Well, I don't know where I am but I know my destination [3x]
Knock 'em down, Christian soldiers, knock 'em down
Well the devil likes his liquor and he smokes a big cigar [3x]
But he's always been a real good friend of mine
If there's a hell way down below, I bet you see someone you know [3x]
And we'll all have a fucking good time

So knock 'em down, knock 'em down, another dead soldier hits the ground
Because our time on earth is brief, we don't want no strife or grief
So knock 'em down, knock 'em down, knock 'em down

If there's a heaven in the air, don't expect to see me there [3x]
Knock 'em down, lords and ladies, knock 'em down
Well I don't believe in god cause he don't believe in me [3x]
And he never returns any of my calls

[repeat chorus]

I don't believe in god cause he don't believe in me [3x]
And he never returns any of my calls
Well the earth just keep on spinning 'round as history repeats [3x]
Knock 'em down, cocks and chickens, knock 'em down
And I hope you all remember me when I'm in my grave [3x]
Fill your glass, get off your ass, and knock 'em down

Knock 'em down, knock 'em down, knock 'em down


Firewater Knock 'Em Down

The prey of the beast screamed
Bloody murder
The line is so fine between
Hoping and hurting
Former believers they beg for release
As love looking down on them
Smiles and picks his teeth
Trapped in between heaven and hell
He knows all the secrets
And don't want to tell
There's nowhere to run and there's
Nowhere to hide
Love knows you all too well
He will find you

Love is the ghost haunting your head
Love is the killer you thought
Was your friend
Love is the creature who lives
In the dark
Sneaks up, will stick you
And painfully pick you apart

Love is a poet, love sings the songs
Pointing his finger you follow along
Voice are calling,
The monster wants out of you
Paws you and claws you, you try not to fall

Love is the leech, sucking you up
Love is a vampire, drunk on your blood
Love is the beast that will
Tear out your heart
Hungrily lick it and
Painfully pick it apart

Love is a ghost, haunting your head
Love is the killer you thought
Was your friend
Love is the teacher who lives in the dark
Sneak up and stick you
And painfully pick you apart

The Beast - Concrete Blonde

Van Morrison High Summer

By the mansion on the hillside
Red sports car comes driving down the road
And pulls up into the driveway
And a story does unfold

She's standing by the rhododendrons
Where the roses are in bloom
Looking out at the atlantic ocean
And in her head she hums this tune

Thank God the dark nights are drawing in again
'cos high summer has got me down
I'll wait till the end of august
And get off this merry-go-round

And they shut him out of paradise
Called him Lucifer and frowned
She took pride in what God made him
Even before the angels shot him down to the ground

He's a light out of the darkness
And he wears a starry crown
If you see him, nothing will shake him
'cos high summer has got him low down

High summer's got him lonesome
Even when he makes the rounds
There's been no two ways about it
High summer's got him low down

Checked in to the tiny village by the lakeside
Settled down to start anew
Far away from the politicians
And the many chosen few

Far away trom the jealousy factor
And everything that was tearing him apart
Far away from the organ grinder
And everyone that played their part

And they shut him out of paradise
Called him Lucifer and frowned
'cos he took pride in what God made him
Even before the angels shot him to the ground

He's a light out of the darkness
And he wears a starry crown
If you see him nothing will shake him
'cos high summer's got him low down

High summer's on the rebound
High summer's got him low down
High summer's on the rebound
High summer's got him down, low down
High summer's on the rebound
High summer's got him low down
Low down

José

I'm crushing on Mark Lanegan again. I've learned this song, but there's not much to it on guitar, and I don't have the voice to carry it convincingly. So I post it rather than singing it:

"One Hundred Days" - Mark Lanegan

When the weather bends
Toward the end of day
And twilight falls again
To the funny sound that a blackbird makes
Twilight falls again
As no good reason remains
I'll do the same
Thinking of you

