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A bunch of videos, songs and lyrics for music that features *not* getting married
Ain't Gonna Marry
People listen up don't stand too near
I got something that you all should hear.
All lies, all the lies she told to me
Make a litte part of history.
I was always taught that boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later, the sweet baby's on the way.
Kiss em on the cheek and life's ok.
I don't feel, no pain. I don't have, no time
To listen to conflicting points of view.
It's a crazy world to live alone,
A ball and chain I call my own
People listen up don't stand too close
I got something that you all should know
Holy matrimony is not for me.
Rather die alone in misery.
I was always taught that boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later, the sweet baby's on the way.
Isn't that what they used to say?
With a girl that you knew,
And the bonds that we grew.
Turned into a ball and chain.
I step into the great unknown,
A ball and chain I call my own.
Crazy world to live alone
With a girl that you knew,
And the bonds that we grew,
Turned into a ball and chain.
I step into the great unknown,
With a ball and chain I call my own.
Because marriage doesn't work in the world today
It's an instiution that is in decay.
And if I have love I wish to portray,
I will surely find another way.
Because I was always taught boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later the sweet baby's on the way,
Kiss em on the cheek and life's ok.
I don't feel no pain, I don't have no time
To listen to conflicting points of view
I step into the great unknown,
With a ball and chain I call my own
This one is my favorite. There wasn't video for it, but I like it the best, so I found a streaming audio, recorded it by holding my computer mic up to my speakers while it played, then built a slideshow of images from Flickr and Google, and some of my own. Can you guess which ones are mine?
The Ballad Of Erica Levine - Frankie Armstrong
When Erica Levine was seven and a half,
Up to her door came Jason Metcalf,
And he said, "Will you marry me, Erica Levine?"
And Erica Levine said, "What do you mean?"
"Well, my father and my mother say a fellow ought to marry,
And my father said his brother, who is my Uncle Larry
Never married, and he said Uncle Larry is a dope,
So will you marry me?" Said Erica, "Nope.
My piano teacher's smart, and she never had to marry,
And your father may be right about your Uncle Larry,
But not being married isn't what made him a dope.
Don't ask me again, 'cause my answer's 'Nope!'"
When Erica Levine was seventeen,
She went to the prom with Joel Bernstein,
And they danced by the light of a sparkling bobby-sock,
'Cause the theme of the prom was the history of rock.
And after the prom, Joel kissed her at the door,
And he said, "Do you know what that kiss was for?"
And she said, "No, I don't, but you kiss just fine,"
And he said, "What it means is that you are mine."
And she said, "No, I'm not!" And she rushed inside,
And on the way home Joel Bernstein cried,
And she cried, too, and wrote a letter to Ms. ,
Saying, "This much I know: I'm mine, not his."
When Erica Levine was twenty-three,
Her lover said, "Erica, Marry me.
This relationship is answering a basic need,
And I'd like to have it legally guaranteed.
For without your precious love, I would surely die,
So why don't we make it legal?" Said Erica, "Why?
Basic needs, at your age, should be met by you.
I'm your lover, not your mother. Let's be careful what you do.
If ever I should marry, I will marry to grow,
Not for tradition, or possession, or protection. No.
I love you, but your needs are a very different issue."
Then he cried, and Erica handed him a tissue.
When Erica was thirty, she was talking with Lou,
Discussing and deciding what they wanted to do.
"When we marry, should we move into your place or mine?
Yours is rent-contolled, but mine's on the Green Line."
And they argued, and they talked, and they finally didn't care,
And they joined a small cooperative near Central Square.
Their wedding was a simple one. They wanted it that way.
And they thought a lot about the things that they would choose to say.
"I will live with you, and love you, but I'll never call you mine."
Then the judge pronounced them married, and everyone had wine.
And a happy-ever-after life was not the kind they got,
But they tended to be happy more often than not.
Let's Live Together
The moment I saw you, I wanted to know you
I guess I fell for you right from the start
Now I want to have you always beside me
So let's live together, sweetheart.
Yeah, let's live together: these ain't the cave times
I'm not a hunter-gatherer, or a backwater Baptist
I want your lovin', I don't want babies
(alt: I want your lovin', not a long line of strangers)
So let's live together, sweetheart.
Now, not very long ago, this would be scandal
From friends and from loved ones, we'd be forced apart
But those days are over; we're free, white, and single
So let's live together, sweetheart
Now, side by side, each night, we watch the sun falling
Life's easy on a two-earner income
One day when we die, we'll be boiled in a cauldron
But right now, we're having some fun.
Yeah, let's live together! This ain't Alabama!
I'm not a dull Rotarian! You're not a Jesus moron!
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies,
So let's live together, sweetheart!
