Office by Alex Penny
The Leximum Jukebox
EDWARD ELGAR
Sospiri op.70
(just thinkin’ of you)
FIRST AID KIT - New Year’s Eve
Well it’s a New Year, with it comes more than new fears
Met a young man who was in tears
He asked me, “What induces us to stay here?”
I said, “I don’t know much and I’m not lying
But I think you just have to keep on trying”
And I know I’m naive, but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me
Took a stroll around the neighborhood where the trees are swaying
People passed in cars with their windows down, with a pop song playing
A man walked by, walking back and forth the street
With a drunken smile he took home along
He stopped to look at me and say, “Child, don’t fear doing things wrong”
Yet I am still afraid but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me
Now I have a lot to learn and I’m starting tonight
Got to stop looking at things like they’re black and they’re white
Got to write more songs of a little more, treat my friends better
Got to stop worrying about everything to the letter
And sometimes when it’s too hard to get up
It just might be a little call apart.
But I find it hard to believe, but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me
Tell me, tell me
Oh, what’s going to save me?
Copyright © 2012 Johanna Söderberg - Klara Söderberg
FIRST AID KIT - The Lion’s Roar (2012)
LEONARD COHEN - Show Me The Place
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I’ve forgotten I don’t know
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can’t move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains, a lot of chains like a spade
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I’ve forgotten I don’t know
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can’t move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
Copyright © Leonard Cohen
LEONARD COHEN - Old Ideas (2012)
SEAL & JEFF BECK - Like A Rolling Stone
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Copyright © 1965 Bob Dylan
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan (2012)
(Source: foraiya)
LITTLE WILLIES - Fist City
You’ve been makin’ your brags around town
That you’ve been a lovin’ with my man
But the man I love when he picks up trash
He puts it in a garbage can
And that’s what you look like to me
And what I see is a pity
You’d better close your face and stay out of my way
If you don’t wanta go to Fist City
If you don’t wanna go to Fist City
You’d better detour round my town
Cause I’ll grab you by the hair of the head
And I’ll lift you off of the ground
I’m not a sayin’ my baby is a saint cause he ain’t
And that he won’t cat around with a kitty
I’m here to tell you gal to lay off of my man
If you don’t wanna go to Fist City
Come on and tell me what you told my friends
If you think you’re brave enough
And I’ll show you what a real woman is
Since you think you’re hot stuff
You’ll bite off more than you can chew
If you get too cute or witty
You better move your feet if you don’t wanna eat a meal
That’s called Fist City
If you don’t wanna go to Fist City
You’d better detour round my town
Cause I’ll grab you by the hair of the head
And I’ll lift you off of the ground
I’m not a sayin’ my baby is a saint cause he ain’t
And that he won’t cat around with a kitty
I’m here to tell you gal to lay off of my man
If you don’t wanna go to Fist City
Copyright © 1968 Loretta Lynn
LITTLE WILLIES - For The Good Times (2012)
LEONARD COHEN - Amen
Tell me again when I’ve been to the river
And I’ve taken the edge off my thirst
Tell me again we’re alone and I’m listening
Listening so hard that it hurts
Tell me again when I’m clean and I’m sober
Tell me again when I’ve seen through the horror
Tell me again, tell me over and over
Tell me that you’ll want me then
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Tell me again when the victims are singing
And the laws of remorse are restored
Tell me again that you know what I’m thinking
But vengeance belongs to the lord
Tell me again when I’m clean and I’m sober
Tell me again when I’ve seen through the horror
Tell me again, tell me over and over
Tell me that you’ll love me then
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Tell me again when the day has been ransomed
And the night has no right to begin
Try me again when the angels are panting
And scratching at the door to come in
Tell me again when I’m clean and I’m sober
Tell me again when I’ve seen through the horror
Tell me again, tell me over and over
Tell me that you need me then
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Tell me again when the filth of the butcher
Is washed in the blood of the lamb
Tell me again when the rest of the culture
Has passed through the eye of the camp
Tell me again when I’m clean and I’m sober
Tell me again when I’ve seen through the horror
Tell me again tell me over and over
Tell me that you’ll love me then
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Copyright © 2012 Leonard Cohen
LEONARD COHEN - Old Ideas (2012)
(Source: examiner.com, via musicmeds)
FIRST AID KIT - I Found A Way
It’s me, it’s me, you’ve come to take
My duality awakes
By midnight time I could not see
If I were you or you were me
We play the game with skillful hands
And so I asked for your demands
Give me your love, give me your thumb
And he traced us back to where we begun
So the morning came and swept the night away
As I was looking for a way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things and all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way to reappear
I’ll follow you where you go
Yes, I’ll be there just so you know
I need your condolence and your trust
But I won’t ask, won’t ask for much
There’s a heavy load upon our backs
Of things we carry from the past
My guilt-filled mind, it tried to run
But it traced us back to where we begun
So the morning came and swept the night away
As I was looking for a way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things and all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way to reappear
I’ll follow you where you go
Yes, I’ll be there just so you know
I need your condolence and your trust
But I won’t ask, won’t ask for much
I’ll only ask for so much
No, I won’t ask, wont ask for much
So the morning came, wwept the night away
I found a way, I found a way to reappear
Copyright © 2012 Johanna Söderberg - Klara Söderberg
FIRST AID KIT - The Lion’s Roar (2012)
(Source: tangledspines)
FIRST AID KIT - To A Poet
Then he said, “Don’t give me nothing you don’t want to loose”
I said, “Darlin’, I’d give you everything I got, if I want, I’m to choose”
Then I got on a plane and flew far away from you
Though unwillingly I left and it was so, so hard to do
The streets here at home have rapidly filled up with the whitest of snow
And they don’t make no excuse for themselves and there’s no need I know
Though I miss you more than I can take and I will surely break
And every morning that I wake up there is the sake
but there’s nothing more to it, I just get through it
Ah, there’s nothing more to it, I just get through it
It always takes me by surprise how dark it gets this time of year
And how apparent it all becomes that you’re not close, not even near
No matter how many times I tell myself I have to be sincere
I have a hard time standing up and facing those fears
But Fran put it best when he said, “You can’t plan on the part”
Those words keep me on my feet when I think I might just fall apart
Though I miss you more than I can take and I will surely break
And every morning that I wake up there is the sake
but there’s nothing more to it, I just get through it
Ah, there’s nothing more to it, I just get through it
Ah, there’s nothing more to it, I just get through it
And so I ask, “Where are you now just when I needed you?”
I won’t ask again because I know there’s nothing we can do
Not now darlin’, you know it’s true
Copyright © 2012 Johanna Söderberg - Klara Söderberg
FIRST AID KIT - The Lion’s Roar (2012)
(Source: measuredinmiles, via measuredinmiles)
