Music Monday - One Love

Let's all get together and feel all right.

Lyrics:
One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin', "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Sayin', "Let's get together and feel all right."
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
"Let's get together and feel all right."
One more thing

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Sayin', "One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right."
I'm pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) Whoa.

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.

~xxx~

Music Monday - Marooned Without Pants

Enjoy some Maroon 5. And then enjoy some pantsless Adam Levine. You're welcome.

Lyrics:

You push me
I don't have the strength to
Resist or control you
Take me down, take me down

You hurt me
But do I deserve this?
You make me so nervous
Calm me down, calm me down

Wake you up
In the middle of the night to say
I will never walk away again
I'm never gonna leave this bed, oh

So come here
And never leave this place
Perfection of your face
Slows me down, slows me down

So fall down
I need you to trust me
Go easy, don't rush me
Help me out, why don't you help me out?

Wake you up
In the middle of the night to say
I will never walk away again
I'm never gonna leave this bed, oh

So you say "Go, it isn't working"
And I say "No, it isn't perfect"
So I stay instead
I'm never gonna leave this bed

Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
I'd give it all away just to get you back

And fake it, fake it all
Take what I can get

Knockin' so loud
Can you hear me yet
Try to stay awake but you can't forget

Wake you up
In the middle of the night to say
I will never walk away again
I'm never gonna leave this bed, oh

You say "Go, it isn't working"
And I say "No, it isn't perfect"
So I stay instead
I'm never gonna leave this bed, ooh

Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
Take it, take it all
Take all that I have

Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
Take it, take it all
Take all that I have
Take it, take it all
Take all that I have

~xxx~

Music Monday - Eve of War

I used to listen to this on vinyl with my brothers. I hope the odds of the revived tour coming to town are considerably better than the chances of anything coming from Mars.

Lyrics:
JOURNALIST: No one would have believed, in the last years of the
nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds
of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope
studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered
the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds
immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely, they drew their plans against us.
At midnight on the twelfth of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars
and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling
towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth.
As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile, starting on its way.
And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars - bright
green, drawing a green mist behind it - a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy,
the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no
living thing on that remote, forbidding planet.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they
come!"
JOURNALIST: Then came the night the first missile approached Earth. It was thought
to be an ordinary falling star, but next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the
Common, and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there: a cylinder, thirty yards across,
glowing hot... and with faint sounds of movement coming from within.
Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing, and Ogilvy feared there was a
man inside, trying to escape. he rushed to the cylinder, but the intense heat stopped him
before he could burn himself on the metal.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but they still
come!"
"Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but they still come!"
It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as
though it were just like any other. From the railway station came the sound of
shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. It all
seemed so safe and tranquil. 



~xxx~

Music Monday - Play the Game

This is your life. Let your heart decide to play the game.

Lyrics:
Open up your mind and let me step inside 
Rest your weary head and let your heart decide 
It's so easy when you know the rules 
It's so easy all you have to do 
Is fall in love 
Play the game, 
Everybody play the game of love 


When you're feeling down and your resistance is low 
Light another cigarette and let yourself go 
This is your life 
Don't play hard to get 
It's a free world 
All you have to do is fall in love 
Play the game, everybody play the game of love 

My game of love has just begun 
Love runs from head down to my toes 
My love is pumping through my veins 
Driving me insane 

Come come come play the game 
This is your life - don't play hard to get 
It's a free world all you have to do is fall in love 
Play the game 



~xxx~

Music Monday - Hayseed Dixie

Howdy, y'all!

I'm shaking things up for a Monday morning.

:D

Lyrics:

She was a fast machine She kept her motor clean She was the best damn woman I had ever seen She had the sightless eyes Telling me no lies Knockin' me out with those American thighs Taking more than her share Had me fighting for air She told me to come but I was already there 'Cause the walls start shaking The earth was quaking My mind was aching And we were making it and you - Shook me all night long Working double time On the seduction line She was one of a kind, she's just mine all mine She wanted no applause Just another course Made a meal out of me and came back for more Had to cool me down To take another round Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing 'Cause the walls were shaking The earth was quaking My mind was aching And we were making it and you - Shook me all night long

~xxx~

Music Monday - The More I Drink

the more I drink. Yep. Been there. Done that. Still ain't learned my lesson.

