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Dyer'ere

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Ok. Simple tuxedo, no tie. Doin this one at Paris Cat.

Norwegian Wood is sitting at the front right table accompanied by a narrow chested Indie-fag who matches her shoes, beige.

The skinny redhead at the front table the opposite side of the room is the one I called The Match, because we were so perfectly unsuited. Turns out she finally did meet a Sylvester and is seated with him. She's lightly pregnant. I notice them before I take the stage and have Agathe deliver her a mocktail and him two Martinis. (She'll neck at least one of them and then probably try to have foot sex with him under the table. Healthy lass.)

Some chick called Sambada is on keys because Rachel Rekjavik isn't speaking to me. AJ on bass. Just a snare and brushes for Blah - nice of him to turn up. We could do a few drinks afterwards but Yoko will want him home. Everybody else hates her but I'm glad she came back.

I like the band to tune dramatically before I step up. I don't want anybody thinking I'm not a *smile*. This makes it clear.

I order generver on ice from the stage. Agathe looks up from serving Sylvester and nods. I nod at Sambada who plumps a few tentative fills.

I say "The God of the Hearth and I were frocking up for some country ball. His missus, The Fascinator, was playing make-over with other missuses up the road. The God of the Hearth is a true Bohemian, a security guard, who by then was an emerging sculptor, widely disparaged but sometimes admired (not least of all by me) for his roughly hewn, somewhat cobbled forms.

He had a new secondhand mohair tuxedo and when he emerged from the hut in it I fully remembered that his parents were a Vogue photographer and that man's favourite model. I resumed tying my tie in the outdoor kitchen mirror and said 'You know, God, you are so hot in that tuxedo you don't have to ask your sheila for a threesome tonight - you can demand one.'

We picked up the girls and on the way I had a side bet with the Fascinator that I would *special friend* a dangerous brunette in the cloakroom simply by being a complete *smile*. The promise of her ten dollars made me salivate.

When we got to the ball I didn't like any of the brunettes so I danced with Fasc, gave her ten dollars and then proceeded with he God to the bar where we drank a blend of cognac and ferret *smile*. The Fasc was dancing with some ladies not far away, maybe seven metres.

A strawberry blond appeared and joined their group. From the rear she was tall and strong but comely.

I said to The God 'Jesus, brother it's on. You're about to get your threesome.'

He looked at me like I was insane but I urged him again 'Let's go. It's on here. The strawb is about to kiss your missus.'

'Nah.'

'You need to be in front for this. Do you mind if I look over your shoulder?'

The strawb danced closer to the Fasc. The God got interested. Moved in a little. I moved left to see the hips and know for sure which way the strawb would move. She gave us a little side view. Rich of tit. Lean of waist above a royal belly.

Closer again. Strawb's hands on Fasc's hips then bang. She kissed her deep.

Fascinator bolted. The God followed her out the door and the strawb-blond disappeared.

I stared at the space they left for a minute. My lower lip glib and my eyebrows delighted. Then I went back to the bar.

There was the strawb. I could finally see her face, cheeks ablaze, lashes low and then skyward.

I said 'I didn't recognise you. You look a million dollars.'

She said 'Not like last time you saw me.'

I said 'Sometimes nine hundred thousand, sometimes a million. Nice dye job.'

She said 'It's who I used to be.'

It was the second time I met Norwegian Wood."

Then I point at the ceiling so AJ can see it. Blah and he chime in all rhythm like and I start -

I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except when soft rains fall
And drip from leaves
Then I recall
The thrill of being sheltered in your arms
Of course, I do
But I get along without you very well

I've forgotten you just like I should
Of course, I have
Except to hear your name
Or someone's laugh that is the same
But I've forgotten you just like I should

What a guy
What a fool am I
To think my breaking heart
Could kid the moon
What's in store
Should I phone once more
No, it's best that I stick to my tune

I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except perhaps in Spring
But I should never think of Spring
For that would surely break my heart in two

What's in store
Should I phone once more
No, it's best that I stick to my tune

I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except perhaps in Spring
But I should never think of Spring
For that would surely break my heart in two


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Some time during the set Norwegian Wood and the Indie fag storm out. A couple of songs later she returns. After the set I call Agathe to bring two drinks - Scotch and Montenegro. The Match waves as her major Sylvester leads her out by the hand.

