Karaoke Korner - Let's Sing!

[raenstorm]

Welcome, everyone, to the SSS Karaoke Korner!

Don't be shy... step right up to the stage and sing us a song. Angelcakes, I see you out there in the darkness. How 'bout a song? Eh, yeah, I guess that is for the best. The Buff-i-nator... how 'bout you? Don't be shy folks, we're all here to be center stage for a bit.

And, if you don't want to sing tonight, feel free to drop by tomorrow. The SSS Karaoke Korner is open 24/7! All songs are open, the audience breathlessly awaiting the feelings you have to express with a nicely turned lyric.

Come one, come all, and enjoy! Oh, and be careful of the Karaoke equipment. It's not cheap you know...

Psst. Need help with the lyrics? I know the karaoke screen is a bit hard to read... check out www.letssingit.com/ for assistance.

[raenstorm]

*ahem*

Hi, my name is Buffy and I'll be singing one of my favorite Joan Jett songs... it has special meaning to me ever since I, uh, got close to Spike. Hope you enjoy it.


I Hate Myself For Loving You

Midnight gettin' uptight Where are you
You said you'd meet me now it's quarter to two
I know I'm hangin' but I'm still wantin' you

Hey Jack It's a fact they're talkin' in town
I turn my back and you're messin' around
I'm not really jealous don't like lookin' like a clown

I think of you ev'ry night and day
You took my heart then you took my pride away

I hate myself for loving you
Can't break free from the the things that you do
I wanna walk but I run back to you that's why
I hate myself for loving you

Daylight spent the night without you
But I've been dreamin' 'bout the lovin' you do
I won't be as angry 'bout the hell you put me through

Hey man betcha you can treat me right
You just don’t know what you was missin’ last night
I wanna see you beggin, say forget it just for spite

I hate myself for loving you
Can't break free from the the things that you do
I wanna walk but I run back to you, that's why
I hate myself for loving you

I hate myself for loving you
Can't break free from the things that you do
I wanna walk but I run back to you that's why
I hate myself for loving you

I think of you ev'ry night and day
You took my heart then you took my pride away

I hate myself for loving you
Can't break free from the the things that you do
I wanna walk but I run back to you that's why
I hate myself for loving you
I hate myself for loving you
I hate myself for loving you

[Pet]

And Buffy continues singing,

Allll by myse-e-elf, don wanna be, all by my se-ee-e-elf...l
<sniff, ooohhh, huuu>...

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

OK, well, in the interest of all of us romantics:

(Joni Mitchell Warning)

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
He told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
cynical and drunk and boring someone in
some dark cafe

You laugh, he said, you think you're immune
go look at your eyes,
They're full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
all those pretty lies, pretty lies,
Only pretty lies,just pretty lies.

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer and he pushed
three buttons and the thing began to whirr
And a barmaid came up in fishnet stockings
and a bow- tie
and she said "Drink up now, it's gettin' on time to close"
"Richard, you really haven't changed" I said
"it's just now you're fantasizing some
pain that's in your head
You've got tombs in your eyes but the songs
you punched are dreaming,
Listen, they talk of love so sweet.
When you going to get yourself back on your feet?
Oh, and love can be so sweet, Love so sweet."

Richard got married to a figure skater
and he bought her a dishwasher and a Coffee percolator
and he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
and all the house lights left up bright.
I'm going to blow this damned candle out,
I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table,
I got nothin' to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days

[Dev(Rob)]

my favourite song at the moment, it has nothing to do with the jossverse I just like it:

Blink 182 - I Miss You

(I miss you miss you)

Hello there the angel from my nightmare
The shadow in the background of the morgue
The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley
We can live like Jack and Sally if we want
Where you can always find me
And we'll have Halloween on Christmas
And in the night we'll wish this never ends
We'll wish this never ends

(I miss you I miss you)
(I miss you I miss you)

Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on so haunting every time
And as I stared I counted
Webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides
Like indecision to call you
and hear your voice of treason
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight
Stop this pain tonight

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)

I miss you (miss you miss you)
I miss you (miss you miss you)
I miss you (miss you miss you)
I miss you (miss you miss you)
(I miss you miss you)

[Lola m]

Started to post this and it went blooey.

