@ALBUM: Apple Mother Love Bone - Apple Mother Love Bone are - Andrew Wood Vocals/Piano - Greg Gilmore Drums - Bruce Fairweather Guitar - Stone Gossard Guitar - Jeff Ament Bass ================================================================================ This file is based upon the lyrics as published in the CD "Apple". I tried to follow them as close as possible. lsploeg@cs.vu.nl --- @SONG: THIS IS SHANGRILA written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- i've been around the world and i wrote a million songs it's all a bore to me i've slept in the gutter and i've lied to the dogs it never bothered me the sheriff he came to with his little boys in blue they been lookin for me but with my crystal sheen guitar i'm another ego star so give it to me...... get me to the stage - it brings me home again this is shangrila i'm trippin on it now - it brings me home again this is shangrila i look bad in shorts but most of us do don't let that bother me i'm the football who is who, i don't believe in smack so don't you die on me cause love is all good people need music sets the sick ones free without love no one ever grows nothing ever sings this is shangrila you have gathered for the feast the bread is my body... the wine is blood get me to the stage - it brings me home again this is shangrila i'm trippin on it now - it brings me home again --- @SONG: STARDOG CHAMPION written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- san francisco, where the flowers bloom in spring fade to winter, and see what disease brings augustiono, with his eyes once a shining sea he's half a shadow, god don't let that be me i'm a stardog champion west virginia, thats where myu father lies wartime hero, the kind that money buys a diamond bracelet, for my mommy memory thats all she wrote, all she wrote for me... i'm a stardog champion i'm a stardog champion and the children use ta sing of love with grace from the lord above and the children use ta sing out loud etc repeat chorus etc.... --- @SONG: HOLY ROLLER written by Ament and Mother Love Bone --- ooh baby gotta put me back together i need your smooth dog lovin oh yea and so i'm sending in the little monster gonna turn it up inside your head like a holy roller holy roller holy roller (to my head) i said little loin queen parader wanna get you down on all gours then ya gotta show me what your made of i'll meet ya child by the back door baby like a holy roller holy roller holy roller (to my head) breakdown repeat chorus --- @SONG: BONE CHINA written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- in the morning she gone crazy with a painted picture her fathers story Bone China - my friends Bone China - let the summer come again she be dancing in the moonlit sky she be movin like a butterfly she be drinkin all my early times i'm just waiting on that dream, cause the fast ones always ride for free...... ugly morning shes a jezabels daughter like a broomhilda a child of the water Bone China - my friends Bone China - let the summer come again she be dancin by the moonlit sky she be movin like a butterfly she high falootin like the girl from shrine she be movin like a.... i'm just waiting on that dream, cause the fast ones always ride for free...... --- @SONG: COME BITE THE APPLE written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- how did i get here what song did i sing just what have i done to deserve such a thing (you say - i've heard all that before) (so won't you give it up and stop using me) (i've heard all that before) so bring me an apple, i'm crying i been persecuted, like a lying man the spirit provides me its what i am today this spirit it gives but also can take away (and you say - i've heard all that before) (so won't you give it up baby and stop using me) (i've heard this all before) so come bite the apple, i'm run down like sodom to gommorah, all dead now so please stop to laugh and pity me my soul means well but i'm sorry my skin it is withered and i'm nervous my future was in my hands, till i washed it all away get along little sister - i heard your doing well... doing well...said get along little sister heard your doing well etc...bla, bla, bla... --- @SONG: STARGAZER written by Wood and Mother Love Bone --- crazy, crazy i'm the boy who defies all lift me higher than anyone and hold my arms woman, woman she outta mind and simply out of soul she gets me higher than anyone i miss her so stargazer you call the shots and i take um stargazer won't ya kick with me (again) dancer dancer i'm all wrong she thinks she's young and wise she dance around my cable car and fix me up with a guy - why? chorus stargazer you cry in blue anything i've ever seen ain't as good as you i'm not trying to push your feelings (inside) but i know you hold me like a putty in yo' hands cry for me and rub it in cry for the saviors and the prophets son dream of me and julie ann ah xana come back again (repeat last two lines) --- @SONG: HEARTSHINE written by Mother Love Bone --- waste away my tears cause i can't cry no more no more no less my brothers drowning like a star, a slower suicide me i gave mine away i give to you my heartshine i give to yuou my heartshines only for you a sad hello to death i'm a subborn goat on trial no more no less i said time will tell if love has the strength to