Lyrics:

He was sittin' at the bar, sippin' on a regular Coke
We were drinkin' and smokin' and makin' him the butt of our jokes
We all said, "Man, what happened to you? Why can't you just have a few?"
He said, "I would if I could, but it's probably best that I don't."

Cause the more I drink, the more I drink
Yeah, I'm the world's greatest lover and a dancin' machine
I get loud, I get proud....and it gets worse
Well if I have one, I'll have thirteen
Naw, there ain't no in-between
Cause, the more I drink, the more I drink.

A couple of cold ones, and somebody hands me a shot.
Hell, even buck-tooth and bow-legged women start lookin' hot
And pretty soon I'm bummin' cigarettes and sweet talkin' some big brunette
Yeah, once I get on a roll, ain't no tellin' where I'll stop

Cause the more I drink, the more I drink
Yeah, I'm the world's greatest lover and a dancin' machine
I get loud, I get proud....and it gets worse
Well if I have one, I'll have thirteen
Naw, there ain't no in-between
Cause, the more I drink, the more I drink.

Yep-yep
Humm, that's what I'm talking about

Man, if I have one, I'll have thirteen
And they can't get me off the kareoke machine,
The more I drink...the more I drink.
Yeah, the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.  

~xxx~

Music Monday - Who Made Who

Sure, the movie may not have been an award winner, but I still enjoy it. There's something inherently terrifying about your appliances coming to life and turning the tables on you. Probably because my inner nerd insists on naming the inanimate objects around me. I look at Bob the Blender and wonder if today's the day he's going to bite me.

Or, I'm just twisted. Either way, who needs grammar when you rock like this?

~xxx~

Music Monday - S&M Nothing Else Matters

Cause, really, does it?

Lyrics:

So close, no matter how far

Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters

Yeah, trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know, that's right

Never opened myself this way
And life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters, yeah

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for things they say
Never cared for games they play
I never cared for what they do
I never cared for what they know
And I know, yeah yeah yeah

~xxx~

Music Monday - Tomorrow

Bet you were expecting Annie, weren't you?

This is about that all-consuming passion.  That inferno that goes off when the chemistry is so perfect, it burns the rest of the world. That undeniable attraction. That cannot continue.

When you belong in his arms, but you cannot stay there.

But that's something for tomorrow.

Lyrics:
Tomorrow I'm gonna leave here
I'm gonna let you go and walk away like every day I said I would
And tomorrow, I'm gonna listen
To that voice of reason inside my head telling me that we're no good

[Chorus:]
But tonight I'm gonna give in one last time
Rock you strong in these arms of mine
Forget all the regrets that are bound to follow
We're like fire and gasoline
I'm no good for you
You're no good for me
We only bring each other tears and sorrow
But tonight, I'm gonna love you like there's no tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be stronger
I'm not gonna break down and call you up when my heart cries out for you
And tomorrow, you won't believe it,
But when I pass your house,
I won't stop no matter how bad I want to

[Chorus:]
But tonight I'm gonna give in one last time
Rock you strong in these arms of mine
Forget all the regrets that are bound to follow
We're like fire and gasoline
I'm no good for you
You're no good for me
We only bring each other tears and sorrow
But tonight, I'm gonna love you like there's no tomorrow

Baby when we're good, you know we're great
But there's too much bad for us to think that there's anything worth trying to save

[Chorus:]
But tonight I'm gonna give in one last time
Rock you strong in these arms of mine
Forget all the regrets that are bound to follow
We're like fire and gasoline
I'm no good for you
You're no good for me
We only bring each other tears and sorrow
But tonight, I'm gonna love you like there's no tomorrow

Tomorrow, I'm gonna leave here
I'm gonna let you go and walk away like every day I said I would

~xxx~

Music Monday - Short Change Hero

This really isn't a place for a hero, but I'm trying.

Lyrics:

I can’t see where you’re comin’ from
But I know just what you’re runnin’ from:
And what matters ain’t the who’s baddest but
The ones who stop you fallin’ from your ladder.

And you feel like you’re feelin’ now
Doin’ things just to please your crowd,
But I love you like the way I love you,
And I suffer, but I ain’t gonna cut you cuz

This ain’t no place for no hero,
This ain’t no place for no better man,
This ain’t no place for no hero,
Go home.

