Elbow / II

Great Expectations

and if it rains all day

call on you i'll call on you

like i used to

slide down beside and wrap you in stories

tailored entirely for you

i'll remind you

we exchanged a vow

i love you i always will

a call girl with yesterday eyes

was our witness and priest

stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir

your veil was your smile

as we move down the aisle

of the last bus home

and this is where i go

just when it rains

blinking and stoned

rain in your hair

you only smoke 'cause it's something to share

singing bring on the night

to have and to hold

the sodium light turning silver to gold

spitfire thin and strung like a violin

i was

yours was the face with a grace

from a different age

you were the sun in my sunday morning

telling me never to go

so i'll live on the smile

and move down the isle

of the last bus home

and if you're running late

this is where i'll go

"Great Expectations" Elbow

Elbow / III

The Stops

i can't undo the day

it won't go under the rug

i pull out all the stops

and you pull the plug

these are sober days and i know it can't be

but i'll miss you the way you miss the sea

don't look down

keep staring like you've never seen the stars

if you need me to remind you who you are

little blossom there's the shiniest soul

just behind those eyes

'no longer my affair'

well i can't go there just yet

so i've come to love and trust those friends

that are holding your net

falling off used to mean

maybe grazing a knee

and i'll miss you the way you miss the sea

don't look down

keep staring like you've never seen the stars

if you need me to remind you who you are

little blossom there's the shiniest soul

just behind these eyes

while i won't second guess

what you're thinking of me

"The Stops" Elbow

Elbow / IV

Fugitive Motel

lost in a lullaby

side of the road

melt in a memory

slide in a solitude

not 'til i can read by the moon

am i going anywhere

not 'til i can read by the moon

i blow you a kiss

it should reach you tomorrow

as it flies from the other side of the world

from my room in my fugitive motel

somewhere in the dust bowl

it flies from the other side of the world

'i'm tired', i said

'you always look tired', she said

'i'm admired', i said

'you always look tired', she said

not 'til i can read by the moon

am i going anywhere

not 'til i can read by the moon

curtains stay closed

but everyone knows

you hear through the walls in this place

cigarette holes for every lost soul

to give up the ghost in this place

give me strength

give me wings

"Fugitive Motel" Elbow

Elbow / V

Flying Dream 143

flying dream 143

i stretched out my arms

and my feet left the floor

and how all fifteen (ahem) stone flew to you

i don't know

"Flying dream 143" Elbow

Elbow

Elvis Presley

It's Now Or Never

it's now or never

come hold me tight

kiss me my darling

be mine tonight

tomorrow will be too late

it's now or never

my love won't wait

when i first saw you

with your smile so tender

my heart was captured

my soul surrendered

i'd spend a lifetime

waiting for the right time

now that your near

the time is here at last

just like a willow

we would cry an ocean

if we lost true love

and sweet devotion

your lips excite me

let your arms invite me

for who knows when

we'll meet again this way

it's now or never

come hold me tight

kiss me my darling

be mine tonight

tomorrow will be too late

it's now or never

my love won't wait

"It's Now Or Never" Elvis Presley

No Comments /// My House?

Se meu desejo só é sempre ver-vos,

que causará, senhora, que em vos vendo

assi me encolho logo, e arrependo,

que folgaria então poder esquecer-vos?

Se minha glória só é sempre ter-vos

no pensamento meu, porque em querendo

cuidar em vós, se vai entristecendo?

Nem ousa meu esprito em si deter-vos?

Se por vós só a vida estimo, e quero,

como por vós a morte só desejo?

Quem achará em tais contrários meio?

Não sei entender o que em mim mesmo vejo.

mas que tudo é amor, entendo, e creio,

e no que entendo, e creio, nisso espero.

António Ferreira (1528-1569)

Pop History / CD 06 / Pop III

The Beatles / Help!

The Animals / The House Of The Rising Sun

Pop History / CD 06 / Pop III

The Rolling Stones / Under My Thumb

The Rolling Stones / Paint It, Black

Pop History / CD 06 / Pop III / by Fly

The Ventures - Pipeline

Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love

The Tremeloes - Suddenly You Love Me

Elvis Presley - She's Not You

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time

Simon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock

The Fortunes - Seasons In The Sun

Them - Here Comes The Night

The Fortunes - You've Got Your Troubles

The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow

Los Bravos - Black Is Black

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Wayne Fontana - A Groovy Kind Of Love

Elvis Presley - Surrender

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl

Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man

The Fortunes - Don't Throw Your Love Away

Equals - Baby Come Back

The Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet

The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

The Archies - Sugar Sugar

The Beatles - Help!

The Hollies - Stop Stop Stop

Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never

The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun

Christian St. Peter - You Were On My Mind

The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black

Rilo Kiley /// *

Go Ahead

if you want to find yourself

by travelling out west

or if you want to find somebody else

that's better

go ahead

if you want to buy

a brand new fancy automobile

or if you want to build a place

up in coldwater canyon

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead

if you want to hold your own hand

going up that cliff

or if you want to just hold back

cause you ain't up to it

go ahead

be my guest

go ahead

if you want to hold on

to the first girl that you meet

or if you want to settle down

and plant roses at my feet

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead

if you want to have

your cake and eat it too

and if you want to have other people

watch you while you eat it

go ahead

be my guest

go ahead

if you want better things

i want you to have them

if you want better things

then i want you to have them

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead