Tuesday, April 30, 2013

VooDoo Child by Jimi Hendrix


You can barely understand him, but this video is great! The people at this concert are having some serious FUN!!! Drops second verse due to the fun;)

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand
'Cause I'm a voodoo child
Lord knows I'm a voodoo child

Grateful for you Lauren!



Aime by Pure Prairie League


This used to be my song with my ex bf from college. Totally not a love song, falling in and out of love,  which explains why we broke up;) Falling in and out of love with someone would not be considered real love in my book..."And all the things you thought before just faded into gray..."

I can see why you think you belong to me
I never tried to make you think, or let you see one thing for yourself
But now your off with someone else and I'm alone
You see I thought that I might keep you for my own

Amie what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Don't you think the time is right for us to find
All the things we thought weren't proper could be right in time
And can't you see
Which way we should turn together or alone
I can never see whats right or what is wrong
Takes too long

Amie what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Well now
Amie what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Now it's come to what you want you've had your way
And all the things you thought before just faded into gray
And can you see
That I don't know if it's you or if it's me
If it's one of us I'm sure we'll both will see
Won't you look at me and tell me

Amie what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer
Longer if I do

Yeah now
Amie what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Fallin' in and out of love with you
Fallin' in and out of love with you
Don't know what I'm gonna do, I'd keep
Fallin' in and out of love
With you


Monday, April 29, 2013

Can't Stop by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Love the lyrics to this song! Totally weird:) "Music the great communicator, Use two sticks to make it in the nature..."

Can't stop, addicted to the shin dig
Cop top, he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt, the pistol that you pay for
This punk, the feeling that you stay for
In time, I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the West End
Knock out, but boy you better come to
Don't die, you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright, I wonder what the wave meant
White heat is screaming in the jungle
Complete the motion if you stumble
Go ask the dust for any answers
Come back strong with 50 belly dancers

The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time to

Sweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone
So smart, she's leading me to ozone
Music, the great communicator
Use two sticks to make it in the nature
I'll get you into penetration!!!!
The gender of a generation
The birth of every other nation
Worth your weight the gold of meditation
This chapter's going to be a close one
Smoke rings, I know you're going to blow one
All on a spaceship persevering
Use my hands for everything but steering
Can't stop, the spirits when they need you
Mop tops are happy when they feed you
J. Butterfly is in the treetop
Birds that blow the meaning into bebop


The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time to


Wait a minute I'm passing out
Win or lose, just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything I ever knew
How 'bout you
10 more reasons
Why I need somebody new, just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything I ever knew
Right on cue

Can't stop, addicted to the shin dig
Cop top, he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt, the pistol that you pay for
This punk, the feeling that you stay for
In time, I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the West End
Knock out, but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright, I wonder what the wave meant

Kick start the golden generator
Sweet talk, but don't intimidate her
Can't stop the gods from engineering
Feel no need for any interfering
Your image in the dictionary
This life is more than ordinary
Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these
Come from space
To teach you of the pleiades
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
This life is more than just a read-through




Sunday, April 28, 2013

I Could Have Lied by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Never had the ability to lie. Happy about that! One of my favorite songs by this band. I still remember loving them in 8th grade! Love Flea's bass in this version of this song! Love how the song makes you feel sad, then mad, then sad again. "My face will never show what is not real..."

There must be something
In the way I feel
That she don't want me to feel
The stare she bares cut me
I don't care
You see so what if I bleed

I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real

A mountain never seems to have
The need to speak
A look that shares so many seek
The sweetest feeling
I got from you
The things I said to you were true

I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real

I could have lied I'm such a fool
My eyes could never never never
Keep their cool
Showed her and I told her how
She struck me but I'm fucked up now

But now she's gone yes she's gone away
A soulful song
That would not stay
You see she hides 'cause she is scared
But I don't care
I won't be spared

I could have lied I'm such a fool
My eyes could never never never
Keep their cool
Showed her and I told her how
She struck me but I'm fucked up now

I could have lied I'm such a fool
My eyes could never never never
Keep their cool
Showed her and I told her how
She struck me but I'm fucked up now




What's wrong with that?

But in all seriousness, what really is wrong with most of these things...?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sandraeallen/29-signs-you-were-raised-by-hippies

The New by Interpol

Never heard this before but I like the beat a lot:) The words are very sad though, kind of make me wonder... "You're looking alright tonight, I think we should go..."

I wish I could live free
I hope it's not beyond me
Settling down, it takes time
One day you will live together
And life will be better
I have it here yeah in my mind

Babe, you know some day you'll slow
And baby, my heart's been breaking

I gave a lot to you
I take a lot from you too
You slave a lot for me
Guess you could say I gave you my edge


I can't pretend, I need to defend some part of me from you
I know I've spent some time, oh, lying
I can't pretend I don't need to defend some part of me from you
I know I've spent some time, oh, lying

You're looking alright tonight
I think we should go
You're looking alright tonight
I think we should go


Friday, April 26, 2013

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead


I knew a guy in college named J Fro who played this song obsessively on his guitar. It was the only song he knew... Still really like this song! "She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing...

