The Eels ~ Susan's House

Going over to susan's house
Walking south down baxter street
Nothing hiding behind this picket fence
There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles
On the sidewalk where her house burnt down two years ago
People say that back then she really wasn't that crazy

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
She's gonna make it right

Down by the donut prince
A fifteen year old boy lies on the sidewalk
With a bullet in his forehead
In a final act of indignity
The paramedics take off all his clothes
For the whole world to see
While they put him in the bag
Meanwhile an old couple argues inside the queen bee
The sick fluorescent light shimmering on their skin

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
I can't be alone tonight

Take a left down echo park
A kid asks do i want some crack
Tv sets are spewing baywatch
Through the windows into black

Here comes a girl with long brown hair
Who can't be more than seventeen
She sucks on a red popsicle while she pushes a baby girl
In a pink carriage
And i'm thinking that must be her sister
That must be her sister, right?
They go into the 7-11
And i keep walking

Going over to susan's house

***

~Apt

Joan Baez/Farewell, Angelina lyrics
(Bob Dylan)

Farewell Angelina
The bells of the crown
Are being stolen by bandits
I must follow the sound
The triangle tingles
And the trumpet play slow
Farewell Angelina
The sky is on fire
And I must go.

There's no need for anger
There's no need for blame
There's nothing to prove
Ev'rything's still the same
Just a table standing empty
By the edge of the sea
Farewell Angelina
The sky is trembling
And I must leave.

The jacks and queens
Have forsaked the courtyard
Fifty-two gypsies
Now file past the guards
In the space where the deuce
And the ace once ran wild
Farewell Angelina
The sky is folding
I'll see you in a while.

See the cross-eyed pirates sitting
Perched in the sun
Shooting tin cans
With a sawed-off shotgun
And the neighbors they clap
And they cheer with each blast
Farewell Angelina
The sky's changing color
And I must leave fast.

King Kong, little elves
On the rooftops they dance
Valentino-type tangos
While the make-up man's hands
Shut the eyes of the dead
Not to embarrass anyone
Farewell Angelina
The sky is embarrassed
And I must be gone.

The machine guns are roaring
The puppets heave rocks
The fiends nail time bombs
To the hands of the clocks
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it
Farewell Angelina
The sky is erupting
I must go where it's quiet.

Joan Baez ~ ~ The Water is Wide lyrics

The water is wide, I cannot get o'er
Neither have I wings to fly.
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall cross my true love and I

I lean'd my back against an oak,
Thinking it was a mighty tree.
But first it bent and then it broke,
So did my love prove false to me.

I put my hand in some soft bush
Thinking the sweetest flow'r to find.
I prick'd my finger to the bone
And left the sweetest flow'r behind.

O love is handsome and love is kind,
Gay as a jewel when it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew.

The water is wide, I cannot get o'er
Neither have I wings to fly.
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall cross my true love and I

Pete Murray ~ "Lines"

Passin' time
You've come so far but you're still behind,
Lose you mind,
If you cut this line
It's just the way it's been,
All your friends and all their sins,
Just passin' time,
(Don't fall behind)

I will come for you
If you call I'll come right now
I will help you see through
All your pain and trouble times
Just you know I'll be there
If you ever decide to call,

Passin' time
All you're addictions are so sublime
Lose you're mind,
If you cross the line
It's just the way it's been,
All your friends and all their sins,

Just passin' time,
(Don't fall behind)

I will come for you
If you call I'll come right now
I will help you see through
All your pain and trouble times
Just you know I'll be there
If you ever decide to call,

I'll be there for you
If you ever call,
I'll be there for you
Any time at all,

Passin' time,
Just passin' time
Passin' time,
Just passin' time

Passin' time
(Come so far)
Just passin' time
(Come so far)
Passin time
(Come so far)
Just passin time

***

~Apt

In light of the cold weather and the cabin fever, I thought a little Jimmy Buffett was in order. Sing along all you parrot heads!


BOAT DRINKS- Jimmy Buffett

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.

I'd like to go where the pace of life's slow.
Could you beam me somewhere, Mister Scott?
Any old place here on Earth or in space.
You pick the century and I'll pick the spot.

I know I should be leaving this climate.
I got a verse but can't rhyme it.
I gotta go where it's warm.

Boat drinks.
Waitress, I need two more boat drinks.
Then I'm headin south 'fore my dream shrinks.
I gotta go where it's warm.

I gotta go where it's warm.
I gotta go where it's warm.
I gotta go where there ain't any snow,
where there ain't any blow,
'cause my fin sinks so low.
I gotta go where it's warm.

"Affirmation" by Savage Garden

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

[repeat ]

Dave Matthews Band and Dave Matthews - The Dreaming Tree Song Lyrics

Standing here
The old man said to me,
"Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree."
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
And now he's falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree

Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby."
"Mommy come quick,
The dreaming tree has died."
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died

Oh, have you no pity?
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk?
Can you take pity?
I don't ask much
But won't you speak, please?

