Smartest lyric you ever heard.

[ninja of love]

" I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

[Kitty Phobes]

I cannot save you.
I can't even save myself.

(Stabbing Westward)

KP
:cool:

[ScottWMF]

shit, I dunno.... klets go with something by Incubus

"if this is sight, I'd rather be blind"

[Guitar Centaur]

I was thinking about this just the other day.

I think my favorite is the chorus in "Helplessly Hoping" by CSN&Y.

They are one person
They are too alone
They are three together
They are for each other

[Brian Marshall]

the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
every day the paper bor brings more

pink floyd - brain dammage from dark side of the moon.

Funny, my wife, who did way more drugs than i did when she was a kid never knew what that line meant until I told her.

Brian

[jazzmaster]

I love all the Seven Deadly Sins.
I like to watch them smile on The Celebrity Smile Show.
That's the show where everybody wins -
a fabulous tour of the hell they already know.

Mark Eitzel - "Sleep"

[JD92]

I've always like Scritti Politti's "Lover to Fall" where each time the chorus goes:

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you.

But, towards the end it goes:

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby who cares
There's gonna be a day when the rich get theirs.

I find it amusing in an unrepentent pop love song.

[Metalcore4christ825]

"Love is Suicide"- Bodies by the Smashing Pumpkins

[Doc Wilson]

"So to my old headmaster, and to anyone who cares,
Before I'm through, I'd like to say my prayers:
I don't believe you, you had the whole damn thing all wrong.
He's not the kind of God you wind up on Sundays."
-- Ian Andersonl

[thelonius74]

Originally posted by ninja of love
" I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

Great song. I'm glad you got me into her!

Depends on what you mean by smart lyrics. When I think of 'smart' lyrics I tend to think of clever lyrics. And those are my favorite kind. I don't mean the cliched play on words that EVERY country artist was doing on EVERY song about 2 or 3 years ago (it's slacked off a bit..not much though)

I'd have to say 'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello.

If I had to choose one line in the song

"she's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake"

[themightylloyd]

"so tell me do you like what you just heard,
and do you find the point i'm driving at absurd
No need to tell me how or tell me why
But you'll have to give me a reason not to try
'Cuz if you look around you just might feel like me
and realize no one was ever really free
and maybe we've just only earned the right to barely see
barely see..."

Onslaught by blues traveler

[onthefringe]

something has to change
undeniable dilemma
boredoms not a burden
anyone should bear

constant over stimulation
numbs me
and i wouldnt have it
any other way

not enough
i need more
nothing seems to satisfy
i dont want it
i just need it
to feel, to breathe, to know im alive

finger deep within the borderline
show me that you love me and that we belong together
relax, turn around and take my hand

i can
help you change
tired moments into pleasure
say the word and well be
well upon our way

blend and balance
pain and comfort
deep within you
till you will not have me any other way

its not enough
i need more
nothing seems to satisfy
i dont want it
i just need it
to feel, to breathe, to know im alive

knuckle deep inside the borderline
this may hurt a little but its something youll get used to
relax.. slip away

omething kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be
desensitized to everything
what became of subtlety?

but how can this mean anything to me
if i really dont feel anything at all?

ILL
KEEP
DIGGING
till I
FEEL
SOMETHING

elbow deep inside the borderline
show me that you love me and that we belong together
shoulder deep within the borderline
relax... turn around and take my hand

tool - stinkfist

[Kitty Phobes]

Originally posted by onthefringe


tool - stinkfist

Mmmm...Kitty likes Tool lyrics.

KP
:cool:

[crazydave]

"shake you spear at shakespeare" ... system of a down

[cool cat]

there's holes up in the sky
and the devil punched down to the monkeys
and now we got drive through
and a video store where there used to be real live actors
used to ride around here
up on my high horse
with all the other good little butcher boys
a plagarist, of course
so roll over, sweet thing
like a nuclear reprisal, inbound from outer space
there's a comparison i'm trying to swing

god damn it's deafening
i wish you'd shut up about everything
the future is x-rated

there's holes up in the sky
and no one's seen your son in days
and things just keep getting weirder and weirder
and now christmas is for shopping
and the shopping god is everything
so roll over, and lose it
'cause power's just another one of those things, baby
it's pointless if you ain't gonna use it

god damn it's deafening
wish you'd shut up about everything
the future is x-rated

-matthew good

[Myth_Of_Invariance]

See below:

[Myth_Of_Invariance]

No--this instead:

This man he was a Mexican
Oh yea
Adopted into Norwegian
Oh Yea
Turned into American
Oh yea
But he felt a Mexican
Oh yea
Down Mexico way
Oh yea

He had to learn Spanish
Oh yea
He was a walking fish
Oh yea
He was feeling so brackish
Down Mexico way
Between Norwegian and English

He decided it was time to go
To find the people that he did not know
But the road to Mexico
Oh yea
They should go fast but they should go slow
Oh yea
It's a dangerous road

By now you know that he was fucked
By now you know he had no luck
He was hit on the head by a giant truck
Down Mexico way
Oh yea

---Frank Black

[Kingnome]

"They do respect her but,
they love to watch her strut"

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

Originally posted by ninja of love
" I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

"So give you ID card to the border guard
Your alias says you're Captain John Luc Picard
Of the United Federation of Planets
Cause they won't speak English anyways"

The Refreshments - Banditos

[Kingnome]

"I could give you a star, you could give me one too, and that way we'd be even"

[braif]

(I couldn't find just one to quote...but the last stanza is my favorite)

Angry Young Man (by Billy Joel)

There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
He's always at home with his back to the wall
And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be knowns as the angry young man

Give a moment or two to the angry young man
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand
He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood
It's a comfort to know his intentions are good
And he sits in a room with a lock on the door
With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor
And he likes to be known as the angry young man

I believe I've passed the age
Of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too
I had my pointless point of view
And life went on no matter who
Was wrong or right

And there's always a place for the angry young man
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand
And he's never been able to learn from mistakes
So he can't understand why his heart always breaks
But his honor is pure and his courage as well
And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell
And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man

[lyonsshare]

It seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind,
But if God's holy wisdom is foolish to man,
He must have seemed out of His mind!...

Even His family thought He was mad,
And the priests say a demon's to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane...

We in our foolisness thought we were wise.
He played the fool and opened our eyes
We in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong....


Michael Card
"God's Own Fool"
Scandelon

[peer amid]

" with just enough time for the night to pass by without warning"
.
.
....Better off dead, elton john, lyrics by bernie taupin

[JimNdave]

ONE - Creed

Affirmative may be justified
Take from one give to another
The goal is to be unified
Take my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the masses
sanctified by oppression
Unity took a back seat
Sliding further in regression
One
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind
Society blind by color
Why hold down one to raise another
Discrimination now on both sides
Seeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutiny
When all we want is unity
We may rise and fall, but in the end
We meet our fate together
One
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

[bassesofalessergod]

CHORUS:
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away

I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you’s so overpowering
I’m afraid that I will disappear

CHORUS

know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been

CHORUS

And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he’d done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again

CHORUS

God only knows
God makes his plan
The information’s unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway
When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away

[7Dimensions]

I've got the best lyric right here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!













Bitches are hustlas too! i thought ya knew, i thought ya knew

[Kitty Phobes]

Originally posted by Myth_Of_Invariance
See below:

__________________
"By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear"

From "Convoy" by C.W. McCall


Yes.

:cool:

[bassesofalessergod]

a more recent lyric that I think is excellent (from a band i could take or leave BTW) is from that Foo Fighters song when he sings "You've gotta promise not to stop when i say when......"

That is a great lyric.

[Kitty Phobes]

Originally posted by bassesofalessergod
a more recent lyric that I think is excellent (from a band i could take or leave BTW) is from that Foo Fighters song when he sings "You've gotta promise not to stop when i say when......"

That is a great lyric.

Yes, again.

:cool:

[7Dimensions]

Thats from Everlong

[bassesofalessergod]

how about:
yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today!


farkin' brilliant!

[Kitty Phobes]

Originally posted by 7Dimensions
Thats from Everlong

Yes again! Everlong is a lyrical masterpiece all the way through.

:cool:

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

Originally posted by Kitty Phobes


Yes again! Everlong is a lyrical masterpiece all the way through.

:cool:

I think that song more than any other proved that the Foo Fighters were legit and not "Nirvana, Part 2"

[Sam Therapy]

The Wonder Stuff - Cartoon Boyfriend

"There's a worm in my head and a fish in the bed," she said
Confused you will be
He's got the car on the lawn and he's using the horn again
Annoyed she will be

Cartoon boyfriend when you gonna rub yourself out

"There's a girl at my door and she's begging for more," he said
"Abused you will be"
"If you touch a hair on my head then you'd be better off dead"
She said "Oh joking you must be"

Cartoon boyfriend when you gonna rub yourself out

There were pieces of gold in his mouth when they met
And now there's just pieces of coal
There was a thought in his head the first time she said
And now there's just a gaping hole

(They call hiim the Crayola Kid, yeah look what he did with his crayons
and stuff but, that's not enough, Crayola Kid.)

[undone_sweater5]

You are so beautiful, to me
You are so beautiful, to me
Can't you see

You're everything i hoped for
You're everything i need

You are so beautiful to me!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a great song. Yet so simple.

[bassesofalessergod]

I'm easy like Sunday morning....

[ninjaaron]

Bring me champagne when i'm thristy
bring me reefer when I want to get high

Bring me champagne when i'm thristy
bring me reefer when I want to get high

when Im lonley bring my woman, set her right down here by my side...

well ya know there shoulden't be no law
if people that want to smoke a little dope

well ya know there shoulden't be no law
if people that want to smoke a little dope

well ya know it good for your health, and it relax your body don't ya know.

every time I get high
I lay my head down in my baby breast

well ya know mabey thats why
why i take my... (uninteligable drivle)

well you know she done hug and kiss me
see said "muddy you want me, then I love to be"

well I'm gonna get high
I'm gonna get high just as surely as my name

well I'm gonna get so high this morinnin'
its goin' to be a cryin' shame

well ya know I'm gonna stick with my reefer
I aint gonna be messin wrong with no cociane.

- muddy waters

[bassesofalessergod]

"Moderators are constipated poofters what needs to be kicked in the nuts."- ninja of love

[Sam Therapy]

Originally posted by bassesofalessergod
"Moderators are constipated poofters what needs to be kicked in the nuts."- ninja of love

Gets my vote.

[ninja of love]

Dave Grohl is a fine songwriter.

[ninja of love]

Richard Thompson is a fine songwriter. In fact, he deserves his own thread.

[ScottWMF]

":mad: RAAAH!!:mad: "
slipknot

[Super Rad!]

Everyone needs a mother, fucker!!

[bassesofalessergod]

Originally posted by soapfilms
Everyone needs a mother, fucker!!


I way PREFER THE mR. bUNGLE LYRIC IN YOUR SIGNATURE!

mIKE pATTON IS THE BEST!

[Super Rad!]

Originally posted by bassesofalessergod



I way PREFER THE mR. bUNGLE LYRIC IN YOUR SIGNATURE!

mIKE pATTON IS THE BEST!

Yup. Mr. Bungle is great.:D

[AXI]

Creed - Say I

The dust has finally settled down on the field of human clay.
Just enough light has shown through
to tell night from the day.
We are incomplete and hollow
for our makers gone away.

Who is to blame?
Will surely melt in the rain...

The stillness is so lifeless with no spirit in your soul.
Like children with no vision doing exactly what they´re are told.
Being let into the desert
for your strength will surely fade.

Who is to blame?
Will surely melt in the rain...

[Kingnome]

Was I suppose to quote a whole entire song here, or just a line or two?

[campaigner]

And he still gives his love
He just gives it away
And the love he receives
Is the love that is saved

Eddie Vedder, Given to fly

[auditorium]

either "a vessel she, for violent i" by the smashing pumpkins, or this ani difranco lyric from a song called "adam and eve" where the narrator is compared to a temptress eve by the subject's adam-

"i did not design this game
i did not name the stakes
i just happen to like apples
and i am not afraid of snakes"

[mitchdoggMDR]

One night me and the crew hit the road on a mission
To slurp free brew and go fuzzy flounder fishin'
Kayjees on the hi-fi and the keg was bottomless
Until we brought Skip O'Pot2Mus
And Daddy's gonna get some probably underage and dumb
And everybody knows that the Daddy eats his young
Lupus in the lavatory makin' a big stink
Macin' up the toilet seat and poopin' in the sink
M.S.G.'s tanked up and wizzin' in a cup
Waitin' for a sprinkle genie to come and drink it up
'Cause I'm the One Bottle Willy with the Twelve Horse Ale
After that I get silly like Soupy Sales
Now it's midnight and I'm completely boofy blitzed
A six of Schlitz and the Jew brew Manischewitz
With my beer-tinted glasses I'm ready to biddy battle
I'm "Hungry Like The Wolf" but I'll end up tendin' cattle

'Cause you're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
And I'm pretty fuckin' drunk

Here she comes a funky fried cutie
Mr. Jimmy Pop Ali is gonna get some booty
'Cause I'm Mr. McFeelie with a Speedy Delivery
You'd think I was a ditch the way this chick was diggin' me
But maybe I should check and see if this is where I wanna be
Hey Lupus is she cute? Yeah for a Pygmy
What do you know? You're probably goin' home alone
And it wouldn't be the first time that I gave a dog a bone
Plus beauty it's only skin deep
It's in the eye of the beholder and my beholder's about to tweak
I could tap that barrel in fact I know I can
It's a ménagé a trois you and me and Heineken

'Cause you're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
And I'm pretty fuckin' drunk

Regrets I've had a few
First and foremost I'd like to mention you
For the sake of conversation we'll call you the brand new heavy
You're a mix between an Ugnaut and Eugene Levy
You can call it big-boned I'd prefer to call it gut
You're Buddha you're Shamu you're Jabba the fuckin' Hutt
You had harpoon scars and your boobies were hairy
I smelt tuna melt but I wasn't gonna worry
It was 3:00 A.M. and I wasn't gettin' squat
So I rolled you up in flour and aimed it for the wet spot
I was buttering rolls like a soup kitchen Christian
Then it hit me somethin' bit me while my little rod was fishing
I was deep sea fishin' I took a fat chance
But how was I supposed to know that Jabberjaws lived in your pants?
At that junction I came to realize
That only Frank Purdue likes thighs that size
Fatty fatty boom ba latty I gotta lament
That you were not a girl you were an experiment

'Cause you're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
You're pretty when I'm drunk
And I'm pretty fuckin' drunk

Bloodhound Gang - Youre Pretty When I'm Drunk

[mcflytrap]

Steve Taylor is a master:

Ah, the news of my impending death
Came at a really bad time for me
I was far too young to depreciate
When they read my expiration date
I'd built iron man stalls in the northern wild
I'd played cabage patch dolls with my inner child
Now I'm getting sealed bids for a granite vault
And I'm pretty sure this is my parents' fault

:)

[Wes_Powell]

There's lots of good ones. My favorites are:

Darkness makes you fumble for a key
To a door
That's wide open - The Police

Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls
With bad intent - Jethro Tull

Find 'em
Feel 'em
F*** 'em
Forget 'em - The Mentors

;)

-wp

[Wes_Powell]

But, the best lyric of all comments on the sad state of modern music.

I take the checks
And face the facts
That some producer
With computers
Fixes all my shitty tracks - Ben Folds Five, Rockin the Suburbs

:D

-wp

[SLfreak]

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly,
Unspoiled, Unspoken,
I've outgrown that f@cking lullaby,
Same thing I've always heard from you,
Do as I say, not as I do

Dyers Eve, 'Tallica

[tramampoline]

No alarms and no suprises please.....

That number's by a little band I like to call Radiohead

[Reposki]

Originally posted by braif
(I couldn't find just one to quote...but the last stanza is my favorite)

Angry Young Man (by Billy Joel)

...



Now that is one great lyric! Thanks! time for me to check out the song now...

[Lord Lucifer]

the lyrics to Pink Floyds "No more turning away" sorry i dont feel like finding and posting them, but most probably know them.

[hood]

Some of the best lyrics from a band that everyone should check out- Uncle walt's band-

Desiree- BY WALTER HYATT

Oh Desiree, for once so fair
there should be heaven and a gentle hand to take her there
To your sweet life, my sugurcane
the sweetness of the world
should come like falling rain

Oh Desiree, For once so young
There Should be magic words and spoken with a golden toungue.
and in her heart, that magic done
That warms and lights the day
just like the golden sun

Oh, desiree, when we're apart
though I can't describe the sadness that comes to my heart
to see your eyes, to hear your voice
would bring my soul to life
and make my heart rejoice

Oh desiree, oh desiree, oh desiree

[hood]

Deeper than love - Walter hyatt

Oh my dearest darling
Your on my mind tonight
now that spring is comming
and the leaves are bright
when i read your letter
i remember life
oh, no
it's deeper than love

that mountain music
makes me think of you
everytime i hear it
want you to hear it too
when i hear the music
i remember life
oh no
it;s deeper than love

it's just a simple beat of hearts
just a glove on the hand of time
It's so long we've been apart
when I remember your life I remember mine

oh my dearest darling
I'm no one's sweet heart now
I've left love behind me
It's never right somehow
when I read your letter
I remember life
oh no
It's deeper than love

[hood]

High hill- Champ Hood (Uncle walt's band)

I'm alone in my thoughts like the night wind's cry
Last night I thought i saw some love in your eyes
I was hitting pretty heavey on your gin and wine
And it's true you had been on my mind
Do you really want to know how I'm spending my time
I'm just tryin to make the best of your love

I'm holding on now to the potters wheel
and it's turing me so fast that I don't know what I feel
I could be on a ship at sea
with only my thoughts to burden me
I guess it all depends on where to want to be
I'm just tryin to make the best of your love

I live upon a high hill
Work my hand in wire and wood
and i sing like a whippoorwill
and everynight there one thing on my mind
only that you love me
until the day I die
If you love me then
you know I would not mind

Everything I do everything I feel
Is comming back to me in a endless reel
like a movie I don't want to see
because I knew about the man and his misery
and your the only one who remains a mystery
I'm just tryin to make the best on your love

I live upon a high hill
Work my hand in wire and wood
and i sing like a whippoorwill
and everynight there one thing on my mind
only that you love me
until the day I die
If you love me then
you know I would not mind

[hood]

One more the Walter hyatt


"green tree"

In deapest oceans
and far from shore
away beneath the
resounding storm
great whales were playing
full fathom nine
where they were safe from
the whalers Line
the seasons harm

as children rushing
to see the fair
together wondered
in the pastures there
through spring was calling
to every heart
then dusk came falling
drew them apart
when raindrops fell

Why did the fragile , once seem so strong
why did forever , once seem so long

when words were gentle
and love was new
when i was worthy
as she was true
beneath the branches
of that green tree
the world was sweet to
my love and me
and life secure

Why did the fragile, once seems so strong
why did forever, once seem so long
why did the fragile, once seems so strong
why did forever, once seem so long

[Shamuspizzbutt]

And you turn in disghust
From your hatred
And from your love
-Leonard Cohen

I love the way you expect to hear lust, but don't.

Hold me while I hold a grudge...
-Deep Banana Blackout

Grabbed a gallon
at the corner shop.
Found my Jesus
in the last few drops.
-Deep Banana Blackout

[WTF]

"it's a sin that somehow
light is changing to shadow
and casting it's shroud
over all we have known"

the whole song pushit by tool

[lyonsshare]

Originally posted by bassesofalessergod
CHORUS:
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away

I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you’s so overpowering
I’m afraid that I will disappear

CHORUS

know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been

CHORUS

And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he’d done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again

CHORUS

God only knows
God makes his plan
The information’s unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway
When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away

[b alen]

Originally posted by AXI
Creed - Say I

The dust has finally settled down on the field of human clay.
Just enough light has shown through
to tell night from the day.
We are incomplete and hollow
for our makers gone away.

Who is to blame?
Will surely melt in the rain...

The stillness is so lifeless with no spirit in your soul.
Like children with no vision doing exactly what they´re are told.
Being let into the desert
for your strength will surely fade.

Who is to blame?
Will surely melt in the rain...

God help us all when you people start quoting Creed as something that's good about songwriting!!!!! I forgot lyrics had to rhyme to be considered good!! I don't normally like to post just to bash someone's opinion, but this is getting a little out of hand.

[devilboy]

There's so much to choose from, here's a few of my favorite "smart lyrics" from Ministry.


don't follow my path to extinction
if I had a mind I'd leave it alone
we speak of liberation children, ghetto medication
like a journey to the inside of carnal-fiction
release yourself where the preditor prays
rewind your mind
freeze your world apart

wage war on the eye which cannot see
destroy the temple of emptyness
and what about them in the wake of damnation?
and what about us?
do we come from God?

--What About Us?


absolution and a frozen room
are the dreams of men below
i try to grab it but the touch is hot
the mirror collapses, but the image came not
i'm scared of the darkness in the light
i scare myself because i know i'm right
i see the evil in your savage eye
as it cuts right through the sky
burning inside! burning inside!

--Burning Inside

so what, it's your problem to learn to live with
destroy us, or make us saints
we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late
a screaming headache on the brow of the state
killing time is appropriate
to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say
so what? so what?

--So What

[yeahmanwhatever]

"The further we go
And older we grow
The more we know
The less we show"


"10.15
Saturday night
And the tap drips
Under the strip light
And I'm sitting
In the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

Waiting
For the telephone to ring
And I'm wondering
Where she's been
And I'm crying
For yesterday
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

It's always the same"

[LittleLam]

You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being - Poe, "Trigger Happy Jack"

[hood]

Sad as it seems _Champ Hood (uncle walt's band)

Sad as it seems
you'll wake and be lonely
through all the night
you'll dream of him only
I talk to you, but you don't hear me
Why can't you see
It's not as sad as it seems

Sad as it seems
your misery surrounds you
I can't seem to break
this silence around you
your heart won't take, this unhappy feeling
But don't feel so low
It's not as sad as it seems

You say you lost someone
you believe in
But why make it hard on yourself
won't you try to love again

Sad as it seems
he's now just a memory
You need to let go
and stop this pretending
what can i do you know that I love you
but if you can't see
then it's sad as it seems

If you can't see
then It's sad as it seems

[hood]

this one has really unusal metaphors and stuff which is cool

As the Crow Flies- Walter Hyatt


As the crow flies
you can be my baby are you ready
YOu can live in the skies
you can rise on the wings of love
As the cat moves
you can be my woman are you ready
I been sitting to long
right or wrong I'm ready to move

as the crow flies
as the cat moves
i'm a sad bojangles but I'm too young for livin' the blues

As the buck dies
you can be my lover if you hunt me
I will fall int the woods
and the arrow and the goods will be yours
As the river rolls
I will take you to the sea if you want me
I will rock you in the deeP
and sing you to sleep on the shore

As the crow flies
As the cat moves
as the buck dies
as the river rolls
I'm a sad bojangles but I'm too young for the livin' the blues

[ninja of love]

Some of you guys wouldn't know a good lyric if it bit you on the butt.
I said lyric, not the whole damn (bad) song.

[Reposki]

Originally posted by Lord Lucifer
the lyrics to Pink Floyds "No more turning away" sorry i dont feel like finding and posting them, but most probably know them.

I recently decided to give a serious listen to Pink Floyd (finally)... So far I'm only familiar with The Wall, but I'm amazed by the whole concept of the album and how it all fits together so nicely. Very cool

[blackrose]

"lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars
while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car"

~trent reznor

"if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way"

~trent reznor

"people are strange
when you're a stranger
faces look ugly
when you're alone"

~jim morrison

"have you ever been experienced?
well i have..."

~jimi hendrix

"emptiness is loneliness
and loneliness is cleanliness
and cleanliness is godliness
and god is empty
just like me"

~billy corgan

[hankdave]

"My Funny Valentine" by Lorenz Hart

[bassesofalessergod]

Originally posted by Lord Lucifer
the lyrics to Pink Floyds "No more turning away" sorry i dont feel like finding and posting them, but most probably know them.

well, i am not a fan of Floyd without Roger Waters at all, i believe the song is called "On the turning away".

[electricmel]

To the guy who posted Ministry lyrics, how about this...

"Anal Fuckfest, Drill Olympics..."

from Burning Inside

That one always got us back in the three foot bong/double dipped hits of Porky Pig acid days.


Here is a gem -

"A wrinkled rose snapped back,
And the flies on flowers spreading out,
To all sickness and humanity.
Listen to our Queen as she is offering free samples -
Of her lovely garden spoils."

-Jane Of The Waking Universe,
-Robert Pollard,
-Guided By Voices


Or my favorite, actually -

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin nnnn......................It's my wife.........and it's my life"

- Lou Reed

[Osmosis]

Indiscipline--King Crimson

I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours...
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved,
I didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
playing little games...
like not looking at it for a whole day
and then.. looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.

I did.

I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistent.

I wish you were here to see it!

I like it!

