Member of The Tribe

Adrian Belew




Ever since I was a kid I never did fit in
While all the other fish were learning how to swim
I was dying
To be a member of the tribe

And when I went to school my head was in a cloud
The teacher said"you will never be allowed
So don’t try
To be a member of the tribe"

Now what can a square man do
To fit in a big round world?
If I am a hand and life is a glove
I stick right out like a big sore thumb

Why don’t you come over to see me sometime
I do impersonations from saturday night live
I’m dying
To be a member of the tribe

Now what can a square man do
To fit in a big round world?
Life might be a parade for some
But I stick out like a big bass drum

I eat big macs and I watch mtv
I’ve been a k mart shopper since 1983
Cause I’m trying
To be a member of the tribe

HOOBASTANK - THE REASON

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You [x4]

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you

Love's Train - Con Funk Shun

Warm night, can't sleep.
Too hurt, too weak - Got to call her up
Dial that number no one answers till two o'clock
And if by chance you'll let me come over
Out on the street I wanna see ya baby
And if by chance you'll let me just hold ya
I'm down on my knees, I wanna please you baby
And I, I'll be a righteous lover

She said sugar, honey, darlin' I really wanna see you too
It’s just that someone's over and baby I really wanna be with you.
But if by chance you let me just hold you
I'm caught and I'm free - I wanna see ya baby
When in need you said you would be here
And you hold the key to my very being baby and I love you baby

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That's the way it goes on love's train
Sometimes heartstrings can't be broken
But you just have to keep on going
That's the way it goes on love's train

On a warm night lady wants her baby so she calls him up
Dial that number, no one answers till two o'clock
If by chance you'll just come over
Cause darling please I've got to see you baby
And when in need, you said you would be here
And now I'm in need and please believe me baby
I love you honey

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That's the way it goes on love's train (you don't need no ticket to ride)
Sometimes heartstrings can't be broken
But you just have to keep on going
That's the way it goes on love's train
Listen baby, listen baby
In deep sorrow you've sulkin’
but you just have to keep on strokin'
If you are that special lover
and love keeps you tied to another
That's the way it goes on love's train
Sometimes heartstrings can't be broken
But you just have to keep on going
That's the way it goes on love's train
In time every thing's gonna be alright

Method of Modern Love ~ Hall & Oates

In the moonlite
Under startlite
Songs old as the night are what I’ve been dreaming of
Everybody’s hard as iron
Locked in a modern world
Dreams are make of a different stuff

I believe love will always be the same
Ways and means are the parts subject to change
M-e-t-h-o-d-o-f-l-o-v-e
It’s a method of modern love

I can call you
Got your number
Share my life with you a thousand miles away
If you’ve hurt me
I haven’t shown it
Time’s too tight to fight
And we’re never face to face
Style is timeless and fashion’s only now
We’ve got the ways no one needs to show us how

Definitely feeling tangerine today...

"We may be done with the past, but the past ain't done with us"


"Tangerine"
by Prince


Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I feel blue
Some days I just wanna back out of the thing I feel for you
And even though I take your picture everywhere I go,
I use it for a coaster and drink the overflow

Some days I make a lot of money and give it all away
To take my mind off the tangerine colour of your negligee
Beggers can't be choosey if they don't know how to serve
You've got a different phone number and a lot of nerve

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I miss you too
[This message was edited Mon Jun 28 18:21:05 2004 by Case]

do your balls hang low
do you swing 'em to and fro
do you tie 'em in a knot
do you tie 'em in a bow?

do you get a funny feeling
when they're hanging from the ceiling

oh, you'll never be a sailor if your balls hang low.

BETTE MIDLER - THE ROSE - for my Mum

Some say love, it is a river
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
an endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
and you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken,
who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dyin'
that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been to long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose

When you wake up
and find me gone tomorrow,
don't think I meant to hurt you.
I just did what we knew I had to do.
Oh, and all the time we knew
the time was never right for us,
time to leave this love behind...
but I could never leave you
baby, if I see you cry.
I'll say goodbye
for the two of us.
Tonight, while you sleep
I'll kiss you softly one last time
and say goodbye
like I know we must.
There's just no other way,
and I couldn't' bear to see your heart break,
so I'll wait 'till you're asleep to
say goodbye...

Please realize
how hard it is to do this.
I'm trying to make it though this,
say goodbye just as gently as I can.
Please try and understand.
This time's just not the time for us,
we knew I couldn't stay,
but that don't make it easier to leave you
so while I can find the strength...

I'll say goodbye
for the two of us.
Tonight, while you sleep
I'll kiss you softly one last time
and say goodbye...

Before your arms embrace me,
before your kisses take me,
before your eyes can make me stay...

I'll say goodbye
for the two of us.
Tonight, while you sleep
I'll kiss you softly one last time
and say goodbye
like I know we must.
I'll wait till your asleep to
say goodbye for the two of us.
Tonight, while you sleep
I'll kiss you softly one last time
and say goodbye
like I know we must.
There's just no other way,
and I couldn't' bear to see your heart break,
so I'll wait 'till you're asleep to
say goodbye...

