Paroles de "Madame George"  à  "Please Send Me Someone To Love"





Madame George – Van Morrison

Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a child-like vision leaping into view
The clicking clacking of the high-heeled shoes
Ford and Fitzroy; Madame George
Marching with the soldierboy behind
He's much older now with hat on, drinking wine
And the smell of sweet perfume comes drifting thru
In the cool night breeze like Shalimar
And then your self control lets go
And suddenly you're up against the bathroom door
The hallway lights are finely getting dim
You're in the front row touching him
And outside they're making all the stops
The kinds out in the streets collecting bottle tops
Going for cigarettes and matches to the shops
Happy talking, Madame George
And that's when you fall , oh
Oh, that's when you fall

And you fall into a trance
Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms in history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you've found your bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
And in the corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And outside the frosty window raps
She says "Be cool, I think that it's the cops"
Stands up, drops everything she gots
It's not easy now you know
Now you know you gotta go
Catch a train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
In the wind, rain & fog & slush & snow
Keep on going on
Say good-bye we know you're pretty far out
And all the little boys comin' round
They got gold cigarette lighters in their pockets
Walking away from it all, so cool
That's when you fall
 

Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind – Bob Dylan

Perhaps it’s the color of the sun cut flat
An’ cov’rin’ the crossroads I’m standing at
Or maybe it’s the weather or something like that
But mama, you’ve been on my mind

I don’t mean trouble, please don’t put me down or get upset,
I am not pleadin’ or sayin’ “ I can forget ”
I do not walk the floor bowed down an’ bent, but yet
Mama, you’ve been on my mind

Even though my mind is hazy an’ my thoughts they might be narrow
Where you been don’t bother me nor bring me down in sorrow
It don’t even matter to me where you’re wakin’ up tomorrow
But mama, you’re just on my mind

I’m not askin’ you to say words like yes or no
Please understand me, I got no place for you t’go
I’m just breathin’ to myself, pretendin’ not that I don’t know
Mama, you’ve been on my mind

When you wake up in the mornin’ , baby , look inside your mirror
You know I won’t be next to you, you know I won’t be near
I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind
 
 

Mojo Pin

I’m lying in my bed , the blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair , black ribbons of cool
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you’d come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn’t need no mojo pin to keep me satisfied

I don’t wanna weep for you , I don’t want to know
I’m blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire , the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty, I love you so

Precious precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster’s flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm ,screamin’ down the heaven
Ageless, ageless and I’m here in your arms

I don’t want to weep for you , I don’t want to know
I’m blind and tortured , the white horses flow
The memories fire , the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty , I love you so

The welts of your scorn, my love give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well, it’s you I’ve waited my life to see
It’s you I’ve searched so hard for

I don’t want to weep for you ,I don’t want to know
I’m blind and tortured ,the white horses flow
The memories fire , the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty ,  I love you so
 
 

Mood Swing Whiskey

Mood swing whiskey
Drank it all in the trailer
Waiting for the dark to move in
Sitting in my step-sister’s kitchen
Horseflies on window sill
Eyes trained on the lemon peel
And wishing it were a gun

I’m thinking of my wedding ring
Trapped inside the heater
Spring water on the floor of this
Sex starved room

Your nightmare falls around me
In waves of bliss
I tried to stop it with my hand
I was lost in a kiss with you

Mood swing whiskey
Your bliss , the actress
Bliss , the assassin
Bliss , the abyss

Took a shady shot of whiskey
Burns zero to sixty
All I could see was the bill

I was singing to a melody with a drink in my right hand
Eyes sparkling , afraid and amazed

Say pass me up to your junkyard paradise
Pass me up to your junkyard paradise
Baby I need a sweet-ass photo of you

I cheated , and I lied , and you stole her
Stung my tongue jut like
Sweat from her shoulder

Oh , mood swing whiskey
Your love the destroyer
Your love the destroyer
Love , love

Yes mood swing whiskey flood my brain
Only you could reap this change
I need her in my bed again
You you you you

Going down to the subway station
Packing a rod
All our necessary histories erased
I am a punishing god
Mood swing whiskey
Your prodigal son has returned

This all the headless acrobats
Faces crush in the circus dust
All in the name of gravity
And the price of admission

Beautiful loser what hearts have left you now
Beautiful loser what hearts have left you
‘Cause you’re beautiful

I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since I took a drink of them
 
 

Morning Theft

Time takes care of the wound
So I can believe
You had so much to give
You thought I couldn’t see

Gifts for boot heels to crush
Promises deceived
I had to send it away
To bring us back again

Your eyes and body brighten
Silent waters, deep
Your precious daughter in the
Other room, asleep

A kiss “Goodnight” from every
Stranger that I meet
I had to send it away
To bring us back again

Morning theft
Unpretender left
Ungraceful

True self is what
Brought you here, to me
A place where we can
Accept this love

Friendship battered down by
Useless history
Unexamined failure

But what am I still to you
Some thief who stole from you ?
Or, some fool drama queen
Whose chances were few ?