One day ship comes in
One day ship comes in
But I can't say how or when
But I know somewhere, a ship comes in every day


There is no morphine, I'm only sleeping
There is no crime to dreams like this
And if you could take something with you
It would be bright
Something good


From my fingertips the cigarette throws ashes to the ground
I'd stop and talk to the girls who work this street
But I got business farther down
Like one long season of rain
I will remain
Thinking of you


One day ship comes in
From far away ship comes in
One hundred days you wait for it
And you know somewhere, a ship comes in every day


There is no morphine I'm only sleeping
There is no crime to dreams likie this
And if you could take something with you
It would be bright
Just like something good

One day ship comes in
One hundred days you wait for it
Something bright
Something so good

So Long I'll See Ya - Tom Waits

Mamas in the kitchen, Daddies on the phone
And nobody knows what's going on
But I've got those
so long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues

Well one for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready, Tom's gotta go
He's got them
so long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues

Well bye-bye-bye, well bye-bye-bye
Sing bye-bye Shooby-do-bye-bye
Gotta skeet-skat outta here, skeet-skat outta here

And mamas in the kitchen, daddies on the phone
And nobody knows what's going on
But I've got those
so long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues

Well Tommy's gotta skeet-skat, skeet-skat outta here
Skeet-skat right outta here
And one for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready, I gotta go
Cause I've got them
so long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues
And skeet-skat outta here, gonna skeet-skat outta here,
Gonna skeet-skatJoutta here, gonna skeet-skat outta here
Got so long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues
Gonna skeet-skat outta here, gonna skeet-skat outta here,
Gonna skeet-skatJoutta here, gonna skeet-skat outta here
I got solongI'llseeyoucausemyBuick'soutsidewaitingblues

Strapping Young Lad - Possesions
(Album: Alien, song 7)

I want your HEART
Your SOUL...
...and your MIND
You'll give me TRUST
...Your body,
Then you're mine!
...And being HUMAN
...is FUCKED as it is.
With all these questions
Of FAITH, and of...KIDS!!!
So what do you wanna do now baby???
...Do you wanna have a fucking BABY!?

NO!!!!!!!!

Whoa no...God no...
Whoa no...God...

GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, GO!!!
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, ALL!!!
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY, GET AWAY, GO!!!
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET INTO THE CAR AND DRIVE!!!

Far!!! Far!!! Far!!! Far!!!

Vacation, procreation, sterilization,
DISNEYLAND!!!

...should we do it?
...d'ya wanna DO IT?!?!?!?!
I'll protect you...

Mommy!!!

Children and money and family and DEATH and
TAXES and CAREER
And PICKET FENCES
...JUST GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

TAKE IT!!!
FUCK IT ALL!!!

GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, GO!!!
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY (Goddamn I need it...)
GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, ALL!!!
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn I need to...)
GET AWAY, GET AWAY, GO!!!
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET AWAY (Goddamn we need to...)
GET INTO THE CAR AND DRIVE!!!

HERE IT COMES!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!

--

It's a metal song about having kids (probably one of the only ones), and i'm loving it.

BUFFY- Every single night
The same arrangement
I go out and fight the fight
Still I always feel
This strange estrangement
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right

I've been making shows
Of trading blows
Just hoping no one knows
That I've been

Going through the motions
Walking through the part
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart

I was always brave
And kind of righteous
Now I find I'm wavering
Crawl out of your grave
You find this fight just
Doesn't mean a thing

VAMPIRE- She ain't got that swing
(He knocks Buffy to the ground)

BUFFY- Thanks for noticing

GOAT DEMON AND VAMPIRE- She does pretty well
With fiends from hell
But lately we can tell
That she's just
[Buffy beats the vampires and stabs the goat demon as they sing]
Going through the motions
Faking it somehow
She's not even half the girl she -
[Delayed reaction] Oww!

BUFFY- Will I stay this way forever?
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?

