Daily Curiosities

Sad Days, Lonely Nights - Junior Kimbrough

My momma told me
I was a child 
She said, “Son,
You’re gonna have hard days”
My daddy told me too
He said, “Son,
You’re gonna have sad days
Lonely nights
Setting alone
Head hung down
Tears runnin’ down”

Done got old
Sad days, lonely nights
Done overtaken me

Sometimes I set alone
I wonder about the things
My mum and daddy told me
Sad days, lonely nights
come overtaking me

Maybellene - Chuck Berry

Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
You’ve started back doing the things you used to do.

As I was motivatin’ over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a coup de ville.
A Cadillac a-rollin’ on the open road,
nothin’ will out run my V8 Ford.
The cadillac doin’ ‘bout ninety-five,
she’s bumper to bumber rollin’ side by side. (REF)

Pink in the mirror on top of the hill,
it’s just like swallowin’ up a medicine pill.
First thing I saw that Cadillac grille
doin’ a hundred and ten gallopin’ over that hill.
Offhill curve, a downhill stretch,
me and that Cadillac neck by neck. (REF)

The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford,
the Ford got hot and wouldn’t do no more.
It then got clody and it started to rain,
I tooted my horn for a passin’ lead
the rain water blowin’ all under my hood,
I knew that was doin’ my motor good. (REF)

The motor cooled down, the heat went down
and that’s when I heard that highway sound.
the Cadillac a-sittin’ like a ton of lead
a hundred and ten half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin’ like it’s sittin’ still
and I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill. (REF)

Until I Die - Brandi Carlile

Hey there what’s that in your sky
With all the pretty lights
You think I can get that high?

Hey you man, where’s your motivation
And why the celebration
You’ve gotten nothing done here

You wanna live until you
Die alone and will
Fly alone and will
I’m not so far below
I live beneath your sky
With tainted eyes,
I’ve made my mind
To live until I die

Run run run catch me if you can can can
Come and hold my hand and I’ll be your biggest fan 
Followers living in your hollow words
I have seen your nine to fives
Wash away your dreams

You wanna live until you
Die alone and will

Fly alone and will
I’m not so far below
I live beneath your sky
With tainted eyes,
I’ve made my mind
To live until I die

Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran

Oh well, I’ve got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin’ she’s the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone, I can hold her tight
But she lives in a twentiest floor up town
The elevator’s broken down

So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I started to drag
Fifteenth floor I’m ready to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

When she calles me up on the telephone
Said c’mon over honey, I’m all alone
I said baby, you’re mighty sweet
But I’m in the bed with a achin’ feet
This went on for a couple of days
But I couldn’t stay away

So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I’m ready to drag
Fifteenth floor I started to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

(Guitar solo)

Well, they sent to Chicago for repairs
‘Till it’s a-fixed I’m using the stairs
Hope they hurry up before it’s too late
Want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin’ is gettin’ me down
They’ll find my corpse draped over a rail

But I climbed one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I’m ready to drag
Fifteenth floor I started to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

Funnel of Love - Wanda Jackson

Here I go,
Going down, down, down, 
My mind is a blank,
My head is spinning around and around,
As I go deep into the funnel of love.

It’s such a crazy, crazy feeling,
I get weak in the knees,
My poor old head is a reelin’,
As I go deep into the funnel of love.

I tried and I tried, to run and hide,
I even tried to run away,
Ya just can’t run from the funnel of love, 
It’s gonna get ya someday.

It’s such a crazy, crazy feeling,
I get weak in the knees,
My poor old head is a reelin’,
As I go deep into the funnel of love.

I tried and I tried, to run and hide,
I even tried to run away,
Ya just can’t run from the funnel of love, 
It’s gonna get ya someday.

Here I go, going down, down, down,
My mind is a blank, 
My head is spinning around and around,
As I go deep into the funnel of love,
Deep into the funnel of love,
Deep into the funnel of love.

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Pack up;
I’m straight; 
Enough;
Oh say, say, say;
Oh say, say, say;
Oh say, say, say;
Oh say, say, say;
Oh say, say, say 

Wait, they don’t love you like I love you; wait, they don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you…..

Lay off;
Don’t stray;
Well, my kind’s,your kind;
I’ll stay the same!
Pack up;
Don’t stray;
Oh say, say, say;
Oh say, say, say!

Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you …
(guitar solo)
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
And wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
And wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you …

(via:kari-shma)

Wonderlust King - Gogol Bordello

Back in the day yo as we learned
A man was not considered to be
Considered to be fully grown
Has he not gona beyond the hills 
Has he not crossed the 7 seas
Yeah, 7 seas at least!

Now all them jokers kept around
Just like the scarecrows in hometown
Yeah, scarecrows in hometown
From screen to screen they’re travelin’
But I’m a wonderlust king

I stay on the run
Let me out
Let me be gone
In the world’s beat up road sign
I saw new history of time…
New history of time!!!

Through Siberian woods
Breaking up their neck

Chinese moving in building discoteques

Homemade sex toys and whatnot
Yeah, and why not?
Well at least it’s something different
From what they got in every other airport

Ja ne evrei, no koje-chto pohozge
sovrat ne dast ni Yura ni Seryozga!
Simple because I’m not a total gadjo
Da ja shut, ja tziratch, nu tak stozge?

I traveled the world
Looking for understanding
Of the times that we live in
Hunting and gathering first hand information
Challenging definitions of sin

I traveled the world
Looking for lovers
Of the ultimate beauty
But never settled in
I’m Wonderlust King!

And presidents
And billionaires
And generals
They’ll never know
What I have owned!
What I have owned…
I’m a wonderlust king!