Lisa Hannigan - Little Bird (Live) Mahogany Session

View the video here: http://youtu.be/MBCEL2Bj9n0

Words and Music by Joseph Arthur 
August 12th, 2014

You started out on Ork
A cosmic jet fueled dork
And I would love it when you 
Visited us on happy days
Only you could know
The witness of your show
A brain made up of sadness
And electric rays
Good morning Vietnam
Must've been your truest song
For in you was a war you'd always wage
The hunting of good will
The laughs would never fill
Your hunger for the dream
To turn the page

Oh Robin you flew
And now robin you fly
To places we can't see or yet conceive 
The joy that you gave
We know now was brave
To be free and yet 
remain still a slave

The fisher king was you
Those of us never knew
That your demons hadn't yet been tamed
You hid in the storm
Of laughter so warm
Hard to see that the source
Was still maimed 
Awakenings will come
But the sadness goes on
And age will come down on us all
The dead poets you loved
Wrote of it as they shoved
Light into the darkness of the fall

Oh Robin you flew
And now robin you fly
To places we can't see or yet conceive 
The joy that you gave
We know now was brave
To be free and yet remain 
still a slave

Robin (A Tribute to Robin Williams 1951-2014)

Motis Chamorro Big Band -Viena

10 Butterfly

taken from Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson a 1990 tribute album to singer-songwriter Roky Erickson, founder of the 13th Floor Elevators and solo artist, whose career has been subject to significant periods of challenge from schizophrenia.

I Walked With a Zombie - R.E.M.

First  issued  over  25  years  ago,  and  now  remastered  from  original tapes. The vinyl edition comes with six high-quality lithograph  art  prints representing  each  of  the  birds  on  the  album by UK  illustrator Hannah Alice. Fully interactive: the cover image is interchangeable with any of the prints, while the deluxe ‘bookback’ CD comes with 20 page book. Out 5th February 2016.

Bert Jansch - Kingfisher

ani difranco -voices, guitar, orchestration
ivan neville- bass, piano
terence higgins- drums 
skerik- amped-up saxophones
recorded by mike napolitano at big blue in New Orleans, Louisiana 
mixed by tchad blake on planet tchad
mastered by brian lucey in the magic garden
words and music by ani d. 
c 2016 righteous babe music


New single "Play God" out October 7.


Lyrics:
 
I was done at 16
showin up for class
I was out there 
in the ring
learnin how to kick some ass
I was done at 16
using my momma's key
it was all on me
yes it was all on me
 
weren't no free rides
weren't no IOU's
I pulled my weight 
I paid my dues
and I showed up 
to enlist
on the first day of recruits
how bout you? 
how bout you
 
I'm my brother's keeper 
every chance I can
I pay my taxes
like any working man
and I feel I've earned
my right to choose
you don't get to play God, man
I do
you don't get to play God, man
I do
 
CHORUS
you get to run the world
in your special way
you get much more
much more than your say
government, religion
it's all just patriarchy
I must insist
you leave this one thing to me
 
just one thing that a man needs
to be truly free
this is the modern world
and that one thing is money
but there are two things
that a woman needs
control over her own body
 
yes I pay the price
on top of everything
each month a bill 
each month a reckoning 
and each seed that dies 
I cry and I bleed
so you can't tell me
no you can't tell me
 
I am a soldier
it's my blood that flows
I'd give my life 
so that this tree can grow
you don't know creation 
like I know
so you can't tell me
no you can't tell me
 
CHORUS
 
I'm my brother's keeper
every chance I can
I pay my taxes 
like any workin man
and I feel I've earned
my right to choose
you don't get to play God
I do
you don't get to play God
I do 
you don't get to play God
I do

Robin (A Tribute to Robin Williams 1951-2014)

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