Subject: Golden Smog - On Golden Smog Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:41:06 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: Golden Smog @ALBUM: On Golden Smog @SONG: Backstreet Girl (Jagger, Richards) I don't want you to be high I don't want you to be down don't want to tell you no lie just want you to be around please come right up to my ear you will be able to hear what I say don't want you out in my world just you be my backstreet girl please don't be part of my life please keep yourself to yourself please don't you bother my wife that way you won't get no help don't try to ride on my horse you're rather common and coarse anyway don't want you out in my world just you be my backstreet girl please don't you call on the phone please don't come knocking at night please don't you call me at home your manners were never quite right please take the favours I grant curtsy and look nonchalant just for me don't want you out in my world just you be my backstreet girl just you be my backstreet girl @SONG: Cowboy Song (Lynott) I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail those starry nights, campfire lights the coyote call, the howling wind wails as I ride out on an uncertain sundown I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female the nights we spent together riding on the range looking back it all seems so strange roll me over and turn me around let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground roll me over and let me go riding in the rodeo I was took in Texas, I did not know her name Lord, those southern girls all seem the same down below the border, a town in Mexico I set out with the rodeo roll me over and turn me around let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground roll me over and let me go riding free with the buffalo roll me over and turn me around let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground roll me over and let me go riding in the rodeo roll me over and I'll turn around and I'll watch my fingers go up and down up and down that's OK amigo let me go roll me over and turn me around let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground roll me over and let me go riding in the rodeo roll me over and let me be roll me over and let me be cowboy's life is the one for me @SONG: Easy To Be Hard (Rado, Ragni, MacDermot) how can people be so heartless how can people be so cruel easy to be hard easy to be cold how can people have no feelings how can they ignore their friends easy to be proud easy to say no especially people who care about strangers who care about evil and social injustice do you only care about being proud how about I need a friend, I need a friend how can people be so heartless you know I'm hung up on you easy to be proud easy to say no especially people who care about strangers who care about evil and social injustice do you only care about being proud how about I need a friend, I need a friend how can people be so heartless how can people be so cruel easy to be proud, easy to say no easy to be gone, easy to say no come on, easy to get read easy to say no but too easy to be cold easy to say no but too easy to say no @SONG: Shooting Star (Rodgers) Johnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first Beatles song "Love me do" I think it was and from there it wouldn't take long got himself a guitar, he used to play it every night now he's in a rock and roll outfit everything is alright don't you know Johnny told his momma "hey momma, I'm going away gonna hit the big time, gonna be a big star someday" momma came to the door with a teardrop in her eye Johnny said "don't cry momma smile and wave goodbye" don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star and all the world will love you just as long as long as you are Johnny made a record, it went straight up to number one suddenly everyone loved to hear him play his song watching the world go by surprising it goes so fast Johnny looked around him and said "hey I made the big time at last" don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star and all the world will love you just as long as long as you are don't you know that you are a shooting star and all the world will love you just as long as long as you are Johnny died one night, died in his bed bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day if you listen to the wind sometimes you can still hear him play don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star don't you know, don't you don't you know that you are a shooting star don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you know don't you know that you are a shooting star don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you know don't you know you are a shooting, a shooting star don't you know you are a shooting star @SONG: Son (Angel) hello mom I'm fine where the sun is dying how's the weather around my old hometown you seem to worry about my livin' say that all is forgiven what's lost is bound to be found I hope you don't expect to see me 'cause you know I'm very far away you know I really miss you but a man's gotta make it on his own someday soon she sends her greetings 'bout school and civic meetings says she's doing well in her cell yeah, my brother's born and raised now and he's proud to show his face down on the corner scene in his paper dog dreams and me I guess I'm living taking what's for the living ooh ma, you know how I really wish you could see what's on my mind, yeah yeah, I guess it's kind of lonely and I've been uptight for money but I'll make it on my own staying high you seem upset about the drugs and things I guess finally found my way it's my way to be free don't think you're a failure to me someday you'll understand all this just what it is I mean to say but just don't try and love me I don't wanna see you hurt this way guess I'll be going, makes a guy feel great knowing that somebody cares somewhere mom I cannot mail this and let you know I failed it's just not right somehow, oh no I'd rather let you think I'm dead than hung on drugs instead I'm dying anyhow and it's too late now I guess there's a moral somewhere but I can't seem to think just now if I had to do it over guess I'd try to change it around somehow Lord it's really hell when you're living in this spell and nothing's like it seems in a cocaine dream