push it - the strength to push it my the pain away i give to you my heartshine i give to you my heartshine love lourishes - love flourishes, you've gotta value love suppreme... --- @SONG: CAPTAIN HI-TOP written by Mother Love Bone --- i'm the instigator of the me generation the official seminator of the female population and i scoff at my rivals cause they ain't cool and i rewrote the bible and made my own rules i'm captain hightop the love commander the ego star forever after captain hightop the love commander hide your mom control your sister i'm the hip hop surgeon of the mindless eye take me down sister in between your thights and the stories of my image have gone too far i slid the beast to farah saying baby, baby, baby baby, baby i'm a star i'm captain hightop the love commander ego star forever after i'm a captain hightop the love commander hide your mom control your sister --- @SONG: MAN OF GOLDEN WORDS written by Wood and Mother Love Bone --- i want to show you something, like joy inside my heart seems I been living in the temple of the dog where would i live if I were a man of golden words or would I live at all words and music - my only tools communication so on her arrival I will set free the birds its a pretty time of year, the mountains sing aloud tell me Mr golden words hows bout the world tell me, can you tell me at all words and music - my only tools communication lets fall in love with music the driving force in our living the only international language divine glory, the expression the knees bow the tongue confesses the lord of lords, the king of kings words and music - my only tools communication etc --- @SONG: CAPRICORN SISTER written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- my loving father, give me no pain taste of eucalyptus dances and shakes mother lovebone...mama papa talkin to me love breeds like rabbits, i'm gonna set you free now chartreuse regalia and purple pie petes you dance electra and night become day got my mama in the kitchen she always bitchy, bitchy, bitchin so i made proclamation to control my masturbation motherlovebone...mama papa talkin to me love breeds like rabbits i'm gonna set you free burgundy baby with your blue eyed soul you play the hits and i'm on that roll capricorn sister freddie mercury jezebel child cry...etc... motherlovebone...mama papa talkin to me love breeds like rabbits, i'm gonna set you free now --- @SONG: GENTLE GROOVE written by Wood and Mother Love Bone --- like my world i'm on fire cause i'm full of desire no more preachin on your part no more love on my pillow come dance with me in my room you can hold me hands i shall be your boyfriend and you can call me names and nobodies gonna change the way i feel, for my love nobodies gonna slow my gentle groove till kingdom come thy work is done on earth as it is in dallas come play with me in romm you can hold me hands i will be your boyfriend and you can call me names and nobody gonna take the power away, from my love and nobodies gonna slow my gentle groove and nobodies gonna take my love away and nobodies gonna slow my gentle groove till kingdom come thy work is done on earth as it is in dallas --- @SONG: MR. DANNY BOY written by Gossard and Mother Love Bone --- what can i take from you what can i take from you whats worth a plug nickel from a silly fool what can i take from you why did i leave you there why did i leave you there with your long black kitty and your funky hair why did i leave you there see mr danny boy did ya see mr danny boy he's a rock top boxer just a bundle of joy see mr danny boy why did i leave you there why did i leave you there with your long black kitty and your funky hair why did i leave you there said baby stop lovin by the rules i heard the rumors danny stop your talkin danny - i heard the rumors danny, danny lost down in santa fe i had love with a runaway and to think my daddy thought i was gay lost back in santa fe the riff miester is my friend the riff miester is my friend i love that mother fucker till the very end bolan was my man said baby stop lovin by the rules i heard the rumors - danny stop your talkin - danny i've heard the rumors danny danny its a long, long road......for this here desperado and its cold cold cold, visions of tomorrow when was the last time you wrote for me a song repeat chorus etc.(think of mario) --- @SONG: CROWN OF THORNS written by Wood and Mother Love Bone --- you ever heard the story, of mister faded glory say he who rides the pony must someday fall i been talkin to my alter it says life is what you make it and if you make it death well rest your soul away, away, away it's a broken kinda feelin, should have to tie me to the ceiling a bad moons-a-comin better say your prayers i wanna tell her that i love her but does it really matter i just can't stand to see you dragging down again, again, again this is my kinda love it's the kind that moves on it's unkind and leaves me alone repeat i used to treat you like a lady, now you're a substitute teacher this bottles not a pretty, not a pretty sight to see i owe the man some money so i'm turning over honey you see mister faded glory is once again doin time repeat chorus repeat chorus like a crown of thorns, its all who you know so don't burn your bridges woman cause someday repeat chorus etc....