[spong]

Originally posted by Brian Marshall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
every day the paper bor brings more

pink floyd - brain dammage from dark side of the moon.

Funny, my wife, who did way more drugs than i did when she was a kid never knew what that line meant until I told her.

Brian

what is a paper bor (typo error??)

It is actually paper boy:

In other words:
Pictures of people on newspapers that has been delivered by a paper boy. In Britain all the front doors have holes in them where the mail and newspapers are delivered. Once they have passed through the hole, they just fall to the floor.

Hence "the paper holds their folded faces to the floor".

Now I live in the US I can see how hard it would be for an American to understand this line (and many others)

[Nza]

"mouthwash jukebox gasoline" - Beck Hanson, 'Devil's Haircut'

"your lips say one thing but the drugs they say another/
how can I massage this intergalactic ulcer...
GOODBYE SOBER DAY" - Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle), 'Goodbye Sober Day'

"you may say I'm a dreamer/
but I'm not the only one..." - duh, we all know who said that

[Nza]

Originally posted by Wes_Powell
But, the best lyric of all comments on the sad state of modern music.

I take the checks
And face the facts
That some producer
With computers
Fixes all my shitty tracks - Ben Folds Five, Rockin the Suburbs

:D

-wp

Hell, yeah! :D

In fact, here's a lyric of my own also about the sad state of modern music:

"monsters with calculators use math to wrestle alligators/
just like imitators milk and mangle the innovators..."

from the Nickaliscious 5/4 time signature hip-hop won't-ever-be-a-hit "People With Plans"...

http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/nickaliscious

[jbh]

This is not helping me at all
What you are doing here
In the name of God and love
It's the distribution of fear
Pyramids and healing wines
Analysts with fame
I haven't got your degree
And I've forgot your name

Pick me and put me on the ground
Set me up and spin me all around
You are not one (I wish to see)

From the song Top by Live.

Anyone who has ever been through therapy knows exactly what this song is about. :o

[jazzmaster]

"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits

[popkhan99]

Wisdom from the all-time Master:

"Happiness is just a state of mind. Anytime you want, you can cross the state line."

-Bob Dylan ('Waitin for You')

Honorable mention:

"I had the brew, she had the chronic. The Lakers beat the Supersonics."

-Ice Cube ('It was a Good Day')

[Sam Therapy]

"The Queen and The Soldier" by Suzanne Vega is an extremely impressive piece of writing.

I'm not too keen on Skinny Suzie, but that one song is damn good.

[lucasj81]

Bright Eyes has some of my favorite lyrics. Here are a few:

"i had a brother once
he drowned in a bathtub before he had ever learned how to talk
and i don’t know what his name was but my mother does
i heard her say it once, padriac my prince i have all but died from the
sheer weight of my shame. you cried but no one came and the water filled your
tiny lungs." -Pedraic my Prince

"i pass a graveyard on my way to work
today i saw two dozen white roses
on a fresh new mound of dirt
and i wondered about the occupant
when the darkness finally swallowed him was he calm and content
or was he sweating in a struggle to keep breathing,
ripping apart the sheets that dressed his bed
crying out loud for someone to help him
and collapsing on his back all pale and dead" -on my way to work

And my all-time favorite line:
"It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change
And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been" -From a Balance Beam

If you like these, you can find more Bright Eyes lyrics at:
http://www.thestoryinthesoil.com/
or
http://www.speakeasy.org/%7Epjohnson/bright/lyrics.html

[tankgod]

Go ahead and bash away but Don Henley can turn a great phrase.

"Same dancers in the same old shoes,

You get too careful with the steps you choose.

You dont care about winning but you dont want to lose

After the thrill is gone...

The flame rises but it soon decends,

Empty pages and a frozen pen.

Your not quite lovers and your not quite friends,

After the thrill is gone....."

After the Thrill is Gone....Eagles...One of these Nights Album

[Nza]

Originally posted by jazzmaster
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits

:D (best yet, IMHO)

more Tom Waits goodies:

"...change your drawers, change your life, change your life! Gonna turn into a nine-year-old Hindu boy get rid of your wife! Step right up..."

[Rabman]

Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage.

Don't know why, but this verse really caught me.

Another one that grabbed me is from an old Daryl Hall and John Oates album "War Babies" the song is 70's Scenario.

And I laugh and I say that's alright
Things really ain't that tough
as long I'm still able to turn the TV off.

[DICKTRON]

The girls won't touch me cause I got a misdirection,
and livin at night isn't helpin my complexion
The signs all say it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection

Mom threw me out til I get some pants that fit
She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited I always gotta lose it,
then they pack me off & make me take the cure
But I don't need a cure,
don't need a cure
don't need a cure,
need a final solution

Final Solution, Pere Ubu

[Zeopold]

'I'm your yes man, yes, ma'am, I'm your yes man'

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions: 'My Bag'

[Halo Seven]

Originally posted by ninja of love
Richard Thompson is a fine songwriter. In fact, he deserves his own thread.


ROTFL:D

[swlabr]

I missed you and I must admit,
I kissed a few and once did sit,
on Ivor the engine Driver's lap
and later with him had a nap

"A quick one while hes away" Pete Townshend

If you are reading this lyric for the first time and thinking Ivor the Engine Driver is a silly rhyme there is a whole story to go along with this single lyric and this is where the story comes to a close

[ewebacca]

"I could kill ya sure, but I can only make you cry with these words"

- Belle and Sabastian, "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"

[Lurid]

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes 'round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten, ignorant to the damage done.

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, sinking deeper.
Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Lets you choose what you will and will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and faded anchor.
Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.

Let go.

-Maynard James Keenan/Tool "The Grudge"

[animaltown]

"i could have married others", says the actress in the pornographic film...

Devil in the Closet by Camper Van Beethoven

[gosvsu]

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one she smiles"
and puts her hands in her back pockets
Betty Davis style

In comes Romeo he's moaning,
"You belong to me I believe"
then someone says, "Your in the wrong place, my friend
you'd better leave"

And the only sound that's left
after the ambulences go
is Cinderella sweeping up on
Desolation Row

-Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row"

[6String Diablo]

Originally posted by Wes_Powell

Find 'er
Feel 'er
F*** 'er
Forget 'er - The Mentors

;)

-wp

Here's irrefutable proof that Wes Powell is well versed in the classics

;)

Cheers,
Kev

[6String Diablo]

It's time you songwriting gurus were acquainted with the great Martin Walkyier (ex-Sabbat, ex-Skyclad)...

Youth of our nation - A lost generation
Like lepers we march to the chimes of Big Ben.
Exiled and rejected by powers elected
Our cries from the gutter don't reach number ten.
Give us this day our daily bread
Before the headlines read "bring out your dead."
Chip-wrapper flowers are blown onto this cardboard grave
My spray paint epitaph upon the wall it says...
"Here lies the bones of some poor homeless vagrant
He died as he lived, in the shit on the pavement."

-Skyclad, Cardboard City

[this next one here is dedicated to my man Wes Powell: ]

Commercial suicide's appealing
after ten years on this losing streak.
'Cause I'd rather be called sour and bitter
than be deemed the flavour of the 'weak'.

-Skyclad, Penny Dreadful

I've wandered far (I've wondered hard)
And have one source of comfort only -
When I share my thoughts with you
Mortality is not so lonely.
Countless starts between us -
Myriad the things I miss,
I say farewell and think of home
The static drowns my parting kiss.

Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)

And as your signal slowly wanes -
the fears return (my growing pains),
here it is for what it's worth -
yet another postcard from planet Earth.

-Skyclad, Postcard From Planet Earth

The curtain never falls
On the show that has it all,
Taken in, you can't begin to see their lies,
for the people who are clapping
Are the ones who will be laughing
At your fate, they just can't wait to bleed you dry.
-Sabbat, The Church Bizarre

[and my all time fave...]
Some say I bite the hand that feeds - but to these disillusioned eyes
'tis sweet revenge to watch it bleed (it has only fed me lies),
The dead horses you were flogging could not rise and stand upon its legs,
Behold the leper-minstrel has been cured and nevermore shall beg.
-Skyclad, The Sky Beneath My Feet

[Dudealicious]

Incubus rules. the song is redefine.

Redefine:

"I'm sick of painting in black and white
my pen is dry, now i'm uptight
so sick of limiting myself to fit your definition"

"Must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
we've painted a picture, now we're drowning in the paint.
Let's figure out what the fuck it's about,
before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out"

hee hoo hee, im gonna see incubus next week.

INCUBUS RULES ( yeah! )

[curtiswyant]

"You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me"

"I was talking to preachy-preach about kissy-kiss
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep yep YEP!"

"you'll think i'm dead, but i sail away
on a wave of mutilation"

[telemaster]

"Meet the new boss...same as the old boss"--The Who "We Don't Get Fooled Again"

[LittleLam]

I reckon this thread should also be rated!

[Nza]

"the isle of doubt is like a taste of medicine
working by hindsight, got the message from the oxygen..."

- Talking Heads, "Crosseyed and Painless"

"make up your mind, who you want to pump the butt..."

- Kool Keith, "Make Up Your Mind"

[TheAceOfSpades]

Most aren't that clever, but here are a few of my favorites:

"Ain't nobody gonna see eye to eye
With a girl who's only gonna stand collarbone high..."
Old 97's - "Rollerskate Skinny"

"Living increases knowledge,
And when you die... you're dead."
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - "When You Die You're Dead"

"Give it to you, Give it to you,
Girl I'm gonna give it to you!"
TransChamps - "Give It To You"

"Military intelligence,
Two words combined that can't make sense."
Megadeth - "Hangar 18"

"You have to sleep late when you can,
And all your bad days will end!"
The Flaming Lips - "Bad Days"

"In the mountains of Norway,
where the weather is cold,
There's nothing to do except kill each other
And play guitar in the snow."
Atom and His Package - "Me And My Black Metal Friends"

"Erotic Jesus!!!!"
Jane's Addiction - "Three Days"

"And I wonder...
If everything could ever feel this real forever.
If everything could ever be this good again.
The only thing I'll ever ask of you,
You gotta promise not to stop when I say 'when'."
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"

[veil]

"...they say that art imitates life but life imitates TV..." or something like that Ani DiFranco who i don't like but damn she has clever lyrics

"what's coming through is a lie
what's holding up is a mirror
what's singing songs is a snake
looking to turn this piss to wine
they're both totally void of hate
and killing me just the same."
Tool, "H"

"while you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance."
-Radiohead, "spinning plates"

[falseaddiction]

"Love is Suicide" - smashing pumpkins

[falseaddiction]

did we forget about Rage Against the Machine?
"Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are
American dreams"

[jlindquist]

Here's three pretty good ones:

From Visions of Johanna: "Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet."

From Bastards of Young: "The ones who loves us best, are the ones we'll lay to rest, and visit their graves on holdays at best.
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please.
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them."

And of course: "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

[EerieDreamZ]

"Hide all the broken bits, keep all the bones.
These are the hurtin bits...when yuour alone"
- Danielle Dax

[Jokald]

"They honeymooned in the pickup truck, threw some hay in the back so they could... stay up all night." - Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

Roger Clyne is the former front man and songwriter for The Refreshments who had a couple of lyrics posted earlier.

[bobsetsfire]

And you can bet when we mourn the death of you that night
That they'll lay me on the dinner table and I will be the pig
With the apple in my mouth
The food that celebrates your end

------------

Saves The Day - At Your Funeral

[Triggerman]

Here's some DEL AMITRI lyrics for you...

Some Other Sucker's Parade
(Currie/McLoughlin)

I must've had a million damn unlucky days
But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away
I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place
But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight

They say with faith any soul can make it
But hell, why should I wait
'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade

I've had my share of heartaches, let downs and tricks
But the everyday blues is the one thing I can fix
I've heard those holy brethren muttering my name
But it ain't no sin to drink when you're suffering

Patience, they say, is a saintly virtue
But hell, why should I wait
'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
When every heavy sky just empties on your fate
Sometimes keeping dry's something to celebrate

So if the road of sin is the one I'm taking
I ain't gonna stray
'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade


What I Think She Sees
(Currie)

I've been in this place many times before
With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes
But just because I'm here
Don't mean I can't run out that door
Ain't that what those running shoes are for?
Baby likes to sleep on floor boards bare
And just to keep the peace, well I join her there
And she might say to me
'A better man I can't recall'
But what I think she sees ain't me at all
It ain't me at all to need somebody
Like some lovestruck casualty
It ain't me at all to feel so ready
To be what I think she sees
Baby claims I kiss like I really care
Well, I guess I'd say I don't but the truth ain't fair
And sometimes she looks at me and says
'Babe, my heart just stalled',
But what I think she sees ain't me at all.

