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[b]Soundgarden - The Day i Tried to Live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones
Inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere
But dead

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The easiest way to sleep at night
Is to carry on believing that I don't exist
The easiest way to sell your soul
Is to carry on believing we don't exist
It must be hard,
hard, with your head on backwards

tis kort kweet

You brace and hold it all inside
It's more than you can stand
No one around even tries
Tries to understand

Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Come out alone
They're in your way
But as long as you're swinging
Strong then you'll get by

Your pacing's wearing out a line
Right beside your bed
The scene replays a million times
Stuck inside your head

And though you stand in place
Your mind escapes
Read between the lies
Smile's on your face
You fake like you're ok

Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Out on your own
They're in your way
You may be stinging
But you'll get by
Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Never alone again
The pain inside can guide your way

Midnight, no sleep
Inside, you scream to
No one, hears you fall
Daylight, prove me today
One more try

Don't turn away, don't turn
Come out swinging
Come out alone
They're in your way
You may be stinging
But you'll get by
Don¹t turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Never alone again
Pain inside
Leads you through so you'll get by

The Offspring - Gotta get away

I'm getting edgy all the time
There's someone around me just a step behind
It's kinda scary, the shape I'm in
The walls are shakin' and they're closing in
Too fast or a bit too slow
I'm paranoid of people and it's starting to show
There's one guy that I can't shake
Over my shoulder is a big mistake
Sitting on the bed
Or lying wide awake
There's demons in my head
And it's more than I can take
I think I'm on a roll
But I think it's kinda weak
Saying all I know is
I gotta get away from me
I tell you something just ain't right
My head is on loose but my shoes are tight
Avoiding my friends cause they all bug
Life is a riddle and I'm really stumped
If you reason, don't you know
Your own preoccupation is where you'll go
I think I'm being followed, I look around
It's only my shadow creepin' on the ground

Twelve men broke loose in Seventy-Three
From Millhaven maximum security
Twelve pictures lined up, across the front page
Seems the Mounties had a summertime war to wage
The chief told the people they had nothing to fear
Said, "The last thing they wanna do is stick around here"
They mostly came from towns with long French names
But one of the dozen was a hometown shame.

Chorus
Same pattern on the table
Same clock on the wall
Been one seat empty, eighteen years in all
Freezing slow time, away from the world
He's 38 year's old, never kissed a girl

We were sitting round the table, heard the telephone ring
Father said he tell em if he saw anything
Heard the tap on my window in the middle of the night
Held back the curtain for my older brother Mike

See my sister got raped, so a man got killed
Local boy went to prison, man's buried on the hill
Folks went back to normal when they closed the case
But they still stare at their shoes when they pass our place

My mother cried, "The horror has finally ceased"
He whispered,"Yea for the time being at least"
Over her shoulder, on the squad car megaphone
Said,"Let's go Michael, son, we're taking you home."

Chorus

She embraced, with a smile
As she opened the door
A cold wind blows, it puts a chill into her heart

You have taken away the trust,
you're the ghost haunting through her heart
Past and present are one in her head,
you're the ghost haunting through her heart

Take my hand as I wander through
All of my life I gave to you
Take my hand as I wander through
All of my love I gave to you

You have taken away the trust,
you're the ghost haunting through her heart
Past and present are one in her head,
you're the ghost haunting through her heart

Take my hand as I wander through
All of my life I gave to you
Take my hand as I wander through
All of my love I gave to you

"the planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear"

pearl jam - black:

"i know you'll be a sun in somebody elses sky"

The The - slow emotion replay:

everybody know's what's goin on with the world, i don't even know what's goin' on with myself

"i'm just a slow emotion replay of somebody i used to be"
*sniff* mooi he?

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door punchdrunk op 29-11-2000 22:24]

That there, that's not me
I go where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah, it's gone

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here....

