I am stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
With your hands held in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
'Tis time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am stained by the weather
When my family thinks
That I'm safe in my bed
From night until morning
I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air
With tears both hot and wild
Oh I grieve for the girl
That I loved as a child
The priests and the friars
Behold me in dread
Because I still love you
My love and you're dead
I would still be your shelter
From rain and from storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
(Dead Can Dance)
A good one from Sade:
"Maureen"
Maureen
It's hard to explain
I'm never going to see you again
And you'll never meet my new friends
Maureen, I miss you
I just can't explain
I'm never going to see you again
I wish you could meet my new friends
Walking along the subway listening to
Loving you is easy acapella
You were a souped-up car in that rent-a-go-kart town
And I miss you, Maureen
We're as thick as thieves
Maureen maureen
Remember when my mother said to me
Sade don't you come home to late
Till you're back I stay awake
And maureen
With the boys you could tell at a glance
You'd say he looks good
Let'd hope he can dance
Wicky wacky party to the..
Where are we going tonight
And what will you be wearing
Shone like a souped-up car in that rent-a-go-kart town
And I miss you maureen, I miss you girl
You were my best friend
I'm never going to see you again, maureen
And you'll never meet my new friends
You really were a pearl in my world, maureen
Maureen
It's hard to explain
You'll never call round to see me again
You'll never meet my new friends
Never meet my new friends
Never meet my new friends
Never meet my new friends
Quoth Al Jolsen: "You ain't heard nothin' yet."
The Eternal
Joy Division
The procession moves on, the shouting is over
Praise to the glory of loved ones
now gone
Talking aloud as they sit
round their tables
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment
Possessed by a fury
that burns from inside
Cry like a child though
these years make me older
With children my time
is so wastefully spent
Burden to keep, though their
inner communion
Accept like a curse
an unlucky deal
Laid by the gate at the foot
of the garden
My view stretches out
from the fence to the wall
No words could explain,
no actions determine
Just watching the trees
and the leaves as they fall
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down
low
And you can tell your friend there with you
He'll have to go
Whisper to me tell me do you love me too
Or is he holding you the way I do
You can't say the words I want to hear while you're with another man
Do you want me answer yes or no
Darling I will understand
I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you
He'll have to go
It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place but you and me
So set 'em up Joe
I've got a little story you ought to know
I've got the routine
So drop another nickle in the machine
I'm feeling so bad
I wish you'd make the music dreamy and sad
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
You'd never know it
But buddy I'm a kind of poet
And I've got a lot of things to say
And when I'm gloomy
You've simply got to listen to me
Til it's all talked away
This torch I've found
must be drowned
Or it soon will explode
Make it one for my baby and one more for the road
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind my bending your ear
Well that's how it goes
And Joe I know you're getting anxious to close
So make it one for my baby and one more for the road
That long long roa--oad
I Thought I'd Write To Juliet
Elvis Costello
I thought I'd write to Juliet, for she would understand
And when someone is already dead they can no longer let
you down
Instead I find myself talking to you, as my oldest friend
Tell me how I can advise someone, that I don't even know,
To welcome death
For I received a letter that is worth reporting
And though it may raise a cynical smile
It leaves a sinking feeling
Like when a soldier in a story says to the sergeant...
"Have you seen my pride and joy?..."
You know the rest...and it's no joke...Forgive me please as
I quote...
"This is a letter of thanks, as I'm so bored here in I can't
say where.
So I'm writing to people that I may never meet
And I was thinking if something you said..."
"I'm a female soldier, my name is Constance.
I enlisted in the military needing funds for college
I'm twenty-three years old and if I do get home alive
I imagine I may think again..."