From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
Gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
Feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart?
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her,
"You'll always be my baby."
"Daddy come quick,
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died."

Oh, if I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk?
Can you take pity?
I don't ask much
But won't you speak, please?

Take me back, take me back, take me back...

Save me please.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Pete Murray ~ Lines

Passin’ time
You’ve come so far but you’re still behind,
Lose you mind,
If you cut this line
It’s just the way it’s been,
All your friends and all their sins,
Just passin’ time,
(Don’t fall behind)

I will come for you
If you call I’ll come right now
I will help you see through
All your pain and trouble times
Just you know I’ll be there
If you ever decide to call,



Passin’ time
All you’re addictions are so sublime
Lose you’re mind,
If you cross the line
It’s just the way it’s been,
All your friends and all their sins,
Just passin’ time,
(Don’t fall behind)

I will come for you
If you call I’ll come right now
I will help you see through
All your pain and trouble times
Just you know I’ll be there
If you ever decide to call,

I’ll be there for you
If you ever call,
I’ll be there for you
Any time at all,

Passin’ time,
Just passin’ time
Passin’ time,
Just passin’ time

Passin’ time
(Come so far)
Just passin’ time
(Come so far)
Passin time
(Come so far)
Just passin time

****

This song is a part of my signature now

~Apt

Landing In London - Three Doors Down/Bob Seger

I woke up today in London
As the plane was touching down
And all I could think about was Monday
And maybe I'll be back around

If this keeps me away much longer
I don't know what I will do
You've got to understand it's a hard life
That I'm going through

And when the night falls in around me
I don't think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way
'Cause all I think about is you

Well L.A is getting kinda crazy
And New York is getting kinda cold
I keep my head from geting lazy
I just can't wait to get back home

And all these days I spend away
I'll make up for this I swear
I need your love to hold me up
When it's all too much to bear

And when the night falls in around me
I don't think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way
'Cause all I think about is you

And all these days I spend away
I'll make up for this I swear
I need your love to hold me up
When it's all too much to bear

When the night falls in around me
I dont think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way
'Cause all I think about is you

Secret Garden
-Bruce Springsteen


She'll let you in her house
If you come knockin' late at night
She'll let you in her mind
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She'll let you deep inside
But there's a secret garden she hides

She'll let you in her car
To go drivin' round
She'll let you into the parts of herself
That'll bring you down
She'll let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don't think twice

You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get
To that place where you can't remember
And you can't forget

She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters

There is A Time (Rodney Dillard & Mitch Jayne)

There is a time for love and laughter,
The days will pass like summer storms.
The winter wind will follow after,
But there is love and love is warm.

Chorus:

There is time for us to wander,
When time is young and so are we.
The woods are green'er over yonder,
The path is new the world is free.
There is a time when leaves a fallin’,
The woods are gray the paths are old.
The snow will come when geese are calling,
You need a fire against the cold.

Repeat chorus:

So do your roaming in the spring time,
And you’ll find your Love in the summer sun.
The frost will come and bring the harvest,
And you can sleep when day is done.

Repeat chorus:

The path is new the world is free.

Something for Kate - Truly

it must be something in the air, she said
that makes it so square when we get together
feels like snakes in my hair
and it feels all wrong somehow
by the wall i fell
well maybe next year
i'll fall, i don't care
cause for alarm
you know i mean it so
so
truly, truly, truly
truly truly truly truly
aha..

***

Gotta love this song. Oh btw, I'm still around the distillery because well, tis a home and all

~Apt

Hey, I'm in a... kinda mood.

English Beefcake, by James. Yes, they of Sit Down.

"I wish I could create myself
A kool machine designed to help
Not always hurting
Just plug me in and do the rounds
Impress your friends
Save yourself pounds
I'll not be wanting
I wish that things could be that way
But every dog must have its say
The orchestra's tuning
I understand your suffering
I felt the same sting in my heart
That's why I'm singing

Drifting away as lovers do
Heads you win and tails I lose
Nothing to say
much less to do
Unhappy me, unhappy you

I know you want it all to end
Transform a love into a friend
Magicians can do
Gut feelings come
Gut feelings go
Like rivers we have no control
They just keep flowing
Yeah, I wish I could create myself
A cool machine or someone else
A lot less knowing

Drifting away as lovers do
Heads you win
And tails I lose
Nothing to say
Much less to do
Unhappy me
Unhappy you
Love can heal
And love can sting
Heads you lose
And tails I win
Unhappy me
Unhappy you
Nothing to say
And much less to do

There's nothing to say
I get in the way
Unable to break obsession
There's nothing to say
I get in the way
Still unable to break obsession"

James again - God Only Knows

"You may say I'm cynical, but I say man is flawed.
He has a vague memory of life before some fall.
Behaving like a reptile, but talks of walking tall.
If God is in his image, the almighty must be small.
God only knows.
Swaggart has been caught with his trousers round his knees
After damning me and you to hell for eternity.
Sex and power and money is the prayer of these priests,
they bribe their way past Heaven's Gates and steal a set of keys.
God only knows.
My guru has been sleeping with adepts and with sheep
while I was fu**ng celibate, self-righteous in belief.
Yesterday he was God, now he is a creep.
We fell upon each other, starving for relief.
God only knows.

