"Eli" ARTHUR RUSSELL

Film of Arthur Russell performing two songs 'You Did It Yourself' and 'Eli' from 'Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell'



Eli, Eli, Eli.
Eli, Eli, Eli.
A simple dog, with ears and nose,
Eli, Eli, Eli.
I don't why nobody likes him,
there's some people trying to put him away.
When he comes up to them,
they always say 'go away, go away, please take him home'.
Make him stay.

Eli, Eli, Eli.
Eli, Eli, Eli.
Several times I've tried to tell him
'Please don't make them say that',
but he won't listen to me.
Sometimes I pray that there could be more between us,
but some people never are satisfied.
Eli, Eli, Eli.
Eli, Eli, Eli

"Close My Eyes" ARTHUR RUSSELL

Liz Rizza's 2nd half report on Arthur Russell "LostSuperstar".

Close my eyes (1973) 

I close my eyes and listen
To hear the corn come out
Don't you hear the stars they glisten
As we go in and out

Down where the trees grow together
And the western path comes to an end
See the sign it says clear weather
I'll meet you tonight, my friend

Will the corn be growing a little tonight
As I wait in the fields for you?
Who knows what grows in the morning light
When we can feel the watery dew?

I just can't be there with no other
I know those hills will be true
Away from my sister and brother
Down through the grasses so new

The air is sweet and steady
And flowers bloom out of sight
I know the sky is ready
Come meet me down here tonight

Will the corn be growing a little tonight
As I wait in the fields for you?
Who knows what grows in the morning light
As we can feel the watery dew?

"This Is How We Walk On The Moon" ARTHUR RUSSELL

Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success in dance music, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his lifetime, a series of reissues and compilations have raised his profile in the 2000s.

Each step is moving, it's moving me up
Moving, it's moving me up
Every step is moving me up

Moving me up, moving, moving me up
Every step is
Moving me up
Each step is moving me up
Moving me up

One tiny, tiny,
Tiny move
It's all I need
And I jump over
Every step is moving me up

 Moving me up, moving, moving me up
Every step is
Moving me up
Each step is moving me up
Moving me up
This is how we walk on the moon
This is how we walk on the moon

Every step is moving me up
I'm so far away
One moment there
Moving me up

Every step is moving me up
One moment there
One tiny, tiny move
It's all I need and I jump over

"Too Much Heaven" BEE GEES

Nobody gets too much heaven no more
It's much harder to come by
I'm waiting in line
Nobody gets too much love anymore
It's as high as a mountain
And harder to climb

Oh, you and me girl
Got a lot of love in store
And it flows through you
And it flows through me
And I love you so much more

Then my life I can see beyond forever
Everything we are will never die
Love is such a beautiful thing
Oh, you make my world a summer day
Are you just a dream to fade away?

Nobody gets too much heaven no more
It's much harder to come by
I'm waiting in line
Nobody gets too much love anymore
It's as high as a mountain
And harder to climb

Oh, you and me girl
Got a highway to the sky
We can turn away
From the night and day
And the tears we had to pay
You're my life

I can see a new tomorrow
Everything we are will never die
Love is such a beautiful thing
When you are to me the light above
Made for all to see our precious love

Nobody gets too much heaven no more
It's much harder to come by
I'm waiting in line
Nobody gets too much love anymore
It's as high as a mountain
And harder to climb

Love is such a beautiful thing
You make my world a summer day
Are you just a dream to fade away?

Nobody gets too much heaven no more
It's much harder to come by
I'm waiting in line
Nobody gets too much love anymore
It's as high as a mountain
And harder to climb

Nobody gets too much love anymore
It's as wide as a river and harder to cross

"How Deep Is Your love" BEE GEES

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love

How deep is your love, how deep is your love
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour
You're my savior when I fall

And you may not think I care for you
When you know down inside that I really do
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love

How deep is your love, how deep is your love
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love

How deep is your love, how deep is your love
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

"Fragile" STING and STEVIE WONDER

FELICIDADES queridísimo hermano...!!!

Sting with Stevie Wonder - "Fragile" (From Sting's 60th birthday celebration, 10/1/11 at the Beacon Theater in NYC) Sting and Stevie Wonder with Dominic Miller (gtr), David Sancious (kbs), Christian McBride (bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (dms) and Rhani Krija (perc)



If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's arguments
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
How fragile we are, how fragile we are

"Last dance" DONNA SUMMER

Donna Summer singing Last Dance live at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway. 11 Dec 2009. The Associated Press reported that Summer died on the morning of May 17, 2012 at her home in Key West, Florida at the age of 63. She had been diagnosed with cancer.



Last dance
Last dance for love
Yes, it's my last chance
For romance tonight
I need you by me
Beside me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad

So let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance
Let's dance this last dance tonight

Last dance
Last dance for love
Yes, it's my last chance
For romance tonight
Oh-ho, I need you by me
Beside me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad I'm so, so bad

So let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance tonight

Oh-ho, I need you by me
To guide me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad

So, come on baby, dance that dance
Come on baby, dance that dance
Come on baby, let's dance tonight.

"Nothing's Real But Love" REBECCA FERGUSON

Standing in a line
Wonder why it don't move
Tryna get a hand
Watching people break the rules
Maybe the man in charge doesn't like my face

But then this world's not always good 
And nothing's real but love
Nothing's real but love
No money, no house, no car, can beat love...
 
They watch us open mouthed
As we joke around like fools
See who can be the worst
Watch what I can do

But then the door gets slammed, slammed right in my face
And I guess this world's not always good
And nothing's real but love
Nothing's real but love
No house, no car, no job, can beat love...

It won't fill you up
No money, no house, no car, is like love...
La la la la la la
Yeaaah

I put it all away
Holding it down for a rainy day
But wouldn't that day will come
I need love

No money, no house, no car, is like love...
It don't fill you up
It won't build you up
It won't fill you up
It's not love!

And nothing's real without love
No money, no house, no car, is like love...
Nothing's real but love
No money, no house, no car, is like love....

"I Think I Need A New Heart" THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

 Time stands still
All I can feel is the time standing still
As you put down the keys
And say "don't call me, please"
While the radio plays
"I Think I Need a New Heart", ohhh
"I Think I Need a New Heart", ohhh

You've lied too
But it's a sin that I
Can't tell the truth
Cause it all comes out wrong
Unless I put it in a song
So the radio plays
"I Think I Need a New Heart"
Just for you
"I Think I Need a New Heart"

Cause I always say "I love you"
When I mean "turn out the light"
And I say "let's run away"
when I just mean "stay the night"
But the words you want to hear
You will never hear from me
I'll never say "happy anniversary"
Never stay to say "happy anniversary"

So I think I need a new heart, ohhh
I think I need a new heart, ohhh
I think I need a new heart, ohhh
I think I need a new heart, ohhh
Give me time

"Smoke on the water" Deep Purple & friends

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky


They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky


We ended up at the grand hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the rolling truck stones
thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know we’ll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

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