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Vengaboys - "We're Going To Ibiza"

Hello Party People!

This Is Captain Kim Speaking

Welcome Aboard Venga Airways

After Take Off Will Pump Up The Soundsystem

Cause We're Going To Ibiza!

I Don't Wanna Be A Busdriver

All My Life

I'm Gonna Pack My Bags And Leave This Town

Grab A Flight

Fly Away On Venga Airways

Fly Me High

Ibiza Sky

I Look Up At The Sky

And I See The Clouds

I Looked Down At The Ground

And I See The Rainbow Down The Drain

Fly Away On Venga Airways

Fly Me High

Ibiza Sky

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza

Whoah! Back To The Island

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea

Far Away From This Big Town

And The Rain

It's Really Very Nice To Be

Home Again

Fly Away On Venga Airways

Fly Me High, Ibiza Sky

Thank You For Flying Venga Airways

We Are Now Approaching Ibiza Airport

As You Can See The Sky Is Blue

And The Beach Is Waiting For You

Whoah! We're Going to Ibiza

Whoah! Back To The Island

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza

Whoah! Back To The Island

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea

"Superfly Slick"

... Big Boy Showing Off All Around The City...... Still The Same Versace Suit

...... Thinking You're So Bad...... Hustlin' Girls, Handy Phone, Acting Like Your

Busy...... Baby Let Me Tell You, You're The Worst I Ever Had...

(boom boom boom)

... Highbrow Attitude, Really Don't Impress Me...

... I Know Where You're Coming From...

... See Right Through Your Game...

... Luxury Overdose Won't Make You Possess Me...

... Baby Let Me Tell You, In The End It's All The Same...

... Don't Think I'm Crying And Trying To Get

You Out Of My Heart...

... No Need Denying That You Have Been Lying

Right From The Start...

... I Thought This Love Would Take Us To The

Heights Of Sensuality...

... But Now I Know That You're Not Even Half

The Man You Said You'd Be...

... Don't Think I'm Crying And Trying To Get

You Out Of My Heart...

... No Need Denying That You Have Been Lying

Right From The Start...

... I Thought This Love Would Take Us To The

Heights Of Sensuality...

... But Now I Know That You're Not Even Half

The Man You Said You'd Be...

Judith Pronk (Alice DJ)

"Fairytales"

Devine, fantasy, like a dream, never ends.

Fairytales are in my head

And in my head they start

To tell you bout the deepest thoughts

That lives inside my heart

Fairytales are in my head

And in my head they start

To tell you bout the deepest thoughts

That lives inside my heart

Devine, fantasy, like a dream, never ends.

Fairytales are in my head

And in my head they start

To tell you bout the deepest thoughts

That lives inside my heart

Fairytales are in my head

And in my head they start

To tell you bout the deepest thoughts

That lives inside my heart

"Elements of life"

Elements of life

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Elements of life

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Love, devotion

Sun, the ocean

Color, emotion

Elements of life

Elements of life

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For Americans, with regret:

Dancing in the dark,

'Til the tune ends,

We're dancing in the dark,

And it soon ends,

We're waltzing in the wonder

of why we're here,

Time hurries by, we're here,

And gone,

Looking for the light,

Of a new love,

To brighten up the night,

I have you, love,

And we can face the music together,

Dancing in the dark

by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz

Jazz singer Jon Hendriks has opined that these lyrics describe a classic near death experience (NDE).

Charles

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Vientnam Song - Country Joe and the Fish ~ 1974

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,

Uncle Sam needs your help again.

He's got himself in a terrible jam

Way down yonder in Vietnam

So put down your books and pick up a gun,

We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for ?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,

Next stop is Vietnam;

And it's five, six, seven,

Open up the pearly gates,

Well there ain't no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Come on Wall Street, don't be slow,

Why man, this is war au-go-go

There's plenty good money to be made

By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,

But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,

They drop it on the Viet Cong.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for ?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,

Next stop is Vietnam.

And it's five, six, seven,

Open up the pearly gates,

Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;

Your big chance has come at last.

Now you can go out and get those reds

'Cause the only good commie is the one that's dead

And you know that peace can only be won

When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for ?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,

Next stop is Vietnam;

And it's five, six, seven,

Open up the pearly gates,

Well there ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Come on mothers throughout the land,

Pack your boys off to Vietnam.

Come on fathers, and don't hesitate

To send your sons off before it's too late.

And you can be the first ones in your block

To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three

What are we fighting for ?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,

Next stop is Vietnam.

And it's five, six, seven,

Open up the pearly gates,

Well there ain't no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Right on, Peter.

"Give me an F...give me a U..." - 'CJ and the F', same song, intro at Woodstock. Reference to Jane Fonda F.U.C.K. parody on opponent comments.

