šŸŽµ Favourite lyrics in a song

ā€œWe have one collective hope: the Earth. And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound. Sufferers curl themselves into the arms of war; people kill and get killed in the name of someone elseā€™s concept of God. Do we admit that our thoughts & behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us? Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan, and wayward son, are part of the curtains of societyā€™s racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers. When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets, each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces of gravity, I see beyond the plight of humans. I see a universe ever-expanding, with its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time. However big our world is, our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases, the universe is even bigger. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the worldā€™s beaches, more stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words & sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived. The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos is the day we threaten the continuing of our species. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people & nations would be prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices, and would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment. Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again embraces the cosmic perspective; a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither above nor below, but within.ā€

Nice storyā€¦I have to say I prefer this versionā€¦

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When I find out all the reasons
Maybe Iā€™ll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe Iā€™ll get it right next time

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Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever
And you know that sheā€™s half-crazy but thatā€™s why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then he gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer that youā€™ve always been her lover

And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For youā€™ve touched her perfect body with your mind

And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them
But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind
And you think you maybe youā€™ll trust him
For heā€™s touched your perfect body with her mind

Now, Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
Sheā€™s wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love and they wil lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds her mirror

And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For sheā€™s touched your perfect body with her mind

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Itā€™s four in the morning, the end of December
Iā€™m writing you now just to see if youā€™re better
New York is cold, but I like where Iā€™m living
Thereā€™s music on Clinton Street all through the evening
I hear that youā€™re building your little house deep in the desert
Youā€™re living for nothing now, I hope youā€™re keeping some kind of record
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
Youā€™d been to the station to meet every train, and
You came home without Lili Marlene
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And whenā€¦

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Easily my favourite GNR track

Iā€™ve seen you change the water into wine
Iā€™ve seen you change it back to water too
I sit at your table every night
I try but I just donā€™t get high with you

I wish there was a treaty we could sign
I wish there was a treaty we could sign
I do not care who takes this bloody hill
Iā€™m angry and Iā€™m tired all the time
I wish there was a treaty
I wish there was a treaty
Between your love and mine

Theyā€™re dancing in the street, itā€™s Jubilee
We sold ourselves for love but now weā€™re free
Iā€™m sorry for the ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me

I havenā€™t said a word since youā€™ve been gone
That any liar couldnā€™t say as well
I just canā€™t believe the static coming on
You were my ground, my safe and sound
You were my aerial

The fields are crying out, itā€™s Jubilee
We sold ourselves for love but now weā€™re free
Iā€™m sorry for the ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me

I heard the snake was baffled by his sin
He shed his scales to find the snake within
But born again is born without a skin
The poison enters into everything

And I wish there was a treaty we could sign
I do not care who takes this bloody hill
Iā€™m angry and Iā€™m tired all the time
I wish there was a treaty
I wish there was a treaty
Between your love and mine

So this is Christmas and what have you done,
Another year over, a new one just begun.

And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun,
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young.

A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Letā€™s hope itā€™s a good one without any fears.

And so this is Christmas for weak and for strong,
The rich and the poor ones, the road is so long.

And so happy Christmas for black and for white
For the yellow and red ones letā€™s stop all the fights.

I love Lennon, but itā€™s a fucking trite piece of bollocks

Merry Xmas (war is over) is a fucking dirge, nearly as bad as that soppy leftie bollocks Imagine.

I woke up this morninā€™ still wearinā€™ that tie
The one with the hammer and sickle design
Threw up all the pills my doctor prescribed
And went out to fetch me some air

The streets were so crowded with billboards and signs
Food trucks double parked in their parallel lines
I thought about breakfast but settled on wine
Always choose hunger over despair
And whatā€™s possible over whatā€™s there

But it isnā€™t as though we get what we want
No matter how hard or long we have fought
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
When Iā€™m with her I keep it in mind
Then she leaves and Iā€™ve run out of time

I sat down today in a high barberā€™s chair
To hear the town gossip and clean up my hair
He said she was seen on the bus station stairs
With her suitcase threateninā€™ to walk

Not sure how true it was but Iā€™ll hazard a guess
Itā€™s probably not more and itā€™s probably not less
If that college kid bookie was accepting bets
The brackets would mostly be chalk
Yeah itā€™s safe to assume that sheā€™s lost

