Philosophy in song (Part 1)

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241

IMAGINATION’S REAL
Dave Davis

[b]Voices all across the nation echo in my mind
In the streets, in the factories, in the towns
Living out what imagination made real
Got to leave the old world behind
Use a fantasy, imagination is real.

I’m so much in love I can’t explain
Imagination’s real
Build your dreams and make them strong
Imagination’s real.

Imagination’s real, imagination’s real
Imagination’s real, imagination’s real.

No solution, hatred, fear of what’s to come
Don’t cry, can’t you feel it inside
Can’t you see it’s the only way it can be
For our past has left us alone
With a cold reality imagination made real.

If you use a dream to change a mind
Then imagination’s real
Think with your heart and you will see
Imagination’s real.

Imagination’s real, imagination’s real
Imagination’s real.[/b]

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242

BREATHE
Maria McKee

[b]At first I was scared when I opened up my head
And the motor that was runnin’ was the mind of you
I was scared when I looked at my reflection and the shine I saw were the eyes of you
I was scared when you touched my lips
And the breath I took was a breath that shook me with a shock
Like a flame as eternal as a song and the song is you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

Whenever I’m alone and you’re lost out there
I can feel you breathe ‘cause our lungs we share
Whenever I’m alone anytime anywhere
I can feel your heart beat ‘cause our blood we share

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Like a song, a wave on the tide of you and I
I will let you breathe through me
I will let you be with me

My heart beats your blood
Your breath fills my lungs
Your heart beats my blood
My breath fills your lungs

I was scared when you came into my room
The walls became the sea, your voice was the moon
Oh when you rocked me in your arms
Be with me…

I will let you breathe through me
I will let you…
I will let you…
I will let you…[/b]

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243

I FOUND LOVE
Lone Justice w/Maria McKee

[b]I was mindin’ my business like a good girl should
Maybe a little too careful for my own good
It was just like livin’ life in the dark
‘Til somethin’ jumped up and it grabbed my heart

I found love
I found real love

The beginning and end of every wish
Is balanced in the center of a vision like this
Maybe my emotions are inclined
To surrender to the notion of a glorious kind

I found love
I found real love

One touch, souls speak
The Power’s got me and it won’t let me be
It’s too much this heat
I wanna laugh cry jump for joy shout scream
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

At the end of every tunnel there’s a shining light
In the heart of every storm there’s a quiet night
My joy was hidden in a deream
I didn’t know that it was there until you set me free

I found love
I found real love[/b]

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244

FUTURE BOY
Catherine Wheel

[b]yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
you up there on the screen
I’d be your future boy
my big eyed bird in the movies
I’d be your future boy
because if that is what you need
a cinematic boy like me
who’ll come along and set you free
don’t fear, superboy is here
and it feels good to me

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
as the wisdom runs
a boy should know his limitations
but I’ve talked myself through less
can I be your future pest
because if that is what you need
a sycophantic boy like me
who’ll tell you things you really don’t need
oh joy, I’m your boy
and it feels good to me
don’t fear, superboy is here
it feels good to me[/b]

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245

FOR DREAMING
Catherine Wheel

[b]Here come the good times, I have some good times you know
Bring on the good times, I have some good times you know
All we knew was happiness, all we knew and all we witnessed
It’s only there for dreaming, it’s only there for dreaming

I won’t sentimentalize the bonus loss of appetite and skinniness that followed
The new taste of open lips, the last hope in trembling hips and we swallowed
For dreaming, for dreaming
I still can touch the ceiling with the feeling that we swallowed
For dreaming, for dreaming
I still can touch the screaming heights, I’m pleading, can I follow you home?

Bring on the good times, bring on the good times once more
'Cause we love the good times, other side of your green door
It’s only there for dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
I knew you’d find your way home but you know I loved you

For dreaming, for dreaming
I still can touch the ceiling with the feeling that we swallowed, swallowed
For dreaming, for dreaming
I still can touch the screaming heights, I’m pleading, can I follow you home?[/b]

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246

GUN
Golden Palominos

[b]it’s feeling like the same old dance
we never even had a chance
you say it will be alright
but I’m lying awake tonight
it’s a lie
I thought you could be the one
but I might as well use a gun
I’m dying inside
and this deep longing grows
and I’m so tired
I’m so tired

you’re dreams are mine / you have
do you know that? / reason to be proud
you can fall asleep / you dream aloud, dream aloud I’ll be awake
and you can travel far / reason to be proud
and I’ll be here if you should / dream aloud
fall apart / dream aloud

I’m lonely as I’ve ever been
my patience is wearing thin
you’re love is a killing ache
don’t know how much I can take
I thought you could bring the sun
but I might as well use a gun
I’m dying inside
and this deep longing grows
and I’m so tired
I’m so tired

is this another way of saying goodbye?
I remember what you said
say it now[/b]

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247

VIENNA
Ultravox

[b]We walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window pane
Lying and waiting
A man in the dark in a picture frame
So mystic and soulful
A voice reaching out in a piercing cry
It stays with you until

The feeling has gone only you and I
It means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna

The music is weaving
Haunting notes, pizzicato strings
The rhythm is calling
Alone in the night as the daylight brings
A cool empty silence
The warmth of your hand and a cold gray sky
It fades to the distance

The image has gone only you and I
It means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna

This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna[/b]

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248

STATUES
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

The way you move
I can’t explain
The mood subsides
And grows again
I lived alone
I felt a hand
I tried to care
And understand
What is fate
And when belief
And who knows how
These things deceive
I never said
Although I tried
If I could leave
And sleep tonight
I can’t imagine
How this ever came to be
Can’t imagine
How this ever came to be

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249

STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
Jon Anderson w/Vangelis

[b]State of life-may I live-may I love
Coming out the sky, I name me a name

Coming out-silver word-what it is
It is the very nature of the sound the game
Siamese, Indionese. To Tibet treat the life
As a game, if you please

(Hey)

Coming up-Carabi-this sense of freedom
Derives from a medative State

Movin’ on, ‘believe’ that’s it, call it magic
Third world, it is, I only guessed it

Shablam idi Shablam ida
Shablam idi Shablam ida
Shablam idi Shablam ida

Shot to the soul-the flame of Oroladin
The essence of the word
The ‘State Of Independence’

[interlude]

Sounds like a signal from you
Bring me to meet your sound
And I will bring you to my heart

Love like a signal you call
Touching my body my soul
Bring to me, you to meet me here

Home be the temple of your heart
Home be the body of your love
Just like Holy water to my lips

(Hey, hey)

Yes I do know how I survive
(Yes I do know) know why I’m alive
To love and be with you
Day by day by day by day

(Hey, hey)
Say-Aye yaya oh
(Yayah yaya oh)
‘Be the sound of higher love’ today

(Yayah)

(Hey, hey)
Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land
This State of independence shall be
This State of independence shall be
Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be
This state of independence shall be[/b]

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Donna Summer cover:

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250

KUTAMBARARA
Kronos Quartet

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251

KIM THE WAITRESS
Material Issue

Alas, this isn’t how I imagined Kim at all. But then mine was name Rebecca.

[b]Pursed lips and tender hips
Turning, in my head
Writing poems in a corner booth
That I’d die, if she read
Seeing her in but a silver cross
Lying on her bed

No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Nobody can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Always turns me on

Sometimes she comes with coffee
Leaning over, pouring
I’d like to gently pull her to me
Kiss her, with no warning
Seeing her some sunny Sunday morning

No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Nobody can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Always turns me on

She doesn’t come around anymore
And that bothers me
And that bothers me
Yeah, it bothers me

Though I don’t stand a ghost of a chance with her
She’s pretty (and that bothers me)
So pretty (and that bothers me)
And it bothers me

No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
No one can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Nobody can save us
From Kim The Waitress
Always turns me down[/b]

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252

PALE SHELTER
Flock of Seagulls

“When all I wanna be is completely in command”

[b]How can I be sure when your intrusion’s my illusion?
How can I be sure when all the time you change my mind?
I ask for more and more, how can I be sure?

When you don’t give me love, you give me pale shelter
You don’t give me love, you give me cold hands
And I can’t operate on this failure
When all I wanna be is completely in command

How can I be sure for all you say you keep me waiting?
How can I be sure when all you do is see me through?
I ask for more and more, how can I be sure

When you don’t give me love, you give me pale shelter
You don’t give me love, you give me cold hands
And I can’t operate on this failure
When all I wanna be is completely in command

I’ve been here before, there is not why, no need to try
I thought you had it all, I’m calling you, I’m calling you
I ask for more and more (ask for more and more)
How can I be sure (how can I be)

When you don’t give me love, you give me pale shelter
You don’t give me love, you give me cold hands
And I can’t operate on this failure
When all I wanna be is completely in command
(Completely in command)

You don’t give me love, you don’t give me love
You don’t give me love, you don’t give me love
You don’t give me love, you don’t give me love[/b]

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253

A SONG TO BE BEAUTIFUL
Big Dipper

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254

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
Klaus Nomi

[b]Big shots argue about what they’ve got
making the planet so hot, hot as a holocaust.
Blow up, everything’s gonna go up
even if you don’t show up in your Chemise Lacoste.

Total eclipse, it’s a total eclipse,
it’s a total eclipse of the sun.
Can’t come to grips with the total eclipse
Just a slip of the lips and you’re done.

Fall out, nobody left to crawl out
If someone calls, we’re all out, turning in to French fries
Last dance, let the entire cast dance, do the dismembered blast dance
as we get atomized![/b]

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255

TRY ME
UFO

[b]Tell me why we’re never more than strangers
Tell me why you never let it show

But when you’re close to me
And whisper, I need you
In the cold mornin’ light

Try me, oh take me for a little while
before it’s over and you leave me with just a smile
Try me, oh let me be the one
You say it’s over
But for me it had just begun

Tell me why we seem no more than strangers
Tell me why you feelin’ never goes[/b]

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256

WHEN THE WORLD
The Durutti Column

[b] We’re coming close to sunrise
Lights burn red in your streets
Stay faithful
I’m sure of these feelings
We’re coming close to sunrise
Lights burn red in your streets
Stay faithful
I’m sure of these feelings

