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    Oh hooray, I love "Evermore," Dunpeal!

    This one has to be on here too:

    "Blowin' in the Wind" -- Bob Dylan

    How many roads must a man walk down
    Before you call him a man?
    Yes, and how many seas must a white dove sail
    Before she sleeps in the sand?
    Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly
    Before they are forever banned?
    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
    The answer is blowin' in the wind.

    How many times must a man look up
    Before he can see the sky?
    Yes, and how many ears must one man have
    Before he can hear people cry?
    Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows
    That too many people have died?
    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
    The answer is blowin' in the wind.

    How many years can a mountain exist
    Before it's washed to the sea?
    Yes, and how many years can some people exist
    Before they're allowed to be free?
    Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head,
    And pretend he just doesn't see?
    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
    The answer is blowin' in the wind.

    More poetry from Maynard. I love this song.

    "Sleeping Beauty" -- A Perfect Circle

    Delusional
    I believe I can cure it all for you, dear
    Coax or trick or drive or
    drag the demons from you
    Make it right for you sleeping beauty
    Truly thought
    I can magically heal you

    You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    Failing miserably to rescue

    Sleeping Beauty

    Drunk on ego
    Truly thought I could make it right
    If I kissed you one more time to
    Help you face the nightmare
    But you're far too poisoned for me
    Such a fool to think that I can wake you from your slumber
    That I could actually heal you..

    Sleeping Beauty
    Poisoned and hopeless
    You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    Failing miserably to find a way to comfort you

    Far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
    And hiding from some poisoned memory

    Poisoned and hopeless
    Sleeping Beauty
    If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
    You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!

    ~The Dresden Dolls

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isagel

    One of my favorite songs

    One by U2

    Is it getting better
    Or do you feel the same
    Will it make it easier on you now
    You got someone to blame
    You say...

    Thanks for that, it's actually my favourite song. I also like:

    With or Without You by U2

    See the stone set in your eyes
    See the thorn twist in your side
    I wait for you
    Slight of hand and twist of fate
    On a bed of nails she makes me wait
    And I wait without you

    With or without you
    With or without you

    Through the storm we reach the shore
    You give it all but I want more
    And I'm waiting for you

    With or without you
    With or without you
    I can't live
    With or without you

    And you give yourself away
    And you give yourself away
    And you give
    And you give
    And you give yourself away

    My hands are tied, my body bruised
    She's got me with nothing left to win
    And nothing else to lose

    And you give yourself away
    And you give yourself away
    And you give
    And you give
    And you give yourself away

    With or without you
    With or without you
    I can't live
    With or without you
    In dreams begin responsibilities.

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    both "one" and "blowin' in the wind" raised the hair on my arms.
    shh!!!
    the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.

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    these are two of the best lyrics I've read!!...

    MAD WORLD

    All around me are familiar faces
    Worn out places, worn out faces
    Bright and early for their daily races
    Going nowhere, going nowhere
    And their tears are filling up their glasses
    No expression, no expression
    Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
    No tommorow, no tommorow
    And I find it kind of funny
    I find it kind of sad
    The dreams in which I'm dying
    Are the best I've ever had
    I find it hard to tell you
    'Cos I find it hard to take
    When people run in circles
    It's a very, very
    Mad World
    Children waiting for the day they feel good
    Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
    Made to feel the way that every child should
    Sit and listen, sit and listen
    Went to school and I was very nervous
    No one knew me, no one knew me
    Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
    Look right through me, look right through me

    Momentum - Amee Mann

    Oh, for the sake of momentum
    I’ve allowed my fears to get larger than life
    And it’s brought me to my current agendum
    Whereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive
    And I know life is getting shorter
    I can’t bring myself to set the scene
    Even when it’s approaching torture
    I’ve got my routine
    Oh, for the sake of momentum
    Even though I agree with that stuff about seizing the day
    But I hate to think of effort expended
    All those minutes and days and hours
    I have frittered away.
    And I know life is getting shorter
    I can’t bring myself to set the scene
    Even when it’s approaching torture
    I’ve got my routine
    But I can’t confront the doubts I have
    I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad
    And so, for the sake of momentum
    I’m condemning the future to death
    So it can match the past.
    When I can’t confront the doubts I have
    I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad
    And so, for the sake of momentum
    I’m condemning the future to death
    So it can match the past.
    I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo

    If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock

    Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire

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    Another classic:

    Queen
    Bohemian Rhapsody

    Is this the real life
    Is this just fantasy
    Caught in a landslide
    No escape from reality
    Open your eyes
    Look up to the skies and see
    I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
    Because I'm easy come, easy go
    A little high, little low,
    Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
    To me

    Mama, just killed a man
    Put a gun against his head
    Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
    Mama, life had just begun
    But now I've gone and thrown it all away
    Mama,
    Didn't mean to make you cry
    If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
    Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

