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1. _ Winter
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- (from the "subconscious" cd)
- tori amos (from the album "little earthquakes")
Snow can wait, i forgot my mittens
Wipe my nose, get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart
When i think about winter
I put my hand in my father's glove
I run off where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice
'you must learn to stand up for yourself
Cause i can't always be around.'
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as i do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that i'll always want you near
You say that things change, change my dear
Never change
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2. _ O Holy Night
[studio demo from 1988, with charlie dominici on vocals. ]
[an acoustic version with james labrie on vocals can be found on the ]
["acoustic dreams" cd and another version is found on the fan club ]
[christmas cd 1996). ]
- cappeau de roquemaure (traditional)
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It 'tis the night of our dear savior's birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
'til he appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A prayer of hope the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Oh night divine
Oh night, when christ was born
Truly he taught us to love one another
His law is love and his gospel is peace
Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother
And in his name all oppression shall cease
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise his holy name.
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Oh night divine
Oh night, when christ was born
Oh night divine
Oh night, when christ was born [**a**]
Oh night, when christ was born
When christ was born
[alternate ending - ("acoustic dreams" cd) ]
[beginning at **a** above. ]
Oh night, when christ was born
Oh night divine
Oh night, when christ was born
Christ was born
[alternate ending - (fan club christmas cd 1996)]
[beginning at **a** above. ]
Oh night, when christ was born
Oh night divine
Oh night, when christ was born
When christ was born
Christ was born
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3. _ Mean Street
[the live version is available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]
- david lee roth
(van halen - from the album fair warning)
At night i walk these stinkin' streets
Past the crazies on my block
And i see the same old faces
And i hear that same old talk
And i'm searching for the latest thing
A break in this routine
I'm talkin' some new kicks
Ones like you ain't never seen
This is home
This is mean street
It's our home
The only one i know
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4. _ Easter
[with steve hogarth on vocals and steve rothery on guitar, ]
[both from marillion. ]
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- steve hogarth and john helmer
(marillion - from the album "season's end")
A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of the first light came
A tattered necklace of hedge and trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where mary dunoon's boy fell
Easter here again
A time for the blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
Out of the port of liverpool
Bound for the north of ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below
And easter here again
A time for the blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
What will you do?
Make a stone of your heart?
Will you set things right
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night
With the plough and the stars alight?
What will you do?
With the wire and the gun?
That'll set things right
When it's said and done?
Will you sleep at night?
Is there so much love to hide?
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5. _ Tears
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
[an acoustic version can be found on the "acoustic dreams" cd.]
- geddy lee (rush - from the album "2112")
All of the seasons
And all of the days
All of the reasons
Why i've felt this way
So long, so long
Then lost in that feeling
I looked in your eyes
I noticed emotion
And that you had cried
For me
I can see
[chorus:]
What would touch me deeper
Tears that fall from eyes
That only cry?
Would it touch you deeper
Than tears that fall from eyes
That know why?
A lifetime of questions
Tears on your cheek
I tasted the answers
And my body was weak
For you
The truth
[chorus]
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6. _ Bad
[a live version is also available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.] ]
- bono (u2 - from the album "the unforgettable fire")
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If i could, you know i would
If i could, i would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If i could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
I'd leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If i could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what i would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If i could, you know i would
If i could, i would
Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
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7. _ Hey You
[the live version is available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]
- roger waters
(pink floyd - from the album the wall)
Hey you,
Out there in the cold,
Getting lonely, getting old,
Can you feel me?
Hey you,
Standing in the aisles,
With itchy feet and fading smile,
Can you feel me?
Hey you,
Don't help them to bury the light.
Don't give in without a fight.
Hey you,
Out there on your own,
Sitting naked by the phone,
Would you touch me?
Hey you,
With your ear against the wall,
Waiting for someone to call out,
Would you touch me?
Hey you,
Would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, i'm coming home.
But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high, as you can see.
No matter how he tried he could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you,
Out there on the road,
Always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you,
Out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you,
Don't tell me there's no hope at all.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
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8. _ Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight
[studio demo from 1988, with charlie dominici on vocals.]
- john lennon and paul mccartney
(the beatles - from the album abbey road)
[golden slumbers]
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And i will sing a lullaby
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And i will sing a lullaby
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And i will sing a lullaby
[carry that weight]
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitation
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Yeah, all right!
