notes from an occupied land…
by a lost, diaspora Tamil or a gypsy wanna-be…. this is ma journey from a land called S Lanka to occupiied land called kænədəArchive for musique
Eurythimics songs
How many sorrows
Do you try to hide
In a world of illusions
That’s covering your mind ?
I’ll show you something good
Oh I’ll show you something good.
When you open your mind
You’ll discover the sign
That there’s something
You’re longing to find…
The miracle of love
Will take away your pain
When the miracle of love
Comes your way again.
Cruel is the night
That covers up your fears.
Tender is the one
Who wipes away your tears.
There must be a bitter breeze
To make you sting so viciously-
They say the greatest coward
Can hurt the most ferociously.
But I’ll show you something good
Oh I’ll show you something good.
If you open your heart
You can make a new start
When your crumbling world falls apart.
The miracle of love
Will take away your pain
When the miracle of love
Comes your way again.
No More “I Love You’s” Lyrics
I used to be lunatic from the gracious days
I used to be woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh but now…
(I don’t find myself bouncing home whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)
No more “I love you’s”
The language is leaving me
No more “I love you’s”
Changes are shifting outside the word
(The lover speaks about the monsters)
I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire, despair, desire… SOOO MANY MONSTERS!
Oh but now…
(I don’t find myself bouncing home whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)
No more “I love you’s”
The language is leaving me
No more “I love you’s”
The language is leaving me in silence
No more “I love you’s”
Changes are shifting outside the word
(They were being really crazy
They were on the come.
And you know what mummy?
Everybody was being really crazy.
Uh huh. The monsters are crazy.
There are monsters outside.)
No more “I love you’s”
The language is leaving me
No more “I love you’s”
The language is leaving me in silence
No more “I love you’s”
Changes are shifting outside the word
Outside the word
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”
Now there was a time when they used to say
That behind every – “great man.”
There had to be a – “great woman.”
But in these times of change you know
That it’s no longer true.
So we’re comin’ out of the kitchen
‘Cause there’s somethin’ we forgot to say to you (we say)
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves.
Standin’ on their own two feet.
And ringin’ on their own bells.
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves.
Now this is a song to celebrate
The conscious liberation of the female state!
Mothers – daughters and their daughters too.
Woman to woman
We’re singin’ with you.
The “inferior sex” got a new exterior
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too.
Everybody – take a look around.
Can you see – can you see – can you see
There’s a woman right next to you.
Chorus repeats.
Now we ain’t makin’ stories
And we ain’t layin’ plans
‘Cause a man still loves a woman
And a woman still loves a man
(Just a same though)
King And Queen Of America lyrics by EURYTHMICS
Well c’mon darlin’
The stars are burning bright
C’mon now darlin’
Our lick is good tonight -
‘Cause we’re the all time winners
In the all time loser’s game
Yea we’re the all time winners
And here we go again
The king & queen of America…
Yea it’s the king of nothing
And the queen of rage
With a pile of confusion
Upon a glittering stage
You know we never did anything
To make ourselves feel proud
You know we never did anything
So let’s play it loud
Let’s hear it for the -
King & queen of America…
So c’mon darlin’
There’s a big moon in the sky -
We’re gonna build
A little satellite -
We’re gonna make it fly…
We’re gonna send it up to heaven
All the way up to the stars
And all of them aliens
Are gonna find out
Who we are -
We’re talkin’ ‘bout the
King & queen of America
Angel
Underneath this canopy of snow
Where fifty-seven winters
Took their toll
Where did you go?
And I believed in you
I believed in you
Like Elvis Presley
Singing psalms (சால்ம்ஸ்) on a Sunday
(Where did you go?)
Well she’s gone to meet her maker
Back to where she came from
Come to save her soul…
Come to save her soul…
Come to take her home
‘Cause it’s late and past
Your bedtime
Well past bedtime
Angel
My angel
Fly over me
Angel…
She took her life
Within her hands
She took her life
Within her own two hands
And no-one can tell her
What to do now
And I believed in you
I believed in you
Like Elvis Presley
Singing live from Las Vegas
(Where did you go?)
Well she’s gone to meet
Her maker
Back to where she came from
Come to save her soul…
Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)
Listen to…
Listen to…
Listen to…
I love to listen to…
I
love to listen to…
I love to…
Take a girl like that and put her
in a natural setting like a cafe for example. Along comes the boy and he’s
looking for trouble with a girl like that, with a girl like that. Who knows
what they’ll decide to do? Who knows what they’ll get up to? I’d love to know,
wouldn’t you?