One more try. I've thought for awhile now that almost the whole "Mad Season" album by Matchbox Twenty could be read as some warped soundtrack for the season 6 Buffy/Spike relationship. Hard to pick one song, but I definitely hear Spike singing the following:

Leave

It's amazing
how you make your face just like a wall
how you take your heart and turn it off
how I turn my head and lose it all

It's unnerving
how just one move puts me by myself
there you go just trusting someone else
now I know I put us both through hell

I'm not saying
there wasn't nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
I'm not saying
we ever had the right to hold on
I just didn't wanna let it get away from me

But if that's how it's gonna leave
straight out from underneath
then we'll see who's sorry now
If that's how it's gonna stand, when
you know you've been depending on
the one you're leaving now
the one you're leaving out

It's aggravating
how you threw me on
and you tore me out
How your good intentions turned to doubt
the way you needed time to sort it out

Tell me is that how it's going to end
when you know you've been depending on
the one you're leaving now
and the one you're leaving out


(Others that really seem to fit, at least for most of the song, are: Crutch, Last Beautiful Girl, If You're Gone, Rest Stop, Bent, Bed of Lies and Stop. But then I'm great at finding meaning where there is none._

Lola

[Rob]

He gave up Connor...he lost Buffy's trust...he lost Cordy....and now Fred.

Angel approaches the mike, clad in a very similar way to the late, great Johnny Cash. Here (in the lyrics of Trent Reznor) is where his heart lays at the moment....


I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it...all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My Empire of Dirt
I will let you down
I will make you Hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My Empire of Dirt
I will let you down
I will make you Hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Queen E]

Even when I first saw these episodes back in '98, it made me think of this song (thanks to Rob for the reminder, with his posting of "Hurt" ):

The Becoming
by Nine Inch Nails

i beat my machine
it's a part of me
it's inside of me
i'm stuck in this dream
it's changing me
i am becoming

the me that you know he had some second thoughts
he's covered with scabs he is broken and sore
the me that you know he doesn't come around much
that part of me isn't here anymore

all pain disappears
it's the nature of
of my circuitry
drowns out all i hear
there's no escape from this
my new consciousness

the me that you know he used to have feelings
but the blood has stopped pumping and he is left to decay
the me that you know is now made up of wires
and even when i'm right with you i'm so far away

i can try to get away but i've strapped myself in
i can try to scratch away the sound in my ears
i can see it killing away all of my bad parts
i don't want to listen but it's all too clear

hiding backwards inside of me
i feel so unafraid
annie, hold a little tighter
i might just slip away

it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head
it won't give up it wants me dead
and goddamn this noise inside my head

[Anne, Old S'cubie Cat]

This one's for Lorne - He reads everyone else, but does anyone really know what he's feeling?

In Hiding

You'll find me
Forever in hiding
And only time will tell
What it's done to me
I've tried to show
God only knows
To grow

But music hides me so well
And reveals me
Oh well
You can find me
In hiding

Happy Rhodes, from her album Warpaint

[raenstorm]

The whole gang from Angel is in the audience but Fred chooses to be the one to sing it 'cuz... well, it's sung by a woman, Jenny Bruce.

