"LIVE AS IF SOMEBODY IS 

ALWAYS WATCHING YOU"

SMOG (BILL CALLAHAN) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInLJuMF18w 

Live as if someone is always watching you
In all you do
Live as if someone
Is always watching you

Eventually you will find
That both of you will need to come to some compromise
Maybe one or the other could agree
To sleep at different times
Or go off alone
Or at least shut their eye

Shut your eye off once in a while
Shut your eye off once in a while

So at least one of us
Can with some conviction say:

I am not of this glutty room
Or of this flubby body

 
 

 "REVANCHISM"

SMOG (BILL CALLAHAN) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kICvO_sN2U

 

Sister, oh sister
I know you hate to hear me sing

Sister, oh sister
I know it makes your skin crawl
To see my father mouth
Do anything at all

Sister, oh sister
You used to dance as a child
Sister, oh sister
I never sang back then
Until the night you stopped dancing

Sister, oh sister
I picked up what you dropped
Picked it up and ran

Sister, oh sister
Now we have children of our own
Sister, oh sister
The boy is so silent
There'll be no singing
Around the home

Sister, oh sister
Is the daughter a dancer
I will not ask her

 "LAZY RAIN"

SMOG (BILL CALLAHAN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSa9agJym7w

 

It's snaining outside
Or is it just lazy rain
It's six AM and I'm walking home
While the city twitches
In a sleep of dog dreams

Me and a friend of mine
We just cheated death
Now I'm walking home
For death's rain check

I open the door quietly
So as not to wake
The blue-eyed wedding cake
But she's watching me with one eye
The sleepy little spy

She helps me off with my shirt
Because my arm was hurt
In a recent fall
I slide into the bed
Then my leg I thread
Between hers
I put my good arm on her belly
Her hips
Her knees
She is made of several babies

I keep my scratchy cast to myself
As I feel our bodies melt
Into two drops of lazy rain
Snaking down the window pane

And when the two drops merge
Then there is the surge
Of one larger drop
We move faster towards the sill

 "CHOSEN ONE"

SMOG (BILL CALLAHAN) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8NoPXB2QU

Oh, you're a wild horse
On a collision course
With the sun
Oh, you're a wild horse
On a collision course
With the sun
I wanted to ride that wild horse
Into the sun
I wanted to ride that wild horse
Into the sun
But I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
On no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh, well
Oh, well

Maybe it's best for you to ride
Ride into the sun
Maybe it's best for you to ride
Ride into the sun
Because I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh, well
Oh, well
Oh, well
Oh, well

 

 "I BREAK HORSES"

SMOG (BILL CALLAHAN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rsVCy8tLdk

 

Well, I rode out to the ocean
And the water looked like tarnished gold
I rode out on a broken horse
Who told me she'd never felt so old
She asked me if I'd feed her
And ride her now and then

No no no, no no no, no no no
I break horses
I don't tend to them
I break horses
They seem to come to me
Asking to be broken
They seem to run to me
I break horses
Doesn't take me long
Just a few well-placed words
And their wandering hearts are gone
At first her warmth felt good between my legs
Living breathing heart-beating flesh
But soon that warmth turned to an itch
Turned to a scratch
Turned to a gash
I break, I break horses
I don't tend to them

Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island
And I don't want to see you swimming behind
Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island
And I don't want to see you swimming behind

No, I break horses
I don't tend to them

 "TOP OF THE POPS"

THE REZILLOS

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZ_plpJGCM

 

Hold tight, now we're on our own
Cue light, now it's ready to roll
Tonight, how I've waited for aggravated for years
It's fun, oh I just can't wait
Hold on, do I look up to date
Your on, I'll do anything if that's the right thing to see

Does it matter what is shown
Just as long as everyone knows
What is selling what to buy
The stock market for your hi fi

Take the money, leave the box
Everybody's on top of the pops

There's one, born every day
Sing song, then fade away
Ding dong, what's the future in the pop music industry
Alright, so you make the grade
Hold tight, to the buck you made
Just wait, you been rated for constipated peak viewing time

Does it matter what is shown
Just as long as everyone knows
What's in fashion what is seen
On the front of a television screen

