Category: music

  • Watch “The Cure – Friday Im In Love (Live 2008)” on YouTube

    I don’t care if Monday’s blue
    Tuesday’s grey 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
    thursday doesn’t even start
    It’s Friday I’m in love

    Saturday wait
    And Sunday always comes too late
    But Friday never hesitate…

    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…

    Dressed up to the eyes
    It’s a wonderful surprise
    To see your shoes and your spirits rise
    Throwing out your frown
    And just smiling at the sound
    And as sleek as a shriek
    Spinning round and round
    Always take a big bite
    It’s such a gorgeous sight
    To see you in the middle of the night
    You can never get enough
    Enough of this stuff
    It’s Friday
    I’m in love

  • Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I love you.

    Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I love you.
    January, February, into March and April,
    Same way too.
    May, June and 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 cold December
    I love you.
    Every single second, every minute, every hour, all the whole year through,
    Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I love you.

    ~Frankie Carle

  • Gentle on my mind

    Glen Campbell announces he has Alzheimers: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/23/3251159.htm

    It’s knowing that your door is always open
    And your path is free to walk
    That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
    Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
    And it’s knowing I’m not shackled
    By forgotten words and bonds
    And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
    That keeps you in the backroads
    By the rivers of my mem’ry
    That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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  • Diamonds and Rust

    rust
    Well I’ll be damned
    Here comes your ghost again
    But that’s not unusual
    It’s just that the moon is full
    And you happened to call
    And here I sit
    Hand on the telephone
    Hearing a voice I’d known
    A couple of light years ago
    Heading straight for a fall
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  • Buckets of rain

    Buckets of rain
    Buckets of tears
    Got all them buckets coming out of my ears
    Buckets of moonbeams in my hand
    You got all the love honey baby
    I can stand.
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  • Treaty by Yothu Yindi

    The 1991 song Treaty by Yothu Yindi came out while I was working in the Territory. It is one of my favourite songs, and the video clip and dancing is a bonus.

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  • Red flag

    The people’s flag is deepest red,
    It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
    And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
    Their hearts’ blood dyed its ev’ry fold.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    Look ’round, the Frenchman loves its blaze,
    The sturdy German chants its praise,
    In Moscow’s vaults its hymns are sung
    Chicago swells the surging throng.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    It waved above our infant might,
    When all ahead seemed dark as night;
    It witnessed many a deed and vow,
    We must not change its colour now.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    It well recalls the triumphs past,
    It gives the hope of peace at last;
    The banner bright, the symbol plain,
    Of human right and human gain.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    It suits today the weak and base,
    Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
    To cringe before the rich man’s frown,
    And haul the sacred emblem down.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    With heads uncovered swear we all
    To bear it onward till we fall;
    Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,
    This song shall be our parting hymn.

    Then raise the scarlet standard high.
    Within its shade we’ll live and die,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    ~ Jim Connel(1889)

  • The Pretender

    Keep you in the dark
    You know they all pretend
    Keep you in the dark
    And so it all began

    Send in your skeletons
    Sing as their bones come marching in…again
    They need you buried deep
    The secrets that you keep are at the ready
    Are you ready?
    I’m finished making sense
    Done pleading ignorance
    That whole…defense

    Spinning infinity, boy
    The wheel is spinning me
    It’s never-ending, never-ending
    Same old story

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say I will never surrender?

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say that I’ll never surrender?

    In time our soul untold
    I’m just another soul for sale… oh, well
    The page is out of print
    We are not permanent
    We’re temporary, temporary
    Same old story

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say that I’ll never surrender?

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say I will never surrender?

    I’m the voice inside your head
    You refuse to hear
    I’m the face that you have to face
    Mirrored in your stare
    I’m what’s left, I’m what’s right
    I’m the enemy
    I’m the hand that will take you down
    Bring you to your knees

    So who are you?
    Yeah, who are you?
    Yeah, who are you?
    Yeah, who are you?

    Keep you in the dark
    You know they all pretend

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say that I’ll never surrender?

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say that I’ll never surrender?

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    (Keep you in the dark)
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    (You know they all… pretend)
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say I will never surrender?

    What if I say I’m not like the others?
    (Keep you in the dark)
    What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays
    (You know they all… pretend)
    You’re the pretender
    What if I say I will never surrender?

    So who are you?
    Yeah, who are you?
    Yeah, who are you?

    ~ lyrics from the Foo Fighters

  • Lily was here

    What was that song with Dave Stewart and the saxophone

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  • alive and free

    We are sailing on the seas for Jersey Clipper
    In search of things we yet have come to know
    We are sailing hard and looking for adventure
    We are alive and free
    Just being you and me
    Out on the rolling sea
    A thousand miles from home
    ~ from Jersey Clipper by Julian Shaw