 I Ought To Give You... (1999) [ larger cover art ] |
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There's a nail in the door
And there's glass on the lawn
Tacks on the floor
And the TV is on
And I always sleep with my guns
When you're gone
There's a blade by the bed
And a phone in my hand
A dog on the floor
And some cash on the nightstand
When I'm all alone the dreaming stops
And I just can't stand
What should I do I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door he followed me home
Now goodnight moon
I want the sun
If it's not here soon
I might be done
No it won't be too soon 'til I say
Goodnight moon
There's a shark in the pool
And a witch in the tree
A crazy old neighbour and he's been watching me
And there's footsteps loud and strong coming down the hall
Something's under the bed
Now it's out in the hedge
There's a big black crow sitting on my window ledge
And I hear something scratching through the wall
Oh what should I do I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
I just hate to be all alone
Outside the door he followed me home
Now goodnight moon
I want the sun
If it's not here soon
I might be done
No it won't be too soon 'til I say
Goodnight moon
While you're up so high
How can you save me
When the dark comes here
Tonight to take me up
To my front walk
And into bed where it kisses my face
And eats my head
What should I do I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door he followed me home
Now goodnight moon
I want the sun
If it's not here soon
I might be done
No it won't be too soon 'til I say
Goodnight moon
No it won't be too soon 'til I say
Goodnight moon
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 21:08 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: Cool song wich is also caused by Quinten Tarentino. Err, would that be a visual sandwich (or a woman in the coven having a yodel? = songwitch) caused by watching Tarantino movies? |
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 21:04 drreuss wrote: great song but Leonard Cohen much ? Sure. It's good the influences are transparent. Paying your respects to someone who led the way in the genre is fine by me. |
| klancaster | Posted: Apr 20, 2013 - 11:46  |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Apr 20, 2013 - 11:44  |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Apr 13, 2013 - 13:19  |
| drreuss | Posted: Feb 06, 2013 - 19:00 great song but Leonard Cohen much ? |
| tkosh (Minnesota) | Posted: Feb 06, 2013 - 18:58 No correlation, but a sweet memory of reading the children's book by the same name a couple thousand times to my little boy (when he was little!)... |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 06:06 Cool song wich is also caused by Quinten Tarentino. |
| Nadine | Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 06:05 nevar23 wrote: Sounds like Britney Spears, <..> yes... |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 06:59 I really like this half chilling and bouncy nature of this tune. Cool balance if you ask me. If you don't?...it's still cool dammit. |
| WhiteWater (right where you are sitting now) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 06:57 A hint of Dolly Parton's voice in there... |
| distributist (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 06:04 Apparently it's quite an old practise, and not always associated with weddings. There was a story in my family about an ancestor being killed in a shivaree. One of our relatives doing research actually tracked down the actual event and found the newspaper articles about it in the Montreal Gazette (and it differed greatly from the version that had been told to me). Apparently a crowd had gathered a couple of nights running (they even put up posters to spread the word) to try to extort money from a wealthy member of the community. In one of these a shot was fired and my ancestor, a servant in the man's household, was killed. He left a wife and children, and his death led to the banning of shivarees in Montreal. Businessgypsy wrote: I don't know if the custom is still being practiced in the US, but it was in my parent's day in remote parts of the Arkansas Ozark mountains. Could get way out of hand, to the point of fights and bloodshed. Sigh. Yes, I'm a hillbilly by birth. Raised with Cajuns, but hillbilly stock. Glad we just have bachelor parties before the ceremony now. |
| cShaggy (..in the general vicinity..) | Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 08:27 Cynaera wrote: This is a rather dark and chilling song... I can't even fathom this kind of paranoia, much less live with it every day of my life. And there are people out there who do live with it every day. My heart goes out to them... "Goodnight Moon" There's a nail in the door There's a blade by the bed What should I do I'm just a little baby Well goodnight moon There's a shark in the pool Oh what should I do I'm just a little baby Well you're up so high Oh what should I do I'm just a little baby ..lyrics are "south of neanderthal" too?.. :P |
| joelbb | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 16:23 I might like this song if I hadn't read that book to my kids about a gazillion times. |
| joempie (Switzerland) | Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 00:22 Her voice sounds quite a bit like Marcella Detroit / Shakespear's Sister. Pretty good song, nice sound... 8. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 16:26  |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Aug 20, 2012 - 04:42 Fun to hear this song, which evidently has had regular RP rotation, so long after its release. Very nice song. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 12:51 I love this song!! |
| alexg1 | Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 02:26 This one has gone 7->8->9 for me during the last month. Something in the creepiness of this song just gets me |
| jnesser | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 10:55 nevar23 wrote: Sounds like Britney Spears, but with more substance, maybe. Combo of Britney & Gwen Stefani. Bluk... |
| ginger (Connecticut) | Posted: May 17, 2012 - 10:19 I like it, but it's either on heavy rotation right now, or I just happened to have caught it several times in the last few days. I've heard it enough for now. Thanks Bill! |
| whomhow (changeable) | Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 04:16 this riff does the whole song |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 12:20 I swear she's channeling Dolly Parton ... |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 12:19 I really like this song..... Very nice!! |
