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[ cat stevens ]


[ banned from later u.s. copies of in my tribe due to cat stevens' agreement to the fatwah issued against salman rushdie ]

Now i've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And i believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh i've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And i believe it could be, some day it's going to come

Cos out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Now i've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And i believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump on the peace train oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on now peace train

Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cos it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you

Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer, soon it will all be true

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on now peace train, peace train

Now i've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

Cos out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on now the peace train
Yes peace train holy roller
Everyone jump on the peace train oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on, come on, come on
Yes come on peace train
Yes it's the peace train
Oh ah ee ah oh ah
Come on now peace train
Oh peace train

By the time you say goodbye
By the time you say cheerio
We'll take a handshake through
On your journey as you go
Keep a pray'r within your heart
That the time will surely fly
To the day when we shall meet again
By the time you say goodbye

Hmmm.....

Yes listeners, we have been coming to you
Live on a crystal ballroom high above the hotel jamestown
In picturesque western new york
As your program draws to a close
It gives me profound pleasure to say cheerio
To the strains of miss natalie merchant and her choir
And so now it only remains for me to say... goodnight

By the time you say goodbye
By the time you say cheerio
We'll take a handshake through
On your journey as you go
Keep a pray'r within your heart
That the time will surely fly
To the day when we shall meet again
By the time you say goodbye

[ david bowie ]



Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll lotta soul, he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no d.j. that was hazy cosmic jive

Chorus
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He told us not to blow it
'cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

I had to phone someone so i picked on you
Hey, that's far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the tv we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window i can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright

Chorus (2*)

I will twine with your mingles of raven black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
With myrtle as bright as the emerald dew
The pale and the lyd-er and eyes of light blue

Oh he promised to love me; he promised to love
And to cherish me always all others above.
I woke from my dream and my idol was clay
My passion for loving had vanished away.

Oh he taught me to love him; he called me his flower
A blossom to cheer him through life's weary hour
But now he is gone and left me alone
The wild flowers to weep and the wild birds to mourn.

I will dance and i'll sing and my life shall be gay
I will charm every heart and each crown i shall sway
Though my heart now is breaking he never shall know
How his name makes me tremble, my pale cheeks to glow.

I will dance and i'll sing and my heart will be gay
I'll banish this weeping, drive troubles away.
I'll live yet to see him regret this dark hour
When we won and neglected this frail wildwood flower.

[ jackson browne ]



I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
These days, these days i seem to think a lot
About the things that i forgot to do for you
And all the times i had the chance to

I had a lover
Well i don't think i'll risk another these days
These days if i seem to be afraid to live the life
That i had made in song
Well it's just, it's just that i've been losing so long

Looong...well....

I stop my dreaming
I won't do too much scheming these days
These days, these days i sit on cornerstones
And count the time quarter to's 'til ten, my friend
Please don't confront me with my failures
I have not forgotten them

[ alternative version of planned obsolescence ]

Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness
Love, breaks apart is amyth of human kindness
Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness

Panic in the worried night with the tempting, rises
Panic in the worried night with the tempting, rises
Panic in the worried night the tempting rises

No doubt that she'd desire blind faith in all surmises
No doubt that she'd desire blind faith in all surmises
No doubt that she'd deny blind faith in half-surmises

Because

Any modern man can see that
Any modern man can see that

Piety obsolete
Faith obsolete
Mysticism obsolete
Prophetic vision obsolete

Any modern man can see that
Any modern mad can see that
Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness
Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness
Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness

Panic in the worried night with the tempting, rises
Panic in the worried night with the tempting, rises
Panic in the worried night the tempting rises

No doubt that she'd desire blind faith in all surmises
No doubt that she'd desire blind faith in all surmises
No doubt that she'd deny blind faith in half-surmises

Because

Any modern man can see that
Any modern man can see that

Piety obsolete
Faith obsolete
Mysticism obsolete
Prophetic vision obsolete

Any modern man can see that
Any modern mad can see that

[ original version by lulu ]

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind i know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to
Perfume?
It isn't easy but i'll try

If you wanted the sky i would write across the sky
In letters that would soar a thousand feet high
To sir, with love

Those awkward years have hurried by - why do they fly away?
Why is it, sir, that children grow up to be people one day?
What takes the place of climbing trees and dirty knees in the world
Outside?
What is there for you i can buy?

If you wanted the world i'd surround it with a wall
I'd scrawl in words with letters ten feet tall
To sir, with love

The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end
And as i leave, i know that i am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong and weak from strong
That's a lot to learn - what can i give you in return?

If you wanted the moon i would try to make a start
But i would rather you let me give my heart
To sir, with love

[ original version by r.e.m. ]

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

[ billy bragg and natalie merchant ]



In a busy street
A man sits down
Oblivious to the traffic sounds
No chaos
No frenzied shrieking crowd
Thank god their silence
Walking heads bent down
Come when they saw us
Called it lethargy
The treadmill turns
There down below their feet

Should i pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or cross the waves of an angry sea
Risking (risking)
And braving (braving)
The shipwreck and the mutiny assailing
Assailing

In a haunted doorway
And from the light of day
See another life fall to ruin in pain
False smiles from even children it seems
Landlocked ground for empty and lost dreams
A league against me
I hear him say
It's not worth half the effort
Or the price you pay

Should i pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or should i raise my face to the heavens above
And tell god (dear god)
Stop jeering (and jeering)
As our human frailties and all
Our failings
Are we failing?

Pound pound on an endless street
Again and again the nightmare scene
All strained against the tightened rope
Not one with a lasting lingering hope
There's evidence everywhere you see
Put a quarter down at the newsstand
So that you can read

Should i pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or should i raise my face to the clouds above
Entreating (entreating)
Their mercy (some mercy)
But as clouds will do
They'll rain down
First gently (gently) and sweetly (so sweetly)
Until they silence me
With a burst of thunder (thunder) and lightning (and lightning)
And helpless landlocked screaming
I know god must be agreeing
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part
Landlocked in screaming
God must be agreeing
To be helpless is the worst
Must be the worst part of watching
The worst part of watching

[ tom waits ]



Well i hope that i don't fall in love with you
'cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now i hear you calling out for me
And i hope that i don't fall in love with you.

Well the room is crowded, people everywhere
And i wonder, should i offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away, i think that we could make it,
And i hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom-cat feelings you don't understand,
Well i turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette,
I wish i had the guts to bum one, but we've never met,
And i hope that i don't fall in love with you.

I can see that you are lonesome just like me, and it being late,
You'd like some some company,
Well i turn around and look at you, and you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split, the chair next to you's free,

And i hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Now it's closing time and the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, i'll have another stout.
Well i turn around to look for you, you're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face, guess i'll have another round

And i think that i just fell in love with you.

[ john prine ]



Had an apartment in the city
Me and loretta liked living there
It's been years since the kids have grown
With lives of there own
All left us alone
John and linda live in omaha
Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost davey in the korean war
I still don't know what for
Guess it doesn't matter anymore

Chorus:
Old trees grow stronger
And old rivers wider everyday
But old people, they just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say hello in there
Say hello

Me and loretta we don't talk much now
She just sits staring at the back door screen
While all the news it just repeats itself
Like some old forgotten dream
That we've both seen
Someday i'll go and call up billy
We worked together in the factory
But what do i tell him if he asks what's new?
Say "nothin what's with you"
Cause ther's not much left to do

Chorus

So if you walking down the street one day
And you spot some hollow ancient eyes
Don't turn around as if you didn't care
Or worse yet stop and stare
Just say hello in there
Say hello