Song Lyrics | Learn English at EnglishCafe

Here comes one of my favorites:

Hotel California

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'

Raymond - Lyrics to the Avett Brothers song you requested. Thanks for finding the video at:
http://www.theavettbrothers.com/site.php?em3149=186534_-1__0_~0_-1_2_200...

Talk of Indolence
Avett Bros.

Well I've been locking myself up
in my house for sometime now
Reading and writing and reading and thinking
and searching for reasons and missing the seasons
The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow
The record will stop the record will go
Latches latched the windows down,
the dog coming in the dog going out
Up with caffeine and down with the shot
Constantly worried about what I've got
Distracting my work but I can't make a stop
and my confidence on and my confidence off
And I sink to the bottom and rise to the top
and I think to myself that I do this a lot
World outside just goes it goes it goes
it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes
and witness it all from the blinds of my windows

I'm a little nervous about what you'll think
when you see me in my swimming trunks
and last night in New York I got raging drunk,
remember one time I got raging drunk
with you

I can recall a time when we made the city streets our playground,
kissing in the fountains filled with cigarettes and bottles,
sped through Italian city streets of cobblestone
because we had to
because I loved you
because the damned alcohol
because whatever at all

now I've grown too aware of my mortality
to let go and forget about dying
long enough to drop the hammer down
and let the indolence go wild and flying through
because we had to

Here are lyrics by a great singer, songwriter, and guitarist Corinne Bailey Rae. I had the pleasure of seeing her in a tiny club in San Francisco years before she became a hit. She sang with an acoustic guitar and I was instantly drawn. This is one of her songs. It's about a relationship that's starting to fall apart. I'll upload an MP3 in my audio library.

http://englishcafe.com/?q=node/1879

"Till It Happens To You", by Corinne Bailey Rae

I know what I said
Was heat of the moment
But theres a little truth in between the words we've spoken
Its a little late now to fix the heart thats broken
Please don't ask me where I'm going
Cause I don't know
No I don't know anymore

It used to feel like heaven
Used to feel like may
I used to hear those violins playing heart strings like a symphony
Now they've gone away
Nobody wants to face the truth
But you wont believe what love can do
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you

Went to the old flat
Guess I was trying to turn the clock back
How come that nothing feels the same now when I'm with you
We used to stay up all night in the kitchen
When our love was new
Oooh love I'm a fool to believe in you
Cause I don't know
No I don't know
Anymore

It used to feel like heaven
It used to feel like may
I used to hear those violins playing heart strings like a symphony
Now they've gone away
Nobody wants to know the truth
Until their hearts broken
Don't you dare tell them
What you think to do
Till they get over
You can only learn these things
From experience
When you get older
I just wish that someone would have told me
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you