Then I stand and take my spare drink to Sambada.
 

spook

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Years ago, it was suggested to Jack Nicholson that he might be the best actor in the world. He replied to the effect that "as long as Marlon's alive, there's only one person in that conversation".

I'd be happy to be Jack. Hell, I'd take Peter Fonda (although I'd rather be Dennis Hopper).
 
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No KK thread is Komplete without a little ZZ Top.

Sharp Dressed Man - (FRANK LEE BEARD, JOE MICHAEL HILL, BILLY F GIBBONS)

Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to.
Silk suit,black tie,
I don't need a reason why.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.

Gold watch, diamond ring,
I ain' missin'not a single thing.
And cufflinks, stick pin
When I step out I'm gonna do you in.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.

Top coat, top hat,
I don't worry coz my wallet's fat.
Black shades, white gloves,
Lookin' sharp and lookin' for love.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.

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But then I find myself stuck here 3 decades later, thinkin KK needs to be progressive and I ask myself what song would I look back on in 2013 with fondness and I come up with this..
yeah it's pop but it's a good tune and that's always been my weakness. So good for you kids..

One Republic - Counting Stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,
Said, no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars

I see this life like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
And my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and you shall find
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
I feel something so right
Doing the wrong thing
I feel something so wrong
Doing the right thing
I could lie, coudn't I, could lie
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,
Said, no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,
Said, no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars

I feel the love and I feel it burn
Down this river, every turn
Hope is a four-letter word
Make that money, watch it burn
Oh, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
I feel something so wrong
Doing the right thing
I could lie, could lie, could lie
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,
Sitting, no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,
Sitting, no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Everything that kills me makes feel alive

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,
Sitting, no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,
Sitting, no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be, counting stars

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt

Take that money
Watch it burn
Sing in the river
The lessons are learnt


[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg[/youtube]
 

smasha

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May 23, 2003
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A loss to North.Stumbling out of the ground,shuffling feet as a tiger friend yells out for an establishment.Something to soothe this old Tiger brain's pain.

Twilight Alehouse-Genesis.


Is it really true what they're saying
Are you really sure there's nobody come for me
When I'm walking home there is no-one
Once there was a house, full of laughter - so warm
Trying to pretend there is someone
Someone who will care when I need it

I will now receive my comfort, conjured by the magic power of wine
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling good
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling fine
Just a drink to take my sorrow
Just a drink and you can blast tomorrow
Just a drink to make me feel like a man again
Now I'm down

When I walk outside, there is nowhere
Children follow me, with their laughter - so cold...
Casting just a glance at the churchyard
Casting just a glance, at my painted female friend.

Now I'm on my way, I am falling
Got to find some 'elp, ooh I will need that now

So I will receive my comfort, conjured by the magic power of wine
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling good
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling fine
Just a drink to take my sorrow
Just a drink and you can blast tomorrow
Just a drink to make me feel like a man again
Now I'm down...

I will now receive my comfort, conjured by the magic power of wine
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling good
Just a drink, I'll get that drink, and I'm feeling fine
Just a drink to take my sorrow
Just a drink and you can blast tomorrow, now...


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Then after a few ales I feel like swinging like a Tiger.

You work and work for years and years,
you're always on the go
You never take a minute off,
too busy makin' dough
Someday you say, you'll have your fun,
when you're a millionaire
Imagine all the fun
you'll have in your old rockin' chair
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
You're gonna take that ocean trip,
no matter come what may
You've got your reservations made,
but you just can't get away
Next year for sure, you'll see the world, you'll really get around
But how far can you travel when you're six feet underground?
Your heart of hearts, your dream of dreams, your ravishing brunette
She's left you and she's now become somebody else's pet
Lay down that gun, don't try my friend to reach the great beyond
You'll have more fun by reaching for a redhead or a blond
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
You never go to night clubs and you just don't care to dance
You don't have time for silly things like moonlight and romance
You only think of dollar bills tied neatly in a stack
But when you kiss a dollar bill, it doesn't kiss you back
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pinkThe years go by, as quickly as a winkEnjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think


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Dyer'ere

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smasha's posts always vibed Karaoke. Welcome, friend. Oldster? Has carried this thread from the onset. The Daniel Jackson of Kangaroo Karaoke. Daniel Jackson matters.

Thank you SPOOK and scoop. ;D Funny you two are kinda opposite and yet so at home here.

