Complicated melody, that is what you are to me, scaling major chords in a minor key.
Medicated remedy, like a living pharmacy, will this healing be the death of me?
Convoluted harmony, blackest of the comedies, when it hurts to laugh you cry with me.
Don't warn me, just leave me, don't make it complicated.
Don't want me, just need me, don't be so complicated.
2 > The Spirit of Smoke
It's the spirit of smoke, it'll grab your throat like a tropical dancer.
Like a king in a moat it'll steal your vote, it'll give you cancer.
With an ounce of rhum, you're the string and the strum, you're a brown romancer
'Cause it's the spirit of smoke, it'll make you relax, forget the facts and give up your chances.
Eight million lies in paradise, you can live in style if you've got the green
But if you use the peso "adios amigo" to your plans and chemes, you can never leave.
It's the spirit of smoke, it'll float your boat while the tide is high
But when you reach the shore it'll break your oar, it'll make you cry.
With a splash of coke you're the running joke in the pinko sky
But when you reach the shore it'll break your oar, it'll make you die.
BONUS: From "The Spirit of Smoke." Fidel Castro reading a letter to him from Che Guavara.
ORIGINAL TEXT:
"Fidel: Me recuerdo en esta hora de muchas cosas, de cuando te conocÌ en casa de MarÌa Antonia, de cuando me propusiste venir, de toda la tensiÛn de los preparativos. Un dÌa pasaron preguntando a quiÈn se debÌa avisar en caso de muerte y la posibilidad real del hecho nos golpeÛ a todos. DespuÈs supimos que era cierto, que en una RevoluciÛn se triunfa o se muere (si es verdadera). Otras tierras del mundo reclaman el concurso de mis modestos esfuerzos. Yo puedo hacer lo que te est· negado por tu responsabilidad al frente de Cuba y llegÛ la hora de separarnos. SÈpase que lo hago con una mezcla de alegrÌa y dolor; aquÌ dejo lo m·s puro de mis esperanzas de constructor y lo m·s querido entre mis seres queridos...y dejo un pueblo que me admitiÛ como un hijo... Hasta la victoria siempre. ° Patria o Muerte ! Te abrazo con todo fervor revolucionario. Che"
TRANSLATION:
"Fidel: At this moment I remember many things -- when I met you in Marfa Antonia's house, when you suggested my coming, all the tensions involved in the preparations. One day they asked who should be notified in case of death, and the real possibility of that fact affected us all. Later we knew that it was true, that in revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Seldom has a statesman been more brilliant than you in those days. I am also proud of having followed you without hesitation, identified with your way of thinking and of seeing and appraising dangers and principles. Other nations of the world call for my modest efforts. I can do that which is denied you because of your responsibility as the head of Cuba, and the time has come for us to part. I want it known that I do it with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow: I leave here the purest of my hopes as a builder, and the dearest of those I love. And I leave a people who received me as a son. Ever onward to victory! Our country or death! I embrace you with all my revolutionary fervor. Che"
RESOLVO SAMPLE LYRICS
FIREFLIES
What can you tell me? What did you sell me? Where did the limelight go? Out by the roadway, under the vine sway, under a Spanish breeze, you had the fire, you were a liar sparking into the trees. All you miserable magicians with your disappearing ink, bending over backwards to find out what I think / I'll tell you all my secrets if you buy me one more drink but your lifespan is over in the space of a wink. If you tell yourself a lie and then expect me to believe, you light your words on fire with the deceptions that you weave. Don't make me sign a contract to tell you what I think because your handshake is worthless in the space of a wink. Liar, liar rising higher, Firefly, your word's on fire. Pretty sparks light up the dark and then disappear in the space of a wink.
MAIS J'ACCORDE (JUST BECAUSE)
Hey come on let's have another kiss. We could never really settle this. Hey come on let's have another smile. Settle down and play with me for awhile just because... All the music's playing in our heads. I wish that I could take back what I said. If you really want to end this fight, settle down and play with me for awhile just because... Hey come on let's have a little tryst. You can be the pilot of my ship. What are you, some kind of hypnotist, or are you just a girl that I can't resist? Just because... Now here come the dark clouds rolling into the valley of your eyes. I wish that I could bring back the blue skies. But even when the sun is shining, the storm is never really far away. Laisse les bons temps rouler!
Lyrics from unreleased MELOMANE songs:
MILITARY WIFE
The rejection letters are piling up so I throw them in the trash / I'd like to drink another cup but I just ran out of cash / I guess it's time to go softly now to the mercenary life / Like a military wife / So don't follow me 'cause i lost the road / I'm a broken cello playing the wrong note / I wish I could be living my life / I used to love to share the wealth till they told me it was wrong / The senators just pass the law and the people go along / You gotta fire the missiles, shoot the guns and get ready for the fight / Like a military wife / So don't call on me 'cause i didn't vote / I'm a rusty trumpet blowing smoke / I wish I wasn't such a good liar / So don't lean on me 'cause I got no spine / I'm a fractured piano playing out of time / I wish I could get out of my mind
EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE BORN TOULOUSE
Even though you're born toulouse, I know you're gonna die a winner / try to sleep off all the booze, your mother's coming up for dinner / New century's coming down / Beware of this perverted town / I know you see things clearly and ugliness to you can be divine / I know you know the difference between a waste of paint and a wasted mind / Hanging out with prostitutes and radicals with no religion who know that you're a mental giant trapped inside a gentle midget / Who's up on the stage tonight, a chanteuse or a sodomite? / I know they're out to get you / They'll take away your brushes and your wine / They know you have a secret that's hiding in your crazy poster life / Oui, il fait chaud a Paris / Non, ne t'inquiete pas Henri / Les gendarmes sont au lit, tu peut boire sans soucis / Toutes les putes et les clochards se reveilles dans ton art/tu epates la bourgoisie/C'est pas bientot finis / You're born Toulouse, you die a winner / So sing the blues for happy sinners / Another genius gone forever / The copycats are taking over / tu tu tu tu tu / tu tu tu Toulouse
BONUS CHORD PROGRESSION:
VERSE: F C F C Em F Am G
CHORUS: Dm F C G (x3) Dm F G C
BRIDGE: Am E Am E Bb F Am E (x4) Dm Dm13 Dm7 Dm6
LAST VERSE: Fmaj7 Cmaj7 (x8) F C G G C