JANIS JOPLIN: A WOMAN LEFT LONELY . . .

ALICE IN CHAINS: NUTSHELL . . .

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

JANIS JOPLIN: GET IT WHILE YOU CAN . . .

In this world, if you read the papers, darling, 
You know everybody's fighting with each other. 
You got no one you can count on, dear, 
Not even your own brother. 
So if someone comes along, 
He gonna give you love and affection, 

I'd say get it while you can, yeah, 
Honey, get it while you can, yeah, 
Honey, grab it while you can, 
Don't you turn your back on love, no, no, no. 

When you're loving somebody, baby, 
You're taking a gamble against some sorrow. 
But who knows, baby, 
'Cause we may not be here tomorrow. 
And if anybody comes along, 
He gonna give you love and affection, 

I'd say get it while you can, yeah! 
Honey, grab it when you're gonna need it! 
Yeah hey, hold it while you can, 
Don't you turn your sweet back on love, 
No no no, no no no no no! 

Ah! Once I had me a man, 
But I didn't know enough at the time 
To count my blessings, no no, 
But I wish he could see me crying today, 
'Cause his love don't feel to listen. 
And if anybody comes along, 
He gonna give me love and affection, 
Yeah, hey!, Hey! Yeah! Hey! 

Get it while you can, yeah! 
Honey, get it while you can, yeah! 
Honey, get it while you can, 
Don't you turn your back on love, 
No no no, no no no no. 

Get it while you can, yeah! 
Honey, grab it while you can, yeah! 
I said, hold on to that man, love, 
Hold on to that man whole, 
Yeah, get it, want it, need it, 
Get it, get it, hold it, need it, want it, 
Get it, need it, want it, hold it, 
Get it, squeeze it, love it, touch it, 
Use it, need it, want it, get it, 
Need it, want it, hold it, 

Yeah hey, get it while you can, baby, 
Yeah hey, get it while you can, 
Honey, don't you go and turn your sweet back on love, 

JIMI HENDRIX: "BLUES" (ALBUM, 1996) . . .

TAMMY WYNETTE: STAND BY YOUR MAN . . .

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doin things that you don't understand
But if you love him 
You'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh, be proud of him 
Cause after all he's just a man

Stand by your man 
Give him two arms to cling to 
And something warm to come to 
when nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man
And show the world you love him 
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man

JAMES BROWN: ITS A MANS WORLD . . .

This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't, it wouldn't be nothing
Nothing without a woman or a girl

You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the trains to carry the heavy load
Man makes the electric lights to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water like Noah made the ark

This is a man's, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing
Without a woman, a woman or a girl

Now listen
Man thinks about little bitty baby girls and baby boys
Man makes them happy 'cause man, he makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything, everything he can
You know that man makes money to buy from other man

But this is a man, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl

I said, "He's lost, lost in the world of a man, oh yeah"
And he's lost, lost in bitterness
This is a man, this is a man's world, oh yeah
This is a man's world

This is a man, man, a man's world
Oh, but it would be nothing without a woman or girl
I said it would be, it would be nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
Without a woman, nothing without a woman or a girl

This is a man's world, this is a man's, this is a man's world
I know, you know it this is a man`s world

This is a man's, a man's world
But it would be nothing, nothing without a woman or girl
Without a woman or girl
This is, this is, this is a man, a man's world

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JOE WALSH: BARNSTORM (1972) . . .

JACK WHITE: DEAD LEAVES AND DIRTY GROUND . . .

dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound
when I hear your lips make a sound

thirty notes in the mailbox
will tell ya that I'm coming home
and I think I'm gonna stick around
for a while so you're not alone
for a while so you're not alone

if you can hear a piano fall 
you can hear me coming down the hall
if I can just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all
don't think I need to see at all

soft hair and a velvet tongue
I wanna give ya what you give to me
and every breath that is in your lungs
is a tiny little gift to me
is a tiny little gift to me

I didn't feel so bad 'til the sun went down
then I come home
no one to wrap my arms around
wrap my arms around

well any man with a microphone 
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love at all 
if you're thinking of the holy ghost
if you're thinking of the holy ghost 

FOO FIGHTERS: TIMES LIKE THESE

I am a one way motorway
I'm the road that drives away
then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I'm a white light blinding bright
burning off and on

it's times like these you learn to live again
it's times like these you give and give again
it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I'm a brand new sky
to hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
do I stay or run away
and leave it all behind?

it's times like these you learn to live again
it's times like these you give and give again
it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these time and time again

PEARL JAM: BLACK (unplugged) . . .

Hey... oooh...

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I'm spinning, oh,
I'm spinning, how quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...

Uh huh... uh huh... ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?

Aah... uuh..

Too doo doo too, too doo doo [many times until fade]

BOB DYLAN: COLD IRONS BOUND

I'm beginnin' to hear voices and there's no one around
I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
I went to church on Sunday as she passed by
And my love for her has taken such a long time to die
Well, I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like, I don't exist
I'm twenty miles out of town, Cold Irons bound.

Well, the walls of pride are high and wide
Can't see over to the other side
It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay
It's sadder still to feel your heart turn away
One look at you and I'm out of control
Like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.

There's too many people, too many to recall
I thought some of 'em were friends of mine, I was wrong about 'em all
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside mud
Up over my head, nothing but clouds of blood
I found my world, found my world in you
But your love just hasn't proved true
I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound
Twenty miles out of town, Cold Irons bound.

Well the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
Reality has always had too many heads
Some things last longer than you think they will
Some kind of things you can never kill
Though it's you, and you only, I'm singin' about
But you can't see in and it's hard looking out
I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.

Well, the fat's in the fire and the water's in the tank
Well, the whiskey's in the jar and the money's in the bank
I tried to love and protect you because I care
I'm gonna remember forever the joy we've shared
Looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
You've no idea what you did to me
I'm twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound
Twenty miles out of town and Cold Irons bound.