When you wake up
and find me gone tomorrow,
don't think I meant to hurt you...

Goodbye...

time has told me - nick drake

time has told me
you're a rare rare find
a troubled cure
for a troubled mind

and time has told me
not to ask for more
someday our ocean
will find its shore

so i'll leave the ways that are making me be
what i really don't want to be
leave the ways that are making me love
what i really don't want to love

time has told me
you came with the dawn
a soul with no footprint
a rose with no thorn

your tears they tell me
to stay by my side
to keep on trying
'til there's no more to hide

so leave the ways that are making you be
what you really don't want to be
leave the ways that are making you love
what you really don't want to love

time has told me
you're a rare rare find
for some day our ocean
will find its shore

3bogs said:

good song

Sweeny79 said:

sure is. the song that originally got me into nick drake.

3bogs said:

yeah me too

sweeny

3bogs said:

Bogs

This has become an all too familiar scene
It's not the first time I've paid the fare


Next...

Where'd you get the idea for material possessions?

Thank you for the ride... nowhere.

I know my meter's running so I've really got to go

Hey Dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according
To plan?
Do you think I’m wasting
My time doing things I
Wanna do?
But it hurts when you
Disapprove all along


And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good
Enough for you
I can’t pretend that
I’m alright
And you can’t change me


‘Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect
Now it’s just too late
And we can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect


I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be
My hero?
All the days
You spent with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don’t
Care anymore


And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good
Enough for you
I can’t stand another fight
And nothing’ alright


‘Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect
Now it’s just too late
And we can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect


Nothing’s gonna change
The things that you said
Nothing’s gonna make this
Right again
Please don’t turn your back
I can’t believe it’s hard
Just to talk to you
But you don’t understand


‘Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect
Now it’s just too late
And we can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect


‘Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect
Now it’s just too late
And we can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be Perfect

wow...



I feel like that sometimes too

PanthaGirl said:

Sweeny79 said:

ERYKAH BADU - LOVE OF MY LIFE

"Love Of My Life"
(feat. Common)

Bring it over here and let's go back
Way back
Ooh...
Way back, yeah

I met him when I was a
Little girl, he gave me
He gave me poetry
And he was my first

But in my heart I knew I
Wasn't the only one
'Cause when the tables turned
He had to break up

Whenever I got lonely
Or needed some advice
He gave me his shoulder
His words were very nice

But that is all behind me
'Cause now there is no other
My love is his and his is mine
A friend became the

Love of my life
You are my friend
Love of my life
I can depend
Love of my life
Without you, baby
It feels like a simple true love

Hope this s*** ain't clear

A freak-freak, y'all, and ya don't stop
To the beat y'all and ya don't stop
A freak-freak

Or could it be that it was
All just so simple then
A teenage lover who said
He's just a friend

He moved around and we kept
In touch through his friend Mike
The world was young and he knew
We couldn't rush but

Whenever I got lonely
Or needed some advice
He gave me his shoulder
His words were very nice

But that is all behind me
'Cause now there is no other
My love is his and his is mine
A friend became the

Love of my life
You are my friend
Love of my life
A dude I can depend, yeah, yeah
Love of my life
Feels like a simple true love, yeah

Hope this s*** ain't clear

Y'all know how I met her
We broke up and got back together
To get her back I had to sweat her
Thought she roll with bad boys forever in many ways
Them boys may be better, to I had to let her (Never)
She needed cheddar and I understood that
Lookin' for cheese, that don't make her a hood rat (Rat)
In fact she's a queen to me, her light beams on me
I love it when she sings to me
It's like that now

Love of my life
Ooh, you know you rock my world and
Love of my life
You be boy and I'll be girl and
Love of my life
We don't stop until the break of dawn, ooh...

Love of my life
Ooh, you know you rock my world and
Love of my life
You be boy and I'll be girl and
Love of my life
Yeah...

PM DAWN - LOST IN YOU
Take me to your soul
Lose me in your smile
Baby I don’t care just as long as I get there
No need for cliches
Or silly masquerades
I’m drifting endlessly, drifting closer to you

For so long I live in darkness
I’m looking for the light
You surround my heart with you love
Your aura shining bright
You keep the sun alive eternally
And you keep me from the night

Don’t you know I’ll do
What you want me to
Open up your soul and let me get close to you
I just wanna say
You take my breath away
I’ll do what you want me to, I’ll get lost in you

You’re the only road
To my happiness
Hold me tightly in your arms caress me in your dreams
My love will find a way
To your emptiness
Singing tenderly to your emotions

So close but yet so far my imagination’s
Running away with me
And it takes me to a place where
You’re the only one I see
But when I awake all I have
Is pain and misery

CINDY LAUPER - TIME AFTER TIME

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion -
Is nothing new
Flashback - warm nights -
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after -

Sometimes you picture me -
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, I can't hear
What you've said -
Then you say - go slow -
I fall behind -
The second hand unwinds

If you're lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I'll be waiting
Time after time

After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows - you're wondering
If I'm OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time -


If you're lost...

You said go slow -
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds -

If you're lost...
...Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time