" It's Only a Paper Moon" Fiona & Maude

Say it is only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.

Yes, it is only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.

Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.

Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.

"It's only A Paper Moon"performed by sisters Fiona Apple and Maude Maggart (real name Amber Maggart), I think that although their voices have very different tones and ranges (Fiona's lower), this jazz standard from 1933 suits their tones very beautifully.
The song has appeared in plays, movies and TV series and has being recorded by some of the biggest names in music, including: Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Bing Crosby, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Rufus Wainwright among many more.

PS: Day 5 out of 13 (of my Fiona celebration)

Fiona Apple - So Sleepy Video

"So Sleepy" Fiona Apple & Jon Brion from the album "Chickens In Love" to benefit the 826LA School students who not only hand-picked the artists for the album, but wrote the songs themselves.
Cute as a button, and I'm glad to hear fiona's voice is still in top form!!!

PS: Day 4 out of 13.

Fiona Apple - Criminal Video

I've been a bad, bad girl
I've been careless with a delicate man
And its a sad, sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can
Don't you tell me to deny it
I've done wrong
And I want to suffer for my sins
I've come to you 'cause I need
Guidance to be true
And I just don't know where I can begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Heaven help me for the way I am
Save me from these evil deeds
Before I get them done
I know tomorrow brings
The consequence at hand
But I keep livin' this day
Like the next will never come

Oh, help me
But don't tell me to deny it
I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies
'Till I'm good enough for him
I got a lot to lose, and I'm bettin' high
So I'm beggin' you:

Before it ends, just tell me where to begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Let me know the way
Before there's hell to pay
Give me room to lay the law and let me go
I've got to make a play
To make my lover stay
So what would an angel say?
The devil wants to know

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

Criminal
Fiona Apple
Tidal
1996
Directed by Mark Romanek

Continuing with my lil Fiona celebration, the post for today is probably Fiona's best known video "Criminal"
directed by Mark Romanek, it brought Fiona not only aclaim but lots of controversy for its depiction of what many people compared to 70s like porn,
to all of them I say F.U.
the video looks great and Fiona looks a-mazing, and is also the song that made Fiona a Grammy Award winner in 1998 for Best Female Rock Performance,
Thank U
hahahaha

PS: Day 3 out of 13

I Thought It Was A Bird, But It Was Just A Paper Bag

I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star
To pray on, or wish on, or something like that
I was having a sweet fix of a daydream of a boy
Whose reality I knew, was a hopeless to be had
But then the dove of hope began it's downward slope
And I believed for a moment that my chances
Were approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
-I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag
-Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
'cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
-Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
And I went crazy again today, looking for a strand to climb
Looking for a little hope
Baby said he couldn't stay, wouldn't put his lips to mine,
And a fail to kiss is a fail to cope
I said, "Honey, I don't feel so good, don't feel justified
Come on put a little love here in my void,' - he said
"It's all in your head,' and I said, "So's everything' -
But he didn't get it - I thought he was a man
But he was just a little boy
-Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
'cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
-Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
-Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
'cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
-Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

Fiona Apple
Paper Bag
WHEN THE PAWN...
1999
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Continuing with my Fiona Apple celebration I'm posting this video for the song
'Paper Bag', because not only is one of my favorite songs, is also one of my favorite videos.
A while ago I listened to an interview Fiona did exclusively for Itunes where she talked about how the story and title for this song is very literal,
because one day she was in a car with her dad, saw a plastic bag and thought it was a bird, of course being a vegan when she wrote the song she changed it to paper,
hahahahaha

PS: Day 2 out of 13.

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Glee Season 2 Promo - Empire Stage Of Mind

The new season is upon now, in less than 3 weeks

GLEE will be back to fill our lives with music and glee (duh)

hahaha

Season 2 starts tuesday Sept 21th!!!!!!