Last Call/ Ellis Paul here are the lyrics. see www.ellispaul.com and select radio free ellis. It's been on rotation. http://www.ellispaul.com/index.php?page=songs&display=195 You said, "Don't wait up, don't count the minutes." So here I am watching paint fade from the walls. On the TV, planes are dancing to the national anthem, So the whole world knows it's long past last call. I sat through Tarzan swinging through the jungle, And Godzilla crushing buildings and all. The light from this TV can make it all look so easy. It makes this room feel incredibly small. Last call, last call. Now I've heard it all. The excuses get weaker as the stories get tall. You step off with the wrong foot, the drunk fool at the ball. Well, I'm not up for dancing. I'm up past last call. Clock keeps on talkin'. It says, "Fool go to bed -- Why waste the words, they've already been said." But I can't shut my eyes with this face in my head, So tonight I plan on clearing my mind. I could lay my head in the arms of the sofa, And wait for headlights to roll across these walls. But when your key finds the door, your feet find the floor, They'll be greeted by empty rooms and empty halls. © Ellis Paul Publishing (ASCAP) 1994
My personal favorite. Alanis Morisette-You Oughta Know sorry to hear you got cheated on, I remember your story from the l&s forum.
I've got the answers To all of your questions If you've got the money To pay me in gold I will be living In old Monte Carlo And you will be reading The secrets I sold Daggers and contacts And bright shiny limos I've got a watch That turns into a lifeboat Glimmering nightgowns And poisonous cobras Silencer under the heel of my shoe The elegance of China They sent her to lie here on her back But as she deeply moves me She'd rather shoot me in my tracks And while a Middle Asian lady She really came as no surprise But I still did destroy her And I will smash Halo of flies I crossed the ocean Where no one could see And I put a time-bomb In your submarine Goodbye to old friends The secret's in hand With phony papers And kentucky flats You never will understand
I been run down I been lied to That no good man SHe always leaves me feeling the fool SHe took all my money Wrecked my new car Now he’s out drinking with my best friend’s buddy Drinking in some cross town bar Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel… Like I been tied to a whipping post Tied to a whipping post Tied to a whipping post Good lord I feel like I’m dying My friends tell me That I’ve been such a fool They ask me why I stand by and keep on taking All just for loving you I drown myself in sorrow When I gotta look at things you’ve done Nothing seems to change, the bad times stay the same And I can’t run Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel… Like I been tied to a whipping post Tied to a whipping post Tied to a whipping post Good lord I feel like I’m dying
When your ready to tell your other you are ready to move on and it does not bother you anymore: You must die I alone am best! I hope ya flip some guy the bird He cuts you off and you're forced to swerve In front of the Beatles' tour bus A Bookmobile and a Mack truck Hauling hazardous biological waste The light turns red you have no brakes And "Hard Copy" gets it all on tape So you can see the look on your face Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die I hope your Pinto begins to spin Takes out a disabled Vietnam Veteran Mows down a Nobel Peace Prize Winner And maybe some orphans having Christmas dinner Perhaps even the British Royal Family And the Rabbi that's clutching the bottle-fed puppy And we can't forget the newlyweds And those Jerry's Kids are as good as dead I hope this helps to emphasize I hope this helps to clarify I hope you die I hope your cellmate thinks he's God But C.N.N. refer to him as "Bowling Ball Bag Bob" Serving time again for abuse of a corpse Only this time the victim's a Clydesdale horse While he masturbates to photos of livestock He does the "Silence of the Lambs" dance to Christian Rock Eats feces and quotes from "Deliverance" And fights with his imaginary playmate Vince Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die I hope he grins like Jack Nicholson And forces you to play a game called "Balls On Chin" And whatever happens next is all a blur But you remember "fist" can be a verb And when you finally regain consciousness You're bound and gagged in a wedding dress And the prison guard looks the other way ‘Cause he's the guy ya flipped the bird the other day I hope this helps to emphasize I hope this helps to clarify I hope you die I hope you die
I should have known you'd bid me farewell There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball You never care for secrets I confide For you I'm just an ornament, somethin' for your pride Always runnin', never carin', that's the life you live Stolen minutes of your time were all ya had to give And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball The story's in the past with nothin' to recall I've got my life to live and I don't need you at all The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball Oh, oh, oh I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball
It Don't Matter To Me It don't matter to me If you really feel that You need sometime to be free Time to go out searching for yourself Hoping to find time to go to find And it don't matter to me If you take up with someone Who's better than me 'Cause your happiness is all I want For you to find peace your piece of mind Lotta people have an ego hang-up 'Cause they want to be the only one How many came before it really doesn't matter Just as long as you're the last Everybody's moving on and try to find out What's been missing in the past And it don't matter to me If your searching brings you back together with me 'Cause there'll always be An empty room waiting for you An open heart waiting for you Time is on my side 'Cause it don't matter to me It don't matter to me....
Don't You Care If you don't love me Why don't you tell me Instead of runnin' around With all the other guys in town Can't you see You're hurtin' me Don't you care (don't you care), don't you care If you don't want me Why don't you tell me Instead of tellin' lies And makin' me cry [repeat chorus] Whatever happened to all the good times we used to have The times we cried and laughed I wanna know, I wanna know Will you ever love me again Or will I find out that this is the end Don't you care You said that you'd believe me Then why'd you ever leave me I'm standin' here all alone Without a girl of my own Don't you care (don't you care) don't you care (repeat to fade)
Once I had a little girl, sometimes I think about her, But, buddy, you know she's not really there. When memories do call, I just, I just can't live without her But tryin' all the time is so hard to bear. CHORUS Heartbreaker, can't take her, Heartbreaker, bringing me down. Heartbreaker, can't take her, Heartbreaker, bringing me down. I don't cry no more, I live while I'm flying, But I'll think back, and you can hear me say: CHORUS CHORUS CHORUS