Соло-John
Тексты песен сольных альбомов Джона Леннона
WONSAPONATIME
(selections from Lennon Anthology)
I'M LOSING YOU (3:56)
WORKING CLASS HERO (3:59)
GOD (3:16)
HOW DO YOU SLEEP? (5:01)
IMAGINE (take 1) (3:06)
BABY PLEASE DON'T GO (4:06)
OH MY LOVE (2:44)
GOD SAVE OZ (3:23)
I FOUND OUT (3:49)
WOMAN IS THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD (live) (5:17)
"A KISS IS JUST A KISS" (AS TIME GOES BY) (0:12)
BE-BOP-A-LULA (2:41)
RIP IT UP / READY TEDDY (2:27)
WHAT YOU GOT (1:15)
NOBODY LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT (5:04)
I DON'T WANNA FACE IT (3:33)
REAL LOVE (4:08)
ONLY YOU (3:25)
GROW OLD WITH ME (3:19)
SEAN'S "IN THE SKY" (1:26)
SERVE YOURSELF (3:49)
Note: this disc is a single CD collection of songs selected from the John Lennon Anthology (4 CD Boxed Set).
You say you're not getting enough,
But I remind you of all that bad stuff,
So what the hell am I supposed to do?
Just put a band-aid on it?
And stop the bleeding now,
Stop the bleeding now.
Uh-huh!
I know I hurt you then,
But hell that was way back when,
And well, do you still have to carry that cross?
Don't wanna hear about it.
I'm losing you, I'm losing you.
WORKING CLASS HERO
By John Lennon
"Ah, she's gone to do it?"
"Let's go again"
"What is it?"
"I just wanted to do an..."
"Okay, I'll try it, okey?"
As soon as you're born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all.
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all.
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
Till you're so fucking crazy, you can't follow their rules.
When they tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career.
When you can't really function, you're so full of fear.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
You think you're so clever and classless and free.
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile when you kill.
If you want to be like the folks on the hill.
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me,
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me.
"How is the sound?"
GOD
By John Lennon
Ok!
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
I'll say it again.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain,
Yes, we do.
I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in i-ching,
I don't believe in Bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Hitler,
I don't believe in Jesus,
I don't believe in Kennedys,
I don't believe in Buddah,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Elvis,
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles.
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me.
And that's reality.
The dream is over,
What can I say?
The dream is over,
Yesterday.
I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn.
I was the walrus, but now I'm John.
And so, dear friends,
You just have to carry on,
The dream is over.
"Hey, it's incredibly strange in the end"
HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
By John Lennon
"Stop! Okey. One... Ready? One, two, one, two, three, four. No, no, we're going right in this time"
"Six!"
"One, two, one, two, three, four"
So sergeant Pepper took you by surprise,
You better see right thru that mother's eyes.
So dicks was right when they said you was dead,
Your one mistake you made was in your head.
Tell me, how do you sleep?
Tell me, how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king,
Jump when your mama tell you anything.
The only thing you done was "Yesterday",
And since you're gone you've just "Another Day".
Tell me, how do you sleep at night?
Tell me, babe, how do you sleep at night?
You was king...
Oh, how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two,
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do.
A sound you make is muzak to my ears,
You must have learned something in all those years.
Oh, how do you sleep, brother?
Oh, tell me, how do you sleep at night?
Hit it!
Jump when your mama tell you anything...
IMAGINE (Take one)
By John Lennon
"Can you be very quiet in the kitchen, please, thank you"
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try.
No hell below us,
Above us only sky.
Imagine all the people
Sharing for today, ah-ha-ah.
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for
No religion too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace, you-oo.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can.
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world, you-oo.
BABY PLEASE DON'T GO
By Walter Ward
You know I love you, baby, please don't go, well, well.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go.
Oh, you know I love you, honey child,
There's nothing that I wouldn't do for you right now.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go, well, well.
You know I need you, honey, please don't go, well, well.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go.
And you know I love you, honey child,
There's nothing that I wouldn't do for you right now.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go.
You know I want you, honey, please don't go, well.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go,
You know I love you, honey child,
There's nothing that I wouldn't do for you right now.
You know I love you, baby, please don't go, well.
Honey!
Well,
Well, you know I want you, honey, please don't go,
You know I want you, honey, please don't go,
You know I want you, honey child,
There's nothing that I wouldn't do for you right now.
I know I want you, honey, please don't go.
Oh, my love, for the first time in my life,
My eyes are wide open.
Oh, my lover, for the first time in my life,
My eyes can see.