[Sam Therapy]

Dickie Davies Eyes

by

Half Man, Half Biscuit

Mention the Lord of the Rings just once more
and I'll more than likely kill you.
"Moorcock, Moorcock, Michael Moorcock", she fervently moans...

Is this a wok you just shoved down my throat,
or are you just pleased to see me?
Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium.

And all those people you like to romantically believe are still alive
are dead,
So I'll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair as you put another
Roger Dean poster on the wall.

God, I could murder a Cadbury's Flake but then they wouldn't let me into heaven -
Or maybe they would 'cause their adverts promote oral sex -
A Romany bint in a field with her paints, suggesting we faint at her beauty -
But she's got Dickie Davies eyes.

And all those people you like to romantically believe are still alive
are dead,
So I'll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair as you put another
Roger Dean poster on the wall.

[Super Rad!]

"When I was a little man, Playdough came in a little can. I was Star Wars biggest fan, now I'm stuck without a plan. Shaggy drove the Mystery Van, G.I. Joe was an action man. Devo was my favorite band, take me back to my happy land."

-The Aquabats

[Stea1thy]

The words, I thought, I brought, I left, behind so, nevermind...

[kobi]

heres a great one from John prine




Dear Abby, Dear Abby, well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sittin' in the back seat just shootin' the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married

Just Married, Just Married, you have no complaint ...
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster listen up good
Stop wishin' for bad luck and knockin' on wood

[The Cerastine Order]

Every single word in Nevermore's Dreaming Neon Black.

Poetically brilliant beyond compare.

[Bobanonymous]

"Why can't we not be sober?"

Tool, Sober.

This has to be the smartest thing I've ever heard :D

[JSimms]

Johm McRae:

"Well, your CD collection looks shiny and costly.
How much did you pay for your bad Moto Guzi?
And how much did you spend on your black leather jacket?
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket?

Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rock'n'roll t-shirt
That proves you were there,
That you heard of them first?

How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
Ah, tell me.

How much did you pay for the chunk of his guitar,
The one he ruthlessly smashed at the end of the show?
And how much will he pay for a brand new guitar,
One which he'll ruthlessly smash at the end of another show?
And how long will the workers keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones.
And how long will the workers keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones.

Aging black leather and hospital bills,
Tattoo removal and dozens of pills.
Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments,
But rock on completely with some brand new components.


How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?

Excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them.
Your chaos won't convert them.
They're so happy to rebuild it.
You'll never really kill it.
Yeah, excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
Excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking,
You're drinking,
You're drinking what they're selling. "

[Nza]

One of my favorite songs, period. :D

Once, I had the pleasure of covering that song while opening for this stuck-in-the-80s-hair-band-type-of-band called Amazing Grace, and I stared right at their singer the whole time (cause he was wearing a leather jacket, and I thought it was the funniest thing ever).

Anyway, one of my favorite lyrics is off that album, in the song "Pentagram":

Your pentagram is down below our floor.
Your naked body shimmers in the night.
Dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite.
Your feet are dry with the ashes from dead babies,
Who have passed the test just like all the rest,
But never really understood the reasons why
They took it in the first place.

[JSimms]

Originally posted by Nza
One of my favorite songs, period. :D

Once, I had the pleasure of covering that song while opening for this stuck-in-the-80s-hair-band-type-of-band called Amazing Grace, and I stared right at their singer the whole time (cause he was wearing a leather jacket, and I thought it was the funniest thing ever).

Anyway, one of my favorite lyrics is off that album, in the song "Pentagram":

Your pentagram is down below our floor.
Your naked body shimmers in the night.
Dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite.
Your feet are dry with the ashes from dead babies,
Who have passed the test just like all the rest,
But never really understood the reasons why
They took it in the first place.

Bad ass.

Pentagram is another good one.

I think John Mcrae is a very underrated songwriter, particularly as a lyricist.

[bobsetsfire]

Song by The Dismemberment Plan:

well i, i am a time bomb and i, i lay forgotten at the bottom of your heart... i'm fine ticking, away the hours to blow your world apart

well i, i am a poison and i, i instill caution in your bloodstream like a ghost, like wine, gathering vintage the day i hurt the most

i, i am a land mine and i, i lay on the soil burned out the battles you thought you'd won, i've got time... to wait for the footprints.. the memory that's on the run...yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

i, i am a tar pit and i, i swell like a living thing all at the slightest touch.. a black grime, yeah, swallowing everything.. a cold and timeless clutch

i, i am a trip wire, and i, i'm stretching across the road you're barreling down tonight...a finished wire, waiting to be released right beyond your sight

i, i am a fault line and i, i'm pulling apart the ground that lay beneath your newest seed.. so fine, moving an inch an hour a caution you won't know, you don't know, you think so (missing word)

well i, i am a time bomb i only live in that one moment in which you die... its not right, its not what i wanted then but you know and i know there's no going back

i, i am a lost soul and i, i send out a sickened light for anyone to see... a cry for help, a warning to stay away.. perverted.. blinded... reaching in darkness....why

[JCHCJams]

I'm gettin down like im jumpin off the eighth floor?

[Dan_W]

"And I wonder
Yeah I wonder
Will Elvis take the place of Jesus in a thousand years

Religious wars
Barbaric laws
Bloodshed worldwide
Over what's left of his myth

A growing boy needs his lunch "

a growing boy needs his lunch-dead kennedys


"the position being taken is not to be mistaken
for attempted education or righteous accusation
only a description just an observation of the pitiful
condition of our degeneration!

walls made of opinions thru which we speak and never listen
ceiling made of pride vicious and self satisfied
door thats made of rage hard and slowly aged
always closing tighter with every war that's waged

room without a window cant see out...

floor is made of lives we'd gladly end to stay inside
corners made of borders, borders made of law and order
painted with the words of politicians and religion
plastered with the wreckage of our cultural division "

room without a window- operation ivy

[Raging Cactuar]

This probably isn't the most intelligent lyric I've ever heard, but it is one of the more clever ones I could remember.

"You can't spell believe without lie."
-No Use For a Name, "Insecurity Alert"

[Deryck]

"In my mind my dreams are real"

from Rock 'n' Roll Star by Oasis.

[Taylorman]

I kinda like contradictory stuff like :

"Emptiness is filling me,
To the point of agony..."

(Metallica - Fade To Black)

Also check out "Slow Motion" by Third Eye Blind. Realistic.

[Big Wheel]

"Some people say they are lucky in their birth; whose nationality bequeaths them pride.
But those who own the earth are still tethering their serfs with company allegiance fully tied."

The Men They Couldn't Hang "Company Town"

[rex-direct]

just a few selected flickerstick lyrics:

from you're so hollywood:
with designer medications
another valium in the red wine
you're so hollywood
you're so hollywood

talk show host:
the radio
it seems so shady oh
i'll never hear myself just quite the same again
it's overload, in stereo
im sweating like a talk show host tonight

got a feeling:
i got a feeling
it's a feeling that you'll never understand
it's like a rush to my heart
that i hope never ends
because it all depends
it's such a power
a sensation
that it's changing how i feel about you
it's all brand new
the fight is far from over
there's nothing left to lose

direct line to telepathic:
hey, look at me
i'm causing a catastrophe
but i
i just might see
you and me
the excess your own celebration now

execution by x-mas lights:
so get in line
and fortify
its just time to go out
and scream from the top of the moon
one more
time

[KipH]

Life it seems will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else

I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

-

Things not what they used to be
Missing One inside of me
Deathly lost this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel

Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me but now He's gone


One of the only songs that gives me the chills every time I listen to it :]

[Zeopold]

'We will have a real cool time... tonight.'

Stooges

[RoQoN]

Pig

Isn't it strange
How we move our lives for another day
Like skipping a beat
What if a great wave should
wash us all away
Just thinking out loud
Don't mean to dwell on this dying thing
But looking at blood
It's alive right now
Deep and sweet within
Pouring through our veins
Intoxicate moving wine to tears
Drinking it deep
Then an evening spent dancing
It's you and me
This love will open our world
From the dark side we can see a glow of something bright
There's much more than we see here
Don't burn the day away

Is this not enough
This blessed sip of life
Is it not enough
Staring down at the ground
Oh then complain and pray
more from above
Greedy little pig
Stop just watch your world trickle away
Oh it's your problem now
It'll all be dead and gone in
a few short years
Just love will open our eyes
Just love will put the hope in our minds
Much more than we could ever know
Don't burn the day away

Come sister
my brother
Shake up your bones shake up your feet
I'm saying open up
And let the rain come pouring in
Wash out this tired notion
That the best is yet to come
But while you're dancing on the ground
Don't think of when you're gone
Love! love!? what more is there?
We need the light of love in here
Don't beat your head
Dry your eyes
Let the love in there
There are bad times
But that's ok
Just look for love in it
Don't burn the day away

Look
Here are we
On this starry night staring into space
And I must say
I feel as small as dust
Lying down here
What point could there be troubling
Head down wondering what will
become of me
Why concern we cannot see
But no reason to abandon it
Time is short but that's all right
Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night
Take your hands from your eyes, my love
Everything must end some time
Don't burn the day away

Come sister
My brother
Shake up your bones shake up your feet
I'm saying open up
And let the rain come flooding in
Wash out this tired notion
That the best is yet to come
But while you're dancing on the ground
Don't think of when you're gone
Love! love!? what more is there?
We need the light of love in here
Don't beat your head
Dry your eyes
Let the love in there
There are bad times
But that's ok
Just look for love in it


Dave Mathews Band from Before these crowded streets

[Circle2002]

puff daddy:

"i got a ho/in every post code"

brilliant.

[msilva9383]

I don't konw about smartest I ever heard but anything by John Mayer tends to be clever. For example:

And autumn comes
It doesn't ask
It just walks in

would I be satisfied
and find peace inside
rolling half my life
over broken white lines

And if it ever gets bad
I mean stay in bed bad
I'll move to Nova Scotia
Forget the life I had
I'll be up at 9 each morning
Down by the shore
Collecting things that fell off boats in storms
Well ok so I might never
But it's nice to know the option's there

[notquitetony]

the truth is, you could slit my throat, and in my last dying breath i'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.

taking back sunday

[pale figure]

There is no devil, only god when he's drunk.

[rumble_20]

serve the servants - nirvana
touch me - doors
paranoid - black sabbath


i mostly like the theme of these songs rather than the actual lyrics.

[aZnrockstar]

Originally posted by Rabman
Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage.



I believe it's actually

...a walk-on part in The Wall for a lead role...

one of my all time favorite lyrics, too.

[WattsUrizen]

I thought that was from Wish You Were Here. (The song, not the album).

[Grotto]

Originally posted by aZnrockstar


I believe it's actually

...a walk-on part in The Wall for a lead role...

one of my all time favorite lyrics, too.

The word is "war" and not wall as in "a walk-on part in The war for a lead role..."

[zelmobeaty]

i eats mo chicken than you ever seen. Howlin Wolf

[Greenshoe]

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains

[SDO]

ScottWMF was straight on about Incubus, I also like a lot of tragically hip lyrics, like this one from Silver Jet, "Your heart jumps to/and my heart jumps too/and I think to mysef I don't really know my heart/As you whisper me too" great song. nautical disaster is good, as is locked in the trunk of a car. im babbling now.:D

[SDO]

i got soem more: CoolCat is definately a cool cat, MGB RULES!! i think the lyrics to live forever by oasis are cool

[SDO]

okay, sorry for putting three in a row but i keep thinking of them in fragments:
Tweeter and the monkeyman lyrics (cover by the headstones)
Lightning Crashes by Live (only rock song ever with the word Placenta in it)
pink floyd stuff, the whole wall album (hey you, standing in the aisle with itchy feet and somethign or other...)

