ATF: Automotivations

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Jude Cole]

Start the Car

Jude Cole

Yeah

Yeah

Uh-huh

Well I'm tired of the pressure

So tired of the pace

Just wanna grab you baby

And get out of this place

I got no chance of makin’ it

Workin’ downtown

Just walkin’ slow

And talkin’ low

And tired of goin’ down

Down

Down

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

This ain't no groove

It's been a long

Hard road

Come on baby

Ooh baby

Let's drive it home

Start the car

We started out for paradise

But this ain't no promised land

This ain't no kind of livin’

For an honest workin’ man

Well there's people dyin’ on the streets

Sure don't make the news

Ooh yeah

While others livin’ up on the hill

Singin’ the white boy blues

Whoa oh

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

No livin’

This ain't no groove

The city's rich

Or dirt poor

But somewhere waitin’

Ooh yeah

There's something more

Start the car

Well we're goin’ out with dignity

We're goin’ out with style

Gonna lay down that hammer baby

Make our own road  across the miles

'Cause I can't take this town one more day

Whoa oh

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

No livin’

This ain't no groove

The city's rich

Or dirt poor

But somewhere waitin’

Somewhere waitin’

There's gotta be something more

Start the car

Yeah

It's been a long

Hard road

Well come on baby

Let's drive it home

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Mabeline

Why can't you be true

Start the car

Link: [The Wallflowers]

One Headlight

The Wallflowers

So long ago

I don't remember when

That's when they say

I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy

Of a broken heart disease

As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up

At the funeral at dawn

With the long broken arm of human law

Now it always seemed such a waste

She always had a pretty face

I wondered why she hung around this place

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

She said it's cold

It feels like Independence Day

And I can't break away from this parade

But there's got to be an openin’

Somewhere here in front of me

Through this maze of ugliness and greed

And I seen the sun up ahead

At the county line bridge

Sayin' all is good

And nothingness is dead

We'll run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothin' left

She hit the end

It's just her window ledge

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Well, this place is old

It feels just like a beat up truck

I turn the engine

But the engine doesn't turn

Well, it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes

This place is always such a mess

Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn

I'm so alone

And I feel just like somebody else

Man I ain't changed

But I know I ain't the same

But somewhere here in between

The city walls of dyin' dreams

I think your death

It must be killin' me

Hey, hey, hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

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[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

David Bowie vs. The Wallflowers

Link: [David Bowie]

Link: [On YouTube]

Heroes

David Bowie

I

I wish you could swim

Like the dolphins

Like dolphins can swim

Though nothing

Nothing will keep us together

We can beat them

Forever and ever

Oh we can be heroes

Just for one day

I

I will be king

And you

You will be queen

Though nothing

Will drive them away

We can be heroes

Just for one day

We can be us

Just for one day

I

I can remember

I remember

Standing

By the wall

By the wall

And the guns

Shot above our heads

Over our heads

And we kissed,

As though nothing could fall

Nothing could fall

And the shame

Was on the other side

Oh we can beat them

Forever and ever

Then we could be heroes,

Just for one day

We can be heroes

We can be heroes

We can be heroes

Just for one day

We can be heroes

 

Link: [TheWallflowers]

Link: [On YouTube]

Heroes

The Wallflowers

I

I wish you could swim

Like dolphins

Like dolphins can swim

Though nothing

Nothing will keep us together

We can beat them

Forever and ever

We can be heroes

Just for one day

I

Well I will be king

You

You will be queen

Though nothing

Well nothing drive them away

We can be heroes

Just for one day

We can be us

Just for one day

I

I remember

Standing

By the wall

The guns

Shot above our heads

And we kissed,

As though nothing could fall

And the shame

Was on the other side

Oh we can beat them

Forever and ever

Oh we can be heroes,

Just for one day

We can be heroes

We can be heroes

We can be heroes

We can be heroes

Just for one day

Lyrics From: [A-Z Lyrics Universe]

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[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

TFT: The Wallflowers

Link: [The Wallflowers]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world.  For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion.  Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [On YouTube]

One Headlight

The Wallflowers

So long ago

I don't remember when

That's when they say

I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy

Of a broken heart disease

As I listened through

The cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up

At the funeral at dawn

The long broken arm

Of human law

Now it always seemed such a waste

She always had a pretty face

So I wondered how she

Hung around this place

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

She said it's cold

It feels like Independence Day

And I can't break away

From this parade

But there's got to be an openin’

Somewhere here in front of me

Through this maze of

Ugliness and greed

And I seen the sun up ahead

At the county line bridge

Sayin' all there's good

And nothingness is dead

We'll run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothin' left

She hit the end

It's just her window ledge

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Well this place is old

It feels just like a beat up truck

I turn the engine

But the engine doesn't turn

Well it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes

This place is always such a mess

Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn

I'm so alone

And I feel just like somebody else

Man I ain't changed

But I know I ain't the same

But somewhere here in between

The city walls of dyin' dreams

I think her death

It must be killin' me

Hey

Hey

Hey hey hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Link: [On YouTube]

6^th Avenue Heartache

The Wallflowers

Sirens ring

The shots ring out

A stranger cries

Screams out loud

I had my world

Strapped against my back

I held my hands

Never knew how to act

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it's drawn me in

6th Avenue heartache

Now walkin' home

On those streets

The river winds

Move my feet

Subway steam

Like silhouettes in dreams

They stood by me

Stood by me

Stood by me

Just like moonbeams

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it's drawn me in

Yeah

6th Avenue heartache

6th Avenue heartache

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it’s drawn me in

Yeah

6th Avenue heartache

6th Avenue heartache

Look out the window

Down upon that street

And gone like a midnight

Was that man

But I see his six strings

Laid against that wall

And all his things

They all look so small

I got my fingers crossed

On a shooting star

Just like me

Just moved on

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it's drawn me in

6th Avenue heartache

6th Avenue heartache

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it’s drawn me in

Yeah

6th Avenue heartache

6th Avenue heartache

And now it’s drawn me in

And the same black line

That was drawn on you

Was drawn on me

And now it's drawn me in

Yeah

6th Avenue heartache

6th Avenue heartache

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