But it isnā€™t as though we get what we want
No matter how hard or long we have fought
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
When Iā€™m with her I keep it in mind
Then sheā€™s gone and Iā€™ve run out of time

I canā€™t be concerned with the state that Iā€™m in
At the height of the scandal with vertigo spins
Take every audition til Iā€™m Errol Flynn
And bring it to life off the page

And Iā€™ll get up tomorrow still wearinā€™ that tie
The one with the skull and the crossbone designs
If Iā€™m asked if i miss her itā€™s easy to lie
In this world thatā€™s called more of the same
Yeah I wouldnā€™t feel proud or ashamed

Cuz it isnā€™t as though we get what we want
No matter how hard or long we have fought
Oh my happiness is a mere afterthought
When Iā€™m with her I keep it in mind
Then she leaves and Iā€™ve run out of time

You see a mousetrap,

I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!

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The blim holes in my shellsuit

joined into an absolute

And fell apart one day

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Youā€™ve got to hand it to Ivor

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/ivor_biggun/the_winkers_song.html

Made me chuckle as a nipperā€¦

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A heart on the run keeps a hand on the gun you canā€™t trust anyone
I was so sure what I needed was more tried to shoot out the sun
Days when we raged, we flew off the page such damage was done
But I made it through, cause somebody knew I was meant for someone

So girl, leave your boots by the bed we ainā€™t leaving this room
Till someone needs medical help or the magnolias bloom
Itā€™s cold in this house and I ainā€™t going out to chop wood
So cover me up and know youā€™re enough to use me for good

Put your faith to the test when I tore off your dress in Richmond on high
But I sobered up and I swore off that stuff forever, this time
And the old lovers sing ā€œI thought itā€™d be me who helped him get homeā€
But home was a dream, one Iā€™d never seen till you came along

So girl, hang your dress up to dry we ainā€™t leaving this room
Till Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through
And carries this house on the stones like a piece of driftwood
Cover me up and know youā€™re enough to use me for good

So girl, leave your boots by the bed we ainā€™t leaving this room
Till someone needs medical help or the magnolias bloom
Itā€™s cold in this house and I ainā€™t going out to chop wood
So cover me up and know youā€™re enough to use me for good
Cover me up and know youā€™re enough to use me for good

Step by step, soft softly We are going to get caught little by little When you kiss me so skillfully I think that youā€™re malicious delicately Step by step, soft softly Weā€™re going to get caught, little by little And itā€™s just that this beauty is a puzzle But to put it together here I have the pieces

Iā€™ve been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And Iā€™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?

Now, the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
But thereā€™s a light I hold before me
And youā€™re the measure of my dreams, the measure of my dreams

Sometimes Iā€™d wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered inā€¦

No horse ever ran as fast

As the money that you bet

Iā€™m blowing on my cards

And I play them to my chest

Lifeā€™s fabric is corrupt

Shot through with corroded thread

As for me I hocked my brains Packed my bags and headed West

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Never emptied a birthday party of oldies, quicker than when I put on Ivorā€™s ā€œMore Filth Dirt Cheapā€ album. They were shocked @cobham-saint

Great Ivor singalong chorusā€¦

Some folks like a pussy, a budgy or a tit,
Some take up with a spaniel pup that fills up the house with [woof, woof]
Now I keep chickens and Iā€™ve a favourite one,
Heā€™s my little cockerel and I donā€™t know where heā€™s gone.

Has anybody seen my cock, my big Rhode Island red,
Heā€™s mostly pink with a little bit of blue and purple on his head,
He stands straight up in the morning and he gives my wife a shock,
Has anybody seen, anybody seen, anybody, anybody seen my cock.

Heā€™s a stiff necked little up start and Iā€™ve had him all my life,
He gives me pride and pleasure and a torment to my wife,
Sometimes heā€™s magnificent and sometimes small and thin,
He puffs up like a chicken when you tickle him under his chin.

His two enormous wattles hanging down, heā€™s the best youā€™ll ever find,
Madam you may stroke him if you like, if you feel that way inclined,
Be careful he doesnā€™t spit in you eye though.

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