I see the wind, oh, I see the trees,
Ev'rything is clear in my heart.
I see the clouds, oh, I see the sky,
Ev'rything is clear in our world.
Oh, my lover, for the first time in my life,
My mind is wide open.
Oh, my love, for the first time in my life,
My mind can feel.
I feel sorrow, oh, I feel dreams,
Ev'rything is clear in my heart.
I feel life, oh, I feel love,
Ev'rything is clear in our world.
GOD SAVE US
By John Lennon and Yoko Ono
"Okey, it goes to D and then A7 at the end now. So just remember the street feeds sea Queens, ok? Shall we go then? One, okey, you're ready? One, two, three, four"
Oh, god save us one and all,
Oh, god save us from defeat,
Oh, god save us from the war.
Oh, god save us on the street.
Yeah, let's fight for people rights,
Let us fight for freedom.
Let us fight for Mickey Mouse
Let us fight for freedom.
Let us fight for children's right
Let us fight for freedom.
Let us fight for Rupert Bear,
Let us fight for freedom.
Oh, god save us from defeat,
Oh, god save us from the sea,
Oh, god save us from the Queen,
"Hey, that sounded alright!"
I FOUND OUT
By John Lennon
I told you before stay away from my door,
Don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother.
The kids on the phone won't leave me alone,
Don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother.
No!
I found out,
I found out.
Now that I showed you what I been through,
Don't take nobody's word what you can do.
There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky,
Now that I found out, I know I can cry.
Some of you sittin' there with your axe in your hand,
Don't get you nowhere, don't make you a man.
I heard something 'bout your ma and pa,
They didn't want you, so they made you a star.
Yeah!
Old hare Krishna got nothing on you,
Just drive you crazy with nothing to do.
Just keep you occupied with pie in the sky,
There ain't no guru who can see through your eyes.
I found this out,
I found out.
Now that I've found out 'bout dope and cocaine
Don't even wanted to see Mary Jane.
I've seen junkies, I've seen through them all,
I've seen religion from Jesus to Paul.
I found out,
I found out,
Yes! Yeah!
Well, I found out.
WOMAN IS THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD (live)
By John Lennon and Yoko Ono
One, two, three, four!
Woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes, she is, think about it.
Woman is the nigger of the world,
Think about it, do something about it.
We make her paint her face and dance,
If she won't be a slave we say that she don't love us.
If she's real, we say she's tryin' to be a man,
While puttin' her down we pretend that she's above us.
You know, woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes, if you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with.
Woman is the slave to the slaves,
Ah yeah, if you believe me, scream about it!
Oh!
We make her bear and raise our children,
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen.
We tell her home is the only place that she should be,
Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend.
Well now, woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes, she is,
If you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with.
Woman is the slave to the slave,
Ooh-yeah, if you believe me you'd better scream!
Take it!
We insult her ev'ry day on TV,
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence.
When she's young, we kill her will to be free,
This is the one I can never remember, but you'll get the message any way!
You know that woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes, she is,
If you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with.
Woman is the slave to the slaves,
Yeah, Connoly was right, wee scream it!
Watch out!
We make her paint her face and dance,
We make her paint her face and dance,
We make her paint her face and dance,
You know, we make her paint her face and dance,
Dance, dance, dance,
We make her paint her face and dance.
We make her paint her face and dance.
"A KISS IS JUST A KISS"
By Herman Hupfield
You must remember this,
A kiss is just a kiss
A fly is just a fly
Right, and we're together
A rose is a rose.
BE-BOP-A-LULA
By Gene Vincent and Tex Davis
"OK!"
"This is Take 2?"
"Alright, ok"
"Do you like the beat?"
"Yes, it's nice"
"Ok, ok"
A one, two, three, four!
Well, be bop a lula, she's my baby,
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe.
Be bop a lula, she's my baby,
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe.
Be bop a lula, she's my baby love, my baby love, my baby love.
Well, she's the girl in the red blue jeans,
She's the queen over all the teens,
She's the one woman that I know,
She's the one that loves me so.
Say, be bop a lula, she's my baby,
Be bop a lula, I don't mean maybe.
Be bop a lula, she's my baby love, my baby love, my baby.
Let's rock!
Well, she's the woman that's got that beat,
She's the woman with the flying feet,
She's the woman walks around the store, hah-hah
She's the one me yell for more, more, more, more.
Let's rock again!
"Oh, it's hot in here!"