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

It wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

It wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

All the time...
All the time...



Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Feed the Tree by Belly


I loved this album to death when I was in high school  I still remember all the lyrics and totally think I sound much better in my 30's singing it as opposed to my teens;) "Broke his own heart, poured it in the ground?..."


This old man I've talked about
Broke his own heart, poured it in the ground
Big red tree grew up and out
Throw up its leaves, spins round and round

I know all this and more

So take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

This little squirrel I used to be
Slammed her bike down the stairs
They put silver where her teeth had been
Baby silvertooth, she grins and grins

I know all this and more

So take your hat off, boy, when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
Take your hat off, boy, when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

This old man I used to be
Spins around, around, around a tree
Silver baby, come to me
I'll only hurt you in my dreams

I know all this and
I know all this and
I know all this and more

So take your hat off, boy, when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
Take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree


That's the Way by Led Zeppelin


Sometimes a song really says how you are feeling! "But all that lives is born to die!"

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you,
I can't play with you no more,
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me,
My friend, the girl next door.

I can't believe what people saying,
You're gonna let your hair hang down,
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long,
You're in the darker side of town.

And when I'm out I see you walking,
Why don't your eyes see me,
Could it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me.

That's the way, oh,
That's the way it ought to be,
Yeah, yeah, mama say
That's the way it ought to stay.

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.

I don't know what to say about it,
When all your ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?

That's the way...
That's the way it oughtta be
Oh don't you know now, mama said..
That's the way it's gonna stay, yeah.


Monday, April 22, 2013

Just Breathe by Pearl Jam


Pretty song to start this long work week! Love all these lyrics but for some reason they make me sad... "Stay with me, Let's just breathe..."

Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Yeah I'm a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they've got none

Stay with me...
Let's just breathe...

Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don't wanna hurt, there's so much in this world to make me bleed

Stay with me
You're all I see...

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
As I come clean...

I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would take, oh no
Nothing you would take
Everything you gave...

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah...

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side...


Sunday, April 21, 2013

We Just Disagree by Dave Mason

Love this sad love song. Unfortunately, this is the way it normally goes, not the fairy tail bullshit;) "Now it's the end of our love song, So let's leave it alone..."

Been away, haven't seen you in a while.
How've you been?
Have you changed your style and do you think
That we've grown up differently? 
Don't seem the same
Seems you've lost your feel for me

So let's leave it alone, 'cause we can't see eye to eye.
There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys.
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
Ooo - ooo - ooohoo oh - oh - o-whoa

I'm going back to a place that's far away.
How bout you?
Have you got a place to stay?
Why should I care?
When I'm just trying to get along 
We were friends
Now it's the end of our love song...

So let's leave it alone, 'cause we can't see eye to eye.
There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys.
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
Ooo - ooo - ooohoo oh - oh - o-whoa

So let's leave it alone, 'cause we can't see eye to eye.
There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys.
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
Ooo - ooo - ooohoo oh - oh - o-whoa


Saturday, April 20, 2013

BURN ONE DOWN!!! by Ben Harper


HAPPY 420 my fellow friends!!! 

Let us burn one, from end to end.
And pass is over to me my friend.
Burn it long, but burn it slow,
To light me up before I go.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around.
Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
Yes I'm gonna burn one down

So my choice is what I chose to do;
And if I'm causin no harm,
It shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you chose to be;
And if your causin to harm, then your alright with me.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around, 
Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
Yes we are gonna burn one, down.

Herb the gift, from the Earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And what's from the earth is of the greatest worth.
So before you knock it, try it first.
And you'll see it's a blessing and it's not a curse.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around,
Cause we are gonna burn one down.
Yes i'm gonna burn one.

Friday, April 19, 2013

PROMOTE PEACE!!!



Scarlet Begonias by the Grateful Dead

Getting ready for lots of live music this weekend in honor of 4/20;) One of my (many) all time favorite songs!!! "Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."

As I was walkin round grosvenor square
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,
From the other direction, she was calling my eye,
It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try.

She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes.
And I knew without askin she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.

In the heat of the evening when the dealing got rough,
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.
As I picked up my matches and was closing the door,
I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before.

Well, I aint always right but Ive never been wrong!!!!!
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Well there aint nothing wrong with the way she moves,
Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes,
I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by
Let her pass by...

Wind in the willows playin tea for two;
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue,
Strangers stoppin strangers just to shake their hand,
Everybodys playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Jimi:)



Why Go by Pearl Jam

Love how angry he gets in this especially when he screams FUCK (which they bleep out...)! Listening to it really LOUD at 7am while getting two kids ready for school!!! Best way to move is to music. "She seems to be stronger, but what they want her to be is WEAK!, She could play pretend, She could join the game, She could be another clone..."

