mood for chancing
I feel like dancing
Ooh from head to my toes
Take me again
And heaven who knows
Just where it will end

So dance, yeah let's dance, come on and dance
Dance, yeah let's dance, come on and dance
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 01, 2021, 11:12:19 AM
Loneliness is a crowded room
Full of open hearts turned to stone
All together all alone
All at once my whole world had changed
Now I'm in the dark, off the wall
Let the strobe light up them all
I close my eyes and dance till dawn

Dance away the heartache
Dance away, tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away, fears
Dance away...
Dance away...
Dance away...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 08, 2021, 10:54:25 PM
Huh, yeah, woo
Hey yeah, huh
Ooh yeah, uh huh, yeah
I wanna dance
Clock strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade

Still enough time to figure out
How to chase my blues away
I've done alright up 'til now
It's the light of day that shows me how
And when the night falls
Loneliness calls

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2021, 11:35:05 AM
I've been waitin' for you
It's been so long
I knew just what I would do
When I heard your song
Filled my heart with your bliss
Gave me freedom
You knew I could not resist
I needed someone
And now we're flyin' through the stars
I hope this night will last forever

Ain't nobody
Loves me better
Makes me happy
Makes me feel this way
Ain't nobody
Loves me better than you

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 16, 2021, 11:42:20 AM
So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long
Sometimes I don't know what I will find, I only know it's a matter of time

When you love someone, when you love someone
It feels so right, so warm and true, I need to know if you feel it too
Maybe I'm wrong, won't you tell me if I'm coming on too strong?
This heart of mine has been hurt before, this time I want to be sure

I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life
I've been waiting for a girl like you, your loving will survive
I've been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you to come into my life

You're so good, when we make love it's understood
It's more than a touch or a word can say
Only in dreams could it be this way
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2021, 12:11:39 PM

This old heart of mine been broke a thousand times.
Each time you break away, feel you're gone to stay.
Lonely nights that come, memories that go,
bringing you back again, hurting me more and more.
Maybe it's my mistake to show this love I feel inside,
'cause each day that passes by
you got me never knowing if I'm coming or going
but I love you, yes I do.
I love you; this old heart weeps for you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 16, 2021, 12:18:30 PM
They say that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know

Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes

You say that you're at home when you phone me
And how much you really care
Though you keep telling me that you're lonely
I'll know if someone is there

Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 16, 2021, 12:35:18 PM
Well I came home
Like a stone
And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of dust
Which we've known
Will blow away with this new sun

But I'll kneel down
Wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So break my step
And relent
You forgave and I won't forget
Know what we've seen
And him with less
Now in some way
Shake the excess
'Cause I will wait, I will wait for you

And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2021, 01:01:37 PM

I've been waiting on a war since I was young
Since I was a little boy with a toy gun
Never really wanted to be number one
Just wanted to love everyone

Is there more to this than that?
Is there more to this than that?
Is there more to this than that?
Is there more to this
More to this, more to this than
Just waiting on a war?
Just waiting on a war?

Every day waiting for the sky to fall
Big crash on a world that's so small
Just a boy with nowhere left to go
Fell in love with a voice on the radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 16, 2021, 01:07:23 PM
I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting
All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back
I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows
When I'm kneeling like a candle at the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters every night on the TV
Sickening reality keeps gripping me in its guts
All my friends talk and joke and laugh about Armageddon
But like a nightmare it's still waiting there at the end of every day

War baby - you were a
War baby - this means
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
Of whatever it is you keep putting me through

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2021, 01:10:29 PM
We are strong
No one can tell us we're wrong
Searching our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

You're begging me to go
Then making me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way
Or am I the best thing you've had

Believe me
Believe me
I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love
And I'm chained to your side

We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises
No demands
Love is a battlefield
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 17, 2021, 11:50:54 PM
Stay close by my side
Keep your eyes on me
Though this life is hard
I will give you perfect peace

In this time of trial
Pain that no one sees
Trust me when I say
I will give you perfect peace
And you'll never walk alone
And you'll never be in need

Though I may not
Calm the storms around you
You can hide in Me
Burdens that you bear
Offer no relief
Let me bear your load
Cause I will give you perfect peace
Stay close by My side
And you'll never walk alone
Keep your eyes on Me
And you'll never be in need
Though this life is hard
Know that I will
Always give you perfect peace
I will give you perfect peace
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 18, 2021, 09:15:49 AM
When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 18, 2021, 05:57:57 PM
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all of the time
Oh, yeah

Life is bad
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, stormy weather
And I just can get my poor self together
Oh, I'm weary all of the time

The time, so weary all of the time
When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
Oh, yeah if he stays away
Old rocking chair's gonna get me
All I do is pray
The Lord will let me
Walk in the sun once more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2021, 05:58:52 PM
I've traveled the land with a guitar in my hand
And an eye ever open for some fun
I've made some mistakes had my share of the breaks
Seen the boys on the make and on the bum

Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home
Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home

I've seen all the frowns on the faces of the clowns
And the downs that they take just to be free
And I've seen all the girls in their pretty frocks and curls
But they don't mean a lot to me

Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 18, 2021, 06:02:51 PM
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
As the conch shell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door
You'd better run
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2021, 06:08:31 PM
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going


Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 18, 2021, 07:32:54 PM
When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I'll never let you down

Cause it grows stronger, like a river flows
And it gets bigger baby, and heaven knows
And it gets sweeter baby, as it grows

And do I love you my oh my
Yeh river deep, mountain high
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2021, 07:37:09 PM
Heaven knows I was just a young boy
Didn't know what I wanted to be
(Didn't know what I wanted to be)
I was every little hungry schoolgirl's pride and joy
And I guess it was enough for me
(And I guess it was enough for me
To win the race? A prettier face!
Brand new clothes and a big fat place
On your rock and roll TV
(Rock and roll TV)
But today the way I play the game is not the same, no way
Think I'm gonna get me some happy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 18, 2021, 07:38:50 PM
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette
The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget
Oh oh, oh, oh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clock waits so patiently on your song
You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too long
Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road
But the day breaks instead so you hurry home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk float ride your mind
You're so natural – religiously unkind

Oh no, love! You're not alone
You're watching yourself but you're too unfair
You got your head all tangled up
But if I could only make you care
Oh no, love! You're not alone
No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain
You're not alone!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2021, 07:40:41 PM
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower

And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make clear to whomever
What it's like when you're shattered

Left standing in the lurch
At a church where people saying
My God, that's tough, she stood him up
No point in us remaining

We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 26, 2021, 08:45:47 AM
That when you were walking forward
You'd end up further onward
But things ain't quite that simple
You got altered information
You were told to not take chances
You missed out on new dances

Now you're losing all your dimples
My jacket's gonna be cut and slim and checked
Maybe a touch of seersucker with an open neck
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet
Love reign over me
Reign over me
Love reign over me
Love

I've had enough of living
I've had enough of dying
I've had enough of smiling
I've had enough of crying
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 26, 2021, 08:52:05 AM
You're talking to me from the back of my car
And I can't get nothing right
And then you wonder why I stand at the bar
Day and night

I've had enough
I can't put up with any more
No no no no no no
I've had enough
I can't put up with any more
No no no no no no

You stand behind me with a watch in your hand
And I can't get nothing done
Well, people tell me you're a punctual man
But come on, come on
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2021, 10:42:28 AM

And I can make it drippy as you like (Drip, drip)
Got this way of doin' what'chu like (Skrrt)
Pull up outside, yeah, I might
Love it when you suck it, lowkey, like it when you bite
You keep doin' good and I'ma do you in Dubai
Fuck it, got a ticket, have her flyin' through the sky
Dials on my wristwatch, it don't tick tock
Sellin' dope to get it, you gon' need a big block
She ain't top ten, she could get the liplock
But she bad enough to stuff it in the Ziploc
Put it on the side, I didn't notice
Know you got that flower bomb like a lotus
You about that action, yeah, I know
But can you get it from the tip top? Head in my flip flops
 
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2021, 03:21:13 PM
We're just looking for some action
Just looking for some action, over here
Everybody in the place now
We're giving you the chance to disappear
To disappear, to disappear, to disappear
Broken bottles, limp biscuits
I see no way of getting outta here
I can't hear you, fear that you's a secret spy
There's such a lovely way of getting outta here

We're just looking for some action
Just looking for some action, over here
Everybody in the place now
We're giving you the chance to disappear
We're just looking for some action
Just looking for some action, over here
Everybody in the place now
We're giving you the chance to disappear
To disappear, to disappear, to disappear
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 27, 2021, 06:07:30 PM
Ooh baby, I hear how you spend night-time
Wrapped like candy in a pure blue neon glow
Fade away and radiate
Fade away and radiate

Ooh baby, watchful lines vibrate soft in brainwave time
Silver pictures move so slow
Golden tubes faintly glow

Electric faces seem to merge
Hidden voices mock your words
Fade away and radiate
Fade away and radiate

Beams become my dream
My dream is on the screen
Oh, beams become my dream
My dream is on the screen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on June 27, 2021, 06:55:05 PM
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting
For its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers
That will bloom again in spring
When I was young
My heart was young then, too
Anything that it would tell me
That's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life's
The thing that I can't win
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 27, 2021, 07:44:40 PM
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2021, 12:20:55 AM
They came flying from far away, now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell
They've seen places beyond my land and they've found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand

And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings
Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

As all good friends we talk all night, and we fly wing to wing
I have questions and they know everything
There's no limit to what I feel, we climb higher and higher
Am I dreaming or is it all real?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 01, 2021, 05:43:13 PM
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
Where a hundred tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)

(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly)

I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 01, 2021, 05:46:27 PM
I want a love that's right
But right is only half of what's wrong
I want a short haired girl
Who sometimes wears it twice as long
Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe
Baby, I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
I'm telling you

You know you pick me up
From where some try to drag me down
And when I see your smile
Replace every thoughtless frown
Got me escaping from this zoo
Baby, I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
When I'm with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 01, 2021, 07:27:40 PM
Daddy's taking us to the zoo tomorrow,
Zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow;
Daddy's taking us to the zoo tomorrow,
We can stay all day.

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo;
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too.
We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

See the elephant with the long trunk swingin',
Great big ears and long trunk swingin',
Snuffin' up peanuts with the long trunk swingin';
We can stay all day.

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo;
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too.
We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2021, 04:51:14 PM
Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singing a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around

Do you recall the thrill of it all as we walked along the sea front
Then on the sand we heard a brass band that played the Diddelly-Bump-Terrara
Elsie and me had one cup of tea then we took a paddler boat out
Splashing away as we sat on the bay and the wheels went 'round
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2021, 05:06:58 PM
It's so cozy in the kitchen
With the smell of rabbit stew
When the breeze blows 'cross the farmyard
You can smell the cow sheds too.
(Oh, I've never smelt nothing like it in all my life!)

When those combine wheels stops turning
And a hard day's work is done
There's a pub around the corner
It's the place we have our fun.
(Arr, we'll have some fun 'n' all.)

I am a cider drinker
I drinks it all of the day
I am a cider drinker
It soothes all me troubles away
Oh arr oh arr aay
Oh arr oh arr aay.
(Come on, get a couple of pints down 'ere then
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 02, 2021, 05:57:52 PM
The prettiest girl
I ever saw
Was sippin’ cider
Through a straw

The prettiest girl I ever saw
Was sippin’ cider through a straw
I asked her if
She’d teach me how
To sip some cider
Through a straw

I asked her if she’d teach me how
To sip some cider through a straw

First cheek to cheek
Then jaw to jaw
We sipped that cider
Through a straw
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2021, 06:17:06 PM
Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace child
I moved up to take a place near you
So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried
It's a trick to make you see wide
It can all but break your heart in pieces

Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The prettiest star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 02, 2021, 06:34:14 PM
When you were young
and on your own
How did it feel
to be alone?
I was always thinking
of games that I was playing.
Trying to make
the best of my time.

But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?

I have a friend
I've never seen
He hides his head
inside a dream
Someone should call him
and see if he can come out.
Try to lose
the down that he's found.

But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2021, 06:47:13 PM
I hear a lot of stories
I suppose they could be true
All about love and what it can do to you
Highest risk of striking out
The risk of getting hurt
And still, I have so much to learn

I know, 'cause I think about it all the time
I know, that real love has quite a price

And a good heart, these days, is hard to find (a good heart)
True love, the lasting kind
A good heart, these days, is hard to find
So please be gentle with this heart of mine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 02, 2021, 09:05:20 PM
This old heart of mine been broke a thousand times
Each time you break away, I feel you're goin' to stay
Lonely nights that come, memories that go
Bringin' you back again, hurting me more and more

Maybe it's my mistake to show this love that I feel inside
'Cause each day that passes by
You got me never knowing if I'm coming or going 'cause
I love you, yes I do (this old heart weeps for you)
I love you, this old heart weeps for you (this old heart weeps for you)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 04, 2021, 05:16:24 PM
Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head
Drownin' me in your promises, better left unsaid
You're the right kind of sinner to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner and you know that you were born to be

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me
You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around, no, no, no

Your love has set my soul on fire, burnin' out of control
You taught me the ways of desire, now it's takin' its toll
You're the right kind of sinner to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner and you know that you were born to be

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me
You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around, no, no, no
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 05, 2021, 03:40:30 PM
My love, there's only you in my life
The only thing that's right

My first love
You're every breath that I take
You're every step I make

And I, I want to share
All my love with you
No one else will do

And your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
They tell me how much you care

Ooh, yes
You will always be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 07, 2021, 02:22:17 PM
When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love
Love, love

When the garden flowers, baby are dead, yes and
Your mind, your mind is so full of red
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby
I'm afraid you don't know where it is
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love…
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 08, 2021, 06:48:15 PM

All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try

Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 11, 2021, 10:20:55 PM
I'm alive, and living's just a beating heart
'Cause we won't admit we've taken it too far
I know it's love cause I will always be the first
To start making up excuses when it hurts
But I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone again
And all I want, all I want is to feel again

There's nobody like you (nobody like you), nobody like you (nobody like)
I've tried goodbye a hundred times, not one of them true
Nobody like you (nobody like you), nobody like you (nobody like)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 12, 2021, 09:27:11 AM
There's a new wind blowin' like I've never known.
I'm breathin' deeper than I've ever done.
And it sure feels good, to finally feel the way I do.
I wanna love somebody,
Love somebody like you.

An' I'm lettin' go of all my lonely yesterdays.
I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made.
Now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do, mmm, mmm.
I wanna love somebody,
Love somebody like you.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 16, 2021, 08:46:31 AM
It's a cold night in my bed in the heat of the summer
I've been waitin' patiently for a beautiful lover
He's not a cheater, a believer
He's a warm, warm blooded achiever
It's a lonely night in my bed in the heat of the summer, uh
It's so hard when you're with someone
Your heart breaks and it ain't no fun
But I gotta take that risk tonight
I'm ready, I'm ready I'm ready, I'm ready
For someone to love me (for someone to love me)
I'm ready (I'm ready) I'm ready (I'm ready)
I'm ready (I'm ready) I'm ready (I'm ready)
For someone to love me
For someone to love me
Ooh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2021, 11:35:20 AM

People get ready
There's a train a comin'
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord

So people get ready
There'a a train to Jordan
Picking up passengers
Coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's hope for all
Among those loved the most
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 16, 2021, 02:32:37 PM
When the train comes in the morning
I'll be waiting, how about you?
I'll be standing on the station with my ticket
How about you?

When the train comes
When the train comes
When the train comes
I'll be listening for the whistle to go
Woo woo woo woo woo, how about you?

I can feel it coming closer
Here to take me far away
All my troubles left behind me
Easy ridin' gone to stay

When the train comes
When the train comes
When the train comes
I'll be listening for the whistle to go
Woo woo woo woo woo, how about you?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2021, 02:50:43 PM

Now this here's a story about the Rock Island Line
Well the Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleans
There's a big tollgate down there and you know
If you got certain things on board when you go through the tollgate
Well you don't have to pay the man no toll
Well a train driver he pulled up to the tollgate
And a man hollered and asked him what all he had on board and said

I got livestock
I got livestock
I got cows
I got pigs
I got sheep
I got mules
I got all live stock
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on July 16, 2021, 04:41:05 PM
I heard that recently, saw an old something on the telly featuring a dark haired man singing it with a backing group. Bluegrass style?

Ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money, ain't got no class
Ain't got no friends, ain't got no schooling
Ain't got no wear, ain't got no job
Ain't got no money, no place to stay

Ain't got no father, ain't got no mother
Ain't got no children, ain't got no sisters above
Ain't got no earth, ain't got no faith
Ain't got no touch, ain't got no god
Ain't got no love

Ain't got no wine, no cigarettes
Ain't got no clothes, no country
No class, no schooling
No friends, no nothing
Ain't got no god

Ain't got one more
Ain't got no earth, no ?
No food, no home
I said I ain't got no clothes
No job, no nothing

Ain't got long to live
And I ain't got no love
But what have I got?
Let me tell ya what I've got
That nobody's gonna take away

I got my hair on my head
I got my brains, I got my ears
I got my eyes, I got my nose
I got my mouth, I got my smile
I got my tongue, I got my chin
I got my neck, I got my boobies
I got my heart, I got my soul
I got my back, I got my sex
I got my arms, I got my hands
I got my fingers, got my legs
I got my feet, I got my toes
I got my liver, got my blood
Got life, I got my life


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2021, 04:45:55 PM
Days can be sunny with never a sigh
Don't need what money can buy
Birds in the trees sing their dayful of songs
Why shouldn't we sing along?
I'm chipper all the day
Happy with my life
How do I get that way?
Look at what I've got:

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
I've got daisies in green pastures
I've got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 16, 2021, 05:31:41 PM
I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, oh
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, oh
No, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy

I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 16, 2021, 08:44:32 PM
They tried to make me go to Rehab
But I said no, no, no
Yes I've been black but when I come back
You'll know, know, know
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
Just try to make me go to Rehab
But I won't go, go, go

I'd rather be at home with Ray
I ain't got seventy days
'Cause there's nothing
There's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway

I didn't get a lot in class
But I know it don't come in a shot glass
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 17, 2021, 09:54:38 AM
I've never been too good with names.
The cellar door was open, I could never stay away.
I know it's prob'ly not my place.
It's either or, I'm hoping for a simple way to say.

It's a shame about Ray.
In the stone, under the dust,
his name is still engraved.
Some things need to go away.
It's a shame about Ray.

If I make it through today,
I'll know tomorrow not to leave my feelings out on display.
I'll put the cobwebs back in place.
I've never been to good with names,
but I remember faces.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 18, 2021, 04:40:28 PM
Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot ...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 18, 2021, 07:14:10 PM
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!

In eighteen thirteen the Creeks uprose
Addin' redskin arrows to the country's woes
Now, Injun fightin' is somethin' he knows
So he shoulders his rifle an' off he goes
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!

Off through the woods he's a marchin' along
Makin' up yarns an' a singin' a song
Itchin' fer fightin' an' rightin' a wrong
He's ringy as a b'ar an' twict as strong
Davy, Davy Crockett, the buckskin buccaneer!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 23, 2021, 09:42:23 PM
...
I can't read, haven't learned how to write
My whole life has been one big fight
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck
I say I wouldn't have no luck at all

I ain't no lyin'

You know if it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no kinda luck
If it wasn't for real bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all

You know, wine and women is all I crave
A big-legged woman is gonna carry me to my grave
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck
I tell I wouldn't have no luck at all
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 25, 2021, 06:14:41 PM
I'm lucky
I'm lucky
I can walk under ladders
Yes I'm so lucky
That I'm as lucky
As me

Struck it rich
Dirty rich
No work
And get richer
And the world
Loves a winner
Yes I'm so happy
That you're happy
With me

You are happy too
Ain't you baby

Numero uno
Living for
Right now
And it's
L-I-V-I-N-G
When I'm here
With you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 06, 2021, 10:15:00 AM
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, no
But when the taxman come' to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2021, 12:02:30 PM

Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet

Taxman!
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 06, 2021, 12:41:36 PM
Do the Wall Street shuffle
Hear the money rustle
Watch the greenbacks tumble
Feel the Sterling crumble

You need a yen to make a mark
If you want to make money
You need the luck to make a buck
If you want to be Getty, Rothschild
You've gotta be cool on Wall Street

You've gotta be cool on Wall Street
When your index is low
Dow Jones ain't got time for the bums
They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets
They plead with you, buddy can you spare the dime
But you ain't got the time
Doin' the
Doin' the
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2021, 01:48:50 PM
Now that we have had the rice and flowers
 The knot is tied I can visu'lize such happy hours
 Close by your side
 The honeymoon in store Is one that you'll adore
 I'm gonna take you for a ride
I'll go home and get my panties
You go home and get your scanties
 And away we'll go Mmm-mmm-mmm
Off we're gonna shuffle
Shuffle off to Buffalo
To Niag'ra in a sleeper
There's no honeymoon that's cheaper
And the train goes slow Ooh-ooh- ooh Off, we're gonna shuffle Shuffle off to Buffalo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 06, 2021, 07:23:18 PM
Girl, we can take it real slow
Never let go of you, never leave you solo
When it's late in the night, won't you come on over
Fool around in my sheets, you could be my lover, yeah, yeah, yeah

You're my lover, you're my wonder
You the reason I get dizzy when I stutter
Where you been, girl, you're my queen, girl
You the cover of a glamour magazine, girl, I'm
Drowning, I'm drowning, I'm drowning in her eyes

Fine as a fountain, I'll take a dip inside so
We can take it to my room, girl, what you wanna do
I'ma take you on a honeymoon, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 06, 2021, 07:26:36 PM
It's wonderful
Everywhere, so white
The river has frozen over
Not a soul on the ice
Only me skating fast
I'm speeding past trees
Leaving little lines in the ice
Cotting out, little lines in the ice
Splitting, splitting sound
Silver heels spitting, spitting snow

There's something moving under
Under the ice moving
Under ice through water
Trying to
It's me
Get out of the cold water
It's me
Something
It's me
Someone, help them
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2021, 08:09:17 PM
All right stop, Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.

Dance, go rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it, you better gangway
You better hit bull's eye, the kid don't play

If there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 28, 2021, 05:18:32 PM
According to the radio
Warmer weathers on the way
The chances are we won't be getting snow
But even if the sun shines from now to Christmas Day
As far as I'm concerned, I know

It's gonna be a cold, cold Christmas without you
Dreaming of those warm, warm, lazy summer days
It's gonna be a long and lonely Christmas without you
Missing you, my darling
In oh, so many ways

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 28, 2021, 05:22:34 PM
I was making my way through the wasteland
The road into town passes through
I was changing the radio stations
With my mind on you
Oh your friends call you "Lily Paloma"
But that's not the way that you are
It's too much of a gentle misnomer
For a shooting star

But you and me baby
I saw you there
Straight away I knew
There's really no hiding
I'll tell you right now
What we're gonna do
We'll go collecting the days
Putting the moments away
You're on my mind like a
Song on the Radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2021, 01:25:43 PM

And as she turns the volume down
He's getting smaller with the sound
It seems to pull him off the ground
Toward the radio he's bound
Never to be found

The headlines read that a boy disappeared
And everyone thinks he died
'Cept a crazy girl with a secret lover
Who keeps her satisfied

It's so nice to be insane
No one asks you to explain
Radio by your side
Angie baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 29, 2021, 01:41:12 PM
Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no lovin' in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 02, 2021, 11:58:18 AM
Went to a dance, lookin' for romance
Saw Barbara Ann, so I thought I'd take a chance
With Barbara Ann, Barbara Ann
Take my hand
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
(Oh! Oh!)
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Barbara Ann ba ba
Ba ba ba ba black sheep

Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann

Barbara Ann, take my hand
Barbara Ann
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Barbara Ann ba ba
Ba Barbara Ann
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 05, 2021, 07:32:04 PM
...

Come on, Barbie, let's go party

I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a blond bimbo girl in a fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly
You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink
Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky

You can touch
You can play
If you say, "I'm always yours" (ooh, oh)

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 05, 2021, 07:44:42 PM
When we were at school our games were simple
I played the janitor, you played the monitor
Then you played with older boys and prefects
What's the attraction in what they're doing


Hey Carrie Anne
What's your game now, can anybody play
Hey Carrie Anne
What's your game now, can anybody play
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 05, 2021, 09:07:17 PM
Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful world this would be

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for

But I do know one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2021, 01:03:11 AM
No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks

Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer
School's out forever
My school's been blown to pieces
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 06, 2021, 07:36:13 AM
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

'Wrong, Do it again!'
'If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?'
'You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2021, 08:14:50 AM
Lots of girls and lots of boys
Lots of smells and lots of noise
Playing football in the park
Kicking pushbikes after dark
Baggy trousers, dirty shirt
Pulling hair and eating dirt
Teacher comes to break it up
Back of the 'ead with a plastic cup.

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 06, 2021, 08:33:33 AM
Oh you are a mucky kid
Dirty as a dustbin lid
When he hears the things that you did
You'll get a belt from yer dad

Oh, you have your father's nose
So crimson in the dark it glows
If you're not asleep when the boozers close
You'll get a belt from yer dad

You look so scruffy lying there
Strawberry jam tarts in your hair
In all the world you haven't a care
And I have got so many

It's quite a struggle every day
Livin' on yer father's pay
The beggar drinks it all away
And leaves me without any
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 06, 2021, 08:50:05 AM

The first game he took part in
I was there myself, and saw
There were jackets for the goal posts
And a tin can for the ball
The Prince of Wales was there himself
In his dinner suit
Jock, he passed the ball across
And shouted - "Charlie, shoot!"

0
For, he’s fitba' crazy!
He's fitba' mad!
And the fitba', it has robbed him o'
The wee bit o' sense he had
It would take a dozen skivvies
His claes to wash and scrub
Since Jock became a member o'
That terrible fitba' club!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 06, 2021, 05:51:04 PM
Ah, yeah-yeah
Ah, woah
Ah, woah

I need a Spice Girl
Zig-a-zig-ah, fuck up my whole world
Posh when she talk, nothin' like old girl
Scary and Sporty, tell her what I want
What I really, really want is a Spice Girl
Zig-a-zig-ah, fuck up my whole world
Posh when she talk, nothin' like old girl
Scary and Sporty, tell her what I want
What I really, really want is a
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 10, 2021, 03:02:10 PM
He's bewitched, her daddy's rich
You can see she comes from money, but she's still a little honey
And it looks like butter wouldn't melt, oh no

He stuttered
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I never thought I'd say this, but I think you're so
Aw-aw-aw-aw-awfully nice
Is that alright?" She said "fine"

He was a little bit scared, a little apprehensive
He was just a boy from a local comprehensive
But he'd heard that
Posh girls have good manners, but they go like the clappers
'Cause they never got to hang around with boys at school
Posh girls have good manners, but they go like the clappers
'Cause they never got to hang around with boys at school
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 10, 2021, 03:08:34 PM
After one whole quart of brandy
Like a daisy, I'm awake
With no bromo-seltzer handy
I don't even shake

Men are not a new sensation
I've done pretty well I think
But this half-pint imitation
Put me on the blink

I'm wild again, beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep
When love came and told me I shouldn't sleep
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Lost my heart, but what of it
He is cold I agree
He can laugh, but I love it
Although the laugh's on me

I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And long for the day when I'll cling to him
Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 10, 2021, 04:41:00 PM
Bring you flowers in the morning
I don't know what else to do
Got a suitcase and a passport
But all I really want is you
I'm not sure if I can fake it
I only write songs when I'm sad
But being sad isn't all I've had
Since...

You put a spell on me
There's no escaping
You put a spell on me
I can't explain Why
You put a spell on me
Yeah, you put a spell on me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 10, 2021, 05:09:07 PM
Oh, let me tell you

I'm goin' down to the bus station
With a suitcase in my hand, yes I am
I'm goin' down to the bus station
With a suitcase in my hand, yes I am
I'm gonna grab me an armful of greyhound
And ride just as close I can
And blow that thing for me now

Let me tell you one more time

Somebody have mercy
I wonder what is wrong with me, Lord have mercy
Somebody have mercy
I wonder what is wrong with me, yeah

Sometimes I don't know how I stand
The things this woman do to me
Blow that one more time while I tell 'em

I'm standing here wondering, baby
Will a matchbox hold my clothes? Yes, I am
Standing, wondering, baby
Will a matchbox hold my clothes? Yes, I am
Oh I got a long way to get there
And I got a short time to go

One more time

Oh, oh, oh, hmm, hmm.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 15, 2021, 03:33:41 PM

Well, if you don't want my peaches honey
Please don't shake my tree
Well, if you don't want my peaches honey
Please don't mess around my tree
I got news for you baby
Leave me here in misery

Well, let me be your little dog
Till your big dog comes
Well, let me be your little dog
Till your big dog comes
And when your big dog gets here
Watch how your puppy dog runs

I said I'm sitting here watching
Matchbox hole in my clothes
I said I'm sitting here watching
Matchbox hole in my clothes
I ain't got no matches but I sure
Got a long way to go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 20, 2021, 02:42:26 PM
All of those peaches up in one tree
I know one of them belongs to me
I seem them peaches fallin' down by me
I know you see me standing under your tree

Long as you've got so many peaches
Why don't you throw one down to me?
If I was a cherry-red bird
I'd fly up and take you off with me

Throw me a peach out of your tree
Ain't no use in you being mean to me
Guess I'll stop hanging round your tree
If you don't send one down to me
You know I'm as hungry as a man can be
And I'm down here begging under your tree
All of those peaches up in your tree
Seem they're just out of reach to me
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 23, 2021, 11:00:32 PM
'm comin' home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me, if you still want me

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 24, 2021, 02:40:59 PM
Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below

It was a hundred degrees below zero...
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty eskimo

Save your money, don't go to the show
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow

And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 24, 2021, 03:14:31 PM

I go out seal hunting with my best friend Tarka
But all want to do is get into his parka

I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

Well me and Nukflukchukbuk
We both like blubber
But me I've got this crazy fetish for rubber

I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on September 25, 2021, 08:22:38 PM
I'm cold as ice
I paid the price
I don't care
There's more of me
There's more of you
We're everywhere
I gotta be the one to kill this flame
I will go insane living life in the wrong lane

I'm cold as ice
I paid the price
I don't care
There's more of me
There's more of you
Nothing to lose
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 03, 2021, 04:28:37 PM
...
Eager for action and hot for the game
The coming attraction, the drop of a name
They knew all the right people, they took all the right pills
They threw outrageous parties, they paid heavenly bills

There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face
She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race
Out every evening, until it was light
He was too tired to make it, she was too tired to fight about it

surely make you lose your mind
(Life in the fast lane) yeah
(Life in the fast lane) everything, all the time
(Life in the fast lane) a-ha
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 03, 2021, 04:55:15 PM
As the midnight moon, was drifting through
The lazy sway of the trees
I saw the look in your eyes, lookin' into mine
Seeing what you wanted to see

Darlin' don't say a word, 'cause I already heard
What your body's sayin' to mine
I'm tired of fast moves I've got a slow groove
On my mind

I want a man with a slow hand
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a slow hand
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 04, 2021, 03:29:37 PM
If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is
If you need a hand, I can assure you this
I can help, I've got two strong arms, I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good
Let me help
 
It's a fact that people get lonely, ain't nothing new
But a woman like you, baby, should never have the blues
Let me help, I've got two for me, let me help
It would sure do me good to do you good
Let me help
 
When I go to sleep at night, you're always a part of my dream
Holding me tight and telling me everything I want to hear
Don't forget me, baby, all you gotta do is call
You know how I feel about you, if I can do anything at all
Let me help, if your child needs a daddy, I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good, let me help
 ...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 07, 2021, 02:54:53 PM
(I never need) I never needed anybody's help in any way
(Now) But now these days are gone (These days are gone) and I'm not so self assured
(And now I find) Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

(Now) And now my life has changed (My life has changed) in oh so many ways
(My independence) My independence seems to vanish in the haze
(But) But ev'ry now (Every now and then) and then I feel so insecure
(I know that I) I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 15, 2021, 09:06:10 PM
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick erase it
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick rewrite it
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, drag it, drop it, zip - unzip it
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it, view it, code it, jam, unlock it
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it, cross it, crack it, switch, update it
Name it, read it, tune it, print it, scan it, send it, fax, rename it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Technologic
Technologic
Technologic

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 16, 2021, 04:08:41 AM
Bend it, bend it, just a little bit and
take it easy, show you're likin' it,
and lover, you know that we're gonna hit
the heights, 'cos I'm sure that we're made to fit
together just like pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle, what's the hustle

Bend it, bend it, just a little more,
without you, baby, I'm so insecure,
but you can make me feel that I am sure
I've got a sickness only you can cure,
so just relax, there's stacks of time, but honey,
please don't tease me, try to please me.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 19, 2021, 06:31:38 PM
Clear the decks! Clear the tracks!
You've got nothing to do but relax.
Blow a kiss. Take a bow.
Honey, everything's coming up roses!

Now's your inning. Stand the world on it's ear!
Set it spinning! That'll be just the beginning!
Curtain up! Light the lights!
You got nothing to hit but the heights!
You'll be swell. You'll be great.
I can tell. Just you wait.
That lucky star I talk about is due!
Honey, everything's coming up roses for me and for you!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2021, 03:11:21 PM
Charlie's got a gold watch
Don't seem like a whole lot
After thirty years of driving up and down the interstate
But Charlie's had a good life
And Charlie's got a good wife
And after tonight she'll no longer be counting the days

Eighteen wheels and a dozen roses
Ten more miles on his four-day run
A few more songs from the all-night radio
Then he'll spend the rest of his life with the one that he loves
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 11, 2021, 03:40:41 PM
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes I'm still running
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 01, 2022, 08:26:40 AM

I asked the wiseman one sunny day
Can you help me find my way
You're so much older and wiser too
Would you help me mr wiseman
I'm feelin' blue
Oh I'm not satisfied

He said you're not doin too bad, not bad at all
You're just trying to walk son before you can crawl
You got stacks of money to sky up above
Now all you need is to find you a love

He sent me searchin' to find my love
He sent me searchin' to the Lord up above
He sent me searchin' just to find the mornin' dove
And she'll tell you where to find your love
Oh mr wiseman I need to find my love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 05, 2022, 11:19:34 AM
Don't lay awake at night
Thinking about your worries
Keep looking
Don't lay awake at night
Thinking about your problems
Thinking about your troubles
Don't lay awake at night
Thinking about your problems
Keep looking

Keep looking
If you never let it show
They're never gonna know, oh (oh)
Keep looking

If you never let it show
They're never gonna know, oh (oh)
Keep looking
Oh no, keep looking
Keep looking
Keep looking
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 10, 2022, 07:55:07 AM
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
 And smile, smile, smile.
Don't let your joy and laughter hear the snag
Smile boys, that's the style

 What's the use of worrying
 It never was worth while
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.