RIP IT UP / READY TEDDY (MEDLEY)
By Robert Blackwell and John Marascalco
A one... a one, two, a one, two, three!
Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid,
Fool about my money, don't try to save.
My heart says, "Go! Go! Have a time!"
'Cause it's Saturday night and, baby, I feelin' fine.
I'm gonna rip it up,
Gonna rock it up,
Gonna shake it up,
Gonna ball it up,
Gonna rock it up,
And ball the night.
Got me a date and I won't be late,
Picked her up in my eighty-eight.
Shag on down to the union hall,
When the joint starts jumpin', I'll have a ball.
Gonna rock it up,
Gonna rip it up,
Gonna shake it up,
Gonna roll it up,
Gonna rock it up,
And ball the night.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, ready, set, go man, go,
I got a girl that I love so.
And I'm ready, ready, ready, Ted,
I'm ready, ready, ready, Ted,
I'm ready, ready, ready, Ted,
I'm ready, ready, Ted to rock and roll.
Goin' to the corner, pick up my sweetie pie,
She's a rock and roll baby, she's the apple of my eye.
Now, the flat-top cats and the dungaree dolls
Headed for the gym to the sock hop ball
The joint's really jumpin', the cats are goin' wild
The music really send me, I dig that crazy style.
Yeah!
Gonna kick off my shoes, roll up my faded jeans,
Got a rock'n'roll babe, come on and see
I shuffle to the left, I'm shuffle to the right,
Gonna rock'n'roll 'to the early, early night.
"Yes?"
WHAT YOU GOT
By John Lennon
You don't know what you got until you lose it,
You don't know what you got until you lose it,
You don't know what you got until you lose it,
Baby, baby, baby, give me one more chance.
You gave me the world, I throw it away,
... don't come ev'ry day.
Baby, baby, baby, give me one more chance.
Well, you gave me the world, but I throw it away,
... don't come ev'ry day.
So, baby, baby, baby, give me one more chance.
Ooh.
NOBODY LOVES YOU
(WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT)
By John Lennon
I'll scratch your back and you'll scratch mine.
"Oh wonderful, wonderful"
"19!"
"Do it the other way"
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine.
I've been across to the other side,
I've shown you ev'rything, I got nothing to hide.
But still you ask me do I love you?
What it is? What it is?
All I can tell you is it's all show biz,
All I can tell you is it's all show biz.
What it is? What it is? What it is?
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine.
I've been across the water now so many times,
I've seen the one-eyed witchdoctor leading the blind.
But still you ask me do I love you?
What you say? What you say?
Ev'ry time I put my finger on it, it slips so away,
Ev'ry time I put my finger on it, it slips so away.
What you say? What you say? What you say? What you say?
Well, I get up in the morning
And I'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-wee!
Then I'm lying in the darkness
And you know I can't get to sleep, oo-wee!
One, two, three, four.
Nobody loves you when you're old and grey,
Nobody needs you when you're upside down.
Ev'rybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday,
Ev'rybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
"Alright, let's go and have a listen and break from it..."
I DON'T WANNA FACE IT
By John Lennon
Say you're looking for a place to go,
Where nobody knows your name.
You're looking for oblivion
With one eye on the hall of fame.
I don't wanna face it, oh no,
I don't wanna face it, no, no, no, no.
Well, I can dish it out, but I just can't take it.
You're looking for some peace and love,
The leader of a big old band.
You wanna save humanity,
But it's people that you just can't stand.
I don't wanna face it, oh no,
I don't wanna face it, no, no, no, no.
Well, I can sing for my supper, but I just can't make it.
Earl slick!
Well, say you're looking for a world of truth,
Tryin' to find a better way.
The time has come to see yourself,
But you always look the other way.
I don't wanna face it, oh no,
I don't wanna face it, no, no, no, no.
Well, I can see the promised land and I know I can make it.
Yeah, I don't wanna face it,
I don't wanna face it, oh no,
Face it, I don't wanna face it.
No!
Ah, face it, face it, babe!
"I'm waiting for you!"
"My pick gets half the size!"
REAL LOVE
By John Lennon
"OK, start again, silly boy. Take four!"
All my little plans and schemes
Gone like some forgotten dreams.
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you.
Just like little girls and boys,
Playing with their little toys.
Seems like all we really were doing
Was waiting for love.
No need to be alone,
No need to be alone.
It's real love, yes, it's real,
Yes, it's real love, it's real.
From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go,
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for love.
Thought I'd been in love before,
But in my heart I wanted more.
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you.
