Ain't No Lookin' Back

[kjm030584]

All of your ghosts
Litter the horizon
Glittering carcasses
I guess that makes twice then
Just like your daisies
And all of your buffallo
You dont worry
The children will mend what you tore

You dress yourself in sharkbites
You kill yourself in spoonfuls
You damn all the beehives
You make love to potholes
Your attention is a junkie
It has a wandering vien
And all of your thoughtlessness
Is dried up rain

Aint no lookin back, now---Is there kid?
You always look to the west
You throw caution to the wind
You're on a one way track
But you cant buy caution back---Can you kid?

You killed a man
Because you made him borrow
One suicide is made up
Of ten thousand tiny sorrows
America's great
Its the land of the free
We're so independant
That we forgot how to breathe

Aint no lookin back, now---Is there kid?
You always look to the west
You throw caution to the wind
You're on a one way track
But you cant buy caution back---Can you kid?

Show me one hero
Who ain't afraid of fear
Show me one adult
That knows how to hear
"We are the future"
At least thats what you said
I wanna know:
Who's the hope of today?

There's no lookin back now for you---Is there kid?

All of your ghosts
Litter the horizon
Glittering carcasses
I guess that makes twice then
Just like your daisies
And all of your buffallo
You dont worry
The children will mend what you tore



Here's the link if you want to sample it.
HERE (http://www.geocities.com/~sarastro62/2audio2/a.htm)

[kjm030584]

So I was pirating some rare jewel bootlegs over the past month and I sat down and listened to them all today, and this song stood out. Not just because it sounds like this is a very early version of the New Wild West, but the lyrics in it are awesome, I especially like this verse:

You killed a man
Because you made him borrow
One suicide is made up
Of ten thousand tiny sorrows
America's great
Its the land of the free
We're so independant
That we forgot how to breathe

So it's not really news that jewel has incredible lyrics, but what songs stand out lyrically to you?

[Eibhlin]

wow, i really love the lyrics to that song! i think that one the best things about a good song is it is poetry set to music, you can truly enjoy the words with or without the music! here is a (non-jewel) song that i really like, it really speaks to that part of me that wants to travel!!


colorado, by say zuzu

let me wander through the fields,
let me go where, where i can feel
i wanna sleep out on the mountain
drift away out into the open, yea

i dream of highways, i dream of oceans
i dream of dust clouds and i feel i'm choking
if you see this in my eyes
let me go there before i die, yea

and mother do you hear me
and father do you see me
and mother do you know me
and father do you see me

first in memphis then colorado
my fathers went there and i will follow
i will see them on the mountains
i will feel them out in the open

and mother do you hear me
and father do you see me
and mother do you know me
and father do you see me

the spirit flows out into the open
the land it calls me, the Lord has spoken
let me wander, let me roam yea
spring has come now, and i must roam yea...

[kjm030584]

wow, I really like that song, the last verse really sticks out.

[Eibhlin]

ya, that is one of my favorites, alot of their songs are like that. that's the only "country-ish" music i listen to, though i prefer the term roots rock, sounds less country!
and i guess i am now officially off topic, since i didnt post about jewel!
shame on me! :huh:
but that jewel song you posted, the lyrics are so true

You killed a man
Because you made him borrow
One suicide is made up
Of ten thousand tiny sorrows
America's great
Its the land of the free
We're so independant
That we forgot how to breathe

in a sense it makes me think of john mellencamps songs about the farmlands, like scarecrow, little pink houses and that time in his career,singing about people being poor and having to get by on borrowed money it's one those things that kills someone a little at a time, and thats what that verse brings to mind.
in my opinion thats what separates the true musician from the one that is just churning something out to make a buck off of mass appeal-being able to touch on real life.

edit-addition:you know, sometimes i think i am just too serious :dunno: