LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: VIOLET/HOLE

And the sky was made of amethyst
And all the stars look just like little fish
You should learn when to go
You should learn how to say no

Might last a day
Minus forever
Might last a day
Well, minus forever

When they get what they want
They never want it again
When they get what they want
They never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
Take everything I want you to

And the sky was all violet
I want it again, but violent, more violent
Well, I'm the one with no soul
One above and one below

Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
I dare you to

I told you from the start
Just how this would end
When I get what I want
I never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
I want you to
Go on take everything

Take everything
Take everything
Take everything

ALBUM: LIVE THROUGH THIS (1994)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NO RETURN/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

ALBUM: GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MEMORY SERVES/INTERPOL

It would be so nice to take you
I only ever try to make you smile
No matter what we're gonna keep you occupied
But only at your place
Only at your place

It would be no price to pay
I only ever lie to make you smile
All kinds of dust are gonna keep me satisfied
But only at your place
Only at your place

Tonight a special memory serves me
And I'll wait to find the wrong way
Tonight a special memory serves me
And I'll wait to find

It's over
It's over
You like it
It's over
Why is it so hard to stay away?
Why is it so hard

Tonight a special memory serves me
And I'll wait to find that I'm gray
Tonight is special
I only memorize those fakes I deny
And I hold them while I sing
Seize the day

Don't have to say that you'd love to
But they'd be pleased that you want to
Someday

It would be no price to pay
It would be no price to pay

Don't have to say that you'd love to
But they'd be pleased that you want to
Someday
Dont have to say that you'd love to
But they'd be pleased that you want to
Someday
Dont have to say that you'd love to
But they'd be pleased that you want to
Someday

ALBUM: INTERPOL (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HIGH AND DRY/AMANDA PALMER

Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy
Flyin' on your motorcycle
Watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition
Kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror
You're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
You just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you
You will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing you've had has gone away

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

ALBUM: AMANDA PALMER PERFORMS THE POPULAR HITS OF RADIOHEAD ON HER MAGICAL UKULELE (2010)

PLAYLIST/AGOSTO

AM/FM/!!!

Il nuovo singolo degli Interpol, il ritorno dei Grinderman di Nick Cave, i Tired Pony con Tom Smith degli Editors, la collaborazione tra Björk ed i Dirty Projectors, il debutto da solista di Phil Selway dei Radiohead... Il tempo di ascoltare, e l'estate sarà quasi finita.

01. TROUBLE IN MIND/ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL
(ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL)
02. ECHOES/KLAXSONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
03. AM/FM/!!!
(STRANGE WEATHER, ISN'T IT?)
04. BARRICADE/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)
05. AT THE INDIE DISCO/THE DIVINE COMEDY
(BANG GOES THE KNIGHTHOOD)
06. HEATHEN CHILD/GRINDERMAN
(GRINDERMAN 2)
07. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH
(THE PLACE WE RAN FROM)
08. WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE
(THE SUBURBS)
09. NO EMBRACE/DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJÖRK
(MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA)
10. TOMBOY/PANDA BEAR
(TOMBOY Single)
11. OUTER LIMITS/SLEEP ∞ OVER
(OUTER LIMITS Single)
12. CONVERSATION 16/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET)
13. BY SOME MIRACLE/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)


BONUS TRACKS

SUMMERTIME/BECK
(SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Soundtrack)
IT'S WORKING (AIR REMIX)/MGMT
(IT'S WORKING)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNDER THE GOD/TIN MACHINE

Skin dance back-a-the condo
Skinheads getting to school
Beating on blacks with a baseball bat
Racism back in rule
While trash picking up nazi flags
While you was gone there was war
This is the west get used to it
They put a swastika over the door

Under the God
Under the God
One step over the red line
Under the God
Under the God
Ten steps into the craze

Washington heads in the toilet bowl
Don't see supremicist hate
Right wing dicks in their boiler suits
picking out who to annihilate
Toxic jungle of Uzi trails
Tribesmen just wouldn't live here
Fascist flare is fashion cool
Well, you're dead, you just ain't buried yet

Under the God
Under the God

Under the God
Under the God
As the walls came tumbling down
So the secrets that we shared
I believed you by the palace gates
Now the savage days are here
Under the God

Under the God
Under the God
One step over the red line
Under the God
Under the God
Ten steps into the craze
Crazy eyed man with a shot gun
Hot headed creep with a knife
Love and peace and harmony
Love you could cut with a life
Under the God
Under the God

