I guess this is sort of like the movie quote thread, only with song lyrics instead. Here are some of my faves.

Oh poor twisted me/Oh poor twisted me/I feast on sympathy/I chew on suffer/ I chew on agony/And swallow whole the pain/Oh it's too good to be that all this misery/Is just for oh poor twisted me -Metallica, "Poor Twisted Me"

As sure as your heart muscle rests in your chest cavity we ask God to bless these festivities, yet this hostility felt between you and me stops. Opportunity given to spread unity. Tuna be rhythmically wiping sadness clear, reggae cumbia mixtures create this atmosphere. People packing cheer simply cuz these songs show depth, giving shouts to these victims of wrongful death. Now, soon as we're rid of society's small terrors the sooner these teenagers dont have to be pallbearers and carry their pals nearer to graves premature the cure. Be mature by keeping your hearts pure. -Ozomatli, "Cumbia de los Muertos"

My mouth fell open/Hoping that the truth would not be true/Refuse the news/I'm feeling sick now/What the **** am I supposed to do/Just loose and lose/Left on the floor/Leaving your body/When highs are the lows/And lows are the way/So hard to stay/Guess now you know/I love you so -Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Tearjerker"

Same rule as the other thread - NO getting around the banned words filter.

Well then i really cant post anything

Back to reality I really feel the lyrics of most the bands I listen to would not fit this forum in a common way, in such that most would find them vulgar, hurtful, or just plain out weird at some point or the other.

"per capita" -----napalm death, they get in a nice double layered chant, very heavy.

le paradis est derriere moi
dans le ventre de ma maman
- Stereolab OLV-26 (translates approx. as "Paradise lies behind me, in my mother's womb")

led astray
before the
fragile defense of words
come and stay
bring the stars
play in the milky night
- Stereolab Come and Play in the Milky Night

The greater is the beauty, The profounder is the stain, Humanity, Significant of the forbidden is transgressed in eroticism.
- Stereolab Pack Yr Romantic Mind

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers/brothers.
- Tool Schism

Devil on the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master


Police, Wrapped around your finger

This thread will probably tell you more about me that any other topic of which I could post. Music - lyrics certainly have a way of bringing out who we really are and how we really feel. Thanks for starting the thread pheeler. Now for a sampling of my current favorite lyrics.

Dixie Chicks - Home:
I mistook the warnings for wisdom
From so called friends quick to advise
Though your touch was telling me otherwise
Somehow I saw you as a weakness
I thought I had to be strong
Oh but I was just young
I was scared I was wrong
Not a night goes by I don't dream of wandering
Through the home that might have been
And I listened to my pride
When my heart cried out for you
Now everyday I wake again, in a house that might have been
A home

Nickel Creek - Reasons Why:
Where am I today, I wish that I knew
'Cause looking around there's no sign of you
I don't remember one jump or one leap
Just quiet steps away from your lead

I'm holding my heart out but clutching it too
Feeling this sort of a love that we once knew
I'm calling this home when it's not even close
Playing the role with nerves left exposed

Standing on a darkened stage
Stumbling through the lines
Others have excuses
But I have my reasons why

Tony Braxton - Unbreak My Heart:
Don't leave me in all this pain, don't leave me out in the rain.
Come back and bring back this smile, come and take these tears away.
I need your arms to hold me now, the nights are so unkind.
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me.

Chrous:
Unbreak my heart, say you'll love me again.
Undo this hurt you caused when you walked out the door and walked out of my life
Uncry these tears, I've cried so many nights.
Unbreak my heart..... My heart.

It's the heart , afraid of breaking , that never learns to dance .
It's the dream , afraid of waking , that never takes a chance .
It's the one who won't be taken , who cannot seem to give .
And the soul , afraid of dyin' , that never learns to live .


from The Rose, sung by Bette Midler

---Lightning Hopkins - Big Car Blues.

