The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Blow My Cool (1996)

From the album Welcome to the Infant Freebase in 1996



tell me, is there something i can't do?
or are you just too hung up to get scewed?
i've got it all but you know i gotta have some more
so let it fall 'cause i really don't care anymore

well do you do you
don't you want to make a fool of yourself?
do you do you really wanna be like somebody else?
(no, i'm not afraid to blow my cool, never been afraid to blow my cool)

tell me is there something i should hide
love to have a laugh when you put me aside
limitations try to tell you how to act
but they're too jealous to notice when they overreact

so, do you do you want to make a fool for yourself
well do you really want to be somebody
who's got to be someone who just don't wanna be?

i've been a senile man, living in a garbage can
i'm still a cartoon animal
i still make friends with everyone
so do you don't you wanna make a fool of yourself
or do you do you really wanna be like somebody else?

well do you really wanna be somebody
who's gotta be someone who just don't wanna be and make a fool of yourself?

(no, i'm not afraid to blow my cool, never been afraid to blow my cool)

The Real Kids - All Kindsa Girls (1977)

From the album The Real Kids in 1977



Baby gave us aw ay today.
She broke my heart. I can't beg her to stay this time.
I wanna go right out and find a girl.
It's been a long time and I'm seeing the world
Through different eyes, through different eyes.

Oh baby, I ain't begging but I feel like dancing
And would you let a city boy
Hold hands with you? I wanna get to know you.
I never thought of myself as tied down,
But I was so much in love.
It was good that she put me down,
I need someone new, someone who's
Gonna make my heart jump the way she usta do.

All kindsa girls, all kindsa girls.
I think I'm falling in love again.
All kindsa girls, all kindsa girls.
They make me glad I'm a man, I said.
All kindsa girls, all kindsa girls.
I think I'm falling in love, that's right.

I take a green eyed girl, she's going to the square,
I'll take a chance, although I ain't going nowhere.
But I wanna go, I wanna go too.
I'll take a northern girl when her parents ain't home
We watching TV and we're all alone
And I wanna know all kindsa girls.
I never thought I'd see the day she'd turn her back on me.
But my baby get's her way today.
I need someone new, someone who's
Gonna make my heart jump the way she usta do.

(chorus)

Pixies - Debaser (1987)

From the album Doolittle in 1987



got me a movie
i want you to know
slicing up eyeballs
i want you to know
girlie so groovy
i want you to know
don't know about you
but i am un chien andalusia
wanna grow
up to be
be a debaser, debaser
got me a movie
ha ha ha ho
slicing up eyeballs
ha ha ha ho
girlie so groovie
ha ha ha ho
don't know about you
but i am un chien andalusia
debaser

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown (1974)

From the album Sundown in 1974



I can see her lyin back in her satin dress
In a room where ya do what ya dont confess
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs
Shes been lookin like a queen in a sailors dream
And she dont always say what she really means
Sometimes I think its a shame
When I get feelin better when Im feelin no pain
Sometimes I think its a shame
When I get feelin better when Im feelin no pain

I can picture every move that a man could make
Getting lost in her lovin is your first mistake
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs
Sometimes I think its a sin
When I feel like Im winnin when Im losin again

I can see her lookin fast in her faded jeans
Shes a hard lovin woman, got me feelin mean
Sometimes I think its a shame
When I get feelin better when Im feelin no pain
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs
Sometimes I think its a sin
When I feel like Im winnin when Im losin again

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (1987)

From the album Diesel And Dust in 1987



Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fairs fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A facts a fact
It belongs to them
Lets give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep when our beds are burning

Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From kintore east to yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

(live - on scream in blue
The time has come
A facts a fact
It belongs to us all
Lets give it back)

Arcade Fire - Intervention (2007)

From the album Neon Bible in 2007



The king's taken back the throne
The useless seed is sown
When they say they're cutting off the phone
I'll tell 'em you're not home

No place to hide
You were fighting as a soldier on their side
You're still a soldier in your mind
Though nothing's on the line

