Blaski i cienie sławy w tekstach piosenek

[pixie]

Do założenia tego wątku zainspirował mnie tekst piosenki the Byrds „So You
Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star” (1967) - bardzo gorzkie słowa gwiazd folk
rocka ;)

So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time
and learn how to play
And with your hair swung right
And your pants too tight
It's gonna be all right
Then it's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware
And in a week or two
If you make the charts
The girls'll tear you apart

The price you paid for your riches and fame
Was it all a strange game?
You're a little insane
The money, the fame, the public acclaim
Don't forget what you are
You're a rock 'n' roll star!

[ilhan]

Blaski...

OASIS Rock'n'Roll Star

I live my life in the city
There's no easy way out
The day's moving just too fast for me
I need some time in the sunshine
I've gotta slow it right down
The day's moving just too fast for me

I live my life for the stars that shine
People say it's just a waste of time
When they said I should feed my head
Well, that to me was just a day in bed
I'll take my car and drive real far
You're not concerned about the way we are
In my mind my dreams are real
Now you're concerned about the way I feel

Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star
Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star
Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star

You're not down with who I am
Look at you now, you're all in my hands
Tonight

Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star

It's just rock 'n' roll...

--------

Cienie

GRAFTMANN Candidate For A Star ;-)))))

[dziewczyna_mickiewicza]

eee...cienie? ;)

everybody's cool playing rock'n'roll
everybody's cool playing rock'n'roll
i don't feel cool, cool at all

send all of my best out to the band
i don't think i'll make it out to the show
(...)
and i don't feel cool at all

("rock'n'roll", r.a.)

[pagaj_75]

Jak cienie, to prosz...

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? it’s alright we know where you’ve been.
You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time, provided with toys and
’scouting for boys’.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn’t like school, and you know you’re nobody’s fool,
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? it’s alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the steak bar. he loved to drive in his jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

(Pink Floyd, oczywista)

[pixie]

Piosenka napisana z myślą o Franku Sinatrze, ale on ją odrzucił - ciekawe
czemu? :)

Randy Newman "Lonely at the Top"

I've been around the world
Had my pick of any girl
You'd think I'd be happy
But I'm not
Ev'rybody knows my name
But it's just a crazy game
Oh, it's lonely at the top

Listen to the band, they're playing just for me
Listen to the people paying just for me
All the applause - all the parades
And all the money I have made
Oh, it's lonely at the top

Listen all you fools out there
Go on and love me - I don't care
Oh, it's lonely at the top
Oh, it's lonely at the top

[libertine]

jak dla mnie numer 1 to 'to be someone' the jam (świetny cover zrobił noel
gallagher)

To be someone must be a wonderful thing
A famous footballer a rock singer
or a big film star, yes I think I would like that
To be rich and have lots of fans
have lots of girls to prove that I'm a man
And be No. 1 - and liked by everyone

Getting drugged up with my trendy friends
They really dig me and I dig them
And the bread I spend - is like my fame - it's quickly diminished

And there's no more swimming in a guitar shaped pool
no more reporters at my beck and call
no more cocaine it's only ground chalk
no more taxis now we'll have to walk

But didn't we have a nice time -
didn't we have a nice time
Oh wasn't it such a fine time

I realize I should have stuck to my guns
instead shit out to be one of the bastard sons
and lose myself - I know it was wrong - but it's cost me a lot

And there's no more drinking after the club shuts down,
I'm out on me arse with the rest of the clowns
It's really frightening without a bodyguard
so I stay confined to my lonely room

George Harrison - When We Was Fab

[pixie]

Back then long time ago when grass was green
Woke up in a daze
Arrived like stangers in the night
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - back when income tax was all we had

Caresses fleeced you in the morning light
Casualties at dawn
And we did it all
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - you are my world you are my only love

And while you're in this world
The fuzz gonna come and claim you
But you mo better wise
When the buzz gonna come and take you away
Take you away
Take you away

The microscopes that magnified the tears
Studied warts and all
Still the life flows on and on
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - but It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Fab - long time ago when we was fab
Fab - like this pullover you sent to me

Fab
And You've Really Got A Hold On Me
fab - long time ago when we was fab

P.S. Dlaczego "we was" a nie "we were"?!?

10cc - The Worst Band in the World :)

[pixie]

It's one thing to know it but another to admit
We're the worst band in the world
But we don't give a...
If Garbo played guitar with Valentino on the drums
Then we'd be nothing more than a bunch of darma bums
So tune up, tune up
Well we've never done a days work in our life
And our records sell in zillions
It irrigates my heart with greed
To know that you adore me
Up yours, up mine
But up everybody's that takes time -
But we're working on it
Working on it (Ooh)
We never seen the van - leave it to the roadies -
Never met the roadies - leave them in the van
All because of circumstances way beyond control
We became the darlings of this thing called rock and roll, ooh
Here I am a record on a jukebox
A little piece of plastic with a hole, ooh
Play me
Buy me and you play me then my plastic turns to gold
Here we are together on your hi fi
A little piece of plastic with a hole, oh
Fade me, fade me, fade me, fade me...

[anduwillknowmebythetrailofdead]

posrednio .. moze wlasnie wrecz przeciwnie ( a bardziej prawdopodobne ze
naciagane :P

You know that I don't ever have the time to witness the passing of these years
(hood)

Rescue me from this Hollywood life (suede)

Cienie

[ilhan]

Tak się zaczyna album The Jam pt. "Setting Sons".
Utwór "Girl On The Phone" o natrętnej fanatyczce.

Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
Her voice is smooth but the tone is bland
She?s telling me this and she?s telling me that
She talks about me and I must agree
With what she says about me
About how nice I can be
But it makes no difference to my mind

Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
She knows all my details - she?s got my facts
She tells me my height and she knows my weight
She knows my age and says she?s knows fate

And I must say - it?s logical
What foresight she must have
I?ve got to meet her whenever I get time

Says she knows everything about me
Every word I?ve ever said
Every book I?ve ever read
She told me that we met along time ago
I can?t think when but she should know

Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
Knows where I get my shirts and where I get my pants
Where I get my trousers where I get socks
My leg measurements and the size of my cock

And I must say it?s un-nerving
To think that she knows me
Knows me so well - better than anyone
Better than myself

Says she knows everything about me
Every record I?ve listened to
Every window that I?ve looked through
She told me that we met along time ago
I can?t think when but she should know