There's a world outside,
And I know 'cause I've heard talk.
In my sweetest dream
I would go out for a walk.
But I don't think I'm ready yet.
I'm not feeling up to it now.
Just not that steady yet.
And I don't need you telling me how.
There's some happiness
And my stone face cracks again.
Maybe some time sooner or later.
But I don't think I'm ready yet.
Not feeling up to it now.
Just not that steady yet.
And I don't need you telling me how.
So if I leave my room,
Don't you tell me to lighten up.
Maybe some time sooner or later.
But I don't think I'm ready yet.
Not feeling up to it now.
Just not that steady yet.
And I don't need you telling me how.
I don't need you telling me how. (x6)

Eels - Mental

It's like I dressed up in my mama's clothing.
It's like I'm talking to a voice that doesn't exist.
It's like I got a wire crossed upstairs.
But all I want is just a little truth and that's it.
They say I'm mental but I'm just confused.
They say I'm mental but I've been abused.
They say I'm mental 'cause I'm not amused by it all.
Another anchorman is on the TV.
He's got that far-away and vacant look in his eyes.
I turn the channel but nothing is changing.
The only truth is that everything is a lie.
They say I'm mental but I'm just confused.
They say I'm mental but I've been abused.
They say I'm mental 'cause I'm not amused by it all.
There's truth in everything, there's truth in lies.
With all this knowledge, well, I think I'm gonna be wise.
They say I'm mental but I'm just confused.
They say I'm mental but I've been abused.
They say I'm mental 'cause I'm not amused by it all.
Not at all. (x5)

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Op zondag 26 november 2000 13:45 schreef cosmicgirl het volgende

Soundgarden - The Day i Tried to Live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones
Inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere
But dead

wauw! dit is een mooi stukje. op welke cd staat dit?

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[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Garfield- op 23-10-2001 05:48]

De Kraaien - André Manuel(voormalig Fratsen)

De kraaien op het land
Zwart als de raven
Zullen schateren op de dag
Dat deze jongen wordt begraven
De stoet vnauit de kerk
Tegen al mijn wensen in
Een laatste avond in de kroeg
Maar de familie had geen zin
'T zijn zulke brave burgermensen
Grijze mussen berelaf
Ik kan sputteren wat ik wil
Ze dragen me naar mijn graf
Alwaar de goegemeente rouwend
Luistert naar de dominee
In zijn hart een goeie jongen
En de schare knikt gedwee
Terwijl ik de kist graag had gezien
Op de bar de deksel open
Een joint gaat in het rond
En jullie allemaal bezopen
Lul de oren van mijn kop
En dan de laatste drank besteld
Waarop een heldere geestverwant
Een taxibusje belt

Zet deze jongen bij het raam
Neem brood en koffie mee
En rij dan in het holst
Met z'n allen naar de zee
Zet me rechtop in het zand
Veeg het vuil van mijn gezicht
Zing de maan nog eenmaal toe
Tot aan het eerste ochtendlicht
Ga wandelen in de duinen
Leg wat schelpen in m'n schoot
Verzamel al het spoelhout
En bouw een kleine boot
En als dan 's avonds heel de zon
In die bak met water dooft
Duw me dan de zee op
Zoals me is beloofd
Maak allemaal een fakkel
Steek het bootje in de brand
Ik zal mijn lied nog eenmaal zingen
Jullie dansen op het strand
Als indianen

Jedi Mind Tricks - I Who Have Nothing

Intersections in real time
The unbroken circle's in dimensions of the mind
Atomic bonds
The eternal time that defines
The vanity of my insanity in due time
Will shine
Like the night seeds under the moon
The haunted corners of familiar rooms
Yet i'm consumed
With vanishing into thin air
The realization that this shit is my cross to bare
So where
Did I think I could run away to see
The people that decided to leave without asking me
But we
Decide to wait for happier tomorrows
And find someone so they can be distractions from our sorrows
For my distractions the books of paper that i've scrawlened
I'm eloquent in summer breeze and leaves just have fallen
I crawl in a corner hoping all of this will end
With the knowledge that love is just another word for revenge
I who have nothing but the comfort of my sins
I who have nothing but the comfort of my friends