"I'm sleeping with my eyes open for fear of attack
Your words are a comfort, they're the best thing that I have
Apart from family pictures and, of course, my gas mask
I don't know why I am writing to you"
Last Saturday night I got married
Me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife have parted
Going to take a little stroll downtown
Irene good night
Irene good night
Good night Irene
Good night Irene
I'll see you in my dreams
Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a fool notion
That I'll jump in the river and drown
Stop rambling
Stop gambling
And staying out late at night
Just go home to your wife and family
Sit down by the fireside bright
The kind of life you're living
Is not the lifestyle you chose
This honky tonky world is not so flashing
Bright lights and blues is all it really knows
How long ago you held a baby's bottle
But the one you're holding now is a different kind
You just sit and wait to be somebody's baby
And it all depends on who will buy the wine
Whoever sets them up and tips the waitress
Your kind of love just might as well be blind
You'll never know whose lips you'll be kissing
And it all depends on who will buy the wine
Helo walls
How'd things go for you today
Don't you miss her
Since our darling walked away
And I guess you dread to spend another lonely night with me
Lonely walls I'll keep you company
Hello window Well I see that you're still here
Look here is that a teardrop in the corner of your pane
Now don't you try to tell me that it's rain
She went away and left us all alone the way she planned
Guess we'll have to learn to get along without her if we can
Hello ceiling Thought I'd stare at you for a while
We must all stick together or else I'll lose my mind
I bet she'll be gone a long long time
A rare one from Lee Hazelwood:
A TASTE OF YOU
There's pictures in my mind I've never seen before.
There's emptiness I find my love and yes there's even more.
There's loneliness that cuts me like a knife
and I wish I had a taste of you tonight.
This bottle in my hand is now a part of me.
it cools the fire that burns and burns and clouds my memory.
It makes the wrongs I've done to you seem right.
But I still need a taste of you tonight.
The pictures keep on changin'
with every drink I drink they rearrange.
Through the fog I see what I never could
and I remember than once we had it good.
There's pictures in my mind I've never seen before.
There's emptiness I find my love and yes there's even more.
There's loneliness that cuts me like a knife
and I wish I had a taste of you tonight.
I wish I had a taste of you tonight.
I cry myself to sleep at night
For fear of another holding you tight and oh baby
I miss you more than words can say
Without your love I won't last another day
So please return your love to me
Forgive me for the wrong I've done
Without your love I'm just no good
I am just a lonely one
"Old Man" -- Randy Newman
Everyone has gone away
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
No one cared enough to stay
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
You must remember me, old man
I know that you can if you try
So just open up your eyes, old man
Look who's come to say goodbye
The sun has left the sky, old man
The birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
You want to stay, I know you do
But it ain't no use to try
'Cause I'll be here - and I'm just like you
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Won't be no God to comfort you
You taught me not to believe that lie
You don't need anybody
Nobody needs you
Don't cry, old man, don't cry
Everybody dies....
(sniff)
It's been a blue blue day
I feel like running away
I feel like running away from the blues
My love has been untrue
She's found somebody new
It's been a blue blue day for me
I feel like crying crying
What can I do
I feel like praying saying
I'm glad we're through
It's been a blue blue day for me
Long Lonely Nights sung by Clyde McPhatter (never Bobby Vinton)
Long long and lonely nights
I cry my eyes out over you
Wondering if I did right
And why you left me with a broken heart
Oh long long and lonely nights
Oh how I miss you my dear
Please please come back to me
How I wish you were here
As I go along my lonely way I visualize your face
When I pass through my doorway
What's left for me to face
Oh long long and lonely nights
I guess you're never coming home
Long long and lonely nights
Ever since you've been gone
Please dear come back to me
You've been gone too long
You ain't been blue
No no no
You ain't been blue
Til you've had that
Mood indigo
That feeling
Comes stealing
From your head
To your toes
You ain't been blue
No no no...
I stand watching all night long
I stand watching all night long
Crying wishing you'd come back to me
You were the girl of the many charms
Oh how I loved you in my arms
My heart is aching without you
Filled with mysery
But Suzy darlin'
I thought you knew
You were all the world to me
All my dreams come true
Suzy Darlin' sung by Robin Luke
A candy colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep everything's alright
I close my eyes then I drift away
Into a magic night I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I go to sleep 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
But just before the dawn
I awake and find you're gone
I can't help it
I can't help it
If I cry
I remember
That you said
Good bye
To have everything
It only happens in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams
In Dreams by Roy Orbison