[frogmanstar]

Elvis Costello:

"My Favourite Things is playing,
Again and again,
But it's by Julie Andrews
And not by John Coltrane" from This Is Hell

Belle and Sebastian:

"Hillary went to the Catholic church because she wanted information
The vicar or whatever took her to one side and gave her confirmation" ....
"If you're feeling sinister, go off and see a minister
He'll try in vain to take away the pain of being a hopeless non-believer" from If You're Feeling Sinister

"What do you think of the cool set in London?
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your 10 biggest w*nks
She's a waitress and she's got style,
Sunday bathtime could take a while" from The Boy With The Arab Strap

Tom Waits:

"It's the tatooed broken promise
I gotta hide beneath my sleeve" from Blue Valentine


and one more that might not be all that smart, but I just have to sing along to when I hear it:
"Let's get married,
In a big cathedral with a priest,
'Cos if I'm the man you love the most
You could say I Do at least

And it's 1,2,3,4, take the elevator
At the Hotel Yorba, I'll be glad to see you later,
All I got inside is vacancies" - White Stripes, Hotel Yorba

[tjs]

DREAMING TREE

Standing here
The old man said to me
"Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree"
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
Now he's falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby"
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died

Oh have you no pity
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please

From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
She gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
She feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her
"You'll always be my baby"

"Daddy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died"

Take me back
Save me please

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GREY STREET

Oh look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out on to Grey Street
She thinks, "Hey,
How did I come to this?
I dreamed myself a million times around the world,
But I can't get out of this place"

There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together -
To grey
And it breaks her heart

How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most every night
And though she swears He doesn't listen
There's still a hope in her He might
She says, "I pray
But my prayers fall on deaf ears,
Am I supposed to take it on myself
To get out of this place?"

There's loneliness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together -
To grey
And it breaks her heart

She hears voices from outside her door
Says "take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
It'd take the work out of the courage "
But she says, "Please
There's a madman creeping outside my door,
I live on the corner of Grey Street and the end of the world"

There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It's more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her
Using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together -
To grey
And it breaks her heart

It breaks her heart
To grey

[Docktor Rocktor]

Here's a few

I thought about my friend michelle, how they rolled him in linoleum and they shot him in the neck, a bloody halo like a paint bubble a-circling his head
-Nick Cave

Pugilistic linguistics, check out the mystics, it's fantistic, you mean fantastic? fuck it, you'll get your ass kicked- mind acrobatics, vocabulary casithenics, you can't understand it, the mathematics are esoteric
-Jeru the Damaja

When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?
-the clash

I dont believe in an interventionist God
but I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would down on my knees and ask him
not to intervene when it came to you
-nick cave

Camoflage chameleon, ninjas scaling your building, no time to grab your gun, they already got your wife and children, because you had secret evidence and documents on the president and major residents pertaining to how they raped the continents of the asiatic dominant islamic black hebrew- the year 2002, six million devils have died of the bubonic flu, of the ebola virus, over the reign of king sirus, you can see the weakness of a man through his iris.
-The genius

[HungryCoyote]

Remember the first time I told you I love you
It was raining hard and you never heard
You sneezed, and I had to say it over
"I said 'I love you'" I said...you didn't say a word
Just held your hands to my shining eyes
And I watched as the rain ran through your fingers
Held your hands to my shining eyes and smiled as you kissed me

"If you die," you said, "so do I" you said...
And it starts the day you make the sign
"Tell me I'm forever yours and you're forever mine
Forever mine..."
"If you die," you said, "so do I" you said...
And it starts the day you cross that line
"Swear I will always be yours and you'll always be mine
You'll always be mine
Always be mine..."

Remember the last time I told you I love you
It was warm and safe in a perfect world
You yawned and I had tos ay it over
"I said 'I love you'" I said...you didn't say a word
Just held your hands to your shining eyes
And I watched as the tears ran through your fingers
Held your hands to your shining eyes and cried

"If you die," you said, "so do I" you said...
But it ends the day you see how it is
There is no always forever...just this...
Just this...
"If you die," you said, "so do I" you said
But it ends the day you understand
There is no if...just and
There is no if...just and
There is no if...

The Cure - There is No If

[sunkenforest]

'we can't go on together with suspicious minds'
the king

'down in the shadows of your deepest secrets
i sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear.
my heart is in your province hour upon hour.
i shiver when you feel the cold, everything you say i hear.
like a bomb and its fuse, we bring bright light -
but i could be a devil to you.
I could bite like a tarantula...
right through the skin...
and leave my poison in...'
maxi jazz, (faithless), 'tarantula'

'wanna go for a ride?'
billy corgan...'zero'

'i'm as puzzled as the new born child.
i'm as riddled as the tide.
should i stand amidst the breakers?
or should i lie with death my bride?'
tim buckley...'song to the siren'

'oliver's army are on their way and i would rather be
anywhere else than here today.'
elvis costello

[RckStr585]

Tool- The Grudge, or maybe Parabol/Parabola

[negative sleep]

you can do it, put your back into it, you can do it, put your ass into it.

[The Blue Gopher]

Who needs hope when I have you
- John Fahr

[bballdrummer]

Originally posted by ScottWMF
shit, I dunno.... klets go with something by Incubus

"if this is sight, I'd rather be blind"

Nice one. What incubus song is that from?

I'll go with an incubus song also(off the top of my head its the best):

"To Resist is to piss in the wind" - Out From Under - incubus

[lupus242]

everything Maynard James Keenan has ever writen
He has got to be the greatest lyricist ever.

"Fuck your God"-A Perfect Circle judith

"Heaven, heaven is a place, where nothing, nothing ever happens" -The Talking Heads heaven

"God is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell i'll see you there"
NIN Hearsey

"God is empty just like me" Smashing Pumpkins zero

[WorshipMetallica]

"My recipe is now your epitaph
Be it fried, boiled or grilled...

I devour the pediculous corpse

The festering stench of rotting flesh
Makes me drool as I consume...

Rotten remains I eat
Purulent meat
What a funeral feast

Weeping tissue is stripped
Pus dribbles from my lips

Rotting corpses are my lunch
On bones I love to crunch

Shrivelled innards I lick
The corpse's head I kick"

These are a few lines from "Exhume to Consume" by Carcass

[LynGrey]

"you were.. nev..er understanding,
you took my love forgranted...."

"we try to hide our selve...Realize.... WE tryyyYYyyyYYy"

Darwins Waiting Room

[thisllub]

How did this get to 9 pages without Matt Johnson (The The)

This guy is by far the best lyricist ever.


On Sex with a stranger

Don't tell me what your name is--
I want your body, not your mind,
I want a feeling, worth paying for before I say goodbye
But as I was talking, I couldn't look her in the eyes,
I just kept wondering,--
How many men unleashed their frustration between her thighs?

There'll be no sleep until the morning
There'll be no lullabys--
'case the devil borrowed my clothes just for tonight--
....

Well I didn't wanna hurt your feelings, honey
but I couldn't suppress my own,
I had to pull myself outta this nosedive
by proving something to myself.

She was lying on her back
with her lips parted.
Squealing like a stuffed pig--
I was going through the motions
faking the emotions,
and wriggling around like lizard in a tin.


On AIDS

Take me by the hands and walk me to the end of the pier.
Run your fingers through my hair,
and tell me what I wanna hear--
Will lies become truths in this face of fading youth
from my scrotum to your womb, --your cradle to my tomb.

I can't give you up, till I've got more than enough.
So infect me with your love--
Nurse me into sickness. Nurse me back to health.
Endow me with the gifts--of the man made world.
Infected


On Love

Then you came back to me and I went down on one knee
With a glint in my eyes and a rose between my teeth
And I pushed out my tongue for you to see
That I'd been dying of a thirst for your company
Then you quenched my loneliness with your tears
And our clothes fell away as we rolled back the years
But we could't deny it because we could not admit it
If our love was too strong to die
Or we were just too weak to kill it

August & September

On Despair


You can't destroy your problems
By destroying yourself
Death is not the answer
For your soul may burn in hell
My memory my fond deceiver
Is turning all my past into pain
While I'm being raped by progress
Tomorrow's world is here to stay
They wouldn't have it any other way

I'm just a symptom of the moral decay
That's gnawing at the heart of the country.



On Time

Well... you didn't wake up this morning,
'cause you didn't go to bed.
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red!

The calendar on your wall -- IS TICKING -- the days off.

This is the day



JUST Damn fine lyrics to a damn fine song

Peeling the skin back from my eyes, I felt surprised
that the time on the clock was the time I usually retired
to the place where I cleared my head of you;
but just for today, i think I'll lie here and dream of you.

I've got you under my skin where the rain can't get in,
but if the sweat pours out, just shout I'll try to SWIM AND pull you out.

A howling wind blows the litter as the rain flows,
as street lamps pour orange colored shapes through your windows,
a broken soul stares through a pair of watering eyes,
uncertain emotions force an uncertain smile...

Uncertain smile


On Religion

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn't build himself that throne
God doesn't live in Israel or Rome
God belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn't even go to church
And God won't send us down to Allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon days are here again

[Neon-Frog]

Some of my personal favorites

Increase delete escape defeat
It's all that matters to you
Cotton case for an iron pill
Distorted eyes
when everything is clearly dying

--

E-motion sickness
To idle with an idol
Addict with no heroine
Good things will pass
It helps with excess access
Lessons learnt

--

I love the way you love
But I hate the way
I'm supposed to love you back

--

Hold yourself 'cause no-one will
I'll be there to take the spill
Cleanse your soul, change the tide
And ride the wave back to me

--

All the bridges in the world
Won't save you
If there is no other side
To cross to

--

Across the night
It was the moon that stole my slumber


Well i could go on for ever but these are a selection of lyrics from my favorite lyricist - Daniel Johns from silverchair, these lyrics were taken from the albums Neon Ballrom and Diorama

[soul_krusher]

a couple fave lines:

If you were me
You'd be in luck
But you're not
So you suck
- Superjoint Ritual

Rock stars on the road
Come on bitch
Swallow my load
- Mentors

Livin' fast an' dyin' young
Like-a endless poetry
My motor psycho nightmare
Freak out inside-a me
My soul salvation
Liberation on the drive
Power of the blaster move me faster
Nineteen-sixty... five yeah WOW!
"Thunderkiss '65" - White Zombie

[PCMankey]

"...so, I lit a fire isn't it good Norweigian wood?"

[403]

"She makes the sign of a teaspoon
He makes the sign of a wave"


Paul Simon

[leyoculta]

"to give you my life... I don't need to die".
Song: Eternamente
Artist: Coda

Translated from Spanish:
"Para darte mi vida, no necesito morir"

[descender]

I'm not really a big Pantera fan, but...

"I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself."

Okay, maybe not smart, but classic in an early 90's metal kinda way.

[Woocifer]

Originally posted by descender
I'm not really a big Pantera fan, but...

"I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself."

Okay, maybe not smart, but classic in an early 90's metal kinda way.

Bastard you beat me to it! That lyric is awesome because it doesn't just take one perspective on the bullshit of love.

Personal favorites:

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you
-Soundgarden

Like the echoes of your childhood laughter, ever after
Like the first time love urged you to take it's guidance, in silence
Like your heartbeat when you realize you're dying, but you're trying
Like the way you cry for a happy ending, ending...
I know
-Faith No More


Humility take charge of me
Drown me in truth's modest waters
Loosen your grip identity
Free me from an ego's falter

Love too often is only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
Must I try? How could I?
-Cynic

In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
lies a birth-machine for a paralell universe
-In Flames

Military Intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense
-Megadeth

[qyq]

Danny and I
Spent anther late night over pancakes
Talkin' 'bout soccer
And how every man's just the same.
We made speculation
On the who's and the when's of our futures
And how everyone's lonely
But still we just couldn't complain.

And how we just hate being alone.
Could I have missed my only chance,
And now I'm just wasting my time
By lookin' around

But ya know I know better,
I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothin'.
Cause if the birds and the flowers survive,
Then I'll make it okay.
And given a chance and a rock;
see which one breaks a window.
And see which one keeps me up all night and into the day.

Because I'm so scared of being alone
That I forget what house i live in.
But it's not my job to wait by the phone
For her to call.

Well this day's been crazy
But everything's happened on schedule,
from the rain and the cold
To the drink that I spilled on my shirt.
'Cause You knew how You'd save me
before I fell dead in the garden,
And You knew this day
long before You made me out of dirt.

And You know the plans that You have for me
And You can't plan the end and not plan the means
And so I suppose I just need some peace,
Just to get me to sleep.

Table for Two - Derek Webb (Caedmon's Call)

[leyoculta]

Originally posted by Woocifer


Military Intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense
-Megadeth

I love that one too.

[Monkaton]

Originally posted by Nza


:D (best yet, IMHO)

more Tom Waits goodies:

"...change your drawers, change your life, change your life! Gonna turn into a nine-year-old Hindu boy get rid of your wife! Step right up..."

"The piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking, not me."

"From the nape of her neck to her lipstick lips."

"And I'm gettin' harder than Chinese algebra."

"Small Change got rained on with his own .38."

Tom Waits for No One.

[Monkaton]

Originally posted by telemaster
"Meet the new boss...same as the old boss"--The Who "We Don't Get Fooled Again"

Bingo!

[Monkaton]

From the Dan

"The things you think are precious, I can't understand."
"The thing you think are useless, I can't understand."