CHORUS:
I love to, I love to listen to…
Love to, I
love to listen to…
I love to, I love to listen to…
Love to, I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to…
You
think you know just what you want but you have used that weapon against me. Did
I tell you I was lying by the way when I said I wanted a new mink coat? I was
thinking of something sleek to wrap around my tender throat. I was dreaming
like a Texan girl. A girl who thinks she’s got the right to everything. A girl
who thinks she should have something extreme.
CHORUS 3:
I love to
listen to…
I love to listen to…
I love to listen to…
I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love
to…
CHORUS 2:
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to listen
to Beethoven…
I love to listen to Beethoven…
I love to…
“i need a man”
I dont care if you wont
Talk to me
You know Im not that kind of girl.
And I dont care if you wont
Walk with me
It dont give me such a thrill.
And I dont care about the way you look
You should know Im not impressed
cause theres just one thing
That Im looking for
And he dont wear a dress.
I need a man…
I need a man…
Baby baby baby
Dont you shave your legs
Dont you double comb your hair
Dont powder puff
Just leave it rough
I like your fingers bare.
When the night comes down
I can turn it round
I can take you anywhere.
I dont need love
Forget that stuff
You know that I dont care
I need a man…
I need a man…
I dont need a heartbreaker
Fifty-faced trouble maker
Two timing time taker
Dirty little money maker
Muscle bound cheap skate
Low down woman hater
Triple crossing double dater
Yella bellied alligator…
I dont care if you wont
Talk to me
You know Im not that kind of girl.
And I dont care if you wont
Walk with me
It dont give me such a thrill.
And I dont care about the way you look
You should know Im not impressed
cause theres just one thing
That Im looking for
And he dont wear a dress.
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Come into these arms again
And lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
Is beating like a drum
-
It beats for you
It bleeds for you
It knows not how it sounds
For it is the drum of drums
It is the song of songs
-
Once I had the rarest rose
That ever deigned to bloom
Cruel winter chilled the bud
And stole my flower too soon
Oh loneliness, Oh hopelessness
To search the ends of time
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine
-
Love oh love oh love oh love…
Still falls the rain
Love oh love oh love oh love…
Still falls the night
Love oh love oh love oh love…
Be mine forever
Love oh love oh love oh love…
Let me be the only one
To keep you from the cold
Now the floor of heaven’s laid
With stars of brightest gold
They shine for you, they shine for you
They burn for all to see
Come into these arms again
And set this spirit free
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it’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back) lyrics by EURYTHMICS
CHORUS
It’s alright – baby’s coming back
And I don’t really care where he’s been.
It’s alright – baby’s coming back
And I won’t turn him around this time.
I’ll be your cliff (you can fall down from me).
I’ll be your ledge (you can lean upon me).
I’ll be your bridge, your flowering tree
You can still depend on me…
And I’ll be (the ticking of your clock).
And I’ll be (the numbers on your watch).
And I’ll be (your hands to stop the time).
I’ll even be your danger sign.
CHORUS
And I’ll be (your grace your dignity).
And I’ll be (your night your destiny).
And I’ll be (your comfort and your ease).
I will be your storm at seas…
And I’ll be (your sharp intake of breath).
And I’ll be (your work I’ll take no rest).
And when the world falls to decline
I’ll be yours and you’ll be mine.
It’s alright – baby’s coming back
And I don’t really care where he’s been.
And I’ll be (your cliff, you can fall down from me).
And I’ll be (your ledge, you can lean upon me).
And I’ll be (your bridge, your flowering tree
You can still depend on me…
And I’ll be (the ticking of your clock).
And I’ll be (the numbers on your watch).
And I’ll be (your hands to stop the time).
I’ll even be your danger sign.
It’s alright – baby’s coming back
And I won’t turn him around this time.
CHORUS
(Make it easy on yourself tonight)
until fade
——–
Love is a stranger
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
Its an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still cant
Get enough of the stuff
Its savage and its cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
Its noble and its brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And youre left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
Its an obsession
Its guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know its jealous by nature
False and unkind
Its hard and restrained
And its totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
Its an obsession
——————————
Missionary Man
Well I was born an original sinner.
I was borne from original sin.
And if I had a dollar bill
For all the things Ive done
Thered be a mountain of money
Piled up to my chin…
My mother told me good
My mother told me strong.
She said be true to yourself
And you cant go wrong.
But theres just one thing
That you must understand.
You can fool with your brother -
But dont mess with a missionary man.
Dont mess with a missionary man.
Dont mess with a missionary man.
Well the missionary man
Hes got God on his side.
Hes got the saints and apostles
Backin up from behind.
Black eyed looks from those Bible books.
