FOK!'s eigen top 2000 #7

300 Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

Dit is zo'n geniale band uit de jaren 70. Vooral in de beginperiode baanbrekend



Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed I'll take it
To Robert E. Lee I'll show it
I hope and pray he don't blow it 'cause
We've been around a long time just try try tryin' to
Make make the big time...

Take me on a roller coaster
Take me for an airplane ride
Take me for a six days wander but don't you
Don't you throw away my pride aside besides
What's real and make believe
Baby Jane's in Acapulco
We're flyin' down to Rio

Throw me a line I'm sinking fast
Clutching at straws can't make it
Havana sound we're trying hard edge the hipster jiving
Last picture show's down the drive-in
You're so sheer you're so chic
Teenage rebel of the week

Flavors of the mountain streamline
Midnight blue casino floors
Dance the cha-cha through til sunrise
Open up exclusive doors oh wow!
Just like flamingos look the same
So me and you, just we two got to reach for something new

Far beyond the pale horizon
Some place near the desert strand
Where my Studebaker takes me
That's where I'll make my stand but wait
Can't you see that Holzer mane
What's her name Virginia Plain

288 Brainbox - Down Man

Uit de jaren 70, Jan Akkerman, samen met de geweldige strot van Kaz Lux.



A man, a room
A man alone in a room
Eyes, tears
His eyes are losing tears

A man who's down and out
He's got nothing to live for
He knows
There's no doubt

Emptiness
A soul that's filled with emptiness
A man, a room
A man alone in a room

A man who's down and out
He's got nothing to live for
He knows
There's no doubt

Yeah

A man, a room
A man alone in a room
He's down and out
Down and out
Down
He knows there's no doubt
No doubt
Oh, down and out
Oh, yeah, yeah
Down and out
A man alone in a room
A man alone in a room
Down and out

286 Leonard Cohen - Who by Fire

Het wordt wel weer tijd voor iets van deze oude meester



And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
and who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?

And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?