When the world is no longer watching
When the world is no longer watching
Stay faithful to your drug

When the world is no longer watching
When the world is no longer watching
Stay faithful to your drug

People sell themselves
There’s a fashion to their smiles
You often need comfort
Raising my eyes to you
People sell themselves
There’s a fashion to their smiles
You often need comfort
Raising my eyes to you

When the world is no longer watching
When the world is no longer watching
Stay faithful to your drug[/b]

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LONELY IS AS LONELY DOES
The dB’s

[b]Where do lonely people go
You’re asking me, you think I know
They sadly start rebuilding walls
Then quickly, quietly withdraw

But you, what of you
What do you propose to do
Live in the past, recall what was
And lonely is as lonely does

And when I’d lost the human race
I went home and ran in place
And when my race was finally run
The loneliness had just begun

But you, what of you
What do you propose to do
Live in the past, recall what was
And lonely is as lonely does

Well, living in the past is rough
Living here today’s enough
The future’s much too far away
And lonely’s with us every day

When happy’s just a state of mind
That you were forced to leave behind
And when your world has crumbled fast
And solitude is left at last

But you, what of you
What do you propose to do
Live in the past, recall what was
And lonely is as lonely does
Lonely is as lonely does
Lonely is as lonely does (lonely is as lonely does)
Lonely is as lonely does (lonely is as lonely does)
Lonely is as lonely does (lonely is as lonely does)
Lonely is as lonely does (lonely is as lonely does)
Lonely is as lonely does[/b]

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TROJAN BLUE
Icehouse

[b]The soldiers standing on the shore, shake up their golden shields
You watch them from your room, high on the city walls
In the distance on the shifting sea, a thousand coloured sails
Is this the moment you made? Is this the way that you planned?
You know it won’t be long now

The finest treasures of kings, all of those precious things
They never tempted you
So as you stood in the ruins, how could you dare to look on
As they burned for you…?
The broken pieces of clay and the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue

You remember how it used to be when you were just a girl
Nothing really mattered then, you can remember so well
How you used to hold your head so high, those days will never return
The finest treasures of kings, all of those precious things
They never tempted you
So as you stood in the ruins, how could you dare to look on
As they burned for you…? Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm
The broken pieces of clay and the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue

Dust is drifting in the evening air, across the field below
The silver mirror, you hold will never tell…You turn your face away

The finest treasures of kings, all of those precious things
They never tempted you
So as you stood in the ruins, how could you dare to look on
As they burned for you…? Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh
The broken pieces of clay and the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue
The broken pieces of clay and the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue[/b]

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TALKING TO A STRANGER
Hunters and Collectors

[b]Souvent pour s’amuser les hommes d’equipage
And it’s like talking to a stranger
Remember the panic in its delectable face, when I touched it
It was like talking to a stranger
Venetian candles penetrated its heart
It trembles like talking to a stranger
And Oh Miss Jesus tell me where are your black eyes?
Your baby was talking to a stranger, no no.

Souvent pour s’amuser les hommes d’equipage
And it’s like talking to a stranger
You tasted mustard when she painted your face
And it was like talking to a stranger
And Oh Miss Jesus tell me where are your black eyes?
Your baby was talking to a stranger
Souvent pour s’amuser les hommes d’equipage
And it’s like talking to a stranger.

Souvent pour s’amuser les hommes d’equipage
And it’s like talking to a stranger
You tasted mustard when she painted your face
And it was like talking to a stranger
Remember the panic in its delectable face, when you touched it
It was like talking to a stranger
And Oh Miss Jesus tell me where are your black eyes?
Your baby was talking to a stranger.

You’re talking to a stranger…[/b]

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260

FOOL FOR THE CITY
Foghat

[b]Goin’ to the city, got you on my mind,
Country sure is pretty, I’ll leave it all behind,
This is my decision, I’m comin’ home to stay this time.

'Cause I’m a fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city,
Fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city.

Breathin’ all the clean air, sittin’ in the sun,
When I get my train fare, I’ll get up and run.
I’m ready for the city, air pollution here I come!

'Cause I’m a fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city,
I’m a fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city.

I’m like a fish out of water, I’m just a man in a hole.
The city lights turn my blues into gold.
I ain’t no country boy, I’m just a homesick man.
I’m gonna hit the grit just as fast as I can.

I’m tired of layin’ back, hangin’ around,
I’m gonna catch that train, then I’ll be city bound.

I ain’t no country boy, I’m just a homesick man.
I’m gonna hit the grit just as fast as I can.

I’ll get off on Main Street, step into the crowd,
Sidewalk under my feet, yeah, traffic’s good and loud.
When I see my inner city child, I’ll be walkin’ on a cloud.

'Cause I’m a fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city,
I’m a fool for the city, I’m a fool for the city…
I’m a fool, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city)
I’m a fool, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city)
I’m a fool, (Fool for the city) A crazy fool, (Fool for the city)

I’m a fool yea, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city)
(Fool for the city) (Fool for the city)
I ain’t no country boy, woo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city)
Woo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city)
A Fool for the city (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city)
Whoo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) …[/b]

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