Music - text of songs

Hush now, don’t explain
You’re the cause of all my
Trouble and pain
Unless you’re mad
Don’t explain

My love, my love, my love
Don’t explain
There is nothing within me now to gain
You know that I love you
Look at what loving has done
All my thoughts were real
And so sincere
I was so completely yours

You know I hear folks cha-cha-cha-chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, that don’t matter
You’re here with me
Sit down, have a sit
It’s your time to feel the pain
It’s your time to weep
Don’t explain

Hush now, don’t explain
There is nothing within me now to gain
I’m gonna skip it instead
Don’t explain
Don’t explain

I wanna tell you
I’ve always wanted to tell you
But I never had the chance to say
What I feel in my heart from the beginning til my dying day

I was fifteen, sixteen maybe
In the park I was waving my arms
You were waved this way
And you sang the song I was screaming
I wanted you to

Another time was in South Carolina
It’s always been the third encore
Whose wind came roaring in
Can you tell me who were you singing for
Oh my God, can you tell me who you were singing to

A phone call from your New York City office
You were supposedly asking to see me
And how I wanted to tell you
That I was just only four hundred miles away
Who could believe that you were calling I was in DC
I was four hundred miles behind
Backstage pass in my hand
Giving you my heart was my plan I wish I could tell you

My chance
In the middle of the stadium in Paris, France
Can I finally tell you
Can I finally tell you
To be my man
April in Paris, can I see you
Can you please be my man

They ask me how I feel
And if my love is real
And how I seem
To think that I know
I’m gonna make it through
They looked at me and frowned
They drove me from this town
They don’t want me around
Because I believe
They showed me to the door
They said don’t come back no more
We don’t like the way
You think you do
So I walked on my own
One thousand miles from my home
But I don’t feel alone
‘Cause I believe, I do

I believe in you even through all
Tears and laughter
I believe in you, even though
We’re apart
I believe in you, even in

The common laughter
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
And when the night is disappearing
This feeling will still
Be here in my heart
In my heart

Please don’t let me drift too far
Keep me safe and sound where you are
So I’ll always be renewed
And what you’ve given me here today
Is worth everything I’ve made
No matter what everyone might say

Because I believe
I believe, I believe
I believe, I believe in you
I believe in you
When we’ve had no time together
I believe in you
When white turns to black.
I believe in you
Even though we’ll all be a number
I’ll be oh your earth will be shaken
And friends will be forsaken
Please, we can’t go back
I believe in you

Lord help to send a man
In this land
Oh Lord help send a man
In this land

When we all die together
And we face the rising sun
Oh my Lord, oh my lord

Lord Help the Poor and needy
In this land
Oh Lord Help the Poor and needy
In this land

When we all die together
And we face the rising sun
Oh Lord, help, my Lord

Lord help the human race
Lord help human race
Cause we all die together
And we face the morning sun
Oh Lord, help

Lord help the motherless children
In this land
Oh Lord help the motherless children
In this land

Cause we all die together
And we face the rising sun
Oh Lord, help, Lord

I lost someone
A million to one
Ten thousand people
Under my false

Someone, the one, my one
The only one
That’s the someone
The someone
The only one
That’s the someone
That I lost

He’s nothing but a stranger
Come on home to me
I’m so weak on my knees
Help me, help me please
Please, please
Good God Almighty I love you

I lost someone
One trillion to one
A million people
Under the big old sun I see
My one on the street
Looking like a bomb
That’s my one
That’s my someone
He’s the one
He’s
Help that one

He’s nothing but a stranger
Bring on home to me
He’s so weak on both his bended knees
Can you help me, help me please
Gee whiz, I miss the one that I need
I lost someone

Me and my baby
We had a big fight
We ended our romance
The same night
In an angry mood
He walked out the door
I said this song’s
Going to
An Aretha Franklin show

Hey, Aretha
Sing one for me
Let him know
Our life’s in misery
Will you sing a song
That will touch his heart
And make him sorry
That we are apart

I don’t know
If taking requests
Is part of your show
Do me this favor
And I’ll love you forever
Many romances
Have been saved
By your sound
You’ve touched
So many lovers
So many times

Yes, Aretha
Sing one for me
Let him know
My life’s in misery
Will you sing a song
That will touch his heart
And make him sorry
That we ever parted

Think, Respect
Call Me
A Bridge Over Troubled Water
and
I Can’t See Myself Leaving You

Hey, Aretha
Sing one for me
Let him know
I’m as miserable
As a woman could be
Sing a song
That’ll touch his heart
So he’ll be sorry
That we are apart

Think, Respect
Call Me
I Never Loved a Man Like I Love You
and
I Can’t See Myself Leaving You

I’m gonna steal
A silver stallion
With not a mark upon
His silky hide
Teach him
He can trust me
Like a sister, one day
We’ll saddle up and ride

(Chorus)
And we’re gonna ride
We’re gonna ride
Ride like the one eyed
Jack of diamonds
With the devil
Close behind
We’re gonna ride
We’re gonna ride

I’m gonna find me
A reckless man
Razor blades
And dice in his eyes

Just a touch of sadness
In his fingers
Thunder and lightening
Iin his thighs

(Chorus)

I’m gonna chase
The sky forever
With the man
And the stallion
And the wind
The sun is gonna burn
Into a cinder
Before we ever pass
This way again

(Chorus)

Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You’re losing the calling that you’ve been faking
And i’m not kidding

It’s damned if you don’t and it’s damned if you do
Be true ’cause they’ll lock you up in a sad sad zoo
Oh hidy hidy hidy what cha tryin to prove
By hidy hidy hiding you’re not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed
Sand everything
And you will be in a very sad sad zoo.

I once was lost but now i’m found was blind
But now I see you
How selfish of you to believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart you’re not hiding
Metal heart you’re not worth a thing

Metal heart you’re not hiding
Metal heart you’re not worth a thing

I can settle dow-own
And be doin’ just fine
Til I hear an old train
Rollin’ down the line
Then I hurry
Strai-aight home and pack
And if I didn’t go
I believe I’d blow my stack
I love you ba-aby
But you gotta understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ramblin’ man

Some folks
Might sa-ay that I’m no good
That I wouldn’t settle down
If I could
But when that open ro-oad
Starts to callin’ me
There’s somethin’
O’er the hill
That I gotta see
Sometimes it’s har-rd
But you gotta understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ra-amblin’ man

I love to see
The tow-owns a-passin’ by
And to ride these rails
‘Neath God’s blue sky
Let me travel this la-and
From the mountains to the sea
‘Cause that’s the life
I believe He meant for me
And when I’m go-one
And at my grave you stand
Just say God
Called home
Your ra-amblin’ man

Artist:   Cat Power
Genres:  Indie
            Blues