Push It

Todays tune I'm picking purely because of the music video. It's just so bizarre, but then again, so is life right?

I just love Garbage, they really stick out as being somewhat unique. I reckon Shirley has to be one of the best vocalists that I've heard in a long, long time.

I was angry when I met you
I think I'm angry still
We can try to talk it over
If you say you'll help me out

Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
No need to fight
Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
We'll be alright

This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it, make the beats go harder
Push it, make the beats go harder

I'm sorry that I hurt you
Please don't ask me why
I want to see you happy
I want to see you shine

Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
Don't be uptight
Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
We'll stay up all night

C'mon push it, you can do it
C'mon prove it, nothing to it
C'mon use it, let's get through it
C'mon push it, you can do it

Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
Don't be uptight
Don't worry baby (don't worry baby)
We'll stay up all night

Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright

Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright

Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright

Push it
Push it
Push it
Push it
Push it.

Reckon that music video is about as disjointed as my life. Gotta love it!

Furry Happy Monsters

Well far too many serious moments, so here is a much lighter note (pun intended).

This is a classic, mostly because I'm a huge Muppet's fan (Who doesn't love Animal?). But this was REM and Kate Pierson (of the B-52's) who teamed up yet again for a special once off performance.

monsters having fun, happy, happy
see them jump and run, happy, happy
laughing all the while, cheerful, cheerful
flashing a big smile, that's a per-fect sign
that they're feelin' fine
furry happy monsters feeling glad
(furry happy monsters feeling glad)
furry happy monsters laughing

something has gone wrong, sighing, sighing
faces have turned long, crying, crying
hear them sob and whine, tearful, tearful
that's a real good sign that they're feelin' glum
sad, sad times have come

(same order as before)
furry sobbing monsters feeling sad
furry sobbing monsters feeling sad
furry sobbing monsters crying

"come on monsters, you don't have to cry!"
monsters: "no?"
"no! we can be happy!!!"

furry happy monsters feeling glad
furry happy monsters feeling glad
furry happy monsters laughing
furry sobbing monsters feeling sad
furry sobbing monsters feeling sad
furry sobbing monsters crying
(glad and laughing again)
monsters, happy monsters
monsters, happy monsters

If sobbing monsters feeling sad can be happy... so can we all.

The Dark

"The Dark" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (a side project by Savatage) is a tune I've had stuck in my head. This one comes from Beethoven's Last Night as he sits waiting for the Devil to return.

This entire album is absolutely brilliant and despite some rather deep sombre moments, it offers hope for all.

This one is sung by the muses. As his life is quickly coming to an end he's sitting alone in the silence - not only caused by his deafness, but also from deep in his heart. A life of regret, despite all that he had brought to the world.

FEEL THE DARKNESS SMILING
EVERY NOTE IS DYING
SILENCE IS REFINING
EVERY THOUGHT IN HIS HEART

STILL THE FATES ARE WEAVING
EVERY NOTE THAT'S BLEEDING
AS HE SITS THERE SEETHING
ALL ALONE IN THE DARK
ALONE IN THE DARK
ALONE IN THE ...

BUT IN THE NIGHT
THE DARKNESS BREATHES
IF HE WILLS IT TO BE

BEFORE HIS EYES
THE MUSIC DIES
BUT HE WILL ALWAYS HEAR ME

HE SITS ALONE
THE CARDS ARE SHOWN
AS HE EMBRACES THE DARK

THE ONLY SOUND
THAT HE WILL HEAR
IS THERE IN HIS HEART

SOMEONE IS WHISPERING SOFTLY TO ME
SHADOWS OF THINGS THAT NO ONE CAN SEE
THEY ARE THERE FOR YOU IF YOU WANT THEM TO BE
YOU WANT THEM TO BE
YOU WANT THEM TO....

BUT IN THE NIGHT
THE DARKNESS BREATHES
IF HE WILLS IT TO BE

BEFORE HIS EYES
THE MUSIC DIES
BUT HE WILL ALWAYS HEAR ME

HE SITS ALONE
THE CARDS ARE SHOWN
AS HE EMBRACES THE DARK

THE ONLY SOUND
THAT HE WILL HEAR
IS THERE IN HIS HEART

Silence is magic, but never forget the song in your heart.

