Radiohead - Optimistic/The National Anthem

Legend at work.

Optimistic/The National Anthem lyrics

Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth

Radiohead's Site

We've got a New Bruce Springsteen!

Bruce Springsteen - Nightshift

Bruce looks and sounds better than ever. Smooth and transporting. Only The Strong Will Survive is an album I’m really looking forward to hearing.

"Nightshift"
(originally by Commodores)

Marvin, he was a friend of mine
And he could sing his song, his heart in every line
Marvin sang of the joy and pain
He opened up our minds, I still can hear him say
"Oh talk to me, so you can see, what's going on"
Say you will sing your songs forevermore (forevermore)

Gonna be some sweet sounds, coming down on the nightshift
I bet you're singing proud, I bet you'll pull a crowd
Gonna be a long night, it's gonna be all right, on the nightshift (on the nightshift)
You found another home, I know you're not alone, on the nightshift

Jackie, hey what you doing now?
It seems like yesterday when we were working out
Jackie, you set the world on fire
You came and gifted us, your love it lifted us higher and higher
Keep it up and we'll be there at your side
Say you will sing your songs forevermore (forevermore)

Gonna be some sweet sounds, coming down on the nightshift (on the nightshift)
I bet you're singing proud, I bet you'll pull a crowd
It's gonna be a long night, it's gonna be all right, on the nightshift (on the nightshift)
You found another home, I know you're not alone, on the nightshift

Gonna miss your sweet voice, that soulful noise, on the nightshift
We all remember you, your song is coming through
Gonna be a long night, it's gonna be all right, on the nightshift (on the nightshift)
You found another home, I know you're not alone, on the nightshift
You found another home, I know you're not alone, on the nightshift

On the nightshift
On the nightshift...

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Daryl Hall & John Oates - Getaway Car

What a beautiful song. It’s is wonderful to hear Hall & Oates at the top of their game!

Getaway Car Lyrics

Remembering when we first met
We had that adventure in our eyes
But something got away I guess
In the everyday of our lives

And I don't know what keeps us here
Let's disappear and start all over again

We can run away
Baby come as you are
You can look at my heart
As your Getaway Car
We can drive all night
It will be alright
Love can take us so far in my Getaway Car

All we need is the open road
More fuel for the fire inside us
Steer us onto lands unknown
And we can leave this world behind us

And I don't know what keeps us here
Let's disappear and start all over again

-Repeat Chorus-
We can run away
Baby come as you are
You can look at my heart
As your Getaway Car
We can drive all night
It will be alright
Love can take us so far in my Getaway Car

Turn up the radio and don't look back again
Let me put the pedal down, gonna leave this town
Don't be afraid to ride

- Repeat Chorus -
We can run away
Baby come as you are
You can look at my heart
As your Getaway Car
We can drive all night
It will be alright
Love can take us so far in my Getaway Car

Hall and Oates’ site

Tina Turner - The Best

Force of Nature Tina Turner knows how to command attention. What an incredible performer and artist!

The Best lyrics

I call you when I need you, my heart's on fire
You come to me, come to me wild and wild
When you come to me
Give me everything I need

Give me a lifetime of promises and a world of dreams
Speak a language of love like you know what it means
MMm, and it can't be wrong
Take my heart and make it strong, baby

You're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
Tear us apart
Baby, I would rather be dead

In your heart, I see the star of every night and every day
In your eyes, I get lost, I get washed away
Just as long as I'm here in your arms
I could be in no better place

You're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
Ooh, I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
Don't tear us apart, no, no, no
Baby, I would rather be dead

Each time you leave me, I start losing control
You're walking away with my heart and my soul
I can feel you even when I'm alone
Oh baby, don't let go

Ooh, you're the best, ooh
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
Ooh, I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
Don't tear us apart, no, no
Baby, I would rather be dead
You're the best

Ooh, you're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
I'm stuck on your heart, baby
I hang on every word you say
Don't tear us apart, no, no, no
Baby, I would rather be dead

Oh, you're the best
You're better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met
Ooh, you're the best

Tina Turner's site

Let’s get an idea of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s natal chart

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a leading light in music and Broadway. One of the few that we can perhaps hope to regard at that “Wagner level”. This is a stick that I hold up for some reason despite the fact that I’m happy to be able to get through a song.

Can talent of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magnitude be seen in a natal chart?

