"Rainy Monday" by Shiny Toy Guns

I'll save my other "rain" songs for different days of the week. This is a bit of the view from where I'm housesitting lately. It looks great even when it's raining.

I don't mind
You're someone who ain't mine
But someone that I'll get
And you don't know how
Hard I've tried
To convince myself that I
Can easily forget

[B-section]
But you left this feeling
Here inside me
One that never fails to find me...

[Chorus]
On a rainy Monday
...a feeling inside me
Like the days of summer

On a rainy Monday
..I feel it inside me
In the hopes of one day

I won't lie
I still can't say that I
Admit we went too far
And you won't see me change my mind
But I really wish that I
Could forget the way you are

[B-section 2]
But you left this feeling here inside me
The battle in my mind still fights me

I can see that you're not beside me
But I still feel you shine inside of me

"She's Having a Baby" by Dave Wakeling

Congrats to Kelly & Ethan!

Mixed drinks and mixed emotions
Here at the start of a brand new life
All change,
She's having a baby
As lovers turn into husband and wife

Mixed drinks and mixed emotions
Head in the clouds, put your feet on the ground
All change,
She's having a baby
You're growing up now,
You're settling down, down, down

Will it be a boy or a girl?
And what will it think of the world?

All change,
She's having a baby
All change,
She's having a baby

Mixed drinks and mixed emotions
You feel the beat of a brand new heart
All change,
She's having a baby
It draws you close as it tears you apart

Will it be a boy or a girl?
And what will it think of the world?

All change,
She's having a baby
All change,
She's having a baby

Been dreaming about it so long
And now that the moment has come
The fears of the past are all gone
You know it couldn't be better
I swear by the moon up above
I'm feeling a new kind of love
And I hope that it lasts us forever

Mixed drinks and mixed emotions
In at the start of a brand new life
The older men say you can't be jealous when
You love kids like you miss your wife

What will he start to discern?
There's always something to learn

All change,
She's having a baby
All change,
She's having a baby
All change,
She's having a baby

All change,
She's having a baby
(Having a baby)
All change,
She's having a baby
(Having a baby)

"Springtime" by Spinal Tap

Springtime is on my mind
Flowers blooming, all the time
Smell the roses
Smell the grass
Old man winter can kiss my ass

(Chorus)
Don't you think that it's a pity?
Don't you think that it's a shame?
Don't you wish that
Every season was the same

Time for loving in the park
Wear a jumper when it gets dark
Mind the prickles
Mind the dew
Wash your willie when you're through

(Chorus)

Springtime, enough's enough
Tired of flowers and all that stuff
Want some drizzle.
Want some sleet
Want some wellies on my feet

(Chorus)

"Thousands are Sailing" by the Pogues

What St. Patrick's Day is really about to me. It's for more than the Irish.

The island it is silent now
But the ghosts still haunt the waves
And the torch lights up a famished man
Who fortune could not save

Did you work upon the railroad
Did you rid the streets of crime
Were your dollars from the white house
Were they from the five and dime

Did the old songs taunt or cheer you
And did they still make you cry
Did you count the months and years
Or did your teardrops quickly dry

Ah, no, says he, twas not to be
On a coffin ship I came here
And I never even got so far
That they could change my name

Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
To a land of opportunity
That some of them will never see
Fortune prevailing
Across the western ocean
Their bellies full
Their spirits free
Theyll break the chains of poverty
And theyll dance

In manhattans desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on broadway
Like the first man on the moon

And the blackbird broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in brendan behans footsteps
I danced up and down the street

Then we said goodnight to broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to mister cohen
Dear old times squares favorite bard

Then we raised a glass to jfk
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried

Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards were mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights dont glow on christmas trees
But we dance to the music
And we dance

Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where eer we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
And we dance
(Fades out with flute and drum music)

"The Dawn's Request" by Duncan Sheik

If I crack up and lose my head
try to hide beneath the bed
and leave the television on
so I don't think of what's gone wrong ...

I beg of the dawn

Break through, save me,
rescue me, wake me from the dead
my weary head in your embrace

If I spin out and off the rails
build myself a bed of nails
then take the whole world down with me
to my dimestore tragedy ...

Where will you be?

Break through, heal me
sing to me, kneel beside my bed
my weary head in your embrace

Wake up, sunrise
I may be alone but I'm alive
(and) I will find a way to you

Sunrise, save me this time
you never even had to try
you opened up my eyes

Sunrise, treat me so kind
I was lost ... I was blind
(and) you opened up my eyes

Debut

For a while, my friend Lazz used to post the lyrics of songs he liked with a picture he'd find to match it. I thought it was pretty cool, even if most of it were Metal tunes I didn't dig. When he deleted them, I asked him if I could take his idea, steal it and run with it. He said no sweat, he took the idea from someone else anyway.

I'll see what else I can get from friends on their faves.