Resonant Lyrics

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
that leads the tender reed
some say love it is a razor
that leads our souls to bleed
Some say love it is hunger
an endless saken need…
I say love it is a flower
and you its only seed

It’s the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It’s the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance

It’s the one who won’t be taken
who cannot seem to be
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

And the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong

Just remember, in the winter
far beneath the bitter snow
lies the seed that with the sun’s love
in the spring becomes the rose

The Rose – Mario Frangoulis

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Video Games – Lana Del Rey

“There must be some kinda way out of here”
Said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief”

“Businessmen, they, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody of it is worth”, hey

“No reason to get excited”
The thief, he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke”

“But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late”, hey

Hey

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too

Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey

All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn’t play for the money he wins
He doesn’t play for the respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart

He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart

And if I told you that I loved you
You’d maybe think there’s something wrong
I’m not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
Those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
That’s not the shape of my heart

” And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

” So we’re drinking and we’re dancing, and the band is really happening, and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high. And my very sweet companion, she’s the Angel of Compassion, and she’s rubbing half the world against her thigh.”

” Hello it’s me. I’m not at home. If you’d like to reach me, leave me alone.”

” They carved your name into the stone and then, they put it in the ground, I run my fingers through the grooves, when no one’s around. Drink till I am sick and then I talk to myself in the dog days of the summer; then I feel you coming but I don’t know how”

” I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me “you must not ask for so much.” And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, she cried out to me – hey why not ask for more?”

” Got on a lucky one, came in eighteen to one, I’ve got a feeling…this year’s for me and you. So happy Christmas. I love you baby, I can see a better time, when all our dreams come true.”

” My love’s bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you but you keep drivin’ me back.”

” My love she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence, she doesn’t have to say she’s faithful, yet she’s true, like ice, like fire. People carry roses, make promises by the hours, my love she laughs like the flowers, Valentines can’t buy her.”

” Early one morning the sun was shining, I was laying in bed, wondering if she’d changed at all, if her hair was still red.”

” But there aint no coupe de ville hiding at the bottom of a cracker jack box.”

” In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade; and he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down and cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame….I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains…”

” Don’t remind me of my failures, I have not forgotten them.”

” Yes, I received your letter yesterday, (about the time the door knob broke), when you asked how I was doing, was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention yes I know them, they’re quite lame, I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name. Right now I can’t read too good, don’t send me no more letters no, not unless you mail them, from Desolation Row.”

” Mama bought a chicken thought it was a duck, put it on the table with its legs sticking up.”

” I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, she tried to take me upstairs for a ride, she had to heave me right across her shoulder, ’cause I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind. “

” We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.”

” Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean, now you wear your skin like iron, your breath as hard as kerosene. You weren’t your mama’s only boy, but her favourite one it seems, she began to cry when you said goodbye, and sank into your dreams.”

” The pump don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handle”

” I’ve been tryin’ to get down to the heart of the matter, but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter; but I’m thinking about forgiveness, forgiveness, even if you don’t love me anymore.”

” The man on the corner wants 11 dollar bills and you only got ten”

” Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said, so in love the preacher’s face turned red; soon everybody knew the thing was dead. He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night. She go crazy, got to make a getaway, Papa say…..Oh – no hesitation, no tears and no hearts breakin’, no remorse, oh – congratulations, this is your Haitian Divorce.”

” All we hear is radio ga ga, radio goo goo, radio ga ga.”

” I know that’s hard to believe, but there are people you meet; they’re into something that is too big to be expressed, through their clothes, and they’ll put up with all the poses you throw, and you won’t even know. That they’re not sizing you up, they know your mom f***ed you up, or maybe let you watch too much TV. But they’ll still look in your eyes to find the human inside, you know there’s always something in there to see. “

” The road goes on forever, and the party never ends.”