    Too late, my time has come
    Sends shivers down my spine
    Body's aching all the time
    Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
    Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
    Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
    I don't want to die
    I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

    I see a little silhouetto of a man,
    Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the Fandango
    Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
    Galileo, Galileo,
    Galileo, Galileo,
    Galileo figaro, Magnifico,
    But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
    He's just a poor boy from a poor family
    Spare him his life from this monstrosity
    Easy come easy go, will you let me go
    Bismillah! No, we will not let you go -let him go-
    Bismillah! We will not let you go -let him go
    Bismillah! We will not let you go -let me go
    Will not let you go -let me go
    Will not let you go -let me go
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no-
    Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
    Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

    So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
    So you think you can love me and leave me to die
    Oh baby, Can't do this to me baby
    Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

    Nothing really matters
    Anyone can see
    Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me,

    Any way the wind blows....
    Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
    - Jorge Luis Borges

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    Iron Maiden
    "Heaven Can Wait"

    Can't understand what is happening to me
    This isn't real this is only a dream
    But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before
    I'm looking down on my body below
    I lie asleep in the midst of a dream
    Is it now could it be the Angel of Death has come for me?

    I can't believe that really my time has come
    I don't feel ready there's so much left undone
    And it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away

    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day
    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day

    I have a lust for the earth below
    And hell itself is my only foe
    'Cause I've no fear of dying, I'll go when I'm good and ready
    I snatch a glimpse of the light's eternal rays
    I see a tunnel I stand amazed
    At all of the people standing there in front of me

    Into the paths of rightness I'll be led
    is this the place where the living join the dead?
    I wish I knew this was only just a nightmare

    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day
    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day

    Take my hand, I'll lead you to the promised land
    Take my hand, I'll give you immortality
    Eternal youth, I'll take you to the other side
    To see the truth the path for you is decided

    My body tingles and I feel so strange
    I feel so tired I feel so drained
    And I'm wondering if I'll ever be the same again
    is this in Limbo or Heaven or Hell?
    Maybe I'm going down there as well
    I can't accept my soul will drift forever

    I feel myself floating back down to Earth
    So could this be the hour of my rebirth?
    Or have I died or will I wake from dreaming?

    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day
    Heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait
    Heaven can wait 'til another day

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    I always say, if I liked heavy metal, Iron Maiden would be my favourite band.
    Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
    - Jorge Luis Borges

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    Music by Lee and Lifeson / Lyrics by Peart

    Rush
    "Limelight"

    Living on a lighted stage
    Approaches the unreal
    For those who think and feel
    In touch with some reality
    Beyond the gilded cage

    Cast in this unlikely role,
    Ill-equipped to act
    With insufficient tact
    One must put up barriers
    To keep oneself intact

    Living in the limelight
    The universal dream
    For those who wish to seem

    Those who wish to be
    Must put aside the alienation
    Get on with the fascination
    The real relation
    The underlying theme

    Living in a fisheye lens
    Caught in the camera eye
    I have no heart to lie
    I can't pretend a stranger
    is a long-awaited friend

    All the world's indeed a stage
    And we are merely players
    Performers and portrayers
    Each another's audience
    Outside the gilded cage

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    My favourite lyrics is I Am The Highway.

    Pearls of swine bereft of me
    Long and weary my road has been
    I was lost in the cities
    Alone in the hills
    No sorrow or pity for the leaving I feel

    I am not your rolling wheels
    I am the highway
    I am not your carpet ride
    I am the sky

    Friends and liars don't wait for me
    I'll get on all by myself
    I put millions of miles
    Under my heels
    And still too close to you
    I feel

    I am not your rolling wheels
    I am the highway
    I am not your carpet ride
    I am the sky
    I am not your blowing wind
    I am the lightening
    I am not your autumn moon
    I am the night

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    One of my favourite songs is Kite by U2

    Something is about to give
    I can feel it coming
    I think I know what it means
    I'm not afraid to die
    I'm not afraid to live
    And when I'm flat on my back
    I hope to feel like I did

    'Cause hardness, it sets in
    You need some protection
    The thinner the skin

    I want you to know
    That you don't need me anymore
    I want you to know
    You don't need anyone, anything at all

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to know what it is will break you
    I don't know which way the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time has come around
    Don't wanna see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
    There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
    I wonder what's gonna happen to you
    You wonder what has happened to me

    I'm a man, I'm not a child
    A man who sees
    The shadow behind your eyes

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to know what it is will break you
    I don't know where the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time has come around
    I don't wanna see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    Did I waste it?
    Not so much I couldn't taste it
    Life should be fragrant
    Roof top to the basement
    The last of the rock stars
    When hip hop drove the big cars
    In the time when new media
    Was the big idea
    That was the big idea

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    Killah Priest's verse on Beneath the Surface by Genius

    Hip hop lyrics. Pretty good I think. Off the Beneath the Surface album by Genius.

