Thread: What are you listening to right now

^ Best crack smoking fools that ever picked up an instrument.

this was the 90's

^ Best crack smoking fools that ever picked up an instrument.

The kind of song you want to hear when you wake up on a hot summers day. Best song of 2005.

The simplicity of the song says so much. Great interpretation by Eric Clapton

The song meaning is very obvious, but it's a catchy pop beat that I don't mind being stuck in my head. Too bad she was a one hit wonder.

This song is about the isolation, shame, abuse and loneliness that goes along with being gay in a rural, backwoods community...
Very touching and sad, and also a very good dance tune.

I always knew that you would take yourself far from home
as soon as, as far as you could go.
By the quarter inch cut of your hair and the Army issue green,
for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been.
For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me
there was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins.
There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me
you won't meet it with your gun.

So now you are one of the brave few, it's awful sad we need boys like you.
I hope the day never comes for
"Here's your live round son. Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun."
Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me
there was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins.
There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me
you won't meet it with your gun taking aim.
For I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you
and I don't mean to spoil your home coming,
but baby brother you should expect me to.

"Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun."

So now does your heart pitter pat with a patriotic song
when you see the stripes of Old Glory waving?
Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me
there was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins.
There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me
you won't meet it with your gun taking aim.
I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you
and I don't mean to spoil your homecoming my baby brother Jude
and I don't mean to hurt you by saying this again,
they're so good at making soldiers but they're not so good at making men.




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Looking at your watch a third time
Waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that's far, so far away
And if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello
They don't talk to anybody they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory
That's full time filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long

Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down
And that's not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long

Natalie Merchant ^ ^, what a belter, saw her live with the Maniacs and solo.
Great voice and great posure/beauty, a rarity today amongst female singers.

^ Her solo album ' Opheilia' is outstanding.
Cant post it up, dont know how too but is a lovely album