I won't grow up - Ricky Lee Jones
I won't grow up
I don't wanna go to school
Just to learn to be a puppet
And recite a silly rule
If growing up means it would be
Beneath my dignity to climb a tree
I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up
Not me.
I won't grow up
I don't wanna wear a tie
Or a serious expression
In the middle of July
And if it means that I must prepare
To shoulder burdens with a worried air
I'll never grow up, won't grow up, never grow up
So there
Never gonna be a man
I won't!
Like to see somebody try
And make me!
Anyone who wants to try
And make me turn into a man
Catch me if you can
I won't grow up
I don't wanna wear a tie
Or a serious expression
To try to act just like a guy
'Cause growing up's awfuller than
All of the awful things that's ever been
I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up
Again
Growing up's awfuller than
All of the awful thing that's ever been
I won't grow up, never grow up, won't grow up
Again.
Not me.
Not I.
Showing posts with label Rickie Lee Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rickie Lee Jones. Show all posts
October 13, 2009
head toon
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Rickie Lee Jones,
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January 22, 2009
head toon - we belong together
I say this was no game of chicken
You were aiming your best friend
That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck
I think you picked this up in mexico from your dad
Now it’s daddy on the booze
And brando on the ice
Now it’s dean in the doorway
With one more way he can’t play this scene twice
So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
And you told her to stand tall whet you kissed her
But that’s not where you were thinking...
How could a natalie wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
How now look who shows up
In the same place
In this case
I think it’s better
To face it
We belong together
We belong together
Once johnny the king made a spit ring
And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man
And he entwine her in his finger
And she lay there like a baby in his hand
And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin’ out on the crosstown seas
And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees
But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
To turn her into a tattoo
That will whisper
Into the back of johnny’s black hair
And now johnny the king walks these streets without her in the rain
Lookin’ for a leather jacket
And a girl who wrote her name forever
A promise that
We belong together
We belong together
Shall we weigh along these streets
Young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart
All left on neon for them?
Who are foolish
Who are victim
Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
Move into your eyes and lips and
Every tear
That falls down on the neighborhood now
I said ’bird, we just gotta tell them’
And they turn and ignore us
And the only heroes we got left
Are written right before us
And the only angel who sees us now
Watches through each other’s eyes
And I can hear him
In every footstep’s passing sigh
He goes crazy these nights
Watching heartbeats go by...
And they wisper
We belong together
We belong together
Ricky Lee Jones, Pirates, 1981
coisas do post:
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o amor,
Rickie Lee Jones,
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wishful flying
January 03, 2009
a pedido de várias famílias
Damos hoje início à fase de testes da nova paleta do cores do blog (fase de testes pode ascender a uns... um teste), supostamente para recepcionar o novo ano e, eventualmente para celebrar o aniversário do blog, que ocorrerá em data próxima (data essa em que poderá não nos apetecer performar operações de design virtual) a ser anunciada na imprensa.
Sem mais, despedimo-nos com amizade, na expectativa de contribuir e continuar.
Refira-se que nada disto teria sido possível sem um genial link fornecido pela Célisóne, minha dézaine master e sem a ameaça (também de autoria da Célia) de me hackar o blog e pô-lo com a Lucy e as suas duas amigas a fazer de wallpaper.
sountrack do post: we belong together, Rickie Lee Jones
Sem mais, despedimo-nos com amizade, na expectativa de contribuir e continuar.
Refira-se que nada disto teria sido possível sem um genial link fornecido pela Célisóne, minha dézaine master e sem a ameaça (também de autoria da Célia) de me hackar o blog e pô-lo com a Lucy e as suas duas amigas a fazer de wallpaper.
sountrack do post: we belong together, Rickie Lee Jones
July 14, 2008
Rickie Lee Jones, Casa das Artes de VN Famalicão, 12.07.2008

Sejamos sinceros, Famalicão é uma cidade estranha, daquelas em que toda a gente (menos nós) parece conhecer um temível segredo, e que é graças a essa misteriosa iniquidade que a cidade parece ter permanecido encravada algures nos finais dos anos 80, ainda que, por todo o lado, apresente traços e pinceladas aparentemente despropositadas do século XXI e da suposta sofisticação das cidades grandes. Portugal tem, de facto, vários Portugalinhos dentro.