She scratches a letter
Into a wall made of stone
Maybe someday
Another child
Won't feel as alone as she does
It's been two years
And counting
Since they put her in this place
She's been diagnosed
By some stupid fuck
And mommy agrees

Why go home?
Why go home?
Why go home...

She seems to be stronger
But what they want her to be is weak
She could play pretend
She could join the game
She could be another clone

Why go home?...

What you taught me
Put me here
Don't come visit
Mommy dear
Why go home...?

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Pearl jam fellow fan!



Whipping Post by the Allman Brothers


Feeling exactly like this today! Gotta love it when the song says it for you!!! "Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post..."

I've been run down
I've been lied to
I don't know why, 
I let that mean woman make me a fool
She took all my money
Wrecks my new car
Now she's with one of my good time buddies
They're drinkin' in some cross town bar

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I've been tied 
To the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post 
Oh lord I feel like I'm dyin'

My friends tell me
That I've been such a fool
And I have to stand down and take it babe,
All for lovin' you
I drown myself in sorrow
As I look at what you've done
Nothin' seems to change
Bad times stay the same
And I can't run

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I've been tied
To the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Good lord I feel like I'm dyin'

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I've been tied
To the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Good lord I feel like I'm dyin'



Would by Alice In Chains


Listen to it loud! "Same old trip it was back then..."

Know me broken by my master
Teach thee our child love hereafter

Into the flood again 
Same old trip it was back then 
So I made a big mistake 
Try to see it once my way 

Drifting body it's sole desertion
Flying not yet quite the notion

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way, yeahhh

Am I wrong? 
Have I run to far to get home? 
Have I gone? 
And left you here alone? 
Am I wrong? 
Have I run to far to get home? 
Have I gone? 
And left you here alone? 

If I would? could you?


My nephew rockin his allman brothers shirt:)





Sunday, April 14, 2013

Natural Mystic by Bob Marley

There's lots of natural mystic on this fine Sunday Funday! Reggae kind of weather. "There's a natural mystic blowing through the air, I won't tell no lie!"

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air

If you listen carefully now you will hear.
This could be the first trumpet,
Might as well be the last:
Many more will have to suffer,
Many more will have to die - don't ask me why.

You see, things are not the way they used to be
I won't tell no lie
One and all have to face reality 
'Though I've tried to find the answer 
To all the questions they ask. 
Yes I know it's impossible 
To go livin' through the past 

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air 
I won't tell no lie
Cause if you listen carefully now you will hear. 
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air.
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air -
I won't tell no lie;
If you listen carefully now you will hear:
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air.
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air;
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;


Though I've tried to find the answer 
To all the questions they ask. 
Yes I know it's impossible to go livin' through the past 
Can't keep us down
There's a natural mystic blowing in the air.
Cause if you listen carefully now you will hear

There's a natural mystic...




Mi casa:)



Saturday, April 13, 2013

I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty


Short, sweet and to the point. "Well I know what's right and I GOT JUST ONE LIFE!!!!"

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You could stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down

Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down....


Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down!



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan

His voice may not be the prettiest and he is confusing as shit understand most of the time...but he sure does have some good lyrics:) "She takes just like a woman, she wakes just like a woman, she aches just like a woman, But she breaks just like a little girl..."

Nobody feels any pain

Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls

She takes just like a woman, and
She wakes just like a woman, 
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls

She takes just like a woman,
She aches just like a woman,
And she wakes just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

It's was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that.

I just don't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your wide world!

Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes you do
You ache just like a woman, yes you do
Then you lay just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.


Monday, April 8, 2013

Lost Cause by Beck

What a sad and absolutely beautiful song! "This town is crazy, nobody cares..."


Your sorry eyes; they cut through bone
They make it hard to leave you alone
Leave you here wearing your wounds
Waving your guns at somebody new

Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause

There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy; nobody cares

Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause

I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause

There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one left to watch your back now
No one standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for

Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause

I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause


Saturday, April 6, 2013

In Bloom by Nirvana


He was amazing...such a shame! Can't believe it was 19 years ago. I can remember it well. "He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along..."

Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands

Hey - He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

We can have some more
Nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit
Tender age in bloom

Hey - He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it mean's when I say:


Love your car stranger!



Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Loser by the Grateful Dead


This is one of my favorite songs to hear when I hear GD cover bands. "I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines..."

If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn,
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby,
Cause I'm all alone and you know I'm only in it for the gold

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And you'll never find another honest man.

Last fair deal in the country,
Sweet Suzie, last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby,
Before you let my deal go down

Don't you push me baby, cause I'm all alone
Well I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
I'm gonna get up in the morning and go

Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on the inside straight,
Well I got no chance of losin' this time

Last fair deal in the country,
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby,
Before you let my deal go down

Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on the inside straight,
Well I got no chance of losin' this time.