DELILAH!!!!! YYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY

[matcom]

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind
She was my woman
As she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind

My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah

I could see that girl was no good for me

But I was lost like a slave that no man could free
At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting
I cross the street to her house and she opened the door
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

My, my, my Delilah
Why, why, why Delilah

So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me Delilah I just couldn't take any more
(insert trumpet solo here)
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah

So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me Delilah I just couldn't take any more
Forgive me Delilah I just couldn't take any more

[On the Road]

1. I Had a Dream Last Week I was on American Idol

and the judges were all commenting that they wanted more dramatic performances from the singers. As a result, I chose to sing "Delilah."

[Lex]

2. Awww, damn. I thought it was a Marshall Crenshaw thread.

From Crenshaw's "Life's too Short" album.

Delilah lyrics:


Where's the light from yesterday?
When you and I were unafraid
And lost inside a world we'd made

Again today the air is hanging heavy and grey
Got a lonely feeling that won't go away
And I feel like my world's in disarray
So I say

(Hey) Delilah
I want to be beside your bed tonight
Oh Delilah
I can't shake your memory
Like a dark cloud following me
I want to drop everything and be
With my Delilah, Hey Delilah

So tell me Delilah, where are you now?
Got to get this message to you somehow
I need you more than the law should allow

Don't let too many years and tears go by
Don't give your heart to some other guy
I'm going to find you some way, that's no lie

Delilah, we've got to be together tonight
Oh Delilah - why did you do me like you've done
If I knew where you had gone
I'd drop everything and run to my Delilah,
Oh Delilah

Am I only fantasizing when I
Think that you might
Still care why don't you
Take the time to answer are you
There do you dare yes I know
You're out there somewhere

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[Burma Jones]

3. I have a Delilah Story

I'm about 8 years old, in Gary, Indiana. My 20 year old, high school dropout cousin had been arrested in Texas for First Degree Murder. I'm at my Aunt's house. My Aunt was, well, a Barfly and part time hooker. Anyway, we were at my Aunt's apartment. The song Delilah was playing as my Aunt, exceptionally drunk, was wailing about how they were going to execute her boy. I can't hear Delilah without thinking of that episode.

My cousin had the Murder charge dropped. It became clear that he picked up two hitchhikers that forced him to drive them to a Gas Station. While one guy went in and robbed and killed the proprietor, the other guy held a gun on my cousin. The police came and the chase was on. My Cousin crashed and was promptly arrested. Regardless, he spent about 30 months in prison between awaiting trial and the time he got for the reefer that he had in the car. When I was 11, he came to live with us as part of his probation. We shared a room and I got a real education from him. While in prison, he said that he was given a choice of reading, either the Readers Digest and/or the Bible - he read the Bible several times over and said it made him an Atheist. He read Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, maybe because he hard them together in Dylan's Desolation Row, I don't know.

Anyway, he spent pretty much the entire 1970's on heroin, working at a Car Wash in Gary and writing poetry. In 1979 or so, he started to clean himself up. In 1983, he was about to get his BS in Electrical Engineering when he was killed in a car crash. In 1985, his Mother, my Aunt, finally finished drinking herself to death, in Gary, Indiana.

And that's what Delilah reminds me of.

[Lex]

4. Wow, that's some story.

Just wow.

Thank you for sharing it with us, though. That's one of the reasons I love DU so.

[GalleryGod]

5. GUESS who's just opened the INfamous Liquor Cabinet !?

@ La Casa 'Com :toast: :party: :party: B-) :smoke: