How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[ekim]

668 artists have only 1 song, and 1398 songs only appear once.

I blame Robbie!

[Nearly Sane]

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

[ekim]

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?

[Nearly Sane]

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)

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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 

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Aruntraveller]

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.......

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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!

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Robbie]

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!

[Nearly Sane]

(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"

[Robbie]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Aruntraveller]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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!

[Robbie]

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

[ekim]

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.

[Aruntraveller]

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?