Live Close By, Visit Often
I love ya baby
I like your company
You make me laugh
You never make me cry
I think you're sexy
I like to kiss ya
Even my dog thinks you're quite a guy
I'm not lookin for a husband
Found out the hard way it doesn't work for me
I need a friend
I want a lover
I have to be alone occasionally
(Chorus)
So live Close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live closeby, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
You fix me breakfast
I'll buy you dinner
We'll hit a movie on Wednesday night
You go to your place
I'll go to my place
Sounds like our plan is gonna work just right
(Chorus)
Live close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live close by, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
It could be rough
It could be easy
It might be hell
Might be heavenly
How do you feel?
How does it strike ya?
Could you be happy with a woman like me?
Why don't ya? Why don't ya?
(Chorus)
Live close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live close by, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
Live close by, visit often...
Living In Sin - Bon Jovi
I don't need no license
To sign on no line
And I don't need no preacher
To tell me you're mine
I don't need no diamonds
I don't need no new bride
I just need you, baby
To look me in the eye
I know they have a hard time
And your Daddy don't approve
But I don't need your Daddy
Telling us what we should do
Now there's a million questions
I could ask about our lives
But I only need one answer
To get me through the night
So baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
Is it right for both our parents
Who fight it out most nights
Then pray for God's forgiveness
When they both turn out the lights
Or wear that ring of diamonds
When your heart is made of stone
You can talk but still say nothing
You stay together but alone
Or is it right to hold you
And kiss your lips goodnight
They say the promise is forever
If you sign it on the dotted line
Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
[Solo]
Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
I call it love they call it living in sin
Living in sin
I don't know where to begin
I don't know where we fit in
Living in sin
My Old Man - Joni Mitchell
My old man
Hes a singer in the park
Hes a walker in the rain
Hes a dancer in the dark
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues
The following verse is not sung in the above video:
[Hes my sunshine in the morning
Hes my fireworks at the end of the day
Hes the warmest chord I ever heard
Play that warm chord, play and stay baby
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues]
But when hes gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The beds too big
The frying pans too wide
Then he comes home
And he takes me in his loving arms
And he tells me all his troubles
And he tells me all my charms
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
Keeping away my blues
But when hes gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The beds too big
The frying pans too wide
My old man
Hes a singer in the park
Hes a walker in the rain
Hes a dancer in the dark
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
Ain't Gonna Marry
People listen up don't stand too near
I got something that you all should hear.
All lies, all the lies she told to me
Make a litte part of history.
I was always taught that boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later, the sweet baby's on the way.
Kiss em on the cheek and life's ok.
I don't feel, no pain. I don't have, no time
To listen to conflicting points of view.
It's a crazy world to live alone,
A ball and chain I call my own
People listen up don't stand too close
I got something that you all should know
Holy matrimony is not for me.
Rather die alone in misery.
I was always taught that boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later, the sweet baby's on the way.
Isn't that what they used to say?
With a girl that you knew,
And the bonds that we grew.
Turned into a ball and chain.
I step into the great unknown,
A ball and chain I call my own.
Crazy world to live alone
With a girl that you knew,
And the bonds that we grew,
Turned into a ball and chain.
I step into the great unknown,
With a ball and chain I call my own.
Because marriage doesn't work in the world today
It's an instiution that is in decay.
And if I have love I wish to portray,
I will surely find another way.
Because I was always taught boy meets girl,
Fall in love get married and forget the world.
Nine months later the sweet baby's on the way,
Kiss em on the cheek and life's ok.
I don't feel no pain, I don't have no time
To listen to conflicting points of view
I step into the great unknown,
With a ball and chain I call my own
This one is my favorite. There wasn't video for it, but I like it the best, so I found a streaming audio, recorded it by holding my computer mic up to my speakers while it played, then built a slideshow of images from Flickr and Google, and some of my own. Can you guess which ones are mine?
The Ballad Of Erica Levine - Frankie Armstrong
When Erica Levine was seven and a half,
Up to her door came Jason Metcalf,
And he said, "Will you marry me, Erica Levine?"
And Erica Levine said, "What do you mean?"
"Well, my father and my mother say a fellow ought to marry,
And my father said his brother, who is my Uncle Larry
Never married, and he said Uncle Larry is a dope,
So will you marry me?" Said Erica, "Nope.
My piano teacher's smart, and she never had to marry,
And your father may be right about your Uncle Larry,
But not being married isn't what made him a dope.
Don't ask me again, 'cause my answer's 'Nope!'"
When Erica Levine was seventeen,
She went to the prom with Joel Bernstein,
And they danced by the light of a sparkling bobby-sock,
'Cause the theme of the prom was the history of rock.
And after the prom, Joel kissed her at the door,
And he said, "Do you know what that kiss was for?"
And she said, "No, I don't, but you kiss just fine,"
And he said, "What it means is that you are mine."
And she said, "No, I'm not!" And she rushed inside,
And on the way home Joel Bernstein cried,
And she cried, too, and wrote a letter to Ms. ,
Saying, "This much I know: I'm mine, not his."
When Erica Levine was twenty-three,
Her lover said, "Erica, Marry me.
This relationship is answering a basic need,
And I'd like to have it legally guaranteed.
For without your precious love, I would surely die,
So why don't we make it legal?" Said Erica, "Why?
Basic needs, at your age, should be met by you.
I'm your lover, not your mother. Let's be careful what you do.
If ever I should marry, I will marry to grow,
Not for tradition, or possession, or protection. No.
I love you, but your needs are a very different issue."
Then he cried, and Erica handed him a tissue.
When Erica was thirty, she was talking with Lou,
Discussing and deciding what they wanted to do.
"When we marry, should we move into your place or mine?
Yours is rent-contolled, but mine's on the Green Line."
And they argued, and they talked, and they finally didn't care,
And they joined a small cooperative near Central Square.
Their wedding was a simple one. They wanted it that way.
And they thought a lot about the things that they would choose to say.
"I will live with you, and love you, but I'll never call you mine."
Then the judge pronounced them married, and everyone had wine.
And a happy-ever-after life was not the kind they got,
But they tended to be happy more often than not.
Let's Live Together
The moment I saw you, I wanted to know you
I guess I fell for you right from the start
Now I want to have you always beside me
So let's live together, sweetheart.
Yeah, let's live together: these ain't the cave times
I'm not a hunter-gatherer, or a backwater Baptist
I want your lovin', I don't want babies
(alt: I want your lovin', not a long line of strangers)
So let's live together, sweetheart.
Now, not very long ago, this would be scandal
From friends and from loved ones, we'd be forced apart
But those days are over; we're free, white, and single
So let's live together, sweetheart
Now, side by side, each night, we watch the sun falling
Life's easy on a two-earner income
One day when we die, we'll be boiled in a cauldron
But right now, we're having some fun.
Yeah, let's live together! This ain't Alabama!
I'm not a dull Rotarian! You're not a Jesus moron!
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies,
So let's live together, sweetheart!
Live Close By, Visit Often
I love ya baby
I like your company
You make me laugh
You never make me cry
I think you're sexy
I like to kiss ya
Even my dog thinks you're quite a guy
I'm not lookin for a husband
Found out the hard way it doesn't work for me
I need a friend
I want a lover
I have to be alone occasionally
(Chorus)
So live Close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live closeby, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
You fix me breakfast
I'll buy you dinner
We'll hit a movie on Wednesday night
You go to your place
I'll go to my place
Sounds like our plan is gonna work just right
(Chorus)
Live close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live close by, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
It could be rough
It could be easy
It might be hell
Might be heavenly
How do you feel?
How does it strike ya?
Could you be happy with a woman like me?
Why don't ya? Why don't ya?
(Chorus)
Live close by, visit often
That'll work, that'll work for me
Live close by, visit often
Save us both alot of misery
Live close by, visit often...
Living In Sin - Bon Jovi
I don't need no license
To sign on no line
And I don't need no preacher
To tell me you're mine
I don't need no diamonds
I don't need no new bride
I just need you, baby
To look me in the eye
I know they have a hard time
And your Daddy don't approve
But I don't need your Daddy
Telling us what we should do
Now there's a million questions
I could ask about our lives
But I only need one answer
To get me through the night
So baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
Is it right for both our parents
Who fight it out most nights
Then pray for God's forgiveness
When they both turn out the lights
Or wear that ring of diamonds
When your heart is made of stone
You can talk but still say nothing
You stay together but alone
Or is it right to hold you
And kiss your lips goodnight
They say the promise is forever
If you sign it on the dotted line
Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
[Solo]
Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin
I call it love they call it living in sin
Living in sin
I don't know where to begin
I don't know where we fit in
Living in sin
My Old Man - Joni Mitchell
My old man
Hes a singer in the park
Hes a walker in the rain
Hes a dancer in the dark
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues
The following verse is not sung in the above video:
[Hes my sunshine in the morning
Hes my fireworks at the end of the day
Hes the warmest chord I ever heard
Play that warm chord, play and stay baby
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues]
But when hes gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The beds too big
The frying pans too wide
Then he comes home
And he takes me in his loving arms
And he tells me all his troubles
And he tells me all my charms
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
Keeping away my blues
But when hes gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The beds too big
The frying pans too wide
My old man
Hes a singer in the park
Hes a walker in the rain
Hes a dancer in the dark
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