Hes a man with a mission
Got a serious mind.
There was a woman in the jungle
And a monkey on a tree.
The missionary man he was followin me.
He said stop what youre doing.
Get down upon your knees.
Ive got a message for you that you better believe.
(chorus repeats…)
—————
Thorn in my side.
You know thats all you ever were.
A bundle of lies.
You know thats all that it was worth…
I should have known better
But I trusted you at first.
I should have known better
But I got what I deserved…
To run away from you
Was all that I could do.
To run away from you
Was all that I could do.
Thorn in my side.
You know thats all youll ever be.
So dont think you know better
cause thats what you mean to me…
I was feeling complicated.
I was feeling low.
Now everytime I think of you
I shiver to the bone…
(chorus repeats…)
I Need You
I need you to pin me down
Just for one frosen moment.
I need someone to pin me down
So I can live in torment.
I need you to really feel
The twist of my back breaking
I need someone to listen
To the ecstacy I’m faking.
I need you you you
I need you to catch each breath
That issues from my lips
I need someone to crack my skull
I need someone to kiss.
So hold me now
And make pretend
That I won’t ever fall
Oh hold me down
I’m gonna be your baby doll
I need you you you…
Is it you I really need?
I do I do I do
I really do
I need you…
Never Gonna Cry Again
I’m never gonna cry again
I’m never gonna die again
I shed some tears for you
I shed more tears for you than the ocean
I didn’t wanna let you know
I didn’t wanna take your time
I didn’t wanna bring you down
I didn’t want to hang around you
So we’re living in desperate times
Oh such an unfortunate time
I can’t relate to you
I just can’t find a place to be near you
“Eurythmics You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
Take me to the desert
Where there’s got to be
A whole heap of nothing
For you and me
Take me to the desert
Take me to the sand
Show me the colour of your right hand.
Love is a temple
Love is a shrine
Buy some love at the five and dime
A little bit of love
From the counter store
Get it on credit if you need some more.
I’ll be the figure of your disgrace
A criss cross pattern upon your face
A woman’s just too tired to think
About the dirty old dishes in the kitchen sink.
I wish I was invisible
So I could climb through the telephone
When it hurts my ear
And it hurts my brain
And it makes me feel too much
Too much too much too much.
Don’t cut me down
When I’m talking to you
‘Cause I’m much too tall
To feel that small.
Love is a temple
Love is a shrine
Love is pure
And love is blind
Love is a religious sign
I’m gonna leave this love behind.
Love is hot and love is cold
I’ve been bought and I’ve been sold
Love is rock and love is roll
I just want someone to hold.
Eurythmics – Wide Eyed Girl Lyrics
She was a wide eyed girl
In a purple dress
She could have been good
She could have been the best
Shy little girl
When it came to the test
Wow oh…
She was a cut above the rest.
She was a wide eyed girl
With teased up hair
She could have had money
But she didn’t care
She was looking for you daddy
…never there
Looking for you daddy oh yea yea
don’t ask me why
Miracle of miracles
Look what the night dragged in -
Its a pocket full of misery
And trouble on the wind
You spoiled the best years
Of your life
You took them all in vain
Now you think that youre forgiven
But you cant be born again
And you say
Why?
You say why?
You say why?
Dont ask me why -
I dont love you anymore
I dont think I ever did
And if you ever had
Any kind of love for me
You kept it all so well hid…
Promises sweet promises
You kept them from your mind
Like all the lost forgotten things
You never seemed to find
Like all the disappointments
You displayed upon your shelf
Now youve got no-one to turn to
Youve got no-one but yourself
And you say
Why? …
Feels like I’m 17
Yea though we venture through
The Valley of the stars
You and all your jewelry
And my bleeding heart
Who couldn’t be together
And who could not be apart
We should’ve jumped out
Of that airplane after all
Flying skyways overhead
It wasn’t hard to fall
And I had so many crashes
That I couldn’t feel
At all…
Chorus
And it feels like
I’m 17 Again
Feels like I’m 17
Times might break you
Godforsake you
Leave you burned and bruised
Innocence will teach you
What it feels like to be used
Thought that you’d done everything
You didn’t have a clue
Repeat chorus
Looking from the outside in
Some things never change
Yeah yeah hey yeah hey yeah
Flying highwards seems like yesterday
All those fake celebrities
And all those viscious queens
All the stupid papers
And the stupid magazines
Sweet dreams are made of anything
That gets you in the sea
Repeat chorus
Yes
17 17 Again
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for something
Yeah
fade out
Shame Lyrics
Now there’s a lifestyle
With painted lips
Now there’s a lifestyle
Everybody wants it
But it don’t exist
And I said shame…
In the dancehalls and the cinema
Shame
On the TV and the media
Shame
We loved you
Now there’s a lifestyle
With fashion chic
Now there’s a lifestyle
Everybody in it wants
To be elite
And I said
‘You with yer brand new shoes and
You with yer greasy hair and
You with yer mother’s pride and
poetry
Don’t you want to feel the shame?”…
In the dancehalls
Can’t you feel the shame?
