Radio BRUNO December 2003

Here's the latest installment! (stand by for .pdf lyrics)

Roseanne Cash All Come True
Shannon McNally   Now That I Know
Bettie Serveert White Dogs
Flaming Lips In the Morning of the Magicians
Neil Young Carmichael
Coldplay Daylight
Coldplay Warning Sign
Coldplay Clocks
Beck Golden Age
Beck Paper Tiger
Wilco Pot Kettle Black
Wilco War on War
Pretenders Room Full of Mirrors

Listening Notes:

Roseanne Cash--All Come True   This song stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it. I was at a funeral in Philadelphia and in a rent-a-car. I knew the song from Karl Wallinger's World Party back in about 1986. But who was this? Thank goodness they said at the end of the song. I think this a fine reading of the song with interesting instrumentation.

Shannon McNally--Now That I Know   This song stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. What a fine BIG sound. Kinda Bonnie Raitt like vocals--but what a great rhythm. I've gotten chills a few times from this song.

Bettie Serveert--White Dogs   This is from this year's album Log 22 which I think has plenty of good songs on it. What I like about this one is that it is long and has a great groove. Think "Velvet Underground". In concert, they segue into this one from Tomboy and it makes for a great package.

Flaming Lips--In the Morning of the the Magicians   Their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was one of the best I've heard in the past year. This song has two sections that alternate--a slower part with lyrics and then a faster jazzier part that has a descending passage that is repeated. The excitement posed by the delay at 5:47-5:49 before the symbol crashes is GREAT!

Neil Young--Carmichael   This is meant to be played LOUD! The trouble with the long songs that I like--if you don't like them, they'll be long songs of drudgery--I spose worthy of just skipping :-) . I love the fact that it takes 2:30 before the story starts. I love the buzz and harmonics on his guitar--particularly on chords. This comes from a concept album that Neil released this year called Greendale. It's about a town and a family in the town. The town and the family each have their problems. Well, this song is about a policeman who is killed in the line of duty. This song gives me chills just about every time I hear it.

Coldplay--Daylight, Warning Sign, and Clocks   Clocks stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. I now realize it's a bit repetitive--but it's got a great hook. I love the notes sung on the phrase "You are" . They are a fine band and the other two songs were just some of the better ones on it that I found.

Beck--Golden Age and Paper Tiger   I just took a chance on this. It's a fine album although some of the songs sound the same. The tone of the whole album is a bit somber. On Golden Age, I like how a basically acoustic songs gets a bit psychedelic right at the end. On Paper Tiger, although I find the lyrics kinda nonsensical, I sure like the arrangement. It sure draws on some 70's type sounds. What great and exciting embellishments.

Wilco--Pot Kettle Black and War on War    This is from this year's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot which I think is a fine album that took many listenings to grow on me--but it did. Jeff Tweedy's vocals are the weakest part on a few songs. I think there are many great sonic embellishments throughout.

Pretenders--Room Full of Mirrors   This gave me chills the first time I heard it (and several times after that). Chrissie Hynde gives a great reading of Jimi Hendrix's classic.

Lyrics:

All Come True

Someone was round here asking questions
about someone who looks like you.
I said I don't know where you are.
Sounded like he was going to be back someday.
So I told him where you are.
She's making it all come true ... this time
She's making it all come true ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.
This has not been the first time
This will not be the last.
He only knew slow moves in the

She's making it all come true ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.

Got to find the brightness is the soul.
Not look outside to find out where we are.
Oh, you won't be satisfied.
Til you make possessions of the stars.

She's making it all come true ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.

He said that he was gong to be back.
I told him where you are.

She's making it all work out ... this time.
She's making it all work out ... this time.
She's making it all come true ... this time.

Now That I Know

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Midweek morning time I wake up next to you
With your head on my pillow and your arms around me,
Oh baby it's so warm
Still I lay here thinking about the way I thought it would be
But all my planning aside

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to
You follow me and I'll follow you
Yes I'll follow you
Still I lay here thinking 'bout the way I used to be
And man baby with you I've come a long way

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And it's all a trick till you figure it out
I couldn't hear myself thinking till I started to shout

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

White Dogs

Ah, Keep smiling now
Just like we did before
Chewing on a lazy conversation
There ain't no past anymore
So suddenly you're tempted
And you talk about all of our wonderful dreams
You talk about all of the places you've been
And Armadeal,
can't we deal with this on a Sunday afternoon?

All by myself,
on a ledge, not too far from Cupid.
Now he walks out,
you just stand there, how I feel stupid.
And I know we shouldn't talk about it
and I know we shouldn't even be here
cause we did so well without it.
Now ain't it funny how it reappears?
How does it feel to be like
you're something on the move?
When all "You Bet ya"'s slowly fade away.
Run with the white dogs,
don't be ashamed about it.
Run with the white dogs
no need to talk about it now.

I'm not your conquest,
you can't conquer me
and you'll never tie me down
unless you set me free.
It's not justa word, you know.
Cause ever since the age of 5
I was already aware of what's important in life
and I guess I have to set things right
so I thought I'd start tonight.

Now you can run with the good
or you can run with the bad
and throw out every moral
that you thought you ever had,
but you're gonna have to watch your soul
and look at your own life and see it as a whole.

Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you need?
When you look at yourself
can you still say "I'm glad to be me!"

