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The missing lyrics for the Box Set

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Re: The missing lyrics for the Box Set

Post Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:42 am

Mahone wrote:
leadshoes wrote:
Here's the best I can figure for the first Fairytale demo. Btw Cait's voice is so pretty here that I wish there was a completed (or at least closer to complete) version from this session.


Good job! Many improvements here on my attempt from a few years ago. Some comments:

"Found a jack in me window" should be "Father Jack and me went there"

"the booze and his boys" should be "the booze running boys"

I think they "said prayers" not "set fires" in Times Square.. It fits with the fact that he is with Father Jack

Your line "It's 41" still sounds vaguely like "it's for the rich" to me

I'm not sure about the line "ton and gins??" but it sounds like he might be using "ton and ginics" as some weird slang for gin and tonics?


Thanks for the help, Mahone! I was grabbing anything out of the air for some of it, I think you can tell. I also first thought it was "said prayers," but it sounds an awful lot like "set fires" even though that seems an untowardly thing for cops to be doing. Maybe they're helping with Christmas bonfires or fires to warm the homeless? And it still sounds like "it's 41" to me, or at least forty something.

And thanks to de burca below for the "tom and jerrys!" I'd never heard of them (not too surprising), but that must be it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_(mixed_drink)
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Who Said Romance is Dead

Post Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:54 am

I just noticed that "Who Said Romance is Dead" hasn't had any attempts, so here's my shot at it.
Feel free to fix anything.

Someone said romance is dead
But I'm afraid that I don't agree
If you've a heart of lead
And a hole in your head
You're so blind that you can't see
There's a fire burns
As the world turns
Lights up our dreams

Who else said romance is dead?
Come take a walk with me
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee

I spray your name on the side of a train
Watch lovers kiss in the final frame
A silhouette dancing in a window pane
Love is a burning flame
The girl on a runway waiting for a plane
Is sweeter than the locket on a golden chain
Lights awake down a misty lane
See a rainbow every time it rains.

Love on a left bank, a saxophone sighed
Drifting on a reed around midnight
Wrapped up in the sunset glowing outside
Alone on a deep end in the pink twilight
Snowflakes falling in the Christmas lights
Stars in heaven burning bright
A football flight on the front of the night
The roar of a crowd red and white

Someone said romance is dead
Well I'm afraid that I don't agree
If you've a heart of lead
And a hole in your head
You're so blind that you can't see
There's a fire burns
As the world turns
Lights up our dreams
Who else said romance is dead?
Come take a walk with me
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee

Flowers at sunset, blues in the night
Kissed by a river in the pale moonlight
The words of the poets, lovers who sighed
Beneath the moon's eye in the heat of the night
Bathed in the glow of an old gaslight
Sitting in the rain it's a wonderful life
Take you in my arms and hold you tight
Lost in the stars with the satellites

Now someone said romance is dead
Well I'm afraid that I don't agree
If you've a heart of lead
And a hole in your head
You're so blind that you can't see
There's a fire burns
As the world turns
Lights up our dreams
Who else said romance is dead?
Come take a walk with me
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee
Sha la la, la la la, la la lee
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Re: The missing lyrics for the Box Set

Post Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:11 pm

Hi - wanted to talk to you about your post on Fairytale being a song that makes your cry. It's for a radio programme.Please could you drop me an email if you get this? maggersayre@gmail.com - Thanks
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Re: The missing lyrics for the Box Set

Post Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:11 pm

Alex wrote:What do you guys think about getting the lyrics together for the Box Set?


So far we have collected the lyrics to
- NW3 *
- Do You Believe In Magic?
- Hot Asphalt
- Maggie May
- The Travelling People
- Eve Of Destruction *
- Danny Boy
- Haunted
- North Sea Holes
- Garbo (aka In And Out)
- Afro-Cuban Be-Bop
- Pinned Down / I'm Alone In The Wilderness *
- Johnny Was *
- Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things
- All The Tears That I Cried
- The One And Only
- Call My Name
- Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do
- Johnny Come Lately
- Boat Train (demo) *
- Night Train To Lorca (demo)
- Black Dogs Ditch (haha)
- The Rocky Road To Dublin
- Something Wild
- The Mistlethrush *
- Murder *
- FONY (demo) *
- Driving Through the City *
- The Last Of McGee *

* = needs some editing


Still missing:
- Nicaraqua Libré
- Who Said Romance Is Dead
- Sound Of The City Night


Well work by you here. i really appreciate your efforts here.
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Re: The missing lyrics for the Box Set

Post Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:39 am

leadshoes wrote:
phro37 wrote:the first demo of fony (1986?) on the box set:

do'nt think i'll see another one,
???????????????
the blind will never see.
the lame don't walk with thee.
there's nothing me and you can do
nothing ??????????????

i guess pretty much all the fony demos.


Here's the best I can figure for the first Fairytale demo. Btw Cait's voice is so pretty here that I wish there was a completed (or at least closer to complete) version from this session.
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it was christmas eve, babe, in the drunk tank
an old man said to me
don't think I'll see another one
the dead stay dead they say
the blind will never see
the lame don't walk
but babe
there's nothing you and me can't do
nothing...

it's '41...?

it was a white christmas eve on the west coast of clare
I looked 'cross the ocean, asked what's over there
Billy Ryan said Cait they've got rivers of gold, and cars big as bars in the tale we've been told

it's a story that happened in new york long ago
Father Jack and me went there, it was covered with snow
said prayers in times square with some cops that we knew
then we drank tom and jerrys with the boys in blue
and the nypd choir were singing galway bay
and the bells were ringing out for christmas day

uh ssst..
frankie...and his girl Mary Ann
Had run off there together and a savin???
frankie got in with the booze running boys
and he met on jack diamond and bold Bugs Moran (prohibition-era gangsters)
father was….????

happy christmas, i love you baby
that's what the note read
a dream of yesterday.
had to pawn the ring
to get back home again
the cold wind in the bay
brings ghosts from far away.

and what a fancy song…


Made some amendments
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Re: The missing lyrics for the Box Set

Post Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:56 pm

I want to be haunted by the ghost
Of your precious love
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