Letras de las canciones del álbum “Up and Up”. Da click en la imagen o en este enlace para escuchar el álbum completo.
Up and Up
Oh I go up and up
Just be, on top, on top.
Hey you, come
Be the bop
Be free, say top, stay hot.
Oh oh, no cap or cut.
Be, be the plot.
Oh oh, say say...
Nana-nah, nana-nah
Up and up.
No cap, no plot
Run run amok.
Run run, run amok!
No crap, just up and up.
Oh I am no, no bot, you see.
Go up, stay up!
Damn right, fight
No, no cry, you be.
Get up. Stay, stay up!
*
Shameless writing
Have you noticed man,
When you have no idea
Of what to say in a song, you may just go, “lala-lala”.
You know, like, La, ladala lala
Lala la laah, ah.
You go and do that.
And you got yourself a stanza,
Though it may not make much sense-ah... la-dah la la.
Such a shamless way to use up space, ye!
You got no idea where to go
So you don’t give a damn and start to hum:
Ta-darah, ba-dum dibi rom, dadah, nara na-na.
And then you go and expect folks to learn to sing it.
You really have no shame, wasting up their time.
And when you can’t make a rhyme
You start with those “Dom dibi-doms”:
Dom dibih dom. Dibiri-dum, dum.
Ohh and let’s not even talk
Of all the worthless muck
When you randomly “ohh”
And you wanna get stuck in an “ahh”.
Seriously. Ohh, ohhh,
Can’t come up with nothing, ahhh.
Such shamless
Shameless writing! Ahh.
Ohh. Ohhh every two phrases.
What the blazes, man. Ohhh.
Man, every word with one syllable
It’s downright unlivable.
And to round it all, may
You end things with a “hey!”.
Hey!
Nara na-nah, doobiri-dah.
Nara na-nah, lara dah-dom.
Hey! Don’t you feel you’re a fake?
Oh! Dumping it all in one take.
Ungh! That rhyme really blows.
Oh. Ohhh. Nara-nanah.
Just, anything goes. Hey!
Nara na-nah, doobiri-dah.
Nara na-nah, lara dah-dom.
*
Uh-oh, no cigar
Hey, hey. Land ahoy!
We’re there, now shoo-shoo, run along.
Ow! Take off that thong.
Eek, yuck! Put it back on.
Aaargh! What goes on?
Keep it down. Shhh.
May Day!
Help us, ouch!
Brrr, so cold, so cold, Try to hold.
Whoa, come on you Grinch!
Ick. Now you feel the pinch.
Whoops! Uh-oh, phew!
That was close. Start anew.
Hmmm, huh!
Whoohoo!
Ohh, yippeee, ohhh.
Bam! We did it but oh,
Uh-oh! Uh-oh!
Come on!
A-ha! What’s that?
No game, oh, bah.
No cigar, just bah blah blah.
Tut-tut, twas badly done
Ta-ta, and now I’m gone.
Yea yeah yeah!
You’re found, aha!
You’re done, O la la!
Uh, oh! Uh, oh!
From your high horse, git! Ho-ho! Oh yeah!
Boo-hoo.
Aww, now what?
Pow! Can’t take that?
Ow, ow, ow.
Tsk, tsk, chin up, man up.
Ride don’t have no early stop.
Wow. Oh, Blimey!
No, don’t put it on me.
Heh-heh, heh-heh-heh.
*
Are we dying now?
- Hey man, did you hear Patrick died?
- Well that can't be right.
- I tell you. I'm on the way to the funeral now.
- The hell happened?
Was he valiantly fighting a bear?
(Oh, no)
Did he crash the Jag against a stump?
C’mon at least tell me
parachute didn't work after the jump.
- Nah, man.
He came down with some disease
Four months, he was done.
Died at the hospital with some tubes
Going down his throat.
- What. That's no way to go
That's an old man's death
Well that cant be right. That can't be right.
Gaddammit, how?
It was just last year we got into another fight.
Are we dying now?
- Dude, how old do you think you are?
Its been 40 years
Since we had the garage band.
Gotta take your pills.
- No man I'm not going out like that.
Carpet diem, man
Dust off the old six-string now.
Bring your drums and jam.
Well that cant be right...
- It's carpe, you old fool.
- Carpet?
- Carpe! What a tool.
- See what I mean, never too old
To get something straight
Or to learn something new.
Shut up and jam.
We jam for Patrick.
We don't die today.
We don't, we don't
We don't die today.
*
Tell the story
Feeling buzzy, even sober...
Alright.
You got something to pray to?
Cause I think it's just better to,
To fight away. Alright!
So pick up the ax, yeah. Come on!
Rise, then, up to the task
Tie yourself there to the mast.
No damn storm no siren call
Gonna keep us from the brawl.
Drive on (fightin')
Bring the metal from the fire.
I'm done with noise, just screw that voice
Gonna raise the torch on higher. Come on!
I'm next to you.
I'll fight with you.
(Onward, man we go)
Carry on.
(Onward till we're gone)
Got some wine to last the night.
If you’re just waiting to die
Might as well make merry, right?
Lady Death don’t like no cry. Come on!
I'm next to you...
Fear no furies, fear no furies.
Don’t bow to them, don’t bend the knee.
Fear no jury, you don’t fall here.
You go and tell the story
With scars to prove it.
Take the scars and take the glory!
Now listen to me.
We go on, burning, ablaze in fever.
Once more unto the breach, once more.
No damn chains, no towers that lie in store
Can keep, can keep, can keep us from the road.
I'm next to you...
Fear no furies...
We're gonna show those damn clowns,
Take them down and tell the story.
Hahaha!
*
Nonsense
What is that, you say?
You think all of the lyrics that you're hearing
Are balderdash, you say?
You cannot find a single thread of meaning?
Didn't you just weep
with that tale about Paddy and his buddies?
Surely that was sweet
How they defy old age and seek for glory.
But I will give you:
I don't really know what “No Cigar” is about.
Little weird, it’s true
But it’s got a sweet riff and lots of shouts.
“Up and up”, ok got me there too.
But this here tune’s doing some great rhymes
and counting syllables and all,
And keeping time.
Just a tune to have a ball!
What's that about
You wanna hear about?
Nonsense.
These are songs, rock'n roll songs.
Nonsense!
Start headbanging, this ain't no Hamlet.
Nonsense!
None of that,
No, none of that nonsense.
OK back to my point
“Tell the story” is such a poignant war song.
And there’s wine in there too!
C’mon, got war and wine, it’s pure rock’n roll!
What’s that about...?
Don’t expect no sense.
Nonsense.
It’s rock’n roll.
