Friday, August 19, 2022

Nina Simone--My Baby Just Cares for Me

 


My baby don't care for shows
My baby don't care for clothes
My baby just cares for me
My baby don't care for cars and races
My baby don't care for high-tone places
Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Lana Turner's smile
Is somethin' he can't see
My baby don't care who knows
My baby just cares for me
Baby, my baby don't care for shows
And he don't even care for clothes
He cares for me
My baby don't care
For cars and races
Baby don't care for
He don't care for high-tone places
Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Liberace's smile
Is something he can't see
Is something he can't see
I wonder what's wrong with baby
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for me

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Jenny Owen Youngs - F**k Was I [Official Music Video]

 


I fell in love and forgot about the homeless the hunger in Africa the women on welfare the strippers who need healthcare my friends the beggar the thieves
I fell in love and forgot my own mother my father my sister my grandma it killed her and waltzed around baby wishing you’d notice me
In my mind the light shines so equally
You can call it electricity
But why waste our energy?In my eyes I could be happy
But I stink of Depravity
Just and aching dark cavity
Oooh
I fell in love and threw out all my pencils my books and drew big hearts with red colored stencils and became pickled mush atrophied
I fell in love and I stopped all my eating clung on to your arms and forgot I was living but remembered the kitties and the pretty girls on your street
In my mind the light shines so equally
You can call it electricity
But why waste out energy?
In my eyes I could be happy
But I stink of Depravity
Just and aching dark cavity
I fell in love and forgot my own mother my father my sister my grandma it killed her and waltzed around baby wishing you’d notice me
I’m a fool

Moon River--The Innocence Mission


Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Vetiver & Hope Sandoval - Angels' Share


Makeshift moon mends a broken sky
Fields of fallow still stands dry
Night not gentle, soon for the night

Her mistake was to trust in him
His bodily excuse again
Yeah, the voices hard like the wind

Said, "I'm tired of you coming home late"
"I will do as I please, Kate
"There's no one gon' tell me how to be"
"Not for my sake, Tom, for the family"

He read guilt when she pled love
Got anxious and began to shove
Clouds have been kept loomed above

Curses raise the kids from bed
They fell down the stairs in time to see
The blood run warm down Kate's head

While the wounds in silence came to scars
Tom kept hitting the juke joint bars
All the love vanished in the air
Filled with paper vows and the angels' share