I know ya cadillac is really black
And ya got them white wall tyahs
But I gotta black man beside me
He got white teeth and white eyes

---Or Bob Dylan - Po' Boy

Othello told Desdamona
"I'm cold cover me with a blanket,"
"Bye the way what happened to that poisoned wine?"
She said, "I gave it to ya, ya drank it."

---Or Toby Keith - Angry American

We'll put a boot in yer *** NOTICE: THIS WORD IS AGAINST THE RULES. FAILURE TO REMOVE IT WILL RESULT IN A STRIKE. ***
It's the American way
When Uncle Sam puts your name at the top of the list
And the statue of liberty's shakin' her fist
And the eagle will cry
And it's gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringin' her bell
It'll feel like the whole wide world was raining down on you
Brought to ya courtesy
Of the Red, White and Blue.

edited for spelling error.

Garth Brooks
The Dance

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey who's to say, you know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the dance

I know it sounds like a typical love song, but the video intercuts his performance with clips of Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, John Wayne, the Challenger 7, etc. The message to me was - Live your life fully, don't be afraid to take chances, and you won't spend your old age second guessing your life. You'll be able to look back and say "hey, I made mistakes, but look what I gained".

Plastic Jesus
Folk Song


Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribualtions
We will travel every nation
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations
We will travel every nation
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far

Riding down a thorooughfare
With his nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but He don't mind
Trouble coming He don't see
He just keeps His eye on me
And any other thing that lies behind

Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dasboard of my car
Though the sunshine on his back
Makes Him peel, chip and crack
A little patching keeps Him up to par

When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know who's boss
I never blow the horn or give them warning
I ride all over town
Trying to run them down
And it's seldom that they live to see the morning

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
His halo fits just right
And I use it for sight
And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far

If I weave around at night
And the police think I'm tight
They'll never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Ride with me and have a dram
Of the blood of the Lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
But I think he'll have to go
His magnet ruins my radio
And if we wreck he'll leave a scar


Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once His robe was snowy white
Not it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar

Niteguy beat me to the best lyrics, IMO, of all time. The Dance is unbeatable (Garth Brooks didn't write 'em though. I don't remember who did originally, he heard the song at a country western bar, but he certainly made them famous)

I like Rush's lyrics. They are always profound and poetic. Here's the Spirit of the Radio:

Begin the day
With a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood

Off on your way
Hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude

Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy

Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price ---
Almost free...

All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question
Of your honesty

One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity

"For the words of the profits
Are written on the studio wall,
Concert hall ---
Echoes with the sounds...
Of salesmen."

A close runner-up to Rush lyric wise would be Nine-Inch Nails, especially 'Hurt'. Most of 9 inch nails is rather angsty, though, so I have to be in that mood.

(((I like what you wrote, Niteguy......))))


Are there any Sting or Police fans out there?

Spirits In The Material World

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

We are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world


The Police

It's Alright, Ma by Bob Dylan

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying...

The rest of the song: It's Alright, Ma

Evidently I'm a big softy since I had little girls......
And I'm not known for being a country fan.

Tough Little Boys
By Gary Allen
Well I never once
Backed down from a punch
Well I'd take it square on the chin
Well I found out fast
A bully's just that
You've got to stand up to him
So I didn't cry when I got a black eye
As bad as it hurt, I just grinned
But when tough little boys grow up to be dads
They turn into big babies again.

Scared me to death
When you took your first steps
And I'd fall everytime you fell down
Your first day of school, I cried like a fool
And I followed your school bus to town
Well I didn't cry, when Old Yeller died
At least not in front of my friends
But when tough little boys grow up to be dads
They turn into big babies again

Well I'm a grown man
And as strong as I am
Sometimes its hard to believe
That one little girl, with little blonde curls
Could totally terrify me
If you were to ask
My wife would just laugh
She'd say "I know all about men
How when tough little boys grow up to be dads
They turn into big babies again"

Well I know one day, I'll give you away
And I'm gonna stand there and smile
And when I get home, and I'm all alone
Well, I'll sit in your room for a while
Well I didn't cry when Old Yeller died
At least not in front of my friends
But when tough little boys grow up to be dads
They turn into big babies again
When tough little boys grow up to be dads
They turn into big babies again.