 Just pucker up and whistle
What's the use of worrying
 It never was worth while
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 10, 2022, 05:16:30 PM
A certain smile, a certain face
Can lead an unsuspecting heart on a merry chase
A fleeting glance can say so many lovely things
Suddenly you know why my heart sings

You love awhile and when love goes
You try to hide the tears inside with a cheerful pose
But in the hush of night exactly like a bittersweet refrain
Comes that certain smile to haunt your heart again

But in the hush of night exactly like a bittersweet refrain
Comes that certain smile to haunt your heart again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 10, 2022, 05:33:07 PM
In the hush of the night I am blue,
And I long for the light, awaiting you.
First you're here, then you're there, like a dream;
Why can't things really be what they seem?

In the darkness, when we are apart,
Every cloud seems to crowd into my heart.
With you near all my world would be bright,
Like a song, every wrong would turn to right!
Darling one, when the sun dims her light,
Come to me in the hush of the night.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on February 10, 2022, 05:42:26 PM
Well hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Well it may bring war
Any old thing
Look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
Look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
There's hundreds of people
Like you and me
Oh, hurry on sundown
Hurry on sundown
Oh, hurry on sundown
Hurry on sundown
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 10, 2022, 07:24:40 PM
I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
                                                   
She's bin lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 10, 2022, 07:59:09 PM
On a cold black night, neath a starless sky
You'll come to me, my dear
Walk through my door, so derelict and pure
And bury all these years

I'll meet you in a whiskey dream
In a cinnamon dress, your long hair flowing,
You'll dance with me
Dance with me
In a whiskey dream
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 11, 2022, 03:59:39 PM
A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep, everything is alright

I close my eyes then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 11, 2022, 04:28:51 PM

Wonderful baby livin' on love the
sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float by, just
counting their toes.

Wonderful baby nothin' but new, the
world has gone crazy, I'm glad I'm not you.
At the beginning or is it the end? It goes
in and comes out and starts over again.

Wonderful baby livin' on love the
sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float by, just
counting their toes.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 12, 2022, 11:35:14 AM
Moses supposes his toeses are Roses,
But Moses supposes Erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!
Moses supposes his toeses are Roses,
But Moses supposes Erroneously,
A mose is a mose!
A rose is a rose!
A toes a toes!
Hooptie doodie doodle
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 12, 2022, 12:33:37 PM
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale

Li'l Moses was found in a stream
Li'l Moses was found in a stream
He floated on water
Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter
She fished him, she said, from dat stream

Wadoo...
Well, it ain't necessarily so
Well, it ain't necessarily so
Dey tells all you chillun
De debble's a villun,
But it ain't necessarily so!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 12, 2022, 12:47:33 PM
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old Macheath, babe
And he keeps it out of sight

You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old Macheath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red

Now on the sidewalk, ooh, sunny morning, uh-huh
Lies a body just oozin' life
Eek, and someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 14, 2022, 09:17:46 PM
I'll tell you why I can't find ya
Every time to your place you've gone fishin'
Well, how you know?
Well, there's a sign upon your door (uh-huh)
Gone fishin' (I'm real gone, man)
You ain't working anymore (could be!)
There's your hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half-done
You claim that hoein' ain't no fun (but I can prove it!)
You ain't got no ambition
Gone fishin, '
By a shady, wady pool (shangri-la! really la!)
I'm wishin'
I could be that kind of fool (shall I twist your arm?)
I'd say "no more work for mine" (welcome to the club)
On my door, I'd hang a sign, "gone fishin'"
Instead of just wishin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 15, 2022, 10:50:22 AM
Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 15, 2022, 11:11:35 AM
I wish this dream would end
So another could begin
Lord, pull me out the mire of regret
Let me walk on the beach again

When love turns to dust, leaves the splinters of your trust
Forgiver
Shine on, shine on
In the beauty of the storm, I wither

You could crack this stony sky
With a single burning kiss
You could bleed this starless night
Like a desert oasis

When love turns to dust, leaves the splinters of your trust
Forgiver
Shine on, shine on
In the beauty of the storm, I wither

If you're the only star, in countless constellations
Won't you shine on the debris of my situation?

Winter
Shine on, shine on
In the beauty of the storm, I wither
I wither
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on February 15, 2022, 03:48:34 PM
You
You're such a big star to me
You're everything I wanna be
But you're stuck in a hole
And I want you to get out
I don't know what there is to see
But I know it's time for you to leave
We're all just pushing along
Trying to figure it out, out, out
All your anticipation pulls you down
When you can have it all
You can have it all

So come on, so come on, get it on
Don't know what you're waiting for
Your time is coming, don't be late, hey, hey
So come on
See the light on your face
Let it shine, just let it shine
Let it shine
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 15, 2022, 03:56:57 PM

Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, ah son
That's just about as funky as you can be

Mr. Jones and me, staring at the video
When I look at the television, I wanna see me
Staring right back at me
We all wanna be big stars
But we don't know why, and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me
I wanna be just about as happy as I can be

Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 15, 2022, 04:09:50 PM

Me and Mrs Jones
We got a thing going on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

We meet every day at the same cafe
6:30
I know, I know she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the jukebox plays our favorite song

Me and Mrs, Mrs. Jones
Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones
We got a thing going on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 15, 2022, 09:35:46 PM
I'm praying for rain in California
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
And I'm sitting in a honky in Chicago
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind

I asked the man behind the bar for the jukebox
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
And he asked who's the fool in the corner crying
I say a little ole wine drinker me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 17, 2022, 09:27:17 PM
New York City ain't no kinda place for a country girl with a friendly face
If you smile, people look at you funny, they take you wrong
The greenest state in the land of the free
And the home of the Grand Ole' Opry is calling me back to my Smokey Mountain home
I wish I had my ol' fishin' pole, and a-sittin' on the banks of the fishin' hole
Eatin' green apples and waitin' for the fish to bite
Life ain't as simple as it used to be, since the big apple took a bite outa me
And Lord I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die

But I ain't been home in I don't know when
If I had it all to do over again
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
Of mama's homemade chocolate cake
Tennessee homesick blues is runnin' through my head
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 23, 2022, 08:25:51 AM
I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz
 When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced her to my loved one
 And while they were dancing
 My friend stole my sweetheart from me

 I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes, I lost my little darling the night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 23, 2022, 08:28:30 AM
Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Little darling, the smile's returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 26, 2022, 11:07:43 AM

One subtle look
God help me
Is all it took
To sell me
One single word
Unspoken
Your name unheard
And I'm broken

The sun and the moon
and the stars in the sky
Are laughing
They've seen it all before
For the wind in the trees
and the waves on the seas
It's the same thing
They can't take any mor
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 26, 2022, 11:19:40 AM

It's just the sun that's shinin'in your eyes.
It's just the moon that is the sun's disguise.
Just the sky, with clouds a blowin' by.
The sun and the moon and the sky, and you and I.

It's just the rain that's rollin'down my cheek.
It's just the wind that makes me hear you speak.
It's just the song that anyone can sing.
The rain and the wind and the song and the love you bring.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 26, 2022, 11:24:36 AM
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 26, 2022, 11:36:11 AM
Said the straight man to the late man
"Where have you been?"
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see?
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 26, 2022, 12:41:05 PM
I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up, well, I think
Only God really knows

I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never, never, never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on March 13, 2022, 11:39:49 AM
Hey

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Well, uh, outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey

All along the watchtower

All along the watchtower
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 23, 2022, 06:05:52 PM
Everybody get on your feet
 You make me nervous when you in your seat
 Take off your shoes and pat your feet

We're doin' a dance that can't be beat
 We're barefootin', we're barefootin'
We're barefootin', we're barefootin'

Went to a party the other night
 Long tall Sally was out of sight
 Threw way her wig, and her high sneakers too
She did a dance without any shoes

She was barefootin', she was barefootin'
She was barefootin', she was barefootin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on April 20, 2022, 08:47:45 PM
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I wanna fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
'Til I'm free
Oh Lord, through the revolution
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the streetl
Oh, oh, there's a solution
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 07, 2022, 10:38:22 AM
They came flying from far away, now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell
They've seen places beyond my land and they've found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand

And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings
Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2022, 01:45:54 PM
What a feeling to be right here beside you now
Holding you in my arms
When the air ran out and we both started running wild
The sky fell down
But you got stars, they're in your eyes
And I've got something missing tonight
What a feeling to be a king beside you, somehow
I wish I could be there now

Through the wire, through the wire, through the wire
I'm watching you like this, imagining you're mine
It's too late, it's too late, am I too late?
Tell me now, am I running out of time?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 10, 2022, 06:53:04 PM
I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload

I hear you singing in the wire
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south
Won't ever stand the strain

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 10, 2022, 09:50:21 PM
Running, down corridors through, automatic doors
Got to get to you, got to see this through
I see hope is here, in a plastic box
I've seen christmas lights, reflect in your eyes

You got wires, going in
You got wires, coming out of your skin
There's dry blood, on your wrist
Your dry blood on my fingertip
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 11, 2022, 03:39:45 PM
"I hear the sound of marching feet...
Down sunset boulevard to crescent heights
And there...at pandora's box...
We are confronted with...a vast
Quantity of, plastic people..."
Take a day and walk around
Watch the nazi's run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we're singing
'Bout someone else

But you're plastic people
Oh, baby, now
You're such a drag

Me see a neon moon above
I searched for years I found no love
I'm sure that love will never be
A product of plasticity
A product of plasticity
Plastic, plastic people, pla-ha-ha-ha
Ha-plastic, you are, your foot, your hair
Your nose, your arms--you suck--you love
You are, your being is, you're plastic--blah
Blah, blah, blah plastic peoples
A prune is not a vegetable
Cabbage is a vegetable; makes it o.k.
Plastic people, plastic people
You dream about, you think about, you eat
You are, ooo-hoo-hoo...
Purple prancing--plastic people-
Pee-pee-pee-pee-pee-peep!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 11, 2022, 04:12:42 PM
Her neon mouth with a bleeding talk smile
Is nothing but electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's a part of a colorful time

Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover

Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothing but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I've ever seen

Cosmetic baby, plug into me
And never, ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 12, 2022, 10:03:05 PM
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
You float my new pool
De luxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I'll dress you up daily
And keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body
But you blew my mind



Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 12, 2022, 11:03:28 PM
Hiya, Barbie
Hi, Ken
You want to go for a ride?
Sure, Ken
Jump in

I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party

I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a blond bimbo girl in a fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly
You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink
Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2022, 09:07:51 AM

I saw her walking on down the line (yeah)
You know I saw her for the very first time
A pretty little girl standing all alone
Hey baby, baby, can I take you home?
I never saw her, never really saw her (oh, yeah)

My baby does the hanky panky
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky

Ah, let's move it out
Let's go!

Oh, yeah!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on June 13, 2022, 09:28:32 AM
Some guys like to sweet talk
And others, they like to tease
Tie my hands behind my back and
Ooh, I'm in ecstasy
Don't slobber me with kisses
I can get that from my sisters
Before I get too cranky
You better

Like hanky panky (Hanky panky)
Nothing like a good spanky (Good spanky)
Don't take out your handkerchiefs
I don't wanna cry
I just wanna hanky panky
Like hanky panky (Hanky panky)
Nothing like a good spanky (Good spanky)
Don't take out your handkerchiefs
I don't wanna cry
I just wanna hanky panky, guy
Oooh!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2022, 10:13:43 AM
Tie me up, you better tie me up.

Oh the dreams, at night I make you sorry in my dreams.
If you could see the ways I make you sorry in my dreams.

You'd tie me up, you better tie me up.

You brought out the hell in me the night you made her cry.
Now there's not a cell in me that wants to let you slide.

it's raining. Nowhere to hide when the rain comes down.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 14, 2022, 01:34:40 PM
...

Like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over, like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone, gone, gone
Like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 14, 2022, 05:50:50 PM

Oh, Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day

Well I run to the rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me
I run to the Rock, please hide me, Lord
All on that day

But the rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I can't hide you
The Rock cried out, I ain't gonna hide you guy
All on that day
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on June 19, 2022, 05:50:53 PM

...

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.
Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, you and me.
It's you and me won't be unhappy.

If I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
If I only could, oh

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2022, 10:14:55 PM
I've seen all the frowns on the faces of the clowns
And the downs that they take just to be free
I've seen all the girls in their pretty frocks and curls
But they don't mean a lot to me

Run for home, run as fast as I can
Oh, running man, running for home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on July 13, 2022, 11:04:44 AM
We've been through some things together
With trunks of memories still to come
We found things to do in stormy weather
Long may you run
Long may you run
Long may you run
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
Long may you run
Well, it was back in blind river in 1962
When I last saw you alive
But we missed that shift on the long decline
Long may you run
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 13, 2022, 12:32:16 PM
On the street where you live girls talk about their social lives
They're made of lipstick, plastic and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes
All your life, all your life all you've asked when's your daddy gonna talk to you
But you were living in another world tryin' to get your message through.

No one heard a single word you said.
They should have seen it in your eyes
What was going around your head.

Ooh, she's a little runaway.
Daddy's girl learned fast
All those things he couldn't say.
Ooh, she's a little runaway.
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 13, 2022, 01:33:25 PM
I have often walked
Down the street before,
But the pavement always stayed
Beneath my feet before
All at once am I
Several stories high,
Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Are there lilac trees
In the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 13, 2022, 02:21:31 PM
We were in the backseat
Drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar
"I rent a place on Cornelia Street"
I say casually in the car
We were a fresh page on the desk
Filling in the blanks as we go
As if the street lights pointed in an arrow head
Leading us home

And I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends
I'd never walk Cornelia Street again
That's the kinda heartbreak time could never mend
I'd never walk Cornelia Street again
And baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name
And baby, I'm so terrified of if you ever walk away
I'd never walk Cornelia Street again
I'd never walk Cornelia Street again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 31, 2022, 09:48:23 AM
Speed along the highway, honey I want it my way
But listen to her daddy's song, don't stay out to long
Were just busy hidin', sitting the back seat of my car
(Looking for a ride and all about)
(Looking for a ride in and out of town)
(Strolling around and all about)
(Looking for a ride in and out of)

The laser lights are pretty
We may end up in Mexico city
But listen to her daddy's song
Making love is wrong
Ooh, we're just busy riding
Sitting in the back seat of my car
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2022, 10:13:15 AM
Drove through the town,
drove through the country
Showed 'em how a motor could go I said,
how do you like my triple carburetor
And one of them whispered low

All together now, one, two, three
Keep you mind on your drivin'
Keep you hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat
Kissin' and a'huggin with Fred
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 31, 2022, 10:25:38 AM
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, "Baby, can't you see?
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen"
But you can do something in between

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you

I told that girl that my prospects were good
And she said, "Baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time"

Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I'm gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you

Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2022, 10:34:22 AM
So I
I love peanuts too
It hurts with such exquisite pain
I feel that pain too

And in those moments
When the world comes between us
I'll throw a peanut into the stars
And we'll stop for a moment
And we'll think of each other
'Cause I still love peanuts
And I still want you

I'm sad in the morning
I'm sad in the evening
I'm sad now all the time
With no news from you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 04, 2022, 05:14:40 PM
In Cuba each merry maid wakes up with this seranade
Peanuts (they're nice and hot)
Peanuts (he sells a lot)
Peanuts

If you haven't got bananas don't be blue
Peanuts in a little bag are calling you
Don't waste them (no tummy ache)
You'll taste them (when you're awake)
For at the very break of day
The peanut vendor's on his way
At dawning the whistle blows
(Through every city, town and country lane
You hear him sing his plantive little strain)
And as he goes by to you he'll say
(Big jumbos) big jumbo ones
(Come buy those) peanuts roasted today
(Come buy those freshly roasted today)

If you're looking for a moral to this song
50 million monkeys can't be wrong
(Peanuts do bop do bop)
(Peanuts do bop do bop)
(Peanuts do bop do bop)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 04, 2022, 05:30:31 PM
We'll I'm all messed up
That's nothing new
Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is everything

Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Just get the world off your shoulders
And close your pretty blue eyes
Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?

Got nowhere but home to go
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2022, 01:49:31 PM
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man

I've seen no sign of you, I only heard of you
Huggin up the big monkey man
I've seen no sign of you, I only heard of you
Huggin up the big monkey man

It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man
It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man



Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me
Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me

Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man

I've seen no sign of you, I only heard of you
Huggin up the big monkey man
I've seen no sign of you, I only heard of you
Huggin up the big monkey man

It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man
It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man

Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me
Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me

Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man











Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on August 27, 2022, 02:03:35 PM
Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP.
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me.
I wanna be a man, a mancub
And stroll right into town.
And be just like the other men

I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

Oh, oobee doo

I wanna be like you.
I wanna walk like you.
Talk like you, too.
You'll see it's true.
An ape like me.
Can learn to be human too.

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2022, 07:48:39 PM
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate, just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like "Lost and found" and "Don't look down"
And "Someone save temptation"

And please, remember me as in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like and even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see a trapeze
Swinger high as any savior
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on September 09, 2022, 03:00:06 PM
Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost

Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams
And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 11, 2022, 03:34:22 PM

When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me We just walk on by - we just keep on dreaming
Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him

Dream dream, even for a little while
Dream dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 11, 2022, 04:19:12 PM
So long ago
Was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me

Took a walk down the street
Through the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear, hear, hear, hear

Somebody call out my name as it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange

Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé

Dream, dream away
Magic in the air, was magic in the air?
I believe, yes I believe
More I cannot say, what more can I say?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 12, 2022, 07:02:41 PM
Come take my hand
You should know me
I've always been in your mind
You know I will be kind
I'll be guiding you

Building your dream
Has to start now
There's no other road to take
You won't make a mistake
I'll be guiding you

You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray

And if all your hopes survive
Destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: jeremyp on October 07, 2022, 02:25:30 PM
Testing me, Testing you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on October 07, 2022, 02:49:23 PM
...
I'm gonna try, oh yeah, just a little bit harder
So I can show, show, show him love with no control, yeah
Hey! I don't care how long it's gonna take ya
But if it's a dream I don't want
No I don't really want it
Yeah if it's a dream I don't want nobody to wake me
Hey, dig it! Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah!
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2022, 03:12:41 AM

I got to pick up the phone
I will call any number
I will talk to anyone
I know I've gone too far
Much too far I gone this time
Don't wanna think what I've done

'Cause I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop

There are always hidden silences
Waiting behind the chair
They come out when the coast is clear
They eat anything that moves
I go shaky at the knees
Lights go out, stars come down
Like a swarm of bees

No self control
No self control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 21, 2022, 01:58:39 PM
I'll be the boyfriend in your wet dreams tonight
Noses on a rail, little virgin wears the white
You cut your hair, but you used to live a blonded life
Wish I was there, wish we'd grown up on the same advice

And our time was right
Keep a place for me, for me
I'll sleep between y'all, it's nothing
It's nothing, it's nothing
Keep a place for me, for me

Now and then you miss it, sounds make you cry
Some nights you dance with tears in your eyes
And I came to visit 'cause you see me like a UFO
That's like never, 'cause I made you use your self-control
And you made me lose my self-control, my self-control
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 21, 2022, 02:06:00 PM
In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 10, 2022, 04:29:09 PM
Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll 'lotta soul, he said

Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, he told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 10, 2022, 05:11:02 PM
I bought my baby a red radio
He played it all day a-go-go a-go-go
 He liked to dance to it down in the streets
 He said he loved me but he loved the beat
 But when I switch on
 I rotate the dial
I could see it there driving him so wild
I bought my baby a red radio
 He said he loved me but he had to go

It's just the same old show on my radio
 It's just the same old show on my radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 10, 2022, 06:30:20 PM
I was making my way through the wasteland
The road into town passes through
I was changing the radio stations
With my mind on you
Oh your friends call you "Lily Paloma"
But that's not the way that you are
It's too much of a gentle misnomer
For a shooting star

But you and me baby
I saw you there
Straight away I knew
There's really no hiding
I'll tell you right now
What we're gonna do
We'll go collecting the days
Putting the moments away
You're on my mind like a
Song on the Radio
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 13, 2022, 12:49:24 PM
I might sleep with you tonight
If you wanna know why
Just because summertime and you look fine
Press my back against the door
Of the refrigerator when the heatwave comes
Ice can't melt how hot we felt

But I still believe in my New York City
Lots to do and the boys so pretty
Can't believe I've been gone so long
We can turn it on

Just sweat
All my fears away
Dancing through the dark
Saw your angel face
Caught my shooting star
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on November 27, 2022, 12:01:16 PM
I ride a mare with a neck of steel
I pack a spare with a loaded wheel
Shoes and tie made of rhino hide
I keep an eye on the countryside
I'm hunting - shooting - fishing
Ahead of the pack
I keep an eye over my shoulder
But I never look back
I carry cash buried in my boot
I spit on thrash that I pass en route
I pay each fine with a mental note
I sign no line and decline to vote
I'm hunting - shooting - fishing
Ahead of the pack
I keep an eye over my shoulder
But I never look back
I never look back
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2022, 08:35:35 PM
I'll tell you why I can't find you
Every time I go out to your place...

You gone fishin' (well how you know)
Well there's a sign upon your door (uh-huh)
Gone fishin' (I'm real gone man)
You ain't workin' anymore (could be)
There's your hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half done
You claim that hoein' ain't no fun (well I can prove it)
You ain't got no ambition

Gone fishin' by a shady wady pool (shangrila, really la)
I'm wishin' I could be that kind of fool (should I twist your arm? )
I'd say no more work for mine (welcome to the club)
On my door I'd hang a sign
Gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 30, 2022, 09:28:27 PM
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry

One of these mornings, you're goin' to rise up singin'
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take the sky
But 'til that mornin', there's a-nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mommy standin' by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2022, 07:42:39 AM
When I was a little baby
My mother would rock me in the cradle
In them old, old cotton fields at home
When I was a little baby
My mother would rock me in the cradle
In them old, old cotton fields at home

Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten
You couldn't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home

It may sound a little funny
But, you didn't make very much money
In them old cotton fields at home
It may sound a little funny
But, you didn't make very much money
In them old cotton fields at home
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 02, 2022, 11:02:09 AM
It's not that funny, is it?
You don't know what it is
But you can't get enough of it
It's not that funny, is it?

Don't blame me
Please, please, please
I didn't wanna bleed so
I didn't wanna be this late
So don't make me wait

No, that's not that funny, is it?
No one to turn you on
All your hope is gone
'Cause it's not that funny, is it?
Yeah
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 02, 2022, 11:15:16 AM
Man got his woman to take his seed he got the power oh she got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man she feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often he smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 04, 2022, 08:12:23 PM

If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the blood-stained bandit
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
One for Paul
One for Silas
One for to make my heart rejoice
Can't you hear my lambs acallin
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the long-tongue liar
Oh good shepherd
Feed my sheep
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 05, 2022, 08:59:38 AM
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives he releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, he hath great power and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 07, 2022, 06:15:35 PM
...
Say we want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And into the street

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give 'em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 07, 2022, 06:32:12 PM
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright
Alright
Alright

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright
Alright
Alright
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2022, 06:44:48 PM
Evolution is a mystery
Full of change that no one sees
Clock makes a fool of history
Yesterday's so long ago, don't agree with what I know.
Tomorrow got no place to be.

I see the line in the sand
Time to find out who I am
Looking back to see where I stand
Evolution
Evolution

See my reflection change
Nothing ever stays the same
But you know the name's The Game
We all know what it means
Nothing's ever what it seems
Unforgiven, unforseen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 10, 2022, 01:25:39 PM
Does the world seem good to you?
Does the music get to you?
Does the wisdom of your heart
Show you how to play your part?

All my blond and twilight dreams
All those strangled future schemes
All those glasses drained of wines,
All this crazy gift of time.

You, dear sister, kiss of mine
Can you cope with all this time,
With your mystic all awry
Feeling small beneath the sky.

All my blond, etc.
Happy birthday to you all
I hope you really have ball.
And when you're walking up the road,
I hope you finally explode!
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 10, 2022, 05:27:01 PM

I'm praying for rain in California
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
And I'm sitting in a honky in Chicago
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind

I asked the man behind the bar for the jukebox
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
And he asked who's the fool in the corner crying
I say a little ole wine drinker me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on December 15, 2022, 11:25:02 AM
Out of the west come a curious fool
He tried to impress me with his furious cool
He lied from the start
I knew just what he was trying.

He lied to his mother
And lied to the rest
He lied to his brother
Who loved him the best
I believe he lies to my children.

Ah, half the lies he tells you, they're not true
I say that half the lies he tells you, they're not true
I know half the lies he tells you, they're not true
They never could be
Half the lies he tells you, they're not true.

You may come to the white house
You walk through the white door
You come to the corridor of power
You might slip on the white house floor.
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 24, 2022, 11:16:22 AM
Ticket to ride, white line highway
tell all your friends, they can go my way
pay your toll, sell your soul
pound for pound costs more than gold
the longer you stay, the more you pay
my white lines go a long way
either up your nose or through your vein
with nothin to gain except killin? your brain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 02, 2023, 10:07:30 AM
If you want to hang out, you've gotta take her out, cocaine
If you want to get down, down on the ground, cocaine

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine
When your day is done, and you want to run, cocaine

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

If your day is gone, and you want to ride on, cocaine
Don't forget this fact, you can't get it back, cocaine

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 02, 2023, 04:05:04 PM

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down

And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
'Cause I passed down my old street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 21, 2023, 12:07:48 PM
Bag lady's complainin
To the cop on the beat
She says she's got nowhere to go
She got nothin' to eat
Cop says, "Lady, have you
considered a life of crime? You know you can eat real good when you're
doin' time"

And she has got no galleria
She's got no mall
All she's got is the street to lean on
And the gutter when she falls
...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 21, 2023, 12:14:38 PM
Let's go to the mall, everybody!
Come on Jessica, come on Tori
Let's go to the mall, you won't be sorry
Put on your jelly bracelets
And your cool graffiti coat
At the mall, having fun is what it's all about
I haven't done my homework yet (That's OK!)
And you know how my parents get (Whatever!)
I don't care, cause all my friends are gonna be there
Let's go to the mall today
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 21, 2023, 01:23:24 PM
Mister jelly roll baker, can I please be your slave?
When?...? your?...? on I'm gonna rise from my grave
For your sweet jelly roll
Bake the best jelly roll in town
You're the only man baking jelly and you're keeping your damper
Down

They say "Can I place an order for three weeks ahead?
I'd rather have your jelly than my own baked bread
'Cause I'm just crazy 'bout your jelly
I'm so wild about your jelly roll
You're the only man bakes jelly and you keeps it in your soul"

You can take all my women, you can sure keep 'em all
I've got a brand new secret that your men can't catch on to at
All
I'm a jelly roll baker
I bake the best jelly roll in town
I'm the only man baking jelly and I'm keeping my damper down

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 21, 2023, 01:26:46 PM
Make it work
Make it easy
Make it clever, craft it into pieces
Make it sweet
Crimp the edges
Or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges
Even doubt
Can be delicious
And it washes off of all the dirty dishes
When it's done
I can smile
It's on someone else's plate for a while

I'll place it on display
And then I'll slice and serve my worries away

I can fix this
I can twist it into sugar, butter covered pieces
Never mind what's underneath it
I have done it before
I'll bake me a door to help me get through
I learned that from you
Mama, it's amazing what baking can do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Udayana on January 23, 2023, 12:00:19 PM

...

Oh to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leavin' there too soon
You're leavin' there too soon

There's a girl just down the aisle
Oh to turn and see her smile
You can hear the words she wrote
As you read the hidden note

...
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 23, 2023, 12:14:42 PM
Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Super Hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

As ninety-nine red balloons go by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 27, 2024, 09:17:42 AM
It's a hundred degrees
Why you feelin' down? What's the problem?
We just here to be free
It don't feel like this often
Bumpin' to the radio with the air so cold as the moonlight glows
No, we don't give a fuck, we ain't gotta change a thing no more
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 28, 2024, 08:45:27 AM
You're used to that sound of a heart that's breaking
I know it don't phase you anymore
You're the king of the game that you played
I know you played it a hundred times before
You fill your bedroom up with trophies
Then you get a kick out of closing the door
Got all the words to keep on hoping
I know you said them a hundred times before

But then there's me, a fox for your gun
Then there's me, just love me for fun
Baby, there's me, no use or pretend
Oh, there's me, a 101
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 29, 2024, 09:44:23 AM
I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
Okay, you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked alright before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a-running
Take a run and hide yourself away
(Foxy on the run) F-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 30, 2024, 08:24:29 AM
Driving home I see those flooded fields
How can people not know what beauty this is
I've taken it for granted my whole life
Since the day I was born

Clouds hang on these curves like me
And I kneel to the wheel
Of the fox confessor on splendid heels
And he shames me from my seat
And on my guilty feet
I follow him in retreat
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 31, 2024, 08:15:24 AM
Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
(Should have known better, yeah)
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 01, 2024, 09:26:32 PM
Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 02, 2024, 06:36:34 AM

Now she found herself in the fast lane
Livin' day to day
Turned her back on her best friends, yeah
And watched her family slip away
And just like a lost soul caught up in the Hollywood scene
All the parties and the limousines
Such a good actress hiding all her pain
Trading her memories for fortune and fame


Just a step away
From the edge of a fall
Caught between Heaven and Hell
Where's the girl I knew a year ago?


Win big, mama's fallen angel
Lose big, living out her lies
Wants it all, mama's fallen angel
Lose it all, rolling the dice of her life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2024, 07:15:03 AM
He was a hard-headed man,
He was brutally handsome,
And she was terminally pretty
She held him up,
And he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city

He had nasty reputation as a cruel dude
They said he was ruthless, said he was crude
They had one thing in common, they were good in bed
She'd say, "Faster, faster. The lights are turnin' red."

Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 03, 2024, 10:04:45 AM
Lonely hearts are welcome here
Take my hand let's disappear
Serenity is almost here oh Lord

Don't let life pass you by
Jump on in, get ready to fly

Gimme some, gimme some gasoline
Tell me what you want, know what I mean
And scream if you wanna go faster baby
(Scream if you wanna go faster)
Scream if you wanna go faster
(Scream if you wanna go faster)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2024, 02:43:02 PM

But if anything should happen and my plans go wrong
Should I stray to the house on the hill
Let it be known that my intentions were good
I'd be singing in my alley if I could

And if I'm called away and it's my turn to go
Should the blood run cold in my veins
Just one favor I'll be asking of you
Don't bury me here, it's too cold
Take me back, carry me back
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from
Take me back, won't you carry me home
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 03, 2024, 02:51:12 PM
Sally, Sally, don't ever wander
Away from the alley and me
Sally, Sally
Marry me Sally
And happy forever I'll be

When skies are blue you're beguiling
And when they're grey you're still smiling, smiling

Sally, Sally, pride of our alley
You're more than the whole world to me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2024, 05:10:51 PM
Sally you opened out your arms
To all those young men
And girl you had room
For every one of them
You’re the only girl
On Bowery and Third
Sure as hell you’re the one
who cared

So put your hands together for Sally
She saved all those young men
Put your hands together for Sally
She’s the one who cared for them

She’s doing our dirty work
She’s the only one who cares
Doing our dirty work
Thirsty world one angry day, in New York
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 04, 2024, 01:35:19 AM
Times are hard
You're afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
When you need a bit of lovin'
Cause your man is out of town
That's the time you get me runnin'
And you know I'll be around


I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
I don't wanna do your dirty work
No more
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 05, 2024, 08:24:11 AM
Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2024, 11:00:05 AM
What kind of man is this
An empty shell
A lonely cell in which
An empty heart must dwell

What kind of lips are these
That lied with every kiss
That whispered empty words of love
That left me alone like this

Why can't I fall in love
Like any other man
And maybe then I'll know
What kind of fool I am
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 07, 2024, 01:02:02 AM
All that is left is an empty shell
Of my heart that is crushed
I don't never wanna see
What my mind has seen
When you loved me

Every night, every night alone with you
Every night, alone now
When she sits on your lap
Try to pretend to laugh
When she does stupid things
Just like I used to do
Do not hate her
Don't you even try
For to leave her is to love her
The same as you and I
I love you
And I miss you too
I really do love you
And I really do miss you too
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 08, 2024, 09:21:57 AM
Every day, I lean on a lamp post
I'm wasting my time
Every night, I lay on a pillow
I'm resting my mind
Every morning brings a new day
And every night, that day is through
But tonight I just want to stay in and be with you, ooh
And be with you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 10, 2024, 09:32:28 AM
I'm leaning on a lamp, maybe you think, I look a tramp
Or you may think I'm hanging 'round to steal a motor-car
But no I'm not a crook
And if you think, that's what I look
I'll tell you why I'm here
And what my motives are

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by
Oh me, oh my, I hope the little lady comes by
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 11, 2024, 01:14:42 AM
Well I read about your bargain basement
At the corner of the street
And about the strangers fawning
At the sidewalk and your feet
While running, try to meet me
At the edge of the dawn
Where you saw the sun come rollin
Across the meadow lawn
You saw the sun come rollin
Across the meadow lawn
You were runnin
Tried to meet me
At the edge of the dawn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 11, 2024, 06:48:45 AM
Burnt with dream and taut with fear
Dawn's misty shawl upon them
Three hills apart great armies stir
Spit oath and curse as day breaks
Forming lines of horse and steel
By even yards march forward
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 11, 2024, 01:33:05 PM
I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back
And I'm talkin' to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette

And the message comin' from my eyes says, "Leave it alone"

Don't wanna hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell
And if I catch it comin' back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll do
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2024, 08:42:36 AM
Being nice was my past time
But I've been hurt for the last time
And I won't ever let another person take advantage of me
The anger burns my skin, third-degree
Now my blood's boiling hotter than a fiery sea
There's nobody getting close to me
They're gonna bow to the Evil Queen
Your nightmare's my dream
Just wait until they fall to my wicked schemes

I never thought of myself as mean
I always thought that I'd be the Queen
And there's no in-between
Cause if I can't have that
Then I would be the leader of the dark
And the bad
Now there's a devil on my shoulder
Where the angels used to be
And he's calling me the Queen of Mean
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2024, 08:09:38 AM
I got the card, delivers the goods
Fills me with happiness
It's joy for a while 'till the first of the month
Then I'm chasing my tail again
I want a life that's bigger than me
'Cause I'm crushing myself to death
Tell you what I don't need
No heaven sent deity

'Cause I'm an ordinary angel
Winning tiny victories
And though the ordinary angels fly
Their wings weigh heavily
I try to be a daily genius
There's no idea beyond my reach
With all the angels and the geniuses
My company I'm gonna keep
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 14, 2024, 07:44:09 AM
Girl, I'm in love with you
This ain't the honeymoon
Past the infatuation phase
Right in the thick of love
At times we get sick of love
It seems like we argue everyday

I know I misbehaved
And you made your mistakes
And we both still got room left to grow
And though love sometimes hurts
I still put you first
And we'll make this thing work
But I think we should take it slow

We're just ordinary people
We don't know which way to go
'Cause we're ordinary people
Maybe we should take it slow
Take it slow
This time we'll take it slow
Take it slow
This time we'll take it slow
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 09:59:05 AM
Let the world keep its carnival pace
I prefer to look into your beautiful face
What a waste
Let the stars continue to fly by
I don't have one desire to understand why
I don't try

Slow, slow
As slow as you can go
I want my senses to overflow
Slow, slow
And doesn't it show
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 12:16:02 PM
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 12:20:21 PM
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair
Hey, hey, hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Since the return of her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey

But tell me, did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 12:30:42 PM
We'd take the path to Jupiter and maybe very soon
We'd cruise along the milky way and land upon the moon
To a wonderland of star dust, we'd zoom our way to Mars

My heart would be a fireball, a fireball
'Cause you would be my Venus of the stars
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 12:38:31 PM

Drifting down the spaceway
By the Betelgeuse Hotel
Mapping out constellations
Of the place I know so well
Sifting through the system
For the piece that knows my name
Endlessly I listen, in the master game


Welcome to my world
(Welcome to my world)
Welcome to my only world
(Welcome to my only world)
It is full of space junk
But your words are coming through
I'm riding on the space junk
And it's bringing me to you
Bringing me to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 12:45:52 PM
Welcome to my world
Won't you come on in?
Miracles, I guess
Still happen now and then

Step into my heart
Leave your cares behind
Welcome to my world
Built with you in mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 12:52:11 PM

As the trees reach for the sun above
So my arms reach out to you for love
With your hand resting in mine
I feel a power so divine

You're my world, you are my night and day
You're my world, you're every prayer I pray
If our love ceases to be
Then it's the end of my world for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 02:13:38 PM
Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world
Cause you don't love me any more?

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when I lost your love
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 02:17:18 PM
Sing your song to me, my singing bird
Let your voice ring loud and clear so you'll be heard
While you're here tonight, we'll be as one
For tomorrow you will seek the sun

Sing your song to me, my singing bird
Let your voice ring loud and clear so you'll be heard
Just for the moment I'm asking you to stay
For tomorrow you'll be far away
For tomorrow you'll be far away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 02:30:44 PM
One day you'll look to see I've gone
For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun
Some day you'll know I was the one
But tomorrow may rain, so
I'll follow the sun

And now the time has come
And so my love I must go
And though I lose a friend
In the end you'll know
Oooh

One day you'll find that I have gone
But tomorrow may rain, so
I'll follow the sun
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 02:51:57 PM
Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness

Like a heartbeat... drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost...
And what you had...
And what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say... Women... they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean... you'll know, you'll know
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 15, 2024, 03:02:23 PM
And I feel a thunder in my heart
That I just can't control
I feel a thunder in my heart
Should I walk away or follow my soul?
I feel a thunder in my heart
Where it comes from I just don't know
Oh no
Oh no

There's a storm ragin' deep in my soul
There's a howlin' wind that I just can't control
There's a fire inside me I can't explain
Every time you touch me my love falls like rain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 15, 2024, 03:40:24 PM
Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells
Lonely and lost to light for evermore
Save when to thine my heart responsive swells
Then trembles into silence as before

There, in its centre, a sepulchral lamp
Burns the slow flame, eternal — but unseen;
Which not the darkness of Despair can damp
Though vain its ray as it had never been
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2024, 08:30:54 AM
Say my name
Sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling, oh

Close your eyes, give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 16, 2024, 09:09:18 AM
Everywhere I go
I see a face we used to know
I pass a place we used to go
When you were mine

Since you went away
(Since you went away)
My heart's not free
It keeps on raining down on me
Will there be a day when the sun will shine?

I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountain again
Oh, where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2024, 09:24:09 AM

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the days were young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night birds' song

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

But if you stay I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain
And talk to the trees and worship the wind
But if you go I'll understand
Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 16, 2024, 09:29:47 AM
Came in from the city
Walked into the door
I turned around when I heard
The sound of footsteps on the floor
Love just like addiction
Now I'm hooked on you
I need some time to get it right
Your love's gonna see me through

Can't stop now
Don't you know?
I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 16, 2024, 09:44:33 AM

Whenever I hear goodbyes
Remind me baby of you
I break down and cry
Next time I'll be true, yeah
Fever for lost romance
Remind me baby of you
I took a crazy chance
Next time I'll be true
I'll be true, I'll be true

Footsteps on the dance floor
Remind me baby of you
Teardrops in my eyes
Next time I'll be true, yeah
Whispers in the powder room
"She cries on every tune
Every tune, every tune"
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2024, 12:22:14 AM
Hollywood was bottomless so who are we to count the costs?
(Cosmetic change)
Well, let it be known that I try hardest, there's a fact that leaves me depressed
(All that work for nothing)
Some salvage is required

So we wait in line
Back in the powder room
The powder room
Visage redefined
Back in the powder room
The powder room
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 18, 2024, 08:02:36 AM
From Westwood to Hollywood
The one thing that's understood
Is that you can't buy time
But you can sell your soul
And the closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll

But somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 19, 2024, 09:58:17 AM
Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can't mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

When harm is done no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can't understand oh please God hold my hand
Why it had to happen to me

And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 20, 2024, 09:37:34 AM
Your eyes used to wander
But now they sit in place
I'm sick of all of the nothing on your face
Did I put the fire out?
Did I walk away?
Did I burn up all the oxygen and throw the rest away

And I don't want to be the ball to your chain
Seems that every time the weather's on our side
I turn it right
Back into rain

Don't hold back
Don't wait for the night to end
If it's me your waiting on then I say spend
Your time on someone else's sinking ship
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 21, 2024, 06:34:14 AM
Time on my side
I got it all
I heard that pride
Always comes before a fall
There's a rumour goin' 'round the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Everywhere I turn, I lose

Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 22, 2024, 09:45:34 AM

Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue
Tunnel to the other side
It becomes daylight
I say he's mine

Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union Union City man
Arrive, climb up four flights
To the orange side
Rearrange my mind
In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
Skyline, passion, Union City blue
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 23, 2024, 05:04:42 AM
 

Said I had to clear out my head (Said I had to clear out my head)
But tonight, I think I lost the plot instead
I said that I'd be cleared out by three (Said that I'd be cleared out by three)
To the walls, I know they listen to me
The teachers always called it a shame (The teachers always called it a shame)
They say I don't have passion the same
As I did a few years before (As I did a few years before)
They don't see the light there anymore

They call it sad, but they're the outside lookin' in
I mean they can't understand when they all cope with everything
And when I opened my heart in front of my friends finally
It was not what I thought, 'cause they're not there anymore
I called my dad, he told me, "There's no room for me"
Down at the house that we had when we were living as a three
Now that my family's gone, almost as far as I can see
I think they love me I'm sure, but they're not there anymore (Hey)
(Nah, nah-nah-nah-nah)
Where can I sleep tonight?
(Nah, nah-nah-nah-nah)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 24, 2024, 08:12:34 AM
I met a woman long ago
Her hair the black that black can go
"Are you a teacher of the heart?"
Soft she answered, "No"

I met a girl across the sea
Her hair the gold that gold can be
"Are you a teacher of the heart?"
"Yes, but not for thee"

I met a man who lost his mind
In some lost place I had to find
"Follow me", the wise man said
But he walked behind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2024, 11:40:42 AM
I'm walking behind you on your wedding day
And I'll hear you promise to love and obey
Though you may forget me, you're still on my mind
Look over your shoulder, I'm walking behind

Maybe I'll kiss again with a love that's new again
But I shall wish again, I was kissing you

'Cause I'll always love you where ever you go
And though we are parted, I want you to know
That if things go wrong, dear and fate is unkind
Look over your shoulder, I'm walking behind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2024, 08:09:06 AM
We've been, going together
Too long to be vague
When there's something to say
If it's not now, then it's never
So I'll say it straight out
'Cause I have no doubt, no doubt

Let's get married
I love you and I want to stay with you
Let's get married
Have kids and grow old and grey with you
Let's get married
Hold hands, walk in the park
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 26, 2024, 07:00:47 PM
Over bridge of sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreaming spires
To Itchycoo Park, that's where I've been

What did you do there?
I got high
What did you feel there?
Well, I cried
But why the tears there?
Tell you why

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 26, 2024, 07:20:13 PM
I feel so high school every time I look at you
I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you


And in a blink of a crinklin' eye
I'm sinkin', our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinklin' lights
Tell me 'bout the first time you saw me
I'll drink what you think and I'm high
From smokin' your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet sixteen suddenly
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2024, 08:52:45 AM

Seventeen
And not yet a woman
So-ho clean
Thought that you were never coming
Seventeen
Completely new sensations
Someones dreams
Created your perfection

All the girls
(all the girls just love to hate her)
And all the boys
(all the boys they wanna make her)
They want you
(seventeen)

A permanent reaction
(reaction)
Makes your scene
Now you're caught in her reflection
(reflection, reflection)
Seventeen
She a beautiful mutation
(mutant)
We sow the seeds
(ooh eeooh, ooh eeooh)
Of a future generation
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 27, 2024, 09:45:38 AM
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems
At seventeen
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 27, 2024, 10:25:55 AM

I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin' in the middle of doubt


'Cause I'm eighteen
I get confused everyday
Eighteen, I just don't know what to say
Eighteen, I gotta get away


Lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I'm in the middle, the middle of life
I'm a boy and I'm a man


I'm eighteen and I like it
Yes I like it, oh I like it, love it, like it, love it
Eighteen, Eighteen!
Eighteen, eighteen and I like it
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 28, 2024, 10:13:37 AM
Picture perfect, silver screen
Walk-on over, talk to me
Brightest smile I'd ever seen

You said, "Trust in me, I'll hold you up
Be the light inside your heart
Help you dance within the dark"
I remember all too well
How could I ever forget
How quickly I fell

Do you remember my blue dress, hot mess
Coffee and the cigarettes
The late calls, bar crawls
Drinking so that we forget
The cold nights, street lights
Running from responsibilities
Do you remember nineteen?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 28, 2024, 10:53:16 AM
It's early in the morning
About a quarter 'til three
I'm sitting here talking with my baby
Over cigarettes and coffee, now
And to tell you that
Darling I've been so satisfied
Honey, since I met you
Baby, since I met you

All the places that I've been around
And all the good looking girls I've met
They just don't seem to fit in
Knowing it's particularly sad, yeah
But it seems so natural, darling
That you and I are here
Just talking over cigarettes and drinking coffee
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 28, 2024, 10:55:53 AM
Antiques!
Every other sentiment's an antique
As obsolete as warships in the Baltic
I'm driving on a straight road it never alters
And the radio serenades but doesn't falter

You offer infrared instead of sun
You offer paper spoons and bubble gum

Late sky
Like an all night radio station
Without morning
Like stumbling on Pearl Harbor
Without warning

You offer infrared instead of sun
You offer bubble gum

You give me Faron Young, four in the morning
You give me Faron Young, four in the morning
Every mother's son's romantic
Every mother's son's frantic!
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 29, 2024, 05:42:00 AM
You're growing tired of me
You love me so hard and I still can't sleep
You're growing tired of me
And all the things I don't talk about

Sorry, I don't want your touch
It's not that I don't want you
Sorry, I can't take your touch

It's just that I fell in love with a war
Nobody told me it ended
And it left a pearl in my head
And I roll it around
Every night, just to watch it glow
Every night, baby, that's where I go
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2024, 10:39:32 AM
This will be the day
That you will hear me say
That I will never run away

I am here for you
Love is meant for two
Now tell me what u're gonna do

If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
But all I can do is just offer you my love

Which one of us is right
If we always fight
Why can't we just let love decide (Let love decide)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 01, 2024, 09:50:53 AM
Well, you didn't wake up this morning
'Cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters
You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world
Couldn't buy back those days

You pull back your curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 02, 2024, 10:12:39 AM

I love, I love, I love my calendar girl
Yeah, sweet calendar girl
I love, I love, I love my calendar girl
Each and every day of the year

(January)
You start the year all fine
(February)
You're my little Valentine
(March)
I'm gonna march you down the aisle
(April)
You're the Easter bunny
When you smile

Yeah, yeah
My heart's in a whirl
I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl
Every day (every day)
Every day (every day)
Of the year (every day of the year)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 02, 2024, 11:16:25 AM
Everyday, it's a-gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
(A-hey, a-hey, hey)

Everyday, it's a-gettin' faster
Everyone said, "Go ahead and ask her"
Love like yours will surely come my way
(A-hey, a-hey, hey)

Everyday seems a little longer
Every way, love's a little stronger
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me?
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 02, 2024, 11:32:02 AM
It's always friends that feel so good
Let's make amends like all good men should
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

Walk around, be free and roam
There's always someone leaving alone
Pleasure at the fairground on the way

And I love the thought of coming home to you
Even if I know we can't make it
I love the thought of giving hope to you
Just a little ray of light shining through
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 02, 2024, 11:34:54 AM
Zephyr in the sky at night, I wonder
Do my tears of morning sink beneath the sun?
She's got herself a universe, gone quickly
For the call of thunder threatens everyone

And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel

Faster than the speeding light, she's flying
Trying to remember where it all began
She's got herself a little piece of Heaven
Waiting for the time when Earth shall be as one

And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel

Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 02, 2024, 11:40:52 AM
Can I get your hand to write on?
Just a piece of leg to bite on
What a night to fly my kite on
Do you want to flash a light on?
Take a look it's on display for you
Coming down, no, not today
Did you meet your fortune teller?
Get it off with no propeller
Do it up, it's on with Stella
What a way to finally smell her
Picking up, but not too strong for you
Take a piece and pass it on

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together
Fly on my wind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2024, 10:58:57 AM
Well I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
Well now I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
But I don't love me no one woman
So I can't stay in Georgia long

Well now they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
I ain't got me nobody
I don't carry me no load
Oooh Mr Breeze
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 03, 2024, 06:41:03 PM
Georgia, Georgia
The whole day through (the whole day through)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

I said a Georgia
Georgia
A song of you (a song of you)
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2024, 06:52:02 PM
Big wheels keep on turning
Carrying me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think it's a sin, yes

Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well I heard old Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 03, 2024, 06:58:52 PM
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin

At school they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin

It's a sin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 03, 2024, 07:08:35 PM
You give me the anger, you give me the nerve
Carry out my sentence, well I get what I deserve
I'm just an effigy to be disgraced, to be defaced
Your need for me has been replaced
And if I can't have everything
Well, then just give me a taste

It comes down to this
Your kiss, your fist
And your strain it gets under my skin
Within, take in
The extent of my sin
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 04, 2024, 09:34:35 AM
I'm an effigy
A parody of
Who I appear to be
Put your flaming torches under me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 04, 2024, 03:58:56 PM
What is the reason when you really could have any man you want?
I don't see what I have to offer
I should've been a season
Guess you could see I had potential
Do you know you're my miracle? (Oh yeah)

I'm like a statue
Stuck staring right at you
Got me frozen in my tracks
So amazed how you take me back
Each and every time our love collapsed
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 04, 2024, 05:17:40 PM
Promised you a miracle
Belief is a beauty thing
Promises promises
As golden days break wondering
Chance as love takes a train
Summer breeze and brilliant light
Only love she sees
He controls on love
Love sails to a new life
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2024, 09:48:58 AM
See the curtains hangin' in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light a-shinin' through the window
Lets me know everything's all right


Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2024, 09:19:41 AM
Are you with me, Jasmine?
Would you let me in?
Would you knock me over
Like a bottle of gin?
Jasmine

Is it 'cause I scare you?
Is it 'cause I knew?
But you've got to trust me
Even if no one else will
Jasmine

When I see you, Jasmine
What's a boy to do?
Please come back to me and
Make my dream come true
When it comes to heartbreak
What's a little girl like you know?
Melt my heart of stone and
Make my dream come true
Come true
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 07, 2024, 08:36:39 AM
I met a gin-soaked bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 08, 2024, 08:45:30 AM
As I sit here tonight the jukebox playing
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are saying
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife


It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
There's many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 09, 2024, 09:28:51 AM
I'm praying for rain in California
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
And I'm sitting in a honky in Chicago
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind

I matched the man behind the bar for the jukebox
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
And they asked who's the fool in the corner crying
I say a little ole wine drinker me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 10, 2024, 07:57:46 AM
The days of wine and roses
Laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadowland toward a closing door
A door marked "Nevermore", that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 11, 2024, 09:27:35 AM
There's no living in my life anymore
The seas have gone dry
And the rain stopped falling
Please don't you cry anymore (Ahh)
Can't you see?
Listen to the breeze
Whisper to me, please
Don't send me to the path
Of nevermore
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 12, 2024, 08:58:46 AM
Looking from this window,
A thousand rivers running past my door,
Standing on an island, looking for someone,
Upon the shore,
I can see it very clearly nothing's really changed,
Then lightning strikes across an empty sky.

Ooohh, the rain is falling
Ooohh, the rain is falling
Ooohh, the rain is falling
Will it wash away the lonely tears
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 12, 2024, 09:01:23 AM
Some turn out, a hundred grand
Get with it, we'll shake his hand
Don't bother to understand
Don't question the little man
Be part of the brotherhood
Yes, it's chain lightning
It feels so good
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2024, 08:39:21 AM
You took a mystery and made me want it
You got a pedestal and put me on it
You made me love you out of feeling nothing
Something that you do

And I was there and not dancing with anyone
You took a little, then you took me over
You set your mark on stealing my heart away
Crying, trying, anything for you

I'm in the middle of a chain reaction
You give me all the after midnight action
I want to get you where I can let you make all that love to me
I'm on a journey for the inspiration
To anywhere and there ain't no salvation
I need you to get me nearer to you
So you can set me free
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 14, 2024, 09:34:53 AM
I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long
People ask when will you grow up to be a man
But all the girls I loved at school
are already pushing prams

I loved you then as I love you still
Tho I put you on a pedestal,
They put you on the pill
I don't feel bad about letting you go
I just feel sad about letting you know

I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a new England
I'm just looking for another girl
I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a new England
I'm just looking for another girl
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 15, 2024, 09:17:14 AM
You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking Abbey Lane

I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles Cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 16, 2024, 08:00:52 AM
Cockney feet
Mark the beat of history.
Every street pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace
The grace of London Town.

There's a little city flower,
Ever spring unveiling,
Growing in the crevices,
By some London railing.
Though it has a Latin name
In town and countryside,
We in England call it
London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us,
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it forever will be.


https://youtu.be/RJPmAHSwnS4?si=zCp0dKNqWnIH2bzq
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 17, 2024, 08:36:52 AM
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river

(London calling) To the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath


https://youtu.be/EfK-WX2pa8c?si=AIPsi4o0d-NUZKec


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 17, 2024, 11:09:26 PM
Walking down the sidewalk on a purple afternoon
I was accosted by a barker
Playing a simple tune upon his flute
Toot, toot, toot, toot
Silver rain was falling down upon the dirty ground of
London Town

People pass me by on my imaginary street
Ordinary people it's impossible to meet
Holding conversations that are always incomplete
Well, I don't know
Oh, where are there places to go?
Someone, somewhere has to know
I don't know
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Outrider on May 17, 2024, 11:11:11 PM
Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSF8-v4j20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSF8-v4j20)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 18, 2024, 08:43:31 AM
People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds

And I could say Oo oo oo
As if everybody knows
What I'm talking about
As if everybody would know
Exactly what I was talking about
Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoe

https://youtu.be/Fmf9ZJ_Yn0A?si=8b0IIM7UKac_HfAg
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 18, 2024, 11:37:51 AM
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand
But it won't pay the rental on your humble flat
Or help you at the automat

Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 18, 2024, 11:53:07 AM
Beautiful music...
Dangerous rhythm...

It's something daring, The Continental
A way of dancing that's really ultra new
It's very subtle, The Continental
Because it does what you want it to do

It has a passion, The Continental
An invitation to moonlight and romance
It's quite the fashion, The Continental
Because you tell of your love while you dance


https://youtu.be/uh5u5dmeABI?si=E_1Ji2tzQVNyMx_Z
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 19, 2024, 09:36:05 AM
There's a brand new dance
But I don't know its name
That people from bad homes
Do again and again
It's big and it's bland
Full of tension and fear
They do it over there
But we don't do it here

Fashion, turn to the left
Fashion, turn to the right
Ooh fashion
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep, beep-beep


https://youtu.be/KDrhwuaaG6Y?si=YoccX1CMZAwYzMUn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 19, 2024, 11:05:04 PM
They seek him here
they seek him there
His clothes are loud
But never square
It will make or break him so he's got to buy the best
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion

And when he does his little rounds
'Round the boutiques of London town
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion

Oh yes, he is (Oh yes, he is)
Oh yes, he is (Oh yes, he is)
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at
And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight
He feels a dedicated follower of fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSnzFI2iwjw
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 20, 2024, 08:32:25 AM
You’re in my boutique
To find some love with me
You dance around and walk the floor
While looking at me
My boutique
To find some love with me
You dance around and walk the floor
While looking at me



Here you come
Walking through the door
You look so good you glide on through
Your feet don’t touch the floor
The aura all about you
The way you hold yourself
You look so good I wish I could
Display you on my shelf


https://youtu.be/liGRIkllIS0?feature=shared
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 21, 2024, 08:40:25 AM
Nothing matters but the weekend
From a Tuesday point of view
Like a kettle in the kitchen
I feel the steam begin to brew

Switchin' to glide
Switchin' to glide
Switchin' to glide
Switchin' to glide


https://youtu.be/xloQ8ljk2nA?si=fQ8h4rr5W_Tmmrlv
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 21, 2024, 04:53:57 PM
It's a lo-, it's a lo-, it's a lonely weekend
It's a lo-, it's a lo-, it's a lonely feelin' without you

Monday, I was gone, and Tuesday, you were workin' late
Wednesday went to hell, then Thursday kinda had to wait, yeah
Friday, you were leavin', goin' out of town again
I should see what's goin' on, only got a couple friends
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 21, 2024, 05:10:28 PM
Eight days a week
I love you
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care

Ooh, I need your love babe
Yes you know it's true
Hope you need my love babe
Just like I need you, oh-oh

Hold me, love me
Hold me, love me
I ain't got nothing but love babe
Eight days a week

https://youtu.be/kle2xHhRHg4?si=iYSCVF8VFD12GOuu
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 22, 2024, 08:22:04 AM
It's been one week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry"
Five days since you laughed at me saying
"Get that together, come back and see me"
Three days since the living room
I realized it's all my fault but couldn't tell you
Yesterday, you'd forgiven me
But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish
Although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi
'Cause it's never touched a frying pan
Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes
Big like LeAnn Rimes
Because I'm all about value
Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits
You try to hold me but I bust through
Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin' achin' shake
I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours
Gotta see the show 'cause then you'll know
The vertigo is gonna grow 'cause it's so dangerous
You'll have to sign a waiver

https://youtu.be/fC_q9KPczAg?si=8wYjmnyffrz3LqWs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 23, 2024, 08:21:22 AM

Monday, I was gone, and Tuesday, you were working late
Wednesday went to hell, then Thursday kinda had to wait, yeah
Friday, you were leavin', goin' out of town again
I should see what's goin' on, only got a couple friends


It's a lo-, it's a lo-, it's a lonely weekend (So lonely)
It's a lo-, it's a lo-, it's a lonely feelin' without you
Guess everybody else is out tonight (Out tonight)
Guess I'm hangin' by myself, but I don't mind (I don't mind)
It's a lo-, it's a lo-, it's a lonely weekend, yeah


https://youtu.be/YNlYE6ereyI?si=kIh2vgSMyZWQfggJ


Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 24, 2024, 07:55:49 AM
I know you aren't the only one
I know you aren't the only one
Be my friend
I know you aren't the only one
Be my friend
I know you aren't the only one, yeah

Ever so lonely
Ever so lonely without you
Ever so lonely
Ever so lonely without you


https://youtu.be/9zer99vJe2A?si=ncUZsdSOk8pvbfs6
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 25, 2024, 10:41:37 AM
I remember you when
You were all sugar and spite
Seven years ago
You haven't really changed at all
As you take off your makeup
Turn out the light
Your back is so beautiful
Your skin so smooth and white

Take me back behind
The fire station with you
And there in the west end rain
Kiss me like you used to

You're not the only one
Not the only one
You're not the only one
Who's lonely tonight


https://youtu.be/NeE86P55dks?si=W7MNUWBsJ91hVaD-
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 26, 2024, 09:50:51 AM

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand, and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a madman around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town


In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls


https://youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs?si=BTNpXuQb63r4SzEg
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 27, 2024, 09:45:40 AM
Tell you about the place
I've lived all my life
I'll tell you all the truth about
The struggle and stife
All the toffs say it's a bit of a dive
It's the only place left
Where anyone is alive
East end
Take a walk around Bethnal Green
Or meet the Mile End mob
Well they're mean
Gt a 69 bus to Canning Town
It's never ever gonna get us down
East end

https://youtu.be/CFM5od4lfiY?si=LeM8bPQLt0Db-UCu
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 28, 2024, 08:28:45 AM
New York winter Traffic squeals
The city feels... so old
Late December taxi ride
Then run inside it's cold

Got your letters Monday
I think or Tuesday
I lose track
since then I've been thinking of you
and I've been looking back to

London
Can you believe it's so many years since
London
Hitching a ride and carrying knapsacks
London
In the park by the Thames Drinking tea
London
sitting in pubs and living in walk-ups
London
Learnin' the accent learnin' to love you
London
We were young we were sure
We were... free


https://youtu.be/3FqOmulg3zU?si=kqbN9ayoy7f3i2M7
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 28, 2024, 02:09:21 PM
I can see you now by the light of the dawn
And the sun is rising slow
We have talked all night, and I can't talk anymore
But I must stay and you must go;

You have always been such a good friend to me
Through the thunder and the rain
And when you're feeling lost in the snows of New York
Lift your heart and think of me;
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 28, 2024, 10:56:40 PM
Just a young gun with a quick fuse
I was uptight, wanna let loose
I was dreaming of bigger things
And wanna leave my old life behind
Not a yes-sir, not a follower
Fit the box, fit the mold
Have a seat in the foyer, take a number
I was lightning before the thunder

Thunder, thunder
Thunder, thun-, thunder
Thun-thun-thunder, thunder, thunder
Thunder, thun-, thunder
Thun-thun-thunder, thunder

https://youtu.be/fKopy74weus?si=BD2aJeM5NPP1s08J
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 29, 2024, 08:33:16 AM
I don't want to lose, this good thing
That I got 'cause if I do
I will surely, surely lose a lot
'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know

It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
I'd better knock, on wood, baby

I'm not superstitious about you
But I can't take no chance
You got me spinnin', baby
Baby, I'm in a trance
'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know

It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
I'd better knock, on wood, baby
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 29, 2024, 08:42:15 AM
I sat on a rug
Biding my time
Drinking her wine

We talked until two
And then she said
"It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke
I was alone
This bird had flown

So I lit a fire
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood


https://youtu.be/Y_V6y1ZCg_8?si=fRMqJ6wMAI6KfRmY
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2024, 08:09:05 AM
I have a secret to tell
From my electrical well
It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells
So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is blue canary one note* spelled l-i-t-e
My story's infinite
Like the Longines Symphonette it doesn't rest

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul


https://youtu.be/0NltKaxmb6o?si=CBDyh10tgUA8PgAI
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2024, 08:01:12 AM
First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live you life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

You say you want to spend the winter in Firenze
You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine


https://youtu.be/Ozeuu0PaOxg?si=gCG4Oe5f54OV2TPB


Sting has written some very dubious rhymes
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 01, 2024, 09:23:22 AM

First time that I saw you, girl
I knew that I just had to make you mine
But it's so hard to talk to you
With fellas hanging 'round you all the time
I want you for my sweet pet
But you keep playing hard to get
I'm going around in circles all the time

Dizzy
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy


https://youtu.be/v3l8hdhZlrk?si=Q3wQbR5ojACxF2Ht
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 02, 2024, 10:39:03 AM
Traded in my sorrows for some joy that I borrowed
From back in the day
Threw away my old clothes, got myself a better wardrobe
I got something to say

I'm through with the past, ain't no point in looking back
The future will be
And did I forget to mention that I found a new direction
And it leads back to me?

I'm spinning around, move out of my way
I know you're feelin' me 'cause you like it like this
I'm breakin' it down, I'm not the same
I know you're feelin' me 'cause you like it


https://youtu.be/EQ0Qr__LQNY?si=bzVlmogFJg7fgj-x
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2024, 08:24:01 AM
Mortal kings are ruling castles
Welcome to my world of fun
Liars settle into sockets
Flip the switch and watch them run

Oh oh, yeah, oh oh
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
I'm taking back, back, taking back, back
The crown
I'm all dressed up and naked
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah
The crown
So close I can taste it
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah


https://youtu.be/AnUTAG15_4Q?si=hlR29smF4xXkDwhn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 04, 2024, 08:17:14 AM
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh...
Here comes the Sun King
Here comes the Sun King
Everybody's laughing
Everybody's happy
Here comes the Sun King

Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel


https://youtu.be/6bNMxWGHlTI?si=Jd6mCqEwjLSFlkHd
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 05, 2024, 07:30:03 AM
I can't believe all of the things they say about me
Walk in the room they throwing shade left to right
They be like, "Ooh, she's serving face."
And I just tell 'em, cut me up, and get down

They call us dirty 'cause we break all your rules down
And we just came to act a fool, is that all right (Girl, that's alright)
They be like, "Ooh, let them eat cake."
But we eat wings and throw them bones on the ground

Am I a freak for dancing around? (queen)
Am I a freak for getting down? (queen)
I'm cutting up, don't cut me down
Yeah I wanna be, wanna be (queen)


https://youtu.be/tEddixS-UoU?si=P4EPhQIl8LP7rlkI
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 06, 2024, 07:50:31 AM
Let me lay it on the line
I've got a little freakiness inside
And you know that a man has gotta deal with it
I don't care what they say
I'm not about to pay nobody's way
'Cause it's all about the dark in me

I wanna freak in the morning
Freak in the evening
(Just like me)
I need a rough-neck brother that can satisfy me
(Just for me)

https://youtu.be/dSAGsiVSoeE?si=DJhH1H24dT45qsj8
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 07, 2024, 08:22:25 AM
She likes the boys in the band
She says that I'm her all-time favorite
When I make my move to her room, it's the right time
She's never hard to please, oh, no

That girl is pretty wild now (the girl's a super freak)
The kind of girl you read about (in new-wave magazines)
That girl is pretty kinky (the girl's a super freak)
I really love to taste her (every time we meet)
She's alright, she's alright
That girl's alright with me
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey!

She's a super freak, super freak
She's super-freaky, yow
Everybody sing
Super freak, super freak


https://youtu.be/QYHxGBH6o4M?si=s-lfSB6aYwcuYAmk
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 08, 2024, 09:30:52 AM
There's a magazine called Sunset
And a tape machine that won't let
Me ever forget this impossible longing for you
Let's take a map across your pillow
And breathe the sky in through your window
I'll stay in the riddle and watch your books cave in
Oh, maybe you're my inspiration
Just lead me to some new sensation
I'll make a little guide they can call our own

https://youtu.be/Km-5DwQnjYg?si=9o7oLN3HTP2ocWPd
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 09, 2024, 08:20:09 AM
Pillow talk, pillow talk
Another night of bein' alone with pillow talk
When it's all said and done
Two heads together can be better than one
That's what they say
They always say

All I do is talk to my pillow
Talk to my pillow, talk to my pillow
All I do is talk to my pillow
Talk about the boy I'm gonna marry
Someday, somehow, somewhere, sometime

https://youtu.be/zqyrz0Cvt7Y?si=OhnGJQPGkgROhTgB
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 10, 2024, 08:11:07 AM
Stay, I'm burning slow
With me in the rain, walking in the soft rain
Calling out my name
See me burning slow

Brilliant days, wake up on brilliant days
Shadows of brilliant ways will change all the time
Memories, burning gold memories
Gold of day memories change me in these times

Somewhere there is some place, that one million eyes can't see
And somewhere there is someone, who can see what I can see

Someone, Somewhere In Summertime
Someone, Somewhere In Summertime
Someone, Somewhere In Summertime

https://youtu.be/rddDM-Pm3dQ?si=c-018eb6MMKHOAg7
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 11, 2024, 08:02:40 AM
He thought he was the King of America
But it was just a boulevard of broken dreams
A trick they do with mirrors and with chemicals
The words of love in whispers and the acts of love in screams

I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this lovin' feeling
Disappear like it was common sense

I was a fine idea at the time
Now I'm a brilliant mistake

https://youtu.be/VtbXtuG4MTQ?si=MBMnusUdWaAMKvKp
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 12, 2024, 07:39:11 AM

I woke up and called this morning
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore

I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
It's 6 A.M., and I'm alone

Did you know when you go, it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I was just beginning?
When you go all I know is
You're my favorite mistake

https://youtu.be/1VN8Q0gKNkI?si=JInBqDWJqsNj0B0N
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2024, 07:13:41 AM
Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

https://youtu.be/mPncuS0E1yc?si=4XGFH_5IfXR7Z5aS
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 14, 2024, 04:05:04 AM
Jumping like a dog on Prozac
And fishing with dynamite
I thought that I was in the green
But it turns red every time

You drive me crazier than a wingless bee
You drive me crazier than I ought to be
Oh put your best dress on, better make it black
I'm going out but I'm not coming back


https://youtu.be/-On3vtXGaMg?si=_2bYyHsU12skKxIW

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 15, 2024, 10:15:41 AM
Sun stare, don't care with my head in my hands thinking of a simpler time

Like Sun Ra, feel small, but I had it under control every time

When I was a waitress wearing a white dress
Look how I do this, look how I got this
I was a waitress working the night shift
You were my man, felt like I got this
Down at the Men in Music Business Conference
Down in Orlando, I was only 19
Down at the Men in Music Business Conference
I only mention it 'cause it was such a scene
And I felt seen

https://youtu.be/yJuV8PDwvC8?si=E1qL6g554W8dxUgc
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 16, 2024, 09:52:35 AM
According to a Veteran's Administration study
Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered
From what psychiatrists call
Post traumatic stress disorder
Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt
Some succumb to suicidal thoughts
Eight to ten years after coming home
Almost eight-hundred-thousand men
Are still fighting the Vietnam War

None of them received
A hero's welcome

Saigon, Saigon
S-s-s-s-s-Saigon
S-s-s-s-s-Saigon
Nineteen, s-s-s-s-Saigon
N-n-n-n-n-nineteen


https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I?si=FpTmGIHke7VvGFNy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 17, 2024, 09:14:49 PM
The heat is on in Saigon
The girls are hotter 'n' hell
One of these slits here will be Miss Saigon
God, the tension is high, not to mention the smell
The heat is on in Saigon
Is there a war going on?
Don't ask, I ain't gonna tell

https://youtu.be/RZYQW7YS3qY?si=8cajQjq3y7cHH1Jo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2024, 07:37:54 AM
Cool town, evenin' in the city
Dress so fine and lookin' so pretty
Cool cat lookin' for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
'Til I'm wheezin' like a bus stop
Runnin' up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

But at night, it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat, it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city

https://youtu.be/zs8ZNa73OS4?si=qHkWjkOHvVdQpaCZ
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 19, 2024, 08:17:04 AM
The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold

I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall


https://youtu.be/Gnp58oepHUQ?si=ULAyeu--U8MfzbuC
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 20, 2024, 08:40:56 AM
When the promise that you made
Is broken or betrayed
Like bigotry's poison stain
Like the countryside that's raped

When love turns to dust, leaves the splinters of your trust
Forgiver
Shine on, shine on
In the beauty of the storm, I wither
Shine on, shine on
In the beauty of the storm

Winter


https://youtu.be/pw5Gv4jZE30?si=1KQU74Mkk74YBHGg
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2024, 08:38:22 AM
You can walk among us, but you can't walk on by
You just keep on bleedin' on your clothes as they dry
All your teflon pancakes always make me too high
You're thinkin' that you're here but you're really up in the sky

There she was just walkin' down the street
Smoking with her hands and walking with her feet
Keeping her paint cans underneath the seat
Keepin' her hair dryer on her favorite piece of meat

You can crush the flowers
But you can't stop the spring
No matter what you say

https://youtu.be/KjqNEtalhQA?si=Ckn-NM89UgNtxrdy
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 22, 2024, 09:34:22 AM


There she was just walkin' down the street
Singin', "Do wah diddy, diddy, dum diddy do"
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet
Singin', "Do wah diddy diddy, dum diddy do"

She looked good (Looked good)
She looked fine (Looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine
And I nearly lost my mind

Before I knew it she was walkin' next to me
Singin', "Do wah diddy diddy, dum diddy do"
Holdin' my hand just as natural as can be
Singin', "Do wah diddy diddy, dum diddy do"

We walked on (Walked on)
To my door (My door)
We walked on to my door
Then we kissed a little more


https://youtu.be/oNloiEXdeGY?si=nXkvlg3lVbHsJwVJ
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 23, 2024, 01:03:30 PM
I just can't get over losing you
And so if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by
Walk on by
Foolish pride
That's all that I have left, so let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye

Walk on by
(Don't stop)
Walk on by
(Don't stop)

Walk on by
(Don't stop)
Walk on

https://youtu.be/bpoBISzUP4o?si=Uqm_Qvp_Pmu68Jp7
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 24, 2024, 07:16:04 AM
And where do we go from here?
Which is the way that's clear?
Still looking for that blue-jean baby-queen
Prettiest girl I ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean

Rock on
Rock on
(Rock on) hey, did you rock 'n' roll?
Rock on
(Rock on) hey, did you rock 'n' roll?
Rock on


https://youtu.be/1jQmok3BcHs?si=VfSn0rq_aH9zSIBQ
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 26, 2024, 11:54:35 AM
You were the lowdown rebel if there ever was
Even if you had no cause
James Dean, you said it all so clean
And I know my life would look all right
If I could see it on the silver screen

We'll talk about a low-down bad refrigerator,
You were just too cool for school
Sock hop, soda pop, basketball and auto shop,
The only thing that got you off was breakin' all the rules
James Dean, James Dean
So hungry and so lean
James Dean, you said it all so clean
And I know my life would look all right
If I could see it on the silver screen


https://youtu.be/7KEJ3_VjTwE?si=d8yamHLp5M2UlNsD
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 27, 2024, 07:56:24 AM
Greta Garbo and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you

Ladies with an attitude
Fellas that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

Vogue, vogue


https://youtu.be/lTaXtWWR16A?si=05yaRp9xz1hUXLPX
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2024, 04:38:52 AM
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, whoa, whoa, whoa
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin Joe has left and gone away, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey


https://youtu.be/07b-WtWT2BA?si=iwRnJRzA2Zfg_t0C
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 29, 2024, 10:51:57 AM
n the midday sun
They beat on their drums
When Poppa Joe comes to town
With his coconut rum
They can all have fun
They can drink it 'til the sun goes down
Poppa Joe just smiles politely
With the money he takes he might be
Very rich one day as he hears them say

Poppa rumbo-rumbo, hey, Poppa Joe, coconut
Poppa Joe, hey, Poppa Joe
Poppa rumbo-rumbo, hey, Poppa Joe, coconut
Poppa Joe, hey, Poppa Joe
Poppa rumbo-rumbo, hey, Poppa Joe, coconut
Hey Pop-Poppa, Poppa Joe


https://youtu.be/gV0ujTVD9kI?si=9RzBqPyeBl-dqtj6
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 30, 2024, 07:59:00 AM
Out on Manzanella Beach
G.I. romance with native peach
All night long, make tropic love
The next day, sit in hot sun and cool off

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the Yankee dollar
It's a fact, man, it's a fact


https://youtu.be/WiayZdPESno?si=LH7AQQVQELaqKYwv
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 01, 2024, 09:22:57 AM
Processions bear that human flare which mark a hero's welcome
For those dead and for those shed it was a big occasion
And all flags and Yankee mags which embroidered all the meaning
In an oversight, forgot the fight, which never bore elation

Yankee, to war
Yankee, head high
Yankee, in call
Yankee, we cry

Working for the Yankee Dollar

https://youtu.be/wgGNhAJd2cE?si=gXYUJT2Qy-NFkwQP
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 02, 2024, 09:13:59 AM
Father's name was Hezikiah
Mother's name was Ann Maria
Yanks through and through
Red, white and blue
Father was so Yankee hearted
When the Spanish War was started
He slipped upon his uniform
And hopped up on a pony
My mother's mother was a Yankee true
My father's father was a Yankee too
And that's going some
For the Yankees, by gum
Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phoney?

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
A Yankee Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my uncle Sam's
Born on the Fourth of July
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart
She's my Yankee Doodle joy
Yankee Doodle came to London,
Just to ride the ponies
I am a Yankee Doodle boy


https://youtu.be/N8wxb-wwQnA?si=-xhV71owJ3WQlmGU
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2024, 10:16:21 AM
I dig a pony
Well, you can celebrate anything you want
Yes, you can celebrate anything you want
Oh!
I do a road hog
Well, you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go
I told you so


All I want is you
Everything has got to be just like you want it to
Because


https://youtu.be/uT-gDIEcrP0?si=x35n5dP8KbU8wuRC
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2024, 10:19:07 AM
On white horses let me ride away,
To my world of dreams so far away
Let me run
To the sun.

To a world my heart can understand
It's a gentle warm and wonderland
Far away
Stars away

Where the clouds are made of candy floss
As the day is born.
When the stars are gone
We'll race to meet the dawn


https://youtu.be/w_FrJ7hzSXI
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2024, 10:24:36 AM
After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with its life underground
And a perfect disguise all above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love

You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la la la la, la la la, la la.


https://youtu.be/5SeY99CtYPU?si=Fm0YOHdqeo9uKFVN
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2024, 10:29:28 AM
Just to say I love that fucking song. (America)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2024, 10:35:09 AM
I walk down to the sea
and I saw this crazy man
He was looking at me
and he said "I have a plan"
Yes, he said "I have a plan"

He was black from the sun
and his eyes were in tears
and his hand was so thick
from the work of the years
Yes, his hand was so thick
from the work of the years

He said "Please come with me
to my home by the sea
We can smoke, drink and eat
and you'll sit at my feet
and I'll tell what I know
while the sea breezes blow
for I've tried to be free
but I'll soon have to go."

And his house was his art
and, nature, his wish
it was sculpted from clay
in the shape of a fish
it was sculpted from clay
in the shape of a fish
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 03, 2024, 10:38:31 AM
Down here all the fish is happy
As after the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy
They sad cause they're in the bowl
The fish in the bowl is lucky
They're in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry
Guess who goin' be on the plate?

Wo-no, under the sea
Under the sea
Nobody beat us, fry us and eat us
In fricassee
We what the land folks loves to cook
Under the sea we off the hook
We've got no troubles, life is the bubbles

https://youtu.be/GC_mV1IpjWA?feature=shared
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 03, 2024, 10:43:22 AM
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailing

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms, I'd go sailing

It's far beyond a star
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again, I'll go sailing

https://youtu.be/Rc7_lCfbQP0
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 04, 2024, 08:15:16 AM
Here I stand, watching the tide go out
So all alone and blue
Just dreaming dreams of you

I watched your ship as it sailed out to sea
Taking all my dreams
And taking all of me

The sighing of the waves
The wailing of the wind
The tears in my eyes burn
Pleading, "My love, return"

Why, oh, why must I go on like this?
Shall I just be a lonely stranger on the shore?


https://youtu.be/Go4_aCHECYM?si=7RWP7am9CyS-NcZO
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2024, 02:48:27 AM
Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wond'ring in the night what were the chances
We'd be sharing love before the night was through

Something in your eyes was so inviting
Something in your smile was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you

Strangers in the night
Two lonely people, we were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello little did we know
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away


https://youtu.be/ZwAERaRUsp0?si=WIQHBhufYvv5Uf8j

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2024, 09:34:42 AM
Bangkok, Oriental City
But the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boards in it
All changed, don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings
Or, or this place

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me


https://youtu.be/TaD1BuigS3g?si=h9SI0KiIxSoPAwTf
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 07, 2024, 09:53:20 AM
Just call my name
And I'll be right by your side
I want your sweet helping hand
My loves too strong to hide

Always lived, very quiet life
I ain't never did no wrong
Now I know that life without you
Has been too lonely too long

One night with you
Is what I'm now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true

https://youtu.be/XI_DaBGjQNA?si=BXqEY0b6F0jA6Xfb
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on July 07, 2024, 10:15:08 AM
Let's live for tonight
I know I want you baby
So hold me so tight

Put your arms around me
You make me feel so safe
Then you whisper in my ear
That you're here to stay

Dreams can come true
Look at me babe, I'm with you
You know you gotta have hope
You know you gotta be strong

https://youtu.be/G5QPirQITZI?si=kldbbWTu3uPyyt7U
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 07, 2024, 10:34:10 AM
Mama said, "Fulfill the prophecy
Be something greater, go make a legacy"
Manifest destiny back in the days
We wanted everything, wanted everything
Mama said, "Burn your biographies
Rewrite your history, light up your wildest dreams"
Museum victories everyday
We wanted everything, wanted everything

Mama said, "Don't give up, it's a little complicated
All tied up, no more love, and I'd hate to see you waiting"

Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing
Didn't have a dime, but I always had a vision
Always had high, high hopes
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Didn't know how, but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Always had high, high hopes (high, high hopes


https://youtu.be/IPXIgEAGe4U?si=EEto-Cf_hejqR2Qd
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 08, 2024, 08:17:05 AM
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell
And I was the kid with the drum

Say, don't you remember? They called me 'Al'
It was 'Al' all the time
Why don't you remember? I'm your pal
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?


https://youtu.be/GGG1kxzd3fY?si=QNILkJ33s7kN56x9
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 09, 2024, 08:56:36 AM
Bad times are coming, and I reap what I done sowed
(Hey, hey)
Well, let me tell you something all that glitters ain't gold
(Hey, hey)
It's been a long, old, trouble, long, old, troublesome road
And I'm looking for somebody come and help me carry this load

I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar that's what I need
(Hey, hey)
Well, I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar that's what I need


https://youtu.be/gz_oef-uz9Q?si=PdNQZNYdHoRLIDw1
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 10, 2024, 06:23:32 AM
I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitations
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time


https://youtu.be/6B224XDJw6g?si=bE714nLwaGVsiYTt
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 11, 2024, 09:53:39 AM
They arrived at an inconvenient time.
I was hiding in a room in my mind.
They made me look at myself. I saw it well.
I'd shut the people out of my life.

So now I take the opportunities:
Wonderful teachers ready to teach me.
I must work on my mind. For now I realise..
Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Them heavy people help me.
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.

https://youtu.be/TNRrlYpWIus?si=nROl6LiIyZSM1hqw
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 12, 2024, 09:21:18 AM
And look into your heart, pretty baby
Is it aching with some nameless need?
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me

And I don't think I have ever seen
A soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?

So don't try to deny it, pretty baby
You've been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining, it's the
Right time to roll to me
Roll to me
Roll to me


https://youtu.be/tT-e3q2Um3w?si=26z1JvdLkZ6ozHLD
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 13, 2024, 08:48:28 AM
Loneliness is a crowded room
Full of open hearts turned to stone
All together, all alone
All at once, my whole world had changed
Now, I'm in the dark, off the wall
Lit the strobe light up the wall
I close my eyes and dance 'til dawn

Dance away the heartache
Dance away tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away fears
Dance away...
Dance away...
Dance away...


https://youtu.be/4nT1-eE2E0M?si=5tDvWX8B0UmyrHsI
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 14, 2024, 09:36:11 AM
When the world is on your shoulder
Gotta straighten up your act and boogie down
If you can't hang with the feelin'
Then there ain't no room for you in this part of town

'Cause we're the party people night and day
Livin' crazy, that's the only way

So tonight, gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf
And just enjoy yourself
Groove, let the madness in the music get to you
Life ain't so bad at all
If you live it off the wall
Life ain't so bad at all (Live life off the wall)
Live your life off the wall (Live it off the wall)


https://youtu.be/ov5vwy3V310?si=VkZ4vv6a2Oj7xq0x
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 15, 2024, 10:49:20 AM
Even if I am in love with you
All this to say, what's it to you?
Observe the blood, the rose tattoo
Of the fingerprints on me from you

Other evidence has shown
That you and I are still alone
We skirt around the danger zone
And don't talk about it later

Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing
Marlene on the wall


https://youtu.be/B-WcKAFVqt0?si=oWMgx5Q4By_hY8KK
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 16, 2024, 08:39:22 AM
Breakfast where the news is read
Television, children fed
Unborn living, living dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And it's all over for the unknown soldier
It's all over for the unknown soldier, uh uh

March!
Company, halt!
Present arms!

Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier


https://youtu.be/Jk-tbX7xVG4?si=bgqfcpN73MpWosYn
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 17, 2024, 01:45:08 AM
You got no job you got no pay
Join the military, sign today
They'll take you off to fight on foreign shores

You'll be your mother's pride and joy
Her armed and dangerous golden boy
A uniformed hero that shows no fear

The khaki ranks of flesh and steel
Learning how to smile and kill
They'll teach you to ignore the screams and tears


https://youtu.be/3LBOZf0VnO8?si=OEXsCEk8z3T___S8
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 18, 2024, 09:01:28 AM
The marchin' band came down along Maine Street
The soldier-blues fell in behind
I looked across and there I saw Billy
Waiting to go and join the line

And with her head upon his shoulder
His young and lovely fiancee
From where I stood I saw she was cryin'
And through her tears I heard her say:

"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife"
And as Billy started to go she said: "Keep your pretty head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me"


https://youtu.be/KX-JeV37Uqw?si=XBDLRMU92u8nTes1
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 19, 2024, 09:12:57 AM
I remember lovers' play
The car was cold and we lay in it for days
I remember the things you said
My little Billy, come to your lover's bed

Come home is my plea
Your home now is here with me
Come home to your son
Tomorrow might never come

C'mon Billy, you look good to me
How many nights now? Your child inside of
Don't forget me I had your son
Damn thing went crazy, but I swear you're the only one

Come along Billy, now come to me
Come along Billy, now come to me

https://youtu.be/pr1j3GfJuR4?si=l4EDf_OwYLfrFwMx
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 20, 2024, 10:18:24 AM
How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say, oh
"Would you like to marry me?
And if you like you can buy the ring"?
She doesn't care about anything
"Would you like to marry me?
And if you like you can buy the ring"
I don't dream about anyone
Except myself

William, William it was really nothing
William, William


https://youtu.be/aBgnxNm_FOE?si=tBXGE0LK4QgV6rVQ
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 21, 2024, 09:24:03 AM
We've been, going together
Too long to be vague
When there's something to say
If it's not now, then it's never
So I'll say it straight out
'Cos I have no doubt, no doubt

Let's get married
I love you and I want to stay with you
Let's get married
Have kids and grow old and grey with you
Let's get married
Hold hands, walk in the park
You can get a cat as long as it barks

https://youtu.be/4_Ef9z-efAU?si=kVOpZY05sjCYG_MI
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 22, 2024, 10:59:45 AM
Watch him smile, he thinks it Christmas
Or his 5th Birthday
And he thinks C-U-S-T-O-D-Y spells fun or play
I spell out all the hurtin' words
And turn my head when I speak
'Cause I can't spell away this hurt
That's drippin' down my cheek.

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E; becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be goin' away
I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E


https://youtu.be/912DKxD0H1U?si=jTTR7dTQqoZXjQC9
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 23, 2024, 09:30:01 AM
We put away our tools and go back inside
Mom feels left out and now she's starting to cry
I wonder if all girls are crazy this way

I wish that pops would just get a spine
I said "I know it's kinda little but you can borrow mine"
He just smiles and says "Your mom means well, son"

You see, most times are good; it's just some that are lean
But love makes up for those times in between
He got a tear in his eye as he took mama's hand
Said one day I'd understand

If it were me, I'd have the guts
I'd put to test those bolts and nuts
And ride away so fast, so far
Ride away so fast, so far
Ride


https://youtu.be/0CULeWLzyoQ?si=oB8KX8d1gVUfH29D
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 24, 2024, 08:26:58 AM
Mustang Sally, huh, huh, guess you better slow your mustang down
Oh Lord, what I said now?
Mustang Sally, now baby, oh Lord, guess you better slow your mustang down
Huh oh yeaah
You been running all over the town now
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground
Huh, what I said now?

Listen
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride. Huh
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride

https://youtu.be/n21iIEvHe3Q?si=dSQ5gaSVHUsDTnL2

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 25, 2024, 10:45:03 AM
Watched it coming up Winslow
Down South Park Boulevard
Yeah it was looking good from tail to hood
Great big fins and painted steel
Man, it looked just like the Batmobile
With my old man behind the wheel

Well you could hardly even see him
In all of that chrome
The man with the plan and the pocket comb
But every night it carried him home
And I could hear him saying

Don't you gimme no Buick
Son you must take my word
If there's a God in Heaven
He's got a silver Thunderbird
You can keep your Eldorados
And the foreign car's absurd
Me I wanna go down
In a silver Thunderbird


https://youtu.be/T2L9N7XsWhk?si=YuxLG1SICvgsEmE4
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 26, 2024, 09:14:12 AM
I've been driving in my car, it's not quite a Jaguar
I bought it in Primrose Hill from a bloke from Brazil
It was made in fifty-nine in a factory by the Tyne
It says Morris on the door, the G.P.O. owned it before
I drive in it for my job, the governor calls me a slob
But I don't really care, give me some gas and the open air

It's a bit old but it's mine, I mend it in my spare time
Just last week I changed the oil, the rocker valves and the coil
Just last week I changed the oil
Last week it went round the clock, I also had a little knock
I dented somebody's fender, he learnt not to park on a bender, ha ha ha

https://youtu.be/rV1_7R_3cXA?si=lart6pqOjO3hsTIj
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2024, 09:31:46 AM
I'm hearing the light from the window
I'm seeing the sound of the sea
My feet have come loose from their moorings
I'm feeling quite wonderfully free

And I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight
There's nothing I know of in Rio
But it's something to do with the night

It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
And I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again, I just might

https://youtu.be/UBdCvR_RI4M?si=NYCpRuk3s0ggIHQs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 28, 2024, 11:00:00 AM
Hey, Mister Wind, just keep us sailing
(Keep us sailing on)
High in the sky
There's no curtailing
(Yes, we'll have fun)

So everyone, come on
Hey, you on the ground
(You on the ground)
Take a look up and
See what we've found

Nothing to tie us
Bluebirds come up to guide us
When you're beside me
We can fly
Oh, we can fly


https://youtu.be/Pw1aFsdzoXI?si=CzflYohifws51iP1
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 29, 2024, 09:28:43 AM
I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up
Well I think only God really knows

I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never, never, never
I never wanted water once
No never, never, never


https://youtu.be/yXuq6XpoasE?si=rnoaf0ZbQIr2LPcE
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 30, 2024, 08:32:58 AM
You're the devil in me
I brought in from the cold
You said your body was young
But your mind was very old

You're coming on strong and I like the way
The visions we had have faded away
You're part of a life I've never had
I'll tell you that it's just too bad

I'll tell you that it's just too bad
I'll tell you that it's just too bad
I'll tell you that it's just too bad
I'll tell you that it's just too bad

You're coming on strong
You're coming on strong
You're showing your colour
Like a setting sun


https://youtu.be/p5NX1FC-7-w?si=I9I80AwULq3M2Mda
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2024, 12:27:08 PM
Well, you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on

You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work on a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day


https://youtu.be/GvJHBChessE?si=YwXnrOmsCepjB2eX
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 01, 2024, 08:56:16 AM

Bad day, bad day Bad day when you wake up and you find out your dreams flown away, Don’t run away now, don't be afraid be strong yeah, be strong now (?) Oh no

You better trust your faith, you better hide your tears (don't, don't cry, don't, don't cry) Now everything you had has gone This world keeps rolling on! Bad days come and bad days go away (?) oh no, oh no yeah!

https://youtu.be/GQpUhbdyAnQ?si=8WKTSRwUfDXoByDX
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 02, 2024, 09:35:27 AM
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind

Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day
... lovely day, lovely day, lovely day .


https://youtu.be/yfcTgnpo3vI?si=6JN2pry1Swj6AJoW
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2024, 10:55:53 AM
Lord, what a diff'rence a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss
That thrilling kiss
It's heaven when you
Find romance on your menu
What a diff'rence a day made
And the difference is you


https://youtu.be/E1_vsu2DyLs?si=h2rK4vn-wjmGncse
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 03, 2024, 06:43:05 PM
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky

Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all of the time

Oh yeah
Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere

Stormy weather, stormy weather
And I just can't get my poor self together
Oh I'm weary all of the time
The time, so weary all of the time
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2024, 11:35:05 PM
Humidity is rising (mmm rising)
Barometer's getting low (How low, girl?) (uh-oh)
According to all sources (What sources, now?)
The street's the place to go (We'd better hurry up)
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men! (Start raining men)

It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!


https://youtu.be/FvuCL8iDZ2Y?si=ibfFosAmH6dQw7XS
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 04, 2024, 10:19:47 AM
Walking 'round the room singing Stormy Weather
At Fifty Seven Mount Pleasant Street
Well it's the same room, but everything's different
You can fight the sleep, but not the dream

Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky

Well, there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Well, do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released?

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you


https://youtu.be/A91v2ZDOQfg?si=CMP-7rjfTgBr9SxQ
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 05, 2024, 01:05:08 AM
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all of the time

Oh yeah
Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, stormy weather
And I just can't get my poor self together
Oh I'm weary all of the time
The time, so weary all of the time


https://youtu.be/dtJg9xilgPk?si=wQRDnsJ8yswWBjd2
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 06, 2024, 12:37:21 AM
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan.
Riders on the storm


https://youtu.be/k9o78-f2mIM?si=7Ba1d4M0CEiHTGFh
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2024, 10:42:36 AM
An old cowboy went riding out
One dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested
As he went along his way

When all at once a mighty herd
Of red eyed cows he saw
Plowin' through the ragged skies
And up the cloudy draw

Their brands were still on fire
And their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny
And their hot breath he could feel

A bolt of fear went through him
As they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard
And he heard their mournful cry

Yippie-yi-o
Yippie-yi-yay
Ghost riders in the sky


https://youtu.be/EeD7-_E2QHw?si=ZdoE21g3u9uvZ7mL
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 08, 2024, 10:02:40 AM
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone
It seems there's something I should know
Well I ought to leave but
The rain it never stops
And I have no particular place to go

Just when I think I'm winning
When I've broken every door
The ghosts of my life
Blow wilder than before
Just when I thought I could not be stopped
When my chance came to be king
The ghosts of my life
Blew wilder than the wind


https://youtu.be/ij089OiN8cc?si=d9QX0X1wnaleMada
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 09, 2024, 09:56:08 AM
Sittin' in my easy chair
I feel your fingers running through my hair
Lookin' down in my coffee cup
I think, I see your face lookin' up
All alone in my gloom
You voice echoes through the room
There's a ghost in my house
And I can't hide (ghost in my house)
From the ghost of your love that's inside (ghost in my house)
It keeps on haunting me (ghost in my house)
Just keeps on reminding me (ghost in my house)


https://youtu.be/D0bZofM6EOU?si=SlNt2c-mmSdyXzIH
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 10, 2024, 10:38:49 AM

I'm the queen of my castle, I'm the king of my room
Get out, get out of this house
I got more than I need, more than I ever could use
Get out, get out of this house

I spent 17 years trying to save my soul
I spent 23 more down in the hole
Now my soul is all right, but I might get found out
And I got myself this house now, and I can't get ou-out

Get out of this house
Get out of this house

https://youtu.be/prhI4PS_XXg?si=UNx7rrF69380xFNs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 11, 2024, 02:01:21 PM
She's a brick house
She's mighty, mighty
Just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house
I like ladies stacked
And that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back

She's a brick house
Well, we're together everybody knows
This is how the story goes


https://youtu.be/KzOJaHHlIcQ?si=K_lIlQcFvx3R6k0C
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2024, 02:28:13 PM
When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah, ah

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny-back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road


https://youtu.be/wO25dtgUEJE?si=WIx7M8JjCYHveALw
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2024, 10:46:14 AM
Well, we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowing
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out

Yeah

We're on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Taking that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride
I'm feeling okay this morning
And you know
We're on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

https://youtu.be/ti4DisTlfDY?si=HX1Cx8Z4lWFVuyTS
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2024, 10:19:41 AM
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man, please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command

https://youtu.be/H867PyLT5TU?si=ZjUfPMe7aMS47Z1Y
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 15, 2024, 02:27:52 PM
Here we are
We may have gone our different ways
But since we are
The kind of friends who'll always stay
No matter what the pain
Learning to love that cap o rain
Ready to say we're here to stay in every way
Although we'e got our different

[Chorus]
Points of view
We've been there once before
And kept our points of view
It doesn't really matter if they're never quite the same
We have our rules in different ways
We play the games of different folks with different strokes
And keep our points of view


https://youtu.be/3lYw32d5BiE?si=sfrJ4MtTQZvgHyAs
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 16, 2024, 09:42:59 AM
Many a tear has to fall
But it's all in the game
All in the wonderful game
That we know as love
You have words with him
And your future's looking dim
But these things your hearts can rise above

https://youtu.be/tDiKjv2YCBQ?si=JDYeHTtBlpviBGce

Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2024, 01:23:32 AM
I don't know what you're looking for
You haven't found it baby, that's for sure
You rip me up, you spread me all around
In the dust of the deed of time

And this is not a case of lust, you see
It's not a matter of you versus me
It's fine the way you want me on your own
But in the end it's always me alone

And I'm losing my favourite game
You're losing your mind again
I'm losing my baby, losing my favourite game

https://youtu.be/azTbhaHhcno?si=lZWcspG6oHU8t_S-
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 18, 2024, 08:22:13 AM
Here I am
I'm playin' day dreamin' fool again
You're my favourite game

And you are the one
Whose got my head in the clouds above
You're the one that I love

And you're my
Honey, you're my favourite waste of time
You're my
Said you're my favourite waste of time

https://youtu.be/RXTTxBlz5Lc?si=8VImEpDSYVSl-5-z
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 19, 2024, 09:48:51 AM
Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round


https://youtu.be/qFe0sc8XW94?si=SCykY-LW9QG_Oqtv
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 20, 2024, 10:08:23 AM
Fools in love
Well are there any other kind of lovers
Fools in love
Is there any other kind of pain
Everything you do
Everywhere you go now
Everything you touch
Everything you feel
Everything you see
Everything you know now
Everything you do
You do it for your lady love
Your lady love

https://youtu.be/cagVl2qdCnI?si=hsmVaFDHJpnWNh4z
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 21, 2024, 08:56:59 AM
In the middle of the football game
At the beach in the pouring rain
Standing on a hillside staring at the sun
People hurry by the unfortunate one
With the faraway eyes and the mystery smile
Moving my body in a ragamuffin style
I can't sit down when I hear it start
I hear your heart everywhere I go


https://youtu.be/k0n8QMYAnRg?si=KJ6a7R9EYkfJzhBA
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2024, 10:31:24 AM

I'd give this love a second try
First I just imagined all your qualities and that's my fault
But if you could put my feet back on the ground
We could try to introduce ourselves
I'd like to get to know you

Let me kiss all of these tears coming down
I heard a night bird singing
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Your face is calming me down
Maybe I'll just stop thinking
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

https://youtu.be/b7sOysb1jFs?si=32YJNKd3hbPVFIhp
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 23, 2024, 02:58:47 AM
And the summer became the fall
I was not ready for the winter
It makes no difference at all
'Cause I wear boots all summer long
My eye makeup, dark, and it's careless
Same circles around my eyes
Sometimes the real color of my skin
My eyes, without any shadow

And when I call, will you walk gently through my shadow?
The ones who sing at night
The ones who sing at night
The ones you dream of, the ones who walk away
With their capes pulled around them tight
Crying for the night
Cry for the nightbird tonight


https://youtu.be/epbWtvISM1c?si=dDbRszWrPxUjUUja
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 24, 2024, 09:03:33 AM
The moon that lingered over London town;
poor puzzled moon, he wore a frown
How could he know we two were so in love,
the whole darn world seemed upside down
The streets of town were paved with stars,
it was such a romantic affair,
And as we kissed and said goodnight,
A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square


https://youtu.be/DFv1653s-pY?si=J2educAQuYQ00MSH
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2024, 11:33:04 AM
What, what does it mean
To dream what you dream
To believe what you see

Why, why do we fear
To try to fly near
Just beneath the machine

What, what does it mean
To dream what you dream
To believe what you see

Why, why do we fear
To try to fly near
Just beneath the machine
Just beneath the machine
Just beneath the machine
Just beneath the machine


https://youtu.be/FxfWTvJD1q8?si=V9MctlD4MGcjTEvH
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 25, 2024, 06:15:50 PM
Well, I just took a ride
In a silver machine
And I'm still feeling mean

Do you want to ride?
Sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your zodiac sign

It flies in and out of dream
It's antiseptically clean
You gotta know it

I've got a silver machine (silver machine)
I've got a silver machine (silver machine)
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2024, 07:04:56 PM
P.C. Thirty-One said "We caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh oh oh oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so oh oh oh
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head
Do do do do do
Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead


https://youtu.be/1QJtoehqiuw?si=0wlRPVjD4X98yQ4i
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 26, 2024, 09:50:58 AM
Give me a song or rhythm
Making them sweat, that's what I'm giving them
Now, they know
You talk about the Hammer
When you're talkin 'bout a show
That's hyped and tight
Singers are sweatin'
So pass them a wipe or a tape
To learn
What it's gonna take in the 90's to burn
The chart's legit
Either work hard or you might as well quit

That's word, because, you know
You can't touch this
You can't touch this
Break it down!

Stop, Hammer time!


https://youtu.be/otCpCn0l4Wo?si=FLTSxtm5NszZCzx-
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2024, 11:06:50 AM
Closing time, open all the doors
And let you out into the world
Closing time, turn all of the lights on
Over every boy and every girl

Closing time, one last call for alcohol
So, finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time, you don't have to go home
But you can't stay here

I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home


https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8?si=BG2GbUCyvKxGk2-d
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 27, 2024, 09:14:19 PM
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads

https://youtu.be/1vrEljMfXYo?si=DBftPL43fmsxexCB
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2024, 09:44:00 PM
Hello, you know you look even better
Than the way you did now before (before)
And the moment that you kissed my lips
You know I started to feel wonderful (wonderful)
It's something incredible
There's sex in your chemicals, oh (sex in your chemicals)

Ooh, let's go, you're the best way I know
To escape the extraordinary (ordinary)
This world ain't for you and I know for damn sure
This world ain't for me (world ain't for me)
Lift off and say goodbye
Just let your fire set me free

Oh, moonshine (ooh)
Take us to the stars tonight (ooh)
Take us to that special place (ooh)
That place we went the last time, the last time


https://youtu.be/FyWv7KwiV1k?si=SgoItfvbMqeV-QSP
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 28, 2024, 06:00:41 PM
Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine

Now the revenue man wanted frandaddy bad
Headed up the holler with everything he had
Before my time, but I've been told
He never come back from Copperhead Road


https://youtu.be/CwGu-7NLOlE?si=F0zj-7ra48cA8qxY
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2024, 11:23:16 AM
I was born in a dump
My mother died
My daddy got drunk
They Left me here
To die or grow
In the middle of
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road


https://youtu.be/fMM-fn-ZkNE?si=REMtuwI2bmzpCDJo
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 30, 2024, 12:50:01 AM
Is it worth the aggravation
To find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
It's a crazy situation
But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol

You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
'Cause when it comes on top
You gotta make it happen!
You gotta make it happen!


https://youtu.be/UJDK8X5K9mw?si=tfBbMmyFKJxllKUg
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 31, 2024, 06:08:42 AM
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound-for-pound, costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothing to gain except killing your brain


(Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Blow!)


https://youtu.be/DwRXI-y6M9o?si=v_Ld-UBnwaZfiqYe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 01, 2024, 09:50:23 AM
If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take her out
Cocaine
If you wanna get down, down on the ground
Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

If you got that lose, you wanna kick them blues
Cocaine

When your day is done and you wanna run
Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine


https://youtu.be/rGRjQ7WOmq8?si=4wf0BJFQxvEfCIDC
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 01, 2024, 11:21:16 AM
Ticket to ride
'White Line Highway'
Tell all your friends
They can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound-for-pound
Costs more than gold

The longer you stay
The more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose
Or through your vein
With nothin' to gain, except killin' your brain
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2024, 12:42:09 PM
Chewin' on a piece of grass, walkin' down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
You don't care, I know

Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go, I know


https://youtu.be/ujsOx33f4mk?si=FGxL_tJJqSziohJe
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 05, 2024, 08:57:35 AM
I know (I know), I was with you last night
But it feels like it's been so long (so long)
And everybody that's around they know
That I'm not myself when you're gone (myself when you're gone)
It's good to see you again, good to see you again

On top of the world (the world)
Is where I stand when you're back in my life (back in my life)
Life's not so bad when you're way up this high
Everything is alright (everything is alright)
Everything is alright

Oh, moonshine (ooh)
Take us to the stars tonight (ooh)
Take us to that special place (ooh)
That place we went the last time, the last time

https://youtu.be/-hD44zm_5Lo?si=R9CRNLJielL3ada4
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 11, 2024, 08:56:18 AM
Such a feelin's comin' over me
There is wonder in most every thing I see
Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eyes
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream

Everything I want the world to be
Is now comin' true especially for me
And the reason is clear, it's because you are here
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen

I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world
Title: Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2024, 08:30:52 AM
At words poetic, I'm so pathetic
That I always have found it best,
Instead of getting 'em off my chest,
To let 'em rest unexpressed,
I hate parading my serenading
As I'll probably miss a bar,
But if this ditty is not so pretty
At least it'll tell you
How great you are.

You're the top!
You're the Coliseum.
You're the top!
You're the Louvre Museum.
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss
You're a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare's sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

https://youtu.be/dvGgaaRjzdE?si=wY3JNO0T4BJUrTVP