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NYB
00:43
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The Good Boy
03:48
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How do you do?
I’m not allowed to fall in love
what can you do
when Fate is playing God
loving is denied
but longing is alright
If only I could see that smile
I just wanna hear that laughter on my doorstep
how do you do?
I wouldn’t mind being introduced to
someone like you
it’s nothing I’m used to
I could be seduced so easily
I would be seduced too easily
If only I could see that smile
I just wanna hear that laughter on my doorstep
I wouldn’t swear but I think
I’d really like you there
I’d only look
wouldn’t touch
I wouldn’t touch I’d only look
I wouldn’t dream of that much luck
less is more, but I’ll confess
I am an addict, more or less
I quit smoking, eat veggie food
I’ve abolished my neggie moods
I’m a good good boy
a good good boy
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Iridium
03:40
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Do you remember when the climax was the drummer’s solo?
for five long minutes he would go berserk and beat those bongos
I can still hear the agony, the sighs, the oh nos, oh those poor things
In the stunned audience I look around I watch him practice
am I the only one in here who doesn’t understand this?
when he stops I will applaud forever and no one will notice
Those were the days…
Do you remember when he passed the spotlight on to the guitarist who then seemed to think you’d measure music and delight in speed, whipping the strings harassing the frets, insulting our brain cells?
Those were the days…
See those fingers
hear the Gibson
how he lingers
and those tom toms
Spread the rumour
tell your friends now
about that drummer
hope it ends now
So here I am and there they are the famous jazzy trio
a karaoke machine, a nice spiceless background for someone to brilliantly apply their thing upon
but no one’s there
Those were the days
those were the days…
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So what have you discovered?
oh, yourself you say
you’ve spotted the lies
in the life you’ve lead?
And you want to talk it out
looking for clues
interrogate us
in search of a cure
But tell me is your life any better now?
have you got a grip of that evil seed?
poisoning your days ripping up your nights
pull it by the roots and go back to sleep
So you try religion
and inflatable friends
desperately seeking
an antidote to yourself
So pester your neighbor
go pierce your doll
what you really need
is a brain transplant
Tell me is your life any better now?
have you got a grip of that evil seed?
poisoning your days ripping up your nights
pull it by the roots and go back to sleep
but somehow it feels
that the truth is so clear
that you just don’t want to see it
We can spend the night
talking ‘bout your past
if you’re in some way somewhat different
and it even scares me that you’re asking
now I realize what’s happening
nothing’s jamming your transmission
you just never tuned in to begin with
Somehow it feels
that the truth is too clear to see
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Want
04:37
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The woman I’m looking for
the space I’m longing for
the piece I’m missing
the place I’m going
the peace I’m searching for
the soul I’m seeking
I don’t deserve it
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I Had a Lot
02:43
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I had a lot today
I had it with these times
I’ve had it with time managers
scribblings out of rhyme
Now is just so full of it
it’s matter without substance
and as yesterday is long gone
tomorrow is my hope and my companion
But to get there I must remain here, through this day I’ll clear a way
I’ll just take a giant stake, and penetrate Today
I had a lot a lot today
I set the spirits free
maybe it wasn’t wise to do
but wisdom wasn’t my need
So I sat and thought of things
I’d never thought I’d think
maybe it wasn’t wise to do
but when all is said and done
you just order one more drink
All I have, all I possess, is a longing out of here
So give me the recipe to flee this ordeal
Maybe there’s no harm
living on a farm
All your favors, all your manors, all your petty rendez-vous
will not last a milliblast when Now is breaking loose
somewhere out there there’s a fair cop saying ‘this is why and how’
until I meet him I just need an extra life for Now
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It’s over
my five feet of fortune and fame
and I now need a shoulder
It’s over
a quick stop to dry up and up and away
and I’m older
It’s not over, not over
till it’s forgiven or forgotten
right up this alley
is Delirious Valley
and I’m heading that way
I’m heading that way
But it’s alright
