Category: Lyrics
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Might As Well Smile
Might As Well Smileby Beth Hart I woke up this morningWith a smile on my faceI threw out those stonesThat stood in my wayAnd I put on a new pairOf hard walking shoesI woke up this morningLaughing the bluesWoke up laughing the blues When the talking on the TVTells me I should be scaredI don’t…
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Shankill Butchers
Shankill Butchersby Sarah Jarosz The Shankill butchers ride tonightYou better shut your windows tightThey’re sharpening their cleavers and their knivesAnd taking all their whiskey by the pint ‘Cause everybody knowsIf you don’t mind your mother’s wordsA wicked wind will blowYour ribbons from your curlsEverybody moan, everybody shakeThe Shankill butchers wanna catch you awake They used…
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Wolf by First Aid Kit
Wolf by First Aid Kit Wolf-mother, where you been?You look so worn, so thinYou’re a taker, devils-makerLet me hear you sing, hey-ya hey-ya Wolf-father, at the doorYou don’t smile anymoreYou’re a drifter, shape-shifterLet me see you run, hey-ya hey-ya Holy light over the nightOh, keep the spirit strongWatch it grow, child of warOh, keep holdin’…
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The Lion’s Roar
The Lion’s Roarby First Aid Kit Now the pale morning sings of forgotten thingsShe plays a tune for those who wish to overlookThe fact that they’ve been blindly deceivedBy those who preach and pray and teachBut she falls short and the night explodes in laughter But don’t you come here and say I didn’t warn…
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Slower Than Guns
By Iron Butterfly from their 1970 album, Metamorphosis, points to the man-made environmental degradation well established in the zeitgeist long before our present crises… and apparently, we still haven’t learned. Slower Than Guns, by Iron Butterfly Can you feel the manmade mistAs it starts to twist your lungs?Slower than guns Breathe deepAs you enter sleepFeel…
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Hallelujah
Hallelujahby Leonard Cohen Now I’ve heard there was a secret chordThat David played, and it pleased the LordBut you don’t really care for music, do you?It goes like this, the fourth, the fifthThe minor falls, the major liftsThe baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proofYou saw her…
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Welcome to the Hotel California
Hotel California – by the Eagles On a dark desert highwayCool wind in my hairWarm smell of colitasRising up through the airUp ahead in the distanceI saw a shimmering lightMy head grew heavy and my sight grew dimI had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorwayI heard the mission bellAnd I…
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Business as Usual
Business as Usualby the Eagles Look at the weather, look at the newsLook at all the people in denialWe’re running time, leaving graceStill we worship at the marketplaceWhile common sense is going out of styleI thought that I would be above it all by nowIn some country garden in the shade But it’s business as…
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Castle by Halsey
Castle by Halsey Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noiseTired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poisedNow my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around itAlready choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it(Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei) I’m headed straight…
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