Spoken Word
Charles Bukowski: Crapy life
Music
Fat Boy Slim: Because We Can (Moulin Rouge)
Black Eyed Peas: Pump It
OutKast: Hey Ya!
Deee-Lite: Bittersweet Loving
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: Men In Black
Sonny & Cher: The Beats Goes On
Depeche Mode: Enjoy The Silence
Diana Ross: Touch Me in the Morning
The Blackbyrds: Walking In Rhythm
The Cure: Lullaby
Gorillaz: Don’t Get Lost In Heaven
Prince: Slow Love
Hot Chip: Candy Says
Narrative
Because we can, can, can – Yes we can, can, can, can
[Fat Boy Slim]
Turn up the radio – Blast your stereo
[Black Eyed Peas]
You think you’ve got it – But got it just don’t get it when there’s nothing at all – We get together – Nothing lasts forever!
[OutKast]
You can’t stop me – From walking out the door – I’ve never felt so free before
We’ll put the bad times behind us – Put some sugar and stir it up – I know we’re going to make it better
I’ll say it out loud, standing proud – Free to browse on my own
[Deee-Lite]
The good guys dress in black, remember that – Just in case we ever face to face and make contact
The title held by me, MiB – Means what you think you saw, you did not see
So don’t blink be what was there is now gone – Black suit with the black Ray-Bans on
Walk in shadow, move in silence – Guard against extra-terrestrial violence
But we ain’t on no government list – We straight don’t exist, no names and no fingerprints – Saw something strange, watch your back
From the deepest of the darkest of night – On the horizon bright light enters sight, tight – Vivid memories turn to fantasies
[DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince]
The beat goes on – Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
The grocery store’s the super mart – Little girls still break their hearts
And men still keep on marching off to war – Electrically they keep a baseball score
Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce – Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
[Sonny & Cher]
Words like violence – Break the silence
Come crashing in – Into my little world – Painful to me – Pierce right through me – Can’t you understand?
Words are very unnecessary – They can only do harm – Vows are spoken – To be broken
Feelings are intense – Words are trivial – Pleasures remain – So does the pain – Words are meaningless – And forgettable
[Depeche Mode]
Wasn’t it me who said that Nothing good’s going to last forever? – And wasn’t it me who said, Let’s just be glad for the time together?
It must’ve been hard to tell me – That you’ve given all you had to give – I can understand you’re feeling that way
Everybody’s got their life to live – I can say goodbye in the cold morning light
But I can’t watch love die in the warmth of the night – Then just close the door – Leave me as you found me, empty like before
[Diana Ross]
Walking in rhythm – Moving in sound – Humming to the music
Trying to move on – I’m walking in rhythm – Singing my song – Trying to get home
I’m tired and so all alone – I’ve traveled so very far – I’ve got to get back home
[The Blackbyrds]
On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes – Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead – Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom – And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
There is nothing I can do when I realise with fright – That the Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head – Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies – His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy – Don’t struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it’s much too late to get away or turn on the light – The Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight
I feel like I’m being eaten – By a thousand million shivering furry holes
I know that in the morning – I will wake up in the shivering cold – the Spiderman is always hungry
[The Cure]
Got off a plane to the countryside – I drove to the mountain and holding the ground
There was crack on the corner and someone dead – And fire coming out of the monkey’s head
Don’t get lost in heaven – They got locks on the gate – Don’t go over the edge – You’ll make a big mistake
Put me in a cab to suburbia – I just took a line but I wasn’t with you
There was more of it there, when I got back home – But you had left me, you don’t know my soul
You’re a whole bad mistake
[Gorillaz]
Young is the night – It feels so right – The gentle breeze – It blows with ease
Let’s make it slow – Just like the wind blows
[Prince]
Candy says I’ve come to hate my body – And all that it requires in this world
Candy says I’d like to know completely – What others so discretely talk about
I’m gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder – I’m gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I’m older – What do you think I’d see
If I could walk away from me – Candy says I hate the quiet places
That cause the smallest taste of what will be – Candy says I hate the big decisions
That cause endless revisions in my mind – I’m gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I’m gonna watch them pass me by – Maybe when I’m older
What do you think I’d see – If I could walk away from me
[Hot Chip]
Every night at midnight and a new episode is aired every Friday midnight on Wirral Wave radio or AirTime. Later on SoundCloud for some time.
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