SoTD: The Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench

What have we done with innocence
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
Wasting another night on planning my revenge

One in ten

Don’t want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
Id rather leave than suffer this
Ill never be your monkey wrench

All this time to make amends
What do you do when all your enemies are friends
Now and then Ill try to bend
Under pressure wind up snapping in the end

One in ten

Don’t want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
Id rather leave than suffer this
Ill never be your monkey wrench

One last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there’s one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I’m free

Don’t want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
Id rather leave than suffer this
Ill never be your monkey wrench

Don’t want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don’t want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don’t want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don’t want to be your monkey wrench

Artist: The Foo Fighters
Album: The Colour And The Shape
Release Date: 1997

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SoTD: Henry Gross – Shannon

Another day is at end
Mama says she’s tired again
No one can even begin to tell her
I hardly know what to say
But maybe it’s better that way
Is papa were here?

I’m sure he’d tell her

Shannon is gone
I hope she’s drifting out to sea
She always loved to swim away
Maybe she’ll find an island
With a shady tree
Just like the one in our backyard

Mama tried hard to pretend
things would get better again
Somehow she’s keeping
It all inside her
But finally the tears fill our eyes
And I know that somewhere tonight
She knows how much we really miss her

Shannon is gone
I hope she’s drifting out to sea
She always loved to swim away
Maybe she’ll find an island
With a shady tree
Just like the one in our backyard

Artist: Henry Gross
Album: Release
Release Date: 1976

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SoTD: Tesla – Edison’s Medicine

You’re guilty of crime in the first degree,
Second and third as well.
My jury finds you’ll be serving your time
When you go straight to hell.

‘Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,
Though "socially frightening"
But never out to sell.

Their nickels and pence
Meant more than did sense,
And not the sensible thing.

Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
All along, world was wrong. You was right.

All that he saw, all he conceived,
They just could not believe.
Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,
Along with number three.
He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,
"New Wizard of the West"
But they swindled and whined that he wasn’t our kind,
And said Edison knew best.

He was the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Said you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison’s medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn’t win.
Edison’s medicine.

I spent twelve years of hard time,
More like the best years of my life.
Never heard or read a single word
About the man and his "wicked mind"
They’ll sell you on Marconi.
Familiar, but a phony.
Story goes they sold their souls
And swore that you’d never know…

About the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Swore you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison’s medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn’t win.
Edison’s medicine.

Artist: Tesla
Album: Psychotic Supper
Release Date: 1991

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SoTD: The Brady Bunch – Time To Change

Autumn turns to Winter and then Winter turns to Spring,
It’s not just a season to know it’s goes for everything.
Clouds can turn to rain and then it just might snow
You gotta take lesson from Mother Nature and if you do you’ll know.

Well it’s time to change
then it’s time to change
Move by the time come along for the ride, don’t you see
When it’s time to change you’ve got to rearrange
Move your heart to what you’re gonna be.
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-sha-na-na-na-na-na

Day by day it’s hard to see the changes you’ve been through
A little bit of living a little bit of growing all adds up to you
Every boys a man inside
A girls a women too
And if you wanna reach your destiny it’s what you’ve got to do

Well it’s time to change
When it’s time to change
Move by the time come along for the ride, don’t you see
When it’s time to change you’ve got to rearrange
Move your heart to what your gonna be.
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-sha-na-na-na-na-na

Artist: The Brady Bunch
Album: Meet The Brady Bunch
Release Date: 1972

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SoTD: The Beatles – Mean Mister Mustard

Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop
She never stops, she’s a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he’s ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Such a dirty old man

Mean Mister Mustard
Such a dirty dirty
Mean Mister Mustard
Such a dirty dirty
Mean Mister Mustard

Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man

Artist: The Beatles
Album: Abbey Road
Release Date: 1969

SoTD: Pearl Jam – Alive

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin’ but a…
While you were sittin’ home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin’, sorry you didn’t see him, but I’m glad we talked…

Oh I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey…oh…

Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man’s room
She said I’m ready…for you
I can’t remember anything to this very day
‘Cept the look, the look…
Oh, you know where, now I can’t see, I just stare…

I, I’m still alive
Hey I, but, I’m still alive
Hey I, boy, I’m still alive
Hey I, I, I, I’m still alive, yeah
Ooh yeah…yeah yeah yeah…oh…oh…

Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You’re still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be?
Is that the question?
And if so…if so…who answers…who answers…?

I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey I, oh, I’m still alive
Hey I, but, I’m still alive
Yeah I, ooh, I’m still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: Ten
Release Date: 1991

SoTD: Yui – Rolling Star

Japanese Translation [anime version]

Mou gaman bakka shiterannai yo
Iitai koto wa iwanakucha

Kaerimichi yuugere no basutei
Ochikonda senaka ni bai bai bai
Kimi no FIGHTING POSE misenai gao!

Yume ni made mita you na sekai wa
Arasoi mo naku heiwa no nichi jyou
Demo gen jitsu wa hibi to rabu de
Tama ni kuyandari shiteru
Sonna ROLLING DAYS!

koron jattatte iin ja nai no
sontoki wa waratte ageru
norikon da basu no okukara
chiisaku hohoemi ga mieta

kimi o tayori ni shiteruyo Oh! Oh!

yume ni made mita you na Sweet Love
koibito tachi wa kakurega o sagasu no
demo genjitsu wa aenai hi ga
tsuduki nagara mo shinjiteru no Rolling days

tsumazui tatte Way to go!!
Yeah!! Yeah!! doro darake Rolling star!!

narubeku egao de itai keredo
mamorinuku tame ni wa shikatanai desho ?
kitto uso nante souimi o motanai no
All my loving
sou janakya yatterannai

yume ni made mi ta you na sekai wa
arasoi mo naku heiwa na nichijou
demo genjitsu wa hibi torabutte
tamani kuyan dari shiteru sonna Rolling days

sou wakatterutte
tsumazuitatte Way to go!!
Yeah!! Yeah!! doro darake Rolling star!!

