It took me two weeks at home to realize that I am a woman.
So this ain’t the end, I saw you again, today
I had to turn my heart away
Smiled like the sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never failsYou lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You’d have me down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn’t you, Barracuda? OhBack over time we were all trying for free
You met the porpoise and me
No right, no wrong you’re selling a song, a name
Whisper gameIf the real thing don’t do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Oooo, Barracuda, oh yeah“Sell me, sell you” the porpoise said
Dive down deep to save my head
You, I think you got the blues tooAll that night and all the next
Swam without looking back
Made for the western pools, silly, silly foolsIf the real thing don’t do the trick, no
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it to the wick
Oooo, barra-barracudaWriter(s): Roger Douglas Fisher / Michael Joseph Derosier / Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson / Ann Wilson Dustin
Album: Little Queen
Released: 1977
Oh, oh
Why?
Never wrote to tell me goodbye
I guess that I
Got too busy to notice the signsI know, I know, I know, I know
That it’s my fault, I’m responsible
I know, I know, I know, I know
That sometimes love is hard to holdIs it too late for me to love you better?
Love you better, love you better
I’m trying to say that I could love you better
Love you better, love you betterFire
Burnin’ deep within me, desire
I’m on the wire
Stuck between the now and goodbyeI know, I know, I know, I know
It’s been two weeks since I heard from you
I know, I know, I know, I know
That sometimes love’s easy to loseIs it too late for me to love you better?
Love you better, love you better
I’m trying to say that I could love you better
Love you better, love you betterNow you’re gone
Is there a way to make you stay?
Is it too late for me to love you better?
Love you better, love you betterWhy’d you have to go and make me love you?
Why’d you have to go and make me love you?
Why’d you have to go and make me love you?
Why’d you have to go and make me love you?Is it too late for me to love you better?
Love you better, love you betterOh, oh
Love you better
Oh (Is it too late for me to love you better?)
Oh (Love you better)
Love you betterOh, oh, oh, oh
I’ll try, I’ll try to love you better
To love you betterWriter(s): Graham Sierota / Jeffery David / Martin Coyle / Noah Sierota / Sydney Sierota
Album: Lonely Generation
Released: 2020
Don’t act like you can’t act
I know I seen you do it
You better learn to shake hands
And treat me like your mother
Don’t act like you can’t act
Stand up like a man
You better learn to shake hands
And treat me like your motherYou came on too late
To do a thingC’mon look me in the eye
You want to try to tell a lie?
I bet you can’t and you know why?
I’m just like your motherYou cane on too late
Play dumb,
Play dead,
Play straightWho’s got it figured out?
Play dumb, play dead, play straight
Who’s got it figured out?
Play straight
Try to manipulateM-a-n-i-p-u-late
Am I?
M-I-too?
Am I too?
Late?Who’s got it figured out?
Left, right, left, right,
Got it figured out?
Play straightStand up like a man
You better learn to shake hands
Look me in the eye now,
Treat me like your mother
C’mon look me in the eye
You want to try to tell a lie?
You can’t
You know why?
I’m just like your motherPlay dumb, play dead
Trying to manipulate
You blink when you breathe
You breathe when you like
You blink when you lie
Who’s got it figured out?
Left right left right?
Who’s got it figured out?
Play straightYou blink when you breathe
And you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
Who’s got it figured out?
Play straightWriter(s): Dean Fertita / Jack Lawrence / Alison Mosshart / Jack White
Album: Horehound
Realised: 2009
Skip town. slow down
Push it to the east coast
Step down turn around
Push it to the west
Need less, use less
We’re asking for too much I guess
Cause all we get isDead disco
Dead funk
Dead rock and roll
Remodel
Everything has been doneTits out, pants down
Overnight to London
Touch down, look around
Everyone’s the same
World wide, air tight
No one’s got a face left to blame
And all we get isDead disco
Dead funk
Dead rock and roll
Remodel
Everything has been doneDead disco
Dead funk
Dead rock and roll
Remodel
Everything has been doneI know, I know you tried to change things
I know you tried to change
I knowWriter(s): Emily Haines / James Shaw
Album: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Released: 2003
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first metSamson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of Wonder Bread
And went right back to bed
And the history books forgot about us
And the Bible didn’t mention us
And the Bible didn’t mention us, not even onceYou are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin’ on our heads
But they’re just old light, they’re just old light
Your hair was long when we first metSamson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful
And came into my bed
Oh, I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I’d done alright
And kissed me ’til the mornin’ light, the mornin’ light
And he kissed me ’til the mornin’ lightSamson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of Wonder Bread
And went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn’t bring the columns down
Yeah, we couldn’t destroy a single one
And the history books forgot about us
And the Bible didn’t mention us, not even onceYou are my sweetest downfall
I loved you firstWriter(s): Emily Haines / James Shaw
Album: Songs
Released: 2002
I used to think if i could realize i’d die
Then i would be a lot nicer
Used to believe in a lot more
Now i just see straight aheadThat’s not to say i don’t have good times
But as for my days
I spend them waitingCrash sites keep me up at night