Take the money, leave the box
Everybody's on top of the pops

Hold tight, now we're on our own
Cue light, now it's ready to roll
Tonight, how I've waited for aggravated for years
It's fun, oh I just can't wait
Hold on, do I look up to date
Your on, I'll do anything if that's the right thing to see

Does it matter what is shown
Just as long as everyone knows
What is selling what to buy
The stock market for your hi fi

Take the money, leave the box
Everybody's on top of the pops
Pay the money, watch the box
Everybody's on top of the pops
Everybody's on top of the pops

 "FLASHES"

ILL WIND 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXWAV-WeYw

"JUST TO CRY"

MILLER ANDERSON 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fU6NCJDwlo&list=OLAK5uy_kMSxqy5zROaHERKZooRnFxZEwe3CpZUH8&t=4s
 

 "TIN CANS AND ALLEYWAYS"

DON COOPER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6YGUuTxNw

Tin cans and alleyways
See the days I walk through
Old men along the street
Empty walls and yellow sheets
are the only things that I talk to

Where will I go
What will I do
Who will I know
Does it really make a difference anyway
I guess I'll search around
Until I find a quiet town
A little town where maybe
I can put me down to stay
All I want to do is be where
some warm body knows my name

Well I don't have loving
And I don't need money
I never looked for too much from living
Gone lots of places
Seen lots of faces
And accepted what kindly
been given me, honey

 "HAWKWIND"

HAWKWIND 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No6pG7xg6UU

 "HARVEST"

THE SOUND FARM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwDhp9Qa_ZI

 "DARK IS THE BARK"

THE LEFT BANKE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VuE2bZ_QPM

Surrounded in gold and priceless paintings
She loves
She lies in glistenings of
Reddish and blue
Darkness was all she could see
Lovely was all she could be
No one had bothered to be
Something she wanted to see
Darkness red (dark is the bark of the tree)
Living gray (dark is the bark of the tree)
Surrounded with boxes of people that once saw the day
I speak and my words begin to believe what I say
Darkness was all I could see
Lonely was all I could be
Loving was something to me
Somewhere for someone to see
It was shade (is the bark of the tree)
She's so mean (dark is the bark of the tree)
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la

 "EVENING GOWN"

THE LEFT BANKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4ILnKIaY0

The butler opened the parlor door
I took my coat and approached the floor
A door opened at the top of the stairs
A sexy lady she was a-standing there
I stumbled and turned around to see
Her evening gown
Said yeah, alright!

She said forward your love was there
The light was on the jewels in her hair
The only sign gettin' down on my chest
I start to mumble on the way to address
I made the way up and down upon
Her evening gown
Said yeah, alright!

Oh
Mmm-hmm, alright

The door was on the touch of her feet
Her eyes were wide and her hands petite
I knew I didn't stand a breath of a chance
With all her will she gave me a glance
She won't throw me out, I turned around to meet
Her evening gown
Said yeah, wowwwwwww!

The butler opened the parlor door
I took my coat and approached the floor
A door opened at the top of the stairs
A sexy lady she was a-standing there
I stumbled in and turned around to see
Her evening gown

"IVY IVY"

THE LEFT BANKE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-49gqws_Ts

You swear that it's always love
But it's not there or there's not enough
Ivy, Ivy

Ivy, when will you learn
That love cannot exist on lies
You only get what you earn
It's right before your eyes

Oh, Ivy (Ivy)

You can't make goodbye distrust
Your love lying under dust
You must see, Ivy
Ivy, how can you live
On hurting those that love you
And hiding what you've got to give
To fight something you must prove
Oh, Ivy (Ivy)

 

 

 "DESIRÉE"

THE LEFT BANKE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeKZN4zqkU

 

Everything returns again
both the laughter and the rain

she is living somewhere for a while
still I ask her in my lonely way to stay

Desiree Desiree
now she's
leaving

Desiree you know
how it hurts me
living alone through all the years
nothing can hold the tears in me

Everything remains the same
yet she answers not her name
still If I could
look beyond these skies
standing here again before my eyes I'd see

Desiree Desiree
now she's
leaving

Desiree you know
how it hurts me
where do i run to
is it real
nothing but pain I feel for real

Desiree you know
how it hurts me

living alone through all the years
nothing can hold the tears in me

Desiree
la la la la la
la la la la la

 

 

 

 "FOGGY WATERFALL"

THE LEFT BANKE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DIIrMLAYY