Rock

Neil Young – Hitchhiker

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”When I was a hitchhiker on the road
I had to count on you
But you needed me to ease the load
And for conversation too
Or did you just drive on through.

You didn’t see me in Toronto
When I first tried out some hash
Smoked some then and I’ll do it again
If I only had some cash
Only had some cash.

Then I tried amphetamines
And my head was in a glass
Taped underneath the speedometer wires
Of my ’48 Buick’s dash.
But I knew that wouldn’t last.

Then came California
Where I first saw open water
In the land of opportunity
I knew I was getting hotter
I knew I was getting hotter.

But the neon lights
And the endless nights
The neon lights
And the endless nights
The neon lights
And the endless nights
The neon lights
And the endless nights
They took me by surprise
The doctor gave me valium
But I still couldn’t close my eyes
I still couldn’t close my eyes.

Then came paranoia
And it ran away with me
I couldn’t sign my autograph
Or appear on TV
Or see or be seen
See or be seen
Or see or be seen.

Living in the country
Sounded good to me
Smoking grass while the summer lasts
In the real organic sea
Where everything was green
Everything was green.

Then we had a kid and we split apart
I was living on the road
A little cocaine went a long long way
To ease that different load
But my head did explode
My head did explode.

I wish I was an Aztec
Or a runner in Peru
I would build such beautiful buildings
To house the chosen few
Like an Inca from Peru.

When I was a hitchhiker on the road
I had to count on you
But you needed me to ease the load
And for conversation too
Or did you just drive on
Did you just drive on
Did you just drive on through.

Or did you just drive on
Did you just drive on
Did you just drive on through.”

Janis Joplin – Cod’ine

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Janis Joplin teki kokonaan uudet sanoitukset Buffy Sainte-Marien folk-klassikkoon Cod’ine. Joplinin versio julkaistiin vasta 1995 levyllä This is Janis Jolin.

”On the day I was born the Grim Reaper smiled
He said I’ll get you yet now you demonized child
But I’s younger than all my brothers, You know it’s all that’s left of mine
Honey but I caught ’em, yeah I passed ’em, hon I left ’em, left with codine
and it’s real, lord it’s real yeah, one more time

Now I seem to recall when I’s a young girl
How my joys and my happiness you know all seemed to whirl
but then somethings, honey sometimes, somehow it seems
Oh codine became so liked, it took my dreams
Hon and it’s real, lord it’s real yeah, one more time

It’s the reason I breath honey, It’s the reason I walk
It’s the reason I sleep and the reason I talk
Yeah but soon my devotion will all be repaid
For codine will kill me honey, thats the bargin that we’ve made
and it’s real, lord it’s real yeah, one more time

And after I’m gone and this sad race is run
Guess I’ll go down to hell where my life was begun
But there’ll be somebody with me child that won’t leave me alone
Oh codine’ll be waitin’ to punish my role
Hon it’s real, lord it’s real, one more time

Yeah and after I’m gone and the mornin’ sets in
Don’t you morn what I was girl nor’n what might have been
Morn my sad heart, honey my tear filled eyes
Morn the codeine that I need, that I crave, and I despise
Hon it’s real, lord it’s real, one more time
Yeah it’s real, lord it’s real, one more time”

Paljaat uneksijat – Naurusavuke

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Paljaat uneksijat (Freud, Marx, Engels & Jung terästettynä muun muassa Tuomari Nurmiolla) julkaisivat vappuna 1987 huumoripitoisen albumin, jolta löytyy myös tämä Naurusavuke. Freukkarit julkaisivat biisin myös Takamehtien mekatähtiä -albumin bonusraitana.

Kysehän on siitä, että nainen jättää toisen naisen vuoksi ja siitäkö saa syyn kääräistä jointin joskos toisenkin.

Clawfinger – Sad to See Your Sorrow

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Clawfingerin debyyttialbumilta löytyy hieno tilitys voimattomuuden tunteesta kun huumeitten kanssa kamppailevan frendin vierellä on niin turhautunut olo kun tuntuu, ettei voi tehdä mitään auttaakseen häntä.