"Who is the Goucho amigo?
Why is he standing in his silver-spangled pancho
with the studs that match your eyes?"

"I'm way deep into nothing special."

"As he watches his bridges burn, from the point of no return."

"Like a Sunday in TJ
It's cheap, but it's not free
and I'm not what I used to be."

"I hear the monkey in your soul."

Are you with me Dr. Wu?
Are you merely just a shadow of the man that I once knew?
Are you crazy, are you high
Or just an ordinary guy?
Have you done all you can do?
Are you with me Doctor?"

[Monkaton]

"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering,
Where it will go." Lennon-McCartney

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream,
It is not dying, it is not dying." Lennon-McCartney

"Who needs money, when you're funny?" Randy Newman

"She wanted to borrow my car from me,
I said take it baby.
She took it down to Mexico,
ran over a man named Juan." Randy Newman

"Hey Rand, how would like to be the Boss for awhile?" R. Newman

"Look at me. Who am I supposed to be?
Who am I supposed to be.
Here I am, ooohh my love." J. Lennon

"They want you to think life's a tragedy,
But the knife in your back says it's comedy." T. Kniest

"It's good to be the King." Mel Brooks, not a song lyric, but a great line.

"It's good to be king." Tom Petty, a good song lyric, but not as great a line.

"Springtime for Hitler and Germany." Mel Brooks

[the wishmaster]

i will always have a deep resepect, and i mean that most scencerarly. The band is just fantastic, that is realy what i think.
Oh by the way, which one's pink?


that my fav lyric. the way the world works in 3 scentances. everyone these days seems to be of the opinion ~> hmm can i use you to make myself rich? yep i can, ok i guess we can be friends then.

[PCMankey]

Originally posted by the wishmaster
i will always have a deep resepect, and i mean that most scencerarly. The band is just fantastic, that is realy what i think.
Oh by the way, which one's pink?


that my fav lyric. the way the world works in 3 scentances. everyone these days seems to be of the opinion ~> hmm can i use you to make myself rich? yep i can, ok i guess we can be friends then.

I agree--that is a brilliant lyric.

[squint]

Conor Oberst, 21 years old, of Bright Eyes, is quite brilliant for his age. Check these out. They're way better sung, but oh well. This isn't the whole song, just a tidbit.

from the album "Fevers and Mirrors"

Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

[...]

I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press unto the strings
Yet another clumsy chord

Haligh, haligh, an awful lie
This weight will now be satisfied
I'll give you only one reply: I KNOW NOT WHO I AM!

But I talk in the mirror to the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
Always one-sided
Nothing is clear

Except we keep coming back
To this meaning that I lack
He says, "The choices were given"
"Now you must live them"
"...or just not live"
"But do you want that?"

[...]

[tjs]

Stephen Lynch:

Lullaby
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Hush little girl, sweet sweet baby don't cry tonight
Daddy is here and he'll sing you a soft lullaby tonight
Why can't it all be like it was before?
How can I explain why mommy's not here anymore?...
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'Cause daddy likes porno and ten dollar whores
Daddy gets wasted and robs liquor stores
Daddy likes rubbing against little boys on the bus
I think that's why your mommy left us

Hush little girl, there is no reason to fret tonight
Don't mind the smoke, daddy just wants to forget...[cough]...tonight
Soon it will all be like it was before
Any minute she will walk through that front door

But daddy plays poker and drinks lots of beer
Then he wants sex that involves mommy's rear
Daddy has sores on his naughty parts oozing with puss
I think that's why your mommy left us

Please don't cry
I swear I'll try
To be here by your side...

Right after daddy gets home from the bar
Visits his bookie and steals a new car
He'll drive to the strip club
And if daddy plays his cards right,
He'll bring home your new mommy tonight

[buzzcut]

Bruce Springsteen is not the most prolific songwriter of all time IMO but he's pretty solid overall. One of the strongest stanzas in any song I've ever heard came from the Boss in the song "Badlands"...

Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Also agree with the poster a few pages back who posted Billy Joel's "Angry Young Man" - excellent tune. Also "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne - very deep. Way too many to mention really.

[bryanzera]

I think in the tumult of everyone rushing to find their most treasured and obscure lyric, you've overlooked some obvious stuff.

Counting Crows - Anything from 'August and Everything After'.
Spin Doctors - Various, but mostly "Shinbone Alley" and "How Could You Want Him?"
Lyle Lovett - If I Were The Man You Wanted.

... but, just to prove that I wanted to be obscure as well ...

The Descendants


All
All!

[B]I Like Food[\B]
I like food, food tastes good!
I like food, food tastes good!
Juicy burgers, greasy fries,
Turkey legs and raw fish eyes
Teenage girls, with ketchup too!
Get out of my way, or I'll eat you
I like food, food tastes good!
I like food, food tastes good!
I'm going to turn dining
back into eating
I like food, food tastes good!
I like food, food tastes good!

[One Mun Funky]

Love is a rose but ya better not pick it
It only grows when it's on the vine
With a handful of thorns you know you've missed it
You lose your love when you say the word 'Mine'


Neil Young. Goddamn

Maybe not the smartest but those lines helped me understand a lot.

[PCMankey]

Originally posted by buzzcut
One of the strongest stanzas in any song I've ever heard came from the Boss in the song "Badlands"...

Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.



I was saying the same thing when it came out 1000 years ago, and someone I know taking a class in Shakespeare at the time told me that was Springsteen paraphrasing some Shakespeare.

[tucktronix]

they got a name for all the winners in the world...
I want a name when I lose...
they call Alabama the Crimson Tide... call me deacon blues

"Deacon Blues" - Steely Dan

[Nick James]

"never thought I'd have to pay so dearly, for what was already mine"

Warren Zevon

[deejmic]

Originally posted by Brian Marshall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
every day the paper bor brings more

pink floyd - brain dammage from dark side of the moon.

Funny, my wife, who did way more drugs than i did when she was a kid never knew what that line meant until I told her.

Brian

What does that line mean?:confused:

[DeadHeadNY]

Welll....seems like alot is missing..and i agree that alot fo the newer stuff by creed et. al. is not very profound. Its late and I can't think of that many now..but I will add as they come to mind. Metallica lyrics are fantastic..but how about this....

Once in a while you can get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right...
The Grateful Dead

I sit here waiting to find out what price
I have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice...
Bob Dylan

Long you live and high you'll fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Pink Floyd ...although almost anythign by Pink Floyd is great

Should we start a thread for funniest lyric.....heres a start...
I smoke tow joints in time of peace
And two in times of war
I smoke two joints before i smoke two joints
And then I smoke two more
Sublime

[PCMankey]

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you."

Bob Dylan

[soul_krusher]

side order
could be your daughter
finger lickin' good
- Motorhead

all y'all motherfuckers
fuck you die slow motherfucker
my .44 make sure all yo' kids don't grow
- Tupac

fuck it
when I die I wanna go to hell
cuz I'm a piece of shit
it ain't hard to fuckin' tell
- Notorious B.I.G.

got some death to do
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well looky here ya sweet young thing
the magic's in my hands
when in doubt I whip it out
got me a rock n roll band
- the Nuge

:D

[gdb53]

why has noone mentioned U2???

'In my dream, i was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they'd learned to swim' (Until the End of the World)

'Mother... mother sucking rock and roll' (Mofo)

'And the battles just begun, theres many lost but tell me, who has won?' (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

'In the days when we were swinging through the trees, i was a monkey... stealing honey from a swarm of bees' (Wild Honey)

'Im packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been... a place that has to be believed to be seen' (Walk On)

also 'kicking, screaming gucci little piggy' (Paranoid Android, Radiohead)

[jfleo]

The Sun's not yellow, its chicken.

Bob Dylan

[Tedddy]

"If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it." Billy Bragg

[Jimi Jones]

I've got it bad, and that ain't good.

Old jazz standard.

Jimi Jones
Http://www.mp3.com/jimijones

[dpothecary]

Good to see lots of Bob Dylan in here. I'll just post some more.

The Times Are A-Changin'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.


Subterreanean Homesick Blues

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles



Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Desolation Row

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave"
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortunetelling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid

To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play on penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

Across the street they've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They're spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

[Sector X]

Anything by Tool is the smartest lyric I've ever heard.
Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains
I don't care what she says, Shakira's boobs are not small, they are medium-sized and very nice. That ass of hers just amazes the hell out of me.:P Shakira is one hot lady!!:p

[soul_krusher]

a spotless domain
hides festering hopes
she's certain there's more
pictures of fields without fences
her body numbs as he approaches the door...
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fear is your only god
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your friendship is a fog
that disappears when the wind redirects

[EggmanRules]

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, you'd know what a drag it is to see you" -Bob Dylan

"If I live to long I'm afraid I'll die" -Dave Davies

"Ronnie the raincoat hangs out in a book store, he's never seen his own wife in the nude, somebody called him depraved, but think of the money he saved" -Neil Innes

"Mrs. Betsy Pench was playing the trombone when she heard a knock on the door. Who could that be at 11 o'clock in the morning, she thought. When she opened up the door, instead of the turboned rafian she suspected, she saw a very nice young man. Mrs. Pench you've won the flower contest, would you like the Triumph Spitfire or five-thousand dollars cash? Mrs. Pench pensioned the money. What will you do with it all? -he giggled. I think I'll become an alcoholic, said Betsy." -Vivian Stanshall

Egg

[adrix]

the second part of Peter Hammill's " The Future Now":

(.........)

Oh, blind, blinded, blinding hatred
of race, sex, religion, colour, country and creed,
these scream from the pages of everything I read.
You just bring me oppression and torture,
apartheid, corruption and plague;
you just bring me the rape of the planet
and joke world rights at the Hague.
Oh, someday the Millennium!
But how far is someday away?
I want the future now
I'm young, and it's my right.
I want a reason to be proud.
I want to see the light.
I want the future now,
I want to see it on the screen,
I want to break the bounds:
make life worth more than dreams.

(end)


When i'm a little anbgry I LOVE to play and sing this song just for myself, a good piano patch on the keyboard, the right volume....
at the end , some scars in the vocal strings!!!!!!

AdRiX

[Toonarmy]

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.

Pink Floyd - Dogs (from Animals)


Ain't it the truth these days?

[Tarik]

Nothing attracks a crowd
- like a crowd...


D. Pirner

Tarik

[zedubode]

so tell me about the lovers on the corner
you eveasdrop on while you fry your brain
while the insects wrestle with their lullabyes
and the neighbors grow loud and insane
but you just mention how you favor foreign pictures
it's your favorite way to watch the world collapse
and how every year you try to quit being human
but you feel stupid and a day later you relapse

- geronimo rex - "preaching to the dead"

you inhale the cancer
and watch the smoke rings jump like little dancers
your eyes pale
dressed as ballerinas
harder and harder to follow
you try to focus on one word at a time
but they just keep rushing by
confused remember how you always knew
when it was going to rain

- geronimo rex - "rapture"

when the sky's had its seizure
and the shadows have possessed the hours
and our words have escaped and passed away
i fall in love with the winter rain again
and the night paces on back and forth outside
you're always so silent when i stare at it
you say i'm paranoid i'm plastic
but you can't avoid me
can't peel yourself away
and i can't explain myself to myself

- geronimo rex - "fever"

[PuppetMaster]

Guilt and Regret they are my two inbred brothers
Guilt and Regret
Oh god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart

Guilt and Regret and me wake up into a brand new day
Guilt and Regret lively
I am still dead tired-the night has been long and hard

My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well it must have been an evening of joy."

Guilt and Regret
Oh god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart.

My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well it must have been an evening of joy."
My brothers they tease me:
"Do you remember anything from yester-night, no?"
They laught at me and go:
"O sure you do, we buried our little sister Hope."

Guilt and Regret and me - what a twisted family we are
Guilt and Regret
Oh god, how I hate you both from the bottom of my heart.

Guilt and Regret by Sentenced

[GIVE IT A PUSH]

Wait a minute somethings wrong here,my key wont unlock this door.........the jimi

Or same verse later....Thats ok,i,ll just go over yonder, I still got my guitar!!!!!! now we,re talkin

[matthewmilner]

i think that lou reed's got some great lyrics, a couple of my favorites:

--pale blue eyes:
"sometimes I feel so happy
sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
but mostly you just make me mad
baby, you just make me mad"

--sweet jane:
"ridin' in a stutz bearcat, jim
you know those were different times
oh, all the poets they studied rules of verse
and those ladies they rolled their eyes"

i always though the first line of the stooges "search and destroy" was great:

"i'm a street walkin' cheeta with a heart full of napalm,
i'm a run-away son of the nuclear a-bomb"

guided by voices has a ton of great lines, but i always liked this lyric from their song "echos myron"

"'if it's right you can tell' echos myron like a siren with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up but we're a very heavy load"

[The Great Karlito]

Waiting here with hopes the phone will ring
and I'm thinking awful things
I'm pretty sure that few would notice.
And this apartment is starving for an argument.
Anything at all to break the silence.

