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wow, I agree! I have never heard that song, but I will make it an effort now. Thanks Angie :thumb:

Chicago - Crosby Stills Nash and Young (Nash 1970)

Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing
In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help we can bring
We can change the world -
Re-arrange the world
It's dying - to get better
Politicians sit yourself down,
There's nothing for you here
Won't you please come to Chicago
For a ride
Don't ask Jack to help you
Cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you please come to Chicago
Or else join the other side
We can change the world -
Re-arrange the world
It's dying - if you believe in justice
It's dying - and if you believe in freedom
It's dying - let a man live his own life
It's dying - rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago
Show your face
From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago
No one else can take your place
We can change the world -
Re-arrange the world
It's dying - if you believe in justice
It's dying - and if you believe in freedom
It's dying - let a man live his own life
It's dying - rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
We can change the world

THE BRICKLAYER'S SONG
The Corries

Dear Sir, I write this note to you to tell you of my plight
For at the time of writing it, I'm not a pretty sight
My body is all black & blue, my face a deathly grey
And I write this note to say why I am not at work today

While working on the fourteenth floor, some bricks I had to clear
But tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea
The foreman wasn't very pleased, he is an awkward sod
And he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me haud

Well clearing all these bricks by hand, it was so very slow
So I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below
But in me haste to do the job I was too blind to see
That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me

And so when I untied the rope, the barrel fell like lead
And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead
I shot up like a rocket and to my dismay I found
That halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down

Well, the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped
And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head
But I clung on tightly, numb with shock, from this almighty blow
While the barrel spilled out half its bricks some fourteen floors below

Now when these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more
But I clung on tightly to the rope, me body wracked with pain
And halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again.

The force of this collision halfway down the office block
Caused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock
But I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground
And I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round

Well as I lay there on the floor I thought I'd passed the worst
But the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst
A shower of bricks rained down on me, I didn't have a hope
As I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go the bloody rope

The barrel now being heavier, it started down once more
It landed right across me as I lay there on the floor
It broke three ribs and my left arm, and I can only say
I hope you'll understand why I am not at work today

Lately i've been thinking
Lately i've been dreaming with you
I'm so resistent to this type of thinking
Oh now it's shining through

I was alone for the last time
before my nights' vacation with you
alive from the first now i'm denied
by the ghost of you

Oh you take yourself a photograph and laugh at me
Please

I know there's little use in crying
It's more wide awake and dying than i'm used to
I thought we'd walk these streets together
Now i'm hoping that I'll never have to meet you
Step aside from all this anger
And somewhere in between I can feel you
Ask me should we try again
I'm thinking no yeah
It's not what i believe in
It's not what i believe in

Oh, Won't you take yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please
you make yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please

No I, wanna taste your love
No I...no I
No I, just wanna taste your love
Oh, no I

Standing in your shoes I turn
and now you're standing bare in my doorway
I only wish that I had been prepared
I'm gonna have to go along with your way

Just take the plastic camera out
It's in the pants you borrowed in the driveway
Alive from the first now i'm denied by the ghost of you

make yourself a photograph & laugh at me please
yeah make yourself a photograph & laugh at me please
no i want a taste of love no i
i was alive from the first now i'm denied by the ghost of you

I recognize those lyrics. Howie Day - Ghost. That's a beautiful song. :thumb:

BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION

shut the F* :censored *K up
I can see you smile on my tv
a spewing bile necessary
Dementia of your deception
"I don't wanna be the tolerant
I don't wanna be the consequence
I don't wanna be the president
Doesn't really matter what i say
Nobody listens to us anyway
Doesn't really matter what i do
I'm so sick of you

Shut the F** :censored K up


A pathetic talking head
you product of your walking head
your war machined evangelistic mission

I don't wanna be tolerant
i don't wanna be the consequence
i don't wanna be the president

doesn't really matter what i say
nobody listens to us anyway
doesn't really matter what i do

I'm so sick of you


Shut the f* :censored *k up
Shut the f* :censored *k up

doesn't really matter what i say
nobody listens to us anyway
doesn't really matter what i do
doesn't really matter what i say
doesn't really matter what i do

i'm so sick of you
i'm so sick of you
i'm so sick of you
shut the f* :censored *k up

Howie Day is great. We had the opportunity to meet him when he was in Toronto back in October. I couldn't think of what to say to him, I was just like "umm..... hi, my name's Darren". It was so pathetic. I can't wait to see him open for Stereophonics tomorrow!!!

How was the show?

