lirik lagu john craigie - beethoven dream (live)
[verse 1]
well love is like a drug that we often take
to ease our pain, to ease our sorrow, and ease our misery
which ironically is usually caused by love
and i had a dream where i met beethoven
and beethoven told me that i wasn’t very good
he said, “all your songs are simple, like two or three chords
and you never wrote a symphony, and your music makes me bored”
oh i~ i got burned by beethoven
and beethoven asked me, “how come in modern music
there arе so many metaphors about like being likе the road?”
and i was like, “i don’t know
i guess cause life moves pretty fast
and you can’t slow down and you can’t turn back
and every musician at some point has to scream out
‘life is a highway!'”
[verse 2]
and he said, “life moves pretty fast, even in my day
but we didn’t have cars, and we didn’t have highways
and we didn’t have autopilot: this thing that you invented
oh man, what were you thinking? giving up your control of direction?”
i said, “i guess we got lazy”
he said, “i know you got lazy
your songs are three chords”
and i was like, “come on! give me a break!”
[chorus]
he said, “you could give the wheel to god
you could give the wheel to satan
you could fall down on your knees
you could beg to be forgiven
you could give the wheel to love
you could give the wheel to hate
or you could just not give the wheel away.”
[verse 4]
i told him, “when i was a child, the classroom was my stage
i knew if i could make the nuns laugh, then i could do anything
… but it’s hard to make the nuns laugh
i don’t know if you’ve tried
i don’t know how many nuns
you hung out with in your life
but trust me, it’s hard to make them laugh
[verse 5]
ah yeah, but every now and then
the bible would say something silly
and if you’ve read the bible
you know it happens all the time
and i would form my joke
trying hard not to offend
oh, like the court jester
with an axe over his head
yes, and every now and then
oh i, oh i, i could make the nuns laugh
[chorus]
yeah and you could give the wheel to god
you could give the wheel to satan
you could fall down on your knees
you could beg to be forgiven
you could give the wheel to love
you could give the wheel to hate
or you could just not give the wheel away.”
[verse 6]
beethoven told me i was about to wake up
and beethoven apologized for saying that i sucked
he said, “man, who am i to talk. i’ve been dead for so long..
i mean do people still remember me? do they still play my songs?
and i was like, “yeah. you’re fine dude, just chill”
[verse 7]
he asked, “am i a ringtone?”
i said, “sometimes you’re a ringtone..
but we also put you on a gold record
and shot you into sp~ce”
and he said, “man, how ’bout that?
i mean, without a doubt
to be a ringtone
that’s what it’s all about”
and i was like, “no! not enough!”
[verse 8]
he said, “john let’s write a song together before you wake up..
it could even be simple, i just want it to be about love:
sweet and sarcastic, and a little bit negative”
and i said, “oh beethoven, now you’re speaking my language”
he said, “can i write the first line?”
and i said, “probably”
he said, “will you finish it in the morning?”
and i said, “probably”
he said, “can we call it ‘f~ck auto pilot'”
and i said, “probably”
he said, “is it gonna be three chords?”
and i said, “for you ludwig, oh baby, i’ll make it four!”
[verse 9]
yeah and he said, “wake up! wake up! wake up!
there is life behind your eyelids and so much steering to be done”
[spoken]
my name is john craigie, i’m from portland oregon
and kicking the fall tour off. i love this room. i love you guys
you’re an amazing crowd and i’ll do my best…
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