Dashboard Confessional "Saints and Sailors"

I dont know if it is exactly the smartest lyrics I have ever heard, but I sure do "get" where is he is coming from on this one.

[Shmitty]

I'm on a Mexican Radio

Wall of Voodoo.

LOL.....okay, just kidding.
To me one of the most brilliant lyrics that was ever written was by Neil Peart from the song Losing It off of the album Signals.

Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...

[one less than none]

i like :

every tool is a weapon if you hold it right

my iq - ani difranco


i want my old friends
i want my old face
i want my old mind
fuck this time and place

out of habit - ani difranco


we got egos like hairdos
they're different every day
depending on how we slept the night before
depending on the demons that are at our door

i got my kitchen stocked
i got my door unlocked
there're no demons here
and i don't really care
whose name is printed in bigger type
you know i live in a world full of hope
not a world full of hype
i ain't no saint
i help myself to what i need
but i help other people too
y'know i sleep soundly

ego's like hairdos - ani difranco


you see a loco motive probably thinking it's a a train

whistling past the graveyard - tom waits

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol
Of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
And the children of Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath
Bartender what is wrong with me
Why am I so out of breath
The captain said excuse me ma'am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

amused to death - roger waters

[samm!]

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more


And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine


Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)


Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one


And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine


Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

2

Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it's not like any other love
This one is different - because it's us

Hand in glove
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me


And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know and I really don't care


Kiss My Shades

Hand in glove
The Good People laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have


Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have


And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know and I really don't care


Kiss My Shades ... oh ...

So, hand in glove I stake my claim
I'll fight to the last breath


If they dare touch a hair on your head
I'll fight to the last breath


For the Good Life is out there somewhere
So stay on my arm, you little charmer


But I know my luck too well
Yes, I know my luck too well
And I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
Oh ...


3


Belligerent ghouls
Run Manchester schools

Spineless swines
Cemented minds


Sir leads the troops
Jealous of youth
Same old suit since 1962


He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck


I wanna go home
I don't wanna stay
Give up education
As a bad mistake


Mid-week on the playing fields
Sir thwacks you on the knees


Knees you in the groin
Elbow in the face
Bruises bigger than dinner plates


I wanna go home
I don't wanna stay


Da-da-da ...


Belligerent ghouls
Run Manchester schools


Spineless bastards all ...


Sir leads the troops
Jealous of youth
Same old jokes since 1902


He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck


I wanna go home
I don't want to stay
Give up life
As a bad mistake


Please excuse me from gym
I've got this terrible cold coming on
He grabs and devours
He kicks me in the showers
Kicks me in the showers
And he grabs and devours


I want to go home
I don't want to stay...


Da-da-da ...

[Sinner]

"Just what did you expect staring into the TV set?" - Talking Heads

"We're working our jobs. Collect our pay. Believe we're gliding down the highway when in fact we're slip sliding away." - Paul Simon

I don't listen to country but sometimes I'll hear an old one somewhere and they have really clever lyrics. Not new country, I mean 70's and before.

[MartinDude]

Heaven, heaven is a place. A place where nothing, nothing ever happens.

David Bryne

[Jade23]

Hey, for just plain cleaver writing:
"Here we are again, just face to facing each other, another day..."

But for substance and content:
"Am I sorry your sky went black? Put your knifes in babys backs. Am I sorry you killed the Kennedys, and Huxley too? But I'm sorry Shakespere was your scapegoat, and your apple's sticking into my throat. Sorry your sunday smiles are rusted nails and your crusifixion commercials failled. But I'm just a pittifull anonymos.

I see all the young belivers, your target audiance; I see all the old decivers, and we all just sing their song."
Marrilyn Manson: Target Audiance for Holywood.

[Noisey Butch]

I'm sure I'll get falmed for this one, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned any Smiths lyrics - Morrissey may be a silly queen, bt he's abrilliant lyricist at times...

"Poor old man
He had an "accident" with a three-bar fire
But that's OK
Because he wasn't very happy anyway
Poor woman
Strangled in her very own bed as she read
But that's OK
Because she was old and she would have died anyway "
-Sweet and Tender Hooligan

"A sad fact widely known
The most impassionate song
To a lonely soul
Is so easily outgrown
...But don't forget the songs
That made you cry
And the songs that saved your life
Yes, you're older now
And you're a clever swine
But they were the only ones who ever stood by you..."
-Rubber Ring

"It was dark as I drove the point home
And on cold leather seats
Well, it suddenly struck me
I just might die with a smile on my
Face after all "
-That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

"Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you) "
-I know It's over

"The monkish monsignor
With a head full of plaster
Said : "My man, get your vile soul dry-cleaned"
As Rose counts the money in the cannister
As natural as Rain
He dances again
-Vicar in a Tutu

"So, I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said : "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
I said : "That's nothing - you should hear me play piano"
-The Queen is Dead

[dig for fire]

i'll keep it short:

"You're chickenshit conformists like your parents" - Chickenshit Conformists, Dead Kennedy's

"i'm too busy acting like i'm not naive" - Very Ape, Nirvana

"All you little kids do you think you know just where it's at,
oh i think i smell a rat" - I Think i Smell a Rat, White Stripes

"talking sweet about nothing, cookie act like you're tame." - The Pixies

[Tlaloc]

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles work
and mobiles chirp

and take the money and run
take the money and run
take the money and

here we are, everything all of the time
here we are, everything all of the time

--"Idioteque" by Radiohead

That wasnt the whole song, but it's probably my favorite section of it. I guess i've heard "more intelligent" lyrics before, but this is kind of my favorite. :)

[Super Rad!]

When I was a boy I used to live in corduroy
OP shirts and slip-on Vans.
My life was so simple
I had not one pimple,
My everyday was made up of these plans:
To ride my bike to Thrifty's,
Run past the balls and ice cream and
find the Star Wars figurines.
Thinking of my action men,
Kung-Fu grip and all,
What happened to them all?

(Chorus)

Running through my old life
Looking for my lost toys
Where has all my fun gone?
Now that we're all older
Before we grow much colder
Let's all look forward to the new dawn
An anthem for all lost toys
Now that we're all big boys
We'll stand together and sing this song
We'll sing this song
It's not too long
So everybody sing along

When I was a little man
Playdough came in a little can
I was Star Wars' biggest fan
Now I'm stuck without a plan
GI Joe was an action man
Shaggy drove the mystery van
Devo was my favorite band
Take me back to my happy land

Now my brothers and sisters
I don't mean to make a scene
But I lost my action figures
and it makes me want to scream
Greedo, Chewbacca, Luke, R2, and Han,
3PO, Yoda, Bobafett, Obi Wan
Green Machine, Suckerman
Silly Putty, Lincoln Logs
Sitting in my Underoos
Reading christmas catalogs
What happened to my action men and all?
What happened to it all?

Running through my old life
Looking for my lost toys
Where has all my fun gone?
Now that we're all older
Before we grow much colder
Let's all look forward to the new dawn
An anthem for all lost toys
Now that we're all big boys
We'll stand together and sing this song
We'll sing this song
It's not too long
So everybody sing along

When I was a little man
Playdough came in a little can
I was Star Wars' biggest fan
Now I'm stuck without a plan
GI Joe was an action man
Shaggy drove the mystery van
Devo was my favorite band
Take me back to my happy land

Take me back to my happy land
Take me back to my happy land
Take me back to my happy land
Take me back to my happy land

[aristeas]

Somebody once asked David Bowie what he most hated in other people. "Talent." he replied. And in that vein, how about the lyrics for a cover version of Walk Away Renee by Billy Bragg. Legendary guitarist Wilco was playing on one of Bragg's studio sessions, and in between takes was playing an acoustic version of the Motown classic "Walk Away Renee". They kept the tape running, and OVERNIGHT Bragg wrote the following lyrics to go with it:

"Walk Away Renee"

She said it was just a figment of speech
And I said you mean 'figure'
And she said no 'figment' because she could never imagine it happening
But it did
When we first met, I played the shy-boy
And when she spoke to me for the first time, my nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest
The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect our fares, well I knew then this was something special
I couldn't stop thinking about her
And everytime I switched on the radio, there was somebody else singing a song about the two of us
It was just like being on a fast ride at Fun Fair- the sort you want to get off
because it's scary and then, as soon as you're off, you want to get straight back on again
But oh love is strange
And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose
She began going out with Mr. Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park with his coat around her shoulders
I realized
I went home and thought about the two of them together until the bath water went cold around me
I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts and about the point where their bodies met
I confronted her about it
I said 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town'
And she said 'Yea, that's why I can never understand any of those silly letters you send me'
And then one day it happened
She cut her hair
And I stopped loving her.


Meanwhile the rest of us have to substitute hard work for talent.
Regards, Aristeas
___________________________
Wanna be a lead guitarist? Easy - all it takes is ten years hard work.

[bluewildangel]

Shoot down some of them airplanes.... 'Specially the one that are flying too low... Power of Soul - Jimi Hendrix

[street survivor]

"my hair get's longer, as the beat get's stronger".
[mott the hoople]


"you can't always trust your woman, you can't always trust your best friend. beware of the ones that you lean on, cuz they might be the ones who do you in".
[lynyrd skynyrd]

"my doctor said just come around, and you'll be taken care of. then while he ran my problems down, i stole his mascara".
[alice cooper]

"don't fool yourself girl, it's going right up your poop shoot".
[frank zappa]

"we'll put a boot in your azz, it's the american way".
[toby keith]

"i hope we're not to messianic or a trifel to satanic".
[the rolling stones]

just about any blue oyster cult lyric.

[UncleDig]

Mingus and Parker
Fuck for breakfast
And jazz is the slut again.

--- Jesus Lizard

Dig

[Wes_Powell]

I take the checks and face the facts
The some producer
With computers
Fixes all my shitty tracks

-- Ben Folds, Rockin' The Suburbs

:cool:

-wp

[babybatter]

And you will say
That youre making headway
And put it in overdrive.

But youre mistaking speed
For getting what you need
And never even noticing you never do arrive

because youre.....


'Driving Sideways' - Aimee Mann

[brikus]

Anything by Paul Simon, but these lines especially (in God Bless The Absentee, One-Trick Pony album, 1980) :

Lord I am a surgeon, and music is my knife :
It cuts away my sorrow, it purifies my life.

Two lines that utterly summarize what the songwriter's condition is. Paul Simon is THE genius !

[velo23]

"Love myself better than you...I know it's wrong so what should I do?"

[stratton]

This by Shawn Colvin:

You're so intense
You're feast or famine
You've got one mission
Just like a salmon..

[Wes_Powell]

Darkness
Makes me fumble
For a key
To a door
That's wide open

-Sting, The Police

-wp

[veil]

"I keep the Bible in a pool of blood so that none of its lies can affect me." -Slayer

:mad: :mad:

[leecow]

Li'l Nanci Griffith

"These days my life is an open book
Missing pages I cannot seem to find
These days your face
In my memory
Is in a folded hand of grace against these times"
These Days In An Open Book

[yeagermeister]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone to show you the way

Time and lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you fine- ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run...
You missed the starting gun



:eek:


you've got to be crazy, you've got to have a real need
You've got to sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You've got to be able to pick up the easy meat
With your eyes closed (IS THAT THE BEST RHYME SCHEME OR WHAT???)

You've got to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So when they turn their back on you,
You'll get the chance to put that knife in


PINK FLOYD ARE THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME

[Zakko]

You should have waited till you ended this.
Then you'll have nothing to confess.
I thought you'd leave me next to nothing.
But now you're leaving me much less.

Justice Prevails by Further Seems Forever.

[soul_krusher]

I kill children
I love to watch them die
I kill children
Make their mommas cry
I kill children
Bang their heads in doors
I kill children
Can hardly wait for yours

[soul_krusher]

used to be
partner in crime
now you say you ain't got the time
gotta get serious
gotta plan
gotta pass those entrance exams

no sense of humor
but such good manners
now you're an adult
You're BORING!!

Its your life sentence

tied up dog
fenced in a yard
don't see much - you can't go far
pace and froth
you're getting sick
run too fast you'll snap your neck

[fllstck]

I got tired of waiting because I found out there's very, very fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time, you know what I mean?

