Тексты песен 10000 Maniacs

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me." A lie to ssay, "O my River where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul

You were looking away from me, western skies calling you. Colors spilling, running dazzling you. I was looking the other way, voices call from the east, I saw my roots of the trees there planted at

Well they left then in the morning, a hundred pairs of wings in the light moved together. In the colors of the morning I looked to the clouds in the cirrus sky and they'd gone. Across the marshes,

She walks alone on the brick lane, the breeze is blowing. A year had changed her forever, just like her grey home. He used to live so close here, we'd look for places I can't remember. The world was s

dance to the sun a kiss to the earth embrace a stone come the small black book come the brandy cask one strange disease the well worded paper signed by the drunken hands of thieves and su

For whom do the bells toll When sentenced to die The stuttering rifles Will stifle the cry The Monstrous anger The fear's rapid rattle A desert inferno Kids dying Like cattle Don't tell me We're no

Wide open falsehood The clan destine truths Rival till the end In a series of duels Pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in vienna has taught me to use Every tall room a fiction Leather

Jenny Jenny you don't know the nights I hide Below a second story room To whistle you down The man who's let to divvy up Time is a miser He's got a silver coin Only lets it shine for hours W

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under yo

I was thinking today if you would remember you choose to remember what you left me out there in the cold days fading away I see you so near I hear your voice calling it calls me from these pages to

I saw a big star running from me, a world from a record on my bed. Turn the tables on me, what would happen if I fell to the tune of a dreamer, to the tune of my heart? A big start running from me,

[ alternative version of planned obsolescence ] Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness Love, breaks apart is amyth of human kindness Love, breaks apart is a myth of human kindness Pani

"Mercy, mercy," why didn't we hear it? "Mercy, mercy," why did we read It Buried on the last page of our morning papers? The plan was drafted, Drafted in secret. Gunboats met the red tide, driven t

[ Billy Bragg and Natalie Merchant ] Crowds gather round kneeling at the feet of common thieves Hungry for the word, but God would never speak through such as these, Such as these Who offer healing ha

Shards of glass cut through my gaze broken streamers hanging at my legs drunk and giddy full of fate at the cabaret smokey stares from the bar do stray bottles tumble I feel the misty spray what a p

Steep is the water tower Painted off blue to match the sky Can’t ignore the train Night walks in the valley silent You could swear the earth just moved Can’t ignore the train Dust to

If lust and hate is the candy, If blood and love tastes so sweet, Then we give 'em what they want. Hey, hey, give 'em what they want. So their eyes are growing hazy 'cos they wanna turn it on, S

Over your shoulder, please don't mind me if my eyes have Fallen onto your magazine for I've been watching and wondering why Your face is changing with every line you read. All those lines And circl

I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. And in that circle I had made were all The worlds unformed and unborn yet. A volume, a sphere that was the earth, That was the moon, that did re

Heaven, is this heaven wher we are? See them walking, if youi Dare , if you call that walking. Stumble, stagger, fall and drag Themselvesalong the streets of heaven. Where is the blessed table to f

One time You made me cry Be proud that i Remember My chin is sore The bruise is gone But the spot is tender Gave my hand a sister coy To cotton alley where You did enjoy Your wicked game

Like a weasel in the clover You tilt toss Pop turn over Sit down Tremble and weave like a moth By flame deceived Sit down Spill with your words caught up Dance in your room Slide like You're butter

Chorus: Did you ever see dallas from a dc-9 at night? Dallas is a jewel Yeah, dallas is a beautiful sight Dallas is a jungle But dallas gives a beautiful light Did you ever see dallas from a dc-

There were women holding Rosaries On the day Manolette died Teenage girls in soft white dresses Standing silent peace respecting Groups of boys held in their hands The fragments of a shattered idol

[ original version by R.E.M. ] Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello, they

Don't talk, I will listen. Don't talk, you keep your Distance for I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain Your lies, so take you poison silently. Let me be. Let me close My eyes. Don't ta

I should know to leave them home. They follow me through the store With These toys I can't afford. "Kids, take them back, you know better than That." Dolls that talk, astronauts, T.V. games, airpl

Detroit, l.a.,boston, san francisco, First time over the ocean on a plane A billion stars below me lay, Circle slowly jfk, So much there to see inside of a week They came looking for something ne

O, baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of Baby blue. Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed Bed. Now I know lightning strikes again. It struck me once,

We are the roses in the garden, Beauty with thorns among our leaves. To pick a rose you ask your hands to bleed. What is the reason for having roses When your blood is shed carelessly? It must be for

Eager to please was just the way that he was though his attempts there falling short, expectation see he would tell of all his conquests, was he bragging? but in the evening all alone Ellen unplann

Even with my eyes closed, Funny how I know It's harder, it's harder now. Young girl In my young girl days, Thinking I could live for always. But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside And I

Times are far between, And few I bet, When we can look upon our lives Without regret. Of all the things I have done, You think I'm proud Of everyone Without exception? 'Till you make your peac

Waking on a train dreaming, charmed alone they started speaking. Captured in his artist way before the memories fade away. To remember a face, and you're home or want to. Certain they would meet so

"While the young folks were having their good times some of The mothers were giving birth to their babies. Three babies were Born in our company that summer. My cousin, Emily, gave birth to A son i

An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a Cave. The strangest sight there alone they stood, with skin of green and Words No one had heard. The girl was stronger, the boy w