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 18:37 ...on a full moon too - easy 8 |
| Cynaera (In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 18:26 Well, it's now October of 2011, and this song still gives me chills. It'd be a great background song for a Halloween party, because it's so creepy. I love it, though - listening to it is like watching a horror movie from behind one's hands, but spreading the fingers just a little to see the skeery parts... |
| weevilkinevil (close to Paradise) | Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 10:18 Sjaaks wrote: I was about to post the same thing.... HAHA Yep, same here. |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 10:17 in the great green room.... |
| Gregoria | Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 17:21 cayenne wrote: "Linkify" What a marvelous, worthless verbification. I can't wait to loopify my friends about this. Thanks! |
| Mugro (My body is in Dubai, my heart is in Red Sox Nation) | Posted: Jun 18, 2011 - 01:13 weirsh wrote:   |
| Dave_Mack (Still Hangin' in the Twilight Zone) | Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 09:23 Personally, I prefer "Goodnight Gorilla". Actually, I do like this song. |
| acolt (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 09:23 Bear1492 wrote: There's just something about the way she sings this... sends chills up my spine every time. That and the fact that it was in Kill Bill. Both this song and that movie make me happy. |
| djengs | Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 10:12 She sounds like Kelli Dayton, briefly with the Sneaker Pimps (remember "6 Underground"). Wikipedia says not the same singer, so it must be true... |
| Bear1492 (West of Boston, East of St. Louis, usually.) | Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 10:03 There's just something about the way she sings this... sends chills up my spine every time. |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 07:54 Lovely... haven't heard this is way too long!  |
| titanium667 (Oakmont, PA USA) | Posted: Dec 29, 2010 - 08:38 Saw them live on this tour in '99, sounded great! |
| nevar23 (Georgia) | Posted: Dec 24, 2010 - 16:43 Sounds like Britney Spears, but with more substance, maybe. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Nov 27, 2010 - 16:17 Giselle62 wrote: I was just looking up what Shivaree meant; it said a rowdy salutation, etc. given to a newly married couple by a group of people. I like this song after hearing it several times —-it sounded really good after Joy of Cooking. (Both songs with moon in the title.) I don't know if the custom is still being practiced in the US, but it was in my parent's day in remote parts of the Arkansas Ozark mountains. Could get way out of hand, to the point of fights and bloodshed. Sigh. Yes, I'm a hillbilly by birth. Raised with Cajuns, but hillbilly stock.Glad we just have bachelor parties before the ceremony now. |
| Randomax (Wimberley, TX) | Posted: Oct 22, 2010 - 07:37 I want to hate this....cuz I really don't like her voice but there's something catching about it! |
| figi (Lexington, KY) | Posted: Sep 09, 2010 - 12:41 I wish I had her voice!!!!! |
| Rp10v3r (Gainesville, FL) | Posted: Aug 24, 2010 - 07:29 Thanks Bill. I love Shivaree. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 14:36 Cynaera wrote: This is a rather dark and chilling song... I can't even fathom this kind of paranoia, much less live with it every day of my life. And there are people out there who do live with it every day. My heart goes out to them... That's a very sweet and sincere response but I don't think the song is that serious. I've always assumed that the self-consciously "spooky" arrangement was a tip that the tone was more gothic cartoonish - like Tim Burton & Henry Sellick's "Nightmare Before Christmas". |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 14:05 This is a rather dark and chilling song... I can't even fathom this kind of paranoia, much less live with it every day of my life. And there are people out there who do live with it every day. My heart goes out to them... "Goodnight Moon" There's a nail in the door There's a blade by the bed What should I do I'm just a little baby Well goodnight moon There's a shark in the pool Oh what should I do I'm just a little baby Well you're up so high Oh what should I do I'm just a little baby |
| cayenne (in over my head) | Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 14:01 apd wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37KzlUEPA I was just coming here to post that! Here, I'll linkify it for ya: Goodnight moon, as read by... |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 13:59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37KzlUEPA |
| htowncoog (Texas) | Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 13:58 Oh...just a bit sexy.  |
| Bear1492 (West of Boston, East of St. Louis, usually.) | Posted: Jul 23, 2010 - 08:20 Bill, you're outdoing yourself today. This playlist just simply rocks! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Jun 21, 2010 - 11:26 Sounds like Betty !   #5 |
| gratefulgator (San Francisco CA) | Posted: May 20, 2010 - 16:04 We have the book in both English & Spanish for our son - love it too. rkr wrote: Always the last book of the night.... has been for all three of my kiddos copymonkey wrote: nice. My daughters favorite. daveesh wrote: In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of— a cow jumping over the moon and there were three little bears, sitting on chairs and two little kittens and a pair of mittens and a little toy house and a young mouse and a comb and a brush and bowl full of mush and a quiet old lady who was whispering "hush" goodnight room goodnight moon goodnight cow jumping over the moon goodnight light and the red balloon goodnight bears goodnight chairs goodnight kittens goodnight mittens goodnight clocks and goodnight socks goodnight little house and goodnight mouse goodnight comb and goodnight brush goodnight nobody goodnight mush and goodnight to the old lady whispering "hush" goodnight stars, goodnight air goodnight noises everywhere. |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: May 20, 2010 - 16:01 Included on my recent Lovely Moonchild mixtape CD issued to certain RP podniks. |