ALBUM: TIN MACHINE (1989)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE SUBURBS/ARCADE FIRE

In the suburbs I
I learned to drive
And you told me we'd never survive
Grab your mother's keys we're leaving

You always seemed so sure
That one day we'd fight in
In a suburban world
your part of town gets minor
So you're standing on the opposite shore
But by the time the first bombs fell
We were already bored
We were already, already bored

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling again

Kids wanna be so hard
But in my dreams we're still screaming
And running through the yard
When all of the walls that they built in the 70's finally fall
And all of the houses they build in the 70's finally fall
Meant nothing at all
Meant nothing at all
It meant nothing

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling and into the night

So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before this damage is done
But if it's too much to ask
If it's too much to ask
Then send me a son
Under the overpass
In the parking lot we're still waiting
It's already passed
So move your feet from hot pavement
And into the grass
'Cause it's already past
It's already, already past

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling again
I'm moving past the feeling
I'm moving past the feeling

And in my dreams we're still screaming
We're still screaming
We're still screaming

ALBUM: THE SUBURBS (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE

I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met
By the time we met the times had already changed

So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart
I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was left standing in the wilderness downtown

Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last

It seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
We used to wait
We used to waste hours just walking around
We used to wait
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown

We used to wait
We used to wait
We used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Sometimes it never came
Still moving through the pain

I'm gonna write a letter to my true love
I'm gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again gonna move through the pain

Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last

We used to wait
We used to wait
We used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Sometimes it never came
Still moving through the pain
We used to wait
We used to wait
We used to wait

We used to wait for
We used to wait for
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again
We used to wait for
We used to wait for
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again
I used to wait for
I used to wait for
Hear my voice screaming sing the chorus again

ALBUM: THE SUBURBS (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BARRICADE/INTERPOL

I did not take to analysis so I had to make up my mind
And hold it for a while
I would not just leave you without a kiss
But I guess there must come a time
And there is no more tears to cry
Thieves and snakes need homes, need homes
Barricades

It starts to feel like a barricade that keep us away
Keep us away, it kind of does
It starts to feel like a barricade to keep us away
Keep us away

I could not lean on the politics
cause I did't want to train my eye
To hold so short a time
Oh so high, just don't know where
The blind could lead the sightless
but I still like to witness
thieves and snakes need homes, need homes
Barricades

It starts to feel like a barricade that keep us away
Keep us away, it kind of does
It starts to feel like a barricade to keep us away
Keep us away
Full speed half blind
Full tilt decline
We turn to past times
Full speed half blind

You know us, you know us
Say I'm sorry

Sometimes it feel like a barricade that keep us away
Keep us away, it kind of does
It starts to feel like a barricade to keep us away
Keep us away you know us
Full speed half blind
Full tilt decline
we turn to past times
Full speed half blind
full speed half blind
Full tilt decline
Onto all time full speed half blind

ALBUM: INTERPOL (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MARY JANE'S LAST DANCE/TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS

She grew up in a Indiana town
Had a good lookin' mama who never was around
But she grew up tall and she grew up right
With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night

Well she moved down here at the age of 18
She blew the boys away was more than they'd seen
I was introduced and we both started groovin'
She said: "I dig you, baby
But I got to keep movin' on
Keep movin' on"

Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in
And I'm tired of this town again

Well, I don't know but I've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of goin' down
Tired of myself, tired of this town
Oh, my my
Oh, hell yes
Honey, put on that party dress
Buy me a drink, sing me a song
Take me as I come
'Cause I can't stay long

Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in
And I'm tired of this town again

There's pigeons down on Market Square
She's standing in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be coming soon
Oh, my my
Oh, hell yes
You got to put on that party dress
It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone
I hit my last number
I walked to the road

Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in
And I'm tired of this town again

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MAQUILADORA/RADIOHEAD

Here it comes, here it comes
I can feel the hills exploding
Exploding gracefully
Burning up the freeway
Here it comes

Grass is green at the edge of the bubble
Beautiful kids into beautiful trouble
Well it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you
Oh, baby burn

Fast Toyota, burns rubber
Useless rockers from England
Good times had by all
Just swallow your guilt and your conscience

Blue and white birds stepping hard on the pedal
Interstate 5 runs straight down the middle
And it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you
Oh, baby burn

(Maquiladora)

ALBUM: HIGH & DRY (CD 1) (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: QUI/ANTONELLO VENDITTI