I once asked Mr X if the loneliness was worse than the freedom is good.

He said The freedom is much better. It was like he anticipated the question.

This one's for a droog - spook -

Four strong winds that blow lonely, Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change, Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Think I'll go out to Alberta,
Weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can go to working for,
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I asked you one more time,
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

If I get there before the snow flies,
And if things are going good,
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But if you wait until it's winter,
It will be no good
'Cause that wind sure can blow way out there.


[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZes9fFmXc[/youtube]
 

Dyer'ere

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I hate this song because of the corny narrative device. The protagonist asks an anonymous other to make his apologies to the one he loves because he's weak. He explains the situation to another rather than to the lover.

It's like he loves the one he tells. To dump his missus.

No man could do this and consider himself, afterwards, a man.


Back in the day the North was arid. I was born in Moreland and then moved to Glenlyon Road, as the story goes. When I woke to life I was in Glenroy. North end. Bindis and paddocks and inbreds.

But inbred is just hyperbole. No, it is not. The glasses, the sister auntie. The granpa help friend alone moments, in the cramped three rooms of six children. Two bob yielded to smelly eight year old friends. Or cousins.

There were, in this realm, of inbreds and scrub and forever bindi, two roses of the north. One was just a child and the other almost in bloom.

In our world a bloke usually bashed the missus. It wasn't good but it was normal. Eh?

I started to visit the Rose of the North. It was cramped. The dad, the mum, the brothers, the kid sister.

Anyway, in those days, and in that part of the world, it was normal for the Dad to be a bit of a *smile*. Maybe yell a bit. Maybe slam some doors. Maybe break some sh!t. And it was normal for the sheilas to hide. But it wasn't normal at our joint. That's why I call it a privilege - my upbringing.

So one time, only a few weeks after I'd kissed the Rose of the North, I was hanging in the kitchen of a dwelling maybe 10 squares. The old man got home, drunk, and got aggressive.

The ladies began to shrink but I got agitated. The fight was hilarious. I just stood near him. And he poked my chest. With "Waddya doin pokin ya chest at me like that?"

He got quiet and went to bed. I started crying. I'm still not sure why. The two Roses held me. The Mum was remote.

Over time me and Dad got to be mates. Real mates. Twenty years later I picked his body up from the floor of the bedroom and put it on the bed. Cleaned a small vomit from the carpet with ten tissues. Never spoke about that. The Roses were in the small lounge.

Somewhere in between all that, I married that feist, the senior Rose of the North. Loved her then and now. But I can't forget the younger, the way she walked in when I was duking it out :hihi with her tyrannical dad. It was never about marriage but she loved me. I will never again know a love like theirs.

Those were the days. Two Roses of the North. I left the elder by agreement, five years ago. Tonight I had dinner with the younger.

I took Montenegro, Spanish sherry and Chimay. We talked about Berlin - she said it's your town. About Paris. The way her old man loved it as I do. I could have told her why her big sister and I parted.

Instead, coming back from the p!ssois I was singing "And if she asks you why..."

The younger Rose said "That's my favourite song."

I looked at her eyes, paler than her sister's, pulled her ribcage in, some kinda contact. Her hand may have brushed my upper arm. I don't know what she looked at but I looked at a window.

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
Just leave me to despair

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
I'm asking you, to say my last goodbye
The love we knew, ain't worth another try

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand if you tell it to her plain

Oh, but how can words express the feel of sunlight
In the morning in the hills away from city strife
I need a country woman for my wife
I'm city born but I love the country life

For I can not be part of her "Cocktail-Generation Partner's Waltz,"
Devoid of all romance
The music plays and everyone must dance
I'm bowing out, I need a second chance

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand if you tell it to her plain

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
Just leave me to despair


[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTqi7iEZEWA[/youtube]
 

spook

Kick the f*ckin' goal
Jun 18, 2007
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Dyer'ere said:
I once asked Mr X if the loneliness was worse than the freedom is good.

He said The freedom is much better. It was like he anticipated the question.

This one's for a droog - spook -
One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.

is what a droog might say.

Me, I'll just say Mr X was right. Freedom and loneliness take a far higher road to music and poetry than caged contentment ever could.

