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billy joel - lesser known maybe... (ignore 'em if you're not a joel fan) ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_KxHsmJ6E billy joel, JAMES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqGvdXNPMc&mode=related&search= UPTOWN GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRIeC3Es5kA vienna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEh_t0H_NfM she’s got a way about her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZH3OHo5_JU downeaster Alexa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4JhDFIsF4 you’re only human (second wind)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMETt6loYA0 keeping the faith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWeJVR8tio a room of our own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Xj5oHEsG8&mode=related&search= only the good die young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNG09Qszpo baby grand – with ray charles (11/10 this one)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXsdbF-7jc&mode=related&search= donovan, universal soldier, 1965 - (the last scene is the saddest) :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbvJyYb2eI&mode=related&search= ditto, donovan singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HeVEIxIUU&mode=related&search= Donovan Only the blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=6ZNgITtthfY colours (yellow is the colour of my true loves hair)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJbRgo7Qwt4&mode=related&search= I might as well try to catch the wind
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wjXhVHqTVo&mode=related&search=
MATTER OF TRUST (Billy Joel)

Some love is just a lie of the heart
The core remains of what began with a passionate start
And they may not want it to end
But it will, it's just a question of when
I've lived long enough to have learned
The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned
But that won't happen to us
'Cause it's always been a matter of trust

I know you're an emotional girl
It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world
I can't offer you proof
But you're gonna face a moment of truth
It's hard when you're always afraid
You just recover when another belief is betrayed
So break my heart if you must
It's a matter of trust

You can't go the distance
With too much resistance
I know you have doubts
But for God's sake don't shut me out

This time you've got nothing to lose
You can take it, you can leave it, whatever you choose
I won't hold back anything
And I'll walk away a fool or a king
Some love is just a lie of the mind
It's make believe until it's only a matter of time
And some might have learned to adjust
But then it never was a matter of trust

(INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE)

I'm sure you're aware of
We've both had our share of believing too long
When the whole situation was wrong

Some love is just a lie of the soul
A constant battle for the ultimate state of control
After you've heard lie upon lie
There can hardly be a question of why
Some love is just a lie of the heart
The cold remains of what began with a passionate start
But that can't happen to us
'Cause it's always been a matter of trust

It's a matter of trust
It's always been a matter of trust
It's a matter of trust

compare the lyrics of the song back there ..
"my milkshake brings the boys to the yard,
and their life is better that yours,
and damned right it's better than yours,
i can teach you, but i have to charge"... sheesh :) I pity the current kids, bludy nonsense fed up to them as "rap" or "*rap" etc.
 
Having given rap and/or hiphop a hard time in the last post, I found this one. When you get to read the words (at least for this one) they are really good.(imho). (although i still have major reservations about rap in general).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9tY5P8fX4 common - i have a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjhtZGD8xk&mode=related&search= the making of i have a dream , common
" man i gotta really say some good things to be on the same song as Martin Luther King's voice, and to be able to explain the story of the freedom writers, and children that's going through oppression, no matter where they from".

I HAVE A DREAM (Common)
[Chorus - Will.i.am and Martin Luther King]

(I am happy...I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out
(I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) We gonna work it out
(I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day) That one day
(That One Day) I'ma look deep within myself
(I Have a Dream) I gotta find a way...
My Dream Is To Be Free
My Dream Is To Be
My Dream Is To Be
My Dream Is To Be Free

[Verse 1]
In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness,
Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives,
Gunshots comin' from sounds of Blackness,
Given this game and no time to practice,
Born on the Black list, told I'm below average,
A life with no cabbage,
That's no money if you from where I'm from,
Funny, I just want some of your sun,
Dark clouds seem to follow me,
Alcohol that my pops swallowed bottle me,
No apology, I walk with the world on my shoulder,
It's a Cold War - I'm a colder soldier,
Hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the King,
I ain't usin' it for the right thing,
In between Lean and the fiends, hustle and the schemes,
I put together pieces of the Dream
I still have one

