SoTD: Hiatus…

Oh wow, I’m heading East on the train to see my daughter and grandkids so this music blog might be quiet until September 22nd, 2008.

SoTD: The White Stripes – The Hardest Button To Button

We started living in an old house
My ma gave birth and we were checking it out
It was a baby boy
So we bought him a toy
It was a ray gun
And it was 1981

We named him “Baby”
He had a toothache
He started crying
It sounded like an earthquake
It didn’t last long
Because I stopped it
I grabbed a rag doll
Stuck some little pins in it

Now we’re a family
And we’re alright now
We got money and a little place
To fight now
We don’t know you
And we don’t owe you
But if you see us around
I got something else to show you

Now it’s easy when you don’t know better
You think it’s sleazy?
Then put it in a short letter
We keep warm
But there’s just something wrong with ya
Just feel that you’re the hardest little button to button

I had opinion that didn’t matter
I had a brain that felt like pancake batter
I got a backyard with nothing in it
Except a stick, a dog
And a box with something in it

The hardest button to button
Ah oh

The hardest button to button
Ah oh

The hardest button to button
Ah oh

Artist: The White Stripes
Album: Elephant
Release Date: 2003

SoTD: The Jaynetts – Sally Go ‘Round The Roses

Sally go ’round the roses (sally go ’round the roses)
Sally go ’round the roses (sally go ’round the pretty roses)
Hope this place can’t hurt you (hope this place can’t hurt you)
Roses they can’t hurt you (roses they can’t hurt you)

Sally don’t you go, don’t you go downtown
Sally don’t you go-o, don’t you go downtown
Saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is see your baby with another girl

Sally go ’round, oh Sally don’t you go
Sally don’t you go, Don’t you go downtown
Oh, don’t you go downtown
Saddest thing in the whole wide world
See your baby with another girl

Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the roses)
Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the pretty roses)
They won’t tell your secret (they won’t tell your secret)
They won’t tell your secret, Oh no won’t tell your secret

Sally baby cry, let your hair hang down
Sally baby cry, let your hair hang down
Sit and cry with the door closed
Sit and cry so no one knows

Sally baby cry, let your hair hang down
Sally baby cry, let your hair hang down
Saddest thing in the whole wide world
See your baby with another girl

Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the roses)
Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the pretty roses)
Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the pretty roses)
Sally go ’round the roses (Sally go ’round the pretty roses)

Artist: The Jaynetts
Album: Group of Goodies, Vol. 2
Release Date: 1965

SoTD: Juice Newton – Queen Of Hearts

Midnight
And I’m a-waitin’
On the twelve-0-five
Hopin’ it’ll take me
Just a little farther down the line

Moonlight
You’re just a heartache in disguise
Won’t you keep my heart from breakin’
If it’s only for a very short time

Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin’ it ain’t really smart
The joker ain’t the only fool
Who’ll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin’ ’bout a life of crime
‘Cause that’s what I’ll have to do
To keep me away from you

Honey, you know it makes you mad
Why is everybody tellin’ everybody
What you have done
Baby, I know it makes you sad
But when they’re handin’ out the heartaches
You know you got to have you some

Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin’ it ain’t really smart
The joker ain’t the only fool
Who’ll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin’ ’bout a life of crime
‘Cause that’s what I’ll have to do
To keep me away from you

Lovers, I know you’ve had a few
But hide your heart beneath the covers
And tell ‘em they’re the only one
And others, they know just
What I’m going through
And it’s a-hard to be a lover
When you say you’re only in it for fun

Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowing it ain’t really smart
The joker ain’t the only fool
Who’ll do anything for you

Playing with the queen of hearts
And knowing it ain’t really smart
The joker ain’t the only fool
Who’ll do anything for you

And laying out another lie
Thinkin’ ’bout a life of crime
‘Cause that’s what I’ll have to do
To keep me away from you

Artist: Juice Newton
Album: Juiced
Release Date: 1981

SoTD: Stan Ridgway – Dogs

One dog buries a bone and then the
Other dog digs it up and finds
A prize in store
One dog dies and the other dogs go
Dig him up a tomb, with his
Name inscribed

And there, on his tombstone
Carved so bold
The words are clear and strong
It says:
This one is for the eyes
For the eyes of the other dogs to come
It’s for the eyes of the other dogs to come

One man digs a hole while the
Other one shovels dirt inside
Another hole
One man says “hello” while
Another man is leaving on a
Long journey to a place he’ll not return

And there, on his tombstone
Carved so bold
The words are clear and strong
It says:
This one is for the eyes
For the eyes of the other dogs to come
It’s for the eyes of the other dogs to come

Every entrance has an exit
Every doorknob has a twist
I wonder what my face looked like
Before it looked like this?

And there, on his tombstone
Carved so bold
The words are clear and strong
It says:
This one is for the eyes
For the eyes of the other dogs to come
It’s for the eyes of the other dogs to come

Artist: Stan Ridgway
Album: Mosquitos
Release Date: 1989

SoTD: Billy Joel – Laura

Laura calls me in the middle of the night
Passes on her painful information
Then these careless fingers
They get caught in her vice
Til they’re bleeding on my coffee table

Living alone isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
I’m on her side, why does she push the poison on me?