An ounce of Neil Young and a pinch of Don McLean makes for a tasty country hotpot. But something's missing. They ain't cowboys. We need a Gram of Parsons. He might have been feeling a little lonely when he wrote this:

You may be sweet and nice
But that won't keep you warm at night
I'm the one who showed you how
To do the things you're doing now

He may feel all your charms
He may hold you in his arms
But I'm the one who let you in
I was right beside you then

Once upon a time
You let me feel you deep inside
And nobody knew, nobody saw
Do you remember the way you cried?

I'm your toy, I'm your old boy
But I don't want no one but you to love me
No, I wouldn't lie
You know I'm not that kind of guy

Once upon a time
You let me feel you deep inside
And nobody knew, nobody saw
Do you remember the way you cried?

I'm your toy, I'm your old boy
But I don't want no one but you to love me
No, I wouldn't lie
You know I'm not that kind of guy


[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs[/youtube]
 

spook

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Jun 18, 2007
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Ok, I'm in full cowboy mode now. Dust instead of grease in my hair; peeled off the jeans and eased into the moleskins. The lip curl's gone, replaced by sad eyes, an acoustic guitar and a can of beans.

Sometimes, you get the urge to do a whole Gram in one session. Dangerous, but intoxicating.

There's a lot of remembered pain in this room. That's alright, pain remembered is perspective gained. How can you trust someone who hasn't been hurt?

I down my two fingers of rusty frontier whisky. Take rosy by the hand and request the pleasure of her company for this next one. As we walk past, we ease Sambada off Jack's arm. "Mind if we borrow her ol' fella? We're gonna have us a threesome."

You be Emmylou, rosalita; Sambada, Linda. I'll be the sad cowboy. The rest of you, feel free to join in the chorus.

In my hour of darkness, in my time of need
Oh Lord, grant me vision, oh Lord, grant me speed

Once I knew a young man, went driving through the night
Miles and miles without a word with just his high-beam lights
Who'd have ever thought they'd build such a deadly Denver bend
To be so strong, to take so long as it would till the end

In my hour of darkness, in my time of need
Oh Lord, grant me vision, oh Lord, grant me speed

Another young man safely strummed his silver string guitar
And he played to people everywhere, some say he was a star
But he was just a country boy, his simple songs confess
And the music he had in him so very few possess

In my hour of darkness, in my time of need
Oh Lord, grant me vision, oh Lord, grant me speed

Then there was an old man, kind and wise with age
And he read me just like a book and he never missed a page
And I loved him like my father and I loved him like my friend
And I knew his time would shortly come but I did not know just when

In my hour of darkness, in my time of need
Oh Lord, grant me vision, oh Lord, grant me speed
Oh Lord, grant me vision, oh Lord, grant me speed


[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzuSeaMy-aU[/youtube]


If you let it, pain will clamp your chest, sit on your qi and crowd your ears with whispers, but when you sing from your belly and let the music take you, you realise it was the rotting grain that fermented, that aged in oak to mature alongside you in time to enrich anything from a sunset to a wedding to a coming together of a bunch of misfits who ain't got much but the knowledge that you ain't got anything if you ain't got a song.

I lead Sambada back behind the bar and tell her to pull out The Last Drop. Just like me, it was blended in the early 70s. Left to marry for 36 years before bottling. 2 grand a bottle. Sambada, a glass for everyone. Oldie, smasha, pull those tables together. Somebody Get Carter. We're going to stumps on this one.
 

Michael

Tiger Champion
Nov 30, 2004
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Its all getting a bit melancholy around here......

Time to fit right in and fill my heart with smoke

hrrummph, hrrummph, 2, 3, 4



How to fight loneliness
Smile all the time
Shine your teeth to meaningless
And sharpen them with lies

And whatever is going down
Will you follow around
That's how you fight loneliness

You laugh at every joke
Drag your blanket blindly
Fill your heart with smoke

And the first thing that you want
Will be the last thing you'll ever need
That's how you fight it

Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time
Just smile all the time
 

Scoop

Tiger Legend
Dec 8, 2004
25,015
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Dyer'ere said:
I hate this song because of the corny narrative device. The protagonist asks an anonymous other to make his apologies to the one he loves because he's weak. He explains the situation to another rather than to the lover.

It's like he loves the one he tells. To dump his missus.

No man could do this and consider himself, afterwards, a man.


Back in the day the North was arid. I was born in Moreland and then moved to Glenlyon Road, as the story goes. When I woke to life I was in Glenroy. North end. Bindis and paddocks and inbreds.