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
The world's seen me lookin' in the mirror,
Images of me, gettin' much clearer,
Dear Self, I wrote a letter just to better my soul,
If I don't express it then forever I'll hold, inside
I'm from a side where we out of control,
Rap music in the 'hood played a fatherly role,
My story's like yours, yo it gotta be told,
Tryna make it from a gangsta to a godlier role,
Rest grows and stow slaves,
And to its people in cold cage,
Hate has no color or age, flip the page,
Now my race became freedom,
Writin' dreams in the dark, they far but I can see 'em,
I believe in Heaven more than Hell,
Blessings more than jail,
In the ghetto let love prevail,
With a story to tell, my eyes see the glory and well,
The world waitin' for me to yell "I Have a Dream"
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Martin Luther King lived to be 39. "In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday, [along with] Jesus of Nazareth, George Washington, and Christopher Columbus"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, and a Baptist minister. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races). On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday, only the fourth Federal holiday to honor an individual (the other three being in honor of Jesus of Nazareth, George Washington, and Christopher Columbus).

...The FBI began wiretapping King in 1961, fearing that communists were trying to infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement, but when no such evidence emerged, the bureau used the incidental details caught on tape over six years in attempts to force King out of the preeminent leadership position.

King correctly recognized that organized, nonviolent protest against the racist system of southern segregation known as Jim Crow laws would lead to extensive media coverage of the struggle for black equality and voting rights. Indeed, journalistic accounts and televised footage of the daily deprivation and indignities suffered by southern blacks, and of segregationist violence and harassment of civil rights workers and marchers, produced a wave of sympathetic public opinion that made the Civil Rights Movement the single most important issue in American politics in the early-1960s.

King organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into United States law with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk&mode=related&search= king's speech ( all 17 mins ;))
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html time article
 
Whiskeytown - Matrimony

well, i'm saving this dress for my wedding day
momma wouldn't have it any other way
she says when she married, her waist was twenty three
i guess i'll never wear it anyway
i don't believe i care to marry
though i cannot explain exactly why
it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery
simply a faster way to die

i'm saving all my money for my wedding day
you know my momma wouldn't have it any other way
she says when she married, she didn't' have a dime
but i guess i'll spend that money some other way

because i don't believe i care to marry
though i cannot explain exactly why
it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery
simply a faster way to die

well, i'm saving my best thing for my wedding day
because my poppa wouldn't have it any other way
he says if i lose it early, i'll have thrown my life away
but i swear i'll use my cherry my own way

i don't believe i care to marry
though i cannot explain exactly why
it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery
simply a faster way to die.
 
"Without you"
Shirley Bassey

Well I can't forget this evening And your face when you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes....
You always smile But in your eyes the sorrow shows Yes it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think about my sorrow I had you there, then I let you go
And now it's only fair that I should let you know What you should know
I can't live if living is without you I can't live I can't live anymore
I can't live if living is without you I can't live I can't live anymore
Well I can't forget this evening And your face when you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes....
You always smile But in your eyes the sorrow shows Yes it shows
I can't live if living is without you I can't live I can't live anymore
I can't live if living is without you I can't live I can't live anymore
 
"All about soul"
BILLY JOEL

She waits for me at night,she waits for me in silence
She gives me all her tenderness and takes away my pain
And so far she hasn't run, though I swear she's had her moments
She still believes in miracles while others cry in vain
It's all about soul
It's all about faith and a deeper devotion
It's all about soul
'Cause under the love is a stronger emotion She's got to be strong
'Cause so many things getting out of control to drive her away
So why does she stay?
It's all about soul
She turns to me sometimes and she asks me what I'm dreaming
And I realize I must have gone a million miles away
And I ask her how she knew to reach out for me at that moment
And she smiles because it's understood there are no words to say
It's all about soul
It's all about knowing what someone is feeling
The woman's got soul
The power of love and the power of healing
This life isn't fair
It's gonna get dark, it's gonna get cold You've got to get tough, but that ain't enough
It's all about soul
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness
There are many who have fallen, there are some who still survive
She comes to me at night and she tells me her desires
And she gives me all the love I need to keep my faith alive
It's all about soul
It's all about joy that comes out of sorrow
It's all about soul
Who's standing now and who's standing tomorrow
You've got to be hard Hard as the rock in that old rock'n roll
But that's only part, you know in your heart
It's all about soul
 
islands in the stream, dolly parton, kenny rogers - I always imagined the video for this would be dolly parton lying in a bath ;)[/QUOTE]


Chuckle!!
 