There was light and atomic Fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared Shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one Thousand flames arising Ill scent the bur

Imitate that soured old song There is No individuality Only guises Shades of Nonconformity There is no Individuality Selling vantage points Low rate There is no Individuality Questions anci

I always knew that you would take yourself far from home as Soon as, as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and The Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've

I always knew that you would take yourself far from home as Soon as, as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and The Army issue green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've

In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries 'til Awakened By a white man's cry: "This is the Eden I was to find." There were Lands to Be charted and to be claimed for a crown, when

To your common sense firm arguments I won't listen to your voice of Reason Trying to change my mind. I mind my feelings and not your words. Didn't you Notice I'm so headstrong even when I know I'm

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother and the tears She cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in Our little world that hated and that dared to drag him down. Her Little boy coura

I see the leaves of autumn changing falling turning what was green I see a door standing open, open to curiosity we could be together tear it all apart would you ever notice what was hidden in my he

Bent double like old beggars in sacks Knockkneed and cursing or coughing like hags Men marched on sleeping Some without boots Fatigue drunken deaf still to the hoots Of breaking Gas shells Dropping

"My, how you've grown." I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. "Just wait and see." I remember those words and how they chided me, When patient was the hardest thing to be. Because we

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes I could promise you things, Like big diamond rings But if that's what it tak

It crawls on his back, won't ever let him be. Stares at the walls Until the cinder blocks can breathe. His eyes have gone away, escaping Over time. He rules a crowded nation inside his mind. He knows

If you intend to live again, Then open your eyes and don't pretend You're feeling there's nothing worth believing. God, if you persist you'll die like this, And wither in the midst of your first seaso

A lie to say, "O my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig. 500 men with axes and they all dig for me." A lie to ssay, "O my River where mant fish do swim, half of the catch is mine when you haul

In the quiet morning There was much despair And in the hours that followed No one could repair That poor girl Tossed by the tides of misfortune Barely here to tell her tale Rolled in on a sea

To think of my task is chilling. To know I was carefully building the Mask I was wearing for two years, swearing I'd tear it off. I've sat In The dark explaining to myself that I'm straining too ha

He fills the flower vases, trims the candle bases, takes small change From The poor box. Tyler has the key. He takes nail and hammer to tack up The Banner of felt scraps glued together reading, "J

on one morning in the month of May when all the birds were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray across the fields at break of day she softly sung her roundelay the tide flows in the tide flows out twic

Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of Pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with Sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair Combs valentines Lillian

Chorus: Everybody's wondering what and where they all came from Everybody's worrying аbout where they're gonna go When the whole thing's done Nobody knows for certain, And so it's all the same to

The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. With a shiver In my bones just thinking about the weather. quiver in my lips As if I might cry.

Come as we go far away From the noise of the street Walk a path so narrow To a place where we feel at ease Some think it is haunting To be drawn to the cemetery ground As we There's a stillne

An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a Cave. The strangest sight there alone they stood, with skin of green and Words No one had heard. The girl was stronger, the boy w

The legs of Maddox kitchen tables My whole life twisted on a lathe In a foreman's torrent My first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" Barking commands Loud and simple We could all

I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they're blowing As free as the wind And hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turni

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under yo

She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She'll raise a shaft Lift a banner Toss a rose My mother the war She's Made every effort To salvage th

Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day. We'll Have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. Family, friends come one and All. First the bestman makes a toast to Rocky and my sister Rose, "A l

Honor salute and speak To the Corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast These dreams absurd Placid classroom faces Breathe in the fe

You won a prize for that, For telling lies like that So well that I believed it. I never felt cheated. You were the chosen one, The pure eyes of Noah's dove. Choir boys and angles stole your lips and

Out through the foggy window there just to see the eyes of my future children looking back at me back through the foggy window on and on miles pass years turn over on and on there from that rolled dow

Out through the foggy window there just to see the eyes of my future children looking back at me back through the foggy window on and on miles pass years turn over on and on there from that rolled

This was once a city harmony a common theme but these complications now make life a bit uneasy hallowed buildings scrape the sky voices ride the airwaves once a city years gone by will they still b

Lineage closed Dissolved In its birth Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As Techno atrocities Lapse their effects Associate these ends Their Clarity Demands your reveng

Now I've been happy lately Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun Oh I've been smiling lately Dreaming about the world as one And I believe i

In the cruel garrison of affection If Worth of lore is true You know the face of a temptress Pit Viper A Witch or enchantress Pit Viper With the malign venom of conceit She Tries Civil men Conceal

Science Is truth for life Watch Religion fall obsolete Science Will be truth for life Technology as Nature Science Truth for life In fortran tongue the Answer With wealth And prominence Man so near

"Mercy, mercy," why didn't we hear it? "Mercy, mercy," why did we read it buried on the last page of our morning papers? The plan was drafted, drafted in secret. Gunboats met the r

Tell me what's gone wrong. I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but When I turn it on -- dry as paper. Call the neighbors. Who's to blame for What's Going on? In the dark without a clue I'm jus

On bended knee I've looked through every window then. Touched the bottom, The night a sleepless day instead; A day when love came, Came easy like what's lost now found. Beneath a blinding light that w

The still and silence Is torn with violence. A loud breaking sound In the night is made. Hear it grow, hear it fading. The sound you're hearing, The sound you're fearing Is the hate that parades Up an

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery? Tell me Something, if the world is so insane, is it making you