Do not post ENTIRE songs here.

My favourite band lyrically is the Legendary Pink Dots. Here are a couple of gems.

If we never never, never land but fly without a destination, cry without a cause, and lose ourselves for just a second at the beauty of it all... Then maybe in the next life we'd be dolphins. - Evolution

the sun is just a brat that spits and the goes away. -The More it Changes

and from a sister project, The Tear Garden

Down here everything is fine. We have a straw, we have a line. We have a bag, a rock, a mountain with a string of shepherds driving lions. Aiming skewers at the sheep... face down, asleep, in onion fields. The frying fields. The worms... they peep through holes which once were eyes. They thrive... they bake although we painted out the sky, the sun. There's only thunder, and you and me and rainbows. - You and Me and Rainbows

Gosh, there are so many. In general, I would greatly agree with the choice of Rush and the Police.

Why are we here?/Because we're here/Roll the bones/Roll the bones/Why does it happen?/Because it happens/Roll the bones/Roll the bones -- "Roll the Bones" by Rush.

I don't believe in destiny/Or the guiding hand of fate/I don't believe in forever/Or love as a mystical state/I don't believe in the stars or the planets/Or angels watching from above/But I believe there's a ghost of a chance/We can find someone to love/And make it last -- "Ghost of a Chance" by Rush.

Another working day has ended/Only the rush hour hell to face/Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes/Contestants in a suicidal race -- "Synchronicity II" by the Police.

I also like these:

In a forest pitch dark/Glowed the tiniest spark/It burst into flame/Like me/Like me/My name Isobel/Married to myself/My love Isobel/Living by herself -- "Isobel" by Bjork.

I love you/I love you/But you are all I know -- "Ariel" by October Project.

"Id rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit," Atmosphere

There are three lyricists I think are the best.

3. Bob Dylan
From The Chimes of Freedom

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An' the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

2. Paul Simon
From Can't Run But

A winding river
Gets wound around a heart. pull it
Tighter and tighter
Until the muddy waters part
Down by the river bank
A blues band arrives
The music suffers
The music business thrives

And my favorite lyricist? Gotta be Bob Marley:

from Slave Driver
Ev'ry time I hear the crack of the whip
My blood runs cold
I remember on the slave ship
How they brutalised our very souls
Today they say that we are free
Only to be chained in poverty
Good god, I think it's all illiteracy
It's only a machine that make money

From One Drop
They made the world so hard
Everyday we got to keep on fighting
Everyday the people are dying
From hunger and starvation, lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy

From Small Axe
These are the words of my master.
Keep on telling me
No weak heart shall prosper,
Oh, no they can't.

And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it, shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit shall bury in it,
Shall bury in it.

If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.

From Concrete Jungle
No chains around my feet, but I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
And I've never known happiness, and I've never known sweet caresses
Still, I be always laughing like a clown
Won't someone help me?
Cause, sweet life, I've, I've got to pick myself from off the ground, yeah
In this here concrete jungle,
I say, what do you got for me now?
Concrete jungle, oh, why won't you let me be now?

Of these three, Dylan is the most poetic probably. Simon is the most abstract and smoothest. What takes Bob Marley to the top is the raw poetry and truth. Combined with his prophetic and charged delivery, Marley's lyrics were like a jolt of electric revolution to popular music. What Dylan alluded to poetically, Marley stated with a blunt, yet wholly righteous, raw power.

I had to think about this question, though. High on my list are Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and Jello Biafra.