Laura has a very hard time
All her life has been one long disaster
Then she tells me she suddenly believes
She’s seen very good sign
She’ll be taking some aggressive action

I fight her wars while she’s slamming her doors in my face
Failure to break was the only mistake that she made

Here I am feeling like a fucking fool
Do I react the way exactly she intends me to?
Every time I think I’m off the hook
She makes me lose my cool
I’m her machine, and she can punch all the keys
She can push any button I was programmed through

Laura calls me when she needs a good fix
All her questions will get sympathetic answers
I should be so immunized to all of her tricks
She’s surviving on her second chances

Sometimes I feel like this godfather deal is all wrong
How can she hold an umbilical cord for so long?

I’ve done everything I can
What else am I supposed to do
I’m her machine, and she can punch all the keys
She can push any button I was programmed through

Laura loves me even if I don’t care
That’s my problem, that’s her sacred absolution
If she had to, she would put herself in my chair
Even though I faced electrocution

She always says I’m the best friend that she’s ever had
How do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad?

Artist: Billy Joel
Album: The Nylon Curtain
Release Date: 1982

SoTD: Kip Adotta – Wet Dream

It was April the 41st, being a quadruple leap year
I was driving in downtown Atlantis
My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray, and it was
overheating
So I pulled into a Shell station
They said I’d blown a seal
I said, “Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay pal?”

While they were doing that I walked over to a place called the oyster
bar — a real dive
But I knew the owner, he used to play for the Dolphins
I said, “Hi, Gil!!!”
You hafta yell, he’s hard of herring

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin’ through the Gulf Stream
Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Wet dream…

Gil was also down on his luck
Fact is, he was barely keeping his head below water
I gullied up to the sandbar
He poured the usual
Rusty snail, hold the grunion, shaken, not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side — heavy on the
mako
I slipped him a fin — on porpoise
I was feeling good
I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry’s Squids — for the
halibut

Well, the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines
They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal –
what sole
Tommy was rockin’ the place with a very popular tuna — “Salmon Chanted
Evening”
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player

One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she’s giving ME the eye
So I figure, this is my chance for a little fun
You know — a piece of Pisces

But she said things I just couldn’t fathom
She was too deep, and seemed to be under a lot of pressure
Boy, could she drink
She drank like a… she drank A LOT…
I said, “What’s your sign?”
She said, “Aquarium”
I said, “GREAT!!! Let’s get tanked!”

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin’ through the Gulf Stream
Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Wet dream…

I invited her up to my place for a little midnight bait
I said, “C’mon baby, it’ll only take a few minnows”
She threw me that same old line
“Not tonight — I got a haddock”

And she wasn’t kiddin’ either, ‘cuz in came the biggest, meanest looking
haddock I’d ever seen come down the pike
He was covered with mussels
He came over to me, he said, “Listen shrimp — don’t you come trolling
around here”
What a crab
This guy was steamed — I could see the anchor in his eyes

I turned to him, I said, “Abalone — You’re just being shellfish”
Well, I knew it was going to be trouble, and so did Gil, ‘cuz he was
already on the phone to the cods
The haddock hits me with a sucker punch
I catch him with a left hook
He eels over
It was a fluke, but there he was, lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel
Kelpless

I said, “Forget the cods, Gil, this guy’s gonna need a sturgeon”
Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend
She came over to me, she said, “Hey big boy, you’re really a game fish”
“What’s your name?”
I said, “Marlin”

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin’ through the Gulf Stream
Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Wet dream…

Well from then on, we had a whale of a time
I took her to dinner
I took her to dance
I bought her a bouquet of flounders
And then I went home with her
And what did I get for my trouble?
A case of the clams

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin’ through the Gulf Stream
Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Wet dream…

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin’ through the Gulf Stream
Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Wet dream…

Artist: Kip Adotta
Album: Comedian of the United States
Release Sate: 1985

SoTD: The Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy

Where were you
When we needed you
Well you could not be found
What can I do
Oh, I believed in you
You’re running me around

Well you can take it as a warning
Or take it anyway you like
It’s the lightning, not the thunder
You never know where it’s gonna strike

Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh

Don’t be cute
Don’t be funny now
It’s later than you think
Oh, what’s the use
Save your money now
It’s hanging on the brink

Don’t let go while I’m hanging on
‘Cause I been hanging on so long
It’s so hard to be all alone
I know you’re not that strong
Yeah, yeah

Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh

Don’t let go while I’m hanging on
‘Cause I’ve been hanging on so long
It’s so hard to be all alone
I know you’re not that strong
Yeah, yeah

Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Our love’s in jeopardy, baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Our love’s in jeopardy (jeopardy), baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Our love’s in jeopardy (jeopardy), baby
Ooooh-ooh-oooooh
Love’s in jeopardy, baby

Artist: The Greg Kihn Band
Album: Jeopardy
Release Date: 1980

SoTD: Pink – Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let’s pretend we’re just two people and
You’re not better than me.
I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We’re not dumb and we’re not blind.
They’re all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.

What kind of father would take his own daughter’s rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You’ve come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don’t know nothing ’bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You’d never take a walk with me.
Would you?

Artist: Pink
Album: I’m Not Dead
Release Date: 2006

SoTD: Wall Of Voodoo – Look At Their Way

Look at the way they’re walking
All these people around are givin’ me looks
Keep a big secret on the quiet side
Where’s the nearest place to hide?

Look at their way

Been around long enough now
And they’ll be around after everyone’s gone
A mother makes love to her only son
Turn on the lights and watch them run

Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the floor today

All together now they’ll rub their long legs
And play a sad melody, the only one they know
To air and earth and the quiet side
And the mind built a million years ago

Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the calendar
Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the floor today

Artist: Wall Of Voodoo
Album: Call Of The West
Release Date: 1982