But inbred is just hyperbole. No, it is not. The glasses, the sister auntie. The granpa help friend alone moments, in the cramped three rooms of six children. Two bob yielded to smelly eight year old friends. Or cousins.

There were, in this realm, of inbreds and scrub and forever bindi, two roses of the north. One was just a child and the other almost in bloom.

In our world a bloke usually bashed the missus. It wasn't good but it was normal. Eh?

I started to visit the Rose of the North. It was cramped. The dad, the mum, the brothers, the kid sister.

Anyway, in those days, and in that part of the world, it was normal for the Dad to be a bit of a *smile*. Maybe yell a bit. Maybe slam some doors. Maybe break some sh!t. And it was normal for the sheilas to hide. But it wasn't normal at our joint. That's why I call it a privilege - my upbringing.

So one time, only a few weeks after I'd kissed the Rose of the North, I was hanging in the kitchen of a dwelling maybe 10 squares. The old man got home, drunk, and got aggressive.

The ladies began to shrink but I got agitated. The fight was hilarious. I just stood near him. And he poked my chest. With "Waddya doin pokin ya chest at me like that?"

He got quiet and went to bed. I started crying. I'm still not sure why. The two Roses held me. The Mum was remote.

Over time me and Dad got to be mates. Real mates. Twenty years later I picked his body up from the floor of the bedroom and put it on the bed. Cleaned a small vomit from the carpet with ten tissues. Never spoke about that. The Roses were in the small lounge.

Somewhere in between all that, I married that feist, the senior Rose of the North. Loved her then and now. But I can't forget the younger, the way she walked in when I was duking it out :hihi with her tyrannical dad. It was never about marriage but she loved me. I will never again know a love like theirs.

Those were the days. Two Roses of the North. I left the elder by agreement, five years ago. Tonight I had dinner with the younger.

I took Montenegro, Spanish sherry and Chimay. We talked about Berlin - she said it's your town. About Paris. The way her old man loved it as I do. I could have told her why her big sister and I parted.

Instead, coming back from the p!ssois I was singing "And if she asks you why..."

The younger Rose said "That's my favourite song."

I looked at her eyes, paler than her sister's, pulled her ribcage in, some kinda contact. Her hand may have brushed my upper arm. I don't know what she looked at but I looked at a window.

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
Just leave me to despair

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
I'm asking you, to say my last goodbye
The love we knew, ain't worth another try

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand if you tell it to her plain

Oh, but how can words express the feel of sunlight
In the morning in the hills away from city strife
I need a country woman for my wife
I'm city born but I love the country life

For I can not be part of her "Cocktail-Generation Partner's Waltz,"
Devoid of all romance
The music plays and everyone must dance
I'm bowing out, I need a second chance

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand if you tell it to her plain

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
Just leave me to despair


[youtube= 560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTqi7iEZEWA[/youtube]

I don't know how much of it s truth but I want to know more.
 

Michael

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Nov 30, 2004
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Where is streak?



Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
It's not warm when she's away.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she's gone,
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away.

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain't no sunshine when she's gone,
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone,
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away.

Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
 

Dyer'ere

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Last night Grace Dalrymple complained to me that she was forming a band. Without luck. Nobody would play rhythm for her. She could only play lead, she said, because she wasn't talented enough to play rhythm. Boyfriend looked down into his glass. Nairobi is not musical but picked up the vibe and waved at a passing waiter as she leant on Raleigh. Raleigh stared at his too talented mother with wonder, not a trace of derision. And I remembered when Grace and I were sixteen and naked and she, so slight, held the monstrous me and sang into my ear "You're so far away."

I thought about the band I had in mind. The songs. What we might do and when.

It's the Night Cat. Some salsa night. Derry Locker, the Pearl prdigy, the only prodigy of Broadmeadows back in the day is on congas, not kit. Got Kidlet on upright. Just back from Somewhere, now 26. Can scat and syncopate her bass in the toilet, as The Gyps says. Of course he may be the grandest liar of all time. And it's not the grandeur but the lies we need in these jazz licks.

There are two things we know for sure - that the Night Cat is full of every denomination of leper. And that jazz bands need wanky names. So for the purpose of this gig we called ourselves "A yet to be experienced denomination of leper".