Who could forget these DK classics:
From Well Paid Scientist
The dark shattered underbelly
Of the American dream
Avoid it like the plague
It stares you from your bathroom mirror
Drown

or the awesome California Uber Alles
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Ah, I could go on all night...

1) smoke 2 joints, by sublime

I smoke two joints in the morning
I smoke two joints at night
I smoke two joints in the afternoon
It makes me feel all right

I smoke two joints in time of peace
And two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more

(interlude)

Daddy he once told me,
'Son, you be hard workin' man'
And momma she once told me,
'Son, you do the best you can'
But then one day I met a man,
He came to me and said,
'Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head'


2)last understandably line of "Richest Man in Babylon" by the thievery corporation

There is no hope left in your kingdom
Your servants have burned all their songs
Nobody here remembers freedom
The richest man in Babylon

watch the video at YAHOO (above link) for the full effect.

What about Bob Dylan's "I Want You" - These lyrics say a lot about the character of the person being decribed in the song.

Well I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my Chamber Maids
She knows that she's not afraid
To look at her
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see
She knows where I'd like to be
But it, doesn't matter
I want you.

Quark - your mentioning of California Uber Alles reminds me of a funny story.

Sophomore year in high school, I was required to bring in lyrics of a song I liked or a poem for my (honors) English class and to explain why it was so important to us - I chose that song to read aloud to the class. My message was that people are lazy and allow their government to railroad them and the only way to change it is to get active...I guess this political stuff started early with me. Maybe I should tell Mr. B- I've lived up to my word

I started yesterday putting together my favorite lyrics but realized that after 3 pages in Word I had only amassed Roger Waters' lyrics and some Pink Floyd. So in an interest in sparing a little space, I decided to keep my favs to these two alone and to quote lyrics relevant to this forum and current events.

CD: Amused to Death
Song: Amused to Death


Song: It's a Miracle


Song: Late Home Tonight, I


Song: Perfect Sense, II


Song: Watching TV


CD: The Final Cut
Song: Get your Filthy Hands off my Desert


All the lyrics to The Fletcher Memorial Home

CD: Animals
Song: Sheep


CD: Dark Side of the Moon
All the lyrics to Time

Ok - I could REALLY go on, but I'll spare you. Thanks for reading!

So romantic...


For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her,
by Simon and Garfunkel

"Well you've got me working so hard lately
Working my hands until they bleed
If I was twice the man I could be
I'd still be half of what you need" - Nine Inch Nails, "Ringfinger"

"Please take this
And run far away
Far as you can see
I am tainted
And happiness
And peace of mind
Were never meant for me" - Nine Inch Nails, "And All That Could Have Been"

"In the back/off the side/And far away
Is a place/where I hide/where I stay
Tried to say/Tried to ask/I needed to
All alone/by myself/where were you
How could I/Ever think/It's funny how
Everything that swore would never change/Is different now
Just like you/would always say/'we'll make it through'
Then my head/Fell apart/and where were you?" - Nine Inch Nails, "Somewhat Damaged"


My Trent is a genius

Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true.
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
The soul of a woman was created below.

You hurt and abuse tellin' all of your lies.
Run around sweet baby, Lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby, I don't know where you've been.
Gonna love you baby, here I come again.

Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true.
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby, let them say what they will.
Will your tongue wag so much when I send you the bill?

Led Zeppelin, "Dazed and Confused"



Just before I go don't you offer any sweet advice
Cause where were all your shoulders when I needed them so long ago
And now with legs weak and weary from this silly dance
With a suitcase full of memories, I pack my bags and slowly
Drift away

Fuel, "It's Come to This"

Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill" CD


Some awesome lyrics. If you don't mind a twinge of irony.

more from me:

anti-flag, Vieques, Puerto Rico: Bikini Revisited:
all united, all as one, let's make a stand
we've got a privilege in the power that we command
so let's not drown in ignorance and let our strength waste away
as the richest nation in the world, we've got a responsibility.