This ain’t no place for no hero,
This ain’t no place for no better man,
This ain’t no place for no hero,
Go home

Every time I close my eyes, I think, I think ’bout you inside,
And your mother, givin’ up on askin’ why
Why you lie, and you cheat, and you try to make
A fool out of she…

I can’t see where you’re comin’ from,
But I know just what you’re runnin’ from.
And what matters ain’t the who’s baddest, but the
Ones who stop you fallin’ from your ladder, cuz

This ain’t no place for no hero,
This ain’t no place for no better man,
This ain’t no place for no hero,
Go home. 

~xxx~

Music Monday - Sexy Nerd

This song has been playing in my head for weeks now. (Thanks a lot, Thorny)
(And, for the record? I can talk dirty to you in HTML code. Just saying....)

Lyrics (as close as the web has been able to figure out, anyway)
Take your clothes off, but leave your glasses on
Take your clothes off, but leave your glasses on
I don’t need no club queen
Hopped up on the party scene
That’s something you ought to know
oh oh
I don’t need no Broadway diva
Singin’ me shit from Evita
I don’t even like the show
oh oh

I need a man
to talk dirty to me in HTML code
I need a man
to sit on my laptop and open my download
I don’t need Grindr
I need a nerd finder

You think you know ’bout me
Well forget what you heard
I want a sexy nerd
Them other boys on my list
but you know they ain’t first
I want a sexy nerd

Oo, I want a sexy nerd
Damn I wanna sexy nerd
Listen

I don’t need no tweeky twink
making meth under his sink
don’t you think it’s time for bed?
oh oh
I don’t need no leather man
Bondage ain’t up in my plans
I don’t need no muscle jock
in the gym around the clock

I never had a pocket protector
get me erector
I want it bad
I’ll read you some fractions
to get me some action
I don’t need Grindr
I need a nerd finder

You think you know ’bout me
Well forget what you heard
I want a sexy nerd
Them other boys on my list
but you know they ain’t first
I want a sexy nerd

I be sexy strippin’
while he be Java Sciptin’
We can read science fiction
while we make science friction
Cruisin’ the li-berry and the chemistry lab
? is something that I gots to have
Sexy ass nerd walkin, oh my
Lookin fine with his pants too high
And I will get fly with Bill Nye the Science Guy
I’ll be working your shaft
While you be playing World of Warcraft
We can get our freak on
in the bathroom at Comic Con

I need a man
to talk dirty to me in HTML code
I need a man
to sit on my laptop and open my download
You think you know ’bout me
Well forget what you heard
I want a sexy nerd
Them other boys on my list
but you know they ain’t first
I want a sexy nerd

I’ll plug in my USB
Then you can do me
watch you come alive
while I rub off on your hard drive
My tongue be waggin
while you play Dungeons and Dragons
I’ll be cruisin the Radio Shack
Just to look at nerd ass
Damn. I’ll be all up in there getting a fever off of these nerds
they look so sexy and I’m gonna rub up against ‘em
They’re gonna whisper in my ear
they’re gonna fix my computer and stuff 



~xxx~

Music Monday - Phantom of the Floppera

Who are you calling floppy?

~xxx~

Music Monday - Party On

Keep fighting!

~xxx~

Music Monday - Disco Style

Let's do some disco for today's Music Monday, shall we?

I realize it is probably sacrilegious to call Kiss 'disco', but listen to it! Feel that beat. Hear those lyrics. It's disco. You can admit it. They know.

Now, slip on that polyester suit and do your best Tony Manero.

Not convinced? Fine. Here's a bonus disco track for you.

~xxx~

Music Monday - What It's All About

January is a time to take a look back at the year. A time to figure out what wasn't working and to approach things in a different way.

With that, I bring you a different way to approach the Hokey Pokey.

After all, that is what it's all about.

~xxx~

Music Monday

This was my first favorite song. It's also the first song I knew all the words to.
(Why yes, I am old. Why do you ask?)

In fairness, I was in first grade, so don't judge too harshly.

(and I still sing along with it every time I hear it, loudly and badly)
(okay, now you can judge)

~xxx~