Listen Close

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Raised By Wolves - Listen Close

I'm ridin' in a taxi in NYC
pine scented headrest and my breakfast is inside of me
horns are blaring and the traffic cops are waving
kids stumble leary eyed, coming home from raving

taxi driver curses in a language i don't understand
icka pecka oga bega heh ha bub guh bh and
street venders yell hocking some new dish
no thank you sir, I would not like a kanish

feel the beat it's the rhythm of the street
the syncopation of shuffling feet
more shuffling feet than I've ever seen
even traffic signals blink bright red and green

but it's not christmas it's a nice summer day
metal on metal from the grinding of the subway
don't sit there looking so morose
the world is a song just listen close

[raspy]
what's up where ya goin' baby
ya can't leave while the music's playin'
check the beat it's drivin' me crazy
music in the air
[/raspy]

walkin' through the zoo it's the fourth of july
there's a fat girl on crutches and a guy with a lazy eye
gift shop vendors and the guy sellin' funnel cake
plop that grease give the cinnamon a shake

there's gum on my shoes and it's givin' me the blues
like Donatello in The Secret of the Ooze
but the sun is out and the birds are singing
it's ten o' clock and the day is just beginning

the wolves are howling and the bees are buzzin'
tourists are from denmark and they are discussing
the price of beef and the price of gas
drive on the right go left to pass

the bricks are creaking in the newly risen sun
a passing car blares "Janie's Got a Gun"
I'm Robert Downey Jr. on a sonic overdose
all I gotta do is listen close

(raspy chorus twice)

years go by and the leaves are falling
I listen to the voices 'cause the voices are calling
they say things like rent "Cool Runnings"
spell your name in lowercase like e. e. cummings

there's always a song there's always a symphony
a Greek chorus coming from deep inside of me
music's lurking underneath your nose
one more time--listen close

(raspy chorus)
music everywhere.

(corrections are most welcome on all lyrics--especially zero to phantom...)

Anybody ever thought about putting all this stuff on a page? I could if I got bored enough and you guys gave me food. Or maybe just bored enough..

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Listen Close.
by George Harrison

listen close/to my pleading/ for I just want to be left alone
I am touched / by your caring/better left to the people Ive known
and the things that I do i have not done for you, everything that Ive done, Ive done cause I wanted to do......oooooo .....ooooo

listen close keep your distance/tyouve no right to enter my home.
thats my space, its not public/ as the cancer I harbor's my own....

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"Listen Close" by MC Frontalot

mc frontalot is on appointment
to rock the microphone with the style that's got disjointment
some point went out the window, got lost
this mc is unwilling to absorb the cost. I foster indignation
don't care if my lyrics are obtuse and yo I'm losing my hair
you don't stare at the man on the bus with the voices in his head
if he led a life of reason this is what he would have said

listen close, listen close, listen close to the sound
I don't wanna be down, I don't wanna be down

i know what you're thinking, you could sink into this state
I suggest you plug yes your ears and concentrate
the fate of the man who paid attention was the depths he plumbed
some dumb fate it was too, the way he succumbed
he might have imagined a world without despair
and for that matter I could keep my hair, but beware
some thoughts are fantasies and others cold hard facts
once you've given your attention yo you can't take it back

mc frontalot is talking in the oddest of ways, on the record that plays
i didn't mean to order stays of execution
for the speedily dispatched
now the man on the bus repeating like the record with a scratch
his name and number number name and number number name
if you ask him again he'll t-t-tell ya the same
to the casual ear the words I say and sense do not endure an intersection
to such a sentiment I stake objection

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by the John Benjamin Band

Distance clawing at my feet
I stumble blindly on
Miles in stifling summer heat
No cane to rest upon

Listen very close I'll only say this once
I have something here that everybody wants

Battle lines are stilled
Souls have long departed
Many graves are filled
Since on my way I started

Listen very close I'll only say this once
I have something here that everybody wants

A tale I never knew I'd begun
And still they make my run
Two thousand years and more
Gone by and I remain
A legend quite worth dying for
Worth all the doubt and pain

Message to be given them
I am honor bound
One sentence to be spoken then
And my own corpse be found

Let these words transform a human tragedy
Sound the dawn alarm, rejoice in victory

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Listen Close by Brick Pig

I guess you think you've wrecked my life somehow
I guess you think I’ll stay home ‘cause we’re not together now
I guess you think you’ve hurt me so
I guess you think I can’t let go
I guess you think you’ve got it figured out
But listen close

(Chorus):
Listen close to what I say
I’ve never loved you anyway
With you gone I can live my life
Not the one you chose for me
Listen close


I guess you think I thought your love was true
I guess you think my heart will never quite get over you
I guess you think I'll cry all night
I guess you think I'll hate my life
I guess you think I won't know what to do
But listen close

(Chorus)

(Bridge):
You play your games like I can’t see
Like I don’t know what you’ve done to me
You don’t think I know your kind
But you don’t know what’s in my mind

I guess you think I’ll spend my time alone
I guess you think I’ll miss you and I’ll wait right by the phone
I guess you think I need you here
I guess you think I want you near
I guess you think I wish you’d never gone
But listen close

(Chorus)

M Smith
05.02.01

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listen close - frankie big face

you'd better listen to me
'cause i'm not gonna tell you again
it's very easy to see
you and i are never gonna be friends

you made a promise to stand
by my side until the bitter end
and then you took off with another man
now i'm not gonna tell you
i'm not gonna tell you again

you'd better listen close to me
'cause i've been through this all before
it's not the way love's supposed to be
and i don't love you anymore

you made a fool out of me
and i'm never gonna let you forget
i'll never swallow your apology
i'll just choke on the splinters
i'll choke on the splinters again

you'd better listen close to me
'cause i've been through this all before
it's not the way love's supposed to be
and i don't love you anymore

and i want to tear our memories down
and i want to get my money back
and i want to wake up and
discover it was all a stupid dream

you'd better listen close to me
'cause i've been through this all before
it's not the way love's supposed to be
and i don't love you anymore
...not even a little