And the TV
Can’t you feel the shame?
We loved you…
Shame
In the dancehalls and the cinema
Shame
On the TV and the media
Shame
We loved you
At the Lido and the opera
Shame
At the races
And the theatre
Shame
We loved you.
And they said all we need is love
All we need is love
With the Beatles and the Rolling
Stones.
Day after day
Day after day.
Here Comes the Rain Again
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
Oooooh
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here it comes again, here it comes again)
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you
Regrets
I’ve got a delicate mind
I’ve got a dangerous nature
And my fist collides
With your furniture
I’ve got a delicate mind
I’ve got a dangerous nature
And my fist collides
With your furniture
I’m an electric wire
And I’m stuck inside your head
I’m a hungry Mohican
I’ve got a razor blade smile
So don’t come near me
I’ve got a singular style
Fifteen senses
Are on my plate
All the things
You love to hate
I’m an electric wire
And I’m stuck inside your head
Where I go to no one knows
Find me where the cold wind blows
Regrets
Black is red and red is white
In this country I do what I like
Regrets
(That’s right that’s right..)
Right By Your Side
Give me two strong arms
To protect myself
Give me so much love
That I forget myself
I need to swing from limb to limb
To relieve this mess I’m in
‘Cause when depression starts to win
I need to be right by your side
No one seems to touch me
In the way you do
Nothing seems to hurt me
When I’m close to you
I’m so full of desire
When you set my head on fire
I need to be right by your side
Every single one of us needs
Love, love, love
Everybody needs to give and receive love
Every single day can drag us
Down, down, down
But there’s nothing left to fear
When love gets into town
I’m so full of desire
When you set my head on fire
I need to be right by your side
Cool Blue
Blue – the colour suits you
Cool blue
How will you stay this way for ever?
Blue again
It’s a lasting chill
To keep you cold as winter
How can I forget you?
I’m never gonna give you up
How can I forget you baby?
I’m never gonna give you up
Here it comes again
Here it comes again
Blue – the colour fools you
Cool blue
I’ll never stay this way for ever
Blue again
(How could she fall for a boy like that)
Who’s that girl?
Who’s That Girl?
The language of love
Slips from my lover’s tongue
Cooler than ice cream
And warmer than the sun
Dumb hearts get broken
Just like china cups
The language of love
Has left me broken on the rocks
But there’s just one thing
(Just one thing)
But there’s just one thing
And I really wannna know
Who’s that girl
Running around with you?
Tell me
Who’s that girl
Running around with you?
The language of love
Has left me stony grey
Tongue tied and twisted
At the price I’ve had to pay
Your careless notions
Have silenced these emotions
Look at all the foolishness
Your lover’s talk has done
The First Cut
The first cut – is a criminal thing
The first cut – goes deeper in
Each impression
Makes a chain reaction
Each impression
Will never be never be never be broken
I’m a white girl – you can see my skin
Look at this picture – that I ‘m living in
And old scores
Never settle down
I’ll keep on walking
Till I’m burried in the cold ground
Cold ground
Cold cold ground
Aqua
Don’t touch me
Don’t talk to me about it
Don’t touch me
Don’t talk to me – ever again
I don’t feel anything
All sensation is closed to me
I saw you put the needle in
(I can still see) everything
Take me to a quiet place
Throw me in the water
Watch the bubbles surface as
I’m slowly sinking under
No Fear No Hate No Pain No Broken Hearts
Well in the morning
When our day begins
And it feels like cold cold steel
And when the sun comes up
It’s like a new commotion
You say nobody told you
It would feel like this
No fear no hate no pain no broken hearts
You’ve got the killing gun
Held in your hand
It feels like cold cold steel
And when the sun comes up
It’s like a new commotion
You say shoot shoot shoot it up
shoot it up
Paint a rumour
Paint a rumour
(What’s it gonna spread?)
Paint a rumour
(See the place go red)
I could tell you something
(Promise not to tell)
I could tell you something
(Promise not to sell)
It’s a secret
I have heard a whisper
I have heard a whisper
(What did it say?)
I have heard a whisper
(Make it go away)
Don’t beleive a word of it
(Promise not to tell)
Don’t repeat a word of it
(Promise not to sell)
