Baby, I’m helpless, baby
Porcelain in your hands
Bound to fall apart
You know how to break me, hammer to the heart
Caption it passion and then
Capture me, trap me instead
Happy to die in that web, wrapped in the sheets of your bed
Ooh, no, the only way I’m leaving, ooh, is in pieces
Teddy Swims
Baby
Break down, go ahead and give it to me
Break down, honey, take me through the night
Break down, now I’m standin’ here, can’t you see?
Break down, it’s alright
It’s alright
So get yourself together, let it
Be something you’ll treasure for evermore
Make me come out lookin’ for it
And show me you’re worth me waitin’ for
Cause’ if it’s love that you want
You’ve gotta’ give me more than you’ve shown
Because the sweet light of love won’t come down
Unless you cry, cry to be found
Del Amitri
I cried, and turned up the radio
So no one would hear I was down
So no one knew the trouble I had
Yeah I had it bad
Well I was lost
Without you I was lost
Without a trace
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
You would cry too, if it happened to you
Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone
But Judy left the same time
Why was he holding her hand
When he’s supposed to be mine?
Lesley Gore
The summer ends and we wonder where we are
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
And you both look so young and last night was hard, you said
You packed up every room and then you cried and went to bed
(Dar Williams)
I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun
I see you walking real slow and you’re smilin’ at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
Don Henley
And there’s a girl falling in love near where the pianola stands
With a young local factory auto worker just holding hands
And I’m wondering if he’ll go or if he’ll stay
I only found out pretty recently that song was written by Mike Campbell, Tom Petty’s guitarist and collaborator. (Just the music, not the lyrics.) Tom didn’t like it, and so Mike was connected to Don Henley (via producer Jimmy Iovine), who wrote the words and sang it.
I wonder (w-w-w-w-wonder)
why (w-w-w-w-why)
She ran away
and I wonder where she will stay
my little runaway
(Del Shannon)
I was feeling complicated
I was feeling low
Now everytime I think of you
I shiver to the bone
To run away from you
Was all that I could do
You don’t want to speak to me, something’s wrong I can see
And I know I’m not the only one.
I hear voices speak of you; I don’t know what to do
Because the things they say I think are true
Look to the sky, you can see me falling. Falling for you, oh I must be in love.
Hear me now, you can hear me calling, calling to you to say I had enough
Jake Bugg
I’m in the sky tonight
There I can keep by your side
Watching the whole world wind around
I’ll be coming home next year
(Foo Fighters)
I hold my head up just enough to see the sky
And when we go we won’t go slow we’ll put up such a fight
When they fade into the dust and into ash
But all children know this pain will surely pass
Strong and wise and you are love
And when the tide it come you will float above and
And you will be one day exactly what you are
Just keep your head up high kiss your fist and touch the sky
Wave after wave will flow with the tide
and bury the world as it does
Tide after tide will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on as it was
(Rush)
Strength and courage overrides
The privileged and weary eyes
Of river poet search naïveté
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
All of this is coming your way
The tide is high but I’m holding on
I’m gonna be your number one
I’m not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Blondie
And don’t you give up on me
As I dive into the dark
Slip into the endless sea
Don’t you give up on me
Are you swimming in the stars?
Breathing in eternity
(Lissie)
Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same
And the hand just re-arranges the players in the game
I had a dream, it seemed I stood alone
And the veil of all the years
Goes sinking from my eyes like a stone
Al Stewart
This time to the sky I’ll sing if clouds don’t hear me
To the sun I’ll cry and even if I’m blinded
I’ll try moon gazer because with you I’m stronger
Arc of a diver effortlessly, my mind in sky and when I wake up
Daytime and nighttime I feel you near
Warm water breathing she helps me here
Steve Winwood
Then as it was, then again it will be
And though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey
Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn’t have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it’s got so far to go
Changes fill my time, baby, that’s alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be