David Rovics - All the News That’s Fit to Sing lyrics
rate me(Verse)
And I woke upon that screaming and the wall I thought was moving
And the rope around your neck again it tightened the harder I was pulling
You say, hey, I'm just a shadow and I said that I agreed
But I thought you had a guitar and a microphone
But all the strings were missing
You said talking was too easy and you sent me back to sleep
And you took the rope from round your neck and you tied it to my feet
You often stole the crippled lyrics for a song
But I found out you were gone
I went out the next day breathing
But undoubtedly alive
And I saw your stories flowing
Through the ambulances
And the morning papers
I had to stop dead when I realised
I could never say goodbye
And even Dylan got to sing to Woody Guthrie
On his bed as he lay dyin'
But what's become of Bobby now
Will not become of me
I swear to you my music will respect your memory
Woody's, Johnny's, Strummer's and Joe Hill
Most of all to Phil
(Chorus)
Every time you sing to me
There's a ringing in my ears
All the news that's fit to sing
Is fit to cause a tear
And I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night
Alive as you or me
Said I to Phil you're thirty years dead
I never died, said he
I never died, said he
(Verse)
Oh the dreams I've had of sitting with you
Anywhere with seats
Talking long into the night
Over bottled beer and marijuana cigarettes
Cause I'm sure you could have told me more
Than I will ever know
About people, love and freedom
And how the grass sways in Virginia when the wind blows
And then you would have played me
I ain't marchin' anymore
Because you'd know it means as much today
As it ever did before
There but for fortune
There for the grace of fate we'd be
(Chorus)
Every time you sing to me
There's a ringing in my ears
All the news that's fit to sing
Is fit to cause a tear
And I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night
Alive as you or me
Said I to Phil you're thirty years dead
I never died, said he
I never died, said he
(Verse)
I sit here sometimes thinking about
Why you had to die
Was it money or your mind
Or were you hounded to the graveyard by the FBI?
I guess you'd say it doesn't matter
Like you sang in 'When I'm Gone'
It takes more than that to shatter
All the wisdom in the words of
One who died so young
You told us step outside the guidelines
Make your own reality
And a protest must be beautiful in ugly times like these.
You never once conceded
You sang everything that needed to be said
(Chorus)
Every time you sing to me
There's a ringing in my ears
All the news that's fit to sing
Is fit to cause a tear
And I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night
Alive as you or me
Said I to Phil you're thirty years dead
I never died, said he
I never died, said he
