Gorka lyrics
Aug. 18th, 2006 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerI was listening to one of John Gorka's albums on the drive home from Newport News. It's funny, he does things with his lyrics sometimes that bother me because they're too easy, unsubtle, words that don't really work with the story of the lyric but fit the rhyme scheme. But other times I find him amusing, moving, even compelling. These are two that I found sticking in my mind this week.
The title track from the album "Land Of The Bottom Line". I love the second verse--it's so evocative of the choices we make as we get older--and the third--I identify with the sentiments.
I couldn't bribe a wino on what I used to make
My Fortune was as sure as the wind
But I was free to wonder and time was on my hands
It was mine to burn and to bend
Chorus:
Freedom for freedom
Call that an even scheme
Give me time to wonder and to dream
I'll take the money
They'll take the time
Down to the land of the bottom line
To the bottom line
Then there came a chance to make some steady dough
Bouncing up my alley to the door
You fill your clothes with keys and damned responsibilities
Trading the maybe for the sure
(Chorus)
All I ever wanted was to be a kid and play
Fighting every change along the way
I don't like work, but I don't like waste
And I don't like waiting for a taste
(Chorus)
and Armed With A Broken Heart, also from the album "Land Of The Bottom Line". This felt particularly relevant, as I remembered the last time I'd taken that drive.
(1)
Take this as a warning
To stay away from me
Because the man that you used to know
Is not the man that you're going to see
Someday we may laugh at this
Someday we may be friends
But for now you can keep your distance
Stay away till the pieces mend
(2)
This sudden loneliness has made me dangerous
Please don't watch me while I fall apart
'Cause I'm sad and I'm angry
And armed with a broken heart
(3)
And what will get me through the night
Is what I'll use with all my might
And to some peace I have a right
But I pay so dearly
And at my age I should be wise
Now I'm untying all those ties
The evidence is in the eyes
That should see so clearly
I once saw so clearly
(4)
You know I will say anything
If it will keep you away
But I don't know what I would do
If you said you were gonna stay
Don't do me any favors
Don't try to ease the pain
Won't you please let me hate you now
So I won't fall for you again
(Repeat 3, then 2)
The title track from the album "Land Of The Bottom Line". I love the second verse--it's so evocative of the choices we make as we get older--and the third--I identify with the sentiments.
I couldn't bribe a wino on what I used to make
My Fortune was as sure as the wind
But I was free to wonder and time was on my hands
It was mine to burn and to bend
Chorus:
Freedom for freedom
Call that an even scheme
Give me time to wonder and to dream
I'll take the money
They'll take the time
Down to the land of the bottom line
To the bottom line
Then there came a chance to make some steady dough
Bouncing up my alley to the door
You fill your clothes with keys and damned responsibilities
Trading the maybe for the sure
(Chorus)
All I ever wanted was to be a kid and play
Fighting every change along the way
I don't like work, but I don't like waste
And I don't like waiting for a taste
(Chorus)
and Armed With A Broken Heart, also from the album "Land Of The Bottom Line". This felt particularly relevant, as I remembered the last time I'd taken that drive.
(1)
Take this as a warning
To stay away from me
Because the man that you used to know
Is not the man that you're going to see
Someday we may laugh at this
Someday we may be friends
But for now you can keep your distance
Stay away till the pieces mend
(2)
This sudden loneliness has made me dangerous
Please don't watch me while I fall apart
'Cause I'm sad and I'm angry
And armed with a broken heart
(3)
And what will get me through the night
Is what I'll use with all my might
And to some peace I have a right
But I pay so dearly
And at my age I should be wise
Now I'm untying all those ties
The evidence is in the eyes
That should see so clearly
I once saw so clearly
(4)
You know I will say anything
If it will keep you away
But I don't know what I would do
If you said you were gonna stay
Don't do me any favors
Don't try to ease the pain
Won't you please let me hate you now
So I won't fall for you again
(Repeat 3, then 2)
