What Music Are You Listening To? Part XI

[Adab]

Clutch - What Would a Wookie Do?
From Pitchfork & Lost Needles (2005)

Two oaken doors
Open to floors
Imported marble
Victorian drawers

They go between
Bucolic scenes
Machavellian
And all the lesser name schemes

Greyhounds and rabbits
Go round and round
But everybody scatters
When the Hindenburg goes down

[Adab]

Duran Duran - Ordinary World
From Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993)

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy someone say
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

[Kolmya]

Candlemass - Solitude

Candlemass- Under The Oak

[Adab]

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
From Storm Front (1989)

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[Adab]

Billy Joel - Piano Man
Live performance, August 4, 2015

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes."

La la la, di di da da
La la, di da da da dum

Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright

[Adab]

Elton John - Levon
From Madman Across the Water (1971)

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said, "God is dead
And the war's begun, Alvin Tostig has a son today"

And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan

And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon

[Corrian]

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

WHY DO I LIKE DEPECHE MODE ON SOME LEVEL? It seems like something I shouldn't like...

[Adab]

Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
Live performance, February 28, 2013

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high, as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

[Adab]

Radiohead - Idioteque
From Kid A (2000)

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

[Tolmakia]

Ourea - Spencer Olson

[Gim]

Miss A - Mr. Johnny

[Adab]

Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
From Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

I wonder if those changes have left a scar on you
Like all the burning hoops of fire that you and I passed through
You're a bluebird on a telegraph line, I hope you're happy now
Well, if the wind of change comes down your way, girl
You'll make it back somehow

And love lies bleeding in my hand
Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man
I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn't hold you, so I split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands

[Mirrodinia]

"I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"--Wilco

[Ancient Magmia]

RZA - Samurai Showdown

Kept his mind focused, meditation position half lotus
Abbot's sword novas couldn't match his magnum opus
Deluxe stroke, son move like a ghost
Struck in an instance, unnoticed like a lamp post
Radar sharp precision gunfire, explode
Till his clips unload, it's a samurai code

[Adab]

Elton John - I'm Still Standing
From Too Low for Zero (1983)

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did?
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

[Adab]

5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia
From 5 Seconds of Summer (2014)

I remember the day you told me you were leaving
I remember the make-up running down your face
And the dreams you left behind you didn't need them
Like every single wish we ever made
I wish that I could wake up with amnesia
And forget about the stupid little things
Like the way it felt to fall asleep next to you
And the memories I never can escape

'Cause I'm not fine at all

[Mirrodinia]

"Radio Cure"--Wilco

my mind is filled with radio cures
Electronic surgical words

[Adab]

U2 - Wake Up Dead Man
From U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland (2003)

Jesus, Jesus help me
I'm alone in this world
And a fucked-up world it is too

Tell me, tell me the story
The one about eternity
And the way it's all gonna be

Wake up, wake up dead man
Wake up, wake up dead man

Jesus, I'm waiting here, boss
I know you're looking out for us
But maybe your hands aren't free

Your Father, He made the world in seven
He's in charge of heaven
Will you put a word in for me?

Wake up, wake up dead man
Wake up, wake up dead man

[Mirrodinia]

"Jesus, etc."--Wilco

surprising inclusion of strings

[Mirrodinia]

Radiohead - Idioteque
From Kid A (2000)

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

These lyrics are exactly what I was writing about in the GMD thread a little bit ago.

[Adab]

U2 - North and South of the River
Single (1997)

I've been doing it wrong all of my life
This holy town has turned me over
A young man running, oh, what he didn't understand
While the wind from the Loch just get colder, colder

There was a badness that had its way
But love wasn't lost, love will have its day
North and south of the river
North and south of the river

[Adab]

U2 - Staring at the Sun
From Pop (1997)

Intransigence is all around
Military still in town
Armour plated suits and ties
Daddy just won't say goodbye
Referee won't blow the whistle
God is good but will he listen
I'm nearly great but there's something missing

I left it in the
Duty free area
But you never really
Belonged to me

You're not the only one
Staring at the sun
Afraid of what you'd find
If you stepped back inside
Not sucking on my thumb
I'm staring at the sun
I'm not the only one
Whose happy to go blind

[Adab]

U2 - Electrical Storm
From The Best of 1990-2000 (2002)

Car alarm won't let ya back to sleep
You kept awake dreaming someone else's dream
Coffee is cold, but it'll get you through
Compromise, that's nothing new to you

Let's see colors that have never been seen
Let's go to places no one else has been

You're in my mind all of the time
I know that's not enough
Well if the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love

Electrical storm, electrical storm
Electrical storm, baby don't cry

[Chernobyl and Pripyat]

"Driveby" - Neil Young

[Chernobyl and Pripyat]

"Sleeps With Angels" - Neil Young