Tag: Lyrics
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Lady in Black by Uriah Heep
Lady in Black by Uriah Heep She came to me one morningOne lonely Sunday morningHer long hair flowingIn the midwinter wind. I know not how she found meFor in darkness I was walkingAnd destruction lay around meFrom a fight I could not win Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ahAh, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah She asked me name my foe…
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My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit
First Aid Kid is a sister duo from Stockholm My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit I don’t want to wait anymore I’m tired of looking for answersTake me some place where there’s music and there’s laughterI don’t know if I’m scared of dying but I’m scared of living too fast, too slowRegret, remorse, hold…
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The Ghost of Tom Joad
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD by Bruce Springsteen Men walking ‘long the railroad tracksGoing someplace and there’s no going backHighway patrol choppers coming up over the ridgeHot soup on a campfire under the bridgeShelter line stretching ’round the cornerWelcome to the new world orderFamilies sleeping in their cars in the southwestNo home, no job, no…
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Far Afghanistan by James Taylor
Far Afghanistan by James Taylor Back home, Indiana, we just learn to get alongCivilized and socialized, they teach you right from wrongHow to hold your liquor and how to hold your tongueHow to hold a woman or a baby or a gun But nothing will prepare you for the far AfghanistanYou can listen to their…
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Death to My Hometown – Bruce Sprinsteen
Death to My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen Oh, no cannonballs did fly, no rifles cut us downNo bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the groundNo powder flash blinded the eye, no deathly thunder soundBut just as sure as the hand of God, they brought death to my hometownThey brought death to my hometownNo…
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The Dawntreader by Joni Mitchell
The Dawntreader by Joni Mitchell Peridots and periwinkle blue medallionsGilded galleons spilled across the ocean floorTreasure somewhere in the sea and he will find whereNever mind their questions, there’s no answer for The roll of the harbor wakeThe songs that the rigging makesThe taste of the spray he takesAnd he learns to giveHe aches, and…
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Red Dirt Girl
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris Me and my best friend LillianAnd her blue tick hound dog Gideon,Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shadeSingin every song the radio playedWaitin for the Alabama sun to go downTwo red dirt girls in a red dirt townMe and LillianJust across the line and a little southeast…
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Kent State – Remember
May 4th, 1970, The Ohio National Guard murdered four students at Kent State, and I snapped. I joined the marches… It was my rage over all the murders and the helpless futility I felt at the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and others. They were called O.D.s, but what is death by overdose? The use…
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo by Emmylou Harris Last night I dreamed about youI dreamed that you were olderYou were looking like PicassoWith a scar across your shoulderYou were kneeling by the riverYou were digging up the bodies buried long agoMichelangelo Last night I dreamed about youI dreamed you were a pilgrimOn a highway out aloneTo find the mother…
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The Crucifixion by Phil Ochs
The Crucifixion by Phil Ochs And the night comes again to the circle studded skyThe stars settle slowly, in loneliness they lieTill the universe explodes as a falling star is raisedPlanets are paralyzed, the mountains are amazedBut they all glow brighter from the brilliance of the blazeWith the speed of insanity, then he dies In…
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