The Sun is right at the beginning of Aries. This would suggest that Andrew is fiery and he starts exciting things. Pallas Athena is somewhat aligned with this Aries Sun. Athena is a goddess energy. She will fight through art and patterns but at a certain point, Athena can be expected to do what needs to be done, if it is for Justice. This combination of the Sun and Pallas Athena in Aries screams that Andrew is a fighter - for art, culture and what’s right.

That Andrew’s fighting spirit comes from a place of generosity and benevolence can be seen in the difficult (square) between Pallas Athena/Sun and Jupiter in Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter).

I also have Sun square Jupiter in my chart and I have to deal with a difficult infamy, persecution and scandal. Jupiter amplifies what it touches and the Sun can indicate fame. We can imagine that Andrew’s fame is not an easy one but he is hugely famous.

We also can see the shocking eccentric communications revolutionary in the square between Uranus in Gemini (media) and his Sun in Aries.

Uranus (technology, the masses), Jupiter (knowledge) and Neptune (spirit) are in difficult aspects with Andrew’s fiery core self (Aries). To have a difficult aspect with Neptune in Libra (art, relationships, music) and his Sun, could come across as someone very empathetic and wounded, who can pour that feeling into beautiful Music (Neptune).

As soon as I looked at Andrew’s chart, I could see that he feels deeply and a lot of it is very painful - difficult aspects between Mars energy and that of Neptune can be a lot of anger and pain. Perhaps this is what fuels his sublime and sensitive work.

Andrew is a great communicator and we can see that here. He has Mercury in Pisces. This could be someone who communicates about spiritual matters. We all know that Andrew is the composer of a musical about Joseph from Genesis and the particularly great musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. In his most recent musical, Bad Cinderella, Andrew also explores themes of spiritual persecution that tend to pop up again and again.

This place of communication - Mercury in Pisces (telepathy) is square the Moon (emotions) in Leo (royalty, the establishment). Perhaps there are emotional difficulties involving media and the establishment. What further suggests that there are such problems can be inferred from the alignment of Mars (fire), Saturn (restriction) and Pluto (pain, transformation) with the Moon (intuition).

All of these planets are in Leo which suggests a certain grandeur, and also the potential and drive (Mars) to transform (Pluto) the establishment (Saturn, Leo).

We are seeing all of this deep difficulty and pain put to very good use in Andrew’s courageous new musical Bad Cinderella, which appears to be his very best so far.

The good news with this difficult stellium of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Pluto is that Andrew has a trine with Uranus in Gemini. He also has a trine from this stellium to Jupiter in Sagittarius.

Perhaps Andrew has a lot of painful emotions (Mars, Moon, Saturn, Pluto) but he may have easy access to supernatural abilities (Uranus) and the natural ease to teach and learn and grow in a truthful way (Jupiter in Sagittarius).

I’m looking forward to seeing what this great artist is bringing to the public sphere. We should always be very sensitive with him! I have a chart like his (lots of squares) and it hurts.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s site

Koand - Trick Out The Truth

The ritual killing needs to stop.

"Trick Out The Truth" lyrics

It's a sin to tell a lie until we trick out the truth
That depends on what you do and don't believe
What you have hidden up your sleeve

Younger than your shadow and as sweet as your tooth
What have you forbidden from my view?
What have you kept from me?
What have I held from you?

What will they say when they haul you away?
Will anyone miss you, or kiss you, to say
"Goodbye" (Goodbye)
With a tear or a coin for your eye
When they finally trick out the truth

There are witches in the air
Jack o'lanterns on the stairs
And a wig to turn your hair electric blue
Ghouls are sighted, children frighted
Superheroes and villains
Wondrous women by the millions
Who fade to the parade
And join the masquerade

Right outside your door a werewolf and his claw
Painted faces with a penny chew and Kensington gore

Mussolini and his mistress in defeat
And a witness with a cutlass arrange a winding sheet
Singing "Leaning On A Lampost On The Corner Of The Street"

The Marxists cheer a working girl
Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Karl
She's tattooed from her head to toe
She's inky like a girl I know
A contagion of invidia
Just like the famous Lydia
Just like Helen, late of Troy
The Myna Bird, the Myrna Loy

Bud and Lou were wrestling in the parlour
Playing cards with Gustav Mahler
We were calling every hand and every hold

To a silent movie pianist
Accompanying the action
From our description and distraction

Playing vamps and trills and rambles, sound effects and rags and rumbles
Without even breaking stride
Just as the bloody vampire nips his bride