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Op donderdag 21 december 2000 00:54 schreef Vork het volgende:
Eels - Not Ready Yet

Eels - Mental

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Ik wil zelf nog even Everlong van Foo Fighters doneren:

hello
I've waited here for you
everlong
tonight I throw myself into
and out of the red
out of her head she sang

come down
and waste away with me
down with me
slow how
you wanted it to be
I'm over my head
out of her head she sang

and I wonder
when I sing along with you
if everything could ever feel this real forever
if anything could ever be this good again
the only thing I'll ever ask of you
you've got to promise not to stop whn I say when

breathe out so I can breathe you in
hold you in
and now I know you've always been
out of your head
out of my head I sang

clever heard his story
'bout different and the same
and said : you crazy ?
this some silly game
no , no ,, it aint
like mommy said
youve got to straighten out my head
clever you're so clever
is your cleverness enough
can you help this ageing young rebel
do ya really have the stuff
betcha dont have
...betcha bread that you'll pass the buck instead

clever sends our hero
to a funny darkened room
where a crowd of cunning listens
giggles in the gloom
"that your problem , ageing rebel..."
"dont you really know the score..."
"you crazy you think you're gonna change this silly world"
"better see yourself a shrink.."
cunningly they argue bout our boy
who is breaking down the door

Now he's running down the dark
diabolical awaits
grabs him by the ankle
ain't it just like fate ?
Diabolical laughs
in an ally full of soot
"forget the same...
you'll be different now...
somewhat shorther on one side"
Leggo , oh no ...
would you ? diabolical inside ?
Panic in his brain pulls and gets away
loses him a foot
its a dark and evil day

see him running limping blood
something soft is just ahead
something soft is gentle
he has fallen at her side
she comforts him with kisses
he dreams of suicide

gentle is sooo gentle
grabs the trouble by its root
bandages his stump
cuts off his other foot

so you see it seens to me
a gentle kind of cruelty
ageing rebel's maybe older
a little wiser maybe too
gentleness has fixed him
does he look like me and you
footless and fancy free
think how happy mom will be
footless and fancy free
think how happy mom will be

© 1984 rubber frog music

CD: Let the good times roll
nummer: Ain't that just like a woman

There was Adam, happy as a man could be
Till Eve got him messin' with that old apple tree

Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time

Lot took his wife down to the corner for a malted
She wouldn't mind her business, boy, did she get salted

Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time
Samson thought Delilah was on the square
Till one night she clipped him all his hair

Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time

From our history books we all learned
Nero fiddled while Rome was burned

Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time

Marie Antoinette met some hungry cats at the gate
They was crying for bread, she said, "Let them eat cake"

Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time

You can buy a woman clothes
And give her money on the side
No matter what you do
She ain't never satisfied
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
Ain't that just like a woman?
They'll do it every time

Offspring - One Fine Day

If I had a perfect day
I would have it start this way
Open up the fridge and have a tall boy
Yeah

Then I'd meet up with my friends
Head out to the game again
We don't even really care who wins
Now excitement seems to grow
When we're hangin' with the bro's
When we're chillin' and we pound a case of Stroh's
Now the game is cool to see
You can "High 5" on TV
Count the riot on the one two three
Operation is in sight
And the field is open wide
When you break it then you know you're still alive
If the cops don't make you pay
And you make your getaway
Then you know
That's one fine day

On that day before we're through
We could torch a car or two
Then have ourselves another tall boy
Yeah

Water hoses and batons
That's the real game that's on
I don't really give a shit who wins

I believe it's my god-given right
To destroy everything in my sight
Cause it never gets dull, it never gets old
The only thing it gets is more bold
Drinkin', fightin', going to the game
In our world it's a way to stay sane
If you're asking me
To have it my way, I'd say that's
One fine day

Deze vind ik wel mooi.

Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams

Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot

Jay committed suicide
Brandon OD'd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality

Offspring - I Choose

Look at me I'm fallin'
Off of a cliff now
I can still hear my mama yelling No No No
But the words mean nothing
Can't catch up to me now
And the view is so beautiful
All the way down
When I was a little boy
Suckin' juice from a bottle
Believing my perceptions were oh so real
But I don't know nothing
Still knowing nothing
Was just enough for me to know the way I feel
This is life
What a fucked up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground if we choose
And I choose

Look at me I'm swollen
Like a banana fish now
I'm never gonna make it out of my hole
But I keep on laughing
Doesn't really matter
There's dozens of reasons for explaining my soul
When I was a teenager
Suckin' booze with the Vatos
Discussing who was gonna live to be 21
They said they wouldn't make it
They didn't make it
We're all naked when the day is said and done
This is life
What a fucked up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground if we choose
And I choose

Don't know who made this all come true
But now while you're here
You just gotta do what you gotta do
Now if I wasn't such a weenie
Do you think you'd still love me
Pretending I'm an airplane on the living
Room floor
But like a lovely generator
You stand right by me
And if words were wisdom I'd be talking
Even more
So I keep on falling
As I'm looking back above me
Watching as my mama just becomes a little dot
Now I'm like DeNiro
I'm amarillo
And I'll never know when I hit the ground

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Op dinsdag 23 oktober 2001 11:30 schreef -Wepeel2- het volgende:
De Kraaien - André Manuel(voormalig Fratsen)

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Maar ik kan het niet vinden, nou heeft mijn CD-uitleen twee CD's van Krang en daar staat het niet op. Stamt het misschien nog uit zijn Fratsen-tijd? Staat het op een Fratsen-CD? Welke?

Bad Religion - Unacceptable

irreducible is the word for today
plastic compounds and nuclear waste
what the hell's the matter with the people on this planet? have we all gone insane?
the stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over again

it's one part per trillion... unacceptable, one part per billion... unacceptable, one part per million... unacceptable

this mammoth pogrom set upon us courtesy of the usa, inexcusable are the men before our time,
i'd like to kick their ass for what they left behind, cancer-causing chemicals, ozone-depleting arsenals,
we're all gonna fry, so put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

one part per trillion... unacceptable, one part per billion... unacceptable, one part per million... unacceptable, one part per billion... unacceptable

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Op vrijdag 23 november 2001 19:17 schreef Beatrice het volgende:

[..]
Maar ik kan het niet vinden, nou heeft mijn CD-uitleen twee CD's van Krang en daar staat het niet op. Stamt het misschien nog uit zijn Fratsen-tijd? Staat het op een Fratsen-CD? Welke?

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Eigenlijk zijn alle drie de versies aan te raden om de simpele reden dat ze allemaal net iets verschillend zijn. De versie van André Manuel is veel meer lo-fi en ingetogen. De versie van Krang is iets uitbundiger. De live is euh, live. Ook is er een iets ander orgelgeluid te horen op die versie.

De solo cd van André Manuel is overigens helemaal fantastisch (één van de beste Nederlandstalige platen ooit vind ik). Als je er niet aan kan komen (redelijk moeilijk verkrijgbaar tegenwoordig geloof ik) kan ik wel een kopie voor je maken. Echt een superplaat.

Op www.krang.nl vind je overigens alle teksten en ook de discografie van André Manuel en Krang.

Rainbow to the stars....

Rainbow to the stars....

Like a rainbow to the stars
Keep the faith right in your heart
If you let your dreams come true
Then happiness will follow you

Life is just a game we play
Happiness is here to stay
If you want to win this race
There's someone who can take your place

Like a rainbow to the stars
Keep the faith right in your heart
If you let your dreams come true
Then happiness will follow you

Rainbow to the stars....

