Bob Dylan - Sweetheart Like You

The foundation of this whole story is dropped in this song and I didn’t realize how very true this is and for how long this has been going on until very recently. This has been a very long con on both sides and, yes, I have not been in on the plot a lot of the time. To the best of my understanding, I’ve been “handled” since the 90s. I thought I just wasn’t trying hard enough to make it. Unbelievable. A crime empire banking dynasty is a helluva drug.

Bob Dylan’s fantastic song, Sweetheart Like You, can be heard and downloaded here.

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In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear
It's done with a flick of the wrist

Sweetheart Like You Lyrics

Well the pressure's down, the boss ain't here
He's gone North, for a while
They say that vanity got the best of him
But he sure left here in style
By the way, that's a cute hat
And that smile's so hard to resist
But what's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?
You know, I once knew a woman who looked like you
She wanted a whole man, not just a half
She used to call me sweet daddy when I was only a child

You kind of remind me of her when you laugh
In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear
It's done with a flick of the wrist
What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?
You know a woman like you should be at home

That's where you belong
Taking care for somebody nice
Who don't know how to do you wrong
Just how much abuse will you be able to take?
Well, there's no way to tell by that first kiss
What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

You know you can make a name for yourself
You can hear them tires squeal
You could be known as the most beautiful woman
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal.

You know, news of you has come down the line
Even before ya came in the door
They say in your father's house, there's many a mansions
Each one of them got a fireproof floor
Snap out of it baby, people are jealous of you
They smile to your face, but behind your back they hiss
What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?
Got to be an important person to be in here, honey
Got to have done some evil deed
Got to have your own harem when you come in the door
Got to play your harp until your lips bleed.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king
There's only one step down from here, baby
It's called the land of permanent bliss
What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

Bob Dylan - Angelina

I didn’t know what I didn’t know about Bob Dylan. That’s for sure. A powderkeg. I am always available for vindication services.

Angelina Lyrics

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances
My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
Where the current is strong and the monkey dances
To the tune of a concertina

Blood dryin' in my yellow hair as I go from shore to shore
I know what it is that has drawn me to your door
But whatever it could be, makes me think you've seen me before
Angelina

Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina

His eyes were two slits that would make a snake proud
With a face that any painter would paint as he walked through the crowd
Worshipping a god with the body of a woman well endowed
And the head of a hyena

Do I need your permission to turn the other cheek?
If you can read my mind, why must I speak?
No, I have heard nothing about the man that you seek
Angelina

Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode
The peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed
I was only following instructions when the judge sent me down the road
With your subpoena

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame
I've tried my best to love you but I cannot play this game
Your best friend and my worst enemy is one and the same
Angelina

Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina

There's a black Mercedes rollin' through the combat zone
Your servants are half dead, you're down to the bone
Tell me, tall men, where would you like to be overthrown
In Jerusalem or Argentina?

She was stolen from her mother when she was three days old
Now her vengeance has been satisfied and her possessions have been sold
He's surrounded by God's angels and she's wearin' a blindfold
And so are you, Angelina

Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina

I see pieces of men marching; trying to take heaven by force
I can see the unknown rider, I can see the pale white horse
In God's truth tell me what you want and you'll have it of course
Just step into the arena

Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases
Pass the tree of smoke, pass the angel with four faces
Begging God for mercy and weepin' in unholy places
Angelina

Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina

Elvis Costello, Ron Sexsmith - Everyday I Write The Book

Everyday I Write The Book lyrics

Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better
When you find strange hands in your sweater
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book

Chapter One - we didn't really get along
Chapter Two - I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book

The way you walk
The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
In four or five paragraphs
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Are captured here in my quotation marks

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book
Everyday I write the book

Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a fighter
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book

Elvis Costello - Magnificent Hurt

We have to get to the other side and the obstacles cannot remain. Lying cannot be the effective law of the land. It CAN’T BE. We need this revolution of the heart to take hold.

Magnificent Hurt lyrics

After talking in tongues
I began to preach
“What falls from the branch is an apple or peach”
Hold on to me
There's a Red Alert
It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I took a little walk
I took another stimulant
I shed a single tear
For my predicament
Don't act surprised or insolent
It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

When we first met, I knew you were beautiful
You fit like the seat of a blue mohair suit
But the pain that I felt
Let me know I'm alive
And I opened my heart
To the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I speak low and intimate
Like a cardboard sophisticate
What if this is true love?
Not some town hall certificate
It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt

I stood at the door and I almost went through with it
Tight as the angle of my amen
And I swore there and then
As I feign and I flirt
I unbuttoned my shirt
To the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt
To the way you make me feel
Magnificent Hurt
It's the way you make me feel
It's the way you make me feel
Magnificent

Rage Against The Dying Of The Light! says Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night lyrics

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night lyrics

And do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Though wise men at their end know dark is right
Because their words had forked no lightning
They do not go gentle into that good night
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight
And learn too late, they grieved it on its way
Do not go gentle into that good night
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
And you, my father, there on the sad height
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Josh Groban, Frank Sinatra - The World We Knew (Over And Over)

Josh Groban recently favored us with a spy song.

The World We Knew (Over And Over) Lyrics

Over and over I keep going over the world we knew
Once when you walked beside me
That inconceivable, that unbelievable world we knew
When we two were in love

And every bright neon sign turned into stars
And the sun and the moon seemed to be ours
Each road that we took turned into gold
But the dream was too much for you to hold

Now over and over, I keep going over the world we knew
Days whеn you used to love me

And еvery bright neon sign turned into stars
And the sun and the moon seemed to be ours
Each road that we took, it turned into gold
But the dream was too much for you to hold

Now over and over I keep going over the world we knew
Days when you used to love me
Over and over I keep going over the world we knew

Bob Dylan - Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight

Wherever Bob Dylan is right now, that heart is shining out and I hope everyone can feel it.

Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight Lyrics

Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl
Just a minute 'fore you touch the door
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
Do you think we can talk about it some more?

You know, the streets are filled with vipers
Who've lost all ray of hope
You know, it's not even safe no more
In the palace of the Pope

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah

Come over here from over there, girl
Sit down here, you can have my chair
I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
The only place open is a thousand miles away, and I can't take you there

I wish that I'd been a doctor
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, oh, yeah

I ain't too good at conversation, girl
So you might not know exactly how I feel
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
And build you a house made out of stainless steel

But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
That's hanging in the Louvre
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
But I know that I can't move

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
And I need you, oh

Who are these people who are walking towards you?
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?

Oh, do you remember St. James Street
Where you blew Jackie P's mind?
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
And laid his life on the line

Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
No more booby traps and bombs
No more decadence and charm
No more affection that's misplaced, girl

No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
When he played and we didn't dance

Don't fall apart on me tonight
I just don't think that I could handle it
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Yesterday's just a memory
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
And I need you, yeah, you
Ah, I need you

This is everything I love about Iggy Pop right here.

Iggy Pop - James Bond

The humor, the intelligence, the humility, the filth, his amazing talent. So much admiration and appreciation for Iggy Pop. This fantastic song is from Iggy’s shocking and terrific album Free.

James Bond Lyrics

She wants to be your James Bond
She wants to be your James Bond
Well, it's not for a price and it's not to be nice
She wants to be your James Bond

She wants to be your James Bond
(James Bond)
She wants to be your James Bond
She might stand in your way, but still she'll save the day
She wants to be your James Bond
(James Bond)

She walks like him
Talks like him too
She can suss out the spy
Even if it's you

She trusts no one
Not even herself
She makes no sudden moves
Chalks it up to stealth

She wants to be your James Bond
She wants to be your James Bond
Well, it's not for a price and it's not to be nice
She wants to be your James Bond
(James Bond)

She wants to be your James Bond
She wants to be your James Bond
She might stand in your way, but still she'll save the day
She wants to be your James Bond

Nuts melt in her mouth
But not in her hand
No need to figure it out
She just likes M&Ms

Sweet to the taste
Bitter in the gut
'Cause she fills them up
With you know what

She will not be shamed
She will not be blamed
When she confuses a tune
She blames it on you
Screaming, "You're insane, you're insane"

Didn't make the rules, so don't blame me
Most fools gravitate to vanity
And her sanity is insanity
Driving off while making you feel guilty

She wants to be your James Bond
She wants to be your James Bond
She might stand in your way, but still she'll save the day
She wants to be your James Bond
(James Bond)

She wants to be your James Bond
She wants to be your James Bond
She'll become a double agent if you try her patience
So let her be your James Bond
(James Bond)
Let her be your James Bond
Just let her be your James Bond

Save the day, baby

Shania Twain - Waking Up Dreaming

We’re all getting the same idea. That is GREAT! THIS IS THE WAY TO GO. So much appreciation!

Waking Up Dreaming lyrics

Song by Shania Twain

Do you know I adore you
A million ways to show you
I do (I do, ooh ooh)
I do (I do, ooh ooh)

Every moment holding
You, is a moment stolen
It's true (it's true, ooh ooh)
It's true (it's true, ooh ooh)

Oh, whoa, whoa
Gotta be now or never
Oh, whoa, whoa
Time ain't waitin' forever

So let's start waking up dreamin'
And dress up crazy like superstars
There ain't no shakin' this feelin'
Tonight we're makin' our way to Mars

Way up higher than we've ever been
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

Now is the perfect timing
You know it's worth us findin'
The rush (the rush, ooh ooh)
The rush (the rush, ooh ooh)

What if there's no tomorrow
I promise I won't let go, no
Matter what (matter what, ooh ooh)
Matter what (matter what, ooh ooh) oh

Oh, whoa, whoa
Gotta be now or never
Oh, whoa, whoa
Time ain't waiting forever

So let's start waking up dreamin'
And dress up crazy like superstars
There ain't no shakin' this feelin'
Tonight we're making our way to Mars

Way up higher than we've ever been
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

Way up higher than we've ever been
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

Can't live my best life without you, baby
Don't think I could carry on
We're stronger the longer we can make it

Oh, way-oh, way-oh

So let's start waking up dreamin'
And dress up crazy like superstars
There ain't no shaking this feelin'
Tonight we're making our way to Mars

Way up higher than we've ever been
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

Way up higher than we've ever been
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

Dolly Parton - Just Because I'm a Woman

There is something so special about Dolly. Check out her wonderfully inspiring new album Run Rose Run. Did you know that Dolly has an Imagination Library that offers free books? We should support the leaders who are supporting US.

Just Because I'm a Woman Lyrics

I can see you're disappointed
By the way you look at me
And I'm sorry that I'm not
The woman you thought I'd be
Yes, I've made my mistakes
But listen and understand
My mistakes are no worse than yours
Just because I'm a woman

So when you look at me
Don't feel sorry for yourself
Just think of all the shame
You might have brought somebody else

Just let me tell you this
Then we'll both know where we stand
My mistakes are no worse than yours
Just because I'm a woman

Now a man will take a good girl
And he'll ruin her reputation
But when he wants to marry
Well, that's a different situation

He'll just walk off and leave her
To do the best she can
While he looks for an angel
To wear his wedding band

Now I know that I'm no angel
If that's what you thought you'd found
I was just the victim of
A man that let me down

Yes, I've made my mistakes
But listen and understand
My mistakes are no worse than yours
Just because I'm a woman

No, my mistakes are no worse than yours
Just because I'm a woman