Strange Overtones

I wake up every morning
I hear your feet on the stairs
You’re in the next apartment
I hear you singing over there

This groove is out of fashion
These beats are 20 years old
I saw you lend a hand to
The ones out standing in the cold

Strange Overtones in the music you are playing
I’ll harmonize
It is strong and you are tough
But a heart is not enough

Put on your socks and mittens
It’s getting colder tonight
A snowball in my kitchen
I watched it melt before my eyes

Your song still needs a chorus
I know you’ll figure it out
The rising of the verses
A change of key will let you out

Strange overtones though they’re slightly out of fashion
I’ll harmonize
I see the music in your face
That your words cannot explain

Strange Overtones in the music you are playing
We’re not alone
It is strong and you are tough
But a heart is not enough

David Byrne & Brian Eno

Shelter From The Storm

I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

And if I pass this way again you can rest assured
I'll always do my best for her on that I give my word
In a world of steel-eyed death and men who are fighting to be warm
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Not a word was spoke between us there was little risk involved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

I was burned out from exhaustion buried in the hail
Poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail
Hunted like a crocodile ravaged in the corn
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Now there's a wall between us something there's been lost
I took too much for granted got my signals crossed
Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts
And the one-eyed undertaker he blows a futile horn
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".
I've heard newborn babies wailing like a mourning dove
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love
Do I understand your question man is it hopeless and forlorn
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

In a little hilltop village they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor's edge someday I'll make it mine
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
"Come in" she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm".

Bob Dylan

Kiss Me Tiger

Hi Tiger

Teach me tiger how to kiss you.. wah wah wah wah wah

Show me tiger how to kiss you.. wah wah wah wah wah

Take my lips, they belong to you..

But teach me first, teach me what to do..

Touch me tiger when I´m close to you wah wah wah wah wah

Help me tiger I don't know what to do wah wah wah wah wah

I know that you could love me to

But show me first, show me what to do

This is the first love, that I have ever known

What must I do to make you my very own.. ?

Teach me tiger how to tease you wah wah wah wah wah

Tiger, tiger I wanna squeeze you wah wah wah wah wah

All of my love I will give to you

But teach me TIGER.. or I´ll teach you

Tiger .. Tiger.. Tiger..

Nino Tempo & April Stevens

This song is erroneously often accredited to Marilyn Monroe

Cause of it's sexiness.

At the time, it was banned from the radio.

(April kindof looks like Mary Tyler Moore here..)

Ca Plane Pour Moi

Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash Git sur mon lit a bouffe sa langue en buvant tout mon whisky quant a moi peu dormi, vide, brime J'ai du dormir dans la gouttiere Ou j'ai en un flash * Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! En quatre couleurs * Allez hop! un matin Une louloute est venue chez-moi Poupee de cellophane, cheveux chinois un sparadrap, une gueule de bois a bu ma biere dans un grand verre en caoutchouc Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Comme un indien dans son igloo Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi Ca plane pour moi Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Ca plane pour moi Allez hop! la nana quel panard! Quelle vibration! de s'envoyer sur le paillasson Limee, ruinee, videe, comblee You are the King of the divan! Qu'elle me dit en passant Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! I am the King of the divan Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi Ca plane pour moi Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Ca plane pour moi Allez hop! t'occupe t'inquiete touche pas ma planete It's not today Quel le ciel me tombera sur la tete et que la colle me manquera **** Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Ca plane pour moi Allez hop! ma nana s'est tiree S'est barree enfin c'est marre a tout casse L'evier, le bar me laissant seul Comme un grand connard Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Le pied dans le plat Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi Ca plane pour moi Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! Ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi

Wham! Bam! my cat Splash lies on my bed with his tougue puffed out by drinking all my whisky. As for me, not enough sleep, drained persecuted, I had to sleep in the gutter where I had a flash Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! In four colors. Allez-oop! One morning a darling came to my home, a cellophane puppet with Chinese hair, a  plaster, a hangover, drank my beer in a large rubber glass Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! like an Indian in his igloo This works for me, this works for me This works for me me me me me This work for me Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! This works for me Allez-oop! The chick***, what a gas! what a vibration! to be sent on the door mat filed, ruined, drained, filled You are the King of the divan! she says to me in passing Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! I am the King of the divan This works for me, this works for me This works for me me me me me This workss for me Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! This works for me Allez-oop! Don't mind, don't worry Don't affect me It’s not today that the sky will fall on my head and I'll be without glue Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! This life’s  for me Allez-oop! my chick has gone away, flew away, finally had enough, to break the sink, the bar, leaving me alone like a complete jerk Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! I've put my foot in it This works for me, this works for me This works for me me me me me This workss for me Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo! This works for me This workss for me, this works for me This works for me me me me me

Plastic Bertrand

Si tu vois ma mère

Sidney Bechet

That's All Right Mama

Well that's all right mama

That's all right for you

that's all right mama

just anyway you doin it

that's all right

that's all right

that's all right now mama

anyway you do

well mama she done told me

papa done told me

son that gal you foolin'

well she ain't no good for you

but that's all right

that's all right

that's all right now mama

anyway you do

I'm leaving town baby

i'm leaving town for sure

well then you won't have to be bothered with me

hangin' round your door

that's all right

that's all right

that's all right now mama

anyway you do

I need your lovin

that's all right

that's all right now mama

anyway you do

Elvis Presley

You Never Miss a Good Thing 'Till it's Gone

You said goodbye

And you know my love for you is true

You made me cry

And I've never done wrong to you

Goodbye, goodbye

You're gonna cry

Cause you never miss a good thing until it's gone

I know you might miss your water

when the well runs dry

You might miss the sunshine

when there's a cloudy sky

You might miss your dream that never could be

But well you ain't miss nothing, not like you're gonna miss me

You hurt my heart

when you have said our love would always be

Girl, you made us part

because you love someone instead of me

Goodbye everybody

You're, you're gonna cry

cause you never miss a good thing untill it's gone

You never miss a good thing

Until it's gone

(never miss a good thing)

You never miss a good thing baby till it's gone

(never miss a good thing)

One day you're gonna be here and i'll be gone

Gone gone gone gone

Smokey Robinson