it’s just my past
It would never last
It may have been glorious
it may have been fine
no more to keep
than youth in a wine
and I’m heading that way
I’m heading that way
I’m already past
the present
and into the future
It may have been hard
it may have been with sorrow
but don’t let it strangle
the joys of tomorrow
and I’m heading that way
I’m heading that way
Learning
is living
and I’ll never
quit living
It’s over
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Pigs
02:58
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I can’t say why there’s no pig in the sty
there’s a hole in the wall where the sunny fell in
I don’t know why there’s no hog there to fry
there’s a hole in the roof where the money poured in
I don’t know why there’s a hole in the sty
there’s a crack in the truth so it looks like a lie
I don’t know why there’s no truth in those lies
there’s a hole in the sky where it must have flown out
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Watch Your Head
01:22
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Darling please watch you head
almost nearly left you for dead
for a second there
lover you’re gone
while I’m just hanging on
Darling, please talk to me
you leaving walk over is scaring me
I’m so afraid that you’re
ending up dead
and I’ll do the living instead
It’s just ok when you are here
and even worse when you’re not near
so if you are there
and if you just even remotely care
tell me so
and I can go on with my cleaning up here
It’s ok when you are near
and even worse when you’re not there
tell me everywhere
I think I call you inisfare
you hear?
So if you got to go
I trust that you’d be telling me so
and promise me girl that I can be your passenger
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Platter
02:55
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Evan, who tore your contract?
can I hurt him for you?
I want his head in a box
on a plate
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Somewhere In The City
04:40
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Somewhere in the city
behind an office desk
on the fifth or maybe sixth floor
a deadline around her neck
I can see her eyes
lit up by the screen
in the fading day
as night comes closing in
it was something with e-trade
or whatever was the word
of the day there was a contract
a client with an urge
she’s just too tired to think
with no time to meet the man
who stands beneath that window
five or six floors down
She’s too tired to think
no time to meet the man
standing ‘neath that window
five or six floors down
on the street where lovers meet
walking in the rain
celebrating anniversaries
planning trips to Spain
holding hands together
underneath a coat
in the back row of a theatre
in a taxi going home
So, he walks away
so, he walks away
No time to meet the man
who’s standing in the rain
underneath a street lamp
five or six floors down
so he’s entering the wall
of darkness ‘round the light
he sparkles for a moment
and is swallowed by the night
So, I walk away
so, I walk away
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Barentsburg
06:11
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Günter fell off his chair again
Anastasia tears her hair again
it’s Thursday night in Barentsburg
if you are a miner this is where to go
There’s Southern girls, there’s girls from west
but Eastern girls from the north is best
it’s Thursday night in Barentsburg
if you are a miner this is where to go
You can’t get enough of Barentsburg
it’s a spell that cannot
be put off
Hey ho, what do you know
you find yourself in party mode
first in line for rum and rhyme
hanging out in Barentsburg
hey, ho, wine will flow
nothing like a Ukranian show
first in line at hammer time
with a beer in the bar in Barentsburg
Turn the coal mine inside out
put some barracks nicely on top
a supermarket, a hairy dresser
and you’ve got a mining town
You can’t get enough of Barentsburg
it’s a spell that cannot
be put off
Hey ho, what do you know
you find yourself in party mode
first in line for rum and rhyme
hanging out in Barentsburg
hey, ho, wine will flow
nothing like a Ukranian show
first in line at hammer time
with a beer in the bar in Barentsburg
How to get there?
take a plane or take the boat
you cannot miss it
it is half way to the pole
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Un Rodo Cora Sweden
Seamless pop smarts drawing from a wide spectrum of genres and time periods.
Un Rodo Cora is a Stockholm based group
of musicians with links to both USA and India. They are somewhere between a solo project, a band and a collective, centered around the songwriter Bo Christo. Although a number of musicians form the core of the band the actual line-up is as fixed as a recipe for pizza.
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