Valle Giulia ancora brilla la luna
E Paola prende la mia mano
Caduta per sbaglio sui nostri vent'anni
Tesi come coltelli
Come fratelli
Perduti forse qui
Architettura
Albe cinesi di seta indiana
Sarà il profumo di questa città
Sarà la musica che viene da lontano
Sarà l'estate che brucia nelle vene
Sarà il passato che ancora mi appartiene
Adesso tu sei qui
Abbandonata
Come se non mi avessi mai lasciato
Né mai tradito
Sarà la musica che viene e va
Sarà il profumo di questa città
Sarà l'estate che spalanca le sue braccia
Sui nostri corpi come fosse una minaccia
Adesso, adesso

Sarà il profumo di questa città
Sarà la musica che viene da lontano
Sarà l'estate che spalanca le sue braccia
Sui nostri corpi come fosse una minaccia
Adesso siamo qui
Abbandonati
Coi nostri ricordi dentro le mani
Per sempre qui

ALBUM: CUORE (1984)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOVE IS LOVE/CULTURE CLUB

You don't have to touch it to know
Love is everywhere that you go
You don't have to touch it to feel
Love is every second we steal

Love is love is nothing without you
Love is love is everything you do
Open up your eyes
And you will see
Love is love is everything to me

You don't have to touch it to be
Wrapped up in emotion like me
Everyone must feel how I do, yeah
Love is just to be close to you

Love is love is nothing without you
Love is love is everything you do
Open up your eyes
And you will see
Love is love is everything to me
And you know that love is love
It's written in black and blue
And everything you say
Must bring her closer, closer to you

You don't have to touch it to know
Love is everywhere that you go
You don't have to touch it to feel
Love is every second we steal

Love is love is nothing without you
Love is love is everything you do
Open up your eyes
And you will see
Love is love is everything to me
Love is love is nothing without you
Love is love is everything you do

ALBUM: THIS TIME: THE FIRST FOUR YEARS (1987)

POST-IT: AMANDA PALMER, I RADIOHEAD E L'UKULELE MAGICO

Amanda Palmer, voce dei Dresden Dolls, ha pubblicato un album di cover di brani dei Radiohead, suonati principalmente con l'ukulele... altro che vuvuzelas!
La copertina del disco, poi, realizzata in stile hawaiano anni '50, è davvero uno spasso.

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SUMMER WELL/INTERPOL

You feel the plastics that seal your body
They won't stop this rain
I was your eye in the night when the prophets fell
I said it looks like you'll summer well

I want to stay magical
I want to stay yearning
I want to feel up on your life
I miss you but it looks like you summered well

All the while the protest will shine the same
But you will never notice
It's alright
I rely on the process the mind will frame
They will never take this dream from me
It's alright (I'll take you back)
It's alright
It's all the way behind us
It's alright

I miss you babe
I want you back
The signs we gave
Weren't those signs supposed to last
The rainy days
The sun was back
The signs we gave
So what was that
You know that we have ways
To make the seasons touch these words
So let me take this
Cover your eyes or go
Wait until it fades

All the while the protest will shine the same
But you will never notice
It's alright
I rely on the process the mind will frame
They will never take this dream from me
It's alright
(You sent me)
It's alright
(You sent me)
It's alright

ALBUM: INTERPOL (2010)

MESSAGGIO DI SERVIZIO

Ci scusiamo per l'interruzione, dovuta ad un piano di manutenzione programmata, fisica e cerebrale. Le selezioni riprenderanno il più presto possibile. Nel frattempo, una playlist con le migliori canzoni di questa prima metà del 2010.

01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL
02. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
03. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR
04. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. HOPE SANDOVAL
05. ANYONE'S GHOST/THE NATIONAL
06. READY TO START/ARCADE FIRE
07. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
08. ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ
09. WRITTEN IN REVERSE/SPOON
10. GIVING UP THE GUN/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
11. PETER PAN R.I.P./KULA SHAKER
12. HEAVEN AND EARTH/BLITZEN TRAPPER

BONUS TRACKS

BLACK SHEEP/METRIC
HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
AIN'T NO GRAVE/JOHNNY CASH

DOWNLOAD
(link rimosso a causa di un reclamo da parte della DMCA)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE BALLAD OF THE BROKEN BIRDIE RECORDS/MÚM

Stand a little
From my hand
Broken birdie
Lost his voice
Black, black lightening
Broken call
Painful baby
Swans of land
Crying picture
Sorry, how?
Lonesome sparrow
Little bird
Levelly

Stand a little
From my hand
Broken birdie
Lost his voice
Crying picture
Sorry, how?
Lonesome sparrow
Little bird
Singing of his
Pity peep
Lying shattered
Gramophone
Open papa
Wholesome chords
Lost a big peep
Sailing free
Levelly

ALBUM: FINALLY WE ARE NO ONE (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FRETLESS/R.E.M.

