Raymond Chandler Evening
Written (and performed) by Robyn Hitchcock
It's a Raymond Chandler Evening
At the end of someone's day
And I'm standing in my pocket
And I'm slowly turning grey
I remember what I told you
But I can't remember why
And the yellow leaves are falling
In a spiral from the sky
There's a body on the railings
That I can't identify
And I'd like to reassure you but
I'm not that kind of guy
It's a Raymond Chandler Evening
And the pavements are all wet
And I'm lurking in the shadows
'Cause it hasn't happened yet
(http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/robyn_hitchcock/#share)
Note from Ms. McPherson: Raymond Chandler is a famous American novelist who is known for his detective stories. They often have a film noir
(dark and mysterious) feeling to them.
Fireflies
Written by Adam Young
Performed by Owl City
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave tear drops everywhere
You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare.
I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems.
Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
The disco ball is just hanging by a thread.
I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep).
Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep?
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep.
To ten million fireflies
I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell
(Said farewell)
But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar.
I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep).
[x2]
I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns, slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/owlcity/fireflies.html
The Yeah Yeah Song
Written by Michael Ivans, Steven Drozd, and Wayne
Coyne; Performed by the Flaming Lips
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah [x9]
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh........ (from the third yeah yeah yeah
to the eighth)
If you could blow up the world
With the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah)
If you could make everybody poor
Just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah)
If you could watch everybody work
While you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah)
If you could take all the love
Without giving any back
Would you do it?
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah)
And so we cannot know ourselves
Or what we'd really do
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
(No no no no, no no no no)
If you could make your own money
And then give it to the poor
Would you do it?
(No no no no, no no no no)
If you knew all the answers
And could give to the masses
Would you do it?
(No no no no, no no no no)
Are you crazy?
It's a very dangerous thing to do
Exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself,
Or what you'd really do
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you
Do do do do, do do do do [x2]
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah) [x10]
ahhhhhhhhhh...... (from third yeah yeah line to the last
one)
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah [x1.75]
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/the-yeah-yeah-yeah-songlyrics-the-flaming-lips/ac3c7bf5ab6fa2104825715d00469595
What Sarah Said
Written by Benjamin Gibbard & Nicholas Harmer
Performed by Death Cab for Cutie
And it came to me then that every plan
Is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself
That I’ve already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds
And I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose
Than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself
‘Cause there’s no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes ‘round and everyone lift their heads
But I’m thinking of what Sarah said
That love is watching someone die
So who’s gonna watch you die?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/What-Sarah-Said-lyrics-Death-Cab-For-Cutie/99010326B61B75C84825705A000D51BB
Leaving So Soon
Written by Tim Rice-Oxley
Performed by Keane
Ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah!
Ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah!
You must think I'm a fool
So prosaic and awkward and all
D'you think you've got me down?
D'you think I've never been out of this town?
Do I seem too eager to please to you now?
You don't know me at all
I can't turn it on, turn it off like you now
I'm not like you now
Now you're here
I bet you're wishing you could disappear
I'm trying to be kind
I get the feeling you're just killing time
You look down on me
Don't you look down on me now
You don't know me at all
A slap in the face
In the face for you now
Just might do now
You're leaving so soon
Never had a chance to bloom
But you were so quick
To change your tune
Don't look back
If I'm a weight around your neck
’Cause if you don't need me
I don't need you
Leaving so soon, soon
Leaving, leaving so, soon
You're leaving so soon
Never had a chance to bloom
But you were so quick
To change your tune
Don't look back
If I'm a weight around your neck
’Cause if you don't need me
Then I don't need you
Ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah!
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Leaving-So-Soon-lyricsKeane/68BCB623A4E41F61482571880016DB2E
Fisherman’s Blues
Written by M. Scott & S. Wickham
Performed by The Waterboys
I wish I was a fisherman
tumblin' on the seas
far away from dry land
and it's bitter memories
castin' out my sweet line
with abandonment and love
no ceiling bearin' down on me
save the starry sky above
with light in my head
with you in my arms...
i wish i was the brakeman
on a hurtlin fevered train
crashin head long into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
with the feelin of the sleepers
and the burnin of the coal
countin the towns flashin by
and a night that's full of soul
with light in my head
with you in my arms...
And I know I will be loosened
from the bonds that hold me fast
and the chains all around me
will fall away at last
and on that grand and fateful day
I will take thee in my hand
I will ride on a train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
You in my arms...
Light in my head
You in my arms...
Light in my head
You...
With light in my head
You in my arms...
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/goodwillhunting/fishermansblues.htm
You Drive Me Crazy
Written by Jorgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson,
David Krueger, & Max Martin
Performed by Britney Spears
Baby, I'm so into you
You got that somethin’, what can I do?
Baby, you spin me around
The Earth is movin, but I can't feel the ground.
Every time you look at me
My heart is jumpin’, it's easy to see
You drive me crazy
I just can’t sleep
I’m so excited, I'm in too deep.
Ohh...crazy, but it feels alright
Baby, thinkin’ of you keeps me up all night.
Tell me, you're so into me
That I'm the only one you will see
Tell me, I'm not in the blue
That I'm not wastin’, my feelings on you.
You drive me crazy
I just can’t sleep
I’m so excited, I'm in too deep
Ohh...crazy, but it feels alright
Baby, thinkin’ of you keeps me up all night
Crazy, I just can't sleep
I'm so excited, I'm in too deep
Crazy, but it feels alright
Every day and every night.
You drive me crazy
I just can’t sleep
I’m so excited, I'm in too deep.
Ohh...crazy, but it feels alright
Baby, thinkin’ of you keeps me up all night.
You Drive Me Crazy (You drive me crazy baby)
Ohh…Crazy, but It feels alright
Baby Thinkin of you keeps me up all night
Baby Thinkin of you keeps me up all night
http://www.lyrics007.com/Britney%20Spears%20Lyrics/You%20Drive%20Me%20Crazy%20Lyrics.html
Paparazzi
Written by Rob Fusari & Lady Gaga
Performed by Lady Gaga
We are the crowd, we're c-coming out
got my flash on it's true, need that picture of you
it's so magical, we'd be so fantastico
leather and jeans, garage glamorous
not sure what it means but this photo of us
it don't have a price, ready for those flashing lights
'cause you know that baby I
I'm your biggest fan
I'll follow you until you love me, papa-paparazzi
baby, there's no other superstar
you know that I'll be your papa-paparazzi
promise I'll be kind, but I won't stop until that boy is mine
baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me
papa-paparazzi
I'll be your girl backstage at your show
velvet ropes and guitars, yeah 'cause you're my rockstar
in between the sets, eyeliner and cigarettes
shadow is burnt, yellow dance and we turn
my lashes are dry, purple teardrops I cry
it don't have a price, loving you is cherry pie
'cause you know that baby I
I'm your biggest fan
I'll follow you until you love me, papa-paparazzi
baby there's no other superstar
you know that I'll be your papa-paparazzi
promise I'll be kind but I won't stop until that boy is mine
baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me
papa-paparazzi
real good, we’re dancing in the studio
stop stop, that song on the radio
don't stop for anyone
we're plastic but we still have fun
I'm your biggest fan
I'll follow you until you love me, papa-paparazzi
baby there's no other superstar
you know that I'll be your papa-paparazzi
promise I'll be kind but I won't stop until that boy is mine
baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me
papa-paparazzi
http://www.metrolyrics.com/paparazzi-lyrics-lady-gaga.html