-NoMeansNo

[catphish]

But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned

As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned

And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue

Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun

All my vasoconstrictors they come slowly undone

Can't I live while I'm young?

-Tom Marshall (From "Chalkdust Torture" for Phish)

[Porkchop Xpress]

Bobby Sue took the money n' run.
Hoo hoo hoo.

[Robert Keeley]

I think Dumb All Over by Zappa has got to be some of the best religious humor in music...

Something like this
The good books says God made us to be just like him.
So if we're dumb, then God is dumb,
and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side
Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side.

[Robert Keeley]

Dylan

Idiot Wind, moving everytime you move your mouth.
You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder you can even breath

Gawd, cutting huh?!?!

[Duggimon]

"Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself...via live telecast.

Coming live from my own funeral...the beautiful
weather offered a nice shine,
Which is suitable for a full view of a forever altered
skyline.
It's times like these I freestyle biased opinions every
other sentence.
My journalistic ethics slip when I pass them off as
objective.
"Don't gimme that ethical @#%$."
I've got exclusive, explicit images to present to
impressionable American kids,
And it's time to show this world how big our edifice is!

That's exactly what they attacked when a typically
dark skinned Disney villain
Used civilians against civilians and charged the trojan
horses into our buildings.
Using commercial aviation as instruments of
destruction,
Pregnant women couldn't protect their children.
Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions.
Now I have to back petal...from the shower of glass
and metal,
Wondering how after it settles we'll find who provided
power to radical rebels.
The Melting Pot seems to be calling the kettle black
when it boils over,
But only on our own soil so the little boy holds a toy
soldier...
And waits for the suit and tie to come home. We won't
wait 'til he's older,
Before we destroy hopes for a colder war to end.
"Now get a close up of his head..."

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself while the stock markets crash

The city is covered in inches of muck
I see some other pictures of victims are up
Grieving mothers are thinking their children are stuck

Leaping lovers are making decisions to jump
While holding hands...to escape the brutal heat.
Sometimes in groups of the three.
The fall out goes far beyond the toxic cloud where
people look like debris.
But all they saw after all was said...beyond the talking
heads
Was bloody dust with legs looking like the walking
dead calling for meds.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. volunteers need to go the
hell home.
Moments of silence for fire fighters were interupted
by cell phones.
Who's going to make that call to increase an unknown
death toll?
It's the one we rally behind. He's got a
megaphone...and he's promising to make heads roll,
So we cheer him on, but espestos is affecting our
breath control.
The less we know...the more they fabricate...the
easier it is to sell souls
An addictive 24 hour candle light vigil in TVs.
Freedom WILL be defended...at the cost of civil
liberties.
Viewers are glued to television screens.
Stuck...'cause lots of things seem too sick.
I use opportunities to pluck heart strings for theme
music.

I'll show you which culture to punp your fist at and
what foot is right to kiss.
We don't know who the culprit is yet...but he looks
like this.
We know who the heros are. Not the xenophobes who
act hard,
"We taught that dog to squat. How dare he do that
@#%$ in our own back yard!"

They happened to scar our financial state and char
our landscape.
Can you count how many times so far I ran back this
same damn tape?
While a camera man creates news and shoves it
down our throats on the West Bank,
With a 10 second clip put on constant loop to provoke
US angst.

So get your tanks and load your guns and hold your
sons in a family huddle,
Because even if we win this tug of war and even the
score...humanity struggles.
There's a desperate need of blood for what's been
uncovered under the rubble,
Some of them dug for answers in the mess...but the
rest were looking for trouble.

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself.
Don't waive your rights with your flags. "

Sage Francis - Makeshift Patriot.

[Rob_78]

"..but it's rushing around that's whats wrong with the world, don't lose the dreams inside your head. They're only there until your dead.......dream"

Dave Matthews

[Picker]

Love needs a transfusion
Lets shoot it full of wine
Fishin' for a good time
starts with throwing in your line.

Tom Waits.


Time it was and what a time it was
It was a time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago it must be....
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
The're all that's left you..

Paul Simon


And if I... show you my dark side
Would you still hold me... tonight?
And if I... opened my heart to you
Showed you my weak side.
What would you do?

Rodger Waters


And the time will come when you realize we're all one and life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison

[SweetDreamer]

I like those Picker! Good job. Does it mean you're smart too?

Luv ya,

SweetDreamer

[SweetDreamer]

How about these about dreams:


What a dream I had....
.....

And when you ran to me, your
Cheeks fleshed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke
And felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair
With my grateful tears
Oh, I love you girl
Oh, I love you

Simon and Garfunkel


They’ll come true
Impossible not to do
Impossible not to do
Now I tell you openly
You have my heart so don’t hurt me
You’re what I couldn’t find
Totally amazing mind
So understanding and so kind
You’re everything to me
All my life
Is changing every day
In every possible way
And oh my dreams
It’s never quite as it seems
Cause you’re a dream to me
Dream to me

The Cranberries



There is nothing that should ever take your heart away from what it is you
wanna do
You should always go with what cha love don't follow no one else just do what's
good for you
Tell em
Dreams are real, all you have to do is just believe

Ashanti


just a few of my favs.

Luv ya,

SweetDreamer

[Idlewilde]

Here's a few. :eek:

"3 Libras" - A Perfect Circle
"What I Am" - Edie Brickell
"Rich Bitch Eat Your Heart Out" - Lords Of The New Church
"The Only One" - Junkster
"Pay No Mind" - Beck

[Shinbone]

Well my baby threw me out because I drink too much
She offered me her car so I could move my stuff
I gonna sell the bitch's car
I gonna sell the bitch's car
I gonna sell the bitch's car
And buy myself a cool guitar

Cool Guitar - Jimmy Thackery

[SweetDreamer]

Originally posted by Crustycabs
I was thinking about this just the other day.

I think my favorite is the chorus in "Helplessly Hoping" by CSN&Y.

They are one person
They are too alone
They are three together
They are for each other

Four...ooooooor each other.


Yeah cool lyrics.. but how about:

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.


and my absolute fav:

BIRDS
-----
Lover, there will be another one
Who'll hover over you beneath the sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come
Today

When you see me
Fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you
And show you the way to go
It's over, it's over.

Nestled in your wings my little one
This special morning brings another sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come
Today

When you see me
Fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you
And show you the way to go
It's over, it's over.


I have a copy of the vinyl unopened for bids if any of you want..lol..

still has the shrink wrap.. never been played.. a gift from neil himself....

IF anyone wants.. all money will be to charity,,, rehab centers mostly.. ;)


luv ya all,

SweetDreamer

[SweetDreamer]

Originally posted by Sal Tornabene


It figures that some dude from Florida would like Jimmy Thackery. That guy is an embarassment to the music community, he can't sing, he can't write and he can't play guitar. Anybody who likes him is in the same category.


lol... maybe not as talented as most,, but some do like him,, don't be so gloomey.. jmho.

luv ya,

SweetDreamer

[teft]

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it. Now the child has grown. The dream is gone.

I don't even NEED to say what that's from. :)

[SweetDreamer]

I remembered another one.. very intelligent words.. actually the whole song is... and yes I like Simon and Garfunkel ;)

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence


And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"



Luv ya,

SweetDreamer

[Facing Failure]

Here's a bunch of my favorites:

Terrified of Telephones and shopping malls and knives
Drowning in the pools of other lives
Rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony get clobbered on by courtesy
In love with love and lousy poetry

And I'm leaving on this broken fence
Between past and present tense
And I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
But it almost feels ok
--Aside, The Weakerthans

I do not see you standing still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss so beautiful you'd never move again
--Without Mythologies, The Weakerthans

Some far away place, some sad table littered with chip plates, in bad light, in 48 frames of the movie on the cutting room floor you said true meaning would be dying with you.....
And though I wanted to.....
I did not smile.
--Without Mythologies, The Weakerthans

Garage sale saturday I need to pay
My heart's outstanding bills
Cracked up compass and a pocketwatch
Some plastic daphodils
Cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all night restaurants
A sense of wonder only slightly used a year or two to haunt you in the dark
For a phone call from far away
With a hi, how are you today?
And a sign of recovery comes
To the broken ones
--Everything Must Go, The Weakerthans

My city is still breathing but barely it's true
Through buildings gone missing like teeth
--Left and Leaving, The Weakerthans

Wish I had a socket set to dismantle this morning
Just one pair of clean socks, and a photo of you
--My Favourite Chords, The Weakerthans

Around these parts
If I could live
If I could live 1,000 years
But the man cannot descend enough
If you would live
A smiling drunkness and a glass of milk
Goes with a piece of raisin bread
Only to catch the noise I hear
Loudly
A scalpy ketchup bottle and a two dollar bill
I guess it's time to pay the bill
But you know I never will, I'm hungry still
--When Good Dogs Do Bad Things, Mike Patton With Dillinger Escape Plan

Istanbul was constantinople
Now it's istanbul not constantinople
Been a long time gone, constantinople
Why did constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the turks
--Istanbul, They Might Be Giants

And I will close with possibly the greatest most perverse lyrics ever!

Hey there people I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth are shiny
I tell all the girls that they can kiss my hiny
Here I am at a famous school
I'm dressing sharp and I'm acting cool
Gotta cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work and maybe later I'll rape her
OH GOD I AM THE AMERICAN DREAM!
I do not think I am too extreme
And I'm a handsome sonofabitch
Gonna get a good job and be real rich!

Women's liberation
Came sweeping all across the nation
I tell you people I was not ready
When I fucked this by the name of freddy
She made a little speech then
She tried to make me say when
She had my balls in a vice but she left the dick
I guess it's still hooked on but now it shoots too quick
OH GOD I AM THE AMERICAN
But now I smell like vaseline
And I'm a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a boy or a lady I don't know which

So I went out and bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change but I'm still kinda cute
Got a job doing radio promo
And none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo
Eventually me and a friend
Sort of drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
As long as I gets a little golden shower
OH GOD I AM THE AMERICAN DREAM
with a spindle up my butt til it makes me scream
And I'll do anything to get ahead
I lay awake at nights saying thank you fred
OH GOD OH GOD I'M SO FANTASTIC
Thanks to freddy I'm a sexual spastic
And my name is bobby brown
Watch me now, I'm going down.
--Bobby Brown, Frank Zappa

LAter,
Billy Van Muddlestein - Facing Failure
http://www.mp3.com/facingfailure
http://www.facingfailure.com

[iandawg]

I was taught a month ago
To buy my time and take it slow.
But then I learned just yesterday
To rush and never waste the day.
Now I'm convinced the whole day long
That all I learn is always wrong
And things are true that I forget
But no one taught that to me yet.

Phish-Character Zero

[medspec]

"..and he laid me back just like an empty dress"

Pete Townshend

[Mesmerize]

hollywood glamorized my wrath
i'm a young urban psychopath
i incite murder for your entertainment
cause i needed the money... what's your excuse?
the joke's on you
Third Eye Blind - "Slow Motion"

i read dead russian authors
volumes at a time
i write everything down except what's on my mind
cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound
and then i know i'll never get back out
and there's a bone in my hand
that connects to a drink
in a crowded room, where the glasses clink
and i'll buy you a beer and we'll drink it deep
because that keeps me from falling asleep
Third Eye Blind - "Narcolepsy"

and now it's fall and your shoulders get tighter
nervous flicks on your lighter, boots
your pissed off poets
your women's groups
and the friends with you we should have known this fool
well, i guess i missed the mark
but my fingers catch the sparks
at the thought of touching you
Third Eye Blind - "Wounded"

i can't forget the smell
of summer trees after midnight
they're bendin' backwards to please the wind
you touched the tattoo of the sun
on a warm belly that once
carried a baby for a while
and let that crackled leather jacket round you fold
red faced saints monogrammed in gold
and in this beauty, i would not go any further
cause i suddenly remembered...
we can't live this way forever
Third Eye Blind - "Tattoo of the Sun"

...And I'm spent. :)

[Mojo54]

Some of my favorites:

In any bar any place,
Where working men meet.
Hey boys this rounds on me,
Man that jukebox sounds so sweet.
I got some change lets shoot some stick,
Straight in no slop,
Man this beers going down so nice,
Rack 'em up I'm feeling hot.

Welcome to ...
The heart of a miracle.
Welcome to ...
The heart of a miracle.



...She told me to come but I was already there...



Beautiful loser
Where you gonna fall?
When you realize
You just can't have it all

[Bonneville93]

Originally posted by gdb53
why has noone mentioned U2???



"The Universe exploded, because of one man's lie" -- The Fly, U2

[angeloflost]

If man is five, then the devil is six
If the devil is six, then god is seven
God is seven
This monkey's gone to heaven
-The Pixies