Like a rainbow to the stars
Keep the faith right in your heart
If you let your dreams come true
Then happiness will follow you

Life is just a game we play
Happiness is here to stay
If you want to win this race
There's someone who can take your place

Like a rainbow to the stars
Keep the faith right in your heart
If you let your dreams come true
Then happiness will follow you

Rainbow to the stars (3x)

////////////////////////////////////////////////////
I can't stop raving

Come and take a trip with me, to a land where love is free

Follow me into the light, (where) everything's gonna be allright

Just let go and take my hand, I will show you promised land

Stay with me in paradise, so our future can be nice

i don't need to be a global citizen
because i'm blessed by nationality
i'm a member of a growing populace
we enforce our popularity

there are things that seem to pull us under
and there are things that drag us down
but there's a power and a vital presence
thats lurking all around

we've got the american jesus
see him on the interstate
we've got the american jesus
he helped build the president's estate

i feel sorry for the earth's population
'cuz so few live in the u.s.a.
at least the foreigners can copy our morality
they can visit but they cannot stay

only precious few can garner the prosperity
it makes us walk with renewed confidence
we've got a place to go when we die
and the architect resides right here

we've got the american jesus
overwhelming millions every day

he's the farmers barren fields
the force the army wields
the expression in the faces of the starving children
the power of the man
he's the fuel that drives the clan
he's the motive and the conscience of the murderer
he's the preacher on tv
the false sincerity
the form letter that's written by the big computers
he's the nuclear bombs
the kids with no moms
and i'm fearful that he's inside me

There's no charity in you
and that suprises me
I guess I thought you were
a golden idol
'cause I called you majesty
on the balustrade
you watched me hunt for tips
I was obliged to pick up
from the passing trade

Hey kids, - look at this
it's the fall of the world's
own optimist
I could get back up if you insist
but you'll have to ask politely
'cause the eggshells I've been treading
couldn't spare me a beheading
and I'll know I had it coming
from a Ceasar who was only slumming
Hey kids - look at this
it's the fall of the world's own optimist

Well, I could have objections
which you could override
but what's the point - we're only
flogging the horse when the horseman
has up and died
once I testified and swore
I'd never leave a stone unturned -
I bet you're really glad that I lied

Hey kids - look at this
it's the fall of the world's
own optimist
I could get back up if you insist
but you'll have to ask politely
'cause the eggshells I've been treading
couldn't spare me a beheading
and I'll know I had it coming
from a Ceaser who was only slumming

Hey kids - look at this
it's the fall of the world's
own optimist
I could get back up if you insist
but you'll have to ask politely
yes, you'll have to ask politely
yes, you'll have to ask politely

yes, you'll have to ask

(Aimee Mann)

's Avonds na het eten
ga ik graag een straatje om,
om de soep te laten zakken
en de aardappeltjes met jus.
Maar het regent meestal dat het giet,
daarom ga ik dan maar niet.

Dan loop ik in mijn kamer
wat omhoog tegen de muur.
Als een bromvlieg met vakantie,
als een glimknoop met pensioen.
Het plafond is wel een beetje hoog,
maar ik blijf tenmininste droog.

Spat niet met pap,
spat niet met pap op het behang,
spat niet met pap op het behang,
spat niet met pap op het behang.
Dan glijd ik uit, op zijn gezicht.
Spat niet met pap op het behang.

's Avonds na het eten
ga ik graag een behangetje om,
om de soep te laten zakken
en zijn puddinkje met saus.
En wordt de weg vervelend of een beetje lang,
neem ik een ander soort behang.

Spat niet met pap op het behang...

NOFX - Murder The Government

I wanna see the constitution burn
I wanna watch the white house overturn
I wanna withness some blue blood bleed red
I wanna tie and lynch the KKK
I wanna pull and shoot the NRA yea yea yeahhh
Murder the government, murder the government, murder the government.

dees is wel mooi :

Billy Joel - Piano Man

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"

La la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

Chorus:
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me."
As the smile ran away from his face
"Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place"

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talkin' with Davy who's still in the navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone

Chorus

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, "Man, what are you doin' here?"

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

Chorus