(She cuts a captive man free)
CAPTIVE MAN- How can I repay y-

BUFFY- Whatever --
I don't want to be

Going through the motions
Losing all my drive
I can't even see
If this is really me
And I just wanna be
Alive!

That was post 666 too... kinda fitting.

Synchronicity - just basked in the goodness that is "Once More With Feeling" again two nights ago. DAYUM!!!

Sheer synchronicity. But it's neat that you noticed.

edit - Checkitout! Bravus and I said the word 'synchronicity' at the same time! Coke!

quote:

Originally posted by tigerstripes:
BUFFY- Every single night
The same arrangement
I go out and fight the fight
Still I always feel
This strange estrangement
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right

I've been making shows
Of trading blows
Just hoping no one knows
That I've been

Going through the motions
Walking through the part
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart

I was always brave
And kind of righteous
Now I find I'm wavering
Crawl out of your grave
You find this fight just
Doesn't mean a thing

VAMPIRE- She ain't got that swing
(He knocks Buffy to the ground)

BUFFY- Thanks for noticing

GOAT DEMON AND VAMPIRE- She does pretty well
With fiends from hell
But lately we can tell
That she's just
[Buffy beats the vampires and stabs the goat demon as they sing]
Going through the motions
Faking it somehow
She's not even half the girl she -
[Delayed reaction] Oww!

BUFFY- Will I stay this way forever?
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?

(She cuts a captive man free)
CAPTIVE MAN- How can I repay y-

BUFFY- Whatever --
I don't want to be

Going through the motions
Losing all my drive
I can't even see
If this is really me
And I just wanna be
Alive!

My God;

Someone else on the WGB liked "Once more with Feeling"; I have felt ashamed to admit my fondness for the works of Joss Whedon but now I can stand proud & say I truly relish BtVS & consider Firefox one of the best shows on TV in the last few years.

Maybe its just the jet lag.

LN

Aw, Buffy is the greatest!

[sniff]I miss the macho goodness of Buffy so much...[/sniff]

Edit:
Woa, so many Buffy fans; we oughtta start a club.

"If I were the man she wanted" - Lyle Lovett

They all sat around in a circle
They were all laughing and all telling lies
Then the tall one he bumped in a dollar
He said boys I've got nothing to hide
Now if the King and the Queen stood together
Then the ace he would not be to blame
And if the cards were all laid on the table
Then love could be more than a game

And if the stars didn't shine on the water
Then the sun wouldn't burn on the sand
And if I were the man she wanted
I would not be the man that I am

And I have seen my share of long nights
And I have told my share of lies
And I have run into the darkness
When I saw the look in your eyes
But if the night didn't lie in the darkness
Then the daylight would be hard to find
And if the truth didn't turn to a weakness
I would have never have spoken my mind

And if the stars didn't shine on the water
Then the sun wouldn't burn on the sand
And if I were the man you wanted
Then I would not be the man that I am

So if you're going out to Califonia
Then don't linger in New Mexico
And if you think of the one there behind you
Then you might not feel so alone

And if the stars didn't shine on the water
Then the sun wouldn't burn on the sand
And if I were the man you wanted
I would not be the man that I am


That simple couplet at the heart of the song "And if I were the man she wanted
I would not be the man that I am"
absolutely breaks me up.

LN

Sweetie, it's not the jetlag; Joss is God.

Although you did write 'Firefox' instead of 'Firefly'.

Okay, maybe a little bit the jetlag.

As mentioned in the Anticipated Movies thread (by Vecna, I believe?)... the official Fawning Firefly Fan t-shirt for Whedonites:

quote:

Originally posted by tigerstripes:
Sweetie, it's not the jetlag; Joss is God.

Although you did write 'Firefox' instead of 'Firefly'.

Okay, maybe a little bit the jetlag.

Thanks TS; I wrote FireFOX instead of Firefly because Fox's treatment of the series still wrankles.