”I want to touch you but I don’t possess the power
it turns me inside out to feel the pain of your distress
you push the needle deeper in your arm for every hour
I know your life was so beautiful but now it’s turned into a mess
I’ve tried to understand you but the thoughts seems so unreal
that a person would forsake herself and try to break herself with pain
just like a child you’re so innocent and you long so much to feel
but instead you push the needle deeper down your vein
sad to see you sad to see your sorrow
you know I’ve seen you in so many diffrent ways
the reflections of your agony are scared upon your face
warm the spoon just to numb yourself from much much better days
and you hope that someone else is there who might want to take your place
everything you scream I hear you thought you scream so silent
and you’re longing for your babychild to be in a much better place
so addicted to your loneliness full of self destructive violence
you still try to love your child and see the smile opon it’s face
sad to see you sad to see your sorrow…..
take away the pain and take away the sorrow
I cry in silence hoping you’ll come through
take away the pain you could be dead tommorow
I wish that I could help you but there’s nothing I can do
I WISH I COULD HELP YOU BUT THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO
I feel as if I’m by your side even though you’re far away from here
the poison mingles with your blood and slowly satisfies you
but what I wonder most of all is if you really want to disappear
you keep struggleing with emotions mixed inside you
please don’t disappear you know to many people love you
but you see you’re still the only one that can ever dry your tears
so don’t you rely on anyone below or up above you
you better grab your life and then get a grip before it disappears
sad to see you sad to see your sorrow”

Third Eye Blind – Slow Motion

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Third Eye Blindin ”Slow Motion” on kirjoitettu dramatisoimaan median luomaa kuvaa huumeiden käytöstä Hollywoodissa. Blue albumin Amerikan versiossa laulusta on vain liki instrumentaaliversio, koska levy-yhtiön mielestä sanat olivat liian rajut.

”Miss Jones taught me english,
But I think I just shot her son
’Cause he owed me money
With a bullet in the chest you can not run

Now he’s bleeding in a vacant lot
The one in the summer where we used to smoke pot
I guess I didn’t mean it
But man, you shoulda seen it

His flesh explode
Slow motion, see me let go
We tend to die young
Slow motion, see me let go
What a brother knows
Slow motion, see me let go

Now the cops will get me,
But girl, if you would let me
I’ll take your pants off
I got a little bit of blow we could both get off

Later bathing in the afterglow,
Two lines of coke I cut with Drano
And her nose starts to bleed
A most beautiful ruby red

Slow motion, see me let go
We’ll remember these days
Slow motion, see me let go
Urban life decay
Slow motion, see me let go

And at home, my sister’s eating paint chips again,
Maybe that’s why she’s insane
I shut the door to the moaning,
And I shoot smack in veins
Wouldn’t you?

See my neighbor’s beating his wife,
Because he hates his life
There’s a knock to his fist as he swings,
Oh man, what a beautiful thing

And death slides close to me,
Won’t grow old to be
A junkie wino creep

Hollywood glamorized my wrath,
I’m a young urban psychopath
I incite murder, for your entertainment
’Cause I needed the money, what’s your excuse?
The joke’s on you.

Slow motion, see me let go,
Oh yeah.
Slow motion, see me let go, oh
Slow motion, see me let go, ooh”

Leevi & The Leavings – Vanha koulukuva

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”Vanha koulukuva, josta tuskin tuntee enää itseään
Siinä niukoissa, tiukoissa hameissaan palelivat
Ne tytöt eturivin, jotka yhteen puristivat reisiään
Kunnes kipeistä tripeistä kokonaan sekosivat

Ne ei kai takaisin tulleetkaan
Koulun röökipaikan reunaan seisomaan
Jäi toinen harhojen maailmaan
Ja toinen jäältä löytyi ilman vaatteita

Toisenlaiset tytöt oli kauniisti opetettu niiaamaan
Hiukset leikatut, meikatut poskipäät punaisina
Kun eturivin tytöt eivät koskaan vasikoineet toisimaan
Ne pantiin nyyhkimään, pyyhkimään häpeää katupihaan”