English Translation [anime version]

I want to live in a world of peace
Without conflict, like the one I’ve seen in my dreams
I just can’t keep it inside
I’ve gotta say what I wanna say
The bus stop at twilight, on the way home
Saying bye bye bye to the sad backs of others
Your face doesn’t show your fighting pose

A world like the one I’ve seen in my dreams
Without conflict, daily peace
But in reality, I sometimes I worry about
Love and the day to day grind
Those Rolling Days!

You would never hold a lie, no never
All my loving, without it, I can’t go on

Sweet love like I’ve seen in my dreams
Lovers searching for hidden faces
But in reality, the days we can’t meet
Continue on, but I believe LONELY DAYS
Even if you stumble, Way To Go, Yeah Yay!
A muddled rolling star!

Artist: Yui
Album: Can’t Buy My Love
Release Date: 2007

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SoTD: Wall Of Voodoo – Big City

Think twice about big tall cities
That’s right
Think twice about big tall cities
Think twice
right

He closes his eyes to the world
When he wakes up at night
And she, she reaches tenderly
Kisses him and holds him tight

He, he lies awake by her side
And waits for the cold sweat to dry
She, she comforts he and tells him
Scary things in your sleep can’t bite

Tomorrow they’ll pack up their buckeye ties
Head for the big city
Past the driving rains
And desert plains touching Mexico

They’ll see sidewalk stars
Luxury cars and even Disneyland
Reach the land of plenty
With the hopes that maybe they can
Make a new start on the world

But my advice?

You’re gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that’s right
Think twice about big tall cities
Right
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that’s right
You’re gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that’s right

I’m sorry old man
Its nothing personal you understand
But I’ve just gotta run
This lead pipe on someone

For tomorrow they ride upon
A sour wind that’s gonna push them west
With Mojave dust, paper cups
And Greyhound immigrants
There’s the sidewalk saviors
And drunken sailors
And she-men in leather like cops
You got the calling
Stop stalling
The big city’s waiting for you

But my advice?

You’re gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big tall cities
Think twice that’s right…………

Artist: Wall Of Voodoo
Album: Seven Days In Sammystown
Release Date: 1983

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Adam Ant – Alien

Great, when you call us
Thank you for staying with us
We missed you all so desperately
But don’t blink or you’ll miss me

On a street like this as it were
From the thick of Jerusalem
Is what makes you love old England
The roots of freedom are here

Say what you will about the Alien
Just dig in and start with the sky
He is welcome and ever may be so
And then somehow everything seems
To come out right

So let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
The Alien

You’re such a killer
But oh just you trade that in
For tea and Jammie Dodgers
Down the Prospect and sing

On a street like this as it were
From the thick of Jerusalem
Is what makes you love old England
The roots of freedom are here

Say what you will about the Alien
Just dig in and start with the sky
He is welcome and ever may be so
And then somehow everything seems
To come out right

So let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
The Alien

On a street like this as it were
From the thick of Jerusalem
Is what makes you love old England
The roots of freedom are here

Say what you will about the Alien
Just dig in and start with the sky
He is welcome and ever may be so
And then somehow everything seems
To come out right

So let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
The Alien

Let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
The Alien

Let’s hear it for
Let’s hear it for
The Alien

Artist: Adam Ant
Album: Wonderful
Release Date: 1990

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SoTD: Laura Nyro – Eli’s Coming

li’s comin’
Eli’s comin’ (Eli’s a-comin’)
Well you better hide your heart, your loving heart
Eli’s a-comin’ and the cards say… a broken heart

Eli’s comin’, hide your heart, girl
Eli’s comin’, hide your heart, girl
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s comin’, hide your heart, girl (hide it)
You better, better hide your heart
Eli’s comin’, better walk

Walk but you’ll never get away
No, you’ll never get away from the burnin’ a-heartache
I walked to Apollo by the bay
Everywhere I go though, Eli’s a-comin’ (she walked but she never got
away)
Eli’s a-comin’ (she walked but she never got away)
Eli’s a-comin’ and he’s comin’ to git ya (she walked but… she walked
but…)
Get down on your knees (she walked but she never got away)

Eli’s comin’ (hide it, hide it, hide it)
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s a-comin’, you better hide
Girl, Eli’s comin’, hide your heart, girl (hide it)
You better, better hide your heart
Eli’s comin’, better walk

Walk but you’ll never get away
No, you’ll never get away from the burnin’ a-heartache
I walked to Apollo by the bay
Everywhere I go though, Eli’s a-comin’ (she walked but she’ll never get
away)
Eli’s a-comin’ (she walked but she’ll never get away)
Eli’s a-comin’ and he’s comin’ to git ya (she walked but… she walked
but…)
Get down on your knees (she walked but she’ll never get away)
Get down on your knees

No-no, no-no
Lord, I said no-no, no-no, no-no

(Hide it) She can
(Hide it) hide it
(Hide it) You better
(Hide it) Somebody
(Hide it) You got t’
(Hide it) Oh, my
(Hide it) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Artist: Laura Nyro
Album: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Release Date: 1967