From J Cash Hurt topic

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,

Why you never see bright colors on my back,

And why does my appearance always have a somber tone.

Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,

Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,

And I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,

But still is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,

Or listened to the words that Jesus said,

About the road to happiness through love and charity,

Why, you'd think He's talking straight to youse and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,

In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,

But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,

Up front there ought'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,

For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,

I wear the black in mourning for the lives that could have been,

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And yes I wear it for the thousands who have died,

Believen' that the Lord was on their side,

and to wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,

Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,

And things need changin' everywhere you go,

But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,

You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,

To tell the world that everything's OK,

But maybe I can carry off a little darkness on my back,

'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

John R.Cash - 1971

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

words and music by Pete Seeger

performed by Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the flowers gone?

Girls have picked them every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the young girls gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the young girls gone?

Taken husbands every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the young men gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the young men gone?

Gone for soldiers every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Gone to graveyards every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Covered with flowers every one

When will we ever learn?

When will we ever learn?

©1961 (Renewed) Fall River Music Inc

All Rights Reserved.

Unique Resource Identifier: 9-37-0-2-44-1-1ph

Title: [Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Photograph]

Author: Originating Agency: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

Publisher: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Original Format: B&W

Image Format Information

Source: Forms Part of Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006.

Description: Pete Seeger talks while seated with others at a table

Date: Original created: 196-

Sov. Com. Index: Personal Name(s)

Seeger, Pete

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Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

In the streets of San Francisco

Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration

People in motion

There's a whole generation with a new explanation

People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

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Rat Race

Ah! Ya too rude

Oh what a rat race

Oh what a rat race

This is the rat race

Some a lawful, some a (some are good)

bastard, some a jacket (some are not good, some are 'suits')

Oh what a rat race, rat race

Some a gorgan, some (?)

a hooligan, some a (Lumpen extremists, wrong path, eg K,K,K,

guine-gog (?)

In this rat race, yeah!

Rat race

I'm singing

When the cats away

The mice will play

Political voilence fill ya city

Yea-ah!

Don't involve Rasta in your say say

Rasta don't work for no C.I.A. (good)

Rat race, rat race, rat race

When you think is peace and safety

A sudden destruction

Collective security for surety (strategy of tension, permanent war on anything, terror, drugs, heathens. (The state is a body of armed men - Engels))

Yeah!

Don't forget your history (good advice)

Know your destiny

In the abundance of water

The fool is thirsty (think outside the square, there are no problems, only solutions (JL))

Rat race, rat race, rat race

Oh it's a disgrace to see the

Human-race in a rat race, rat race

You got the horse race

You got the dog race

You got the human-race

But this is a rat race, rat race (rampging capitalism)

___________

Sun is Shining

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet

Make you want to move your dancing feet

To the rescue, here I am

Want you to know ya, where I stand

When the morning gathers the rainbow

Want you to know I'm a rainbow too

So, to the rescue here I am

Want you to know just if you can

Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know

We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises

We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises, yeah

So to the rescue, to the rescue, to the rescue

Awake from your sleep and slumber (the 'Internationale' : 'Arise ye workers from your slumbers, servile masses arise, arise... , "I Have a Dream..." - MLK*)

Today could be your lucky number

Sun is shining and the weather is sweet

____________

So much Troube in the World

So much trouble in the world now

So much trouble in the world now

Bless my eyes this morning

JAH sun is on the rise once again

The way earthly things are going

Anything can happen

You see men sailing on their ego trips

Blast off on their spaceships

Million miles from reality

No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now

So much trouble in the world now

All you've got to do is give a little

Give a little, give a little

One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!

So you think you have found the solution

But it's just another illusion

So before you check out your tide

Don't leave another cornerstone

standing there behind

We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may

We the street people talking, we

the people struggling

Now they are sitting on a time bomb

Now I now the time has come

What goes up must come down

Goes around comes around (the cycle of violence : if all said NO, that's enough, NO, I won't do that, NO, I will not be meat in your grinder, NO, I will noot feed your greed, NO, you're not the Boss of me : my morality, my ethics, my conscience is.)

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble

There is so much trouble

There is so much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble in the world

______________

Three little birds

Rise up this mornin',

Smiled with the risin' sun,

Three little birds

Pitch by my doorstep

Singin' sweet songs

Of melodies pure and true,

Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"...

ROBERT NESTA MARLEY

* MLK epitaph : http://www.aberdeenfoundation.org/images/king2.jpg

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Rat Race

Ah! Ya too rude

Oh what a rat race

Oh what a rat race

This is the rat race

Some a lawful, some a (some are good)

bastard, some a jacket (some are not good, some are 'suits')

Oh what a rat race, rat race

Some a gorgan, some (?)

a hooligan, some a (Lumpen extremists, wrong path, eg K,K,K,

guine-gog (?)

