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The official title:
My first mix in a decade
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How I learned to stop worrying and use 13 songs to try to express how I feel
Track list:
01. Beautiful Night - Burden Brothers
02. Love of My Life - Cowboy Mouth
03. Golden Touch - Razorlight
04. Better Off Alone - Black Angels
05. Drone - Clockhammer
06. When I Burn This Place Down - Firewater
07. Go It Alone - Beck
08. The Guitar Man - CAKE
09. The Wooden Song - Butthole Surfers
10. Mary Won’t You Call My Name? - Morphine
11. B. B. Photo Instrumental - The Billy Nayer Show
12. Evangeline - Matthew Sweet
13. I Burn - The Toadies
And to save you the trouble I’ve put all the lyrics below.
Burden Brothers
[album: Buried In Your Black Heart]
It’s a beautiful night for feeling lonely
A beautiful night for being afraid
So raise your hands, you one-and-onlys
You one-of-a-kinds who feel this way
I don’t want to talk, don’t want to explain it
I don’t want to fuck and I don’t want to fight
It’s only a feeling, it’s fleet and fading
It’s all over the world, and it’s only tonight
Cause it’s a beautiful night, beautiful night, yeah
Beautiful night, beautiful night to be here
It’s a perfect time for being wasted
A perfect time to watch the stars
So throw back your head
Come on, embrace it
It’s a beautiful night, wherever you are
It’s a beautiful night
Beautiful night, yeah
Beautiful night
Beautiful night to be here
All good things will come to you
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight it’s the truth
I don’t know
All good things to those who dream
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight we’ll find peace
God I hope so
So raise your hands, raise your hands…
All good friends, they stood by you
And one at a time, one at a time they fell down
They fall down
All your fears are coming true and
This is the time, this is the time of your life
That defines you
So raise your hands, raise your hands…
Under the stars I’m alone among strangers
Confused, connected, diffused and alive
Maybe the future will smile on us
Maybe the future is here tonight
Cause it’s a beautiful night, beautiful night, yeah
Beautiful night, beautiful night to be here
Cowboy Mouth
[album: Are You With Me?]
The love of my life is a shady lady, tearing me up just to bring me down
She used to be calm, but now she’s crazy
I don’t mind
Tearing me down like a jungle monkey, cutting me up like a jungle cat
She used to be fine, but now she’s funky
I don’t mind
She’s not the love of my life anymore
The love of my life takes my lunch to breakfast, nary a thought that a man might starve
She used to smoke dope, but now she’s X-ing
I don’t mind
Tearing me down with a full length mirror, praying for death while her beauty fades
She’ll go anywhere any man will lead her
I don’t mind
She’s not the love of my life anymore
I hurt - you walk
There ain’t no looking for an answer when the question’s come and gone
I’ll stay - you’ll go
There ain’t no hoping for tomorrow, so I’ll pack up all my sorrow and find some hope that I can borrow
I’m just tryin’ to save my sanity and soul
Razorlight
[album: Up All Night]
I know a girl with the golden touch
She’s got enough, she’s got too much
But I know, you wouldn’t mind
You could have it all if you wanted
You could have it all if it mattered so much
But then all they know is how to put you down
When you’re there, they’re your friend
But then when you’re not around
They say, “Oh, she’s changed”
We know what they mean
Well they mean, they’re just jealous
Because they never do the things
That they wish that they could do so well
That kind of girl, yes she’s never alone
You leave a thousand messages on her phone
But you know you never get through
And you could have it all if you wanted, girl
You could have it all if it matters to you
[chorus]
I saw my girl with the golden touch
Give me a taste but not too much
I never listen to the words of fools
Well, well, hey, you
You won’t get it that way
But don’t ask for too much
You’re gonna need your golden touch
[chorus]
The Black Angels
[album: Passover]
I feel so alone
Dry me out for the evening
Living in a lie
Your figure is alarming
Take me to that fire
I’m better off alone
Living with a lady
One who helps me to decide
Take me to that room, girl
Get me through this night
I’m better off with one
Punish yourself for the weekend
Sneak into that bar
Open up that box lid
All that whiskey’s gone
I’m better off alone
Clockhammer
[album: Klinefelter]
With the residue of a gasping past
I cough the day into shape
With weighted lungs I am lifted thus
Torn from the chill dreams I make
But above the quiet drone of passing cars
I press toward your waiting curves
The years will fall away as coins from my eyes
And you’ll clothe my atmosphere in light
Firewater
[album: Get Off The Cross…]
After 29 years
On the stroke of 13
I woke up from my life
Like it was all just a bad dream
My get up and go
Had just got up and split
After you ground me under your heel
Like a spent cigarette
When your memory’s crashed
When you’re out on the tiles
Just remember that
Everyone loves a good kid
Who can lose with a smile
When they break both your legs
Don’t come running to me
And baby if you were drowning
I’d throw you a funeral wreath
When I burn this place down
I’ll make sure you’re around
Girl, I want you to see
The big smile on my face
As I hitch a ride out of town
Well, I ain’t gonna come to your party
But baby, I’m sure gonna dance on your grave
It’s the least I can do
For the time that I spent as your slave
Beck
[album: Guero]
I’m comin over
See me down at the station
By the lane
With my hands in my pockets
Jingling a wish coin
That I stole from a fountain
That was drowning all the cares in the world
When I get older
Climbin up on the back porch fence
Just to see the dogs runnin
With a ring and a question
And my shiverin voice is singing
Thru a crack in the window
I better go it alone
Down on the corner
See me standin
On a makeshift road
With the dust storm blowin
In a long black shadow
Pull a hammer from a coal mine
Down where your daddy was workin
Comb my hair back
Strike a match on a bathroom wall
Where my number was written
Drivin on the sidewalk
Lookin back and the sky is burning
In my rearview mirror
I better go it alone
CAKE
[album: Pressure Chief]
Who draws the crowd? Who plays so loud?
