Various – Lyrics
Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.
Text by William Shakespeare, music by Gavin Friday and Herb Macken
Machushla
Macushla! Macushla!
Your sweet voice is calling,
Calling me softly,
Again and again,
Macushla! Macushla!
I hear it in vain.
Macushla, Macushla,
Your white arms are reaching,
I feel them enfolding,
Caressing me still.
Fling them out from the darkness,
My lost love, Macushla,
Let them find me and bind me
Again, if they will.
Macushla! Macushla!
Your red lips are saying
That death is a dream,
And love is for aye,
Then awaken, Macushla,
Awake from your dreaming,
My blue-eyed Macushla,
Awaken to stay.
Words by Josephine V. Rowe
Music by Dermot MacMorrough
c. 1910, Boosey & Co., New York
Tenderness of Wolves
From Scatology, by Coil
Was all in vain? Or did you cry?
No need to ask, my tears have run dry
This is the end of my pity
I await to die
You now the living, me now the dead
To prove that you loved me
Mere words could not have said
Bitting into skin, into flesh, into me
Taking all you could
Oh, I’d still give you blood
Just to paint your lips
If you should wish them red
My desires your kiss completed
But only now I can see
The vicious joy when you took delight
Behind each kiss your poison bite
And when my all was given
And you had taken
Oh dog-like Judas
You did disappear
Was all in vain? Or did you cry?
No need to ask
You now the living, me now the dead
Blue Blue Moon
from the album No Talking, Just Heads – The Heads
Another Saturday night
And she knows where she’s goin’
To that small corner bar
On the far side of town
Folks call her Ol’ Faithful
‘Cause she’s always hangin’ aroun’
Dressed up shimmy-shammy
In her sequins and pearls
Hey, there, Moon
Blue, blue moon
I’m all alone
Blue, blue moon
Without a love of my own
A ‘Stoli’ on ice
Makes everything just right
She laughs and chit-chats
With whoever’s around
‘I’ve been there – done that –
Have you heard the one about -?’
No one ever listens
And they don’t hear the sound
Hey, there, Moon
Blue, blue moon
I’m all alone
Blue, blue moon
Without a love of my own
Just looking for a friend
Someone to dance with me
A little romance
Cheek to cheek!
Someone to hold
And dance the night away
‘Tick-tock’
Goes the barroom clock
It’s quarter past two
And the night’s wearing thin
She salutes the happy couples
Bids them all fond ‘Adieu!’
‘Barman, make mine a double!
Cinderella, here, has lost her shoe!’
Hey, there, Moon
Blue, blue moon
I’m all alone
Blue, blue moon
Without a love of my own
‘So, I’ll make believe
Someone danced with me!’
She used to sing, she used to cry
But, now
She doesn’t even try
Because she knows the stars
– Those bright & shiny stars! –
Have all fallen, fallen from the sky
The moon is blue
The moon is blue
The moon is blue
The moon is blue
The moon is blue
(G.Friday, C.Frantz, J. Harrison, T. ‘Blast’ Murray, T. Weymouth)
A Thousand Years
A sweet kiss said forget me not
when love spoke I knew no wrong
but that was once upon a dream come true
a long time ago
baby’s sick
baby’s cold
baby’s feeling blue
for what seems like a thousand years
dreams for those
who sleep at night
lovers kiss, dreams entwine
in the dark I wait at night
for your call
will you call
you never call (my name)
lying weak on my bed alone
moonlight keeps me warm
as I wait for a thousand years
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dreams for those
who sleep at night
lovers kiss, dreams entwine
in the dark I wait at night
for your call
will you call
you never call(ed) (my name)
love is cruel
love’s a liar too
but a fool can see no wrong
so I’ll wait for a thousand years
yes I’ll wait for a thousand years
