#mike nesmith lyrics

[fanofcoconuts]

[instantreplay-monkees]

now I will go to some place that I know where things don’t start just to end

hollywood - mike nesmith / head (1968)

[daydream-davy]

The Monkees in Favorite Pop/Rock Lyrics, 1969

[ninetimesbluedemo]

goes crazy about michael nesmith and scansion again

[strawberryfields4now]

The Monkees: Charlton Lyric Library Book No. 1, Spring 1967

[levon]

[glennmillerorchestra]

running from the grand ennui goodbye good good bye cruel town you’ve been a fair weather friend if you say you’re their friend i’m afraid you will learn they only want friends they can have on their terms run from the false golden crust hides all the heartbreak and rust the loneliness is so thick you can slice it the emptiness is too much for me to fight it you’re alone and you sigh and you try not to cry living inside of a little glass room living inside of the tube everyone’s made out of little thin lines and sometimes their fingers are blue- mine too!

[eldritch-boulevard]

Set the groove

Set the mood

Check out what’s on the tube

Close the day

Time to play

Put the sounds on the stereo

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Hello people a hundred years from now

It may not make much difference, but I’ll say it anyhow

Let me tell you of the planet and what we’re doing now

It really is bizarre enough to make me take it slow

There are cartoon creations made of people and of lines

Dance around the T.V., and they dance around our minds

A bunch of different holy men pointing different ways

Don’t think, do think, watch out what you say

And we all tried

Yes, we tried

We all kept pluggin’ like a salmon up a stream

Some of us were dancin’

But some of us were screamin’

But we tried

Oh, how we tried

Bunch of different funny people livin’ by the sea

And trying to get to other planets, tryin’ to start another scene

Leaders said, “Come pay us, show you what we mean”

But I learned not to trust them, they were not what they seemed (Hot!)

We all kept pluggin’ like a salmon up a stream

Some of us were dancin’

Some of us were screamin’

While we tried

Oh, we tried

Marie, she looked like Linda with fifty extra teeth

Linda made the cover of a family magazine

And Bonnie was the singer that made both of them dream

But they all lost to disco, the current mating theme

Mm, I’ve never seen a hero

I’ve got five million dreams

I’ve never been to Harlem, but I been somewhere in between

As long as I can keep movin’, I guess I’ll keep up with the scene

I’m dancin’ to the rhythm of the road

Yes, I’m dancin’ to the rhythm of the road

Set the mood

Set the groove

Checkin’ out what’s on the tube

It’s the close of the day

It’s the time to play

I’ll put some sounds on the stereo

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

[sweetyoungthingy]

I wish Spotify had the option for listeners to write subtitles/lyrics/captions for things like YouTube does. Please please please let me transcript all of the Headquarters Sessions I’m begging you. I’ll even sync them on time it’ll be so gahroovy

[mobanjaree]

reasoned verse some prose or rhyme lose themselves in other times and waiting hopes cast silent spells that speak in clouded clues!! IT CANNOT BE A PART OF ME FOR NOW ITS PART OF YOU!!!!

[spider-man-timepeace]

When the world and I were young

Just yesterday

Life was such a simple game

A child could play

It was easy then to tell right from wrong

Easy then to tell weak from strong

When a man should stand and fight

Or just go along

But today there is no day or night

Today there is no dark or light

Today there is no black or white

Only shades of gray

I remember when the answers seemed so clear

We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear

It was easy then to tell truth from lies

Selling out from compromise

Who to love and who to hate

The foolish from the wise

But today there is no day or night

Today there is no dark or light

Today there is no black or white

Only shades of gray

It was easy then to know what was fair

When to keep and when to share

How much to protect your heart

And how much to care

But today there is no day or night

Today there is no dark or light

Today there is no black or white

Only shades of gray

Only shades of gray

"Shades of Gray" written by Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil, performed by The Monkees

[fanofcoconuts]

[lugosis]

here's the track mike recorded for the 1975 film threshold: the blue angels experience

composed by fred myrow and lyrics by peter ivers

[peanutbutterex]

My boss (a swiftie who knows i was an english major): I think you would like Taylor Swift’s new album, the lyrics are so complex you really need to think about them to understand

My pretentious-ass monkee-loving mind (i must stress i did not say it aloud): but are the lyrics as complex as Mike Nesmith’s abstract songs Daily Nightly, Auntie’s Municipal Court, or Tapioca Tundra? Or are the lyrics concrete but beautifully emotional that make me want to cry every time like Nine Times Blue?

[thislovintime]

The Monkees at their New York City press conference on July 6, 1967.