Baby it’s the guitar man
Who’s gonna steal the show?
You know baby it’s the guitar man
He can make you love, he can make you cry
He will bring you down, he will get you high
Something keeps him going
Miles and miles away
To find another place to play
And night after night who treats you right?
Baby it’s the guitar man
Who’s on the radio?
You know baby it’s the guitar man
When he comes to town and you see his face
And you think you might like to take his place
Something keeps him drifting miles and miles away
Searching for the songs to play
Then you listen to the music and you’d like to sing along
And you want to get the meaning out of each and every song
And you find yourself a message and some words to call your own and take ‘em home
He can make you love, he can get you high
He will bring you down, he will make you cry
Something keeps him moving
But no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go
Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he’s just got to find another place to play
Butthole Surfers
[album: Independent Worm Saloon]
Take me, break me
Tell me a good one and maybe I’ll cry
Go with me, show me
Tell me a good one and maybe I’ll die
Lately I’ve been dancing in ceiling fans
Into the kitchen and out the back gate
Well I know it sounds strange but it could be the other way
Round to the ground where I know I must stay
Take me, break me
Tell me a good one and maybe I’ll cry
Go with me, show me
Tell me a good one and maybe I’ll die
Lately I’ve been dancing in ceiling fans
Circled in secrets, playing a game
Well I know it sounds strange but it could be the other way
Round to a town where they don’t know your name
Together….for a while….ain’t no good
Morphine
[album: Cure For Pain]
Cross my fingers and I hope to God
I knock on wood and pray with all I’ve got
Cross my bow with a cannonball
I see the writing on the wall
There’s no map and there’s no clue
Of where to go and what to do
Yeah who to dog who to ride and who to hold
Forever by your side
Mary won’t you call my name?
I fell into the hands of a rich man’s daughter
She led me like a lamb no bother
To go and live inside a barn on her Daddy’s 90 acre farm
Hide your daughters in the snow and watch out for the undertow
Hold both hands against the door and dig your feet into the floor
Tell ya there’s no map and there’s no clue
Of where to go and what to do
Who to dog and who to ride and who to hold
Forever by your side
Mary won’t you call my name?
The Billy Nayer Show
[album: The American Astronaut]
Matthew Sweet
[album: Girlfriend]
She’s on another planet, she’s in my dream
She’s some kind of angel if you know what I mean
Try her on, she fits like a glove
Too bad she only thinks about the Lord above
Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline
I want you
Now if I called you up do you think you could deliver my soul?
Won’t you take a drink little darlin’, the cup is full
And every night I bow to pray
But I’ll feel a whole lot better once you’re coming my way
Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline
I want you
So tell me how you want it
Come on, tell me how you want it
Just tell me how you want it, we won’t be seen
You can tell your father it was all a dream
Try her on she fits like a glove
Too bad the only man you trust is God above
Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline
I want you
She’s some kind of angel if you know what I mean
Evangeline
Toadies
[album: Rubberneck]
Drifting upward, gently lifting
Lazy on the wind
Rolling over, turning slowly
Beginning and the end
Fire is bright, fire is clean
Never so alive
Smoke is freedom, flame is mercy
I am free tonight
And I burn
I burn
Stoke the embers, cleanse the spirit
A prayer in every spark
Feel the lick of bad religion
The finish and the start
In the beginning, we were smarter
The flame was heaven-sent
Through the ages we got stupid
Now we must repent
And I burn
I burn
Sift the ashes for reminders
Stony things remain
Tooth and bone unimpressive
I have left these things
Because fire is bright, fire is clean
efficient and divine
Tooth and bone, charms and dolls
I am free tonight
I BURN
THE AIR
YOU BREATHE
I burn
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