We were so scared that we knelt down to pray
With a bishop by Bacon
Who caused some dismay
Who summons up tormented souls doused with feathers and molasses
And the ashes of unholy crosses

Somebody has to die before we trick out the truth
I'll be coming back and I will turn the screw

Longer than the shadow of some pulp fiction sleuth
Standing in a costume of your choice
Lady Godiva on a horse
And Godzilla, of course

For should we part at the end of the day
When angels attend you to whisk you away
We are falling down deep
Like children into sleep
And the candy has been counted
And the bonfire will be haunted
By orphans who are heard but never seen
Each and every Halloween

What will they say when they haul you away?
Will anyone miss you, or kiss you, to say
"Goodbye" (Goodbye)
With a tear or a coin for your eye
When they finally trick out the truth
When they finally trick out the truth

Elvis Costello's site

Eminem - Beautiful

Exactly (we’re all being set up) -

. . .

In my shoes, just to see
What it's like to be me
I'll be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what it'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other's eyes

Beautiful Lyrics

Lately, I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone
Are you callin me?
Are you tryin' to get through?
Are you reachin' out for me?
I'm reachin' out for you

I'm just so fuckin' depressed
I just can't seem to get out this slump
If I could just get over this hump
But I need something to pull me out this dump
I took my bruises, took my lumps
Fell down and I got right back up
But I need that spark to get psyched back up
In order for me to pick the mic back up
I don't know how or why or when
And I ended up in this position I'm in
I'm startin' to feel distant again
So I decided just to pick this pen
Up and tried to make an attempt to vent
But I just can't admit
Or come to grips with the fact that I may be done with rap
I need a new outlet
And I know some shit's so hard to swallow
But I just can't sit back and wallow
In my own sorrow, but I know one fact
I'll be one tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
I'll be one tough act to follow
Here today, gone tomorrow
But you'd have to walk a thousand miles

In my shoes, just to see
What it's like to be me
I'll be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what it'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (so)
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh-oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (yeah, so)

I think I'm startin' to lose my sense of humor
Everything's so tense and gloom
I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature
Of the room, just as soon as
I walk in, it's like all eyes on me
So I try to avoid any eye contact
'Cause if I do that, then it opens a door
For conversation like I want that
I'm not lookin' for extra attention
I just wanna be just like you
Blend in with the rest of the room
Maybe just point me to the closest restroom
I don't need no fuckin' manservant
Tryna follow me around, and wipe my ass
Laugh at every single joke I crack
And half of 'em ain't even funny like
"Ha, Marshall, you're so funny, man
You should be a comedian, goddamn"
Unfortunately I am
I just hide behind the tears of a clown
So why don't you all sit down
Listen to the tale I'm about to tell
Hell, we don't gotta trade our shoes
And you ain't gotta walk no thousand miles

In my shoes, just to see
What it's like to be me
I'll be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what it'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh-oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (so)
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh-oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (so)

Nobody asked for life to deal us
With these bullshit hands we're dealt
We gotta take these cards ourselves
And flip 'em, don't expect no help
Now I could have either just sat on my ass and pissed and moaned
Or take this situation in which I'm placed in
And get up and get my own
I was never the type of kid to wait by the door and pack his bags
Or sat on the porch and hoped and prayed
For a dad to show up who never did
I just wanted to fit in, in every single place, every school I went
I dreamed of being that cool kid
Even if it meant actin' stupid
Aunt Edna always told me
"Keep makin' that face, it'll get stuck like that"
Meanwhile, I'm just standin' there
Holding my tongue, tryin' to talk like this
'Til I stuck my tongue on the frozen stop sign pole at eight years old
I learned my lesson then
'Cause I wasn't tryin to impress my friends no more
But I already told you my whole life story
Not just based on my description
'Cause where you see it from where you're sittin'
Is probably 110% different
I guess we would have to walk a mile in each other's shoes at least
What size you wear? I wear 10's
Let's see if you can fit your feet

In my shoes, just to see
What it's like to be me
I'll be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what it'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh-oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (so)
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful (oh-oh)
They can all get fucked, just stay true to you (so)

Lately, I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own (oh-oh)
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone (so)
Are you callin' me?
Are you tryin' to get through? (oh-oh)
Are you reachin' out for me?
Then I'm reachin' out for you (so)

Yeah, to my babies, stay strong
Dad'll be home soon
And to the rest of the world
God gave you them shoes to fit you
So put 'em on and wear 'em
Be yourself, man
Be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny
Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful (so)

Eminem's site

Stay True To You

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