“‘Goin’ Down’ was originally to be a part of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. as well but was omitted when ‘Love Is Only Sleeping’ was added to the album’s lineup at the last minute. With ‘Goin’ Down’ secured as the flip side of ‘Daydream Believer,’ the powers that be felt no need to include this exclusive track on the album. […] The song itself was a product of the band’s increasingly frequent studio jam sessions. ‘That was originally the track for Mose Allison’s Parchment Farm, and it came out real good,’ Dolenz recalls. ‘I remember Mike saying, ‘Why should we cover someone else’s tune. We’re not stealing the melody.’ ‘Peter had always loved to jam to Mose Allison’s Parchment Farm and started off on this thing,’ says Nesmith. ‘Then Micky started riffing this thing over the top [of] it, and we just headed off into la-la land.’”- Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. 1995 CD liner notes

“Diane [Hildebrand] contributed lyrics to the Monkees’ collective group composition ‘Goin’ Down,’ which originated as a study jam and (as the B-side of their chart-topping ‘Daydream Believer’) would become one of their hardest-rocking and best recordings. Though she was just one of numerous names on Monkees songwriting credits, such was the group’s fame in 1967 and 1968 that she didn’t escape attention from the band’s more devoted fans. ‘Diane was always getting calls from Monkees fans who wanted to know all about Peter or Micky,’ says Colin Cameron, Hildebrand’s boyfriend of the time. ‘I really learned the value of an unlisted phone number!’” - Early Morning Blues And Greens 2006 CD liner notes

“It was October, last year that I met them at the TV studios. They’d just seen ‘Early Morning Blues’ and it was Peter who asked me over to meet everybody. I know it sounds crazy but I’d met Peter before somewhere and for the life of me I couldn’t remember just where it was. Lester Sill, the company boss, took me over there. Anyway I just watched things progress. I had only the simple one-note music, of the song written down. But the boys wanted to do it. Only problem was that they didn’t know where or when. What I noticed first about the way they work is that they’re always being hassled by people. They really do lead very busy lives and everybody pulls and pokes at them when they’re out anywhere. So it’s pretty strict security on the set. But they’re real exuberant when they’re working. Actually, I must tell you that Peter came up to my office in the Screen Gems’ Building and we wrote a song together after work one day. Oh, it has these broken-down merry-go-round lyrics… guess we’ll call it ‘The Merry-Go-Round.’ Peter had a couple of bars of the song going round in his head, so I got with him to finish it off. So it was Peter I got to know best. You know how people say Mike is a bit moody. Well, I went to Nashville where he was doing some sessions and I really got to know him well. And he’s great. You know he’s a boy from the South. Well, he told me: ‘It’s funny but everytime I come back to the South my I.Q. drops about twenty degrees.’ […] But let’s talk about Peter a little longer. I’m not going to talk about his personal life because I feel that’s wrong. These guys have to work darned hard and they deserve some privacy… But I’ll say this — Peter is very deep. Moody. But whether he enjoys something or not depends a lot on how he feels. Like we went sometimes to places in Hollywood where you can get Southern grits, and ham hocks and food like that. Or we’d go to teen clubs, to watch some real teenage talent. One club was a coloured place. But somebody always wants an autograph. Peter’s great, though, for joining in things if he’s in the right mood. You know, I play guitar and he plays guitar and banjo. Well, you go to some of these clubs and there are always instruments lying around. So he’ll get up and start jamming. Like he’ll meet a guy from the Modern Folk Quartet and soon everybody’s joining in a session. I dated Peter several times. But really when you go into it, the Monkees aren’t so much for going out. They just get some friends around them and have conversation and maybe a little jamming. […] [B]ack to Peter. He’s just got this Mercedes Sedan. But really he doesn’t spend much on himself — though he spends a whole lot on his friends. This guy is just TOO generous. Take clothes. He’s got a closet full of them that he doesn’t wear. But fans send him a lot of new clothes. His attitude is that if it suits him, he’ll wear it. Probably for ever. He thinks a lot of fans who go to all this trouble on his behalf. You know they were terribly impressed with meeting the Beatles when they were in London. I told Peter I was going to London and he said to send the Beatles his love. And really Peter, and the others, are interested in meditation — as from the Maharishi. I guess we see basic truth in his work and in his word… so we’re meditators. […] And Peter has helped out friends all over the place. Sure he gets depressed. sometimes, but who wouldn’t in his position. You can’t keep on at full pelt all the time. They’re all different individuals. I mean, Micky has his house in Laurel Canyon, which is a very popular area. He’s a fanatic over improving everything and making it into a show place. But Peter doesn’t seem concerned about his home at all. It’s somewhere to live and to entertain friends and that’s about the total of it. I adore the Monkees as characters and people.’” - Diane Hildebrand, Monkees Monthly, January 1968

[heartswellz]

i know very little about the monkees (everything i have to go on is from a friend's 1.5 hour presentation). however, every time i hear this lyric, i think about a quote he included in the powerpoint in which mike nesmith was asked why he was so angry all the time ... and his response was basically just... "racism"