Haunting lyrics.......by other bands.

[PaulinLondon]

"He's crazy like a fool,
What about Daddy Cool ?"

[Notabadbandatall]

Isn't that Kid Creole and the Coconuts???

[Notabadbandatall]

I heard a battle raging on the other side of the wall
I buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all.
Every night when I hear you I dream of breaking down your door
an avenging knight in shining armour, to rescue you from it all.

When I see you at the supermarket, sunglasses in the shade
averting your eyes from those staring questions, how were those
bruises made?
The children clutch tight to your legs, they've got so much they
want to say
but daddy's sitting home, drunk again so they bite their lips
and pray
cos daddy don't like people poking in his private affairs
and if anyone asks from the social, well, you tripped and fell
down the stairs.


She's waiting at the bus stop at the bottom of the hill
she know's she'll never catch it, she knows she never will.
The kids are all she lives for, she's got nothing left to lose,
nowhere to escape to, but she knows she's got to move.
Cos when daddy tucks the kids in, it's taking longer every
night.


So I become an accessory and I don't have an alibi
to the victim on my doorstep the only way I can justify.

This song is about abuse, and how people choose to ignore what is happening next door or if they see someone attacked in the street

[Notabadbandatall]

You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell

This song always got to me. When I heard it, back in 1982/3 I was told that it was about listening to the 9 O'clock news on a Friday night, just after the IRA had set off another bomb - It was just another person who'd died in that battle and the news will say the same the following week.

[RetroRocket]

We're only making plans for Nigel...we only want what's best for him...


RR

[MULLY]

You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell

This song always got to me. When I heard it, back in 1982/3 I was told that it was about listening to the 9 O'clock news on a Friday night, just after the IRA had set off another bomb - It was just another person who'd died in that battle and the news will say the same the following week.

Forgotten Sons - Marillion

[Claireinblack]

Tonight the moon, she lays a silver path across the blackened sea,
I'm swimming out against the tide, the waves are breaking over me;
and deep beneath the waters in the darkness I can hear her
as she calls for me to come. . .

[Rodney Blackstaff]

I met someone like Jesus in the spring of '98
He was so full of love and I was so full of hate
So I nailed him on a cross where he belonged
told myself it's what he would have wanted all along
and I drove into the night looking for something to burn
Oh how I love these little parables that I never cared to learn
And I don't know what this feeling is but it's just dripping through me
There's always something in the corner of my life that I cannot quite see

And I'm not sleeping well, all my dreams are so real
I dreamed I set fire to my house, watched the great beams come crashing down
And later on I was standing in the ashes of the stairs
They asked me what happened, it was an accident I said
And I don't know what all this means and I don't care, it's nothing to me
But there was something in the corner of that dream that I could not quite see

And there's a happy family snapshot when you were very small
But there were visits to the doctor, you can't remember what for
The curtains drawn in silence on a summer's afternoon
And the flies buzzing in the room
And you don't know what this feeling is and you can't explain it to me
But there was something in that family photo that you cannot quite see
And I don't know what all this means but it's just dripping through me
There's always something in the corner of our lives that we cannot quite see

[gizzard]

I had a dream or was it true
I saw the sun set low on you
In a blood red sun's final rays
We laughed at that subtle shadow play

Into the world we started to run
Like bullets from a gun
With passion and desire
Like two burning balls of fire

And there is surely nothing else
The guys and girls that keep on laughing
Laughing (repeats)

If fools wanna dance let the music play
So much unsung, so much to say
Like velvet claws the night unfolds
Its secret bare, its story told

I had a friend, heaven and hell
His life was short, he lived it well
The limit's here, the time is now
A life to lead you bet and how

And there is surely nothing else
The guys and girls that keep on laughing
Laughing (repeats)

And I don't want no feeling blue
'Cause I've been laughing too

And I don't want no feeling blue
'Cause I've been laughing too
And so could you

[gizzard]

I still can picture him
His hands in his back pockets
He wasn't much for words
But when the wise kids made a racket
He'd just have to go downtown
Throw his weight around
Before starting over


Say did you hear I've got a band
Some guys I know from L.A.
We'll own the Rio Grande
I'll pay you back next Friday
You know it sure ain't big
Just some cats I dig
They said they'd do the gig


Oh Desperado
Why don't you spend your life in Colorado
Oh Restless Shadow
Out in the blue hills you're feeling hollow
Oh El Diablo
Why did you spend your life in California
I should have warned ya
No place to go now but falling over


Some hands can't make it on the run
Under the gun
Not for the younger
Oh Jack Daniels I feel your hunger


I know you did your best
But you thought that you did not
I wish that I had known
Before I heard the last shot
You know it's not a sin
That little badge of tin
Just a momento


So sad you loved in vain
My comrades lost in battle
The music wars are done from London to Seattle
We all pay to play and all our yesterdays are starting over


Oh Desperado
Why don't you spend your life in Colorado
Oh Restless Shadow
Out on the blue hills you're feeling hollow
Oh El Diablo
Why did you spend your life in California
I should have warned ya
No place to go now but falling over


Ready to die
Now he's ready to die

[mantheylovetohate]

One I'm sure Gizz will agree with (although they're not the Pogues' lyrics) is 'And the band played Waltzing Mathilda'-gets me every time I hear it

'Dirty Old Town' is another (again someone else's lyrics)

[Notabadbandatall]

You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell

This song always got to me. When I heard it, back in 1982/3 I was told that it was about listening to the 9 O'clock news on a Friday night, just after the IRA had set off another bomb - It was just another person who'd died in that battle and the news will say the same the following week.

Forgotten Sons - Marillion

Yup