No need to be afraid,
No need to be afraid,
It's real love, yes, it's real,
Yes, it's real love, it's real.
ONLY YOU
By Buck Ram and Ande Rand
(Oo-oo-oo)
Only you can make this world seem right,
Only you can make the darkness bright.
Only you and you alone
Can thrill me like you do,
And fill my heart with love for only you.
Only you can make this change in me,
For it's true, you are my destiny.
When you hold my hand I understand
The magic that you do.
You're my dream come true,
My one and only you, only you.
Oh-only you can make this change in me,
For it's true, you are my destiny.
When you hold my hand I understand
The magic that you do, do.
You're my dream come true,
My one, my one, my one and only you, only you.
Only you...
GROW OLD WITH ME
By John Lennon
Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be.
When our time has come,
We will be as one.
God bless our love,
God bless our love.
Grow old along with me,
Two branches of one tree.
Face the setting sun
When the day is done.
God bless our love,
God bless our love.
Spending our lives together,
Man and wife together,
World without end,
World without end.
Grow old along with me,
Whatever fate decrees.
We will see it through
For our love is true.
God bless our love,
God bless our love.
God bless our love,
God bless our love.
SEANS "IN THE SKY"
"Daddy, when did we have no house?"
"When?"
"When, when did we have no house and we rented this house?"
"In 1973, we didn't have this house, yet, that's when we bought this house"
"Oh!"
"Two years before you were born"
"Oh, and I wasn't coming with you? To find this house?"
"No, well you weren't born yet. You were still in the sky"
"Oh, and when I came back, was down here, what did I went in?"
"A little, a little cardboard box. With a little blanket in, little teeny tiny teeny tiny little boy in a little tiny cardboard box. They used to have apples in it, hmm. You used to do this here"
"A apple box!"
"Well, a little cardboard box, you see. Like they bring groceries in. And it was you instead of the groceries".
SERVE YOURSELF
By John Lennon
You say you found Jesus Christ
He's the only one.
You say you found Buddah
Sittin' in the sun.
You say you found Mohammed
Facin' to the east.
You say you found Krishna
Dancin' in the street.
Well, there's somethin' missin' in this god almighty stew
And it's your mother,
Your mother, don't forget your mother, lad.
You gotta serve yourself,
Nobody gonna do it for you.
You gotta serve yourself,
Nobody gonna do it for you.
Well, you may believe in devils and you may believe in laws,
But if you don't go out and serve yourself, lad (ain't no room service here).
It's still the same old story,
A bloody holy war.
A fight for love and glory
Ain't gonna study war no more.
A fight for god and country
We're gonna set you free,
We'll put you back in the stone age
If you won't be like me.
Get it?
You gotta serve yourself,
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you
You gotta serve yourself,
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you
Yeah, you may believe in devils and you may believe and laws,
But Christ, you gonna have to serve yourself and that's all there is to it
So get right back here, it's in the bloody fridge!
God, when I was a kid, we didn't have stuff like this, T.V. fuckin' dinners and all that crap!
You fuckin' kids, all fuckin' the same, want a fuckin' car now?
Lucky to have a pair of shoes?
You tell me you've found Jesus Christ,
That's great and he's the only one.
You say you've just found Buddah
And he's sittin' on his arse in the sun,
You say you found Mohammed,
Kneelin' on a bloody carpet, facin' east,
You say you found Krishna
With his bald head, dancin' in the street,
Well, Christ now and you're bein' heard.
You gotta serve yourself,
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you, that's right lad
You better get that straight into your fuckin' head!
You gotta serve yourself, you know that, who else is gotta do that for you,
It ain't me, kid, I tell you that.
Well you may believe in Jesus,
And you may believe in Marx,
And you may believe in Marks and Spencers,
And you may even believe in bloody woolworths,
But there's something missin' in this whole bloody stew
And it's your mother, your poor bloody mother.
She worked for you in the back bedroom
Full of piss and shit and fuckin' midwives.
God, you can't forget that awful moment, you know,
You should have been in the bloody war, lad, and you would know all about it
Well, I'll tell you somethin'.
It's still the same old story
A holy bloody war.
You know with the pope and all that stuff
A fight for love and glory
Ain't gonna study no more war.
I fight for god and country and the queen and all that
We're gonna set you free, yeah,
Bomb ya back into the fuckin' stone age if you won't be like me
You know, now get down on your knees and pray.
Well, there's something missin' in this god almighty stew
And it's your god damn mother, you dirty little git
Now get in there and was your ears.
Соло-John
Тексты песен сольных альбомов Джона Леннона