Are you gonna be in my dreams, tonight?
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you lend
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9. _ Wanted Dead Or Alive
[recorded instrumentally by john petrucci for a student, before ]
[images and words was released. chris collins, one of dream ]
[theater's earliest vocalists got a hold of the tape and decided ]
[to add some vocals of his own to the background music. ]
[lines in {} are the "extra" lyrics. ]
- jon bon jovi and richie sambora
(bon jovi - from the album "slippery when wet")
It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasted away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I drive all night
Just to {...a wise ass} get back home
I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse i ride {i ride}
{uh, wanted} i'm wanted {yah! dead or alive} dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive {yah! this song sucks}
{...man this has got to be boring}
Sometimes i sleep {uh oh, here we go again},
Sometimes it's not {man, give it a rest} for days
And people {you suck} i meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes i tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you're alone {i told ya you suck} all you do is think
Cause i'm a cowboy {no you're a dick},
On a steel horse i ride {bah}
I'm wanted {yah!} dead or alive
Wanted {wanted} dead or alive
{...uh check out that, check out that that...}
{check out this... }
Cause i'm a cowboy,
On a steel horse i ride {yeah ride this you faggot}
I'm wanted dead or alive
{yeah, gimme a gun i'll fuckin shoot you}
Well i walk the streets {what are you a prostitute?},
A loaded six string on my back
{yeah i bet you got something else on your back}
I play for keeps {yah!},
'cause i might not make it back {make it back}
I been everywhere {everywhere},
Still i'm standing tall {standing tall, yeah yeah}
I've seen a million faces
And i've rocked them all
{yeah i'll fuckin rock you, you dick}
I'm a cowboy {...a cowboy}, on a steel horse i ride
{...i'll steel horse your lucky faggot}
I'm wanted {wanted} dead or alive {dead or alive}
Cause i'm a cowboy {cowboy},
I got the night on my side {night on my side}
I'm wanted {wanted} dead or alive, and all right {yeah!}
Dead or alive
Still i try {don't try me man}
Dead or alive {alive}
Dead or alive
{john man give me a gun} dead or alive
Dead or alive, yeah {yeah}
{oh man it's over already, we'll miss you. we'd like to }
{personally thank bon jovi and richie sambora for their }
{uh, effort in this project, and personally i've got a }
{contract out on them for 5,000 dollars, so um i gotta go.}
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10. _ Damage, Inc.
[with barney greenway from napalm death on vocals. ]
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- james hetfield (metallica - from the album "master of puppets")
Dealing out the agony within
Charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
Or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
Bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
Go against the grain until the end
[chorus:]
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage incorporated
Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
Stepping out? you'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
Life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall
[chorus]
We chew and spit you out
We laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from
Damage incorporated
Go
Damage jackals ripping right through you
Sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
Tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
All's fair for damage inc. you see
Step a little closer if you please
[chorus]
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11. _ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
[the live version is available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]
- bernie taupin
(elton john - from the album goodbye yellow brick road)
When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh i've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh i've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
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12. _ Gates Of Babylon
[recorded live at the l'amour, ny, 9/25/1986 with chris collins on vocals.]
[available on the "no sleep since brooklyn/instrumental iii" cd. ]
[these are the lyrics from the rainbow version, it is hard to understand ]
[much of what chris collins is actually singing. ]
- ronnie james dio (rainbow - from the album "long live rock 'n' roll")
Look away from the sea
I can take you anywhere
Spend a vision with me
A chase with the wind
Move closer to me
I can make you anyone
I think you're ready to see
The gates of babylon
The power of what has been before
Rises to trap you within
A magic carpet ride a genie maybe more
A city of heavenly sin
Sleep with the devil and then you must pay
Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away
Oh gates of babylon
You can see but you're blind
Someone turned the sun around
But you can see in your mind
The gates of babylon
You're riding the endless caravan
Bonded and sold as a slave
A sabre dance removing all the veils
Getting as good as you gave
Sleep with the devil and then you must pay
Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away
Look away from the sea
I can take you anywhere
Spend a vision with me
A chase with the wind
Move closer to me
I can make you anyone
I think you're ready to see
The gates of babylon
The power of what has been before
Rises to trap you within
A magic carpet ride a genie maybe more
A city of heavenly sin
Sleep with the devil and then you must pay
Sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away
Black gates of babylon
The devil is me
And i'm holding the key
To the gates of sweet hell
Babylon
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13. _ In The Dead Of Night
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- john wetton and eddie jobson (uk - from the album "uk")
Are you one of mine who can sleep with one eye open wide?