Backing vocals - Magnolie, whose lips are like steaks and her nails like knives. And Grace - lips as thick as your thumbs and her voice like a river.

In a room rich with samba, machismo and sobre-sluzza we would do only one song.

Lights dim. And then up. It's 1, 2, 3, fillip. Licky jazz guitar intro...


A world become one
Of salads and sun
- Only a fool would say that
A boy with a plan
A natural man
- Wearing a white stetson hat
Unhand that gun begone
There's no one to fire upon
If he's holding it high
He's telling a lie

I heard it was you
Talkin' 'bout a world
Where all is free
It just couldn't be
And only a fool would say that


The man in the street
Draggin' his feet
Don't want to hear the bad news
Imagine your face
There is his place
Standing inside his brown shoes
You do his nine to five
Drag yourself home half alive
And there on the screen
A man with a dream

I heard it was you
Talkin' 'bout a world
Where all is free
It just couldn't be
And only a fool would say that
Only a foo-oo-oo-ool.


Anybody on the street
Has murder in his eyes
You feel no pain
And you're younger
Than you realise

I heard it was you
Talkin' 'bout a world
Where all is free
It just couldn't be
And only a fool would say that
Only a fool would say that
Only a fool would say that.


A night of fresh salsa chicks where all the lips are levees, and all the knives are give-aways.

[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqVtM1hax7Y[/youtube]

And only a fool would say that.
 

Dyer'ere

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Always nice to see you in the club, Michael.

SCOOP said:
I don't know how much of it s truth but I want to know more.

Thank you. A tangent, SCOOper:

I went out of the bandroom to the front pisser, through the main bar on the left as you leave there. It was empty, which was comfortable. As I let down a bloke walked in behind me. But he went to the cubicle for a *smile*.

Only that morning, as we walked east along Victoria I'd talked to Joel Cairo about dreams that come back because you won't hear them and about how it was even worse for me because the dreams haunt me in waking life through song.

And I probably should mention that I could have told you when I was seven or forty that I was born to sing but it was one of the things I just wasn't good at. So the feeling of destiny passed. The illusion of it. And then about, maybe four years ago, I joined a choir and learned pitch and found this place in voice I call the honey.

I was talking to M. Cairo about the way dreams won't go away until you acknowledge them, like ghosts, I s'pose. And that I have songs that come up from the past, only a line of which I sing without thinking or listening. A line that drives everybody else crazy but that I don't hear. And then I sing it again, for most of my life off key. A line about me that everybody else knows.

So when the bloke went to the shitter and left me alone I let down quite a bit. "And if she asks you why, you can tell her that I told you." Lazy. Wrong. A-asks. That is a tough change. I went flat just then. Talky. So I sang that phrase again and got it right. Clean notes.

I jumped a bunch of song - "For I will not be part of her cocktail generation. Partners waltz, devoid of all romance. The music plays. And everyone must dance. I'm bowing out. I need a second chance." I looked out the little window for a second or five, watched my flow ebb. And then the bloke from the shitter said clear as a bell "That was some sweet singing, mate."

I said "Thank you." And walked out to order cocktails.
 

Michael

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Nov 30, 2004
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Well, erhummph, Boys and Girls.

We have a twangy little number for youz 'all which will no doubt help if you're questioning your own abilities, cos we dont give a ....
Hats on, boots on, and definitely some of these groooovy three quarter overalls

Im not sure if this is skater or country, perhaps we'll just say "skater country"
So it dont matter if you can ride a horse or if you can ride a skateboard, its all cool with us


it don't matter if your pants are shiny
if your d*ck is big or your d*ck is tiny
it don't matter if your wig's on straight
if you show up early and you party too late
cause it's soul city soul city
the shoes are big but the women are bigger
and the pantyhose make em' look like winners
rolled up hiked up by the knees
got the party dress on can you smell my breeze
cause it's soul city it's soul city
devil and her daughter were up on top
sitting on a stack of cinderblocks
it's soul city yeah it's soul city
it's soul city yeah it's soul city
soul city soul city
it don't matter if your pants are shiny
if your d*ck is big or your d*ck is tiny
it don't matter if your wig's on straight
if you show up early and you party too late
cause it's soul city it's soul city
jumpin' little joint with a roof on top
sitting on a stack of cinderblocks
soul city yeah soul city yeah

[youtube=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpwYciT5VM[/youtube]