Impact division it splits in two
Directly underneath youAs for those things (as for those things)
That act as markers in your life
But in between (but in between)
You can’t remember
And so it seems (and so it seems)
That you’ve grown up and over me (up and over me)
And these silly things (these silly things)
I like to dwell onTest sites keep me up at night
Chainlink and meters
I talk to you
It’s cold out there
But i’m telling you
I’m lonely tooFacts versus romance
You go and call yourself the boss
But we’re not robots inside a gridText versus romance
You go and add it all you want
Still we’re not robots inside a gridZeros and ones
Writer(s): Blake Sennett
Album: Take Offs and Landings
Released: 2001
What kind of heart would break so easy as my own
Look at all the marrow of my frozen bones
What kind of heart would lead me out into the dark
Who would throw my body to the nightWhere is he taking me, why would he leave us
Has he forsaken me what do my eyes beholdParadise, I’m warm in the shadows here
Strange and beautiful and near
Of the colors of paradiseWhat kind of heart would lead me out into the dark
Who would saw the timbers of their only home
What kind of heart would break so easy as my own
Who would throw my body to the nightWhere is he taking me, why would he leave us
Has he forsaken me what do my eyes beholdParadise, I’m warm in the shadows here
Strange and beautiful and near
Of the colors of paradise
Paradise, angles that disappear
Colors of lights behind us here
Rippled in paradiseBe with me now
Be with me again
Where we belong
Make me believe
Come to where our heart
Can sing in the night
Touch me again
Come to where a woman can be free
Heal me now
Join me in a land that knows no endWhat kind of heart would break so easy as my own
Look at all the marrow of my frozen bones!!What kind of heart would lead me out into the dark
Who would throw my body to the night!!Paradise, I’m warm in the shadows here
Strange and beautiful and near
Of the colors of paradise
Paradise, future and past the wall
The elegant present comes undone? (at dawn?)
And the hour of paradiseBe with me now
Be with me again
Where we belong
Make me believe
Come to where our heart
Can sing in the night
Touch me again
Come to where a woman can be free
Heal me now
Join me in a land that knows no endWhat kind of heart would break so easy as my own
Who would saw the timbers of their only home
What kind of heart would lead me out into the dark
Who would throw my body to the nightParadise, I’m warm in the shadows here
Strange and beautiful and near
Of the colors of paradise
Paradise, angles that disappear
Colors of lights behind us here
Rippled in paradiseParadise, I’m warm in the shadows here
Strange and beautiful and near
Of the colors of paradise
Paradise, future and past the wall
The elegant present comes undone? (at dawn?)
And the hour of paradiseWriter(s): John Mark Eitzel
Album: Warm in the Shadows
Released: 2009
How good did you want to be
Knowing you deserve to be hold
More than fear you know how to have someone
When it’s right
Exactly what you want
What you recognize of love
How decisive and smart
Every your move was
Pushed me deep, pushed me deep
Into of my own, into of my own
And now I am in the middle of your road
And all you got me is the unknown
Is the unknown
How do I, how do I guide my love
When I am on my own, when I am on my ownWriter(s): Ana Ćurčin
Album: Sketches of Belonging
Released: 2016
The story is different now, the records are playing in the living room
And you might say you’re wounded, and I might say I’m hurt
But we knew the difference then between the fire and the earth
And we may say we’re broken, we may say we’re weak,
But we knew before we started, oh the secrets we would keepAnd it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love is
And it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love isI’ll move to the country, and live inside the deepest, darkest wood
And I’ll write you a letter and tell you all the things I should say to your face
And I won’t send it to you, I’ll send it to your mother’s place
And she won’t give it to you, that’s how brave I’ll grow here in my caveAnd it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love is
And it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love isAnd you’ll move to the city, marry a pretty girl
And she will make you smile all the while you’ll be looking for what you left behind
And she will bring you children and oh how you will love them with that heart of yours
I won’t visit you, I’ll know by then the kinder thing to doOh it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love is
And it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love is
And it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love is
And it’s all okay, cause love will find a way to be what love isThe story is different now, the records are playing in the living room
Writer(s): Julia Stone
Album: It’s All Okay
Released: 2012
I’m just thinkin’ about the child in me
That I sometimes feel inside
And I’m figuring out just what it is
That makes me feel so smallIs it you, that hurts me when I give myself
Every day and every night
Am I too blind to see that it doesn’t work out
Did I realy ask too much of you babyDo you mean to tell me that’s the way it is
Do you mean to say
It’s all so hard, it’s so hard
It’s all so hard, it’s so hardAs I search for an answer, I see the clear blue sky
And I know that you’re the one to blame
And I feel so naive
When you say that our love to you was just a gameI dream, my dream, I’m sane, I’m insane
Oh, please don’t, please don’t speak to me that way
Do you mean to tell me that’s the way it is
Do you mean to sayIt’s all so hard, it’s so hard
It’s all so hard, it’s so hard
Damned it’s so hard, why you’re so hard
Why you’re so hard, it’s tearing me apartWriter(s): Anouk Teeuwe / Bart Van Veen
Album: Together Alone
Released: 1997