    Love and hatred, home is most sacred
    Both species, they lay naked in the tombs of oasis
    Think back on niggas I ate with, spent the day with
    Guns we played with, niggas I relate with
    We broke bread, I heard through a vine niggas workin for the
    Feds
    Sent out secretly to take my head
    I lay back and meditate to the words they say
    Skip town for a month and grew some dreads
    Had a friend tell my family I was dead
    Return at the last fall of the autumn leaves
    Operate the plan accordingly, in case the Feds are recordin me
    Sign all documents, usin forgery, cuz just a near thought of me
    Like Solomon, spoke bluntly
    Told the word I'm black and calmly
    Howls from the grave haunt me
    The smell of death's upon me, I dwell in the hills like Gandhi
    Been in the presence of mad peasants, and old kings
    Who sold everything, on a quest for god's divine
    Slept in caves to get a clear mind
    Who prayed 3 times, when the moon lit and the sun rise
    I met dwellers in the desert, talked to shepherds
    Been in the mouth of many leopards
    Felt the death kiss, of Satan's mistress
    Walked the vacant districts, for 4 religions, studied Pagan
    scriptures
    True philosophers and physicians, on a cure missions
    Who harden their hearts, toward the weak, sick and afflicted
    Candles lit, gamble with a *****
    Who made me love her, when I touch her, soft paws hide claws
    Bees with sweet honey in they mouth
    Have bitter stings at they tail
    Walk through the chambers of death, take a hold on to hell
    Embracing her was like embracing a 3rd world

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    cold chills and hairs on arm rise again
    shh!!!
    the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.

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    another by U2

    "Be There"
    You don't have to break your heart in two, my love
    You don't have to play a part, it's you I love
    You don't have to hide from yourself
    You don't have to be someone else again
    You don't have to rescue me
    You don't have to watch me drown
    You don't have to give to me
    All I want is you

    Be there, my love
    Be there tonight
    Be there, my love
    Be there tonight

    You don't have to dress yourself up or stay the same
    You don't have to smile if I say smile
    You don't have to be the best
    You don't have to give me rest
    All I want is all you have
    Nothing else, nothing
    Be there, my love

    Just be there, my love
    If you want the whole of me that's all you'll get
    I'll sing this song
    I'd give my health, give it all
    You don't have to

    Ah, she comes on by
    She says, I need you, my love
    She says, all I want is you

    You don't have to play your little game if I fall apart
    You don't have to work those strings or do those things
    You're enough in my heart
    You don't have to hide from yourself
    You don't have to be someone else
    All I want is all you have
    All I want is you

    Be there, my love
    Be there tonight
    Be there, my love
    Be there tonight
    In dreams begin responsibilities.

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    Black Cadillacs off the new Modest Mouse LP

    And it's true we named our children
    after towns that we've never been to.
    And it's true that the clouds just hung around
    like black Cadillacs outside a funeral.

    And we were done, done, done
    with all the ****, ****, ****in' around.
    You were so true to yourself.
    You were true to no one else.
    Well I should put you in the ground.

    I've got the time, I got the hours,
    I got the days, I got the weeks.
    I could say to myself
    I've got the words but I can't speak.
    Well I was done, done, done
    with all the circ, circ, circlin' round.

    I didn't die and I ain't complainin'.
    I ain't blamin' you.
    I didn't know that the words you said to me
    meant more to me than they ever could you?
    I didn't lie and I ain't sayin'
    I told the whole truth.
    I didn't know that this game we were playin'
    even had a set of rules.

    We named our children after towns
    that we've never been to.
    And it's true that the clouds just hunger around
    like black Cadillacs outside a funeral.
    And we were laughing at the stars
    while our feet clung tight to the ground.
    So pleased with ourselves
    for using so many verbs and nouns.

    But we were all still just dumb, dumb, dumber
    than the dirt, dirt, dirt on the ground.
    Well wings on flames, kings with no names,
    well this place just ain't got right air right now.
    You were so all over town but still so Crayola brown.
    Well you should run 'round yourself right now.
    And we were done, done, done
    with all the ****, ****, ****in' around.
    Circlin' round.
    And we laughed at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground, so pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns.

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    John Lennon
    Working Class Hero

    As soon as you're born they make you feel small
    By giving you no time instead of it all
    Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be
    They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
    They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
    Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
    Then they expect you to pick a career
    When you can't really function you're so full of fear
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
    And you think you're so clever and classless and free
    But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    There's room at the top they are telling you still
    But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
    If you want to be like the folks on the hill
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    If you want to be a hero well just follow me
    If you want to be a hero well just follow me
    Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
    - Jorge Luis Borges

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