In this rat race, yeah!

Rat race

I'm singing

When the cats away

The mice will play

Political voilence fill ya city

Yea-ah!

Don't involve Rasta in your say say

Rasta don't work for no C.I.A. (good)

Rat race, rat race, rat race

When you think is peace and safety

A sudden destruction

Collective security for surety (strategy of tension, permanent war on anything, terror, drugs, heathens. (The state is a body of armed men - Engels))

Yeah!

Don't forget your history (good advice)

Know your destiny

In the abundance of water

The fool is thirsty (think outside the square, there are no problems, only solutions (JL))

Rat race, rat race, rat race

Oh it's a disgrace to see the

Human-race in a rat race, rat race

You got the horse race

You got the dog race

You got the human-race

But this is a rat race, rat race (rampging capitalism)

___________

Sun is Shining

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet

Make you want to move your dancing feet

To the rescue, here I am

Want you to know ya, where I stand

When the morning gathers the rainbow

Want you to know I'm a rainbow too

So, to the rescue here I am

Want you to know just if you can

Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know

We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises

We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises, yeah

So to the rescue, to the rescue, to the rescue

Awake from your sleep and slumber (the 'Internationale' : 'Arise ye workers from your slumbers, servile masses arise, arise... , "I Have a Dream..." - MLK*)

Today could be your lucky number

Sun is shining and the weather is sweet

____________

So much Troube in the World

So much trouble in the world now

So much trouble in the world now

Bless my eyes this morning

JAH sun is on the rise once again

The way earthly things are going

Anything can happen

You see men sailing on their ego trips

Blast off on their spaceships

Million miles from reality

No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now

So much trouble in the world now

All you've got to do is give a little

Give a little, give a little

One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!

So you think you have found the solution

But it's just another illusion

So before you check out your tide

Don't leave another cornerstone

standing there behind

We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may

We the street people talking, we

the people struggling

Now they are sitting on a time bomb

Now I now the time has come

What goes up must come down

Goes around comes around (the cycle of violence : if all said NO, that's enough, NO, I won't do that, NO, I will not be meat in your grinder, NO, I will noot feed your greed, NO, you're not the Boss of me : my morality, my ethics, my conscience is.)

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble

There is so much trouble

There is so much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble in the world

______________

Three little birds

Rise up this mornin',

Smiled with the risin' sun,

Three little birds

Pitch by my doorstep

Singin' sweet songs

Of melodies pure and true,

Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"...

ROBERT NESTA MARLEY

* MLK epitaph : http://www.aberdeenfoundation.org/images/king2.jpg

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Referring to youtube topic post:

Indeed : The Great Joni Mitchell (for those with dial-up, (I find the loading time consuming without broadband) the Lyrics:

"For Free"

I slept last night in a good hotel

I went shopping today for jewels

The wind rushed around in the dirty town

And the children let out from the schools

I was standing on a noisy corner

Waiting for the walking green

Across the street he stood

And he played real good

On his clarinet, for free.

Now me I play for fortune

And those velvet curtain calls

I've got a black limousine

And two gentlemen

Escorting me to the halls

And I play if you have the money

Or if you're a friend to me

But the one man band

By the quick lunch stand

He was playing real good, for free.

Nobody stopped to hear him

Though he played so sweet and high

They knew he had never

Been on their T.V.

So they passed his music by

I meant to go over and ask for a song

Maybe put on a harmony...

I heard his refrain

As the signal changed

He was playing real good, for free.

Another good one:

"Woodstock"

He was walking along the road

And I asked him, where are you going

And this he told me

Im going on down to yasgurs farm

Im going to join in a rock n roll band

Im going to camp out on the land

Im going to try an get my soul free

We are stardust

We are golden

And weve got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you

I have come here to lose the smog

And I feel to be a cog in something turning

Well maybe it is just the time of year

Or maybe its the time of man

I dont know who l am

But you know life is for learning

We are stardust

We are golden

And weve got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

By the time we got to woodstock

We were half a million strong

And everywhere there was song and celebration

And I dreamed I saw the bombers

Riding shotgun in the sky

And they were turning into butterflies

Above our nation

We are stardust

Billion year old carbon

We are golden

Caught in the devils bargain

And weve got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

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The winning days are gone

Because I know just where I'm seeing

Was given eyes I know

I can hear

Cause underneath there's gold

I need to get around to find it

And when I want to go

I can dream

I've been trying

All my time

I'm just seeing it rise

Cause it could be the land that's over me

So I just wanna let it breathe

The winning days are gone

Because I know just where I'm seeing

Was given eyes I know

I can hear

Cause underneath there's gold

I need to get around to find it

And when I want to go

I can dream

I've been trying

All my time

I'm just seeing it rise

Cause it could be the land that's over me

So I just wanna let it breathe for now

Get up and go outside

It can help your mind too

Get up don't hide away

Cause I know where they go

I´ve seen you down when I was flying

I'm sinking like a stone

I can´t breathe

I've been trying...