Funeral of Tears

This one sounds rather glum, but actually I find it somewhat liberating. As with so many songs it's your own personal interpretation that really gives it meaning.

"Funeral of Tears" by Regicide is another classic. I like the fact that the end can be a new beginning. After all, every beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

This is the funeral of tears
I exile the last sad years
Future's coming over me
But there's not much hope to see

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

Stop the rain...

A fog creeps through my brain
Befuddles without shame
No lights anywhere to see
So this might comes over me

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

Yes, I look up – but where's the sun
It's the beginning of the end
Well, I'm asleep – defy my life
I look inside and I'm misleaded

Without further ado this feeling surrounds you

But it's as small as pebble running down a wall
What a cliff is this I must jump onto
What a misery I am going through

So just look up – up to the sun
The end can be a new beginning
So just wake up – don't defy your life
Look out, don't be misleaded

I'm having a funeral for all of these tears. The end... is just another beginning.

Edge of Thorns

Okay, so I'll eventually work my way through every Savatage song in time but this is yet another brilliant track. This time it's a keyboard intro (I am a sucker for anything on keys) and the gradual build up over the track is amazing.

"Edge of Thorns", the last album that Cris Oliva ever worked on. An absolute masterpiece if you ask me, but I am biased.

I guess it's time to get over it. Move on... stop offering the time.

An offering of reasons
We put them all away
A covering of treasons
That one by one we let slip away

A solitary dancer
So lost upon her stage

I have seen you on the edge of dawn
Felt you there before you were born
Balanced your dreams upon the edge of thorns
But I don't think about you anymore

A study made of winter
Of summers long ago
And dreams that use to glitter
Safely now hidden under snow

And so we end this chapter
And let the stage lights fade

I have seen you on the edge of dawn
Felt you there before you were born
Balanced your dreams upon the edge of thorns
But I don't think about you anymore

Closing a chapter, and I'm not letting the lights fade. I'll be turning out the lights myself.

All That I Bleed

Another classic from the greatest band ever. "All That I Bleed" has been described in part as a "prayer for the release from the pain that each of us eventually goes through".

This is one of the more moving pieces that I've had the pleasure to hear. I'm really a sucker for a piano intro. This one works fantastically as a full rocked track or acoustic piece.

Someone
Got themselves a letter
In the mail the other day
It's already worn and tattered
And I guess
It gives away

All the things we keep inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on it's best disguise
And all is well
Until the heart
Betrays

She knows
As she reads her letter
That things were bound to stray
Winds blow
She pulls her coat tighter
And the letter flies away

With all the things she keeps inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on it's best disguise
And all is well
Until the heart betrays

Lord bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed

Lord bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed

And I'll fly away
Yeah I'll fly away
Yeah I'll fly away
Watch me

Lord bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed, yeah yeah

I bleed

I think I'll keep my disguise on for as long as I can...

Believe

Well, I'm still without any news from Telkom as to my next installation date. So hopefully will be able to post workdays if no other time.

This brings me to easily one of the greatest songs ever penned. Believe by Savatage. This is the climatic end to the Streets album. A turning point, final redemption. To simply be able to save ones self.

So after all these one night stands
You've ended up with heart in hand
A child alone
On your own
Retreating
Regretful for the things you're not
And all dreams you haven't got
Without a home
A heart of stone
Lies bleeding

And for all the roads you followed
And for all you did not find
And for all the things you had to leave behind

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
All I ask of you
Believe
Your childhood eyes were so intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
Grown-up wings
You needed

But when you had to add them up
You found that they were not enough
To get you in
Pay for sins repeated

And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you cried
And for all the fears you had to keep inside

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe

I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I wasted my time
Till time wasted me
Never wanted to go
Always wanted to stay
'Cause the person I am
Are the parts that I play
So I plot and I plan
Hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night
Filled with unfinished dreams
And I'm holding on tight
To a world gone astray
As they charge me for years
I can't pay

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe

Believe

I might not always seem to be around... but I'll be there when I'm needed.