That brings us to who we need
A place where we can save
A heart that beats as
Both siphon and reservoir

You’re a woman, I’m a calf
You’re a window, I’m a knife
We come together
Making chance in the starlight

Meet me tomorrow night
Or any day you want
I have no right to wonder
Just how, or when

You know the meaning fits
There’s no relief in this
I miss my beautiful friend

I have to send it away
To bring her back again
 
 

Murder Suicide Meteor Slave

Would you like to meet the villain somewhere
Underneath the skull of a moon
Fire burned his eyes out 'cause his chains are too long for you

Someone has to pay for the damage done
No-one’s gonna love you now
Your whole family’s splintered
You’re a slave to it all now

Oooooh Ahhhhh Oh

You’re a slave to it all now
You’re a slave
Welcome down to paradise rock
There is no single entrance
With the stars to revolve around
There is no real underground

No stars to revolve around
Here, they’re fashioning the noose
Sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell
You know it’s not long for you
Sick of all the vomit childhood
Not a trampoline of the freaks
Not even a slave to your father

Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now
Oh, you’re a slave to it all, now
Welcome down to paradise rock
There is no single entrance
With the stars to revolve around
There is no real underground

There is not single entrance
There’s no stars to revolve around
There is no real underground
You’re a slave to it all, now

Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy
 
 

New Year's Prayer

Oooooo
Fall in light , fall in light
Fall in light, fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are
As you now are in your heart
Fall in light

Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel it as a water fall
Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light, fall in light
Grow in light

Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice

Leave your office
Run past your funeral
Leave your home, car
Leave your pulpit
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don’t belong, don’t belong
You and the stars
Throwing light

Ooooooh
Fall, fall
Ooooooh
Fall in light, fall in light, fall in light
Oooooh
Fall in light, fall in light fall in light
Grow in light
 

Night Flight - Led Zeppelin

I received a message from my brother across the water
He sat laughin' as he wrote the end's in sight
So I said goodbye to all my friends
And packed my hopes inside a matchbox
'Cause I know it's time to fly

Come on, meet me in the morning, Meet me in the middle of the night
The morning light is comin', don't it make you wanna go and feel alright

I just jumped a train that never stops,
So now somehow I'll know I never finished payin' for my ride
Just n' someone pushed a gun into my hand
Tell me I'm the type of man to fight the fight that I'll require

Come on, meet me in the morning, Meet me in the middle of the night
The morning light is comin', don't it make you wanna go and feel alright

Oh, mama, well I think it's time I'm leavin'
Nothin' here to make me stay
Whoa, mama, well it must be time I'm goin'
They're knockin' down them doors
They're tryin' to take me away

Please Mr. Brakeman, won't you ring your bell. And ring loud and clear
Please Mr. Fireman, won't you ring your bell
Tell the people they got to fly away from here

I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby
Southern lady, had a very, very special smile
We are in the middle of a change in destination
When the train stops, all together we will smile
Oh, meet me in the morning.
Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night, night
Everybody know the mornin' time is comin'
Don't it make you wanna feel alright. Ah, ah, yeah
Make me feel alright. Fly now, baby
Get to fly, yeah. Fly now, baby

Nightmares By The Sea

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons
Little girl wants to make her home with him
In the middle of the shore, she wonders

“Don’t know what you asked for ”
“Don’t know what you asked for ”

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls
With their bones they’ll scratch the window, I hear them call

“Don’t know what you asked for ”
“Don’t know what you asked for ”
“Don’t know what you asked for ”

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

Stay with me under these waves, tonight
Be free for once in your life tonight

Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you’ll go
 
 

Once I was - Tim Buckley

Once I was a soldier
And I fought on foreign sands for you
Once I was a hunter
And I brought home some fresh meet for you
Once I was a lover
And I searched behind yours eyes for you
And soon there’ll be another
To tell you it was just a lie

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you remember me

And though you have forgotten
All of our rubbish dreams
I find myself searching
Through the ashes  of our ruins
For the days when we smiled
And the hours that ran wild
With the magic of our eyes
And the silence of our words

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you remember me
 
 

Opened Once

I once was open
And one with a travelling heart
I loved this sweet guy

Just like the fiction
Rushing in your riverbed
Arise like applause in my head

And in the half-light
Where we both stand
This is the half-light
See me as I am

Just like the ocean
Always in love with the moon
It’s overflowing now
Inside you

We fly right over
The minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings them rain

In the half light
Where we both stand
In the half light
You saw me as I am

I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset
Forgetting
I ever happened
That I ever happened
 
 

Ozark Melody - Cette chanson était au départ destinée à être publiée uniquement sur Internet , mais on peut la retrouver sur certains bootlegs. Il s’agit en fait d’une collaboration avec F. Reed  & J. Tripician et Jeff en a écrit la musique. .

Well the aliens are coming
They’re coming up while I’m strumming
They fill me up with such a sense of pride
When the aliens do take me
I hope that they will let me
Bring my little sister for my bride

The space man with skin of gray
Took my baby child away
Now they say they want a second date
I’m really kind of flattered
Though I know it doesn’t matter
Just think of it as an interstellar rape

The aliens will help me
I know that they can lift me
Lift me out of earth’s velocity
The aliens have shown me
In their space craft as they hold me
Their space-age Ozark moonshine recipe

In the kitchen I’ve gone wild
With spices hot and mild
Yes, I’m the planet’s new age Julia child
I’m cookin’ up a present
A ten-pound frisky pheasent
They’ll stuff it like they stuffed me – with a smile

The aliens are recruising
Over hill and dale they’re lookin’
For kins and cows and even chicken, too
They took my cousin Billy
Now he’s more than silly
I wish they’d take my auntie Mary-Lou

Now the aliens don’t like me
Cause I guess I tried to bite ‘em
It’s just my way of being kind of close
They threw me in a pasture
Now I’m aging faster
Faster than a free-range country roast

Well the aliens are coming
They’re coming while I’m strummin’
They fill me up with such a sense of pride
When the aliens do take me
I hope that they will let me
Bring my little sister for my bride
 
 

Parchman Farm – Mose Allison

I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm

Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
A twelve-gauge shotgun at my back

I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm
 
 

Parlez-Moi D’Amour – Edith Piaf

Parlez-moi d’amour
Redites-moi des choses tendres
Votre beau discours
Mon cœur n’est pas las de l’entendre
Pourvu que toujours
Vous répétiez ces mots suprêmes :
Je vous aime

Vous savez bien
Que dans le fond je n’en crois rien
Mais cependant je veux encore
Ecouter ces mots que j’adore
Votre voix aux sons caressants
Qui les murmure en frémissant
Me berce de sa belle histoire
Et malgré moi je veux y croire

Il est si doux
Mon cher trésor , d’être un peu fou
La vie est parfois trop amère
Si l’on ne crois pas aux chimères
Un chagrin est vite apaisé
Et se console d’un baiser
Du cœur on guérit la blessure
Par un serment qui le rassure
 
 

People’s Parties – Joni Mitchell

All the people at this party
They've got a lot of style
They've got stamps of many countries
They've got passport smiles
Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre
Giving to get something

Photo beauty gets attention
Then her eye paint's running down
She's got a rose in her teeth
And a lampshade crown
One minute she's so happy
Then she's crying on someone's knee
Saying , laughing and crying
You know it's the same release

I told you when I met you
I was crazy
Cry for us all beauty
Cry for Eddie in the corner
Thinking he's nobody
And Jack behind his joker
And stone-cold grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened silence
Thinking I don't understand

I feel like I'm sleeping
Can you wake me
You seem to have a broader sensibility
I'm just living on nerves and feelings
With a weak and a lazy mind
And coming to peoples parties
Fumbling deaf dumb and blind

I wish I had more sense of humour
Keeping the sadness at bay
Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away
 
 

Phantasmagoria In Two - Tim Buckley

If a fiddler played you a song , my love
And if  I gave you a wheel
Would you spin for my heart and loneliness
Would you spin for my love

If I gave up all of my pride for you
And only loved you for now
Would you hide my fears and never say
“Tomorrow I must go”

Everywhere there’s rain my love
Everywhere there’s fear

I can plainly see that our parts have changed
Our sands are shifting around
Need I beg to you for one more day
To find our lonely love

Everywhere there’s rain my love
Everywhere there’s fear
 
 

Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield

Heaven please send to all mankind
Understanding and peace and mind
But if it’s not asking to much
Please send me someone to love
Someone to love

Show the world how to get along
And peace we’ll enter when hate is gone
But if it is not asking too much
Please send me someone to love
Please send me someone to love

And I wake up and ponder the world’s trouble
And my answer is always the same
Now let’s put an end to this damn all of sin
Hate will put the world in flame, what a shame

Just because I am in misery
I don’t beg for no sympathy
But if it is not asking too much
Please send me someone to love
Please send me someone to love

Just because I am in misery
And I don’t beg for no sympathy
But if it is not asking too much
Please send me someone to love
Please send me someone to love

Heaven please send to all mankind
Understanding and peace of mind
But if it is not asking too much
Please send me someone to love
 
 

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