Sing For Ben S

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No one wants to sing for me? Fine, but I'm not gonna sit and whine about it. I'm gonna take INITATIVE! and sing for myself. Yeah, Male empowerment.

I've looked under chairs I've looked under tables I've tried to find the key To fifty million fables

They call me The Seeker I've been searching low and high I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die

I asked Bobby Dylan I asked The Beatles I asked Timothy Leary But he couldn't help me either

They call me The Seeker I've been searching low and high I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die

People tend to hate me 'Cause I never smile As I ransack their homes They want to shake my hand

Focusing on nowhere Investigating miles I'm a seeker I'm a really desperate man

I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die

I learned how to raise my voice in anger Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile? I'm happy when life's good And when it's bad I cry I've got values but I don't know how or why

I'm looking for me You're looking for you We're looking in at other And we don't know what to do

They call me The Seeker I've been searching low and high I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die

Closing time Open all the doors and let you out into the world Closing time Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl Closing time One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer Closing time You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home Take me home

Closing time Time for you to go out to the places you will be from Closing time This room won't be open 'till your brothers or your sisters come So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits I hope you have found a friend Closing time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home Take me home

Closing time Time for you to go out to the places you will be from

I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home Take me home

I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home Take me home

Closing time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

                  -closing time, semisonic 

-emily

 The way you wear your hat,
 The way you sip your tea
 The memory of all that,
 No, no, they can't take that away from me.

~Frank Sinatra, sung for you by Becky~

 Someday when I'm awfully low,
 When the world is cold, 
 I will feel a glow just thinking of you
 And the way you look tonight.

~Frank Sinatra again! Also sung by Becky~

 
 Partical man, partical man,
 doing the things a partical can.
 Is he a dot or is he a speck?
 When he's under water does he get wet?
 Or does the water get him instead?
 Nobody knows, partical man.

~They Might Be Giants, yet again sung by Becky~

Middle of yesterday

Oh,well I woke up in hell today I woke up depressed and drained but that's ok 'cause I promised not to hurt you again and apparently I'm to blame but apparently I've been framed by memory that won't help me when it's happening out of the mind out of the soul out of the light out of control standing in the middle of yesterday where it all went wrong we made made mistakes I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say but it won't be long until it'll be okay Well I promised you I would change but I'm an asshole and I'm ashamed I'm upset 'cause I betrayed everything that you gave will you ever let me explain can I beg you to let me stay don't quit me 'cause I'll never let this happen...Again

By Our Lady Peace sung to you by JackieC

 When you're weary, feelin' small,
 When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all.
 I'm on your side, oh when times get rough
 And friends just can't be found,
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.

 When you're down and out, when you're on the street,
 When evening falls so hard, I will comfort you.
 I'll take your part, oh when darkness comes
 And pain is all around,
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
 
 Sail on silver girl, sail on by.
 Your time has come to shine.
 All your dreams are on their way.
 See how they shine.
 Oh if you need a friend, 
 I'm sailing right behind.
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.
 Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.

~Sung to Ben by Becky~

 I am an old woman, named after my mother
 My old man is another child that's grown old.
 If dreams were thunder, and lightning was desire
 This old house would've burnt down a long time ago.

 Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
 Make me a poster of an old rodeo
 Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
 To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.

 When I was a young girl, well I had me a cowboy
 He weren't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man.
 But that was a long time, and no matter how I try
 Those years just flow by like a broken down dam.

 Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
 Make me a poster of an old rodeo
 Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
 To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.

 There's flies in the kitchen, 
 Lord I can hear their buzzin'
 But I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today.
 How the hell can a person go to work in the mornin'
 And come home in the evenin' and have nothin' to say?

 Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
 Make me a poster of an old rodeo
 Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
 To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.

 To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.

~John Prine, sung to you by Becky~

 I cannot name this
 I cannot explain this
 and I really don't want to
 just call me shameless
 I can't even slow this down
 let alone stop this
 and I keep looking around
 but I cannot top this

 If I had any sense
 I guess I'd fear this
 I guess I'd keep it down
 so no one would hear this
 I guess I'd shut my mouth
 and rethink a minute
 but I can't shut it now
 'cuz there's something in it

 This is my skeleton
 this is the skin it's in
 that is, according to light
 and gravity
 I'll take off my disguise
 the mask you met me in
 'cuz i got something
 for you to see
 just gimme your skeleton
 give me the skin it's in
 yeah baby, this is you
 according to me
 I never avert my eyes
 I never compromise
 so nevermind
 the poetry

~Ani DiFranco, sung to you by Becky~

 I've seen love go by my door
 It's never been this close before
 Never been so easy or so slow.
 Been shooting in the dark too long
 When somethin's not right it's wrong
 Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.

 Dragon clouds so high above
 I've only known careless love,
 It's always hit me from below.
 This time around it's more correct
 Right on target, so direct,
 Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.

 Purple clover, Queen Anne lace,
 Crimson hair across your face,
 You could make me cry if you don't know.
 Can't remember what I was thinkin' of
 You might be spoilin' me too much love,
 Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.

 Flowers on the hillside, bloomin' crazy,
 Crickets talkin' back and forth in rhyme,
 Blue river runnin' slow and lazy,
 I could stay with you forever
 And never realize the time.

 Situations have ended sad,
 Relationships have all been bad,
 Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud.
 But there's no way I can compare
 All those scenes to this affair,
 Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.

 Yer gonna make me wonder what I'm doin'
 Stayin' far behind without you.
 Yer gonna make me wonder what I'm sayin'
 Yer gonna make me give myself a good talkin' to.

 I'll look for you in old Honolulu,
 San Francisco, Ashtabula,
 Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know.
 But I'll see you in the sky above,
 The tall grass, in the ones I love,
 Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.

~Bob Dylan, sung by Becky~

 If there's anything that you want
 If there's anything I can do
 Just call on me and I'll send it along
 With love from me to you

 I got everything that you want
 like a heart that's oh so true
 Just call on me and I'll send it along
 with love from me to you

 I've got arms that long to hold you and keep 
 you by my side
 I've got lips that long to kiss you
 and keep you satisfied.

 If there's anything that you want
 If there's anything I can do
 Just call on me and I'll send it along
 with love from me to you

~The Beatles, sung by Becky~