Crash to the Other Shore or Swim to the Ocean Floor

Posted on 2021/11/27 by Chad Philip

Swim (track 02 from the Ray of Light LP by Madonna )

Put your head on my shoulder, things can’t get any worse
The night is getting colder
Sometimes life feels like it’s a curse

I can’t carry these sins on my back
I don’t want to carry any more
I’m going to careen this train off the tracks
I’m going to swim to the ocean floor

Crash to the other shore or swim to the ocean floor

Children killing children
Students rape their teachers
Comets fly across the sky
Churches burn their preachers

We can’t carry these sins on our backs
We don’t want to carry any more
We’re going to careen this train off the tracks
We’re going to swim to the ocean floor

Crash to the other shore or swim to the ocean floor

Let the water wash over you—wash it all over you
Swim to the ocean floor
So that we can begin again
Wash away all our sin
And crash to the other shore

I can’t carry these sins on my back
I don’t want to carry any more
I’m going to careen this train off the tracks
I’m going to swim to the ocean floor

Crash to the other shore or swim to the ocean floor

We can’t carry these sins on our backs
We don’t want to carry any more
We’re going to careen this train off the tracks
We’re going to swim to the ocean floor
Crash to the other shore or swim to the ocean floor

We Are the Hungry Ones On a Lightning Raid

Posted on 2021/11/26 by Chad Philip

Animal (track 03 from the Hysteria LP by Def Leppard )

A wild ride over stony ground
Such a lust for life
The circus comes to town
We are the hungry ones on a lightning raid
Just like a river runs—like a fire needs flame—I burn for you

I’ve got to feel it in my blood
I need your touch
I need your love

And I want
And I need
And I lust
Animal

I cry wolf to feel the mouth to mouth
Like a moving heartbeat in the witching hour
I’m running with the wind
I’m a shadow in the dust
And like the driving rain—like the restless rust—I never sleep

I’ve got to feel it in my blood
I need your touch
I need your love

And I want
And I need
And I lust
Animal

Cry wolf
Cry tough
Gonna hunt you like an animal
Gonna take your love and run

I’ve got to feel it in my blood
I need your touch
I need your love

And I want
And I need
And I lust
Animal

I Tried Levitation, and Flying in Formation

Posted on 2021/09/17 by Chad Philip

Falling Down (track 02 from the Raoul and the Kings of Spain LP by Tears for Fears )

Is this world spinning round?
Has this ship run aground?
What’s that shape?
What’s that sound?
That’s just me falling down

Some of us are free and some are bound
Some will swim and some will drown
Some of us are saints while some are clowns
Just like me they’re all falling down

I lied to the nation while my reputation ran dry
From my lungs to my liver, I clung to the river bank’s side
Now I’m back in the water doing what I ought to and trying to lead an ordinary life

Is this world spinning round?
Has this ship run aground?
What’s that shape?
What’s that sound?
That’s just me falling down

Some of us are green while some are brown
Some are lost and some are found
Sight unseen and sound on sound
Pray for me, I’m falling down

I was lost in the jungle and crossed over enemy lines
I got a red nose by sleeping under hedgerows at night
I tried levitation, and flying in formation, but heaven knows the weight of these crimes

Is this world spinning round?
Has this ship run aground?
What’s that shape?
What’s that sound?
That’s just me falling down

Falling down

If Memories Were All I Sang then I Would Rather Drive a Truck

Posted on 2021/06/28 by Chad Philip

Garden Party (track 03 from The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again LP by John Fogerty ft. Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit )

I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
It was a chance to share old memories and play our songs again

When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
Yet no one recognized me because I didn’t look the same

It’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You can’t please everyone so you have got to please yourself

People came from miles around
Everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus
There was magic in the air

And over in the corner—much to my surprise—Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan’s shoes and was wearing his disguise

It’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You can’t please everyone so you have got to please yourself

I played them all the old songs and thought that’s why they came
No one heard the music because we didn’t look the same

I said hello to Mary Lou—she belongs to me
When I sang a song about a honky-tonk, it was time to leave

It’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You can’t please everyone so you have got to please yourself

Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode
He was playing guitar like a ringing-bell and looking like he should

If you got to play at garden parties, I wish you a lot of luck
If memories were all I sang then I would rather drive a truck

It’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You can’t please everyone so you have got to please yourself

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