Agonizing psychotic solitary hours to decide
Reaching for the light at the slightest noise from the floor
Palms of hands perspire,
Heart goes leaping at a knock from the door.
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
Rich and powerful ascend complicated bends to be free
To indulge in what they will and jaded thrill or fantasy
Shuttered windows that belie all stifled cries from within
And prying eyes are blind to proceedings of the kind that begin
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
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14. _ Different Strings / Analog Kid / La Villa Strangiato
[all of different strings with an instrumental "outro" consisting of a ]
[snippet of analog kid (from the album "signals") followed by part of ]
[la villa strangiato (from the album "hemispheres"). ]
- neil peart (rush - from the album "permanent waves")
Who's come to slay the dragon,
Come to watch him fall?
Making arrows out of pointed words,
Giant killers at the call?
Too much contradiction,
Too much contradiction and confusion.
Peel away the mystery,
Here's a clue to some real motivation.
All there really is,
The two of us,
And we both know why we've come along.
Nothing to explain,
It's a part of us
To be found within a song.
What happened to our innocence,
Did it go out of style?
Along with our naivete',
No longer a child.
Different eyes see different things,
Different hearts beat on different strings.
But there are times
For you and me, when all such things agree.
All there really is,
The two of us,
And we both know why we've come along.
Nothing to explain,
It's a part of us
To be found within a song.
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15. _ Since I've Been Loving You
- jimmy page / robert plant (led zepplin - from the album "led zepplin iv")
Oh!
Working from seven
To eleven every night
It really makes life a drag,
I don't think that's right.
I've really been the best, the best of fools.
I did what i could yeah
Because i love you baby, how i love you darling,
How i love you baby, my i love you girl, little girl.
Ah baby since i've been loving you yeah,
I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh yeah.
Everybody tried to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying.
Lord! let me tell ya, let me tell ya i really did the best i could.
I've been, i've been working from seven
To eleven every night,
I said it kind of makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag.
Lord yeah that ain't right now, now.
Since i've been loving you,
I'm about to lose, about to lose my worried mind.
Watch out!
I said i've been crying.
Woah my tears they fell like rain.
Don't you hear them, you can hear them falling?
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Woah yeah!
Do you remember mama, when i knocked upon your door?
I'm about to lose, i'm about to lose, lose my worried mind.
Do you remember woah yeah yeah,
I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind.
Woah!
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16. _ Happiness Is A Warm Gun
[with steve hogarth from marillion on co-lead vocals. ]
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- john lennon and paul mccartney
(the beatles - from the album "white album")
She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do do do
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane.
The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the national trust.
I need a fix 'cause i'm going down
Down to the bits that i left uptown
I need a fix cause i'm going down
Mother superior jump the gun
Mother superior jump the gun
Mother superior jump the gun
Mother superior jump the gun
Mother superior jump the gun
Mother superior jump the gun
Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun
When i hold you in my arms
And i feel my finger on your trigger
I know nobody can do me no harm
Because happiness is a warm gun. yes it is.
Because happiness is a warm gun. yes it is.
Because happiness is a warm gun. yes it is.
Oh, don't you know that
Happiness is a warm gun.
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17. _ Red Hill Mining Town
- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95)
- bono (u2 - from the album "the joshua tree")
From father to son
The blood runs thin
I see faces frozen still against the wind
The seam is split
The coal face cracked
The lines are long
There's no going back
Through hands of steel
And heart of stone
Our labor day has come and gone
Yeah, you leave me holding on
In red hill town
See lights go down
Hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
Glass is cut
Bottle runs dry
Our love runs cold
In the caverns of the night
We're wounded by fear
Injured in doubt
I can lose myself
But i can't live without
Yeah, you keep me holding on
In red hill town
See the lights go down
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
Hanging on
All that's left to hold on to
We scorch the earth
Set fire to the sky
We stoop so low to reach so high
A link is lost
The chain undone
We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes
Like a hunted child
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
Love slowly stripped away
Love has seen a better day
Hanging on
Lights go out on red hill
Lights go down on red hill
Lights go down on red hill town
Lights go down on red hill
Lights go down on red hill town
Lights go down on red hill
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