The film premiered last week at the Edinburgh Film Festival to excellent reviews. Strangely it opens in the UK before the US.

Strange how synchronicity plays such a part in JW's life BtVS was an unsuccesful movie (box office wise) turned into a very succesful TV series, whilst Firefly (an unsuccesful TV series) is being turned into a movie.

After 8 days away from home, the jetlag is kicking in strongly, my last 3 nights have been 3hrs (in 2 90 min blocks); 13 hrs non stop and 5.5 hrs last night. Writing this at 7:10am Hong Kong time, having been up for an hour.

Once more, with feeling
LN

"Fuoco" - Adriano Celentano

Siamo sempre li, intorno a lei
a farci riscaldar dai suoi guai
e dai suoi ""consigli per gli acquisti"" di illusioni

che ci rendono belli fuori
e ci fan marcire dentro,
mentre l'ignoranza arriva in casa vestita in frack,
e tu sei sempre li

sempre
sempre di fronte a lei
e non ti accorgi che
non parliamo piu

e speri che prima o poi ti dia
il consiglio giusto per farmi rinnamorar di te
davanti a noi non brucia piu
quel fuoco antico che ci uni...
ti stendevi nuda e nel dolce crepitio della fiamma
che ardeva in quel camino
se confondevano i tuoi sussurri mentre io
bruciavo con te.

Fuoco
da quando ti sei spento
l'amore di tutto il mondo
si e spento insieme a te
e ora al tuo posto
troneggia una sputabugie
dove trionfa l'ignoranza colta
di questa gioventu

Fuoco da quando ti sei spento
l'amore c'era in noi
si e spento insieme a te.

Fuoco da quando ti sei spento
l'amore c'era in noi
si e spento insieme a te.

Fuoco da quando ti sei spento
l'amore c'era in noi
si e spento insieme a te.

Fuoco da quando ti sei spento
l'amore c'era in noi
si e spento insieme a te.

he told me he rolled four twenties in a row/ i told him that's
impossible.
your dice are loaded and your tryin' to cheat and i ripped up
his character sheet.
he cried, 'oh god, oh god what have ya done? a little cheatin
never hurt no one'
i kicked him out 'go tell all your friends, that i am the master
of the dungeon'

we got a major malfunction, daily we watch aliens
after all our paths will veer and we'll start playing star
frontiers
science fiction is pleasing to me but i'll never give up my d&d
with that attitude you'd never go far and you'll never be the
dungeon master.

i get two or three offers like this every day, plus or minus two
or three
who cares any way/ most popular girl in school, she shut me up
and said
'well here's the truth, all the rumours about me, they are just
words, i don't do parties i just do nerds - i wanna live fast
and i wanna die young i want a white picket fence in front of my
dungeon.

after the big game at the dragon (we cruised the cliffs in my
station wagon)
turned off the ignition and began to speak (how waged the war
with my goblin fleet)

are you blind, why can't you see? (you spend less time with me
than with your D&D
what's wrong don't i treat you nice (she cried to me)
when other girls get flowers all i get is dice (twelve sides is
nice)

my life in the fast lane, it rolled right past her (my baby
could not hang with me, dungeon master)
she tried to be the one, to break up faster, but my heart was
protected by a low armor class, yeah.


Dungeon Master - The Huxtables

(thanks, hurts)

How could that happen?
How could that happen again?
Where the fuck was I looking
When all his horses came in?

P J Harvey - Kamikaze

Once more from the Lyle Lovett album Anthology

God Will

Who keeps on trusting you
When you've been cheating
And spending your nights on the town
And who keeps on saying that he still wants you
When you're through running around
And who keeps on loving you
When you've been lying
Saying things ain't what they seem
God does
But I don't
God will
But I won't
And that's the difference
Between God and me

So who says he'll forgive you
And says that he'll miss you
And dream of your sweet memory
God does
But I don't
God will
But I won't
And that's the difference
Between God and me

LN