In the Morning of the Magicians

In the morning I'd awake
and I couldn't remember
what is love and what is hate
The calculations error
Oh-oh-oh

What is love and what is hate
And why does it matter
Is to love just a waste ?
How can it matter?
Oh-oh-oh

As the dawn began to break
I had to surrender
The universe will have its way
Too powerful to master
Oh-oh-oh

What is love and what is hate
And why does it matter
Is to love just a waste?
Why does it matter?
Oh-oh-oh

Carmichael

Silk scarf and a napkin hidden in a drawer
Two hundred bucks in an envelope labeled Lenore

"Maybe she shouldn't see this
She should never know"
Said the widow's best friend Ann
"I'll just take it and go
I'll give it her the money later
Say it was in his shoe
That way she'll never find out
That'll do"

"Carmichael was a credit to the force
In everything he did
It's like we've got a big hole in our side
Where he fit
If any of you officers would like to say a word
Now would be the time to be heard"
"Thank you chief, I sure would
He was a partner of mine
He was always very careful
Played it straight down the line"

One by one the officers spoke
And the service drew to a close
He had no living relatives but his wife-who never showed
She just couldn't face the men--they all understood
They got in their cars and drove home
As directly as they could

"Carmichael, you asshole!"
The new widow sobbed beneath her vale
"Shot down in the line of duty
Is this how justice never fails?
I wish that things were better
When we said goodbye today
But we had our share of good times though along the way

Remember 'Hey mister Las Vegas-You used to be so cool!'?
We met Wayne Newton down on Pebble Beach and you acted like a fool
But we both just couldn't stop laughing-it seemed so funny to us
We left our luggage back in the room and almost missed the bus
That was a great vacation--maybe the best of all
But goddamn it, Carmichael, you're dead now and I'm talking to the wall"

The force got back to normal
Carmichael was replaced
For one year nobody parked a car in Carmichael's space

Daylight

To my surprise
And my delight
I saw a sunrise
I saw a sunlight.

I am nothing
In the dark
And the clouds burst
To show the daylight

Oooh and the sun will shine
Yeah on this heart of mine
Ooooh and I realize
Who cannot live without
Ooooh come apart without

On a hilltop
On a sky-rise
Like a firstborn
Child

And at full tilt
And in full flight
Defeat darkness
Breaking daylight

Oooh and the sun will shine
Yeah on this heart of mine
Ooooh and I realize
Who cannot live without
Ooooh and come apart without
Daylight

   Warning Sign

A warning sign
I missed the good part then I realized
I started looking and the bubble burst
I started looking for excuses
Come on in, I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones
That I started looking for a warning sign
When the truth is
I miss you
Yeah the truth is
That I miss you so

A warning sign
You came back to haunt me and I realized
That you were an island and I passed you by
And you were an island to discover
Come on in, I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones
That I started looking for a warning sign

And the truth is
I miss you
Yeah the truth is
I miss you so
And I'm tired
I should not have let you go

So I crawl back into your open arms
Yes I crawl back into your open arms
And I crawl back into your open arms
Yes I crawl back into your open arms.

Clocks

The lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head and a
Trouble that cant be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed singing

You are
You are

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know singing

Come out upon my seas,
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease, singing

You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are

And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
You are

Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go

The Golden Age

Put your hands on the wheel
Let the Golden Age begin
Let the window down
Feel the moonlight on your skin
Let the desert wind cool our aching head
Let the weight of the world drift away instead

These days I barely get by
I don't even try

It's a treacherous road
With a desolated view
There's distant lights
But here they're far and few
And the sun don't shine
Even when it's day
You gotta drive all night
Just to feel like you're ok

These days I barely get by
I don't even try

Paper Tiger

Just like a paper tiger
Torn apart by idle hands
Through the helter skelter morning
Fix yourself while you still can
No more ashes too ashes
No more cinders from the sky
Let all the laws of creation
Tell a dead man how to die

Oh deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

Looking through a broken diamond
To make the past what it should be
Through the ruins and the weather
Capsized boats in the sea
Oh deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

We're just holding on to nothing
To see how long nothing lasts
Oh deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

There's one road to the morning
There's one road to the truth
There's one road back to civilization
But there's no road back to you

Pot Kettle Black

Crazy rides rockets
Waves a magic wand
Empty out our pockets
Words without a song

I myself have found a real rival in myself

I am hoping for the rearrival of my health

Sleeping eye sockets
Baby suck your thumb
I'll keep you in my locket
A string I never strum

It's become so obvious
You are so oblivious to yourself

I'm tied in a knot
But I'm not
Gonna get caught
Calling a pot kettle black
Every song's a comeback
Every moment's a little bit later

Lazy locomotives
Wherever you ma roll
I think you have no motive
I know you have no home

It's become so obvious
You are so oblivious to yourself

I'm tied in a knot
But I'm not
Gonna get caught
Calling a pot kettle black
Every song's a comeback
Every moment's a little bit later

War on War

It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
There's a war on
You're gonna lose
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die

Let's watch the miles fling by
Let's watch the miles fling by
You are not my typewriter
But you could be my demon
Moving forward through flaming doors
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
If you wanna wanna be alive

Ok

You have to lose
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
If you wanna wanna be alive

You have to die
You have to die
You have to learn how to die
If you wanna wanna be alive


Room Full of Mirrors

I used to live in a room full of mirrors
All I could see was me
Well I took my spirit
And I crashed my mirrors
Now the whole world is here for me to see
I've got a whole world that's here for me to see
Now I'm searching for my love to be
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Broken glass was falling in my brain
Cuttin' and screamin' and crying in m head
Broken glass was falling in m brain
It used to fall on my dreams and cut me in my bed
It used to fall on my dreams and cut me in my bed
I said making love was strange in my bed
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Love come shining o'er the mountain
Love come shining o'er the sea
Love will shine on my baby
Then I'll know exactly who's for me
Then I'll know exactly who's for me
(In the meantime we still got a lotta groovy time)
Hey! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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