Winning Days - The Vines

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Follow through

Make your dreams come true

Don't give up the fight

You will be all right

Cause there's no one like you

In the universe

Don't be afraid

What your mind conceives

You should make a stand

Stand up for what you believe

And tonight we can truly say

Together we're invincible

And during the struggle

They will pull us down

But please, please let's use this chance to

Turn things around

And tonight we can truly say

Together we're invincible

Do it on your own

Makes no difference to me

What you leave behind

What you choose to be

and whatever they say

Your soul's unbreakable

And during the struggle

They will pull us down

But please, please let's use this chance to

Turn things around

And tonight we can truly say

Together we're invincible

Together we're invincible

Invincible - Muse

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All The Sad Young Men

by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman

Sing a song of sad young men, glasses full of rye

All the news is bad again, kiss your dreams goodbye

All the sad young men, sitting in the bars

Knowing neon nights, and missing all the stars

All the sad young men, drifting through the town

Drinking up the night, trying not to drown

All the sad young men, singing in the cold

Trying to forget, that they're growing old

All the sad young men, choking on their youth

Trying to be brave, running from the truth

Autumn turns the leaves to gold, slowly dies the heart

Sad young men are growing old, that's the cruellest part

All the sad young men, seek a certain smile

Someone they can hold, for just a little while

Tired little girl, does the best she can

Trying to be gay, for a sad young men

While a grimy moon, watches from above

All the sad young men, who play at making love

Misbegotten moon shine for sad young men

Let your gentle light guide them home again

All the sad, sad, sad, young men

_________________________________________________

For those who return contained or minimized.

Vocal version: Anita O'Day

Instrumental version: Art Pepper

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Guest Gary Loughran

Reminds me of the PC/JFK forum everytime I hear it. For fans of Orwell

If you tolerate this your children will be next (longest titled UK no 1 without brackets) - Manic Sreet Preachers

The future teaches you to be alone

The present to be afraid and cold

So if I can shoot rabbits

Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today

But we'll forget it all again

Monuments put from pen to paper

Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Gravity keeps my head down

Or is it maybe shame

At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today

But I'm a pacifist

I've walked La Ramblas

But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

And on the street tonight an old man plays

With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

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A bit of a pessimistic song from Ash, yet wonderful lyrics.

Behold this night, still and clear

You look here just like an angel sleeping

I wish I could ease your fears

I would catch the diamond tears you're weeping

In your eyes I would hide

By your side I could defy

The forces tearing us apart

But reality, as it seems

Looking back, is that our dream

Was fated from the start

We're star-crossed and can't escape

We're condemned and can only wait

At this time now it's far too late

To save us from our fate

I'll remain in your hold

Body, mind, heart and soul

As long as I breathe

Though consequence takes its toll

All is out of our control

That's how it will be

So close your eyes my young bride

Listen to me one last time

There's something I have to say

When your faith turns to despair

Always will my love be there

And never fade away

We're star-crossed and can't escape

We're condemned and can only wait

At this time now it's far too late

To save us from our fate

You can't save us

You can't save us

At this time now it's far too late

The poison's in our veins

It's true

You know that I'd die for you

You know that I'd die for you

You know that I'd die for you

Forever true

I'll see you through

Starcrossed - Ash

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It's the intensity in the lyrics and the tunes of the guitars that make this song so special.

----

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide.

I'll take it by your side.

Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide.

I'll take it by your side.

Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies.

I'll take it by your side.

Oversaturation curls the skin and tans the hide.

I'll take it by your side.

I'm unclean, a libertine

And every time you vent your spleen,

I seem to lose the power of speech,

You're slipping slowly from my reach.

You grow me like an evergreen,

You've never seen the lonely me at all

I...

Take the plan, spin it sideways.

I...

Fall.

Without you, I'm nothing.

Without you, I'm nothing.

Without you, I'm nothing.

Take the plan, spin it sideways.

Without you, I'm nothing at all.

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

Edited by Cigdem Eksi
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What is life if you're not there?

Why should I even care?

All alone inside my head

Watch the walls close in instead

I'm not supposed to bring you down

You're not supposed to turn me round

What are dreams if not made real?

How am I supposed to feel?

What's your love without some hate?

Should I act or hesitate?

It's a comfort when you

It's a comfort when you

It's a comfort when you smile

Comfort When You Smile - Puressence

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