This is another great artist and I love this song.

Sarah Harmer - Don't get your back up

baby, if i could keep it together
don't you think i'd try?
and maybe if i could make something of this
why wouldn't i?

you say i close a blind eye
that i don't put up the time
but what you see as goodbye
i don't see as a crime
and i'm tired of the blame
being put on my head
you're breathing fire
but you're not bringing back what's dead

dont' get your back up over this
if i'm so wrong and you're so right
you really got your mind made up i guess
won't you let me get some sleep tonight?

it's late now
and there's only four hours til i get up again
you know i'd wait somehow
if i thought this was something
that a little time would mend
you, you're dragging this misery on
let's leave this thing for a while
it's too far gone
too far gone

don't get your back up over this
if i'm so wrong and you're so right
you really got your mind made up i guess
won't you let me get some sleep
won't you let me get some sleep
won't you let me get some sleep tonight?

Kim, thats an awesome song :thumb:

We agree again! hock: :lol: :wink:

But yeah, it's a great song, and there's tons more where that came from.

Waiting in Canada
Jann Arden

every tear you cry
every doubt you have
all of these things will pass away
all of your big mistakes
your little old heart would break
I'm wishing that i could take them back
write down the things you don't want
burn them in a glass
write down the things you dream of
make a paper plane that flies to heaven

and buy a ticket for a plane and come and see me baby
or drive your car all night by just starlight to canada
that's where i'll be
waiting

all of the empty rooms
all of the silent space
every warm embrace is you
nothing is like it was
there's nobody here but us
i have been filled right up with this
write down the words of sadness
burn them in a cup
write down the things youve wanted
throw them to the wind that's soaring up to heaven

and buy a ticket for a plane and come and see me baby
or drive your car all night by just starlight
to canada
oh buy a ticket for a plane and come and see me baby
or drive your car all night by just starlight
to canada
that's where i'll be
waiting
waiting

My Invitation

-Sarah Slean-
(also beautifully performed with Sarah Harmer)


You are what they call the human season
You are all the alphabet in one
You are every colour of confusion
You are all the silence I've become

Love me for
Stupid reasons
I like those most

Wide-eyed but
Worth believing
God knows

Damn the angry voice that keeps us queit
The editor whose work is never done
Keeping pretty words between my teeth and
Sweet confessions underneath my tongue

Drowsy contemplation
Do I let you in
This is my invitation
But how do I begin?

She has such an awful lot of soldiers
Quite a lovely army all her own
Night and day they stand before the fortress
Very safe but very all alone

Kim Wrote:We agree again! hock: :lol: :wink:

But yeah, it's a great song, and there's tons more where that came from.

Music and politics make for such strange bedfellows :lol: :oops: :lol:

:lol:

Another good tune:
Sam Roberts - Brother Down

One life to live but we’re doing it wrong
You see, got my brother down cause it’s nothing to me
Everyone saying that it’s wrong to cheat
But there’s no other way to get my life on easy street
Someone else telling you what you’re living for
Been knocking you down, now you’re looking for more
The only sound you hear is a closing door
Been looking for peace but they’re bringing you war
Rich man cryin’ cause his money’s time
And poor man’s smilin’ cause he knows he ain’t blind
There’s a man over there says he’s tougher than me
But I got eyes that can see through fantasy

I think my life is passing me by
I think my life is passing me by

Take it all back cause it don’t mean nothing
If you give it away and you’re looking for something back
Wake up every morning when there’s nothing there
No reason to die but no reason to care
Someone else telling you what you’re living for
Been knocking you down now you’re looking for more
The only sound you hear is a closing door
Been looking for peace but they’re bringing you war
One life to live but we’re doing it wrong
You see, got my brother down cause it’s nothing to me
Rich man cryin’ cause his money’s time
And poor man’s smilin’ cause he knows he ain’t blind

I think my life is passing me by
I think my life is passing me by

I wish I was part of a union.

PART OF THE UNION Strawbs


Now I'm a union man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think
That the company stinks
Yes I'm a union man.

When we meet in the local hall
I'll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout
It's out brothers out
And the rise of the factory's fall.

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die, till the day I die.

As a union man I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled
By the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines.

And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card
To the Scotland Yard
This what I say.

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die, till the day I die.

Before the union did appear
My life was half as clear
Now I've got the power
To the working hour
And every other day of the year.

So though I'm a working man
I can ruin the government's plan
Though I'm not too hard
The sight of my card
Makes me some kind of superman.

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die, till the day I die.