You say it's money that we need
As if we're only mouths to feed
I know no matter what you say
There are some debts you'll never pay

Working for the church
While your family dies
You take what they give you
And you keep it inside
Every spark of friendship and love
Will die without a home
Hear the soldier groan, "We'll go at it alone"

I can taste the fear
Gonna lift me up and take me out of here
Don't wanna fight, don't wanna die
Just wanna hear you cry

Who's gonna throw the very first stone?
Oh! Who's gonna reset the bone?
Walking with your head in a sling
Wanna hear the soldier sing

Working for the Church
While my family dies
Your little baby sister's
Gonna lose her mind
Every spark of friendship and love
Will die without a home
Hear the soldier groan, "We'll go at it alone"

I can taste your fear
It's gonna lift you up and take you out of here
And the bone shall never heal
I care not if you kneel

We can't find you now
But they're gonna get their money back somehow
And when you finally disappear
We'll just say that you were never here

Been working for the church
While your life falls apart
Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart
Every spark of friendship and love
Will die without a home
Hear the soldier groan, "We'll go at it alone"
Hear the soldier groan, "We'll go at it alone"

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands (1967)

From the album Part One in 1967



You know the love I gave you
Is slipping from your hand
Cause I was born to wander
Like the shifting of the sands

They say that I did hurt you
But they don't understand
That I was born to wander
Like the shifting of the sands

They say that I will follow
Beware my heart commands
For I was born to wander
Like the shifting of the sands

The Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud (1965)

From the album December's Children (And Everybody's) in 1965



I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby

The telephone is ringing
I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you
Well, I guess I'm doin' fine"
He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise
Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just 'cause you feel so good, do you have
To drive me out of my head?"

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud baby

I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like
A flag stuck on my window screen

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around, baby, two's a crowd

Green On Red - Sixteen Ways (1985)

From the album Gas Food Lodging in 1985



16 kids 16 ways
They shot my babies by mistake
I'm all alone on a midnight ride
My 16 kids all have died

Chorus
They ain't coming back
It's too late
They shot my babies but
They killed my faith

I haven't slept in 14 days
Now it's time to barricade
Myself in these four walls
My 16 kids all are gone

Chorus

I worked so hard for 40 years
I told myself I had nothing to fear
Then one by one they got shot down
The youngest one held a gun to his ear

Chorus

New York Dolls - Looking for a kiss (1973)

From the album New York Dolls in 1973



I always seen you, just before the dawn
When all the other kids, where just draggin along
I couldn't believe the way it seemed to be
Rememberin the things, you used to say to me

(About...)
You know I can't be wastin time
Cus gotta get my fun
I got to keep on movin
Cant stop til it's all done

Listen when I tell ya, you got no time for fix
Cus I just gotta make it, cant afford to miss
And there's one reason, I'm tellin you this
I feels bad....
And I'm lookin for a kiss

Why wontcha tell me, why those kids are moving so slow
Is it just because they dont have no place to go
When the day starts breakin, the sun is gonna shine
It's hard to sleep, when I been cryin

(And...)
All you ladies are on
Yor way to church (I'm beggin)
Will I just be a' roamin
Lookin for the thing that I search

Listen when I tell ya, you got no time for fix
Cus I just gotta make it, cant afford to miss
And there's one reason, I'm tellin you this
I feels bad....
And I'm lookin for a kiss

Well I been lookin for a real hot kiss...
You think it's bad, but you know that its true
So why don't let me live baby
When I'm lookin for a kiss

When everyone goes to your house, they shoot up in your room
Most of them are beautiful, but so obsessed with gloom
I aint gonna be here, when they all get home
They're always lookin at me, they wont leave me alone


I didnt come here, lookin for no fix (I know...)
I been houndin the street all night late baby
Justa lookin for a kiss

I been fixin a kiss

I didnt come here, lookin for no fix (I know...)
I been haulin booty, all night long
Just lookin for a kiss