vieques, puerto rico, a protectorate -- of the U.S.A.
part a home to native families, the rest... a navy bombing range!
shells misfired kill civilians there, and napalm hangs in the island air
but the government beats down protests against this misuse

so... stand up! fight back! resist-refuse!
'cause if we don't do it, no one's going to
sp... stand up! fight back! resist-refuse!
'cause if we don't do it, no one's going to


anti-flag, Free Nation?
State officials talk of freedom, THEY - TALK
In this country that we live in, THEY - TALK
Free to be harassed and be beaten by the pigs, YOUR RIGHTS - NO RIGHTS
Till your f-ing broken, crippled, or until you're f-ing dead
....
They call it a free nation, but all it is, is a nazi nation


anti-flag, No Apology
Slaughtered by the hands of a butcher
The hands of the butcher were the hands of a "doctor"
And these are the golden days that you want to bring back ?

Making it illegal won't make it go away
The rich will fly to far off lands, the poor will stay and pray
That their back alley abortion is clean and safe

You can't make it go away, so why endanger womyn's lives?
Because the issue here for you isn't life...
It's control! Control of what we do and say
But you'll never gain control - control - control


anti-flag, Fudge Police Brutality
FUDGE POLICE FUDGE POLICE FUDGE POLICE BRUTALITY (4X)

But the cops can do no wrong
They can kill, they can rape, they can do what they want,
But the cops can do no wrong
We've got to fight, take back the right,
The cops are just like Hitler's Third Reich, do what they want
Who do we fear? Who do we trust? How do we know?
Who do we fear? Who do we trust? How do we know?

FUDGE POLICE FUDGE POLICE FUDGE POLICE BRUTALITY (8X)

anti-flag, their system doesn't work for you
One day while sitting in my room
you came in preaching
your words predicting doom
You've never once been
happy with me,
because I not
what you want me to be...No!

You tried to teach me
to pray and go to school
You tried to teach me
to be the system's tool
But you missed
What I was smart enough to see
that their system doesn't work
for you or me

Oh... Don't believe what they say is true
Oh... Their system doesn't work for you
Oh... You can be what you want to be
Oh... Don't have to choose
to join the corporate army

For god and country give up your life,
Don't try to figure out what's wrong or right
you never tried to stop, to look, to see
that you're exactly what you're told to be

You did everything f-ing right
you followed the system's guiding light
And now you witch to me
to f-ing get a job
when you don't like
the life you've got

Don't have to choose
to join their corporate army X2
Your choice...X8

hope I didn't violate the profanity filter

Aerosmith - Dream On

everytime that i look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dust to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

I know what nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life is in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away
(x2)

Dream on, dream on
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on...

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away

FINAL WARNING: If songs are posted in their entirety I will close the this thread.

sorry jamie, didn't see your first warning. won't happen again with me.

me neither Jaime....

"She was more like a beauty queen
from a movie scene.
I said don't mind me but what do you mean
I am the one, who's gonna dance, on the floor, in the round."

Michael Jackson Billie Jean

"They paved paradise put up a pahking lot."Joni Mitchel, Big yellow taxi cab[ I think]
"Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my naiiime."-Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil

CP

Eagles - The Last Resort



Dan Fogelberg Same Old Lang Syne

Beladonna, I love the poignancy of Dan Fogelberg's songs.

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
--Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

"You need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you?"
--Billy Joel, I Love You Just the Way You Are

"And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessman slowly gets stoned
Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone"
--Billy Joel, The Piano Man

"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down or cuffed him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
'I am leaving, I am leaving,' but the fighter still remains"
--Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer

love this line from Eminem's "Lose Yourself"

"You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow (as in blow your chance to achieve a goal)
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime"

it means soooooo much and it's so true! AGH!

Paladin,

If I don't hear Same Old Lang Syne by Fogelberg during the holidays, they don't seem complete.

-Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin

"And when we were good,
You just close your eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds."