"Christie Lee"
BILLY JOEL

Let me tell you a story About a woman and a man Maybe you will find familiar
Maybe you won't understand The man's name I don't remember
He was always Joe to me
But I can't forget the woman She was always Christie Lee
He was working in a night club That's where he played the saxophone
He used to fake to stock arrangements He left the customers alone
But one night before the last song About a quarter after three
He saw her standing at the coat check And made his move on Christie Lee
Christie Lee, Christie Lee Christie Lee, Christie Lee

She was a nice piece of music She had a rhythm all her own
He blew a solo like a blind man She really dug his saxophone
She wanted more than just an encore And he could play in every key
Oh I heard the man knew "the Bird" like the bible

You know the man could blow an educated axe
He couldn't see that Christie Lee was a woman Who didn't need another lover
All she wanted was the sax It took a while for him to notice
It took a while for him to see He was never in control here
It was always Christie Lee Christie Lee, Christie Lee Christie Lee, Christie Lee
Oh the man took a calculated gamble Yes the man had the power to perform
That's what the moral is to me The only time you hit the high note
Is when you play for Christie Lee Christie Lee, Christie Lee
Christie Lee,
Christie Lee
 
"She's got a way about her"
BILLY JOEL

She's got a way about her
I don't know what it is
But I know that I can't live without her
She's got a way of pleasin'
I don't know what it is
But there doesn't have to be a reason anywhere
She's got a smile that heals me
I don't know why it is
But I have to laugh when she reveals me
She's got a way of talkin'
I don't know why it is
But it lifts me up when we are walkin' anywhere

She comes to me when I'm feelin' down
Inspires me without a sound
She touches me and I get turned around

She's got a way of showin'
How I make her feel
And I found the strength to keep on goin'
She's got a light around her
And everywhere she goes
A million dreams of love surround her everywhere
She's got a smile that heals me
Oh I don't know why it is
But I have to laugh when she reveals me anyway
 
"She's always a woman to me"
BILLY JOEL

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth, but she'll never believe
And she'll take what you give her as long it's free
Yeah, She steals like a thief, but she's always a woman to me

Ohhh... she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time
Ohhh... and she never gives out
And she never gives in, she just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more than the garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding
But she’ll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me

She's frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree
And the most she will do is throw shadows at you,
But she's always a woman to me
 
"The shadow of your smile"
SHIRLEY BASSEY

One day we walked along the sand
One day in early spring
You held a piper in your hand
To mend it's broken wing
Now I remember many a day
And many a lonely mile
The echo of a piper song
The shadow of a smile
The shadow of your smile
When you are gone
Will color all my dreams
And light the dawn Look into my eyes, my love, and see
All the lovely things, you are, to me

Our wistful little star Was far too high

A teardrop kissed your lips

And so did I

Now when I remember spring
All the joy that the love can bring
I will be remembering

The shadow of your smile
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UjUtre26Q&NR Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

In this proud land we grew up strong, We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win, I never thought I could fail

No fight left or so it seems, I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
Ive changed my face, Ive changed my name , But no one wants you when you lose

Dont give up , cos you have friends ,
Dont give up , Youre not beaten yet
Dont give up . I know you can make it good

Though I saw it all around , Never thought I could be affected
Thought that wed be the last to go, It is so strange the way things turn

Drove the night toward my home, The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth, The trees had burned down to the ground

Dont give up, You still have us
Dont give up, We dont need much of anything
Dont give up, cause somewhere theres a place
Where we belong

Rest your head , You worry too much
Its going to be alright , When times get rough
You can fall back on us, Dont give up
Please dont give up

got to walk out of here, I cant take anymore
Going to stand on that bridge, Keep my eyes down below
Whatever may come, And whatever may go
That rivers flowing, That rivers flowing

Moved on to another town, Tried hard to settle down
For every job, so many men, So many men no-one needs

Dont give up, cause you have friends
Dont give up, Youre not the only one
Dont give up, No reason to be ashamed
Dont give up, You still have us
Dont give up now, Were proud of who you are
Dont give up, You know its never been easy
Dont give up, cause I believe theres the a place
Theres a place where we belong
 
"(fly me to the moon) in other words"
SHIRLEY BASSEY

Poets often use many words
To say a simple thing
It takes thought and time and rhyme
To make a poem sing
With music and words I've been playing
For you I have written a song To be sure that you know what I'm saying I'll translate as I'll go along
Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words
Hold my hand
In other words

Darling kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words
Please be true
In other words
I love you
Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words
Please be true
In other words

I love you
 
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