Famalicão oferece apenas um hotel. Se se andar de táxi entre o hotel e qualquer sítio da cidade ou entre qualquer sítio da cidade e o hotel, paga-se sempre € 3,90 (vem marcado por defeito no taxímetro). Simpatia nortenha a servir, sempre; que não restem dúvidas que existe um contraste entre o conceito de serviço no Norte e a muito disseminada falta de vontade de atender do Alentejo. No Norte sinto sempre que querem tratar de mim, pôr-me bem e confortável; aqui em baixo, estamos quase sempre a dar maçada.

A Casa das Artes de Vila Nova da Famalicão lá está, pois então, embutida num jardim, ao lado de um restaurante (desses das pinceladas do século XXI) e, confrontada eu com alguma da vivência da cidade, e sem me ter cruzado com mais que umas 4 "pessoas que oferecessem indícios de ser do Sul", confesso que estava curiosa para perceber quantas ouvintes lá estariam e que tipo de assistência ofereceriam ao concerto. Pelo que consegui perceber (estava na primeira fila e não olhei muito para trás), foi um concerto de meia-sala, sobretudo composta de fãs veneradores ou respeitosos curiosos. A partir da quarta música - findos que estava, os clicks das máquinas fotográficas - o silêncio prolongava-se sempre até terminar o último reverberar do último som de cada uma das canções.

Apenas Rickie Lee Jones (voz, piano e guitarra) e Petra Haden (voz, violino e titubeantes percussões), num concerto muito bonito em que a protagonista, na força da sua voz e da sua forma de ser, ter e dar música, se pressente sempre tão instável de humores e invadida na sua privacidade, mantendo a plateia falha de respiração na maior parte do tempo, suspensa das formas mágicas dos seus quase silêncios. A voz de Rickie Lee Jones e a sua maneira de a moldar para mostrar a música fazem-me sempre achar que devem soar como soaria a chuva, se a conseguíssemos ouvir antes de cair no chão.
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essenciais,
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Rickie Lee Jones,
som,
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July 07, 2008
so much to do...

photo ?
Rickie Lee Jones, 12 de Julho, 22h00, Grande Auditório Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão
photo ? :(Bob Dylan, 11 de Julho, 21h40, Optimus Alive, Passeio Marítimo de Algés

photo J Finlay
Gogol Bordello, 10 de Julho, 21h20, Optimus Alive, Passeio Marítimo de Algés

photo Sandra Ferrás
The National, 10 de Julho, 20h20, Optimus Alive, Passeio Marítimo de Algés

photo Esther White
Vampire Weekend, 10 de Julho, 18h50, Optimus Alive, Passeio Marítimo de Algés

photo Albert Sanchez
Suzanne Vega, 8 de Julho, 21h30, Jardim das Rosas, Torres Novas
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Gogol Bordello,
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Rickie Lee Jones,
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Suzanne Vega,
The National,
Vampire Weekend
June 02, 2008
May 24, 2007
Traffic from paradise

Altar boy
A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe
That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode
As he follows a path filled with harried desire
And mimics his footsteps and sets his prayers on fire
Glad to have chosen that which left no choice
To sing without loving in a solitary voice
To observe with passion each careful denial
The protrusions which give my life meaning for a while
Sometimes I see you eating berries and weeds
You're brushing your teeth with licorice seeds
Standing too close, holding your clothes
Smiling at God, the meaning of life grows
No, no I'll never tell and I'll never know
What candles you light after the show
And I'll never tell and I'll never ask
The meaning of life after mass
That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode
As he follows a path filled with harried desire
And mimics his footsteps and sets his prayers on fire
Glad to have chosen that which left no choice
To sing without loving in a solitary voice
To observe with passion each careful denial
The protrusions which give my life meaning for a while
Sometimes I see you eating berries and weeds
You're brushing your teeth with licorice seeds
Standing too close, holding your clothes
Smiling at God, the meaning of life grows
No, no I'll never tell and I'll never know
What candles you light after the show
And I'll never tell and I'll never ask
The meaning of life after mass
May 13, 2007
years may go by
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abluções,
essenciais,
Rickie Lee Jones,
som
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