He's got his work and she comes easy
They each come around when the other is gone
Me, I think I got stuck somewhere in between
I wouldn't confide in the prodigal son
The die has been cast, the battle is won
The bullets were blanks, a double aught gun
I couldn't admit to a minute of fun

They come and they come and they come and they come
I accepted with a gentle tongue
No words spoken, no need to speak

Take it, stomp twice, ring the bell
Tether that ring and phrase
Enough with the rifle and talk already
We all know what it means
Take this conversation to your great divide
I can only swallow what I ate
And I don't hate him
And I don't hate her

They come and they come and they come and they come
I accepted with a gentle tongue
No heart broken, no need to speak

Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone

Reach for each other before you leave
Reach peace with an EAC
Don't threaten me with a gentle tease
Don't threaten me with angry
Please, please, please
Don't try to tell me what I am

They come and they come and they come and they come
I accepted with a gentle tongue
No heart broken, no need to speak

Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me
Don't talk to me

ALBUM: UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Soundtrack) (1991)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MYSTICAL MACHINE GUN/KULA SHAKER

Everybody stay calm
Don't panic
It's just the end of the world

Alien identities
Don't hide your pretty face from me
You awoke to the riddle of your life
But no one was there for you
Open up to where you first began
As a nicotine junkie singing
For a kodacam
Are you glad to see how far you've come?
You're a wizard in a blizzard
A mystical machine gun

Watch the skies
For the mystical machine gunfire

Alien identities
Don't hide that special place from me
You walked through a fire with a ten headed lion
And turned on your destiny
Open up, forget your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Retain a sense of suicide
Are you glad to see
How far you've come?
You're a wizard in a blizzard
A mystical machine gun

Watch the skies
For the mystical machine gunfire

Well you've got to be stronger now than them
Now you've got to be strong
You'll be singing the song of life 'til then
You'll just got to be strong

Mystical machine gunfire
Om Namah Shivaya
Everybody stay calm
Don't panic
Mystical machine gunfire
It's just the end of the world
It will be all right at all
Every all kid just sing
Mystical machine gunfire

ALBUM: PEASANTS, PIGS AND ASTRONAUT (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NEW KILLER STAR/DAVID BOWIE

See the great white scar
Over Battery Park
Then a flare glides over
But I won't look at that scar
Oh, my nuclear baby
Oh, my idiot trance
All my idiot questions
Let's face the music and dance

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'll never say I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you

All the corners of the buildings
Who but we remember these?
The sidewalks and trees
I'm thinking now
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
A new killer star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
The stars in your eyes
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go

See my life in a comic
Like the way they did the bible
With the bubbles and action
The little details in colour
First a horseback bomber
Just a small thin chance
Like seeing Jesus on dateline
Let's face the music and dance

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready
I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you

All the corners of the buildings
Who but we remember these?
The sidewalks and trees
I'm thinking now
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
A new killer star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
The stars in your eyes
I got a better way
Ready, set, go
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready, set, go

ALBUM: REALITY (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ALL IS FULL OF LOVE/BJÖRK

Diretto da CHRIS CUNNINGHAM

You'll be given love
You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You have to trust it

Maybe not from the sources
You have poured yours
Maybe not from the directions
You are staring at

Twist your head around
It's all around you
All is full of love
All around you

All is full of love
You just ain't receiving
All is full of love
Your phone is off the hook
All is full of love
Your doors are all shut
All is full of love!
Be the little angel

All is full of love, all is full of love
All is full of love, all is full of love

ALBUM: HOMOGENIC (1997)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HEAVEN AND EARTH/BLITZEN TRAPPER

Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I

Over the western world shadows fall
Under the kind and dying trees we call
Together still the feel the breeze
To shatter all these waking dreams we've told
Ourselves to keep us free and clean

Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I

Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I

There is a love that sleeps inside
The canyons of our deepest dreaming lives
A shelter that cannot be lost
A name that is so deep and so far across
I know you that you know me
Your life is like a bolt of lightning seen
Across the sky so high and clean

Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine

Over the western world shadows fall
Under the kind and dying trees we call
Together still the feel the breeze
To shatter all these waking dreams we've told
Ourselves, ourselves
Ourselves, ourselves

Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I
Heaven and earth are mine says I

ALBUM: DESTROYER OF THE VOID (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TROUBLE IN MIND/ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL

Last night I dreamt when we were young
Out in the fields I saw you run
Trouble in mind
Trouble in soul
Won’t you let your feelings go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

I took a walk down your old street
Down past the places we used to meet
Trouble in mind
Trouble in souls
Won’t you let your feelings go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

Your father’s house never felt so cold
What once was new now over grown
Oh pharaoh, oh pharaoh
Won’t you let your children go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

ALBUM: ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE MERCY SEAT/NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

It began when they come took me from my home
And put me in death row
Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know
And I'll say it again
I am not afraid to die

I began to warm and chill
To objects and their fields
A ragged cup, a twisted mop
The face of Jesus in my soup
Those sinister dinner deals
The meal trolley's wicked wheels
A hooked bone rising from my food
All things either good or ungood

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of proof
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die

Interpret signs and catalogue
A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog
The walls are bad, black, bottom kind
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath gathering at my hind

I hear stories from the chamber
How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that's what I'm told

Like my good hand I
tatooed evil across it's brother's fist
That filthy five
They did nothing to challenge or resist

In heaven his throne is made of gold
The ark of his testament is stowed
A throne from which I'm told
All history does unfold
Down here it's made of wood and wire
And my body is on fire
And god is never far away

Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And like the moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
So I go shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied

My kill-hand is called evil
Wears a wedding band that's good
`Tis a long suffering shackle
Collaring all that rebel blood

And the mercy seat is burning
And I think my head is glowing
And in a way I'm hoping
To be done with all this weighing up of truth
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And I've got nothing left to lose
And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway there was no proof
Nor a motive why

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of proof
A life for a life
And a truth for a truth
And anyway there was no proof
And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is smoking
And in a way I'm hoping
To be done with all this looks of disbelief
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
But I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm afraid I told a lie

ALBUM: TENDER PREY (1988)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CONVERSATION 16/THE NATIONAL

I think the kids are in trouble
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Give them ice for their fevers
You're the only thing I ever want anymore
Live on coffee and flowers
Try not to worry what the weather will be
I figured out what we're missing
I tell you miserable things after you are asleep

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Everything means everything

It's a Hollywood summer
You never believe the shitty thoughts I think
Meet our friends out for dinner
When I said what I said I didn't mean anything
We belong in a movie
Try to hold it together 'til our friends are gone
We should swim in a fountain
Do not want to disappoint anyone

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything
I was afraid
I'd eat your brains
I was afraid
I'd eat your brains
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil

I'm a confident liar
Had my head in the oven so you'd know where I'll be
I'll try to be more romantic
I want to believe in everything you believe
I was less than amazing
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Fall asleep in your branches
You're the only thing I ever want anymore

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything
I was afraid
I'd eat your brains
I was afraid
I'd eat your brains
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PLAY WITH FIRE/ROLLING STONES

Well, you've got your diamonds and you've got your pretty clothes
And the chauffeur drives your car
You let everybody know
But don't play with me 'cause you're playing with fire

Your mother she's an heiress owns a block in Saint John's Wood
And your father'd be there with her
If he only could
So don't play with me 'cause you're playing with fire

Your old man took her diamond's and tiaras by the score
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore
So don't play with me 'cause you're playing with fire

Well you've got some diamonds and you will have some others
But you'd better watch your step girl
Or start living with your mother
So don't play with me 'cause you're playing with fire
So don't play with me 'cause you're playing with fire

ALBUM: OUT OF OUR HEADS (1965)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BEAT THE DEVIL'S TATTOO/BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

You have forsaken all the love you’ve taken
Sleeping on a razor there’s nowhere left to fall
Your body’s aching, every bone is breaking
Nothing seems to shake it, it just keeps holding on

Your soul is able, death is all you cradle
Sleeping on the nails there’s nowhere left to fall
You have admired every man desires
Everyone is king when there’s no one left to pawn

There is no peace here, war is never cheap here
Love will never need it, it just gets sold for parts
You cannot fight it, all the world denies it
Open up your eyelids and let your demons run

I thread the needle through, you beat the devil’s tattoo
I thread the needle through, you beat the devil’s tattoo
I thread the needle through, you beat the devil’s tattoo
I thread the needle through, you beat the devil’s tattoo

ALBUM: BEAT THE DEVIL'S TATTOO (2010)