Fairy Tale

I know a man who'll tell a poem for ten cents
He'll wash your window for a buck
He says he used to be the drummer in a band
I guess he never had much luck

I know a woman treats her cat just like a queen
She treats her dog just like a kid
She would have had one but she never found the time
She often wished that she did

Mama this is no fairy tale
Please don't turn out the light
Mama there are dragons everywhere
And nowhere is a prince in sight

I know a dancer says she could have been the best
She fell and never danced again
I know a writer drives his taxi till the dawn
He's too tired to hold a pen

What happened to the prince
The spell that could be broke
The once upon a time that never came to pass
Who has the magic wand that's gonna make this right
Who broke the slipper made of glass

Mama this is no fairy tale
Please don't turn out the light
Mama there are dragons everywhere
And nowhere is a prince in sight

What happened to the prince
The spell that could be broke
The once upon a time that never came to pass
Who has the magic wand that's gonna make this right
Who broke the slipper made of glass

Mama this is no fairy tale
Please don't turn out the light
Mama there are dragons everywhere
So please don't say good night
Tonight....

[Patti - S'cubie Cutie]

Rob said:

He gave up Connor...he lost Buffy's trust...he lost Cordy....and now Fred.

Angel approaches the mike, clad in a very similar way to the late, great Johnny Cash. Here (in the lyrics of Trent Reznor) is where his heart lays at the moment....


I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it...all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My Empire of Dirt
I will let you down
I will make you Hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My Empire of Dirt
I will let you down
I will make you Hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

well, I'm depressed.

[Patti - S'cubie Cutie]

This song is for the whole Fang Gang and Lorne sings it.

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by...

If you smile
With your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just...

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just...

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by...

If you smile
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile...

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

[Karen]

Cause we're all a little crazy sometimes, but Angel and Spike could be singing this one about Buffy:

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

This thing called love I just can't handle it
this thing called love I must get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love

This (This Thing) called love
(Called Love)
It cries (Like a baby)
In a cradle all night

It swings (Woo Woo)
It jives (Woo Woo)
It shakes all over like a jelly fish,
I kinda like it
Crazy little thing called love

There goes my baby
She knows how to Rock n' roll
She drives me crazy
She gives me hot and cold fever
Then she leaves me in a cool cool sweat

I gotta be cool relax, get hip
Get on my track's
Take a back seat, hitch-hike
And take a long ride on my motor bike
Until I'm ready
Crazy little thing called love

I gotta be cool relax, get hip
Get on my track's
Take a back seat, hitch-hike
And take a long ride on my motor bike
Until I'm ready (Ready Freddie)
Crazy little thing called love

This thing called love I just can't handle it
this thing called love I must get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love

Queen
The Game (1980)

[Queen E]

For Spike to sing to Buffy

Lady Midnight by Leonard Cohen

I came by myself to a very crowded place;
I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.
I found her there but she was past all concern;
I asked her to hold me, I said, "Lady, unfold me,"
but she scorned me and she told me
I was dead and I could never return.
Well, I argued all night like so many have before,
saying, "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more."
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,
she said, " Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me,
just win me or lose me,
it is this that the darkness is for."

I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,
the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."
"If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning,
I could hear my lady calling,
"You've won me, you've won me, my lord,
you've won me, you've won me, my lord,
yes, you've won me, you've won me, my lord,
ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord,
ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord."

[Kerrie]

I think this is Spike's theme song for season 6.

Self Esteem by Offspring

I wrote her off for the tenth time today
And practiced all the things I would say
But she came over
I lost my nerve
I took her back and made her dessert.

Now I know I'm being used
That's okay man because I like the abuse
I know she's playing with me
That's okay cause I've got no self-esteem.

We make plans to go out at night
I wait til 2 then I turn out the light
All this rejection's got me so low
If she keeps it up I just might tell her so

When she's saying she wants only me
then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends
When she's saying that I'm like a disease
then I wonder how much more I can spend
Well I guess I should stick up for myself
But I really think it's better this way
The more you suffer
The more it shows you really care. Right?

Now I'll relate this little bit
That happens more than I'd like to admit
Late at night she knocks on my door
Drunk again and looking to score
Now I know I should say no
But that's kind of hard when she's ready to go
I may be dumb. But I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self esteem.