"The death of one is a tragedy,
The death of a million is just a statistic"

Both are from "The Fight song"

"I threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection, down among a million same
Difficult enough to feel a little bit
Disappointed, passed over
When I've looked right through you
To see you naked and oblivious
And you don't see me"


Three Libras, A Perfect Circle

"Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused.
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused...

"I don't know a soul who's not been battered,
I don't have a friend who feels at ease.
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to it's knees.
Oh, but it's alright, it's alright,
For we lived so well so long.
Still, when I think of the
Road we're travelin' on,
I wonder what's gone wrong..."

-- Paul Simon, American Tune


"You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?"

-- David Byrne, Psycho Killer


"Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens."

-- David Byrne, Heaven


"If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names
If we only have love
We can melt all the guns
And then give the new world
To our daughters and sons
If we only have love
Then Jerusalem stands
And then death has no shadow
There are no foreign lands...
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars."

--Jacques Brel, If We Only Have Love

these two are scotland's "anthems" (unofficial)

lyrics to scotland the brave (never sung really. song is usually on bagpipes alone.)
Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame!
High may your proud standards gloriously wave!
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever!
Scotland the brave!

(full lyrics)

flower of scotland, the corries:
O Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
Your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit Hill and Glen,
And stood against him,
Proud Edward's Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

(full lyrics)

The Nurse Who Loved Me, A Perfect Circle


Happy Guy, NoFX

David Bowie - Changes


......These children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through.....

red white and brainwashed, by anti-flag
The red stands for the blood of all the people
We've slain
The white for this racist, bigoted foundation
The blue for your arayan eyes -- all empty
Empty because you're taught to bow down to the man


red, white and brainwashed, red, white and brainwashed, red, white and brainwashed, RED, WHITE, AND BRAINWASHED,!!!!

Learning To Fly- Pink Floyd

probably one of my favorite songs lyrically...

I got lost sometime ago
Lost in your song, your touch, your smile
Where I wanna grow old
And you glimmer and gleam
Like a blond washed hair from an oceanside domain
Drifting into me
I found myself again in your song

Candlebox, It's Alright


She calls me from the cold just when I was low
Feeling short of stable
And all that she intends and all she keeps inside
It isn't on the label
She says she's ashamed
But can she take me for a while
And can I be a friend, we'll forget the past
Well maybe I'm not able
And I break at the bend

We're here and now but will we ever be again?
Cause I have found all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade
Away again

Fuel, Shimmer

and I just realized that I italicized the band name on my last post which I didn't mean to do. oh well

Right off the top of my head comes two songs that I really like the lyrics.
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.
And Lyin Eyes by The Eagles.
I have to give it a bit more thought but I am sure I can come up with quite a few more.
This is fun to see what and all the kinds of different lyrics people like.

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Nigga, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

Black Eyed Peas, "Where is the Love?"

when it comes to a relationship where one person keeps coming and going, there is nothing better than Trisha Yearwood's "Love Me Or Leave Me Alone"

"I know what I want, I know how I feel
But I don't want your love if it ain't real, no
I think it's time you made up your mind
Baby, what's your plan? I need to understand it

(Chorus)
Are you gonna love me or leave me?
Don't say that you need me
Not if you really want to let me go
You don't know how much it hurts me
Show me some mercy
Baby, just love me or leave me alone"

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl )
( Looking Glass )

There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes

And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine

The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"

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Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Got out of town on a boat goin' to southern islands
Sailing a reach before a followin' sea
She was makin' for the trades on the outside,
And the downhill run to Papeete Bay

Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas
We got eighty feet of the waterline, nicely making way
In a noisy bar in Avalon I tried to call you
But on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away

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Eagles Seven Bridges Road

There are stars
In the Southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight
And moss in the trees
Down the Seven Bridges Road

Now I have loved you like a baby
Like some lonesome child
And I have loved you in a tame way
And I have loved you wild