I damn you all to hell,
I speak in the name of God.
I know him intimately,
I speak in the name of that white haired old man in the clouds,
Always a man,
Dispensing lightning justice from his fingertips.
As self-righteous and bigoted as those who created him.
A cruel desert god with absolutely no sense of humour,
How do you feel old man?
How do you feel?
Being spoken for by these self-righteous fanatics.
Is Heaven full, oh Lord, of these babbling preachers and god-fearing bigots?
Well I know where I'd rather be,
Away from this cacophony.
God only knows..."

Natalie Merchant, "The Letter"

quote:

if I ever write this letter
the pages I could write
but I don't know where to send it
you have vanished
heaven knows where you live
heaven only knows

if I ever write this letter
bitter words it would contain
just an unrequited lover
wishing she had never
spoken your name
had never known your name

but if I write this letter
the truth it would reveal
knowing you brought me pleasure
how often I'll treasure
moments that we knew
the precious and the few

This song is one of those "oooh, it happened to her too" songs. I know the preamble said not to go on about teenybopper romance, but in my case it was a little more than a week and a half--7 years, actually. I was in love with him, he was in the closet and used me as a beard. Nuff said?

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Besides it's my Alma Mater!

Michigan State University Fight Song

On the banks of the Red Cedar
Is a school that's known to all
Our specialty is winning
And the Spartans play good ball
Spartan teams are never beaten
Until the end they'll fight
Fight for the only colors,
Green and white

Go right through for M-S-U
Watch the points keep growing
Spartan teams are bound to win
They're fighting with a vim (RAH-RAH-RAH)
See their team is weakening
We're gonna win this game
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT TEAM FIGHT!
Victory for M-S-U

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - Grey Street Lyrics

Oh look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out on to Grey Street.
She thinks, "Hey, how did I come to this?"
I dream myself a thousand times around the world
But I can't get out of this place.

There's an emptiness inside her
And she'll do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most every night
And though she swears it doesn't listen
There's still a hope in her it might
She says "I pray But they fall on deaf ears,
am I supposed to take it on myself?
To get out of this place? "

There's lonliness inside her
And she'll do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

There's a stranger speaks outside her door
Says take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
It'd take the work out of courage
But she says "Please
There's a crazy man that's creeping outside my door,
I live on the corner of Grey Street
And the end of the world. "

There's an emptiness inside her
And she'll do anyrthing to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It's more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her
Using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
It breaks her heart
To Grey

Oasis - Hindu times

I get up when I'm down
I can't swim but my soul won't drown
I do believe I've got flare
I got speed and I walk on air

Cos god give me a soul
In your rock n' roll band
Cos god give me a soul
In your rock n' roll band
I can get so high I just can't feel it
I can get so high I just can't feel it

In and out my brain
Running through my veins
Cos you're my sunshine
You're my rain

I get up when I'm down
I can't swim but my soul won't drown
I do believe I've got flare
I got speed and I walk on air

Cos god give me a soul
In your rock n' roll band
Cos god give me a soul
In your rock n' roll band
I can get so high I just can't feel it
I can get so high I just can't feel it

In and out my brain
Running through my veins
Cos you're my sunshine
You're my rain

I can get so high I just can't feel it
I can get so high I just can't feel it
I can get so high I just can't feel it
I can get so high I just can't feel it

In and out my brain
Running through my veins
Cos you're my sunshine
You're my rain

***
~Apt

Parachute ~ Guster

There we stand about to fly
Peeking down over land
Parachute behind
What was that moment for which we live?
Without a parachute, about to dive
I find myself convincing
Blindly falling faster
How easy
Know the place I’m leaving
And the rest just is gone
Oh the adoration
But how much strength does it take
For exploration
For split decision
Or are you stronger to remain
I find myself convincing
Blindly falling faster
How easy
Know the place I’m leaving
And the rest is just gone
It crept up on me
Ignored all my pleas
Begging to leave
No justice to name me
Fell out of the sky
Cease it to be
Without a reply
Gravity fails me
And when I awoke
I knew what was real
Hope to convince you
Lies they all torture me
Opened the door
Knew what was me
I finally realized
Parachute over me